Chapter Summaries

Liu Xiaofei coaxed Li Changmei into revealing details about the Five Divine Swords while Sun Jiuyang prepared a talisman pill to incapacitate Li Changmei and Guo Dingshan. The two heroes came upstairs with Liu Xiaofei, setting Sun Jiuyang's plan in motion.

• Liu Xiaofei questioned Li Changmei about the Five Divine Swords, and Li Changmei complained that Liu Ziqian had refused to join them.
• Sun Jiuyang made subtle hand signals, then took Lu Feng upstairs and prepared a pill covered with talismans.
• Sun Jiuyang explained that Liu Xiaofei would lure Li Changmei and Guo Dingshan into a room so he could slip the pill into their wine.
• Lu Feng refused to handle the wine, so Sun Jiuyang agreed to do it himself and told Lu Feng to stay behind.
• Liu Xiaofei led Li Changmei and Guo Dingshan upstairs.

Liu Xiaofei, Sun Jiuyang, and Lu Feng drugged Guo Dingshan and Li Changmei, then stole their treasures and divine swords. The Azure Nether Sword wounded Li Changmei while trying to wake him, but Sun Jiuyang’s powerful Talisman Pill kept both men unconscious.

• Liu Xiaofei and Sun Jiuyang lured Guo Dingshan and Li Changmei into drinking wine laced with a Talisman Pill.
• After all three men collapsed, Liu Xiaofei revealed he had concealed his wine in a morning glory and beat Li Changmei for insulting him.
• Lu Feng opened Guo Dingshan’s hidden storage, and Liu Xiaofei and Sun Jiuyang subdued the Mountain-River Sword before Lu Feng captured it in his purple Gourd.
• The Azure Nether Sword pierced Li Changmei in an attempt to wake him, but Sun Jiuyang sealed it and Lu Feng captured it in the purple Gourd.
• Sun Jiuyang explained that his Talisman Pill could keep even a Daluo Golden Immortal asleep for a full day, and Liu Xiaofei threatened to use several on his enemy.

After Liu Xiaofei defeated Li Changmei and Guo Dingshan, the Five Qi Mystic Sects joined the hunt for him and his companions. The trio decided to split up, with Sun Jiuyang and Liu Xiaofei heading for Central Sacred Peak while Lu Feng went to the Azure Cloud Sect.

• The innkeeper discovered Li Changmei and Guo Dingshan bound and mutilated, and the two fled after waking.
• News of Liu Xiaofei's attack spread, prompting all Five Qi Mystic Sects to offer rewards for his capture.
• Liu Xiaofei, Sun Jiuyang, and Lu Feng agreed to postpone their plan to target Liu Ziqian and leave the south.
• Lu Feng said he had business at the Azure Cloud Sect and feared his identity would be exposed if he traveled with the others.
• Sun Jiuyang and Liu Xiaofei set off for Central Sacred Peak while Lu Feng headed to the Azure Cloud Sect.

Lu Feng followed the purple-clad woman he believed was Fenfen Chengkuai out of the city, suspecting she had been abducted. The woman was actually Gu Xijue, who recognized him and ordered her men to kill him after wondering whether he had uncovered her secret.

• Lu Feng saw a purple-clad woman leaving the city with black-clad men and followed, believing Fenfen Chengkuai might be in danger.
• After losing sight of the group at the city gate, Lu Feng learned they had taken a woodland path and pursued them for dozens of li.
• At a fork in the path, Lu Feng paused while Gu Xijue and her men watched him from the woods.
• Gu Xijue recognized Lu Feng and wondered whether his sudden strength and pursuit meant he had deliberately approached her and discovered her plan.
• Gu Xijue decided her secret could not be exposed and ordered her men to kill Lu Feng.

Lu Feng was confronted by Meng Tai, a Daluo Golden Immortal, while following the men who had abducted Fenfen Chengkuai. After surviving Meng Tai’s flames and being knocked unconscious, Lu Feng lay helpless as Meng Tai prepared another attack.

