Chapter Summaries

After breaking through to the Earth Supreme realm, Lu Yuan encountered War God Hall soldiers and tried to resolve the misunderstanding peacefully. When they attacked, he killed two Earth Supremes and swiftly defeated the Third Hall Master, leaving the War God Hall forces to reckon with his warning.

• Lu Yuan assessed the War God Hall soldiers and their Battle Arrays, deciding their forces posed little threat to him.
• Lu Yuan tried to explain that he had been cultivating in seclusion, but two Earth Supremes ordered him to surrender and attacked.
• Lu Yuan unleashed Spatial Power, crushing the two Earth Supremes and the surrounding Supreme soldiers into bloody water.
• The Third Hall Master confronted Lu Yuan in fury and formed golden armor around himself.
• Lu Yuan slapped the Third Hall Master through several mountain ranges, spared his life, and warned him not to mistake kindness for weakness.

Lu Yuan slapped a Pseudo Heavenly Sovereign away with ease, stunning the gathered Supremes and prompting an explanation of how realm gaps made cross-realm victories so difficult. The account then described the Endless Fire Territory’s poison trade and Little Fairy Doctor’s lethal influence, leaving her formidable for the danger of her toxins rather than her ability to defeat powerful opponents.

• Lu Yuan struck the Pseudo Heavenly Sovereign and sent him flying, leaving the surrounding Supremes unable to believe what they had witnessed.
• The narration explained how cultivation systems handled Spatial Power and why crossing realms to challenge a stronger opponent was exceptionally difficult.
• Xiao Yan’s victories over powerful enemies were cited as rare achievements, while the Endless Fire Territory’s allies and resources were described.
• Little Fairy Doctor cultivated vast stores of toxins and established a forbidden zone that served as a holy land for Poison Masters.
• The Endless Fire Territory’s poison trade and its Poison Masters’ guarded techniques made assassin organizations reluctant to target them.
• Little Fairy Doctor could contend with an ordinary Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign, but she could not defeat one with an ancient inheritance such as a Maha Ancient Clan expert.

Lu Yuan’s earlier defeat of a Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign shocked the Myriad Heavens and renewed recognition of the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s strength. The opponent gathered himself to fight seriously, while Lu Yuan suppressed the surrounding cultivators and launched a Void Great Handprint.

• The chapter explained why the Maha Ancient Clan feared provoking Xiao Yan and treated Little Fairy Doctor’s poisonous abilities as a strategic deterrent.
• The Myriad Heavens reconsidered the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s reputation, recognizing that Lu Yuan had killed him while still an Eighth Grade Supreme.
• The Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign recovered from Lu Yuan’s slap and admitted that Lu Yuan had the strength to make him fight at full power.
• Lu Yuan pressed down the surrounding Earth Supremes and Supreme soldiers with Spatial Power.
• Lu Yuan raised his hand and sent a Void Great Handprint toward the Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign.

Lu Yuan defeated the East Hall Master with a single palm, and the Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor arrived to confront him over his injuries to War God Hall members. Lu Yuan accepted the impending fight and drew a Light Blade, leaving the two warriors facing off.

• Lu Yuan shattered the East Hall Master's Supreme Dharmakaya and sent him crashing beyond the eastern boundary of the War God Hall.
• The surrounding cultivators panicked because they could not understand how Lu Yuan had defeated a Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign without a visible technique.
• The Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor appeared and claimed authority to apprehend Lu Yuan for violating War God Hall laws and injuring its members.
• The Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor summoned his golden battle halberd and promised to respect Lu Yuan's life and dignity if they fought.
• Lu Yuan recognized the Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor and drew a milky-white Light Blade, preparing to fight him.

Lu Yuan faced the Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor after killing members of the War God Hall, while the Battle Emperor weighed his exceptional talent against their opposing positions. The Battle Emperor prepared to defeat Lu Yuan and take him back for trial, leaving their conflict on the verge of battle.

• The Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor reacted with displeasure when Lu Yuan mentioned a Battle Emperor, whose title he considered an arrogant comparison to himself.
• The Battle Emperor recognized Lu Yuan as a remarkably young Earth Supreme and understood that Lu Yuan had deliberately spared the Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign he had struck twice.
• The Battle Emperor admired Lu Yuan but said he would beat him half to death and take him back for trial, unless Lu Yuan was accidentally killed.
• Lu Yuan accepted that the Battle Emperor needed to restore his dignity after his side had suffered losses and prepared for the clash.

