Chapter Summaries

After reaching Qingyuan City, Lu Chen learned that the Blood Offering Sect’s plan had failed and gained the Undying Overlord Body talent when his reputation rose again. Meanwhile, Huangfu Yun headed to meet him, and Xiao Xuanye announced that she would challenge him in Qingyuan City.

• Magistrate Yang Wanfeng apologized to Lu Chen and opened the city to the refugees from Yuanzhou City.
• Lu Chen agreed to Han Wu-bing’s invitation for a drink and declined Shangguan Xue’er’s proposal to become sworn siblings.
• In Yuanzhou City, Qin Mingyue told a Blood Offering Sect elder that the refugees had survived, then fought him in the street.
• After learning Lu Chen had risen to sixteenth on the Qilin Rankings, Huangfu Yun decided to go to Qingyuan City and make friends with him.
• Xiao Xuanye ordered Zhou Tai to publicize her challenge to Lu Chen and said she hoped he would not flee.
• Lu Chen received the Undying Overlord Body talent, which gave him tenfold explosive strength and powerful healing.

Li Wangshu and the Golden-Winged Great Peng King wounded each other, prompting the Demon Kings to attack the humans together. Lu Chen activated the Founding Ancestor's token, summoning the Netherworld experts to devastate the demon army; as the survivors fled, Lu Chen and his allies pursued them for Merit Points.

• Li Wangshu used a forbidden technique to injure the Golden-Winged Great Peng King, and both combatants were sent flying.
• The Demon Kings abandoned their pretense of a fair fight and charged the humans, while Ancient Clan members urged them on.
• Lu Chen activated the Founding Ancestor's token and ordered Yue Qingtian, Ye Qiankun, and the others to retreat.
• The Founding Ancestor and other Netherworld experts unleashed a torrent of attacks that killed dozens of Demon Kings and destroyed most of the demon army.
• Lu Chen, Li Wangshu, Yue Qingtian, and the others pursued the fleeing demons, and Lu Chen killed the Tree King and a weasel Demon King.

Lu Chen used the Karma Secret Art to find the Dragon Vein in the Netherworld and learned that the human sovereigns were fighting the Three-Faced Beings in the Chaos Battlefield. He decided to enter the battlefield to seek Merit Points and crossed the barrier into its chaotic depths.

• Lu Chen tracked the Dragon Vein to a forbidden mountain range and found the sleeping figure and demonic blade beneath it.
• The figure told Lu Chen that the human sovereigns were fighting in the Chaos Battlefield and that only the Chaos Purple Lotus could help its injuries.
• Lu Chen left the Netherworld and flew for two months to the edge of the endless starry sky.
• Lu Chen cut open the energy membrane and entered the Chaos Battlefield, enduring its terrifying Chaos energy.

Lu Chen and Zhao Qianliu tried to escape the Three-Faced Beings’ search, but their trail was discovered and they were forced to fight through a vast encirclement. Lu Chen broke through to the Fifth Level of Ruler Realm and escaped a Chaos King’s grasp, leaving the enemy wounded behind them.

• Lu Chen concealed his and Zhao Qianliu’s destinies as they flew through the Three-Faced Beings’ defensive zone, while Zhao Qianliu was astonished that he had mastered and altered her Destiny Sword Technique.
• After a Three-Faced Being sensed their destiny arts, Lu Chen changed course, killed seven or eight pursuing Chaos Beasts, and led Zhao Qianliu into a desperate charge through the encirclement.
• Lu Chen unleashed his Golden Sword Qi and Myriad Heavens Authority to cut through the Three-Faced Beings and Chaos Beasts, breaking through to the Fifth Level of Ruler Realm during the fight.
• Lu Chen burned his body to widen the distance from their pursuers, but a Chaos King attacked him with a gigantic black hand.
• Lu Chen split the Chaos King’s hand and struck its true body with a sword attack guided by destiny and karma, then vanished with Zhao Qianliu.

After Lu Chen killed the Golden Light Monk, Master Duanjie intervened to block two Ye Family elders who attacked Lu Chen, while the Human Rankings prodigy Duanxin introduced himself. The elders tried to leave, but Lu Chen stopped them and prepared to settle their feud.

