Chapter Summaries

Zhou Leng defeated the newly advanced Twin-Horned Demon and recovered from his injuries before asking the Brilliant Flower Demon about the remaining demon grandmaster. He followed the demon’s directions to a cliff overlooking a strange lake, where he saw countless white dots gathered in its blue waters.

• The Twin-Horned Demon unleashed his grandmaster bloodline power and badly injured Zhou Leng, but Zhou Leng rapidly healed and countered, breaking the demon’s arm.
• The two fought through hundreds of exchanges, and Zhou Leng eventually disabled the demon’s limbs and killed him by snapping his neck and tearing off his head.
• Zhou Leng rested and recovered, then learned from the Brilliant Flower Demon that the other grandmaster was a shrewd Skinless Warlock guarded by at least ten Great Innates.
• Zhou Leng asked to observe the demons, and the Brilliant Flower Demon guided him to a cliff and gave him a map to leave the Perfect Garden.
• Zhou Leng reached the cliff and saw a circular blue lake filled with countless white dots, which he associated with White Lake.

Zhou Leng discovered that White Lake was filled with the bodies of missing people transformed into Flesh Lotuses, including women he knew, and learned the Zhao family was tied to the operation. Overcome with rage, he rescued two familiar corpses and unleashed Grandmaster-level Dragon-Scale True Qi as he charged the demons.

• Four masked experts, including Su Fenghe, discussed a secret plan to kill Zhou Leng and smear his reputation afterward.
• Zhou Leng entered a demon camp in Rust-Iron General's appearance and discovered more than a million bodies floating in White Lake as Flesh Lotuses.
• Two demons explained that the White Lake Mother Fruit was being cultivated for Zhao He, with the Zhao family backing the effort.
• Zhou Leng recognized Hu Yi's mother and Zhang Meiqin among the bodies and broke down in horror and grief.
• Zhou Leng took their corpses from the lake, triggering an alarm as demons identified him and closed in.
• Zhou Leng formed Dragon-Scale Mist and a powerful Taiqing Sea Garment, then charged toward the demons.

Zhou Leng repeatedly attacked the demon camp at White Lake, ultimately killing the Master Skinless Warlock despite the cost to himself and his Hell Warhorse. After discovering that Aurora Summit was the Calamity Envoy, Zhou Leng withdrew and questioned the Brilliant Flower Demon about White Lake and its powers.

• Zhou Leng slaughtered more than a dozen demons, then burned two demonic corpses and began harassing the camp whenever he found an opening.
• After Zhou Leng killed twenty-seven Great Innate Realm Demonic Beasts, the survivors gathered around the Master Skinless Warlock and held their position.
• Zhou Leng repeatedly charged the demon formation on his Hell Warhorse, pierced the Master Skinless Warlock with the Dragonbone Knight Lance, and drove off the remaining demons; the horse collapsed and broke apart.
• After healing, Zhou Leng spotted Aurora Summit in the new demon camp and realized he was the Calamity Envoy, then left the cliff to avoid him.
• Zhou Leng asked the Brilliant Flower Demon about the Calamity Envoy, White Lake Lotus Fruits, and the divine power at White Lake, then cultivated and watched the camp from changing locations.
• Two days later, Zhou Leng noticed that the Calamity Envoy had left.

Zhou Leng discovered that the demons had harvested White Lake’s Lotus Fruits from captive women and met Rao Mingxian, who revealed where Zhao He and the Calamity Envoy had gone. After receiving Zhang Xiaoxiao’s final message and a relic for Zhou Leng, he pursued the Calamity Envoy’s force to find Zhang Xinglie and Shanhe Yuan, though every calculation suggested they could not escape.

