Chapter Summaries

Lu Miaomiao defeated Lu Zhengran in a fight, leaving him devastated that he could no longer beat his younger sister. As Lu Zhengran began to cry and the weather turned ominous, Lu Zixuan feared his Dao heart was breaking while Lu Qing'an watched from the house.

• Lu Miaomiao showed Lu Zhengran her divine hammer and pink armor, then set them aside and withdrew her Dragon Blood Physique to keep their fight fair.
• Lu Miaomiao unleashed Star-Exploding Rage and struck Lu Zhengran so hard that he flew toward the horizon; after a quarter of an hour, she returned carrying his unconscious body.
• Lu Zixuan gave Lu Zhengran a high-grade healing pill, and he awoke to realize he had lost to Lu Miaomiao.
• Lu Zhengran became distraught over his defeat, and Lu Zixuan and Lu Miaomiao grew concerned that his Dao heart might shatter.
• Lu Qing'an told the others he would intervene if necessary but let Lu Zhengran face the setback, while dark clouds, lightning, and heavy rain appeared.

Lu Qing'an realized Lu Zhengran's distress seemed to summon rain and suspected he had gained a weather-related special ability. As Lu Zhengran's Dao heart nearly collapsed, Lu Zixuan and Lu Miaomiao tried to reach him, and Lu Zixuan finally got a response by reminding him of his promise to protect her.

• Rain repeatedly gathered whenever Lu Zhengran was upset, and Lu Qing'an suspected his son could influence the weather before sealing the courtyard to stop the clouds.
• Lu Miaomiao apologized to Lu Zhengran and offered him her popcorn, but he stared blankly and did not respond.
• Lu Zixuan found the house empty because Lu Qing'an had concealed himself and the others, then she and the girls failed to rouse Lu Zhengran.
• Lu Qing'an watched unseen as Lu Zixuan shouted at her brother and reminded him of his childhood promise to protect her.
• After Lu Zixuan flicked his head ten times, Lu Zhengran weakly asked her to stop because it hurt.

Lu Zhengran recovered after his Dao heart nearly collapsed, and Lu Qing'an helped him break through to the Tenth Layer of the Mahayana Realm. The family reunited in playful celebration, while Xiao Qingyi prepared to visit the Nether Bone Dragon for ingredients.

• Lu Zixuan found that Lu Zhengran had regained focus, scolded him for frightening her, and tried to give him a pill.
• Lu Qing'an explained that Lu Zhengran's Dao heart had stabilized, guided him into sudden enlightenment, and raised his cultivation to the Tenth Layer of the Mahayana Realm.
• Lu Qing'an told Lu Zixuan to take Lu Zhengran to the Eye of the Yellow Springs to stabilize his foundation and urged the siblings to get along.
• Lu Zhengran, Lu Zixuan, and Lu Miaomiao pulled Lu Qing'an and Sun Minzi into a family game before Lu Zixuan took her brother to the backyard.
• Inside, Xue Tianfei said she had wanted to join the play, while Xiao Qingyi and Wang Duanshan bickered over dinner.
• Lu Qing'an told Xiao Qingyi not to torment the Nether Bone Dragon, but agreed when Xiao Qingyi said she would go find it.

Xiao Qingyi visited the Nether Bone Dragon to obtain dragon organs for a meal with the children, and convinced it to help find other dragons instead of surrendering its own kidney. The Nether Bone Dragon invited the sea dragon and sky dragon over and began arranging to obtain a heart from the flying flame dragon as well.

• Xiao Qingyi arrived at the Nether Bone Dragon's cave, and the dragon feared he had come to take its remaining kidney.
• Xiao Qingyi explained that Lu Qing'an had sent him to find dragon kidneys, but that he wanted another dragon's kidney rather than the Nether Bone Dragon's.
• The Nether Bone Dragon agreed to help in exchange for a chance to eat with Miaomiao and the others, then showed Xiao Qingyi images of ten purebred dragons.
• Xiao Qingyi chose the sea dragon and sky dragon, and the Nether Bone Dragon used a Sound Transmission Jade Slip to lure them to the cave.
• The Nether Bone Dragon suggested taking a heart from the flying flame dragon too, and Xiao Qingyi agreed as it began contacting another dragon.

