Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xuan slaughtered zombies to collect crystals and dramatically increased his strength, then entered a shopping mall to gather supplies. The chapter ended when a wealthy woman fled toward him, chased by two zombie security guards, and begged for help.

• Zhang Xuan killed the Buzzcut Boss and his armed men after their attack on him and the two women failed.
• Zhang Xuan lured a huge swarm of zombies into the park, killed them, and consumed their crystals, raising his Strength above a thousand.
• Zhu Xiaoxiao kissed Zhang Xuan, and the group went to a shopping mall, where she and Fu Jingjing browsed luxury goods.
• Zhang Xuan broke into the mall's basement warehouse, killed two zombies, and collected all its goods.
• A wealthy woman ran toward Zhang Xuan, pleading for help as two zombie security guards chased her.

Zhang Xuan used a truck horn to draw in a massive zombie horde, slaughtered it, and gained a huge increase in his attributes. The next morning, he rejected a Long-Robed Old Daoist’s plea to establish a shelter and save people.

• Zhang Xuan ignored a wealthy woman being attacked by zombies, then killed the four zombies and swallowed the crystals they dropped.
• Zhu Xiaoxiao suggested using a truck horn to attract zombies, and Zhang Xuan rigged the truck to blare its horn.
• Zhang Xuan fought the massive horde until nightfall, collected its crystals, and gained thousands of attribute points.
• Zhang Xuan returned home with Zhu Xiaoxiao and Fu Jingjing, then killed several punks on the way upstairs.
• The Long-Robed Old Daoist asked Zhang Xuan to establish a shelter and help save the world, but Zhang Xuan shut the door on him.

Zhang Xuan used a generator and speakers to draw zombies to the park, then slaughtered them and absorbed their crystals, reaching a new level of power. The Long-Robed Old Daoist took him to a barrier believed to hide the source and cure of the zombie outbreak, but Zhang Xuan refused to enter and flew home.

• Zhang Xuan found a diesel generator, rigged it to speakers, and played disco music to attract zombies and survivors to the park.
• Zhang Xuan danced as survivors arrived, then slaughtered the zombie horde while the Long-Robed Old Daoist watched.
• Zhang Xuan absorbed the amassed crystals, raised all his attributes above ten thousand, and gained command over the elements and other forces.
• The Long-Robed Old Daoist led Zhang Xuan to a forest boulder concealing a formation barrier he believed hid the source of the zombies and their cure.
• Zhang Xuan refused the Old Daoist's request to enter the barrier and flew back to his residence.

Zhang Xuan entered the Phantom Barrier and found himself in the HTNT Space Laboratory, where a monster escaped from a steel vat and chased him and a lab-coated woman through the corridors. As the woman kept fleeing, Zhang Xuan told her to stop and said he would handle the monster.

• The Long-Robed Old Daoist was repelled by the Phantom Barrier and became surrounded by zombies and infected beasts until Zhang Xuan returned and rescued him.
• Zhang Xuan entered the Phantom Barrier, leaving the Long-Robed Old Daoist outside celebrating what he believed was the awakening of the Mandate of Heaven.
• Zhang Xuan explored the HTNT Space Laboratory, where a woman in a lab coat confronted him with a Laser Gun.
• A huge monster emerged from a steel vat, and the woman dragged Zhang Xuan out and sealed the laboratory door.
• The monster broke through the laboratory wall and pursued Zhang Xuan and the woman down a corridor; Zhang Xuan told her to stop running and leave the monster to him.

Zhang Xuan killed the monster in the laboratory and gained a powerful boost from its Nine-Colored Crystal before escaping with the Long-Robed Old Daoist and Ling Jiayi. They returned to the city, where Fu Jingjing and Zhu Xiaoxiao welcomed Zhang Xuan home and met Ling Jiayi.

