Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen returned to the Sky Sword Sect and killed the deities who came to seize it, causing word of his survival to spread and the newcomers to flee. After Zhao Xuantian begged him for help from the Imperial City, Lu Chen killed the three Heavenly Machine Divine Race experts who had sealed it, allowing Zhao Xuantian and his kin to escape.

• Lu Chen appeared at the Sky Sword Sect and killed the deities who had come to attack it, then reassured Dugu Wudi that the sect was safe.
• Lu Chen went to the mountain gate and killed the next waves of attackers, while his survival frightened other Netherworld experts into fleeing.
• Lu Chen concealed his ability to contract Divine Kings, fearing that revealing it would draw the attention of Divine Emperors.
• Zhao Xuantian contacted Lu Chen and pleaded for help after three Heavenly Machine Divine Race experts trapped him in the Imperial City.
• Lu Chen reached the Imperial City, killed one expert to break the seal, and then killed the other two as Zhao Xuantian and his bloodline members escaped.

Lu Chen’s rise to first place on the Earth Rankings shocked the Jianghu, while his former allies and enemies reacted to his new power. At Mount Tian Sheng, four groups from the Ancient Clan emerged from seclusion and arrived in Great Yu Imperial City.

• The elders of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion confirmed Lu Chen’s first-place Earth Rankings position and detected the Ancient Clan’s return.
• News spread that Lu Chen had destroyed the Sword Sect and Ye Family, and the Heavenly Fate Rankings named him first on the Qilin, Human, and Earth Rankings.
• Cui Hu and Cui Zhengxuan marveled at Lu Chen’s ascent, while Huangfu Yun’s family suddenly treated him as important because of his connection to Lu Chen.
• Families that had once befriended Lu Chen gave their members greater attention, while Lu Chen told people offering apologies to stop killing his enemies and leave them for him to deal with.
• Four groups from the Ancient Clan gathered at Mount Tian Sheng, discussed Spirit Energy’s revival, and set out to meet the human race’s leaders.
• The Ancient Clan groups arrived in Great Yu Imperial City, shaking the world.

Lu Chen challenged Guo Jing after Cui Hu humiliated the court official and released him to fight. Lu Chen struck with blade intent, leaving the duel’s outcome unclear as the onlookers realized how fast his attack had been.

• Cui Hu appeared and rebuked Guo Jing for accusing Cui Zhengxuan, then crushed him into the mud with his aura.
• Lu Chen asked Cui Hu to let him fight Guo Jing, and Cui Hu withdrew his pressure and allowed the duel.
• Guo Jing unleashed his Ninth Rank strength and blade momentum, confident that Lu Chen’s Eighth Rank cultivation could not match him.
• Lu Chen drew his blade and attacked with blade intent, overwhelming Guo Jing’s focus and triggering memories of his harsh childhood training.
• Guo Jing broke free of the illusion and countered, and their blades collided in a flash that sent blood into the air.
• The fighters remained standing, but the crowd could not tell who had won; Cui Hu and other senior martial artists recognized Lu Chen’s blade intent.

Lu Chen used the Karma Blade to erase the Xu Family head, then destroyed the Xu Family members and their blood-red trapping treasure. After discovering that Heaven’s Secret Pavilion could learn of his Golden Body Realm breakthrough through a karmic thread, he tried to sever it, shaking the Heaven’s Secret Mirror.

• Lu Chen appeared before the Xu Family and used the Karma Blade to sever the Xu Family head’s karmic threads, making him vanish and earning 1,500 Merit Points.
• Six Xu Family Ancient Clan members trapped Lu Chen inside a blood-red box that disrupted his Golden Body Realm power.
• Lu Chen drew the Golden Serpent Sword, shattered the box, and killed the Xu Family and Ancient Clan members with his Level Four Sword Intent.
• Lu Chen discovered that a karmic thread linked him to Heaven’s Secret Pavilion and revealed his rankings and entry into the Heaven Rankings.
• Lu Chen struck the thread with the Karma Blade, causing the Heaven’s Secret Mirror to shake and alarming the elders at Heaven’s Secret Pavilion.