• King Cui explained that Lu Chen had used Heart Shatter to exploit the Golden Light Monk’s inner demons and defeat him.
• Master Duanjie and Duanxin arrived, and Duanjie said Golden Light Temple had come to find the Golden Light Monk, whom it considered a traitor.
• Two elders who said they had been expelled from the Ye Family attacked Lu Chen, but Master Duanjie blocked them with his Golden Light Imperishable Body.
• Duanxin introduced himself to Lu Chen as the Human Rankings expert ranked sixty-eighth, and Lu Chen recognized his reputation.
• After failing to overcome Duanjie, the Ye Family elders turned to leave, but Lu Chen appeared before them and challenged them to settle their grudges.

Lu Chen destroyed the Sword Sect, ordered the Pacification Bureau to search its ruins for survivors and Xiao Xuanye, then set out to wipe out the Ye Family. After learning that Heaven Rankings experts had fled toward the deep mountains and Master Dugu was pursuing them, Lu Chen advanced to the third level of the Grandmaster realm.

• Lu Chen shattered the coffins of two Sword Sect elders, pursued them, and killed them for 420 Merit Points each.
• Lu Chen searched the Sword Sect treasury, destroyed the technique that summoned past sect masters’ remnant souls, and took two sword manuals.
• Shen Lian arrived with Pacification Bureau experts, sealed off the Sword Sect, and received Lu Chen’s orders to search for survivors and Xiao Xuanye.
• Lu Chen told Shen Lian he was heading to the Ye Family, where Zhou Yun and Wang Yue were confronting them.
• Zhao Xuantian told Lu Chen that the Heaven Rankings experts had fled toward the deep mountains and that Master Dugu suspected they were colluding with the Ancient Clan.
• Lu Chen ordered the Imperial Family to prevent anyone from the Ye Family escaping, spent 75,000 Merit Points, and reached the third level of the Grandmaster realm.

Breeze Swordmaster arrived and revealed that Lu Chen was Dugu Wudi’s disciple, forcing his enemies to back down. Lu Chen ignored Breeze Swordmaster’s plea to spare Ye Gubai and killed him for murdering his Senior Sister.

• Breeze Swordmaster killed the attackers on the city wall and spared only Xu Longzheng.
• Breeze Swordmaster announced that Lu Chen was Dugu Wudi’s third disciple and warned that harming him would make the Sky Sword Sect an enemy.
• Xu Longzheng begged for mercy, and Breeze Swordmaster ordered Lu Chen’s wanted notice revoked.
• Breeze Swordmaster urged Lu Chen to spare Ye Gubai, citing his rare talent.
• Lu Chen refused, killed Ye Gubai, and received 110 Merit Points.

Lu Chen agreed to let Cui Zhengxuan spread the rumor that he belonged to the lightning-commanding Ye Family, hoping to deter Zhou Tai and the Sword Sect. Reports of Lu Chen’s victory and the Sword Sect’s alleged interference spread across the world, while the Yellow-Robed Elder awaited the sect’s reply about Lu Chen’s origins.

• Cui Hu told Lu Chen that Zhou Tai had opened the True Qi Hidden Realm, and Cui Zhengxuan proposed that Lu Chen pose as a member of the Ye Family to discourage the Sword Sect from acting against him.
• Cui Zhengxuan sent Cui Hu to the Wind Listening Pavilion to spread rumors, while Lu Chen left and asked about Zhou Tai’s family.
• News spread that Lu Chen had slain Guo Jing and defeated the Sword Sect successor, along with allegations that the Sword Sect’s protector had tried to rig the duel and kill Lu Chen.
• Jianghu wanderers condemned the Sword Sect as rumors of its shameless conduct spread throughout the world.
• The Yellow-Robed Elder grew furious at the rumors, saw the White-Robed Young Mistress still traumatized by Lu Chen’s martial art, and awaited the Sword Sect’s reply about Lu Chen’s identity.

Lu Chen defeated Xiao Xuanye and attracted the attention of the Breeze Swordmaster, who offered him a chance to join the Sky Sword Sect if he could master its introductory sword manual while retaining his saber intent. Lu Chen claimed he had already learned the manual, leaving Breeze Swordmaster and the others stunned.

