Chapter Summaries

Lu Changzhi advanced to the Early Saint Venerable Realm through Zhong Ming’s cultivation and struggled to understand the Unsealing Key. After the system located a destination it could not take him to, Lu Changzhi set off with Lu Yuan to investigate.

• Lu Changzhi reached the Early Saint Venerable Realm and considered discussing the Five Symbols Sect with Old Liang after the Saint Battlefield.
• Chen Kun told Sun Junlin that the Lu Clan’s Young Master might have obtained and mastered the One Brush Saint Emperor’s inheritance, and Sun Junlin ordered him to keep it secret.
• Lu Changzhi set aside the Unsealing Key after failing to solve it, and the system announced that it had determined a location.
• Lu Changzhi asked the system to bring back any remains, but it explained that he had to go himself, so he found Lu Yuan and set off.

Lu Changzhi opened a hidden passage in the void and entered the One Brush Saint Emperor’s concealed ruins, leaving Lu Yuan outside as he confronted a massive gate bearing an apparent promise of the Emperor’s legacy. The system warned Lu Changzhi that the gate was a trap.

• Lu Changzhi told Lu Yuan that their destination was not the One Brush Saint Hall but another location connected to the One Brush Saint Emperor’s legacy.
• Following the system’s guidance, Lu Changzhi used the Dao of Space to tear open a passage through the void despite Lu Yuan’s doubts.
• Lu Changzhi slipped through the crack before spatial power sealed it, while Lu Yuan failed to reopen it from outside.
• Lu Changzhi found a colossal gate covered in intricate array restrictions and inscribed with a promise of the Saint Emperor’s legacy.
• The system told Lu Changzhi not to approach the gate because it was a trap.

Lu Changzhi ignored the One Brush Saint Emperor’s misleading doors and forced his way through the spatial barriers. He reached a cloud-wreathed peak with a grave and scattered scrolls and jade talismans, where the story left him poised to investigate.

• Lu Changzhi learned that the first door was a fake entrance and that brute force could break through the spatial barriers.
• He passed eight increasingly elaborate doors covered with flattering messages, while the system guided him toward his true destination.
• The system explained that the doors were designed to waste visitors’ time before telling them they had gained nothing.
• Lu Changzhi decided the doors might be useful to take away, then continued breaking through barriers.
• Lu Changzhi emerged on a towering peak with a raised circular platform, a rudimentary grave, and scattered scrolls and jade talismans.

Lu Changzhi encountered Chen Yibi’s soul inside the stele, and Chen Yibi accused him of stealing the Void Raw Stone. After Lu Changzhi revealed he had bypassed the gates, Chen Yibi suspected a connection to Huang Banxian and reflected on the inheritance trap he had built, which Lu Changzhi had unexpectedly breached.

• Chen Yibi emerged from the stele and demanded to know where his Void Raw Stone had gone.
• Lu Changzhi used Men Must Be Fast to slow Chen Yibi, then explained he had only just arrived and had not used the front gates.
• Chen Yibi attacked Lu Changzhi with a dragon-shaped surge of soul power, but Lu Changzhi dodged twice at extraordinary speed.
• Chen Yibi asked how Lu Changzhi had entered, and Lu Changzhi said even a hundred precautions could leave a loophole.
• Chen Yibi asked whether Lu Changzhi knew Huang Banxian, then cursed that Huang Banxian’s prediction had come true.
• Chen Yibi recalled that he had created the inheritance site to lure future generations without leaving them anything, but Lu Changzhi had entered despite his precautions.

Lu Changzhi challenged Chen Yibi to a speed contest in crafting formations and restrictions, wagering one question for each win. After Chen Yibi supplied a difficult Saint King-level formation, Lu Changzhi used the Simplification System to learn it instantly, leaving the contest about to begin.

• Chen Yibi reconsidered killing Lu Changzhi because he feared the power behind the young man might reach the tomb, but he remained determined not to lose his wager with Huang Daxian.
• Lu Changzhi proposed competing in the speed of crafting formations and restrictions, and Chen Yibi accepted after setting terms for either outcome.
• Chen Yibi sent Lu Changzhi a jade talisman containing a difficult Saint King formation and restriction for their contest.
• Lu Changzhi selected the formation in the jade talisman for simplified cultivation and instantly reached the end, stunning himself.

Lu Changzhi used his ability to master Chen Yibi’s array restriction and create it faster than Chen Yibi had. Chen Yibi conceded the contest, and Lu Changzhi prepared to ask him a question.

