Chapter Summaries

Zhou Leng hunted Demonic Beast squads in the Black Iron Forest, killing several fighters through ambushes and close combat before heading toward the Divine Might Land. The chapter ended as he entered the Violet Mist, while Xu Ming and the Humanoid Alliance thwarted a Demonic Beast plan outside the trial grounds.

• Zhou Leng pursued a five-member Demonic Beast squad, killed a Siren with a spear, then defeated the remaining fighters and claimed their supplies.
• Zhou Leng ambushed members of a seven-demon squad, killing two before withdrawing as the survivors grew cautious.
• Zhou Leng kept attacking smaller Demonic Beast squads and ambushing larger ones until they gathered together and moved toward the Violet Mist.
• Rock-Splitting Armor's Demonic Beasts abandoned their plan to overwhelm the Humanoid Alliance after Xu Ming and his teams arrived, calling the earlier conflict a misunderstanding before leaving.
• Zhou Leng reached the Violet Mist and stepped inside toward the Divine Might Land.

Zhou Leng entered the Violet Mist and endured its escalating Divine Might, using the Stellar Power to cultivate the Indestructible Star Body before reaching a vision of a god and the stars. Three days later, Xu Ming discovered Zhou Leng had vanished, and the camp began debating how to search for him.

• Zhou Leng advanced through the Violet Mist, finding its early pressures weak against his Martial Will and reaching the black-light region around eight thousand steps.
• Zhou Leng sat at eight thousand four hundred steps and cultivated the Indestructible Star Body by absorbing Stellar Power, then continued forward as more black suns appeared.
• Zhou Leng entered the purple-black mist, was blasted back by its force, and saw a meteor-filled sky, a gigantic figure, and the Divine Script meaning, “The stars revolve around me; I am the sun.”
• Xu Ming warned Zhou Leng about possible demon activity, but after three days without seeing or hearing from him, Xu Ming checked his empty tent and learned Zhou Leng had gone out to test his strength.
• The camp members discussed Zhou Leng’s disappearance, weighed the dangers of searching the Great Battlefield, and decided to ask others for help.

Xu Ming searched for Zhou Leng after he vanished, then fought Rock-Splitting Armor while Manxing Hu suspected Zhou Leng was the masked human ambushing demons. Elsewhere, Zhang Xinglie struggled to decipher the Broken-Top Stele, and Rao Mingxian remembered he had been meant to warn Zhou Leng about Zhao He.

• Wang Xiong and the others found no news of Zhou Leng, while Xu Ming recalled his missing younger brother and decided to search alone.
• Xu Ming and the Demon Spirit Masters traced Zhou Leng's lingering aura into Black Iron Forest, but they could not follow it beyond ten kilometers.
• Xu Ming searched the forest for three days, then fought Rock-Splitting Armor in a sparring match that turned into a bloody battle.
• Rock-Splitting Armor questioned Manxing Hu, who suspected Zhou Leng was the masked human killing demons in Black Iron Forest.
• At the Broken-Top Stele, Zhang Xinglie could not decipher the inscriptions and wished Zhou Leng were there to help.
• Zhang Xiaoxiao warned Rao Mingxian to stay away from Zhao He, prompting him to remember that Madam Xi Yan had asked him to warn Zhou Leng about Zhao He.

Zhou Leng endured the Remnant Sky Bone’s Final Refinement Grounds, repeatedly suffering devastating meteor strikes that gradually strengthened his body and Martial Will. Meanwhile, a bone-armored ruler learned that Zhou Leng had entered the grounds and watched his trials on a magical screen.

• Zhou Leng crossed into the Final Refinement Grounds, where meteors struck his body and Martial Will as an unseen force compelled him forward.
• After a meteor knocked him unconscious at the two hundred and first step, an invisible force returned him to the violet mist, where the Star Phoenix Restoration Art healed him and he sensed slight gains in his strength.
• Zhou Leng repeatedly reentered the grounds, was struck unconscious, and was thrown back out, with the intervals between his attempts growing longer.
• At the Remnant Sky Bone settlement, a bone-armored warrior reported to the ruler on a crimson throne that a human martial artist had entered the Final Refinement Grounds.
• The ruler used a magical screen to observe Zhou Leng’s repeated trials and watched him sleeping after his latest attempt.

