Chapter Summaries

After winning a second Lower Crown in the Beastfolk World, Zhou Leng returned to Blue Star and found Dragon Nation Martial Saints surrounded by enemies. He annihilated the opposing Martial Saints, then received the Blood Moons surrendered by Zhu Shiji and the six other Dragon Nation fighters.

• Zhou Leng killed the remaining orc demigods in the Ten Emperors Battlefield, claimed their Blood Moons, and gained a second Lower Crown that greatly strengthened his body.
• Zhou Leng escaped the Beastfolk World through the Two-World Barrier and arrived on Blue Star, where Zhu Shiji and six Dragon Nation Martial Saints were battling twenty-three enemies.
• Zhou Leng used the East Wind Fist's twenty-second move, "Annihilate the Evil Domain," to cripple five Lower Martial Saints and kill them as they tried to block him.
• Zhou Leng and the Dragon Nation Martial Saints killed the remaining Demon-Worshiping Cult and foreign Martial Saints, while Zhou Leng collected their Blood Moons.
• Zhu Shiji revealed that Zhou Leng had impersonated him to kill three Elephant Nation Martial Saints, then he and the other six Dragon Nation Martial Saints surrendered their Blood Moons to Zhou Leng.

Zhou Leng became humanity’s new Lower Realm Emperor after defeating the Dragon Nation Martial Saints, and the authorities publicly praised him as a Martial Dao Role Model. When the God-Ascension Stairway revealed the new Emperors, the Demon Demigods realized their expected champion Tiamat was missing and began suspecting that someone had stolen the new Emperor positions.

• Zhou Leng accepted the Lower Realm Emperor crown after the last six Dragon Nation Martial Saints admitted defeat, and Zhu Shiji and the others discussed his extraordinary strength.
• The authorities let news of the Demon-Worshiping Cult’s losses spread and awarded Zhou Leng the title of Martial Dao Role Model, prompting speculation that humanity had won a major victory.
• Two days later, the God-Ascension Stairway displayed six new Lower Realm Demigod Emperors, including Zhou Leng, but no representative of the Demon Dragon race appeared.
• The Demon Dragon Demigods discovered that even Lava Emperor had never heard of Tiamat, while Demon Prison Angels mocked their missing Emperor.
• The Demon Demigods considered whether Crimson Eye or Zhou Leng had taken the missing positions and agreed to tighten security for the upcoming Mid Realm battle.
• The Demon Demigods worried that heavy losses would weaken cooperation among Demon Prison’s factions and delay the Ten Realms War.

Zhou Leng ascended the God-Ascension Stairway and defeated the rival New Emperors on the Ten Emperors Battlefield, claiming the Lower Ten Emperors throne. He received a Mystic Emperor Throne and gained the new Stellar Divine Ability Starry-Sky Traveler.

• Dragon Nation’s Martial Guard General Academy began a purge of the Demon-Worshiping Cult, arresting media figures and uncovering powerful collaborators, including figures from the Ministry of Rites.
• Zhou Leng challenged Deep-Blue Undertow to a spar, then swiftly killed him and took his head.
• Crimson Eye declared that anyone seeking the Lower Ten Emperors throne had to fight her, while Zhou Leng challenged Golden Root and defeated the Golden Giant in a contest of strength.
• Shining Steel Armor and Blazing Wind each fought Crimson Eye and conceded; Crimson Eye then voluntarily conceded to Zhou Leng.
• Zhou Leng received the Mystic Emperor Throne’s power, which replaced his Stellar Divine Ability Stellar Void Nomad with Starry-Sky Traveler and improved his Mystic Ability realm.

Zhou Leng gained a second Ten Emperors' Throne, shocking the Ten Realms and changing how the world viewed him. At the Ancient River Research Bureau, he tested his new Starry-Sky Traveler ability and flew into low Earth orbit.

• Zhou Leng appeared on the God-Ascension Stairway with two Ten Emperors' Thrones, prompting Orc Demigods to accuse him of taking their New Emperor Realm position.
• Demon Demigods ordered an assassination attempt and argued that the Demon-Worshiping Cult might be a Dragon Nation spy after its repeated failures against Dragon Nation.
• Blood of Tyranny looked at Zhou Leng's two thrones and approved of his junior brother's achievement.
• People across Blue Star praised Zhou Leng, calling his rise a Dragon Nation Moment in the history of the Ten Realms.
• Zhou Leng realized the God-Ascension Stairway had revealed his strength, then used his Starry-Sky Traveler ability to fly to low Earth orbit and began releasing his power.

