Chapter Summaries

Song Juesi defeated Nie Fen'yang, exposed his old enemy’s crimes, and advanced into the Great Grandmaster Realm. Zhou Leng then killed Xu Xinheng with seventy percent of his strength, leaving the Sixteen Families to face his challenge.

• Song Juesi confronted Nie Fen'yang over the false charges and decades of imprisonment, then killed him in their opening battle.
• Song Juesi’s aura surged into the Great Grandmaster Realm, and he warned the Sixteen Families that he would avenge Zhou Leng if they killed him.
• The Sixteen Families planned to test Zhou Leng with Xu Xinheng before arranging for Yingxi to fight.
• Xu Xinheng promised to spare Zhou Leng and agreed to use seventy percent of his strength, but Zhou Leng exposed his history of killing opponents.
• Zhou Leng decapitated Xu Xinheng with a single strike while using seventy percent of his strength and no Stellar Void True Energy.

Zhou Leng accepted an Ascending Dragon Pill from the Huang family in exchange for limiting his fight with Huang Mingtang to ten moves, unaware that the offer was meant to secure Mingtang’s survival. He fought with restraint at first, but his fourth punch broke through Mingtang’s defenses and left the watching Grandmasters impressed by his East Wind Fist.

• After Zhou Leng killed Xu Xinheng, the Sixteen Families’ Grandmasters discussed how to test him and settled on sending a Low Grandmaster Realm fighter.
• Huang Wancheng offered Zhou Leng an Ascending Dragon Pill in exchange for a ten-move limit, and Zhou Leng accepted without realizing the bargain was meant to protect Huang Mingtang.
• Zhou Leng and Huang Mingtang began their match, and Zhou Leng’s first East Wind Fist sent them both retreating five steps while Zhou Leng pretended to struggle to earn the pill.
• Zhou Leng pressed Huang Mingtang with two more East Wind Fist attacks, while Mingtang used layered true-qi defenses to hold him off.
• Zhou Leng’s fourth punch broke through Huang Mingtang’s defenses, drove him to the arena’s edge, and left holes in his protective qi and blood.

Zhou Leng killed Huang Mingtang after giving him six punches, then fought Huang Wancheng in a prolonged duel. Zhou Leng’s fist momentum overwhelmed the Huang family head, who collapsed and died.

• Zhou Leng used Pierce Heaven and Connect Earth and Autumn Waves, Mountains and Rivers to break through Huang Mingtang’s defenses and kill him with a single punch.
• Huang Wancheng accused Zhou Leng of killing his younger brother despite accepting the Ascending Dragon Pill, and Zhou Leng replied that he had already given Huang Mingtang six punches.
• Huang Wancheng armored himself with aura-blood and challenged Zhou Leng, who tested the Mid Grandmaster Realm fighter while defending against his Haoran Qi Battle Fist.
• After a thousand exchanges, Zhou Leng cycled through East Wind Fist and built a prairie-fire momentum that drove Huang Wancheng backward.
• Zhou Leng seized his fist momentum in his right hand as Huang Wancheng’s bones shattered and his body collapsed.

Zhou Leng rejected Dong Yingxi’s offer of reconciliation and demanded justice from the Sixteen Families, forcing Dong Yingxi to fight him. The chapter ended with Zhou Leng repeatedly meeting Dong Yingxi’s High Grandmaster attacks with Autumn Waves, Mountains and Rivers.

• After Zhou Leng killed Huang Fangcheng, the Sixteen Families chose Dong Yingxi to face him.
• Dong Yingxi advanced into the High Grandmaster Realm and offered to erase Zhou Leng’s grievances and share the families’ benefits if he agreed to make peace.
• Zhou Leng said he could not justify abandoning justice to his past selves, and argued that justice had to be fought for rather than granted.
• Dong Yingxi accused Zhou Leng of seeking to destroy the Sixteen Families, and Zhou Leng replied that they refused to let him and the people live as humans.
• Dong Yingxi attacked from a distance with the Haoran Qi Battle Fist, while Zhou Leng repeatedly countered with Autumn Waves, Mountains and Rivers.

Zhou Leng fought Dong Yingxi through thousands of exchanges, using the pressure of the Upper Grandmaster Realm to master Autumn Waves and Mountains and Rivers. He reached the move’s ultimate realm and killed Dong Yingxi with a devastating ninth punch, leaving the Sixteen Families’ challenge unresolved.

