Recaps

Lu Changzhi weighed the system’s choices while Zhou Changshou prepared to escape the Blood Devil attack, but Xue Lang confronted him before he could leave. Zhou Changshou ordered Zhou Mu to use the dynasty-protecting grand array to cover his planned escape.

• Lu Changzhi examined the rewards for helping Zhou Changshou flee, forcing him to fight, or acting against the threat, and favored the Imprison Heaven in a Jar restriction.
• The Blood Devil Race attacked the experts of the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty, and a Blood Devil struck Zhuang Linfa down, leaving him near death.
• Xue Lang approached Zhou Changshou, who resolved to pretend to fight before breaking away and escaping through the dynasty-protecting grand array.
• Zhou Changshou told Zhou Mu to activate the array at full strength and warned him that nothing could go wrong.

Zhou Changshou tried to escape Xue Lang by luring him toward a formation while Lu Changzhi secretly activated Imprison Heaven in a Jar. Zhou Changshou reached the dynasty-protecting formation, but his warning to Zhou Mu was cut off as Xue Lang pursued him.

• Xue Lang overwhelmed Zhou Changshou in their exchanges, forcing him to consider fleeing while Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty experts fought the Devil Envoys.
• Zhou Changshou asked Zhou Mu how soon the formation would be ready and challenged Xue Lang to wait while he gathered his strength.
• Lu Changzhi confirmed the location and used Imprison Heaven in a Jar to raise a discreet barrier around the area.
• Zhou Changshou unleashed his prepared attack at Xue Lang, then turned and fled toward the edge of the dynasty-protecting grand formation.
• Xue Lang charged through Zhou Changshou's attack as Zhou Changshou reached the formation and began warning Zhou Mu to activate it, but his words abruptly stopped.

Zhou Changshou tried to escape Xue Lang but was trapped inside a formation, then used a talisman to teleport away. He reappeared nearby after striking another barrier, leaving the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty experts in despair.

• Zhou Changshou crashed into a formation barrier while fleeing, and Xue Lang emerged from their clash only slightly shaken.
• Zhou Mu urged Zhou Changshou to escape, but Zhou Changshou blamed him for trapping him before realizing the formation was not the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty's.
• Zhou Changshou guessed that Xue Lang had sealed the battlefield to prevent anyone from escaping and attacked him with valuable measures.
• Zhou Changshou gathered power for a teleportation talisman while holding Xue Lang back, ignoring the experts who begged him not to leave.
• Zhou Changshou vanished in a flash, then appeared nearby after crashing into another formation barrier.

Zhou Changshou sent Zhou Mu to awaken his grandfather, a Half-Step Saint King, as Xue Lang overwhelmed the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty’s fighters. Zhou Mu opened the gilded coffin, and Xue Lang welcomed the prospect of a proper challenge.

• Zhou Changshou realized the formation blocked his escape and ordered Zhou Mu to dig up his grandfather as a last resort.
• Xue Lang attacked Zhou Changshou, whose armor cracked as he struggled to defend himself.
• Lu Changzhi judged Zhou Changshou too weak to wear Xue Lang down and waited to see what Zhou Mu would bring back.
• Zhou Zhanming severed a Blood Devil’s arm, but it regenerated from the sea of blood, and the severed limb exploded when the Blood Devil targeted it.
• Zhou Mu returned with a gilded coffin and opened it to awaken the Grand Old Emperor.
• Xue Lang knocked Zhou Changshou back and challenged the person inside the coffin to give him a proper fight.

Zhou Mu awakened Zhou Tianqiang, the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty's aged former Sacred Emperor, and Zhou Changshou blamed his son for disturbing his grandfather's slumber. Zhou Tianqiang spent his remaining lifespan to battle Xue Lang, while Lu Changzhi watched to see how the fight would unfold.

• The Great Zhou experts recognized Zhou Tianqiang in the coffin, and Lu Changzhi determined that he was at the Peak Saint Realm.
• Zhou Tianqiang emerged and asked why Devil Creatures had appeared, while Zhou Changshou angrily accused Zhou Mu of waking his grandfather.
• Zhou Tianqiang realized his dwindling lifespan meant he could not return to slumber, then warned his family that Xue Lang was too strong for them.
• Zhou Tianqiang used his remaining lifespan to restore his strength and challenged Xue Lang, who praised him as the only one among the three generations with backbone.
• Zhou Tianqiang and Xue Lang clashed with power greater than in Xue Lang's earlier fight with Zhou Changshou, while Lu Changzhi watched and let events proceed.

