Chapter Summaries

Lin Tianlei’s lightning tribulation intensified into deadly purple heavenly lightning, while its effects spread beyond the secret realm and disrupted the Cloud Heaven Holy Land’s grand array. With the array gone and the holy land exposed, Zhou Kun launched an attack.

• The lightning tribulation grew far stronger, and purple heavenly lightning struck Lin Tianlei, blasting him beneath the ground while his soul jade remained intact.
• Huang Qianzhou realized the purple lightning was only the first strike as another, stronger bolt began to form, and Lu Changzhi’s system explained that two tribulations had raised the lightning’s grade.
• Lu Changzhi saw that the tribulation was also gathering over the Cloud Heaven Holy Land, alarming the Star Moon Holy Land and the Dongfang Clan.
• The Cloud Heaven Holy Land’s grand array suddenly vanished, leaving its elders and disciples exposed to the tribulation’s might.
• Zhou Kun recognized the holy land’s vulnerability and ordered his forces to attack and leave no one alive.

Zhou Kun attacked the Cloud Heaven Holy Land, while the elders and disciples retreated as the holy land’s defenses faltered. Inside the secret realm, Lin Tianlei died, but the heavenly lightning continued and threatened to destroy the realm, leaving Huang Qianzhou and the elders scrambling to escape as spatial rifts appeared above the holy land.

• Zhou Kun used his Saint’s power to strike the Cloud Heaven Holy Land elders, killing some and gravely injuring others.
• Huang Yunya called for reinforcements, but an aged voice protected him before Zhou Kun’s punch sent him flying.
• The Cloud Heaven Holy Land elders retreated toward the inner region, and the Dongfang Clan’s elders followed amid the chaos.
• Lu Changzhi saw that Lin Tianlei had died, while Huang Qianzhou crushed his soul jade in frustration.
• Huang Qianzhou realized the secret realm was collapsing and led the elders toward the exit as the lightning continued to gather.
• Lu Changzhi watched spatial rifts form above the Cloud Heaven Holy Land and anticipated further chaos.

A spatial disaster erupted as Cloud Heaven Holy Land’s ancestor Lin appeared to have failed his tribulation, leaving the gathered factions stunned. The thunderclouds then re-formed outside the secret realm, and Huang Qianzhou realized Lin Tianlei’s corpse had landed near another ancestor in death seclusion.

• A Star Moon Holy Land expert was severed by a sudden spatial rift, and Zhou Kun ordered his forces to retreat after sensing that the Cloud Heaven Holy Land elders had emerged without their ancestor.
• Spatial rifts multiplied across the area, killing and maiming people as Huang Qianzhou cursed over elders left behind in the destroyed secret realm.
• A charred body fell from the largest rift, and a Cloud Heaven Holy Land elder identified the attached object as Ancestor Lin’s whip, leading everyone to believe Lin had failed his tribulation.
• Huang Yunya urged the elders to stop Zhou Kun’s group from leaving, but the Star Moon Holy Land forces withdrew toward the outskirts while the Cloud Heaven elders recovered from the shock.
• Thunderclouds gathered again above the Cloud Heaven Holy Land, and Lu Changzhi realized the tribulation had followed them out of the secret realm.
• Huang Qianzhou saw that Lin Tianlei’s corpse had landed near the underground site where a more powerful ancestor was in death seclusion.

A fifth lightning strike targeted Lin Tianlei’s corpse and awakened Cloud Heaven Holy Land’s long-secluded Ge Duantian, who destroyed it with his spear. The shockwave devastated many disciples, and the gathered elders realized the legendary ancestor was still alive.

• Cloud Heaven Holy Land’s elders and disciples watched the powerful fifth lightning strike gather, while Zhou Kun warned Star Moon Holy Land’s experts to retreat.
• The lightning struck toward Lin Tianlei’s corpse and awakened the ancient Ge Duantian in his underground chamber.
• Ge Duantian attacked the lightning with his Heaven-Severing Spear and shattered it, unleashing a destructive shockwave.
• Huang Qianzhou ordered the elders to block the shockwave, but many disciples were killed before the destruction was contained.
• Lu Changzhi sent his External Avatar closer to investigate, while Zhou Kun recognized the spear-wielding man as Ge Duantian, the Heaven-Severing Old Ancestor of Cloud Heaven Holy Land.