• Lu Feng tossed a stone to choose his route, but Meng Tai caught it and accused him of following the group.
• Lu Feng drew the Rusty Sword and raised the Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner as Meng Tai attacked with purple flames.
• Gu Xijue sensed a familiar aura from Lu Feng but decided not to interfere or risk exposing her identity.
• Lu Feng used the Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner to absorb Meng Tai’s flames, then fled and shouted that he had someone backing him.
• Meng Tai intercepted Lu Feng and struck him unconscious, then raised his fist to attack him again.

After Scruffy Old Man rescued Lu Feng, he woke in the mountains behind the Azure Cloud Sect and learned that Fenfen Chengkuai had likely been taken toward Western Sacred Peak. Before helping Lu Feng pursue her, Scruffy Old Man brought him to obtain the Yi Wood Art, and Lu Feng approached the formation guarding the innate Yi wood qi.

• Lu Feng woke beside Scruffy Old Man, thanked him for saving his life, and asked whether he had seen Fenfen Chengkuai.
• Scruffy Old Man said the people who abducted Fenfen Chengkuai seemed to be heading for Western Sacred Peak and agreed to help rescue her after their business was finished.
• Scruffy Old Man revealed they were in the mountains behind the Azure Cloud Sect and led Lu Feng to the place where he could obtain the Yi Wood Art.
• Lu Feng descended into an underground chamber containing innate Yi wood qi and prepared to break its formation with the Rusty Sword.

Lu Feng asked the Scruffy Old Man about the four captured Divine Swords, his Rusty Sword, and the bright red gourd. The old man explained that Lu Feng’s sword would grow with him and revealed that the gourd required a unique streak of white light, leaving them with a mysterious object to seek.

• Lu Feng flew excitedly through the cavern until the Scruffy Old Man urged him to hurry after Fenfen Chengkuai, who was being taken toward Western Sacred Peak.
• Lu Feng asked how to claim the four swords in his purple gourd, but the Scruffy Old Man dismissed them as inferior to Lu Feng’s Rusty Sword and refused to tamper with them because of the Fifth-Month Immortal King.
• The Scruffy Old Man told Lu Feng that only Lu Feng could remove the Rusty Sword’s rust after reaching the immortal realm, and that the sword would grow stronger as Lu Feng did.
• The Scruffy Old Man said Lu Feng should keep the immature bright red gourd because it was an Innate Artifact Blank that could be refined into a treasure when they found the right opportunity.
• The Scruffy Old Man said the gourd’s opportunity involved a single, unique streak of white light between the innate and the acquired, though he admitted the idea was his own deduction.

Lu Feng learned more about the Green Lotus Treasure Banner and the Nine-Headed Heavenly Emperor as his master carried him toward Western Sacred Peak, where they hoped to find Fenfen Chengkuai. They entered the Plain Cloud Sect’s rear mountain and found the stone wall’s vortex already open as Lu Feng prepared to strike.

• The scruffy old man explained his theory about a half-innate ray of light and said the Innate Gourd and that light might combine into a wondrous treasure.
• The scruffy old man gave Lu Feng the Green Lotus Treasure Banner and described the Nine-Headed Heavenly Emperor as a ruthless overlord, a hero, and a pitiful anomaly.
• The scruffy old man told Lu Feng that his sweetheart had been kidnapped to Western Sacred Peak and carried him west while Lu Feng practiced flying.
• Lu Feng asked the scruffy old man to protect Su Yuexi and Su Yuexin, and the old man promised they would be safe within the Five Sacred Mountains Divine Continent.
• The scruffy old man and Lu Feng reached the Plain Cloud Sect, breached its formation, and found a vortex already open in the rear mountain’s stone wall.
• Lu Feng used the Green Lotus Treasure Banner to suppress the innate Wutu qi and raised his Rusty Sword for a powerful second slash.

Lu Feng broke the innate Wutu Qi formation and endured its power as it transformed his body and advanced his cultivation to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage. After waking from exhaustion, he asked his master why the Abyssal Demon Race looked so much like humans.

