Chapter Summaries

Xiao Han traveled to the Primordial World, learned that his power ranked only in the Seven Star Mysterious Realm there, and decided to explore despite the danger. After flying for a month, he reached Flame City and entered to find martial artists and ordinary people living side by side.

• Xiao Han arrived in the Primordial World and found his divine sense and strength severely limited by the world’s powerful spatial restraints.
• The system identified Xiao Han as level 276, placing him in the mid-to-late stage of the Seven Star Mysterious Realm, but could not reveal the world’s protagonist or era.
• Xiao Han chose to remain and explore the unfamiliar world rather than travel elsewhere.
• Xiao Han flew for a month before reaching Flame City, whose towering lava-stone walls radiated dense fire-element spiritual power.
• Xiao Han entered Flame City after noticing martial artists flying through its gates and discovered that cultivators and ordinary people shared the city.

Xiao Han dismissed the inferior Flying Swords sold in the street before Hong Yifei tried to take his Storage Ring. Xiao Han defeated Hong Yifei and his two companions, but an armed group arrived as Hong Yifei threatened revenge.

• Xiao Han watched martial artists buy slow Flying Swords and wished for a boss to drop one with automatic navigation.
• Hong Yifei and his junior sister identified Xiao Han's mid-grade Storage Ring, and Hong Yifei questioned his background before demanding he surrender it.
• Xiao Han called out Hong Yifei's attempt to rob him, provoking Hong Yifei to attack with a powerful fist.
• Xiao Han repelled Hong Yifei and sent him and his two companions crashing into a building, then gave his name when Hong Yifei demanded it.
• Hong Yifei threatened Xiao Han, but a uniformed group flew in on Flying Swords and ordered everyone to stop.

After reviewing a Memory Crystal, Chief Luo fined Hong Yifei for starting a fight in Flame City and ordered him to compensate Xiao Han. Hong Yifei had to pay three million Low-Grade Spirit Stones, then learned he owed Xiao Han another million.

• Chief Luo inspected the wrecked buildings and questioned Xiao Han and Hong Yifei about fighting in the city.
• Hong Yifei identified himself as Hong Zhengtao's son and tried to win Chief Luo's favor by claiming his father praised him.
• Chief Luo had Vice Officer Chou replay the Memory Crystal footage, which showed the fight and revealed Hong Yifei had started it.
• Chief Luo fined Hong Yifei three million Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and Hong Yifei ordered Ying Ming to pay.
• Chief Luo stopped Hong Yifei from leaving and demanded another million Low-Grade Spirit Stones as compensation for Xiao Han.

Xiao Han received one million Low-Grade Spirit Stones after Chief Luo intervened in his dispute with Hong Yifei, then followed Chief Luo into Flame City’s inner hall. Chief Luo questioned him about his origins and explained that Xiao Han’s unfamiliarity and lack of an Identity Stone registration revealed he was a newcomer.

• Chief Luo invented a rule requiring Hong Yifei to compensate Xiao Han and pressured Hong Yifei into paying one million Spirit Stones.
• Chief Luo invited Xiao Han to accompany him, while Hong Yifei vowed to wait for his elder brother before settling the score.
• Hong Yifei refused to seek the money back and blamed Ying Ming for the loss, threatening to deduct it from his cultivation resources.
• Chief Luo brought Xiao Han to Flame City’s inner hall and asked whether he feared him and whether this was his first visit.
• Chief Luo used a Memory Crystal and explained how Identity Stones and Imprint Stones showed him that Xiao Han was new to the city.
• Xiao Han asked how Chief Luo had determined that he came from the lower realms.

Xiao Han learned that a powerful Thunder Pool guarded an ancient cave residence and planned to enter when its energy weakened. Meanwhile, City Lord Luo told nine allies that a man from the lower realm had arrived, raising hopes that he might be the long-awaited Little Master.

• City Lord Luo identified Xiao Han’s mixed bloodline aura as a sign that he had come from the lower realm, and Xiao Han revealed his Seven Star Mysterious Realm cultivation.
• City Lord Luo returned a Memory Crystal to the city gate, gave Xiao Han an Identity Stone, and warned him away from the Thunder Pool.
• Xiao Han gathered news at an inn that the Thunder Pool surrounded an ancient expert’s cave residence and would weaken at midnight the next day.
• City Lord Luo summoned nine allies to a secret chamber and told them that someone from the lower realm had arrived in Flame City.
• City Lord Luo said he could not confirm that Xiao Han was the Little Master, but his mixed aura suggested he possessed the ability to travel between realms.

Xiao Han learned about the Mad Dragon Continent and its powers before heading to the Thunder Pool near Flame City. The system gave him a dangerous chain mission to become the greatest winner among those entering, and he chose to risk the consequences for a chance to raise his cultivation.