Ge Duantian battled a purple lightning tribulation while Cloud Heaven Holy Land believed he was breaking through to become the Northern Region’s first Saint King. Huang Qianzhou realized the lightning was targeting Lin Tianlei’s remains, and Ge Duantian watched as the next bolt struck them instead.

• Cloud Heaven Holy Land’s elders and disciples mistook the lightning tribulation for Ge Duantian’s attempt to reach the Saint King realm and celebrated his strength.
• Lu Changzhi examined Ge Duantian’s information and noticed his spear talent and the dangerous Calamity in Old Age talent.
• Ge Duantian broke the sixth and seventh lightning bolts with his spear as the Star Moon Holy Land and Dongfang Clan retreated.
• Huang Qianzhou realized the lightning might not be targeting Ge Duantian and warned him to dodge.
• Purple lightning struck the largest remaining piece of Lin Tianlei’s body below Ge Duantian.

Ge Duantian survived the ninth lightning strike, but the final bolt devastated the Cloud Heaven Holy Land and buried him in an abyss. Huang Qianzhou found him alive and cleared the debris from his face as the holy land’s elders awoke to investigate the destruction.

• Ge Duantian met a heavenly lightning bolt with his spear, but it shattered his attack and buried him beneath the ground.
• Qin Jiuxiao sensed the destruction from his house and realized that the dream he had made up had come true.
• Huang Qianzhou worried that his message had caused Ge Duantian’s predicament, and Ge Duantian reproached him for not warning him sooner.
• The thunderclouds gathered into a purple pillar that struck the holy land, damaging its protective array and awakening secluded elders and ancestors.
• Huang Qianzhou found Ge Duantian buried up to his eyebrows in an abyss and carefully cleared the rubble from his head.

Ge Duantian died after the lightning tribulation, and Huang Qianzhou recovered his weakened soul while blaming himself. The Star Moon Holy Land fled as the Cloud Heaven Holy Land assessed its losses, and Xiao Ye completed his mission to protect Xiao Ya, earning high-grade Saint Rank armor and a defensive-item draw for Lu Changzhi.

• Huang Qianzhou realized Ge Duantian had died after warning him to step away, then used an artifact to capture the ancestor’s weakened soul and blamed himself.
• The Cloud Heaven Holy Land’s elders surveyed the devastation as Zhou Kun ordered Min Qianlan and the Star Moon Holy Land party to escape.
• Lu Changzhi learned Ge Duantian’s information had vanished, asked about his trial mission and pending reward, and was told both were being processed.
• Huang Yunya confronted an elder when the Holy Land’s defensive formation abruptly restarted, accusing him of causing its earlier failure.
• Mu Fan and Xiao Ye speculated that their master was behind the lightning tribulation, and Xiao Ye returned to the Xiao Clan with the charred Xiao Zhong.
• Xiao Ye’s system declared his mission to protect Xiao Ya complete with a perfect rating and awarded him Saint Rank High Grade Dragon Scale Soft Armor; Lu Changzhi received a defensive-item prize draw.

Lu Changzhi drew a Saint Rank Peak Grade Guardian Formation Disk while Cloud Heaven Holy Land mourned Ge Duantian and discovered his soul had dispersed. Meanwhile, Dongfang Jun’s group fled through the Eastern Region after Star Moon Holy Land defeated them and shaved them bald, leaving their grudge unresolved.

• Lu Changzhi drew a Saint Rank Peak Grade Guardian Formation Disk and put it away before going to sleep.
• Huang Yunya and Elder Xuan surveyed Cloud Heaven Holy Land’s devastation and lamented that their preparations had worsened the calamity.
• Huang Qianzhou checked the treasure holding Ge Duantian’s soul and found that it had dispersed.
• Luo Zhen watched the ruined Holy Land and entered a peculiar state as the lightning tribulation passed.
• Dongfang Jun and the Dongfang Clan powerhouses traveled through the Eastern Region after Star Moon Holy Land defeated them, stripped their belongings, and shaved them bald.

