Chapter Summaries

Chen Du shattered his deepest genetic restrictions, reaching the peak of the sixth order in both martial and factor paths. He learned that Blue Star’s surface area had expanded a hundredfold and suspected it might be a rare Myriad Worlds Sphere.

• Chen Du used his star-pressing realm cultivation and Evolution Factors to break his genetic restrictions and unleash his suppressed power.
• Chen Du’s status panel showed him as a sixth-order evolver in both paths, and he realized his strength and physique had increased dramatically.
• Chen Du received emergency news reports that Blue Star’s surface area had expanded approximately 103 times in twenty-four hours.
• Reports described vastly increased travel distances, transformed mountains, and a towering Kunlun peak hidden by impenetrable fog.
• Chen Du considered whether Blue Star was a Myriad Worlds Sphere, a primordial world with boundless potential and opportunities.

Chen Du returned to Magic City and faced a flock of powerful Black-Feathered Birds that was devastating the financial district. He slaughtered the birds with his wooden sword, leaving the military and Spiritual Qi Revival Administration stunned by his strength.

• Black-Feathered Birds attacked Magic City's financial district, destroying buildings and killing civilians while resisting the military's weapons.
• Chen Du watched the attack, drew his wooden sword, and leaped from a rooftop to confront the flock.
• The command center detected a fast-moving figure whose sword strikes killed Black-Feathered Birds, and officials watched in alarm.
• Chen Du cut through the flock as it tried to surround him, then unleashed sword qi that sliced seven birds in half.
• The branch director stared at the footage and wondered how powerful Chen Du was.

After Chen Du wiped out the Black-Feathered Birds attacking Magic City, the authorities failed to track his disappearance. He returned home and anonymously scheduled the four chapters of the Martial Canon for release, hoping to strengthen humanity while concealing his identity.

• Meng Mingyuan recognized the figure in the footage as the man he had encountered in the mountains, and the branch director ordered him to provide a detailed report.
• The final Black-Feathered Bird fell by the Huangpu River, and Chen Du vanished from the cameras and monitoring systems.
• Chen Du concealed himself in a ruined office building and headed through the shadows toward the subway station.
• Chen Du decided to make the Martial Canon public so people could cultivate martial arts alongside the factor path.
• Chen Du anonymously scheduled the four chapters for publication across forums and public platforms, destroyed the phone, and prepared to go deeper into hiding and travel to another world.

The Spiritual Qi Revival Administration confirmed that the anonymously uploaded “Martial Canon” increased ordinary people’s evolution rate fivefold and ordered its wider promotion and further testing. In the Magic City branch, Qin Wanghai summoned exhausted Meng Mingyuan after reading headquarters’ bulletin.

• The Research Department reported that practicing the “Martial Canon” raised ordinary subjects’ evolution rate from five in ten thousand to twenty-five in ten thousand and produced stronger first-tier awakened people.
• Zhou Weiyong ordered the first two chapters added to the Spark Plan’s highest-priority promotion list and called for a discreet investigation into the technique’s creator.
• Zhou Weiyong warned that the improved rate still left humanity vastly outnumbered by evolved beasts and directed researchers to test further chapters and refine the technique using high-tier evolvers’ combat data.
• After the briefing, Zhou Weiyong called old friends to urge them to keep fighting for humanity.
• At the Magic City branch, Qin Wanghai read headquarters’ bulletin and summoned Meng Mingyuan, who arrived exhausted from spending his spare time cultivating.

Qin Wanghai and Meng Mingyuan investigated the anonymous Martial Canon creator after confirming the technique greatly increased ordinary people's odds of evolving. As the Martial Canon spread, Evolvers and veteran experts found that it accelerated cultivation and helped break through bottlenecks.

• Qin Wanghai told Meng Mingyuan that headquarters had verified the Martial Canon's first two chapters raised ordinary people's chance of evolving fivefold.
• Qin Wanghai and Meng Mingyuan concluded that the anonymous creator might be the mysterious fighter who killed Black-Feathered Birds, and Qin ordered Meng to compile secret records about the person.
• Evolvers across the country practiced the Martial Canon and found that its methods worked in harmony with Evolution Factors, improving their cultivation and strengthening their Spiritual Power and Martial Intent.
• A Second Tier Evolver in River City demonstrated faster progress, while a Second Tier Peak Stage Evolver broke through to Third Tier during practice.
• Veteran experts studied the Martial Canon, and one reclusive elder praised its creator for building a bridge that could help everyone advance.

Chen Du found a rift to the seventh-tier Spirit Martial Realm and entered it, where he awoke in the body of Ning Chuan, a neglected son of Duke Tianyuan who had starved to death. After drinking the sour porridge left in the room, Chen Du discovered two new talents that let him begin another life after death and inherit half his previous cultivation.

