Chapter Summaries

Chen Du discovered that spiritual qi was reviving, but the evidence he had saved was erased overnight. He then awakened the World's Spiritual Endowment talent, which let him gain a new talent each time he entered a new world, and began searching for possible entrances as strange purple lightning flashed outside.

• Chen Du found crude videos showing supernatural events and suspected that spiritual qi was reviving.
• He saved seventy-three screenshots and recorded details, but the next morning the files and notes were corrupted and the videos had been deleted or denied by their posters.
• Chen Du reflected on his precarious life and remained certain that the videos had been real and that someone had erased the evidence.
• A golden display appeared before Chen Du and announced that he had awakened the World's Spiritual Endowment talent, which granted a resonant talent upon entering each entirely new world.
• Chen Du searched for reports of strange places and phenomena that might lead to hidden worlds.
• Purple lightning flashed through the rain as Chen Du closed his eyes.

Chen Du discovered that his Myriad Worlds Traversal talent let him spend ten years in another world for each day at home, and he set out to find an entrance. After a mutated boar nearly killed him, an experienced evolver warned him that prepared people already held the resources and information, but Chen Du followed signs of an anomaly deeper into the forest.

• Chen Du studied his newly awakened traversal talent and realized that he could gain years of experience in other worlds while only days passed at home.
• Chen Du traveled to a remote mountain range to search for a possible entrance to another world.
• A gigantic mutated boar attacked Chen Du, but a young man with a saber killed it with one strike and warned Chen Du away from the dangerous area.
• The young man told Chen Du that some people had prepared for spiritual energy's return in advance and already possessed cultivation techniques, resources, and information.
• Chen Du noticed that his compass spun wildly and saw a faint purple glow deeper in the forest, then continued toward the suspected entrance.

Chen Du entered the Xuanye Realm and awoke in the body of the seventh prince, Su Yuanzheng, who had been imprisoned after being framed. Confined to the palace library, he used his Divine Revelation Reading talent to master martial arts manuals at astonishing speed.

• Chen Du followed his World's Spiritual Endowment to a hidden Tier 3 secret realm and chose to enter it despite the danger.
• He arrived in the Xuanye Realm as Su Yuanzheng, the disgraced seventh prince, and awakened the Divine Revelation Reading talent.
• Imperial guards took Chen Du from prison to Qianchuan Hall, where he was confined among the Great Sheng Dynasty's vast collection of books.
• Chen Du read in the library and gained experience in Martial Arts Creation, rapidly improving his comprehension.
• After six days of intensive reading, Chen Du mastered Flying Bird Step and comprehended Black Tiger Fiend Palm from their manuals.

Zhou Tiejun caught Su Yuanzheng practicing martial arts in Qianchuan Hall and discovered that the supposedly helpless prince had reached the level of a skilled Second-Rate Expert in only a few days. He concealed the discovery from his guards, leaving Su Yuanzheng’s sudden rise in strength a secret amid the struggle for the throne.

• Zhou Tiejun spotted a swift shadow escaping Qianchuan Hall and rushed after it, believing it was an assassin.
• Zhou Tiejun fought the shadow with Iron Prison Hand, but the opponent countered with a powerful Black Tiger Fist strike.
• Zhou Tiejun recognized the opponent as Su Yuanzheng and realized the prince had rapidly mastered formidable martial arts.
• Zhou Tiejun knelt before Su Yuanzheng, apologized, and promised to keep his discovery secret.
• Zhou Tiejun told his guards he had mistaken an old eunuch’s shadow for an assassin and resumed the patrol.

After two months of studying in Qianchuan Hall, Chen Du used his improved comprehension to transform the first-rate Iron Cloth Shirt into the superior Dragon's Roar Iron Cloth Shirt and reached the ranks of first-rate experts. He remained under house arrest and unnoticed while his eight brothers fought over the throne, and returned to studying martial arts.

• Chen Du's Martial Arts Creation ability advanced to Lv5, greatly improving his comprehension of martial arts manuals.
• Chen Du studied Iron Cloth Shirt and comprehended Dragon's Roar Iron Cloth Shirt, a superior hard-body art with powerful defenses and a fear-inducing dragon's roar.
• Chen Du tested the technique and felt his sinews and bones strengthen, completing his rise to first-rate strength in less than two months.
• Chen Du considered how easily he could now defeat Commander Zhou and recognized that his survival prospects had improved.
• Chen Du looked toward the palace, where his eight brothers fought over the throne, then shut the window and began reading another manual.

