Chapter Summaries

Zhou Leng arrived at the Boundless Ancient Road trial, where countless Demigods from across the universe gathered beneath a colossal mountain. After a mysterious white radiance killed many of them, a voice announced the trial’s instructions.

• Zhou Leng learned that Heaven's Sword had returned after years of cultivation in the Giant World, and Shanhe Yuan warned him to focus on powerful future opponents.
• Steel Wall rallied the Demigods in Demon Prison before they entered the Land of Light and traveled to the trial site.
• Zhou Leng arrived at the foot of an immense mountain, where Demigods from across the universe gathered beneath a vast spiral galaxy.
• A translucent finger crushed two fighting Giant Demigods, silencing the crowd.
• A white radiance swept across the gathering, killing many Demigods, before a Divine Script voice ordered the survivors to carry the Divine Stone up the Ancient Road and cross the Ancient Bridge.

In Demon Prison, Four-Faced King questioned Lady Xiyan about the Demon-Worshiping Cult’s collapse and prepared to rebuild it on Blue Star despite her warning about Zhou Leng. Meanwhile, Zhou Leng began climbing the Boundless Ancient Road and caught a falling Star-Climbing Stone.

• Four-Faced King questioned Lady Xiyan and the cult’s surviving leaders about the destruction of their headquarters and the Fishman Cult’s exposure.
• Lady Xiyan explained why she had backed Zhou Leng and warned Four-Faced King not to go to Blue Star, but he remained determined to rebuild the Demon-Worshiping Cult there.
• After Lady Xiyan left, Four-Faced King said he looked forward to crossing blades with Zhou Leng.
• Zhou Leng joined the Demigods climbing the Boundless Ancient Road and discovered he could no longer fly.
• Zhou Leng recognized the falling meteors as Star-Climbing Stones, braced himself, and caught one estimated to weigh about a hundred million tons.

Zhou Leng climbed the mountain carrying his Star-Climbing Stone, studied the powerful Demigods ahead, and gradually accelerated until he reached the leading group. He met the blue-skinned Giant Endless Cliff, who noticed Zhou Leng’s unusually dense divine favor, and gave him the name Zhou Tianjihan.

• Zhou Leng and the other Demigods began climbing the mountain with their Star-Climbing Stones, while some were injured or knocked unconscious.
• Zhou Leng observed a four-armed Mid Demigod running with flawless technique and noticed other powerful Testers using different ways to carry their stones.
• Zhou Leng adapted to the climb, activated the Great Sun Divine Technique, and accelerated past most of the Demigods.
• Zhou Leng caught up with the leading group of Mid Demigods and kept pace without pushing ahead of them.
• Endless Cliff approached Zhou Leng, asked whether he understood Divine Script, and noticed that Zhou Leng bore the favor of Giant Deities and the Dragon God.
• Zhou Leng answered Endless Cliff in Divine Script and introduced himself as Zhou Tianjihan.

Zhou Leng climbed the snowy mountain carrying a Star-Climbing Stone alongside Endless Cliff and the other Testers, learning that speed made the stones heavier. He kept pace with Endless Cliff as the first echelon accelerated, while the Four-Armed Star-Lifter pulled far ahead.

• Zhou Leng told Endless Cliff that he came from the Divine Might Sector and claimed a Star Giant bloodline.
• Endless Cliff explained that the snow slope increased the Star-Climbing Stones’ weight and warned Zhou Leng about powerful Godson Rank Testers holding back.
• The Four-Armed Star-Lifter accelerated to Mach 4, and Endless Cliff climbed to Mach 3 as the Testers entered the snow.
• Zhou Leng adapted to the increased weight and maintained Mach 3, while Endless Cliff nodded approvingly.
• The Four-Armed Star-Lifter reached Mach 7, and Endless Cliff used his Ghost-Faced Giant power to reach Mach 5 as other Demigods passed Zhou Leng.