• Zhou Leng found the women at White Lake slaughtered for the Lotus Fruit harvest and asked Rao Mingxian to meet him.
• Rao Mingxian confirmed that Aurora Summit was the Calamity Envoy and said Zhao He had followed him with the White Lake Mother Fruit.
• Rao Mingxian gave Zhou Leng the Headless God relic and relayed Zhang Xiaoxiao’s message before Zhou Leng left him a Demon Spirit Bag of medicines.
• The Calamity Envoy ignored Zhao He’s plea for the White Lake Mother Fruit and had a guard burn Zhao He’s contract.
• Zhou Leng followed the demon force toward Zhang Xinglie and Shanhe Yuan, repeatedly concluded they could not escape the Calamity Envoy, and recalled his childhood with Zhang Xinglie.

Zhou Leng recalled how Zhang Xinglie had stood by him since childhood and confronted the invisible restraint that kept him from attacking the Calamity Envoy. He joined Zhang Xinglie and Shanhe Yuan in battle, revealing overwhelming strength against Blood Axe Hoof, while the Calamity Envoy listened to Zhao He recount Zhou Leng's past.

• Zhou Leng remembered growing up with Zhang Xinglie and the Martial Master's warning that his future was tied to the two people he would help ascend to godhood.
• After reaching a clearing where Zhang Xinglie and Shanhe Yuan were surrounded by Demonic Beasts, Zhou Leng struggled against an invisible barrier that stopped him from attacking the Calamity Envoy.
• The Calamity Envoy spotted Zhou Leng and sent four Great Innate Realm experts, led by Blood Axe Hoof, to confront him.
• Zhang Xinglie and Shanhe Yuan urged Zhou Leng to flee, but he walked into the open and charged Blood Axe Hoof with an eight-meter Dragonbone Knight Lance.
• Zhou Leng smashed Blood Axe Hoof's axe aside with enough force to drive him to his knees, prompting Zhang Xinglie to attack the encircling demons.
• Zhao He told the Calamity Envoy about his history with Zhou Leng, and the Calamity Envoy recalled Zhou Leng's deeds at Tiger Hill Fortress and Dragon God Seal Road.

Zhou Leng, Zhang Xinglie, and Shanhe Yuan led their group in a desperate assault on the Calamity Envoy after his wind blocked their escape. Shanhe Yuan fought Deep Dark Fury while Zhou Leng stayed behind to face the surrounding demons, leaving the human side on the brink of defeat.

• Zhou Leng overwhelmed Blood Axe Hoof in a contest of strength until Blood Axe Hoof fled toward White Lake, warning that his Demigod mother would avenge him.
• Zhou Leng joined Zhang Xinglie and Shanhe Yuan, and the six survivors broke from the encirclement before the Calamity Envoy used a violent wind to block their escape.
• Zhou Leng, Zhang Xinglie, and the others turned back to attack the Calamity Envoy, but Deep Dark Fury and the other demons advanced to meet them.
• Shanhe Yuan challenged Deep Dark Fury and was overwhelmed by the ten spells unleashed through the Golden Chime Eye, while the demons killed the other members of the human team.
• Zhou Leng sent Zhang Xinglie to help Shanhe Yuan and remained alone to face twelve Innate Kings, dozens of Great Innates, and demon warlocks as his Taiqing Sea Garment shattered.

Zhou Leng, Shanhe Yuan, and Zhang Xinglie fought the Demonic Beasts and Deep Dark Fury until both sides were left near death. The Calamity Envoy offered Zhang Xinglie a false choice, killed Zhou Leng and Shanhe Yuan, and watched the Mountain-Slaughter Battle Body awaken within Zhang Xinglie.

• Zhou Leng fought through the Demonic Beasts until he killed the last Innate King, while Zhang Xinglie and Shanhe Yuan crippled Deep Dark Fury in their battle.
• The Calamity Envoy stopped the fight and offered Zhang Xinglie a choice between death for everyone or the loss of one arm and one leg.
• Zhang Xinglie severed his left arm and right leg, and the Calamity Envoy revealed that he had deceived him.
• The Calamity Envoy pointed once and burst Zhou Leng's and Shanhe Yuan's heads, killing them.
• Red-black fire emerged from Zhang Xinglie's bones, and the Calamity Envoy recognized the Mountain-Slaughter Battle Body taking shape.

