Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen defeated Old Ancestor Tian Sha in the Netherworld and forged the souls of several Divine Kings into the Golden Softsword, then set rules against using souls for cultivation. After preparing Sword Talismans for the Sky Sword Sect, Lu Chen planned to venture beyond the domain with Qiqi and a star map.

• Lu Chen reflected Old Ancestor Tian Sha’s soul attack, split his soul with the Golden Softsword, and absorbed him into the sword as a spirit.
• Lu Chen merged the souls of Xuan Zhenzi, Beautiful Woman in Palace Attire, two unfamiliar Divine Kings, Yin Shengyun, Sword Marquis, and Yun Potian into the Golden Softsword, strengthening it into a forbidden artifact.
• Lu Chen patrolled the Netherworld and declared that he would destroy anyone who used souls for cultivation, then returned to his body with seven million Merit Points.
• Lu Chen spent half a month refining two Sword Talismans and gave them to Dugu Wudi after the Sky Sword Sect elders reached the Divine Spirit realm.
• Miao Wu Fa gave Lu Chen a star map, and Lu Chen said he planned to explore beyond the domain; Qiqi asked to accompany him to find its kin, and Lu Chen agreed.

Lu Chen killed the Golden Crow Divine King while saving people used as cannon fodder, then gained the Myriad Heavens Authority after his reputation reached a new stage. His arrival forced the Righteous Path Alliance’s Divine Kings to retreat, leaving the battlefield to the Evil Path Alliance, whose nine Divine Kings approached him.

• The Golden Crow Divine King attacked Lu Chen with Solar True Fire and golden sword qi, but Lu Chen turned the attacks back and killed him with a single finger.
• Lu Chen claimed the Golden Crow Divine King’s Godhead, earned one million Merit Points, and told the crowd to flee; they recognized him as the Great Demon King of the Wasteland.
• Lu Chen’s reputation rose to Stage Nine: Renowned Throughout the Starry Sky, granting him the Myriad Heavens Authority and a connection to the fortune of the Myriad Worlds.
• The Space-Time Divine Clan’s Divine King recognized Lu Chen, but chose to withdraw rather than risk fighting him, taking his clansmen away.
• The other Divine Kings of the Righteous Path Alliance also retreated, and the Evil Path Alliance’s forces pursued their fleeing opponents as its nine Divine Kings rushed toward Lu Chen.

Lu Chen carved through hidden-lineage and sect fighters in the Southern Border, drawing the attention of the Heaven's Secret Pavilion as his Human Rankings position soared to twenty-eighth. After frightening off the Blood Offering Sect's protector with a spiritual rebound, he reached the Breeze Swordmaster, who was fighting dozens alone.

• The Heaven's Secret Mirror recorded Lu Chen's rapid rise to twenty-eighth on the Human Rankings and assessed him as an anomaly intolerable to the Heavenly Dao.
• Lu Chen slaughtered hidden-lineage and hidden-sect fighters as Zhao Gang and two Imperial Family protectors followed, and Zhao Gang persuaded them to support recruiting him.
• The Blood Offering Sect's protector struck Lu Chen with a spiritual attack, but Lu Chen's safeguard reflected it and wounded the protector, who fled with the Blood Offering Sect's Holy Son.
• Lu Chen continued through the forest and found the Breeze Swordmaster battling dozens of opponents, with his strength likely to run out if the fight continued.
• Lu Chen called out to the Breeze Swordmaster, and everyone fighting turned to look at him.

Lu Chen defeated Han Qingyue, whose Eternal Profound Ice Essence had protected her from his attacks, and took the Star Tear after using the Karma Secret Art to sever most of her connection to it. He left Han Qingyue beaten and subdued, with her companions unharmed.

• Han Qingyue attacked Lu Chen with an ice dragon, but he shattered it and struck her with the Golden Serpent Divine Sword.
• Han Qingyue unleashed the Prison of Eternal Frost, but Lu Chen broke through it and overwhelmed her with a storm of sword strikes.
• Dugu Wudi told Lu Chen that Han Qingyue’s Eternal Profound Ice Essence was absorbing his attacks, so Lu Chen used the Karma Secret Art to slash most of her karmic connection to it.
• Lu Chen beat Han Qingyue, pinned her to the ground, and shattered the illusion concealing the Star Tear before taking it.
• Lu Chen threatened Han Qingyue’s companions until she gave up the Star Tear, then warned her not to attack others recklessly.