Zhou Leng pushed past the other Testers on the Boundless Ancient Road, overtaking the Four-Armed Star-Lifter while enduring the crushing weight of thirty-one Star-Climbing Stones. Demon Giant Layered Flesh Mountain then sent his Demons to obstruct Zhou Leng, hoping to break his divine road.

• Zhou Leng steadily increased his speed as the Testers split into tiers, using the Great Sun Divine Technique to recover from the pressure.
• The Four-Armed Star-Lifter reached twenty times the speed of sound, but Zhou Leng continued accelerating and surpassed him at twenty-one times the speed of sound.
• Zhou Leng’s skin showed signs of splitting under the sudden thirty-onefold weight, but the damage vanished and he continued upward.
• Demon Giant Layered Flesh Mountain ordered his Demons to spread out and obstruct Zhou Leng in exchange for promised resources from their lords.

The fourth tier of the God-Ascension Stairway opened as the Nine Heavens, a nine-level trial rewarding high ratings. Dragon Nation’s Martial Saints entered the first level but all failed, then began sharing their battle experiences; Zhou Leng’s absence left them wondering how he would have fared.

• The Nine Heavens opened, testing combat ability, comprehension, and mental willpower, with rewards based on ratings across its nine levels.
• Dragon Nation’s Martial Saints gathered in Xiong City and worried that Zhou Leng would miss the trial while traveling on the Boundless Ancient Road.
• Zhu Shiji proposed that the Martial Saints enter the Nine Heavens and try to earn high ratings while remaining cautious.
• The Martial Saints returned after an hour, all having failed the first level against different opponents.
• The Martial Saints agreed to record their battles and share what they learned, while Zhu Shiji wondered whether Zhou Leng could have passed.

Zhou Leng endured the Battle Roar Zone and reached the summit of the Boundless Ancient Road, ranking 910145th. He rested among countless Demigods while the Four-Faced King began plans to rebuild his cult near Ru City and secretly become a Demigod elsewhere.

• The Four-Faced King learned that his subordinates had all died, then ordered the Demon-Worshiping Cult rebuilt near Ru City and planned a secret breakthrough outside Dragon Nation.
• Endless Cliff and the other Demigods discussed Zhou Tianjihan’s Giant ancestry as they fell behind him on the climb.
• Zhou Leng entered the Battle Roar Zone at twenty-one times the speed of sound and endured its assaults on his body and mind without slowing down.
• Endless Cliff reached the Battle Roar Zone slowly and suspected that the inexperienced Zhou Tianjihan had died after entering at high speed.
• Zhou Leng continued past the other climbers, reached the summit, and learned that he ranked 910145th.

Zhou Leng underwent Stellar Baptism on the mountaintop, advancing his cultivation and awakening silver flame wings. After adapting to his transformed body, he befriended Chain of Bonebreak and joined a gathering of Giant geniuses, where the chapter left off as Endless Cliff arrived and greeted Chain of Bonebreak.

• Zhou Leng unknowingly triggered Stellar Baptism and used the stellar power to advance the Great Sun Divine Technique, Immortal Star Body, and Star Phoenix Return-to-Heaven Technique.
• Zhou Leng condensed one hundred thousand Star Phoenix Feathers and formed a pair of silver flame wings before absorbing them back into his spine.
• Chain of Bonebreak advised Zhou Leng to adapt slowly to his newly heavy body, and Zhou Leng discovered that his bone marrow had transformed into a rod-shaped galaxy.
• Zhou Leng shared medicinal fruits with Chain of Bonebreak, then joined more than a dozen Giant geniuses in exchanging food and stories.
• Endless Cliff arrived at the mountaintop, spotted Chain of Bonebreak, and approached to greet him.

Zhou Leng waited with the Giants for the Ancient Bridges to arrive, while Demigod Demons plotted to hinder him. The bridges sorted the entrants, and the chapter ended with the Demons discovering Zhou Leng had been sent to the Stellar Ancient Bridge.

