Chapter Summaries

Lu Ren, Jack, and Nostrov entered an ancient lunar palace and found a preserved Chinese-style courtyard. After Lu Ren spotted a shadow that Jack’s equipment could not detect, they decided to search the vast structure separately.

• Lu Ren jumped into the fissure and Jack and Nostrov followed him down to the palace.
• The group explored a dark courtyard, where Jack estimated that the structure might be sixty million years old before admitting magnetic interference made his readings unreliable.
• Lu Ren saw a black shadow move through the building, but Jack’s detection systems found nothing.
• Lu Ren proposed that they split up to search the palace, and Jack and Nostrov agreed.

Lu Ren explored the Hidden Scripture Pavilion after the System identified it, breaking the ancient lock and discovering a vast collection of books and unusual spiritual activity. On the top floor, he found jade slips, and golden runes appeared on the shelf when he picked one up.

• Nostrov and Jack split from Lu Ren to explore the ruins on their own.
• The System announced that Lu Ren had entered the Hidden Scripture Pavilion, and he broke the rune-covered bronze lock.
• Lu Ren entered the pavilion and found that its interior was far larger than its exterior, with shelves of ancient books.
• Lu Ren examined books on the first and second floors, including strange martial manuals and illustrations of bizarre creatures.
• Lu Ren found reading desks on the third floor and jade slips on the fourth floor.
• Lu Ren picked up a jade slip, causing golden runes to appear on the bookshelf.

Lu Ren learned that a jade slip contained the Yin Yang Harmonious Heaven Mending True Art, then fought off an earthbound spirit in the repository. He reached for a blood-red jade slip and faced Nostrov, who demanded it as his share.

• Lu Ren read the jade slip's contents and discovered the Yin Yang Harmonious Heaven Mending True Art, but decided not to change his cultivation path.
• Lu Ren crushed the emptied jade slip and caught an old woman who tried to stop him from taking another one.
• Lu Ren struck the old woman with Bright Yang True Qi, drove her away, and collected three more jade slips.
• Lu Ren approached a blood-red jade slip, evaded a surprise attack, and identified Nostrov as his attacker.
• Nostrov demanded the red jade slip, claiming Lu Ren had already taken five and proposing they split the jade slips evenly.

Lu Ren killed Nostrov and explored the Crimson Jade Slip, uncovering an ancient account of the loss of mystical power and a method for seeking the Dao Determination Realm. After leaving the Hidden Scripture Pavilion, he examined more jade slips and found techniques that could expand his cultivation.

• Lu Ren seized the Crimson Jade Slip and killed Nostrov with a rapid barrage of punches, earning a Skill Point and tearing the top floor from the Hidden Scripture Pavilion.
• Lu Ren used his consciousness to read the slip and witnessed Changxing and Shi Changqing discuss leaving a world where mystical power was fading.
• Lu Ren learned that the slip contained the Supreme Spirit Guarding Heart Sutra, which explained a path from the ninth step of Enlightened Awareness toward the Dao Determination Realm.
• Lu Ren left the pavilion, found a temporarily safe room, and examined his remaining jade slips.
• Lu Ren discovered the Azure Sky Sword Control, the Thunderflame True Art, the Taiyin Body Refining True Art, and a Treatise on Celestial and Terrestrial Oddities.

After killing Nostrov, Lu Ren confronted Jack outside the Moon Palace’s main hall and launched a surprise attack. Jack fought back with his high-frequency blade, and his sixteen rapid slashes wounded Lu Ren’s Bodhisattva Dharma Appearance.

• Lu Ren finished reviewing the cultivation arts, saw that his oxygen was running low, and left the room for the main hall.
• Jack confronted Lu Ren about Nostrov’s death, and Lu Ren said Nostrov had died for trying to take something from him.
• Jack stepped aside instead of fighting, but Lu Ren suddenly attacked him with his Bodhisattva Dharma Appearance.
• Jack dodged Lu Ren’s blow and warned that revealing the killing could lead to sanctions and even World War Three.
• Lu Ren said Jack would die to keep the secret, then rushed at him after breaking out of his spacesuit.
• Jack used his high-frequency blade to deliver sixteen slashes, leaving deep wounds on Lu Ren’s arm.

Lu Ren defeated and killed Lightning Jack inside the main hall, then confronted the ancient woman seated on the throne. As she awakened and revealed her aged face, she declared that she had finally obtained him.