Zhou Tianqiang fought Xue Lang while Zhou Changshou and the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty searched for a way to overcome the vastly stronger devil. The chapter ended with Zhou Changshou triggering several Transcendent Realm experts to self-detonate near Xue Lang.

• Xue Lang taunted Zhou Tianqiang and held back, while Zhou Tianqiang fought with the resolve to face death.
• Lu Changzhi assessed the battle and recognized that Xue Lang was far stronger than Zhou Tianqiang.
• Zhou Tianqiang sent Zhou Changshou a plan, and Zhou Changshou ordered several Transcendent Realm experts to converge on Xue Lang.
• Zhou Changshou sent red light into the experts, causing their spiritual power to run rampant and making them self-detonate around Xue Lang.

Lu Changzhi trapped Xue Lang inside Imprison Heaven in a Jar, allowing Zhou Tianqiang’s self-detonation to badly wound the Devil Creature. With Xue Lang weakened to roughly Saint Realm strength, Lu Changzhi moved in to finish his task.

• Zhou Tianqiang concealed his intention to self-detonate while the Transcendent Realm experts’ explosions distracted Xue Lang.
• Xue Lang saw through Zhou Tianqiang’s attack and prepared to evade his self-detonation.
• Lu Changzhi contracted Imprison Heaven in a Jar around Xue Lang and Zhou Tianqiang, blocking Xue Lang’s escape.
• Zhou Tianqiang released his suppressed power and self-detonated inside the array, trapping Xue Lang in the blast.
• Xue Lang took heavy damage and lost much of his Blood Qi, while Lu Changzhi approached to attack.

After the old, old Sacred Emperor detonated his cultivation, Zhou Changshou became trapped with the wounded Xue Lang, who overpowered him and began torturing him. The chapter ended with Zhou Changshou exposed and enduring Xue Lang’s taunts, while the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty watched in despair.

• The old, old Sacred Emperor detonated his cultivation inside a formation that contained the blast and left Xue Lang wounded.
• Zhou Changshou realized the formation had trapped him again, but Xue Lang attacked before he could escape.
• Xue Lang bound Zhou Changshou with blood chains and tore off both of his arms as Zhou Mu and the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty experts watched.
• Xue Lang demanded that Zhou Changshou scream, then stripped away his remaining clothes and mocked him.

Xue Lang exposed Zhou Changshou’s willingness to submit, then decided to kill him anyway. Lu Changzhi intervened and challenged Xue Lang to a duel, but his first move triggered a Saint Lightning Tribulation.

• Xue Lang revealed that Zhou Changshou had agreed to serve him, and Zhou Changshou admitted it before the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty’s experts.
• Xue Lang called Zhou Changshou a traitor and moved to kill him, but Lu Changzhi appeared and proposed a one-on-one fight for Zhou Changshou’s life.
• Lu Changzhi offered to fulfill Xue Lang’s wishes in the Land of the Four Directions if he lost, and Xue Lang accepted the challenge and granted him one free move.
• Lu Changzhi used the Seed of Chaos to summon tribulation lightning, causing thunder to rumble above the ninth heaven and the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty’s Saint Realm experts to realize he had triggered a Saint Lightning Tribulation.

Lu Changzhi redirected a Saint Lightning Tribulation onto Xue Lang, hoping to turn the heavens against the Blood Devil. Xue Lang shrugged off the first bolt and challenged Lu Changzhi to try something stronger.

• Zhou Mu, Zhou Changshou, Liang Si, and the other witnesses sensed Lu Changzhi’s Saint Lightning Tribulation and doubted it could help against Xue Lang.
• Xue Lang watched Lu Changzhi begin the tribulation instead of attacking, curious about his opponent’s plan.
• Lu Changzhi detached the tribulation’s presence and transferred it to Xue Lang, calling the move “Give Roses to Others.”
• Xue Lang met the first bolt with a Blood Devil phantom’s fist and dismissed the Saint Lightning Tribulation as weak.
• Lu Changzhi used the Seed of Chaos to try to fan the tribulation’s flames as Xue Lang challenged him to reveal his other tricks.

Lu Changzhi used the Saint King Heaven-Imprisoning Method to restrain Xue Lang while tribulation lightning continued to strike. After weakening Xue Lang with two golden circles, Lu Changzhi brought out the Buddhist Devil-Binding Rope and unleashed Buddhist light.

