Chapter Summaries

Zhou Leng took his place as the Ancient Beast New King and joined the Flying-Mountain Fierce Bears in opening King Mountain’s treasure trove. When three thousand Zhao Clan remnants arrived seeking an alliance, he recognized them as enemies and ordered their execution.

• Zhou Leng and the Eight-Tusk Mammoths completed the Ancestral Land ritual, then chose the mammoths’ former homeland for their new tribal land.
• Zhou Leng led five thousand Ferocious Beasts with the Flying-Mountain Fierce Bears to King Mountain, where the bears opened the treasure and seated him on the throne.
• Zhou Leng discovered that the treasure trove held many valuable human artifacts, which the Ferocious Beasts had treated as ornaments, and took the items humans could use.
• Flying-Mountain Fierce Bear Grandmasters told Zhou Leng that three thousand humans had requested an alliance and brought them before him.
• Zhou Leng recognized the kneeling visitors as Zhao Clan remnants and ordered them all killed; the Ferocious Beasts slaughtered the group, including Rao Xuan.
• Zhou Leng left the treasure hall with the Ferocious Beasts, saying they would return and eat stewed Dread Wolf claws.

After Ancient Beast Blood appeared across the Ten Realms, Zhou Leng left the chaotic Ferocious Beast World and found a Mountain-Range Python hiding underground with some of the blood. The Python charged him, and their fight began.

• Zhou Leng feasted on a Demigod Dire Wolf claw and Demon Dragon meat, while Big Yellow and Little Eight ran to cool themselves after eating.
• Ancient Beast Blood appeared across the Ten Realms, prompting Demigods to battle for it as Peak Demigods overwhelmed their rivals.
• Zhou Leng left the Ferocious Beast World for Blue Star, but sensed Ancient Beast Blood near the second Stellar Altar and followed its trail underground.
• Zhou Leng found the Mountain-Range Python that had beaten him before, and the Python charged him after recognizing him.
• The Mountain-Range Python sensed Zhou Leng's stronger aura, armored itself with earth and rock, and attacked with its tail and jaws.

Zhou Leng defeated the Mountain-Range Python, took its Ancient Beast Blood, and escaped an Upper Demigod golden rhinoceros by reaching the Frost Giant Tree. After absorbing the blood and joining the Dragon Nation Martial Saint Group, he learned that Dragon Nation and Elephant Nation were clashing over the Himalayan Mountains and was sent there to provide support and reconnaissance.

• Zhou Leng overwhelmed the Mountain-Range Python with Heroic Advance Through Wind and Rain, but the python escaped after giving up the Ancient Beast Blood.
• Zhou Leng seized the Ancient Beast Blood and swallowed it while racing toward the Frost Giant Tree, with a golden rhinoceros pursuing him.
• The golden rhinoceros chased Zhou Leng into the forest, where the Frost Giant Tree’s ancient power struck it down and left Zhou Leng unharmed.
• Zhou Leng absorbed the Ancient Beast Blood, returned to Ru City, and joined the Dragon Nation Martial Saint Group.
• Zhou Leng learned that foreign Martial Saint Realm experts had sparked clashes with Dragon Nation over Ancient Beast Blood in the Himalayan Mountains.
• Zhu Shiji ordered Zhou Leng to head to the Himalayan Mountains for support and reconnaissance, and Zhou Leng agreed to go.

Zhou Leng traveled with An Tianzhi toward the Himalayan Mountains, debating the Demon-Worshiping Cult and refusing to forgive those implicated in his case until Lü Yuanhao and Wan Yang were cleared. After An Tianzhi went ahead, Zhou Leng reviewed secret intelligence, worried about the Calamity God, and reached a disputed Himalayan region where evacuations were underway.

• Zhou Leng met An Tianzhi near Huchang City, and they traveled together toward the Himalayan Mountains while discussing Zhou Leng’s unusual power and damaged dantian.
• Zhou Leng challenged An Tianzhi’s view that the loss of future Martial Saints was inevitable and argued that old Demon-Worshiping Cult members had hindered humanity’s progress.
• An Tianzhi asked Zhou Leng to help his wife’s cousin, but Zhou Leng said he would not pardon anyone before Lü Yuanhao and the righteous martyr Wan Yang were cleared.
• An Tianzhi shared top-secret dossiers on foreign Martial Saints, warned Zhou Leng about battles in the Himalayas, and went ahead alone.
• Zhou Leng reviewed the intelligence, worried about the Calamity God, changed his appearance to Zhu Shiji’s, and circled through the mountains to provide support.
• Zhou Leng reached a disputed region between two nations and saw people evacuating as Himalayan tremors and avalanches intensified.