• Zhou Leng and Dong Yingxi exchanged thousands of attacks as Dong Yingxi varied his long-range strikes and gradually wounded Zhou Leng.
• Dong Yingxi’s attacks left Zhou Leng with only superficial injuries, while Zhou Leng steadily refined Autumn Waves and Mountains and Rivers.
• Song Juesi recognized that Zhou Leng was using Dong Yingxi as a stand-in for the old powers Zhao Sheng had fought, honing the move’s fist momentum through battle.
• Zhou Leng raised his arm like a banner, unleashed Autumn Waves and Mountains and Rivers at its ultimate level, and broke through Dong Yingxi’s fist momentum.
• Zhou Leng struck Dong Yingxi with a ninth punch that sent him flying with his arms shattered and a hole through his chest; Dong Yingxi died by the lake.

Zhou Leng slaughtered the Grandmasters of the Sixteen Families in the Life-and-Death Arena and left their surviving members divided and shaken. As the group headed toward Shuizhou Base, a Demon City Army video revealed his victories against millions of demons and named him a Hundred-Battle Grandmaster.

• Zhou Leng challenged the Sixteen Families' Grandmasters, while Song Juesi, Sun Chan, Zhang Nanchao, and other martial artists joined him and Zhao Tianji ordered the other Grandmasters to uphold the arena rules.
• Zhou Leng offered to spare descendants outside the family heads' lines if they sincerely apologized, then warned outsiders that interfering would bring retaliation against their families.
• Zhou Leng killed seven Mid Grandmasters with Stellar Void True Energy, then killed the remaining Grandmasters of the Sixteen Families with his punches.
• Zhou Leng killed the current Lou Clan head with a blade of grass and departed for Shuizhou Base with Elder Song, Zhang Feng, and the others, while Li Shenkong set out for Treant Base.
• The Sixteen Families discussed changing their plans, but a Demon City Army video showed Zhou Leng killing millions of enemies and 127 Grandmasters, earning him the title of Hundred-Battle Grandmaster.

After defeating the Sixteen Families’ Grand Masters, Zhou Leng secured Xu Qingjin’s protection, strengthened the Ancient River Sect, and arranged a trade for Soft Gold. Meanwhile, the Zhao family maneuvered for power, envoys headed to Blue Star, and Wang Boxiong rejected Zhao Cong’s offer to end their hostility.

• Zhou Leng took Xu Qingjin and her mother to the Ancient River Research Bureau, gave out Wood-Jade Talismans, and set a recruitment quota of one hundred thousand disciples for the Ancient River Sect.
• Li Yuanhe warned Zhou Leng that Zhao Cong and other officials might interfere in the Ancient River Sect, and Zhou Leng instructed him to pass along a warning against obstructing the sect’s development.
• Zhou Leng arranged to trade Soft Gold with the Sea-Calming Army for cultivation resources, then spent several days cultivating and staying with Xu Qingjin.
• The new heads of the Sixteen Families visited Ru City with compensation, while Zhou Leng reviewed intelligence showing Gao Tianfeng had fled to Xiong City and won Zhao Hao’s permission to stay there.
• Ice Snow Divine Cult envoys set out to invite Zhou Leng and Aiden to attend the Sacred Canon, while Zhao Cong’s army celebrated a victory over the Demonic Beasts.
• Zhao Cong asked Wang Boxiong to end their hostility, but Wang Boxiong rejected his offer.

Wang Boxiong explained to Zhao Cong why he opposed the Zhao family and challenged the society that kept ordinary people from being treated as human. Chen Shouhu then joined Tong Tianxia’s plan to act against the forces perpetuating that injustice, while Wang Boxiong supplied evidence of the Zhao family’s crimes.

• Wang Boxiong told Zhao Cong that he had forgiven the Zhao family for the Jade Cong but still opposed a system that treated people as expendable.
• Wang Boxiong argued that people deserved more than survival and asked Zhao Cong how he could justify abandoning the person he had once been.
• Zhao Cong challenged Wang Boxiong to go to Zhao Palace, but Wang Boxiong walked away without answering.
• Chen Shouhu agreed to join Tong Tianxia’s plan, saying he could no longer leave the burdens of the past to the next generation.
• Tong Tianxia met Wang Boxiong in an abandoned mine, where Wang Boxiong gave him a folder containing the Zhao family’s latest crimes.
• A troop of Eight-Tusked Mammoths raced through the Wasteland Demon City border with a Black-Armored Giant Wolf standing atop one of them.

Zhou Leng traveled to the Ice Snow Divine Cult’s Sacred Canon, where he reunited with Big Yellow and Little Eight and helped arrange preliminary trade talks between the cult and the Eight-Tusked Mammoths. As the ceremony’s Awakening stage began, Snow Mountain Wolf warned that Mad Prince Aiden might use his likely rise to Holy Son to target Zhou Leng.

