Chapter Summaries

Yinhu Feng showed the five-race envoys the campaign against Zhou Leng, and they concluded that powerful forces in the Dragon Kingdom wanted him dead. Azure-Crimson Flame proposed testing the Dragon Kingdom’s response with diplomatic announcements, while the envoys began contacting their elders and embassies to protect Zhou Leng.

• Yinhu Feng showed the envoys reports, videos, and comments attacking Zhou Leng, and they struggled to understand why people supported the accusations.
• Azure-Crimson Flame inferred that a powerful faction was trying to ruin Zhou Leng’s reputation and eventually kill him, and Zhou Leng confirmed that was broadly correct.
• Molten Hammer urged Zhou Leng to flee, while the envoys offered refuge in their worlds and accused the Dragon Kingdom of abandoning him.
• Azure-Crimson Flame proposed seeking Zhou Leng’s appointment as ambassador between the two worlds, raising his case at the Hero Monument event, and announcing his role on the races’ official accounts.
• Molten Hammer and the other envoys left people outside Zhou Leng’s room, then contacted their elders and embassies to report the alleged threat and compete to gain Zhou Leng’s trust.

Zhou Leng remained hospitalized as the Martial Guard Bureau prepared a secret event and planned to honor heroes at the Monument. As the extended broadcast began, the ceremony’s opening played while people across the country waited to learn what the night’s news would reveal.

• Inspectors tried to persuade Zhou Leng to withdraw his lawsuit, while Director Wang ordered preparations for the Poison Pill Plan and the 7th Division lowered the intelligence classification of its report.
• Director Wang told Zhou Leng to attend a confidential event the next day; Zhou Leng asked to return to Ru City and visit the Ancient River Research Bureau.
• Xue Chengsong watched a broadcast and angrily named Gao Tianlong, while Xu Qingjin and Liang Baiyin sent Zhou Leng messages of support.
• Zhang Xinglie left the hospital with a crutch, said he would cultivate Zhou Leng’s share of the Martial Dao, and agreed when the girl beside him asked to have a child.
• The Hero Monument Ceremony drew worldwide attention as Sky Vision announced an extended broadcast and the Network Affairs Office warned against online harassment, rumors, and false accusations.
• At seven-thirty, Sky Vision showed the ceremony beginning at New Tianmen Square as an honor guard presented flowers before the Martial Dao Hero Monument.

At the Hero Monument ceremony, the Martial Government honored Zhou Leng and publicly revealed the scale of his achievements, clearing his name before the nation and the world. Zhou Leng saluted the monument and received Zhang Zongtingshou’s thanks as people across the country wept.

• Distinguished guests attended the ceremony, and Zhang Zongtingshou gave a speech that signaled preparations for the War of the Ten Worlds and acknowledged fierce internal conflicts.
• Chen Shouhu and Su Fenghe received mid-level general honors, prompting Martial Government insiders to consider the significance of their awards after their past conflict.
• The host revealed Zhou Leng’s roles and achievements, including his leadership during the Heavenly Stair Joint Examination, his Divine Script discoveries, his work on the Ancient River Sect’s inheritance, and his creation of the National Divine Ability Tough Body.
• The host detailed Zhou Leng’s battles as the Arrow Bearer, Demon Slayer, Mistbreaker, Hundred-Battle Hero, Thousand-Battle Hero, and Ten-Thousand-Battle Hero, while high-definition footage showed his exploits and viewers reacted with shock.
• Zhou Leng placed flowers before the Hero Monument, and Zhang Zongtingshou thanked him on behalf of the Dragon Kingdom’s people as soldiers, dignitaries, and viewers saluted.
• People across Dragon Kingdom, including Xu Qingjin, Lu Yuanhao, Li Linhan, and Hu Yi, broke down in tears after Zhou Leng’s recognition.

After Zhou Leng received public honors and faced a wave of online reactions to his persecution, he returned to Ru City and established the Shuizhou Trial at the Ancient River Research Bureau. He chose to rest in the mountains while waiting for the authorities’ response, and ended by asking Wang Boxiong about accusations against the Zhao family.

