Chapter Summaries

Lin Zhen, disguised as Su Qing'an, attended Li Mo's lesson to learn Sword Intent and strengthen his swordplay enough to master Life Severing. After Lanlan's advances were rejected, she investigated him and discovered that his identity was fabricated.

• Lin Zhen asked Li Mo how swordplay could help him kill an Eternal Martial Artist, and Li Mo explained that Lin Zhen lacked Sword Intent.
• Li Mo demonstrated Sword Intent, making the students feel as if sword energy had cut them despite leaving them unharmed.
• Li Mo taught that Sword Intent came from the swordsman's understanding, not from the quality of a weapon, and Lin Zhen reflected on his advice as he continued preparing to advance to World King.
• Lanlan invited Lin Zhen to eat with her and offered him a private tutor, but he refused and left to practice swordplay.
• Lanlan obtained Su Qing'an's file and ordered an inquiry when she could not find any record of his family; the investigation revealed that Lin Zhen's background was fabricated.

Lin Zhen continued cultivating in hiding while preparing to rescue Ning Qingxuan before she returned to the palace, but Lanlan exposed his assumed identity and forced him to flee. After slaughtering a vast crowd of pursuers, he escaped into Hell Volcano, where billions gathered to hunt him.

• Lin Zhen received another delivery of Cosmic Crystals and continued refining them, hoping to complete his World Stone core and break through to World King.
• Lin Zhen learned that Ning Qingxuan would return to the palace in three days and resolved to leave after finishing his cultivation.
• Lanlan confronted Lin Zhen and threatened to report him, so he killed her with Finger Flick Sword Qi and fled when the crowd alerted the military.
• Lin Zhen fought through the imperial dragon knights, then killed tens of thousands of soldiers, civilians, and police officers who pursued him.
• Lin Zhen rode his Two-Headed Demon Dragon to Hell Volcano and plunged inside as billions of people assembled outside to capture him.

Southern Liang mobilized billions to dig away Hell Volcano and trap Lin Zhen, while Ning Qingxuan questioned the public’s hatred of him and recalled that she had once loved him. As the volcano was hollowed out, twelve Eternal Life Realm martial artists waited for Lin Zhen to emerge.

• Southern Liang’s authorities and public gathered around Hell Volcano, convinced that Lin Zhen was trapped and could not escape.
• Shi Zhonglie announced a plan to flatten the volcano, and more than a billion people began digging while ice-element martial artists froze the lava.
• Ning Qingxuan told Xiao Ya that Lin Zhen had brought glory to Southern Liang and had been treated unfairly, then wondered whether she had chosen well by loving him.
• The workers dug away the volcano despite casualties from lava, while the Eternal Martial Artists waited for Lin Zhen to emerge.

Lin Zhen completed his World Stone, surpassed eleven million Star Power, and gained powerful Teleportation through spatial power. He then began his long-awaited Realm King breakthrough, which culminated in the birth of a vast new star realm and a starlight beam that revealed his roar to the people outside the volcano.

• Lin Zhen forged a ten-meter World Stone that raised his Star Power to eleven million and transformed the remaining Purple Qi into spatial power.
• Lin Zhen gained Teleportation with a range of 1.1 million meters and used Mental Power Pills to reach twenty percent Dark Gold.
• Lin Zhen swallowed his prepared breakthrough medicines, and a cyan lightning bolt destroyed and reorganized his dantian.
• Lin Zhen's Black Hole expanded as a vast star realm emerged, and his World Stone grew to fifteen meters.
• Lin Zhen became a Realm King and released a roar and beam of starlight through the volcano, stunning the people outside.

Lin Zhen completed his breakthrough to Third-Level World King, gaining a vast Inner World and thirty million Star Power. As the workers broke into the volcano, he prepared to face the people waiting to capture him.

