Chapter Summaries

Zhou Leng intervened when Extraterrestrial Giants tried to capture Shanhe Tianyue and the other Ten Realms Giants, then invoked the legacy of Star-Climbing Mountain to make the opposing Giants bow to him. He refused Far-Reaching Jing’s demand to visit Far-Reaching Star, and the two began a fierce duel that remained undecided.

• Zhou Leng found Shanhe Tianyue, Huang Jinli, Li Shenkong, and others surrounded by more than two hundred Extraterrestrial Giants who wanted to take them away for breeding.
• Zhou Leng donned the Ice God Armor and invoked Star-Climbing Mountain in Divine Script, prompting the Giants on both sides to bow and the Extraterrestrial Giants to let him pass.
• Shanhe Tianyue explained that the Extraterrestrial Giants had tried to capture their group, while Far-Reaching Jing invited Zhou Leng to Far-Reaching Star and revealed his clan’s desperate plans to continue its bloodline.
• Zhou Leng refused the invitation, and Far-Reaching Jing challenged him, declaring that only victory would give Zhou Leng the right to refuse.
• Zhou Leng put away the Ice God Armor and fought Far-Reaching Jing with the East Wind Fist; their increasingly powerful blows devastated the surrounding ground as the outcome remained unclear.

Zhou Leng fought Far-Raching Jing, an Extraterrestrial Giant whose divine vein power and demigod armor overwhelmed him. After enduring a thousand punches, Zhou Leng emerged unharmed with a newly formed Accumulating the Far and Enduring the Long fist intent, and Far-Raching Jing charged him again.

• Human grandmasters and Li Shenkong observed Zhou Leng’s fist momentum shifting toward the middle eight moves of the East Wind Fist as he battled Far-Raching Jing.
• Far-Raching Jing urged Zhou Leng to surrender and return to Far-Raching Star, but Zhou Leng refused, prompting Far-Raching Jing to unleash his divine vein power.
• Far-Raching Jing shrank to two meters, surpassed three times the speed of sound, and battered Zhou Leng into a crater before striking him with a thousand punches.
• Huang Jinli tried to intervene, but Shanhe Tianyue stopped her, while Li Shenkong prepared his sword case to join the fight.
• Zhou Leng burst out of the crater without a scratch, and Li Shenkong recognized that he had formed the Accumulating the Far and Enduring the Long fist intent.
• Far-Raching Jing praised Zhou Leng and charged him again.

Zhou Leng defeated Far-Reaching Jing and eight other Extraterrestrial Giants, forcing the rest to abandon their attempt to capture him. He then joined Huang Jinli and the others on their way to the Ancient Altar, gathering Divine Death Spirits corpses along the way.

• Far-Reaching Jing and Zhou Leng fought across a mountain until they had reduced it to rubble, but neither could defeat the other.
• Zhou Leng unleashed I Bestow Heaven's Mandate and killed Far-Reaching Jing with One Break in Ten Thousand Instants.
• Eight more Giants bearing the Yuan surname challenged Zhou Leng in turn, and he killed each one.
• Zhou Leng made the remaining Extraterrestrial Giants choose whether to keep fighting or stand down; most chose peace and left.
• Zhou Leng agreed to travel with Huang Jinli and the others toward the Ancient Altar, collecting Divine Death Spirits corpses as they fought their way onward.

Zhou Leng reached the Ancient Altar with the Giants and learned that he could attempt its sacrifice after the Ten Realms Giants and Extraterrestrial Giants failed. He translated the writing on the altar and discovered that it contained a proper sacrificial procedure, though he had not yet performed it.

• Zhou Leng and the group reached the Ancient Altar, where Shanhe Tianyue explained its history, the Divine Death Spirits, and the rules of the sacrifice.
• Extraterrestrial Giants performed their varied sacrifices for a day and a night, but the altar did not activate.
• Shanhe Tianyue asked Zhou Leng to consider becoming the Giant True King, and Zhou Leng recorded the decorative Divine Script around the altar.
• Li Shenkong asked Zhou Leng how he had comprehended I Bestow Heaven's Mandate, and Zhou Leng cited combat experience and faith in humanity and the Dragon Nation.
• After the Ten Realms Giants also failed, Zhou Leng climbed to the altar platform and translated the writing on its pillars.
• Zhou Leng discovered that the pillars described a formal sacrificial procedure, suggesting earlier apparent successes had not truly activated the altar.