• Chen Du detected spatial fluctuations beneath an abandoned mine and entered the silver-white rift to the Spirit Martial Realm.
• Chen Du awoke in the Great Sheng Dynasty as Ning Chuan, a seventeen-year-old concubine-born son of Duke Tianyuan who had starved to death.
• Chen Du received Ning Chuan’s memories of his mother Liu Shi’s mistreatment and his own neglect in Duke Tianyuan’s Estate.
• Chen Du drank the sour porridge in the room and resolved to survive.
• Chen Du awakened Hundred-Lifetime Reincarnation, which granted him ten additional lives, and Reincarnation Inheritance, which let him retain half his cultivation in a new life.

Chen Du assessed Ning Chuan’s ruined martial meridians and planned to use the Reverse Meridians technique to restore them, while resolving to survive and eventually take revenge on the duchess. After enduring another humiliating meal, he resumed his efforts to recover his strength.

• Chen Du reviewed his talents and considered traversing other worlds to improve them.
• Chen Du learned that Ning Chuan’s meridians had been ruined by the duchess’s abuse and poison, and that Duke Tianyuan had ignored his son’s suffering.
• Chen Du recalled that his Reverse Meridians technique could rebuild a cultivation path, though attempting it was dangerous.
• Chen Du vowed to heal himself, kill the duchess, and plan carefully before confronting Duke Tianyuan.
• A maid brought Chen Du a meager meal and mocked him, but he ate every bite before returning to meditate and pursue his former strength.

Chen Du used Divine Revelation Reading to deduce the Tianyuan Suppressing Martial Art through the Second-Rank Martial God Chapter, then attended Ning Shanyue’s birthday banquet and secured permission to leave the estate to visit his mother’s grave. He left the banquet planning to use the trip outside the estate to pursue his own path and confront Ning Shanyue later.

• Chen Du deduced a new cultivation method suited to his damaged martial meridians and reconstructed the Tianyuan Suppressing Martial Art from the Seventh-Rank Martial Warrior Chapter through the Second-Rank Martial God Chapter.
• After more than ten days, Chen Du attended Ning Shanyue’s birthday banquet in worn clothes and sat unnoticed at the end of the table.
• Chen Du knelt before Ning Shanyue and asked permission to leave the city to sweep his mother Liu Shi’s grave.
• Ning Shanyue granted Chen Du permission to go, and Chen Du returned to his seat while quietly studying his father.
• Chen Du resolved to take advantage of leaving the estate and left Ning Shanyue alive for the time being.

Chen Du left the duke’s residence to visit his mother’s grave, revealed his hidden power, and killed the guard commander who had been ordered to bring him back. He escaped north, while Ning Shanyue discovered the killing and ordered the grave destroyed as he resolved to have Chen Du hunted down.

• Chen Du left the residence through the side gate, and Ning Shanyue ordered Wu Zhan to follow him and bring him back alive.
• Chen Du tended Liu Shi’s grave and confronted Wu Zhan, who demanded that he return after finishing.
• Chen Du’s broken martial meridians healed as he rose to the second-rank Martial God realm, then killed Wu Zhan with a casual finger flick.
• Chen Du bid farewell to his mother, concealed his aura, and fled north through remote mountains.
• Ning Shanyue found Wu Zhan’s body, realized Chen Du had reached at least the Martial God realm, and ordered Liu Shi’s grave leveled.

After escaping the capital, Chen Du joined the Spirit Flourishing Sect to hide from his pursuers and cultivate his spiritual root. By adapting the sect’s basic Qi-Guiding Art, he reached Void Refinement in six nights while concealing his extraordinary progress.

• Chen Du traveled north with refugees and entered the Spirit Flourishing Sect as an ordinary outer sect disciple, hiding his Martial Dao cultivation.
• After reading the Qi-Guiding Art, Chen Du used Divine Revelation Reading to derive cultivation chapters through Void Refinement.
• Chen Du worked and studied with Zhao Qing and Li Huan by day while secretly advancing in the back mountain at night.
• Chen Du carefully concealed each breakthrough, reaching Void Refinement on the sixth night without alerting the sect elders.
• Chen Du suppressed his aura again and returned to the appearance of an ordinary outer sect disciple.

Chen Du spent a hundred years studying the Spirit Flourishing Sect’s cultivation texts and seeking a way to overcome Duke Tianyuan Ning Shanyue’s overwhelming luck. He completed his Martial Canon deductions and reached the threshold of the seventh tier, but had not yet chosen whether to break through.

