Chapter Summaries

Zhou Leng disabled the Bridgehead’s Demon Eye and led the team in infiltrating the fortress, where they killed its defenders and used the position to launch a surprise assault on the Third Mine. The human forces struck the mine from both inside and outside, leaving the Demonic Beasts in disarray as the battle continued.

• Zhou Leng crossed the whirlpool with an Illusory Mist Demon Spirit Device, concealed the Demon Eye, and pulled the team through to the Bridgehead.
• Zhou Leng and the Demon Spirit Masters infiltrated the fortress, eliminated its priority targets and remaining defenders, and disguised its patrols with illusions.
• Zhou Leng proposed attacking the Third Mine from the Bridgehead, and Gao Yunbo secured approval for the revised plan.
• Disguised as a Black Sun Gut, Zhou Leng entered the Third Mine with the team and helped kill the commanders Flesh Chariot and Ring Serpent Bishop.
• Zhou Leng trapped more than fifty Innate Realm demons in the conference building and led the team in killing them as human forces broke through the Bridgehead and entered the mine.
• More than one hundred human Innate Realm experts harassed the mine’s forces, joined the team at the conference building, and charged out together to spread chaos.

Zhou Leng helped the Human army destroy the returning Demonic Beast force with a False-Enemy Rout Stratagem, earning major honors for the army and himself. After returning to Tiger Hill Fortress, he volunteered to join the siege and reached the city walls as the assault began.

• Zhou Leng persuaded Gao Yunbo and the commanders to disguise Innate Realm fighters as fleeing Orcs and ambush the Demonic Beast army returning from Demon Prison.
• The disguised fighters killed and confused the enemy ranks, then joined the Human army in defeating the nearly twenty-thousand-strong force and capturing its scattered resources.
• The command headquarters reported three consecutive victories, and Zhou Leng, the 7th Division, its Hidden Martial Artists Battalion, and the force that attacked the Third Mine received commendations.
• Chen Shouhu ordered a major reward for whichever unit captured Tiger Hill Fortress, while Wang Boxiong resolved to keep Zhou Leng away from battle after the campaign.
• Zhou Leng volunteered for the siege of Tiger Hill Fortress, arrived outside its walls with a siege unit, and watched the defenders attack from behind the Heavenly Calamity Banner.

Zhou Leng used the Great Meteor Art to kill thousands of spellcasters and other elite Demonic Beasts at Tiger Hill Fortress, weakening its defenses and saving Human martial artists. After Chen Shouhu’s army arrived, the Humans launched a full assault, breached two walls, and began fighting inside the fortress.

• Zhou Leng threw a thousand spears on his first night, killing spellcasters while Cicada tracked his results and reported them to Chen Shouhu.
• Zhou Leng learned the Great Meteor Art and improved his aim over several days, killing nearly four thousand spellcasters and then shifting to Innates and other elite Demonic Beasts.
• The commanders discovered Zhou Leng’s extraordinary combat merits, while Four Directions Horn investigated the rising deaths among Tiger Hill Fortress’s spellcasters without finding the cause.
• As spellcasters grew scarce, Zhou Leng targeted elite archers, spear-wielders, and demons attacking Human martial artists, eventually throwing thirty-two hundred spears in one day.
• Chen Shouhu arrived with two hundred thousand martial artists and prepared the true siege; the next day, the Humans’ bombardment and spells destroyed two walls, and their forces charged into Tiger Hill Fortress.

Zhou Leng fought through the demon hordes at Tiger Hill Fortress, using Frostsong before switching to a shield and spiked mace to break the enemy advance. After defeating a Demonic Giant and leading the humans through ten streets, he withdrew safely, while headquarters debated how to publicize his unprecedented battle record.

• Zhou Leng used Frostsong to cut through demons and kill Innate foes amid the street battles.
• Zhou Leng equipped a Legendary arm shield and spiked mace, then smashed through the Innate demon death squad and rallied the human line.
• Zhou Leng defeated a three-story Demonic Giant in a series of clashes, crushing it with his mace.
• Zhou Leng consumed Innate pills and a Dragon-Tiger Pill, continued fighting for hours, and covered the human army's retreat after nightfall.
• Chen Shouhu and the senior commanders reviewed Zhou Leng's footage and decided to suppress his Thousand-Battle Hero record until he advanced to Grandmaster, while sharing a video of his fight against the Demonic Giant.