Zhou Leng cultivated in orbit, strengthening his abilities, then returned to Earth for a Martial Saint conference. He revealed that he had not yet advanced to the Lower Martial Saint Realm and considered entering the Orc World to compete for its Mid Demigod Ten Emperors position, leaving the plan dependent on the Dwarf Demigods’ reply.

• Zhou Leng cultivated in synchronous orbit for a day and night, increasing his power and sensing that he had reached an absolute limit.
• Zhou Leng and Zhu Shiji met An Tianzhi on their way to the Martial Saint conference, and Zhu Shiji revealed that Zhou Leng had disguised himself as him when he rescued An Tianzhi.
• An Tianzhi learned that Zhou Leng had won two Ten Emperors' Thrones while still a Newly Advanced Martial Saint, and Zhou Leng said he planned to build a solid foundation before advancing.
• Zhu Shiji proposed that the Dwarf Demigods distract the Orc Demigods while Zhou Leng entered the Orc World to compete for its Mid Realm Ten Emperors' position.
• Zhou Leng contacted the Dwarf Embassy to ask whether the Dwarf Demigods would help, while Zhu Shiji prepared to begin the conference quickly.

The Martial Saints approved Zhou Leng's benefits and activated the Special Martial Saint Protection Plan, making him the designated successor should Dragon Nation's leadership fall. After the meeting, Zhou Leng prepared to advance into the Lower Realm, while Wu Duanxiong and An Tianzhi disagreed over whether he could shoulder humanity's future.

• The Martial Saints unanimously approved Zhou Leng's benefits, then activated the Special Martial Saint Protection Plan despite five abstentions.
• Wu Duanxiong and An Tianzhi discussed Zhou Leng's strength and his possible role in the deaths of Demon and Orc Demigods, with Wu Duanxiong warning against overestimating him.
• Zhou Leng reviewed his Martial Dao beneath the Frost Giant Tree, practicing his techniques and the Nineteen Star-Slaying Swords.
• Zhou Leng prepared pills for his advancement and decided to wait before using the three remaining drops of Ancient Beast Blood of the Ten Realms.

Zhou Leng formed the Moonwheel Mystic Body, then infiltrated the Orc Ten Emperors Battlefield disguised as Bloodhoof Fang. He attacked the Orc Demigods and left Bloodhoof Skull badly injured but alive after a single basic punch.

• Zhou Leng's Stellar Power formed ten moon wheels around his True Energy Star, awakening the Moonwheel Mystic Body and strengthening his body.
• Zhou Leng contacted the Iron Dwarves, disguised himself as Bloodhoof Fang, and entered the Orc Ten Emperors Battlefield.
• Zhou Leng observed several fights and judged the Orc Mid Demigods' combat abilities to be weak before approaching their gathering.
• The Orc Demigods suspected Bloodhoof Fang was an impostor, and Zhou Leng charged at them while claiming the Beast God had sent him.
• Bloodhoof Skull attacked Zhou Leng with a beast-claw phantom, but Zhou Leng's basic punch shattered it and severely wounded Bloodhoof Skull.

Zhou Leng used the Star-Slaying Sword to slaughter Orc Demigods, claimed the new Mid Realm Orc Emperor’s power, and was caught in a devastating battle between Orcs and Iron Dwarves. The Myriad Nations Furnace carried his mangled body back to the Iron Dwarf tribe, where the survivors feared he would die.

• Bloodhoof Skull mistook Zhou Leng for Blood of Tyranny, fled to summon help, and was killed along with more than thirty Orc Demigods by Zhou Leng’s Star-Slaying Sword.
• Zhou Leng killed the surviving Orc Demigods, collected their Headless Gods and Demon-Spirit Bags, and forged a Stellar-Iron Spear capable of withstanding his Stellar Void True Energy.
• The Blood Moons gathered above Zhou Leng, and he received the new Mid Realm Orc Emperor’s crown and a surge of Stellar Power.
• Zhou Leng emerged in a battle between Orc and Iron Dwarf Demigods, where Bone of Judgment struck the Myriad Nations Furnace with the Blood-God Heavenly Axe.
• The Myriad Nations Furnace carried Zhou Leng’s flattened, mangled body back to the Iron Dwarf tribe as the Iron Dwarves retreated and prepared for his funeral.