Chen Du studied martial arts and court records, learning the hierarchy of martial power and the strengths of the princes competing for the throne. He remained under house arrest at Qianchuan Hall, confident that he had time to grow stronger.

• Chen Du reviewed the martial ranks and learned that a Xiantian expert secretly guarded the Great Sheng imperial palace.
• Chen Du identified Prince Qi Su Yuanli and Prince Yan Su Yuancheng as powerful rivals backed by the Yun and He families.
• Chen Du learned that the crown prince, Su Yuanzhang, had endured sixteen years of training to reach the Houtian realm.
• Chen Du noted that the other princes were weaker and that everyone still dismissed him as a frail scholar without martial skills.
• As spring thunder and rain arrived, Chen Du returned to his manuals and reflected that he had plenty of time to cultivate.

After three years of studying Qianchuan Hall’s martial arts manuals, Chen Du reached Martial Arts Creation Lv7 and began analyzing the treasured Vajra Skill. He identified its strengths and flaws and started working out how to complete the art beyond its Houtian limit.

• Chen Du spent three years reading and mastering the martial arts manuals in Qianchuan Hall while the court’s succession struggle intensified outside.
• Chen Du’s Martial Arts Creation advanced from Lv6 to Lv7, greatly increasing his ability to understand and create martial arts.
• Chen Du took out the Vajra Skill manual, which he had kept unread until his comprehension became strong enough to tackle it.
• Chen Du studied Vajra Skill’s defensive power, heavy true-qi demands, and risks from inflexible techniques and uncontrolled breakthroughs.
• Chen Du closed his eyes and began working out Vajra Skill’s circulation routes using his Lv7 comprehension.

Chen Du reconstructed the Vajra Skill into the Half-Step Xiantian Wisdom King Vajra Art and broke through to the Houtian realm. After stepping outside Qianchuan Hall, he returned to his books and began reading another manual.

• Chen Du spent the day deducing new circulation routes and refined the Vajra Skill into the Wisdom King Vajra Art.
• Chen Du accepted the chance to break through, liquefied his true qi, and reached the Houtian realm.
• Chen Du manifested Immovable Wisdom King’s markings and phantom, then felt his newfound strength and recognized that it surpassed his eldest brother’s.
• Chen Du stepped outside Qianchuan Hall for the first time in three years, then returned to the hall and marked the Vajra Skill manual as finished.
• Chen Du put away the Vajra Skill and picked up another martial arts manual.

Chen Du realized that Qianchuan Hall held no martial arts manual capable of guiding him from Houtian to Innate, so he studied the Xuanye Jianghu Chronicles for other paths. He identified three distant or hostile martial forces with innate arts and suspected the imperial palace concealed another route, then resolved to keep cultivating while he planned.

• Chen Du finished cultivating and assessed the difficulty of advancing from the Early Acquired Stage to the Innate Realm.
• After confirming that Qianchuan Hall contained no innate-level martial arts, Chen Du reopened the Xuanye Jianghu Chronicles to search for other sources.
• Chen Du read about the Hanging Temple and its Mahavairocana True Scripture, but its distance and strict rules made it difficult to approach.
• Chen Du considered the Yandang Yun Family’s Cloud Sea Heart Sutra and the Sword Pavilion’s Nine Swords of Heaven’s Inquiry, but saw obstacles to reaching either one.
• Chen Du suspected that the imperial palace’s mysterious Innate master and a hidden imperial martial art were connected to the court’s power over the martial forces.
• Chen Du accepted that he would need to keep cultivating and planning from confinement, confident that he was no longer physically helpless.

After a year of secluded study and meditation, Chen Du reached Houtian Perfection by creating supporting martial arts for the Wisdom King Vajra Art. He began searching the records for a Xiantian martial art, knowing that the final barrier could take time to overcome.

• Chen Du spent a year reading, eating, and meditating in Qianchuan Hall while advancing from early Houtian to Houtian Perfection.
• Chen Du used the Lotus Heart Tranquil Skill and Wisdom King Visualization Diagram to accelerate and refine his cultivation of the Wisdom King Vajra Art.
• Chen Du kept his strength concealed, though he realized he could now easily defeat the mutated wild boar that had nearly killed him.
• After remaining at Houtian Perfection for a month, Chen Du studied the Xuanye Jianghu Chronicles for records of Xiantian arts, including the Sword Pavilion's Nine Swords of Heaven’s Inquiry.

Chen Du was released from confinement, reunited with his mother after four years, and attended the Hundred Nations Assembly, where assassins attacked the emperor and killed the fourth prince. As three assassins targeted him, Chen Du lamented that his four years in hiding had been undone.