After Lu Zhengran reconciled with his sisters, the family and their guests gathered for dinner, while Xiao Qingyi recounted a trick he had played with the Nether Bone Dragon. As the feast began, Lu Zhengran found himself surrounded by powerful strangers and braced for a lively meal.

• Lu Zhengran told his father that his foundation had stabilized, then made up with his sisters and asked about their time in the Demon Domain.
• Wang Duanshan said he wanted a child, and He Hong asked Lu Qing'an and Xue Tianfei whether they planned to have another.
• Xiao Qingyi returned with two kidneys and a heart after he and the Nether Bone Dragon tricked three dragons and took their organs.
• Lu Qing'an helped Xiao Qingyi prepare dinner, and Xue Tianfei called everyone to eat.
• Lu Zixuan and the others arrived from cultivating beneath the Demon God Mother Tree, while Lu Zhengran took in the crowd of powerful guests and felt uneasy.

Lu Qing'an hosted a lively meal for his family and powerful companions, where Lu Zhengran struggled with whether to stay with his father or return to his lonely mother. Xu Yunyi returned after a rapid breakthrough, refined a Divine Crystal, and became stronger than Lu Zhengran's mother.

• Lu Qing'an gathered everyone for a meal and welcomed the Nether Bone Dragon, which took human form and sat beside Lu Miaomiao.
• Lu Qing'an introduced Lu Zhengran to the guests, and Lu Zhengran marveled at the warm gathering while worrying that staying would leave his mother alone.
• Xu Yunyi arrived after breaking through to the Peak Great Emperor Realm, and Lu Qing'an gave her a Divine Crystal to refine.
• Lu Zhengran watched Xu Yunyi's cultivation surge and realized his aunt had become stronger than his mother.

Xu Xuanyu demonstrated that he could trace a pill’s history, exposing secrets that made the Nether Bone Dragon, Shan Chuheng, and Jiang Pingxia hurriedly drink to silence him. Then Liu Xiyue and Li Cangxuan reported a catastrophe at the Saber Alliance, where the Saber God had entered Qi Deviation and a black dragon—apparently Little Blackie—had fought him, so Lu Qing'an led the group there.

• Xu Xuanyu examined the Nether Bone Dragon’s Holy Healing Pill and traced it from the Dao of Alchemy Master through Xue Tianfei’s chamber of commerce and other hands.
• Xu Xuanyu privately threatened to reveal secrets about the Nether Bone Dragon, Shan Chuheng, and Jiang Pingxia, prompting them to drink three cups quickly.
• Liu Xiyue arrived, and Li Cangxuan reported that the Saber God had entered Qi Deviation after a battle at the Saber Alliance, destroying everything within ten thousand li and manifesting the legendary Saber Domain.
• Li Cangxuan privately told Lu Qing'an that a black dragon, apparently Little Blackie, had fought the Saber God.
• Lu Qing'an opened a spatial passage to the Saber Alliance and brought the group, including Lu Zhengran and Lu Miaomiao, along to investigate.

Lu Qing'an found traces of Little Blackie near the Saber Domain, where the Saber God’s uncontrolled power had devastated the Saber Alliance’s former grounds. He sealed the surrounding area, pulled more than a hundred thousand onlookers to the sky above the domain, and identified ten people among them.

• Lu Qing'an and his companions arrived above the Saber Alliance’s ruins and saw the deadly Saber Domain at their center.
• Lu Zhengran, Xiao Qingyi, Dao of Alchemy Master, and Liu Xiyue reacted to the Saber Domain’s power and the Saber God’s apparent Qi Deviation.
• Lu Qing'an found traces of Little Blackie near the ruins but could not tell whether Little Blackie was still inside the Saber Domain.
• Lu Qing'an sensed nearby onlookers and sealed an area spanning a hundred thousand li with a barrier.
• Lu Qing'an dragged more than a hundred thousand spectators into the sky above the Saber Domain and identified ten people among them.