Lu Changzhi returned to the Cloud Heaven Holy Land with Xiao Ye as rumors about the Holy Land’s lightning tribulation spread. Meanwhile, Gu Chen completed a check-in mission in Maple Cherry City and was asked to investigate a well whose water had changed.

• Lu Changzhi received a small sword from his system, then met Xiao Ye and brought him back to the sect aboard the Void Shuttle.
• People around the Cloud Heaven Holy Land spread conflicting rumors about the lightning tribulation, while Ma Yunteng decided to visit the Li Clan for information.
• Gu Chen checked in beside a sealed well in Maple Cherry City and received pills, a crystal stone, and a cultivation enhancement.
• An old man told Gu Chen that the well water had changed and asked him to investigate.

Gu Chen investigated a well whose water had become dangerously rich in spiritual power, then reported the anomaly and cultivated. Lu Changzhi received rewards from Gu Chen’s check-in, while the Flower Spirit Sect investigated the widespread well changes and Cloud Heaven Holy Land continued searching in vain for its lost ancestors and storage rings.

• Gu Chen confirmed that an old man was ordinary, discovered the well’s dense water spiritual power, explained its effects on mortals, and reported the unusual change to the elder.
• Lu Changzhi received twenty-five Life and Death Pills, five Source Water Spirit Crystals, and an endurance enhancement, then began cultivating with a crystal aboard the Void Shuttle.
• The Flower Spirit Sect’s sect master ordered elders to investigate reports of altered well water, then went to meet the Aid the Azure Gate sect master and a monk from the Western Region’s Buddhist Order.
• Cloud Heaven Holy Land searched the lightning-struck area for Ancestor Lin’s remains and the ancestors’ storage rings but found nothing, frustrating Huang Qianzhou.
• Lu Changzhi heard the system announce that it had compiled a report on the blow dealt to Cloud Heaven Holy Land and ask whether he wanted to view it.

Lu Changzhi reviewed the trial mission’s rewards, including two Saints’ inheritances, a defensive formation, and a spatial artifact, and found the inheritances suited Xiao Ye and Gu Chen. After he claimed not to be satisfied, the system announced an additional exclusive weapon, leaving him surprised that it had held back a reward.

• Lu Changzhi learned that the tribulation had killed or injured many Cloud Heaven Holy Land members, including Lin Tianlei and Ge Duantian, and had cost others years of lifespan.
• The system awarded Lu Changzhi 23,500 experience points, the inheritances and belongings of Lin Tianlei and Ge Duantian, a Saint Tier defensive formation, and a supreme-grade Saint Artifact.
• Lu Changzhi decided that Lin Tianlei’s lightning inheritance suited Xiao Ye and Ge Duantian’s spear inheritance suited Gu Chen.
• Lu Changzhi inspected the formation, bracelet, and storage rings, finding a large stock of cultivation resources and Origin Spirit Stones.
• When Lu Changzhi claimed he was dissatisfied with the rewards, the system announced that an exclusive weapon was being delivered.

Lu Changzhi received the Helping Others for Pleasure Broadsword and decided he would rather stay at Hidden Origin Peak than pursue power through slaughter. Meanwhile, rumors spread that the Dongfang Clan had converted to the Buddhist Order, with the clan blaming the Star Moon Holy Land for the apparent conversion.

• Lu Changzhi received the grade-less Helping Others for Pleasure Broadsword, which could yield insights from defeated enemies and could be upgraded to obtain cultivation, soul power, and luck.
• Lu Changzhi considered the temptation to prove the Dao through slaughter, then decided to stay put and let his disciples work hard.
• Lu Changzhi thought Gu Chen should return to visit and remembered that Xiao Ming had been asking where Gu Chen was.
• Rumors spread that the Dongfang Clan had converted to the Buddhist Order, and reports of clan members hiding shaved heads and eyebrows fueled the story.
• The Buddhist Order denied the rumors, while the Dongfang Clan claimed experts from the Star Moon Holy Land had shaved their heads and threatened to beat them whenever they saw bald donkeys.

