Chapter Summaries

After Zhou Leng’s massacre of the Demon Demigods, the Demons prepared to wait for the Two-World Barrier to open before launching a larger assault, while the Ten Realms braced for war. Zhou Leng spent time with Xu Qingjin, defeated the Ferocious Beasts’ Demigods and received their Supreme Sacrifice, then arrived in the Demon Spirit World to test the newly forged Demigod Gym.

• Demon Peak Demigods and Demigod Kings failed to catch Zhou Leng and decided to hold back their forces until Demigod Kings could pass through the Two-World Barrier.
• The Ten Realms reacted to the massacres, the first large-scale battle began at Water Continent Demon City, and the Orcs argued over whether to join the war.
• Zhou Leng helped Xu Qingjin advance to Grandmaster and moved her and her daughter into a villa in Xiaoru Village.
• Zhou Leng entered the Ferocious Beast World with Big Yellow, defeated Demigod challengers from eighteen clans, and then swept through the Peak Demigods.
• The Ferocious Beasts held the Supreme Sacrifice for Zhou Leng, who absorbed its power before entering the Demon Spirit World.
• Frost Hand showed Zhou Leng the completed Demigod Gym, whose strength-testing platform could measure up to 8 billion tons.

Zhou Leng tested his immense strength, coordinated preparations for the Ten Realms War, and returned to Blue Star to launch a sweeping second purge of the Demon-Worshiping Cult. The purge exposed deep-rooted infiltration across the nation as public outrage mounted.

• Zhou Leng used the Demigod Weightlifting Platform, destroyed it with his strength, and asked Frost Hand to locate the people behind hundreds of Demon Spirit laboratories.
• Zhou Leng discussed the Ten Realms War with the Demigod Spirit Mages, trained in their cultivation grounds, and secured the Steel Dwarf Demigods’ support against the Orcs.
• After returning to Blue Star, Zhou Leng convened a Dragon Nation conference and launched a second purge targeting mid- and high-ranking Demon-Worshiping Cult members embedded in human industries.
• The Demon City Army and Martial Guards uncovered hidden cult members, demon-worshiping cities, and generations-old collaborators with foreign races.
• Some people accused Zhou Leng online of being nothing more than the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, while netizens angrily demanded that the comparison be made more often.

While the Ten Realms War remained contained and Calamity God pursued a scheme in Mexico, Zhou Leng learned that the Ancient River Sect had yielded a new discovery. He translated inscriptions on a shattered bronze door, identifying it as Heaven’s Mandate, one of the sect’s three great main halls, though the damaged steles left much of its history uncertain.

• Calamity God infiltrated Los Angeles and Mexico, taking control of gangs and drug traffickers as part of a plan to unify Mexico and provoke a war with the Eagle Alliance.
• Demons in the New Fortress of Ten Thousand Demons debated whether to act against Zhou Leng, while learning the Sirens were in disarray and the Orcs had offered tribute.
• Zhou Leng traveled to the Ancient River Ruins Research Institute after the Ancient River Sect announced a new discovery, and Dragon Nation Demigods joined him at the excavation site.
• Zhou Leng translated the inscriptions on two broken steles and identified the shattered bronze door as Heaven’s Mandate, a main hall that once governed the surrounding Ancient River Sect grounds.

Zhou Leng opened the restored Ancient Bronze Gate, and the Martial Saints entered the Hall of Heaven's Mandate, where Martial Master gave him a powerful formation technique. Martial Master then demanded to know where Zhang Xinglie was, and Zhou Leng began explaining how their differences had shaped his life and death.

• Zhou Leng used the Ancient River Tiger Tally to open the Ancient Bronze Gate, which reassembled and revealed a passage into the Hall of Heaven's Mandate.
• An Tianzhi entered first, and the Martial Saints and Divine Script experts followed into the grand mountain hall.
• Martial Master appeared and gave Zhou Leng the Martial Shadow Wall containing the Three Extremes Vast Radiance Formation, a technique meant to resist a Deity's avatar.
• Martial Master asked where Zhang Xinglie was, and Zhou Leng said that Zhang Xinglie had sacrificed himself.
• Zhou Leng recalled that he had favored resolving external conflicts before internal ones, while Zhang Xinglie believed a race had to address both together and that internal problems caused decline.

