Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen rested in Zhu Village after saving Daozhu and accepted the village’s allegiance as he continued opening a safe road toward the Royal Court. While advancing through Shadow Land and reflecting on the danger of Eerie Realms, he sensed that Third Ghost God—Phantom Keiga had begun to advance.

• Lu Chen arrived at Zhu Village with Daozhu, revealed that he was Chen Prince, and was welcomed by the villagers after Daozhu announced that the evil spirits had been defeated.
• After resting, Lu Chen told Daozhu and Zhu Village’s shaman that he was opening a route between his tribe and the Royal Court, and Daozhu offered the village’s allegiance.
• Lu Chen accepted Daozhu’s offer but left to continue opening the road, while Daozhu explained to the shaman why submission was necessary.
• Lu Chen entered Shadow Land, summoned Frost Saya, and drew evil spirits toward him as he advanced toward the Royal Court.
• Lu Chen considered the threats posed by Eerie Realms and their potential rewards, then noticed that Third Ghost God—Phantom Keiga had begun to advance.

Lu Chen advanced the Third Ghost God, resisted its attempt to transform him into a Shadow Creature, and discovered he could control its shadow form. After stepping into the space between Shadow Land and Nightmare Land, he realized he could use his connection to the Third Ghost God to reach territories protected by Chen Village’s Totem Pillars.

• The Third Ghost God solidified and merged with Lu Chen, turning parts of his body into shadow, but Lu Chen drove it back with his powerful vital energy.
• Lu Chen found himself near a ruined mountain castle and a town populated by hostile, mindless creatures, then merged with the Third Ghost God and vanished from the area.
• Lu Chen emerged into the void between Shadow Land and Nightmare Land, where he saw a gigantic whale-like Nightmare Creature that treated him as one of its kind.
• Lu Chen recognized the Blood Moons, Totem Pillars, and Guardian Spirits visible across the void, and judged the place too dangerous to explore.
• Apocalypse connected Lu Chen to eight points of light, which he identified as projections of Chen Village’s Totem Pillars and realized could let him enter their protected territories.

Lu Chen gained control of the solidified Third Ghost God and used its powers to travel to a village under attack. He left the warriors stunned after Soul Bender Flash cut down the Calamity-level Flying Head Demon and its swarm.

• Lu Chen used Complete Etherealization and the divine spark’s coordinates to travel to a village, arriving exhausted before recovering with the Great Breathing Recovery Art.
• Lu Chen saw a Calamity-level Wheel Demon and nearly a hundred flying heads attacking the village’s warriors and three Chieftain’s Sons.
• Lu Chen learned that the Third Ghost God’s advancement had granted him Complete Etherealization and Soul Bender Flash.
• Lu Chen entered Weird Realm and launched Soul Bender Flash from the shadows, sending a two-hundred-meter swordlight through the battlefield.
• The swordlight split the Wheel Demon and the flying heads in two, leaving the surviving warriors shocked.

Lu Chen killed the Flying Head Demon with a newly combined long-range sword technique, then traveled to the Royal Court while gathering faith and clearing a route. After seeing the refugees’ suffering, he resolved to expand the villages and save more people, revealing that his bloodline had awakened with long-distance teleportation.

• Lu Chen combined Soul Bender Flash with Dragon Breaking Slash to kill the Flying Head Demon from two hundred meters away, then told the Chieftain's Sons they could summon him for help through a Totem Pillar.
• Lu Chen traveled to Zhu Village, absorbed its newly formed faith power, and used Dragon Breaking Slash to clear Evil Spirits from the road toward the Royal Court.
• Lu Chen reached the Royal Court and saw the refugees’ poverty, while Ji Hongdie and his followers welcomed him at the gates.
• Lu Chen told Ji Hongdie he wanted to expand recruitment from twenty thousand to fifty thousand, and she warned that the villages could not safely support that many people.
• Lu Chen insisted on expanding the villages and revealed that his bloodline had awakened during the journey, granting him long-distance teleportation.