• Lin Zhen used Star Power Transfer for the last time to draw his clone’s Star Power into his forming Inner World.
• His Inner World grew into a continent over a million kilometers long, and his Star Power surged to twenty-six million.
• Lin Zhen consumed his Star Crystals, advanced to Third-Level World King, and reached thirty million Star Power.
• Lin Zhen examined his transformed Dantian, found that all three bolts of Destruction Divine Thunder had recovered, and chose not to use his Divine Power Pill.
• Lin Zhen learned that Liang Zhuhuan was bringing Ning Qingxuan back to the palace and prepared to leave the volcano.
• The workers broke through into the volcano, while Shi Zhonglie’s forces gathered outside to capture Lin Zhen.

Lin Zhen confronted Gu Mu, a Martial Hall owner who sought fame by volunteering to capture him, while thousands watched the encounter live. After defeating Gu Mu, Lin Zhen killed him in midair and challenged the crowd to come after him together.

• Iron Granny watched Liang Zhihuan take Ning Qingxuan back to the palace and believed Lin Zhen would soon be captured.
• Liang Zhihuan and Ning Qingxuan watched the live broadcast as people gathered at Hell Volcano to see Lin Zhen's capture.
• Gu Mu entered the cooled lava pool to confront Lin Zhen, hoping to promote the Divine Fist Martial Arts Academy.
• Lin Zhen teleported forward and fought Gu Mu, then carried him into the sky and overpowered him.
• Lin Zhen ripped Gu Mu apart in midair and challenged everyone who wanted his life to attack him together.

Lin Zhen killed the five civilian Eternal Life experts who attacked him, then fought seven more Eternal Life Martial Artists led by Iron Second Sister and Iron Third Sister at Hell Volcano. Watching the battle, Liang Zhihuan ordered guards to protect him and planned to consummate his marriage with Ning Qingxuan, then arranged to incite the crowd against Lin Zhen.

• Lin Zhen denounced the civilian experts for attacking him and killed four of them in less than ten seconds with his sword, Planet Fall, teleportation, and Divine Infant.
• Iron Second Sister and Iron Third Sister led five official Eternal Life Martial Artists, including Shi Zhonglie, in a seven-on-one assault against Lin Zhen.
• The battle at Hell Volcano shook the land as crowds watched, prayed, and grew increasingly hostile toward Lin Zhen.
• Liang Zhihuan watched Lin Zhen's battle and feared Lin Zhen could defeat him and take Ning Qingxuan away.
• Liang Zhihuan ordered Iron Granny and other Eternal Life Martial Artists to gather at the palace, then hurried there to consummate his marriage with Ning Qingxuan.
• Liang Zhihuan ordered his people to inflame the crowd at Hell Volcano and make the citizens drag Lin Zhen down, even if they died.

Lin Zhen killed Iron Third Sister, Iron Second Sister, and Heavenly Listener, but Shi Zhonglie turned the over ten billion people gathered at Hell Volcano against him. Facing the advancing crowd, Lin Zhen unleashed Gravity and triggered an enormous eruption from the volcano’s magma chamber.

• Officials and soldiers incited the crowd to attack Lin Zhen if the seven Eternal Martial Artists failed to kill him.
• Lin Zhen risked his life against Iron Third Sister’s Void-Sunderer, using his clone to survive a strike that destroyed Dragon Soar and split his Snow Lotus.
• Lin Zhen teleported behind Iron Third Sister, crushed her head, took Void-Sunderer, and killed Iron Second Sister and Heavenly Listener with the Spirit Treasure sword.
• Shi Zhonglie and the other Eternal Martial Artists rallied the over ten billion people against Lin Zhen, who raised Gravity and broke through the barrier to the magma beneath Hell Volcano.

Lin Zhen destroyed the forces sent against him by triggering Hell Volcano, killing billions and leaving Southern Liang in shock. He reached the Imperial Palace to find Ning Qingxuan, where Iron Granny blocked his way as the final challenge.