• Zhou Leng’s televised appeal for quiet recovery sparked heated online debate, including sarcastic exchanges between South and North and a message from an Elephant Kingdom resident whose dream was for Dragon Kingdom to save them.
• Zhou Leng returned to the Ancient River Research Bureau, met Li Yuanhe and others, and established humanity’s first high-level innate-tier trial ground there.
• Chen Shouhu offered to arrange a Grandmaster Life-and-Death Arena if the authorities mishandled the case, while Wang Boxiong warned that entrenched rules and interests would be difficult to change.
• Wang Boxiong drove Zhou Leng to Xiaoru Village and discussed his possible civilian or business career, but Zhou Leng said he wanted to rest and might vacation in the Demon Spirit World to stay alive.
• At Xiaoru Village, Zhou Leng asked how similar injustices could be prevented and whether demons’ accusations against the Zhao family were true; Wang Boxiong replied that falsehood could not become truth and truth could not become falsehood.

After losing his true energy to a Calamity Envoy, Zhou Leng recovered at Mammoth Lake and discovered that a shield fossil contained Stellar Void True Energy, a higher power that could restore his strength. The chapter left him hopeful that he could use it to recover and cultivate without true energy, while Big Yellow lay unconscious beneath the Frost Giant Tree.

• Zhou Leng returned to the mountain forest, reunited with Big Yellow, and went to Mammoth Lake to heal his wounds.
• Big Yellow repeatedly kowtowed and struck his head against the Frost Giant Tree, recalling the woman who had asked him to protect Zhou Leng before collapsing from his injuries.
• Zhou Leng sensed Stellar Void True Energy while cultivating the Indestructible Star Body and uncovered a shield-shaped artifact from the Dwarf World fossil.
• Zhou Leng named the artifact the Solar Shield Disc and drew Stellar Void True Energy from it, shrinking his wounds and restoring his strength and focus.
• Zhou Leng considered using Stellar Void True Energy to replace true energy and cultivate without meridians, then sorted his spoils from the Great Battlefield beneath the Frost Giant Tree.

Zhou Leng discovered the Primordial True-Energy Art and began studying its untranslated Divine Script, while his wounds healed and his physical strength grew. After visiting Mammoth Town, he reached Elf Town, where Yinhu Yue updated him on the elves’ progress in medicinal herb cultivation and artifact refining.

• Big Yellow found Zhou Leng a Golden Page explaining Divine Power, Stellar Void True Energy, and how advanced cultivation went beyond true qi.
• Zhou Leng realized the Indestructible Star Body might let him cultivate Stellar Void True Energy and began memorizing the untranslated Primordial True-Energy Art.
• After three days, Zhou Leng’s wounds healed, and he tested his strength with heavy squats, reaching eight hundred tons without true qi.
• Zhou Leng recalled that powers from the Great Battlefield had fused into his body and believed they would grow stronger once he mastered Stellar Void True Energy.
• Zhou Leng traveled with Big Yellow and Little Eight through Mammoth Town to Elf Town, where Yinhu Yue welcomed him and described the elves’ development.

Zhou Leng’s false-accusation case drew worldwide attention as the Steel Dwarves, Treants, Giants, Dragons, and Demon Spirit World named him an ambassador or honored him with high office. Their intervention forced officials to acknowledge Zhou Leng’s innocence and promise severe action against the people who had wronged him, while cars headed toward Zhao Palace.

• Zhou Leng left cultivation supplies with the elves, then took Yinhu Yue, Big Yellow, and Little Eight to join the Mammoth Tribe campaign.
• Dragon Kingdom media released interviews and evidence defending Zhou Leng, while online platforms throttled related news until public pressure forced them to lift restrictions.
• At a meeting about Zhou Leng’s case, Inspector Yang resisted punishing the false accuser, but officials received news that four clans had appointed Zhou Leng as their ambassador and sent powerful forces to Water Continent Demon City.
• The Demon Spirit World appointed Zhou Leng a Divine Tower Councilor, and Inspector Yang realized that his career in the Martial Government had ended.
• The Inspection Division, Patrol Division, Chang University, and Jichang City declared Zhou Leng innocent and announced that the false accuser and relevant personnel would be dealt with severely; Chang University expelled the accuser.
• Cars drove toward Zhao Palace outside Xiong Capital.

Xue Chengsong asked Li Linhan and Zhao Lianshuo for help retrieving his father’s corpse after Gao Tianlong seized the Xue family’s assets and mining fields. Gao Tianlong promised to search for the corpse, but privately decided he would yield only if Zhou Leng proved powerful enough to threaten him.