Lu Chen fought off Chi Haitian's ambush, then faced Bai Wuxia and the other arrivals, who planned to cripple him before the Celestial Pool opened. He unleashed Tenfold Combat Power and attacked Bai Wuxia with a blade strike that made the higher-ranked fighter fear for his life.

• Lu Chen counterattacked Chi Haitian's ambush with Soul Burial, injuring him and exposing the attack to the gathered onlookers.
• Bai Wuxia arrived with more than ten others, and Chu Yunlan and Xu Cheng called on him to avenge them.
• Lu Chen admitted that he had injured Chu Yunlan and Xu Cheng, then charged at Chi Haitian until Bai Wuxia intervened.
• Bai Wuxia and the others revealed they intended to cripple Lu Chen before the Celestial Pool opened, while two members of the Great Yu Imperial Family remained neutral.
• Lu Chen activated Tenfold Combat Power, raising his cultivation to the peak of Level Six True Qi Hidden Realm and combining it with his Sword Intent and Blade Intent.
• Bai Wuxia charged to interrupt Lu Chen's technique, but Lu Chen swept his blade at him, leaving Bai Wuxia convinced that he would die if he took the strike.

Lu Chen severed the Heavenly Tiger soul from the Heavenly Machine Imperial Armor, and the freed soul killed Xuan Hu before departing. After the Starry Sky Arena became a destination for Divine Kings seeking to spar with him, Lu Chen spent his merit points and advanced to the eighth level of the Divine King realm.

• Xuan Hu attacked Lu Chen with the Heavenly Machine Imperial Armor and unleashed the Imperial Dao Heavenly Tiger, forcing Lu Chen to stop evading.
• Lu Chen drew his sword and severed the Heavenly Tiger soul's connections to the armor, the universal fortune, and the starry-sky fortune.
• The freed Heavenly Tiger soul attacked Xuan Hu, killed him, thanked Lu Chen, and flew away.
• Lu Chen gave the broken armor to Wu Lie and left the arena, while the Starry Sky Arena later hosted Divine Kings who wanted to spar with him.
• After two months, Lu Chen spent merit points to advance from the fourth to the eighth level of the Divine King realm.

After absorbing the Fountain of Life, Lu Chen grew far stronger and gathered treasures in a strangely empty secret realm before sensing danger and rushing for the exit. A Demon King then sealed the area, accused the humans of trespassing, and demanded that they release its imprisoned kin in exchange for the people trapped inside.

• Lu Chen refined the Fountain of Life’s essence, greatly increased his physical strength, and searched the secret realm for more treasures.
• Lu Chen and Dugu Wudi noticed that the secret realm had no demonic beasts and felt an unseen gaze watching them, so Lu Chen hurried toward the entrance.
• Dugu Wudi and the other Golden Body Realm experts sensed a terrifying force spreading from the crack in the sky and rushed toward the secret realm.
• A Demon King revealed that the secret realm was its home and demanded compensation for the treasures the humans had taken.
• Yue Wuxia and Huangfu Wang tried to negotiate with the Demon King, which demanded that the humans release its imprisoned kin in exchange for sparing those inside.

Lu Chen rescued Qin Tian from three supreme Divine Kings with a single sword strike and received an incomplete Sword Dao manuscript in return. After repairing its first half, he obtained the ancient divine ability Sorrow of the Great Dao.

• Lu Chen met Li Wangxu, Venerable Chiyan, Shi Yue, Zhao Ying, and Su Xiao, who explained that the Divine Emperors had entered the Death Zone ten days earlier and that Li Wangxu's divinations could not see through it.
• Lu Chen saw Qin Tian being overwhelmed by three supreme Divine Kings and agreed to help after Qin Tian offered him a fragment left by a Sword Dao Overlord.
• Lu Chen wounded all three attackers with one sword strike, forcing them to flee and astonishing Qin Tian and the watching Divine Kings.
• Qin Tian gave Lu Chen the incomplete sword dao manuscript, and Lu Chen used 800,000 Merit Points to repair its first half and obtain Sorrow of the Great Dao.

