Chapter Summaries

A giant tortoise that had evolved to the third rank emerged beneath a forest, killing the Evolvers who had fought over a blue fruit on its shell. The Spirit Rejuvenation Investigation Bureau’s report warned that wild creatures could out-evolve humans, prompting factions and investigators to intensify their efforts as the tortoise remained dormant.

• Evolvers gathered around a fragrant blue fruit and began killing one another to claim it.
• A giant tortoise rose from beneath the forest, revealing that the fruit grew on its shell, and shook the Evolvers to their deaths.
• The Spirit Rejuvenation Investigation Bureau’s monitoring team measured the tortoise’s evolution and identified it as third rank.
• The Administration’s secret report concluded that wild animals could evolve faster than humans and warned that humanity risked extinction.
• Major factions invested more heavily in evolution, and the monitoring team increased its own training after returning to base.

Chen Du absorbed spiritual qi in the mountains until his Evolution Factors activated and he broke through to the third-tier Cocoon-Breaking Realm. After testing his new strength, he realized his body could unleash the Martial Canon without restraint and had become far stronger than when he first returned to Blue Star.

• Chen Du continued absorbing spiritual qi and evolution factors in the forest, growing stronger as he approached a breakthrough.
• Chen Du's Evolution Factors activated, greatly increasing his strength and expelling impurities before a gray cocoon formed around him.
• Chen Du broke out of the cocoon and discovered he had reached the third-tier Cocoon-Breaking Realm with a tenfold increase in physical strength.
• Chen Du tested his power and concluded that his body alone could crush a Martial Arts Myth and contend with the Transcendence Realm.
• Chen Du combined his physical strength, Spiritual Power, and martial intent through the Martial Canon, turning a granite boulder ninety meters away to dust without disturbing the ground beneath it.

Chen Du found a new world entrance in the mountain forest after rescuing Meng Mingyuan from a pack of mutated wolves. When a mysterious figure called the area a “Breeding Grounds” and overwhelmed him, Chen Du activated Myriad Worlds Traversal and escaped through the rift into another world.

• Chen Du encountered the wounded Meng Mingyuan and killed the mutated wolves pursuing him with ease.
• Meng Mingyuan recorded Chen Du’s apparent third-tier strength and warned the Supernatural Investigation Bureau against approaching him.
• Chen Du followed the rising spiritual qi deeper into the forest and discovered a newly formed world entrance among dead trees.
• A tall, helmeted figure appeared and suppressed Chen Du, calling the forest a “Breeding Grounds.”
• Chen Du used Myriad Worlds Traversal to escape through the rift, and the figure remarked that something marked by the world had run off on its own.

Chen Du descended into the Heavenly Human Realm in the body of Gouwa, a starving fifteen-year-old boy from a family burdened by war and loss. As he resolved to rebuild his strength and protect Gouwa’s family, the world awakened two complementary talents that enhanced his comprehension through emotion.

• Chen Du entered the fifth-tier Heavenly Human Realm and awakened in Gouwa’s frail body in Qinghe Village.
• Chen Du received Gouwa’s memories of his mother’s death, his father’s conscription, and the family’s poverty amid the war between the Zhao Kingdom and the Yan Kingdom.
• Niuwa brought Chen Du a bowl of thin porridge, and Chen Du encouraged him to drink most of it.
• Chen Du found that Gouwa had no cultivation and decided he needed to build strength to support his grandmother and Niuwa.
• World’s Spiritual Endowment awakened Enlightenment Through Anger, which strengthened comprehension through anger and doubled comprehension-related talents.
• World’s Spiritual Endowment then awakened Stunning Everyone with a Single Cry, a complementary talent that turned accumulated emotions into greater comprehension.

Chen Du settled into a quiet life of farm work with Grandma and Niuwa while slowly strengthening his body and developing his Lie Dormant ability. A village tale about the Blade Saint’s last stand reminded him of the power one person could wield in the Heavenly Human Realm.

• Chen Du worked the fields with Grandma, reflected on martial arts, and quietly drew in the land’s scarce spiritual energy, gradually growing stronger as Lie Dormant advanced.
• Chen Du shared meals with Grandma and Niuwa, who promised to buy her meat when he grew up, while Grandma urged the boys to study and look after themselves.
• Chen Du learned that he had pinned Wang Tiezhu in an arm-wrestling match, and Grandma cautioned him against competing or getting hurt.
• Wang Tiezhu and Li Erniu traded stories beneath the locust tree, and Li Erniu recounted how the Blade Saint held off the Yan army for fifteen days before Ning State fell.
• Chen Du listened as Li Erniu said the Blade Saint’s stand showed that one man could punch a hole in the heavens, and Chen Du agreed that one person could defend, suppress, or destroy a nation.

