Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen took control of the Sky Sword Sect’s Founding Ancestor’s body and joined Breeze Swordmaster and Zhao Xuantian in preparing to guard the sect while Dugu Wudi secluded himself to refine the Dao Fruit. As Heaven Rankings experts rushed toward the Sky Sword Sect to stop Dugu Wudi’s breakthrough, Lu Chen and Zhao Xuantian faced the approaching threat.

• Lu Chen controlled the Founding Ancestor’s body with Breeze Swordmaster and Zhao Xuantian’s help, unleashing about half of the ancestor’s former strength.
• Dugu Wudi entered seclusion and told Lu Chen and Breeze Swordmaster to hold off their enemies for three days.
• News that Lu Chen had taken the Dao Fruit spread, prompting Heaven Rankings experts from hidden Lineages and sects to head for the Sky Sword Sect.
• Shen Lian saw the Heaven Rankings experts moving toward the sect and contacted his Master, Zhao Xuantian, to report the danger.
• Zhao Xuantian told Lu Chen that many Heaven Rankings experts were coming, and Lu Chen remained confident because they had the Founding Ancestor’s body and Zhao Xuantian’s strength.

Lu Chen killed Xiong Yan and Lang Feng, then attacked the Supreme Ancient Dynasty’s riders at the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Sect while Prince Chu Yuntian tried to force Yun Luoying to serve him. Lu Chen withstood the riders’ divine drum and continued slaughtering them as they cried out for the Prince to save them.

• Xiong Yan and Lang Feng escaped Lu Chen’s sword formation, but Lu Chen beheaded them with a slash and then destroyed their golden bodies and mounts with sword light.
• Qiqi recognized the dead riders as bad people from her blurred memories, and Lu Chen and Li Wangshu headed for the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Sect.
• Prince Chu Yuntian restrained Yun Luoying and began undoing her clothes while his riders waited outside, confident Xiong Yan and Lang Feng had captured Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen attacked the guarding riders from the void, killing several before their formation forced him into view.
• The riders used a divine drum against Lu Chen, but he emerged unharmed and shattered their defenses with the Hell Demon Sword.
• Lu Chen slaughtered the riders as they called for Prince Chu Yuntian to save them.

Lu Chen led Yan Qingyu and a group of human experts toward a damaged teleportation array while fighting through the demon horde. Just as the array activated and the Demon King attacked, Lu Chen unleashed the third form of the Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art.

• Dugu Wudi, Zhao Xuantian, Huangfu Wang, and the ancient clans split up to seek help from their sects and the Imperial City.
• Lu Chen slaughtered demons for Merit Points and told Dugu Wudi he might have a chance to escape the Demon King, but Dugu Wudi refused to let him risk it.
• Yan Qingyu told Lu Chen she knew of a damaged teleportation array and could repair it; Lu Chen made her send word to the Great Yu Grandmasters as well as the ancient clans.
• Lu Chen, Yan Qingyu, Han Qingyue, and the other survivors broke through the demons and reached the array, where Yan Qingyu repaired it as more people and demons arrived.
• The Demon King descended and halted the teleportation array with its overwhelming pressure, then struck at everyone with an enormous claw as Lu Chen drew his sword and used the third form of the Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art.

Lu Chen overwhelmed Yue Wuxia, surviving her defenses and mental influence before beating her and countering her life-force-fueled secret art with the Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art. Yue Wuxia was left bleeding and falling, but her fate remained unclear.

• Yue Wuxia blocked Lu Chen's opening strike, but hidden killing intent erupted inside her and wounded her.
• Lu Chen unleashed Divine Extinction, shattered Yue Wuxia's Perfect Moon Wheel, and appeared to destroy her, but she reemerged in a transformed state.
• Lu Chen attacked Yue Wuxia again, grabbed her by the hair, and beat her while Huangfu Wang and the others watched; Yue Wuxia's mental influence nearly made Ouyang Yu kneel.
• Yue Wuxia recovered with Moon Laurel Descent, broke free from Lu Chen, and summoned deadly petals from the moon laurel at the cost of her life force.
• Lu Chen used the Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art to erase the moonlight, laurel, and petals, leaving Yue Wuxia bleeding and crashing downward.