Lu Chen received a Death Token ordering him to reach the Cosmic Frontier within ten days, where the Death Zone was connected to the ancient destruction of the Sacred Land. He reached the gathering point with Han Feng and Xu Lin and was introduced to a group of powerful Divine Kings.

• Lu Chen and the seventeen old dragons saw a terrifying red eye, and the leading old dragon linked it to the creature said to have destroyed the Sacred Land.
• A white figure delivered Lu Chen a Death Token and ordered him to reach the Cosmic Frontier in ten days.
• The leading old dragon gave Lu Chen an ancient star chart, and Lu Chen set off after promising Qiqi he would return safely.
• After traveling through the desolate starry sky, Lu Chen met Han Feng and Xu Lin, agreed to join their group, and continued with them to the Cosmic Frontier.
• At the barren planet where Divine Kings had gathered, Xu Lin introduced Lu Chen to five companions as the Sword Demon who had defeated Sword Cliff and the Successor of the Blade Domain.

Lu Chen rose to the third level of the Divine Emperor realm, condensed a saber heart, and continued hunting monsters with Venerable Chiyan and Li Wangxu. When six Imperial Dao creatures ambushed them, Lu Chen absorbed their combined attack and struck them down, taking first place in the rankings.

• Lu Chen's points surged after he killed Xue Wuya and Venerable Hundred Eyes, raising him to third place as Venerable Jiuyun watched with interest.
• Lu Chen traveled with Venerable Chiyan and Li Wangxu, hunted monsters, and used Merit Points to advance to the third level of the Divine Emperor realm and condense a saber heart.
• Li Wangxu sensed danger, and four silver saber beings and two green demons surrounded Lu Chen and his companions.
• The six Imperial Dao creatures attacked together, but Lu Chen's All Laws Return to the Stream absorbed their combined strike.
• Lu Chen counterattacked with Severing Calamity, knocked all six creatures out of the air, and rose to first place in the rankings.

Lu Chen pretended to be gravely injured after reaching first place, then revealed to Li Wangxu and Venerable Chiyan that he planned to escape the prison world through a spatial rift. He opened a huge rift and fled with them and hundreds of Divine Kings, leaving the enraged sovereign to order the Heavenly Walkers to hunt them down.

• Lu Chen concealed his strength and pretended to be wounded, while his rise to first place prompted Venerable Jiuyun to abandon his stronghold and search for him.
• Lu Chen told Li Wangxu and Venerable Chiyan that he planned to escape through a spatial rift because he did not trust the Three-Faced Beings.
• Li Wangxu proposed that Lu Chen open the rift near a large group so the other Divine Kings could escape with them and avoid attracting special attention.
• Lu Chen, Li Wangxu, and Venerable Chiyan reached a gathering of hundreds of Divine Kings, including Han Feng, Xu Lin, and Zhao Ying, and Lu Chen tore open a massive spatial rift with his sword.
• Li Wangxu and Venerable Chiyan carried Lu Chen into the rift, and the gathered Divine Kings followed as it quickly closed behind them.
• A sovereign's giant hand failed to catch the escapees, and the sovereign ordered the Heavenly Walkers to search the prison world and execute them.

Lu Chen killed Guo Jing and his confidants, then spent Merit Points to raise the Nine Heavens Art and advance his cultivation. As he prepared to leave Lonely Cloud Town before the imperial court could target him, a Sword Sect successor arrived to challenge him.

• Lu Chen killed Guo Jing with Heart Shatter, then cut down Guo Jing's furious confidants as He Qianxing, Tiger Cloud, and Eagle Seven fled.
• Cui Zhengxuan realized Lu Chen had mastered the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction and derived blade intent in a single day, while Xiao Zihai and the Luo family watched in shock.
• Lu Chen considered attracting more challengers for Merit Points but decided he could not risk drawing the Pacification Bureau's attention and needed to leave Lonely Cloud Town.
• Lu Chen spent 3,000 Merit Points on the Nine Heavens Art, raising it to the seventh level and his cultivation to Eighth Rank (98%).
• A Sword Sect successor arrived outside Lonely Cloud Town, and Uncle Zhou urged the young master to defeat Lu Chen as the first step in polishing her sword.