He Pengfei recognized Xu Ming as Xu Yong’s son and remembered his promise to protect the young man, while Xu Ming and Wang Xiong discussed their duties in the Ten-Thousand Lanterns Plan. Inside Violet Mist, Zhou Leng continued cultivating and gained two thousand Star Phoenix Feathers, preparing to challenge the step that had repeatedly defeated him.

• He Pengfei watched Xu Ming in Violet Mist and recalled Xu Yong asking him to keep his son from remaining on the Great Battlefield.
• Xu Ming asked Wang Yunbo whether anyone had found Zhou Leng, then spoke with Wang Xiong about their membership in the Ten-Thousand Lanterns Plan.
• Xu Ming told Wang Xiong he had joined the plan to obtain a Battlefield Shield Token and find his father, while Wang Xiong offered to remain in Remnant Sky Bone so Xu Ming could return to Blue Star.
• Wang Xiong and Xu Ming agreed that Wang Xiong would stay behind if he became a Sky Bone Warrior, while Xu Ming would take the Great Battlefield’s gains back to Blue Star.
• Zhou Leng cultivated in Violet Mist until his Star Phoenix Restoration Art formed two thousand Star Phoenix Feathers, giving him hope of passing the 9,801st step.

Zhou Leng endured the Divine Might Land’s Final Land by relying on his body and Martial Will even after he was knocked unconscious, and he passed through the trial. He woke after He Pengfei carried him away and treated his injuries with a Blood Chestnut.

• He Pengfei watched Zhou Leng enter the Final Land and wondered whether the young human could survive its divine pressure.
• Zhou Leng’s body and Martial Will withstood increasingly powerful meteorites, while the final impacts knocked him unconscious and left the trial’s force to carry him onward.
• As his consciousness vanished, Zhou Leng’s Martial Will entered One-Step Reincarnation and drew on its survival force to keep him alive.
• The Divine Might Trial carried Zhou Leng through the Final Land and Violet Mist, and He Pengfei retrieved him and brought him to his residence.
• He Pengfei fed the unconscious Zhou Leng a Blood Chestnut, and Zhou Leng opened his eyes after a day and night of recovery.

Zhou Leng recovered in Sky Bone City and learned from He Pengfei that passing the Divine Might Trial had made him a Sky Bone Warrior subject to further trials. He chose to return to Blue Star rather than pursue a higher civilization’s God-Ascension Path, then entered the Final Gate for his second trial.

• Zhou Leng met He Pengfei, who questioned him about Blue Star, the Great Battlefield, the Ancient River Sect, and recent events in the Dragon Kingdom.
• He Pengfei explained that the Remnant Sky Bone was a Giant god’s leg bone and that Zhou Leng would face a higher, more dangerous trial after breaking through the Final Land.
• Zhou Leng refused He Pengfei’s offer to pursue a higher civilization’s God-Ascension Path, saying he wanted to protect Blue Star.
• He Pengfei asked Zhou Leng to kill Zhao He and tell Zhao Cong that He Pengfei had done it, but Zhou Leng refused to kill Zhao He without evidence.
• He Pengfei warned Zhou Leng about Zhao He’s resources and the approaching War of the Ten Worlds, then let him recover at his residence.
• The next day, He Pengfei led Zhou Leng to the Final Gate, and Zhou Leng entered to begin his second trial.

The Calamity Envoy revived in an ancient Giant body and sought the Mountain-Slaughter Battle Body while He Pengfei watched the Great Battlefield’s battles from the Violet Mist. Zhou Leng passed the Divine Might Trial, received a mission to reach the Corpse-Burying Star Stele, and chose Star-Climbing Mountain as his final gift; he arrived there and was ordered to begin training.

• The Calamity Envoy used thirty-six demonic artifacts to revive inside the preserved body of a young Giant, then set out to seek the Mountain-Slaughter Battle Body.
• He Pengfei watched demons, Sirens, and traitorous martial artists attack the humans, while Xu Ming led the human fighters in a desperate battle.
• Zhou Leng passed the Divine Might Trial and was told to inherit the Martial Will at the Corpse-Burying Star Stele, with a detailed map entering his brow as a gift.
• He Pengfei warned Zhou Leng to choose Star-Climbing Mountain, and Zhou Leng ignored the quartermaster’s attempts to steer him toward other rewards.
• Zhou Leng entered Star-Climbing Mountain, where Demigod Giants climbed its steep slopes carrying enormous stone spheres, and one ordered him to begin training.