After the Calamity Envoy left Zhou Leng, Zhang Xinglie, and Shanhe Yuan alive, Zhang Xinglie recovered from his injuries and found two rare medicinal fruits in his hand. The chapter ended with him struggling to his feet and checking on Zhou Leng and Shanhe Yuan.

• He Pengfei learned that Zhou Leng had completed both trials but died, and Xu Ming blamed himself for not working harder to save him.
• The Calamity Envoy cursed Zhang Xinglie’s wounds, destroying his left arm and right leg when they began to heal.
• Zhang Xinglie repeatedly clung to the Calamity Envoy to keep him from reaching Zhou Leng, and the Envoy eventually restored Zhang Xinglie’s right arm and gave him a Dragon-Scale Vermilion Fruit and a White Lake Mother Fruit.
• The Calamity Envoy killed Zhao He for defying him and warned the Blasphemous Demon Codex to guard against the Zhao family.
• Deep Dark Fury explained why Zhou Leng was his friend, and he, the Calamity Envoy, and the Blasphemous Demon Codex left the field.
• Zhang Xinglie woke, recognized the fruits, and used a spear as a crutch to stand and look toward Zhou Leng and Shanhe Yuan.

Zhang Xinglie fed Zhou Leng precious medicinal fruits as Zhou Leng lay gravely injured, while the Heavenly Stair Trial ended with Deep Dark Fury apparently claiming its three tiers. Back in the Dragon Kingdom, powerful families and media outlets moved against the crippled Zhou Leng, leaving his fate threatened by a public rape accusation and a coordinated campaign.

• Zhang Xinglie fed Zhou Leng ordinary medicinal fruits and both gifts from the Calamity Envoy, then meditated beside him as Zhou Leng's body slowly regenerated.
• The Heavenly Stair named Zhou Leng in Divine Script before its light vanished, and He Pengfei and Xu Ming concluded that Deep Dark Fury had gained its three tiers and that Demon Prison was likely to win the Ten Realms War.
• Su Fenghe examined Zhou Leng at Dragon Nest Hospital, confirmed that his dantian and meridians were beyond repair, and declined to kill him, while the other grandmasters anticipated that the families would target him through the media.
• Jade Wing told Zhou Leng that the Crimson-Eyed Queen would arrange a minor Dragon official position for him and warned him to remain in the hospital because someone wanted to arrest him.
• The Lou Clan, Xu family, Dong family, Huang family, and other families gathered in Xiong City, and hundreds of media outlets spread rape allegations against Zhou Leng across domestic and foreign networks.

A wave of public accusations against Zhou Leng grew into a national controversy, but evidence from his allies and the families he had saved undermined the claims. As Hu Yi and Feng Wenhao discussed the media suppression, they concluded the campaign was connected to Zhou Leng's uncle.

• Ru University faced protests and a media frenzy after Zhou Leng was accused of rape, while people who defended him online had their accounts banned.
• Lu Yuanhao called on students from River Yin Martial University and the eighteen schools to support Zhou Leng, and they shared evidence that he had been hospitalized when the alleged crime occurred.
• Students and parents gathered outside Ru University to defend Zhou Leng and commemorate the people he had saved, prompting more observers to question the accusation.
• After the Great Battlefield trial participants reported the events, the Demon City Army sent Chen Shouhu to Dragon World, and the Crimson-Eyed Queen released Zhou Leng into the army's care.
• Hu Yi and Feng Wenhao discussed the campaign against Zhou Leng and concluded that it was connected to his uncle.

Hu Yi and Feng Wenhao suspected Zhou Leng’s scandal was part of a campaign to damage Human morale, while Zhou Leng’s allies discovered that his body was healing despite the destruction of his Martial Dao. After Zhou Leng’s consciousness rose from the Great Battlefield, his matured Heavenly Stair formed trial grounds that made him their master.