• Xue Lang sealed the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty experts inside his sea of blood and declared that their survival depended on whether he defeated Lu Changzhi.
• Xue Lang punched through the second bolt of tribulation lightning, which weakened before striking him.
• Lu Changzhi used the Dao Simplification Brush to form golden circles and imprisoned Xue Lang's blood-red blade inside one.
• Lu Changzhi drew two more circles and bound Xue Lang's hands, weakening his presence.
• Lu Changzhi drank Origin Spirit Liquid, produced the Buddhist Devil-Binding Rope, and released Buddhist light from beneath his cloak.

Lu Changzhi used Buddhist techniques and artifacts to counter Xue Lang as the Devil King prepared a terrifying spell. The Buddha-Aspect Devil-Binding Rope forced its way into Xue Lang’s mouth, and the bloody runes he had summoned began to dissipate.

• A purple Lightning Tribulation bolt blasted Xue Lang to the ground and tore open his shoulder, which healed within moments.
• Xue Lang began chanting in the devil tongue, summoning bloody characters as the blood cloud and sea churned ominously.
• Lu Changzhi summoned Buddha figures with the Devil-Binding Rope and prepared it to restrain Xue Lang.
• Lu Changzhi sent the rope after Xue Lang, while Holy Monk Xuyun’s Wooden Fish amplified the Buddhist power pursuing him.
• The rope struck Xue Lang and forced its thick knot into his mouth, causing the bloody devil characters to dissipate.

Lu Changzhi bound Xue Lang with the Devil-Binding Rope and repeatedly exposed him to tribulation lightning to weaken him. After the seventh strike left Xue Lang gravely injured, Lu Changzhi isolated them and took out something that made Xue Lang recoil in alarm.

• Lu Changzhi used the Devil-Binding Rope to bind Xue Lang and stop him from casting spells.
• Lu Changzhi turned Xue Lang upside down so the fourth tribulation bolt struck his butt, worsening his injuries.
• Lu Changzhi kept Xue Lang restrained while the fifth and sixth bolts weakened him further, cutting off his attempts to speak.
• Lu Changzhi let the seventh tribulation bolt strike Xue Lang, leaving his body battered and his power suppressed.
• Lu Changzhi used Imprison Heaven in a Jar to isolate himself and Xue Lang, then took out an object that made Xue Lang's eyes contract in fear.

Lu Changzhi forced the injured Xue Lang to cooperate by threatening him with Life Spirit Spring Primal Liquid and the Lightning Tribulation. He gave Xue Lang a teleportation array and ordered him to deploy it in the Devil Realm and send through Devil Race members of limited strength.

• Lu Changzhi held Life Spirit Spring Primal Liquid near Xue Lang, whose Devil body began to sizzle, and Xue Lang begged to speak.
• Lu Changzhi asked whether Xue Lang commanded many subordinates, and Xue Lang promised to carry out a task for him.
• Lu Changzhi stood in the path of a Lightning Tribulation bolt, showing Xue Lang that it could not harm him.
• Lu Changzhi revealed a sealed teleportation array and told Xue Lang to take it to the Devil Realm.
• Lu Changzhi ordered Xue Lang to deploy the array and send Devil Race members through it, mostly below the Devil Envoy level but not too weak.

Lu Changzhi chose to bind Xue Lang with an Ancient Devil Contract after realizing Xue Lang planned to obey outwardly while resisting in secret. Xue Lang recognized a possible loophole in the blood-based contract and hoped his Blood Devil nature would let him suppress it.

• Xue Lang agreed to help Lu Changzhi but secretly intended to defy him, triggering a choice for Lu Changzhi.
• Lu Changzhi rejected killing Xue Lang or letting the matter go and chose the stick-and-carrot approach, with the Incomplete Ancient Devil Scroll as a potential incentive.
• Lu Changzhi told Xue Lang they would enter a contract and began reciting it in Ancient Devil Language, shocking Xue Lang.
• Xue Lang recognized the words as a blood-based Ancient Devil Contract and reasoned that, as a Blood Devil, he might suppress it because Lu Changzhi's blood could fail to control him.

Lu Changzhi used an Ancient Devil Contract to bind Xue Lang, whose body struggled to withstand the power in Lu Changzhi’s blood. After the contract took hold, Xue Lang concluded that Lu Changzhi was a powerful figure worth attaching himself to.

