Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen defeated the first wave of descendents on the Divine Mountain, then entered a sealed divine temple and began absorbing its Divine Spring. As a larger force arrived and attacked the temple, he left the spring to face them, while a mysterious figure remained asleep within the Dragon Vein.

• Lu Chen used his swords to kill or rout the fleeing descendents, shattering Yuwen Feng’s wooden carving, then sent Chu Yunxiao and the resurrected group after the survivors.
• Lu Chen used the Karma Secret Art to see through the divine temple’s seal and broke into the temple with the Chaos Returns to Origin Sword Array.
• More descendents crossed into the Divine Mountain, but the survivors could not warn them because their communications failed; Chu Yunxiao’s group attacked the survivors as puppets.
• The new arrivals identified Lu Chen inside the temple and began attacking its restriction while he absorbed the Divine Spring and sensed a terrifying figure sleeping within the Dragon Vein.
• Lu Chen withdrew from the Dragon Vein and turned toward the descendents outside, intending to confront them before resuming his cultivation.

Lu Chen and the leaders defeated the Demon Kings and killed the Blade Venerable and Violetgold Hammer Ancestor. After Lu Chen severed the Human Traitors’ karmic links, Li Wangshu led the group to hunt the Peacock King.

• Lu Chen and the leaders cleared away the Demon Kings while the Staff King and Axe Emperor Yue Qingtian gained the upper hand in their battles.
• Li Wangshu unleashed the Heavenly Will Sword, wounded the Blade Venerable, and joined Lu Chen and the others in killing him.
• Arrow God Leng Feng pierced the Violetgold Hammer Ancestor with a killing arrow, and Axe Emperor Yue Qingtian finished him off.
• The Third Generation Ancestor proposed pursuing the Peacock King, who had ordered the attack on Lu Chen, and the leaders agreed to go after him.
• Lu Chen used the Karma Blade to stop the Human Traitors from sending word, and Li Wangshu led the group toward the Peacock King.

Lu Chen reassured Venerable Chiyan and Li Wangxu that he would not attack his friends, then faced the Divine Emperors Xue Wuya and Venerable Hundred Eyes when they tried to seize his points. He killed both with his upgraded Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art, gained ten million Merit Points, and began searching their bodies as the strange eyes above watched him.

• Lu Chen finished killing the monsters and told Venerable Chiyan and Li Wangxu he would split their points equally, while Li Wangxu revealed that Shi Yue had died in the earlier melee.
• Li Wangxu divined danger just as Xue Wuya and Venerable Hundred Eyes arrived, intending to take half of Lu Chen's points each.
• Venerable Hundred Eyes attacked with formations while Xue Wuya sent a sea of blood and divine crows at Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen used Tenfold Combat Power and his evolved Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art to shatter their attacks and badly wound both Divine Emperors.
• Lu Chen pursued and killed Xue Wuya and Venerable Hundred Eyes despite their pleas and escape attempts, earning ten million Merit Points.
• Lu Chen searched the two bodies while the strange blood-red eyes above continued watching him.

Lu Chen broke through to Divine Emperor and defeated the silver blade man with his evolved sword technique, Dao Severing. After the surviving monsters fled, a ranking board revealed Lu Chen was seventh and announced that points could be stolen by killing other contestants, leaving everyone wary of him.

• Lu Chen completed his breakthrough to Divine Emperor, then fought the silver blade man in a battle that devastated the surrounding region.
• Lu Chen unleashed Dao Severing, pierced the silver blade man's ultimate technique, and shattered him.
• The remaining monsters fled, and Lu Chen and the other Divine Kings hunted them for Merit Points.
• A ranking board appeared, showing Venerable Jiuyun first, Old Man Ku second, Huangfu Shang third, and Lu Chen seventh.
• The board announced that points transferred to a killer and tokens could locate others, prompting the Divine Kings to flee and Venerable Chiyan and Li Wangxu to regard Lu Chen warily.

Lu Chen learned that the Death Zone’s Heavenly Walkers were returning to seize powerful Divine Kings and Divine Emperors, plunging the starry sky into panic. As he took Qiqi toward the Ancient Life Star, Jian Xuan and other Divine Emperors were confronted by masked Heavenly Walkers.

• Ruined warships carrying thousands of dazed experts emerged from the Death Zone, and Wu Lie told Lu Chen that Heavenly Walkers captured powerful figures whenever the zone opened.
• Lu Chen decided he could not escape the Heavenly Walkers, took Qiqi with him, and left for the Ancient Life Star.
• Lu Chen sensed that Divine Kings and factions across the starry sky were fleeing and that even the war between righteous and evil factions had stopped.
• Three white-masked Heavenly Walkers cornered Jian Xuan and ordered her to accompany them; she sent an incarnation to experience Lu Chen’s swordsmanship before going with them.
• Masked Heavenly Walkers appeared before nearly every Divine Emperor, and news of their demands spread panic through the starry sky.

