Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen pretended to be badly injured to draw out his attackers, then killed the toad Demon King and an old human monster before the Blade Venerable seriously wounded him. As the Blade Venerable and the remaining demons and human traitors closed in, Lu Chen called for help, and powerful human seniors appeared to surround his enemies.

• Lu Chen feigned weakness, killed the toad Demon King, and slew an old human monster who attacked him.
• Lu Chen kept pretending to flee, prompting the Tiger King, Snake King, and old monster with the Violetgold Hammer to summon more hidden demons and humans into the fight.
• The Blade Venerable struck Lu Chen with a devastating attack and condemned him as a traitor, while the Demon Kings taunted him.
• Lu Chen called on the seniors for help, and Yue Qingtian, the Third Generation Ancestor, Miao Wu Fa, and other powerful figures appeared to confront the Demon Kings and human traitors.

Lu Chen and Li Wangshu left the Sword Graveyard after discovering that a remnant god-consciousness might remain within the Sword Dao Divinity. As demons attacked Sky Sword Sect and Lu Chen clashed with Blade Venerable Li Wuji, Lu Chen returned to the real world determined to grow strong enough to face him.

• Lu Chen warned Third Generation Ancestor that a remnant consciousness of a god might be hiding in the Sword Dao Divinity, and Li Wangshu recorded the divine stele before they left the temple.
• Peacock King accepted Black Cloud Mountain's Heaven and Earth Qiankun Diagram and sent the Four Venerables of Yin Mountain to destroy Sky Sword Sect and kill Lu Chen and Dugu Wudi.
• The Four Venerables of Yin Mountain reached Sky Sword Sect, where the Nether Snake attacked Dugu Wudi.
• Lu Chen and Li Wangshu emerged from the Sword Graveyard, and Blade Venerable Li Wuji tried to learn whether they had obtained the Sword Dao Divinity.
• Li Wuji secretly struck at Lu Chen, who deflected the attack and countered; Third Generation Ancestor joined him and blasted Li Wuji away.
• Li Wangshu warned Lu Chen that Li Wuji would retaliate, and Lu Chen returned to the real world, resolving to raise his cultivation.

Lu Chen returned to find Dugu Wudi fighting four demon kings at Sky Sword Sect and killed Bloodthirsty Crow and the Three-Headed Lion in rapid succession. As Dugu Wudi finished off the wounded Nether Snake, Lu Chen continued battling the Great Roc.

• Lu Chen emerged above Sky Sword Sect and saw Dugu Wudi fighting the Three-Headed Lion and Bloodthirsty Crow while the Roc healed the wounded Nether Snake.
• Lu Chen killed Bloodthirsty Crow with one slash of his Black Saber.
• The Three-Headed Lion attacked Lu Chen, but Lu Chen drew his sword and beheaded it.
• The Great Roc unleashed a barrage of claws against Lu Chen, whose defenses began to falter under the speed of its attacks.
• Dugu Wudi stabbed Nether Snake through the crown, then blasted it apart with Sword Qi before it could self-destruct.
• The Great Roc mourned Nether Snake as Lu Chen resumed his attacks.

Lu Chen fought the Great Peng, leader of the Four Fiends of Yin Mountain, and used the Heavenly Will Sword to sever one of its wings. He chased the wounded Roc Demon King as news of the battle spread, while a horned middle-aged man rushed to warn the Peacock King that the Four Venerables were failing.

• The Great Peng burned its Golden-Winged Great Peng bloodline power and attacked Lu Chen, while Dugu Wudi charged in to help.
• Lu Chen unleashed the Heavenly Will Sword to save Dugu Wudi and severely wounded the Great Peng, but the Demon King recovered enough to keep fighting.
• Lu Chen drew the Great Peng away from the Sky Sword Sect, and Ancient Clan observers recognized the Demon King as the leader of the Four Fiends of Yin Mountain.
• After his strength recovered, Lu Chen used the Heavenly Will Sword again, severing one of the Great Peng's wings and sending it crashing away.
• The wounded Roc fled, but Lu Chen pursued it with his Black Saber as Ancient Clan experts watched in shock.
• A horned middle-aged man learned that Lu Chen was hunting the Roc Demon King and hurried to inform the Peacock King.

