Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen provoked Cloud Prefecture’s warriors to draw challengers and gain experience, then defeated the gathered fighters with a single Space Shock. After learning that Central Continent geniuses had been brought in to oppose him, he prepared to continue his journey, while Wu Ji warned that finding a counter to the attack would not guarantee victory.

• Lu Chen taunted the warriors of Cloud Prefecture until a crowd gathered at his arena, including young Titled Heroes who had come to test his strength.
• Lu Chen transformed into a fifty-five-meter Barbarian Bull, activated One-Slash Rakshasa, and struck space with a single blow that left the gathered warriors injured and coughing blood.
• The lord of An City confronted Lu Chen, who dismissed the attack as a sparring match and demanded that Cloud Prefecture either recognize him as the foremost young warrior or keep sending challengers.
• Lu Chen checked his system log and discovered that the defeated Titled Sword Saint Wu Ji and other warriors had earned him hundreds of thousands of experience points; Ji Hongdie suspected the young Titled Heroes had come from the Central Continent.
• In the hospital, Wu Ji explained that body-refining experts might resist Space Shock but cautioned An Lin that countering one move would not necessarily defeat Lu Chen.

After defeating Cloud Prefecture’s fighters, Lu Chen learned that the Central Continent’s Human Ranking competition would bring powerful young opponents to challenge him. He set out along a route designed to provoke Cloud Prefecture’s clans, with the Blue Family and its guest Ai Li among his likely first encounters.

• Wu Ji and the other people defeated by Lu Chen feared his apparent one-strike invincibility, while their thoughts and the spreading rumors gathered power around him.
• Man Xiong promised to protect Lu Chen on the way to the Royal Court, then secretly contacted the Barbarian Wastes Royal Court for help.
• Cloud Prefecture’s clans considered sending their young prodigies to face Lu Chen and using beauties or resources to restrain him, while the Yun Zhou King ordered a plan to sow discord involving Jing Ning and the Central Continent’s Fourth Prince.
• Ji Hongdie told Lu Chen that Cloud Prefecture would host the Human Ranking competition, where Central Continent prodigies could intercept him; Lu Chen decided to compete for first place.
• Lu Chen left An City with Man Xiong and followed his planned route toward the great cities, while an elegant young lord identified the Blue Family as a likely first target and noted that Ai Li was staying there.

Lu Chen advanced through Cloud Prefecture, defeating challengers while using Death-knell Ravens to spread plague and misfortune without killing them. He arrived at Qi Lian City, where the Lan family welcomed him and tried to keep him from beating their people, but Lu Chen insisted that the training was for their own good.

• Lu Chen defeated Cloud Prefecture challengers with single attacks and refined his control of vibrational force so that he could injure opponents without killing them.
• Lu Chen sent Death-knell Ravens over the road, spreading plague, curses, and misfortune among the challengers before the ravens drew the sickness away and left them alive.
• Lu Chen realized that his strengthened ravens could multiply through plague and provide him with energy and eyes, but he suppressed the temptation to devastate Cloud Prefecture.
• Lu Chen and his convoy reached Qi Lian City, where Lan Ye, Lan Ba, and Lan Lin welcomed him and offered gifts to discourage him from fighting their people.
• Ji Hongdie recalled that Lu Chen had beaten his Barbarian Tribe soldiers repeatedly as training, while Lu Chen insisted he was doing it for their own good.

Lu Chen fought Ai Li, a descendant of Great God Lei Ze, after refusing his offer to stop and trade instead of plundering. Ai Li’s lightning attacks only strengthened Lu Chen until thunderous divine weapons finally pierced his skin, prompting Lu Chen to prepare to strike back.

• Lan Ye and Lan Ba accepted Lu Chen’s guidance after his tribesmen praised it, but Ai Li intervened and challenged Lu Chen for forcing others to submit.
• Ai Li transformed into a dragon-headed giant and used his Heavenly Scolding Punishment Law to disperse Lu Chen’s Death-knell Ravens, but its judgment did not affect Lu Chen.
• Ai Li offered to help Chen Village if Lu Chen stopped plundering, but Lu Chen refused and told Ai Li he preferred taking what he wanted.
• Ai Li summoned storm clouds and lightning, but Lu Chen absorbed the strikes and grew stronger, urging Ai Li to send more.
• Ai Li called down the Twelve Divine Generals and unleashed a barrage of thunderous weapons that pierced Lu Chen’s skin, making Lu Chen prepare to fight back.