Zhou Leng led a sacrifice to Far-Reaching Mountain, drawing down powerful black-gold divine light and receiving a Ten-Thousand-Year Giant True King Crown. After waking from the ritual, he began cultivating as the Ancient Summoning’s power transformed within him.

• Zhou Leng directed the Giants and Divine Death Spirits through the sacrificial rites, and Demigod Divine Death Spirits killed five demonized members of the Ten Realms as offerings.
• Zhou Leng recited the nine-part Divine Script prayer, lighting all nine levels of the Nine-Level Sacrificial Pagoda and summoning black-gold divine light.
• A seven-fingered divine hand pointed at Zhou Leng, directing half the divine light to him and knocking him unconscious.
• The divine light empowered the gathered Giants and humans, and a Ten-Thousand-Year Giant True King Crown formed and settled on Zhou Leng’s head.
• Demigod Divine Death Spirits killed a group of approaching Demon-Worshiping Cult Grandmasters while the others cultivated.
• Zhou Leng awoke with immense power surging through him and cultivated the Great Sun Divine Technique to absorb it.

Zhou Leng absorbed the Giant Divine Power, advanced his cultivation, and was recognized by the Extraterrestrial Giants and Giant Divine Death Spirits as their True King. After hunting divine death beasts with the assembled Giants, he led them to Myriad Cloud Mountain and entered the Disaster Grounds alone.

• Zhou Leng cultivated for a day and night, forming a black ball of divine power and reaching the Steel Jade Body.
• The Extraterrestrial Giants hailed Zhou Leng as their First King, while the Giant Divine Death Spirits formally acknowledged him as their Giant True King.
• Huang Jinli mastered the Body-Shrinking Technique, shrank into a little girl, and ran into Zhou Leng with enough force to break his clothes.
• Zhou Leng and the Giants hunted divine death beasts, killing dozens of Great Grandmaster beasts before turning toward Myriad Cloud Mountain.
• Zhou Leng led the group to the Disaster Grounds, reassured them, and entered the forbidden zone alone while carrying his corpse-storage bag.

Zhou Leng traded a Demon-Spirit Bag for an extraordinary Beast Hide Bag, then led hundreds of Giants to the Divine Vein River before setting out alone for the Dragon God Mural. He encountered a newly advanced demigod Frost Dragon Divine Death Spirit, Deathbound Winter, who appointed him the Frost Dragon Clan’s guard captain and chief Divine Script teacher.

• Zhou Leng exchanged a Demon-Spirit Bag for a Beast Hide Bag in the Disaster Grounds, impressing the Giants and leaving Li Shenkong to wonder about his connection to the Ancient River Sect.
• Zhou Leng led the Giants to the Divine Vein River, where Light of Redemption and A Qiong spotted him but stayed away after he ignored them.
• Zhou Leng told the Giants to cultivate at the river and continue to True King Mountain while he headed alone toward the Dragon God Mural.
• Zhou Leng disguised his aura as a devoted believer of the Deathbound Star and traveled through the Giant Dragon Divine Death Spirits’ territory as powerful demigod auras stirred nearby.
• Deathbound Winter, a Frost Dragon Divine Death Spirit, summoned Zhou Leng and named him the Frost Dragon Clan’s guard captain and chief Divine Script teacher.

Zhou Leng traveled with Deathbound Winter to the Dragon God Mural, learning about the True King Grounds and the Frost Dragons along the way. After Deathbound Half-Corner let him join the Ten Realms Dragon Clan, Zhou Leng found the gathered Dragons looking exhausted, and Radiant Gold King and Hell Demon Eye asked what was wrong.

• Zhou Leng persuaded Deathbound Winter to escort him to the Dragon God Mural by claiming he had a mission from Deathbound Star.
• Deathbound Winter told Zhou Leng about a Crystalfolk plane merchant, the Frost Dragon Clan's connections, and the supposed requirements for becoming a true True King.
• Zhou Leng and Deathbound Winter reached the Dragon God Mural, where Deathbound Winter introduced Zhou Leng to his Frost Dragon family as a Divine Script teacher.
• Deathbound Half-Corner allowed Zhou Leng to join the Ten Realms Dragon Clan while Deathbound Winter's mother held him back.
• Zhou Leng found Radiant Gold King, Hell Demon Eye, and the other Ten Realms Dragons looking exhausted, and they asked what was going on.