Lu Qing'an captured and killed ten members of the mysterious organization, then spared the gathered onlookers and questioned the Saber Alliance about the disaster. He learned that the Saber God had gone mad and that Little Blackie had escaped shortly before he arrived.

• Lu Qing'an sealed ten Late Great Emperor Realm members of the mysterious organization, who destroyed their souls, and then turned their bodies to dust.
• Lu Qing'an told the crowd that the incident had nothing to do with them, then ordered everyone except the Saber Alliance to leave.
• Lu Qing'an summoned the remaining Saber Alliance members and had two Peak Great Emperor Realm witnesses transmit what they had seen.
• The witnesses showed Lu Qing'an that the maddened Saber God had fought a black dragon, which immobilized him and escaped as black smoke before the Saber Domain expanded.
• Lu Qing'an realized he had arrived too late to catch Little Blackie, who had escaped again.

Lu Qing'an agreed to try to bring the Saber God back to his senses as repayment for Luo Danhong's favor, though he warned he could not guarantee success. After Li Cangxuan and the others failed to break the Saber Domain, everyone looked to Lu Qing'an to act.

• A Saber Alliance expert begged Lu Qing'an to treat the maddened Saber God, but Lu Qing'an initially declined because he was unsure he could help.
• Luo Danhong asked Lu Qing'an to save the Saber God, explaining their long friendship, and Lu Qing'an agreed to try in repayment of his debt to her.
• Lu Qing'an consulted the Dao of Alchemy Master, who said they needed to restrain the Saber God and examine him before judging whether he could be treated.
• Lu Qing'an suggested that his companions test their strength by breaking the Saber Domain, and Li Cangxuan was the first to try.
• The Dao of Alchemy Master, Xiao Qingyi, Xue Tianfei, and the others also tried and failed to overcome the Saber Domain, while Liu Xiyue declined to attempt it.
• Everyone turned to Lu Qing'an, expecting him to break the Saber Domain.

Lu Qing'an broke through the Saber Domain’s defenses, severed its connection to the maddened Saber God, and refined it into a sealed artifact. He then sent Li Cangxuan to fight the Saber God for training.

• Lu Qing'an used a Demonic Qi hand to shatter the Saber Domain’s outer attack layer and sent his Divine Sense inside before it could regenerate.
• He found the Saber God raging at the void, trapped him with a net of Divine Sense, and severed his connection to the domain.
• Lu Qing'an sealed and refined the Saber Domain into a marble-sized light inside a glass box, stunning everyone who watched.
• After the Saber God fixed his killing intent on Lu Qing'an, Lu Qing'an told Li Cangxuan to last ten moves against him.
• Li Cangxuan vowed to last eleven moves and flew toward the Saber God.

Li Cangxuan and the others tested themselves against the crazed Saber God, then joined forces to fight him as he grew stronger by refining the Divine Crystal within him. Lu Qing'an stopped the battle to preserve the crystal, and the Saber God challenged him directly.

• Li Cangxuan survived ten of the Saber God's moves before the eleventh injured him, and Lu Qing'an invited the others to train against the Saber God.
• The Dao of Alchemy Master, Xue Tianfei, Xiao Qingyi, Wang Duanshan, Hu Xinxin, Luo Danhong, and Xu Yunyi each tested their strength against the Saber God, while Liu Xiyue endured eleven moves.
• Li Cangxuan suggested that everyone attack together, and Lu Qing'an agreed as the Saber Alliance members and spectators watched.
• Li Cangxuan and the others struggled to defend themselves as the Saber God rapidly grew stronger by refining his Divine Crystal through battle.
• Lu Qing'an ordered the group to withdraw, and the Saber God fixed his scarlet eyes on Lu Qing'an and challenged him to fight.

