Chapter Summaries

The Huang-Meng Sect and allied forces exposed the Demon-Worshiping Cult’s infiltration and stormed Zhao Palace as worldwide outrage erupted. After the battle left thousands dead and Zhao Palace in ruins, Zhao Hao remained seated before the surviving mural.

• The Hell Knights, Huang-Meng Sect, and righteous forces flooded the world with evidence that Zhao Hao and the Demon-Worshiping Cult had betrayed humanity and infiltrated governments.
• Crowds rose up across the world, and Tong Tianxia, Chen Shouhu, and Wang Boxiong led an assault that broke through Zhao Palace’s defenses.
• Lü Yuanhao interrogated and killed corrupt elders, recorded their confessions, then livestreamed his own death outside the highest building of the law.
• The battle at Zhao Palace intensified as reinforcements and powerful fighters clashed, and a beam of divine light flew toward Li Shenkong’s sister’s room.
• By sunrise, Zhao Palace lay in ruins and 12,272 martyrs had fallen; Zhao Hao sat before the lone surviving mural.

Zhou Leng reached West Sea Demon City, destroyed the Sirens defending their Turtle-Shell Castle, and took the Void God-level turtle fortress into his Stellar Void Bag. He then entered the Ten-Thousand-Nuke Battlefield, where he encountered veteran Grandmaster Kings from several realms.

• Zhou Leng fought his way through the Sirens gathered around the Turtle-Shell Castle, killing countless defenders as he instinctively practiced East Wind Fist.
• Zhou Leng recognized the turtle shell’s Void God aura and stored the entire Turtle-Shell Castle in his Stellar Void Bag, leaving the Sirens to discover it was gone.
• Zhou Leng traveled to the Ten-Thousand-Nuke Battlefield and entered through the deep-blue fissure after protecting vulnerable items from Destructive Stellar Power.
• Zhou Leng crossed the devastated battlefield and encountered Grandmaster Kings including Wang Baichan, Ivan, Blackmoon Shadow, and Golden Cang.

Zhou Leng reached the center of the Ten-Thousand-Nuke Detonation site and used the destructive starlight to try to activate the Star-Refining Furnace. In a state of absolute void, he witnessed memories of the war and learned how Yu Zhimin and twenty-two other elders served as bait for the Houyi Project.

• Zhou Leng passed the Demon Prison Angels and the famous dragons Light of Canggu and Ashes of Darkness, continuing far beyond the twenty-kilometer limit.
• Zhou Leng found the Prismatic Light Lake at the detonation site's center and placed the Star-Refining Furnace nearby to absorb its Stellar Power.
• Zhou Leng entered a blank state, and visions showed human collaborators aiding Demons, bases falling to demonization, and battles ending in nuclear blasts.
• Zhou Leng saw Spirit Mages and humans burying boxes and building the Houyi Project's Demon Spirit Formation.
• Yu Zhimin revealed that he had exposed himself as the project's leader to draw in the Demonic Beast Alliance, and said twenty-three radiation-stricken elders would serve as bait.
• Yu Zhimin sent the young researchers away, while the elders stayed behind, convinced humanity would win.

Zhou Leng witnessed the Ten-Thousand-Nuke Battlefield’s history and accepted humanity’s hopes as his responsibility. He used the Prismatic Light Lake to power the Star-Refining Furnace and began refining pills for Zhang Xinglie.

• Zhou Leng watched the Humanoid Alliance lure over ten thousand Demigods into a nuclear detonation, where the twenty-three elders left their imprints in the Imprint River and urged him toward humanity’s future.
• Zhou Leng realized the Prismatic Light Lake could power the Star-Refining Furnace and remembered Martial Master's warning that Zhang Xinglie and another person would determine humanity’s future.
• Zhou Leng threw the Star-Refining Furnace into the lake, and it absorbed the stellar power until it grew to a hundred meters tall.
• Zhou Leng understood the furnace’s Divine Script and decided to refine pills for Zhang Xinglie, beginning with Dragon-Tiger Pills to gain experience.
• Zhou Leng operated the Star-Refining Furnace through its stages of pill refinement and reached out to check the result.

Zhou Leng mastered the Star-Refining Furnace, created several Little Star Pills, and refined a Divine Origin Pill that could remove the Deity’s lingering power from Zhang Xinglie. After leaving the Ten-Thousand-Nuke Battlefield, he fought his way through the Demon Prison Angels and a Siren army as he hurried to deliver the pill.