Martial Master explained to Zhou Leng that civilizations advanced by protecting ordinary people and allowing countless guides to emerge, then declared that Blue Star’s leaders had let its people and promising inheritors perish. He left Zhou Leng insisting there was still hope, but dismissed Blue Star as a doomed civilization.

• Martial Master told Zhou Leng that he had once joined the Huang-Meng Sect, lost limbs to the Calamity God's power, and later disappeared after Martial Master prepared a restorative pill.
• Martial Master explained that Blue Star was unusually fortunate to produce a civilization with morality, reason, and several exceptional guides, including Li Shenkong.
• Martial Master said Zhang Xinglie and Li Shenkong had died and argued that Blue Star could not survive without protecting its people and future guides.
• Martial Master explained that advanced civilizations rose by protecting vast populations, from which geniuses and guides emerged over time.
• Zhou Leng insisted Blue Star still had hope, but Martial Master blamed its half-beast, half-human decision-makers and said he had no interest in helping the doomed civilization.

Zhou Leng recounted Martial Master's warnings about humanity's future and learned that humanity had missed its chances to avert disaster. The Ancient River Sect ruins became a training ground, where Elder Song quickly rose to become the strongest Martial Saint beneath Zhou Leng.

• Zhou Leng told the Martial Saints that Martial Master had once identified Song Juesi and Zhang Xinglie as crucial to humanity, and that Zhang Xinglie and Li Shenkong had died.
• Zhou Leng repeated Martial Master's view that life and individual people mattered to the universe's evolution, then warned the Saints to build their strength before the Calamity God arrived.
• Martial Master heard Zhou Leng's account of events since his last visit, lamented the lost chances involving the Star-Refining Furnace, and asked him to leave wine at Zhang Xinglie's grave.
• Zhou Leng explored the intact cultivation and trial grounds in the ruins, instructed the Martial Saints, and invited Ancient River Sect members to train there.
• Elder Song advanced to the Upper Martial Saint Realm and defeated every Martial Saint who challenged him.

After overturning the verdict with his speeches and murals, Zhou Leng led humanity through a counteroffensive against the Demon Prison and prepared for the next stage of cultivation. He told Dragon Nation’s Martial Saints he would cultivate inside the sun to pursue the Demigod King Realm, then flew toward it.

• Zhou Leng’s Ten Thousand Suns’ Descent speech and mural stirred upheaval within Dragon Nation, prompting changes among Martial Government personnel.
• After the Two-World Barrier opened, the gods of the Humans, Spirit Mages, and Iron Dwarves killed every Orc Demigod, and allied armies invaded the Demon Prison and won a series of battles.
• The Demon Prison retaliated through its Demon Cities, while the Ancient River Sect’s cultivation technique spread and helped humanity flourish.
• Zhou Leng convened Dragon Nation’s Martial Saints and announced he would cultivate inside the sun, asking Demigod Kings from the Giants and Dragons to guard Dragon Nation.
• Zhou Leng returned to Xiaoru Village to meet Xu Qingjin, then flew into space toward the sun.

Zhou Leng cultivated deep inside the sun while Blue Star debated the state of the war. After learning that Zhang Xinglie had died, the Calamity God transformed and began destroying Mexico, unleashing a global catastrophe.

• Zhou Leng reached the sun and cultivated there, converting solar Stellar Power as his Demigod body rapidly stellarized.
• As the Ten Realms War remained contained, people argued online over whether Blue Star should keep its wartime controls and resources.
• The Calamity God found a trending question about Zhang Xinglie and Li Shenkong, then learned that Zhang Xinglie had been posthumously honored as a martyr.
• The Calamity God discovered Calamity Envoy power lingering in Zhang Xinglie's urn and transformed into a monstrous Demonic form.
• The Calamity God declared that Blue Star and its civilization had no reason to exist, then sank the Mexican peninsula and sent tsunamis and rifts spreading across the world.

The Calamity God devastated Mexico and was judged a threat beyond the Void God level, prompting the realms to prepare for disaster while refusing to intervene directly. As Demon Demigods flew toward Blue Star, Majestic Mountain led an attack on Xiaoru Village, but hidden roots crushed him and his entire squad.