• Hu Yi asked Feng Wenhao whether the attacks on Zhou Leng might be a broader campaign, and Feng Wenhao said the Demon-Worshiping Cult had used similar tactics against Humans.
• Li Linhan accused Li Yuanhe of abandoning Zhou Leng, drove him out, and demanded that he not return unless Zhou Leng came back.
• Xu Qingjin’s roommates privately agreed to support her and defend Zhou Leng, while Truth Media’s Manager Huang celebrated the campaign ordered by General Manager Gao and revealed her connection to the Fishman Cult’s Starry Blood Tree.
• Chen Shouhu told Wang Boxiong that Zhou Leng’s body was recovering rapidly but that his destroyed dantian and severed meridians could not be restored; the two discussed confronting the Sixteen Families and publicizing Zhou Leng’s identities.
• Zhou Leng’s consciousness left his body, encountered the stele bearing the name Zhou Tianjihuan, and was drawn into the matured Heavenly Stair Trial Grounds.
• Zhou Leng learned that he had become master of the ten-room trial grounds and could place them anywhere on Blue Star.

Zhou Leng tested and adjusted the Consciousness Trial, then repeatedly attempted its first level until he lowered its difficulty and earned a perfect score. He received several rewards, including a Martial Dao Void God's Lightness Skill recording and the chance to earn Civilization Merit by perfecting all nine trials.

• Zhou Leng entered the trial and revised its Divine Script announcement and arena setup before attempting the first Evasion Trial.
• He faced escalating attacks, including blinding, and scored 98 points before choosing to repeat the trial.
• After a thousand attempts, Zhou Leng remained stuck at 100 points and realized the difficulty exceeded what suited a preliminary civilization.
• He lowered the first trial's difficulty to the medium-civilization level and earned 120 points without being hit.
• The trial awarded Zhou Leng recurring evasion training, a Martial Dao Void God's Lightness Skill Martial Shadow Wall, high-grade sparring options, and a chance to earn Civilization Merit.
• Zhou Leng saw new items in his Will World, including a starlit badge that he recognized as a high-grade form of identification.

Zhou Leng trained under Teacher Four Eyes, a Four-Eyed Race Void God Realm expert, using the World Instrument and Martial Shadow Wall to improve his movement skills. He reached 120 points in the high-difficulty evasion trial, then woke up in the hospital with Chen Shouhu and Wang Boxiong beside him.

• Zhou Leng used the World Instrument and Martial Shadow Wall to meet Teacher Four Eyes, who assessed his techniques and explained his race’s potential.
• Teacher Four Eyes tailored movement training for Zhou Leng and taught him higher-civilization knowledge while he practiced.
• Zhou Leng repeatedly trained and retried the high-difficulty evasion trial, gradually improving his movement and Martial Dao understanding.
• Zhou Leng reached 120 points in the high-difficulty evasion trial, completing it without receiving an additional reward.
• Zhou Leng found the Martial Shadow Wall gone and woke in the hospital, where Chen Shouhu and Wang Boxiong looked at him.

Zhou Leng woke from his catastrophic injuries to find his Martial Dao severed, while Chen Shouhu and Wang Boxiong tried to shield him from a dubious rape case. After they were forced to leave the hospital, news spread at an international Divine Script symposium that Zhou Leng was the previously anonymous Mysterious Master.

• Zhou Leng awoke with his chest and abdomen exposed and could sense neither his true qi nor his dantian or meridians; Chen Shouhu and Wang Boxiong told him his friends were recovering and that specialists were searching for a cure.
• Chen Shouhu told Zhou Leng that the Sixteen Families had revived a rape accusation against him, and Zhou Leng recognized that his lost Martial Dao left him vulnerable to a wrongful prosecution.
• Wang Xingge examined and treated Zhou Leng while constables arrived to question him, despite lacking evidence and admitting that the Inspection Division had forced them to open the case.
• Chen Shouhu and Wang Boxiong blocked the constables until urgent attacks by Demonic Beasts and the Demon-Worshiping Cult forced them to leave, and Chen Shouhu warned those behind the case not to harm Zhou Leng.
• At a global Divine Script symposium, researchers learned that Martial City had revealed the Mysterious Master's identity as Zhou Leng and connected him to the rape-case controversy.