• Zhou Leng repeatedly refined Dragon-Tiger Pills and other recipes, eventually producing Heavenly-Light Little Star Pills and a Divine Origin Pill on his fourth attempt.
• Zhou Leng decided to give Little Star Pills to Zhang Xinglie and Song Juesi, keep one for himself, and carry the Divine Origin Pill to Zhang Xinglie.
• Zhou Leng left the Ten-Thousand-Nuke Battlefield, killed the seventeen Demon Prison Angels blocking his way, and took their Demon-Spirit Bags.
• Zhou Leng encountered three Siren Demigod avatars and slaughtered the nearby Siren army with the East Wind Fist.
• The Banner of the Azure Billows chased Zhou Leng at up to Mach 10 but could not catch him as Zhou Leng raced onward at nearly Mach 11.

Zhou Leng learned that Zhang Xinglie and many of his friends had died, then went to Zhao Palace and challenged Zhao Hao, declaring the traitors to humanity his enemies. Their battle left Zhao Hao injured by Zhou Leng’s East Wind Fist, and they continued trading blows.

• Aurora Summit’s true body dismissed the Demonic Beasts, decided to enter the Demon Spirit World, and left Zhou Leng and Blue Star to face their fate.
• Shanhe Yuan learned that Zhang Xinglie and his friends had been branded traitors and killed, then abandoned his honors and returned to the Giant World.
• Zhou Leng read the farewell messages from his friends, learned that his uncle Li Linhan had also been killed, and redirected toward Zhao Palace.
• Zhou Leng pushed past the guards and demolished most of Zhao Palace before confronting Zhao Hao, whom he called a Demon and an enemy.
• Zhou Leng revealed that the believers in Zhao Dongjun’s spirit were the Six Volumes, then used the East Wind Fist to wound Zhao Hao and continued attacking him.

Zhou Leng defeated Zhao Hao outside Zhao Palace and discovered that Zhao Hao had used Zhao Dongjun’s body to create the Headless God. After killing Zhao Hao’s protectors and rejecting pleas to spare him for the greater good, Zhou Leng left to establish his own.

• Zhou Leng overcame Zhao Hao’s attacks, revealed his superior speed and strength, and struck him with Divine Light Skyburst.
• Zhao Hao transformed into a Demon, then summoned the Headless God and drew power from the body of Zhao Dongjun.
• Enraged by the revelation, Zhou Leng unleashed his Extraordinary Bodies and Immortal Star Body, advanced his Martial Will, and defeated Zhao Hao in battle.
• Matriarch Zhao and Madam Zhao tried to protect Zhao Hao, but Zhou Leng killed them and rejected Wu Duanxiong’s plea for mercy.
• Zhou Leng declared that the people ruled the world, forced Zhao Hao to his knees, took the Demon-Spirit Bags, and left as three Heavenly Stairways descended over Blue Star.

After destroying Zhao Palace, Zhou Leng received four Great Battlefield rewards and activated a Golden Light Crystal, granting humanity the Dong Jun Light Body. With his resolve strengthened, he began ascending to the Martial Saint Realm beneath the Frost Giant Tree, where his True Energy Singularity erupted.

• The three-tiered Heavenly Stairway appeared over Blue Star and delivered a Golden Light Crystal, a Stellar Void ancient sword, a Martial Shadow Wall, and Star Dragon Blood to Zhou Leng as rewards for killing the Calamity Envoy.
• Zhou Leng chose the Golden Light Crystal, awakening humanity's second racial divine ability, Dong Jun Light Body, which let people draw strength from light and heal rapidly beneath it.
• The new ability revived wounded martial artists and patients across Blue Star, while Zhou Leng's own injuries healed especially quickly.
• Zhou Leng's will hardened around humanity's future, and he headed toward Ruge Mountain as news of Zhao Palace's destruction spread and the Supreme Court announced a major crackdown on the Demon-Worshiping Cult.
• Zhou Leng reached the Frost Giant Tree in the Ferocious Beast World and cultivated the Great Sun Divine Technique with Stellar Void True Energy and sunlight.
• Zhou Leng's True Energy Singularity suddenly lost balance and exploded outward, colliding with the sun-like radiance around it.

Zhou Leng formed the Great Sun Star Core, gained the True-Life Divine Palace ability, and advanced to Martial Saint. After the God-Ascension Stairway opened and assigned him a Demigod trial, he tested the Two-World Barriers and discovered he could cross them despite their resistance.

