Chapter Summaries

Lu Ren fought Yin Xi with the Illumination Mirror and his Bodhisattva powers, revealing that he had reached the Peak of Seeking Truth. As Lu Ren confronted the monster Yin Xi had become, a Gate of Myriad Mysteries appeared, said to lead to The Other Shore.

• Lu Ren used the Illumination Mirror to halt Yin Xi, then struck him with his Bodhisattva Avatar.
• Yin Xi was battered by Lu Ren’s attacks and trapped him in purple-black qi, while Zhang Tongxuan struck Yin Xi with a thunder technique and was injured.
• Lu Ren broke free, ascended into the Seeking Truth Realm, and saw the tentacled monster beneath Yin Xi’s appearance.
• Lu Ren invoked Tathagata and brought down a flaming Buddha palm as the monster countered with purple light and thousands of tentacles.
• The monster raised the Gate of Myriad Mysteries, which Lu Ren recognized as the passage said to lead to The Other Shore.

Lu Ren destroyed Yin Xi and reached the corrupted Dao Scripture, while Zhang Tongxuan warned him about its danger. The scripture’s intent surged toward Lu Ren when he touched it.

• Lu Ren used the Buddha hand to shatter Yin Xi’s Gate of Myriad Mysteries and annihilate him, earning 3 Skill Points.
• Lu Ren recovered from severe injuries with the Past Maitreya True Scripture, and Zhang Tongxuan realized he had met Shakya and learned that Shakya and Laozi would return in three years.
• Zhang Tongxuan told Lu Ren that information from a Celestial God's Tomb linked Yin Xi’s sealing of Hangu Pass to a powerful enemy arriving from the star routes.
• Lu Ren cautiously crossed the flesh-covered altar and resisted an assault from an unknown power that the system marked as extremely dangerous.
• Lu Ren broke the Flesh Dao Scripture’s heart-like organ’s influence with his heartbeat and touched the book, prompting its spiritual intent to surge toward him.

Lu Ren examined the contaminated Flesh Dao Scripture and discovered that its influence had already reached the cells of his body, though he purged the imprint with the Three Lifetimes Sutra. After studying the scripture for a day and night, he gained beginner-level comprehension but refused to spend Force of Destiny correcting it, intending only to understand it before Shakya and Laozi returned.

• The Flesh Dao Scripture's grotesque spiritual imprint appeared in Lu Ren's consciousness, while Zhang Tongxuan saw Lu Ren's body mutate into a mass of tentacles, eyes, and tumors.
• Lu Ren discovered that the scripture had imprinted itself on his cells and used the Three Lifetimes Sutra to remove every trace of it.
• Lu Ren and Zhang Tongxuan agreed that the contaminated scripture could not be taken to the real world and should be destroyed.
• After confirming he could resist its influence, Lu Ren spent a day and night reading the Flesh Dao Scripture while Zhang Tongxuan anxiously watched.
• Lu Ren gained beginner-level comprehension of the contaminated Dao Scripture but declined the System's offer to spend Force of Destiny correcting it.

Lu Ren used Samadhi Karmic Fire and his extraordinary Microscopic Insight to destroy the dangerous Flesh Dao Scripture and its living gene-level organisms, then left Hangu Pass with Zhang Tongxuan. Back at Phoenix Falcon Martial Hall, he considered Laozi and Shakya’s possible return before preparing to cultivate and finding Li Qingling had made an elaborate dinner.

• Lu Ren burned the Flesh Dao Scripture with Samadhi Karmic Fire, and its cover released a mass of flesh that he blocked with qi.
• Lu Ren used Microscopic Insight to discover living organisms within the flesh and compressed the surrounding space before incinerating them all.
• Lu Ren contained the spreading fire with seals, then left the Hangu Pass secret realm with Zhang Tongxuan, who went to report the incident to Dragon Tiger Mountain’s ancestors.
• Lu Ren returned to Phoenix Falcon Martial Hall and considered whether Laozi and Shakya might return through Hangu Pass during the coming spiritual-energy revival.
• After spending a day and night calming his thoughts, Lu Ren prepared to enter the Seeking Truth Realm, then asked Li Qingling if she had cooked the lavish dinner.

Lu Ren reunited with Chen Han, the woman he had liked at university, after enduring Li Qingling’s disastrous cooking and satisfying his hunger on a snack street. They went to a bar to catch up, where Chen Han revealed she had been cultivating at the Shangjing Sect in the Kunlun Otherworld.