• Chen Du received an imperial edict restoring his rank and ordering him to attend the Hundred Nations Assembly.
• Chen Du visited his mother, and Eunuch Wang announced that her consort rank had also been restored.
• At the assembly, Chen Du calmly answered the other princes' taunts while taking the lowest seat.
• A tribute box released smoke during the ceremony, and more than a dozen Houtian experts launched an assassination attempt.
• The fourth prince died from a sword through his throat as three assassins attacked Chen Du.

During an assassination attempt in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Chen Du revealed his Houtian Perfection strength and fought a veteran assassin, breaking through to Xiantian in the midst of their duel. He defeated the assassin and ended the chaos by warning everyone in the hall not to move.

• Chen Du revealed his Houtian Perfection aura and killed two assassins with the Wisdom King Vajra Art.
• A veteran Houtian Perfection assassin attacked Chen Du while the other fighters remained occupied with the emperor's secret guards.
• Chen Du fought the veteran assassin and grew more skilled as he brought his four years of martial arts study into practice.
• Chen Du closed his eyes during the duel and broke through to Xiantian, his protective qi and Immovable Wisdom King phantom appearing before the stunned hall.
• Chen Du struck the assassin with the Ming King Vajra Palm and sent him crashing through the hall doors, where he lay motionless.
• The emperor, princes, courtiers, and envoys watched Chen Du as he warned that anyone who made another move would die.

After becoming a Xiantian master, Chen Du rejected imperial honors and kept out of the princes’ struggle for the throne while continuing to cultivate in Qianchuan Hall. Three years later, he reached the Xiantian Peak Stage and unlocked Spiritual Power, sensing every person and detail within the imperial palace.

• The emperor rewarded Chen Du with a princely title, wealth, and honors, but Chen Du refused and asked only to pursue martial cultivation.
• Princes and courtiers sent gifts and invitations, but Chen Du declined them all except the crown prince Su Yuanzhang’s martial arts books, making clear he would take no sides.
• Chen Du questioned why the palace’s rumored Xiantian guardian had not intervened in the assassination attempt and suspected the emperor knew an attack was coming.
• Chen Du spent three years in Qianchuan Hall, refining his martial arts and advancing from the Early Innate Realm to the Peak Stage.
• Chen Du’s cultivation released a vast golden Immovable Wisdom King manifestation over the imperial palace, and he awakened Spiritual Power, sensing the heartbeat of everyone within his range.

Chen Du left the capital to study the three great Xiantian martial arts and arrived at Yandang Mountain, where the Yun Family had prepared to face him with its Ancestral Sword. He revealed himself as Su Yuanzheng, the seventh prince, after his peak Xiantian pressure forced the Yun Family’s gathered experts to their knees.

• Chen Du took leave of Consort Xian and left the capital, while the emperor heard of his departure and allowed him to go.
• Chen Du traveled through Jiangnan toward the Hanging Temple, Yandang Mountain, and the Seeking Sword Pavilion to study their Xiantian martial arts.
• Yun Xiaotian and the Yun Family’s elders discussed the seventh prince’s arrival and prepared to rely on their Ancestral Sword’s accumulated sword intent.
• Chen Du entered the council hall, and his peak Xiantian pressure drove every Yun Family expert to their knees except Yun Xiaotian, who braced himself on the sword.
• Chen Du introduced himself as Su Yuanzheng, the seventh prince, and said he had come only to see the Yun Family’s Xiantian ultimate art.

Chen Du obtained the Yun Family’s Xiantian art and comprehended the Martial Arts Myth-level Cloud Sea Heavenly Scripture, breaking through to the Martial Arts Myth Realm. He traveled west to the Hanging Temple, where the abbot gave him its Xiantian Mahavairocana True Scripture to read.

• Yun Xiaotian tested Chen Du with the Ancestral Sword, and Chen Du shattered its combined sword intent with his palm.
• Yun Mubai brought Chen Du the Cloud Sea Heart Sutra, which Chen Du studied for more than ten days.
• Chen Du created the Cloud Sea Heavenly Scripture and broke through to the Martial Arts Myth Realm as clouds and spiritual energy gathered over Yandang Mountain.
• Chen Du left Yandang Mountain and traveled west, using cloud qi to carry him across the land.
• At the Hanging Temple, the old abbot said he had awaited Chen Du and offered him the Mahavairocana True Scripture.