Lu Chen and Shen Lian arrived at the Azure Void Ancient Land, where Great Yu’s forces faced the Northern Barbarians across the mountains. As the two sides gathered before the entrance, Helian Tu and a Northern Barbarian woman provoked Lu Chen, who agreed that true powerhouses should face danger head-on.

• Lu Chen saw the Northern Barbarians’ camps opposite Great Yu’s and wondered whether killing them could earn enough Merit Points for him to reach Grandmaster.
• Yue Zhenshan reported minor movements from the Northern Barbarians, and Shen Lian ordered him to keep watch and handle any trouble.
• Shen Lian led Lu Chen and the assembled fighters to a cliff where the Northern Barbarians had gathered to enter the Azure Void Ancient Land.
• Helian Tu urged Shen Lian to defect to the Northern Barbarian Heavenly Kingdom and challenged Lu Chen, but Shen Lian warned Lu Chen that Helian Tu was a second-layer Spirit Hidden Realm expert known as the Bloodthirsty Saber Maniac.
• A Northern Barbarian woman mocked Lu Chen for being protected by stronger fighters, and Lu Chen agreed that powerhouses should face wind and rain head-on.

After Dugu Wudi killed two Heaven Rankings experts and crippled three, the hidden families and sects panicked and withdrew their forces. Zhao Xuantian decided to recruit Lu Chen, who reached completion of the True Qi Hidden Realm but immediately rejected the offer to become Chief of the Pacification Bureau.

• Dugu Wudi’s slaughter shocked the world, and the hidden families and sects hurried to strengthen their defenses and keep a low profile.
• Zhao Xuantian read reports of Lu Chen’s extraordinary talent and resolved to recruit him in person.
• Lu Chen used 20,000 Merit Points to reach completion of the True Qi Hidden Realm, learning that unlocking the Spirit Hidden Realm required 25,000 more.
• Zhao Xuantian arrived at Sky Sword Sect and offered Lu Chen the position of Chief of the Pacification Bureau.
• Lu Chen rejected Zhao Xuantian’s offer, unwilling to serve the emperor.

Lu Chen emerged from the Azure Void Ancient Land holding a radiant Red Orb, which Ashina Luo identified as a Dao Fruit and tried to seize. He killed Ashina Luo and slaughtered the Northern Barbarian experts who rushed to take the treasure, while Great Yu’s forces gathered around him.

• The Red Orb’s radiance and fragrance drew everyone’s attention, and Ashina Luo attacked Lu Chen and demanded that he hand it over.
• Lu Chen trapped Ashina Luo with Sky Imprisonment and wounded her with his blade and sword, but she escaped and announced that the Dao Fruit was in his hands.
• Lu Chen pursued Ashina Luo and beheaded her with the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction, earning 380 Merit Points.
• Northern Barbarian experts charged at Lu Chen to seize the Dao Fruit, while Great Yu’s experts rushed to support him.
• Lu Chen unleashed a sweeping blade attack that killed numerous Northern Barbarian experts and earned him more Merit Points, leaving the Great Yu experts stunned by his strength.

The Blade Emperor effortlessly defeated Saber Maniac, then agreed to spare Lu Chen if he swore never to use a blade again. Lu Chen rejected the offer and demanded that the Blade Emperor draw his saber, setting their duel to begin.

• The Saber Maniac struck the Blade Emperor with Open Heavens, but the Blade Emperor absorbed the attack unharmed and dismissed his saber skill.
• The Blade Emperor counterattacked, and Saber Maniac’s strike failed; Saber Maniac was sent crashing into the river and his Precious Blade broke in two.
• When the crowd mocked Lu Chen and urged him to duel, Lu Chen silenced them with a glance that injured their eyes and spiritual consciousness.
• The Blade Emperor praised Lu Chen’s blade arts and offered to waive the duel if Lu Chen vowed to use only a sword from then on.
• Yue Wuxia tried to persuade Lu Chen to accept the offer, but Lu Chen refused and challenged the Blade Emperor to draw his saber.