Zhou Leng exchanged his battle merits for powerful medicines and healed his severe injuries before returning to fight at Tiger Hill Fortress. Meanwhile, Zhao He and Rao Mingxian discussed the Arrow Bearer’s identity and the Ten Realms War, and Rao Mingxian privately suspected Zhou Leng might be the Arrow Bearer.

• After receiving Battle Hero exchange privileges and bonus merits from Chen Shouhu, Zhou Leng exchanged his battle merits for pills and a Holy Magic Potion, then used them to heal his injuries.
• At the Rao family residence, Zhao He questioned Rao Mingxian about the Shuizhou War, the Six Volumes, the White Lake Mother Fruit, and the Arrow Bearer’s identity.
• Rao Mingxian privately suspected Zhou Leng was the Arrow Bearer because Madam Xi Yan had become obsessed with the Arrow Bearer and Siren Slayer, but he feared revealing this would endanger Zhou Leng.
• On the second day of street fighting, Cicada urged Zhou Leng to rest, but Zhou Leng claimed he had recovered and headed for the Demonic Beast Innate battalion.
• Zhou Leng fought the demons throughout the day and returned at night as a Thousand-Battle Hero for the second time.

On the third day of street fighting, Zhou Leng used the Ice Chain Mace and the Freezing Celestial Sphere to defeat a Black Crystal Demonic Dragon, then faced the Undying Knights’ supersonic charge. Injured but alive, he escaped and vowed to fight their leader again after reaching the Great Innate Realm.

• Zhou Leng switched to the Ice Chain Mace and used the Freezing Celestial Sphere’s concentrated cold to kill several Innate demons.
• Zhou Leng battled a Black Crystal Demonic Dragon, hurled it into a building, killed it with the Frostsong Sword, and stored its remains.
• Four Directions Horn ordered the Undying Knights deployed to kill Zhou Leng and restore the demons’ morale.
• The nine subordinate Undying Knights struck Zhou Leng with streams of released force, collapsing his defenses and injuring him.
• Zhou Leng recovered from the attack, promised to fight the lead knight again at the Great Innate Realm, and fled when the Undying Knights stopped pursuing.

Zhou Leng survived the Death Angel's poison and discovered that recovering from it might strengthen his resistance. He returned to the battlefield, where he helped destroy three Death Angels before retreating to heal again.

• After the Undying Knight badly injured him, Zhou Leng expelled the demonic power with the Star Phoenix Restoration Art and recovered, then learned that the army had no easy way to defeat the Undying Knight or Death Angels.
• Zhou Leng entered Tiger Hill Fortress at night, escaped a Death Angel's explosion, and healed in a tent after reaching the main camp.
• A Demon Spirit Master examined Zhou Leng and found that his body's energy density exceeded that of Death Angel Venom; Zhou Leng suspected the Mother Tree Bark Armor had helped him resist it.
• The next day, Zhou Leng returned to battle, evaded the Undying Knight, and then threw three refined steel spears at incoming Death Angels, detonating them in midair.
• After the blasts poisoned and wounded him again, Zhou Leng crawled into a tent to recover and used Martial Path Perception to investigate the power strengthening his resistance.

Zhou Leng built up resistance to Death Angel Venom by repeatedly entering poisoned areas, then joined a plan to lure out an Undying Knight and attack the Death Angels. With the Death Angels advancing and the assault teams failing, he led 103 Innates on a dangerous flank mission, including his eight Hidden Martial Artist teammates.

• Zhou Leng absorbed and expelled Death Angel Venom, returning to battle after an hour of recovery.
• He trained in the poison zones each night until the venom could barely affect his skin, then found the zones ineffective after three days.
• Chen Shouhu told Zhou Leng that the Calamity Envoy had gone to Treant World and ordered him to lure out an Undying Knight and help assassinate the Death Angels.
• Twenty Great Innate Realm experts besieged the Undying Knight while Zhou Leng and other teams tried and failed to reach the advancing Death Angels.
• Zhou Leng asked Chen Shouhu for cannon cover and a death squad, then gathered 103 Innates, including Cicada and his seven teammates.
• Zhou Leng ordered the assault unit to retreat once he reached the Death Angels, but nobody agreed, and he led them toward the enemy flank.

