Chapter Summaries

Li Shenkong fought Zhao Cong for control of the Corpse King Throne and defeated him despite his injuries and Zhao Cong’s demonic power. He destroyed the throne, leaving the Bone Pagoda collapsing and Zhao Cong’s fate unresolved.

• Zhao Cong transformed with Flame Demon bloodline and Demigod Artifacts, then attacked Li Shenkong, who fought back with the Star-Slaying Sword.
• As humans and Demonic Beasts battled below, Chen Shouhu urged Li Shenkong to kill Zhao Cong while the Demigod avatars watched from a distance.
• Li Shenkong revealed that he had spent months preparing to fight a Demigod and used three sword images to cut Zhao Cong down.
• Li Shenkong toppled the Corpse King Throne and explained how seeing Zhao Cong’s deeds and the Human-Bone Stairway had clarified why he practiced the sword.
• Li Shenkong said farewell to Zhao Cong and brought his longsword down, collapsing the Corpse King Throne.

Zhou Leng fought the wounded Calamity Envoy atop the Mother Tree, but the Deity effortlessly blocked his attacks and overwhelmed him with divine pressure. After the Calamity Envoy struck him with a powerful counterattack, Zhou Leng recovered from the blow and stood again.

• Zhou Leng found the Calamity Envoy beside the Mother Insect’s corpse and offered to let him leave if he withdrew his power from Zhang Xinglie.
• Zhou Leng attacked with East Wind Fist, but the Calamity Envoy blocked his blows with a piece of the Mother Insect’s shell and broke his I Bestow Heaven’s Mandate fist force.
• The Calamity Envoy taunted Zhou Leng about Zhang Xinglie and identified Zhou Leng’s powers, deepening the pressure on his Martial Will.
• After fighting for dozens of seconds, Zhou Leng recalled the Divine Script name Aurora Summit, and the Calamity Envoy asked how he knew it.
• The Calamity Envoy counterattacked with a single fist that caved in Zhou Leng’s chest and sent him flying hundreds of meters.
• Zhou Leng stood up as his chest recovered, surprising the Calamity Envoy.

Zhou Leng fought the Calamity Envoy across the Mother Tree’s canopy, enduring devastating blows and using Demigod Artifacts and Destructive Stellar Power to injure the god’s young Giant body. Their battle continued as Zhou Leng’s healing weakened and the Calamity Envoy’s flesh began to shatter under their clashing fists.

• The Calamity Envoy battered Zhou Leng and demanded that he kneel, while Zhou Leng pressed on and comprehended the No-Return Battle Art.
• The Calamity Envoy repeatedly wounded Zhou Leng, who healed and used Demigod Artifacts to survive each attack.
• Zhou Leng slashed at the Calamity Envoy with flaming greatswords, but the Envoy caught the blades until both weapons shattered.
• Zhou Leng released Dense Stellar Cores and other starry-sky gems, bathing the Calamity Envoy in Destructive Stellar Power and damaging his body.
• Zhou Leng struck the Calamity Envoy’s shoulder, then kicked and swept him across the Mother Tree’s canopy as the Demigod avatars watched.
• The two resumed their fight, trading punches until Zhou Leng’s recovery weakened and the Calamity Envoy’s flesh shattered.

Zhou Leng resisted the Calamity Envoy’s divine decree, survived its attempt to erase his life and bloodline, and killed the Envoy. He claimed the strange throne formed from the Mother Insect and Mother Tree, while the battlefield outside continued to turn against the Humanoid Alliance.

• The Calamity Envoy explained his view of gods and the universe, then froze Zhou Leng and began erasing his life and family from existence.
• Zhou Leng’s Martial Will resisted the erasure, and the Mother Tree’s Ancient Crown blocked the Calamity Envoy’s final power at the cost of its leaves.
• Zhou Leng smashed the Calamity Envoy to pieces and stored the remains and nearby branches and leaves in his Stellar Void Bag.
• Zhou Leng found the Corpse King Throne formed from the Mother Insect and Mother Tree, sat on it, and fell asleep as its power entered his body.
• The three Heavenly Stairways flew toward Blue Star, while the Humanoid Alliance retreated and Demigod avatars predicted that the Calamity Envoy would become a Calamity God.

As the Mother Tree and Giant Insects appeared to die, the trapped Humanoid Alliance fought the Demigod avatars with the Star-Slaying Sword. When the Alliance was close to defeat, Zhou Leng returned and announced that the Calamity Envoy was dead.