• Lu Ren healed the blade wound on his arm and entered the main hall, where Jack lay injured beside a throne occupied by a living woman.
• Jack questioned Lu Ren about his ability to control energy, and Lu Ren explained that he could wield true qi like Jack wielded particle cannons.
• Lu Ren used Jack’s distraction to approach and kill him, earning one Skill Point.
• The woman’s life magnetic field stirred after Jack’s death, and she slowly opened her eyes.
• The woman revealed her aged face and told Lu Ren that she had finally obtained him.

Lu Ren met Changxing, the dying Mistress of the Moon Palace, who offered him her sect’s inheritance and predicted the world’s vitality would return within a hundred years. When she tried to seize his body and devour his spirit, Lu Ren resisted and attacked her, leaving Changxing shocked that her mental assault had failed.

• Changxing revealed that she had waited for someone strong enough to inherit the Moon Palace’s legacy and hoped they might one day free her from reincarnation.
• Changxing described the Moon Palace’s former power on the Taiyin Star and predicted the world’s vitality and spiritual essence would return within a hundred years.
• Changxing asked Lu Ren to touch her brow so she could transmit the Moon Palace inheritance, and Lu Ren covered her head with his palm instead.
• Lu Ren unleashed his Bright Yang True Qi and used his strength to pull Changxing from her throne, while her body stretched without breaking.
• Changxing tried to seize Lu Ren’s body and devour his spirit, but his System blocked her mental attack, prompting her to demand to know why he was unharmed.

Lu Ren fought Changxing after she restored herself to her peak, then retreated to warn Zhai Ruying’s team to leave the Moon. As the team prepared to launch and the ground command center wondered what had awakened, Lu Ren returned to face Changxing.

• Changxing restored her youthful appearance and struck Lu Ren with overwhelming force, but Lu Ren answered with his Reality Tathagata Sutra and a golden Buddha palm.
• After the attack caused a massive explosion that collapsed the fissure, Lu Ren fled to Zhai Ruying and the others and told them to leave the lunar surface before the battle began.
• Zhai Ruying and her team abandoned their cases and began preparing the spacecraft for launch, while Lu Ren charged back toward the Moon Palace.
• Zhang Tongxuan and Li Changming watched the fissure’s collapse and feared that something terrifying had awakened; Li Changming revealed that Old Taoist Ji had warned him about the return of immortals and gods.

Lu Ren faced Changxing after she rose from the pit and revealed that she was a Human Immortal with only a quarter of an hour left. Realizing his strength was insufficient to defeat her, he ran toward the aircraft to seek the hydrogen bomb.

• Liu Xingyue told Zhang Tongxuan and Li Changming that a newly developed hydrogen bomb was aboard the aircraft, and they objected because Lu Ren was still at the Moon Palace site.
• Zhang Tongxuan, Li Changming, and Liu Xingyue discussed contacting Lu Ren through his bone-conduction headset and letting him decide what to do.
• Lu Ren saw the stone statue beginning to rise, then watched Changxing emerge from the pit and hover above him.
• Changxing declared that she had condensed a Human Immortal Dao Fruit and offered to preserve Lu Ren's consciousness if he surrendered his body and Spirit Soul treasure.
• Lu Ren recognized that Changxing's Dao Fruit was damaged but learned she could still fight for a quarter of an hour; he refused Ao Li's offer to control his body.
• Lu Ren recalled that Changxing had easily blocked his strongest attack and sprinted toward the aircraft, deciding they needed the hydrogen bomb.

Lu Ren used a hydrogen bomb to keep Changxing at bay while his companions escaped the Moon. When he detonated it, Changxing activated Moon Arrival and transported them to the Moon Palace, where the bomb began to erupt with heat.

• Changxing pursued Lu Ren and hurled him across the lunar surface, but he got up and ran back toward Zhai Ruying's spacecraft.
• Following ground control's orders, Zhai Ruying released a Compact-Class Hydrogen Bomb, which Lu Ren caught as the spacecraft ascended.
• Lu Ren confronted Changxing with the bomb and advanced on her, making her retreat while he tried to outlast her peak state.
• When Changxing stopped and threatened to press her advantage, Lu Ren detonated the hydrogen bomb rather than let her attack first.
• Changxing used Moon Arrival to transport herself and Lu Ren to the Moon Palace, where a formation activated and the bomb began releasing intense heat.