As Lu Chen hurried toward the Ancient Life Star amid reports that Heavenly Walkers were capturing Divine Emperors, a Sword Cliff elder challenged him to a duel. Lu Chen overwhelmed and humiliated her avatar, then left with Qiqi, deciding not to visit Sword Cliff.

• Lu Chen heard that the Heavenly Walkers had captured several Divine Emperors and hurried toward the Ancient Life Star with Qiqi.
• A purple-mist woman confronted Lu Chen, confirmed his identity, and challenged his swordsmanship.
• Lu Chen parried the woman’s increasingly powerful sword attacks without being harmed.
• The woman withdrew and told Lu Chen to train for thirty thousand years before challenging her true body, but Lu Chen insulted Sword Cliff and attacked her avatar.
• Lu Chen defeated the woman, stomped on her face, and mocked her before her avatar dispersed with a threat.
• Lu Chen received 800,000 merit points, told Qiqi to board the Jade Boat, and decided not to visit Sword Cliff.

Lu Chen obtained a Nine Revolutions Divine Pill and used it to break through to the third level of True God while the four Divine Kings unsealed the Netherworld. He escaped to the Yang Realm as the Divine Kings declared the Netherworld open to the heavens.

• Four enormous hands shattered the Netherworld’s restrictions, while the Dragon Vein moved its sleeping figure underground and vanished from the divine hall.
• Lu Chen extracted a Nine Revolutions Divine Pill, swallowed it, and fled the divine peak as the four Divine Kings targeted him.
• Lu Chen warned his allies to retreat, discovered that the first three levels of hell and their gatekeepers had disappeared, and continued absorbing the pill’s power.
• Lu Chen broke through from the first to the third level of True God and resisted the Divine Kings’ pressure with Tenfold Combat Power.
• The Divine Kings tried to trap Lu Chen, but he escaped to the Yang Realm before their hands struck the Netherworld.
• A Divine King declared the Netherworld unsealed, and the beings beyond the realm and the survivors on Divine Mountain celebrated as the Netherworld began to change.

Lu Chen revealed his overwhelming strength on Divine Mountain, killing Lan Tianyi and cutting down the Descenders who attacked him. After he defeated the Four Fiends of the Constellations and seized their Sky Burial Bow and Divine Extinction Arrow, the remaining Descenders panicked and began trying to flee.

• Lu Chen emerged from the divine hall and killed Lan Tianyi after the Descenders threatened him and his family.
• A Divine Spirit Fourth Level expert attacked Lu Chen, but Lu Chen cut him in half with the Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art.
• The Descenders launched a barrage of attacks, and Lu Chen swallowed them with Sky Imprisonment before hurling them back at the crowd.
• The Four Fiends of the Constellations attacked Lu Chen with the Sky Burial Bow and Divine Extinction Arrow, but he turned aside their shots and killed them with Sword Qi.
• Lu Chen seized the Sky Burial Bow and Divine Extinction Arrow as the remaining Descenders panicked at his strength.

Lu Chen slaughtered the Descenders trapped on the Divine Mountain, gained enough Merit Points to advance to Spirit God Seventh Heaven, and left the mountain to find the Starry Sky Knights arriving beyond the domain. The knights descended toward the Divine Mountain, unaware of what had happened there.

• Lu Chen shattered the Descenders’ forbidden artifacts and killed or scattered them with successive sword strikes, while survivors from the first wave realized they were trapped on the Divine Mountain.
• Lu Chen ordered the resurrected dead to guard the passageway, then spent six million Merit Points to reach Spirit God Seventh Heaven, leaving him with 1.51 million.
• Lu Chen left the Divine Mountain, concealed his cultivation under the Sword World Seal’s pressure, and turned his attention back to the mountain he could still access.
• The watchers beyond the domain wondered why their lords had not returned and assumed Lu Chen was already dead.
• Eighteen Starry Sky Knights arrived on savage beasts, recalled their past slaughter in the region, and prepared to descend to the Divine Mountain.

Lu Chen destroyed the Imperial Lord imprint’s attack and killed the remaining knights, but the Imperial Lord escaped with Chu Yunxiao’s golden body. After learning the Imperial Lord had helped kill Qiqi’s mother, Lu Chen rejected the Sect Leader’s offer to cooperate and killed her and Black Nether.

• Lu Chen shattered the giant hand and drove off the Imperial Lord imprint, who escaped with Chu Yunxiao after Chu Yunxiao’s body was destroyed.
• Lu Chen killed the remaining knights as they fought Li Wangshu, and Qiqi recognized the Imperial Lord as one of her mother’s killers.
• The Sect Leader offered to cooperate with Lu Chen, but he declared she was not worthy and cut her and Black Nether in half.
• The Sect Leader regenerated and tried to flee, but Lu Chen crushed her resistance and beheaded her.

