Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen formed a Second Heart, then advanced to the Barbarian Bone Realm and gained increased attributes and Bone Strength. He considered constructing a Third Heart but postponed it after learning it would cost 300,000 experience points.

• Lu Chen formed a Second Heart, increasing his maximum blood and qi by 100 points and making death require both hearts to be shattered.
• Lu Chen replenished his blood and qi with pills and advanced to the Barbarian Bone Realm after completing the Steel Bones trial.
• Lu Chen endured half an hour of painful bone transformation and gained strength, agility, constitution, blood and qi, and Bone Strength.
• Lu Chen discovered that the Second Heart added 10 blood and qi during advancement and considered the benefits of constructing more hearts.
• Lu Chen learned that constructing a Third Heart independently carried risks or would cost 300,000 experience points, so he decided to raise his level first.

After advancing to the Barbarian Bone Realm, Lu Chen repeatedly replaced his skill draws, spending 1,180 spirit crystals to obtain a Seven-Colored Myth skill. He locked it in despite reservations about what using it might mean and called Hong Die over to test its effects.

• Lu Chen gained Enrage, which the system incorporated into his War Shout skill.
• Lu Chen drew Silver-grade Wave Burst but replaced it, then continued spending Spiritual Energy Value on new skill draws.
• Lu Chen passed on Gold-grade skills including Dimensional Slash, Earth Shaking, and Great Collapse while searching for a Seven-Colored Myth skill.
• After spending 1,180 spirit crystals, Lu Chen drew a Seven-Colored Myth skill, felt conflicted about its nature, and locked it in.
• Lu Chen chose not to upgrade the new skill yet and called Hong Die over to see what it could do.

Lu Chen saved his experience points for the upcoming Exchange Tournament and prepared to test his new Seven-Colored Myth skill on animals. Meanwhile, Ji Hongdie faced pressure from the Ji Family and the Brocade Cloud Merchant Guild over Lu Chen’s growing reputation.

• Lu Chen decided to save his experience points so he could adapt during the upcoming tournament against Cloud Prefecture’s prodigies.
• Xiao Wei brought Lu Chen several animals, and he released his pressure to begin testing his new Seven-Colored Myth skill.
• Ji Hongdie refused Ji Xiaohe’s offer of free goods and told her to discuss any cooperation directly with Lu Chen.
• Ji Xiaohe warned Ji Hongdie that the Brocade Cloud Merchant Guild was unsettled by Lu Chen’s strength, and Ji Hongdie said the merchants would not dare target him while the Barbarians protected him.

Ji Xiaohe warned Ji Hongdie that merchant families would soon try to bind Lu Chen through marriage alliances, leaving Ji Hongdie to consider repairing ties with the Ji Family and securing her place. After accepting the Spirit Snake Dance manual, Ji Hongdie returned to Lu Chen and discovered that he had grown to three and a half meters tall.

• Ji Xiaohe explained that merchant families would seek marriage alliances with Lu Chen after the Exchange Tournament and urged Ji Hongdie to consider relying on the Ji Family.
• Ji Xiaohe gave Ji Hongdie the Spirit Snake Dance manual, and Ji Hongdie accepted it despite her resentment toward her family.
• Ji Hongdie defended Lu Chen to Ji Xiaohe, then went home and resolved to master the dance and become pregnant before his territory was established.
• Ji Hongdie went to the bathing pool to see Lu Chen and was shocked when she found that he had grown from just over two meters to three and a half meters tall.

Lu Chen gained the Seven-Colored Myth skill Feast, which let him devour enemies and grow stronger by converting their life force into lasting physical enhancements. After testing it on small animals and discovering they could grant only three stacks, he realized he would need higher-ranked creatures to continue growing, then nearly collapsed from the energy cost of his transformation.