• Liang Si wondered how Lu Changzhi had learned so many techniques and languages at such a young age.
• Lu Changzhi formed an Ancient Devil Contract and used a drop of his blood to activate it.
• The contract entered Xue Lang’s devil heart, and Lu Changzhi’s blood overwhelmed him with its power.
• Lu Changzhi mistook Xue Lang’s cries of pain for an attempt to evade the contract and sped up the process.
• After recovering, Xue Lang realized the contract had bound him and decided Lu Changzhi was a formidable patron worth following.

Lu Changzhi persuaded Xue Lang to help him by revealing the Ancient Devil Scroll, then released him and ordered him to carry out his instructions. Xue Lang and the Blood Devils knelt before Lu Changzhi, while Zhou Mu remained uneasy about whether the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty was truly safe.

• Lu Changzhi showed Xue Lang the Ancient Devil Scroll and promised him a chance to obtain it if he followed instructions.
• Lu Changzhi released Xue Lang from the Buddha-Aspect Devil-Binding Rope and told him to return and carry out his orders.
• Lu Changzhi dispersed the barriers around the humans and devils as the Lightning Tribulation clouds began to clear.
• Xue Lang spoke with the Devil Envoys, then led them and the Blood Devils to kneel before Lu Changzhi.
• Cultivators of the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty thanked Lu Changzhi, but Zhou Mu still worried that he might not have come to help them.

After forcing Xue Lang and the Blood Devils to retreat, Lu Changzhi drew the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty’s attention when he accepted Zhou Changshou’s offer to follow him. The chapter ended as Lu Changzhi used a powerful force of intent to crush Zhou Changshou’s soul, shocking everyone present.

• Xue Lang thanked Lu Changzhi for sparing his life and led the Blood Devils back through the rift.
• Zhou Mu thanked Lu Changzhi and invited him to stay, but Lu Changzhi pointed at Zhou Changshou and said the old sovereign had a karmic affinity with him.
• Zhou Changshou believed Lu Changzhi wanted him as a follower and said he was willing to follow him.
• Lu Changzhi accepted and began, then lifted Zhou Changshou with his power of intent.
• The onlookers realized Lu Changzhi’s invisible hand had crushed Zhou Changshou’s soul.

Lu Changzhi destroyed Zhou Changshou while claiming it was an accident, took his body, and left the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty after the void rift was sealed. The dynasty counted its losses as Mu Qianqian arrived too late, while Lu Changzhi celebrated his gains and completed a system mission.

• Lu Changzhi's will shattered Zhou Changshou's soul, and he took Zhou Changshou's body into his storage ring despite Zhou Mu's protests.
• Lu Changzhi told Zhou Mu that the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty could keep its supreme treasure, then departed, leaving Zhou Mu to realize Lu Changzhi had come for his father too.
• Lu Changzhi told Liang Si that he had finished what he needed to do, and Liang Si sealed the void rift.
• Lu Changzhi boarded a flying boat for the Five Symbols Sect as the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty tallied its losses and Zhou Mu feared the Longevity Battlefield was now beyond reach.
• Mu Qianqian arrived at the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty too late to investigate the Blood Devil incident, while Qin Jiuxiao privately kept her company.
• Aboard the Void Shuttle, Lu Changzhi reviewed his haul and received a system notification that his random mission was complete.

Lu Changzhi received the rewards for completing the Blood Devil Race's Calamity quest, including a Purple-Gold Guest Token loaded with Heavenly Treasure Points and an upgrade for his slaughter array. He used the realm advancement reward to reach the Middle Stage of the Saint Realm.

• The system rewarded Lu Changzhi with experience points, a Heavenly Treasure Pavilion Purple-Gold Guest Token, a Myriad Phenomena Slaughter Array upgrade, and a realm advancement.
• The system whipped the resisting token until it became obedient, and Lu Changzhi discovered it contained over eighty million Heavenly Treasure Points.
• Lu Changzhi examined the array upgrade and learned it added an automatic designated-target elimination mode.
• Lu Changzhi used the realm advancement reward and rose to the Middle Stage of the Saint Realm.

Lu Changzhi upgraded the Myriad Phenomena Slaughter Array and set up Blood Devil Paradise as a trap that converted slain Blood Devils into cultivation and Saint Rank gift packs. As more Blood Devils poured in and the array killed them automatically, Lu Changzhi returned to his courtyard to open the packs.