• A senior brother told Chen Du how Ning Shanyue’s extraordinary luck had carried him from woodcutter to Martial Immortal Peak Stage.
• Chen Du decided to enter the inner sect’s scripture repository and investigate how luck could be countered, while concealing his identity and ability.
• Over a hundred years, Chen Du studied the sect’s texts, entered the inner sect, and searched for a way to unite Martial Dao and immortal cultivation.
• Chen Du found a damaged travelogue passage suggesting that seventh-tier cultivators pursued oneness, giving his deductions a direction.
• Chen Du completed the Martial Immortal and Body Integration chapters of his Martial Canon and gained the ability to break through to the seventh tier.
• Chen Du suppressed the signs of his breakthrough and was left facing the choice to advance.

After spending a hundred years reaching the Martial Immortal Realm and Body Integration Stage, Chen Du returned to find Duke Zhenguo attacking the Spirit Flourishing Sect. Chen Du killed him with ease, but Ning Shanyue arrived and attacked, leaving Chen Du struggling against his vastly superior strength and uncanny fortune.

• Chen Du broke through to the seventh tier, becoming a First-Rank Martial Immortal and reaching the Body Integration Stage.
• Duke Zhenguo stormed the Spirit Flourishing Sect, defeated its two Body Integration Stage grand elders, and demanded that Ning Chuan come out.
• Chen Du confronted Duke Zhenguo, shattered his attack with a finger, and killed him with a single palm strike.
• Ning Shanyue arrived after Duke Zhenguo's death, identified Chen Du as his son, and declared that he would kill him.
• Chen Du abruptly advanced to the Martial Immortal Middle Stage after absorbing Duke Zhenguo's Martial Dao energy, then fought Ning Shanyue as their clash shook the sect's seventy-two peaks.

After Ning Shanyue killed Chen Du in his first life, Chen Du reincarnated and spent a hundred years preparing to surpass him. He killed Ning Shanyue at Duke Tianyuan's Estate, broke through beyond the Martial Immortal Peak Stage, and heard a mysterious voice declare that it was finally done.

• Ning Shanyue struck Chen Du down, and Chen Du died after vowing that Ning Shanyue would die next time.
• Chen Du reincarnated with half his former cultivation and joined the Spirit Flourishing Sect again, where he secretly pursued the Martial Immortal Peak Stage and a higher Immortal Dao realm.
• Over a hundred years, Chen Du studied the sect's texts and deduced the Martial Immortal Peak and Body Integration Peak stages while concealing his progress.
• Chen Du reached Duke Tianyuan's Estate and simultaneously broke through to Martial Immortal Peak Stage and Body Integration Peak Stage, then killed Zheng-shi.
• Ning Shanyue confronted Chen Du, but Chen Du's attacks overcame his fortune and defenses, killing him and destroying much of the estate.
• Chen Du broke through beyond Martial Immortal Peak Stage, and a distant voice said, “Finally... it's done!”

The Black-Robed Man drained Chen Du’s cultivation and fortune, revealing that he had engineered the Martial Dao seeds to produce a perfect fruit and seize the Lingwu Secret Realm’s Divine Status. He destroyed the Spirit Flourishing Sect, claimed the Divine Status, and killed Chen Du, whose reincarnation ability then triggered.

• The Black-Robed Man appeared before Chen Du and drained his Martial Dao aura and fortune.
• The Black-Robed Man explained that his Martial Dao technique made its practitioners his seeds, and that he had arranged for them to fight and gather fortune until one perfect survivor could be harvested.
• The Black-Robed Man revealed that Chen Du’s mother, not Ning Shanyue, had originally possessed the immense fortune Ning Shanyue later plundered.
• The Black-Robed Man gathered the Spirit Martial Realm’s Martial Dao fortune and used it to destroy the Spirit Flourishing Sect.
• The Black-Robed Man recovered the Lingwu Secret Realm’s Divine Status from the ruins and celebrated breaking through its defense mechanism.
• Chen Du disintegrated and died, triggering Hundred-Lifetime Reincarnation and Reincarnation Inheritance with seven rebirth opportunities remaining.

After reincarnating, Chen Du realized that the Spirit Martial Realm’s Martial Dao system was a gu-refinement scheme controlled by the black-robed man, and resolved to forge a path outside it. He completed a new Pseudo-Eighth-Rank cultivation method but had yet to break through, determined to turn against the one who raised the gu.

• Chen Du awakened in Ning Chuan’s body and found that Hundred-Lifetime Reincarnation and Reincarnation Inheritance had both advanced, giving him twelve lives and allowing him to inherit sixty percent of his cultivation and carry one item.
• Chen Du concluded that the black-robed man had arranged the conflicts and harvested the Spirit Martial Realm’s cultivators, including the Spirit Flourishing Sect, as part of a gu-refinement scheme.
• At the Spirit Flourishing Sect, Chen Du vowed to avoid the realm’s Martial Dao methods and rely on his own Martial Canon and knowledge from three realms.
• Chen Du spent eighty years deducing and cultivating the Realm-Severing Foundation, removing the Spirit Martial Realm’s Martial Dao imprints from himself.
• Chen Du completed the Martial Canon: Pseudo-Eighth-Rank Realm-Severing Chapter but did not break through, resolving to make the gu raiser suffer in turn.