• Lu Chen explained his sudden growth to Ji Hongdie and examined the newly acquired Feast skill.
• Feast gave Lu Chen an expandable stomach that could imprison and digest weaker enemies, while each stack increased his physique, vitality, strength, and defense.
• Lu Chen learned that Feast could theoretically grow without limit, but ordinary creatures stopped granting bonuses after the third stack.
• Lu Chen concluded that he would need Elite Creatures, Epic creatures, and eventually God Blood Creatures to gain further stacks.
• Lu Chen nearly fell from exhaustion after growing, and Ji Hongdie fetched Blood Replenishing Pills as he realized he had used his own stored energy.

Lu Chen’s rapid growth left him needing an enormous supply of Blood Replenishing Pills, and he reflected on why powerful Chieftain’s Sons had to establish villages to support themselves. At the gathering for the Exchange Tournament, his newly enlarged body stunned the other participants and the Witch Doctor Master.

• Lu Chen swallowed 120 Blood Replenishing Pills before his hunger finally faded, alarming both him and Ji Hongdie with the cost of feeding him.
• Lu Chen reasoned that powerful Chieftain’s Sons established villages to support themselves and their people, then spent the night with Ji Hongdie and struggled with his enlarged body.
• Lu Chen arrived at the assembly point for the Exchange Tournament and overheard the Seventh Prince boast about facing Cloud Prefecture opponents.
• The Witch Doctor Master stopped Lu Chen, who revealed that he had advanced into the Barbarian Bone Realm and suddenly grown larger.
• The Witch Doctor Master recognized Lu Chen as the Thirteenth Prince and stared in disbelief at his transformation and power.

Lu Chen joined the Barbarian princes on their journey to Border City, where Cloud Prefecture’s leaders prepared targeted strategies for the Exchange Tournament. Several young Cloud Prefecture fighters volunteered to face Lu Chen, whose arrival would test their confidence.

• Lu Chen joined the Barbarian princes, and his strength extinguished their desire to compete with him while the Barbarian geniuses welcomed him.
• Lu Chen and the others boarded a Sky Whale and traveled toward Border City as Cloud Prefecture’s geniuses and leaders prepared for the tournament.
• Fu Prince reviewed intelligence on the Barbarians and proposed letting the Seventh Prince win early matches to build his prestige before Cloud Prefecture claimed the final victory.
• Elder Feng agreed to the plan on the condition that no Yunyin Sect fighter lose to the Seventh Prince, and Fu Prince assigned the early matches to the Lingyun Sect.
• Elder Feng and several young fighters dismissed Lu Chen’s claim of being Invincible in the Same Rank, and multiple Cloud Prefecture geniuses volunteered to challenge him.

Cloud Prefecture’s champions prepared to face Lu Chen, while he arrived in Border City with the Barbarian delegation and concealed his current strength. The next morning, the Exchange Tournament arena filled with spectators as the eager competitors prepared to begin.

• Fu Prince warned Cloud Prefecture’s geniuses about Lu Chen’s Star Sucking Art and spatial abilities, but they remained confident they could defeat him.
• Lu Chen arrived in Border City wearing a Yin Iron Ring that shrank his body and concealed his aura, and he planned to learn a body-shrinking skill after the tournament.
• The Barbarian shaman ordered Lu Chen and the others to remain in camp so Cloud Prefecture could not weaken them before the competition.
• Ji Hongdie was allowed to leave and gather intelligence while the rest of the delegation stayed under the shamans’ watch overnight.
• At dawn, Lu Chen and the others arrived at the packed tournament arena, where the competitors eagerly volunteered to fight first.

Lu Chen watched the Exchange Tournament begin and saw Barbarian Bear struggle against a faster Cloud Prefecture spear fighter. As a mysterious little girl with Aura Concealment approached unnoticed by the others, Lu Chen detected her and caught her realizing that he could see her.

