Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen reached the Peak of the Eighth Stage of Dharma Aspect and learned that Outer Realm Experts were invading the Netherworld through its realms. One shadow descended into the Axe Realm, where it massacred soul bodies and cornered Yue Qingtian, while Lu Chen hurried to join Li Wangshu and the others.

• Lu Chen completed his breakthrough, received urgent messages about the Netherworld, and learned that Li Wangshu had taken his master to the Sword Realm.
• Lu Chen entered the Sword Realm and discovered enormous shadows attempting to breach the realms; one had successfully descended into the Axe Realm.
• Li Wangshu and Dugu Wudi learned that the Axe Realm had fallen and decided to investigate as Lu Chen headed there.
• The shadow that descended into the Axe Realm killed and absorbed soul bodies that approached it, then hunted Yue Qingtian.
• The shadow struck Yue Qingtian down and demanded that he submit and offer up his origin or die.

Lu Chen pursued the War God Hall’s leaders, killed the Third Hall Master and an Evil God Puppet, and perfected the Saber Dao True Understanding. He reached the War God Hall, tore through its protective formation, and began slaughtering its forces as the awakened ancestor faced the crisis.

• Lu Chen killed the Third Hall Master and continued chasing the remaining War God Hall leaders while Dugu Wudi and Breeze Swordmaster fled to safety.
• The Second Hall Master Xing Lie unleashed an Extreme Dao puppet, but Lu Chen severed its karmic threads and destroyed it.
• Lu Chen used Merit Points to absorb the Saber Dao True Understanding from Miao Wu Fa’s jade slip and brought it to perfection.
• Zhan Wuji escaped to the War God Hall, activated its defenses, and rang the Soul Summoning Bell to awaken the ancestor.
• Lu Chen tore open the War God Hall’s mountain-protecting formation and unleashed a devastating strike that killed hundreds of its defenders.

Lu Chen attacked War God Hall and fought its ancient, decayed protector, who wielded a bronze staff and proved immune to his ordinary strikes. Lu Chen unleashed the seventh style of the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction, shattered the staff, and sent the old warrior crashing into a mountain.

• Zhan Wuji called on the War God Hall ancestor, but Lu Chen shattered the Bronze Coffin Lid before it could strike him.
• Lu Chen slashed at the black hall, drawing out the desiccated corpse, who blocked his attack with death aura and withstood his saber and sword.
• The desiccated corpse summoned a bronze staff and attacked Lu Chen, while their fierce exchanges crushed buildings and killed people below.
• The desiccated corpse revealed one hundred and eight stars on his staff and swung it at Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen used the seventh style of the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction, severed the bronze staff, and struck the desiccated corpse, sending him crashing into a mountaintop.

Lu Chen stormed the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Sect to demand Qing Lian’s release, overcame its Chaos Poison and slaughtered many of its defenders. After the Sect Leader brought Qing Lian forward and challenged him to fight a subordinate, Lu Chen faced the mysterious Black Nether in a fierce contest of blade and sword that ended with both fighters unleashing their divine abilities.

• Lu Chen demanded Qing Lian’s release, but Elder Shangguan sacrificed himself by detonating Chaos Poison against him.
• Lu Chen sealed the poison inside a dark prison and hurled it through the sect’s formation, then charged up the mountain and killed many Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Sect members.
• The Sect Leader appeared with Qing Lian and agreed to release her if Lu Chen defeated one of her subordinates.
• Black Nether emerged from a mass of shadow and challenged Lu Chen, matching his swordsmanship with powerful saber techniques.
• Black Nether baited Lu Chen with a false weakness, but Lu Chen countered with the seventh style of the Seven Styles of Divine Extinction.
• Black Nether used a Saber Dao Divine Ability to pull Lu Chen’s golden sword toward his saber, and Lu Chen answered with the Heavenly Will Sword.

Lu Chen and the Founding Ancestors ambushed a giant demon soul that had descended into the Axe Realm and joined forces to overwhelm it. Lu Chen killed the demon kings who had submitted to the invader, then struck the badly wounded giant shadow, leaving its fate unresolved.