• The Treants sensed the Mother Tree's power fading, while Giant Insects fell into madness and slaughtered allies and enemies alike.
• Wang Boxiong and the other Grandmasters prepared to withdraw, but an unseen divine force kept them moving toward the battlefield as more than twenty Demigod avatars advanced.
• Chen Shouhu borrowed the Star-Slaying Sword and charged; Wang Boxiong and Ancient River Sect Grandmasters took turns wielding it, killing Demigod avatars at the cost of their strength.
• Chen Shouhu used his final strike to tear through the Demigod avatars, then collapsed as the remaining enemies overwhelmed the Humanoid Alliance.
• Zhou Leng descended from the Mother Tree, cut down Sword of Innocence's avatar, and swept through the battlefield with two greatswords as he declared that the Calamity Envoy was dead.

Zhou Leng killed the Calamity Envoy, Mother Insect, and Mother Tree, causing the Calamity Army to collapse and flee. After the battle, the Treants asked him to lead them, and he hurried to the Frost Giant Tree to bury the remains and recover from his injuries.

• Zhou Leng slaughtered the Calamity Army’s Grandmasters, and the Mother Tree collapsed as the Calamity Envoy and Mother Insect perished with it.
• The Orcs and Sirens fled, the rest of the Calamity Army broke, and the Humanoid Alliance pursued the demons across Treant World.
• Zhou Leng told Chen Shouhu that the three powers had perished together, then said he needed to leave before preparing for the Martial Saint Battle Path.
• Sky Beard asked Zhou Leng to lead the Treants as their Ancient Crown, and Zhou Leng arranged for some of them to follow him to Blue Star.
• Zhou Leng buried the Calamity Envoy’s remains and the Mother Tree’s bloodstained branches beneath the Frost Giant Tree, then gave Big Yellow a dog bed made from Mother Tree branches.
• Zhou Leng sat beneath the Frost Giant Tree and circulated the Great Sun Divine Technique to heal his hidden injuries.

Zhou Leng recovered from the Calamity Envoy’s lingering Void God power while the Treants joined Dragon Nation and strengthened ties with humanity. He then accompanied Little Eight to Mammoth Mountain for a deification ceremony, where his gift of a Mother Tree branch made Yin Huyue the Elven Race’s highest holy maiden.

• The Treants split between three worlds, and Sky Beard’s branch traded a Tree of Life for a home in Ruge Mountain before affiliating with Dragon Nation.
• Light of Redemption watched Zhou Leng defeat Demigod avatars and suffered a resurgence of his fear; he accidentally struck Shen Jun, crippling his disciple.
• Treants and female Elves arrived at the Ancient River Research Institute to protect Xu Qingjin.
• Zhou Leng expelled the Calamity Envoy’s Void God power, then buried Mother Tree remains beneath the Tree of Life and gave branches to Little Eight and the tree.
• Little Eight told Zhou Leng that the strongest Eight-Tusk Mammoth was preparing to become a Demigod, so Zhou Leng joined the mammoths’ ceremony preparations.
• Zhou Leng gave Yin Huyue a Mother Tree branch, and she wept with relief because she believed the Mother Tree had forgiven the Elven Race.

Zhao Hao considered the deaths of his children and learned that Demon Prison planned a massive sacrifice before the Calamity God’s descent. As the Zhao family prepared an invasion through Elephant Nation, Li Shenkong accepted that he had done right by killing Zhao Cong and joined an anti-fraud group discussing the Demons.

• Zhao Hao searched for the force behind his children’s deaths, then learned that Demon Prison planned to slaughter Demonic Beasts to prepare for the Calamity God’s descent.
• Matriarch Zhao and Madam Zhao ate Demon Pouch Beans from their homeland and lamented Gao Tianfeng’s death and the dwindling supply.
• Madam Zhao agreed to attend a meeting in Elephant Nation to help provoke a conflict and begin an invasion toward Dragon Nation, then transformed into Gao Tianfeng before Zhao Hao.
• At Chang University, a Law Realm official accepted a red paper bag of fresh Demon Pouch Beans from the university administrator.
• Li Shenkong recalled the praise he received for killing Zhao Cong, decided to keep moving forward, and joined an anti-fraud group discussing Demons.

Zhou Leng studied the requirements for reaching Martial Saint Realm and concluded that he needed to find his own heart as well as cultivate power and spirit. After receiving the Eight-Tusked Mammoth inheritance, he prepared to return for his Martial Saint Battle Path but was urgently redirected to Elephant Nation for the Weed Removal operation.