• City Lord Luo said Xiao Han would visit the ancient expert's cave dwelling and arranged for an adjutant to protect him in the Thunder Pool.
• Xiao Han learned the Mad Dragon Continent's regional power structure, the history of the Central Region Eighteen Cities, and rumors about Shi Hao and the Heavenly Demon Palace.
• Xiao Han went with other martial artists to the Thunder Pool and observed its vast, chaotic lightning from the perimeter.
• The system triggered a Thunder Pool exploration mission, then added a chain mission requiring Xiao Han to become the greatest winner or lose three cultivation levels.
• Xiao Han rejected the option to delete the missions and decided to gamble on completing them for a three-level cultivation increase.

Xiao Han entered the Thunder Pool without protective talismans and crossed it using his Qi Aura, while Hong Yifei and Uncle Ming entered with talismans and plotted to kill him later. He reached an ancient abode with seven Floating Mountains and began exploring a Treasure Pavilion, where he found that its first five floors had been emptied or ruined by time before climbing toward the sixth.

• Xiao Han refused the adjutant's offer of protection, and the system warned that he had to complete the hidden mission independently.
• As the Thunder Pool's lightning weakened, martial artists rushed inside, and Hong Yifei entered with Uncle Ming and two others while Uncle Ming promised to kill Xiao Han when an opportunity arose.
• Xiao Han formed a Qi Aura to shield himself from the lightning and crossed the Thunder Pool, seeing other martial artists die when their talismans ran out.
• Xiao Han found seven Floating Mountains and chose to explore the nearest one, where he discovered an intact pavilion called the Treasure Pavilion.
• Xiao Han found that the pavilion's first three floors held books turned to ash, the fourth held drained spirit stones, and the fifth held medicinal herbs reduced to dust before he climbed toward the sixth floor.

Xiao Han found the Thunderclap Sword, an ancient Dao Tool whose power had faded, and learned the cave dwelling might belong to Lei Zheng Tian. Unable to scan the dangerous cave, he chose to continue exploring and headed toward the Seventh Floor.

• Xiao Han opened the rune-covered Brocade Box on the Sixth Floor and bound the Flying Sword that tried to escape.
• Xiao Han used one thousand Points to identify the sword as the Thunderclap Sword, a high-grade flight-type Dao Tool forged by Su Bufan for Lei Zheng Tian.
• The system explained that the sealed Thunderclap Sword currently flew at three hundred meters per second and could regain its former speed with lightning energy.
• Xiao Han asked the system to scan the cave dwelling, but it could not overcome the cave's restrictions or unseen force.
• The system warned Xiao Han that retreating would fail his mission and cost him three star levels, but he refused to leave.
• Xiao Han stored the Thunderclap Sword in System Space and looked toward the stairs to the Seventh Floor.

Xiao Han climbed to the Martial Immortal Cave Residence’s Seventh Floor and found the Thunder God Hammer and Thunderstruck Stone, which could provide the lightning energy needed to upgrade his System. He obtained both treasures and learned the System had reached 12% upgrade progress, leaving him needing more lightning energy to unlock double combat power.

• Xiao Han endured the Seventh Floor’s pressure and spent 9,000 Points to appraise the Thunder God Hammer and Thunderstruck Stone.
• The System revealed that the Thunderstruck Stone could help upgrade it to Version 2.0 and unlock double combat power, then issued a mission to obtain the stone.
• Xiao Han activated his martial soul and First Soul Skill Blood Boiling to overcome the pressure and reach the treasures.
• Xiao Han touched the Thunder God Hammer, learned the god-grade cultivation technique Thunder God Eighteen Forms, and collected the hammer and Thunderstruck Stone.
• The System rewarded Xiao Han with 100,000 Faith Power, advancing him fourteen levels to Level 290, then absorbed the stone’s energy and reached 12% upgrade progress.
• Xiao Han considered using the Thunder Pool to gather more lightning energy as a mysterious power in his bloodline began to awaken.

Xiao Han left the Treasure Pavilion with its treasures and headed for the central Floating Mountain, where he investigated a palace that seemed to hold a deadly secret. The palace was empty of treasure, leaving him searching for anything its previous looters might have missed.

• Xiao Han learned from the system that he still had six Floating Mountains to explore before he could complete the hidden mission.
• A senior brother and junior sister who had insulted Xiao Han fled after seeing him, but he seized and killed them, earning 300 Faith Power.
• Xiao Han reached the central Floating Mountain and discovered that Hong Yifei and a middle-aged man were heading toward the mysterious Pavilion of Rain and Song, so he chose to investigate the palace instead.
• Xiao Han found more than ten thousand dead martial artists frozen in terror outside the palace, and the system warned him to explore carefully.
• Xiao Han entered the jade palace, found it stripped bare, and searched in disbelief for any remaining treasure.