• The giant shadow broke through the Axe Realm’s barriers while Demon Race kings welcomed him and offered to guide him to Lu Chen.
• The giant shadow killed the White Elephant King, trapped the other demon kings, and headed toward the Sword Realm with them.
• Lu Chen appeared before the giant shadow, activated a token, and opened a rift through which the Founding Ancestors attacked.
• Lu Chen killed the fleeing demon kings and earned merit points while the Founding Ancestors continued bombarding the giant shadow.
• Lu Chen used Returning Light Flowing Sword against the giant shadow as the Founding Ancestors’ attacks shattered its defenses and left it screaming in agony.

Lu Chen killed Venerable Xuan Ji, revived him with a secret technique, and learned about the factions preparing to descend from beyond the realm. After Lu Chen and Li Wangshu headed for the Myriad Buddha Cave ruins, they encountered the Sect Leader of the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Sect, who had discovered the area held a secret.

• With the Founding Ancestor's help, Lu Chen defeated Venerable Xuan Ji, then killed and revived him to question him privately.
• Venerable Xuan Ji revealed that thirty-four members of his faction had gathered above the Axe Realm, that three other factions were present, and that the weakening seal would soon allow more people to descend.
• Lu Chen and Li Wangshu learned that Venerable Xuan Ji came from Ziyang Academy in the Panhu Star Domain and that Sword Cliff was a renowned force beyond the starry sky.
• Lu Chen and Li Wangshu left for the Myriad Buddha Cave ruins, hoping to find a way to grow stronger before more enemies arrived.
• At the barren ruins, Lu Chen and Li Wangshu encountered the Sect Leader of the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Sect, who said she had sensed something strange and confirmed the place held a secret.

The Star and Moon Clans assembled the Pure Land’s factions to kill Lu Chen and summoned a supreme Azure Dragon to do it. Before the dragon could locate him, Lu Chen arrived in a Level 2 Sacred Domain, suppressing everyone with golden ripples.

• Xing Wuliang and Yue Wuxin discussed Lu Chen’s escape from the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Sect and the Demon Race’s demand for his death before it would continue supplying Blood Spirit Crystals.
• Xing Wuliang told the gathered factions that they would surround and kill Lu Chen, and Yue Wuxin and Xing Wuliang summoned the Azure Dragon.
• The Azure Dragon demanded payment, swallowed Xing Wuliang’s offerings, and seized and devoured a Moon Clan treasure vault before agreeing to hunt Lu Chen.
• As the Azure Dragon began a secret technique to deduce Lu Chen’s location, golden ripples swept over the assembly and suppressed everyone, including the dragon.
• Lu Chen walked toward the gathering with a Black Saber at his waist, surrounded by golden light and the aura of a Level 2 Sacred Domain.

Lu Chen confronted the Azure Dragon after it descended to capture him, and he overwhelmed the mythical beast with his sword techniques. He killed the Azure Dragon and gained an immeasurable number of Merit Points.

• The Azure Dragon agreed to attack Lu Chen in exchange for twenty times the promised price, then charged at him with its full strength.
• Lu Chen wounded the Azure Dragon's tail with a sword strike, then evaded and countered its attacks while battering its body.
• The Azure Dragon unleashed the Heaven and Earth Blood Dragon Great Law, but Lu Chen used Returning Light Flowing Sword to shatter its blood-dragon form and send it crashing into buildings.
• The Azure Dragon fled toward the spatial rift, cursing Xing Wuliang and Yue Wuxin, but Lu Chen pursued it and tore through its body from abdomen to skull.
• The Azure Dragon's body crashed to the ground, and Lu Chen received an enormous amount of Merit Points for guiding an extraterrestrial divine dragon to salvation.

Lu Chen prepared to duel Ye Gubai atop Boulderstone City’s walls after Ye accepted his challenge, while the Pacification Bureau and Blood Offering Sect watched for chances to act. As Lu Chen awaited his opponent before a packed crowd, Ye Gubai rose from an inn, determined to crush him.