Lu Changzhi gave Cang Wenyu a jade slip containing the Soul-Strengthening Demonic Pill formula and installed a Saint Tier Parent-Child Joint Defense Formation over the Five Symbols Sect. Meanwhile, Qin Jiuxiao worried that Luo Zhen’s progress could cost him his position as holy son and was called to meet elders of the Li Clan.

• Lu Changzhi learned that Ge Duantian’s death had weakened the Cloud Heaven Holy Land and complicated the sect patriarchs’ plans for the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Lu Changzhi showed Cang Wenyu a jade slip with the Soul-Strengthening Demonic Pill formula, and Cang Wenyu took it to the elders of Flame Sun Peak for examination.
• Lu Changzhi used the system to set up a Saint Tier Parent-Child Joint Defense Formation across the Five Symbols Sect’s territory.
• The Five Symbols Sect’s patriarchs sensed Lu Changzhi’s formation and speculated that he had borrowed it, but decided not to interfere.
• Qin Jiuxiao fretted that Luo Zhen’s improvement threatened his position as holy son and resolved to change the situation.
• An attendant told Qin Jiuxiao that elders of the Li Clan had arrived with an artifact that might help him.

Qin Jiuxiao brought the Holy Lord and elders to watch him open an ancient medicine box that might contain the Soul-Strengthening Demonic Pill he needed. When he opened it, brilliant golden light suddenly shone from inside.

• Qin Jiuxiao decided to test his luck by opening the ancient medicine box and asked the Holy Lord and elders to witness it.
• Li Zhen presented the unopened box, while the elders warned that its age made a usable pill unlikely.
• Huang Yunya recalled Qin Jiuxiao’s recent misfortunes and doubted that his luck would hold.
• Qin Jiuxiao opened the medicine box in front of everyone, and brilliant golden light burst from within.

Qin Jiuxiao found a well-preserved Soul-Strengthening Demonic Pill, and Huang Yunya decided it should belong to him. After Elder Yun confirmed it was genuine, Qin Jiuxiao swallowed it in front of the Holy Lord and elders.

• Qin Jiuxiao revealed the Soul-Strengthening Demonic Pill, and the elders confirmed it retained powerful medicinal potency.
• Huang Yunya reconsidered his doubts about Qin Jiuxiao, while Li Zhen praised the find and the Holy Land’s fortunes.
• When the elders questioned who should receive the pill, Huang Yunya ruled that it belonged to Qin Jiuxiao because the Li Clan had given it to him and he had found it.
• Elder Yun examined the pill at Huang Yunya’s request and judged it genuine.
• Qin Jiuxiao thanked the Holy Lord and elders, swallowed the pill, and Huang Yunya stayed to observe its effects.

Qin Jiuxiao swallowed a fake, poisonous Soul-Strengthening Demonic Pill and suffered bizarre symptoms while the elders struggled to understand what was happening. He recovered completely, leaving Huang Yunya and the elders suspecting the pill had been a prank and turning their attention back to Li Zhen.

• Qin Jiuxiao noticed the pill's effects were not gathering in his sea of consciousness, then received a warning that it was fake and poisonous after swallowing it.
• Qin Jiuxiao tried to force himself to vomit, but the pill had already dissolved, and a second message told him it was too late.
• Qin Jiuxiao collapsed and his face changed colors as the elders detected erratic signs of life; Huang Yunya ordered them to find a cure and demanded an explanation from Li Zhen.
• Li Zhen swore he had not known the pill was fake and blamed Ma Yunteng for framing the Li Clan.
• Qin Jiuxiao woke after half a day with no apparent harm, and the elders concluded the frightening symptoms might have been an illusion or prank.
• Huang Yunya examined Qin Jiuxiao, found no significant change, and turned his gaze back to Li Zhen.

Li Zhen discovered that the Soul-Strengthening Demonic Pill given to Qin Jiuxiao was fake, while Qin Jiuxiao returned home furious after the pill failed to help him. Cheng Qian suspected the pill was faulty and rushed to the Ma Clan, as Lu Changzhi learned how the fake pill worked and planned to strengthen Mu Fan’s system the next day.