Lu Chen hid in a ruined temple as the city hunted him, then received the Iron Skin gift, which reduced external damage by 80%. When Iron Scale Gang men threatened slum residents and tried to seize Zhang Rong's daughter, Lu Chen killed them and revealed himself as the benefactor who had saved them before.

• Lu Chen learned the city had shut its gates and was searching for him, then received Iron Skin after his reputation reached Slightly Famous.
• Lu Chen recognized Zhang Rong among the slum residents as she spoke about his earlier rescue of her and the children.
• Two Iron Scale Gang men demanded overdue payments from the residents and tried to take Zhang Rong's daughter as payment.
• Lu Chen killed the man who lunged for the girl and earned five Merit Points.
• Lu Chen chased and killed the second gang member, earning another five Merit Points.
• Zhang Rong and the other residents recognized Lu Chen and knelt to thank him.

Lu Chen pursued Senior Brother Zhang through the city, exposing his Blood Offering Sect ties and his collusion within the yamen. Meanwhile, Lin Yun tortured villagers from Lu Chen’s former village for information, leaving a child blinded and unconscious.

• Senior Brother Zhang fled after Lu Chen killed his junior sister, and Lu Chen chased him into the city.
• Senior Brother Zhang hurled pedestrians at Lu Chen, then drained more than a dozen people of their blood with Boundless Blood Sea as the crowd learned he was a Blood Offering Sect fiend.
• Lu Chen’s saber shattered Senior Brother Zhang’s bloody defense and severed his right arm, but Senior Brother Zhang used a forbidden technique to escape.
• Strange Jianghu figures watched Lu Chen’s pursuit and discussed his strength and possible place on the Qilin Rankings.
• Lin Yun questioned villagers from Lu Chen’s former village and blinded a child when the villagers said they knew nothing about Lu Chen.

Lu Chen fought the Sword Marquis over the Myriad Sword Dao Seed, broke through to the fifth level of the True God realm, and overwhelmed the Sword Marquis’s incarnation. The Sword Marquis vanished after Lu Chen struck him with Years Sword Song, while the Netherworld learned of their battle and the Sword Marquis’s true body vowed revenge.

• Lu Chen and the Sword Marquis clashed with their sword intent, then the Sword Marquis demanded the Myriad Sword Dao Seed and Lu Chen challenged him to take it.
• The Sword Marquis attacked with a torrent of purple Sword Qi, and Lu Chen countered with the Golden Soft Sword and Solar True Fire.
• Lu Chen spent 5,000,000 Merit Points to reach the fifth level of the True God realm, then sent the Sword Marquis flying with a powerful sword strike.
• Lu Chen pursued the injured Sword Marquis, struck him again, and forced him to flee as Descenders spread news of the battle across the Netherworld.
• The Sword Marquis transformed his incarnation into a giant sword and attacked Lu Chen, but Lu Chen used Years Sword Song to destroy the incarnation.
• Lu Chen learned that the Sword Marquis had been an incarnation and checked his remaining Merit Points as the Sword Marquis’s true body threatened revenge.

Lu Chen escaped a Divine King’s attack in the Netherworld, obtained the Myriad Sword Dao Seed, and mastered Xie Beichen’s Star River Sword Art. After spotting a figure beyond the Star Chain, he received an invitation token for the Starry Sky Arena.

• Lu Chen severed his connection to the Netherworld and escaped a Divine King’s attack before returning to his body in the Yang Realm.
• Lu Chen examined the Myriad Sword Dao Seed and learned that the growing miniature world could let him control its laws.
• Sword Marquis vowed to sacrifice Lu Chen once the Yang Realm was unsealed.
• Lu Chen summoned Xie Beichen, learned the Star River Sword Art, and used Merit Points to master it.
• Lu Chen inspected the dimming Star Chain, met a starry sky merchant beyond it, and accepted a token for the Starry Sky Arena.