Lu Chen returned to the Yang Realm, warned his allies about the Netherworld’s unsealing, and gave them rare resources to prepare for the coming crisis. After the Star Chains weakened, he entered the fully unsealed Netherworld and found its original souls being abused by Outer Realm invaders, who attacked him when they noticed him.

• Lu Chen told the gathered leaders that the Yang Realm might soon be unsealed and urged them to cultivate, while distributing rare flowers and herbs to help them grow stronger.
• Lu Chen dismissed Zhao Xuantian’s fears and began considering how to obtain more sword-path divine abilities.
• After watching the Star Chains weaken for seven or eight days, Lu Chen sent his soul into the Netherworld and found its suppression gone and the realm greatly expanded.
• Lu Chen entered a familiar town and heard the original souls lament that Outer Realm invaders were capturing and killing them.
• Two invaders lashed the gathered souls with lightning whips, then one noticed Lu Chen and attacked him.

Lu Chen wiped out the Asura Clan forces guarding a military camp and learned that the Myriad Sword Dao Seed had appeared in the Sword Realm. He reached the site and watched powerful contenders gather, where Zhao Qingxue killed three sacred dragons before Xiao Lie and Xie Beichen challenged her.

• Lu Chen killed the Asura Clan guards and destroyed the fighters who surrounded him, then questioned their leader about the Myriad Sword Dao Seed.
• The leader told Lu Chen that the Sword Seed had appeared in the Sword Realm’s central region and that Divine King elders remained nearby but had agreed not to interfere in disputes among juniors.
• Lu Chen checked his merit points, then traveled to the Sword Seed’s location and secretly observed the gathered factions.
• Zhao Qingxue killed three sacred giant dragons after they demanded that she leave her position near the valley.
• Xiao Lie and Xie Beichen arrived to challenge Zhao Qingxue, while Lu Chen planned to wait for the contenders to fight and seize an opportunity.

Lu Chen confronted the returning Starry Sky Knights outside the divine hall and began slaughtering them with his swordsmanship. After killing six knights, he faced the remaining twelve.

• The eighteen Starry Sky Knights broke through the divine hall’s restrictions after destroying the puppets guarding the passage.
• A knight killed Lan Tianyi, and the knights advanced toward the divine hall, intent on claiming its secrets.
• Lu Chen appeared to block their way, and the knights refused to withdraw, so he challenged them to fight.
• Lu Chen killed the Divine Spear knight with one strike, then killed the Great Axe knight and split his Unicorn Savage Beast in two.
• The Twin Whips knight led Han Qi, Zhao Ba, and Wu Jiu in a coordinated attack, but Lu Chen blinded all four and beheaded them with his Black Saber.

A Demon King revealed that the secret realm was a trap and demanded that the humans release three ancient Demon Kings in exchange for the captured geniuses. As the demons attacked inside and the humans agreed under pressure, the chapter ended with the list of prisoners and Zhao Xuantian fearing that the world was about to change.

• Dugu Wudi told Lu Chen that a Demon King had lured them into the secret realm and was demanding the release of other sealed Demon Kings.
• Countless organized demons appeared and surrounded the humans; a winged demon killed fleeing experts, while Ye Wushe and Lie Wujin fought back.
• Lu Chen killed wave after wave of powerful demons with his blade techniques as the battle spread through the secret realm.
• The Demon King killed Shi Potian and another Ancient Clan prodigy before the humans agreed to its terms.
• The Demon King gave the humans a list of three Demon Kings to release: one in the Sky Sword Sect, one in the Golden Light Temple, and one in the Imperial City's Heavenly Prison.

Dugu Wudi revealed that the Sky Sword Sect guarded a Demon Soil containing an undying Demon King, explaining why the sect had been unable to retaliate against its enemies. Lu Chen received the sect’s spiritual cultivation manual and intended to advance quickly, while Qing Lian reeled at the gap between their progress.

• Dugu Wudi restored Qing Lian and brought her and Lu Chen to the ruined hall where the stone sword stood.
• Dugu Wudi explained that the sword concealed a divine weapon suppressing a Demon Soil and its Demon King, sealed there by the Sky Sword Sect’s ancestor over a thousand years earlier.
• Dugu Wudi told Lu Chen that the sect’s duty to guard the Demon King and the deep foundations of the reclusive families had limited its ability to fight them.
• Lu Chen considered using Merit Points to advance and asked to study the method for opening the Spirit Hidden Realm.
• Dugu Wudi gave Lu Chen the Myriad Swords Contemplate the World manual and explained that mastering it usually took years; Qing Lian was shocked to learn Lu Chen had reached the eighth level of the True Qi Hidden Realm.

