Chapter Summaries

Xu Kun fused the Yin-Yang Vortex into a storm that could withstand the Doomsday Lightning Cascade, then discovered the two disasters together created an all-consuming World-Ending Wind-Thunder. He survived the storm’s collapse by unleashing his ice and fire skills, seized the purple lightning pearl, and gained control over the lightning.

• Xu Kun grabbed the black-and-white bead at the center of the fused Yin-Yang Vortex and used the resulting storm to fend off the Doomsday Lightning Cascade.
• Xu Kun realized the storm would run out of power before the lightning did, so he transformed into an Icefire Magic Owl and flew toward the lightning’s core.
• Xu Kun named the combined disasters World-Ending Wind-Thunder after the lightning spread across the entire ninth level, and he spotted a purple lightning bead that fled from him.
• Xu Kun used his ice skills and then his full fire arsenal to divert and suppress the lightning as the storm weakened.
• Xu Kun stowed the Wind Pearl, seized the purple lightning pearl, and made the lightning scatter and submit to him.

Xu Kun destroyed Storm Lightning Mountain on the ninth floor, earned an SSSS-tier rating, and entered the Awakening Secret Realm on the tenth floor. He suspected the realm might offer a stronger Blazing God's Heart Shard, but postponed choosing an attribute to inspect his rewards and the disaster cores.

• Xu Kun used the Thunder Pearl to command the lightning, escaped Storm Lightning Mountain, and discovered that he had shattered the ninth-floor map.
• The Haotian Pagoda warned that the ninth floor would reset, and Xu Kun escaped through its teleportation array before the deadline.
• Xu Kun completed the Storm Lightning Mountain trial with an SSSS-tier rating, receiving a Wind-Thunder Immortal Apricot and a Wind-Thunder Golden Cudgel.
• Xu Kun advanced to Tier 9 and entered the Awakening Secret Realm, where he could choose a special attribute to awaken.
• Xu Kun reasoned that a larger Blazing God's Heart Shard might be available as an awakening reward, so he chose to inspect his rewards before selecting an attribute.
• Xu Kun examined the Thunder Pearl, which was identified as an SS-tier Thunder Accumulation Pearl.

Xu Kun uncovered the truth behind the Thunder Accumulation Pearl and Wind Gathering Pearl, learning that they cooperated to hunt powerful trial-takers and that he had become a target for both. He planned to absorb the pearls together after strengthening his wind and lightning attributes, then discovered his SSSS-tier trial reward was a Wind-Thunder Immortal Apricot.

• Xu Kun read the pearls’ descriptions and learned that they hunted creatures for souls and flesh, cooperating to unleash the Doomsday Lightning Cascade and Chaotic Storm against targets coveted by both.
• Xu Kun realized he had attracted both pearls’ attention and questioned why Sky Eye had not recorded their hunting pattern for the human race.
• Xu Kun concluded that Sky Eye may have anticipated his arrival and believed he could overcome the two natural disasters himself.
• Xu Kun decided to absorb both pearls together after raising his wind and lightning attributes, since their combined use granted the SSS-tier Wind-Thunder God Body and powerful skills.
• Xu Kun examined his personal reward for the SSSS-tier trial rating and saw that it was an SSS-tier Wind-Thunder Immortal Apricot.

Xu Kun rejected the Wind-Thunder Immortal Apricot and its bound cudgel because using them would replace his talent and class, then prepared to challenge the Awakening Secret Realm. Before he could enter, the Haotian Pagoda announced that the destruction of floors eight and nine had merged floors seven through nine into a dangerous new mountain map, leaving future trial participants to face a Twin-Winged Ice Dragon.

• Xu Kun examined the Wind-Thunder Immortal Apricot and Wind-Thunder Golden Cudgel, but decided not to give up his Myriad Races Bestiary or Magic Warrior class for them.
• Xu Kun put away both treasures and planned to attempt the Awakening Secret Realm trial before his remaining Energy ran out.
• The Haotian Pagoda announced that its racial reward was still being calculated because Xu Kun had irreversibly destroyed the eighth and ninth floors.
• The Haotian Pagoda merged floors seven, eight, and nine into Gale-Thunder-Magma Ice Mountain, adding blizzards, lightning, volcanic eruptions, hot-spring checkpoints, and stronger Snow Monsters.
• The Haotian Pagoda placed a Tier 9 SS-tier Twin-Winged Ice Dragon at the mountain summit, making the summit route nearly impossible for most trial participants.
• Trial participants of other races began criticizing Kun for making their established strategies obsolete, while the Human Race received a further notification.

