Chapter Summaries

The Heaven's Secret Pavilion was shocked when Lu Chen defeated three Human Rankings experts with one slash, while the Northern Barbarians ordered a group to kill him in Azure Void Ancient Land. Lu Chen arrived at Great Yu's military camp, where Shen Lian warned him of the dangers and promised to protect him.

• The Heaven's Secret Mirror announced that Lu Chen had defeated Purple Cloud Fairy, Qingwei, and Zhou Yunlong with one slash and ranked him twenty-fifth on the Human Rankings, stunning the elders.
• Chieftain Tuoba ordered fourteen Northern Barbarians, including three Spirit Hidden Realm experts, to kill Lu Chen and as many Great Yu fighters as possible in Azure Void Ancient Land.
• Lu Chen and Wang Yue reached the military camp near Azure Void Ancient Land, where Shen Lian came out to meet them.
• Shen Lian warned Lu Chen that the Northern Barbarians might target him and explained that the ancient land would open soon for ten days, barring Golden Body Realm and Grandmaster experts.
• Lu Chen told Shen Lian to take him through the camp and asked whether the hidden Lineages had arrived, while Shen Lian offered to accompany and protect him.

Lu Chen used Sacred Domain to suppress everyone’s true qi and spiritual power, then fought off the Northern Barbarian and Great Yu Heaven Rankings experts with the Founding Ancestor’s body. After Monk Yunkong returned and found Dugu Wudi in seclusion, Dugu Wudi emerged and struck him down with a devastating sword slash.

• Lu Chen teleported Monk Yunkong away, then expanded Sacred Domain across the Sky Sword Sect and suppressed everyone’s true qi and spiritual power.
• Lu Chen controlled the Founding Ancestor’s body and beat the three Northern Barbarian experts while Zhao Xuantian and the Breeze Swordmaster helped him.
• Eight Great Yu Heaven Rankings experts arrived, fell under Sacred Domain’s suppression, and joined the chaotic fight against Lu Chen’s group.
• The combatants exhausted themselves through the night, and Monk Yunkong reappeared the next morning after escaping the mountain range where he had been teleported.
• Monk Yunkong searched the Sky Sword Sect, broke open a cliff, and found Dugu Wudi meditating in a cave.
• Dugu Wudi opened his eyes and slashed Monk Yunkong, sending him flying and destroying one of his arms.

The Blood Offering Sect Master blamed Lu Chen for the Xu Family’s destruction, prompting Yue Wuxia to send Ye Lingyun to test him while she held Dugu Wudi at bay. Meanwhile, Dugu Wudi told Lu Chen about a secret realm containing rare treasures and warned him to hide his Golden Body Realm strength; the chapter ended as Lu Chen sensed someone approaching.

• The Blood Offering Sect Master showed Yue Wuxia and the others an image of the Xu Family’s destruction and identified Lu Chen as a possible culprit because he mastered both blade and sword.
• Yue Wuxia tasked Ye Lingyun with testing Lu Chen, gave him a talisman that could hide him from tracking, and promised to keep Dugu Wudi occupied.
• The Blood Offering Sect Master refused Ye Lingyun’s request for help, leaving Ye Lingyun to carry out Yue Wuxia’s order alone.
• Dugu Wudi told Lu Chen that a newly discovered secret realm held Life Source Elixir and Star Tear, and that the younger generation would be allowed to compete for its treasures.
• Dugu Wudi warned Lu Chen that Ancient Clans might secretly send Golden Body Realm experts into the secret realm disguised as Grandmasters, and told him to conceal his own strength.
• Lu Chen ended his conversation with Dugu Wudi after sensing someone approaching.

Lu Chen defeated the Sect Leader in a brief battle, then entered the yin wind at Myriad Buddha Cave with Li Wangshu. After delivering the wandering monk corpses from their torment, he earned enough Merit Points to reach the Ninth Stage of Dharma Aspect and found a half-living monk beside a Bronze Ancient Lamp.