• Breeze Swordmaster praised Lu Chen’s strength and warned him that Ye Gubai had the Crimson Sun Saint Physique, Thunder God's Roar, and fifth-level cultivation, but Lu Chen said he believed he would win.
• Wu Yulan told Lu Chen that Ye Gubai had accepted the challenge for noon the next day, and Lu Chen announced he was going out to uphold justice.
• The Pacification Bureau secretly gathered in Boulderstone City to capture Lu Chen after the duel, while the Blood Offering Sect's Holy Son decided to wait for another opportunity.
• Shangguan Xue'er and Han Wu-bing joined the crowd, and Huangfu Yun revealed that he had wagered his entire fortune on Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen stood atop the city walls as the crowd debated the duel, while hidden Pacification Bureau members anticipated his capture.
• Ye Gubai rose from an inn after hearing Lu Chen had reached the sixth level of the Physical Body Hidden Realm and vowed to break Lu Chen’s proud bones.

Lu Chen strengthened his body and swordplay with Merit Points while Cui Hu fought the Ye Family elder, then searched the ruined Evergreen Sect for valuable manuals. He found a supreme swordplay called Void Swordplay, but an unseen danger suddenly approached him from behind.

• Lu Chen spent 4000 Merit Points to perfect the Profound Ice Hell Sutra’s third level and reach the third level of the Physical Body Hidden Realm.
• Lu Chen spent 3000 Merit Points to perfect the Six Extinction Swordplay’s third style, No-Self, bringing his Level Two Sword Intent close to a breakthrough.
• Lu Chen left Cui Hu to fight the Ye Family elder and began searching the Evergreen Sect, while witnesses fled and Wind Listening Pavilion members predicted his Black List ranking would rise.
• Lu Chen dismissed the sect’s lesser manuals and found a supreme swordplay, Void Swordplay, locked in an iron chest.
• As Lu Chen read Void Swordplay, he sensed an unseen threat approaching from behind.

After escaping the Pure Land, Lu Chen visited Miao Wu Fa and learned that the Space-Time Divine Clan’s survivors were trapped in a sword array beyond the realm. The Heaven's Secret Mirror revealed that the array and the Sword Tablets lay within the Star Chain, leaving Lu Chen to confront the scale of the barrier and an unexpected discovery in the stars.

• Lu Chen rode Azure Dragon out of the Pure Land, confirmed to Li Wangshu that he had defeated the Upper Three Clans and killed the Moon Clan Patriarch, and learned that a Star Chain suppressed those seeking to condense a Demigod Spark.
• Lu Chen met Miao Wu Fa and learned that fewer than fifty of the Space-Time Divine Clan’s more than six hundred explorers remained alive after being trapped in a mysterious sword array for over eight thousand years.
• Miao Wu Fa explained that each layer of the array could vanish if someone comprehended its sword diagram, then led Lu Chen to a mirror that could show the trapped clan members and their surroundings.
• Lu Chen recognized the mirror as a fragment of the Heaven's Secret Mirror, which displayed the Heaven, Earth, Human, and Qilin Rankings and was kept at the Heaven's Secret Pavilion.
• Miao Wu Fa used Space-Time Power to show Lu Chen the Sword Tablets, the surviving clan members, and the Star Chain that bound the region beyond their world.
• As the mirror showed the endless Star Chain more clearly, Lu Chen and the others suddenly froze after noticing something.

Lu Chen defeated Bai Wuxia and severed the legs of him and the other conspirators at the Heaven Gate Baptism. He left Zhao Hong and Zhao Gang to guard the crippled group while he waited, as the people outside remained unaware of what had happened.

• Bai Wuxia unleashed Thousand Mountains Snowfall, but Lu Chen defeated him with one slash and left him gravely injured.
• Lu Chen rejected the group's pleas, cut off Bai Wuxia's legs, and then severed the legs of Daoist Zhiqing and the other imprisoned conspirators.
• Lu Chen crippled everyone who had come for the Heaven Gate Baptism except himself and the two Imperial Family members, earning Merit Points.
• Lu Chen considered attacking the two Imperial Family members, but Zhao Hong explained that he and Zhao Gang were uninvolved and offered to leave.
• Lu Chen ordered Zhao Hong and Zhao Gang to guard the crippled people until he finished the baptism, while the people outside chatted without knowing what had happened.