Lu Chen’s long-range teleportation ability impressed the Great Shaman and led the Royal Court to support his plans to establish more villages, while the Great Shaman privately arranged for attractive Witch Doctor apprentices to join him to counter Cloud Prefecture’s influence. Back at his residence, Lu Chen spent Experience Value enhancing several combat skills and gained new abilities and effects.

• Ji Hongdie explained that Lu Chen’s teleportation could let him support eighteen villages, and Lu Chen praised her work before the Great Shaman summoned him.
• Lu Chen asked the Great Shaman for eleven Witch Doctors and revealed his teleportation ability, persuading him to approve the request.
• After Lu Chen left, the Great Shaman told Yang to send the prettiest Witch Doctor apprentices to Chen Village, worrying that Cloud Prefecture’s influence might pull Lu Chen away from the Barbarian Tribe.
• Lu Chen checked his increased Experience Value and heart-tempering progress, then enhanced Barbarian Bull Shock Fist and learned Earthquake.
• Lu Chen enhanced Demacian Power and Wrath of Justice Fire, gaining a deterrence effect against marked enemies and a flame-boosting effect when he protected ordinary people.

Lu Chen reviewed his mastered skills and found that advancing Fatal Blow required him to break his limits, while his powerful foundation made that difficult. After Ji Hongdie organized the return from the Royal Court, Lu Chen led twenty thousand people toward Chen Village and unleashed an enormous Holy Flame, leaving the crowd hailing him as their protector.

• Lu Chen examined the trial missions for Jump Slash and Fatal Blow, then suspected he would need to devour a complete mythical creature to break his limits through Feast.
• Lu Chen spent experience points raising Great Swordsman to level seven and told Xiao Wei to learn cultivation techniques from Hong Die before she could pursue him.
• Ji Hongdie proposed establishing supply villages along the trade route and urged Lu Chen to bring the villages under his protection; Lu Chen agreed to have Chieftain's Sons handle the matter.
• Ji Hongdie prepared the Royal Court's supplies and caravan, and Lu Chen departed at dawn with twenty thousand people, including more than eight thousand warriors.
• As the procession traveled through the night, Lu Chen invoked the Wrath of Justice Fire; the crowd's faith amplified it into an eight-hundred-meter pillar of flame that lit the darkness and inspired the people to cheer for him.

Lin Ye and his companions traveled through the Barbarian Wastes toward Chen Village to stop an Evil God's Offspring, learning that Lu Chen had made the region safe and prosperous. They reached Chen Village at dawn and were stunned by its beautiful city.

• A merchant told Lin Ye’s group that the Thirteenth Prince had opened a safe road with Holy Flame and that Lu Chen’s thousand-mile Frost Path had frozen the evil creatures along it.
• Yang Su and the others doubted the merchant’s claims, but they saw the vast field of ice sculptures and learned that Lu Chen had created it.
• Lin Ye explained that his prophetic dreams had changed and insisted the group continue toward the predicted arrival of an Evil God's Offspring, hoping to enlist Lu Chen’s help.
• The merchant described how Lu Chen had established villages and roads connecting Chen Village to nearby tribes, turning it into a major commercial hub.
• Lin Ye’s group followed the road through the night and reached Chen Village at dawn, where its city left them speechless.

Lin Ye and his companions arrived in Chen Village and asked to meet Lu Chen about the coming Evil God's Offspring, but Lu Chen was away visiting his former home, Barbarian Bull Village. In Shadow Land, Lu Chen prepared to test a new divine form and recalled how the refugees’ prayers had unexpectedly earned him one point of divine power.

• Lin Ye’s group admired Chen Village’s clean streets, washed up, and headed to Lu Chen’s residence to report the danger of the Evil God's Offspring.
• Ji Hongdie recognized Lin Ye and arranged for the Witch Doctors to contact Lu Chen through the Totem Pillar while the visitors waited.
• Lu Chen returned to Barbarian Bull Village, greeted his old clansmen and the Witch Doctor, and offered Third Sister work at his God Temple.
• Lu Chen traveled to Shadow Land, recovered his strength, and prepared to activate a new form using the Totem Pillar.
• Lu Chen recalled that the refugees’ grateful prayers had fed faith power into his totem and awakened a system notification granting him one point of divine power.