After surviving the Iron Dwarves’ medicine-laden recovery, Zhou Leng returned to Blue Star and claimed a third Ten Emperors Realm, turning public opinion in his favor. The Ten Realms reacted with outrage and awe as humanity hailed him as its hope.

• The Iron Dwarf Demigods found Zhou Leng unharmed beneath the Myriad Nations Furnace and fed him their best medicines, leaving him unconscious for a day and night.
• Zhou Leng woke with a stronger body, learned he had won the New Emperor Realm, and brushed off Rong Chui’s teasing before being welcomed by the Iron Dwarf Demigods.
• Back on Blue Star, Zhou Leng defeated the Mid Realm Martial Saints, while Lin Yinghun claimed humanity’s Mid Realm New Emperor Realm and the Martial Saints failed to agree on whom to support in the final battle.
• The God-Ascension Stairway named Zhou Leng and Lin Yinghun among the new emperors, then gave Zhou Leng a third imperial throne, completing his rise from newly advanced to peak.
• The Ten Realms’ races cursed or marveled at Zhou Leng’s achievement, while public opinion on Blue Star shifted to celebrating him as humanity’s light.

After Zhou Leng’s victories on the God-Ascension Stairway, the Orcs feared their weakening position, while Demonic Giants invited powerful Demigods to join the Boundless Ancient Road. Zhou Leng’s Stellar Divine Ability advanced to Starry Sky’s Son, and he set off toward the moon.

• Calamity God praised Zhou Leng’s three consecutive God-Ascension Stairway victories and considered how to seize new territory.
• Bone of Judgment and the Orc Demigods discussed Zhou Leng’s impact and decided the Orcs should preserve their strength rather than compete for upcoming Ten Emperors positions.
• Layered Flesh Mountain announced that his father would offer Demonic Giants’ Boundless Ancient Road slots to powerful Demons, despite the journey’s danger.
• Hundred Mountains Wood described Zhou Leng’s overwhelming strength to the Giant Demigods and urged him to join the Boundless Ancient Road.
• Zhou Leng’s third Mystic Emperor Throne advanced his Stellar Divine Ability to Starry Sky’s Son, and he accelerated through space toward the moon.

Zhou Leng reached the moon, carved his name into the Martial Saint Stele, and returned to Earth after deciding to visit the sun once he grew stronger. In Xiong City, Lin Yinghun described Zhou Leng’s overwhelming power to other Martial Saints, and An Tianzhi chose to study the Ancient River Sect’s martial arts with Wu Duanxiong’s blessing.

• Zhou Leng traveled to the moon, collected moon rocks, and carved his name into the Martial Saint Stele.
• Zhou Leng looked toward the sun and planned to cultivate there after advancing further, then kicked off the moon and returned to Earth.
• Lin Yinghun told Wu Duanxiong, An Tianzhi, and the other Martial Saints how Zhou Leng had defeated powerful opponents and inflicted precise, uniform injuries on his arm.
• The Martial Saints examined Lin Yinghun’s injuries and reflected on Zhou Leng’s extraordinary control over his power; Lin Yinghun said Zhou Leng had seemed like a god.
• An Tianzhi told Wu Duanxiong he wanted to learn the Ancient River Sect’s martial arts, and Wu Duanxiong encouraged him to follow the new path.

Zhou Leng convened a Martial Saint meeting and proposed a sweeping crackdown on the Demon-Worshiping Cult before the Ten Realms War. The meeting ended with the proposal facing a vote, while the three Upper Martial Saints weighed how to confront the cult’s Upper Martial Saints.

• An Tianzhi arrived at the Ancient River Research Bureau and told Li Yuanhe he planned to join the Ancient River Sect, then went to find Zhou Leng.
• Zhou Leng gathered the Martial Saints and explained that the coming Ten Realms War made the Demon-Worshiping Cult humanity’s greatest hidden danger.
• Zhou Leng proposed targeting the cult’s Upper Martial Saints in the Ten Emperors Battlefield and leading a Blue Star campaign to eliminate its other forces.
• When Martial Saints questioned his radical plan, Zhou Leng threatened to form a Demon-Slaying Army if they opposed him and called for a vote.
• Huang Xuange asked how the three Blue Star Upper Martial Saints would handle the cult’s Upper Martial Saints, and Zhou Leng said they would do so or he would.
• Li Tianyuan, Chen Shaohuang, and Huang Xuange considered the plan as the coming Upper Realm New Emperor Battle offered a rare chance to purge the cult’s Martial Saints.