• The Calamity God sank Mexico beneath the sea and killed an Eagle Alliance Martial Saint with a finger, prompting worldwide world-ending alarms.
• Dragon Nation's leaders received warnings that the Calamity God could not be defeated and discussed activating the Ten Thousand Lamps Plan, while the other realms prepared to wait or defend themselves.
• Demon Demigods decided to send their true bodies to Blue Star, and thousands flew from Water Continent Demon City into Dragon Nation's airspace.
• Majestic Mountain led a squad of Demonic Giant Demigods toward Xiaoru Village to target Zhou Leng's wife, while their power withered the Treants and Elf Demigods who tried to stop them.
• Roots erupted from the earth and crushed Majestic Mountain and every Demonic Giant, leaving Xiaoru Village undisturbed.

The Calamity God devastated Blue Star’s human nations and killed the Martial Saints who tried to stop him, but Zhou Leng arrived with a Demigod Ring and challenged him. Their battle began in space, leaving the Calamity God’s claw trembling under Zhou Leng’s first punch.

• The Calamity God carved immense rifts through the Eagle Alliance and Gull Alliance, then turned Kangaroo Nation into a vast volcanic mountain.
• Molten Mountain sacrificed the Golden Giant Hammer to hurl the Calamity God into the moon, but the Calamity God returned and killed Molten Mountain by destroying Water Continent Demon City.
• The Calamity God summoned an asteroid swarm toward Blue Star, and Chen Shaohuang, Li Tianyuan, Zhu Shiji, and the other Martial Saints rose to confront him while the God-Slaying Path opened.
• The Calamity God killed the attacking Martial Saints, but a pale Dragon swallowed him and took him away; after returning, he was struck by a Giant Deity’s spear and crashed into the moon again.
• Zhou Leng approached the asteroid swarm, formed a Demigod Ring, and destroyed the Demon Demigods with ten thousand suns before refusing the Calamity God’s offer of a God-Ascension Path.
• Zhou Leng attacked the Calamity God with Advance and Blast Ten Thousand Nations, and the Calamity God’s claw trembled under the blow.

Zhou Leng fought the Calamity God across space, enduring his attacks and overcoming his curses until he defeated him with the final East Wind Fist. Zhou Leng later rose to become a Void God, won the Ten Realms War, unified humanity, and led Blue Star toward becoming a mid-tier civilization.

• Zhou Leng learned from the Calamity God's critiques as they fought, then adapted to his teleportation and struck him in the chest.
• Zhou Leng awakened his martial body and fourth-realm Martial Will, wounded the Calamity God, and used the Star-Slaying Sword to cut through his scales.
• The Calamity God used the Flesh Ancient Lamp and curses against Zhou Leng, while the Ancient River Sect's power intervened and the Evil Gods overwhelmed the Calamity God's will.
• Zhou Leng used the Star-Destroying Bottle to trap the Calamity God, but the Calamity God sacrificed his head to escape and destroy the bottle.
• Zhou Leng unleashed East Wind as My Own Body, overwhelming the Calamity God and grinding his skeleton to dust before announcing victory to Blue Star.
• After recovering, Zhou Leng reached the fifth layer of the God-Ascension Stairway, became a Void God, won the Ten Realms War, unified humanity, and led Blue Star toward a mid-tier civilization.

The author explained why the story ended after its first part, reflected on what writing Martial Dao Ascension taught him, and described his health and plans for his next book. He left the second part’s Starry Sky Arc for possible use in another form and planned to continue writing after resting and changing genres.

• The author said repeated censorship forced him to skip or change later plotlines, so the first part and the book ended there.
• He thanked readers and supporters and described Martial Dao Ascension as a deliberate effort to identify his writing strengths and weaknesses.
• He said he would continue developing the Starry Sky Arc’s settings and hoped to make up for the second part in another form.
• He described months of neck and back pain, poor sleep, and rehabilitation exercises for a suspected cervical spine problem.
• He said sustained writing had taken a toll on his health and planned to rest before writing a more familiar urban superpower story.