Zhou Leng endured Star-Climbing Mountain, where repeated collapse and healing greatly strengthened his Giant Physical Extraordinary Body and awakened the power of Frost Giants. After waking, he agreed to He Pengfei’s plan to reach Xu Ming’s besieged group, and joined the fight against the demons and Sirens.

• Zhou Leng carried increasingly heavy rune stones up Star-Climbing Mountain, repeatedly collapsing as the Star Ring healed him and empowered his Giant Physical Extraordinary Body.
• The quartermaster gave He Pengfei two Blood Chestnuts after Zhou Leng emerged from the trial, and Zhou Leng later discovered his wounds had healed and his bones had gained a jade-like, silver-speckled glow.
• He Pengfei told Zhou Leng that Xu Ming was surrounded and arranged for four master-level Sky Bone Warriors to escort him, with instructions to use the demons’ attack as justification for fighting them.
• Zhou Leng and the Sky Bone Warriors reached the besieged human group, where Rock-Splitting Armor’s forces attacked them with arrows and magic.
• Zhou Leng ordered the Sky Bone Warriors to attack the demons and Sirens, then confronted Rock-Splitting Armor as the warriors charged into the enemy force.

Zhou Leng defeated Rock-Splitting Armor, led the allied races in slaughtering the Dragons, and honored the fallen human warriors. He treated with Xu Ming, revealed his connection to Star-Climbing Mountain, and prepared the surviving human martial artists for what came next.

• Zhou Leng tore through Rock-Splitting Armor’s lava attack, shattered his shell, and killed him with the Heavenly Tide Palm’s Great Sea Whirlpool.
• Zhou Leng honored the fallen warriors with a cup of Rock-Splitting Armor’s blood, then ordered the Dragons killed; the allied races slaughtered them and collected their spoils.
• Zhou Leng met the badly injured Xu Ming and the other survivors, explained that he had secretly attacked the demons, and said he planned to head for the Replica Corpse-Burying Star Stele.
• Zhou Leng told the Giants he had visited Star-Climbing Mountain, prompting them to discuss the possibility that he could become a Star-Bearer.
• Zhou Leng accepted the eleven surviving human martial artists who were not already in the Ancient River Sect and taught them cultivation methods.
• Zhou Leng privately told Xu Ming more about Sky Bone City and left the decision of whether to share the details to him.

Zhou Leng learned that Xu Yong had died during a trial and then set out to complete his second trial across the Great Battlefield. After fighting through the Skinless Tribe and battling the Undying Knight to a draw, he continued toward Burial Star.

• Zhou Leng told Xu Ming that He Pengfei might help him leave Sky Bone City, and Xu Ming revealed that Xu Yong was his father.
• Zhou Leng learned from other Sky Bone Warriors that Xu Yong had died during a trial in which only He Pengfei survived.
• Zhou Leng entered the Skinning Grounds, slaughtered three Skinless Tribe villages, and collected their battlefield goods before leaving the forest.
• Zhou Leng crossed dangerous parts of the Great Battlefield, avoided divine factions, and reached the edge of the Sleeping Grounds.
• The Undying Knight pursued Zhou Leng, and the two fought at supersonic speed for half an hour without either gaining the upper hand.
• Zhou Leng called their fight evenly matched and continued running toward Burial Star.

Zhou Leng discovered that his trials had awakened a new ability, which he named Martial Dao Afterimage, then reached the Replica Corpse-Burying Star Stele and turned the battle there in the Humanoid Alliance's favor. After arranging a pause in the fighting, he negotiated with the Dragons and traded with the Ferocious Beasts, while the search for Little Eight and Big Yellow remained unresolved.

• After escaping an Earth Swallowing phenomenon and detouring around a dangerous swamp, Zhou Leng realized he could recall a battle as a Martial Dao Afterimage and continued toward the Corpse-Burying Star Stele.
• Zhou Leng arrived at the Replica Corpse-Burying Star Stele, where he found Shanhe Yuan, Zhang Xinglie, and the Humanoid Alliance fighting the Demonic Beast Alliance.
• As Zhou Leng approached the battlefield, golden cross-shaped stars appeared in his eyes, and he slaughtered the Sirens until Gray Steel Wind ordered the Dragons and their allies to retreat.
• Zhou Leng called for both sides to cease fighting, then spoke with Shanhe Yuan and Zhang Xinglie before going to ask the Dragons for a proposal.
• Zhou Leng traded food and other goods with the Ferocious Beasts for valuable medicinal fruits, causing the fighters on both sides to reassess him.