Zhou Leng secured approval for the Demon-Slaying Operation, and Dragon Nation secretly mobilized its forces as the Upper Realm Ten Emperors Battle began. He led thirty Martial Saint Realm experts across the ocean to the Eagle Alliance, where they approached the Demon-Worshiping Cult headquarters.

• Zhou Leng convinced key Martial Saint Realm experts to support the operation, and Dragon Nation approved it in an emergency vote.
• The Supreme Court finalized the Demon-Slaying Operation plan and secretly mobilized Grandmasters, Innates, Headless God components, and other resources.
• As the Upper Realm Ten Emperors Battle began, Zhou Leng gathered Martial Saint Realm experts and Demigod Spirit Mages in the underground palace beneath Xiong City and ordered them to move out.
• Earth Peak coordinated demonized satellite surveillance and relayed intelligence while Zhou Leng led thirty Martial Saint Realm experts toward the Eagle Alliance.
• Zhou Leng's group reached the vicinity of the Black Palace Demon-Worshiping Cult headquarters and prepared to infiltrate its underground palace.

Zhou Leng launched a surprise attack on the Black Palace, killing its Lower Martial Saint defender and pursuing a Mid Realm Martial Saint through the ground and into the open. The Mid Realm Martial Saint fled across the capital, but Zhou Leng struck him down with the broken obelisk as tourists watched.

• The Treant Demigods relayed the locations of the five Demigods in the Black Palace to Zhou Leng.
• Zhou Leng burst into the underground palace and cut Betson into fragments with finger Sword Qi without looking at him.
• Zhou Leng broke through the Mid Realm Martial Saint's dark qi and destroyed his summoned angels with Divine Light, Heavenly Explosion and Ten Suns' United Explosion.
• The Mid Realm Martial Saint was blasted through the surface, destroying the Great Monument and tearing open the clouds as he fled.
• Zhou Leng lifted the broken upper half of the Great Monument and hurled it after the fleeing Mid Realm Martial Saint.
• The obelisk struck the Mid Realm Martial Saint apart, smashed through a bridge over the Mark River, and crashed into the river.

Zhou Leng led a campaign to destroy the Demon-Worshiping Cult’s strongholds and hunt its Martial Saints across the Eagle Alliance and beyond. After a day and night, he had exterminated all sixty-seven Demon-Worshiping Cult Martial Saints below the Upper Realm, leaving the world in terror and excitement.

• Zhou Leng destroyed the Black Palace and killed the Demon-Worshiping Cult Martial Saints hidden in and beneath its ruins.
• Zhou Leng led the group to the Pentagon, smashed it with a severed bridge, killed the Eagle Alliance commander-in-chief of military affairs, and ordered the others to hunt Demon-Worshiping Cult Martial Saints.
• Zhou Leng continued his campaign across the Eagle Alliance, destroying landmarks and killing Demon-Worshiping Cult Martial Saints as news of the devastation spread worldwide.
• Kinsend tried to persuade Zhou Leng to stop the violence, but Zhou Leng killed him with one punch and continued onward.
• Zhou Leng and his allies hunted down and exterminated all sixty-seven Demon-Worshiping Cult Martial Saints below the Upper Realm after one day and night.

Zhou Leng defied efforts to silence him, destroyed Demon-Worshiping Cult media outlets, and led a purge across Dragon Nation as the Ten Realms War’s rehearsal began. After Dragon Nation quelled the unrest, the Martial Saints confronted him about his actions, and he challenged the need to justify killing Demon-Worshiping Cult followers.

• After Zhang Tiankuo said his investigators had been recalled and refused to say who ordered it, Zhou Leng ended their call and listed media outlets that had attacked him.
• Zhou Leng livestreamed himself declaring the purge and demolishing Demon-Worshiping Cult media buildings, while companies refused orders to censor his broadcast.
• Zhou Leng surrounded an office complex where Lü Yuanhao had turned himself in and died, then ordered everyone inside tested for Demon-Worshiping Cult ties.
• After Demigod Spirit Mages identified the cult members and collaborators, Zhou Leng ordered them killed, and the livestream showed the executions.
• Demon-Worshiping Cult members across Blue Star rose up, prompting Martial Saints, Demigods, the Demon City Army, and Martial Guards to fight them as the Ten Realms War rehearsal began.
• After Dragon Nation quelled the unrest, the Martial Saints met Zhou Leng; Li Tianyuan returned the Star-Slaying Sword, and Zhou Leng challenged Huang Xuange’s request that he explain his actions.