Lu Chen discovered that his followers’ prayers provided divine power, then activated his godhead to communicate with believers and grant them divine abilities. After his power helped Da Zheng defeat a giant bear but could not save him from his injuries, Lu Chen realized he could create a Berserker Legion, though Kazan’s incomplete revival limited what its members could learn.

• Lu Chen learned that followers’ prayers generated divine power and expanded his territory to more than twenty villages and a town, gaining eighty thousand devout followers.
• Lu Chen activated his godhead, sensed his followers through Totem Pillars and Faith Threads, and discovered he could send divine power and abilities to them.
• Lu Chen granted Da Zheng the First Ghost God's power and combat techniques, helping him kill a giant bear, but Da Zheng collapsed from the strain and was near death.
• Lu Chen realized divine servants could draw power from their gods and considered creating a Berserker Legion through the First Ghost God - Soul Bender Kazan.
• Lu Chen concluded that Kazan had not fully revived, so infected warriors could learn only Rage and Blood Sword until Kazan grew stronger.

Lu Chen planned to control the risks of creating a Berserker Legion by choosing steadfast believers and rewarding fanatics in a public ceremony, but he discovered that the souls of Da Zheng and his brother were drifting toward the Totem Pillar. He sensed that Da Zheng’s soul was connected to Avalon and spent more divine power to investigate.

• Lu Chen decided to create Berserkers only from clansmen with strong wills or fanatical faith, hoping to keep Kazan’s destructive influence under control.
• Lu Chen planned a public investiture beside the Totem Pillar, where he would grant power to devout believers and encourage the other Barbarians to believe in him.
• Lu Chen mourned Da Zheng’s death and resolved to compensate his family if he found they had one.
• Lu Chen saw Da Zheng and his younger brother’s souls leave their bodies and drift toward the Totem Pillar, apparently protected from the Evil Spirit Qi outside.
• Lu Chen sensed a connection between Da Zheng’s soul and Avalon within his chest and abdomen, so he used another point of divine power to remain and investigate.

Lu Chen entered Avalon with Da Zheng’s soul and discovered that the realm could preserve souls and grow into a divine kingdom by absorbing power of faith. He realized that faithful followers might continue serving him after death, leaving him with the prospect of an ever-growing community in Avalon.

• Lu Chen used the Faith Thread to bring Da Zheng’s soul into Avalon, and his own consciousness followed.
• Lu Chen found that the Golden Apple Tree supplied natural spiritual energy but that his own power of faith solidified Avalon much faster.
• Lu Chen recognized the sun above Avalon as a manifestation of his divine spark, which directed excess power of faith into the realm.
• Lu Chen saw Da Zheng and his younger brother’s souls in Avalon and discovered that Da Zheng’s prayers generated power of faith.
• Lu Chen concluded that devout believers could enter Avalon after death and continue providing him with power of faith.

Lu Chen discovered that the Demon Gods could create God Envoys and transformed Da Zheng into a Doom Warrior, then returned to Chen Village to meet Lin Ye. Lin Ye warned that Evil God cultists planned to sacrifice a tribe in the Barbarian Wastes to bring down an Evil God's Offspring, leaving Lu Chen prepared to confront the threat.

• Lu Chen learned that Petitioners often lost most of their consciousness after death, but the three Demon Gods could create God Envoys from souls, rule imprints, and divine power.
• Lu Chen used divine power and the First Demon God's Rule of Destruction to turn Da Zheng into a level-thirty Doom Warrior, then found ten more badly damaged souls in the Totem Pillar.
• Lu Chen answered the Witch's summons and met Lin Ye in Chen Village after driving out merchant families who had sent their daughters to seek his favor and influence over the village.
• Lin Ye explained that hostile beings could enter this world through Eerie Realms or sacrificial descent, in which cultists used the souls of a slaughtered town to conceal an Evil God's arrival.
• Lin Ye told Lu Chen that Evil God cultists had entered the Barbarian Wastes and planned to sacrifice a tribe to summon an Evil God's Offspring, and Lu Chen agreed to face the danger.