• Zhou Leng completed the Great Sun Star Core, gained the True-Life Divine Palace, and learned to walk through the air using his Earthly Void Martial Domain.
• Zhou Leng visited Mammoth Lake, learned that he had become the Mammoth Lord, and agreed to discuss the tribe’s return to its Ancestral Land with the elders.
• A five-level God-Ascension Stairway appeared, and Zhou Leng received a mark ordering him to kill a Demigod of the same rank within three cosmic days.
• Zhou Leng tested the Two-World Barrier between Blue Star and the Ferocious Beast World and found he could cross it freely, then reasoned that his status in the Dragon World might reduce the barriers’ resistance.
• Zhou Leng disguised himself as a Spirit Mage and forced his way through the barrier into Wasteland Demon City.

Zhou Leng discovered that he could pass freely between the Demon Prison and other worlds, then entered the Endless Battlefield to seek Demigods for the God-Ascension Stairway. He found a Newly Advanced Demigod, the Lamp of Eternal Darkness, but a Lower Realm Deity was stationed nearby.

• Zhou Leng tested travel between several worlds and found that he could enter and leave the Demon Prison without resistance.
• Zhou Leng disguised himself as a Demon and followed a conscription squad to meet the Sword of Innocence on the Endless Battlefield.
• The Sword of Innocence explained that Demigods were fighting over the God-Ascension Stairway, and Zhou Leng decided to hunt Demon Demigods there.
• After the Sword of Innocence left, Zhou Leng searched for Newly Advanced Demigods and found the Lamp of Eternal Darkness, who was guarded by the Lower Realm Deity, the Flesh Lord.

Zhou Leng killed Lamp of Eternal Darkness by demolishing his palace from a distance, then fought and defeated the pursuing Flesh Lord. After collecting the Flesh Lord’s remains and spoils, he left with seventeen Headless God components.

• Zhou Leng studied Lamp of Eternal Darkness and stormed his camp, using a Demigod hammer to destroy the palace’s defenses and crush it from outside.
• Lamp of Eternal Darkness’s demon lamps shattered, and Zhou Leng killed his ghostly form after it emerged from the Demon-Spirit Bag.
• Zhou Leng fled the green death-curse flames, but the Flesh Lord intercepted him and hurled a Bloodflesh Cleaver at him.
• Zhou Leng caught the cleaver, then fought the Flesh Lord in a clash of enormous blades and overwhelmed him with a hundred strikes.
• Zhou Leng took the Demon-Spirit Bag, dismembered the Flesh Lord, and collected seventeen Headless God components.

After ascending to Martial Saint, Zhou Leng returned to Blue Star and learned that injured Dragon Nation Martial Saints were struggling to face the God-Ascension Stairway. He helped Lin Yinghun gain a chance to restore his strength and began recruiting other Martial Saints by offering them Demigod opponents in exchange for their votes.

• Zhou Leng absorbed the power of the two Demon Demigods he had killed, returned to Blue Star, and read about the Supreme Court’s anti-Demon campaign and the Martial Saints’ concerns over the God-Ascension Stairway.
• Zhu Shiji told Zhou Leng that nineteen Dragon Nation Martial Saints remained in the Newly Advanced and Lower realms because of injuries, including the one-armed Lin Yinghun, whose severed arm had been eroded by a Deity’s power.
• Zhou Leng offered Lin Yinghun a Divine Origin Pill and promised to find him a Demigod Demonic Beast, asking for three votes in return.
• Zhou Leng brought a nearly dying Newly Advanced Orc Demigod from Orc World to Blue Star, and Lin Yinghun killed it and confirmed that his trial had succeeded.
• Zhou Leng asked Zhu Shiji to contact Dragon Nation’s injured Martial Saints who had mastered the East Wind Fist’s “The New Heaven Stands Eternal” fist intent, offering them Demigod opponents for three votes each.

Zhou Leng secretly moved dying Demigods from Demon Prison to help humanity and other factions complete the Heavenly Stairway trials, while Dragon Nation secured resources and influence through the trades. The chapter ended with humanity claiming ten final-day victories and Dragon Nation’s Martial Saints repelling a Demon-Worshiping Cult ambush after Huang Xuange, Li Tianyuan, and Chen Shaohuang recovered from their injuries.

