Chapter Summaries

Zhou Leng and his companions attacked the Giant Ant Nest, using traps and poison to kill its defenders while Zhou Leng gathered Ant Eggs and Aphid Honey. As he entered the Ant Queen’s cave, Blood of Tyranny arrived outside and terrified the remaining Giant Ants and Zhou Leng’s allies.

• Azure-Crimson Flame scouted the Giant Ant Nest with Demon Spirit Insects, and the group prepared traps before drawing out the Giant Ants.
• Zhou Leng and the Treants killed waves of Giant Ants, including six Innate males, while Azure-Crimson Flame supported them with fire magic.
• After the Giant Ants retreated into their nest, Azure-Crimson Flame filled it with poisonous smoke, and Zhou Leng entered alone to collect Ant Eggs and Aphid Honey.
• Zhou Leng found the Ant Queen’s cave, where injured Innate Giant Ants were absorbing Brilliant Sap from the enormous Ant Queen, and he released a poisonous mist before charging in.
• Blood of Tyranny appeared outside the nest, and his aura made the Giant Ants collapse in fear while Lush Root, Azure-Crimson Flame, and the others froze in terror.

Zhou Leng tried and failed to extract Brilliant Sap from the Ant Queen before Blood of Tyranny arrived and harvested it. Blood of Tyranny spared Zhou Leng, shared Ancient River Sect knowledge, and explained how to cultivate the Taiqing Sea Garment more effectively.

• Zhou Leng threatened the Ant Queen with an Explosive Demon Spirit Orb, but its Grandmaster-level body resisted his attacks and he gave up on extracting Brilliant Sap.
• Blood of Tyranny appeared at the cave entrance and pinned Zhou Leng with his Martial Will, then cut into the Ant Queen and drained nearly half her Brilliant Sap into a conch shell.
• With Blood of Tyranny's permission, Zhou Leng collected a small amount of Brilliant Sap after asking the Ant Queen in Treant Language and promising to repay her.
• Zhou Leng shared Ancient River Sect materials with Blood of Tyranny, who cultivated the Taiqing Sea Garment into armor and sent Zhou Leng his cultivation notes.
• Blood of Tyranny told Zhou Leng that he had misunderstood the Taiqing Sea Garment by focusing on its protective function instead of its divine technique, and Zhou Leng understood the advice.

Zhou Leng escaped the Giant Ant Nest with Blood of Tyranny and secretly kept valuable sap, while a rival expedition triggered the enraged Ant Queen’s rampage. Elsewhere, Madam Xi Yan ordered Rao Mingxian and Gong Futing to kill Zhou Leng and told Rao to target Zhang Xiaoxiao as well.

• Zhou Leng reflected on how cultivating the Starry Sky Technique required seeing both himself and heaven and earth, then left the Giant Ant Nest with Blood of Tyranny after collecting the Demonization Bottle.
• Azure-Crimson Flame and Lush Root hurried Zhou Leng away, and he revealed that he had kept bottles of Aphid Honey and Brilliant Sap.
• Aiden and Radiance of Mingzhu led Innate Realm experts into the nest seeking Brilliant Sap, but the furious Ant Queen charged them and killed many as they fled.
• Aiden’s group escaped the nest and decided to search for an Ancient Tree Fossil near Flute Forest, where Calamity Envoy was expected to go.
• Madam Xi Yan learned that Rao Mingxian had attacked Zhou Leng at Treant Base and ordered him to join Gong Futing in killing Zhou Leng, then find a way to kill Zhang Xiaoxiao.

Rao Mingxian and Gong Futing planned to search for the Ancient Tree Fossil while killing Zhou Leng if they encountered him. In Flute Forest, Zhou Leng spent five days cultivating with Brilliant Sap, greatly increasing his vitality and Star Phoenix Feathers, and the chapter ended with a test showing his skin barely wounded by a Demonized Saber.

• Rao Mingxian told Gong Futing that Zhou Leng was stronger than himself, and Gong Futing planned to kill Zhou Leng if they met while searching for the Ancient Tree Fossil.
• Zhou Leng and the others divided their spoils in Flute Forest, with Zhou Leng receiving half because they had encountered Blood of Tyranny.
• Lush Root prepared Brilliant Sap with other ingredients, and Zhou Leng began compressing his true qi and condensing Star Phoenix Feathers.
• Zhou Leng cultivated for five days and nights, gaining 587 Star Phoenix Feathers and more than doubling his cellular vitality.
• Azure-Crimson Flame asked Zhou Leng to test his natural healing with a Demonized Saber, but the blade left only a thin white mark on his skin.