• Lu Chen fought the Sect Leader, broke through her techniques, and made her agree not to contest the opportunity there; she left while urging him to consider an alliance.
• Lu Chen and Li Wangshu entered the black yin wind and encountered the dead monks of Myriad Buddha Cave, who marched while knocking wooden fish.
• Lu Chen used the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction to destroy the force controlling the monks, allowing their corpses to disperse and earning enough Merit Points for his breakthrough.
• The yin wind parted, revealing a ruined temple and a dimly glowing Grand Hall that drew Lu Chen and Li Wangshu forward.
• Inside the hall, Lu Chen and Li Wangshu found rows of blackened monks and a half-shriveled, half-golden monk beside a Bronze Ancient Lamp; the monk greeted them.

Lu Chen wielded the Hell Demon Sword to massacre the extraterrestrial enemies threatening the Axe Realm, earning fourteen million Merit Points. After annihilating the Heavenly Machine Divine Race forces, he escaped through a spatial rift when a pair of enormous eyes appeared beyond the barrier.

• Lu Chen used the Hell Demon Sword to slaughter the gigantic shadows and shatter their Soul Suppressing Tower and golden banners.
• Miao Wu Fa projected Lu Chen's battle across the Axe Realm, while the Sect Leader dismissed his victory and Black Nether questioned her.
• Lu Chen wiped out the remaining shadows, then turned on the Heavenly Machine Divine Race as they struggled against the barrier.
• Lu Chen destroyed the Heavenly Machine Divine Race's experts and ship, bringing his Merit Points to fourteen million.
• Two enormous crimson eyes appeared beyond the barrier, and Lu Chen entered a spatial rift and vanished.

Lu Chen rejected the Sect Leader’s offer to join her faction and planned to attack the demigod souls beyond the domain while they lacked physical bodies. With help from Miao Wu Fa and the Space-Time Divine Clan, he entered their ranks and unleashed the Hell Demon Sword, slaughtering the giant shadows as they attacked the Axe Realm’s barrier.

• Lu Chen told the Sect Leader he would hunt the giant shadows beyond the domain, but she refused to cooperate because she considered his plan a worthless investment.
• Lu Chen asked Miao Wu Fa for help opening a space-time gate, and Miao Xuanji agreed to assist him.
• Miao Wu Fa and the elders concealed the area with a formation while Miao Xuanji prepared to open the gate.
• The Heavenly Machine Divine Race arrived in a soul ship and began breaking the barrier over the Axe Realm as the giant shadows boasted about conquering it.
• Lu Chen slipped through a spatial rift and attacked the giant shadows with the Hell Demon Sword, rapidly making them melt and scream.

Lu Chen overwhelmed Chu Yunxiao with the Hell Demon Sword, forcing him to activate the Imperial Lord's Mark. The Imperial Lord's phantom attacked Lu Chen, but heaven's restrictions weakened its giant hand as it bore down on him.

• Li Wangshu intercepted the remaining knights while Lu Chen attacked Chu Yunxiao.
• Lu Chen shattered Chu Yunxiao's purple clouds, golden flames, and Five Sacred Mountains, repeatedly wounding him and destroying his defensive tokens.
• Chu Yunxiao summoned the Imperial Lord's Mark, and the Imperial Lord's phantom appeared to protect him.
• Lu Chen and Li Wangshu fled as the Imperial Lord's phantom struck at Lu Chen with a massive hand.
• The restrictions and runes weakened the giant hand, and Lu Chen activated his Sword Heart and slashed at it.

Lu Chen destroyed the Ye Family’s Thunderbolt Subduing Demon Grand Formation and killed its Ten Elders before Mr. Hu unleashed a Mountain Suppression Talisman. Lu Chen drew his sword and awakened Level Four Sword Intent, drawing metal essence toward the Crimson Softsword as demons in a nearby cave recognized the signs of a divine weapon being born and rushed to investigate.

• Lu Chen announced that the imperial court would erase the Ye Family, while Acting Family Head Ye Yunxiao ordered the Ten Elders to trap him with their formation.
• Lu Chen absorbed the formation’s lightning with his Thunderbolt King talent and killed all Ten Elders with two slashes, earning 8,000 Merit Points.
• Ye Lingxiao fled as Mr. Hu used the Mountain Suppression Talisman, suppressing Lu Chen’s true qi and spiritual power beneath an enormous ancient seal.
• Lu Chen drew his sword with Level Four Sword Intent, causing metal essence from the surrounding area to gather into the Crimson Softsword.
• Demons refining a blood pool in an ancient cave recognized the gathering metal essence as a sign of a divine weapon being born and charged outside to investigate.