Zhou Leng used Death Angels to devastate the demonic beast army, seize the Calamity Army’s flag, and trigger a rout that let the human forces win at Tiger Hill Fortress. After recovering from severe injuries, he learned that the other members of his final Innate suicide squad had all died and returned to their camp.

• Cicada led the Innate battalions through the encircled demonic beasts while Zhou Leng charged toward the Death Angels.
• Zhou Leng killed Death Angels and hurled them into the enemy ranks, spreading poisonous mist that killed tens of thousands and engulfed the City Lord's Manor.
• Zhou Leng climbed the City Lord's Manor, seized the Calamity Army's black flag, and threw it into the poisonous mist, breaking the enemy army's morale.
• The demonic beast forces fled as human martial artists pursued them, while Chen Shouhu led Grandmasters after the enemy commanders and Xu Yuanjing killed four traitors near Zhou Leng's tent.
• Zhou Leng recovered overnight, learned that the rest of his 104-person suicide squad had died, and returned to the tents of his Hidden Martial Artists team.

After returning from the Shuizhou War, Zhou Leng saw the public celebrate three heroes without realizing that he was the Mistbreaker, then registered his battle merits and prepared for further cultivation. On the journey back to Ru City, he found a new research direction in the Bamboo-Wood Divine Scripts.

• Zhou Leng left seized Demon Spirit Bags in his fallen teammates’ tents and ran to Shuizhou Base, where news and videos of the battle celebrated the Arrow Bearer, Demon Slayer, and Mistbreaker.
• Zhou Leng read a popular Wuhu Q&A answer comparing the three heroes and liked it, though he was amused by commenters insisting they were different people.
• Zhou Leng contacted Xu Qingjin and the others, who told him that the fifth-sequence Martial University students would begin hunting scattered demonic beasts with the 7th Division the next day.
• Zhou Leng entered his battle merits with help from a senior colonel, then exchanged points for pills and Spirit-Concentrating Incense and converted his Contribution Value into Dragon Kingdom Yuan.
• On the bus back to Ru City, Zhou Leng searched the Divine Script Ruins and discovered a set of scripts recorded mainly on bamboo and wood, called Bamboo-Wood Divine Scripts.

Zhou Leng translated and published newly authorized Bamboo-Wood Divine Script materials, then joined Li Linhan at a gathering of his father’s old comrades. He learned the story behind Zhao Lianshuo’s half of Zhao Sheng’s broken sword before returning to Beast World to recover and train.

• Zhou Leng translated Bamboo-Wood Divine Script texts and published them in the Demon Spirit World and Dragon Kingdom, drawing interest from Divine Script scholars.
• Zhou Leng and Li Linhan visited Zhao Lianshuo, who realized Zhou Leng was stronger than an ordinary young Innate Realm cultivator.
• Zhao Lianshuo showed the veterans Zhao Sheng’s broken sword and explained how Zhao Sheng had given him half as a sign of brotherhood.
• Zhao Lianshuo became drunk and clung to the broken sword while the veterans helped him to bed.
• Zhou Leng declined further invitations, returned to Beast World, and began moderate training while he recovered.

After recovering in Xiaoru Village, Zhou Leng reunited with Molten Hammer and left for Dwarf World to enter the Divine Blood Magma Trial. On the way, Molten Hammer explained the trial and shared news of Blood of Tyranny’s rise, while Zhou Leng learned the Orcs were targeting High Earth Flower’s location and prepared to enter the Great Battlefield through the Giant Dragon Clan.

• Zhou Leng received Molten Hammer’s urgent messages, met him at Ru University, and briefly reunited with Xu Qingjin before leaving with Molten Hammer for Dwarf World.
• Molten Hammer assessed Zhou Leng’s growing strength and explained that surviving Divine Blood Magma could grant powerful body-tempering effects, then advised him to seek donations from the Steel Dwarves.
• Molten Hammer told Zhou Leng that Blood of Tyranny had reached Demigod Realm in Siren World and killed three Demigod Sirens and three Demigod clans, including his mother clan.
• Zhou Leng said he might return to the Ancient King's Treasure for a Divine Script inheritance, and Molten Hammer warned that Orcs planned to attack Mountain Furnace ancestor and High Earth Flower’s location.
• Zhou Leng confirmed he would enter the Great Battlefield through the Giant Dragon Clan and said he would avoid killing Giants while seeking the Dragon-Scale Vermilion Fruit.