Xu Kun learned that his victories had earned major permanent rewards for the Human Race, while Mirage and Zhan Rourou also cleared fifth-floor SSS-tier trials and gained racial buffs. After discussing Mirage’s plans and receiving the Wind God’s Cloak from Zhan Rourou, Xu Kun began his SSS-tier fire-element Awakening Secret Realm trial.

• The Human Race received seven powerful rewards for Xu Kun’s SSSS-tier ratings on the seventh, eighth, and ninth floors, drawing outrage and envy from the myriad races.
• Mirage earned the Human Race a fifth-floor damage-reduction aura, then told Xu Kun how she had defeated the floor’s boss and revealed that her fog ability could help her clear later floors.
• Xu Kun promised Mirage he would rescue her from the Lost Mist Realm before she reached level twenty, and she vowed to clear the sixth floor and pursue the tenth.
• Zhan Rourou earned a fifth-floor control-duration reduction aura, and Xu Kun warned her not to risk her life attempting difficult trials.
• Zhan Rourou offered Xu Kun the Wind God’s Cloak, a damaged SS-tier divine artifact suited to his wind abilities, and he accepted her offer to save it for him.
• Xu Kun chose fire-element awakening at SSS-tier difficulty and opened the available Awakening Secret Realm list.

Xu Kun reviewed how Awakening Secret Realms worked and chose the fire-element SSS-tier Blazing God's Tomb, believing it might contain more Blazing God's Heart Shards. He entered the secret realm and began at its E-tier monster layer despite selecting SSS-tier difficulty.

• Xu Kun learned that cleared secret realms could become valuable assets and that challengers could attempt realms above their talent tier.
• Xu Kun narrowed the fire-element SSS-tier options beginning with “Blazing” to Blazing General's Battlefield, Blazing Lava Hell, and Blazing God's Tomb.
• Xu Kun chose Blazing God's Tomb because he thought the Blazing God's death might have left Heart Shards there.
• Xu Kun confirmed the choice, entered the secret realm, and was assigned to its E-tier monster layer.

Xu Kun entered the E-tier floor of Blazing God's Tomb, killed all five hundred Fire Slaves and their leader, and collected the realm's Fire Spirit Orbs. After completing the trial, he absorbed the orbs and prepared to continue into the D-tier floor.

• Xu Kun entered Blazing God's Tomb and learned that the E-tier floor required him to kill five hundred Fire Slaves and the Fire Slave Leader.
• Xu Kun summoned snow to draw the Fire Slaves' attention, then killed all five hundred with Blade Storm as they charged him.
• Xu Kun collected the Fire Spirit Orbs dropped by the Fire Slaves and killed the Fire Slave Leader, whose death yielded five upgraded orbs and other loot.
• Xu Kun gained the Flame Cut skill, completed his Unyielding Starfire marks, and received the option to continue after finishing the E-tier trial.
• Xu Kun chose to continue, absorbed the Fire Spirit Orbs to raise his Fire Attack by 2,040, and reset his attributes before entering the D-tier trial.

Xu Kun entered the D-tier floor of Blazing God's Tomb and swiftly killed the Fire Workers and their chieftain, gaining a new skill and talent. After collecting the loot and increasing his Fire Resistance, he learned Blazing Impact and prepared to continue into the C-tier floor.

• Xu Kun spent his new attribute points on Strength, then entered the D-tier floor of Blazing God's Tomb to face 100 Fire Workers and the Fire Worker Chieftain.
• Xu Kun killed the Fire Worker Chieftain with one strike and wiped out the clustered Fire Workers, completing the floor's kill requirements.
• Xu Kun gained the Crippling Strike skill and overwrote his Unparalleled talent with Fire Skin, increasing his Fire Resistance.
• Xu Kun chose to continue the trial, collected the drops, and absorbed Fire Spirit Orbs that raised his Fire Resistance by 880.
• Xu Kun learned the A-tier area skill Blazing Impact from the chieftain's skill book and picked up the final scroll.