• Lu Ren sampled Li Qingling’s cooking after getting her drunk, then left the martial arts school hungry and bought snacks along a nighttime street.
• Lu Ren recognized Chen Han, his former university classmate, and the two reminisced about their school days.
• Lu Ren invited Chen Han to visit a place she had once wanted to experience, and they went to a quiet bar together.
• Lu Ren asked Chen Han which holy land she had joined, and she said she was at the Shangjing Sect on Jade Capital Mountain.

Lu Ren and Chen Han reunited and discussed their cultivation, the Shangjing Sect, and the changes in the present world and Kunlun Otherworld. Chen Han said Shangjing Sect’s records claimed the immortals and gods had perished, leaving the Human Dao era.

• Chen Han told Lu Ren that she had entered the Shangjing Sect after nearly two years and had reached Establishing Dao Realm.
• Chen Han said Shangjing Sect members treated ordinary people coldly and that the sect’s history and records described the immortals and gods as having perished.
• Lu Ren and Chen Han reminisced about their university days, including the birthday cake Chen Han had secretly given him.
• They discussed China’s growing population, the martial arts system, and the relatively small number of Martial Daoists who had reached Clairvoyant Realm or beyond.
• Chen Han agreed that the present world had grown strong enough to speak confidently to the holy land sects and said the Human Dao era had begun.

Lu Ren discovered that Chen Han had become detached from the mortal world after joining the Shangjing Sect, while Ji Quanzhen warned him about ancient cultivators and returning immortals. After leaving the bar, Lu Ren learned that Chen Han had been ordered by a Shangjing Edict to hunt him down, and she confronted him for the reward.

• Lu Ren concluded that Chen Han’s cold indifference might mean she had entered the realm of Supreme Emptiness.
• Ji Quanzhen warned Lu Ren that ancient cultivators might pursue dangerous schemes as Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy revived, and that some returning immortals and gods had no bodies.
• Lu Ren encountered Chen Han waiting for him in the street with the Dragon Bite Sword.
• Chen Han revealed that the Shangjing Sect had issued an edict to hunt Lu Ren and that the reward could help her advance a major realm.
• Chen Han said she had assessed Lu Ren’s strength and was confident she could defeat him, while Lu Ren questioned what had changed her.

Lu Ren defeated Chen Han after she attacked him with the Dragon Bite Sword, then captured her and confronted her about her chaotic life Magnetic Field. Chen Han revealed that she had endured brutal abuse after falling into the Kunlun Otherworld and joining a predatory sect.

• Chen Han sent the Dragon Bite Sword at Lu Ren, who caught it between two fingers and shattered it.
• Lu Ren caught Chen Han as she tried to flee, sealed her true qi, and carried her to an abandoned warehouse.
• Chen Han begged Lu Ren to spare her and offered to do anything he wanted.
• Lu Ren pointed out that Chen Han's life Magnetic Field was chaotic, suggesting she had used dual cultivation and become a Cauldron.
• Chen Han broke down and described being abused and treated as livestock after entering a sect in the Kunlun Otherworld.

Lu Ren interrogated Chen Han about the Shangjing Edict and the Primordial Origin Sutra, then broke the restriction in her mind so she could reveal the complete scripture. After verifying her account, he prepared to visit the Shangjing Sect to learn why its sect master had targeted him.

• Chen Han explained that she had accepted the Shangjing Edict to approach and kill Lu Ren, but claimed she did not know why the sect had targeted him.
• Lu Ren pressed Chen Han to reveal the Primordial Origin Sutra, and she warned that a restriction would destroy her Spirit Soul if she disclosed it.
• Lu Ren examined and removed the restriction in Chen Han's mind, allowing her to recite the full Primordial Origin Sutra.
• Lu Ren studied the sutra and had Chen Han explain selected passages until the system verified her account.
• Lu Ren said he would visit the Shangjing Sect to question its sect master about the Edict, leaving Chen Han's fate unresolved.

Lu Ren destroyed Chen Han’s cultivation after she begged him to spare it, then used the Past Maitreya True Scripture to heal her scars. He left Chen Han unconscious with the Security Administration Bureau and showed Xiao Chen that the scripture could also serve as a powerful healing art.

• Chen Han pleaded with Lu Ren to spare her cultivation and showed him the scars from her years of abuse.
• Lu Ren destroyed Chen Han’s qi seed, meridians, Spirit Soul, and cultivation foundation, leaving her unable to cultivate again.
• Chen Han attacked Lu Ren, and he kicked her unconscious before asking Zhang Li to arrange for help.
• Xiao Chen and Security Administration Bureau personnel arrived, and Lu Ren used the Past Maitreya True Scripture to erase Chen Han’s scars.
• Xiao Chen marveled at Lu Ren’s healing technique, and Lu Ren urged him to condense his qi-seed organ and open his meridians.