Lu Chen defeated and killed the Blade Emperor with Divine Extinction, earning the title of the new Blade Emperor. Daoist Qingyuan reported the battle to his secluded master, who condemned the Sky Sword Sect for practicing blade arts and emerged from seclusion.

• The Blade Emperor drew Spirit Slaughter and attacked Lu Chen, who countered with the seventh style of the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction.
• Lu Chen’s slash broke the Blade Emperor’s Precious Blade and severed his life; the Blade Emperor accepted defeat and named Lu Chen the new Blade Emperor before dying.
• The crowd reacted in shock as Lu Chen flew back toward the Sky Sword Sect, while rescuers found the badly wounded Saber Maniac alive in the river.
• Daoist Qingyuan reported Lu Chen’s victory to his master, who questioned why the Sky Sword Sect practiced blade arts and called Dugu Wudi unfit to remain sect master.
• The secluded master emerged from his room, and the sword practitioners in the courtyard gathered to greet him as their Sect Master.

Lu Chen saw the Sword Marquis and Yun Potian break through the Star Chain and unseal a vast region of the Yang Realm, then used the opportunity to advance to the seventh level of the True God realm. When the two arrived to hunt him, Lu Chen confronted them and shattered the Sword Marquis’s arms with one punch, leaving Yun Potian stunned by his Divine King-level power.

• Lu Chen saw the Wuji Divine King's purple treasure mirror corrode the Star Chain as the Sword Marquis and Yun Potian crossed into the Yang Realm.
• Purple light weakened the restrictions across Central Province, and Lu Chen told Miao Wu Fa, Miao Xuanji, Li Wangshu, Dugu Wudi, and Qiqi that a Divine King was descending.
• Lu Chen spent 6 million Merit Points to break through to the seventh level of the True God realm while the unsealed region's ancient Divine Mountains emerged.
• The Jade Boat landed, and the Sword Marquis and Yun Potian planned to find Lu Chen and kill his friends and old acquaintances.
• Lu Chen appeared before the two invaders, and the Sword Marquis's pressure killed innocent people across the region.
• Lu Chen struck the Sword Marquis with one punch, breaking both his arms and sending him crashing into a Divine Mountain, then advanced toward the shocked Yun Potian.

After Lu Chen defeated the Luo family at Little West Mountain, Cui Hu arrived to escort Cui Qingqing and her companions to King Cui’s home. Lu Chen advanced to mid-stage Eighth Rank in seclusion, then was summoned by Cui Hu to meet the master.

• Lu Chen rebuked Luo Fengyun after overwhelming Cui Qingqing with his sword intent, and Cui Hu arrived to take Cui Qingqing back to Cui Manor.
• He Qianxing warned Lu Chen that the Pacification Bureau would continue hunting him for killing Lin Mingyuan, and Lu Chen mocked the bureau.
• News of Lu Chen’s Eighth Rank breakthrough reached his enemies, while Gongsun Ming redirected responsibility for dealing with him to Yu Siyuan.
• At King Cui’s residence in Lonely Cloud Town, Lu Chen spent 2,200 Merit Points to raise the Nine Heavens Art to its sixth level and reached Eighth Rank (66%).
• Lu Chen considered seeking more sword and saber techniques, then Cui Hu summoned him to meet the master.

Lu Chen used Dugu Wudi’s Sword Talisman to break the Heavenly Plague Banner and free Dugu Wudi from the twelve Heaven Rankings experts. Dugu Wudi killed the Otherworlder and pursued the fleeing attackers, badly wounding the Sword Sect Master.

• The Otherworlder found Qing Lian, who escaped its grasp with Blood Escape before it detected the Sacred One’s trail.
• Lu Chen returned with Breeze Swordmaster and activated Dugu Wudi’s Sword Talisman against the twelve experts suppressing Dugu Wudi.
• The Sword Talisman wounded the twelve experts and shattered the Heavenly Plague Banner, freeing Dugu Wudi.
• Dugu Wudi killed the Otherworlder with one sword strike and chased the fleeing attackers.
• Dugu Wudi recognized the Sword Sect Master, broke one of his arms, and swept his sword at the others as they fled.