• Li Linhan met Xue Chengsong outside Zhou Leng’s home and learned that Gao Tianlong had seized the family’s assets and was holding Xue Tongming’s corpse.
• Li Linhan took Xue Chengsong to Zhao Lianshuo, who agreed to ask Gao Tianlong to return the corpse.
• Gao Tianlong warmly promised Zhao Lianshuo that he would find Xue Tongming’s corpse within three days, then dismissed the three men without addressing their other concerns.
• Zhao Lianshuo overheard Gao Tianlong insult him after the meeting, and Li Linhan hurried him into the elevator before he could confront Gao Tianlong.
• Gao Tianlong privately decided to keep the mining shares unless Zhou Leng demonstrated enough power to force him to give them up, and said he would send Xue Tongming’s corpse back.

Gao Tianlong and the Zhao family planned to take Zhao Lianshuo’s broken sword and secure their interests in a mine connected to Zhou Leng, while officials reshuffled departments in response to the controversy around him. In the Beast World, Zhou Leng mastered the opening of the “Primordial True-Energy Art,” formed a True-Energy Singularity, and discovered that his restored physical power surpassed its former strength, though his reserves remained limited.

• Gao Tianlong and Rao Mingxian suspected Zhao Sheng’s Broken Sword might be connected to the “Dongjun’s Six Volumes” and planned to borrow it through a museum exhibition.
• Gao Tianlong and Zhao Cong agreed to reclaim the sword and transfer money to Zhou Leng for his mine shares, while Gao Tianfeng reported widespread dismissals and said officials planned to persuade Zhou Leng to retire among the foreign races.
• Zhou Leng recovered from two days of unconsciousness after eating medicinal fruits at Mammoth Mountain and joined the Eight-Tusked Mammoth army in battle, adapting to fighting without True Energy.
• After a month of studying the “Primordial True-Energy Art,” Zhou Leng experienced the birth of a star and formed a True-Energy Singularity that absorbed Stellar Void True Energy.
• Zhou Leng used his new power to push open Little Eight’s trunk and crush tungsten steel, confirming that his strength had exceeded its former level even though his stored energy was still small.

Zhou Leng’s completion of Blue Star’s first Innate Realm Heavenly Stair Trial Grounds forced the Inspection Division to prosecute those who had falsely accused him, while the Sixteen Families reconsidered their failed attack. In Beast World, Zhou Leng refined a Headless God Arm and then returned to Ru City, where his new trial grounds awaited.

• During a conference over the prosecution of Zhou Leng’s false accusers, the Heavenly Stair announced that Zhou Leng had completed the Shuizhou Innate Realm Trial Grounds, expanded its capacity, and added a layer to Blue Star’s Heavenly Stair.
• The Inspection Division formally initiated public prosecution against the false accusers, and the Demon City Army soldiers relaxed after the decision.
• Gao Tianlong regretted pressuring Zhou Leng to leave Blue Star, the Sixteen Families failed to agree on a response, and Gao Tianfeng sought favor with Zhao Hao and Madam Zhao Sheng.
• The Niu Family sent important members with horses and Martial Dao resources to Ru City to seek out Zhou Leng.
• In Beast World, Zhou Leng refined the Orc Demigod’s Headless God Arm with Stellar Void True Energy, increasing his bodily strength by about ten percent.
• Zhou Leng returned to Ru City after arranging medicinal fruits with the Elf Tribe, and he sensed that he could enter his completed Heavenly Stair Trial Grounds from anywhere while at the Innate Realm.

Zhou Leng received Blood of Tyranny’s advice to visit the Siren Ancient River Ruins before advancing, then realized Blood of Tyranny himself had secretly come to Blue Star and attacked the Eagle Alliance. He decided to seek the ruins and reassured Xu Qingjin that they would marry once he handled the Sixteen Families.

• Zhou Leng read messages from Blood of Tyranny, who advised him to find the Ancient River Ruins and warned him not to advance to grandmaster before visiting them.
• Zhou Leng explained the Farmhouse Leisure poem to Blood of Tyranny’s supposed subordinate and learned that the Eagle Alliance was in turmoil after several brutal attacks.
• Zhou Leng connected the attacks and recent poems to Blood of Tyranny, realizing that the Demigod himself had entered Blue Star.
• Zhou Leng studied Blood of Tyranny’s map and resolved to reach the Siren Ancient River Ruins before advancing to grandmaster.
• Zhou Leng read Xu Qingjin’s messages, promised they would register their marriage after he dealt with the Sixteen Families, and received her agreement.

Zhou Leng set out for West Sea Demon City after demanding justice over the false accusation, while Zhu Shiji killed Lou Shanding and the Lou Clan expelled Lou Feiqiong. Zhou Leng entered the Siren World and continued toward his next path of cultivation.