After ordering Xiao Chen to watch Chen Han, Lu Ren traveled to the Kunlun Otherworld to learn why the Shangjing Sect’s leader had ordered his death. He was welcomed as a celebrated Warden at the entrance and entered the bustling underground city.

• Lu Ren ordered Xiao Chen to monitor Chen Han and to act if she made suspicious moves.
• Lu Ren reflected on Chen Han’s past and the brutality of ancient lineages and sects, then resolved to seek an explanation for the Shangjing Sect’s death order.
• Lu Ren traveled to the Kunlun Otherworld entrance and saw how it had become a peaceful, thriving city and tourist attraction.
• Liu Yanbin’s men scanned Lu Ren’s face, recognized him as Warden Lu, and Liu Yanbin asked for his autograph.
• Lu Ren signed Liu Yanbin’s paper and advised him to study the Daoist Celestial Muscle Jade Bone technique alongside the Blazing Fire Sutra.
• Lu Ren entered the Kunlun Otherworld and found a vast underground city surrounded by settlements and active mines.

Lu Ren reached the town near Jade Capital Mountain and discovered that Shangjing Sect disciples had surrounded him in a strange, hostile illusion. After Lu Ren cut many of them down, the town and its inhabitants restored themselves, and the attackers rushed at him again.

• Lu Ren left the city and traveled to Jade Capital Mountain, where he noticed satellites above the Kunlun Otherworld.
• Lu Ren entered the nearby town and sensed that Shangjing Sect disciples recognized him and regarded him with malice.
• Lu Ren spread his divine sense across the town, causing its inhabitants to stop and stare at him.
• Lu Ren drew his sword and cut down many cultivators, but their bodies vanished into smoke while the independent cultivators fled.
• Lu Ren watched the destroyed town and slain cultivators restore themselves, then saw the motionless attackers come alive and charge him.

Lu Ren destroyed the array beneath Jade Capital Mountain with his Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva and advanced on the Shangjing Sect. He faced the sect’s sword cultivators and remained surrounded as twelve more sword lights converged on him.

• Lu Ren summoned the Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva and battered the town until its ancient array was destroyed.
• Lu Ren replenished his True Essence with the Crimson Dragon Inner Core as Jade Capital Mountain activated its defenses and sect members flew down.
• Lu Ren advanced toward Jade Capital Mountain and blocked a sword-light dragon with his hand, shattering its sword.
• Lu Ren hurled the young sword cultivator into the path of an incoming attack, and a beautiful woman’s sword pinned him to the ground.
• Twelve more streaks of golden light rushed toward Lu Ren as someone ordered the Primal Sword Formation to be formed.

Lu Ren defeated the Shangjing Sect cultivators who attacked him and learned that the sect master had issued the Shangjing Edict from Qiandao Palace on Jade Capital Mountain. He prepared to confront the sect at its stronghold.

• Lu Ren shattered the Primal Sword Formation, sending an elderly Daoist crashing into a mountain and using a Buddha projection to kill most of the sword cultivators.
• Lu Ren killed a young man pinned by a female sword cultivator and questioned her about the Shangjing Edict.
• The female sword cultivator revealed that the sect master was cultivating in seclusion at Qiandao Palace on Jade Capital Mountain, then Lu Ren beheaded her.
• Lu Ren considered the Primordial Origin Sutra and its direct cultivation of qi, comparing it with the Mingyang Sect's method.
• Lu Ren summoned his nearly ten-thousand-zhang Tathagata Dharma Body instead of heading up Jade Capital Mountain.

Lu Ren attacked Jade Capital Mountain, but a small Bronze Cauldron destroyed his Tathagata Dharma Body. He confronted Shangjing Sect Master Li Chengxu, and their battle began inside a field that let cultivators unleash far greater power.

• Lu Ren's Buddha hand struck Jade Capital Mountain, but the Bronze Cauldron shattered his Tathagata Dharma Body with a force that seemed to counter it.
• Li Chengxu emerged from the palace, and Lu Ren recognized him as the Shangjing Sect Master behind the Shangjing Edict.
• Lu Ren mocked the Shangjing Sect's decline, while Li Chengxu grieved for the fifteen cultivators Lu Ren had killed and vowed to eliminate him.
• Lu Ren declared that only one side could survive their conflict, then rushed toward Li Chengxu as Li Chengxu activated a strange field around Jade Capital Mountain.
• Lu Ren realized the field was a transformed world where qi-refining cultivators could wield greatly enhanced spells and divine abilities.