• Snow Mountain Wolf invited Zhou Leng to the Sacred Canon, and Zhou Leng agreed to attend.
• Zhou Leng found Big Yellow, Little Eight, and the Eight-Tusked Mammoths battling Earth-Splitting Giant Lizards near Holy Snow Lower City.
• Zhou Leng mediated preliminary cooperation talks between the Ice Snow Divine Cult and the Eight-Tusked Mammoths, and some Mammoths stayed for the Sacred Canon.
• Jade Wing reunited with Zhou Leng, while Snow Mountain Wolf warned that Aiden resented Zhou Leng and might try to get rid of him if chosen as Holy Son.
• The Sacred Canon began with the Awakening stage, and the temple’s white light eliminated many members with insufficient Divine Favor.
• A voice called Zhou Leng and Jade Wing forward toward the temple gates.

Big Yellow’s immense Divine Favor made him the Ice Snow Divine Cult’s new Holy Son, overturning Aiden’s claim to the title. After the investiture and banquet, Zhou Leng recruited Jax by offering him a chance to lead the Trump Family.

• The Divine Favor Radiance revealed that Aiden had eight hundred thousand snowflakes, while Zhou Leng had seven hundred and eighty thousand and Jade Wing had three hundred and twenty thousand.
• Big Yellow’s reflection showed eight million Divine Favor snowflakes, and he transformed into an armored giant wolf as he absorbed the radiance.
• Big Yellow sat on the Ice Throne, received a divine crown, and was acclaimed as Holy Son while Aiden watched in defeat.
• At the banquet, Big Yellow feasted while Zhou Leng danced in his place, and Jax stayed beside the dazed Aiden.
• Zhou Leng asked Jax whether he wanted to become head of the Trump Family, and Jax pledged his loyalty to him.

Zhou Leng secured Jax’s loyalty, arranged Aiden’s death, and helped Jax take control of the Trump Family with Ice Snow Divine Cult backing. He also established two trading houses, coordinated cross-world commerce, and profited from the collapse of the High-Energy Spiral Shell market as the Trump Family rose in the Eagle Alliance.

• Zhou Leng recruited Jax to rebuild the Trump Family, pursue power in the Eagle Alliance, and serve as an Ancient River Sect branch while avoiding its martial arts.
• Jax testified against Aiden, and Zhou Leng killed Aiden in a witnessed death duel; Jax then took over the Trump Family and returned to the Eagle Alliance with Demon Spirit Masters.
• Zhou Leng and the Ice Snow Divine Cult established shared trading operations, including the Snow Eagle Trading House and Deep Frost Trading House, to manage commerce and acquire cultivation resources.
• After hearing that High-Energy Spiral Shells were overvalued, Zhou Leng helped the Ice Snow Divine Cult spread news of their toxicity and radiation, triggering a market crash and secret bargain buying.
• With Ice Snow Divine Cult support, Jax’s Trump Family gained resources and influence in the Eagle Alliance, causing rival forces to withdraw.

The Martial Guard General Academy dropped its effort to remove Wang Boxiong after learning that he had helped secure bone powder that accelerated martial artists’ advancement. After months of training and trials across other worlds, Zhou Leng returned to Demon City and watched Lu Yuanhao reveal that he had killed the woman who had ruined his family, condemning the injustice of Zhou Leng’s case and others like it.

• The Training Department traced a surge in Innate promotions to ferocious beast bone powder obtained through Wang Boxiong and Zhou Leng, and the Martial Guard Chief used the discovery to halt pressure against Wang Boxiong.
• Wang Boxiong thanked Zhou Leng for protecting his position in Ru City.
• Zhou Leng trained and completed trials in the Steel Dwarf, Giant, and Dragon worlds, gaining divine blessings, Dragon God Blood, and a place among the Dragon World's leaders.
• Zhou Leng found a Divine Script clue suggesting that a Jade King might contain Stellar Void True Energy, while his cultivation rose to the peak of the Lower Realm.
• Zhou Leng returned to Demon City and watched a video in which Lu Yuanhao displayed the severed head of the woman who had destroyed his family and explained why he had acted.
• Lu Yuanhao connected his decision to Zhou Leng’s case, arguing that unfair judgments had eroded martial artists’ will to fight.

Zhou Leng learned that Xue Chengsong had been murdered and the mine he once owned had been seized and turned over to the Zhao family, which was waiting for a Jade King that Zhou Leng needed for his cultivation. Though Wang Boxiong warned him not to challenge the Zhao family yet, Zhou Leng declared that he wanted fairness and the Jade King.