• Lu Chen reassured Cui Hu after the fight, while the White-Robed Young Mistress and Zhou Tai fled following Xiao Xuanye's defeat.
• Lu Chen's victory earned him Merit Points, and the crowd made way for him as he left the arena.
• Breeze Swordmaster revealed that he had protected Lu Chen and thanked him for helping stop the Blood Offering Sect's Bloodthirsty War Saber.
• Breeze Swordmaster explained that Sky Sword Sect disciples had to abandon saber intent, but offered Lu Chen a chance to cultivate both if he mastered the Supreme Sword Classic within one month.
• Lu Chen finished reading the Supreme Sword Classic and declared that he had already learned it, stunning Breeze Swordmaster, Cui Hu, Han Wu-bing, and Shangguan Xue'er.

Lu Chen prepared to enter the secret realm, where he intended to claim the Life Source Elixir and Star Tear while facing powerful Ancient Clan heirs. After arriving in Qingyun Town, he traded threats with Xu Jiuye, while Ye Wushe declared that he wanted Lu Chen as a golden-armored slave.

• Zhao Xuantian warned Lu Chen about the four strongest Ancient Clan heirs and explained their abilities, while revealing that the Ancient Clan Pure Land was nearing collapse.
• Dugu Wudi gave Lu Chen a compass that could locate the Life Source Elixir and Star Tear, and said the group would enter the secret realm from Qingyun Town.
• Ye Wushe said he wanted to make Lu Chen a golden-armored slave, while Xu Jiuye vowed to cripple him with three strikes of his staff.
• Dugu Wudi and Zhao Xuantian escorted Lu Chen into Qingyun Town, where he spotted the concealed Golden Body Realm experts among the gathered factions.
• Xu Jiuye challenged Lu Chen to survive three staff strikes, and Lu Chen retorted that he would spare Xu Jiuye if he survived one slash.
• Ye Wushe dismissed the deaths of the Ye Family's outer branch and said Lu Chen was suitable to become his golden-armored slave, prompting Lie Wujin to question him.

Lu Chen followed Qiqi to the East Sea after it sensed intruders at its home, where seven Divine Kings searched for the remains of Qiqi’s mother and took the dragon nest. When Lu Chen and Qiqi confronted them, Sword Venerable attacked Lu Chen with his Sun Breaker technique.

• Qiqi sensed someone had entered its home in the East Sea and asked Lu Chen to help investigate.
• Lu Chen and Qiqi reached the East Sea, where seven Divine Kings broke into the dragon nest searching for Qiqi’s mother’s corpse.
• After finding the corpse gone, Xuan Zhenzi used the Sleeve Universe Technique to take the dragon nest, and the group suspected Lu Chen had found the nest first.
• Lu Chen and Qiqi ambushed the seven Divine Kings, but Chu Jingtian’s Eight Trigrams Mirror exposed them; Qiqi recognized the intruders as its mother’s killers.
• Lu Chen revealed his third-level Divine King strength, and Sword Venerable drew his ancient sword and unleashed Sun Breaker at him.

Lu Chen lured the Heaven Rankings experts away from Sky Sword Sect, then attacked Prajna Temple after learning Master Yun Kong had stayed behind to hunt Dugu Wudi. He razed the temple with one sword strike and headed back toward Sky Sword Sect, while Yun Kong prepared to confront him.

• Lu Chen drew most of the Heaven Rankings experts out of Sky Sword Sect, but discovered that Master Yun Kong had not followed them.
• Lu Chen chose to destroy Prajna Temple before returning to Sky Sword Sect, and Zhao Xuantian told him the temple lay in Yun Province.
• Lu Chen unleashed Sword Burial Returns to Emptiness on Prajna Temple, killing its monks and reducing the temple to ruins.
• Lu Chen circled behind a mountain range and raced back toward Sky Sword Sect as the pursuing experts reacted in horror.
• Master Yun Kong learned that Prajna Temple had been destroyed, chanted the Rebirth Sutra, and declared that he would subdue demons and eliminate evil.