Lu Yuan confronted the Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor at the War God Hall, testing his newly ascended bloodline against the Emperor’s annihilating attack. Their enormous attacks threatened the surrounding territory, prompting Luo God to appear and protect the Luo God Clan’s domain.

• The Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor unleashed a golden halberd attack infused with his annihilating will.
• Lu Yuan used his ascended bloodline to wield the Years Blade and sent a milky-white slash against the Emperor’s attack.
• The two attacks stretched across tens of millions of miles, endangering the people under the War God Hall and threatening to damage the continent.
• Luo God appeared with a sword to ensure the battle did not harm the Luo God Clan or its territory.

Luo God and Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor witnessed Lu Yuan’s power decay a vast golden halberd attack into ash, revealing a force that went beyond ordinary erosion. Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor questioned Lu Yuan’s identity, while the chapter recounted the dangers of Heart Demon Thunder Emperor’s methods and the Myriad Heavens’ desperate struggle against the Extraterrestrial Demons.

• Luo God and Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor watched Lu Yuan’s milky-white Blade Light darken and destroy the golden Halberd Light through decay.
• Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor raised his halberd and said Lu Yuan’s power made him more curious about his identity.
• The narration described how Heart Demon Thunder Emperor used inner demons and thunder, destroyed his inheritance, and was eventually killed by Heavenly Evil God.
• The narration explained that the Myriad Heavens had no reliable counter to either corruption or Heart Demon Thunder Emperor’s Heart Demon Lure.
• Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor recognized that Lu Yuan’s attack had power on the level of the Nine Emperors and could not be safely blocked head-on.

The chapter explained how high-level cultivators needed balanced abilities and used Qing Yan Jing’s formation specialty to illustrate why training should suit one’s role. It detailed the Endless Fire Territory’s Heavenly Demon Puppet trade, including its prices, rarity, and value to formation masters.

• The narrator compared the Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor’s exceptional attacks with his still-formidable defense and speed, then contrasted the Nine Emperors’ specialized strengths with Immortal Emperor’s balanced Half-Step Dominator abilities.
• The narrator explained that Qing Yan Jing focused on formations and that close-combat techniques would contribute little to her fighting style.
• The narrator described Heavenly Demon Puppets as costly, dependable guards for formation masters and outlined their three power levels, upgrade options, and limited availability.
• The narrator noted that puppet scarcity could drive auction prices sharply upward and that Earth Supreme-level models were exceptionally rare.
• The narrator cited the Primordial Dragon Phoenix Clan’s puppet Battle Array, which Mu Qingluan had used to defeat an Earth Supreme faction without losing a puppet, and listed Heavenly Demon Puppets among the Endless Fire Territory’s main industries.

Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor weighed the risks of defending against Lu Yuan’s Rising Slash, which he could not dodge without destroying the mountains and palaces behind him. The chapter then explained the power and political weight of Earth Supremes and Heavenly Sovereigns, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor considered how cultivators’ weaknesses mattered in high-level battles and why he needed defense despite preferring offense.
• The chapter contrasted Zi Yan’s formidable defense and regeneration with the need to evade attacks capable of breaking her scales.
• Lu Yuan launched a Rising Slash, while Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor could not safely dodge because the attack would devastate the territory behind him.
• The chapter described how Earth Supremes ruled continents and compared the foundations of the Martial Universe World and the Dou Qi Continent.
• The chapter explained why Heavenly Sovereigns had established rules against slaughtering one another and seizing one another’s territories after the ancient war.
• The chapter recounted how the Western Heaven Battle Emperor rose from an unremarkable Supreme to a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign before Martial Ancestor Lin Dong defeated him.

Lu Yuan refused the Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor’s offer of surrender and fair judgment, insisting that his fate and dignity rested on his blade. As the Battle Emperor unleashed his Nine Tribulations divine power, Lu Yuan unexpectedly began multiplying into countless identical figures, astonishing Luo God and the onlookers.

• The Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor used his halberd to shatter Lu Yuan’s weakened Blade Qi and protect the War God Hall’s three Hall Masters and the civilians below.
• The Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor offered to handle Lu Yuan’s alleged provocation of the War God Hall fairly if he surrendered without resistance.
• Lu Yuan rejected the offer, saying that no one had the right to judge him and raising the Years Blade against the Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor.
• The Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor unleashed his Nine Tribulations divine power, an escalating amplification that made him powerful enough to threaten even Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Lu Yuan produced identical figures that repeatedly split into more copies, prompting Luo God to exclaim that he was using One Qi Transforming into Three Purities.

The Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor recognized Lu Yuan’s One Qi Transforming into Three Purities and weighed the danger of fighting him against the possibility that he was connected to the Heavenly Emperor. He hesitated to kill Lu Yuan, since doing so could turn a dispute into an unjustified feud with the Heavenly Emperor and make him a laughingstock.

