Recaps

Ancestor Danyang brought about a hundred Alchemists' Guild members to the Lu Clan to teach its people, strengthening the clan's alchemy foundation. As the group returned to Qiyun Mountain, hidden experts discovered the Lu Clan's location, and a strange movement came from the ancestral incense burner.

• Ancestor Danyang persuaded Dan Changkong to send guild alchemists to the Lu Clan, promising guidance and sharing his alchemy insights with him.
• Dan Changkong brought about a hundred alchemists, including a seventh-rank elder, who agreed to join Ancestor Danyang and train the Lu Clan's members.
• Ancestor Danyang and Lu Qingshan led the alchemists from the guild, while Dan Changkong entered seclusion and the guild fell quiet.
• Hidden experts followed the party to Qiyun Mountain and realized the Lu Clan's location had been concealed by a powerful divination method.
• Ancestor Tianyan paid respects in the ancestral hall and reflected on the Lu Clan's return to Central Province before the ancestral incense burner began to move strangely.
• Lu Qingshan and Ancestor Danyang returned with the alchemists, Lu Guangyao arranged their lodgings, and Ancestor Danyang told the hidden observers to leave.

The Lu Clan gained another Sage King Realm ancestor when Lu Xuanzhen awakened, and Ancestor Tianyan revealed that the clan had acquired the Yellow Pill Grotto-Heaven. The grotto-heaven settled inside the clan’s small world, giving the Lu Clan a vast alchemy resource as Ancestor Danyang began exploring its potential.

• Lu Qingshan and Ancestor Danyang entered the ancestral shrine’s small world and met Lu Xuanzhen, a newly awakened array ancestor whose cultivation had reached Mid-Stage Saint King.
• Ancestor Tianyan showed the group the Yellow Pill Grotto-Heaven crystal ball and explained that he had obtained it after meeting Yu An at Qiyun Mountain.
• Ancestor Danyang placed the Yellow Pill Grotto-Heaven inside the Lu Clan’s small world, and Ancestor Tianyan led Lu Qingshan and Ancestor Xuanzhen into it.
• Lu Qingshan saw the grotto-heaven’s Yellow Pill Soil and abundant alchemy materials, while Ancestor Danyang announced that its ten-million-mu expanse could make the Lu Clan self-sufficient.
• Ancestor Xuanzhen wished the clan also possessed the Orange Array Grotto-Heaven, and Ancestor Tianyan encouraged him to trust in the Lu Clan’s future growth.

The Lu Clan developed its Alchemy Pavilion and began selecting talented youths for a martial competition as it prepared for a coming contest in Central Province. Lu Qingshan then reunited with a familiar woman from the Murong Clan, whom he had not seen in more than five hundred years.

• Lu Qingshan learned that Lu Xiangyang had exceptional alchemy talent, and he approved giving the young man more resources while respecting his decision to decline a guild elder's tutelage.
• Lu Chen opened the clan's new martial stage and began selecting Lu youths under thirty for a competition.
• Lu Qingshan heard that the Murong Clan had come to visit and recalled being parted from Murong for over five hundred years.
• Lu Qingshan and Lu Guangyao returned to the patriarch's residence, where Lu Qingshan saw a familiar graceful woman waiting in the courtyard.

The chapter recounted how Lu Qingshan met Murong Yu, a powerful woman from Central Province, and how they fell in love despite opposition from her clan. After they returned to White Cloud City, Lu Qingshan devoted himself to saving the Lu Clan, and Murong Yu urged him to leave with her for Central Province.

• Lu Qingshan entered a mist-shrouded valley, helped Murong Yu escape a vicious beast, and carried her out after she collapsed while breaking the formation.
• Murong Yu gave Lu Qingshan half the azure crystal stones she had found, and they later reunited in a sage's ruins and became friends.
• Murong Yu's clan sent an expert to Qingzhou, who severely injured Lu Qingshan, but Murong Yu stopped the expert from killing him.
• When Lu Qingshan learned the Lu Clan was in mortal danger, Murong Yu returned with him to White Cloud City, where he became patriarch.
• Murong Yu refrained from helping the Lu Clan after a clan expert warned her not to intervene, while Lu Qingshan became absorbed in his duties.
• Murong Yu asked Lu Qingshan to return with her to Central Province, promising him resources and a better future.