• Zhang Xuan fought the monster while Ling Jiayi fired the Laser Gun, and the damaged laboratory lost its defenses as she fainted.
• The Long-Robed Old Daoist tried unsuccessfully to open a black door with numbered buttons while Zhang Xuan battled the monster inside.
• Zhang Xuan killed the monster, swallowed its Nine-Colored Crystal, and gained immense power that let him pierce the laboratory and destroy a planet in the darkness.
• Zhang Xuan carried the unconscious Ling Jiayi through the black doorway with the Long-Robed Old Daoist, and the laboratory and nearby stone wall exploded after they escaped.
• Zhang Xuan flew back to the city with Ling Jiayi and the Long-Robed Old Daoist, where Fu Jingjing and Zhu Xiaoxiao welcomed him and Ling Jiayi introduced herself.

Ling Jiayi told Zhang Xuan about the HTNT Laboratory and its missing research team, while Zhang Xuan finished wiping out the zombies on their world. He took Ling Jiayi, Zhu Xiaoxiao, and Fu Jingjing into space, found the laboratory gone, and followed a roar to another zombie-ridden planet, where he began hunting giant zombies for Nine-Colored Crystals.

• Ling Jiayi explained that she had arrived at the HTNT Laboratory three years earlier and that its director and nine researchers had disappeared after investigating strange sounds outside.
• Zhang Xuan revealed that he had killed the giant zombie in the laboratory, while the Long-Robed Old Daoist wondered whether it caused the apocalypse.
• Zhang Xuan avoided the Long-Robed Old Daoist’s pleas to save the world, but eventually all the zombies were wiped out and survivors began rebuilding.
• Zhang Xuan invited Ling Jiayi to the laboratory, and Zhu Xiaoxiao and Fu Jingjing joined them on a spacecraft bound for its location in space.
• Zhang Xuan found the laboratory reduced to debris, sensed a roar, and flew to a Black Qi-covered planet; Ling Jiayi followed in the spacecraft while Zhu Xiaoxiao and Fu Jingjing waited.
• Zhang Xuan entered the planet, killed more than a dozen giant zombies, gained All Attributes from their Nine-Colored Crystals, and struck a crowd of approaching zombies with a glowing palm.

Zhang Xuan slaughtered the giant zombies to absorb their crystals, gaining Conceptual Law and power over the interstellar expanse. After his companions eventually died and he was left alone, he wondered whether the trial had been testing his ability to endure loneliness.

• Zhang Xuan met the stranded HTNT Laboratory researchers, including Zhang Caishan, and promised to take them back to Earth Star later.
• Zhang Xuan killed the giant zombies attacking the researchers’ hideout and absorbed their Nine-Colored Crystals, discovering that he gained Conceptual Law.
• Zhang Xuan wiped out every giant zombie in the world in less than a month and gained the ability to perceive and travel anywhere in the interstellar expanse with a thought.
• Zhang Xuan brought Zhang Caishan back to Ling Jiayi and the others, then spent his time with the three women as his power continued to grow.
• After the three women died, Zhang Xuan floated alone in space a hundred years later and wondered whether the trial tested his ability to endure loneliness.

After enduring immeasurable loneliness as an invincible being, Zhang Xuan chose reincarnation and was reborn as Zhu Sheng, the Spirit King's son, while another newborn was taken from a chained woman in the residence. The chapter left Zhu Sheng's birth and the stolen infant's fate unresolved.

• Zhang Xuan went mad from loneliness, wreaked havoc across the starry sky, and eventually welcomed destruction as a chance to die.
• After a mothership obliterated him, Zhang Xuan encountered a mysterious voice and agreed to give up his former life and reincarnate.
• Golden Light sent Zhang Xuan's Spirit Soul into the Nine Vermillion God Kingdom, where the Spirit King and Spirit King Consort welcomed a son named Zhu Sheng.
• The Spirit King Consort told Zhu Dan that their bond was broken, and he left with the newborn.
• A chained woman gave birth in a woodshed, but a middle-aged woman seized her infant and carried him away at a middle-aged man's direction.

Zhang Xuan survived being abandoned in a forest and grew rapidly by absorbing sunlight, using the time to cultivate powerful techniques. After returning to the Spirit King Residence, he found his mother being taken away for execution and killed the man who had condemned her.

