Chapter Summaries

Ancestor Tianyan seized the Yellow Pill Grotto-Heaven from Yu An, then spared him after deciding the Lu Clan could use his alchemy skills. Meanwhile, Ancestor Danyang brought Lu Qingshan to the Central Province Alchemists' Guild, where the chapter leaves them waiting to be received.

• Ancestor Tianyan suppressed Yu An and took the Yellow Pill Grotto-Heaven after finding him on Qiyun Mountain.
• Yu An begged for his life and offered to serve Ancestor Tianyan as an alchemist; Tianyan spared him because the Lu Clan needed help for Ancestor Danyang.
• Ancestor Tianyan brought more than ten thousand clanspeople out of the special space, and they began building their home on Qiyun Mountain.
• Ancestor Danyang and Lu Qingshan arrived at the Alchemists' Guild headquarters, where Danyang showed his Pill Fire to the gatekeepers.
• The gatekeepers recognized Ancestor Danyang's alchemy skill and said the steward would come to meet them.

Ancestor Danyang and Lu Qingshan approached the Alchemists' Guild, where Danyang claimed to be a ninth-grade alchemist offering to refine a pill in exchange for one request. The guild elders remained doubtful until they recalled a former ninth-grade grand elder named Danyang and wondered whether the visitor was merely his fanatical follower.

• Miaoyan welcomed Ancestor Danyang and Lu Qingshan into the Alchemists' Guild, but misunderstood Danyang's offer to refine pills as a request to join.
• Lu Qingshan declared that Ancestor Danyang was a ninth-grade alchemist, and Miaoyan accused him of joking until Danyang revealed his Sage King Realm presence.
• The Alchemists' Guild elders gathered, and Miaoyan told them Danyang had offered to refine a ninth-grade pill.
• Lu Qingshan offered to let the elders test Danyang's skill, saying Danyang would charge no fee if the guild supplied the materials and granted one request.
• An elder recalled that the guild once had a ninth-grade grand elder named Danyang, and the elders wondered if the visitor was his fanatical follower.

Ancestor Danyang asked the Alchemists' Guild for rare ingredients and a pill furnace so he could refine a ninth-grade pill, claiming a sixty percent chance of success. At the guild's alchemy plaza, he saved Chen Yue from an exploding furnace after Chen Yue lost focus during a contest with Lin Teng.

• The Alchemists' Guild elders agreed to trust Ancestor Danyang and gathered the nearly ten thousand ingredients and a pill furnace he requested.
• Ancestor Danyang privately told Lu Qingshan that he had a sixty percent chance of refining the ninth-grade pill he was best at making.
• Ancestor Danyang and Lu Qingshan went to the alchemy plaza, where Chen Yue and Lin Teng were competing to refine fourth-grade pills.
• Ancestor Danyang warned that Chen Yue's unsteady temperament would hinder his alchemy, and Chen Yue's distraction caused his furnace to start exploding.
• Ancestor Danyang protected Chen Yue from the blast, while Lin Teng completed his pill and won the contest.
• An elder told Chen Yue to thank Ancestor Danyang, and Chen Yue thanked him for saving him from serious injury.

Ancestor Danyang publicly refined a ninth-grade pill at the Alchemists' Guild, revealing the long-lost Scarlet Yang Alchemy Method and drawing Central Province's factions toward the Lu Clan. As a Pill Tribulation gathered over the square, Guildmaster Dan Changkong arrived and recognized Ancestor Danyang's resemblance to the historical figure.

• Ancestor Danyang began refining a pill before the assembled crowd as Lu Qingshan introduced himself and the Lu Clan to Central Province's factions.
• Lu Qingshan fielded offers of friendship and requests for pills while hidden experts debated the Lu Clan's connection to an ancient Lu Clan.
• Alchemists recognized Ancestor Danyang's Scarlet Yang Alchemy Method and realized he was refining the ninth-grade Nine Revolutions Yang Restoration Pill.
• Pill Tribulation clouds gathered above the Alchemists' Guild, and Guildmaster Dan Changkong arrived to investigate the ninth-grade pill.
• Dan Changkong saw Ancestor Danyang on the platform and froze at his resemblance to historical portraits.

Ancestor Danyang completed the Nine Revolutions Yang Restoration Pill’s tribulation and gave the pill to the Alchemists’ Guild, refusing offers from three powerful factions. He then revealed his long history with the guild, and Dan Changkong recognized him as its Supreme Elder from more than eight hundred thousand years ago.

• Dan Changkong emerged from seclusion and recognized Ancestor Danyang as the legendary ninth-grade alchemist as Danyang refined a pill under tribulation lightning.
• Ancestor Danyang stabilized Elder Yan Rong’s cracking furnace with additional ingredients, then completed the Nine Revolutions Yang Restoration Pill as the furnace exploded.
• The Star Holy Land, Heavenly Sound Pavilion, and Thunder Hall offered up to three billion spirit stones for the pill, but Ancestor Danyang said it belonged to the Alchemists’ Guild and handed it to Dan Changkong.
• Ancestor Danyang toured the guild’s medicinal fields with Lu Qingshan and Dan Changkong, recalling that he had first seen them more than eight hundred thousand years earlier.
• Dan Changkong knelt and addressed Ancestor Danyang as the Alchemists’ Guild’s Supreme Elder.

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.