Zhou Leng translated the Replica Corpse-Burying Star Stele’s trial instructions and began deciphering its Stellar Divine Script with Zhang Xinglie and Shanhe Yuan. Their joint study uncovered martial arts tied to the Mountain-Slaughter Battle Body, and the three began cultivating them.

• Zhou Leng brokered a temporary nonaggression contract between the human and ferocious-beast camps, then joined Zhang Xinglie and Shanhe Yuan at the Replica Corpse-Burying Star Stele.
• Zhou Leng played back the Heavenly Stair’s recorded instructions and translated the three stages of the Star Stele Trial for Zhang Xinglie and Shanhe Yuan.
• After sleeping, Zhou Leng translated parts of the stele’s inscription, learning that its author was the Slaughter Lord and that it contained insights into Martial Will and the Mountain-Subduing River Battle Art.
• Zhou Leng, Zhang Xinglie, and Shanhe Yuan combined their knowledge to decipher the inscription, while the other races held sparring matches to vent the stele’s influence on their fighting spirit.
• Zhang Xinglie revealed that the Mountain-Slaughter Battle Body came from the same lineage as the stele, prompting Zhou Leng to study it alongside the inscription.
• The three developed the Dawn Will Method and Ten Thousand River-Mountain Flows, then began cultivating together before the Replica Corpse-Burying Star Stele.

Zhou Leng mastered Myriad Mountain-River Streams, awakened a new original Martial Dao heart, and improved his Heavenly Tide Palm while Zhang Xinglie shared the complete Void Extremity Divine Manifestation method. The three decided to bring the inheritances into the Ancient River Sect and offered the surviving human martial artists a chance to join, leaving them to decide whether to accept.

• Zhang Xinglie received the Void Extremity Divine Manifestation cultivation method, Shanhe Yuan comprehended Myriad Mountain-River Streams, and Zhou Leng mastered the battle art through the Replica Corpse-Burying Star Stele.
• Zhou Leng found a new original Martial Dao heart in his resolve to command the cosmic sea, activated the Sea-Calming Fragment Map, and strengthened his Heavenly Tide Palm with Martial Will.
• Zhang Xinglie shared the complete Void Extremity Divine Manifestation method, and Zhou Leng translated a complete version of Myriad Mountain-River Streams for all three to study.
• Zhou Leng, Zhang Xinglie, and Shanhe Yuan agreed to incorporate their inheritances into the Ancient River Sect and invite trustworthy human martial artists to join.
• Zhou Leng warned the gathered martial artists against siding with Demonic Beasts or the Demon-Worshiping Cult, while Shanhe Yuan threw a protesting Southern Seas martial artist away.

Zhou Leng taught the Great Innate Realm cultivators of several races the Martial Will method Myriad Mountain-River Streams, while enforcing the Ancient River Sect’s oath against leaking it and recruiting defectors. After five days, most Ancient River Sect disciples passed the first Star Stele trial, and Zhou Leng prepared to return to Sky Bone City after announcing he would purge enemies within the sect.

• Zhou Leng accepted Great Innate Realm cultivators as Ancient River Sect disciples and taught them Myriad Mountain-River Streams, the first Martial Will cultivation method in human history.
• Heavenly Fire killed cultivators who tried to leak the method, prompting Kafu to offer to become a double agent and publicly explain why he was leaving the Demon-Worshiping Cult.
• Zhou Leng taught the method to willing Demon Spirit Masters, Giants, Dwarves, and Treants, and accepted defectors from among them after Heavenly Fire killed five spies.
• Zhou Leng guided the new disciples beneath the Replica Corpse-Burying Star Stele, and most Ancient River Sect disciples gained recognition and completed the first trial over five days.
• Zhou Leng gathered the disciples before returning to Sky Bone City and announced that his first task would be to purge enemies within the Ancient River Sect.

The Calamity Envoy advanced across the Great Battlefield while Zhou Leng eliminated traitors and led the gathered races to confront the Demonic Beasts. Their negotiated one-on-one contest began with Zhou Leng killing a Rust-Iron General, leaving the demons to face the threat of his new battle art.