• The Old Buddha Lord examined evidence that the figure from the secret realm had appeared in the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty, warned the abbot not to summon reinforcements recklessly, and went into seclusion.
• Lu Changzhi upgraded the Myriad Phenomena Slaughter Array, then used a one-way teleportation array to create a marked enclosure on Hidden Origin Peak.
• Lu Changzhi named the enclosure Blood Devil Paradise and waited for Blood Devils to arrive through the marker.
• Several Blood Devils appeared, tried to escape, and were killed by the array, which produced cultivation rewards for Lu Changzhi.
• More Blood Devils kept arriving and dying automatically, filling the system space with Saint Rank gift packs, and Lu Changzhi went back to his courtyard to open them.

Lu Changzhi accumulated Saint Rank treasures and cultivation resources from gift packs and Blood Devils, then learned that an outside monk had gone to the Buddhist Order of the Western Region. He gave the Five Symbols Sect a portion of the resources, and Cang Wenyu was astonished by the cultivation crystal’s power.

• Lu Changzhi opened the Saint Rank gift packs, amassed valuable treasures, and asked the system to open and tally future packs for him.
• After confirming that others could use the cultivation he had obtained, Lu Changzhi heard from Cang Wenyu that an outside monk had gone to the Buddhist Order of the Western Region to investigate the monk who had suppressed the devil.
• Lu Changzhi brought out a vast store of Saint Rank resources for the Five Symbols Sect and gave Cang Wenyu a cultivation crystal to test.
• Cang Wenyu cultivated with the crystal, quickly stopped in astonishment, and called its power terrifying.

Lu Changzhi gave Cang Wenyu a trove of cultivation crystals to strengthen the sect and declined the sect master position. He later checked on Qi Zhan, whose prison collapsed and left him in an ancient tomb facing a long-dead figure.

• Cang Wenyu said the cultivation crystals felt as if they had come from his own body and could make cultivation at least ten times faster.
• Lu Changzhi gave Cang Wenyu a storage ring full of crystals to distribute among the sect's peak masters, guardian patriarchs, elders, and disciples, and refused to become sect master.
• Lu Changzhi showed Cang Wenyu a stack of dual cultivation techniques, but Cang Wenyu said he planned to enter proper seclusion.
• Lu Changzhi entered the Soul-Severing Array Disk and watched Qi Zhan, who wondered whether Lu Changzhi had died and left him trapped.
• Qi Zhan's surroundings collapsed, revealing a tomb and a long-dead figure on a platform, which made him exclaim in shock.

Qi Zhan possessed Zhou Changshou's corpse, allowing Lu Changzhi to copy his [Modest Fortune] talent. Qi Zhan discovered the body was missing both arms and his genitals, then resolved to recover and seek out an expert in mechanisms and a dragon burial ground.

• Qi Zhan cautiously approached Zhou Changshou's corpse inside the Heaven-Veiling Illusion Array and entered it.
• Lu Changzhi saw Qi Zhan's information synchronize with Zhou Changshou's former aptitude and constitution, then copied his [Modest Fortune] talent.
• Qi Zhan realized Zhou Changshou's body had no arms and filthy Qi and blood, and then discovered it was missing its genitals as well.
• Qi Zhan tried to leave the body but found he could not escape easily, and suspected Lu Changzhi had set him up.
• Qi Zhan decided to make do with the body and planned to find an expert in mechanisms and a dragon burial ground.

Lu Changzhi gained a trait that would let him teleport near Qi Zhan when Qi Zhan encountered modest fortune, then sent Qi Zhan out after protecting him. After distributing cultivation crystals and planning his next steps, Lu Changzhi flew toward the Northern Region to visit the Xiao Clan and check on Xiao Ye’s mission.

• Lu Changzhi received the trait [Give Zhan a Rose, and Its Fragrance Lingers on Your Hand], which could alert and teleport him near Qi Zhan when fortune arose.
• Lu Changzhi shaped a dangerous scenario in the illusion array, and Qi Zhan left after cultivating; Lu Changzhi placed a protective seal on him.
• Lu Changzhi gave cultivation crystals to Gu Chen, Luo Ling’er, Jin Fugui, and Qin Li, who each considered the unusual resource in their own way.
• Lu Changzhi decided to check on Mu Fan, investigate the Origin of Fire at the Extreme Arms Holy Land, and visit the Xiao Clan to deliver resources and ask about Xiao Ye’s mission.
• A few days later, Lu Changzhi rode the Chongming Bird toward the Northern Region.