Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen slaughtered the reclusive-family experts and learned that Shen Lian was fighting Chu Cang, who revealed the families had allied with the Northern Barbarians to invade Great Yu. Lu Chen arrived, overwhelmed Chu Cang, and killed him, leaving Shen Lian safe.

• Lu Chen killed more than thirty reclusive-family experts, spared one man long enough to learn where Shen Lian was, then killed him too.
• Shen Lian fought Chu Cang, who tried to recruit him and revealed that the reclusive families had allied with the Northern Barbarians for an invasion of Great Yu.
• Lu Chen arrived and confronted Chu Cang, who tried to leave after seeing him alive.
• Lu Chen struck Chu Cang down and killed him with a second attack.

Lu Chen used Wind Listening Pavilion to provoke Ye Gubai while hunting bandits and accumulating Merit Points. After spending them to advance the Profound Ice Hell Sutra, he reached the sixth stage of the Physical Body Hidden Realm, leaving Huangfu Yun and Cui Hu stunned.

• News spread that Lu Chen had defeated Huangfu Yun in one move and challenged Ye Gubai, while Wind Listening Pavilion reported that several top Qilin Rankings fighters were heading to Boulderstone City.
• Yan Guixue and Luo Jinghong arrived in Boulderstone City, complained about Lu Chen’s challenge, and saw Chu Jianghe, Xiang Yifu, and Liu Qianqiu’s black carriage arrive.
• Lu Chen spent eight days hunting bandits with Wind Listening Pavilion’s intelligence, earning a huge number of Merit Points as Huangfu Yun and Cui Hu urged him to postpone his duel with Ye Gubai.
• Lu Chen spent Merit Points to complete the fourth, fifth, and sixth levels of the Profound Ice Hell Sutra, reaching the sixth stage of the Physical Body Hidden Realm.
• Cui Hu and Huangfu Yun’s guardian reacted in shock to Lu Chen’s breakthrough, while Huangfu Yun stared at him in disbelief.

After Lu Chen revealed his strength and learned that the Northern Barbarians had launched a full-scale invasion, Shen Lian left the Azure Void Ancient Land to face the invading army while Lu Chen searched for the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction. The Northern Barbarian forces overran Great Yu’s defenses, and Ashina Luo waited outside the ancient land, interested in whether Lu Chen could survive Helian Tu.

• Lu Chen told Shen Lian that he had killed the Northern Barbarians who attacked him, then learned from Shen Lian that their full-scale invasion of Great Yu had begun.
• Lu Chen sent Shen Lian to assess the war and continued searching for the stele containing the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction.
• The Northern Barbarian army breached Shanhai Pass and overwhelmed Great Yu’s defenders at the Azure Void Ancient Land, killing General Yue Zhenshan.
• Shen Lian emerged from the ancient land and used Heavenly Net of Myriad Phenomena to knock tens of thousands of Northern Barbarian soldiers unconscious, but four Spirit Hidden Realm experts surrounded him.
• Uerhan told Shen Lian that a late-stage Spirit Hidden Realm expert was overseeing the invasion, while the Northern Barbarians claimed Great Yu’s hidden lineages had tacitly approved their attack.
• Ashina Luo dismissed warnings about Lu Chen’s rapid advancement but agreed to wait outside the Azure Void Ancient Land and see whether he survived Helian Tu.

Lu Chen slaughtered the Northern Barbarian forces around the Dao Fruit, earning vast Merit Points and advancing to the eighth level of the Spirit Hidden Realm. The chapter ended with him healing from a Grandmaster’s sudden attack as the powerful enemy’s threat loomed.

• Lu Chen used Sword Burial Returns to Emptiness and Severing Calamity to break the Northern Barbarians’ formation and kill Tuoba Shan, their eighth-level Spirit Hidden Realm leader.
• Lu Chen cut down the remaining Northern Barbarian experts, while the Great Yu fighters watched in amazement and Shen Lian marveled at his strength.
• Lu Chen pursued and killed the four Northern Barbarian experts who had been fighting Shen Lian, gaining more Merit Points.
• A terrifying pressure from a Grandmaster struck Lu Chen and sent him flying as he allocated Merit Points to reach the seventh and then eighth level of the Spirit Hidden Realm.
• Lu Chen’s Undying Overlord Body rapidly healed the injuries he had suffered from the Grandmaster’s attack.