Lu Chen erased his traces from the Heaven's Secret Mirror, destroyed the Xu Family, and revealed to Zhao Xuantian that he had reached the Golden Body Realm. He infiltrated Xuantian Gate, where he battled Zhao Jiuxiao after advancing to the second level of the Golden Body Realm, and ended the chapter with a potentially lethal strike.

• Lu Chen's blade erased his aura from the karma thread, removing his information from the Heaven's Secret Mirror, and he left the Xu Family's ruins with over one hundred thousand Merit Points.
• Lu Chen admitted to Zhao Xuantian that he had destroyed the Xu Family and reached the Golden Body Realm, leaving Zhao Xuantian stunned.
• Lu Chen entered Xuantian Gate, used the Karma Secret Art to assess its disciples, and killed those who had committed evil to gain Merit Points.
• Zhao Jiuxiao prepared two talented disciples to use a talisman against Lu Chen in a secret realm, then sensed the attack on his sect and confronted the masked intruder.
• Lu Chen identified himself as Emperor of the Sky, broke Zhao Jiuxiao's Xuantian Finger with the Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art, and advanced to the second level of the Golden Body Realm.
• Lu Chen used the Karma Secret Art to target Zhao Jiuxiao with his Black Blade, while Zhao Jiuxiao sensed a mortal threat.

Lu Chen met Cui Zhengxuan, learned how the Qilin Rankings were controlled by mysterious forces and dominated by Hidden Aristocratic Families, and received a rare martial art. He rejected the idea of clearing his name with the court and vowed to enforce justice with his blade, while Cui Zhengxuan offered him protection in Lonely Cloud Town.

• Cui Zhengxuan welcomed Lu Chen and showed him the latest Qilin Rankings, which placed him forty-second as the Heartless Blade.
• Cui Zhengxuan explained Heaven's Secret Pavilion's mysterious history and the Hidden Aristocratic Families that held the Qilin Rankings' top fifteen places.
• Lu Chen asked about the rankings and learned they changed only when a fighter's achievements became publicly known.
• Cui Zhengxuan gave Lu Chen the first three styles of Seven Styles of Divine Extinction, a martial art he said rivaled peerless arts.
• Cui Zhengxuan offered to help clear Lu Chen's name with the court, but Lu Chen rejected the offer and declared that his blade was the law and would punish evildoers.
• Cui Zhengxuan warned that the Pacification Bureau would pursue Lu Chen and offered to protect him while he stayed in Lonely Cloud Town.

Lu Chen fought the Three-Faced Being after it possessed Yun Xing, eventually using the Sky-Splitting Sword Scripture to destroy her body. The being’s true form emerged, forcing Lu Chen to flee into chaos as it pursued him, leaving two star domains in ruins.

• The Three-Faced Being possessed Yun Xing, trapped Lu Chen, and attacked him with scarlet lightning.
• Lu Chen unleashed Myriad Heavens Authority and Tenfold Combat Power, then clashed with the possessed Yun Xing using his Golden Divine Sword.
• The Three-Faced Being summoned a sacrificial altar, but Lu Chen’s Sky-Splitting Sword Scripture pierced it and split Yun Xing’s body in two.
• The Three-Faced Being’s true form appeared and attacked Lu Chen with overwhelming force, while its wounds healed from Lu Chen’s sword strikes.
• Lu Chen fled into endless chaos through a rift, and the Three-Faced Being pursued him as the Pure Yang Star Domain and Heavenly Machine Star Domain were destroyed.

Lu Chen used Dugu Wudi’s Sword Talisman to annihilate the Grandmasters who tried to kill him, while Breeze Swordmaster was injured by the attack’s aftermath. After Zhao Gang gave Breeze Swordmaster a healing pill, Lu Chen and Breeze Swordmaster set out to return to the Sky Sword Sect and aid Dugu Wudi.