Lu Chen defeated the Wuji Divine King and forced the wounded Xuanyuan Tiangang to flee, while forces from across the Myriad Worlds gathered to enter the Wasteland. After the Yang Realm’s restrictions broke and its Spirit Energy revived, Lu Chen warned Zhao Xuantian of the coming invasion and began searching the region for opportunities.

• Xuanyuan Tiangang fled through the starry sky in terror, warning that a monster had appeared in the Yang Realm, while the gathered elites from the Myriad Worlds wondered what had happened to him.
• Zhuo Xingyun and Xuan Yu discussed seeking opportunities in the Wasteland as the Heavenly Machine Divine Race, the Space-Time Divine Clan, and other forces headed there.
• Lu Chen examined Leng Wuji’s Heavenly Dao Mirror, sensed the Myriad Worlds approaching, and returned to the Yang Realm with the souls of the Sword Marquis and Yun Potian.
• With the restrictions shattered, Divine Mountains repaired themselves and Spirit Energy revived; Zhao Xuantian rejoiced as his health and lifespan improved.
• Lu Chen warned Zhao Xuantian that the incoming forces threatened ordinary people and the Imperial Dynasty, then told him to move trusted relatives into the Sky Sword Sect.
• Zhao Xuantian hurried to make arrangements while Lu Chen began searching the surrounding region for opportunities to nourish his Myriad Sword Dao Seed.

Lu Chen used his puppet-controlled Sword Marquis and Yun Potian to fight Leng Wuji and Xuanyuan Tiangang, then overpowered Leng Wuji with his fists. Leng Wuji died, Xuanyuan Tiangang escaped, and Lu Chen ended with 5.3 million Merit Points and confidence that he could protect himself.

• Sword Marquis and Yun Potian revealed themselves as Lu Chen's puppets, and Leng Wuji and Xuanyuan Tiangang failed to awaken them.
• Lu Chen ordered Sword Marquis and Yun Potian to attack; Leng Wuji trapped Sword Marquis, but Lu Chen struck Leng Wuji and took the Heavenly Dao Mirror.
• Leng Wuji unleashed the Ten Steles Suppressing King Formation, but Lu Chen shattered three steles and battered him with a relentless series of punches.
• Xuanyuan Tiangang broke apart into streams of light and escaped despite Yun Potian's efforts to stop him.
• Lu Chen beat Leng Wuji to death, earning 500,000 Merit Points and bringing his total to 5.3 million.

Lu Chen learned about ranked martial arts and cultivation methods, then destroyed the Iron Scale Gang and urged poor residents to reclaim their wages. The looting spiraled out of control until Constable Chief Guo Feng arrived and killed three residents.

• Yang Tiecheng told Lu Chen that Azure Wave Martial Hall possessed ranked martial arts and a cultivation method, and revealed its location.
• Lu Chen killed Yang Tiecheng, used merit points to raise Tiger Claw Skill and Swallow Chasing Wind Saber to mastery, and reached Second Rank (60%).
• Lu Chen set the Iron Scale Gang ablaze and called out that its members had been destroyed and residents could reclaim their wages.
• Zhao Dezhu, Sister-in-law Zhang Rong, and other poor residents rushed into the Iron Scale Gang to take back money and goods, earning Lu Chen 300 Merit Points.
• Constables, Great Shark Gang members, and residents joined the looting until Constable Chief Guo Feng arrived and killed three residents carrying a redwood bed.

Lu Chen killed Guo Feng and the yamen constables while Senior Brother Zhang and Senior Sister Mei tried to overwhelm him with poisoned corpses. He then used the Lone Boat Moon Slash to kill Senior Sister Mei, leaving Su Yingxue stunned by his mastery of the Layered Wave Saber Technique.

• Senior Brother Zhang and Senior Sister Mei detonated poisoned Great Shark Gang elites and hurled their bodies at Lu Chen, while Lu Chen sent Su Yingxue away and charged the constables.
• Lu Chen cut down the constables and beheaded Guo Feng, earning Merit Points as poisonous blood and toxic mist covered the ground around him.
• Senior Brother Zhang and Senior Sister Mei taunted Lu Chen, believing the poisonous blood had left him unable to fight.
• Senior Sister Mei rushed toward Su Yingxue, but Lu Chen unleashed the Lone Boat Moon Slash and cut her in half.
• Su Yingxue recognized the technique as a secret art of the perfected Layered Wave Saber Technique and wondered how Lu Chen had mastered it so quickly.