Zhou Leng and his companions met Lush Root’s old friend Xiao Yong in Flute Forest, then discovered demons pursuing a Wild Elf and joined the fight. When one Candlebearer recognized Zhou Leng and fled to report his presence, Lush Root warned that they could not let him escape.

• Zhou Leng tested the Brilliant Sap’s healing effect by cutting his arm, and the wound healed completely within ten minutes.
• Lush Root introduced Xiao Yong, an abandoned giant pupa who had saved Lush Root long ago and remained his friend despite their races being natural enemies.
• Zhou Leng spotted a Wild Elf hidden in the trees, and Xiao Yong revealed that foreign races had recently entered Flute Forest to seek Ancient Tree Fossils.
• The group decided to return to the Treant Tribe, but a Wild Elf ran to warn them about demons, followed by six Innates and more than a dozen Force-Generating Stage demons.
• Zhou Leng’s group and the Wild Elf attacked the pursuing demons, while an Innate Candlebearer recognized Zhou Leng and fled; Lush Root warned that they had to stop him from reporting back.

Zhou Leng killed the pursuing Candlebearer and learned that Aiden and Radiance of Mingzhu were hunting the group over his killing of Radiance of Mingzhu’s son. The group fled toward Silver Lake, where they shared spoils and Ancient Tree Fossils, leaving Zhou Leng with a new resource to aid his cultivation.

• Zhou Leng caught and killed the Candlebearer, then returned to help defeat the other demons and interrogated the survivors.
• Zhou Leng learned that Aiden and Radiance of Mingzhu had joined forces, were searching for Ancient Tree Fossils and the Ancient Life Core, and were pursuing the group after the Candlebearer sent a message.
• Lush Root led the group toward Silver Lake to evade their pursuers, and the group confirmed that the demons were following their old route.
• The group divided their spoils, and Yinhu Yue gave Lush Root four Ancient Tree Fossils, one of which he gave to Zhou Leng along with Stone-Cutting Gold Thread.
• Azure-Crimson Flame explained that Ancient Tree Fossils could be made into powerful amulets, and Zhou Leng planned to use his fossil to support his Star Phoenix Restoration Art.

Zhou Leng cultivated with Ancient Tree Fossils at Silver Lake, gaining Star Phoenix Feathers and experiencing a vivid dream of a sapling struck down by lightning. After a tremor drew the group out to search for more fossils, they learned that the injured Blood of Tyranny had obtained an Ancient Life Core and that powerful enemies might soon pursue him.

• The group reached Silver Lake, avoided the rude Wild Elves, and traded for local specialties.
• Zhou Leng absorbed Ancient Tree Fossils, gained 105 Star Phoenix Feathers, and found that his bones had become tougher.
• Zhou Leng dreamed he was a sapling that grew peacefully before lightning destroyed it, then woke refreshed and asked Lush Root about the dream.
• Lush Root told the group that tremors had recently revealed more Ancient Tree Fossils, so Zhou Leng and his companions set out with Xiao Yong to search.
• A tremor and a dragon's roar led the group to hear that Blood of Tyranny had seized an Ancient Life Core and was injured.
• Azure-Crimson Flame identified the fallen voice as Heavenly White Cloud, and the group realized Masters across the Ten Realms might join the hunt for Blood of Tyranny.

Zhou Leng and his companions searched for Ancient Tree Fossils, then hid underground to cultivate their finds. After absorbing the fossils and Brilliant Sap, Zhou Leng reached 1,000 Star Phoenix Feathers and began tempering his spine, where ancient markings started to appear.

• Xiao Yong used his innate ability to find several caches of Ancient Tree Fossils, including a large fossil buried deep underground that Zhou Leng pretended to detect with the Octagonal Bone Fragment.
• Zhou Leng’s group avoided clashes with other races, headed east, and spent three days searching before dividing the fossils they had collected.
• Xiao Yong and Azure-Crimson Flame helped build a reinforced underground shelter, where the group began cultivating while Xiao Yong dug secret escape tunnels.
• Zhou Leng absorbed Ancient Tree Fossils and Brilliant Sap, bringing his Star Phoenix Feathers to 1,000.
• The Star Phoenix Flame began tempering Zhou Leng’s spine, and feather-like Spinal Ancient Markings appeared across it.

