Chapter Summaries

Lu Changzhi arranged for Liu Duanyuan and Shen Zhili to help his disciples carry out their plans at the Shen Clan, including meeting the Dragon Armor Ape and opening ancestral tombs. Zhong Ming discovered that his system was jealous of Master, while Mu Fan completed his mission by defeating Shen Tianxun and prepared to leave.

• Qin Li agreed to follow Lu Changzhi's arrangements concerning the Dragon Armor Ape, and Liu Duanyuan instructed Shen Zhili to keep the formations and restrictions in place and find a scapegoat afterward.
• Shen Zhili set the plans in motion as the group departed, while Xiao Ye reflected on the ease of having Lu Changzhi's support and resolved to rely on himself more.
• Zhong Ming sat among the coffins and joked that Lu Changzhi's cheat was stronger than his system, which replied that it was not jealous but agreed Master was superior.
• Mu Fan saw that his mission had been marked complete after defeating Shen Tianxun, then reminded himself to return to taking it easy once the task was done.
• Mu Fan revived Shen Tianxun, congratulated him on clearing the stage, put the Nonhuman Plaque in his arms, and stored him in his ring before leaving.

Xiao Ye’s Tongtong tried to pull the bloodlines from the Shen Clan experts gathered in the square, but their resistance left it unable to complete the task. As the stalemate continued, Tongtong asked Lu Changzhi for help, and the system sighed that it would have to clean up the mess.

• Shen Zhili gathered the Shen Clan members and asked them to sit while Liu Duanyuan watched over him.
• Xiao Ye asked Liu Duanyuan to keep an eye on Shen Zhili, then had Tongtong spread its light over the bloodline-bearing Shen Clan experts.
• Tongtong began pulling at the experts’ bloodlines, alarming them and prompting several to attack the unseen force.
• The Shen Clan experts resisted Tongtong’s attempt, and the square remained in a stalemate for about the time it took to drink a cup of tea.
• Tongtong asked Lu Changzhi to lend it a hand, and the system complained that it would have to clean up after it.

The system spread knowledge of Bloodline Resonance through the Shen Clan, leading the clansmen to try summoning their primogenitor. As a Shen Clan expert succeeded in contacting the golden ancestor, the primogenitor asked him to provide bloodline power to restore his strength and the clan’s name.

• The system sent ripples through the square and beyond, causing Shen Clan members to learn about Bloodline Resonance.
• The Shen clansmen outside the square rallied around the idea of summoning their ancestor, while Liu Duanyuan wondered whether the Shen Clan had a hidden trump card.
• Shen Zhili suspected Bloodline Resonance was another of Liu Duanyuan’s schemes, but then called on the clansmen to help the primogenitor appear.
• Shen Clan members sat cross-legged and tried to make their bloodlines resonate, and one expert saw a golden figure in his sea of consciousness.
• The primogenitor asked the Shen Clan expert for enough bloodline power to recover and restore the Shen Clan’s name, and the expert agreed without hesitation.

Lu Changzhi and Xiao Ye completed the bloodline-draining task, leaving Shen Zhili and the Shen Clan experts weakened. Liu Duanyuan then revealed that he had secretly tried to give Shen Zhili a chance, but a mysterious hammer shattered Shen Zhili's body.

• The Shen Clan experts willingly let their bloodlines be drawn out, and Liu Duanyuan suppressed Shen Zhili as his bloodline was taken too.
• Lu Changzhi withdrew his External Avatar and left with Xiao Ye, who thanked Liu Duanyuan before departing with Shen Wenxi.
• Shen Zhili vanished from the square with a jade talisman, but a barrier rejected him because he no longer had Shen Clan bloodline.
• Liu Duanyuan told Shen Zhili that the bloodline extraction had been a ruse to help him and demanded that he swear not to blame or attack the Liu Clan.
• Liu Duanyuan revealed a strange blood-red object, and a plain-looking great hammer struck Shen Zhili, breaking his body apart and leaving only his head.

