Chapter Summaries

The nine-race forces closed in on the injured Blood of Tyranny while Zhao He’s group encountered Mad Prince Aiden, who challenged Zhao He and revealed his contempt for those who lacked a Martial Dao Heart. Aiden led his alliance toward Silver Lake Town, and Zhou Leng awakened in the Blood Hunt Grounds altar hall.

• Grandmasters discussed how the Giants, Dragons, and other races were joining forces to hunt the injured Blood of Tyranny, while Lou Feiqiong said the Ancient River Sect would recruit widely within a year.
• Aiden’s Demonic Beast army approached Zhao He’s group, and Aiden attacked Zhao He with the Frenzied Bear Fist while Zhao He defended himself and concealed his strength.
• Aiden invited Zhao He to join an attack on the Wild Elves, then revealed that the next Ancient Life Core might appear in Silver Lake Town and led his group there.
• Aiden told his followers he wanted to kill Zhao He because he believed Zhao He had lost his Martial Dao Heart, and he vowed to become the Trump Family’s first Martial Saint.
• Jade Wing decided to seek Madam Xi Yan and leave Aiden’s company, while Zhou Leng opened his eyes in the Blood Hunt Grounds altar hall.

Zhou Leng advanced into the blood-shaking realm, strengthened his blood and vessels with pills, and tested how far his new power could go. He began practicing True Qi Perpetual Motion and secured nearly ten thousand Star Spiral Shells from the Wild Elves and Xiao Yong before the Blood Hunt ended.

• Zhou Leng used blood-shaking pills and the Star-Gazing Formula to refine his blood, control it, and reinforce his blood vessels and meridians.
• Zhou Leng tested blood-shaking with the Heavenly Tide Palm, exceeding a thousand strikes before his vessels showed minor scratches that healed rapidly.
• Zhou Leng learned the first layer of True Qi Perpetual Motion and began practicing its second layer while discussing the approaching end of the Blood Hunt with the Wild Elves.
• Zhou Leng warned Xiao Yong that he might be teleported into the Elf Prison, and Xiao Yong explained that he had entered it before and escaped after obtaining medicinal fruit.
• Zhou Leng asked Yinhu Yue and the Wild Elves for High-Energy Spiral Shells, and they gave him about five thousand Star Spiral Shells.
• Xiao Yong gave Zhou Leng more than four thousand three hundred Star Spiral Shells, bringing his total close to ten thousand.

Zhou Leng gathered Star Spiral Shells and assessed the elves’ loyalties while planning to build influence within the Elf Clan. The Grand Duke’s Flower Crown appeared above him, granting him legitimate authority equal to a Legendary elf, and he emerged from the Blood Hunt Grounds to be presented to the waiting elves.

• Zhou Leng’s battle merits and Star Spiral Shells climbed as elves arrived, and he had Yinhu Yue sort the gathered elves by their loyalties and positions.
• Zhou Leng asked Yinhu Yue about Civilization Adjudicators and the Elf Clan’s Heavenly Stairs, then said they would assess the Demonic Beast Alliance before deciding how to proceed.
• A signal sounded, and pillars of light enhanced the elves while forming the Grand Duke’s Flower Crown above Zhou Leng.
• The elves recognized Zhou Leng as an orthodox Grand Duke and saluted him, while his new rank appeared on the Blood Record Jade Stele outside.
• Zhou Leng and the elves emerged from the Blood Hunt Grounds, and Yinhu Yue announced his titles to the elves waiting outside.

Zhou Leng took command of the trapped elves and led them to the underground treasury to arm themselves for a breakout. He opened the Legendary Armory and found an ice-powered sword, but continued searching for a saber.

• Yinhu Feng told Zhou Leng that Silver Lake Town was surrounded and its underground escape passage had been destroyed.
• Zhou Leng learned the battle was at a stalemate, ordered the elves to join him in seeking a way through, and gained the support of Yinhu Yue and many others.
• Yinhu Feng led the elves to the treasury and offered them weapons and armor from the Sacred Domain Armory.
• Zhou Leng used the Sage's Mark and Grand Duke's Flower Crown to open the Legendary Armory, then allowed Yinhu Yue to enter with him.
• Zhou Leng inspected the armory's weapons, drew the Frostsong Sword, and put it away as he continued looking for a saber.

Zhou Leng equipped himself with treasures from the Elven treasury, then led the newly armed Prophet Guard into battle against demons and Giant Insects. He fought for hours while practicing the Star-Path Sword and finally reached its beginner stage.