Zhou Leng completed the Thousand Feathers Realm of the Star Phoenix Restoration Art, strengthening his Tough Body and gaining powerful fire resistance and rapid healing. As he and his companions searched for Ancient Tree Fossils, Aiden and Radiance of Mingzhu’s forces gathered nearby, where Rao Mingxian found fossils and exchanged them for a Demon Ascension Potion; Gong Futing then brought up killing Zhou Leng.

• Zhou Leng completed the Thousand Feathers Realm, forming a Furnace-Opening Flame in his spine and strengthening his Tough Body into a sixfold divine ability.
• Azure-Crimson Flame asked to learn Zhou Leng’s cultivation technique, and Zhou Leng proposed a Martial Dao exchange through the Ancient River Sect; he then tested his improved healing with the Demonized Saber.
• Zhou Leng and his companions resumed searching for Ancient Tree Fossils, while Xiao Yong remained difficult for Zhou Leng to sense.
• Aiden and Radiance of Mingzhu offered Demon Ascension Potions as rewards for large Ancient Tree Fossils, and their teams spread out to search.
• Rao Mingxian dug up Ancient Tree Fossils and exchanged them with Aiden for a Demon Ascension Potion, then met Jax and Tu Rong at camp.
• Gong Futing spoke with Jax, Tu Rong, Rao Mingxian, and Shen Jun about their search and mentioned killing Zhou Leng.

Jax and Tu Rong learned that Aiden and Radiance of Mingzhu had joined forces with Gong Futing and the Flesh Chariot to hunt Zhou Leng, while Wild Elves and demons prepared for a deadly Blood Hunt. Three days after another tremor, Zhou Leng and his friends entered a new underground dwelling and continued cultivating as the threat around them grew.

• Jax and Tu Rong discussed Zhou Leng’s chances against Gong Futing, and Jax offered to help Tu Rong obtain a Demon Ascension Potion if he could not advance through Martial Dao.
• The Flesh Chariot agreed to hunt Zhou Leng with Gong Futing on Radiance of Mingzhu’s orders, and Rao Mingxian sent Zhou Leng an offline warning through his Demonic Wristwatch.
• Jax learned that Radiance of Mingzhu had joined forces with Aiden to target Zhou Leng, while he and Tu Rong feared the Flesh Chariot made Zhou Leng’s danger much greater.
• Yinhu Yue traveled with a Wild Elf team toward the Lower Realm Blood Hunt, where they discussed the demons and Giant Insects entering the trials and the increasingly generous rewards.
• A Blasphemous Scholar ordered demons and Giant Insects to enter the Third Hunting Ground, kill the Elves, and use them in blood sacrifices to pollute the Elf Divine Artifacts.
• Three days after the second tremor, Zhou Leng and his friends entered a new underground dwelling, used Ancient Tree Fossils to cultivate, and Zhou Leng raised his muscle density to about nine times that of an ordinary person.

Zhou Leng searched for Ancient Tree Fossils alone, discovered a rich treasure area, and fell through a Seismic Core collapse into an underground elven hunting ground. He found that the blue barrier would not let him pass back through, leaving him trapped below ground.

• Zhou Leng practiced the Heavenly Tide Palm and Mind-Spirit Shadow Division, then tested his strength against Xiao Yong and found that Xiao Yong's shell dispersed most of his attacks.
• Zhou Leng left Xiao Yong to guard the cabin and searched alone, marking several deep Ancient Tree Fossil deposits before excavating one and defeating a group of Demon-Worshiping Cult members and demons.
• Zhou Leng noticed a Seismic Core nearby and ran toward it, but the ground collapsed and he fell into a vast underground cavern.
• Zhou Leng found an Ancient Tree Fossil in the cavern and translated an inscription identifying the area as the Third Blood Hunting Ground, where ancient elves had hunted Demonic Beasts.
• Zhou Leng climbed to the blue light screen above the cavern, but its resistance prevented him from passing through.

Zhou Leng hunted demons and Giant Insects during the Blood Hunt, raising his blood record while the elves watching the rankings grew alarmed at his rapid climb. After testing his healing and combat limits, he heard a fight ahead and found seven Wild Elves battling five demons.

• Zhou Leng claimed to be the Pale Queen’s envoy, killed twelve demons, and learned that the Blood Hunt tracked kills and would end after five days or when few Demonic Beasts remained.
• Zhou Leng collected a Black Sun Insignia and learned that the Calamity Envoy, King of Black, was a young Black Sun Gut who had restrained his strength at the Great Innate Realm.
• Zhou Leng hunted Giant Insects, raised his blood record to 24, and used their sap to restore his strength.
• The elves watching the Blood Record Jade Stele saw an unknown Demonic Beast rise to first place with 45, then 105 kills, and suspected a serious threat inside the caverns.
• Zhou Leng fought a group of eighteen Giant Insects, suffered severe injuries, and recovered with an antidote and Brilliant Sap before deciding to avoid groups larger than ten.
• Zhou Leng heard fighting in a cavern hall and found seven Wild Elves battling five demons.