Zhou Leng and the Saints launched a sweeping campaign to purge the Demon-Worshiping Cult and drafted the Blue Star Grand Charter to unite humanity ahead of the Ten Realms War. At the Federation conference, Zhou Leng killed three Eagle Alliance leaders, but Jax condemned him while still declaring the Eagle Alliance’s support for the charter.

• Zhou Leng and Huang Xuange secured agreement for wartime screening, and the city was purged of Demon-Worshiping Cult members before screenings spread nationwide.
• The Saints and world leaders drafted the Blue Star Grand Charter, and national representatives gathered in Xiong City to vote on it.
• The Eagle Alliance’s new leader denounced Zhou Leng and the charter, so Zhou Leng killed him during the live broadcast.
• Zhou Leng also killed the Eagle Alliance’s legislative leaders, leaving Secretary of State Jax next in the succession order.
• Jax denounced Zhou Leng in a speech but declared that the Eagle Alliance and its allies would support the Blue Star Grand Charter to prepare for the Demonic Beast threat.

After the Magna Charter passed, Zhou Leng led a worldwide purge of the Demon-Worshiping Cult, then returned to cultivate and advanced his Martial Will. He entered the sixth level of the Purgatory Gate, the Death-Defying Gate, and found himself in a new life as a baby before being killed by a passing knight.

• The United Nations Magna Charter passed, and Zhou Leng led Martial Saints and Grandmasters in purging the Demon-Worshiping Cult across the Eagle Alliance and other nations.
• The saints forced the Eagle Alliance to sign the Demon-Slaying Pact, while Zhou Leng’s campaign expanded Dragon Nation’s influence across the world.
• The Ten Emperors Battles ended with Dragon Azure Back and the Mountain-Range Python claiming their respective titles, while the Calamity God ordered the Demonic Giants to prepare for the Boundless Ancient Road.
• After overcoming the Realm of Emptiness trial, Zhou Leng raised his Martial Will to the peak of the Sea-Embracing Realm and entered the Death-Defying Gate.
• Zhou Leng found himself as a swaddled infant on a misty road, where a mounted knight impaled him with a spear.
• Zhou Leng awoke as an adult bathing in an ancient cauldron and heard someone order the fire lit.

After enduring 3,800 deaths in the Torture Gate, Zhou Leng recovered and learned more about the Boundless Ancient Road and Divine Sons. He and Xu Qingjin completed the Giant Trials, gained royal titles and stronger abilities, and gathered with the Giants as the Boundless Ancient Road opened.

• Zhou Leng endured thousands of deaths that inflicted the pain of others on his Martial Will, then fainted and later recovered with medicine and cultivation.
• Zhou Leng learned that the Boundless Ancient Road was part of a vast sacrifice that would draw in many worlds and might involve Heavenly-Zone Prodigies, including rare Divine Sons.
• The Giants told Zhou Leng that Shanhe Yuan had been training intensely and might reach Demigod before the road opened.
• The Giant Royal Court formally invested Zhou Leng as Frost Giant King and Xu Qingjin as Frost Giant Queen, then granted them stipends and territories.
• Zhou Leng and Xu Qingjin completed the Giant Trials; Xu Qingjin awakened the Mother Tree's power, while Zhou Leng's Giant Body advanced into a Divine Might Giant Extraordinary Body.
• Three days later, the Boundless Ancient Road opened, and the Giants gathered before the Giant Royal Court, including Shanhe Tianyue and Shanhe Yuan.

Zhou Leng reunited with Shanhe Yuan and learned that the expanded Boundless Ancient Road would host an unusually powerful trial, drawing Giants, Orcs, and Demons. As threats against him mounted, Shanhe Tianyue offered the Giant Clan’s strongest experts as protection from Bone of Judgment.

• Zhou Leng reunited with Shanhe Yuan, who had inherited the Giant Clan’s legacy and gained an unknown divine ability.
• Sea of Judgment challenged Zhou Leng over the New Emperor Realm and was revealed to have gained advanced power through a complete Starry-Sky Trial.
• Shanhe Tianyue explained that the Giants had expanded the Boundless Ancient Road, whose trial could shape the Giant Clan’s future, while Hell had empowered Demon Testers as well.
• Huang Jinli warned Zhou Leng that the Demons blamed him or Blood of Tyranny for their dead Demigods and threatened to kill him.
• Zhou Leng recorded Bone of Judgment’s revenge threat and was advised by Shanhe Tianyue to seek protection from the Giant Clan’s Peak Demigod and Demigod King experts.