After Zhou Leng was revealed as the Mysterious Master, Divine Script experts rushed to the hospital where he was recovering from severe injuries. They found inspectors trying to arrest him, and Zhao Nandi and the experts intervened as the case threatened to become a major political incident.

• Divine Script scholars learned that Zhou Leng was the Mysterious Master behind humanity’s recent Divine Script breakthroughs and hurried to visit him at Demon City Army First Hospital.
• Zhao Nandi realized Zhou Leng had been the Mysterious Master she had privately praised, deleted her chat screenshots, and drove to the hospital.
• Inspectors arrived with military police and an arrest warrant, removed the guards, and ordered the injured Zhou Leng to go to a detention center.
• Zhao Nandi identified Zhou Leng as humanity’s Divine Script Master and refused to let the inspectors take her student away.
• The Divine Script General Institute’s president, vice president, and academicians arrived, learned about the assault case, and recognized Zhou Leng’s extraordinary importance.
• Zhao Nandi called her teacher for help, senior Divine Script experts blocked the inspectors, and the inspectors left to seek instructions after the president said he would report the matter to Zhang Zongtingshou.

Zhao Cong discussed his missing brothers, the Corpse King Throne, and Zhou Leng’s conflict with the Sixteen Families with Zhao Hao, then learned Gao Tianfeng had helped target Zhou Leng. He told Gao Tianfeng to urge the Sixteen Families to compromise, while keeping the Zhao family out of the dispute.

• Zhao Cong visited Zhao Hao at Zhao Palace, where Gao Tianfeng was caring for Zhao Hao and preparing a late-night snack.
• Zhao Cong told Zhao Hao that the investigation into Second Brother’s disappearance suggested he had gone with the Calamity Envoy, the Blasphemous Demon Codex, and Deep Dark Fury, though Second Brother’s fate remained uncertain.
• Zhao Cong explained that the Sixteen Families had framed Zhou Leng for assault, and Zhao Hao criticized their methods and asked whether Gao Tianfeng was involved.
• Zhao Hao warned Zhao Cong to watch over Gao Tianfeng, Nandi, and Tianlong, unaware that Tianlong had already killed many people in Ru City.
• In the car, Gao Tianfeng revealed that Zhou Leng was on Demon Prison’s kill list and said she had wanted to help Zhao Cong and Zhao Hao.
• Zhao Cong told Gao Tianfeng to have the Sixteen Families show the Divine Script General Institute respect and compromise, while the Zhao family stayed out of the matter.

Zhou Leng endured questioning by Demon City Army investigators while struggling to face the messages sent after his martial arts were severed. As the Sixteen Families continued plotting to destroy his reputation, Lou Feiqiong confronted his father and refused to inherit the Lou Clan on those terms.

• Zhao Cong warned Gao Tianfeng to act quickly before the Martial Government and Supreme Court noticed, and Gao later arranged five years of corporate cooperation worth over five billion.
• Divine Script experts at the hospital vowed to defend Zhou Leng, while Zhao Nandi left him with two investigators from the Demon City Army General Command Headquarters.
• Zhou Leng answered questions about the Great Battlefield and handed over his chat history with Xu Ming; a merit recorder revealed more than one hundred thousand Innate imprints, over twelve thousand Greater Innate imprints, and thirty Grandmaster imprints.
• The investigators gave Zhou Leng an emergency alarm and affirmed that he remained one of their own; afterward, Zhou Leng avoided opening Martial Faith, and Zhao Nandi stayed to care for him.
• Lou Shanding told Lou Feiqiong that the Sixteen Families planned to ruin Zhou Leng's reputation and keep tormenting him, but Lou Feiqiong condemned their crimes and urged his father to stop.
• Lou Feiqiong refused to take over the Lou Clan while it remained complicit, and Lou Shanding left after promising to hand him the clan leadership once Zhou Leng's case was settled.

