Chapter Summaries

Chen Du entered the Azure High Martial World, a seventeenth-tier starfield civilization, and took over the body of Lin Du, a student preparing for the martial college entrance exam. He awakened three new talents and began assessing his situation in a world where powerful demons and alien races threatened humanity.

• Chen Du returned to Mount Tai, found a fissure in the abyss, and used Myriad Worlds Traversal to enter the Azure High Martial World.
• He awoke in the body of Lin Du, a seventeen-year-old martial exam candidate at Tianfeng Metropolitan Circle No. 3 High School on Weiran Star.
• Chen Du learned that Lin Du had died after pushing himself through relentless study and training ahead of the college entrance exam.
• He confirmed that his existing cultivation and treasures remained with him, then studied his classmates and teacher in the classroom.
• The world's spiritual endowment awakened Slay Demons to Become a God, The Great Dao Is Long, and The System Is King for Chen Du.

Chen Du received his first mission from the Destiny System: place first in his class on a mock martial examination in seven days to earn advanced energy liquid. As he planned to use his talents to rapidly improve, he reviewed the Azure High Martial World's cultivation system, which extended through nine realms.

• The Destiny System bound itself to Chen Du and assigned him a seven-day mission to place first in his class, offering three bottles of advanced energy liquid as the reward.
• Chen Du considered how the reward could heal his body's hidden injuries and decided the class ranking would be a useful challenge.
• Chen Du judged that his foundation and comprehension would let him raise his cultivation quickly before the mock examination.
• Chen Du reviewed the Azure High Martial World's genetic-tech-based Martial Dao system, from Genetic Martial Artist through Cosmic Realm.

Lin Du earned perfect scores in the school mock exam and the citywide joint martial exam, while Chen Du received system rewards and advanced to the Ninth Tier. His achievement made him famous across the city, and the system unlocked a preview of his next task.

• Lin Du scored five hundred points in the mock martial exam, defeating Zhao Ge in combat and stunning his classmates and Teacher Wang.
• Chen Du received three bottles of advanced energy liquid and one use of Precise Deduction, then got a task to place first in the citywide exam.
• Chen Du trained at night for twenty-one days and reached the Ninth Tier as a Genetic Martial Artist.
• Lin Du earned full marks in all five events at the citywide joint exam, taking first place among students from dozens of schools.
• Chen Du received a temporary twentyfold comprehension increase and unlocked the system's Task Preview function after earning full marks twice in a row.

Chen Du accepted the system’s mission to enter both divisions of the Universal Genius Battle and pursue a top-ten-thousand finish in the junior division. After learning the scale of the contest and its rewards, he registered his determination to compete and prepared to sign up from Lin Du’s Spirit Realm account.

• The system issued Chen Du a mission to enter the Universal Genius Battle and place among the junior division’s top ten thousand, rewarding him with seven days of hundredfold comprehension.
• Chen Du told Teacher Wang he wanted to enter both the junior and youth divisions, and Teacher Wang brought the news to Principal Zhou.
• Principal Zhou warned Chen Du about the enormous competition and entry fees, then called the city’s martial Dao association to report that Lin Du wanted to enter both divisions.
• News of Chen Du’s registration spread through Third Middle School, where students and teachers debated whether he was reckless or a genuine prodigy.
• Chen Du used a Spirit Realm access device to read the official announcement, learning the battle’s rules, rewards, and three-month registration period.
• Chen Du opened the registration page and resolved to compete in Lin Du’s name.

Chen Du entered the youth division’s first elimination round, where one hundred million contestants competed for one hundred Hearts of the Starry Sky. He chose to study a Law Stele first and discovered how the world’s laws related to powers he had already mastered, leaving him absorbed in comprehension while other competitors watched.

• Chen Du arrived in Arena 23, where contestants had to obtain one of one hundred Hearts of the Starry Sky to advance, and death meant elimination.
• Chen Du used his Spiritual Power to locate the Hearts and Law Steles, then headed for the nearest stele instead of claiming a Heart.
• Chen Du touched the stele and used Divine Revelation Reading and his comprehension to piece together its scattered law fragments.
• Chen Du realized that laws were fundamentally the same kind of power as the Divine Status he had encountered in other worlds.
• Chen Du reviewed his three existing laws and their grades, then continued studying the stele while nearby contestants watched and considered approaching.