• Endless Cliff and the Four-Armed Star-Lifter discussed Zhou Leng's strength and the difficulty of reaching the top million.
• Layered Flesh Mountain led Demigod Demons to secretly target Zhou Leng, whom they blamed for killing Demigods and feared would gain access to Demon Prison.
• The Planetary Ancient Bridge and Stellar Ancient Bridge descended, and a gate appeared to send entrants to one of them.
• Layered Flesh Mountain and the Demons followed Zhou Leng through the gate, intending to obstruct him on the bridge.
• The Demons searched the Planetary Ancient Bridge plaza for Zhou Leng, then spotted him among the Giants on the Stellar Ancient Bridge.

Zhou Leng and the other Testers learned how the Ancient Bridge’s Giant Imprints worked, then set out across it while carrying their Star-Climbing Stones. After seeing the powerful races competing for the brightest footprints, Zhou Leng chose a medium-lit footprint occupied by an unfamiliar Giant.

• The Giant Deity explained that standing in a footprint long enough or defeating ten opponents in a row could activate a Giant Imprint, and that the Testers’ Star-Climbing Stones would accompany them in another form.
• Zhou Leng found that his Star-Climbing Stone now weighed thirty times more, but his strengthened body handled it easily while some exhausted Testers struggled.
• Chain of Bonebreak advised the group to seek medium-lit footprints first, and they ran onto the vast, flame-covered Stellar Ancient Bridge.
• Zhou Leng saw a Radiant Lion, Rainbow Giants, a Black Sky Giant, and a Heavenlight Giant occupy the brightest footprints, while Chain of Bonebreak warned him about their formidable strength.
• Zhou Leng chose a medium-lit footprint occupied by an unfamiliar Giant and continued toward it after Chain of Bonebreak ran ahead.

Zhou Leng defeated the Sky Pillar Giant and other challengers to claim a footprint and comprehend the Star Giants’ power. During his third comprehension, he grasped the flow of power between the sun and the Star Giant, and the Great Sun Divine Technique broke through its bottleneck.

• Zhou Leng fought the Sky Pillar Giant, endured their exchange of blows, and defeated him with Divine Light Skyburst, Ten Suns.
• Zhou Leng defeated an alien Demigod who challenged him, then gained access to the footprint’s Star Giant comprehension.
• Zhou Leng studied a Star Giant carrying the sun and observed how its flames circulated through his body.
• Zhou Leng defeated successive challengers to secure further opportunities to comprehend the Star Giants’ power.
• Zhou Leng experienced the Star Giant’s burden, then viewed the power exchange from the sun’s perspective, causing the Great Sun Divine Technique to break through its bottleneck.

Zhou Leng completed three comprehensions at his Radiant Footprint and proved his strength by entering another footprint after defeating its Frenzied-Blood Giant challenger. During his next comprehension, he witnessed two True Gods battle, rapidly deepening his martial understanding and bringing Mind-Spirit Shadow Division to its limit.

• Zhou Leng left his previous footprint after completing three comprehensions and observed the powerful Testers fighting across the Ancient Bridges.
• Zhou Leng approached a footprint where a wounded Frenzied-Blood Giant had won seven matches, and the Giant withdrew after recognizing him as the man who had defeated him earlier.
• A Giant challenged Zhou Leng, but was knocked down in three moves, prompting the onlookers to joke about his drooping brain.
• Zhou Leng entered a state of comprehension and witnessed a Star Giant and a Void Ancient Beast battle as True Gods.
• Zhou Leng studied the Deities’ combat, improving his martial techniques and advancing Mind-Spirit Shadow Division to one choice from a thousand, its limit before Unity Stage.

Zhou Leng repeatedly comprehended medium-radiance footprints, absorbing True God powers and nearing the Mid Demigod Realm. He entered a high-radiance footprint after the Shaman Giant defeated every challenger.