After three years of quiet life in Qinghe Village, Chen Du watched Grandma set out to sell the family jade bracelet to secure a betrothal gift for him, though he had no desire to marry. As Chen Du prepared to follow her, the Yan Kingdom’s vanguard advanced to within thirty li of the village, bringing the war to its doorstep.

• Three years passed as Chen Du grew stronger through farm work, Niuwa studied at Mr. Wang’s school, and Grandma grew old while waiting for Chen Du’s father to return.
• Chen Du’s dormant talent advanced to Lv6, raising its amplification to sixfold, but he chose not to end its dormancy.
• Niuwa asked Chen Du about their mother, their missing father, and why people fought wars; Chen Du answered that war came from the human heart.
• Grandma decided to sell her jade bracelet in town to raise a betrothal gift for Chen Du, despite his offer to accompany her later.
• After Grandma left, Chen Du planned to follow her once Niuwa was settled, while the Yan Kingdom’s vanguard marched to within thirty to forty li of Qinghe Village.

Chen Du returned to Qinghe Village to find it burned and its people slaughtered by Yan Kingdom soldiers, including Niuwa and Grandma. After killing the soldiers, he headed north, awakened his dormant talents, and used a recovered military manual to enter the Heaven-Human Realm by daybreak.

• Chen Du followed Grandma home after she pawned her jade bracelet, but they found Qinghe Village burning and its residents dead.
• Chen Du found Niuwa mortally wounded beneath their collapsed home, and Niuwa died in Grandma's arms.
• Grandma charged the Yan Kingdom soldiers who had raided the village, but a soldier speared her as Chen Du fought to reach her.
• Chen Du killed the soldiers, then left the village and headed north as his Lie Dormant and Becoming an Immortal Through Anger talents reached Lv7 and their effects combined.
• Chen Du found a copy of the Soldier Body-Refining Art beside a burned supply wagon and, by daybreak, used his knowledge and enhanced comprehension to enter the Heaven-Human Realm.

Chen Du traveled north through the devastation of the Yan Kingdom’s invasion and learned that the Zhao capital was under siege, so he headed toward it. In the Yan command tent, S itu Zhen planned the capital’s assault and insisted his army could defeat even a Heaven-Human.

• Chen Du walked north past fleeing refugees and ruined cities while assessing his cultivation and carrying a child’s wooden sword.
• A deranged scholar told Chen Du that the Yan army had surrounded the Zhao capital, and Chen Du set off east toward the siege.
• A scout reported to S itu Zhen that the Zhao capital was sealed off and had provisions for only three more days.
• S itu Zhen ordered an assault on the east gate and explained to Han Rang how siege weapons and formations could counter martial arts experts.
• Han Rang raised the possibility of a Heaven-Human arriving, and S itu Zhen declared that the Yan army would still kill him.

Chen Du reached Zhao Capital and unleashed a Heaven-Human Realm sword strike that annihilated a hundred thousand Yan soldiers. S itu Zhen witnessed the destruction and recognized Chen Du as the Immortal of Wrath.

• Chen Du walked toward the Yan encampment carrying a wooden sword and deflected arrows without slowing.
• Chen Du killed the cavalrymen and elite troops sent to stop him, then advanced through Yan's formations.
• Remembering the people of Qinghe Village and the suffering along his way, Chen Du unleashed a sword strike that cut a miles-long fissure through the main camp and reduced a hundred thousand soldiers to ash.
• S itu Zhen came out of his command tent and saw the sword light destroy his army.
• S itu Zhen met Chen Du's gaze across the smoke and recognized the wrath burning within him.

Chen Du killed S itu Zhen after revealing that he had come from Qinghe Village to avenge the people slaughtered by Yan Kingdom's army, then continued walking toward the capital. Prince Yan learned that Chen Du had passed Lichuan and realized the massacred villagers were the reason he was coming.

• S itu Zhen stood his ground as Yan Kingdom's army fled and asked Chen Du who he was.
• Chen Du identified himself with Qinghe Village and vowed to destroy Yan Kingdom for the deaths of his family and fellow villagers.
• S itu Zhen attacked Chen Du in a final stand but was killed by a swift sword thrust.
• Chen Du walked north for several days through devastated villages, his fury still burning as he neared the capital.
• A scout reported to Prince Yan that Chen Du had passed Lichuan and that its garrison had surrendered without fighting.
• Prince Yan understood that the people his army had treated as worthless were behind Chen Du's advance toward the throne.