Lu Chen endured Ai Li’s divine Lightning Spear, transformed into the Bull of Heaven, and lost control in a furious charge. He defeated Ai Li and demolished Qi Lian City’s walls before crashing into a mountain, which collapsed.

• Ai Li sacrificed six livestock to summon Great God Lei Ze’s avatar and hurled a divine Lightning Spear at Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen survived the spear and its lightning, transformed into the Bull of Heaven, and charged at Ai Li in a rage.
• The Bull of Heaven broke Great God Lei Ze’s avatar and charged through Ai Li, but the Daoist with Jade-like Features used a talisman to turn Ai Li into a tree and save him.
• Lu Chen continued charging, smashed through Qi Lian City’s walls, and raced toward the mountain behind the city.
• The Bull of Heaven crashed into the mountain, causing it to collapse.

Lu Chen destroyed much of Qi Lian City while transformed into the Bull of Heaven, then used a spatial strike to defeat the warriors who charged him after Ji Hongdie provoked them. He visited the Lan Family’s treasure vault and swallowed a mysterious Lava Demon Egg, while his search for Ai Li’s lightning remained unresolved.

• Lu Chen returned to human form after smashing apart a mountain, realized the Bull of Heaven’s bloodline made him dangerously impulsive, and decided to avoid transforming while angry.
• Lu Chen asked Lan Ba and Lan Ye to find Ai Li so he could use Ai Li’s ability to gather lightning to strengthen his body.
• When Qi Lian City’s warriors refused to challenge him, Ji Hongdie insulted them, drawing a crowd that Lu Chen incapacitated with one spatial strike.
• Lu Chen gained experience points from the battle and continued pursuing his goal of reaching the Heavenly Gate Shackles of Undying Flesh.
• Lan Ye told Lu Chen that Ai Li had left, then brought him to the Lan Family treasure vault; Lu Chen found three useful items and swallowed the Lava Demon Egg.

Lu Chen devoured the Magma Worm King’s Egg, Sun God Gold, and the Evil Spirit Knight’s remains, strengthening his body and upgrading Corpse Bone Pulse into Evil Spirit Skeleton. He promised Lan Ye that he would help clear the Blue family’s other Medium Weird Realm once he could survive a Legend, then stayed in Qi Lian City to cultivate while awaiting Ai Li’s reply.

• Lu Chen gained Feast’s fifth epic enhancement from the Magma Worm King’s Egg, increasing his attributes and fire resistance, and used experience points to speed the stabilization of his body.
• Lu Chen identified Radiant Gold as a source of Sun God power and asked Lan Ye to collect more of it.
• Lu Chen swallowed the Evil Spirit Knight’s remains and endured their hellfire and backlash, then used Black Rope Heaven Punishment Myōō to suppress the spirit and complete the fusion.
• Lu Chen upgraded Corpse Bone Pulse into gold-completion Evil Spirit Skeleton, gaining Evil Spirit Chains and Evil Spirit Transformation.
• Lu Chen promised Lan Ye he would help eliminate the Blue family’s other Medium Weird Realm once he could survive under a Legend, then left the treasury.
• Lu Chen stayed in Qi Lian City to cultivate while awaiting Ai Li’s reply, as the Cloud Prefecture royal palace received news of his battle with Ai Li.

The Yun Zhou princesses feared being married to Lu Chen and began searching for other husbands, but watching him defeat Ai Li and transform into the Bull of Heaven changed how they judged him. After the battle, Lu Chen met Ai Li in Qi Lian City, where his unexpectedly handsome two-meter form stunned Ai Li and his companions.

• Cloud Prefecture's family heads discussed Lu Chen's power and the gap between their talents and Central Continent's geniuses.
• The Seventh Princess reviewed portraits of potential husbands and agreed with the Ninth Princess to try sending the Thirteenth Princess to Lu Chen.
• The Seventh Princess and other princesses watched an image of Lu Chen defeat Ai Li, transform into the Bull of Heaven, and smash a hill, then reconsidered their marriage plans.
• The Seventh Princess withdrew her invitations and told the Ninth Princess that she could invite Ai Li instead.
• In Qi Lian City, Ai Li waited with San Chi, Qing Yun, and a handsome young nobleman for Lu Chen to arrive.
• Lu Chen entered the tavern with Ji Hongdie in a two-meter-tall form, and Ai Li asked why he did not normally look that way.

Lu Chen secured Ai Li’s help with lightning body tempering, then traveled through Cloud Prefecture while fighting evil spirits and challenging its warriors to grow stronger. As rumors spread and fear empowered his Second Demon God, Lu Chen arranged a widely publicized duel, leaving his companions to suspect he planned to attack the spectators afterward.