Lu Chen defeated Yue Qingtian in a sparring match while holding back, then learned from Miao Wu Fa about the Sword Graveyard’s guardian and the jade pendant needed to reach its core. He returned to the Sky Sword Sect and reassured Dugu Wudi that his mission had gone smoothly, mentioning the influential new friends he had made.

• Lu Chen guided Yue Qingtian through an exhilarating exchange before disarming him with three blade strikes, and Yue admitted defeat and praised Lu Chen’s techniques.
• Miao Wu Fa told Lu Chen that he had entered the Sword Graveyard over five thousand years earlier and suffered a lasting Dao injury from its guardian.
• Miao Wu Fa gave Lu Chen a token and described the guardian’s circular yin-yang jade pendant, which Lu Chen needed to seize to approach the Sword Graveyard’s core and its inheritances.
• Yue Qingtian and the other martial leaders said they would settle their affairs before visiting Lu Chen in the Imperial City, and the group went their separate ways.
• Lu Chen returned to the Sky Sword Sect, reassured Dugu Wudi that everything had been resolved, and said he had befriended leaders from several circles.

Lu Chen perfected two Divine King-level sword arts, raising his Sword Heart to Level Three before arriving at the arena for his duel with Sword Cliff's Jian Qi. He defeated Jian Qi with one strike, leaving the gathered Divine Kings stunned.

• Lu Chen used Merit Points to perfect the Sword of Judgment and restore and perfect the Sword of Vigilance, advancing his Sword Heart to Level Three.
• Lu Chen met Wu Lie, learned that an ancient stone carving was tied to the Holy Land's return, and agreed to begin his arena duel.
• Wu Lie introduced the Divine King battlefield and identified Sword Cliff's Jian Xuan and Jian Qi as Lu Chen's opponents, with Jian Qi fighting first.
• After the Peacock King won the preceding duel, Wu Lie announced that Lu Chen would face Jian Qi, who promised to defeat him within five moves.
• Jian Qi unleashed her Reincarnation sword and its illusions, but Lu Chen struck once and sent her flying, badly wounded.

Lu Chen brought nine Divine King Godheads to the Starry Sky Merchant Guild and arranged to auction them for heavenly treasures and sword Dao divine abilities. After agreeing to visit the Starry Sky Arena, he learned that a Sword Cliff expert would duel him and received the auction proceeds before preparing to go.

• Lu Chen met Wang Fubao at the Starry Sky Merchant Guild, handed him nine Divine King Godheads, and asked him to auction them for rare heavenly treasures or Divine King-level sword Dao divine abilities.
• The announcement of the nine Godheads spread across the starry sky, and the Starry Sky Arena arranged a duel between Lu Chen and the Sword Cliff successors Jian Xuan and Jian Qi.
• The Starry Sky Merchant contacted Lu Chen and invited him to win five consecutive duels at the arena to qualify for ancient cultivation-related stone carvings left by figures from the Wasteland; Lu Chen agreed to visit in five days.
• News of the coming duel spread, and Lu Chen welcomed the chance to encounter Sword Cliff’s sword inheritance on his journey through the starry sky.
• Wang Fubao delivered the auction items to Lu Chen: seven heavenly treasures and two sword Dao divine abilities.

Venerable Xuanming captured Yue Qingtian, Dugu Wudi, and others while terrorizing the Axe Realm, but Lu Chen confronted him after learning his Master had been taken. Lu Chen shattered Xuanming’s attack and trapped him in the Chaos Returns to Origin Sword Array, then unleashed the Heavenly Will Sword.