Chen Du killed a rampaging Ninth Tier expert with one palm and returned to contemplating the stone stele. Observers from major factions noted his mastery of multiple laws but doubted he would advance far in the Genius Battle.

• A crimson-gold Ninth Tier expert swept through the arena, killing hundreds of thousands of contestants as they fled.
• The expert attacked Chen Du, who swallowed the strike with his [Cangming Abyss] Divine Foundation and crushed his opponent with the combined power of his [Celestial Master] Divine Status and abyss.
• Chen Du killed the Ninth Tier expert with a single palm, then returned to the stone stele while the remaining contestants fled from him.
• The scene spread through the Spirit Realm, where Heavenly Strategy Manor observers identified at least three laws in Chen Du’s attack but questioned whether he would advance.
• An elder of the Martial Ancestor Hall recognized Chen Du’s use of a Lower Second-Level Law and speculated that the stone stele might help him improve.

Chen Du spent three days comprehending a stone stele’s law of suppression while the arena’s contestants dwindled to three hundred. When Luo Chen challenged him, Chen Du effortlessly defeated him, and the spectators realized his comprehension and strength had grown dramatically during his meditation.

• The ninth-tier contestants swept through the arena, reducing the competitors from a hundred million to fewer than ten thousand as the survivors absorbed the energy left behind.
• Chen Du remained seated at the stone stele for three days and formed a complete outline of its suppression law in his sea of consciousness.
• With only three hundred contestants left, Luo Chen approached Chen Du and challenged him, drawing the attention of factions watching outside the spirit realm.
• Luo Chen attacked with his Mighty Force Space-Rending Law, but Chen Du swallowed the palm strike with Cangming Abyss and countered with the Celestial Master position and Cangming Abyss.
• Chen Du shattered Luo Chen’s law and knocked him down with a palm strike, then walked toward his next target.
• The watching factions realized Chen Du had become much stronger through his rapid improvement in law comprehension.

Chen Du pursued and defeated Chu Yunhe, taking the Heart of the Starry Sky and drawing attention from powerful factions in the Spirit Realm. With only a little over two hundred contestants remaining, the arena narrowed to a contest between those holding Hearts and those still seeking them.

• Chen Du sensed a nearby Ninth Tier aura and confronted Chu Yunhe, who challenged him to fight for his Heart of the Starry Sky.
• Chen Du combined Cangming Abyss and the Celestial Master Divine Status to break through Chu Yunhe's attacks, strike him down, and seize the Heart of the Starry Sky.
• The Spirit Realm erupted in discussion after observers saw Chen Du defeat Chu Yunhe in three moves and noted how quickly his mastery of Laws had improved.
• The Xuan Yao Pavilion and Martial Ancestor Hall studied Chen Du's performance, while the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion ordered its observers to keep watching him.
• The field dwindled to a little over two hundred contestants, about half of whom held Hearts of the Starry Sky.

Chen Du defeated attackers seeking his Heart of the Starry Sky and mastered the Nine Nether Mountain-Suppressing True Method, advancing from the first elimination round in 365th place across his Star Domain. Back in his personal space, he prepared to pursue a much higher ranking in the second round.

• A bald, burly contestant attacked Chen Du for his Heart of the Starry Sky, but Chen Du combined the [Celestial Master] Divine Status with Cangming Abyss and drove him away.
• The clash completed Chen Du’s understanding of the Nine Nether Mountain-Suppressing True Method, a law that suppressed his opponents’ power.
• As the first round grew more chaotic, Chen Du repelled several more contestants and deterred others from challenging him.
• The first elimination round ended, and Chen Du advanced among the one hundred contestants holding a Heart of the Starry Sky.
• Chen Du’s results placed him 19th in his arena and 365th among the advancing contestants in his Star Domain.
• In his personal space, Chen Du reviewed his laws and resolved to rank within the top three hundred in the second round.

After Lin Du’s first-round victory, the major factions investigated his age and speculated that he was a reincarnated expert, while Chen Du considered the attention and recruitment offers. The Spirit Realm announced that the youth division’s second elimination round would take place in seven days.

• The major factions reviewed Lin Du’s record and debated whether a seventeen-year-old Ninth Tier martial artist could be a reincarnator or an alien plant.
• Chen Du saw discussions about him and received recruitment messages from smaller factions, mercenary groups, brokers, and families, but ignored their offers.
• Chen Du read messages from Su Yao, Zhao Ge, and other classmates asking about his Ninth Tier breakthrough, then replied, “It clicked. Don’t ask.”
• The Spirit Realm announced that the second elimination round of the youth division would be held in seven days, and Chen Du checked the details.