Chen Du comprehended the Great Sun Tathagata Divine Palm at the Hanging Temple and then traveled to the East Sea seeking the Sword Pavilion’s innate ultimate art. After defeating the old fisherman who guarded its inheritance, he received the Nine Swords of Heaven’s Inquiry manual.

• Chen Du read the Mahavairocana True Scripture and comprehended the Great Sun Tathagata Divine Palm, which complemented his Wisdom King Vajra Art.
• Chen Du spent half a month studying the Hanging Temple’s Buddhist martial arts and gave several young monks pointers that helped them break through.
• Chen Du bid farewell to the old abbot and rode to the East Sea to search for the Sword Pavilion.
• An old fisherman challenged Chen Du to defeat him in exchange for the Sword Pavilion’s inheritance.
• Chen Du used the Great Sun Tathagata Divine Palm to neutralize the fisherman’s sword strike, and the fisherman handed him the Nine Swords of Heaven’s Inquiry manual.

After months of studying and refining martial arts by the East Sea, Chen Du created the transcendent-level Martial Canon and chose to break through beyond the Xuanye Realm’s Martial Arts Myth. His breakthrough began amid extraordinary changes to Heaven and Earth.

• Chen Du comprehended the Martial Arts Myth-level Heavenly Question Thirteen Swords from the Nine Swords of Heaven's Inquiry and demonstrated its first three forms to the old fisherman.
• Chen Du spent months by the sea refining his three Martial Arts Myth-level arts and studying the difference between Xiantian and Martial Arts Myth realms.
• Chen Du's Martial Arts Creation advanced to Lv8, allowing him to combine the realm's martial arts into the transcendent-level Martial Canon.
• After the system announced that the realm barrier had loosened, Chen Du agreed to break through to a higher realm.
• Heaven and Earth changed as Chen Du broke through the Xuanye Realm's ceiling, while the old fisherman knelt on the beach.

After reaching the Transcendence Realm, Chen Du returned to the capital and confronted the emperor, discovering that Great Sheng Taizu had been possessing his descendants and killing Xiantian masters. Chen Du destroyed Great Sheng Taizu, leaving the capital free of his centuries-long scheme.

• Chen Du advised the old fisherman that he needed to question himself, and the old fisherman warned him that Xiantian masters who went to the capital had vanished.
• Chen Du connected the missing masters across several martial sects to the capital and resumed his journey there.
• The emperor greeted Chen Du, who accused him of not being the real emperor.
• Great Sheng Taizu revealed that he had founded the dynasty, possessed his descendants, and absorbed the spiritual power of Xiantian masters to prolong his life.
• Great Sheng Taizu tried to seize Chen Du's body, but Chen Du's Transcendence Realm aura overwhelmed him and his punches destroyed his spirit and demonic corruption.

After spending seven years in the Xuanye Realm, Chen Du returned to Blue Star as a Third-Tier Evolver with the strength and martial knowledge of a Transcendence Realm master. He killed a mutated boar, then witnessed a saber wielder destroy a giant bird that had withstood military attacks, revealing how rapidly Blue Star’s spiritual energy revival was escalating.

• Chen Du watched Su Yuanzhang ascend the throne, visited Consort Xian and Qianchuan Hall, then used Myriad Worlds Traversal to return to Blue Star.
• Chen Du woke in the mountain forest with his martial arts memories intact and learned that he was classified as a Third-Tier Evolver, though he had to rebuild his physical strength.
• Chen Du killed a charging mutated wild boar with a small knife and used his spiritual power to sense the forest around him.
• Chen Du left the mountains, bought a train ticket to the Magic City, and saw an enormous bird approach the train.
• Military helicopters and anti-aircraft missiles failed to harm the giant bird, but a saber wielder split it in half with one strike.

Chen Du entered a mountain forest west of Magic City to investigate a wave of disappearances and found an area rich in spiritual qi and vegetation factors. After absorbing them, he rapidly advanced along Blue Star’s evolution path and learned that it reached far beyond the limits of his martial arts.

• Chen Du traveled to the mountain forest after learning that more than ten people had gone missing there in a week.
• Chen Du killed two evolved beasts that attacked him and continued deeper into the forest.
• Chen Du found unusually dense spiritual qi and vegetation factors, then meditated to absorb them.
• Chen Du’s physical strength rose to the equivalent of a Houtian expert, and his wounds began healing rapidly.
• Chen Du read the panel’s warning that the Evolution Factor Path could reach tiers capable of rivaling Great Emperors and beyond.
• Chen Du examined his changing cells and realized that the factor path was transforming his life form beyond the martial theory he had developed.