Chen Du broke through to the Pseudo-Eighth Tier, seized the Spirit Martial Realm’s Divine Status, and escaped the black-robed man by killing himself and returning to Blue Star. He learned the Divine Status could grant him power over the secret realm and began investigating Blue Star’s changing situation.

• Chen Du broke through to the Pseudo-Eighth Tier and used the black-robed man’s distraction to reach the Spirit Martial Realm’s Divine Status beneath the Cangwu Mountain Range.
• Chen Du seized the Divine Status, triggered Hundred-Lifetime Reincarnation, and chose to carry it into his next life.
• Chen Du returned to the mine pit on Blue Star with the Divine Status and learned that less than a minute had passed.
• Chen Du studied the Divine Status and realized it could give him command over the Spirit Martial Realm and power to contend with the black-robed man.
• Chen Du went online and learned that the Ancient Saint Group had become a powerful organization recruiting evolvers and mass-producing concentrated Evolution Factor solution.

Chen Du read about Blue Star’s powerful third-tier peak evolvers, then secluded himself in a cavern and broke through to the Pseudo-Eighth Tier in Martial Dao. He concealed the breakthrough and turned his attention to finding the spiritual object needed to advance his factor cultivation beyond the sixth-tier peak stage.

• Chen Du read about the Ancient God, Zero, Wuqu, and Sea Lord, the prominent trump cards of several major forces.
• Chen Du left the city and found a secluded cavern in the mountains, where he placed aura-concealing restrictions.
• Chen Du suppressed the signs of his breakthrough and became the first human on present-day Blue Star to reach the Pseudo-Eighth Tier.
• Chen Du decided to seek a spiritual object that could catalyze the next stage of his factor cultivation.

Chen Du went to a forest to claim the spiritual tree’s fruits and instantly defeated the Ancient God, the strongest known evolver. The Spiritual Qi Revival Administration detected Chen Du’s energy exceeding its Sixth Tier warning and approaching or surpassing the Seventh Tier.

• Chen Du learned that a spiritual tree bearing golden fruit had appeared in a forest, surrounded by the corpses of more than a hundred evolvers, and went there to seek its fruit.
• Chen Du watched the Ancient God overpower Zero and Wuqu while the Sea Lord waited outside the fight for a chance to seize the spoils.
• The Ancient God took the golden fruits and declared himself invincible, but Chen Du appeared in his path and brushed aside his attack.
• Chen Du struck the Ancient God once, sending him crashing through trees and leaving his life or death unknown.
• The other peak Third Tier evolvers froze as livestream viewers reacted to Chen Du’s overwhelming power.
• The Spiritual Qi Revival Administration’s monitoring team registered Chen Du’s energy rising beyond the Sixth Tier warning line and approaching or surpassing the Seventh Tier.

A suspected above-Seventh-Tier energy reading at the God Tree contest shocked headquarters and the major factions after Chen Du defeated the Ancient God with one move. As Chen Du faced the towering Tree Demon, it revealed that the Extraterrestrial Race considered Blue Star a breeding ground and planned to rule it.

• A monitoring team reported Chen Du's suspected above-Seventh-Tier energy reading and the Ancient God's defeat to headquarters, which classified the data as top secret.
• The Ancient Saint Group ordered an investigation into Chen Du, Heavenly Palace ordered Zero to retreat, and Wuqu's master reflected on his disciple's defeat.
• The ground collapsed, and the Tree Demon's roots drained hundreds of evolvers of their life force while Chen Du escaped the attack.
• The Tree Demon emerged and offered to spare Chen Du if he became its servant, claiming the Extraterrestrial Race raised humans on Blue Star.
• The Tree Demon revealed that entrances were opening and worlds were overlapping with Blue Star, then demanded Chen Du submit or die; Chen Du called it arrogant.

Chen Du absorbed the Spirit Martial Realm's status and killed the Tree Demon with a single punch, leaving witnesses and powerful factions stunned by his godlike strength. Meng Mingyuan recognized him from earlier encounters, and Chief Qin ordered his records classified top secret while warning against alerting him.

• The Tree Demon unleashed its full power and sent countless roots toward Chen Du.
• Chen Du absorbed the Spirit Martial Realm's status and destroyed the Tree Demon with one punch.
• The livestream viewers and the Ancient Saint Group executives watched in shock as Chen Du walked away.
• Meng Mingyuan recognized Chen Du from his earlier reports and told Chief Qin how dramatically his strength had grown.
• Chief Qin ordered Chen Du's observation records classified top secret and told Meng Mingyuan not to alert him if they met again.