After his first-round success in the Cosmic Genius Battle, Chen Du ignored recruitment offers and prepared to grow stronger for the second round. The Lord of the 0771 Star Domain warned him that the next round would be dangerous and hinted that advancing would bring benefits to the whole Star Domain, leaving Chen Du confident the Kema People were no longer a serious threat.

• News of Lin Du’s ranking and Ninth Tier strength spread through Third Middle School, astonishing his classmates and Principal Zhou.
• Chen Du ignored the major factions’ recruitment offers and focused on cultivating his laws for the second elimination round.
• The Lord of the 0771 Star Domain contacted Chen Du, warned that the second round’s 2,300 Ninth Tier contestants made it more dangerous, and urged him to advance.
• The Lord of the 0771 Star Domain hinted that advancing would bring unexpected benefits to Chen Du and the 0771 Star Domain, then ended the call.
• Chen Du concluded that the Kema People were insignificant compared with the Azure Human Alliance’s major factions and could be wiped out with their help.

After realizing that talent and powerful allies could help him protect Blue Star, Chen Du changed his competition goal to seek greater gains. At the second round, he learned it would test comprehension and was delighted, believing his exceptional comprehension would secure him a place among the top 230.

• Chen Du reconsidered the Star Domain Lord’s interest in him and recognized that joining a major power could give him resources and support against the Kema People.
• Chen Du changed his competition goal from “Do my best” to “Go further, gain more.”
• Chen Du entered the Spirit Realm’s competition hall with more than two thousand Ninth Tier contestants from across the 0771 Star Domain.
• The host announced that the comprehension round would eliminate all but the top 230 contestants and explained the immense difficulty of advancing beyond the Ninth Realm.
• Chen Du felt confident because his accumulated abilities and system rewards had made comprehension his greatest strength.

Chen Du began the second elimination round, in which contestants had one month to comprehend simulated law steles and the top 230 would advance. After carefully examining all ninety-nine steles, he found a plain-looking one that stirred memories and emotions from his past lives, then sat down to comprehend it.

• The host explained that the ninety-nine steles simulated the law insights of experts from the fourteenth and fifteenth realms, and announced the one-month contest to advance the top 230 contestants.
• Chen Du surveyed the steles and considered his accumulated comprehension before choosing where to begin.
• Contestants across the star domain watched the round, and betting pools debated whether the seventeen-year-old Lin Du would advance.
• Chen Du passed dozens of steles while sensing their laws, drawing attention for taking his time instead of immediately settling down to comprehend one.
• At the ninety-ninth stele, Chen Du released seven-colored light by sending in his Spiritual Power, and the sight stirred memories and buried emotions from his past lives.
• Chen Du sat before the stele and began comprehending it, ready to use the foundation he had accumulated.

The contestants struggled to comprehend patterns in the Spirit Realm, each carrying the hopes of family or mentors as the Cosmic Genius Battle’s rankings shifted. After a month of relentless mental strain, most of the 2,300 competitors had lost their initial drive, while Chen Du remained immersed before the Seven-Colored Stele.

• Lu Qingxuan struggled with a purple stele while his family watched, and a younger contestant’s progress made his fingers tremble.
• Shen Yan fought to untangle the fire-law fragments at a crimson stele but fell behind as another contestant advanced.
• Zhou Tieshan persisted before an earthy-yellow stele, relying on the determination he had carried from his mining-planet family.
• Ji Yuan failed to complete his ninth pattern, accepted that he had done his best, and his father watched him on the livestream before turning it off and back on.
• A month passed, and the contestants’ repeated failures and mental strain wore down most of their initial drive.

The 2,300 Ninth Tier geniuses struggled through the final days of the Cosmic Genius Battle’s comprehension trial, while Chen Du remained motionless before the Seven-Colored Stele. Bai Wuchen then emerged with 198 figures and rose to fifth place, as Chen Du’s result remained unknown.

• Contestants who could not reach the top 230 gave up and gathered at the edge of the world as the trial neared its end.
• Chen Du continued sitting motionless before the Seven-Colored Stele after a month of comprehension.
• The chapter described how Chen Du compared Blue Star’s short history with the ancient civilizations represented among the contestants.
• Bai Wuchen withdrew his hands from the Formless Heavenly Wind Stele after comprehending 198 figures and rose to fifth place on the leaderboard.
• Contestants at the edge recognized Bai Wuchen and discussed his background and mastery of the Bai family’s ancestral law path.