• Huang Yunya left after Li Zhen promised to investigate the fake pill, and Qin Jiuxiao returned to his residence unharmed but furious.
• Qin Jiuxiao summoned Liu Qingyan, then struck her and drove her from the room after she mocked how quickly he had finished.
• Cheng Qian inferred that something had gone wrong with the pill and hurried to the Ma Clan to investigate and confront Ma Yunteng.
• Lu Changzhi learned that the fake pill gathered nearby fortune onto Qin Jiuxiao, and he decided Mu Fan’s Idle System would be next for enhancement.
• Inside the Heavenly Azure Ruins, Mu Fan anticipated receiving useful materials from his system and greeted Xiao Ye when he arrived.

Xiao Ye learned and simplified the Earth Explosion Talisman, astonishing Mu Fan and teaching him the technique through a jade talisman. Meanwhile, the Star Moon Holy Land investigated who had impersonated them, and the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty received reports of several emerging threats and mysteries.

• Xiao Ye studied the Earth Explosion Talisman, used special simplification, and successfully drew one on his first attempt.
• Xiao Ye gave Mu Fan a jade talisman containing his insights, and Mu Fan used it to learn the technique.
• Min Qianlan suspected the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty might have impersonated the Star Moon Holy Land and ordered the land to be taken from the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Officials reported to the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty that monks were gathering near the Flower Spirit Sect and that spatial fluctuations suggested a secret realm might appear near Cloud Forest City.
• Officials reported that miners in the East Third Spirit Vein had uncovered a Saint Tier formation possibly created by Saint King Chen Fangyuan.

Lu Changzhi learned about strange developments across the world and a future shop upgrade that could help his disciples grow, while the Star Moon Holy Land forced Yuan Hou to open the Azure Cloud Sect treasury and found it empty. The chapter ended with Lu Changzhi finishing his daily tasks and waiting for the exclusive opportunity expected tomorrow.

• A man ordered the Formation Hall's forces to investigate something Chen Fangyuan had left behind, then asked about the lightning tribulation at the Cloud Heaven Holy Land and the possible tomb of the last Saint King of the Land of the Four Directions.
• Lu Changzhi reviewed reports of unusual changes, considered his cultivation and his disciples' widening realm gap, and learned that a level-four shop would unlock a function to help disciples advance once he had six disciples.
• The system estimated that Jin Fugui would meet the requirements in half a month, so Lu Changzhi bought Disciple System Enhancement and used it on Mu Fan, whose system began upgrading before he received a reward.
• Yuan Hou complained that the Flower Spirit Sect had grown bold after the Buddhist Order arrived, then faced a visitor from the Star Moon Holy Land who demanded access to the Azure Cloud Sect's treasures.
• Yuan Hou and the Star Moon Holy Land expert opened the treasury and found it empty; after intercepting a message saying everything had been hidden as Yuan Hou instructed, the expert broke his arm and demanded to know where the treasures were.
• Lu Changzhi left the Trial Formation Stele, finished his daily routine, and noted that his Exclusive Luck Value had reached nineteen as he awaited tomorrow's opportunity.

A fissure beneath the Flower Spirit Sect erupted with water spiritual power, drawing the Buddhist Order and factions seeking a possible treasure. Gu Chen returned to Hidden Origin Peak, where Xiao Ming promptly ambushed him, and the two began fighting.

• A massive fissure opened beneath the Flower Spirit Sect, and its elders found rising water spiritual power too strong to investigate fully.
• Jingkong entered the fissure with the Buddhist monks, saying it contained an object fated for their order, while the Flower Spirit Sect sect master sent elders to search deeper.
• Rumors of the fissure spread, attracting factions that saw it as a possible opportunity amid the coming age of chaos.
• At the Five Symbols Sect, Chen Miao reported the fissure's unusual water spiritual power, and Cang Wenyu ordered more elders to monitor developments.
• Gu Chen returned to Hidden Origin Peak, where Mu Fan gave him a recording stone and said Xiao Ming had missed him.
• Xiao Ming pretended to seek Gu Chen's affection, then enlarged and attacked; Gu Chen met the charge with his spear, and they began a fierce fight.