Lu Chen led the assault on the Lin Family, confronting former subordinate Yu Siyuan and coordinating with Breeze Swordmaster and the imperial forces. After Breeze Swordmaster shattered the family’s protective formation, Lu Chen entered alone to face its remaining fighters, and the Lin Family’s three Spirit Hidden Realm experts emerged to challenge the imperial elders.

• Lu Chen intimidated Zhou Yun, then summoned Yu Siyuan and made clear that he held no grudge over Yu Tianli’s death, leaving Yu Siyuan terrified but unharmed.
• Lu Chen assigned Breeze Swordmaster to fight the Lin Family’s five Grandmasters, the Princes to hold back its three Spirit Hidden Realm experts, and the others to surround the mountain while he dealt with the rest.
• Breeze Swordmaster broke the Lin Family’s formation and told its elders that Lu Chen’s master had killed their Family Head; when they resisted, he attacked the five Grandmasters.
• Lu Chen entered the chaotic Lin Family grounds with four imperial elders, while the crippled Lin Wanhua recognized him and panicked.
• The four imperial elders sensed three hidden Spirit Hidden Realm experts and struck them from the void; one of the Lin elders warned that destroying their hidden lineage could provoke other lineages against the Imperial Family.

Lu Chen revealed his Divine King power when he destroyed the Heavenly Machine Divine Race’s warship and slaughtered its forces. He pursued the survivors, killed Zhuo Xingyun, and wounded Miao Xuantian’s rescuing ancestor, who then invited Lu Chen to join the Space-Time Divine Clan.

• Lu Chen appeared outside the Sky Sword Sect and recognized the Heavenly Machine Divine Race’s warship and its Star Annihilation Cannon.
• Xuan Yu fired the cannon at Lu Chen, but Lu Chen emerged unharmed and revealed his Divine King-level power.
• Lu Chen’s sword destroyed the warship and killed nearly everyone aboard, while Zhuo Xingyun and Miao Xuantian escaped using secret treasures.
• Lu Chen caught up with Zhuo Xingyun and killed him despite his desperate pleas and his Heaven and Earth Share the Same Lifespan technique.
• Lu Chen attacked Miao Xuantian, damaging his shield, but a white-robed Space-Time Divine King appeared, rescued him, and invited Lu Chen to join the Space-Time Divine Clan.

Lu Chen learned of the Space-Time Divine Clan’s betrayal of the world in the ancient era while examining the Sky Sword Sect. Xuan Yu and Zhuo Xingyun arrived with the Space-Time Divine Clan to confront the sect, and their vessel began scanning its interior.

• News spread across the Yang Realm about Lu Chen’s rapid rise, his Netherworld killings, and his possession of the Myriad Sword Dao Seed.
• Xuan Yu saw the Heavenly Machine Divine Race members Lu Chen had killed and set out with Zhuo Xingyun to settle the score.
• Miao Xuanji told Lu Chen that the Space-Time Divine Clan branch from beyond the realm had betrayed their world and that the surviving branch had stayed behind.
• Lu Chen said he had already killed the visiting Space-Time Divine Clan members, and Miao Xuanji praised him.
• Miao Xuanji described how an ancient existence had tried to refine their world, causing its collapse before the Myriad Worlds invaded and divided its spoils.
• Xuan Yu’s vessel reached the Sky Sword Sect with Zhuo Xingyun and members of the Space-Time Divine Clan, then began displaying images of the sect and its people.

Lu Chen and the Sky Sword Sect learned that the demons were emerging and that the ancient clans planned an alliance, while Lu Chen’s growing fame drew the attention of a predator who wanted his origin. The chapter ended with Han Guiji arriving at the Sky Sword Sect to propose that Lu Chen marry Han Qingyue, prompting Dugu Wudi to order him out.

• Lu Chen gave Zhao Xuantian the Fountain of Life, and Zhao Xuantian drank it and began refining it.
• News spread that two Demon Kings were slaughtering towns, while ancient clan experts fought a Demon King and helped trapped people escape before it sealed the secret realm and declared the Demon Race would emerge.
• Huangfu Wang told Dugu Wudi, Lu Chen, and Zhao Xuantian that the ancient clans planned an alliance and would hold a gathering at Wuxing Mountain in three days; Lu Chen agreed to attend.
• The ancient clans investigated Lu Chen’s rapid rise and were shocked by his achievements, while Yue Wuxia planned to capture him and consume his origin to reach the Dharma Aspect Realm.
• Han Guiji arrived with Han Qingyue and proposed that Dugu Wudi’s disciple Lu Chen marry her, and Dugu Wudi angrily ordered him to leave.