Lu Qing'an overwhelmed the Saber God, restrained him, and extracted the activated Divine Crystal without destroying his Dantian or meridians. The Dao of Alchemy Master confirmed he could heal the Saber God, while Lu Qing'an teased him over payment.

• Li Cangxuan and the others evacuated the children as the Saber God attacked Lu Qing'an.
• Lu Qing'an caught the Saber God's full-force strike between two fingers and trapped him in a cocoon of Demonic Qi.
• Lu Qing'an subdued the Saber God, removed an activated water-attribute Divine Crystal, and left him alive with his body stabilized.
• The Nether Bone Dragon decided to stay close to Lu Miaomiao, while Xue Tianfei and Hu Xinxin traded looks over Lu Qing'an.
• The Dao of Alchemy Master examined the Saber God and said he could cure him in one day once the ingredients were gathered.
• The Dao of Alchemy Master asked for a piece of the Divine Crystal as payment, then offered to treat the Saber God for free when Lu Qing'an agreed.

Lu Qing'an subdued the mad Saber God and brought him back so the Dao of Alchemy Master could treat him, while also turning the refined Saber Domain into a cultivation trial for his family and allies. He then set out to retrieve a rare herb from Wu Ciren, who had just heard that Lu Qing'an had grown even stronger.

• Lu Qing'an captured the Saber God, promised to return him to the Saber Alliance in a few days, and brought him and the others back to his courtyard.
• The Dao of Alchemy Master identified the primordial heart-returning vine as the last necessary herb, and Lu Qing'an recalled seeing one in Wu Ciren's herb field.
• Lu Qing'an placed the refined Saber Domain above the pond and asked Luo Danhong to turn it into a trial formation for cultivators of different levels.
• Lu Qing'an encouraged Lu Zhengran and Li Cangxuan and the others to use the Saber Domain to cultivate, telling them to finish refining their existing divine crystals before using the new water-attribute crystal.
• Lu Qing'an left for the Demon Nether Cultivation-Devouring Abyss to visit Wu Ciren, who learned from an informant that the Eternal Night Demon Emperor had grown stronger again.

Wu Ciren feared Lu Qing'an's return and assumed he had come to take her divine crystal, while Lu Qing'an had actually come for the Primordial Heart-Returning Vine. The misunderstanding surfaced when Wu Ciren offered him the crystal, leaving Lu Qing'an asking where she had found it.

• Wu Ciren worried about growing stronger experts and hid her divine crystal while cultivating in the Demon Nether Cultivation-Devouring Abyss.
• Lu Qing'an arrived at Wu Ciren's formation and asked her to let him inside.
• Wu Ciren reluctantly brought Lu Qing'an into her pagoda, where he saw the Primordial Heart-Returning Vine was still there.
• Lu Qing'an tried to work out how to ask Wu Ciren for the vine, while Wu Ciren guessed he wanted her divine crystal.
• Wu Ciren offered Lu Qing'an the divine crystal, and he asked where she had obtained it.

Lu Qing'an visited Wu Ciren to obtain Primordial Heart-Returning Vine, but also gave her a Divine Crystal and warned her that the Demon Domain was growing more dangerous. Wu Ciren refined the crystal, gained over a million years’ worth of cultivation, and began considering whether she could remain in seclusion.

• Wu Ciren explained that she had found the Divine Crystal over a hundred thousand years earlier and said she had never seen a black dragon.
• Lu Qing'an clarified that he had come for the Primordial Heart-Returning Vine, and Wu Ciren admitted she had mistaken his purpose and shared what she knew about the crystals and the outside world.
• Wu Ciren gave Lu Qing'an the vine, and he activated the Divine Crystal before giving it to her and warning her about powerful newcomers entering the Demon Nether Cultivation-Devouring Abyss.
• Lu Qing'an left, and Wu Ciren refined the Divine Crystal into her Dantian, gaining more cultivation than she would have earned in over a million years.
• Wu Ciren worried that the crystals would drive experts to grow stronger and wondered whether she would have to leave seclusion, perhaps under the Eternal Night Demon Emperor’s protection.