• Breeze Swordmaster urged Lu Chen to retreat, while a black-robed figure attacked him with Nether Ghost Eyes and fell into an illusion.
• Lu Chen unleashed Dugu Wudi’s Sword Talisman, killing the surrounding Grandmasters and carving a vast scar into the earth.
• Zhao Gang and the two Imperial Family guardians witnessed the strike, while the Blood Offering Sect guardian fled with its Holy Son.
• Lu Chen caught the Sword Talisman and discovered it could still be used twice.
• Zhao Gang gave Breeze Swordmaster a Nine Revolutions Golden Pill, and Breeze Swordmaster recovered enough to plan their return to the Sky Sword Sect.
• Lu Chen and Breeze Swordmaster decided to return and use the remaining Sword Talisman strikes to help Dugu Wudi.

Lu Chen entered the Enlightenment Tower and subdued Qing Lian after she tried to drive him out, forcing her to yield the cultivation space. He began cultivating while Qing Lian stood aside, shaken by his strength and ordered to call him Senior Brother.

• Lu Chen entered the Enlightenment Tower and found Qing Lian cultivating in one half of its chamber.
• Qing Lian attacked Lu Chen when he refused to leave, but he struck her down and repeatedly slapped her until she stopped resisting.
• Lu Chen asked Qing Lian whether she would keep guarding the cultivation space, and she promised she would not.
• Lu Chen revealed that he was sixteen, had reached the sixth level of the Physical Body Hidden Realm, and had cultivated Level Two Sword Intent and Level Two Blade Intent.
• Lu Chen claimed the Enlightenment Tower for himself, made Qing Lian call him Senior Brother, and began cultivating while she stood aside.

Lu Chen completed the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction at a crimson cliff and discovered a Red Orb hidden inside a headless corpse. The orb drew a vast horde of demon beasts, and Lu Chen began cutting them down as they swarmed around him.

• Lu Chen used Merit Points to imprint the final four styles of the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction and perfected Annihilation Path and Severing Calamity.
• Lu Chen understood the cliff's inscriptions and found a headless corpse with an ancient blade embedded in its chest and a glowing object inside its abdomen.
• Lu Chen pulled out the broken blade, releasing a Red Orb that burst from the corpse and emitted a fragrance that stirred his spiritual power and True Qi.
• Two True Qi Hidden Realm-level demon beasts attacked Lu Chen for the orb, and he killed them with a single blade strike.
• A seemingly endless horde of demon beasts charged toward Lu Chen, who unleashed his blade intent and decapitated every beast within several hundred meters.

Dugu Wudi and Zhao Xuantian encountered two Golden Body Realm Otherworlder puppets preparing a golden arrow, while Lu Chen overwhelmed the Lin Family’s ninth-level true qi patriarch. As Lu Chen pressed his attack, an Otherworlder appeared behind him and evaded his sword strikes.

• Dugu Wudi and Zhao Xuantian discussed the hidden lineages’ ties to Otherworlders and the growing danger they posed.
• Dugu Wudi and Zhao Xuantian found two burly Golden Body Realm men forging a golden arrow and challenging them.
• Dugu Wudi swallowed the men’s arrow into a black hole and challenged them to attack again.
• Lu Chen struck down the Lin Family patriarch, who used the Blood Coagulation God Pearl to form a barrier and heal his wounds.
• Lu Chen shattered the patriarch’s barrier and continued attacking as the Lin Family siblings watched in terror.
• Lu Chen sensed an ambush, attacked the strange figure with blade and sword, and identified it as an Otherworlder when it vanished and reappeared nearby.

Lu Chen accepted Cui Zhengxuan’s request to rescue Yang Yun’er’s family in exchange for a powerful movement art, then learned the art and prepared to leave. The next morning, he faced Jian Yi, a Sword Sect successor whose protector had expected him to throw the match, and attacked her at full strength.

• Cui Zhengxuan offered Lu Chen Eight Desolations Dragon-Soaring Steps in exchange for helping Yang Yun’er, whose family had been threatened by a local gang in Yunlan City.
• Cui Zhengxuan warned Lu Chen that the Pacification Bureau would send stronger experts after Guo Jing’s death, and Lu Chen agreed to leave soon.
• Lu Chen comprehended Eight Desolations Dragon-Soaring Steps, spent 800 Merit Points to raise it to minor mastery, and tested its speed in his courtyard.
• A Yellow-Robed Elder told Lu Chen to lose a match against his unnamed young mistress, but Lu Chen pretended to agree.
• Jian Yi challenged Lu Chen on the main street, revealed a powerful frost martial art, and mocked him as the crowd watched.
• Lu Chen unleashed his blade, blade intent, and lightning against Jian Yi instead of holding back.