• Li Shenkong read messages praising Zhou Leng and felt reassured that he was following the right path, while Zhang Xinglie, Hu Yi, Zhao Lianshuo, and Lü Yuanhao each continued their preparations.
• Zhou Leng learned from Dong Jun's Miscellany that Martial Saint ascension required power, spirit, and heart, and he explored how those qualities related to the three stages of the brain described by advanced civilizations.
• Zhou Leng connected Zhao Dongjun's theory to the path toward godhood and wondered whether his own heart lay within the Martial Saint Battle Path he was meant to walk.
• Zhou Leng and the Eight-Tusked Mammoths completed their inheritance ritual, after which the mammoths with a chance to advance to Demigod entered seclusion.
• An Ice Snow Divine Cult caravan told Zhou Leng that Wang Boxiong had urgently summoned him, and Zhou Leng realized he needed to travel to Elephant Nation for the Weed Removal operation involving Lu Weiqu.

Zhou Leng traveled to Elephant Nation to assess the threat posed by the Demon-Worshiping Cult and gathered intelligence from Light of Redemption about an impending operation against Dragon Nation. After reaching Fifth New Delhi and arranging to meet Wangu, he saw the city’s stark divide and violent street fights.

• Zhou Leng arrived at the Heavenly River Demon City base, disguised himself, and contacted Wang Boxiong, who assigned him to investigate alongside Wangu.
• Zhou Leng learned from Light of Redemption that Demon-Worshiping Cult branches worldwide, including Old Dragon Nation people, were preparing to discuss their next move against Dragon Nation, and that Zhao Hao might be exceptionally powerful.
• Light of Redemption told Zhou Leng that Zhao Tianji had planned to harm him on behalf of the Zhao family, and Zhou Leng sent the intelligence to Wang Boxiong.
• Wang Boxiong told Zhou Leng to have Wangu gather information safely instead of taking risks, and Zhou Leng traveled to Fifth New Delhi.
• Zhou Leng checked into a hotel, agreed to meet Wangu in its café, and saw the city’s slums, wealthy districts, and several deadly fights from his window.

Zhou Leng began his intelligence-gathering mission in Elephant Nation, where he posed as Wangu’s bodyguard ahead of the World Nations Conference. Meanwhile, Wang Boxiong and Tong Tianxia prepared a high-stakes operation, and Zhou Leng entered the first banquet with Wangu as a rival threatened to target him.

• Two Innate martial artists fought through a slum, destroying homes and injuring residents, while the survivors rebuilt without expecting help.
• Zhou Leng met Wangu, agreed to follow the mission’s rules, and altered his appearance to pass as an Elephant Nation native.
• Wangu explained that they would gather intelligence at the World Nations Conference and warned Zhou Leng that the Demon-Worshiping Cult’s infighting and inspections made exposure likely.
• Wang Boxiong told Tong Tianxia that Zhou Leng would pursue enlightenment beneath the Bodhi Tree after his mission, while they planned an operation without involving him beforehand.
• Zhou Leng accompanied Wangu to a banquet in Wuxindeli City, where he recognized Jax and learned that Wangu’s rival Singh might try to target him.

Zhou Leng helped Wangu’s subordinates get released and learned that Wangu was investigating the Demon-Worshiping Cult’s Blood Replacement Plan and Zhao Lianshuo’s stolen Broken Sword. The chapter ended as Zhou Leng and Wangu heard a Grandmaster battle erupt outside the city.

• Wangu left the banquet to rescue his arrested subordinates, while Zhou Leng asked Jax to protect Anand.
• Wangu’s subordinates were released after Elephant Nation’s Demon-Worshiping Cult leader intervened, and Wangu learned that Singh had arranged their arrest.
• Wangu realized Zhou Leng had connections strong enough to secure the release, then recognized him as someone with knowledge of Zhao Lianshuo and Broken Sword.
• Zhou Leng told Wangu that the Zhao family had taken Broken Sword, and Wangu recalled Zhao Sheng’s warning that Zhao Lianshuo would have to prepare for a fight.
• Wangu revealed that the Demon-Worshiping Cult was carrying out a Blood Replacement Plan against Dragon Nation and said he would keep investigating it and the Zhao family.
• As Wangu drove Zhou Leng away from the banquet, they heard a Grandmaster-level battle near the edge of the city.