• Zhou Leng killed and transported Demigods from the Beastfolk World and Demon Prison, while Zhu Shiji arranged secret trades that brought Dragon Nation resources and political concessions.
• Three Treant Grandmasters and one Elf Grandmaster advanced to the Demigod Realm, and Zhou Leng helped them complete the Heavenly Stairway trials.
• Song Juesi advanced to the Martial Saint Realm and defeated three Newly Advanced Demigods, then won two fights and drew one against Lower Demigods.
• Demon Prison’s investigation found more than eight hundred Demigods dead, and its Lords blamed Blood of Tyranny after discovering his presence on the Endless Battlefield.
• Humanity’s Martial Saints won ten contests, drew seven, and suffered six deaths on the final day, while Huang Xuange, Li Tianyuan, and Chen Shaohuang completed their trials despite injuries.
• Martial Saints from the Demon-Worshiping Cult attempted a sneak attack in Xiong City, but Huang Xuange, Li Tianyuan, and Chen Shaohuang recovered with divine medicine and helped repel them, killing a Mid Martial Saint Realm attacker.

Feng Wenhao and Wei Hong reflected on the unfair loss of their Martial Guards quotas as Zhou Leng’s phantom appeared on the Heavenly Stairway. Zhao Clan remnants planned to rebuild their power through an alliance with the Flying-Mountain Fierce Bears, while Zhou Leng received a Heaven-Tier Star and denied reaching the Martial Saint Realm.

• Feng Wenhao and Wei Hong discussed how losing their Martial Guards quotas had made them understand the hardships Hu Yi and Zhou Leng faced.
• Rao Xuan proposed that the Zhao Clan remnants aid the Flying-Mountain Fierce Bears in exchange for access to the King Mountain Treasure and support from a Demigod clan.
• The Heavenly Stairway filled with Demigod phantoms, and people across the Ten Realms saw Zhou Leng among them.
• Feng Wenhao and Wei Hong reacted to Zhou Leng’s apparent breakthrough, while Lou Feiqiong quietly ignored his family’s efforts to bring him back.
• Zhou Leng received a Heaven-Tier Star, learned that the second level’s trial would bring Ancient Beast Blood, and posted a denial that he had entered the Martial Saint Realm.

Zhou Leng distributed thousands of Headless God components to the Ancient River Sect, learned that Blood of Tyranny had obtained a God-Communing Token, and accepted the Star-Slaying Sword from Li Shenkong’s sister. He left with Big Yellow for the Ferocious Beast World, while the Zhao family’s remnants arrived there and waited near a coming battle.

• Zhou Leng gave Ancient River Sect disciples 2,935 Headless God components, which helped human forces win several battles against Demonic Beasts.
• Zhou Leng learned that the Demon Prison had set the Eye of Omniscience to search for Blood of Tyranny, then discussed a God-Communing Token with his senior brother, who had found it after killing Demonic Beast Grandmasters.
• Zhou Leng visited the honored graves of Wang Boxiong, Chen Shouhu, Li Shenkong, and the other men who had stormed Zhao Palace, then attended high-level meetings about the Heavenly Stairway and the Ten Realms War.
• Li Shenkong’s younger sister gave Zhou Leng the Star-Slaying Sword, and Big Yellow soon persuaded him to go to the Ferocious Beast World and undertake the Ancestral Path.
• Rao Xuan led more than three thousand people into the Ferocious Beast World, where the Flying-Mountain Fierce Bear brought them to a remote valley as the Zhao family’s remnants waited for a battle.

Zhou Leng advanced the Ten Inverse Beast Fist, endured the Realm of Emptiness, and led the Eight-Tusk Mammoth Tribe on its expedition toward the Ancestral Land. The tribe defeated a rival force of thirty thousand Ferocious Beasts, and survivors began collecting the fallen.

• Zhou Leng cultivated the Inverted Ape Chapter until the Ten Inverse Beast Fist reached the Stellar Void level and awakened the rudimentary Stellar Void Body.
• Zhou Leng recovered at Mammoth Lake, entered the Realm of Emptiness, and endured the erasure of his memories and self before returning with a stronger grasp of his existence.
• Zhou Leng announced that the Eight-Tusk Mammoth Tribe would journey to the Ancestral Land and seek the path to the Stellar Altar.
• The tribe began its expedition with more than a hundred thousand Ferocious Beasts, accompanied by a Spirit Mage legion from the Ice Snow Divine Cult.
• The Eight-Tusk Mammoth Tribe charged a rival army of nearly thirty thousand Ferocious Beasts and routed it within ten minutes.
• Ferocious Beasts across the battlefield gathered the flesh and blood of the fallen.