Zhou Leng intervened in a battle between Dragon Nation and Elephant Nation Martial Saints, defeated Strong-War King, and pursued him through an abandoned city while dragging a masked opponent. The chapter left Strong-War King gravely injured and unconscious, while the other masked Martial Saint was barely alive.

• Zhou Leng descended from the mountain to aid An Tianzhi and Xu Zhenxian as Elephant Nation Martial Saints attacked them.
• Strong-War King and a masked Martial Saint charged Zhou Leng, but he stopped both attacks and crushed Strong-War King's right fist.
• Strong-War King fled toward the abandoned city after Zhou Leng demanded to know who had started the battle, while Zhou Leng pursued him with the masked Martial Saint in hand.
• Zhou Leng chased Strong-War King through the city, smashing buildings as he evaded the Demigod's attacks.
• Zhou Leng used the Great Sun Divine Technique to catch Strong-War King and badly injure him with a punch and kick.
• Zhou Leng found Strong-War King barely conscious and the masked Martial Saint he had dragged reduced to a mangled, unconscious state.

Zhou Leng defeated and killed Sulaen, Ten-Chariot King, and Strong-War King while rescuing An Tianzhi. After delivering An Tianzhi to Dragon Nation authorities, he asked Zhu Shiji to warn Elephant Nation and its allies, as the public celebrated Zhu Shiji’s apparent victories.

• Zhou Leng unmasked Sulaen, learned she was a Demon-Worshiping Cult leader, and killed her after she refused to reveal the cult’s intelligence.
• Zhou Leng exchanged Strong-War King for the injured An Tianzhi, then attacked and killed Ten-Chariot King.
• Zhou Leng killed Strong-War King, absorbed Ancient Beast Blood, and carried An Tianzhi back to Dragon Nation, where he handed him to the local garrison for treatment.
• Zhou Leng asked Zhu Shiji to issue a stern warning to Elephant Nation and its allies, and Zhu Shiji posted one on the Martial City platform.
• Online commenters celebrated Zhu Shiji and discussed videos of the battle, believing he had killed three Martial Saint Realm experts.

Zhou Leng continued gathering Ancient Beast Blood while Dragon Nation's Martial Saints strengthened their position, and online rankings sparked disputes over Dragon Nation's dominance and Zhou Leng's potential. After translating new Ancient River Sect ruins, he learned that Blood of Tyranny had stolen three drops of Ancient Beast Blood from Demon Prison and escaped a deadly pursuit.

• Zhu Shiji and Huang Xuange suspected Zhou Leng had brought Blood of Tyranny into the battle and discussed Zhou Leng's first-place nomination for the Ten Thousand Lamps Plan.
• Lin Yinghun advanced to the Mid Realm Martial Saint Realm, drove back an Upper Realm Martial Saint from Elephant Nation, and helped force enemy Martial Saints to withdraw.
• Zhou Leng left the Himalayan Mountains with four drops of Ancient Beast Blood and read online rankings that placed Dragon Nation's Martial Saints first in four realm categories and debated his own potential ranking.
• Zhou Leng translated most of the newly excavated Ancient River Sect materials in two hours, earning praise from Divine Script experts.
• Zhu Shiji reported that Blood of Tyranny had entered Demon Prison, killed four of five pursuing Upper Demigods, escaped, and seized three drops of Ancient Beast Blood.

Disguised as Zhu Shiji, Zhou Leng searched for Ancient Beast Blood and then infiltrated Treant World, where he drained the Ant Queen’s Brilliant Insect Sap and recruited her to help him take over as Mother Insect. The chapter ended with Zhou Leng preparing to secure Ma Dabai’s loyalty through contracts before moving against the current Mother Insect.