Lu Chen confronted the unorthodox fighters who had gathered at Cui Manor and defeated them with the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction. After injuring Poison Fiend Palm Dai Tian, he was ambushed by a Golden Light Monk and recognized him as a traitor of Golden Light Temple.

• Lu Chen arrived at Cui Manor, handed the battered Liu Sandao to Cui Hu, and revealed that his cultivation had broken through.
• Lu Chen struck down the attackers with the third style of the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction, while Cui Hu seized Liu Sandao.
• Dai Tian attacked Lu Chen from behind, but Lu Chen trapped him with Sky Imprisonment and severed four of his fingers with a sword strike.
• Lu Chen advanced on Dai Tian and sent him flying with the second style of Divine Extinction, but a monk struck at Lu Chen from afar.
• Lu Chen dodged the monk's attack and recognized him as the Golden Light Monk, the traitor of Golden Light Temple.

A Divine King attacked the Netherworld, but Lu Chen summoned the gatekeepers of hell’s second and third layers to repel its assault. The injured black giant bird returned with a mountain of ancient sages’ heads, and the third-layer gatekeeper sent chains toward it as Lu Chen faced the threat of stronger kings to come.

• A Divine King’s black claw struck at the Netherworld’s restrictions, and Lu Chen activated both command tokens for help.
• The second-layer gatekeeper’s attack was shattered, but the third-layer gatekeeper’s power set the claw ablaze and forced it to withdraw.
• The black bird poured divine fire into the Netherworld, but the third-layer black hole swallowed the flames and blasted them back, injuring the bird.
• The black giant bird revealed its colossal body and warned that stronger kings would follow, then sent a mountain of ancient sages’ heads crashing toward the Netherworld.
• The third-layer gatekeeper told Lu Chen that he would have to rely on himself against future Divine Kings, then sent countless chains toward the outer realm.

Lu Chen slaughtered the Eighteen Knights on the Divine Mountain after their buried massacre of women and children was revealed. As he faced the terrified forces beyond the domain, an ancient Divine King appeared and announced that he would destroy the Netherworld's restrictions so the forces could descend.

• Lu Chen used the Hell Demon Sword and Tenfold Combat Power to kill most of the Eighteen Knights, even as their survivors formed the Nine Heavens Star Array.
• Lu Chen's strikes exposed ancient scenes of the knights massacring women, children, and the elderly, and he condemned them before continuing his attack.
• The remaining knights begged for mercy, but Lu Chen killed them all, while the slaughter was witnessed by those beyond the domain.
• Lu Chen looked toward the figures beyond the domain, where his victory left the gathered forces terrified and uncertain about descending.
• An ancient Divine King appeared, and declared that he would destroy the Netherworld's restrictions to let all forces descend sooner.

Helian Tu used a Teleportation Token to isolate Lu Chen with nearly a hundred Northern Barbarians inside the Azure Void Ancient Land, where Lu Chen revealed his fourth-level Spirit Hidden Realm cultivation and slaughtered most of them. Three surviving experts trapped him beneath the Heaven Severing Pagoda and began pouring in their true energy to refine him.

• Helian Tu activated a Teleportation Token, transporting Lu Chen and the Northern Barbarian experts into the Azure Void Ancient Land while Shen Lian was left behind.
• Helian Tu mocked Lu Chen and attacked him, but Lu Chen killed him with a single slash.
• Lu Chen revealed an aura at the fourth level of the Spirit Hidden Realm and killed most of the Northern Barbarian force with another strike.
• Three surviving Northern Barbarian experts threw out the Heaven Severing Pagoda and imprisoned Lu Chen beneath it.
• The three experts began pouring their true energy into the pagoda to refine Lu Chen.

Lu Chen overwhelmed Yun Potian and Sword Marquis, killing both after they tried to fight or flee. He then resurrected them as loyal Divine King servants, leaving himself in control of two powerful subordinates.

• Yun Potian enlarged himself and attacked Lu Chen, but Lu Chen's Level 2 Sacred Domain withstood the blow and his punch sent Yun Potian flying.
• Lu Chen shattered Sword Marquis's Heavenly Dao Reincarnation Slash and blasted apart half his face and skull, while Yun Potian's black awl failed to pierce Lu Chen's defense.
• Yun Potian fled and tried to block Lu Chen with the Jade Boat, but Lu Chen split the boat, cut off half Yun Potian's body, and struck him down.
• Sword Marquis begged for mercy, but Lu Chen punched through his chest and then killed him with a blow to the head.
• Yun Potian abandoned his body and tried to escape to the Netherworld, but Lu Chen forced his soul back and burned it away with Solar True Fire.
• Lu Chen summoned Yun Potian and Sword Marquis after their deaths, and both appeared as loyal Divine King servants.