Lu Chen and his companions hunted bizarre creatures with Li Wangxu’s divination, but the monsters began gathering into organized tribes led by Divine Emperors. Lu Chen joined a coalition attacking a stronghold, where a rival group arrived at the same time and the battle began.

• Lu Chen met Li Wangxu and Shi Yue, learned they had faced soul creatures that could possess Divine Kings, and joined them in hunting monsters.
• Lu Chen killed an underground tentacled monster with a swift sword strike, and the group followed Li Wangxu’s calculations to hunt scattered creatures.
• Over five days, the group killed dozens of monsters and Lu Chen’s total reached 61.7 million Merit Points and 70 token points, before the remaining monsters began appearing in large, intelligent groups led by Divine Emperors.
• Xiao Wanfeng proposed that seven teams attack a tribe of roughly 150 monsters, and Lu Chen, Venerable Chiyan, Shi Yue, and Li Wangxu agreed to join despite Li Wangxu’s uncertain divination.
• The coalition reached a ruined stronghold and prepared to attack, but dozens of Divine Kings from another group charged in first, prompting Xiao Wanfeng’s party to rush forward; Lu Chen immediately slew two blade-men.

Lu Chen fought through an ambush of elite monsters while racing to earn enough Merit Points for a breakthrough. After killing four blade-men and spending his accumulated points, he broke through to the Divine Emperor realm just as the silver blade-man’s killing blow came down.

• Lu Chen used his sword arts to kill monsters rapidly and earn Merit Points, drawing the attention of the other Divine Kings.
• Elite tentacles, possessing white souls, and blade-men erupted from underground, trapping the Divine Kings; Lu Chen killed the elite tentacles and two elite blade-men.
• Lu Chen fought through the monsters as the silver blade-man appeared and declared that no one would leave alive.
• With 98,700,000 Merit Points, Lu Chen drew the silver blade-man’s attack into nearby enemies and killed four blade-men, then spent his Merit Points on cultivation.
• The silver blade-man struck Lu Chen and sent him crashing through a mountain range, but Lu Chen broke through to the Divine Emperor realm and emerged with golden Imperial Dao aura.

Lu Chen weakened a seal on Dragon Island, but the stele repaired itself stronger, so he promised to return after reaching the Ruler realm. He then hunted Heavenly Walkers across the universe to build Merit Points, while Qiqi returned to the Wasteland with three powerful Sword Talismans.

• Lu Chen shattered a stele on Dragon Island, briefly restoring the old dragons’ vitality before it healed and strengthened its seal.
• Lu Chen told the old dragons he would return after reaching the Ruler realm and revealed that his earlier sword strike had killed everyone connected to Ziyang Holy Land’s attack on Qiqi.
• Lu Chen heard reports of people escaping the Death Zone and was intercepted by four Heavenly Walkers, whom he killed before destroying his Death Zone points token.
• Lu Chen sent Qiqi to the Wasteland with three Sword Talismans to defend herself against Divine Kings from the Space-Time Divine Clan and the Heavenly Machine Divine Race.
• Lu Chen tracked down and killed Heavenly Walkers for more than half a month, killing over a thousand as their numbers dwindled and his Merit Points surged.

Lu Chen spent his accumulated Merit Points to advance to the eighth level of the Divine Emperor realm, then encountered Yun Xing after she returned from the Death Zone. After he killed and revived her, Yun Xing revealed that the Three-Faced Beings had enslaved her, before one of them emerged from her body and confronted him.

• Lu Chen used 620 million Merit Points to reach the eighth level of the Divine Emperor realm and considered testing his strength against a Sovereign.
• Lu Chen found the woman from Sword Cliff, and she attacked him before he shattered her Sword Qi and killed her with a single finger.
• Lu Chen revived the woman and learned that her name was Yun Xing, that she had placed fourth in the Death Zone trial, and that more than twenty Divine Emperors had been selected as slaves by the Three-Faced Beings.
• Yun Xing suddenly transformed as scarlet aura spread from her body and three crimson eyeballs emerged from her face, revealing that a Three-Faced Being had possessed her.