• Lu Changzhi realized his ability had sped up his comprehension and confirmed his theory with the system, which denied that it had a bug.
• Chen Yibi created an array restriction in three breaths and offered Lu Changzhi a chance to admit defeat.
• Lu Changzhi recreated the restriction in 2.7 breaths without using the Dao Simplification Brush.
• Chen Yibi was startled by Lu Changzhi’s speed but suspected he had prepared for this particular restriction.
• Chen Yibi conceded the contest and asked Lu Changzhi what he wanted to know.

Lu Changzhi questioned Chen Yibi about the missing void raw stone and learned that the only other source was the ruins of the Void Dao Manor. He revealed a relic that could lead there, then quickly learned Chen Yibi’s newly created formation restriction and prepared to compete again.

• Lu Changzhi asked Chen Yibi where he had found the void raw stone, and Chen Yibi accused him of stealing it.
• Chen Yibi told Lu Changzhi that the Void Dao Manor was the only other source of such stones, but said its ruins could only be reached with a relic he had used up.
• Lu Changzhi showed Chen Yibi a relic of the Void Dao Manor, stunning him because he believed his had been the last one.
• Chen Yibi gave Lu Changzhi a jade talisman containing a newly created formation restriction and offered him time to study it before their speed contest.
• Lu Changzhi quickly learned the formation restriction and said he would go first, while Chen Yibi watched in disbelief.

Lu Changzhi completed an array restriction faster than Chen Yibi, inspiring Chen Yibi to improve his technique. After Chen Yibi gave Lu Changzhi a jade talisman explaining how to enter the Void Dao Manor ruins, he challenged him to see who could die faster.

• Lu Changzhi constructed an array restriction in nine breaths, astonishing Chen Yibi and inspiring him to refine his own method.
• Chen Yibi used a brush from the grave to construct the same restriction, but finished only after twelve breaths.
• Lu Changzhi asked how to enter the Void Dao Manor ruins and what they contained, and Chen Yibi gave him a jade talisman with the method and warned him of the dangerous spatial force.
• Chen Yibi challenged Lu Changzhi to compete over which of them could die faster.

Lu Changzhi realized Chen Yibi was destroying his own inheritance as he ended his life, then used the Helping Others for Pleasure Broadsword to harvest Chen Yibi’s insights and soul force. Chen Yibi vanished, and Lu Changzhi gathered the legacy he had recovered.

• Lu Changzhi suspected Chen Yibi was preparing to attack, but realized Chen Yibi’s soul force was destroying the scrolls and jade talismans around them.
• Chen Yibi chose to end his own life and destroy his inheritance rather than let Lu Changzhi surpass him and claim it.
• Lu Changzhi rushed over and stabbed Chen Yibi’s soul with the Helping Others for Pleasure Broadsword, causing insights into formation restrictions and clumps of soul force to appear.
• Chen Yibi demanded to know what Lu Changzhi had done, then vanished as his soul force faded away.
• Lu Changzhi acknowledged that Chen Yibi had won their contest and gathered the legacy recovered by the broadsword.

Lu Changzhi examined Chen Yibi’s corpse and discovered a spatial wound that suggested Chen Yibi had been killed rather than dying of old age. Suspecting Chen Yibi had tried to lure him into danger at Void Dao Manor, Lu Changzhi cleared the spatial barriers and watched the system destroy the tomb and make the gates disappear.

• Lu Changzhi collected Chen Yibi’s cultivation methods, techniques, formations, restrictions, soul power, and stele, then dug up his body and coffin.
• Lu Changzhi found a fist-width gap through Chen Yibi’s chest and sensed lingering spatial power preventing the corpse from healing.
• Lu Changzhi suspected Chen Yibi’s wound was connected to Void Dao Manor and that Chen Yibi had tried to lure him there, then stored the body and coffin in the system.
• Lu Changzhi damaged several raised platforms, causing the spatial barriers around the eight gates to vanish.
• Lu Changzhi called on the system, which blew up Chen Yibi’s tomb and made the gates disappear.

Lu Changzhi finished collecting Chen Yibi's Gates of Entrapment and considered how they might help him explore the Void Dao Manor. When Jiang Muqing approached to kill him for an inheritance that did not exist, Lu Changzhi prepared to turn the situation against him.