Murong Yu reunited with Lu Qingshan after more than five hundred years and represented the Murong Clan in seeking a deal with the Lu Clan. They agreed to put their past behind them and move forward with the deal, while Lu Guangyao told the Murong Clan envoy it was nearly settled.

• In the past, Murong Yu asked Lu Qingshan to leave with her, but he refused because he put his Lineage first, and she left him.
• More than five hundred years later, Murong Yu met Lu Qingshan again and said she had come as a representative of the Murong Clan to make a deal.
• Lu Qingshan said the Murong Clan wanted to use their past relationship to secure cooperation, and Murong Yu confirmed it.
• Lu Qingshan agreed to make a deal with the Murong Clan, and Murong Yu said neither of them owed the other anything anymore.
• Outside the courtyard, Lu Guangyao told the Murong Clan envoy the deal was eight or nine parts settled and revealed that Murong Yu and Lu Qingshan had a past.

Lu Qingshan agreed to trade a Nine Revolutions Yang Restoration Pill for thirty young Lu Clan members’ places in the Murong Clan’s Time Blessed Land. Murong Haikuo honored his bargain with Murong Yu to end her engagement, while the Murong Clan’s ancestor questioned what Ancestor Danyang’s return revealed about his plans.

• Lu Qingshan told Lu Guangyao that the Murong Clan would provide pill materials in exchange for thirty Time Blessed Land places for young Lu Clan members.
• Lu Qingshan and Lu Guangyao decided to award the places to the top thirty contestants in the clan’s talent competition.
• Murong Haikuo praised Murong Yu for securing the deal and promised to personally end her engagement to the young master of the Xuan Clan.
• Murong Haikuo explained to the Murong Clan’s elders that befriending the Lu Clan and obtaining the pill justified risking relations with the Xuan Clan.
• Murong Haikuo told the Murong Clan’s injured ancestor that Lu Qingshan had agreed to the deal, then warned that Ancestor Danyang’s reputation might not protect him from other powers.
• The Murong Clan’s ancestor asked Murong Haikuo to assess Ancestor Danyang’s intelligence, and Murong Haikuo realized the significance of the question.

Murong Haikuo learned that the Lu Clan had another surviving ancient expert and reconsidered the Murong Clan’s relationship with them, while rival factions plotted against the Lu Clan. On Qiyun Mountain, Lu Chong won the Lu Clan’s genius competition, and Lu Qingshan began considering a better-organized contest to showcase more of the clan’s young talents.

• Ancestor Murong told Murong Haikuo that Sage Tianyan of the Lu Clan had survived and reached the Saint King Realm, prompting Murong Haikuo to urge caution toward the Lu Clan.
• Powerful factions in Central Province discussed subduing the Lu Clan to seize its method or wiping it out.
• Lu Chong entered the genius competition as a high-grade-aptitude Lightning Dao cultivator and defeated Lu Guan, who practiced the Wood Dao.
• Lu Chong won first place, ahead of Lu Pengfei and Lu Heiyu, and was hailed as the strongest prodigy of the Lu Clan’s younger generation.
• Lu Qingshan recognized Lu Xingxing’s ability to defeat a stronger opponent and decided the clan should hold another competition so more geniuses could show their abilities.

After the Lu Clan awarded its top thirty young geniuses, Lu Qingshan announced that Lu Fan would lead them to visit the Murong Clan, whose Time Blessed Land offered a rare cultivation opportunity. Lu Heiyu accepted an invitation to join the secretive Shadow Division, while Lu Guangyao warned Lu Chong not to grow complacent and urged him to seize the chance at the Murong Clan.