• Lu Feng repeatedly struck the innate Wutu Qi formation with the Rusty Sword until he shattered it, while the Scruffy Old Man explained how the formation worked.
• The innate Wutu Qi poured into Lu Feng, petrifying him and crushing his body, but his Withered Wood Rejuvenation Cultivation Technique began healing him on its own.
• The Scruffy Old Man showed Lu Feng all ten pages of the Mountain-Shifting Art, and Lu Feng absorbed the innate Wutu Qi, formed a four-colored golden core, and advanced to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
• Lu Feng collapsed from the cultivation technique's backlash and later woke in the Scruffy Old Man's grasp.
• Lu Feng learned that the purple-robed people outside had stayed at the entrance, then asked the Scruffy Old Man why the Demon Race looked like humans.

Lu Feng learned how demons arose and received the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner from the Scruffy Old Man, who refused to answer questions about Lu Feng’s origins and Rusty Sword. The Scruffy Old Man took him toward Northern Sacred Peak to obtain the Surging Waves Art, and they arrived after four days as Lu Feng asked to learn more techniques.

• The Scruffy Old Man explained that demons came from fallen races and described several ways people became demons, warning Lu Feng that those who chose the demonic path were especially powerful.
• The Scruffy Old Man gave Lu Feng the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner and told him that the five banners could provide powerful defenses when fully activated.
• When Lu Feng asked about his origins, Rusty Sword, and the Scruffy Old Man’s identity, the Scruffy Old Man hit him and said he would explain things when the time came.
• The Scruffy Old Man took Lu Feng from the cavern past a battle between the purple-robed people and Plain Cloud Sect, then headed northeast toward Northern Sacred Peak to retrieve the Surging Waves Art.
• After four days, Lu Feng and the Scruffy Old Man reached Northern Sacred Peak, where Lu Feng asked his master to teach him more cultivation techniques.

Lu Feng and the Scruffy Old Man found the Northern Sacred Peak surrounded by sect forces and learned that demons had helped spark a battle to keep them from entering the Mysterious Cloud Sect. Lu Feng tried to slip through the fighting alone, but he was surrounded and caught in a melee.

• The Scruffy Old Man warned Lu Feng that the Heavenly Deficiency Divine Art could damage his internal organs and promised to teach him another technique later.
• Lu Feng and the Scruffy Old Man discovered cultivators surrounding the Northern Sacred Peak, with fighting already underway, and the Scruffy Old Man suspected the turmoil was meant to block their entry.
• The Scruffy Old Man told Lu Feng to disguise himself and follow the crowd inside while he found another way, then vanished before Lu Feng could ask him to take them in directly.
• Lu Feng ran into groups of armed cultivators, and the Scruffy Old Man warned him not to use the conspicuous Greased-Soles Cultivation Technique before hastily teaching him the Heavenly E'e Drunken Immortal Steps.
• Lu Feng recognized Nine Yin Sect disciples fighting Mysterious Cloud Sect cultivators, tried to sneak past without helping, and ended up surrounded in another melee.

Lu Feng learned the Yan'e Drunken Immortal Steps during the battle outside the Mysterious Cloud Sect and used the footwork to evade his attackers. As the northern forces clashed with the sect, the Scruffy Old Man urged Lu Feng to enter the mountain before the sect activated its Mountain-Protection Formation.

• The Scruffy Old Man displayed the Yan'e Drunken Immortal Steps diagrams to Lu Feng through a secret art and told him the technique had no adverse effects.
• Lu Feng used the footwork with the Turtle-Shell Cultivation Technique to dodge waves of attacks, then continued practicing as he learned the diagrams.
• Zhai Yun accused Mei Yu True Cultivator of killing elders from the Divine Spear Sect and the Black Iron Sword Sect, then attacked him.
• Mei Yu True Cultivator and Zhai Yun fought while the battles between the Mysterious Cloud Sect and the northern forces intensified.
• Lu Feng mastered the diagrams and effortlessly evaded his opponents until the Scruffy Old Man told him to enter the mountain before the sect activated its formation.

Lu Feng reached the Mysterious Cloud Sect during the Northern Evil Dao Alliance’s attack and found Su Yuexi and Su Yuexin trapped in battle. After helping them with rare flat peaches, he was stunned when Su Yuexin asked whether he had been with Jade Butterfly Liu Xiaofei.