Lu Chen fled through the mountains while dozens of Great Yu and Northern Barbarian experts pursued him for the Dao Fruit. He stopped on a peak, revealed the treasure, and provoked the gathered experts until they charged him.

• Lu Chen cut down three ninth-level Spirit Hidden Realm experts as he fought through his pursuers and reached the tallest peak.
• Han Wu-bing and Shangguan Xue'er learned that Grandmasters were chasing Lu Chen and hurried after them with the other onlookers.
• Lu Chen showed the crimson Dao Fruit to the gathered experts, whose greed grew despite their fear of his strength and suspected trap.
• Han Wu-bing and the arriving Jianghu crowd recognized Lu Chen, while Lu Chen mocked the gathered experts as worthless trash.
• A Northern Barbarian Grandmaster charged at Lu Chen for the Dao Fruit, and the Great Yu experts rushed forward after him.

Lu Chen killed the Moon Clan ancestor, subdued the Ancient Clan, and made the Huangfu Clan its new leader. As the world reacted to his rise, the Azure Dragon explained that Star Chains sealed Lu Chen’s fallen world from the Outer Realm Battlefield and prevented its people from reaching demigodhood.

• Lu Chen split the Moon Clan ancestor and his moonwheel with one sword strike, then ordered Xing Wuliang and Yue Wufa to keep their disciples from doing evil.
• Lu Chen appointed Huangfu Wang and the Huangfu Clan to lead the Middle Six Clans, completing his control over the Ancient Clan.
• News of Lu Chen’s victories spread, prompting the Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Sect’s Sect Leader to consider winning him over and leaving Li Wangshu and Miao Wu Fa stunned by reports of his strength.
• Lu Chen asked the Azure Dragon about the Outer Realm, and it described the dangerous Outer Realm Battlefield beyond the Star Chains.
• The Azure Dragon told Lu Chen that the Star Chains sealed the fallen world, blocked demigods from entering, and prevented its inhabitants from condensing Demigod Sparks or Godheads.

Lu Chen exposed and killed the leaders who had plotted against him and colluded with the Demon Race, then faced the awakened Moon Clan Ancestor. After breaking through to the seventh level of the Dharma Manifestation realm, Lu Chen prepared to strike as the Moon Clan Ancestor charged at him.

• Lu Chen revived Xing Wuliang, Yue Wufa, Zhan Wuji, and the others, who confirmed the gathered leaders’ crimes and presented a contract with the Demon Race.
• Three Yin Old Hag and the other named leaders tried to escape, but Lu Chen killed them and gained enough Merit Points for another breakthrough.
• The Moon Clan Ancestor emerged from a giant moon and attacked; Lu Chen sent Azure Dragon, Xing Wuliang, and Yue Wufa to fight him.
• Lu Chen used Merit Points and insights from the battle to reach the seventh level of the Dharma Manifestation realm.
• Lu Chen ordered Azure Dragon, Yue Wufa, and Xing Wuliang to move aside, then faced the Moon Clan Ancestor as he charged with the full moon.

Lu Chen defended Yang Yun'er by beating Wang Qingshan and intimidating Wang Tianlei with his Blade Intent, then accompanied the Wang Family head to meet the allies gathered against the Black Tiger Gang. The gathered fighters awaited Daoist Qingxuan, whose arrival filled the Wang Family with confidence.

• Lu Chen slapped Wang Qingshan unconscious after Wang Qingshan charged him, then warned Wang Tianlei not to draw his saber.
• Lu Chen’s Blade Intent terrified Wang Tianlei until Wang Yunshan and Yang Yun'er pleaded for him to stop.
• Wang Tianlei learned Lu Chen had come at Yang Yun'er's request and invited him to join the gathering in the front hall.
• Wang Tianlei welcomed dozens of martial artists who had come to help the Wang Family resist the Black Tiger Gang.
• A servant announced Daoist Qingxuan's arrival, and Wang Tianlei hurried to greet the renowned Ninth Rank expert.