• The Barbarian and Cloud Prefecture leaders exchanged formal greetings before the tournament began, and the Barbarian leader ordered his warriors to win.
• Barbarian Bear and a descendant of General Zhen Bei began the first match, trading blows as the spear fighter used speed and reach to avoid close combat.
• Lu Chen and Ji Hongdie worried that Barbarian Bear was tiring and growing impatient as wounds accumulated.
• A little girl concealed her presence and mocked the cheering Barbarians while observing them.
• Lu Chen noticed the girl despite her Aura Concealment, and she froze when she realized he was watching her.

Lu Chen confronted a mysterious girl whose presence and words could manipulate others’ attention, while Barbarian Bear lost the first Exchange Tournament bout against a Cloud Prefecture spearman. The girl vanished into hiding, but Lu Chen found her again and attacked.

• Lu Chen discovered the girl spying on the Barbarian Tribe, but she diverted his attention by warning that Barbarian Bear was about to lose.
• Barbarian Bear trapped the Cloud Prefecture spearman with Bear Hug of the World, but the spearman countered with Slaughtering Spear before a Barbarian expert intervened and stopped the fight.
• Ji Hongdie tried to console Barbarian Bear, and Lu Chen promised to win back the defeat.
• The girl slipped away using her ability to weaken her presence and guide others’ attention, but Lu Chen’s Direct Perception alerted him to her escape.
• Lu Chen pulled the girl toward him with the Star Sucking Art, but she vanished and hid in the shadows.
• Lu Chen located the girl despite her concealment and attacked her with a great bronze hand clad in blood-colored armor.

Lu Chen questioned Yi Rong, a Yin Mountain Sect witch offering intelligence and support in exchange for priority access to resources from his future territory. As the Barbarians fell behind in the Exchange Tournament, Yi Rong warned that Cloud Prefecture sects were backing the Seventh Prince and that Lu Chen would be suppressed without her help.

• A palm attack forced Yi Rong out of hiding, and she insisted that she had come to provide intelligence rather than ambush the Barbarians.
• Ji Hongdie identified Yi Rong as a member of the ostracized Yin Mountain Sect, and Lu Chen agreed to hear her out.
• Lu Chen watched Cloud Prefecture warriors use varied elemental abilities to defeat the Barbarians, who had lost more than twenty fighters while Cloud Prefecture had lost about ten.
• Yi Rong offered intelligence in return for priority access to resources from Lu Chen’s future territory, explaining that Yin Mountain Sect wanted to build ties with him while he was still weak.
• Ji Hongdie explained that Yin Mountain Sect could not approach the Barbarian King and hoped to support Lu Chen against the Cloud Prefecture sects backing the Seventh Prince.
• Lu Chen rejected Yi Rong’s offer as an attempt to swindle resources, but she warned that the Seventh Prince had already secured Cloud Prefecture allies and would suppress Lu Chen without her help.

Lu Chen watched the Seventh Prince win a string of matches before Cloud Prefecture sent its strongest fighters against the other princes. After the Eighth Prince was injured defeating Shi Dang, Lu Chen rejected Yi Rong’s offer of intelligence and headed for the arena to challenge Cloud Prefecture’s experts.

• The Seventh Prince volunteered to fight and defeated eight Cloud Prefecture Martial Artists in succession, winning the Barbarians’ cheers.
• Yi Rong explained to Lu Chen that Cloud Prefecture was letting the Seventh Prince win before sending top geniuses against the other princes, and offered intelligence in exchange for priority access to his tribe’s resources.
• Shi Dang of the Dragon Tiger Gate defeated the exhausted Seventh Prince, but the Eighth Prince then endured severe injuries to defeat Shi Dang.
• A powerful Cloud Prefecture swordsman took the arena after the Eighth Prince was rescued, while Yi Rong warned Lu Chen that he would face similar opponents.
• Lu Chen refused Yi Rong’s offer, declared that Cloud Prefecture’s experts could not defeat him, and walked toward the arena to fight.