Chen Du walked toward the Yan Kingdom in mounting fury after his sword strike destroyed a hundred thousand soldiers, while martial powers across the Heavenly Human Realm learned of the feat and gathered to witness him. As the crowd watched him pass, a genuine Heaven-Human Realm aura arrived.

• Chen Du's fury grew with every step, and his Lie Low and Become an Immortal in Fury experience increased.
• News that Chen Du had killed a hundred thousand soldiers with one sword spread across the Heavenly Human Realm.
• The Profound Clarity Sect's head elder ordered the sect master to be informed, while the Northern Region Sword Hut's old man decided to see Chen Du himself.
• Righteous sects, demonic factions, and rogue cultivators set out to witness the sword strike's aftermath and meet the newly risen Heaven-Human.
• Chen Du continued barefoot toward the Yan Kingdom as hundreds of martial experts watched from the roadside.
• A powerful Heaven-Human Realm aura swept toward the gathered experts.

Chen Du confronted Xiang Anshi, the Great Yan Martial God, who tried to stop him from destroying the Yan Kingdom. After Chen Du effortlessly deflected Xiang Anshi’s saber and revealed overwhelming sword intent, Xiang Anshi knelt and cleared the road to the capital.

• Xiang Anshi arrived on the road and declared that Chen Du would have to defeat him before reaching the Yan Kingdom’s capital.
• Xiang Anshi struck Chen Du with his saber, but Chen Du caught the full-powered attack with his wooden sword without damaging it.
• Chen Du gently thrust his wooden sword, and Xiang Anshi perceived its sword intent as a boundless sea of fire that overwhelmed him.
• Xiang Anshi dropped his saber, knelt before Chen Du, admitted he could not withstand the strike, and let him pass.
• The watching experts were stunned by Xiang Anshi’s surrender and wondered whether Chen Du could truly destroy Great Yan.

Chen Du entered a valley where the Great Yan martial world had gathered its full strength to stop him. Xiao Wanjun ordered the formations and weapons unleashed, and the combined attack descended on Chen Du as the chapter ended.

• Chen Du reached the heavily fortified valley leading to the Yan Kingdom Royal City.
• Xiao Wanjun, Yin Bugu, Abbess Jingxuan, and more than a thousand Great Yan fighters prepared to face Chen Du.
• Xiao Wanjun challenged Chen Du and declared that Great Yan's centuries of accumulated strength would defeat him.
• Chen Du ignored Xiao Wanjun and continued walking into the valley without slowing.
• Xiao Wanjun ordered the formations activated, and all thirty-six formations, ballistae, archers, and catapults attacked Chen Du at once.

Chen Du overwhelmed the defenders of the valley with one wooden-sword slash and continued toward the Yan Kingdom's royal city. Xiao Wanjun, Yin Bugu, and Abbess Jingxuan recognized him as the Immortal of Wrath, whose sword would slay Great Yan's emperor and quell its ancient rebellions.

• Xiao Wanjun, Yin Bugu, and Abbess Jingxuan combined their power with the thirty-six-layered mountain-protecting formation for a final attack against Chen Du.
• Chen Du unleashed a dark golden sea of fire with his wooden sword, consuming their attacks and overwhelming the three Heaven-Human Realm experts, the Saint Tier masters, the disciples, and the formation operators.
• Chen Du left the scorched valley and continued toward the Yan Kingdom's royal city while the defeated defenders watched him go.
• Xiao Wanjun called Chen Du the Immortal of Wrath, and Abbess Jingxuan said his flames would burn away resentment and that his sword would slay Great Yan's emperor.

Chen Du pursued the Yan Emperor into the Dragon Tomb, where the emperor absorbed centuries of Great Yan’s accumulated fortune and transformed into a dragon. The dragon began draining power from the entire kingdom, leaving martial artists across the land helpless as its golden light spread.

• Chen Du split the Yan Kingdom’s royal capital with his sword and continued pursuing the fleeing Yan Emperor north.
• The Yan Emperor followed his ancestors’ instruction and fled into the Dragon Tomb, with Chen Du close behind.
• In the underground palace, the Yan Emperor found the founding emperor’s Dragon Bone and revealed that it held centuries of Great Yan’s accumulated fortune.
• The Yan Emperor drove the Dragon Bone into his chest, broke through the limits of the Heaven-Human Realm, and transformed into a golden-scaled dragon.
• The dragon revealed that Great Yan’s wars and conquests had fed a nationwide array, then began absorbing its fortune and draining power from people throughout the kingdom.

Chen Du’s fury erupted into a sword strike that destroyed the golden dragon and killed the Emperor of Yan. He then searched the Dragon Tomb’s historical archive and uncovered an ancient secret that horrified him.