• An old woman threw the newborn Zhang Xuan into a pool, where he survived and was carried to a cave by a tiger.
• Golden Light killed the tiger and its cubs, and Zhang Xuan grew rapidly by absorbing sunlight.
• Zhang Xuan trained in the forest, mastering the Sun Reflection Staff, Sun Following Step, and Mystic Yang Gang Body.
• After more than half a year, Zhang Xuan flew to the Spirit King Residence and found servants dragging his mother away for burial punishment.
• Zhang Xuan knocked out the servants, snapped the middle-aged man's neck, and carried his mother away.

Zhang Xuan reunited with his mother and learned how the Spirit King Residence had abused her and stolen him as a newborn. He brought her back to the Imperial City and set out for the Spirit King Residence to seek justice.

• Zhang Xuan proved his identity to his mother by showing her the red flame birthmark on his chest, and she accepted that he was her lost son.
• Zhang Xuan's mother recounted how the Spirit King had forced himself on her, how the residence had imprisoned and tortured her, and how its steward had taken her newborn child.
• Zhang Xuan promised his mother he would seek justice, then spent the night with her in a ruined temple.
• The Spirit King ordered his men to seize Zhang Xuan's mother, but Zhang Xuan defeated the soldiers who surrounded them in the Imperial City.
• Zhang Xuan borrowed money from a handsome young man in white, arranged an inn room for his mother, and then headed toward the Spirit King Residence.

Zhang Xuan entered the Spirit King Residence to avenge his mother and met the Spirit King Consort, who agreed to help him find the Spirit King in exchange for assistance returning to the Azure Heaven Sect. After Zhang Xuan killed the Spirit King, he carried the panicked consort away from the residence.

• Zhang Xuan knocked out the guards and entered the Spirit King Residence, where he accidentally encountered the Spirit King Consort in the North Courtyard.
• Zhang Xuan claimed he sought the Spirit King to avenge his mother, Ling Yue'er, and the Spirit King Consort offered to guide him in exchange for help returning to the Azure Heaven Sect.
• The Spirit King Consort explained that the Spirit King would return after nightfall, and she and Zhang Xuan waited together in a pavilion.
• The Spirit King arrived and angrily ordered his guards to seize Zhang Xuan after seeing him with the Spirit King Consort.
• Zhang Xuan defeated the guards, seized the Spirit King, and snapped his neck despite the consort's warning to take him outside the city first.
• Zhang Xuan picked up the panicked Spirit King Consort and flew away from the Spirit King Residence.

After Zhang Xuan killed the Spirit King, Situ Cheng'an investigated the murder and suspected Yi Wang, while Zhang Xuan took Tang Yao away and trained for three months. He later appeared in the imperial palace as Zhu Shenwu confronted Yi Wang over a plot to usurp the throne.

• Situ Cheng'an questioned the guards, suspected Yi Wang of killing the Spirit King, and withheld his theory when reporting to Zhu Shenwu.
• Zhu Shenwu granted Situ Cheng'an a God Emperor Token and ordered him to investigate the royal family and nobles.
• Zhang Xuan took Tang Yao outside the city, returned with her to his mother, and left her at the inn while he trained.
• After three months of sunlight training, Zhang Xuan gained the power to hover and shatter mountains with a punch.
• Situ Cheng'an found evidence that Yi Wang planned to usurp the throne, and Zhu Shenwu scolded Yi Wang without imposing a substantive punishment.
• Zhang Xuan appeared inside Zhu Shenwu's temporary study, interrupting the confrontation with Yi Wang.

Zhang Xuan avenged his mother by destroying the Eight Zhu Divine Kingdom, then brought Tang Yao and his mother to Azure Heaven. At the Azure Sky Sect, Tang Yao learned she had been expelled and confronted her Master, who demanded to know how she had returned.