Lu Ren survived the hydrogen bomb blast after Changxing transported him to the Beidou Emperor Star, but he was left gravely injured. With Changxing still alive and unconscious nearby, he spent seven Skill Points to advance his Golden Body path and began to recover.

• The hydrogen bomb exploded on the moon, leaving a vast glassy crater, and observers on Earth assumed Lu Ren had died.
• Zhang Tongxuan and Li Changming called for a meeting to organize the search for old demons and fiends hidden on Earth.
• Lu Ren woke in a forest on the Beidou Emperor Star and realized radiation had badly damaged his body, though his Bright Yang True Qi and spiritual will halted its collapse.
• Lu Ren learned that Changxing had activated the Moon Palace transmission array and brought him to the Beidou Emperor Star, where she remained unconscious but alive.
• Lu Ren added seven Skill Points to the Tenth Earth Mahayana Golden Body Phoenix Bodhisattva Path, causing his limbs to regrow and his transformed body to begin returning to its former shape.

Lu Ren merged Bright Yang True Qi with the Tenth Earth Mahayana Golden Body Phoenix Bodhisattva Path and created the Ten Worlds Sutra, gaining the Seventh Pilgrimage Bodhisattva Dharma Appearance. He tried to kill Changxing, but she attempted to possess him and ended up trapped in his Inner World, where Ao Li terrified her.

• Lu Ren entered the Seventh Stage and fused Bright Yang True Qi with the Tenth Earth Mahayana Golden Body Phoenix Bodhisattva Path, creating a new True Skill.
• Lu Ren named the skill the Ten Worlds Sutra and manifested a golden Bodhisattva Dharma Appearance.
• As Changxing's life force recovered, Lu Ren crossed the world's immense gravity and struck at her.
• Changxing launched a Spirit Soul attack to possess Lu Ren, but his system blocked it and he led her into his Inner World.
• Changxing saw Ao Li in the Inner World and froze in terror while Kong Qiu, Chen Xuzi, and Xu Fu watched.

After killing Changxing, Lu Ren struggled to recover under Beidou Emperor Star’s crushing gravity and discovered that the pressure was making his body denser. Changxing’s body was taken into the forest, while her remnant soul remained trapped in Lu Ren’s Inner World and tried to bargain for his spiritual supreme treasure.

• Lu Ren received two Skill Points for killing Changxing and began regenerating his injured limbs under Beidou Emperor Star’s intense gravity.
• Lu Ren activated the Ten Realms Seal and sensed his body growing denser as new abilities and runes emerged.
• Lu Ren wondered whether Changxing’s throne had contained a teleportation array she had prepared as a contingency.
• A six-legged creature retrieved Changxing’s body and carried it into the forest while Lu Ren hid nearby.
• Changxing attacked Lu Ren inside his Inner World, but he restrained her with golden chains and told her he controlled everything there.
• Changxing asked Lu Ren for his spiritual supreme treasure so she could nurture a second body, and Subhuti suggested she serve as a wheel instead.

Lu Ren recovered on the Beidou Emperor Star and met a powerful but malnourished girl who found him in the bushes. She carried him away after introducing herself as Erwa, leaving Lu Ren wary but curious about his new surroundings.

• Lu Ren ignored Changxing's threats, then rested and absorbed the spiritual energy around him.
• Lu Ren considered the Beidou Emperor Star's spiritual energy and the strange particles that seemed to prevent modern technology.
• Erwa emerged from the bushes, mistook Lu Ren for a crippled man abandoned in the wild, and lifted his enormous body with ease.
• Lu Ren checked Erwa's intentions and let her tie him to her back, keeping his remaining hand near her neck as a precaution.
• Lu Ren asked Erwa about her name and family, and she explained that she lived alone and was named after an older brother who died young.

Lu Ren stayed at Erwa’s dilapidated hut in the Taihang Mountains while she hunted and told him about her isolated life. He offered to teach her how to build a proper house, then resumed cultivating as Erwa fell asleep beside him.

• Erwa carried Lu Ren to her hut and left to hunt, returning with a huge boar that she roasted and ate almost entirely herself.
• Erwa told Lu Ren about the Taihang Mountains, her trades with Grandpa Niu, and why she lived alone instead of in the village.
• Erwa explained that her parents had lived in a house, and Lu Ren offered to teach her how to build one.
• Erwa happily agreed and fell asleep beside Lu Ren, who continued cultivating the Ten Worlds Sutra and found that his Enlightened Awareness was advancing toward the eighth step.