• Lu Yuanhao killed a person who had returned from medical release on bail, wrote “Huangmeng Sect” in blood, and left a message asking someone to eat a fresh cake for him.
• Zhou Leng read the online reaction to Lu Yuanhao’s video, ordered a cake, returned to the Ancient River Research Institute, and ate with Xu Qingjin and his friends.
• Zhou Leng and Wang Boxiong agreed to spar on Grandmaster Island in two years and discussed obtaining more vicious beast bone powder for cultivation.
• Wang Boxiong told Zhou Leng that Xue Chengsong had been killed by the Demon-Worshiping Cult and that the mine had been taken into private ownership after nationalization.
• Wang Boxiong revealed that Gao Tianfeng had ordered Xue Chengsong’s killing, Spirit Mist Jade from the mine had gone to Zhao Palace, and Zhao Hao was watching for the Jade King.
• Zhou Leng suppressed his killing intent after Wang Boxiong warned him against confronting the Zhao family and said he wanted fairness and the Jade King.

Zhou Leng negotiated with Zhao Cong to reclaim his mine, but refused the Zhao family's offer and rejected the ruthless methods Zhao used to defend its power. As Zhou Leng left, Zhao Cong was shaken by the sense that a frightening force was gathering inside his heart.

• Wang Boxiong advised Zhou Leng to negotiate with the Zhao family first, and Zhou arranged a meeting with Zhao Cong.
• Zhao Cong welcomed Zhou Leng and offered him the mine and the Zhao family's Ru City assets if he joined the family as an Attendant.
• Zhou Leng and Zhao Cong argued over rules, responsibility, morality, and why the Zhao family kept seizing power and wealth.
• Zhou Leng concluded that he could not reclaim the mine through negotiation without accepting the Zhao family's methods, and he walked out.
• Zhao Cong watched Zhou Leng leave and wondered whether his grandfather had foreseen him, then felt a terrifying force churning inside his heart.

After learning that Xue Chengsong had been murdered, Zhou Leng decided to investigate Gao Tianfeng in Xiong City and developed a new phase of the Great Sun Divine Technique. He arrived at True Words Media’s headquarters with a search warrant as Gao Tianfeng sat in her office.

• Zhou Leng read Xue Chengsong’s final messages, arranged for Jax to search for him and care for his fiancée, then told Wang Boxiong that the Zhao family would not return what it owed.
• Zhou Leng asked Wang Boxiong for credentials to investigate Gao Tianfeng in Xiong City and agreed to notify the Dragon Clan embassy and carry a demon-cultivator detection device.
• In Xiong City, Zhou Leng studied the Dongjun Stone Wall and combined insights from the Great Sun Divine Technique, the Primordial True-Energy Art, and other teachings to develop a new cultivation method.
• Zhou Leng’s Stellar Void True Energy formed a sphere of sunlight around its singularity, accelerating his Star Body Transformation and advancing his cultivation method into its second phase.
• Zhou Leng took a search warrant to True Words Media’s Xiong Capital headquarters at Quantong Tower, while Gao Tianfeng worried about his arrival and paused her attacks and smears against him.

Zhou Leng confronted Gao Tianfeng, killed her, and exposed her demonized body and the crimes of the Demon-Worshiping Cult and Zhao family. He then swept through the building, killing its occupants and broadcasting footage as he continued to the next floor.

• Zhou Leng entered Gao Tianfeng's office and destroyed its electronic devices, while she tried to appease him and offer her help.
• Zhou Leng demanded evidence of crimes by Gao Tianfeng and the Zhao family, then sealed her meridians and dissected her on a mass-distributed recording.
• Zhou Leng sent Xue Chengsong the video as an engagement gift, searched hidden compartments, and took documents and materials.
• Zhou Leng killed people across the office floors with tungsten-steel pellets as they planned propaganda and other operations.
• Zhou Leng recorded and mass-sent footage of the slaughter, continued sweeping the building floor by floor, and security monitors reported that they could not block the videos.

Zhou Leng exposed the seizure of his mine, released detailed Ancient River Sect martial arts lessons, and drew the attention of Martial Saints. Zhu Shiji visited him at the Dragon Clan Embassy, made him his junior brother, and asked him to explain the techniques’ deeper principles.