• Lin Zhen triggered Hell Volcano’s eruption, and the magma killed nearly four billion people and destroyed the forces gathered to kill him.
• Lin Zhen hunted down the surviving Eternal Life Realm experts, while Liang Zhihuan learned that Shi Zhonglie and the Green Leaf Sect fighters were dead.
• Liang Zhihuan entered the Empress’s chambers with Ning Qingxuan as Iron Granny took command of the palace’s defenses.
• News of the massacre spread across the Origin Realm, and allied nations declared Lin Zhen a wanted criminal.
• Lin Zhen reached the Imperial Palace, smashed its gates, and went to Ning Qingxuan’s Hidden Moon Hall.
• Iron Granny confronted Lin Zhen outside the chambers and forbade him to pass.

Lin Zhen fought Iron Granny, who used her Divine Body and Spirit Treasures to gain the upper hand and disarm him. He brought her Sword Ring down with three bolts of Destruction Divine Thunder and stored it away, but Iron Granny pressed her attack with the Severing Sky Divine Sword.

• Lin Zhen and Iron Granny faced each other, and she revealed an Advanced Divine Body and Star Power that exceeded his.
• Lin Zhen and Iron Granny each swallowed a power-enhancing pill, then she used her Sword Ring to seize the Severing Sky Divine Sword and drive him back.
• Iron Granny interrupted Lin Zhen's Teleport and wounded him, but he struck her with Destruction Divine Thunder, which the Flying Bird Banner helped her survive.
• Lin Zhen struck Iron Granny with two more bolts of Destruction Divine Thunder, extinguishing the Sword Ring's light and knocking it to the ground.
• Lin Zhen used Gravity to collect the Sword Ring into his Dark Star Space, and Iron Granny charged him with the Severing Sky Divine Sword.

Lin Zhen awakened Sword Intent and used Life Severing to kill Iron Granny, then confronted Liang Zhihuan in Hidden Moon Hall. Ning Qingxuan still did not remember Lin Zhen and warned him not to kill her husband, but Lin Zhen embraced and kissed her, leaving Liang Zhihuan broadcasting the scene.

• Iron Granny pressed Lin Zhen with a relentless sword assault while Liang Zhihuan tried to claim Ning Qingxuan, who rejected him for sacrificing billions of people.
• Lin Zhen recalled Li Mo’s lesson about Sword Intent and realized he could manifest a sword through his palm.
• Lin Zhen used Life Severing to kill Iron Granny, whose sword strike had nearly cut him in half, and took the Severing Sky Divine Sword.
• The imperial army fled, and Lin Zhen entered Hidden Moon Hall, where Ning Qingxuan blocked him and said she did not recognize him.
• Lin Zhen embraced and kissed Ning Qingxuan despite her warning, while Liang Zhihuan recorded and broadcast the scene.

Lin Zhen and Ning Qingxuan left Southern Liang together after she chose to recover her memories by his side, while Liang Zhihuan gave up the throne. The chapter ended with Lin Zhen still the Origin Realm’s most wanted criminal and Liang Chen newly crowned Emperor.

• Liang Zhihuan’s broadcast of Lin Zhen kissing Ning Qingxuan made him a laughingstock and exposed his failed attempt to have Lin Zhen killed.
• Ning Qingxuan agreed to leave with Lin Zhen, paid Liang Zhihuan two hundred billion between them, and departed the palace with him through its teleportation array.
• Liang Zhihuan abdicated the day after Lin Zhen and Ning Qingxuan left, passing the throne to Liang Chen before leaving Southern Liang to pursue martial arts.
• Liang Chen accepted the throne but wished he could travel the world with someone he loved instead of ruling.
• More than a dozen countries continued to hunt Lin Zhen, making him the Origin Realm’s top wanted criminal, while his battles earned him many admirers.

Aboard a dragon carriage from Freedom City to Great Qin, Dong Xiaoqi tried to impress Xiao Gong and Xuan'er while learning that Xuan'er was ill and recovering her memories. The carriage reached Great Qin, where Dong Xiaoqi planned to use his influence to control the couple.