Zhou Leng entered the Wild Elves’ Blood Hunt, killed Yinhu Hai and forced her companions to explain the trial after they treated him as an enemy. As he dragged the surviving elves through the Hunting Ground, the Wild Elves learned that an unknown Demonic Beast had reached first place, while a massive coalition advanced on Silver Lake Town.

• Zhou Leng helped the Wild Elves defeat demons, but Yinhu Hai demanded that he submit to their control, so he killed her and incapacitated the others.
• Zhou Leng forced the Wild Elves to explain that the Blood Hunt classified him as an unknown Demonic Beast, which would send him to prison without the artifact’s blessing.
• One Wild Elf killed himself rather than answer how Zhou Leng could escape safely, so Zhou Leng tied the others together and dragged them through the Hunting Ground.
• Zhou Leng found more than a thousand Star Spiral Shells in Yinhu Hai’s Demon Spirit Bag and continued gathering information from the surviving elves.
• The Blood Record Jade Stele showed the unknown Demonic Beast in first place with a score of 197, and the Wild Elves vowed to deal with him when he reached prison.
• Madam Xi Yan led an army of more than three hundred thousand demons, Giant Insects, and Demon-Worshiping Cult members toward Silver Lake Town.

Zhou Leng hunted demons and Giant Insects while forcing captured Wild Elves to tell him how to leave the Blood Hunt Grounds. When he met Yinhu Yue again, she recognized his strength and declared him the Elven Race’s Prophet, leaving the other elves to accept him as their eternal friend.

• Zhou Leng rescued Wild Elves from demons and Giant Insects, then attacked them when they refused to tell him how to leave safely.
• He tied the surviving elves together and dragged them along, continuing to hunt and rescue others until he had gathered sixty-seven Wild Elves and reached 872 on his arm.
• Zhou Leng encountered Yinhu Yue’s party, and Yinhu Yue recognized him from their previous meeting and ordered the others to stay silent.
• Yinhu Yue called Zhou Leng the Elven Race’s Prophet and asked him to lead them out of danger; Zhou Leng crushed an elf who challenged her declaration.
• Yinhu Yue struck an elf who was about to object and called Zhou Leng the Elven Race’s eternal friend, while the others accepted that opposing him would put them at risk.

Zhou Leng gained the Wild Elves’ allegiance and learned that demons and Giant Insects planned to attack Silver Lake Town and corrupt the Elf Divine Artifact. As he led the growing Prophet Guard toward a demonic altar, an ancestral revelation guided another group of elves to recognize him as a genuine Elf Prophet.

• Yinhu Yue and fifteen other Wild Elves swore allegiance to Zhou Leng, who named Yinhu Yue the Silver Lake Tribe’s eldest princess after learning Yinhu Hai had been killed.
• Yinhu Yue explained the Calamity Envoy’s alliance with the Giant Insect Hive and proposed using dead elves’ corpses to strengthen Zhou Leng through an Elf Prophet investiture.
• Zhou Leng gave the injured elves Brilliant Sap and led the group onward, gathering more elves until his Prophet Guard reached thirty members and his arm’s blood-mark count reached 1000.
• Zhou Leng’s arm grew hot, and he said the ancestors were guiding him toward demons preparing an altar and blood sacrifice; the group followed the revelation.
• Another group of elves arrived, recognized Zhou Leng’s blazing arm as the ancestral revelation, and knelt to him as the Elf Prophet.

Zhou Leng gathered Wild Elves under the revelation of the Light King and led them toward the altar, fighting through waves of demons and Giant Insects. After reaching a cavern guarded by enemy forces, he scouted ahead and found the altar hall crowded with foes.

• Zhou Leng told the newly arrived Wild Elves to rise, and the rescued elves declared that they willingly followed him as their prophet.
• Elves at Silver Lake learned that the Hunting Grounds faced surging Demonic Beasts, mass casualties, and an approaching alliance, so they prepared to defend Silver Lake Town and evacuate some elders and children.
• Zhou Leng led 124 fighting Wild Elves toward the altar and ordered them to battle a charging force of demons and Giant Insects.
• Empowered by the elves' spells, Zhou Leng killed more than a hundred enemies, and the Wild Elves exchanged Star Spiral Shells for combat resources before splitting into teams.
• Zhou Leng and the elves fought through repeated enemy waves, and he counted 1,673 kills on his forearm before scouting a cavern guarded by demons and filled with more foes.