• The Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor recognized Lu Yuan’s multiplying, cost-free clones as One Qi Transforming into Three Purities.
• The Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor considered whether Lu Yuan’s clones could withstand his attacks, noting that Lu Yuan’s Earth Supreme realm was far below the Heavenly Emperor’s.
• The Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor reasoned that Lu Yuan might be the Heavenly Emperor’s disciple or inheritor and considered capturing him rather than killing him.
• The Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor weighed the deaths of his forces against the risk of making an enemy of the Heavenly Emperor, while noting that Lu Yuan had spared the Hall Masters.
• The Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor concluded that killing Lu Yuan could damage his own standing, since Lu Yuan might be the Heavenly Emperor’s junior and had shown restraint.

Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor concluded that Lu Yuan had missed every chance to explain himself, but Lu Yuan believed he had no way to tell the truth or stop the conflict. Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor hurled his halberd at Lu Yuan, while the chapter placed their clash in the context of the fiercely competitive Myriad Heavens before the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race arrived.

• Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor wondered why Lu Yuan had not revealed his identity earlier, while Lu Yuan recalled that he had been disoriented and given no chance to explain.
• Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor decided he had to attack Lu Yuan despite the risk of provoking the Heavenly Emperor.
• Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor threw his battle halberd at Lu Yuan, concentrating its power across the short distance between them.
• The narration described the crowded distribution of Heavenly Sovereigns across the Myriad Heavens and how Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor and Luo Shen shared their continent.
• The narration explained that the Nine Emperors were recognized as the Myriad Heavens’ first tier because they had defeated many Heavenly Sovereigns, before noting that the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race would later cripple the realm.

Lu Yuan defended against the Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor’s devastating halberd strike by meeting it with waves of Blade Qi from his countless clones. As the clash tore open an immense area of void, the four Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereigns and Luo God worked to protect those below; the battle remained unresolved.

• Lu Yuan rejected using clones as bait and concentrated their Blade Qi to meet the Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor’s halberd head-on.
• The first waves of Blade Qi shattered against the halberd, unleashing spatial gales and tearing open a vast expanse of void.
• The four Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereigns raised protective barriers and coordinated efforts to shield War God Hall’s people from the aftershocks.
• The four hall masters privately recognized that Lu Yuan’s strength and status made the earlier confrontation with War God Hall’s subordinates understandable, while blaming the subordinates for provoking him.
• After more than a hundred Blade Qi waves broke, the halberd’s radiance weakened and the void’s destruction reached tens of millions of miles.
• Luo God stepped in to help control the aftershocks and protect the Luo God Clan’s citizens.

Lu Yuan used his Years Blade’s Blade Qi to wear down the Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor’s halberd strike, then escaped with his clones. His identity remained unknown, but surviving the battle made him famous across the region.

• Lu Yuan’s Blade Qi gradually weakened the Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor’s halberd strike until one of his clones knocked it into a mountain range.
• The Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor sealed the vast spatial rift, recovered his halberd, and asked Lu Yuan for his name as Lu Yuan and his clones retreated.
• Observers recognized that Lu Yuan had endured an attack few Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns could withstand, and they understood why he had fought the War God Hall’s forces.
• Lu Yuan vanished without revealing his identity, and the Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor did not pursue him.
• The battle established Lu Yuan’s reputation as a formidable expert, even though he had not defeated the Nine Tribulations Battle Emperor.

Lu Yuan explained why reputation mattered little in the chaotic current Myriad Heavens and why he sought Heavenly Sovereign techniques to advance the Heavenly Book. He planned to obtain them by challenging powerful factions to Gambling Duels, where the chapter left off describing the risks and customs surrounding those contests.

• Lu Yuan concluded that profit and face, rather than reputation, usually caused conflicts among the Myriad Heavens’ powerful figures.
• Lu Yuan realized that Earth Supreme techniques could no longer advance the Heavenly Book, so he traveled the Myriad Heavens seeking Heavenly Sovereign techniques.
• Lu Yuan avoided discussing the Dao because his broad, fused cultivation concepts would likely provoke clashes, and instead challenged powerful figures to Gambling Duels.
• Lu Yuan relied on the custom that great clans had to honor challenges and wagers to protect their reputations, even when their younger generation was defeated.
• The chapter explained that factions might befriend or recruit victorious rogue cultivators, but losing challengers risked having their cultivation crippled or being killed.