The Star Chain was unsealed by decrees from several powerful clans, transforming the Yang Realm and drawing countless outsiders toward its treasures. Lu Chen returned to the Sky Sword Sect and gathered his allies there, but seven or eight powerful figures arrived at the gates demanding his master and threatening to destroy the sect.

• Xuan Yu and Zhuo Xingyun used their clans' Divine King decrees to break the Star Chain, and members of the Ancient Yun Clan and Ancient Feng Clan added their own decrees.
• The Space-Time Divine Clan lent its aid, while Netherworld experts celebrated the unsealing and claimed that Lu Chen had died.
• Lu Chen absorbed energy until the Myriad Sword Dao Seed reached its bottleneck, then returned to the Sky Sword Sect while collecting treasures along the way.
• After the Star Chain vanished and the Yang Realm stabilized, outsiders rushed down to claim its treasures, only to find many places already stripped bare.
• Lu Chen urged Li Wangshu, Yue Qingtian, Miao Wu Fa, and Leng Feng to bring their families and friends to the Sky Sword Sect for safety.
• Seven or eight powerful figures attacked outside the Sky Sword Sect, declared Lu Chen dead, and demanded that his master come out.

Lu Chen followed Wu Lie to an ancient Sword Tablet in a starry sky rift and used his system to extract the sword-dao divine ability Heavenly Scar. As news of his victories spread, Sword Cliff and the Heavenly Machine Divine Race prepared to confront him.

• After no one challenged Lu Chen again, Wu Lie declared him the champion, and Lu Chen followed him through a teleportation array with Qiqi.
• Wu Lie brought Lu Chen to a Sword Tablet in an ancient starry sky rift, where Lu Chen began comprehending its sword marks.
• Lu Chen's system extracted the ancient sword-dao divine ability Heavenly Scar, while Wu Lie and Qiqi watched from a distance.
• Jian Qi returned to Sword Cliff and was ordered by her purple-mist-covered master to go to Reflection Cliff; her master then decided to seek out Lu Chen.
• After watching a recording of Lu Chen's battles, a Heavenly Machine Divine Race expert named Xuan Hu set out to find him, and Miao Wu Dao of the Space-Time Divine Clan disappeared using Space-Time Power.

Lu Chen faced a mysterious Blade Domain expert named Qin Tian in the third match and shattered his Eighteen Levels of Hell blade technique. Qin Tian conceded defeat, leaving Lu Chen one step closer to claiming the championship and viewing the mysterious stone carving.

• Wu Lie asked for another challenger, but the Divine Kings stayed silent after Lu Chen defeated Jian Xuan.
• A cloaked Blade Domain expert appeared and introduced a one-move challenge against Lu Chen.
• Qin Tian unleashed a blade technique embodying the Eighteen Levels of Hell, and Lu Chen countered with eighteen sword strikes that destroyed them.
• Qin Tian admitted that he had lost by one move and vanished from the arena.
• The crowd reacted to Lu Chen's victory, while the girl in the purple dress fled with her unconscious senior brother.

Lu Chen defeated Sword Cliff heirs Jian Qi and Jian Xuan without drawing his sword, resisting Jian Xuan’s destiny-based techniques and leaving him gravely wounded. He demanded that arena organizer Wu Lie bring out the next challenger or the promised stone carvings.

• Lu Chen defeated Jian Qi with a casual palm-sword strike, leaving her gravely wounded and her Dao heart shattered.
• Jian Xuan rushed onto the platform, comforted Jian Qi, and challenged Lu Chen to avenge her.
• Jian Xuan attacked with the Destiny Divine Sword, but Lu Chen blocked and countered its fate-altering power with a sword of light.
• Jian Xuan unleashed Three Revolutions Sword Light Kill, but Lu Chen shattered its three wheels and struck Jian Xuan, leaving him unable to rise.
• Lu Chen dragged Wu Lie before him and demanded the next challenger or the promised stone carvings, and Wu Lie insisted the carvings existed.

Lu Chen and his allies drove the demons back into the Demonic Realm, and news of their victory spread throughout the world. As the wounded group returned to recover, Miao Wu Fa and his companions discussed whether Lu Chen would help them and considered offering him a blade manual from beyond the domain.