• Zhou Leng told Wang Boxiong that he wanted justice and planned to find a new direction for cultivation.
• Zhu Shiji confronted Lou Shanding over the treatment of his registered disciple Zhou Leng, then killed him with a strike that pierced the Lou Clan estate.
• Zhu Shiji publicly acknowledged Zhou Leng as his registered disciple, and the Lou Clan elders chose a new clan head and expelled Lou Feiqiong after crippling his Martial Dao.
• Zhou Leng bypassed the West Sea Demon City defensive line, entered the seawater, and used his sailfish Siren form to travel across the submerged city.
• Zhou Leng left West Sea Demon City and entered the Siren World.

Zhou Leng slaughtered Fish Demons and plundered the Siren World, using Blood of Tyranny’s name and poetry to deter Siren Grandmasters. He reached the entrance to the Ancient River Ruins, was pulled inside, and found himself facing a squad of Sirens in an abandoned plaza.

• Zhou Leng covered the Monster-Slaying Camp martial artists’ retreat and killed a large school of Sirens, including three Great Innate Fish Demons.
• Zhou Leng raided a Fishfolk island, killing its inhabitants and taking valuables from their treasure vault.
• Three Siren Grandmasters confronted Zhou Leng, but they fled after he showed Blood of Tyranny’s image and recited his poetry.
• Zhou Leng learned that Blood of Tyranny had driven a Siren Grandmaster mad for mocking his poems, then killed the Siren who told him the story.
• Zhou Leng found the seaweed-covered entrance to the Ancient River Ruins and was sucked through it into a ruined plaza, where a squad of Sirens noticed him.

Zhou Leng explored the Ancient River Ruins and learned that the Sirens led by Azure Sword sought power to kill Blood of Tyranny. After a Siren was killed by the Way-Bearing Hall’s barrier, Zhou Leng entered the side passage with the Sirens and reached the Hall of a Thousand Artifacts.

• Zhou Leng overheard the Sirens discussing the Azure Royal Clan’s feud with Blood of Tyranny and their plan to gain power from the ruins.
• Zhou Leng identified the ruined building as the Way-Bearing Hall and agreed to cooperate with Azure Sword while concealing his identity and intentions.
• Zhou Leng translated the plaque for the Sirens, but warned them that they might not be qualified to enter the hall.
• A burly Blue-Skinned Siren charged into the Way-Bearing Hall’s blue light curtain and was reduced to ash by lightning.
• Zhou Leng entered the hall’s side door, and the Sirens followed him into a chamber marked Thousand Artifacts.

Zhou Leng entered the Heavenly Tide Mirror and endured increasingly powerful waves that filled him with Stellar Void True Energy, imprinted their patterns on his mind, and polished his Martial Will. He emerged alive but near his limit, while the Sirens learned that the trial was far deadlier than it had first appeared.

• Zhou Leng entered the Heavenly Tide Mirror, while Sirens entered the Void-Wind and Skystorm Thunder Mirrors and were killed by their trials.
• Zhou Leng endured the Heavenly Tide Waves and discovered that waves above one hundred meters infused him with Stellar Void True Energy and increased his True-Energy Singularity’s capacity.
• As the waves grew stronger, Zhou Leng’s Star Phoenix Restoration Art converted excess Stellar Void True Energy into Star Phoenix Feathers, while the waves’ patterns imprinted on his mind.
• After surviving a thousand-meter wave that damaged his organs and bones and pressed against his Martial Will, Zhou Leng recovered with the mirror’s white mist and emerged.
• A Siren rushed into the Heavenly Tide Mirror, believing it was easy, and later emerged as a lump of minced flesh.

Zhou Leng endured the Void-Wind Mirror’s escalating tornadoes, cultivating its destructive power until he lost consciousness before completing the trial. He returned to the Sirens and told Azure Sword that he had failed, leaving Azure Sword to believe the second mirror was too dangerous to attempt.

• Zhou Leng told Azure Sword that the Sirens could not complete the first mirror’s final trial, though the strongest might pass its preliminary trial.
• Several Sirens entered the Heavenly Tide Mirror and died, while Azure Sword waited until the mirror went dark after ten attempts were used.
• Azure Sword realized Zhou Leng’s trial had consumed the final attempt and decided to wait for him before risking the other mirrors.
• Zhou Leng entered the Void-Wind Mirror and endured increasingly powerful tornadoes, absorbing their energy as his body healed and grew stronger.
• Zhou Leng reached the 901st tornado, lost consciousness, and reappeared outside the mirror without passing the trial.
• Zhou Leng told Azure Sword that the Void-Wind Mirror was too difficult and asked how Azure Sword’s first trial had gone.