• Lu Chen refused Ai Li’s condition that he stop challenging Cloud Prefecture, explained that he needed strength to clear the Eerie Realm, and secured free cooperation through Lin Ye’s connection to Ai Li.
• Lu Chen’s group left Qi Lian City, and Lu Chen used the Death-knell Raven to plague Cloud Prefecture warriors while provoking them into challenging him.
• Ai Li and the Taoist repeatedly struck Lu Chen with lightning, allowing him to grow taller and stronger, while the group also swept away evil spirits at night.
• Fear of Lu Chen spread through Cloud Prefecture and fed the Second Demon God - Corrosive Purim, so Lu Chen suppressed its awakening until he could strengthen his will and Conqueror’s Haki.
• Near the Xiang family, Lu Chen learned that spectators had gathered for Flying Swordsman You Guifeng and Mad Blade’s duel, then ordered Ji Hongdie to publicize a challenge of his own.
• The handsome young gentleman realized Lu Chen might be planning to attack everyone who came to watch his duel.

Lu Chen accepted Illusory Immortal Rou Nanxia’s invitation, intending to defeat her for experience points, but discovered she had invited him as an envoy for the Fourth Prince. He rejected the offer and demanded to know why the prince thought he could recruit him, leaving their meeting charged with his overwhelming aura.

• The monk explained that the Flying Swordsman and Mad Blade had canceled their duel to target Lu Chen, and Lu Chen agreed to face the Flying Swordsman three days later as crowds gathered in Xiang family’s town.
• Illusory Immortal arrived, and after the monk and Ai Li returned with her invitation for Lu Chen, he decided to attend while Ji Hongdie predicted he meant to beat Rou Nanxia.
• Lu Chen forced his way through the courtyard after waiting for Rou Nanxia, wrecked the buildings, and encouraged a maid to spread a story that would provoke her admirers.
• Rou Nanxia appeared, spoke with Lu Chen, and revealed that she had come as the Fourth Prince’s envoy to recruit him.
• Lu Chen asked why he should join the Fourth Prince instead of the prince surrendering to him, then released a tyrannical aura throughout the meeting place.

Lu Chen rejected Illusory Immortal’s attempt to recruit him for the Fourth Prince and learned that the Central Continent’s experts planned to overcome his strength by exploiting his weaknesses. Illusory Immortal trapped him in her Golden Peak Immortal City and attacked with an army of celestial maidens, but Lu Chen’s defense and Avalon’s recovery made their attacks ineffective.

• Illusory Immortal described the Great Feather Dynasty and the Fourth Prince’s power, but Lu Chen refused to pledge himself to a prince he considered unworthy.
• Illusory Immortal explained that the Fourth Prince had wanted her to defeat Lu Chen and recruit him, then revealed that Central Continent fighters targeted opponents’ weaknesses and that her arts countered blood-and-qi cultivators.
• Lu Chen spotted Illusory Immortal’s hidden form as she tried to pluck one of his hairs, and she responded by expanding space into her Golden Peak Immortal City and summoning Illusory Celestial Maidens.
• Ai Li explained to the onlookers that Illusory Immortal’s city and celestial maidens had defeated him before, while Ji Hongdie insisted that Lu Chen would not lose.
• The Illusory Celestial Maidens bombarded Lu Chen with varied attacks, but nearly all failed to penetrate his Ox Demon True Body, and Avalon restored the small damage he took.

Lu Chen defeated Illusory Immortal Rou Nanxia, captured her and the onlookers with his Evil Spirit Chains, then faced her again when she summoned the Illusory Celestial Mother and Golden Light Divine Mirror. The mirror drew out his soul, but the Black Rope Heaven Punishment Myōō manifested and took control of the Nightmare Qi, transforming Golden Peak Immortal City into hell.

• Illusory Immortal's attacks failed to harm Lu Chen, and her Golden Light Divine Mirror burned an Illusory Celestial Maiden to ash when it revealed Lu Chen's divine essence.
• Lu Chen discovered that his attacks could not break Golden Peak Immortal City, then used Nightmare Magic Crests, Evil Spirit Chains, and a spatial reach to seize Illusory Immortal and make her city vanish.
• When young men charged to rescue Illusory Immortal, Lu Chen unleashed countless flaming Evil Spirit Chains, binding the crowd in a thousand-meter prison.
• Lu Chen threw Illusory Immortal down and invited her to fight again after earning 110,000 Experience Points for defeating her.
• Illusory Immortal summoned the Illusory Celestial Mother and used the Golden Light Divine Mirror to seize Lu Chen's soul, but his Black Rope Heaven Punishment Myōō manifested and broke the mirror's hold.
• The Myōō transformed Golden Peak Immortal City into a hellish prison as Lu Chen realized the Nightmare Qi had escaped Illusory Immortal's control and submitted to him.