• The Founding Ancestor and the old fossils collected their payment after fighting in the Netherworld.
• Lu Chen’s group pursued the demons to the Demonic Realm’s passageway, where Miao Wu Fa warned that its power suppressed humans and Lu Chen stopped the chase.
• Li Wangshu and the others agreed to deal with the Human Traitors after cleaning up the battlefield, while Lu Chen said he would take the initiative against those who had betrayed them.
• Recording crystals spread images of Lu Chen’s pursuit, and people across the world celebrated the demons’ defeat as the Moon Clan, Star Clan, Thunder Prison Clan, and other clans grew uneasy about his connection to the Netherworld.
• Lu Chen’s group returned together to recover from their injuries, while Miao Wu Fa and his companions planned to offer Lu Chen a blade manual from beyond the domain in hopes of gaining his help.

Lu Chen revealed himself as the Heartless Blade and destroyed the Black Tiger Gang after Zhao Black Tiger attacked him at the Wang Family. He stayed at the Wang residence and arranged to inspect its mysterious Sword Tablet the next day.

• Lu Chen killed six Ninth Rank early-stage experts, and Zhao Black Tiger recognized him as the Heartless Blade before retreating.
• Zhao Black Tiger used Daoist Qingxuan as a weapon, but Lu Chen killed Daoist Qingxuan with one strike.
• Lu Chen shattered Zhao Black Tiger’s Tiger Fiend Celestial Aura and killed him with lightning summoned by his blade technique.
• Lu Chen slaughtered the Black Tiger Gang members outside, raising his Merit Points to 5,220.
• Wang Tianlei thanked Lu Chen and agreed to show him the Sword Tablet in the daytime, then arranged a room for him.
• Wang Yunshan and Yang Yun'er reacted with surprise to Lu Chen’s connection with the family, while Wang Tianlei sent the spoils from the corpses to Lu Chen.

Lu Chen killed two more Divine Kings, strengthened his Golden Divine Sword, and headed with Qiqi to the Eternal Star Domain to meet Wang Fubao and find her clansmen. As Lu Chen arrived, the Starry Sky Arena arranged to invite him to fight Jian Xuan or Jian Qi, heirs of Sword Cliff.

• Lu Chen broke through to the Fourth Level of Divine King Realm, then killed the two captured Divine Kings and claimed their Godheads and Merit Points.
• Lu Chen had seven Divine King souls merge into the Golden Softsword, empowering it, and set out with Qiqi for the Eternal Star Domain.
• News of Lu Chen’s battle spread across the starry sky, and his flying vessel reached the Eternal Star Domain, where Qiqi sensed her true-dragon clansmen.
• Wang Fubao told Lu Chen that his two Godheads had sold for three billion crystal stones, and Lu Chen said he had more Godheads to trade.
• At the Starry Sky Arena, Jian Xuan and Jian Qi agreed to face Lu Chen in a match, while the arena’s manager prepared to invite him.

Lu Chen sensed the seven Evil Path Divine Kings plotting against him and survived their ambush by relying on the Myriad Heavens Authority. He drew the reforged Golden Serpent Sword, killed and revived five attackers under his command, and sent them after the two who escaped.

• Extreme Yin Venerable and eight other Divine Kings tried to recruit Lu Chen, but he refused and left; Black-faced Divine King and Peerless Divine King declined to join the others in attacking him.
• Lu Chen used the Myriad Heavens Authority to overhear the Divine Kings plotting, and Qiqi realized they were in danger when their grand array surrounded them.
• The seven Divine Kings activated the Eight Desolations Vertical and Horizontal Sky Burning Array, but Lu Chen remained unharmed and drew the reforged Golden Serpent Sword.
• Lu Chen's sword shattered the array, killed four Divine Kings, and drove the remaining three to flee; he then killed Extreme Yin Venerable and left his Godhead intact.
• Lu Chen revived five of the dead Divine Kings and ordered them to pursue the two survivors, even if they had to self-destruct.