• Zhou Leng searched the seas for Ancient Beast Blood, found five droplets over five days, and decided to look in other worlds when the supply ran low.
• After reviewing reports on the Ten Realms, Zhou Leng bought energy detectors and secretly placed them near the new Mother Insect’s nest in Treant World.
• Zhou Leng entered a Giant Ant nest, reunited with the Ant Queen, and drained much of her Brilliant Insect Sap while questioning her about the Giant Insect Clan.
• Zhou Leng offered to support the Ant Queen’s advancement to Mother Insect in exchange for her resources and cooperation, and she accepted, becoming his guard.
• Zhou Leng named the Ant Queen Ma Dabai and began planning to seize the Mother Insect, insisting that they sign contracts to prevent her from betraying him.

Zhou Leng attacked the Brood Nest to seize the Brilliant Mother Liquid, defeating its demigod defenders and overcoming the Mother Insect's mental assault. He emerged dragging the Mother Insect's enormous body as Ma Dabai arrived with her Giant Ant army.

• Zhou Leng signed twenty demon contracts with Ma Dabai, then headed for the Mother Insect's nest to demand the Brilliant Mother Liquid.
• Zhou Leng defeated a demigod beetle, a Giant Mantis, and a giant spider outside the Brood Nest.
• Seven demigod Giant Insects arrived, and Zhou Leng killed them with Divine Light Heavenly Explosion and ordinary attacks.
• The Mother Insect unleashed a Mental Storm, but Zhou Leng walked through it and charged into the cave.
• Zhou Leng emerged dragging the Mother Insect's enormous body just as Ma Dabai arrived, carried by an army of Giant Ants.

Zhou Leng absorbed his tenth drop of Ancient Beast Blood and underwent a painful transformation that strengthened his body and granted him the ability Swallowing Mountains and Rivers. He tested his new powers as Ma Dabai recovered from eating the Mother Insect.

• Ma Dabai ate the Mother Insect corpse while the Giant Insects watched hungrily, and Zhou Leng swallowed his tenth drop of Ancient Beast Blood.
• Zhou Leng endured the destruction and reconstruction of his flesh and organs as the Ancient Beast Blood transformed his body.
• Zhou Leng discovered that he could inhale vast amounts of air and spiritual energy, then exhale a hurricane with the ability Swallowing Mountains and Rivers.
• Zhou Leng tested his new body, crushing a Dragon-Tiger Pill in his stomach and condensing air into dry ice and liquid oxygen.
• Ma Dabai stirred awake, still groggy after absorbing the Mother Insect's power, and looked down at Zhou Leng.

Zhou Leng secured secret alliances with the Giant Insects and Treants and gathered Ancient Beast Blood while searching Orc territory. After learning the Calamity God had descended and crippled Demon Prison’s two lords, he hurried to Senior Tree and had Big Yellow search for the golden pages.

• Zhou Leng made Ma Dabai the Mother Insect, purged the disobedient Insect Queens, and ordered the Giant Insects to search for Ancient Beast Blood.
• Zhou Leng formed a secret alliance between the Giant Insects and Treant Demigods, who also agreed to seek Ancient Beast Blood.
• Disguised as an Orc, Zhou Leng searched Orc territory, killed two Orc Demigods, and obtained six drops of Ancient Beast Blood before the Orc-Dwarf war ended.
• Zhu Shiji warned Zhou Leng that the Calamity God had descended, and reports said the Calamity God had severely wounded both the Despair Shepherd and the Supreme Saint with one move.
• After seeing a video of the Calamity God’s attack, Zhou Leng went to Senior Tree with Big Yellow and had him search for the golden pages.

Zhou Leng sought ways to defeat the Calamity God, studied the Nineteen Star-Slaying Swords, and consulted the little Elves teacher for guidance. He then set out for the Endless Battlefield to investigate places that might help him fight the god.

• Zhou Leng examined the Star-Destroying Bottle and began practicing the first move of the Nineteen Star-Slaying Swords, Stars Hanging Beyond Heaven.
• Zhou Leng showed the little Elves teacher the Divine Script for Aurora Summit, and she warned him that it could alert the Calamity God's true body.
• Zhou Leng wrote a detailed Divine Script composition about the Calamity God and his available weapons, and the little Elves teacher advised him to prepare for battle, seek allies, and pursue the Ancient River Sect's methods.
• The little Elves teacher named twelve places, including sites in the Endless Battlefield, where Zhou Leng might find aid connected to the God-Ascension Stairway.
• Zhou Leng recorded the locations and went to the Endless Battlefield despite the danger that the Calamity God might be there.