Azure Sword regretted missing the Void-Wind Mirror trial and decided Zhou Leng was the key to restoring the Azure Royal Clan. He tried to secure Zhou Leng’s cooperation against Blood of Tyranny, but Zhou Leng remained wary and demanded proof of sincerity.

• Azure Sword realized he had missed his chance to undergo the first mirror’s trial and resolved to recruit Zhou Leng instead.
• Zhou Leng absorbed the Void-Wind Mirror’s power, increasing his True-Energy Singularities to forty-seven times their original amount and refining his Martial Will.
• Azure Sword offered Zhou Leng a Heart of the Ocean, but Zhou Leng refused it and replenished himself with his own medicinal fruits.
• Azure Sword proposed trading Sea Clan resources and intelligence for resources from the human worlds, while Zhou Leng refused to promise he would fight Blood of Tyranny.
• Zhou Leng asked Azure Sword for more proof of sincerity, and Azure Sword handed him a tortoise shell weighing more than two hundred tons, impressed by Zhou Leng’s strength.

Zhou Leng traded a mountain of Siren spoils to Azure Sword for valuable resources and intelligence, then entered the Skystorm Thunder Mirror. The trial’s lightning inflicted devastating injuries, but he endured it to absorb refined Stellar Void True Energy and deepen his understanding of the Primordial True-Energy Art.

• Azure Sword offered Zhou Leng a Turtle Lock treasure and Fish Demon Garments, but Zhou Leng revealed that he already had many garments and doubted the offer.
• Azure Sword told Zhou Leng that the Trump Family and Zhao family secretly traded with Sirens, and Zhou Leng exchanged his Siren spoils for 5,700 Abyssal Sea Pearls’ worth of goods.
• Azure Sword said the Turtle Lock treasure might contain Soft Gold, and Zhou Leng agreed to cooperate in exchange for it and accepted the Heart of the Ocean and turtle shell.
• After resting, Zhou Leng entered the Skystorm Thunder Mirror and faced lightning that carried immense pressure and Destructive Stellar Force.
• The mirror’s repeated lightning strikes tore open Zhou Leng’s skin and flesh, but he endured them to absorb refined Stellar Void True Energy and improve his understanding of the Primordial True-Energy Art.

Zhou Leng endured the Skystorm Thunder Mirror’s lightning trial, transformed his Stellar Void True Energy, and entered a courtyard where sword qi destroyed the Sirens who followed him. He left with Azure Sword after touching the Sword-Grinding Stone with the Tiger Tally, while the mystery of the courtyard and the other side door remained unresolved.

• Zhou Leng endured the Skystorm Thunder Mirror’s lightning until the trial ended, then saw a colossal Thunder Dragon God and used its power as a model to transform his Stellar Void True Energy.
• Zhou Leng completed a new form of Stellar Void True Energy after three days of contemplation and told Azure Sword that he had made only limited progress.
• Zhou Leng led the Sirens toward the left side door of the Hall of a Thousand Artifacts, where sword qi annihilated the Sirens who entered with him.
• Zhou Leng examined the courtyard’s Sword-Grinding Stone, touched it with the Tiger Tally, and sensed a faint glimmer enter the tally.
• Zhou Leng left the courtyard with Azure Sword, and Azure Sword blamed Blood of Tyranny for the Sirens’ deaths.

Zhou Leng entered the ruined courtyard and met Shen Yunxian, the Ancient River Sect’s long-lost sect master, who recognized his Divine Script and Stellar Void True Energy. After hearing his story, Shen Yunxian warned him to prepare an escape route and avoid the Demon Spirit World, leaving Zhou Leng stunned by her revelation that she had remained in the Void God Realm before her death.

• Zhou Leng passed through the right-side gate while Azure Sword stayed outside to guard the entrance.
• Shen Yunxian emerged from the mural after Zhou Leng addressed her in Divine Script and identified himself as her junior brother.
• Zhou Leng explained his history and adventures, including his encounters with the Ancient River Sect, the Heavenly Stair, and the Calamity Envoy.
• Shen Yunxian returned the Tiger Tally to Zhou Leng and warned him to stay away from the Calamity Envoy and prepare an escape route, preferably among the Giants or Dragons rather than in the Demon Spirit World.
• Shen Yunxian revealed that she had remained in the Void God Realm before her death, and Zhou Leng questioned how even the Ancient River Three Sons had failed to reach the True God Realm.