Chen Du remained far behind in the second round while he studied the Seven-Colored Stele and realized his abilities had long been connected to the Emotional Dao. As his existing diagrams lit up, he finally grasped some of the Dao’s fundamentals.

• Bai Wuchen calmly accepted fifth place after comprehending 198 diagrams and went to the edge of the world.
• An unidentified young man comprehended 189 diagrams, reached seventh place, and left the crowd baffled about his origins.
• Other geniuses from powerful forces revealed their rankings, while Chen Du remained around the thirteen hundreds with only a little over forty diagrams.
• Chen Du connected the Emotional Dao’s seven emotions to his past talents and breakthroughs as he continued studying the stele.
• Chen Du’s diagrams lit up in a surge of seven-colored light, and he realized he had finally grasped some fundamentals of the Emotional Dao.

Chen Du fused seven emotion laws into a complete flower by rebuilding their underlying patterns, and his diagrams and ranking began to rise rapidly. As new diagrams continued to emerge, his name climbed past 200th place and kept rising.

• Chen Du recognized that his forty-odd diagrams formed a seven-colored flower, with each petal representing one of seven emotion laws he had comprehended.
• Chen Du focused on the crimson anger petal and found a broken pattern that could connect the seven laws.
• Chen Du dismantled the petals into primordial law fragments and rebuilt them around the pattern, forming one complete flower.
• The stele lit up as the flower’s power produced new diagrams, and Chen Du’s total began climbing beyond forty.
• Chen Du’s ranking rose from 1,300th to 200th place and continued to rise.

Chen Du unleashed the system’s twentyfold comprehension boost and rapidly deciphered the Seven-Colored Stele, surging past Bai Wuchen to third place. The star domain lord realized Chen Du had spent the month uncovering the inscription’s foundations rather than chasing rank and praised the 0771 Star Domain’s new genius.

• Chen Du combined his comprehension talents with the stored twentyfold boost and began producing diagrams from the Seven-Colored Stele at explosive speed.
• The star domain contestants and major powers watched Chen Du climb the leaderboard, while Bai Wuchen doubted he could overcome the inscription’s difficulty in the remaining time.
• Chen Du passed 150 diagrams without slowing, then exceeded 200 and rose to third place, surpassing Bai Wuchen’s 198.
• Bai Wuchen was stunned and wondered whether the inscription he had comprehended had been fake, then recognized Chen Du could not be judged by ordinary reasoning.
• The star domain lord laughed at Chen Du’s rise and concluded that he had focused on uncovering the inscription’s roots rather than pursuing rankings.

Chen Du surged to first place in the comprehension competition, leaving every other contestant far behind. He stopped at 340 diagrams after hitting a barrier beyond his current ability, then left the competition ground with his lead secure.

• Chen Du continued comprehending diagrams as the difficulty sharply increased after the 150th, while his combined talents and system amplification kept his progress fast.
• Chen Du passed 250 diagrams and took first place, stunning observers across the Star Domain as Bai Wuchen and the other contestants reacted to his result.
• Chen Du continued to 340 diagrams, finishing more than a hundred ahead of the second-place contestant.
• Chen Du’s five flowers struck an immense barrier beyond the 340th diagram, and he judged that further progress was beyond his current comprehension.
• Chen Du accepted 340 diagrams as his limit, stood up, and walked toward the edge of the world with his name still atop the leaderboard.

Chen Du took first place in the second elimination round and learned that the main competition would pit him against the strongest young geniuses across the Azure Human Alliance. The Star Domain Lord explained the advantages enjoyed by leading Star Domains, urged Chen Du to aim for a high ranking, and offered him a reward.

• The host announced that Chen Du had placed first with 340 diagrams and named the 230 qualifiers who would advance to the main competition.
• The host said the main competition would begin in three months, bring together about two million contestants, and award qualifying places to the top ten thousand.
• Chen Du received invitations from factions seeking to recruit him, then accepted a high-priority call from the Star Domain Lord.
• The Star Domain Lord described 0771 as a remote, below-average Star Domain and urged Chen Du to aim for the top one thousand, explaining the better faction status and benefits available at higher ranks.
• The Star Domain Lord sent Chen Du information about the three major factions' resources and cultivation methods, then offered him a reward and asked what he wanted.