• Zhou Leng took the Mother's Castle armor and fed it Ant Queen Sap, strengthening his body and causing it to nourish the Star Phoenix Feather in his marrow.
• Zhou Leng chose Radiant Silver Armor and a Queen's Dressing Box, then allowed each Prophet Guard member to claim one Legendary treasure from the treasury.
• Yinhu Feng opened the Sacred Domain Realm treasury, where Zhou Leng gathered weapons and equipment before the elves prepared to fight.
• Zhou Leng led the elves out to the castle walls and charged the demons and Giant Insects with the Frostsong Sword.
• Zhou Leng fought for three hours while practicing the Star-Path Sword, using Ant Queen Sap and Ancient Tree Fossils to sustain himself.
• Zhou Leng gained insight during battle, bringing the Star-Path Sword into the beginner stage.

Zhou Leng sharpened his Star-Path Sword Method while defending an elf castle in Silver Lake Town, then defeated three Innate demons who had attacked him before. As the battle continued, he studied the sword method and his human companions arrived with reinforcements, unaware that he was nearby.

• Zhou Leng rapidly improved his swordsmanship while Yinhu Feng watched and concluded that the Light King had favored him as a possible successor.
• Madam Xi Yan recognized Zhou Leng and ordered three Innate demons to kill him, but Zhou Leng used the Rust-Iron General as a weapon to kill the Crowfolk Envoy and Skinless Warlock before returning to the castle wall.
• Madam Xi Yan ordered Innate demonic medicines sent to Guan Canglong through Shen Jun and forbade high-ranking generals and nobles from approaching the elf castle.
• Zhou Leng fought through the day, practiced the Star-Path Sword Method, and concluded that it could be a supreme sword technique once his realm caught up with it.
• Mad Prince Aiden's reinforcements arrived, and Jade Wing stayed out of battle while Rao Mingxian, Jax, Shen Jun, and the others searched for Zhou Leng and hunted the forest races.
• Tu Rong celebrated his progress toward the Innate Realm and remembered Ma Xingkong, whose death he had once sworn to avenge.

As Zhou Leng and his allies discussed Ma Xingkong’s death and the Rao family’s role in it, Zhao He learned that Aiden and Radiance of Mingzhu planned to hunt Zhou Leng. At Elf Castle, Zhou Leng’s Treant friends arrived to reinforce the defenders, but a sudden blast interrupted their reunion.

• Shen Jun told Rao Mingxian that the Lou Clan had arranged Ma Xingkong’s murder through the Rao family, with the Zhao family covering for them.
• Shen Jun revealed that the Rao family had also been manipulated into poisoning Zhou Leng as part of a deal involving Demon Prison.
• A subordinate told Zhao He that Aiden had come for the Ancient Tree Fossil and Ancient Life Core and planned to hunt Zhou Leng with Radiance of Mingzhu; Zhao He decided to warn Zhou Leng and quietly help him.
• Yinhu Feng decided that Zhou Leng should lead the Prophet Guard through a hidden passage if Treant reinforcements failed to arrive by the next morning.
• Xiao Yong, Lush Root, Azure-Crimson Flame, and three other Treants reached Elf Castle, and Zhou Leng helped them climb onto the wall.
• Lush Root told Zhou Leng that the Giant Insect army had stopped the Treant reinforcements, and Zhou Leng explained why the Calamity Envoy’s knowledge and power made him so dangerous before a blast cut them off.

After Blood of Tyranny’s rampage disrupted the Demonic Beast Alliance’s offensive, a catastrophic upheaval buried Zhou Leng and the surrounding battlefield beneath Flute Forest. Zhou Leng survived underground and followed Xiao Yong through the rubble, where they found Ancient Tree Fossils but continued searching for a safe route.

• Zhou Leng and Azure-Crimson Flame learned from Lush Root that Blood of Tyranny had killed Masters across the races, provoking the Giants, Dragons, and forest races into further conflict.
• Zhou Leng’s group advanced to the Blood-Shaking Innate Realm and fought off Demonic Beasts while Blood of Tyranny repeatedly attacked the enemy camp, slowing the siege.
• Madam Xi Yan secretly diverted resources to help Guan Canglong, while Jade Wing hid in a collapsed tent and claimed to be lying in ambush.
• A massive upheaval collapsed Flute Forest, burying Zhou Leng, the castle, and the surrounding battlefield under rocks and soil.
• Zhou Leng survived the crushing disaster, dug through the rubble, and reunited with Xiao Yong, who led him through a passage underground.
• Zhou Leng sensed several Ancient Tree Fossils, but he and Xiao Yong marked their locations and continued until they broke into a passage.