Zhou Leng searched several worlds for Ancient Beast Blood, absorbed twenty-two drops, and met Blood of Tyranny at their agreed location. Blood of Tyranny revealed that he had absorbed twenty-nine drops and repeatedly failed to absorb a thirtieth.

• Zhou Leng searched the Demon Prison, the Beastfolk World, and the Treant World, raising his total Ancient Beast Blood to twenty-two drops.
• After the blood's scarcity forced him to keep searching on Blue Star, Zhou Leng received Blood of Tyranny's message and went to the unfinished Old Heng Residential Compound.
• Zhou Leng waited two days in the ruins and practiced the Nineteen Star-Slaying Swords, slicing a twenty-story building apart with Falling Celestial Star.
• Blood of Tyranny arrived, examined Zhou Leng's Star-Slaying Sword, and said he had absorbed twenty-nine drops of Ancient Beast Blood but failed four times to absorb a thirtieth.

Blood of Tyranny gave Zhou Leng a pill formula and Ancient Beast Blood, then warned him that the Calamity God would eventually attack Blue Star. Zhou Leng continued tempering his strength, and the chapter ended with the second God-Ascension Stairway trial concluding and excess Ancient Beast Blood disappearing.

• Blood of Tyranny gave Zhou Leng the Light Nether Pill formula, its ingredients, and ten drops of Ancient Beast Blood in exchange for a future Little Star Pill.
• Blood of Tyranny warned Zhou Leng that the Calamity God would personally deal with Blue Star after playing among mortals, and recalled how his father taught him that poetry carried civilization in the bloodline.
• Zhou Leng absorbed one more drop of Ancient Beast Blood, saved the three remaining drops, and used Brilliant Mother Liquid to greatly increase his body's conversion of starlight into Stellar Void True Energy.
• Zhou Leng went to practice cultivation with Xu Qingjin, then left the next morning as a new Ancient River Sect initiation ceremony began.
• The second trial of the God-Ascension Stairway ended, and Zhou Leng told Li Yuanhe that excess Ancient Beast Blood would be erased and dissipate.

Zhou Leng appeared among the Ten Realms’ most powerful Demigods on the God-Ascension Stairway, prompting disbelief, celebration, and investigations across the realms. As the second level of the trials ended, everyone wondered what the third level would bring.

• Translucent figures appeared on the Stairway’s second level, with Zhou Leng standing behind powerful Demigods such as Blood of Tyranny and several Demon Prison lords.
• Li Yuanhe questioned Zhou Leng’s placement, while Zhou Leng insisted the rankings were random and searched unsuccessfully for the Calamity God.
• Feng Wenhao sent Zhou Leng footage of Ru University celebrating, and messages from relatives, friends, and Martial Saints questioned Zhou Leng’s rank and achievements.
• Zhou Leng posted that he was not a Demigod and that the Stairway’s rankings were random, but Zhu Shiji and others mocked his explanation.
• Demon Prison lords ordered a thorough investigation of Zhou Leng, while factions across the Ten Realms tried to determine how he had obtained so much Ancient Beast Blood.
• As the second level of the trials ended, reports spread that stored Ancient Beast Blood had disappeared, and the Ten Realms speculated about the third level.

The Demon-Worshiping Cult sent Benjamin to investigate Zhou Leng, while Zhou Leng led a massive Ancient River Sect induction ceremony and returned to Xiaoru Village. Benjamin followed him through a Two-World Barrier into the Ferocious Beast World, where colossal roots struck him down.

• The Demon-Worshiping Cult's Martial Saints debated how to learn Zhou Leng's strength, and Benjamin agreed to visit Dragon Nation.
• Zhou Leng presided over an induction ceremony attended by more than a million people, taught publicly, and oversaw the burning of traitors.
• Zhou Leng visited the Demigod Treants at Xiaoru Village and entered the cave on Ruge Mountain.
• Benjamin secretly followed Zhou Leng into the cave and discovered a Two-World Barrier leading to the Ferocious Beast World.
• Benjamin entered the Ferocious Beast World and was confronted by enormous tree roots that blotted out the sky and dimmed his vision.

Zhou Leng cultivated beneath the Frost Giant Tree and in the ferocious beast clans’ sacred lakes, then arranged to take trials with the Dragon and Giant clans. After Benjamin vanished, Demon Prison and the Siren Demigods blamed Blood of Tyranny, triggering a wave of violence across both worlds; meanwhile, Zhou Leng arrived at Dragon Mountain and was welcomed by the Dragon Clan.