Lu Chen and Li Wangshu learned from the dying monk of Myriad Buddha Cave about the ancient calamity that devastated their world and received the Hell Demon Sword. On their way back, Lu Chen used Merit Points to break through to the Ninth Stage of Dharma Aspect, bringing him one step from the Demigod realm.

• The old monk gave Lu Chen a sarira to deliver to someone blessed with wisdom and revealed that Li Zizai had once tried to refine the world before Jian Wufa sealed it.
• The monk explained that toxic origin essence had stripped him and others of their divinity and Buddha-nature, leaving them to await death.
• The old monk handed Lu Chen the Hell Demon Sword, and Lu Chen resisted its killing illusions while Li Wangshu was rescued from them by the monk.
• Lu Chen left three bottles of Fountain of Life with the old monk and departed with Li Wangshu and the sword.
• Lu Chen spent Merit Points to raise his realm to the Ninth Stage of Dharma Aspect, startling Li Wangshu with the breakthrough.

Lu Chen learned from Cui Zhengxuan that the Azure Void Ancient Land held the remaining four styles of the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction, then returned to find Breeze Swordmaster facing the Ye Family’s Grandmaster. After the Grandmaster fled, Lu Chen was challenged by Little Golden Buddha Duan Xin, while Qilin Rankings experts Zhang Hai and Fu Qing hurried to watch their clash.

• Cui Zhengxuan told Lu Chen that he had learned the first three styles of the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction in the Azure Void Ancient Land and explained how Lu Chen could enter it.
• Lu Chen left Cui Manor and headed toward the outskirts, wondering whether Breeze Swordmaster had encountered the Ye Family’s Grandmaster.
• Lu Chen arrived unharmed, causing the black-robed middle-aged man to flee as Breeze Swordmaster pursued him.
• Monk Duan Xin met Lu Chen and asked to spar, and both men released their powerful auras.
• Zhang Hai and Fu Qing sensed the blade intent and golden light and rushed toward Lu Chen and Duan Xin.

Lu Chen learned that a Heavenly Walker would test those ranked below the Divine Emperor realm before inviting them into the Death Zone, then fought and killed one on Dragon Island. After the revived Heavenly Walker became his servant and began revealing the Death Zone’s secrets, a blood-red eye emerged from its forehead and destroyed it, leaving Lu Chen stunned.

• The old dragon told Lu Chen that someone had once escaped the Death Zone alive but had hidden away afterward.
• A masked Heavenly Walker arrived on Dragon Island and attacked Lu Chen, whose sword strikes initially passed through its body.
• The leading old dragon explained that the Heavenly Walker was testing Lu Chen and that he had to withstand a thousand moves without outside help.
• Lu Chen used Nirvana sword power to shatter the Heavenly Walker, then used the Heavenly Scar Sword Art to sever its karmic threads and kill it.
• Lu Chen summoned the Heavenly Walker back as his servant and questioned it about the Death Zone, but a blood-red eye appeared in its forehead and caused it to explode before it could answer.

Lu Chen brought Qiqi to Dragon Island, where six ancient stone steles sealed the True Dragons and stripped them of their divine abilities. The dragons recognized Qiqi as the inheritor of the Dragon Emperor’s legacy and learned their ancestor might return, while Lu Chen discovered the Death Zone might be connected to the force that destroyed the Sacred Land.

• Lu Chen reached the Ancient Life Star with Qiqi and found the True Dragons confined to an island beneath six stone steles.
• Lu Chen resisted the island’s immense suppressive force, then learned from an old dragon that the seal trapped the dragons and weakened their powers.
• The True Dragons recognized the Ancestral Dragon Golden Bowl above Qiqi and declared him their new Dragon Emperor.
• Lu Chen told the dragons that Qiqi had received the bowl from a Dragon Corpse, and Qiqi said the ancestor had promised to return.
• The old dragon explained that the dragons had been sealed after the Sacred Land suffered a calamity and that only seventeen aged True Dragons remained.
• When Lu Chen asked about the Death Zone, the old dragon said one legend linked it to the expert who destroyed the Sacred Land.