• The dragon carriage left Freedom City for Great Qin with Xiao Gong, Xuan'er, and Dong Xiaoqi aboard.
• Dong Xiaoqi overheard Xiao Gong and Xuan'er discuss her illness, her missing memories, and her recovery.
• Dong Xiaoqi introduced himself as a medicinal herb purchaser and offered to pay for Xuan'er's treatment in Great Qin.
• Xiao Gong accepted Dong Xiaoqi's offer and exchanged Dimensional Universe Numbers with him.
• Xuan'er fell asleep in Xiao Gong's arms, and Xiao Gong's gaze frightened Dong Xiaoqi.
• After half a month of travel, the dragon carriage slowed as it arrived in Great Qin.

After stabilizing Ning Qingxuan’s condition in Freedom City, Lin Zhen traveled with her to Great Qin to seek out the Phoenix and Qilin Clans and resolve his wanted status. They reached Qin Capital and visited the Alchemist Headquarters, where Lin Zhen used Dong Xiaoqi’s offer to have him pay for Ning Qingxuan’s costly medicine.

• After three years of treating Ning Qingxuan in Freedom City, Lin Zhen decided to travel with her to Great Qin to find Feng Qingluan and visit the Qilin Clan.
• On the dragon carriage, Lin Zhen and the other passengers saw Great Qin’s vast Fallen Star Lake, where a Lake Monster octopus attacked them.
• A White-Robed Martial Artist from the Fallen Star Lake Holy Land killed the octopus with sword qi, and Ning Qingxuan recognized his strength.
• Lin Zhen and Ning Qingxuan arrived in Qin Capital with Dong Xiaoqi and visited the Alchemist Headquarters, where Lin Zhen admired the statues of three Saint Masters.
• At the headquarters counter, Lin Zhen discreetly revealed his Seventh Grade Alchemist identity and handed over Ning Qingxuan’s prescription while letting Dong Xiaoqi believe he would pay for her medicine.

Lin Zhen arrived at the Alchemist Guild headquarters, where he secured Ning Qingxuan’s medicine and met the guild’s leaders. As Long Ge'er warned him about powerful enemies and advised him to seek the Holy Land’s selection, Ke Xiangnan began plotting against him with the help of the Mechanical Realm King.

• Dong Xiaoqi paid forty billion for Ning Qingxuan’s medicine after Lin Zhen and the receptionist let him believe the cost was under ten billion, then learned Lin Zhen was a Grand Elder and was banned from supplying the headquarters.
• Long Ge'er welcomed Lin Zhen and introduced him to the guild’s vice presidents and Seventh Grade Alchemist Grand Elders.
• Long Ge'er warned Lin Zhen about Qian Tong, the Qin Kingdom’s emperor, and other dangerous forces, and explained how Lin Zhen could seek a recommendation to enter the Holy Land.
• Lin Zhen brought Ning Qingxuan to rest after she took her medicine, while her memories remained in a crucial period of recovery.
• Ke Xiangnan told Elder Qin that he would approach the Mechanical Realm King, a Holy Land Martial Artist whose son Lin Zhen had killed, and try to turn him against Lin Zhen.

Ke Xiangnan told the Mechanical Realm King that Lin Zhen had killed his son and was at Alchemist Headquarters, prompting Mechanical to plan an interception. After Ning Qingxuan urged Lin Zhen to pursue Holy Land training, he contacted Long Ge'er to arrange a meeting with the Qilin Clan leader.

• Ke Xiangnan told the Mechanical Realm King that Lin Zhen had killed Ke Jianglong and Mechanical's son, Ye Hua, and was now at Alchemist Headquarters.
• The Mechanical Realm King agreed with two fellow Holy Land Martial Artists to leave Star Picking Island in a month and find Lin Zhen.
• Lin Zhen watched Ning Qingxuan defeat an Eternal Martial Artist in the Dimensional Arena and learned she had cultivated in Freedom City.
• Ning Qingxuan urged Lin Zhen to go to a Holy Land while she stayed at Alchemist Headquarters and continued recovering her strength and memories.
• Lin Zhen decided to pursue Holy Land training and contacted Long Ge'er to meet the Qilin Clan leader.