• The system collected all eight gates and named them Chen Yibi's Gates of Entrapment, while Lu Changzhi considered linking them to the Void Dao Manor relic and its Unsealing Key.
• Lu Changzhi left the spatial barrier and rejoined Lu Yuan, who asked how he had found the concealed entrance.
• A system choice warned Lu Changzhi that Jiang Muqing, former hall master of the One Brush Saint Hall, was coming to kill him for the nonexistent inheritance of the One Brush Saint Emperor.
• Lu Changzhi rejected telling Jiang Muqing the truth and used a Nonhuman Plaque to put Lu Yuan inside a storage ring, instructing him to attack at full strength when released.
• Lu Changzhi disguised the storage ring as a pill coated with life spirit liquid and learned that Jiang Muqing was only at the Eighth Layer of Saint Venerable.
• As Jiang Muqing drew near, Lu Changzhi decided he might be useful as a scapegoat and as someone knowledgeable about formations and restrictions.

Lu Changzhi pretended to be an unsuspecting outsider while Jiang Muqing sought to learn whether he could seize the One Brush Saint Hall's founding patriarch's inheritance without provoking a powerful protector. Jiang Muqing planned to kill him after checking for hidden threats, but Lu Changzhi took the initiative and asked to join the hall as its holy son.

• Jiang Muqing showed Lu Changzhi the One Brush Saint Hall's token and learned that he recognized the faction founded by Chen.
• Jiang Muqing recalled the bell's prophecy and resolved to claim the inheritance, believing it could let him break through to the Saint Emperor Realm.
• Lu Changzhi said he belonged to the Myriad Laws Academy and had obtained the inheritance despite having no background in formations and restrictions.
• Jiang Muqing decided to investigate for hidden protectors before killing Lu Changzhi and taking the inheritance.
• Lu Changzhi checked his dwindling speed boost and asked Jiang Muqing whether he could join the One Brush Saint Hall as its holy son.

Lu Changzhi tried to persuade Jiang Muqing to accept him as the One Brush Saint Hall's holy son, then fed him a life-extending pill and prepared to attack. The chapter ended as Lu Changzhi invoked the Dao Simplification Brush and challenged Jiang Muqing to answer when called.

• Lu Changzhi told Jiang Muqing that Kong Mu had taken the Myriad Laws Saint Emperor's inheritance and claimed he deserved it instead.
• Jiang Muqing said Lu Changzhi could become the One Brush Saint Hall's holy son if he proved he had received Chen Yibi's inheritance.
• Lu Changzhi showed Jiang Muqing Chen Yibi's corpse, convincing him that the inheritance was genuine.
• Lu Changzhi fed Jiang Muqing a jade-green pill, and Jiang Muqing swallowed it as its life force began to restore him.
• Lu Changzhi used the Dao Simplification Brush to produce the character "slay" and called out to Jiang Muqing, demanding that he answer.

Lu Changzhi and Lu Yuan ambushed Jiang Muqing, using a concealed attack to rip open his chest and leave him badly injured. Lu Changzhi moved to capture him, but Jiang Muqing tried to buy time to escape as another force pinned him down and a red light pierced his brow.

• Jiang Muqing sensed that Lu Changzhi's offered pill and swift movements were suspicious, but the character "Slay" broke through his defenses and weakened him.
• Lu Changzhi seized control of Jiang Muqing's storage ring and released Lu Yuan, who attacked as soon as he appeared.
• Lu Yuan burst out through Jiang Muqing's chest and abdomen, shattering his soft armor and disrupting the power he had gathered.
• The character "Slay" struck Jiang Muqing's soul, and Lu Yuan pinned his body while Lu Changzhi approached and promised to let him live.
• Jiang Muqing tried to buy time for his soul to escape, but a Saint Venerable-level force pressed down on him and a red light pierced his brow.

Qin Zhen discovered that Jiang Muqing’s soul lamp had gone out and then reignited, while Lu Changzhi explained to Lu Yuan how he had killed and resurrected Jiang Muqing for his own plan. Lu Changzhi later checked Qin Li’s progress and used Descent to go to her.

• Qin Zhen learned that Jiang Muqing’s soul lamp had gone out, but it began glowing again before he could investigate.
• Lu Changzhi told Lu Yuan that he had lured Jiang Muqing with a disguised storage ring and wanted to use his body to enlist One Brush Saint Hall’s help.
• Lu Changzhi revealed that the Resurrection System could revive a person after burial and the erection of a gravestone, though it could not revive someone while their body was still warm.
• Lu Changzhi checked his disciples’ information, noticed that Qin Li had advanced another realm, and used Descent to go to her.

Qin Li investigated strange changes in the Beast Race Territory and warned Lu Changzhi, who arrived after receiving her message. After speaking with her, Lu Changzhi sent an External Avatar toward the disturbance and sensed it might have been created by the Will of Heaven and Earth.