• Zhou Leng used True God techniques to defeat challengers and repeatedly entered the Battle of Two Gods Space to comprehend a medium-radiance footprint.
• Zhou Leng explored more than ten medium-radiance footprints and reached the threshold between the Lower Realm Demigod and Mid Demigod Realm.
• The Shaman Giant defeated the Insect Giant after a prolonged battle, then knocked out the Star-Silver Giant and crushed three more challengers.
• Zhou Leng stepped into the high-radiance footprint where the Shaman Giant stood victorious.

Zhou Leng fought the Shaman Giant in the arena, revealing overwhelming control and power as he advanced into the Mid Demigod Realm. He destroyed the Shaman Giant so completely that only Golden Rain Mist remained, leaving observers to judge his strength worthy of the Giant Hundred Clans’ top ten.

• The Shaman Giant sent five Voodoo Dolls’ attacks at Zhou Leng, but Zhou Leng scooped them up and compressed their spell power into a sphere.
• Zhou Leng shattered the Shaman Giant’s protective spells with a punch, prompting the Shaman Giant to suspect he had reached the Divine Son Realm.
• Zhou Leng layered Myriad Convergences as One over Heroic Advance Through Wind and Rain, building a vast wall of fist intent while the Shaman Giant unleashed his Voodoo Dolls.
• Zhou Leng advanced into the Mid Demigod Realm and drove the strengthened fist wall into the Shaman Giant’s spell barrage.
• The Shaman Giant was shattered into molecular clusters, leaving Golden Rain Mist as Zhou Leng stood in the arena.

Zhou Leng obtained the Ancient Bridge inheritance from the Radiant Footprint in a single attempt, revealing himself as the Giant who had killed a Shaman Giant with one punch. After learning about the inheritance from Chain of Bonebreak, Zhou Leng accepted a Ring-Bone Necklace and became a Ring-Bone Envoy.

• Zhou Leng saw the imprint of a Star Giant running through the stars, then found its Giant Running Diagram in his Will World, though he could not understand it.
• Zhou Leng returned to the Radiant Footprint, where nearby Testers cleared a path and two fighting Giants abandoned the space when they saw him.
• Zhou Leng discovered that the footprint’s light curtain would not let him enter because he had already obtained its Ancient Bridge inheritance.
• Chain of Bonebreak realized Zhou Leng had acquired the inheritance in one try and confirmed that he had killed the Shaman Giant with a single punch.
• Chain of Bonebreak explained the Ancient Bridge inheritance and invited Zhou Leng to become a Ring-Bone Envoy; Zhou Leng accepted the Ring-Bone Necklace and its three Giant inheritance paths.

Zhou Leng cultivated on the Stellar Ancient Bridge until the trial ended and the bridge collapsed, leaving him among roughly twenty thousand survivors at Dragon-Slaying Mountain. As the remaining Testers prepared to rest before climbing, Chong Zhihui introduced himself to Zhou Leng.

• Layered Flesh Mountain told the Demonic Giants that they would need to unite in the Great Ravine and planned to deal with Zhou Leng if they encountered him.
• Zhou Leng continued comprehending the Star Giant Running Diagram, the Zhenhai Broken Stele, and the Giant inheritances he had collected.
• A Star Giant announced the end of the Ancient Bridge journey and explained that the Testers must defeat Dragons and climb Dragon-Slaying Mountain.
• The Ancient Bridge collapsed, and Zhou Leng and a small number of Giants appeared on level ground before the mountain, among roughly twenty thousand survivors.
• The Star Giant gave everyone one day to rest before choosing a path up the mountain, and Chong Zhihui approached Zhou Leng and introduced himself.

Zhou Leng traded East Wind Fist for an ancient World Instrument and extensive cosmic knowledge from Chong Zhihui, then entered the Dragon-Slaying Mountain trial. He opened his first battle by striking down a Three-Eyed Dharma Dragon before it could react.