After the survivors gathered in the Deep-Layer Hunting Ground, Zhou Leng learned that they might have been trapped in a deadly hunt and began exploring for Ancient Tree Fossils, monsters, and a way out. Yinhu Feng urged him to lead the surviving elves to a new home, while Zhou Leng formed an exploration team and set off through Passage No. 6.

• Zhou Leng met the survivors in an underground hall and heard their suspicions that an Elf King had caused the earthquake and brought them into an abandoned Deep-Layer Hunting Ground.
• Azure-Crimson Flame showed that his mark was zero, while Zhou Leng discovered that his own mark had risen to 7238.
• Yinhu Feng told Zhou Leng that the hunting ground might have a hidden exit accessible to elves or Treants and asked him to lead the last elves away to a homeland.
• Zhou Leng told Yinhu Feng that the elves could find protection in the Dragon Kingdom and that he would care for them as his subordinates.
• Zhou Leng, Azure-Crimson Flame, Lush Root, three Treants, and Yinhu Yue formed an exploration team and entered Passage No. 6.
• Zhou Leng marked an Ancient Tree Fossil in the passage wall, and Azure-Crimson Flame warned him that Demon Spirit Masters could be dangerous opponents at the upcoming Demon Spirit Trial.

Zhou Leng’s team gathered Ancient Tree Fossils while evading pursuers, and Zhou Leng killed a demon squad after Azure-Crimson Flame blocked its message spells. Mad Prince Aiden organized a search for Zhou Leng, who remained unaware that the hunt was closing in.

• Zhou Leng defeated a Rust-Iron General and interrogated the surviving demons, learning that Radiance of Mingzhu had used two Legendary demonic artifacts to protect Candlebreak City.
• Zhou Leng’s team changed routes, found Ancient Tree Fossils, and accumulated a large haul as they explored the passages.
• After receiving word that Zhou Leng had been found, Radiance of Mingzhu and Mad Prince Aiden split their forces to search for him.
• Azure-Crimson Flame blocked a demon mage’s message spells while Zhou Leng killed the mage and the rest of the Demonic Beast squad.
• Mad Prince Aiden investigated the battle site and ordered other teams to search nearby, then asked Zhao He to report Zhou Leng if he found him.
• Zhao He declined to help Aiden hunt Zhou Leng, saying his injured team lacked the strength to intervene.

Zhou Leng’s team tried to return through the passageway while Radiance of Mingzhu and Aiden’s forces searched for them. After Zhou Leng encountered Shanhe Tianyue, Aiden learned the Giants grandmaster was with Zhou Leng and called off the pursuit, but distant vibrations suggested a new danger.

• Zhao He sent two Tendon-Bone Realm Innates to search for Zhou Leng and alert Aiden, hoping to make Zhou Leng grateful if he needed rescuing.
• Tu Rong persuaded Jax to join Radiance of Mingzhu and warn Zhou Leng if they found him.
• Zhou Leng’s team changed routes, gained five companions, and fled with demons and Giant Insects from a Giants grandmaster.
• Shanhe Tianyue recognized Zhou Leng, shared food with his group, and then ran off after an invisible demon flying spirit.
• Aiden learned that Shanhe Tianyue was with Zhou Leng and ordered his team to abandon the pursuit and warn Radiance of Mingzhu.
• The grandmasters sensed distant ground vibrations and hurried to leave, hoping Shanhe Tianyue was not approaching.

Aiden’s group and Zhou Leng’s group encountered each other in the dungeon after Shanhe Tianyue routed their Grandmasters. Fearing both Aiden and Shanhe Tianyue, the two sides agreed to avoid fighting and split up, while Aiden planned to tell Radiance of Mingzhu to stop searching for Zhou Leng.