Liu Duanyuan destroyed the Shen Clan and Lu Changzhi prepared to return with his disciples, while Qin Li wondered whether a legendary figure from her past life had also been Lu Changzhi’s disciple. In the Misty Clear Realm, two people noticed a reaction from a young man in a coffin when Shen Wentian was brought near and decided to test whether the two were connected.

• Liu Duanyuan captured Shen Zhili in a furnace, summoned people through the Liu Clan stele, and ordered them to cleanse the Shen Clan.
• After the Shen Clan’s formation barrier vanished, crowds rushed inside as Lu Changzhi declined Liu Duanyuan’s invitation and accepted a disc for contacting him.
• Lu Changzhi gathered his group to leave, located Du Niansheng through the system, and departed with the others as the Shen Clan was overwhelmed.
• Qin Li reflected on the Shen Clan’s altered fate and wondered whether the mysterious dark horse from her past life had been Lu Changzhi’s disciple.
• In a hall in the Misty Clear Realm, attendants brought in Shen Wentian, and a person ordered him moved after noticing a young man in a coffin react to his presence.
• The two people wondered whether Shen Wentian and the young man were connected and decided to put them together to find out.

Mu Fan received a System Spirit and the Realm of Mirrors ability as task rewards, then tested the ability by detonating a bomb inside a mountain through a mirror image. He left impressed by its surprise-attack potential but refused to complete more tasks just to help the System Spirit grow.

• Two men placed Shen Wentian's body in a long coffin and found strands of flesh linking it to another body.
• Mu Fan received a System Spirit, the Realm of Mirrors ability, and low-level Artifact Spirits as rewards for completing a task.
• Mu Fan initially treated the baby-faced System Spirit as an unwanted child, then decided it could serve as a worker.
• The System Spirit explained that it could only affect things inside the system for now and urged Mu Fan to complete more tasks.
• Mu Fan tested the Realm of Mirrors by sending a mirror image into a mountain and detonating a bomb, collapsing the peak.
• Mu Fan praised the ability's potential but refused the System Spirit's suggestion to complete more tasks for further growth.

Mu Fan tested how a low-tier artifact spirit could make a bomb track targets and resolved to resume developing the East Wind series. Lu Changzhi returned with Gu Chen and the others after the wager battle, then learned that Liang Si wanted the cyan disc from the Liu Clan.

• Mu Fan placed a low-tier artifact spirit inside a bomb and tested its ability to follow commands, chase targets, and dodge attacks.
• Lu Changzhi and the system discussed Mu Fan’s system spirit, and the system declared it would make him its second brother.
• Du Niansheng credited Lu Changzhi and his disciples for the Withering and Flourishing Sect’s victory, while Lu Changzhi called the outcome mutual assistance and gave Du Niansheng several storage rings.
• Lu Changzhi took Gu Chen and the others back to the sect, where Liang Si asked whether the Liu Clan had given him a cyan disc.
• Liang Si asked Lu Changzhi to hand over the cyan disc.

Lu Changzhi learned that Liang Si had arranged for him to impersonate a Liu Clan prodigy so he could gain fame under the clan’s protection, then tested new system abilities after returning to Hidden Origin Peak. He ended by asking whether his Hand of Enlightenment could make the system more intelligent, and the system insisted it was already intelligent.

• Liang Si altered the Liu Clan disc so Lu Changzhi could spy on the people spying through it.
• Liang Si admitted he had planned Lu Changzhi’s cooperation with the Liu Clan, explaining that the clan’s stand-in scheme was meant to help avoid a calamity and that Lu Changzhi could let the Liu Clan take credit for his deeds.
• Liang Si gave Lu Changzhi a jade slip describing places to visit and ways to improve his strength, and Lu Changzhi returned to Hidden Origin Peak.
• Lu Changzhi used the upgraded Realm of Boundaries to create a hidden mirror image of a teapot and shattered the original by breaking its copy.
• Lu Changzhi read about the Hand of Enlightenment and asked whether it could enlighten the system, which replied that it was already intelligent and that the ability did not work on living things.