Zhou Leng trained against the Dragon God Mural’s crushing divine might until he reached it and touched the wall. The mural opened, and the black dragon depicted on it emerged and awakened, leaving everyone beneath its gaze.

• Zhou Leng learned about the dangers at the mural and cautiously approached it while the dragons warned him about the Alien Star Dragons.
• Zhou Leng endured the mural’s divine might in stages, drawing attention from the Ten Realms dragons, the Alien Star Dragons, and the demigod Divine Death Spirits.
• Over the next several days, Zhou Leng repeatedly tested his limits, eventually reaching the hundred-meter mark and then pressing onward.
• Zhou Leng touched the Dragon God Mural, causing the mountain to open and the black dragon image to emerge as a two-toned dragon.
• The dragon opened its purple eyes and surveyed the gathered beings, overwhelming them with divine might.

After the Dragon God’s Gaze made Zhou Leng the Dragon True King, he gained a partial stellar radiance vein and displayed overwhelming strength. He gathered maps from the factions and set out alone to explore, while Deathbound Winter secretly followed him in hopes of learning Divine Script.

• The Dragon God focused his gaze on Zhou Leng, absorbed golden power into his Great Sun Divine Technique, and crowned him the Dragon True King.
• Zhou Leng awakened a partial stellar radiance vein, discovered its unusual strength-enhancing properties, and lifted Hell Demon Eye with one hand.
• The Alien Star Dragons demanded that Zhou Leng go to Deathbound Star, but Deathbound Winter devoured their leader and drove them off.
• Zhou Leng collected maps from the Alien Star Dragons and Giant Dragon Divine Death Spirits, then left alone to seek safer treasures and trial grounds.
• Deathbound Winter secretly followed Zhou Leng, who reached the Divine Vein River and ran toward Dragon Bone Mountain.

Zhou Leng rushed to rescue captives from a horde of Qilin Wolves and defeated the pack despite their Divine Spirit Bloodline. He left the survivors with Light of Redemption and A Qiong and continued toward the next danger, while Lady Xiyan concealed her identity from him.

• Zhou Leng met Light of Redemption and A Qiong, learned that Divine Death Beasts were attacking, and took Light of Redemption's locator after making him promise not to reveal the matter involving a certain person.
• Zhou Leng found a Qilin Wolf pack dragging captives from the Ten Realms and attacked to save them.
• Lady Xiyan disguised her succubus features and warned Zhou Leng to flee, but he fought the two Grandmaster Qilin Wolves and killed them with his East Wind Fist.
• Zhou Leng slaughtered the remaining Qilin Wolves, gathered the captives and their dead, and collected the beasts' corpses and spoils.
• Zhou Leng told Light of Redemption and A Qiong to escort the survivors to Myriad Cloud Mountain, gave Lady Xiyan a medicinal pill, and hurried away.

Zhou Leng reached the battle between Li Shenkong and the newly advanced Demigod Crocodile Bear God and intervened to save Li Shenkong and the encircled allies. After combining their attacks, Zhou Leng wounded the Crocodile Bear God, which then suspected he also possessed a Stellar Void Divine Sword.

• Light of Redemption gave Lady Xiyan precious pills, then he and A Qiong helped the wounded group toward Myriad Cloud Mountain.
• Zhou Leng found Li Shenkong fighting the Crocodile Bear God while Giants and Giant Dragon Divine Death Spirits were trapped in an encirclement.
• Zhou Leng invoked his divine names to halt the beasts, then used Ice God Armor and Dense Stellar Cores to drive them back and expose the Crocodile Bear God's wounds to Destructive Stellar Power.
• The Crocodile Bear God charged at Li Shenkong to seize the Stellar Void Divine Sword, and Zhou Leng joined Li Shenkong in a coordinated attack.
• Zhou Leng's punch pierced the Crocodile Bear God's defenses and left a wound that could not heal, prompting the beast to suspect he had a Stellar Void Divine Sword too.

Zhou Leng used Li Shenkong’s Star-Slaying Sword to badly wound Crocodile Bear God, but their battle left him near collapse. Deathbound Winter arrived, killed Crocodile Bear God, and Zhou Leng began recovering under the Giants’ protection.