Zhou Leng witnessed the violence and poverty of Fifth New Delhi and joined Wangu on a search for the Eastern Lord Sect, which turned into looting and slaughter. When a Grandmaster ambushed Wangu, Zhou Leng repelled him with a finger and let him escape.

• Zhou Leng watched a Grandmaster battle devastate the slums and saw the widespread casualties it caused.
• Walking through Fifth New Delhi, Zhou Leng witnessed a stall owner being killed and a gang war ending in a public slaughter.
• Wangu told Zhou Leng that the Eastern Lord Sect was divided into factions and had been infiltrated by the Demon-Worshiping Cult.
• Wangu led a search that became a spree of theft and abuse, while his subordinates slaughtered starving locals who attacked them.
• A Grandmaster ambushed Wangu, but Zhou Leng stopped the attacker with invisible force and deliberately allowed him to flee.

Zhou Leng and Wangu arrived at the World Nations Conference as the Demon-Worshiping Cult gathered its leaders and planned to provoke a war with Dragon Nation. After entering the packed hall, Zhou Leng moved toward the stage while Wangu followed, unsure whether Zhou Leng meant to disrupt the conference; a Chinese-speaking voice with an Elephant Nation accent then came from outside.

• Wangu told Zhou Leng that the embassy had repeatedly warned him not to cause trouble, and they discussed the compromise faction’s ties to the Demon-Worshiping Cult.
• Zhou Leng reviewed Jax’s intelligence revealing plans to provoke Dragon Nation into war and waited for the conference to begin.
• Wangu explained that the Hell Knights and Eastern Lord Sect might attack around the venue, while the Demon-Worshiping Cult had stationed Martial Saint experts nearby.
• Zhou Leng and Wangu patrolled the conference as unrest broke out nearby and prominent Demon-Worshiping Cult figures entered the hall.
• After the conference began, Zhou Leng sent Jax a message; Jax and other attendees pretended to suffer stomach trouble and left their seats.
• Zhou Leng led Wangu backstage toward the side of the stage, where they stood unnoticed until a Chinese-speaking voice with an Elephant Nation accent came from outside.

Zhou Leng massacred the elites gathered in Elephant Nation’s convention hall and escaped to Dragon Nation with Wangu, whose real name was Lu Weiqu. As Zhou Leng went into hiding, the massacre triggered upheaval across nations and confusion among foreign powers.

• Zhou Leng tore the stage curtains into thousands of lethal handkerchiefs and attacked the convention hall while firing molten steel balls at the gathered elites.
• After the hall collapsed, Dragon Nation’s Martial Saints held off Elephant Nation’s pursuers as Zhou Leng carried Wangu across the border to safety.
• Wangu revealed his name was Lu Weiqu, and Zhou Leng explained that he had arranged the Martial Saints’ intervention the previous day to save him.
• Zhu Shiji arrived, took custody of Lu Weiqu, and let Zhou Leng escape toward the coast in disguise before he swam toward southern Elephant Nation.
• News of the massacre spread worldwide, sparking civil unrest and leaving foreign officials unsure how to respond.
• Days later, online users noticed that the celebrities’ accounts had gone silent and their final posts placed them in Fifth New Delhi.

After months undercover in Elephant Nation, Zhou Leng reflected on its social failures and began to understand how nations could escape destructive cycles. He arrived at the Great Bodhi Tree in Tianjiang Demon City, where a local guide offered to arrange access to its cultivation grounds.

• The Demon-Worshiping Cult failed to identify who had acted against it, while Zhou Leng disappeared and Dragon Nation and other powers quietly prepared for the Ten Realms War.
• Zhou Leng traveled through Elephant Nation for more than a month, repeatedly finding himself ostracized for refusing its disturbing customs and killing corrupt abusers when he encountered them.
• After reflecting on Elephant Nation and reading Dong Jun's Miscellany, Zhou Leng realized that individuals and nations had to break destructive cycles rather than repeat old systems of oppression.
• Zhou Leng entered Eastern Lord Sect territory and considered what a better Dragon Nation might look like, gaining a faint insight that seemed to open a new path in his mind.
• Zhou Leng reached the Great Bodhi Tree in Tianjiang Demon City, where a local guide offered to arrange entry to the cultivation grounds, and Zhou Leng lifted him off the ground with Force-Piercing-the-Void Realm.