• Zhou Leng continued cultivating to strengthen himself before absorbing the thirtieth drop of Ancient Beast Blood, training beneath the Frost Giant Tree and in three sacred lakes.
• Zhou Leng contacted the Dragon and Giant clans to arrange their trials and told them to conceal his entry without tearing open the Two-World Barrier.
• The Demon-Worshiping Cult’s Martial Saints found Benjamin missing and blamed Blood of Tyranny, then reported their conclusion to Demon Prison.
• Demon Prison’s lords pressured the Siren World, whose Demigods attacked Blood of Tyranny; after escaping wounded, he began slaughtering Demigods and their followers in the Siren World and Demon Prison.
• Zhou Leng arrived at Dragon Mountain, where the Dragon Clan honored him for the Dragon God Combat Art, and Crimson Eye presented herself as his companion.

Zhou Leng joined the Dragons’ drinking feast, outlasted nearly everyone before finally passing out, and woke beside the sleeping Queen Crimson Eye. He then learned that Benjamin’s death had plunged several factions into chaos and that Demon Prison was seeking a reason to target him.

• Zhou Leng and Crimson Eye drank barrels of powerful wine at the banquet, and the Dragons suspected Zhou Leng was using an outside method when he showed little sign of drunkenness.
• Jade Wing realized Zhou Leng’s stomach might have become Stellar Void, while Zhou Leng continued drinking and taunted the Dragons into chugging more wine.
• After drinking over a thousand barrels, Zhou Leng finally collapsed before the Peak Demigod Dragons, who discovered that Crimson Eye and nearly every other Dragon had also passed out.
• Zhou Leng slept for a day and night, woke beside Crimson Eye, and hurried outside after patting her scales and realizing where his hand had landed.
• A white Dragon told Zhou Leng that Benjamin, the Eagle Alliance’s foremost Martial Saint, had died and that Demon Prison had sent an envoy demanding his surrender.
• The white Dragon warned Zhou Leng that Demon Prison might arrange an assassination, possibly with help from Dragon Clan traitors, while Dragon Mountain remained a safe haven.

Zhou Leng underwent Dragon Clan rituals, beginning with eating a Star Dragon Bloodline egg and soaking in a pool of demigod dragon blood. The Dragons tried to turn him into a Dragon, but his absorption of their power left them alarmed and bleeding their reserves into the pool.

• The white dragon persuaded Zhou Leng to complete several Dragon rituals, hoping the process would dragonify him.
• Zhou Leng ate a dead Star Dragon Bloodline egg and absorbed its power, while Jade Wing suspected Zhou Leng was assimilating the Dragons instead.
• Zhou Leng's True Energy Singularity developed a fetal stirring, and his body grew stronger as it absorbed surrounding light.
• The Dragon priest led Zhou Leng to a pool filled with demigod dragon blood, which Zhou Leng rapidly absorbed.
• The Dragons repeatedly cut their claws to replenish the fading pool, and the Dragon priest ordered them to summon other demigods to offer their blood.

Void Dark Horn agreed to help Black Flame Everlight assassinate Zhou Leng after the God-Ascension Stairway trial, but he attended Zhou Leng’s Dragon ceremonies while waiting for a safe opportunity. Zhou Leng completed a day of rites and learned that the Dragon-Transformation Egg Ritual could grant him a High Dragon bloodline, then began searching his Stellar Void Bag for Dragon-related pills.

• Black Flame Everlight’s envoy offered to help kill Blood of Tyranny during the God-Ascension Stairway trial, and Void Dark Horn agreed to attack Zhou Leng only if it was safe.
• The Dragon priest summoned Void Dark Horn to the Great Altar, where he and other Demigod Dragons replenished the Dragon Pool with their blood as Zhou Leng soaked in it.
• Zhou Leng emerged from the pool with signs of impending dragonification, while Void Dark Horn decided not to attack under the watch of Peak Demigod Dragons.
• Void Dark Horn watched Zhou Leng undergo a day and night of Dragon ceremonies, culminating in the journey to the Dragon-Transformation Platform.
• The Dragon priest explained that the Dragon-Transformation Egg Ritual could grant Zhou Leng a High Dragon bloodline, and Zhou Leng searched his Stellar Void Bag for Dragon-related pills.