• Crocodile Bear God battered Zhou Leng through the air while Li Shenkong and the Giants could not intervene.
• Li Shenkong gave Zhou Leng the Star-Slaying Sword, which transformed in Zhou Leng’s hands and let him sever Crocodile Bear God’s arms.
• Crocodile Bear God summoned his Demigod totem and attacked from a distance, while Zhou Leng fought back until his strength ran low.
• Deathbound Winter arrived, and Zhou Leng persuaded him that Crocodile Bear God was already badly wounded.
• Deathbound Winter revealed his immense strength, killed Crocodile Bear God, and brought back his headless corpse as Zhou Leng sat down to heal.

Zhou Leng rallied the Giant Dragon Divine Death Spirits to defeat a massive Divine Death Beast army, then refined a powerful Demigod corpse to increase his strength. After searching Dragon Bone Mountain without finding Dragon God bones, he discovered a fragment of the Far-Reaching Mountain and continued toward Myriad Cloud Mountain.

• Deathbound Winter asked Zhou Leng to teach him Divine Script, and Zhou Leng returned the Star-Slaying Sword to Li Shenkong and offered to teach him swordsmanship.
• When a vast Divine Death Beast army approached, Deathbound Winter summoned the Giant Dragon Divine Death Spirits, and Zhou Leng ordered them to attack.
• The Giant Dragon Divine Death Spirits defeated the Divine Death Beasts, and Zhou Leng refined a Rock-Armored Earth Dragon God corpse into six Headless God components that boosted his strength.
• Zhou Leng searched Dragon Bone Mountain for Dragon God bones, found a small fragment of the Far-Reaching Mountain, and stored it in his Stellar Void Bag.
• Zhou Leng headed toward Myriad Cloud Mountain while studying the Demigod combat techniques he had witnessed.

Zhou Leng killed fifteen Demonic Beast Grandmasters and continued searching Myriad Cloud Mountain before True King Mountain opened. There he found Crystal Dust had defeated the Giants and Dragons, and the plane merchant addressed the assembled Testers under the protection of a Terrifying Divine Guardian.

• Zhou Leng sensed his True-Energy Sun had grown stronger, then killed fifteen Demonic Beast Grandmasters with a single attack and took their Demon-Spirit Bags.
• Lady Xiyan poisoned and killed the Demon-Worshiping Cult members who had witnessed Zhou Leng take the Star-Destroying Bottle, then erased her own memories and left without knowing what had happened.
• Zhou Leng searched Myriad Cloud Mountain for several days until divine light announced that True King Mountain had opened, and he hurried there.
• Zhou Leng arrived to find the expected arenas absent and the Giants, Dragons, and Deep Dark Fury badly injured after losing to Crystal Dust.
• Crystal Dust addressed the gathered Testers while a Terrifying Divine Guardian stood behind him.

Crystal Dust tried to force the Extraterrestrial Giants and Alien Star Dragons into trading, but Zhou Leng’s Divine Script knowledge and Civilization Medal made him mistake Zhou Leng for a powerful higher-civilization heir. As Zhou Leng took control of the encounter, Li Shenkong and the wounded fighters reflected on the vast gulf between their world and higher civilizations.

• Crystal Dust threatened the defeated giants and dragons, then proposed trades that would let him claim the deity’s reward and profit from their worlds’ knowledge and specialties.
• Zhou Leng approached Crystal Dust, spoke standard Divine Script, and displayed a Civilization Medal, leading Crystal Dust to assume he was a goddescended seed from a powerful lineage.
• Crystal Dust answered Zhou Leng’s questions about his Divine Script scores, cultivation, and family business, becoming increasingly deferential as Zhou Leng cited obscure higher-civilization knowledge.
• Deathbound Winter bragged about finding Zhou Leng as a teacher, while Deathbound Frost threatened to slap him for speaking up.
• Li Shenkong recognized Zhou Leng’s superiority and felt powerless before the gulf between lower and higher civilizations, while Huang Jinli vowed to claim Zhou Leng and two dragons schemed about pairing him with Crimson Eye.
• Deep Dark Fury reflected that his stellar void bloodline had not been enough to make him supreme and that Zhou Leng had restored the dignity of the Ten Realms’ races.