• Shanhe Tianyue attacked the three Grandmasters pursuing him, forcing Aiden’s group to flee and leaving the Grandmasters’ fate unknown.
• Zhou Leng’s group encountered a wounded Profane Mummy Grandmaster, and Zhou Leng used his Ice Snow Divine Cult emblem to persuade it to pass them by.
• Aiden’s group discovered Zhou Leng’s group in an adjacent passage, and Zhou Leng asked his companions to keep his identity secret.
• Shen Jun negotiated a temporary truce after learning Shanhe Tianyue had killed the three Grandmasters, and Zhou Leng’s group agreed to travel alongside Aiden’s group briefly.
• Aiden and Zhou Leng exchanged friendly assurances, then split at a fork, with Zhou Leng taking the right passage and Aiden’s group taking the left.
• Aiden ordered his companions to tell Radiance of Mingzhu that Giants had attacked them and that they could no longer search for Zhou Leng.

Zhou Leng’s group found three Ancient Life Cores but chose not to take them, fearing their powerful aura would draw dangerous enemies. They harvested Ancient Tree Fossils instead, and when Aiden’s group arrived, both sides dug while Chainbearer climbed up to claim a core.

• Zhou Leng led his companions into a vast cavern hall, where they found three Ancient Life Cores hanging before a mural of the Mother Tree of Life.
• After Lush Root warned that carrying a core would expose them to powerful enemies, Zhou Leng persuaded the group to leave the cores untouched and dig Ancient Tree Fossils from the walls.
• Aiden arrived with more than twenty followers, declared that his people would not attack Zhou Leng, and then joined the others in collecting fossils rather than taking a core.
• Chainbearer ignored Aiden’s caution, paid respects to the Mother Tree mural, and climbed up to take one of the Ancient Life Cores.

Zhou Leng and the others kept mining Ancient Tree Fossils as demons and other groups converged on the palace, drawn by the Ancient Life Core. After Grandmasters fought over the core and forced the miners from their hiding place, a Four-Faced Duke arrived with four demon Grandmasters, leaving Zhou Leng to stand openly before his teammates.

• Chainbearer absorbed the false Ancient Life Core’s aura and fled, while the miners continued excavating Ancient Tree Fossils as more groups entered the palace.
• Defiled Dust arrived carrying the mutilated Chainbearer, took two Ancient Life Cores, and fought a Black Eagle Druid over the real one.
• Zhou Leng urged his teammates to leave, but when the Grandmasters’ battle drew nearer, he led them into a dug-out cave and had Azure-Crimson Flame seal its entrance.
• A demon Grandmaster shattered the cave entrance and demanded to know what had happened, forcing Zhou Leng and his teammates to emerge.
• Zhou Leng saw the Four-Faced Duke arrive with four demon Grandmasters and pinned his Ice Snow Divine Cult high priest badge to his chest as he stood before his teammates.

Zhou Leng and the others were caught between demons and Treants as they searched for the Ancient Life Core, until Blood of Tyranny revealed the core was bait and seized control of the hall. He left the Black Dragon’s remaining treasures for Zhou Leng, then attacked Defiled Dust and drove the demon masters away.

• Rust-Iron General ordered everyone to surrender their storage equipment, and Giant Insect Knight and Rust-Iron General enforced the demand with deadly force.
• Lush Scepter arrived, recognized Zhou Leng as a Friend of the Treants, and led the Treants away while Defiled Dust demanded the others’ belongings.
• A wounded master Black Dragon entered carrying the Ancient Life Core, prompting the demon and Treant masters to rush into battle around him.
• Blood of Tyranny arrived and revealed that the Ancient Life Core was bait made from a Demigod Demon Spirit Master, then killed the Black Dragon and collected his belongings.
• Blood of Tyranny left the Black Dragon’s remaining items for Zhou Leng, killed Defiled Dust for trying to take them, and charged the demon masters as Four Directions' Horn led them in retreat.

After the underground palace sealed shut, Zhou Leng entered the Elven Gate while the other races were rejected, then discovered that the hidden Star-Link Cave belonged to the ancient Treants. He realized the Elves had once kept the Treants from accessing it and resolved to tell the Treants what he had learned.

• Zhou Leng collected Blood of Tyranny’s abandoned Black Dragon relics and treasures while the other groups recovered their Demon Spirit Bags.
• The underground palace sealed its passages, and the Mother Tree Mural opened a gate that admitted Elves and Zhou Leng but rejected everyone else.
• Zhou Leng and the Elves entered a second palace, where he noticed the mural resembled the stars he had seen at Sky-Viewing Mountain and stirred the power of his Indestructible Star Body.
• The ancient Treant voice revealed that the place was Star-Link Cave, a Treant treasure ground that allowed only one member of a vassal race to enter.
• Zhou Leng inferred that ancient Elf Kings had made a false entrance to exclude the Treants, and decided to share the revelation with the Treants.