• Zhou Leng and Chong Zhihui agreed to trade East Wind Fist for the Insect Giant's ancient World Instrument, its information, and general cosmic reference materials.
• Zhou Leng imported the data and searched it for information about the Boundless Ancient Road, cosmic races, and Dragons.
• After hearing a dragon's roar, Zhou Leng and Chong Zhihui went to Dragon-Slaying Mountain and read the rules and rankings.
• Zhou Leng chose a path and was transported to an arena, where he faced an aged Three-Eyed Dharma Dragon.
• Zhou Leng unleashed East Wind Fist, Nine Heavens Dragon Roar, and pierced the Three-Eyed Dharma Dragon's head with a pillar of light.

Zhou Leng defeated an Upper Demigod Realm Ice Crystal Dragon in the Intermediate battlefield, then entered the Advanced battlefield and confronted a Twin Shadow Dragon empowered by a True God Realm dragon tooth. The chapter ended as the Twin Shadow Dragon and its two shadows charged him.

• Zhou Leng chose the Intermediate gate and entered a battlefield ruled by an Upper Demigod Realm Ice Crystal Dragon.
• The Ice Crystal Dragon attacked Zhou Leng with dragon breath, dragon might, and a giant icy claw, but its spiritual assault backfired against him.
• Zhou Leng used Wind Suppresses the North and Heroic Advance Through Wind and Rain to overwhelm the injured Ice Crystal Dragon.
• After the Ice Crystal Dragon was taken away, Zhou Leng entered the Advanced gate and recognized the Twin Shadow Dragon and its two liquid-metal shadows.
• The Twin Shadow Dragon invoked the power of a Void God Dragon tooth as Zhou Leng prepared to fight, and the three Dragons pounced forward.

Zhou Leng fought the Twin Shadow Dragon, destroying his Shadow Dragons with repeated powerful punches until he won. Elsewhere, Layered Flesh Mountain abandoned his claim to the Boundless Ancient Road but vowed to kill Zhou Leng, while Chain of Bonebreak spotted the Ring-Bone Necklace beneath the battlefield's light pillar.

• Zhou Leng used Advance and Blast Ten Thousand Nations to blast one Shadow Dragon into tiny particles, badly injuring his own hand.
• Zhou Leng predicted the remaining Shadow Dragon's evasion and attacked the Twin Shadow Dragon's Dragonfang Heaven Gate, then used a Star Phoenix Feather to heal his hand.
• Zhou Leng kept attacking until his blows cracked the battlefield and wore down the Twin Shadow Dragon, whose body was finally scattered in pieces.
• Layered Flesh Mountain accepted that he could not compete for the Boundless Ancient Road, but resolved to find a way to kill Zhou Leng for his fallen comrades.
• Chain of Bonebreak watched the battle and sensed that the Ring-Bone Necklace lay beneath the light pillar.

Zhou Leng entered the Advanced Gate while his right arm was injured and faced a coordinated team of fifteen Demigod Dragons. He baited them into targeting that arm, then turned their attack against them, leaving their See God Dragon Nest shattered as a gigantic dragon god phantom descended.

• Zhou Leng entered the Advanced Gate and was immediately attacked by fifteen Demigod Dragons with a combined blast of dragon breath.
• Zhou Leng countered the blast, recovered from his burns, and recognized the Dragons’ coordinated defense as the forbidden spell See God Dragon Nest.
• The Dragon Team identified Zhou Leng’s unused right arm as a weakness and resolved to target it while they conserved their strength.
• The Dragons feigned a retreat, then used translucent dragon claws to seize Zhou Leng’s right arm as he pursued them.
• Zhou Leng reversed the grip and yanked, tearing the strongest arms from all fifteen Dragons and smashing See God Dragon Nest.
• A gigantic black dragon god phantom covered in bone spikes descended when the nest shattered.