• Venerable Xuanming chained Yue Qingtian and captured Fire Fist Zhao Shanhe, Ice Palm Wu Qian, Staff King Ye Qiankun, Arrow God Leng Feng, and others as slaves.
• Venerable Xuanming attacked Li Wangshu and Dugu Wudi; Miao Wu Fa used Space-Time Power to rescue Li Wangshu, but Dugu Wudi was captured.
• Lu Chen intercepted Li Wangshu and Miao Wu Fa, learned that his Master had been taken, and rushed to confront Venerable Xuanming despite their warnings.
• Venerable Xuanming announced that he wanted Lu Chen as his chief guard and demanded that he submit, but Lu Chen refused and asked where his Master was.
• Lu Chen shattered Venerable Xuanming’s black hand and trapped him in the Chaos Returns to Origin Sword Array, prompting Xuanming to struggle against its Sword Heart.
• Lu Chen released the Heavenly Will Sword as Venerable Xuanming remained bound in the sword array.

Lu Chen rejected the Han family's proposal to marry Han Qingyue, while Yue Wuxia used the Heavenly Dao Mirror to investigate Lu Chen and Dugu Wudi. As a gathering of Ancient Clan experts began, Lu Chen learned that the Third Generation Ancestor might appear and entered the mountain with Zhao Hong and Zhao Gang.

• Han Guiji proposed that Lu Chen marry Han Qingyue and join the Han family, but Lu Chen refused and told them to leave.
• Han Qingyue accepted Lu Chen's hostility, and his sword intent made her collapse; she then left with Han Guiji after Lu Chen rejected her again.
• Yue Wuxia gave Dugu Wudi and Lu Chen's essence blood to black-clad figures, who used it to activate the Heavenly Dao Mirror.
• Huangfu Wang told Lu Chen that the Third Generation Ancestor might attend the Ancient Clans' gathering and described the ancestor's distinctive appearance and familiar sword intent.
• Lu Chen sensed karmic threads inside the mountain where the gathering was being held, then entered with Zhao Hong and Zhao Gang.

Lu Chen’s deception lured the Demon Kings and Human Traitors into a trap, where the human path leaders attacked them. Lu Chen helped slaughter the Demon Kings, and the battle threatened to spark a war between humanity and the Demon Race.

• The Third Generation Ancestor stopped Blade Venerable from fleeing and battled him, while the human path leaders engaged the Human Traitors.
• Lu Chen and the human leaders rejected the Demon Kings’ claims of peaceful agreements and revealed that they had lured them into the ambush.
• The Black Violent Ape attacked Lu Chen, who killed it with a blade strike aided by a golden Sword Qi.
• Lu Chen joined Li Qingfeng in killing Rat King, then continued rushing between battles to eliminate more Demon Kings.
• Ancient Clan observers feared the slaughter would provoke retaliation, while Miao Wu Fa played his zither calmly amid the fighting.

Lu Chen used the Returning Light Flowing Sword and Heavenly Will Sword to defeat and kill the Peacock King, earning eighty thousand Merit Points. As Li Wangshu and the others escaped the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Diagram, they found Lu Chen beside the Peacock King's remains.

• The Peacock King trapped Miao Wu Fa, Li Wangshu, and the others in the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Diagram, then challenged Lu Chen to fight.
• Lu Chen struck the Peacock King with the Returning Light Flowing Sword, inflicting devastating wounds that weakened his body and Great Dao foundation.
• The Peacock King tried to flee and then unleashed a chaotic vortex, but Lu Chen countered with the Heavenly Will Sword and continued pursuing him.
• The Peacock King pleaded for his life and offered to spy for humanity, but Lu Chen refused and killed him, earning eighty thousand Merit Points.
• After Lu Chen recovered with the Fountain of Life, Li Wangshu and seven or eight others burst out of the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Diagram and asked whether the Peacock King had escaped.

Lu Chen killed Peacock King, broke through to the third level of Dharma Manifestation, and gained the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Diagram and other spoils. As news of the deaths spread, humanity prepared for the Demon Race’s likely declaration of war, while the sacred lands erupted in anger and alarm.

• Everyone discovered Peacock King's scattered corpse, and Li Wangshu confirmed Lu Chen had killed him despite Peacock King retaining most of his strength.
• The Third Generation Ancestor noticed Lu Chen had advanced two levels during the battle, and Miao Wu Fa promised to repair the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Diagram and return it to him.
• The group searched Peacock King's residence, found Blood Spirit Crystals and Spirit Energy, and divided the spoils.
• Li Wangshu warned that Peacock King's death would provoke the Demon Race, so Miao Wu Fa split the group into two teams to prepare and monitor their movements.
• News of Peacock King's death, Blade Venerable's death, and the deaths of numerous Demon Kings spread worldwide, shocking people and enraging the sacred lands.