Lu Chen joined Lin Ye’s search for the prophesied Evil God's Offspring, hoping to stop a sacrifice without letting a village be destroyed. At Snail Village, they found no sign of an imminent attack, and Lu Chen realized the mysterious monster villagers had seen was probably him during his patrols.

• Lu Chen agreed to help Lin Ye prevent the Evil God's Offspring from descending and identified Snail Village as the likely target.
• Ji Hongdie sent a hundred Barbarians with Lu Chen, and the group traveled to Snail Village while seeing how his influence had improved trade for local tribes.
• Lin Ye warned Lu Chen that a godson could be as dangerous as a Titled Hero, then the group entered Snail Village and questioned its shaman.
• The shaman reported a huge shadow that appeared about once a week, but Lu Chen said it was likely him during his patrols around Chen Village.
• Lin Ye searched Snail Village with a special treasure but found no evidence of an Evil God Sacrifice, while Lu Chen remained eager to fight whatever came.

Lu Chen completed tempering his four hearts, gaining a major boost to his strength and a new skill. As he planned to finish strengthening his remaining organs before entering the Eerie Realm, Lin Ye and the others discovered that an Evil God Sacrifice was heading toward Lu Chen’s Main City.

• Lu Chen spent 15,000 experience points to complete the tempering of all four hearts.
• The system increased Lu Chen’s strength by 40% and granted him Heart Pumping, which could boost his strength further but risked injuring his body.
• Lu Chen tested his enhanced strength and trusted Feast and Steel Bones to keep his body from failing under the strain.
• Lu Chen estimated that he could perfect his internal organs in about a month and a half and then enter the Eerie Realm after reaching Hero level.
• Lin Ye and the others found traces of the Heretics and told Lu Chen that an Evil God Sacrifice was heading toward his Main City.

Evil God Sacrifice priests infiltrated Lu Chen’s Main City while he was away, intending to sacrifice its people and summon an evil creation. The Barbarians resisted without fear, and the chapter left the priests’ summoned phantom under Corruption of Plorymon’s control and attacking them instead.

• Lin Ye warned Lu Chen that the Evil God Sacrifice had used them to lure him away and was targeting his Main City, but Lu Chen calmly said it was already too late.
• Evil God Sacrifice priests disguised as merchants revealed themselves and attacked the Barbarians, but the people of the Main City drew their weapons and surrounded them.
• The Barbarians killed many priests, while the Totem Pillar suppressed the three leaders as a crimson Doom Warrior charged into battle.
• The three leaders sacrificed their own body parts to summon an octopus-like phantom, but Corruption of Plorymon entered it and took control.
• The phantom turned on the Evil God Sacrifice priests, who panicked when the Barbarians still refused to flee.

Lu Chen's forces defeated the first Evil God Sacrifice attack, but a hidden ritual in Chen Village summoned the offspring of a Death God and a giant scorpion. As the monster descended, Lu Chen spent Experience Value to reach Great Swordsman Level 10 and rerolled the ability he received.

• Lin Ye and Shuang'er returned to Chen Village with Lu Chen, where they found the Barbarians had nearly wiped out the Evil God Sacrifice.
• Lu Chen praised the Doom Warrior's defensive potential while Lin Ye and the others moved to finish off the surviving Heretics.
• The Evil God Sacrifice self-destructed as a hidden group at the merchant association's base began a blood ritual using Barbarian Beast blood.
• Lu Chen ordered Barbarian Bear to lead the villagers away as the offspring of a Death God and a giant scorpion began descending.
• Lin Ye warned Lu Chen that the offspring's stinger could cause instant death or shatter a soul.
• Lu Chen spent 270,000 Experience Value to raise Great Swordsman to Level 10, drew Evil Light Ripple Slash, and chose to reroll it.