Zhou Leng was chosen to enter Star-Link Cave after the mural recognized his ancient Treant inheritance, while Yinhu Yue accompanied him. The trial separated them and awakened their respective inheritances, and Zhou Leng emerged from Life Over-Refinement able to connect his consciousness with more than thirteen million cells.

• The mural’s stars identified Zhou Leng as the bearer of a great ancient Treant inheritance and allowed him to enter Star-Link Cave with one attendant.
• Zhou Leng and Yinhu Yue entered the cave, where the voice announced that Zhou Leng’s Starry Sky Treant Inheritance would be activated separately from the ordinary trial.
• Yinhu Yue began absorbing life force after receiving the first inheritance, Life Absorption, while Zhou Leng was sent to another chamber.
• Zhou Leng was submerged in Life Gel and endured the Life Over-Refinement process as his cells transformed and his consciousness reconnected with them.
• Zhou Leng awakened with a close mental connection to more than thirteen million cells and considered how further refinement might eventually unite his consciousness and body.

After completing Life Over-Refinement, Zhou Leng gained immense vitality and rapidly mastered martial techniques before fighting through demons hunting him. He met the badly injured Tu Rong, who offered to send him a map and warned that Radiance of Mingzhu wanted him dead.

• Zhou Leng discovered that Life Over-Refinement had raised his bodily vitality to thirty-six times and helped him perfect the Heavenly Tide Palm and master the Flying Whale Chapter.
• Sensing magic and spying nearby, Zhou Leng fled as Radiance of Mingzhu ordered the demon teams to surround him.
• Zhou Leng defeated a Chainbearer by tearing the chains from his back, killed him and a demon warlock, and questioned the remaining demons about the hunt.
• Zhou Leng learned that Radiance of Mingzhu had gathered demons to search for him after Aiden abandoned the pursuit.
• Zhou Leng encountered the wounded Tu Rong, who warned him about Radiance of Mingzhu and offered to send him a map.

After Tu Rong sacrificed himself to give Zhou Leng a map, Zhou Leng fought his way through the pursuing demons as Radiance of Mingzhu organized a trap. Meanwhile, Gong Futing and Rao Mingxian headed toward Zhou Leng, but Rao Mingxian encountered Zhang Xiaoxiao and began a fierce, deeply personal duel.

• Tu Rong died after telling Zhou Leng to live well, and Zhou Leng found their family photo and used Tu Rong's map to plan his escape toward Yinhu Feng.
• Zhou Leng killed a Bone-Tempering demon and fifteen other Demon-Worshiping Cult members who blocked his path.
• Radiance of Mingzhu questioned Jax, then ordered teams to funnel Zhou Leng toward a planned ambush while dispatching powerful demons to hunt him.
• Gong Futing and Rao Mingxian headed toward the same destination, and Rao Mingxian chose to fight Zhang Xiaoxiao when their groups met.
• Rao Mingxian and Zhang Xiaoxiao traded injuries and vicious insults until Rao Mingxian charged at her in anger.

Zhou Leng reached Radiance of Mingzhu’s ambush and fought the demon warrior, using his fire-resistant body and advanced martial arts to withstand spells and flaming swords. The Flesh Chariot joined the battle, leaving Zhou Leng facing two Muscle-Tendon Stage opponents at once.

• Zhang Xiaoxiao and Rao Mingxian stopped fighting after Rao remembered Radiance of Mingzhu was hunting Zhou Leng, and Rao left with Gong Futing.
• Xiao Yong emerged in a passageway and followed Zhou Leng’s trail while Zhou Leng evaded demons and scouting spells on his way to a cavern hall.
• Radiance of Mingzhu and the Flesh Chariot ambushed Zhou Leng, and Radiance attacked him with flaming swords and demon magic.
• Zhou Leng struck back with Heavenly Tide Palm and endured Radiance’s attacks, as his Star Phoenix Restoration Art suppressed the flames and rapidly healed his wounds.
• Radiance intensified his Gravity Technique and illusions while the Flesh Chariot charged Zhou Leng from behind, but Zhou Leng dodged it and knocked its cart aside.
• The Flesh Chariot grew eight arms and charged again as it and Radiance of Mingzhu attacked Zhou Leng from opposite sides.