Lu Chen defeated Illusory Immortal but let her escape when she feared he meant to marry her by force, and rumors of his supposed lustfulness spread. As he arrived for his decisive battle with the Flying Swordsman, the system gave him the title Lecherous Devil, and Lu Chen realized his past treatment of his wives had fueled the rumors.

• Lu Chen overwhelmed Illusory Immortal's illusion with the Black Rope Heaven Punishment Myōō, won their second match, and tried to challenge her again for more experience.
• Illusory Immortal fled with a life-saving talisman after Ai Li's remark made her think Lu Chen intended to claim her as a bride, while Man Xiong praised his supposed adherence to Barbarian tradition.
• News of Illusory Immortal's defeat spread, and Central Continent geniuses began gathering information about Lu Chen before his scheduled fight with the Flying Swordsman.
• Lu Chen arrived at the arena and heard women flee because they believed he forcibly seized women, then the system awarded him the title Lecherous Devil.
• Lu Chen protested the rumors before remembering that Ji Hongdie and Yi Rong had been sent to him against their will and that he had carried off Princess Qing Xue after knocking her unconscious.

Lu Chen faced Mad Blade in the arena and endured his powerful attacks without serious injury, then unleashed One-Slash Rakshasa after his anger boiled over. His strike carved a vast passage through the landscape, leaving Mad Blade’s fate unclear and the assembled warriors terrified of him.

• Lu Chen dismissed Mad Blade’s challenge with a harsh remark, and Mad Blade attacked with his Killing Intent Drawing Sword Technique.
• Mad Blade’s opening strike cut Lu Chen’s scalp, but his wounds healed, and a second powerful Blood Moon strike failed to break through the chains protecting his skull.
• Mad Blade transformed into an Asura and slashed Lu Chen over a thousand times, but Lu Chen’s chains stopped the attacks and his body healed.
• Lu Chen activated One-Slash Rakshasa, overwhelming Mad Blade with his aura and preventing the Taoist’s talisman from moving him through the vibrating space.
• Lu Chen’s strike erupted across the battlefield, creating a fifty-meter-wide passage three thousand meters long and leaving the Cloud Prefecture warriors in terrified silence.

Lu Chen overcame the Second Demon God - Corrosive Purim by understanding his own ambition, then upgraded Conqueror's Haki and unleashed the Overlord's Domain. He faced Flying Swordsman You Guifeng, whose attacks and control over spiritual energy were suppressed, leaving the spectators stunned by what seemed to be a Legendary Domain.

• Lu Chen spared Mad Blade by directing his punch's force through him, but the backlash from the Second Demon God - Corrosive Purim left him unconscious and raging with forbidden power.
• The Taoist and Master San Chi identified Lu Chen's condition as the backlash of forbidden power, while Ji Hongdie worried over him.
• Lu Chen rejected the Second Demon God - Corrosive Purim's temptation, clarified that he pursued power rather than kindness or love, and suppressed it with Black Rope Heaven Punishment Myōō.
• The system reduced the experience cost of upgrading Conqueror's Haki, and Lu Chen raised it to perfection, awakening the ten-thousand-meter Overlord's Domain.
• Lu Chen challenged Flying Swordsman You Guifeng, whose barrage of sword lights dissipated when Lu Chen's domain suppressed them.
• You Guifeng found his sword, spiritual energy, and movement constrained, then cried out that Lu Chen had a Legendary Domain as other spectators voiced disbelief.

Lu Chen defeated Flying Swordsman You Guifeng with his Overlord’s Domain and a dragon-powered Dread Roar that knocked out everyone within ten thousand meters. As reports of Lu Chen’s victories reached Yun Zhou, the court debated winning him over through marriage, while his challenge to Cloud Prefecture’s armies left the great clans increasingly terrified.

• Lu Chen’s Overlord’s Domain suppressed Flying Swordsman, who unleashed a desperate flying-immortal sword strike before Lu Chen’s Dread Roar overwhelmed him and knocked him unconscious.
• Lu Chen defeated You Guifeng, then joined Ai Li and the Xiang Family’s military formation to endure a fierce lightning baptism.
• After viewing the battle footage, the Yun Zhou King and his ministers concluded they could not oppose Lu Chen by force and considered sending princesses to win him over.
• The princesses learned that Thirteenth Princess had disguised herself and gone to meet Lu Chen, then received reports of his string of victories over Central Continent’s prodigies.
• Lu Chen challenged the Zhu Family’s fifty-thousand-man military formation and knocked its soldiers unconscious with one roar; later, three hundred thousand elite soldiers from Cloud Prefecture’s great clans suffered the same fate.
• The Yun Zhou King fell silent as Lu Chen’s repeated victories strengthened calls to win him over.