Lu Ren escaped Li Chengxu’s Three Thousand Weak Waters and learned that Shangjing Sect sought the Azurewood Cauldron. He attacked Li Chengxu and the sect’s disciples, leaving the battle underway at Shangjing’s gates.

• Li Chengxu trapped Lu Ren in Three Thousand Weak Waters, believing the divine art had sealed him inside a mirror world.
• Li Chengxu ordered the formation activated and demanded that two thousand humans and livestock be brought to make Restoration Pills.
• Lu Ren reappeared among the Shangjing Sect members and revealed that he had escaped through the Seeking Truth Realm.
• Lu Ren transformed using the Three Heads Six Arms Technique and the Future Buddha True Scripture, then struck Li Chengxu and turned on the other disciples.
• Lu Ren evaded Li Chengxu’s attacks, resisted his curses, and healed from wounds as he continued fighting the Shangjing Sect disciples.

Lu Ren devastated Shangjing Sect and defeated Li Chengxu after the sect leader used the Bronze Cauldron to unleash a sword attack. Li Chengxu survived only because the cauldron protected him, and Lu Ren declared that Shangjing Sect was finished as he faced the accusation that he was a demon.

• Lu Ren questioned why Shangjing Sect had no reserves after he had left Jade Capital Mountain in ruins.
• Li Chengxu drew on the Bronze Cauldron, aged rapidly, and sent a torrent of swords at Lu Ren.
• Lu Ren countered with the Six-Syllable Great Illumination Mantra and struck Li Chengxu with a golden Buddhist hand.
• The Bronze Cauldron's light protected Li Chengxu from the full force of Lu Ren's attack, leaving him injured in a crater.
• Lu Ren asked whether the Bronze Cauldron was Shangjing Sect's True Immortal treasure and said the sect was finished.
• Li Chengxu called Lu Ren a demon and warned that the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning would return; Lu Ren accepted the name.

Lu Ren killed Li Chengxu and learned the Shangjing Sect master would have become a threat to ordinary people, then blocked and answered a call from Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning. After the warning that Celestial Worthy would return, Lu Ren turned his attention to testing the Bronze Cauldron.

• Lu Ren killed Li Chengxu, earning a point of Force of Destiny after the system showed that Li Chengxu would later attack northern China.
• Lu Ren blocked an unseen existence's attempt to mark him, then accepted its attempt to establish a voice connection.
• Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning warned Lu Ren to flee and threatened to make him regret his actions, while Lu Ren refused to reveal his location or be intimidated.
• After ending the call, Lu Ren considered the powerful beings behind the Kunlun Otherworld's sacred lands and questioned whether Celestial Worthy had reached the Other Shore.
• Lu Ren used Instant Movement to reach the Bronze Cauldron and poured True Essence into it, but its force cracked his Bodhisattva Dharma Appearance as he tried to subdue it.

Lu Ren touched a Bronze Cauldron that the system identified as one of the Nine Cauldrons, but its power forced him to retreat before it fully awakened. He decided that reaching the True Immortal Realm might require a journey to Wang City, while the cauldron remained hostile when he tried to approach it again.

• Lu Ren touched the Bronze Cauldron, and the system identified it as one of the Nine Cauldrons.
• The cauldron unleashed clear light that dissolved the air, but Lu Ren used his Buddhist power and durable body to withstand it.
• As the cauldron shed its rust and began to awaken, Lu Ren judged that he could not safely let it revive and withdrew ten li.
• The Bronze Cauldron quieted beside the ruined palace on Jade Capital Mountain, and Lu Ren considered going to Wang City to bypass the Human Immortal Dao Fruit and enter the True Immortal Realm.
• When Lu Ren tried to pick up the cauldron again, it trembled and prepared to clash with him.

Lu Ren discovered nearly ten thousand dying cultivators from Shangjing Sect sealed in a Void Secret Realm and returned with a hydrogen bomb to destroy them before they could awaken. At Jade Capital Mountain, he and Wen Liangong found signs that someone had recently visited the ruins and considered pursuing them.

• Lu Ren used his Mind's Eye to find a hidden Void Secret Realm above Jade Capital Mountain, where nearly ten thousand powerful cultivators lay in coffins.
• Lu Ren left and returned two days later carrying a hydrogen bomb, accompanied by Wen Liangong, who had recently entered the Establishing Dao Realm.
• Lu Ren explained that he intended to kill the sleeping Shangjing Sect cultivators before the world's Spiritual Energy could revive them, and considered the danger posed by other holy lands.
• Lu Ren and Wen Liangong returned to Jade Capital Mountain and found the Bronze Cauldron still in the ruins, along with signs that someone had recently visited.
• Wen Liangong examined a fresh footprint and asked whether they should pursue the visitors.