Lu Chen took the arena match despite being assigned as a reserve, while Yi Rong reflected on Yin Mountain Sect’s plan to use him and the Barbarian Wastes for political gain. He clashed with the Yun Zhou Swordsman over what made someone a swordsman and prepared to fight after removing the iron ring around his neck.

• Lu Chen ignored the Witch Doctor Master's objection and stepped onto the arena, drawing cheers from the Barbarians.
• Yi Rong recalled that her master had sent her to trade intelligence with Lu Chen and cultivate an alliance with him against the Seventh Prince.
• Yi Rong explained that Yin Mountain Sect intended to support Lu Chen while Cloud Prefecture backed the Seventh Prince, hoping to keep the Barbarian princes fighting and divide their tribe.
• Ji Hongdie told Yi Rong that her husband was stronger than she thought, but Yi Rong dismissed the possibility that he could overcome Cloud Prefecture's ten experts.
• The Yun Zhou Swordsman accused Lu Chen of mocking swordsmen by wearing armor, and Lu Chen angrily insisted that a defensive fighter could still be a swordsman.
• As the Yun Zhou Swordsman charged, Lu Chen roared that he would prove it and tore the iron ring from around his neck.

Lu Chen removed his iron ring and revealed strength that surpassed the limits of the Flesh and Blood Realm, shocking the Yun Zhou Swordsman and Cloud Prefecture’s spectators. As the crowd grew confident that their gathered geniuses could defeat him, Lu Chen stretched and prepared to act.

• Lu Chen tore off his iron ring, grew to over three meters tall, and released overwhelming Blood Qi that made the Yun Zhou Swordsman halt his charge.
• Cloud Prefecture’s experts recognized Lu Chen’s Overlord Qualification, and Fu Prince wrongly attributed his sudden transformation to victories in the arena.
• The spectators worried that Lu Chen would keep growing stronger, but reassured themselves that Cloud Prefecture and Central Continent’s geniuses could defeat him, even by sending fighters one after another.
• Yi Rong’s master regretted having helped the enemy, while Yi Rong acknowledged Lu Chen’s confidence and addressed Ji Hongdie as her elder sister.
• Lu Chen stretched after removing the ring as the Yun Zhou Swordsman hesitated, then Lu Chen made his move.

Lu Chen defeated the Yun Zhou Swordsman by using All Things of Attraction to control the surrounding earth after Clear Frost Sword blocked his direct gravitational pull. The Cloud Prefecture side conceded, and Lu Chen advanced the Sword Test of Heroes to 90/100.

• Lu Chen used All Things of Attraction on the Yun Zhou Swordsman, who broke the pull with Clear Frost Sword, prompting Chief Wei Yan to challenge Cloud Prefecture for bringing a Legendary-grade spirit treasure.
• The Yun Zhou Swordsman tried to outmaneuver Lu Chen, but Lu Chen used gravity to raise and hurl the surrounding earth at him.
• The swordsman cut through the earthen walls and spun up a tornado of sword qi, but Lu Chen's Feast-boosted power kept the soil closing in.
• Lu Chen buried the swordsman under a mass of earth and began compressing it with Sandstorm Grand Burial.
• A figure rescued the swordsman, and Cloud Prefecture conceded the round; Lu Chen earned 3,000 experience points and reached 90/100 trial completion.

Lu Chen faced Wan Rong, a Cloud Prefecture genius whose spiritual abilities included intangibility, elemental attacks, gravity, and spatial transposition. He endured her assault and used Direct Perception to anticipate her Shape Shift, then closed in as she tried to escape, leaving his sword poised above her.

• Cloud Prefecture sent Wan Rong to challenge Lu Chen, and she used Intangibility to evade his pull and Sword Qi while attacking with wind and fire.
• Wan Rong used Shape Shift and Gravity to evade Lu Chen and slam him into the arena, but he emerged unharmed and charged through her walls, fire tornado, spears, and wind blades.
• Wan Rong repeatedly escaped with Shape Shift, but Lu Chen used Direct Perception to identify her destination and pulled the pebble she planned to exchange places with closer to him.
• When Wan Rong tried to flee on the wind, Lu Chen rode a gale above her and brought his Meteorite Greatsword down toward her head.