Lu Changzhi awakened spiritual intelligence in his recliner, then joined Xiao Ye and the others as Xiao Ye's Thunder Dragon hatched and rapidly grew. Lu Changzhi used the Dragon Taming Divine Art on it, while Qin Li hinted to Mu Fan that a special dragon would soon come to the Misty Clear Realm.

• Lu Changzhi enlightened his recliner, awakening its intermediate spiritual intelligence and letting it rock him comfortably.
• Lu Changzhi entered the secret realm as Xiao Ye's Thunder Dragon egg cracked open and a purple dragon emerged.
• Mu Fan, Qin Li, and Gu Chen arrived to see the dragon, which showed fear of Gu Chen and stayed close to Xiao Ye.
• After the Thunder Dragon grew to a person's length, Lu Changzhi used the Dragon Taming Divine Art, and it affectionately rubbed against his arm.
• Mu Fan imagined having nine dragons pull a carriage, and Qin Li told him a special dragon would soon come to the Misty Clear Realm.

Lu Changzhi pulled Xiao Ming from the ground, and the newly strengthened bird began speaking human words and showing off his abs. Xiao Ming fought Gu Chen, then returned to teasing Mu Fan, leaving the group to wonder about Gu Chen’s Dragon Transformation Technique.

• Lu Changzhi pulled a sleeping Xiao Ming into the secret realm, where Xiao Ming woke up speaking human words and insulted Mu Fan.
• Xiao Ming challenged Gu Chen to a fight and showed off his newly developed eight-pack.
• Xiao Ming held his own against Gu Chen until Gu Chen transformed his right arm with the Dragon Transformation Technique and knocked him back.
• Xiao Ming demanded to know how Gu Chen had transformed, then ended the fight and perched on Qin Li’s shoulder to mock Mu Fan.
• Mu Fan attacked Xiao Ming with a firecracker, but Xiao Ming swallowed it and asked whether Mu Fan could bear to blow him up.

Lu Changzhi checked the buried Black Tortoise egg, considered seeking a Vermilion Bird, and distributed task rewards to his disciples. Qin Li said she could not use the White Tiger Token, but Lu Changzhi interrupted her to address an apparent attempt to spy on him.

• Mu Fan asked Lu Changzhi to plant him, then reconsidered after hearing the results were uncertain.
• Gu Chen returned with his right arm restored, and Xiao Ming attempted to transform into a human but changed only his feet and could not turn back.
• Lu Changzhi found new patterns on the Black Tortoise egg and thought it might hatch soon, then considered acquiring a Vermilion Bird.
• Lu Changzhi learned the disciples' task rewards and gave Qin Li the White Tiger Token, Luo Ling'er's fist art, and Jin Fugui's Seed of Severed Earth.
• Qin Li told Lu Changzhi she could not use the White Tiger Token, but he brought out Liu Duanyuan's azure disc and noticed someone trying to spy on him.

The Liu Clan debated what to do about the young man they could no longer locate, weighing suspicions about his origins against their need for a suitable candidate. Liu Ruoyu proposed pushing him into the spotlight and using any failure to mislead rival forces, then urged the clan to examine the restraints it had imposed on itself.

• The Liu Clan discovered that its formation could no longer detect the azure disc and speculated that the young man might have left the Misty Clear Realm.
• Liu Duanyuan defended the young man, while clan members split over whether he was a trustworthy candidate or a threat from outside forces.
• Liu Ruoyu proposed pushing the young man into the spotlight so the clan could judge his ability and exploit either outcome.
• The clan realized that if the young man failed, they could expose him as a fake and confuse rival forces by mixing truth with falsehood.
• Liu Ruoyu reflected that the Liu Clan's own strength and assumptions might be holding it back, and urged everyone to reconsider their approach.