• Lu Qingshan announced that Lu Fan would lead the Lu Clan's young geniuses to visit the Murong Clan, and Lu Chong suspected the trip would be more than an ordinary visit.
• Lu Guangyao entrusted Lu Fan with the young people's safety and departed after discussing the visit and the Murong Clan's Time Blessed Land.
• A black-robed man confronted Lu Heiyu during his cultivation, revealed himself as the leader of the Shadow Division, and offered to recruit him.
• Lu Heiyu eagerly accepted the offer to join the Shadow Division, and the leader said he would find him again after the Murong Clan visit.
• Lu Guangyao praised Lu Chong for ranking first, cautioned him that Lu Pengfei and Lu Heiyu could rival him, and told him the Murong Clan opportunity mattered more than his prizes.
• Lu Pengfei's followers consoled him over placing second, and their confidence that he could beat Lu Chong at equal cultivation cheered him up.

Ancestor Xuanzhen began constructing a clan-protecting array after Ancestor Tianyan sensed that a force might target the Lu Clan. Meanwhile, the Lu Clan exchanged a Nine Revolutions Yang Restoration Pill for access to the Murong Clan’s Time Blessed Land, where its thirty young talents emerged greatly strengthened.

• Ancestor Danyang refined a Nine Revolutions Yang Restoration Pill, and Lu Qingshan handed it to Murong Yu in exchange for letting thirty Lu Clan youths cultivate in the Murong Clan’s Time Blessed Land.
• Lu Fan escorted the thirty young talents to the Murong Clan, while Murong Yu and a Murong Clan expert took the pill away.
• Ancestor Xuanzhen began building a clan-protecting grand array, and Ancestor Tianyan warned the other ancestors that someone might be preparing to attack the Lu Clan.
• Ancestor Xuanzhen assured Ancestor Tianyan and Ancestor Danyang that his completed array could help the Lu Clan withstand ten Saint King experts.
• After a month outside the Time Blessed Land, Lu Zhen and the other Lu Clan youths emerged having all reached the Divine Palace Realm.

Lu Fan learned that a formidable force was moving against the Lu Clan, while Ancestor Tianyan prepared the clan for the threat. Six Saint King experts attacked Qiyun Mountain, but the Lu Clan’s formation rose to meet their first strike.

• Murong Yu warned Lu Fan that the Lu Clan was about to be surrounded, preventing him from returning with the thirty prodigies.
• Lu Qingshan told Ancestor Tianyan that a terrifying power had targeted the Lu Clan, and Tianyan said he already knew and had the situation under control.
• Lu Qingshan ordered Lu Guangyao to place the Lineage on level-one alert to prevent unnecessary casualties.
• Six Saint King experts gathered above Qiyun Mountain and attacked the Lu Clan, drawing the attention of powers across Central Province.
• As one expert’s punch threatened to destroy the Lu Clan, a gigantic formation covered Qiyun Mountain and unleashed its power.

Ancestor Xuanzhen used the Lu Clan's hidden grand formation to defeat six attacking Saint Kings, establishing the clan's strength in Central Province. He returned to the Lu Clan to a hero's welcome, while younger clansmen aspired to follow his path in the Dao of formations.

• The six Saint Kings attacked the Lu Clan's clan-protecting formation, but their blows failed to break it.
• The black-robed Saint King urged the others to keep attacking, and the six eventually tore open a breach that healed immediately.
• As the Saint Kings prepared to retreat, Ancestor Xuanzhen emerged from the formation and drew them into a second formation hidden across the mountain range.
• Ancestor Xuanzhen directed the formation for three days, killing one Saint King and gravely injuring three of the six.
• The Lu Clan praised Ancestor Xuanzhen, and young clansmen said they wanted to cultivate the Dao of formations.

The Lu Clan’s ancestors sensed that an ancient ancestor’s will had awakened, while Lu Qingshan approved the creation of a secret intelligence organization. After recovering, Ancestor Murong revealed to Murong Haikuo that the Lu Clan was tied to the legendary imperial clan and planned to visit it.

• Ancestor Tianyan told Ancestor Xuanzhen that an ancient ancestor’s will had awakened and was trying to contact them, so the three ancestors waited for it to awaken.
• Lu Qingshan dismissed the powerful visitors gathering at Qiyun Mountain and agreed to Lu Guangyao’s plan for a secret intelligence organization, allocating half the clan treasury to it.
• Ancestor Murong emerged from seclusion with his peak Saint King strength restored and asked Murong Haikuo about the Lu Clan.
• After hearing about the Lu Clan’s strength, Ancestor Murong decided to visit it himself.
• Ancestor Murong told Murong Haikuo that the Lu Clan’s history predated ancient clans and that it was likely descended from the legendary imperial clan.