Lu Chen released the Demon King sealed beneath the Sky Sword Sect, and the awakened creature slaughtered the ancient clan elders who had come to free it. As the Demon King trapped the survivors beneath its aura, Lu Chen calmly stepped forward to confront it.

• Lu Chen found the Demon King sealed in a bronze coffin beneath the ancestral sword and decided to release it.
• Six or seven Golden Body Realm experts from ancient clans arrived and urged Lu Chen to unseal the Demon King.
• Lu Chen shattered the giant sword and summoned the divine sword from the coffin, opening the seal.
• The ancient clan elders opened the coffin, and the Demon King seized two elders and killed them as it began recovering its strength.
• The Demon King emerged and killed two more elders while trapping those remaining beneath its aura.
• Lu Chen walked through the Demon King's aura lock and calmly asked whether it had made enough trouble.

Lu Chen killed the Demon King beneath the Sky Sword Sect with a single strike of the Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art, then compelled three ancient clan experts to conceal what happened. After Zhao Xuantian arrived injured from the Imperial City, Lu Chen showed him the Demon King's corpse and gave him a bottle of the Fountain of Life.

• Three ancient clan experts begged Lu Chen for help as the Demon King threatened them and demanded to see Dugu Wudi.
• The Demon King unleashed its strongest attack, but Lu Chen combined his abilities with the third form of the Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art and split it apart with one sword strike.
• Lu Chen learned that the ancient clan experts came from the Shi, Chu, and Wu Clans, planted Sword Intent in their minds, and ordered them to say Dugu Wudi had killed the Demon King.
• Breeze Swordmaster and Qing Lian watched in shock as the three experts left, while Breeze Swordmaster realized Lu Chen had surpassed their master.
• Zhao Xuantian arrived injured and told Lu Chen that a monster released from the ninth level of the Heavenly Prison had attacked the Imperial City.
• Lu Chen revealed the Demon King's corpse to Zhao Xuantian and tossed him a bottle of the Fountain of Life.

Lu Chen destroyed the Demon King's attacking hand with a sword strike, allowing the trapped group to escape, then returned to the Sky Sword Sect and shared treasures with his fellow disciples. The chapter ended with him revealing his Golden Body Realm cultivation to Qing Lian and leaving her stunned.

• Lu Chen broke through to the Eighth Level of Golden Body Realm and blasted apart the Demon King's hand, freeing the teleportation array and letting the trapped people escape.
• The Demon King turned its fury toward Lie Wujin, Ye Wushe, and the others, while Lu Chen and the other escapees arrived outside with their eyes injured by his sword's flash.
• Lu Chen told Dugu Wudi that his sword strike was a secret art and that pressure had forced his breakthrough, then returned to the Sky Sword Sect.
• Lu Chen gave Dugu Wudi the Star Tear and Life Source Elixir, then gave Breeze Swordmaster Life Source Elixir and Heavenly Spirit Fruits while revealing he had reached the Golden Body Realm.
• Lu Chen visited Qing Lian at the Enlightenment Pavilion, gave her five Purple Dragon Grass plants, and revealed his cultivation, leaving her stunned.

Lu Chen raised Cyclone Blade and Severing Sky Finger to Mastery but realized he needed a higher-grade cultivation art to advance further. After rescuing Liu Jinglan from the West Mountain Ghosts, he refused to help recover Qingqing unless Liu Jinglan could provide an Excellent Grade cultivation art.

• Lu Chen spent Merit Points to master Cyclone Blade and Severing Sky Finger, raising his cultivation to Fifth Rank (41%).
• Lu Chen heard Liu Jinglan and his pursuers enter the ruined temple, then watched the West Mountain Ghosts attack the wounded man.
• Lu Chen killed five attackers, blinded another, and rescued Liu Jinglan, earning Merit Points.
• Liu Jinglan asked Lu Chen to rescue Qingqing, who had been abducted by villains.
• Lu Chen refused to help unless Liu Jinglan could provide an Excellent Grade cultivation art, then prepared to leave with the surviving captive.