Lu Chen killed the Silver Dragon King and Fallen Wing King, but the Golden-Winged Peng King challenged him after Li Wangshu stepped in to fight. The Golden-Winged Peng King overpowered Li Wangshu and launched a devastating attack as Lu Chen prepared to intervene.

• Lu Chen killed the Silver Dragon King with the Returning Light Flowing Sword and defended his actions to the Demon Race.
• The Fallen Wing King trapped Lu Chen in a soul attack, but Lu Chen broke free and killed him with the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction.
• Several Demon Kings attacked Lu Chen together, but Miao Wu Fa shifted their attacks away and pulled Lu Chen to safety.
• The Golden-Winged Peng King demanded a duel, and Li Wangshu stepped forward to fight in Lu Chen's place.
• Li Wangshu struck the Golden-Winged Peng King with the Heavenly Will Sword, but the Peng King recovered unharmed and unleashed a devastating attack on him.

Lu Chen confronted the Demon Race’s army at Blood Cloud Mountain and killed the Silver Dragon King with a single sword strike. The human forces and hidden observers were left stunned as the battle began.

• The human experts arrived at Blood Cloud Mountain and saw an army of demons led by more than a hundred demon kings.
• A refined middle-aged demon demanded that Lu Chen be killed in exchange for the Demon Race withdrawing, but Li Wangshu and the others rejected his terms.
• The Silver Dragon King challenged the humans, and Lu Chen stepped forward to fight it.
• The Silver Dragon King attacked Lu Chen with its Silver Dragon Roar and a claw strike empowered by law runes.
• Lu Chen cut through the Silver Dragon King’s attack with a sword strike that wielded Space-Time Power, killing it and gaining Merit Points.

Lu Chen advanced to the Fifth Stage of Dharma Aspect, summoned a force of dead demons, and accepted Miao Wu Fa’s request to help rescue members of the Space-Time Divine Clan once he reached the Ninth Stage. After attacking the great powers’ disciples, he rushed back to Sky Sword Sect when Dugu Wudi reported that Qing Lian was missing.

• Lu Chen spent Merit Points to break through two stages to the Fifth Stage of Dharma Aspect and summoned more than a hundred demon souls as his secret force.
• Miao Wu Fa gave Lu Chen the Saber Dao True Understanding and asked him to deliver a strike to rescue some Space-Time Divine Clan members when he reached the Ninth Stage of Dharma Aspect.
• Lu Chen agreed to Miao Wu Fa’s request, then left to attack members of the Upper Three Clans, Middle Six Clans, Ageless Palace, and No. 2 Saber Gate.
• Lu Chen killed eighty-eight Human Traitors with Karma Blades, then received Dugu Wudi’s message that Qing Lian was gone and hurried toward Sky Sword Sect.

Lu Chen killed the War God Hall patriarch, revived him as his servant Po Jun, and destroyed the No. 2 Saber Gate while its disciples fled. He set off to find his Master, planning to deal with the Upper Three Clans after leaving the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Sect.

• Lu Chen used a sword carrying the power of time to destroy the War God Hall patriarch’s body, then chased down and killed the patriarch’s divine infant despite its Eight Vajras guardians.
• Lu Chen summoned the patriarch back as Po Jun, learned what he knew about demigodhood, and ordered him to gather the War God Hall’s treasures and help hunt its fleeing members.
• News of Lu Chen’s assault spread through the Pure Land, stirring some Ancient Clan members to support him and others to call for his destruction.
• Lu Chen followed the fleeing War God Hall leaders’ karmic threads toward the Upper Three Clans, then changed course for the No. 2 Saber Gate.
• Lu Chen found the No. 2 Saber Gate abandoned, destroyed the stronghold with a palm blade, and left with Po Jun to find his Master.

Lu Chen reached the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Sect to settle Qing Lian’s situation, while news spread that the Upper Three Clans were gathering thirty-six forces to trap him in the Pure Land. He broke through the sect’s defenses and confronted its elders, demanding Qing Lian and compensation.