Ancestor Murong brought Murong Yu to the Lu Clan and helped her reconcile with Lu Qingshan. Meanwhile, Ancestor Murong sensed a presence beyond the Saint King level in the Lu Clan ancestral shrine, where an illusory figure began to appear.

• Murong Haikuo told Ancestor Murong about Murong Yu and Lu Qingshan's past and how the Lineage had separated them.
• Ancestor Murong apologized to Murong Yu and brought her to the Lu Clan to meet Lu Qingshan.
• Ancestor Murong persuaded Lu Qingshan and Murong Yu to speak privately, and Lu Qingshan asked Murong Yu for another chance.
• Lu Qingshan and Murong Yu embraced and reconciled.
• Ancestor Murong sensed a terrifying presence from the Lu Clan ancestral shrine and concluded that the Lu Clan was an Imperial Clan.
• Three Lu Clan ancestors bowed before the shrine's incense burner as an illusory figure slowly took shape.

A powerful will of a Lu Clan ancestor appeared in the ancestral shrine and explained that the clan could revive and eventually return to the Yuan Realm. He used his power to hasten the awakening of ancestors, and a fierce body cultivator emerged from the Ancestral Land, confused about how he had arrived.

• The will of an ancient Lu Clan ancestor appeared before Ancestor Tianyan, Ancestor Xuanzhen, and Ancestor Danyang, lamenting the clan’s decline.
• The ancestor explained that he would use his remaining power to awaken ancestors early so the Lu Clan could gather strength to reach the upper realm.
• The ancestor told the three that the clan had once lived in the Yuan Realm and that they might advance further if they returned there.
• Ancestor Xuanzhen asked about the First Ancestor and other contingencies, but the will said he did not know and expected his true body to have left something in the Yuan Realm.
• Ancestor Murong sensed the powerful presence disappear, while Lu Qingshan headed toward the ancestral shrine to investigate.
• The incense burner shook, and a powerful body-cultivating ancestor burst through the shrine, confronted the three ancestors, then recognized their shared bloodline and wondered how he had arrived.

The Lu Clan’s newly awakened body-cultivator ancestor faced and survived his fourth heavenly tribulation, drawing attention across Central Province. After returning to the clan, he learned that the lineage had lost most of its grotto-heavens and blessed lands, and Ancestor Tianyan explained how badly it had declined.

• The body-cultivator ancestor recalled awakening in the Ancestral Land and learned from Ancestor Tianyan that he had been awakened early because the lineage needed him.
• A heavenly tribulation descended, and the ancestor explained that he had survived three tribulations before entering the Ancestral Land to avoid the fourth.
• The ancestor endured three days and nights of tribulation lightning and survived, while news of the event spread throughout Central Province.
• The ancestor returned to the Lu Clan and recognized the Yellow Pill Grotto-Heaven, then asked about the lineage’s other secret realms.
• Ancestor Danyang and Ancestor Xuanzhen told him that the lineage had lost several grotto-heavens and blessed lands, and Ancestor Tianyan described its later decline.

A hidden master took over a black-robed man’s body and became a One-Tribulation Quasi-Emperor to capture Ancestor Danyang and extend his lifespan. He attacked the Lu Clan, where Ancestor Dali went out to confront him as onlookers anticipated a Quasi-Emperor battle.

• A concealed master learned that Ancestor Danyang might possess a lifespan-extension method, took over his disciple’s body, and raised its cultivation to Quasi-Emperor.
• Lu Qingshan and the elders welcomed the newly awakened Ancestor Dali, who vowed to protect the Lineage.
• Lu Qingshan told Ancestor Dali that Saint Kings had attacked the Lu Clan, and Ancestor Tianyan offered to divine their location.
• The black-robed man arrived above the Lu Clan and unleashed his Quasi-Emperor pressure, alarming the clansmen and ancestors.
• Ancestor Dali strode out to confront the intruder while watching powers gathered to witness the coming battle.