Lu Chen entered the secret realm ahead of the others, where he immediately encountered Xu Jiuye of the Xu Clan. Xu Jiuye attacked him with the Purple Bamboo Staff as nearby Grandmasters and Huangfu Qi rushed toward them.

• Huangfu Wang introduced Lu Chen to the Huangfu Clan members and warned them not to provoke him in the secret realm.
• A spatial rift opened above the town, and Lu Chen rushed inside while the other experts followed and were scattered by its power.
• Lu Chen emerged in the secret realm and came face to face with Xu Jiuye, who challenged him to withstand three strikes of his staff.
• As nearby Grandmasters gathered, Xu Jiuye revealed his Golden Body Realm cultivation and brought the Purple Bamboo Staff down toward Lu Chen.
• Huangfu Qi recognized Xu Jiuye's Starry Sky Imperishable Body and shouted for everyone to get away.

Lu Chen entered the Celestial Pool and absorbed its golden essence while the Imperial Family brothers considered winning his allegiance. Elsewhere, conspirators trapped Dugu Wudi and ambushed Breeze Swordmaster, leaving both masters under attack as the plot against Lu Chen advanced.

• Lu Chen knocked Chi Haitian and Chu Yunlan unconscious, entered the Celestial Pool, and began rapidly absorbing its energy as his realm rose.
• Zhao Hong and Zhao Gang discussed recruiting Lu Chen and tying the Imperial Family to the Sky Sword Sect.
• Thirteen black-robed figures arrived at the Sky Sword Sect, surrounded Dugu Wudi with Heavenly Plague Banners, and revealed their plan to hold him for fifteen days so Lu Chen could be killed at the Heavenly Gate.
• Dugu Wudi recognized an Otherworlder among the figures and unleashed Sword Qi against their black dome.
• Breeze Swordmaster was ambushed in a Southern Frontier gorge by twelve black-robed attackers and eighteen Dao guardians, and fought back while surrounded.

After learning that Su Yingxue had been killed so Ye Gubai could obtain an ingredient for the Profound Yin Chill Pill, Lu Chen vowed to take revenge on both Ye Gubai and the Evergreen Sect Master Ouyang Feiying. He announced that he would attend Ouyang Feiying’s birthday in three days, leaving himself time to build his strength.

• Lu Chen brought Cui Hu to Boulderstone City using qinggong and paid Wu Yulan at the Wind Listening Pavilion for information about Su Yingxue.
• Wu Yulan told Lu Chen that Su Yingxue was dead and that Ye Gubai needed a maiden with her rare birth conditions to refine the Profound Yin Chill Pill.
• Wu Yulan revealed that Ouyang Feiying of the Evergreen Sect had identified Su Yingxue, captured her, and delivered her to the Ye Family.
• Lu Chen rejected Cui Hu’s suggestion to let the matter go and vowed to kill both Ouyang Feiying and Ye Gubai.
• After learning that Ouyang Feiying’s sixtieth birthday was three days away, Lu Chen sent word that he would attend and resolved to accumulate merit and break through to the Hidden Realm.

Lu Chen defeated Wan Jianyi and turned on the six remaining Divine Kings, killing several as the others fled. He failed to catch the Old Imperial Uncle, while the arriving factions were left terrified by Lu Chen’s power.

• Lu Chen swallowed Wan Jianyi’s sword light with a black vortex, then killed him with a single sword strike.
• The six remaining Divine Kings attacked Lu Chen together and trapped him in Yin Shengyun’s Demon Pot inside Chu Jingtian’s Nine-Story Exquisite Pagoda.
• Lu Chen shattered the pagoda and Demon Pot, killed Yin Shengyun and the Beautiful Woman in Palace Attire, and pursued the fleeing Divine Kings while Xuan Zhenzi carried Qiqi away.
• Lu Chen caught up with the fleeing group outside the atmosphere and killed two more Divine Kings, but the wounded Old Imperial Uncle escaped through a spatial tunnel.
• Lu Chen warned that he would track down the Old Imperial Uncle and struck fear into the factions that had just arrived.

Lu Chen defeated the Five Elements Sword Array, freeing thirty-eight surviving members of the Space-Time Divine Clan and absorbing the formation's knowledge. He then advanced to the final stele, mastered the Chaos Returns to Origin Sword Array, and comprehended the Sword Heart.