• Lu Chen returned to Dugu Wudi with Po Jun, the War God Hall’s ancestor, who had submitted to him as his master.
• News spread that Lu Chen had destroyed the No. 2 Saber Gate, and the Upper Three Clans convened the Ancient Clan’s thirty-six major forces to oppose him.
• Dugu Wudi warned Lu Chen that the gathered forces intended to keep him in the Pure Land, but Lu Chen continued toward the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Sect.
• Lu Chen reached the sect and walked through its grand arrays as its God Slaying Arrows shattered before him; his sword intent killed the guard commander and drove the remaining guards to flee.
• The sect’s elders confronted Lu Chen, who demanded that they hand over Qing Lian and offer compensation, declaring that she was his junior sister.

Lu Chen killed Wu Yue'e and Wu Yinglong, then forced Zhao Yuesheng to recite his martial arts before the authorities and the Great Shark Gang closed in on Wu's Porcelain Shop. Zhao Hu learned that a killer had headed there and feared his son was in danger.

• Lu Chen hurled Wu Yue'e into a wall and killed her, then caught Zhao Yuesheng and demanded that he recite his martial arts.
• Wu Yinglong came out to investigate the commotion, but Lu Chen struck him into ornamental rocks and killed him.
• Lu Chen dragged Zhao Yuesheng inside and forced him to recite the Black Tiger Fist under threat of death.
• Constables and Great Shark Gang members rushed toward Wu's Porcelain Shop after discovering the beggars' den had been wiped out and the gang's Carefree Powder destroyed.
• Chen Baisha warned Zhao Hu that Zhao Yuesheng might be in danger, and Zhao Hu learned from Guo Feng that a killer had headed to Wu's Porcelain Shop.

Lu Chen and a group of human experts surrounded the Peacock King, who fought them with his five-colored divine light. After Lu Chen advanced to the third level of the Dharma Manifestation realm and struck the Peacock King down, the Peacock King unleashed the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Diagram to trap the attackers.

• The Peacock King dismissed Jiao Qi’s worries, but sensed that causality had been cut off and flew out to investigate.
• Lu Chen attacked the Peacock King with the Heavenly Will Sword, and Miao Wu Fa, Li Wangshu, Leng Feng, Yue Qingtian, and other human experts appeared to surround him.
• The Peacock King used his five-colored divine light to repel their attacks and break Miao Wu Fa’s spatial confinement, while Lu Chen spent Merit Points to advance to the third level of the Dharma Manifestation realm.
• Lu Chen struck the fleeing Peacock King with the Heavenly Will Sword, and the other experts rushed in to continue the assault.
• Jiao Qi tried to summon help but was killed by a black blade, while the wounded Peacock King revealed the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Diagram and drew Miao Wu Fa, Li Wangshu, and the others inside.

Lu Chen comprehended the Sword Heart and inherited a purple jade pendant bearing the words “Supreme Sword Dao,” which drew the attention of a powerful being beyond the Star Chain. After returning, he refined the Star and Moon Clans’ medicinal treasures into a pill and began breaking through to the eighth level of the Dharma Manifestation realm.

• Lu Chen comprehended the Sword Heart, heard the dead swordsman’s final message, and took his purple Supreme Sword Dao jade pendant before the corpse crumbled to dust.
• A gigantic presence beyond the Star Chain sensed the Supreme Sword Dao and attacked, but the Star Chain repelled it as Lu Chen and the Space-Time Divine Clan escaped through a passage.
• Lu Chen learned from Miao Xuanji that the giant shadows and their attacks had increased in recent years, then returned to study the rings taken from the Star and Moon Clans.
• At the Sky Sword Sect, Li Wangshu learned of an incident in the Sword Realm and forcibly took Dugu Wudi there, leaving Lu Chen a message.
• Lu Chen used 10,000 Merit Points to extract the essence of the Star and Moon Clans’ pills and herbs into a Universe Rebirth Pill, then began refining it.
• Lu Chen’s aura reached the eighth level of the Dharma Manifestation realm and continued rising toward its peak.