• Lu Feng remembered that he had come for the Five Directional Banners and the Five Elements Art, then made his way toward the Mysterious Cloud Sect as its defenders struggled against Zhai Yun and the Northern Evil cultivators.
• Lu Feng tried to circle around the battlefield toward the rear of the mountain, but recognized Su Yuexi’s voice and then saw Su Yuexin fighting with the Kun Yuan Sword.
• Lu Feng rushed to Su Yuexi and Su Yuexin, who were surrounded and injured, and realized that the flat peaches he had given them had brought them to the immortal realm.
• Su Yuexi asked Lu Feng for another flat peach, and he told her none remained and warned her to keep their secret; he also explained that his master had given him the peaches.
• Su Yuexin asked whether Lu Feng had been with Jade Butterfly Liu Xiaofei, and Lu Feng blurted out, “How did you know?”

Lu Feng revealed his connection to Liu Xiaofei’s attacks and gave Su Yuexin four Five Elements Art manuals, while learning how the rumors threatened the Su Family and Xinghe City. As evil cultivators surrounded them, Lu Feng protected Su Yuexin and Su Yuexi with the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner and fought toward the summit to obtain the Canglang Art.

• Su Yuexin explained that Lu Feng’s involvement with Liu Xiaofei had sparked suspicion among the Five Qi Mystic Sects, and that the White Cloud Sect had confined Liu Ziqian for his safety.
• Lu Feng admitted his connection to Liu Xiaofei, and Su Yuexin warned that she might have to expel him from the Su Family temporarily to protect Xinghe City.
• Lu Feng gave Su Yuexin the Golden Soup Art, Yi Wood Art, Flame Art, and Mountain-Shifting Art, then explained that another group had brought the northern evil sects to disrupt their search for the Canglang Art.
• Lu Feng discovered evil cultivators surrounding the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner and protecting it from their attacks.
• Lu Feng shielded Su Yuexin and Su Yuexi with the banner, then used the Rusty Sword to cut through the cultivators and press toward the summit.

Lu Feng stayed behind to handle his own task while Su Yuexi and Su Yuexin went up the mountain, then witnessed his master kick away a quasi-saint and learned how much authority the Panshen Heavenly Palace held over the battlefield. The Scruffy Old Man concealed their cave with a formation, leaving Lu Feng outside as both he and the entrance vanished from sight.

• Su Yuexin took Su Yuexi up the mountainside after Lu Feng promised to find her when his task was done.
• Lu Feng used the Yan'e Drunken Immortal Steps to weave through the battlefield toward the back of the mountain.
• The Scruffy Old Man rolled the Purple-Robed Figure into a ball and kicked him beyond the horizon, shocking Lu Feng with his master's power.
• A Daoist nun from the Panshen Heavenly Palace ordered the fighting to stop and summoned the leaders of all sides to the palace.
• The Scruffy Old Man set up a formation at the cave entrance and shoved Lu Feng, causing the cave entrance and the Scruffy Old Man to vanish from view.

Lu Feng fought the purple-robed formation guards in the Stone Cavern, then absorbed the innate Ren Water qi and completed the five-colored golden core. The chapter ended with his swollen golden core painfully changing as he sought help from the Scruffy Old Man.

• The Scruffy Old Man pulled Lu Feng out of the hidden formation and brought him into the Stone Cavern, where purple-robed cultivators attacked.
• The Scruffy Old Man threw Lu Feng into the battle and restrained him with a whip, forcing him to fight the Daluo Golden Immortals until he killed them all.
• Lu Feng asked to learn more Divine Abilities, but the Scruffy Old Man refused and told him to break the formation protecting the innate Ren Water qi.
• Lu Feng shattered the formation with the Rusty Sword and endured the innate Ren Water qi as it entered his body and settled in his upper dantian.
• Lu Feng learned the Canglang Art, formed a five-colored golden core, and began filling his fifth meridian with water-type true qi.
• Lu Feng felt unbearable pain as his golden core swelled to more than twice its size and pleaded with the Scruffy Old Man for help.