Liang Juntian and Lin Qingxue learned that Lu Qing'an had grown even more powerful and decided to keep their plans hidden until Xu Qingying finished her seclusion. In the Demon Domain, Xue Tianfei pretended to be sleepy against Lu Qing'an while Hu Xinxin watched her suspiciously.

• Liang Juntian told Lin Qingxue that the Eternal Night Demon Emperor had discovered him and that Lu Zhengran had been delivered to the Demon Domain.
• Lin Qingxue reported that Lu Qing'an had subdued the Saber God who had comprehended the Saber Domain, and she suspected he had used Divine Crystals and resources from beyond the domain.
• Lin Qingxue insisted they wait until Xu Qingying left seclusion before acting, promising that Her Excellency would then give them resources and treasures.
• Liang Juntian worried Lu Zhengran might return, but Lin Qingxue declared that he would stay in the Demon Domain.
• Lu Qing'an watched the Dao of Alchemy Master refine pills while Xue Tianfei leaned against him and Hu Xinxin silently criticized her act of pretending to be tired.

Dao of Alchemy Master’s pill restored the Saber God’s senses, and the Saber God recounted how Divine Crystals led to a Devil Cultivator ambush and his loss of control. He confirmed that a black dragon had driven him into a crazed state.

• Dao of Alchemy Master gave the Saber God a pill, and Lu Qing'an watched as it gradually cleared the Demonic Qi from his heart and mind.
• The Saber God regained his senses, and Lu Qing'an released his restraints while Luo Danhong helped him recover.
• At Lu Qing'an’s request, the Saber God explained that he had found two Divine Crystal pieces about twenty-five thousand years earlier and recently began refining one of them.
• The Saber God said late great emperor cultivators in the Saber Alliance had coveted the larger crystal, then peak great emperor Devil Cultivators had captured and besieged him.
• The Saber God confirmed that a black dragon had appeared and driven him into a crazed state.

The Saber God recounted how a mysterious black dragon helped him refine the Divine Crystal after ten Peak Great Emperor Realm experts attacked him, leaving Lu Qing'an to suspect the crystal had been deliberately left behind. Lu Qing'an kept most of it, gave the Saber God a small piece, and invited him to stay near the courtyard while he recovered.

• The Saber God told Lu Qing'an that ten unfamiliar Peak Great Emperor Realm experts trapped him in a spatial treasure and suppressed him after a sudden pain struck his mind.
• The black dragon appeared as the Saber God prepared to destroy the crystal, taught him to refine it into his Dantian, and the Saber God used its power to kill the attackers before fighting the dragon.
• Lu Qing'an suspected the black dragon had either interfered to keep the Holy Lord from taking the crystal or deliberately left it to draw Lu Qing'an into the matter.
• Lu Qing'an showed the Divine Crystal to the Saber God, then gave him an egg-sized piece after the Saber God declined to ask for it back.
• Lu Qing'an advised the Saber God to rest for several months and invited him to stay near the courtyard, and Luo Danhong encouraged him to accept.

Lu Qing'an gave the Dao of Alchemy Master a piece of Divine Crystal and proposed a contest to encourage his companions to refine theirs faster, while promising to help Xue Tianfei. Later, Lu Zhengran visited the Saber God with Lu Zixuan and Sun Minzi to discuss saber cultivation, and the Saber God welcomed them after learning they were Lu Qing'an's children.

• Lu Qing'an gave the Dao of Alchemy Master a piece of Divine Crystal in exchange for helping refine pills.
• Lu Qing'an proposed rewarding whoever refined their Divine Crystal fastest, and secretly promised Xue Tianfei he would help her refine hers faster.
• Lu Zhengran asked Lu Zixuan and Sun Minzi to accompany him to meet the Saber God.
• Lu Zhengran introduced himself and his companions as Lu Qing'an's children, surprising the Saber God, who invited them inside.