The Liu Clan decided to send Lu Changzhi to the Emperor Dao to test his abilities and draw attention to him. Lu Changzhi agreed, then encouraged Qin Li to try using the White Tiger token, and she resolved to face it with him at her side.

• Liu Ruoyu warned the Liu Clan that its growing strength could make it lose patience, but the clan members disagreed over whether to heed him.
• The Liu Clan powerhouses chose the Emperor Dao as a public test of Lu Changzhi’s abilities and a way to promote him.
• Lu Changzhi learned about the Emperor Dao, decided to go, and welcomed the chance to let the Liu Clan take the credit and attention.
• Qin Li recalled how the White Tiger token had badly injured her in her previous life and reconsidered her fear in light of her master’s support.
• Lu Changzhi asked Qin Li about the token, and Qin Li told him she intended to try using it.

Qin Li activated the White Tiger token, unleashing a powerful sword light that Lu Changzhi and the Dao-Severing Sword Spirit defeated with help from the system. When the token’s owner confronted Lu Changzhi, his dormant bloodline awakened and drove the intruding consciousness away, leaving the owner’s fate unclear.

• Qin Li used her essence blood to activate the White Tiger token, but a figure inside it trapped her consciousness and sent out a powerful sword light.
• Lu Changzhi summoned the Dao-Severing Sword Spirit, and the system boosted Xiao Dao so it could destroy the sword light.
• Qin Li found that the token still held someone else’s power, and Lu Changzhi sensed the same force within it.
• A vast presence descended across the Five Continents Domain, and the token’s owner accused Lu Changzhi of touching something he had left behind.
• Lu Changzhi’s dormant bloodline awakened as the owner’s consciousness entered his body, and a voice from the bloodline counted down before ordering someone to open the door.
• Sounds of a confrontation followed, and the terrifying consciousness vanished.

Lu Changzhi’s bloodline ancestor ended the threat with ease, leaving Lu Changzhi drained while Qin Li learned the White Tiger Token’s history and gained control of it. Liang Si checked on Lu Changzhi, and Sima Qingyun discovered the departing man had been only a clone.

• Lu Changzhi’s bloodline ancestor appeared, dealt with the danger, encouraged Lu Changzhi, and vanished, leaving him severely drained.
• The White Tiger Token entered Qin Li and revealed that the White Tiger Clan had to aid one of the ancestor’s descendants in exchange for the clan’s sealed chance at resurgence.
• Qin Li thanked Master Lu Changzhi, while Luo Ling’er and Jin Fugui prepared to leave; Lu Changzhi told Jin Fugui to plant the seed on the Shen Clan’s land.
• Liang Si asked Lu Changzhi about the powerful presence, gave him a gourd to restore his strength, and left after remarking on the bloodline’s promise.
• The man who had slapped Sima Qingyun walked away and then exploded into a gale, prompting Sima Qingyun to realize he had been a clone.

Chen Mingxuan sensed a powerful presence, discovered that fate had left him with a new opportunity, and set out to pursue it by searching the Misty Clear Realm. Meanwhile, Lu Changzhi woke on Hidden Origin Peak and found Xiao Ming teaching Xiao Ye’s Thunder Dragon to walk upright.

• Du Niansheng sensed a powerful presence and decided to tell the person with the Aptitude of a Great Emperor about it.
• Chen Mingxuan used a drop of blood to examine the future, confirmed his suspicions, and resolved to act rather than wait for fate.
• Chen Mingxuan visited a hall in the Misty Clear Realm, killed its occupant after absorbing his memories, and took the people inside a long coffin into his sea of consciousness.
• A figure outside the Misty Clear Realm headed toward the powerful presence, leaving an elf-like girl behind to faint.
• Lu Changzhi woke on Hidden Origin Peak and found Xiao Ming teaching Xiao Ye’s Thunder Dragon to walk on two legs.