• Zhang Xuan killed Zhu Shenwu and defeated the Old Ancestors of the Emperor Zhu, who mistook him for an Azure Heaven prodigy before he slaughtered them.
• Zhang Xuan destroyed the fleeing Zhu princes and nobles, searched the Ancestral Hall, and took several cultivation manuals.
• Zhang Xuan returned to Tang Yao and his mother, then spent half a month tempering their bodies before flying with them toward Azure Heaven.
• Zhang Xuan broke the Azure Heaven Barrier when it blocked Tang Yao, and Tang Yao led him and his mother to the Azure Sky Sect.
• Miscellaneous Disciples told Tang Yao that the Sixth Elder had expelled her and that she had been abandoned as a pawn.
• Tang Yao greeted a white-haired old woman as her Master, and the woman sternly asked how she had returned to the Upper Realm.

Zhang Xuan killed the Azure Sky Sect’s Sixth Elder after learning how the sect had used and discarded Tang Yao, then stormed the sect and destroyed its leader, Elders, and gathered disciples. As he left with Tang Yao and his mother, a blinding light from the sect’s depths enveloped the three and carried them away.

• Zhang Xuan revealed that he had broken through the Upper Realm barrier and repelled the gray-robed old woman’s pressure, then killed her with the Sun Reflection Fist.
• Zhang Xuan took Tang Yao and his mother into the Azure Sky Sect, declaring that he would destroy it to prevent further revenge.
• Zhang Xuan attacked the Upper Heaven Sect Leader, whose immortal shield and hidden Supreme-controlled phantom emerged to defend him.
• Zhang Xuan absorbed the phantom’s Special Qi, shattered its shield, destroyed the phantom and sect leader, and killed the Elders in the hall.
• Zhang Xuan razed the hall area with a gigantic fist, killing the disciples and Elders gathered outside, while Tang Yao questioned his slaughter.
• A blinding light burst from the depths of the Azure Sky Sect, enveloped Zhang Xuan, Tang Yao, and his mother, and made them disappear.

Zhang Xuan and Tang Yao were transported by Strong Light to separate realms, where they learned they could not immediately leave. Zhang Xuan began cultivating under an intense sun, while Tang Yao recovered from poison in the Mandala Realm and worried about her husband and mother-in-law.

• Zhang Xuan met Green Bamboo in the Azure Ginseng Eternal Realm and learned he needed the World Master's permission to leave.
• The World Master told Zhang Xuan that the time had not yet come for him to leave, then refused to answer further questions.
• Zhang Xuan found an area with blazing sunlight and began cultivating despite Green Bamboo's attempts to get his attention.
• Tang Yao awoke in the Mandala Realm after Jade Luo rescued her and learned she had been poisoned by Netherflame Thorn Poison.
• Jade Luo gave Tang Yao a Foundation Strengthening Origin Pill, and Tang Yao swallowed it while waiting to recover enough to search for Zhang Xuan and her mother-in-law.

After sensing that something had happened to his Mother, Zhang Xuan broke out of the Azure Ginseng Eternal Realm and confronted its Realm Lord. Green Bamboo told him the Xuan Blue Heavenly Court possessed a mirror that could locate anyone in Xuan Blue Azure Sky, and Zhang Xuan headed there with her.

• Zhang Xuan sensed his Mother might be in danger and shattered the Void to escape the Azure Ginseng Eternal Realm.
• Zhang Xuan returned to the Azure Sky Sect ruins, where the Realm Lord appeared and refused to reveal where Tang Yao and the others had been sent.
• Zhang Xuan struck down the Realm Lord, who escaped as a remnant soul, then demanded answers from Green Bamboo.
• Green Bamboo explained that more than a thousand people above Taiyi had private worlds and pointed Zhang Xuan toward the Xuan Blue Heavenly Court and its Xuan Blue Vision Mirror.
• Zhang Xuan carried Green Bamboo toward the Xuan Blue Heavenly Court, hoping to use the mirror to find his Mother.

Zhang Xuan entered the Xuan Blue Heavenly Court and learned from Mu Xiu that the Outer Domain had invaded the Xuan Blue Azure Sky. After discovering his mother was frozen and hearing Mu Xiu's offer of power in exchange for help, Zhang Xuan agreed to cooperate for now.