The Scruffy Old Man used nearly ten thousand five-source immortal crystal stones to unleash a massive surge of elemental energy into Lu Feng, tearing apart his meridians and shattering his five-colored golden core. Lu Feng learned to guide true qi through his meridianless body with his spiritual sense and activated the Five Elements Art, forming five vortices to absorb the elemental energy.

• The Scruffy Old Man arranged ground and overhead formations of five-source immortal crystal stones around Lu Feng and told him to endure a final trial.
• The Scruffy Old Man set the formations spinning, causing nearly ten thousand stones to shatter and flood Lu Feng with elemental vital energy.
• The energy destroyed Lu Feng’s meridians and shattered his five-colored golden core as his cultivation techniques began circulating through his body on their own.
• Lu Feng realized that the Heavenly Deficiency Divine Art still followed its old routes without meridians and tried to guide the true qi using his spiritual sense.
• After repeating his efforts thousands of times, Lu Feng activated the Five Elements Art and formed five vortices that drew in the five elemental energies.

Lu Feng endured a dangerous cultivation process while the Scruffy Old Man revealed that he was destined to face a powerful rival in a battle to the death. As Lu Feng remained unable to move, news from outside pointed to the Mysterious Cloud Sect’s possible role in the Northern Evil Path’s offensive.

• Lu Feng used the Five Elements Art to separate the chaotic energy, restore his damaged organs, and form a new five-colored golden core.
• The Scruffy Old Man told Lu Feng that he had a destined opponent, that only one of them would survive, and that Lu Feng had to leave the Five Sacred Mountains Divine Continent to grow stronger.
• Lu Feng remained motionless for days as the Scruffy Old Man occasionally left for food and returned with news from the outside world.
• Reports linked the Azure Sea Canglang Sword to the killings of important figures from four Northern Evil Path sects before its offensive.
• The Panshen Heavenly Palace’s hall master began an all-out investigation into the Mysterious Cloud Sect’s suspected responsibility.

After nearly three years trapped as a statue, Lu Feng absorbed the stored energy, broke free at the Heavenly Immortal realm, and began studying the Primordial Spirit Demon-Gathering Scripture. Elsewhere, a white-haired man heard news from the Five Sacred Mountains Divine Continent and received a warning from the Scruffy Old Man through Blackwater.

• Su Yuexin returned to the White Cloud Sect after the Panshen Heavenly Palace restored peace and entered the Immortal Realm during the fighting.
• Lu Feng absorbed the remaining energy, regained control of his body, and emerged from the statue with the aura of a Heavenly Immortal.
• The Scruffy Old Man insisted that Lu Feng immediately practice the Primordial Spirit Demon-Gathering Scripture.
• In the Primordial Continent's Abyss, the white-haired man subdued the spirits in a pool and learned that Gu Xijue was approaching the Panshen Heavenly Palace.
• Blackwater reported that the Five Directional Banners had been lost, and the white-haired man said their recovery had only been a way to assess the situation.
• Blackwater relayed the Scruffy Old Man's warning that the white-haired man's master must honor their agreement, or both sides would suffer.

Lu Feng learned why the Panshen Heavenly Palace was hosting a gathering and discovered that Su Yuexin and the other Divine Swords would attend. He decided to head there to meet Su Yuexin and Su Yuexi, while the white-haired man prepared to meet Venerable Black Tortoise.

• The Purple-Robed Figure told the white-haired man that the Scruffy Old Man had demanded an Immortal King be sent to test him, and the white-haired man said he would send a Supreme next time.
• The white-haired man scolded the Purple-Robed Figure for failing to study Lu Feng, then left to meet Venerable Black Tortoise at the Heaven-Swallowing Sect.
• Lu Feng shared his food with four Heavenly Immortals and asked the refined scholar about the Panshen Heavenly Palace gathering.
• The refined scholar explained that the gathering would settle tensions between the Northern Evil Path and the Mysterious Cloud Sect, and that Su Yuexin had become one of the Six Divine Swords.
• Lu Feng learned that the Six Divine Swords would attend and that cultivators could enter the Panshen Heavenly Palace if they arrived early enough.
• Lu Feng decided to go to the gathering to meet Su Yuexin and Su Yuexi, and asked when it would begin.