Lu Chen arrived in Heavenly Martial City, where the Central Continent geniuses prepared for Tai Zhao to challenge him, and learned that his body had grown stronger again. Seeking to reach his physical limit before advancing to Legend, Lu Chen strengthened Blessing of the Sun and Second Heart, then sensed that his fleshly shackles lay at one hundred meters.

• Lu Chen entered Heavenly Martial City as its frightened residents hid, while Mountain Splitting Hand warned Tai Zhao and the other Central Continent geniuses that Lu Chen had grown from 7.7 to eight meters tall.
• Tai Zhao, ranked twenty-first on the Human Rankings, resolved to duel Lu Chen the next day and claimed he would scout Lu Chen's techniques for his brother.
• Lu Chen decided to delay his advancement to Legend until he reached his limit and identified his skin and membrane as areas he could still strengthen.
• Lu Chen used Radiant Gold and Golden Divinity to perfect Blessing of the Sun, gaining stored Sun Power and the ability to become a sun during the night.
• Lu Chen used Warm Sun Blood Jade to perfect Second Heart, forming five more hearts and sensing that the shackles of his flesh lay at one hundred meters.

Lu Chen tested his sun-based power, discovered how it could let him contend with Legendary Evil Spirits, and combined several skills into two new Mythic skills. He ended the chapter asking the Taoist whether he knew formations.

• Lu Chen realized his body could reach a hundred meters and that he needed to break through that limit through ultimate sublimation.
• Lu Chen flew high above Heavenly Martial City, saw the evil gods’ blurred God Kingdoms in the sky, and tested becoming the sun before finding that Overlord’s Domain and a dragon roar greatly accelerated his Sun Power absorption.
• Lu Chen’s combined abilities produced the Mythic skills I Am the Sun and One-Slash Rakshasa, while he estimated that charging his body would take about a week.
• Lu Chen returned to his wives and concubines, then asked the Taoist whether he knew formations.

Lu Chen persuaded Heavenly Martial City's leaders to let him absorb Sun Power from the City Protection Great Array, overcoming Jin Li's hostility with a clash of domains and Man Xiong's support. After absorbing hundreds of motes, Lu Chen's body changed, and he asked Ji Hongdie to find nearby Eerie Realms.

• Lu Chen learned that Heavenly Martial City's formation gathered Sun Power and went to the City Lord's Mansion to request access.
• The Heavenly Martial City Lord refused at first, and Jin Li confronted Lu Chen until Man Xiong intervened; they eventually agreed to let Lu Chen enter for a fee charged to the Barbarian Wastes.
• Lu Chen absorbed more than three hundred golden motes of compressed Sun Power while Jin Li and the Heavenly Martial City Lord watched in alarm.
• Lu Chen left the energy chamber with golden hair, glowing patterns across his skin, and a radiant presence, while the Heavenly Martial City Lord secured the chamber behind him.
• Lu Chen returned to his residence, saw his changed reflection, and asked Ji Hongdie to gather information about nearby Eerie Realms.

Lu Chen convinced the monk, Taoist, and Ai Li that his immense stores of Sun Power could let him withstand a Legendary Evil Spirit, then gathered a team to investigate a dangerous Eerie Realm near Heavenly Martial City. After learning that an earlier expedition had been wiped out by invisible attacks and disasters, he entered alone to scout while his allies waited outside.

• Lu Chen demonstrated his Sun Domain and claimed he could maintain it for fifteen hours, overcoming the monk and Taoist’s warnings about entering another Eerie Realm.
• Ji Hongdie brought Lu Chen information about the sole nearby Eerie Realm, whose previous campaign had ended with thousands dead, strange disasters, and the unexplained deaths of the surviving Titled Heroes.
• Lu Chen decided to enter the Eerie Realm, and the monk, Taoist, and Ai Li joined him after the Taoist strengthened him with powerful talismans.
• Lu Chen and his companions teleported to the fortress surrounding the Eerie Realm, where Lu Chen told the others to wait outside while he scouted ahead.
• Lu Chen charged past the defenders and entered the fog, destroying an Evil Spirit with his Sun Power as he began the operation to clear the Eerie Realm.