Lu Yuan used Gambling Duels to gather cultivation techniques, strengthening the Heavenly Book and driving his reputation across the Myriad Heavens. He had to rely on those duels because, in this era, he could not plausibly claim a connection to the Floating Tu Ancient Clan.

• Lu Yuan’s fusion of the Great Floating Tu Art had made the Heavenly Book powerful enough for him to fight Heavenly Sovereigns above his realm, with even greater potential as he acquired more techniques.
• Lu Yuan challenged powerful families in Gambling Duels, initially taking copies of their techniques and later letting both sides study matching techniques without passing them on.
• Lu Yuan avoided staking the Great Floating Tu Art because the Floating Tu Ancient Clan would trace the copy back to him.
• Lu Yuan recalled how his knowledge of Qing Yan Jing’s family could help him fabricate a connection to the Floating Tu Ancient Clan in a later era.
• Lu Yuan concluded that he could not claim such a connection in the present, when the Floating Tu Ancestor was still an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign and Qing Yan Jing’s later lineages were insignificant.
• Lu Yuan continued using Gambling Duels to collect this era’s Heavenly Sovereign-level techniques and spiritual arts.

The chapter explained how the Myriad Heavens differed several hundred thousand years ago, when top families competed to recruit independent cultivator geniuses and the Five Ancient Clans were not yet dominant. After Lu Yuan won thirty-five battles against Heavenly Sovereigns without a loss, a bold top family sent him an invitation to assess his potential.

• The chapter described how the war against the Extraterrestrial Evil God Race had devastated both sides and left the Maha Ancient Clan as only one of many top families.
• It explained that the present era had abundant opportunities for independent cultivators, whom top families actively sought to recruit.
• The chapter outlined the ranks of families and the importance of the Ten Primal Supreme Dharmakayas, including the Maha Immeasurable Body's connection to the Yin Yang Taiyi Body.
• Lu Yuan made a name for himself by challenging Heavenly Sovereigns as an Earth Supreme and winning all thirty-five of his matches.
• A bold top family sent Lu Yuan an invitation to evaluate his strength and consider recruiting him.

Lu Yuan reasoned that the invitation from a top family was not a Hongmen Banquet, since an ambush would ruin its reputation among independent cultivators. He recalled how one family had risen to prominence by defending independent geniuses, leaving the story with the lesson that top families no longer dared use banquets to entrap recruits.

• Lu Yuan concluded that the strong being revered outweighed rules against Heavenly Sovereigns killing one another, and that the invited family had no need to lure him into a trap.
• Lu Yuan considered how top families depended on independent cultivators and could suffer lasting reputational and practical consequences if they mistreated them.
• Lu Yuan recalled how a top family had killed a genius who rejected its recruitment and how a second-rate family publicly challenged it in his name.
• More than thirty independent-cultivator Heavenly Sovereigns, including Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns, later destroyed the top family and helped the second-rate family rise to prominence.
• The second-rate family became a top family by attracting independent geniuses, and no top family dared stage another Hongmen Banquet.

Lu Yuan prepared to attend a Top Family’s invitation using an avatar, wary that the family might attack him despite the risks. He arrived and was received according to the family’s formal customs, leaving the purpose of the invitation unresolved.

• Lu Yuan reasoned that his record of defeating an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign did not make it likely that a Top Family would risk fighting him to the death.
• Lu Yuan decided to send an avatar to the appointment and kept the Years Blade and Red Dust Threads ready in case the family tried to trap him.
• Lu Yuan considered how Top Families used networks of ranked families and marriage alliances to control their territories and arrange guests’ invitations.
• Lu Yuan brought the invitation to the location written on it, where an Elder of the Top Family led him inside with proper etiquette.

The Xuan Ming Zhang Family expanded its banquet for Lu Yuan into a contest meant to test him and showcase its geniuses. Lu Yuan accepted the offered prizes without pressing the family for more, then left with two cultivation arts to advance the Heavenly Book.

• The Xuan Ming Zhang Family Clan Leader invited numerous geniuses to the banquet, hoping to test Lu Yuan and recruit him while letting them challenge his reputation.
• The chapter explained how Lu Yuan’s thirty-five victories had spread his fame, while defeated challengers helped publicize him to protect their own reputations.
• Lu Yuan recalled that he had used Red Dust Threads only once, killing an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign Dao Protector who attacked after his master surrendered.
• A prearranged young Earth Supreme proposed a skills contest, and the Zhang Family Clan Leader offered cultivation arts and resources as prizes.
• Lu Yuan accepted two Heavenly Sovereign-level cultivation arts and left with them to advance the Heavenly Book.