Xu Kun entered the C-grade floor of Blazing God's Tomb, where Flame Instructor and one hundred Blazing God Disciples tried to recruit him before attacking. After enduring their Boiling Sea Formation and absorbing its flames, Xu Kun killed them all with Blood Poison Myriad Miles.

• Xu Kun received an E-grade Crafting Inheritance but dismissed it as useless and entered the C-grade monster floor.
• Flame Instructor confronted Xu Kun, offered him a place at Blazing God Academy, and ordered the students to form the Boiling Sea Formation after Xu Kun refused.
• The students and Flame Instructor struck Xu Kun with the formation, but its first attack was nullified by his defenses.
• Flame Instructor sacrificed the students and himself to amplify the formation tenfold, yet Xu Kun survived and absorbed the flames.
• Xu Kun unleashed Blood Poison Myriad Miles and killed Flame Instructor and all one hundred Blazing God Disciples.

Xu Kun cleared the C-tier floor of Blazing God's Tomb, gained fire-related rewards and an upgraded Sea-Burning Array Diagram, then entered the B-tier Guard Camp. He slaughtered the Blazing God's Guard soldiers and commander, leaving the way open to collect their drops.

• Xu Kun gained the C-tier skill Greater Fireball Art and replaced his Unparalleled talent with the Flame Instructor's Arsonist talent.
• Xu Kun chose to continue the trial, collected B-tier and A-tier Fire Spirit Orbs, and upgraded the Sea-Boiling Array Diagram into the S-tier Sea-Burning Array Diagram.
• Xu Kun entered the B-tier Blazing God's Guard Camp, where he faced one hundred mounted Blazing God's Guard Soldiers and their commander on a Flame Dragon Scale Horse.
• The guards hurled flaming spears at Xu Kun, but he dodged and killed soldiers faster than the commander could track him.
• Xu Kun defeated the Blazing God's Guard Commander in a clash of skills, subdued the Flame Dragon Scale Horse, and killed the remaining soldiers.

Xu Kun cleared the Tier-B trial in the Blazing God's Tomb, collected powerful rewards, and forced the Flame Dragon Scale Horse to become his mount. He entered the A-rank Heavy Artillery Barracks and swiftly wiped out every enemy on the floor.

• Xu Kun gained the Tier-B skill Flame Spear Throw and the Fire Guard talent, then chose to continue the trial after completing the Tier-B floor.
• Xu Kun collected Fire Spirit Orbs and rewards from the Imperial Guards Commander, including the Tier-S skills Universe Sweep and Riding.
• Xu Kun made the Flame Dragon Scale Horse accept a master-servant contract and stored it as a mount summoning stone.
• Xu Kun entered the A-rank Heavy Artillery Barracks and attacked the assembled enemies with area-of-effect skills.
• Xu Kun destroyed the heavy cannons and killed every creature on the A-rank floor.

Xu Kun cleared the A-rank floor of Blazing God's Tomb, claimed its heavy cannons and rare rewards, and prepared to face the S-rank floor. He entered the next floor hoping to kill its boss and advance Cheng Ying.

• Xu Kun defeated the Heavy Artillery Soldiers, Fire Archmages, and Heavy Artillery Commander, completing the A-rank trial and choosing to continue.
• Xu Kun stored all twenty-five Explosive Fireball Heavy Cannons in his Cosmos Belt and decided to save one for Hao Jian.
• Xu Kun absorbed the floor's Fire Spirit Orbs, raising his Fire Attack and Fire Resistance, and collected the boss's other drops.
• Xu Kun obtained the S-rank Blazing God Set and its SSS-tier blueprint, then decided to leave the set for Hao Jian.
• Xu Kun entered the S-rank monster floor with Cheng Ying, intending to kill its boss and advance the sword.

Xu Kun faced Blazing God Army Vice Commander Lu Zhong and fifty War Souls as the final trial for the Blazing God’s inheritance. The War Souls sacrificed themselves to form the Zhurong Grand Formation, but Xu Kun defeated Lu Zhong and survived the trial.