• Chen Du’s anger pushed his talents into resonance, amplifying their effects and breaking through the limits of the Heaven-Human Realm.
• Chen Du slashed through the golden light, formation, and fortune barrier, destroying the golden dragon and leaving the Emperor of Yan mortally wounded.
• The Emperor of Yan warned Chen Du that the Dragon Tomb concealed a terrifying truth and that the world was trapped in a cycle of slavery before he died.
• Chen Du entered the deepest chamber of the Dragon Tomb and read the historical records of fallen dynasties stretching back thousands of years.
• Chen Du unrolled a damaged record from twelve thousand years earlier and realized the secret it contained.

After discovering that hidden forces had repeatedly prevented the Heavenly Human Realm from uniting and had kept it in constant war, Chen Du resolved to conceal himself until they revealed more. Twenty years after faking his death, he saved a wounded conscript and said peace would come when the person he was waiting for arrived.

• Chen Du uncovered a pattern of bizarre failures that had thwarted more than ten attempts to unite the Heavenly Human Realm and concluded that hidden masterminds were perpetuating its wars.
• Chen Du decided not to pursue the hidden forces without more clues and resolved to wait for them to reveal themselves.
• At the ruins of the Yan Kingdom's royal city, Chen Du vanished in a burst of dark golden flames, leaving only a broken wooden sword and worn cloth shoes; the world believed Gouwa had died.
• Twenty years later, Chen Du lived in disguise near the former site of Qinghe Village and found a wounded youth who had escaped conscription.
• Chen Du bandaged the youth, promised that peace would come in twenty or thirty years when someone arrived, and carried him toward a nearby village.

A Motian Sect disciple arrived in the Heavenly Human Realm and began harvesting its accumulated war, soul, and mortal-life energy to refine himself. As a barefoot swordsman approached the ruined Yan Kingdom royal city, the disciple searched mortals’ memories and concluded that the Immortal of Wrath was dead.

• A white-robed youth arrived in the ruins of the Yan Kingdom royal city and used the Heavenly Thief of Weapon Refining to absorb the Heavenly Human Realm’s accumulated energy.
• The youth recognized that the realm’s people were soul seeds, trapped in cycles of war and death to nourish Motian Sect disciples’ cultivation.
• A barefoot man carrying a wooden sword carved with the character “courage” appeared at the edge of the sky and walked toward the ruins.
• The youth enlarged his dark red vortex and refined the realm’s war, souls, mortal life, and fragments of national fortune into his body.
• Hidden above the clouds, Chen Du heard the youth search mortals’ memories and dismiss the Immortal of Wrath as no threat because he had died forty years earlier.

After discovering that the Heavenly Human Realm had been used to cultivate a divine ability, Chen Du ambushed and killed the Motian Sect disciple who had harvested its people. Higher-ranking figures appeared in the void, but Chen Du escaped through Myriad Worlds Traversal and returned to Blue Star.

• Chen Du learned that the Motian Sect had turned the Heavenly Human Realm’s people and wars into fuel for cultivating a divine ability, and his anger raised Becoming an Immortal Through Anger to Lv10.
• Chen Du struck the white-robed youth with his wooden sword, breaking his weapon body and forcing him to flee through a void rift.
• Chen Du pursued the youth through the rift and killed him with one strike, then caught his storage bag.
• Several far more powerful figures appeared in the void behind hundreds of passages to other worlds, and their pressure left Chen Du barely able to think.
• Chen Du activated Myriad Worlds Traversal to escape and returned to Blue Star in the mutated mountain forest.

Chen Du concealed his Star-Pressing Realm power after learning that Spiritual Qi Revival was protecting him, then cultivated in another forest to break through on the factor path. He reached the middle stage of the fifth-tier Restriction Realm, but still believed his strength was not enough.

• Chen Du read his status panel and learned that he had reached the sixth-tier Star-Pressing Realm and gained temporary protection from Spiritual Qi Revival.
• Chen Du suppressed his aura and fled through the woods, suspecting that Spiritual Qi Revival was choosing and protecting someone.
• A few days later, Chen Du absorbed Evolution Factors beneath a cliff and broke the first genetic restriction, entering the fourth tier on the factor path.
• The energy from his breakthrough shattered more restrictions in succession, greatly increasing his physical strength.
• Chen Du reached the middle stage of the fifth-tier Restriction Realm, with his panel showing a thirtyfold increase in physical strength over his third-tier level.
• Chen Du tested his power with a punch that left an imprint on the cliff and declared that it was still not enough.