Lu Chen chose the Gold-grade skill Blade Storm and learned its magic-immune, wide-area sword technique. After reaching level ten, he received the Sword Saint advancement trial, but the system unexpectedly declared that he had already fulfilled every requirement, leaving him wondering when he had comprehended Sword Intent.

• Lu Chen repeatedly replaced drawn skills, then chose and solidified the Gold-grade skill Blade Storm.
• He absorbed Blade Storm's knowledge and gained a powerful area attack.
• The system presented the Sword Intent trial quest required for advancement to Sword Saint, listing physical fitness, swordsmanship, Sword Intent, and Unity of Sword and Man as requirements.
• Lu Chen realized his physical attributes exceeded the requirements but believed he had not comprehended Sword Intent or Unity of Sword and Man.
• The system announced that Lu Chen met all the advancement requirements, and he was left baffled about what he had comprehended.

Lu Chen learned that his Gold-rank skills had granted him traces of several Sword Intents and that his perfected Fatal Blow gave him Unity of Sword and Man, then prepared to advance to Sword Saint. Before he could, Lei Zhe emerged, revealed his Wind and Sand Domain, and fought Lu Chen, whose strength shattered Lei Zhe’s pincers and whose vitality resisted the desert’s draining power.

• The system explained that Lu Chen had comprehended traces of Destruction, Protection, Intimidation, and Wind Sword Intents through his Gold skills, and that his Fatal Blow had perfected Unity of Sword and Man.
• Lu Chen began to advance to Sword Saint, but Lei Zhe emerged from the sacrificial passage and unleashed a Wind and Sand Domain that desiccated Chen Village and forced Lin Ye, Yang Su, and Feather Fan Youth to retreat.
• Lin Ye told Lu Chen that Lei Zhe was an Evil God’s Offspring whose father was a desert God of Death with dangerous divine offices, and warned that Lei Zhe might possess powers beyond death and desert.
• Lei Zhe charged at Lu Chen, who stood his ground and shattered the god child’s pincers with a single sword strike, though Lei Zhe re-formed his body from windblown sand.
• Lei Zhe drained vitality from nearby creatures to heal his wounds, then expanded his domain against Lu Chen, but Lu Chen charged through it seemingly unaffected by its life-draining power.

Lu Chen overwhelmed the Scorpion God Child with his vitality and Frost Domain, freezing the desert and its venomous swarm before pronouncing judgment and summoning a massive flaming sword. As the sword descended, the Scorpion God Child launched a hidden tail strike at Lu Chen from behind, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Lu Chen shrugged off the Wind and Sand Domain’s moisture-draining effect and drove the Scorpion God Child across the desert with his greatsword.
• The Scorpion God Child summoned thousands of venomous creatures and sent them toward Lu Chen and the civilians, prompting Lu Chen to unleash his Winter of Silent Death.
• Lu Chen’s Frost Domain froze the venomous creatures and immobilized the desert, preventing the Scorpion God Child from shifting away.
• Lu Chen invoked the Great Treasure Sword and the Wrath of Justice Fire, calling down a massive flaming sword as the Scorpion God Child tried to block it.
• The Scorpion God Child used his apparent defense as a feint and secretly stabbed at Lu Chen’s heart with his tail from behind, while Lin Ye shouted a warning.

Lu Chen killed the Scorpion God Child after Star Platinum stopped the deadly tail strike, though the battle devastated much of Chen Village. As the group assessed the damage, black mist began spreading from the corpse, suggesting the God Child’s death might not be final.

• The Scorpion God Child ambushed Lu Chen with his lethal tail, but Star Platinum caught it and smashed it apart before Lu Chen’s divine sword destroyed the battlefield.
• The system awarded Lu Chen 70,000 experience points for killing the Scorpion God Child, leaving Lin Ye and the other youths stunned by his victory.
• Lu Chen worried about the damage to Chen Village, while Shuang'er offered to compensate him and he noted the houses could be rebuilt quickly.
• Black mist spread from the Scorpion God Child’s corpse, alarming Lu Chen despite the system confirming the kill.