• Qin Li traveled to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains seeking powerful beasts and noticed a force altering the area ahead.
• Qin Li sent Lu Changzhi a warning about the disturbance, then was startled when he appeared nearby.
• Lu Changzhi called the phenomenon a heavenly secret, and Qin Li accepted that he could not explain it.
• Lu Changzhi told Qin Li to watch for unopened tombs for her new junior brother, Zhong Ming, and she agreed to help if she found any.
• Lu Changzhi sent an External Avatar toward the disturbance and wondered whether the Will of Heaven and Earth had created it.

Lu Changzhi investigated a passage opening between the Five Continents Domain and the Beast Domain, then returned to One Brush Saint Hall with part of the founding patriarch’s legacy. He tasked Qin Zhen with building a Screening Grand Array to test candidates for the complete inheritance, while explaining that his oath barred him from constructing it himself.

• Lu Changzhi recognized the presence behind the new passage as the Will of Heaven and Earth, recorded the opening, and suspected the Beast Race would enter the Five Continents Domain once it was fully open.
• Lu Changzhi used Descent to control Jiang Muqing and appeared before Qin Zhen at One Brush Saint Hall, surprising him with his younger appearance.
• Lu Changzhi gave Qin Zhen jade talismans containing part of the founding patriarch’s legacy and explained that the complete inheritance required a Screening Grand Array.
• Lu Changzhi showed Qin Zhen the eight gates and said they must form an exclusive route that powerful backers could not bypass for younger candidates.
• Lu Changzhi told Qin Zhen that his oath to the founding patriarch prevented him from taking part in the array’s construction, leaving Qin Zhen responsible for the undertaking.

Lu Changzhi tasked Qin Zhen with building a selection formation within a month, though the lack of Void Raw Stone threatened to complicate the work. Back on Hidden Origin Peak, Lu Changzhi sent Xiao Ming to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains with Qin Li, then discovered the Unsealing Key was vibrating.

• Qin Zhen agreed to build the formation after Lu Changzhi told him the founding patriarch had ordered it, but he warned that One Brush Saint Hall lacked enough Void Raw Stone.
• Lu Changzhi told Qin Zhen to seek a solution himself and revealed that the formation had to be finished within a month.
• Mu Fan and Luo Ling'er returned to Hidden Origin Peak, where Xiao Ming appeared when Luo Ling'er called him for a meal.
• Lu Changzhi decided the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains might suit Xiao Ming and asked Qin Li to take him there for a stroll.
• Lu Changzhi prepared to sleep and sort through the inheritances he had gathered, but the system announced that the Unsealing Key was vibrating.

Lu Changzhi learned that the Unsealing Keys were linked to an impending chance at longevity, while a message announced the Longevity Battlefield across the Five Continents Domain. As factions prepared for turmoil, Huang Fu warned that the promised chance at longevity could not be real.

• The Unsealing Key vibrated and revealed that a chance at longevity would appear in the Five Continents Domain in fifty-three days, and the system said the message had come from outside.
• Lu Changzhi asked the system to send messages to the other Unsealing Keys as strange changes spread across the sky throughout the Five Continents Domain.
• Lu Changzhi told Luo Ling'er that a great opportunity was approaching, and a message in the sky announced that Unsealing Key holders could bring a hundred people into the Longevity Battlefield ahead of time.
• Xiang Qingcang warned Xiang Qing that the Five Continents Domain would fall into chaos and took charge of the Xiang Clan's major decisions.
• Heavenly Treasure Pavilion began preparations and feared the neighboring domains would contest the battlefield, while its members recalled the Prophet's blood-red warning.
• Huang Fu told Huang Zhan that the chance at longevity could not be real and warned the Huang Clan against greed and vain hopes.

Huang Zhan told Huang Fu about an eighteen-year-old junior whose talent seemed beyond the Five Continents Domain, and Huang Fu decided the Huang Clan should offer him the Unsealing Key if he wanted it. As the Longevity Battlefield’s return stirred fear across the domain, Duan Bo recalled its terrible history, while Qin Li recognized the impending calamity and began preparing.

• Huang Zhan told Huang Fu that Lu Yuan said an eighteen-year-old junior had guided him, prompting Huang Fu to question the youth’s origins.
• Huang Fu gave Huang Zhan the Unsealing Key to offer the junior and warned him to share the danger recorded in the Huang Clan’s ancestral records.
• Meng Yu and the Myriad Laws Academy’s senior figures debated how to respond to the Longevity Battlefield, and Duan Bo urged them to do what they could.
• Duan Bo recalled that the battlefield had once left only Saint Realm experts among the Five Continents Domain’s strongest and feared the losses its return would bring.
• Qin Li recognized the Longevity Battlefield from her previous life, wondered about her master’s intentions, and called Xiao Ming to go prepare.