Zhou Leng cultivated beneath the Bodhi Tree until his Martial Dao reached a bottleneck, then left Elephant Nation to walk the Enlightenment Road. He retraced the historic route without food, water, sleep, or outside energy, seeking the missing insight needed for a perfect ascension to sainthood.

• Zhou Leng paid an official in Bodhi City for access to the Bodhi Tree, where the tree recognized him as a Bodhi Saint and gave him a branch.
• Zhou Leng used the Bodhi Tree's tenfold boost to refine his techniques and practice the East Wind Fist until his body, cultivation, and realm reached their limits.
• Zhou Leng realized he could ascend to sainthood but still lacked something needed to achieve a perfect ascension like Zhao Dongjun, so he left Elephant Nation.
• Zhou Leng bought century-old clothes and straw sandals in Auspicious Gold, then began the twelve-thousand-five-hundred-kilometer Enlightenment Road while listening to Dong Jun's Miscellany.
• Zhou Leng ran without stopping, food, water, sleep, or outside power, retracing historic sites including the Xiang River Battlefield, the Bozhou Conference, and the Red Water River.

After completing Enlightenment Road, Zhou Leng gained a profound understanding of East Wind Fist and learned its seventeenth move, The New Heaven Stands Eternal. He recovered and began the second location of the Martial Saint Battle Path at Shanggan Ridge, where a faint glow appeared before him on the eighth day of meditation.

• Zhou Leng reached Yan'an after enduring more than twenty days without food, water, sleep, or rest, and saw the sages’ crimson imprints when his vision went dark.
• Zhao Dongjun and the Martial Saint phantoms appeared, and Zhou Leng witnessed the East Wind Fist moves and understood that the people bestowed Heaven’s mandate.
• Zhou Leng learned the seventeenth move, The New Heaven Stands Eternal, as a red star rose on Will Mountain and erased the lingering evil forces in his Will World.
• Zhou Leng completed Enlightenment Road, restored his body by drawing in light, paid homage at Shaoshan, and slept for three days and three nights.
• Zhou Leng traveled to Shanggan Ridge on the Silla Peninsula and meditated there; on the eighth day, a faint glow appeared before him.

Zhou Leng witnessed the sacrifices of past heroes at Shanggan Ridge and struggled to find an answer to why people fought, leaving him spiritually exhausted and running toward the next place. Meanwhile, Wang Boxiong and Chen Shouhu headed to Xiong City, Hu Yi drove toward its outskirts, and Zhang Xinglie prepared a video for his pregnant wife and child.

• Zhou Leng witnessed scenes of heroic last stands at Shanggan Ridge and repeatedly recited their Three No-Beliefs.
• Zhou Leng searched for an answer to why people fought, then left Shanggan Ridge without finding one and sped across the sea in spiritual exhaustion.
• Zhou Leng crushed a force of over a thousand Sirens with two enormous walls of waves without noticing them.
• Wang Boxiong left his wife and son and boarded a demonized aircraft to Xiong City, where he sat beside Chen Shouhu.
• Hu Yi drove a massive mining dump truck toward the outskirts of Xiong City.
• Zhang Xinglie listened to the life growing inside his sleeping wife's belly and looked toward a USB drive containing a video for her and their child.

Tong Tianxia, Li Shenkong, Zhang Xinglie, and a vast crowd gathered to confront Zhao Palace as coordinated preparations disabled its surveillance and exposed its crimes. Zhao Hao took his seat on the dragon throne as evidence of Zhao Palace’s guilt flooded the world, and the assault began.

• Tong Tianxia, Lü Yuanhao, and their companions split up, while Li Shenkong learned from Li Tianyuan that the sixth volume of Dong Jun's Miscellany existed and left to do what he believed he must.
• People across the country prepared for a coordinated action, and mining trucks brought hundreds of attackers toward Zhao Palace while a shadow disabled a hidden sentry and concealed the approach from its cameras.
• Zhao Hao ordered Madam and the Old Madam to escape through a tunnel, then sat on Zhao Palace’s dragon throne as alarms sounded.
• Tong Tianxia, Chen Shouhu, and Wang Boxiong explained why they had come to Zhao Palace, joined by Li Shenkong, Zhang Xinglie, and a large crowd of martial artists and young people.
• Zhao Lianshuo demanded that Zhao Hao return the Broken Sword and Zhao Sheng’s corpse, while Wang Boxiong sent the signal to release the evidence.
• Websites and apps around the world published documents and reports accusing Zhao Hao and Zhao Palace of crimes including collaboration with demons, abducting people, and engineering military disasters.