Zhou Leng traveled to Divine Blood Mountain to seek a Battlefield Shield Token for Zhang Xinglie and met Shanhe Yuan and Shanhe Xiangmu before the trial. Zhang Xinglie secured a token from the orcs by signing a wager agreement, while Zhou Leng learned more about the Great Battlefield and Shanhe Yuan’s troubled family situation.

• Molten Hammer told Zhou Leng he could obtain Battlefield Shield Tokens by killing members of other races, and Zhou Leng said he would give a second token to Zhang Xinglie.
• Zhang Xinglie persuaded the orc chieftains to give him a Battlefield Shield Token by promising future benefits and signing a wager agreement.
• Zhou Leng and Molten Hammer reached Divine Blood Mountain, where they learned the Divine Blood Magma Trial would begin the next day.
• Zhou Leng reunited with Shanhe Yuan and Shanhe Xiangmu, learned that several human experts including Aiden and Zhao He were present, and thanked Shanhe Yuan’s father for saving his life.
• The four shared food and discussed Dragon marks, and Shanhe Yuan explained that his father had beaten a Giant after Shanhe Yuan’s mother returned to the Giant World.

Zhou Leng turned down Zhao He’s invitation to join the Zhao family, heard rumors about Zhao Sheng and Zhao Hao, and reunited with Great Furnace before the Divine Blood Magma Trial began. The arrival of Deep Dark Fury shifted attention to the trial, and Great Furnace noticed him repeatedly looking toward Zhou Leng.

• Zhao He offered Zhou Leng a Battlefield Shield Token and a place in the Zhao family, but Zhou Leng said he would think it over.
• Molten Hammer warned Zhou Leng about the Zhao family and shared rumors that Zhao Hao was Zhao Sheng’s adopted son; Zhou Leng doubted the story.
• Molten Hammer reunited with Silly Helm, and the Steel Dwarves celebrated with Zhou Leng until late at night.
• Great Furnace began the Divine Blood Magma Trial and urged Zhou Leng to bring glory to the Steel Dwarves.
• Deep Dark Fury arrived, and Zhao He’s attendants estimated his Martial Index at 30.5 and discussed his strength.
• Great Furnace noticed Deep Dark Fury repeatedly looking toward Zhou Leng and wondered what was wrong.

Zhou Leng joined the Divine Blood Magma trial, where Great Furnace secretly gave him a red pill and Deep Dark Fury agreed to help Ten-Horned Wild Blood obstruct opponents during an assassination attempt. The trial began at a magma lake, and Zhou Leng stepped into the scorching magma as Shanhe Yuan cried out in pain.

• Zhou Leng realized Deep Dark Fury could see through his illusion, and Great Furnace confirmed that Demon Dragon eyes could pierce illusions.
• Great Furnace led the trial-takers up the mountain, gave Zhou Leng a warm red pill, and warned Molten Hammer to stay behind.
• Ten-Horned Wild Blood planned to assassinate human geniuses after the trial and identified Zhou Leng as a possible target, while Deep Dark Fury agreed to obstruct their enemies.
• Zhou Leng spoke with Shanhe Yuan, Aiden, and Zhao He about the trial and their expected endurance in the Divine Blood Magma.
• Great Furnace ordered the trial-takers to climb into the magma lake and endure three hours before entering the crater.
• Zhou Leng stepped into the magma without first circulating his energy, and Shanhe Yuan immediately cried out from the burning pain.

Zhou Leng endured the preliminary Divine Blood Magma trial using his body alone, absorbing its heat through his cultivation and emerging unharmed. Ten-Horned Wild Blood plotted to kill him during the coming trial, which began as the participants gathered at the volcanic crater.

• Zhou Leng endured the magma lake’s scorching without true qi, while Aiden and Zhao He used true qi after their bodies could not heal fast enough.
• After an hour, Zhou Leng absorbed Earth Godblood and found that the Standing Elephant Chapter and Flying Whale Chapter drew in the heat most effectively.
• Zhou Leng stirred the magma into a vortex as he practiced, then emerged from the lake uninjured when Great Furnace ended the preliminary trial.
• Ten-Horned Wild Blood ordered demons to watch Zhou Leng and planned to drag him into deeper magma if he lasted more than six hours in the true trial.
• Great Furnace led the participants up the magma waterfall to the volcanic crater and warned them that the true Divine Blood Magma was twice as hot as the lake.