Ancestor Dali destroyed the attacker who exposed the Lu Clan’s efforts to extend lifespan, while Ancestor Tianyan investigated the force behind him. After Lu Qingshan gave Dali a list of factions that had harmed the clan, Dali began taking revenge, arriving at the Void Cloud Sect.

• The man in black revealed the Lu Clan’s apparent way to extend lifespan, and Ancestor Dali blasted him apart before Ancestor Tianyan captured his remnant soul.
• Ancestor Tianyan found that someone had erased parts of the man’s memories and suspected a hidden figure had been pulling the strings.
• Lu Qingshan ordered the Lu Clan to refuse visitors as factions flocked to seek its favor.
• Lu Qingshan gave Ancestor Dali a list of factions that had attacked the Lu Clan, and Dali vowed to make them pay.
• Ancestor Dali arrived at the Void Cloud Sect and declared that its members would die for their past crimes against the Lu Clan.

Ancestor Dali continued the Lu Clan’s reckoning with its former enemies, conquering or destroying several forces as others fled or prepared to surrender. When he turned toward the powerful Xuan Clan, its patriarch appeared among the gathered forces, leaving the clan’s strength uncertain.

• Ancestor Dali spared the Void Cloud Sect after its members surrendered and accepted servant marks, while two other superpowers resisted and were razed.
• Ancestor Dali found the Heaven-Gazing Gate abandoned, then destroyed its empty buildings with a punch.
• Former enemies of the Lu Clan gathered at the Heaven-Battling Sect, but its ancestor refused to emerge or fight Ancestor Dali.
• The gathered forces lost hope and prepared to surrender until the patriarch of the Xuan Clan arrived.
• Ancestor Dali found several targets deserted and turned his attention to the Xuan Clan, whose past strength had rivaled the Lu Clan.

Lu Qingshan managed the Lu Clan’s growing ranks and reassured Lu Chen that his defensive forces would eventually be needed. Ancestor Tianyan predicted another ancestor would awaken the next day, while Ancestor Dali reached the Xuan Clan and found a Four-Tribulation Quasi-Emperor ready to fight him.

• Lu Qingshan divided surrendered forces between Lu Guangyao and Lu Chen, then encouraged Lu Chen to keep building the clan’s defenses for the day they would be needed.
• Lu Qingshan visited Ancestor Tianyan, who predicted that another ancestor would awaken the next day.
• Lu Qingshan reported on the clan’s progress while Ancestor Tianyan offered him guidance.
• Ancestor Dali arrived at the Xuan Clan and met a Four-Tribulation Quasi-Emperor wielding a golden spear.
• Ancestor Dali welcomed the chance to fight an equal, and the two prepared for battle.

The Xuan Clan’s Quasi-Emperor occupied Ancestor Dali while the Xuan Clan patriarch led allied forces to attack the Lu Clan. As the Lu Clan’s defenses began to fail, Ancestor Tianyan summoned the Ancestral Land, which responded with strange blood signaling that another ancestor was about to awaken.

• The white-robed Quasi-Emperor recognized Ancestor Dali, and the two began a fierce battle at the Xuan Clan.
• The Xuan Clan patriarch led allied forces to surround the Lu Clan while Ancestor Dali was away, assuring them that the Lu Clan could not summon another powerful ancestor so soon.
• Ancestor Tianyan sensed the approaching enemies and called to the Ancestral Land instead of trying to summon Ancestor Dali back.
• The Ancestral Land sent strange scarlet blood flowing from the incense burner, and Ancestor Tianyan suffered a backlash when he tried to divine the awakening ancestor’s identity.
• The attackers struck the Lu Clan’s protective array, and Lu Qingshan and three elders found blood covering the ancestral hall.
• Ancestor Tianyan told Lu Qingshan and the elders that another ancestor was about to awaken.

A newly awakened Lu Clan Blood Dao Ancestor destroyed the invading Xuan Clan forces and survived a powerful tribulation. He then left the Lu Clan, whose elders resolved to welcome him properly if he returned.