Xiao Han searched the empty Hetian Jade Palace and eventually discovered conscious Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder hidden in a mural. The system absorbed the thunder, upgraded to Version 2.0, and unlocked a divine power that could double Xiao Han’s battle power.

• Xiao Han found the Hetian Jade Palace empty and worried that he would fail his mission to become the expedition’s biggest winner.
• Xiao Han sensed unusual energy in a palace and discovered that the final mural concealed Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder.
• Xiao Han trapped the lightning with his Purifying Lotus Demon Fire and permitted the system to absorb it.
• The system upgraded to Version 2.0 and unlocked the Double Battle Power Divine Power.
• Xiao Han learned that the new power could double the effects of his combat abilities and marveled at its potential.

After the system upgraded to Version 2.0, Xiao Han gained doubled daily Faith Power, a million Points, and enough Faith Power to rise fifty levels. New system features awakened his Frost Battle Armor, but a mural in the cave abode triggered a God-Level task to kill its master, leaving Xiao Han wondering whether the ancient expert was still alive.

• The system upgrade doubled Xiao Han’s daily Faith Power and rewarded him with one million Points and 300,000 Faith Power.
• The Faith Power reward raised Xiao Han fifty levels to level 326, the Two-Star Earth Realm.
• The system unlocked the Set, Lottery, and Pawn systems, and Xiao Han used his free awakening to enhance the Frost Battle Armor.
• Xiao Han noticed a missing patch of bark in the mural and triggered a God-Level task to kill the cave abode’s master.
• The system refused to withdraw the task, and Xiao Han wondered whether the ancient mighty expert was still alive.

Xiao Han learned that failing his God-Level Hidden Task would earn him the system’s grotesque Ru Hua reward, then discovered that the cave estate’s owner was still alive. When Lei Zheng Tian awakened and unleashed a devastating lightning storm, Xiao Han faced a seemingly impossible order to kill him, but learned the ancient expert had been severely injured.

• The system told Xiao Han that failing the task or fleeing would make him spend seven days and seven nights with Ru Hua.
• Xiao Han suspected the cave estate’s owner was alive, and Lei Zheng Tian emerged from the Nine Dragons Spitting Pearls treasure land, furious at the intruders.
• The system identified Lei Zheng Tian as the task target and a Seven-Colored Light BOSS.
• Lei Zheng Tian’s purple lightning storm destroyed the palace and killed martial artists, prompting Xiao Han to flee toward the outskirts.
• The system warned Xiao Han that fleeing would count as abandoning the task, then revealed Lei Zheng Tian was severely injured and not at his peak.

Xiao Han learned that Lei Zheng Tian had sacrificed hundreds of billions of souls to begin transforming himself into an Undying Body, and the System urged Xiao Han to kill him. With the escaping martial artists dead, Xiao Han faced Lei Zheng Tian despite the enormous gap in their strength.

• The System explained that the World Tree bark had reduced Lei Zheng Tian’s cultivation to Mysterious Wind Middle Stage while he pursued an Undying Body.
• The System revealed that Lei Zheng Tian needed a ritual consuming hundreds of billions of souls to activate the bark, and Xiao Han grew furious over the sacrifice.
• Xiao Han chose to stay and confront Lei Zheng Tian because he needed to complete the System’s god-tier mission, though he could escape to another plane if necessary.
• Lei Zheng Tian intensified the Thunder Pool, killing the martial artists trying to flee, then gathered lightning in his hand and promised Xiao Han a quick death.

Xiao Han summoned Arthur, Li Bai, and Han Xin to face Lei Zheng Tian, who had attacked him while heading toward the Feng Shui Treasure Land of Nine Dragons Spitting Pearls. Lei Zheng Tian’s powerful lightning attack shortened the heroes’ remaining time but failed to wound them, and they prepared to fight after he dismissed them as mediocre.

• Lei Zheng Tian launched Thunder Light at Xiao Han and flew toward the Feng Shui Treasure Land of Nine Dragons Spitting Pearls.
• Xiao Han summoned Arthur, Li Bai, and Han Xin with three character cards, and the heroes appeared to protect him.
• Xiao Han scolded Arthur for saying he protected the squishies, while Han Xin and Li Bai denied hearing him say it.
• Lei Zheng Tian called Xiao Han an ant, so Arthur, Li Bai, and Han Xin charged at him together.
• Lei Zheng Tian struck all three heroes with a Universe-Splitting Technique, reducing their remaining time from thirty minutes to twenty without wounding them.
• Lei Zheng Tian called the heroes mediocre, provoking their anger.

Xiao Han and his summoned heroes killed Lei Zheng Tian by targeting his chest, overcoming his half-finished Undying Body before his Universe Splitting Grade technique wiped out the heroes. The victory rewarded Xiao Han with massive Faith Power, a level increase, rare items, and a Violet Summoning Card whose identity shocked him.