Lu Chen mastered Level Two Blade Intent and joined the Sky Sword Sect, where Dugu Wudi welcomed him as a disciple. He learned that his new junior sister, Qing Lian, had a bad temper and was secluded in the Enlightenment Tower, and he decided to teach her some humility.

• Lu Chen completed his transformation and mastered Level Two Blade Intent while Breeze Swordmaster guarded him.
• Lu Chen met Sword Marquis Zhang Tao and his son, Zhang Yusheng, and learned that Dugu Wudi had accepted another disciple named Qing Lian.
• Breeze Swordmaster escorted Lu Chen to the Sky Sword Sect, where Dugu Wudi confirmed Lu Chen's Level Two Blade Intent and accepted him as a disciple.
• Dugu Wudi showed Lu Chen the sect's Scripture Pavilion, Enlightenment Tower, and Sword Forest, and explained that Qing Lian was secluded in the tower.
• Lu Chen learned that Qing Lian had a bad temper but had only opened the first level of the Physical Body Hidden Realm, and he resolved to correct her manners.

Lu Chen defeated and killed Venerable Xuanwu, a powerful enemy from beyond the realm, after breaking the law insects that redirected his attacks. As the rescued crowd gathered, Lu Chen noticed hazy figures watching from the sky and planned to consult the trapped ancestors with Dugu Wudi, but sensed someone nearby.

• Lu Chen used his sword array and Karma Secret Art against Venerable Xuanwu, then discovered law insects in his soul were reversing his attacks.
• Lu Chen destroyed the law insects, trapped Venerable Xuanwu in the sword array, and killed him with the Returning Light Flowing Sword.
• The crowd thanked Lu Chen as the laws binding them broke apart, and he received ninety thousand Merit Points.
• Lu Chen saw hazy figures watching from the sky and considered asking the ancestors trapped in the mysterious town for help.
• Lu Chen told Dugu Wudi he wanted to find the ancestors, then sensed someone nearby and demanded that they come out.

Lu Chen defeated Lightning Sword Xiao Zihai with overwhelming force and discovered a new way to earn Merit Points. The Pacification Bureau arrived to confront him, led by the Ninth Rank grandmaster Mad Blade Guo Jing.

• Mad Blade Guo Jing arrived with He Qianxing, Tiger Cloud, and Eagle Seven and chose to watch Lu Chen’s challenge before acting.
• Xiao Zihai confronted Lu Chen, but Lu Chen’s aura overwhelmed him and his attack was defeated in a single exchange.
• Xiao Zihai admitted defeat, and Lu Chen earned 100 Merit Points for making a Jianghu wanderer recognize the gap between them.
• Cui Zhengxuan and Cui Hu discussed the danger Lu Chen faced from powerful forces, and Cui Hu went to investigate the Pacification Bureau’s arrival.
• The Pacification Bureau charged into the street and surrounded Lu Chen under Mad Blade Guo Jing’s command.

Yang Yun'er and Wang Yunshan awaited help as the Black Tiger Gang threatened to destroy the Wang Family over the death of Zhao Black Tiger’s son. Lu Chen arrived in response to Yang Yun'er's letter, and after the Wang family blamed and insulted her, he struck her sister-in-law unconscious.

• Yang Yun'er and Wang Yunshan worried that the Wang Family could not survive Zhao Black Tiger's threat, while the family’s attempts to find allies had failed.
• Lu Chen arrived at the Wang residence with Yang Yun'er's letter and token, then asked for accommodations without showing concern about Zhao Black Tiger's strength.
• Wang Tianlei and Wang Yunshan's eldest sister-in-law blamed Yang Yun'er for bringing disaster upon the family and attacked her with harsh words.
• Lu Chen steadied Yang Yun'er with his inner force, then slapped the eldest sister-in-law, sending her flying unconscious and earning ten Merit Points.