Lu Changzhi learned that the Emperor Dao would soon open and let his disciples decide whether to attend, while Mu Fan and Qin Li planned to go. As news spread through the Misty Clear Realm, Chen Mingxuan awakened a man who first gave the name Shen Wen t, then insisted he was Luo Zhen.

• Lu Changzhi discovered he had advanced to the Late Stage of the Saint Venerable Realm and wondered whether the Emperor Road would appear before he became an emperor.
• After Liu Duanyuan asked about the Emperor Dao, Lu Changzhi gathered his disciples and told them the Liu Clan would open it, prompting Mu Fan and Qin Li to decide to attend.
• The Liu Clan spread news of the Emperor Dao's opening, and people across the Misty Clear Realm discussed the event, the Liu Clan's Great Emperor Aptitude genius, and the possible arrival of the Emperor Road.
• Chen Mingxuan entered an underground formation and strengthened it until the figure inside awakened.
• When Chen Mingxuan asked the man his name, he began to answer Shen Wen t before correcting himself and declaring that he was Luo Zhen.

Chen Mingxuan explained to Luo Zhen that people around him suffered misfortune because of his star of misfortune, then taught him to exploit others’ declining fortunes to advance. Luo Zhen embraced the advice, and Chen Mingxuan directed him toward a gifted junior of the Liu Clan.

• Luo Zhen recalled Shen Wentian’s memories and realized Chen Mingxuan had secretly rescued him before.
• Chen Mingxuan told Luo Zhen that he was the source of misfortune for people and factions around him.
• Chen Mingxuan taught Luo Zhen to follow his fate by befriending prodigies and powerful factions, then benefiting when their fortunes faded.
• Luo Zhen eagerly asked whom he should approach, and Chen Mingxuan recommended the Liu Clan’s junior with the Aptitude of a Great Emperor.

Chen Mingxuan sent Luo Zhen to approach the Liu Clan’s person with the Aptitude of a Great Emperor, hoping the broom star’s calamity would bring him benefits. As the Emperor Dao’s opening drew near, the Wu Clan decided to join in, while a young man at the Lin Clan and a mysterious shapeshifter prepared to explore the realm.

• Chen Mingxuan gave Luo Zhen cultivation resources and told him to become a friend or follower of the Liu Clan’s person with the Aptitude of a Great Emperor.
• After Luo Zhen left, Chen Mingxuan sensed misfortune gathering and decided to watch the conflict unfold for his own benefit.
• The Wu Clan’s leaders agreed to take part in the Emperor Dao opening and chose Wu Fa to represent them, partly because of the clan’s Thousand-Year Mystery.
• A young man in a Lin Clan secret chamber agreed to attend the Emperor Dao opening and recalled that he had once navigated it without an Emperor Body.
• A shapeshifter in the Misty Clear Realm took human form and set off to explore, hoping to find new people to taste.

Lu Changzhi met Liu Duanyuan and the Liu Clan patriarch, Liu Xun, before the Emperor Dao began, and learned that the Liu Clan expected him to prove his identity through an impressive performance. He decided to stage a proper act and consider surpassing the Liu Clan’s genuine Aptitude of a Great Emperor, while Liu Duanyuan returned to face criticism for treating him too warmly.

• Liu Duanyuan told Lu Changzhi that the Emperor Dao would begin soon and advised him to use Blazing a New Trail only after achieving a major success.
• Liu Duanyuan took Lu Changzhi to meet Liu Xun, the Liu Clan patriarch and his father in name, who stressed that the clan would reward him if he met its requirements.
• Lu Changzhi found Liu Xun’s advice tedious, and Liu Duanyuan agreed that the most important thing was for Lu Changzhi to act impressive and achieve something astonishing.
• Lu Changzhi decided to plan a proper performance and considered making the Liu Clan’s genuine Aptitude of a Great Emperor look inferior to his counterfeit.
• Liu Duanyuan arranged a place for Lu Changzhi’s External Avatar to stay, then returned to the Liu Clan’s gathered experts, where they criticized him for lowering himself to the junior.