• Arthur, Li Bai, and Han Xin unleashed their ultimates against Lei Zheng Tian, but he survived and rapidly healed from his wounds.
• After Lei Zheng Tian revived again and began casting a devastating thunder technique, Xiao Han ordered the heroes to focus their attacks on his chest.
• Lei Zheng Tian unleashed Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder, but Arthur, Li Bai, and Han Xin struck his heart and destroyed him before the lightning wiped them out.
• The System awarded Xiao Han ten million Faith Power, one million points, 174 levels, a Mysterious Jade Seal Fragment, Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder, a Violet Summoning Card, and a Lottery Ticket.
• Xiao Han learned the fragment was one of eight pieces of a jade seal said to hold the secret of ruling the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, and he refused the System's offer to exchange it.
• Xiao Han examined the Violet Summoning Card and was astonished by the Hero it contained.

After obtaining a one-use, thirty-second summoning card for Sun Wukong, Xiao Han decided to save it. The dark clouds left by Lei Zheng Tian’s death gathered over Xiao Han as he triggered the first Earth Tribulation, and he sensed a presence watching him from the sky.

• Xiao Han celebrated obtaining Sun Wukong’s character summoning card, then learned it could summon him for only thirty seconds and chose to store it away.
• After Lei Zheng Tian died, the dark clouds over Floating Mountain continued to gather, and nearby martial artists realized Xiao Han was undergoing a tribulation.
• The martial artists warned that entering the lightning zone could bring punishment from the heavenly tribulation, while Xiao Han asked the system what was happening.
• The system told Xiao Han that reaching the Mysterious Earth Realm had triggered the first Earth Tribulation of the Heaven Desolate Nine Tribulations.
• Xiao Han prepared to face the tribulation, then felt as though an eye in the heavens was watching him.

Xiao Han challenged the Earth Tribulation head-on, destroying its falling peaks and provoking a much stronger response from Heaven. He shattered nine golden peaks with Thunder Flame Eight Extremes Collapse, then received a golden light that doubled his physical strength and defense.

• Xiao Han sensed someone watching from the sky and announced that he would show the onlookers how to undergo a tribulation.
• Xiao Han destroyed the first falling Giant Peak with Eight Extremes Collapse, and the crowd marveled at his decision to attack the tribulation.
• Xiao Han smashed two overlapping peaks and suspected that Heaven was controlling the tribulation.
• Heaven sent nine golden Giant Peaks, whose pressure drove Xiao Han to the ground and injured nearby martial artists.
• Xiao Han declared that he would defy Heaven and shattered all nine peaks with Thunder Flame Eight Extremes Collapse.
• A golden ray nourished Xiao Han, doubling his physical strength and defense, while the onlookers debated whether to imitate him.

Xiao Han celebrated his gains from the cave residence before Hong Yuanming tried to seize his treasures. Chief Luo stopped Hong Yuanming from attacking across cultivation levels, but declared that anyone at Xiao Han’s level could challenge him, leaving Hong Zehao to face him.

• Xiao Han gained two Faith Power levels after completing missions in the cave residence.
• Hong Yuanming demanded Xiao Han surrender his treasures, and Xiao Han mocked his attempt to disguise robbery as justice.
• Chief Luo intervened when Hong Yuanming prepared to attack Xiao Han, ruling that he would stop attacks across cultivation levels but allow same-level challenges.
• Chief Luo told the crowd that Xiao Han had claimed to be Invincible at the Same Level and warned that his Central Region Eighteen Cities would pursue anyone who challenged Xiao Han across levels.
• Hong Yuanming accepted Chief Luo’s terms and told his son Hong Zehao to challenge Xiao Han; Hong Zehao objected that he was a Mysterious Earth Realm Fourth Level martial artist facing a newly advanced Second Level opponent.

Xiao Han killed Hong Zehao after the arrogant Imperial Extremity Sect disciple challenged him while offering to fight with one hand. Chief Luo stopped Hong Yuanming from attacking Xiao Han and demonstrated the power of a Cosmic Realm expert, leaving Xiao Han eager to grow stronger in the Primordial World.

• Hong Zehao offered to defeat Xiao Han using only one hand, while Hong Yuanming demanded that Xiao Han fight or pay compensation and apologize.
• Xiao Han attacked Hong Zehao with Eight Extremes Collapse, overpowered his Heavenly Extremity Palm, and killed him instantly.
• The system awarded Xiao Han Faith Power, points, and items, and Xiao Han told it to stop displaying drops below Dao Tools except for special items.
• Hong Yuanming rushed at Xiao Han in fury, but Chief Luo froze him, flung him into a mountain, and warned him not to challenge Xiao Han across realms.
• Xiao Han recognized Chief Luo's spatial lock as evidence of Cosmic Realm strength and resolved to become stronger to protect his loved ones.