• Zhang Xuan carried Green Bamboo into the empty Xuan Blue Heavenly Court and saw Jade Luo use purplish-red light to make the unconscious Tang Yao move before she vanished.
• Mu Xiu introduced himself as ruler of the Xuan Blue Azure Sky, removed Green Bamboo's Control Curse, and explained that Qing Shen had placed it on her.
• Mu Xiu revealed that the Outer Domain had devastated the Xuan Blue Azure Sky, that Zhang Xuan's mother had been frozen, and that he had been watching Zhang Xuan since birth.
• Mu Xiu offered the Xuan Blue Azure Sky's Origin Essence to help Zhang Xuan reach Saint Entry and the Supreme Realm in exchange for saving its inhabitants.
• Zhang Xuan agreed to cooperate, intending to grow stronger and rescue Tang Yao and his mother before deciding whether to help anyone else.

Zhang Xuan absorbed most of the Xuan Blue Azure Sky's Origin Essence, gaining enough strength to ignore Control authority and enter private worlds. He found Yu Luo Asura's true body and entered her Mandala Realm, appearing in Tang Yao's room.

• Mu Xiu brought Zhang Xuan into the Origin Essence's Central Space, where Zhang Xuan bypassed the altar's restrictions and absorbed nearly all of its Origin Essence.
• Zhang Xuan tested his increased strength by splitting the Space Dao Rule and confirmed that he could ignore Control authority.
• Zhang Xuan searched the Xuan Blue Azure Sky, found Yu Luo Asura cultivating in a hidden cave, and traveled to the Heavenly Xuan Divine Sect.
• Zhang Xuan overpowered Yu Luo Asura, entered her body despite the private-world restrictions, and left her immobilized under a Blazing Sun Restriction.
• Zhang Xuan appeared inside the Mandala Realm, in Tang Yao's room.

Zhang Xuan rescued Tang Yao by cleansing the Control Curse from her body, then destroyed Jade Luo Asura and the sect master of the Heavenly Xuan Divine Sect. He retrieved his frozen mother and revived her in the Xuan Blue Heavenly Court.

• Zhang Xuan used Blazing Sunlight to destroy the Control Curse inside Tang Yao, who woke and learned that the Outer Domain had targeted her.
• Zhang Xuan carried Tang Yao to Jade Luo Asura's cave dwelling, killed Jade Luo Asura and the sect master of the Heavenly Xuan Divine Sect, and absorbed the Black Qi from their bodies.
• Mu Xiu searched the Heavenly Xuan Divine Sect for Zhang Xuan but found only an empty cave dwelling.
• Zhang Xuan broke the ice sculpture containing his mother and brought her corpse and spirit soul to the Xuan Blue Heavenly Court.
• Zhang Xuan used Blazing Sunlight to restore his mother's body and spirit soul, and she awoke and called out to him.

Zhang Xuan destroyed a Netherworld spirit and annihilated the Outer Domain Lifeforms hidden outside the Xuan Blue Azure Sky. A mysterious Netherworld Strong Light then devastated the entire realm, leaving Zhang Xuan and a handful of survivors to wonder why it targeted them.

• Zhang Xuan killed the seductive white spirit with Sun Reflection Fists after she repeatedly reformed from scattered spirit souls.
• Zhang Xuan returned to the Xuan Blue Heavenly Court and told the Xuan Blue Emperor to protect Tang Yao and the others while he dealt with the Outer Domain Lifeforms.
• Zhang Xuan let the Outer Domain Lifeforms bind him, then broke free and destroyed them with Sun Reflection Fists.
• A Netherworld Strong Light struck the Xuan Blue Azure Sky, shattered its outer shell, and killed nearly all its inhabitants.
• Zhang Xuan reunited with Mu Xiu, Tang Yao, and the other survivors in the Xuan Blue Central Space and said the Strong Light seemed intent on destruction and bore a grudge against the realm.