Lin Zhen rejoined the Fire Qilin Clan, and Saga’s power helped his Black Hole Beast advance to the growth phase. Saga also recommended him for the dangerous Holy Land selection, which could grant him protection from the Wanted Orders; Lin Zhen returned to Ning Qingxuan eager to share the news, but she said she had matters to tell him too.

• Long Ge'er introduced Lin Zhen to Saga, who formally welcomed him back into the Fire Qilin Clan despite opposition from Elder Qin’s faction.
• Saga infused Lin Zhen with star and fire power, causing his Black Hole Beast to break through from the peak of the juvenile stage into the growth phase.
• Saga registered Lin Zhen for the Fire Qilin Clan’s Holy Land cultivation quota and warned him that he would have to survive a real-combat Knockout Round to qualify.
• Lin Zhen accepted the dangers of the Holy Land selection, which could give him status beyond the reach of mortal nations’ Wanted Orders.
• Lin Zhen returned to his villa, told Ning Qingxuan about his new identity and the selection, and heard that she had matters to tell him as well.

Lin Zhen chose to enter Fallen Star Lake Holy Land despite its limits, while his enemies plotted to kill him in the selection arena. As Lin Zhen trained against Holy Land Martial Artists, he realized ordinary cultivation would not be enough to prepare for the danger ahead.

• Ning Qingxuan warned Lin Zhen that choosing Fallen Star Lake would bind him to its lineage, but Lin Zhen decided it was the most convenient choice for now.
• Elder Qin learned that Lin Zhen had secured the Fire Qilin Clan’s sole slot and urged Ke Xiangnan to press Mechanical Realm King to assassinate him.
• Mechanical Realm King agreed to free a powerful Locking God Platform Martial Artist from Fallen Star Lake’s Water Prison, control him, and send him to kill Lin Zhen during the arena matches.
• Elder Qin hinted that he wanted the Fire Qilin Clan leader dead so he could succeed him, and Ke Xiangnan responded with growing ambition.
• Lin Zhen reviewed his record in the Simulation Arena, where he had won only seven of 430 battles against Holy Land Martial Artists, and decided to keep training with Destruction Divine Thunder.

Lin Zhen learned the Fallen Star Lake Holy Land selection rules and prepared for the competition despite the formidable, experienced Martial Artists taking part. His first opponent was assigned, and the contestants were due to gather at Fallen Star Lake in three days.

• Ning Qingxuan explained that 1,048,576 applicants would compete in knockout rounds, with the final 1,024 assigned to Holy Land classes and later contests allowing trainees to rise or fall between classes.
• Ning Qingxuan warned Lin Zhen that powerful veterans, including Green Leaf Sect patriarch Zhao Lihua, had entered the selection, but Lin Zhen said he would face the challenge without fear.
• Lin Zhen continued cultivating, reached the peak of Level Five Realm King, and prepared his Divine Power Pill, Black Hole Devour, combined Destruction Divine Thunder, and other combat abilities for the month-long selection.
• Chris told Lin Zhen that his battle number was 778122 and that his first opponent would likely be Jiao Xi of the Great Qin Empire Herbalist Guild, recommended by Imperial Preceptor Qian Tong.
• Chris informed Lin Zhen that the contestants would travel to Fallen Star Lake in three days for the Knockout Round.

As the Holy Land selection approached in the Qin Kingdom, Lin Zhen’s return sparked widespread hostility because he had once taken first place from Qin Jianfeng. His first-round opponent, Qian Tong’s disciple Jiao Xi, embraced the attention and planned to defeat Lin Zhen before a huge audience.

• Qian Tong told his hundred recommended Martial Artists that they all had to advance through the first round, and he urged Jiao Xi to use his match against Lin Zhen to advertise his connection to the Saint Master.
• Jiao Xi learned that Lin Zhen was his opponent and dismissed Lin Zhen’s past victory over Qin Jianfeng as unremarkable.
• Qin Kingdom citizens revived their resentment toward Lin Zhen, attacked him online, and organized crowds to watch Jiao Xi fight him.
• Jiao Xi gained enormous popularity as Qin Kingdom citizens rallied behind him, and he decided to crush Lin Zhen in the first match.