Lu Chen defeated Wan Rong in the Exchange Tournament, though a Cloud Prefecture expert intervened before he could kill her. Cloud Prefecture sent Zhu Ming to challenge him, and the chapter ended with Zhu Ming emerging as a Lava Golem and facing Lu Chen in the arena.

• Lu Chen shattered Wan Rong’s Great Air Shield and nearly struck her down, but a Cloud Prefecture expert rescued her.
• Wan Rong asked how Lu Chen had tracked her and attacked so quickly, and Lu Chen concealed his abilities by claiming to be the Child of the Wind.
• The Yun Zhou Executives sent Zhu Ming to face Lu Chen, promising him a choice of treasure from the Small Secret Treasury if he won.
• Zhu Ming burrowed underground, and a Lava Golem made of earth and fire emerged from the arena.
• Lu Chen and Zhu Ming advanced toward each other and stood face-to-face at the center of the arena.

Lu Chen defeated Zhu Ming by using Star Platinum to block the Lava Golem’s attacks and his Demon Hand to seize Zhu Ming, then spared him after Cloud Prefecture admitted defeat. A blue-haired fighter took the next turn, and Lu Chen discovered that the young man could stretch apart into water droplets.

• Lu Chen smashed through Zhu Ming’s Lava Golem while Star Platinum blocked its attacks, then grabbed Zhu Ming through the golem’s defenses with his Demon Hand.
• A Cloud Prefecture expert asked Lu Chen to spare Zhu Ming, and Lu Chen accepted the surrender and threw Zhu Ming off the arena.
• Cloud Prefecture’s fighters chose a blue-haired young man to face Lu Chen after three of their top talents had lost.
• Lu Chen used All Things of Attraction to pull the blue-haired fighter toward him, but the young man stretched into a long strip and dispersed into water droplets.

Lu Chen faced Lan Lin’s Water World by enduring its currents and attacks, then swallowed Lan Lin’s Three Yuan Heavy Water. He began drinking the water surrounding him, leaving Lan Lin and the spectators stunned as the fight continued.

• Lan Lin transformed the arena into a sphere of water and trapped Lu Chen in a vortex while attacking him with water-made creatures.
• Lu Chen’s sword aura tore apart the water sphere, but Lan Lin restored it and continued his assault.
• Lan Lin launched three droplets of Three Yuan Heavy Water at Lu Chen, but they shattered his armor without moving or injuring him.
• Lu Chen swallowed the Three Yuan Heavy Water, causing Lan Lin to lose control of it and erupt in anger.
• Lu Chen slashed apart Lan Lin’s water-formed face, then opened his mouth and began drinking the Water World.

Lu Chen overwhelmed Lan Lin by devouring his Water World and Aquatic Phantom Beasts, forcing the Yun Zhou Executives to concede the round and rescue Lan Lin. When Lu Chen asked to pause, he learned that leaving the arena would bar him from returning, so he relieved himself there after drinking so much water, scandalizing the crowd and leaving Ji Hongdie under everyone’s gaze.

• Lu Chen swallowed Lan Lin’s water and Aquatic Phantom Beasts until the Yun Zhou Executives rescued Lan Lin and conceded the round.
• Lu Chen declined to pursue Lan Lin, then asked to take care of something before the next battle.
• Fu Prince of Cloud Prefecture told Lu Chen that he could not return to the arena if he stepped down, so Lu Chen decided to stay.
• Lu Chen asked the women to turn around and relieved himself on the arena, drawing jeers and curious stares.
• Lan Lin nearly fainted after being revived and seeing Lu Chen urinate, while spectators looked between Lu Chen and Ji Hongdie.