Lu Chen controlled the Founding Ancestor's body to kill Helian Zheng, rescue Qing Lian, and battle Master Yun Kong and the remaining Northern Barbarians experts. After Zhao Xuantian stopped holding back, Lu Chen gained the second level of the Grandmaster Realm and unlocked Sacred Domain and a Teleportation Token, which he used to send Master Yun Kong five thousand li away.

• Lu Chen killed Helian Zheng with the Founding Ancestor's body and rescued Qing Lian from the Northern Barbarians experts.
• Master Yun Kong attacked Lu Chen, while his Buddhist power disrupted Breeze Swordmaster and Lu Chen urged Zhao Xuantian to fight at full strength.
• Zhao Xuantian poured his true qi into the Founding Ancestor's body and blasted Master Yun Kong away, then Lu Chen charged the remaining Northern Barbarians experts.
• Lu Chen spent 70,000 Merit Points to reach the second level of the Grandmaster Realm and received the Sacred Domain talent and a Teleportation Token.
• Lu Chen used the Teleportation Token to send Master Yun Kong five thousand li away, leaving the remaining enemies without his support.

Dugu Wudi killed Monk Yunkong and prepared to destroy the Sword Sect and the Ye Family with Lu Chen. Believing the Sky Sword Sect had already fallen, the Sword Sect’s Great Elder was confronted by Lu Chen, who arrived as a second-level Grandmaster and declared the sect’s destruction.

• Monk Yunkong unleashed Red Lotus Karmic Fire, but Dugu Wudi severed his karma with Heavenly Sword Art, Karma Slays Heaven and killed him, suffering karmic backlash.
• Dugu Wudi agreed that Lu Chen would lead the Sword Sect’s destruction and then target the Ye Family, while he watched the remaining Heaven Rankings experts.
• The surviving Heaven Rankings experts fled, and the outside world continued to believe the Sky Sword Sect was on the verge of defeat.
• At the Sword Sect, Great Elder Yun Wuchang told his son that Lu Chen and Dugu Wudi were dead and that the Sky Sword Sect had been destroyed.
• Lu Chen arrived at the Sword Sect as a second-level Grandmaster and announced that the sect would be wiped out.

At a gathering of the ancient clans, Lu Chen drew attention from powerful figures, including Yue Wuxia and Saber Maniac. After clashing with Saber Maniac’s saber intent, Lu Chen agreed to fight him, just as the ancient clans’ senior elders arrived.

• Huangfu Wang pointed out Han Qingyue and Yue Wuxia, and Lu Chen resisted Yue Wuxia’s spiritual seduction arts.
• Huangfu Wang explained the hierarchy of the ancient clans, and Lu Chen asked whether any clan had the surname Qing.
• Ouyang Yu loudly recognized Lu Chen, drawing the crowd’s attention, while Chu Yunxiao approached and Lu Chen joked that he was thirty-two.
• Saber Maniac challenged Lu Chen with a clash of saber intent, then praised his skill and offered to fight him; Lu Chen accepted.
• The ancient clans’ senior elders arrived, and Huangfu Wang identified them as the true living fossils.

At the grand gathering, the Blade Emperor challenged Lu Chen and the Saber Maniac, and Lu Chen accepted despite Huangfu Wang’s warning. After the gathering ended, the Saber Maniac began his duel with the Blade Emperor, who refused to draw his saber, while Lu Chen watched.

• Huangfu Wang identified Shi Yuan, Ye Dongtian, Daoist Qingyuan, and the Blade Emperor among the four powerful elders who arrived.
• The Saber Maniac confronted the Blade Emperor, who declared that the Saber Maniac was finally qualified to challenge him and then challenged Lu Chen as well.
• Lu Chen accepted the Blade Emperor’s challenge, while Huangfu Wang warned him that the Blade Emperor had killed saber-path prodigies to temper his blade.
• Ye Dongtian led a long discussion about forming an alliance, but the gathering ended without a decision.
• The Blade Emperor asked Lu Chen and the Saber Maniac which would fight first, and the Saber Maniac stepped forward.
• Outside the mountain, the Saber Maniac demanded that the Blade Emperor draw his saber, but the Blade Emperor refused, and Lu Chen watched with karmic threads appearing in his eyes.