• Xu Kun found Lu Zhong and fifty Blazing God Army War Souls guarding the path to the Blazing God’s throne, and learned they were waiting for a successor to challenge them.
• Lu Zhong and the War Souls knelt before Xu Kun, then the War Souls sacrificed their remaining souls to create the Zhurong Grand Formation, weakening Xu Kun and empowering Lu Zhong.
• Lu Zhong trapped Xu Kun with Beacon Fire Barrage and struck him with Flame Chain Slash, but Xu Kun countered with Heartfire Haze and used pills to survive the formation’s damage.
• Xu Kun used Chengying and Crippling Strike to heavily wound Lu Zhong, then avoided Calamity Fire Annihilation while Lu Zhong destroyed his three decoys.
• Xu Kun struck Lu Zhong from behind with Universe Sweep and killed him; the War Souls’ spirits left the formation, and Xu Kun collapsed from exhaustion.

Xu Kun defeated Lu Zhong in the S-tier trial of the Blazing God's Tomb, then prepared for the SS-tier trial as two statues began to awaken. After collecting his rewards, he subdued the unruly artifact spirit in Nine Heavens Blazing Sun.

• Xu Kun killed Lu Zhong and the fifty War Souls, gained the Blazing Flames talent, and earned an S-tier rating for the trial.
• Two statues shed their stone shells as the SS-tier trial was announced to begin in five minutes, and Xu Kun chose to delay Shadowbearer's advancement.
• Xu Kun collected fifty Fire Spirit Orbs of Attack and fifty S-Tier Spirit Stones, then respectfully laid Lu Zhong's body to rest.
• Xu Kun obtained the SS-tier high-grade artifact Nine Heavens Blazing Sun, whose violent artifact spirit resisted him.
• Xu Kun used his Fire Seed to make Nine Heavens Blazing Sun submit, while Shadowbearer demanded to be treated as its big sister.
• Xu Kun began examining Nine Heavens Blazing Sun's stats.

Xu Kun bound the Nine Heavens Blazing Sun, obtained the SS-tier Calamity Fire Annihilation skill, and triggered a quest to collect the Four Kill skills for an SSS-tier reward. As the statues awakened, the left statue addressed him about succeeding its father as a god.

• Xu Kun examined the Nine Heavens Blazing Sun, bound the artifact, and put it aside because he could not yet equip it.
• Xu Kun picked up Lu Zhong's skill scroll and learned Calamity Fire Annihilation after Heavenly Blessing: Child of Fortune failed to upgrade it.
• Xu Kun discovered the SSS-tier Four Kill Convergence quest, which required him to obtain Profound Lightning Strike and Corrosive Poison Erosion to earn Forbidden: Annihilation Kill.
• Xu Kun vowed to obtain the remaining skills and take revenge on Ao Guang in the East Sea.
• The left statue awakened and asked Xu Kun if he wanted to succeed its father as a god.

Xu Kun faced Crown Prince Changqin, the Blazing God's son and an SS-tier wind-element boss, and killed him instantly, triggering his invincible Wind Spirit State and summoning his Five-Colored Birds. After Xu Kun killed the Royal Bird and Luan Bird, a second stone statue began awakening, and Changqin summoned the SS-tier Phoenix Bird.

• Changqin awakened and asked whether Xu Kun had been chosen to inherit the Blazing God's divine position.
• Xu Kun inspected Changqin's status and realized his zither could summon three Five-Colored Birds while his Wind Spirit State made him invincible for ten minutes after death.
• Changqin began the fight with a wave of wind blades, and Xu Kun killed him instantly with Explosive Fireball.
• Changqin entered Wind Spirit State and summoned the Royal Bird, which Xu Kun killed with Charge.
• Xu Kun killed the summoned Luan Bird with Explosive Fireball as the nearby stone statue began shedding its stone shell.
• Changqin played the zither's third movement and summoned the SS-tier Phoenix Bird.

Xu Kun defeated the reborn Phoenix Bird despite Changqin’s powerful healing, then learned that the birds’ deaths had freed their souls. Changqin warned him that his uncle’s stone statue would awaken soon, leaving Xu Kun time to collect the bosses’ loot.