• Lu Chen overcame the five spirit-sword figures by understanding the Five Elements Sword Array, causing them to shatter and freeing the Space-Time Divine Clan members trapped behind the stele.
• Miao Wu Fa warned the rescued clansmen not to disturb Lu Chen while he absorbed the formation knowledge, and he introduced him to the clan chief as the Sword God.
• After absorbing the Five Elements knowledge, Lu Chen found that his swordsmanship had grown stronger and walked toward the deeper part of the sword array.
• Lu Chen saw an ancient dead figure pierced by a blood-colored spear and noticed a black ring on its finger, then turned his attention to the final stele.
• Lu Chen defeated the figure guarding the Chaos Returns to Origin Sword Array and absorbed its knowledge, bringing his swordsmanship to its pinnacle and granting him the Sword Heart.

Lu Chen erased the karma linking him to Yue Wuxia’s death, but the news of her murder still threw the Ancient Clan into turmoil. He returned to the Sky Sword Sect and found its Third Generation Ancestor confronting Dugu Wudi and claiming authority over the sect; the ancestor then suppressed Lu Chen’s cultivation and ordered a disciple named Qingfeng to test his swordsmanship.

• Lu Chen erased all traces of his connection to Yue Wuxia’s death, buried her corpse, and let Ouyang Yu spread the news of her murder.
• Ouyang Yu’s announcement stirred the Ancient Clan, and Yue Wuxia’s followers found her body and discovered that the killer had erased the karma surrounding the crime.
• Lu Chen considered spending his Merit Points to improve his sword or blade intent, then hurried back to the Sky Sword Sect after Breeze Swordmaster summoned him.
• Lu Chen met Daoist Qingyuan and a powerful man who identified himself as the Sky Sword Sect’s Third Generation Ancestor and demanded that Dugu Wudi relinquish his position.
• Lu Chen and Dugu Wudi rejected the ancestor’s claims, so the ancestor lowered Lu Chen’s cultivation to the Third Level of Golden Body Realm and sent Qingfeng to challenge his swordsmanship.

Lu Chen pursued and killed Yue Wuxia after resisting her Tsukuyomi and cutting free eight puppets she sent against him. The others were affected by the lingering spiritual art in Yue Wuxia’s corpse, and Lu Chen explained that his Mental Reflection-type gift had turned her secret arts back on her.

• Yue Wuxia fled after Lu Chen broke her secret art and treasure, while the Fountain of Life restored some of his strength.
• Yue Wuxia summoned eight controlled Ancient Clan prodigies, but Lu Chen severed their karmic ties and freed them.
• Yue Wuxia begged Lu Chen to spare her and offered to serve him, but he struck her down with Severing Calamity.
• Lu Chen killed Yue Wuxia with a final blade strike, earning 3400 Merit Points.
• Huangfu Qi, Huangfu Youyu, and Ouyang Yu approached Yue Wuxia’s corpse and were affected by her lingering spiritual art until Huangfu Wang woke them.
• Lu Chen explained that Yue Wuxia’s spirit remained fused with her body and that his Mental Reflection-type gift had reflected her spiritual secret arts.

Lu Chen and the other Divine Kings entered the Death Zone, where the Eternal Imperial Clan revealed that the starry sky was an exile realm and forced them into a deadly trial. Separated across a gloomy world resembling the Netherworld, Lu Chen received messages from his allies and found that Venerable Chiyan was nearby.

• Lu Chen flew through a darkness filled with crimson eyes and arrived with the other Divine Kings on a reddish-brown land where time and spiritual power behaved strangely.
• Four Three-Faced Beings appeared and announced that the Divine Kings would undergo a trial, while thousands more watched from above.
• The Three-Faced Beings identified themselves as the Eternal Imperial Clan, called the Divine Kings descendants of exiles, and killed several of them to enforce their authority.
• A Three-Faced Being explained that only the top fifteen contestants would earn rewards and return, those ranked sixteenth through sixtieth would be auctioned, and the rest would have their souls erased.
• Lu Chen and the other Divine Kings entered the trial passage, where its force separated them and sent them to different regions; Li Wangxu threw transmission tokens to his companions.
• Lu Chen landed in a dim world resembling the Netherworld, received messages from Li Wangxu, Han Feng, Xu Lin, and the others, and sensed that Venerable Chiyan was nearby.