The Eight-Tusk Mammoth army fought its way to the first Stellar Altar, where Zhou Leng’s sacrifice summoned an Ancient Beast Constellation and the Demon-Suppressing Elephant Lord. Zhou Leng and the Elephant Lord clashed, and the battle left the Elephant Lord’s tusk cracked.

• The Eight-Tusk Mammoths defeated successive enemy hordes, losing most of their army before reaching the ring-shaped mountains around the first Stellar Altar.
• Zhou Leng entered the altar, offered an enormous mammoth tusk, and summoned an Ancient Beast Constellation.
• A fiery meteor brought the Demon-Suppressing Elephant Lord to the altar, where he attacked Zhou Leng under a Deity’s orders.
• Zhou Leng met the Elephant Lord’s charge with Divine Light Skyburst, sending them both flying backward and cracking one of the Elephant Lord’s tusks.

Zhou Leng fought the Demon-Suppressing Elephant Lord, first knocking him back with East Wind Fist techniques and then facing his transformation powered by his Void God ancestor's bloodline. The chapter ended as Zhou Leng unleashed I Divide the Globe, engulfing the Demon-Suppressing Elephant Lord in white light and sending two figures flying in opposite directions.

• The Demon-Suppressing Elephant Lord transformed and charged Zhou Leng, who used Wind Sweeps the Sky and Heaven-Slaughtering Eight Reversals to counterattack and send him flying outside the Stellar Altar.
• The Demon-Suppressing Elephant Lord shattered his right tusk but recovered his head, then invoked Bloodline Starfall and transformed with the power of his Void God ancestor.
• The transformed Demon-Suppressing Elephant Lord launched Heaven-Hanging Instant toward Zhou Leng, creating a chain of Heaven-Piercing Cloud Umbrellas across the sky.
• Zhou Leng used The New Heaven Stands Eternal to gather power and flew toward the Demon-Suppressing Elephant Lord.
• Zhou Leng unleashed I Divide the Globe, splitting the sky between light and darkness and striking the Demon-Suppressing Elephant Lord with a pillar of white light.

Zhou Leng gained the Elephant God's Son and Ancient Beast New King titles after defeating the Demon-Suppressing Elephant Lord, then reached the Power Altar to face its demigod challengers. He defeated several beasts in contests of strength before colliding with the Mountain-Range Python and being sent flying, though he quickly recovered.

• Zhou Leng defeated the Demon-Suppressing Elephant Lord and absorbed the Elephant Lord Force, which fused into his body and healed his wounds.
• The ferocious beasts hailed Zhou Leng as the Elephant God's Son, the Star-Striking Ape, and the Ancient Beast New King, and the army continued toward the Ancestral Land.
• At the Power Altar, Zhou Leng rammed the Twin-Body Vicious Bear apart, knocked the Steel Colossus unconscious, and broke the Three-Headed Vicious Tortoise's shell.
• Zhou Leng defeated one challenger after another before facing the Mountain-Range Python, whose immense weight sent him flying and left him with broken bones.
• Zhou Leng's injuries began healing as the mammoth Grandmasters celebrated that he had knocked over the Mountain-Range Python.

Zhou Leng absorbed the power of the third Stellar Altar, formed the outline of a Divine Form, and killed the Dire Wolf Demigod, clearing the final obstacle on the road to the Ancestral Land. At the Ancestral Land Gate, he saw a vision of colossal Ancient Beasts and a starry road before returning to the blood-smeared gate.

• After the Eight-Tusk Mammoth Tribe won at the second altar, its army advanced to the third Stellar Altar as other tribes stopped blocking their way.
• Zhou Leng absorbed power at the third altar for seven days, and a chain-like outline of a giant elephant formed across his back as his Divine Form began to manifest.
• The battered Dire Wolf Demigod arrived, and Zhou Leng killed him before he could finish addressing his opponent, then took the wolf's paws.
• The mammoth army celebrated its victory, and the elders agreed to help the Flying-Mountain Fierce Bears reclaim their King Mountain Treasure in exchange for half of it.
• Zhou Leng led the Eight-Tusk Mammoths and Big Yellow to the Ancestral Land Gate and covered it with blood.
• Zhou Leng saw a vision of an immense herd of Ancient Beasts and a road made of stars, then found himself back before the gate.