Zhou Leng endured the Divine Blood Magma Trial by using the Indestructible Star Body to withstand the magma and strengthen his body. As other trial-takers surfaced or were rescued, he dove deeper than a thousand meters to absorb more power.

• Zhou Leng entered the Divine Blood Magma near the volcano wall, where the magma's destructive force injured him despite his true qi protection.
• The Star Phoenix Feathers reduced the internal damage, and Zhou Leng used the Indestructible Star Body to protect his tissues and endure the burning.
• Great Furnace and the other Dwarf grandmasters discussed the trial results and feared that the Calamity God might threaten the Dwarf World.
• Zhou Leng absorbed the magma's heat with the Divine Blood Miracle Medicine, strengthening his internal organs and other tissues as trial-takers left the crater.
• After six hours, Zhao He and then Aiden surfaced, while Zhou Leng repeatedly alternated between exposing his skin to the magma and activating the Indestructible Star Body.
• Zhou Leng's flesh eventually endured the magma head-on, and he dove progressively deeper, reaching one thousand meters.

Zhou Leng endured the Divine Blood Magma while Ten-Horned Wild Blood searched for him and accidentally dragged him into the depths. After Ten-Horned Wild Blood died, Zhou Leng claimed his roasted dragon meat and found a Divine Blood Magma Medicine Fruit.

• Ten-Horned Wild Blood searched deeper into the magma for Zhou Leng, consuming demonic medicines to keep descending despite the damage to his body.
• At seven thousand meters, Ten-Horned Wild Blood grabbed Zhou Leng and dragged him farther down, while Zhou Leng struggled to escape and endured the magma.
• As Ten-Horned Wild Blood’s brain and body failed, Zhou Leng realized the dragon had grabbed him by accident and continued being dragged downward.
• Near twenty thousand meters, Ten-Horned Wild Blood died, and Zhou Leng broke free, stored the dragon’s corpse, and found its flesh had been roasted by the magma.
• Zhou Leng searched Ten-Horned Wild Blood’s Demon Spirit Bag but found no Battlefield Shield Token, then sensed a wine-like fragrance and discovered a Divine Blood Magma Medicine Fruit.

Zhou Leng absorbed a Magma Wine God Fruit in the Divine Blood Magma, survived the trial, and climbed back to the surface after everyone thought he was dead. The Dwarves discovered he had eaten a rare treasure meant for brewing divine wine.

• Zhou Leng used the Magma Wine God Fruit to compress the Earth Godblood in his body and endure the Divine Blood Magma for twelve hours.
• Deep Dark Fury emerged with little damage, and Shanhe Yuan gained a Molten Lava Body, while Zhou Leng failed to appear and Shanhe Yuan stayed behind to wait for him.
• At the Divine Blood Furnace Workshop, Molten Hammer and Black Helm spotted a human climbing against the crystal wall twenty thousand meters below the summit and suspected it was Zhou Leng.
• Molten Hammer told Shanhe Yuan that Zhou Leng had been seen at the crystal wall, and Great Furnace dove into the magma to retrieve him.
• Zhou Leng returned safely and explained that the medicinal fruit had let him resist the magma, prompting the Dwarves to reveal it was a rare Magma Wine God Fruit.

Zhou Leng completed the Divine Blood Magma Trial, earned a Magma Jade Belt, and drew the demons’ attention after surviving twelve hours. After leaving the volcano, he learned that Xu Qingjin’s mother had been rescued from the Demon-Worshiping Cult, while Hu Yi’s missing mother remained unaccounted for.

• The Steel Dwarves awarded Zhou Leng a Magma Jade Belt after he and Shanhe Yuan took first place in the trial.
• Deep Dark Fury dismissed the demons’ proposal to assassinate Zhou Leng, while the demons agreed to report his strength to the Great Demon Lords.
• Zhao He judged Zhou Leng to have extraordinary potential and planned to ask his father to recruit him, but prioritized obtaining the White Lake Mother Fruit in the Great Battlefield.
• Wang Boxiong learned that Martial Guards had rescued Meng Guifang from the Demon-Worshiping Cult and arranged for Xu Qingjin to receive leave.
• Feng Wenhao told Hu Yi that Xu Qingjin’s mother had been rescued, and Hu Yi said Zhou Leng was still searching for Hu Yi’s missing mother.