Lu Chen reached the first realm of Dominion while secretly killing Three-Faced Beings and Chaos Beasts on the battlefield. After a mysterious bond linked him to the pursued Zhao Qianliu, he fled with her as enemies closed in and a terrifying black hand descended.

• Lu Chen spent three hundred million Merit Points to break through to the first realm of Dominion, revealing the Sky-Splitting Sword Scripture's aura and drawing the Three-Faced Beings' attention.
• Lu Chen escaped the attackers and continued secretly slaughtering Three-Faced Beings and Chaos Beasts as reinforcements made the battlefield more chaotic.
• The Three-Faced Beings pursued Zhao Qianliu, who was fleeing beneath a pillar of light, and Lu Chen found himself caught in the pursuit.
• Lu Chen cut down Chaos Beasts while fleeing, but a mysterious connection formed between him and Zhao Qianliu, who asked him to help her escape.
• Three-Faced Beings and Chaos Beasts surrounded Lu Chen and Zhao Qianliu, and an absolute king among the Three-Faced Beings attacked Lu Chen with a massive black hand.

Lu Chen confronted Guo Feng at his residence, where Guo Feng found his family dead and Lu Chen held his eldest son, Guo Yunlong, hostage. After Guo Feng knelt, Senior Brother Zhang and Senior Sister Mei attacked Lu Chen, who killed Guo Yunlong and evaded their strikes before the assembled factions charged him.

• Guo Feng rushed home and found his wife and family dead, then saw Lu Chen holding his unconscious son, Guo Yunlong.
• Lu Chen demanded that Guo Feng kneel, broke both of Guo Yunlong's arms, and mocked Guo Feng and Zhao Hu as they argued.
• Guo Feng knelt to protect his son, but Senior Brother Zhang and Senior Sister Mei launched a surprise attack on Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen crushed Guo Yunlong's neck and used his body to block Senior Sister Mei's palm, which made it explode.
• Lu Chen dodged Senior Brother Zhang and Senior Sister Mei's follow-up attacks, while Zhao Hu, Guo Feng, and Chen Baisha led their fighters against him.

Lu Chen reached the Fifth Rank and perfected his Grass Treading Flight while fleeing Boulderstone City. The Pacification Bureau ambushed him in the forest, and he discovered that its seven-member formation could withstand his saber strike.

• Lu Chen escaped through the forest for two days, then used 350 Merit Points to perfect the Azure Wave Art and break through to the Fifth Rank.
• Lu Chen spent 40 Merit Points to perfect Grass Treading Flight and decided to leave Boulderstone City and change his name.
• As Lu Chen ate roasted fish by a stream, the Pacification Bureau surrounded him and demanded that he surrender, threatening his relatives and the Azure Wave Martial Hall.
• Lu Chen refused to submit and learned from the bureau agents that he had appeared on the Qilin Rankings.
• The seven agents attacked in their Big Dipper Constellation Formation, but Lu Chen's Lone Boat Moon Slash sent them flying without killing them.

Lu Chen increased his strength by advancing the Righteous Heaven Art, Blood Fury Art, and Cyclone Blade, then fled the Pacification Bureau’s pursuit into a violent storm. He sought shelter and supplies at a roadside inn, where everyone inside turned to look at him.

• Lu Chen raised the Righteous Heaven Art to Beginner, increasing his cultivation from Fifth Rank (10%) to Fifth Rank (14%), then mastered the Blood Fury Art and improved the Cyclone Blade.
• A captured Pacification Guard told Lu Chen that forty-nine pursuers were after him, led by mid-stage Sixth Rank Iron-Faced Judge Yu Tianli; Lu Chen killed the guards, took their supplies, and escaped.
• Lu Chen left Boulderstone City’s territory but remained pursued, while Yu Tianli and two companions tracked him with the Heavenly Silk Gu.
• A torrential storm broke out, threatening to conceal Lu Chen’s scent from the Heavenly Silk Gu, and Lu Chen headed for a roadside inn to shelter and restock.
• Lu Chen entered the crowded inn, and every person inside turned to look at him.