• The Calamity Envoy continued growing stronger as he searched the battlefield and waited for Demonic Beasts to finish their trials.
• Zhou Leng used the Tiger Tally to eliminate twenty-seven traitors, including nineteen who burned beneath descending Heavenly Fires.
• Zhou Leng led the gathered races to the Demonic Beast camp and gave the demons a choice between one-on-one battles and a general fight.
• The Dragons agreed to let the demons and Orcs accept Zhou Leng’s proposed contest, in which defeated fighters could flee to the mountains to survive.
• Zhou Leng volunteered for the first round and struck the Rust-Iron General with Myriad Mountain-River Streams, causing its body to decay.
• The Rust-Iron General surrendered and tried to escape, but its leg fell away and its body broke apart before it died.

Zhou Leng defeated wave after wave of demons and Orcs, while Colossal Shell Ocean surrendered and joined the human camp. As the battle escalated between Shanhe Yuan and Gray Steel Wind, Zhou Leng and Zhang Xinglie launched a surprise attack on the mixed-race teams that had refused to join the Ancient River Sect.

• Zhou Leng killed the Candlebearer spellcaster and continued defeating demons chosen by the Demon Clock, eventually killing the Blasphemous Demon Codex.
• Colossal Shell Ocean surrendered to Zhou Leng, signed a Demon Spirit Contract, and offered intelligence about the demons while refusing to reveal the Calamity Envoy's objective.
• Zhang Xinglie and Shanhe Yuan took turns fighting and killing more demons and Orcs.
• Gray Steel Wind challenged Shanhe Yuan, and their savage battle stirred the Giants and Dragons into beginning a second great battle.
• Zhou Leng and Zhang Xinglie charged at the mixed-race teams that had refused to join the Ancient River Sect, revealing the meaning of Zhou Leng's second matter.

Zhou Leng and Zhang Xinglie slaughtered the five races who refused to join the Ancient River Sect, then reflected on the moral burden of their choices. Zhou Leng rallied the other races to kill the remaining Demonic Beasts and attack the Dragons, while the Giants welcomed their support.

• Zhou Leng and Zhang Xinglie killed the holdouts from the five races, then discussed how leaders must make difficult choices without knowing whether they are right.
• Zhou Leng explained that the group had to join the battle against the Demonic Beasts and Dragons, and the other races agreed to follow his command.
• The allied races circled the Giants-and-Dragons battle and killed the fleeing Demonic Beasts, with the Demon Spirit Masters sealing off their escape routes.
• A red dragon invoked Zhou Leng’s agreement with Crimson Eye, but Zhou Leng said the agreement did not apply to the Dragon and the first trial had ended.
• Zhou Leng ordered everyone to attack the Dragons, and the Giants laughed as the other races finally joined the fight.

Zhou Leng left the victorious five-race alliance after helping defeat the dragons, then encountered the overlapping Dragon God Seal Road and Hundred-Eyed Demon Mountain. Trapped between two deadly trial hazards, he wondered whether the Dragonblood Guards feared the mountain.

• Zhou Leng helped the five races defeat the dragons, and Gray Steel Wind was the last to fall.
• As the races celebrated, Shanhe Yuan and Zhang Xinglie discussed the trials ahead and the importance of finding Dragon-Scale Vermilion Fruit.
• Zhou Leng tried and failed to enter the Star Stele’s second trial, then said farewell and left the others to face the Divine Script without him.
• Outside the trial, Zhou Leng discovered that the landscape had changed and recognized the enormous pits of the Dragon God Seal Road.
• Hundred-Eyed Demon Mountain appeared and struck Zhou Leng with its gaze, leaving him to weigh the dangers of the mountain against the Dragonblood Guards that haunted the road.
• Zhou Leng wondered whether the Dragonblood Guards feared Hundred-Eyed Demon Mountain.

Zhou Leng discovered that Dragonblood Guards’ blood mist greatly strengthened his Colossal Dragon Extraordinary Body and continued hunting them along the Dragon God Seal Road. The chapter left him rushing to help a Giant child surrounded by six Dragons, while two Dragons turned to intercept him.

• Zhou Leng fought a Dragonblood Guard, learned its Dragon God-powered techniques, killed it, and absorbed its blood mist, increasing his Colossal Dragon Extraordinary Body and palm force.
• After Hundred-Eyed Demon Mountain repeatedly knocked him unconscious, Zhou Leng continued running and killed more Dragonblood Guards to absorb their blood mist.
• Zhou Leng noticed his craving for Dragonblood Guards intensify after absorbing a third cloud of blood mist, while Deep Dark Fury wondered why one of his targets was missing.
• Zhou Leng found six Great Innate Realm Dragons surrounding a Giant child and shouted that he would help.
• Two Dragons left the Giant’s interrogation to deal with Zhou Leng.