• Zhou Leng went to Gao Tianfeng's residence, took the contents of the safe and panic room, and then sent the four races’ envoys to demand an explanation from the Dragon Kingdom over the mine.
• The four races publicized how Zhou Leng’s mine had been taken, while the Dragon Clan announced that Zhou Leng had diplomatic immunity; public attention also grew after videos of him dissecting Demon-Worshiping Cult members spread online.
• Zhou Leng posted detailed videos teaching the Ancient River Sect’s foundational Martial Dao and non-core techniques, attracting billions of views and interest from Martial Saints.
• After watching Zhou Leng’s videos and battle footage, Zhu Shiji flew to the Dragon Clan Embassy and met him in the garden pavilion.
• Zhu Shiji acknowledged that Zhou Leng had received an inheritance, proposed bringing him to the Ancient River Sect Initiation Ceremony, and asked him to become his junior brother rather than his disciple.
• Zhou Leng explained the purpose and origins of several unusual moves in the Ancient River Sect Basic Palm Technique, and Zhu Shiji quickly grasped their principles.

Zhou Leng avoided punishment for destroying a Demon-Worshiping Cult hideout, earned military honors, and settled tensions with three major lineages over Zhang Xinglie. The chapter ended with the injured Zhang Xinglie buying vegetables in Sun Family Store and hearing a seller praise Zhou Leng.

• Zhu Shiji filmed basic palm techniques, then announced that Zhou Leng was his junior martial brother after accepting him on his master's behalf.
• An investigative team debated Zhou Leng's actions and found him innocent; the Martial Guard General Academy later deducted one year's salary for accidental damage and awarded him two honors for destroying a major Demon-Worshiping Cult hideout.
• Wang Boxiong told Zhou Leng that Zhang Xinglie had lost an arm and a leg and might never recover his Martial Dao, while some lineages were considering testing him.
• Zhou Leng met the heads of three major lineages, negotiated a trade route through the Demon Spirit World as compensation, and secured their promise to support Zhang Xinglie.
• Zhang Xinglie limped through a vegetable market in Sun Family Store, praised Zhou Leng, and bought two cabbages from an old seller who added cilantro for free.

Zhang Xinglie struggled with his injuries until Zhou Leng gave him hope of recovery by promising to find a cure. Zhou Leng secretly admitted the promised pill was fabricated, then used his sole chance to summon Shen Yunxian and learned the Star-Refining Furnace could truly heal Zhang Xinglie if Zhou Leng mastered Divine Script and gathered ingredients; afterward, he returned to Ru City to lead the Ancient River Sect and consult Martial Saints.

• Zhou Leng found Zhang Xinglie resting in a park and told him he would seek a divine pill to restore his severed limbs, while Zhang said he planned to return to Yunhua and resume cultivation.
• After Zhang Xinglie left, Zhou Leng revealed that the Star-Refining Furnace had not changed and that he had invented the Undying Saint Pill to encourage his friend.
• Zhou Leng summoned Shen Yunxian, who explained the Calamity Envoy’s plan for a dual descent and offered to spend her remaining power activating the Star-Refining Furnace if Zhou Leng earned full marks in Divine Script.
• Shen Yunxian confirmed that the furnace could produce pills to disperse the Calamity Envoy’s power and regenerate Zhang Xinglie’s flesh, gave Zhou Leng a seventy-percent chance of success, and entered the furnace for the last time.
• Zhou Leng returned to Ru City and led an Ancient River Sect initiation ceremony for a hundred thousand people, with divine fire killing more than a thousand to prevent secrets from leaking.
• Zhu Shiji introduced Zhou Leng to Martial Saints, who discussed basic martial arts with him as he asked about Martial Saint power and Stellar Void True Energy.

Zhou Leng introduced the Martial Saints to Stellar Void True Energy, and Zhu Shiji explained how it related to Zhao Sheng’s failed attempt to surpass the Martial Saint limit. At a gathering with Zhao Lianshuo’s old comrades, Zhao Lianshuo vowed to train and fight to reclaim Zhao Sheng’s Broken Sword from the New Zhao family.

• Zhou Leng showed the Martial Saints Stellar Void True Energy, gave each of them a wisp to study, and joined them in creating the Ancient River Martial Saints group.
• Zhu Shiji told Zhou Leng that Zhao Sheng had sensed the same power and explained that Martial Saints could seek more of it through the Demigod Hall.
• Zhu Shiji shared dinner with Zhou Leng’s family and recounted his and Zhao Sheng’s history in the Nuclear Island War.
• Li Linhan invited Zhou Leng to visit Zhao Lianshuo, who had resumed intense training after the New Zhao family took Zhao Sheng’s Broken Sword.
• At a gathering of Zhao Lianshuo’s old comrades and their families, Zhao Lianshuo declared that he would train until he could fight to reclaim the Broken Sword in Xiong City.