Zhou Leng rallied the Wild Elves to attack the Ant Queens in the altar hall, then led them toward the battle after they swore loyalty to him. Xiao Yong caught up with the group but confirmed that the sealed Hunting Ground had no known way out.

• Zhou Leng’s group lured Demonic Beasts from nearby passages and killed them, raising the number on his blood mark past 2,000.
• Zhou Leng saw more than three hundred Demonic Beasts and two Lower Innate Realm Ant Queens in the altar hall, then escaped with the elves when fifty pursuers followed them.
• Zhou Leng warned that the Ant Queens would produce an overwhelming number of Giant Ants and ordered the elves to kill them before they were trapped.
• Yinhu Yue and the other battle-capable elves swore to follow Zhou Leng, who accepted responsibility for striking at the Ant Queens.
• As the group headed for the altar hall, Xiao Yong emerged and followed Zhou Leng, but could neither pass through the blue barrier nor burrow out of the Hunting Ground.

Zhou Leng learned that hidden ruins beneath the Elven Underground City might hold Ancient Tree Fossils and a Primordial Tree Root, then joined the assault on the Giant Ant Queens. He survived the northeast queen’s mental attacks and wounded her, but the battle continued as Giant Ants and spells swarmed him.

• Yinhu Yue told Zhou Leng that elven books described ancient ruins beneath the city, where a withered Mother Tree of Life might have left treasure and a Primordial Tree Root.
• Yinhu Yue shared legends about the Light King’s rapid rise to Demigod, and Zhou Leng resolved to seek underground resources once he was stronger.
• Zhou Leng and the group entered the altar hall, where two Ant Queens were producing Innate Realm Giant Ants, and the team charged into battle.
• Zhou Leng rushed the northwest Ant Queen and endured her mental shockwave, which incapacitated most nearby fighters and stopped her egg production.
• The Ant Queen’s Evil Gaze failed against Zhou Leng, and its backlash cracked her eyes and dispersed the evil cloud.
• Zhou Leng stabbed the Ant Queen’s neck with an elven dagger and battered the wound with Heavenly Tide Palm as Giant Ants and spell attacks descended on him.

Zhou Leng fought through the Ant Queen’s mental shocks and the weakened Demonic Beasts, but repeatedly lost consciousness. Xiao Yong fed him medicines while he was unconscious, helping him recover and pushing his true qi density to thirteenfold; Zhou Leng awoke and discovered his cultivation had advanced.

• Zhou Leng killed the first Ant Queen, then used elf scimitars to kill more than a hundred Demonic Beasts before they recovered from the mental shock.
• Zhou Leng attacked the second Ant Queen, but her stronger mental shock knocked him and the nearby fighters unconscious.
• The Ant Queen unleashed another mental shock as Zhou Leng tried to take medicine, and both of them passed out; Xiao Yong then used invisible force to give Zhou Leng a Spirit-Concentrating Pill and Brilliant Sap.
• Zhou Leng woke briefly, only to be knocked unconscious again when the Ant Queen released a third mental shock and passed out herself.
• Xiao Yong collected Giant Ant Egg Sap and fed Zhou Leng an assortment of medicines, which drove his true qi density to thirteenfold.
• Zhou Leng awoke, gathered the bottles of Giant Ant Egg Sap, and realized his true qi had become fully liquefied and his strength had risen by a level.

Zhou Leng killed the Ant Queens and the demons, then became the Wild Elves’ Prophet and was named a Saint by the Light King. As he began cultivating toward the Blood-Shaking Stage, Silver Lake Town came under attack and distant explosions signaled another battle involving Blood of Tyranny.

• Zhou Leng killed the Ant Queen, slaughtered the remaining demons and Giant Ants, and collected the Ant Queen Sap and corpses with Xiao Yong.
• Zhou Leng revived the Wild Elves with Ant Queen Sap, defeated a returning group of demons, and helped the elves purify their altar with the Elffire.
• The Light King appointed Zhou Leng as a Saint, and the Wild Elves swore loyalty and joined the Prophet Guard Corps.
• Zhou Leng began cultivating with the Star-Gazing Formula while Silver Lake Town fought the arriving demonic beast army.
• Zhao He and his companions chose to abandon Silver Lake Town, then heard an elf grandmaster accuse Blood of Tyranny of slaughtering a tribe before distant explosions shook the forest.