• As the Lu Clan's protective formation collapsed, the Blood Dao Ancestor emerged in the ancestral shrine and trapped the invaders within a blood-red barrier.
• The Blood Dao Ancestor killed the Xuan Clan patriarch and nearly all the attackers, then defeated the Xuan Clan Quasi-Emperor.
• A black heavenly tribulation struck the Blood Dao Ancestor, but it dissipated after a day and a night.
• The Blood Dao Ancestor looked down on the Lu Clan with affection and departed.
• Ancestor Tianyan and the elders discussed the ancestor's origins, and Ancestor Xuanzhen reminded them that he had protected their Lineage.
• Lu Qingshan and the elders decided to welcome the Blood Dao Ancestor warmly if he returned.

Ancestor Dali stopped attacking the Xuan Clan after learning of events elsewhere, while Lu You arrived at the Blood Pavilion and revealed himself as its founder. He learned that no one from the Lu Clan had visited in the two million years since he left.

• The Xuan Clan's white-robed Quasi-Emperor withdrew behind its protective formation, and Ancestor Dali left after receiving a message from his clan.
• Lu You arrived at the Blood Pavilion and halted the Blood Pavilion master's attack with ease.
• The Blood Pavilion master recognized Lu You as the ancestor who founded the organization.
• Lu You asked whether anyone from the Lu Clan had visited, and the Blood Pavilion members said no one had come in two million years.

Lu You ordered the Blood Pavilion to serve the Lu Clan and set out to investigate the Lu Clan of Desolate Province, but he first found a junior clanswoman being attacked in Demon Province. He revealed himself after Old Ghost Black Soul captured her, and the two recognized an apparent history between them.

• Lu You commanded the Blood Pavilion to remain loyal to the Lu Clan and establish a branch in Central Province.
• After learning that another Lu Clan existed in Desolate Province, Lu You left to investigate it.
• Lu You sensed a fellow clansperson undergoing a tribulation and watched as she became a One-Tribulation Quasi-Emperor.
• Old Ghost Black Soul ambushed the woman after her tribulation, defeated her, and captured her alive.
• Lu You stepped forward to save the woman, and Old Ghost Black Soul claimed that Lu You had failed to kill him before.

Lu You killed Old Ghost Black Soul and revealed to Lu Yao that he was her Lu Clan ancestor, inviting her to return to the clan. Meanwhile, the Lu Clan tracked down its enemies and expanded its influence, and Lu Guangyao went to the Supreme Purity Palace to reclaim something the clan had lost.

• Lu You killed Old Ghost Black Soul with a drop of blood and learned that the captive woman was named Lu Yao.
• Lu You revealed their shared bloodline and invited Lu Yao to acknowledge her ancestors and return to the Lu Clan.
• Ancestor Tianyan found the mastermind behind the black-robed Saint King, and Ancestor Dali gravely wounded him before he died under his heavenly tribulation.
• Ancestor Dali pursued the other surviving attackers, while the Lu Clan took over resource sites across Central Province and grew in power.
• Lu Guangyao told the Supreme Purity Palace's palace master that he had come to take back something the Lu Clan had lost.

Lu Guangyao confronted the Supreme Purity Palace over its seizure of the Lush Wood Blessed Land, and the palace returned it to the Lu Clan the next day. Lu Qingshan received the blessed land and Qing Yun’s soul, while Lu Mutong looked forward to cultivating inside it; the Lu Clan’s promised reckoning with the Supreme Purity Palace remained for the future.

• Lu Guangyao told the Supreme Purity Palace that the Lush Wood Blessed Land belonged to the Lu Clan and warned the palace master to return it, revealing the Azure Feather Dynasty’s ties to the clan.
• The palace master agreed to return the Lush Wood Blessed Land the next day because the Supreme Purity Palace could not risk opposing the Lu Clan.
• The palace master personally delivered the blessed land to Lu Qingshan and handed over Qing Yun’s damaged soul, saying Qing Yun had betrayed the Azure Feather Dynasty.
• Lu Qingshan accepted the offerings and considered that the Supreme Purity Palace might still face punishment after Qing Zhe and Qing Xu returned from Qingzhou.
• Lu Mutong asked about entering the blessed land, and Lu Qingshan promised he would be among the first to enter once the ancestor finished inspecting it.