Ouyang Feiying and several Hidden Realm fighters attacked Lu Chen, but he killed the fighters, gravely wounded Ouyang, and killed Ouyang Wanfeng. As Ouyang begged for help, a powerful man burst from the golden hall and attacked Lu Chen, whose dark cage delayed him until Cui Hu intervened.

• Ouyang Feiying arrived and accused Lu Chen of slaughtering Evergreen Sect disciples, while Ouyang Wanfeng urged the gathered martial artists to help kill him.
• Five or six first-level Physical Body Hidden Realm experts joined Ouyang Feiying in attacking Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen revealed his second-level Physical Body Hidden Realm cultivation, killed the attackers, and severely wounded Ouyang Feiying with one strike.
• Lu Chen killed Ouyang Wanfeng with sword intent and flying blades, saying he would kill Ouyang's family to honor his senior sister.
• A powerful man burst from the golden hall and attacked Lu Chen, but Lu Chen's Crimson Softsword trapped him briefly in a dark cage before Cui Hu arrived and struck at him.

Lu Chen emerged from the Heaven Gate Ruins and slaughtered the Ye Family attackers who had come to kill him. After learning that Breeze Swordmaster was surrounded by Grandmasters, he set out to find his senior brother, killing another group that tried to stop him.

• Lu Chen emerged from the ruins unharmed and demanded that the two Imperial Dynasty protectors tell him where his senior brother was.
• A Ye Family man told Lu Chen that his senior brother was surrounded and his Master was trapped, then attacked him with lightning True Qi.
• Lu Chen killed the eighth-level True Qi Hidden Realm attacker with one blade strike and slaughtered the rest of the group with his Blade Qi and Sword Qi.
• Zhao Gang emerged from the light gate, and a royal protector told Lu Chen that Breeze Swordmaster had retreated to the right while surrounded by Grandmasters.
• Lu Chen left to find Breeze Swordmaster, then caught and killed several more figures who tried to flee from him.

Dugu Wudi slaughtered several Heaven Rankings masters who had attacked the Sky Sword Sect, while others escaped. After reuniting with Lu Chen and the Breeze Swordmaster, Lu Chen urged his master to help him raid the Lin and Xu Families for revenge and Merit Points.

• Dugu Wudi broke free and killed the Lin Family Patriarch, destroying his Golden Body, then killed another Heaven Rankings expert and shattered a third expert’s physical body.
• Dugu Wudi pursued Zhao Jiuxiao, the Profound Heaven Sect Master, and cleaved him into the ground, but Zhao escaped using earth escape.
• The remaining attackers fled, and Dugu Wudi reunited with Lu Chen, the Breeze Swordmaster, and Qing Lian, then learned how Lu Chen had rescued the Breeze Swordmaster and advanced to the eighth level of the True Qi Hidden Realm.
• Lu Chen asked Dugu Wudi to help him take revenge on the Lin and Xu Families, whose patriarchs had been killed, while the other major families prepared to interfere.
• Lu Chen offered to raid the clans with the Breeze Swordmaster while Dugu Wudi held off their allies, and Dugu Wudi stared at him in astonishment.

Lu Chen faced a Northern Barbarian Grandmaster who tried to seize the Dao Fruit and force him into the Barbarian Kingdom Divine Temple. Lu Chen resisted the Grandmaster’s spiritual influence and struck back, leaving the Grandmaster wounded and stunned.

• Shen Lian rushed toward Lu Chen after a hidden strike sent him flying, then saw Lu Chen’s aura rise as his injuries healed and cultivation increased.
• A Northern Barbarian Grandmaster appeared and demanded that Lu Chen surrender the Dao Fruit and join the Barbarian Kingdom Divine Temple.
• Lu Chen resisted the Grandmaster’s attempt to control his mind and refused to submit, choosing to test his strength against him.
• The Grandmaster attacked with a colossal finger, but Lu Chen unleashed Severing Calamity and split the attack and darkened sky apart.
• Lu Chen pressed forward, trapped the Grandmaster with Sky Imprisonment, and struck him with the fourth style of the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction, forcing him back in shock.