Chen Shouhu and Wang Boxiong persuaded Huang Xuange to investigate the framing of Zhou Leng and arrange an early ceremony honoring him, while Zhou Leng recovered and refined the Shuizhou Trial amid a growing campaign of false accusations. Lu Yuanhao explained why he believed Zhou Leng was innocent by recounting how a cake shop owner had falsely accused his father and incited the public against his family.

• Chen Shouhu and Wang Boxiong told Huang Xuange that Zhou Leng had been framed, and Huang ordered them to lead a special task force that would investigate the case to its end.
• Wang Boxiong convinced Huang Xuange to hold Zhou Leng's honors ceremony early on Little New Year, and he planned to announce Zhou Leng's achievements at the Hero Monument and on Sky Vision 7 O'Clock News.
• Zhou Leng ignored a message on his Demonic Wristwatch, accepted Zhao Nandi's care, and returned to the Heavenly Stair Trial Grounds to revise the Shuizhou Trial.
• False reports and rumors about Zhou Leng spread while media outlets suppressed news of his Divine Script Master identity, and public opinion increasingly treated him as guilty.
• Lu Yuanhao told the students why he defended Zhou Leng and recounted how a rival cake shop owner falsely accused his father, drove customers away from their shop, and later lost business because her cakes remained poor.

Lu Yuanhao learned that the woman who had framed Zhou Leng was the daughter of the scammer who had ruined his family, and he vowed to pursue justice. As Zhou Leng faced renewed legal harassment in Xiong City, envoys from five clans traveled there to appoint him their ambassador and compete for his allegiance.

• Lu Yuanhao discovered that the person who framed Zhou Leng was the daughter of the cake shop owner who had defrauded his family, and he planned to guard Demon City after reaching the innate realm.
• Patrol officers and inspectors questioned Zhou Leng in the hospital, then threatened to keep him in Xiong City despite his work for the Divine Script General Institute.
• Zhao Nandi warned Zhou Leng that the Sixteen Families could use legal delays and the media to ruin him, while Zhou Leng asked her to help him escape to the Demon Spirit World if necessary.
• Azure-Crimson Flame and Molten Hammer gathered at the 7th Division camp with Treant, Giant, and Dragon envoys preparing to visit Zhou Leng.
• Crimson Sorrow revealed that Zhou Leng's Dragon God aura exceeded a Demigod's and urged the Dragons to outbid the Giants for his allegiance.
• Envoys from five clans boarded a Demonic Warplane and flew toward Xiong City to meet Zhou Leng.

Zhou Leng rejected the inspectors’ attempt to pressure him into writing an apology and threatened to retaliate if his life remained at risk. As friends and representatives from several races gathered at his hospital room, he asked for their help recovering in Demon Spirit World, while the Elf Clan arrived seeking his opinion about their response to his ordeal.

• The inspectors proposed that Zhou Leng write an apology letter so the victim would withdraw the lawsuit, but Zhou Leng denounced their pressure and warned them and their allies not to threaten his life.
• After leaving Zhou Leng’s room, one inspector complimented Zhao Nandi’s perfume and the inspectors admired her apparent status before their group departed the hospital.
• Molten Hammer and Jade Wing arrived, and Jade Wing told Zhou Leng that the Dragon Council planned to appoint him ambassador between the two realms and might grant him a noble title.
• A crowd of old friends and allies arrived, and Zhou Leng asked Azure-Crimson Flame to stay and help him recover in Demon Spirit World.
• Yinhu Feng and several elves arrived, explaining that some Elven youths had discussed leaving Dragon Kingdom over Zhou Leng’s treatment and asking to hear his opinion.