• The Phoenix Bird awakened its bloodline and bombarded Xu Kun from the air, but Xu Kun wounded it with a thrown Locust Stone and drove it near death with Wildfire Scorches the Plains.
• Changqin healed the Phoenix Bird to full health, and the Phoenix Bird escaped Xu Kun’s fire attack before using Rebirth Through Fire after Xu Kun killed it with an Explosive Fireball.
• The Phoenix Bird charged Xu Kun with two powerful skills, but Xu Kun reflected Phoenix Cloud Piercer and finished it with Bone-Melting Palm and Heavenly Frost Fist before Changqin could heal it.
• Changqin mourned the birds and explained that Xu Kun’s victory had freed them from their enslaved state.
• Changqin told Xu Kun that his uncle’s stone statue would awaken in 120 breaths and urged him to collect the three bosses’ loot.

Xu Kun collected the drops from the Royal Bird, Luan Bird, and Phoenix Bird, whose bloodlines determined their strength and rewards. The Luan Bird and Phoenix Bird dropped a matching pair of wheels that Heavenly Blessing upgraded into the Wind Fire Wheels, a flying divine artifact resembling Nezha’s legendary treasure.

• Xu Kun considered how bloodline purity and talent shaped the three bird bosses’ strength and valuable drops.
• The Phoenix Bird dropped five SS-tier Spirit Stones that Heavenly Blessing upgraded into SSS-Rank Spirit Stones, while the Luan Bird and Royal Bird dropped lower-ranked stones.
• Xu Kun found two wheels among the Luan Bird and Phoenix Bird’s equipment drops, and Heavenly Blessing upgraded them into the paired SS-tier divine artifact Wind Fire Wheels.
• Xu Kun inspected the Azure Luan and Fire Phoenix wheels and found they granted flight, immense aerial speed, and the ability to summon matching bird spirits.
• Xu Kun recognized the Wind Fire Wheels as Nezha’s famous flying divine artifact and calculated that the pair could carry him at 2,080 meters per second.

Xu Kun obtained the resurrection-granting Vermilion Bird Feather and collected powerful upgraded drops from the bosses in the Fire Awakening Secret Realm. As Changqin’s uncle began to revive, Xu Kun rejected the chance to attack him while weakened, and the chapter ended with Xu Kun examining his newly acquired skills.

• Xu Kun obtained the Vermilion Bird Feather, which had advanced into an SS-tier mid-grade divine artifact with the Rebirth Through Fire ability.
• The azure-robed man confronted the woman in red for giving Kun'er her processed natal feather, and their clash of Taiyin Azure Spring and Southern Blazing Fire disturbed the old turtle.
• Changqin warned Xu Kun that he could attack the partly petrified statue, but Xu Kun refused and recognized the offer as a test of his character.
• Xu Kun collected upgraded Fire and Wind Spirit Orbs, then obtained the S-rank skills Fire Phoenix Burst Strike and Phoenix Cloud Piercer and the SSS-tier skill Sky-Burning Phoenix Flames.
• With thirty seconds remaining, Xu Kun began examining Fire Phoenix Burst Strike.

Xu Kun studied the newly acquired phoenix skills before facing Wu Hui, the second Zhurong and father of Lu Zhong, in the Blazing God Temple. After learning that Vermilion Bird had failed the Blazing God's trial, Xu Kun watched Wu Hui unleash his divine power as their battle began.

• Xu Kun examined Fire Phoenix Burst Strike and Phoenix Cloud Piercer, then assessed the vast area damage of his new SSS-tier skill, Sky-Burning Phoenix Flames.
• The revived statue revealed himself as Wu Hui, and the Myriad Races Bestiary showed his formidable Tier 10 stats, fire defenses, and ability to seize control of S-tier and weaker fire skills.
• Wu Hui explained that his elder brother was the Blazing God, while Changqin recalled that Vermilion Bird had reached the temple centuries earlier but failed the trial.
• Wu Hui declared that Xu Kun must kill him to ascend the Stairway to Godhood or die, then invoked Divine Power: Zhurong's Right Arm.