Lu Chen converted his internal force into True Qi, opened the True Qi Hidden Realm, and perfected his Six Extinction Swordplay. After hearing that the Ye Family had implicated King Cui and Cui Hu because of him, he left the inn with killing intent.

• Lu Chen converted his internal force into True Qi, opening the first gate of the True Qi Hidden Realm and astonishing Breeze Swordmaster, Old Daoist Xuanzhen, and Zhou Song with the leaked aura.
• Lu Chen spent Merit Points to perfect the fourth style of Six Extinction Swordplay and raise Void Swordplay to its perfected second level.
• News spread that Lu Chen had destroyed a Blood Offering Sect stronghold, killed its Holy Maiden, and slain hundreds of its elites.
• At breakfast, Lu Chen heard a middle-aged man claim the Ye Family had sealed off Lonely Cloud Town and threatened King Cui and Cui Hu because Lu Chen killed Ye Gubai.
• Lu Chen confronted the man, learned that King Cui and Cui Hu could lose their lives, and left the inn with killing intent toward the Ye Family.

Lu Chen killed Yu Tianli, Zhang Qian, Yin Jiuzhu, and the remaining Jianghu travelers at the inn, then compensated the innkeeper and learned about the Qilin Rankings from Liu Jinglan. He left with provisions, while Liu Jinglan and Qingqing prepared to continue their journey.

• Lu Chen used lightning to kill Yu Tianli, then chased down and killed Zhang Qian, Yin Jiuzhu, and the surviving Jianghu travelers, earning Merit Points.
• Lu Chen recovered his strength, searched the corpses for silver, and gave several hundred taels to the innkeeper to repair the ruined inn.
• Liu Jinglan considered asking Lu Chen for help, but Qingqing was afraid of him, so Liu Jinglan instead thanked Lu Chen and asked about the Qilin Rankings.
• Liu Jinglan explained that the Qilin Rankings listed young martial artists and were compiled by the mysterious Heaven's Secret Pavilion; Lu Chen realized the rankings could help build his good reputation.
• The innkeeper gave Lu Chen provisions and wine, and Lu Chen departed; Liu Jinglan and Qingqing then prepared to leave the inn as well.

Lu Chen was watched by the Three-Faced Beings as he fought bizarre blade-men and killed three Divine Kings who had diverted the monsters toward him. He met Venerable Chiyan, who described a different kind of soul-devouring creature, and the two realized they had encountered different threats.

• Lu Chen spotted the Three-Faced Beings' scarlet eyes overhead and killed a powerful blade-man with [Scar of Heaven].
• When blade-men swarmed three Divine Kings who fled toward him, Lu Chen unleashed Tenfold Combat Power, killed four attackers, and then slew the three Divine Kings when they tried to leave without compensating him.
• The Three-Faced Beings focused their attention on Lu Chen, who decided to stop hiding and rapidly gather Merit Points to reach the Divine Emperor realm.
• Lu Chen met Venerable Chiyan, who warned him about transparent, tentacled creatures that silently devoured souls.
• Lu Chen described the blade-men he had encountered and demonstrated one by constructing its likeness with divine power, prompting Venerable Chiyan to form a figure of his own.

Lu Chen killed the Azure Dragon and the Star-Moon Clan leaders, Xing Wuliang and Yue Wufa, then slaughtered six other Ancient Clan magnates. He left the gathered survivors stunned when he summoned the two clan leaders back from death as his servants.

• Ao Yun fled after Lu Chen killed the Azure Dragon, while Xing Wuliang and Yue Wufa tried to escape and summon their ancestors.
• Lu Chen shattered Xing Wuliang's star attack and killed him with his sword.
• Yue Wufa tried to flee and awaken the ancestors, but Lu Chen broke his moon attack and killed him.
• Lu Chen killed six Ancient Clan magnates from the War God Hall and No. 2 Saber Gate after they tried to surrender.
• The survivors blamed the Upper Three Clans, and Lu Chen offered to let them face Xing Wuliang and Yue Wufa.
• Lu Chen summoned Xing Wuliang and Yue Wufa back to life, and both greeted him as their master.