Lu Ren helped Erwa build a wooden house and taught her a boxing technique while his severed limbs slowly regenerated. After sensing two sword-flying cultivators pass nearby, he asked Erwa when Grandpa Niu would arrive because he needed clothes.

• Lu Ren sent Erwa to gather trees and guided her in building a two-story wooden house over nearly ten days.
• Erwa wondered whether immortals could build houses with magic, and Lu Ren spotted two people flying on swords toward the Taihang Mountains.
• Chen Tianshou sensed someone watching him, but Li Caishang urged him to focus on their business and offered to kill nearby mortals.
• Lu Ren offered to teach Erwa how to use her strength, then spent nearly a month teaching her a boxing technique tailored to her.
• Lu Ren asked when Grandpa Niu would come and explained that he needed a set of clothes.

Lu Ren met Niu Genshan, an old bull demon who came looking for Erwa, and easily defeated him when he attacked. Lu Ren restrained his strength after realizing Niu Genshan was a weak, peaceful cultivator, then asked why he had attacked.

• Erwa left for the mountains to hunt and earn clothes, while Lu Ren stayed by his new house and pondered Changxing and the paths beyond Dao Determination.
• Niu Genshan came looking for Erwa, but Lu Ren told him she had gone hunting.
• Niu Genshan recognized Lu Ren's injuries and challenged him, then sent him flying with an unseen blow when he raised his foot to attack.
• Niu Genshan transformed into a giant water buffalo and charged, but Lu Ren struck him with a fist mark that hurled him into a hillock.
• Lu Ren examined Niu Genshan and found no Blood Fiend aura, then asked why he had attacked.

Lu Ren learned that Demon Lord Li Shan had kept Erwa beneath Taihang Mountain for his own purposes and forced Niu Genshan to reveal the scheme. He planted a controlling seed in Niu Genshan, who fled as soon as Lu Ren looked away, only to feel it punish him.

• Lu Ren questioned Niu Genshan about why he visited Erwa and kept her beneath Taihang Mountain.
• Niu Genshan revealed that Demon Lord Li Shan, a black snake, planned to claim Erwa as his Dao companion when she turned sixteen, and that he had chosen hundreds of females before her.
• Niu Genshan warned that Demon Lord Li Shan would investigate if he missed his monthly report.
• Lu Ren planted a Buddha seed in Niu Genshan's consciousness and warned that he could detonate it if Niu Genshan harbored ill intent or strayed too far.
• Lu Ren had Niu Genshan bring back clothes and books, then let him leave; Niu Genshan fled and felt pain in his brow when Lu Ren activated the seed.

Lu Ren investigated Guo Erwa’s unusual constitution, learned her surname from her parents’ letter, and spent months teaching her fist arts while considering her a cultivation experiment. The chapter ended as a sword light hurtled toward him.

• Erwa returned with a huge gray bear, and Lu Ren concluded that her strength and constitution were extraordinary despite finding no physical difference from an ordinary human.
• Erwa showed Lu Ren her parents’ letters, and he identified her surname as Guo.
• Niu Genshan brought clothes, weapons, and supplies for Lu Ren and Guo Erwa after more than three peaceful months had passed.
• Lu Ren continued teaching Guo Erwa fist arts and considered whether she could cultivate true qi without a fifth Limit Breaker.
• A fast, merciless sword light shot from the horizon straight toward Lu Ren.

Lu Ren defeated Li Caishang after she attacked him and Guo Erwa, then killed her and burned her body. He gained a Skill Point but rejected the temptation to kill for power.

• Li Caishang attacked Lu Ren and Guo Erwa with a flying sword, but Lu Ren dispersed her Sword Qi.
• Li Caishang dismissed Lu Ren and tried to leave, so he struck her from the sky and shattered her Taihang Jade Pendant.
• Lu Ren seized Li Caishang's flying sword and overpowered her before she could use her sword art.
• Lu Ren killed the unconscious Li Caishang with her own flying sword and gained 1 Skill Point.
• Lu Ren searched Li Caishang's body, resisted the urge to pursue power through slaughter, and burned her remains with Buddhist flame.