After escaping the Death Zone, Lu Chen learned that three hundred years had passed and returned to the Ancient Life Star, where he rescued Qiqi from a siege. He revealed the Death Zone’s secret to the old dragons and set out to see whether he could free them from Dragon Island.

• Lu Chen severed his companions’ karma, left a passage through the spatial barrier for the remaining Divine Kings, and parted ways with the group.
• After hearing that three hundred years had passed and that the Space-Time Divine Clan and Heavenly Machine Divine Race were thriving, Lu Chen headed to the Ancient Life Star to find Qiqi.
• Lu Chen arrived as cultivators besieged Dragon Island and killed the Divine King attacking Qiqi, then annihilated the attackers and their warships.
• Lu Chen reunited with Qiqi and told the seventeen old dragons about the Three-Faced Beings and the starry sky’s origins as a place of exile.
• Lu Chen offered to try to free the old dragons and led them toward one of the heavenly steles.

Lu Chen and the others followed Li Wangxu through the chaotic darkness and discovered the inheritance of the Sky-Splitting Sword Venerable. After Lu Chen mastered the Sky-Splitting Sword Scripture, he led the group out into the Myriad Worlds, where Li Wangxu warned them to hide their identities from the Three-Faced Beings.

• Lu Chen restrained Li Wangxu, Venerable Chiyan, Han Feng, Xu Lin, and the others while Li Wangxu deduced a path through the chaotic whirlwinds.
• The group found a bronze coffin in a gorge and read the Sky-Splitting Sword Venerable’s message urging later generations to inherit his will and fight the Three-Faced Beings.
• Lu Chen opened the coffin, found a black broken sword containing the Sky-Splitting Sword Scripture, and discovered that the others could not safely touch it.
• Lu Chen spent ten million Merit Points to perfect the scripture and condensed a Level Four Sword Heart.
• Following the inheritance’s clue, Lu Chen led the group through the gorge, cut open the barrier to the Myriad Worlds, and escaped with them.
• Li Wangxu warned everyone to conceal their auras, sever their karma, and hide their identities because the Three-Faced Beings would keep hunting them.

Lu Chen defeated Ouyang Feiying and slaughtered the Evergreen Sect’s remaining members while Cui Hu fought a powerful elder of the Ye Family. After killing Ouyang Feiying, Lu Chen set his sights on Ye Gubai and headed toward the chaotic front hall.

• A Ye Family elder demanded that Cui Hu hand over Lu Chen, but Cui Hu refused and fought him.
• Lu Chen struck Ouyang Feiying with Soul Burial, interrupting his Blood Burning Art and badly wounding his soul.
• The spectators fled, and Lu Chen killed four fleeing Evergreen Sect elders before dragging Ouyang Feiying toward the rear courtyard.
• Lu Chen slaughtered people in the Ouyang family’s rear courtyard and declared that he would seek revenge on Ye Gubai.
• Lu Chen smashed Ouyang Feiying to death, gained Merit Points, and headed toward the front hall as people fled.

Lu Chen entered the Sky Sword Sect’s Enlightenment Tower, then received Dugu Wudi’s instruction in the sect’s Sword Heart Source Diagram. He used his panel to analyze it and advanced to Level Three Sword Intent, astonishing his master.

• Lu Chen left Qing Lian beaten and ordered her not to touch the sect’s food without his permission.
• Breeze Swordmaster found Qing Lian bloodied inside the Enlightenment Tower after Lu Chen went to meet Dugu Wudi.
• Dugu Wudi showed Lu Chen the Sword Heart Source Diagram and explained the Sword Heart and levels of sword intent.
• Lu Chen spent 4,500 Merit Points to analyze the diagram’s first layer and advanced to Level Three Sword Intent.
• Breeze Swordmaster rushed to the main hall as Dugu Wudi stared in disbelief at Lu Chen’s breakthrough.