Zhou Leng became the True King of both the Far-Reaching Clan and the Deathbound Clan, receiving the recognition of their gods and a True King's Gate. Afterward, he traded with Crystal Dust for Stellar Void resources and connected with him through their World Instruments.

• Zhou Leng climbed the staircase of light as the Giant and Dragon True King Crowns alternated above his head, while the gathered Dragons, Giants, and Divine Death Spirits let him pass.
• The Giant and Dragon deities pointed to Zhou Leng, crowned him as ruler and divine messenger of both clans, and granted him a True King's Gate.
• Zhou Leng returned from True King Mountain and rejected the clans' pleas to lead them, then agreed to speak with Crystal Dust about trading.
• Crystal Dust offered Stellar Void treasures, but Zhou Leng showed that he already possessed millions of Star Spiral Shells and a Star-Refining Furnace.
• Crystal Dust gave Zhou Leng pill-refining books, Planetary Cores, and other ingredients, and the two exchanged contact details using their World Instruments.

After the True King Trial, Zhou Leng returned to Dragon Mountain and advanced to Great Grandmaster, gaining Void Mastery. He planned to visit the Ice Snow Divine Cult and continue training, but agreed to stay one more day for the victory feast while the Calamity Envoys’ mysterious dealings continued to trouble him.

• Zhou Leng exchanged treasures with Crystal Dust, heard a warning about the Calamity Envoys, and later discussed their plans with Deep Dark Fury, who chose to leave for Deathbound Star and follow the Star Dragon Path.
• Deep Dark Fury and the other visitors departed through divine light, and Zhou Leng returned to Dragon Mountain with the Dragons and advanced after a day and night of training in the Blazing Lava Cavern.
• Zhou Leng awakened Void Mastery, used it to move magma and lift himself into the air, then left the training grounds as a Great Grandmaster.
• Jade Wing advised Zhou Leng to hide his strength, while Azure-Crimson Flame offered to help transport materials for his Demigod Gym.
• Zhou Leng decided to go to the Ice Snow Divine Cult to train, but Jade Wing and Azure-Crimson Flame persuaded him to wait one day for the victory feast.

Zhou Leng learned that the Treant World was nearing collapse and that the human world might be the Calamity Envoy’s next target, then attended a Dragon banquet where Crimson Eye proposed making him her king. The next morning Zhou Leng left for the Ice Snow Divine Cult, while the Calamity Envoy ordered an altar built and set out to find the Star-Destroying Bottle.

• Jade Wing and Azure-Crimson Flame told Zhou Leng that the Calamity Envoy was devastating the Treant World and that the human world was likely to be targeted next.
• Jade Wing brought Zhou Leng to a Dragon banquet celebrating his rise to True King, where Crimson Eye enchanted him into joining her in a war dance.
• Crimson Eye asked Zhou Leng to be her king so she could secure resources and heirs, but Zhou Leng said he would consider it and reminded her that he already had a fiancée.
• Zhou Leng and Azure-Crimson Flame left for the Ice Snow Divine Cult the next morning and sent word that they were safe.
• In the Treant World, the Calamity Envoy learned that the Star-Destroying Bottle had left the True King Grounds and ordered an altar built before going to search for it.

Zhou Leng accidentally released 507 Dense Stellar Cores in the Ice Snow Divine Cult, unleashing Destructive Stellar Power across Holy Snow City. He contained the power himself, then tested his physical strength and lifted 750,000 tons, leaving the Demigod Spirit Mages stunned.

• Zhou Leng brought hundreds of Dense Stellar Cores to the Alchemy Academy so Cang-Colored Mist could inspect them for the Holy Son's Demigod Gym.
• Cang-Colored Mist tipped the box over, releasing 507 Dense Stellar Cores and triggering a devastating surge of Destructive Stellar Power that set off the city's highest alert.
• Zhou Leng emerged unharmed with the box, then gathered the destructive power into a seven-colored sphere using the Immortal Star Body and Void Mastery.
• The Demigod Spirit Mages agreed to help plan Zhou Leng's Demigod Gym and took him to a Demigod weightlifting platform to measure his maximum load.
• Zhou Leng lifted 750,000 tons using only his physical body, astonishing Snow Mountain Demon Eye and the other Demigod Spirit Mages.