Chapter Summaries

Luo Shen left Huyang City after Yu Kingdom sent a personal guard unit, setting out for the Yan Feng Ancient Kingdom. On the way, he detoured to Qingshan Town after learning of an ancient well linked to Marquis Jiujiang’s rise to the Chaos Ruler Realm, and arrived to find a town marked by headless corpses and strange entry tokens.

• Luo Shen decided to leave Huyang City and travel to the Yan Feng Ancient Kingdom, where Di Chu-Yu had offered him second-class guest official benefits if he passed the assessment.
• Marquis Jiujiang accepted Luo Shen’s departure and gave him a parting gift worth more than ten thousand epochs of Huyang City’s tax revenue.
• While traveling, Luo Shen noticed Qingshan Town on Marquis Jiujiang’s map and recalled that its Qingli Ancient Well had once yielded a rare treasure that helped Marquis Jiujiang become a Chaos Ruler.
• Luo Shen chose to visit Qingshan Town despite his companions’ silence about the detour.
• At the town entrance, Luo Shen saw headless divine corpses hanging from a tree and noticed that the entry tokens carried a strange fluctuation.

Luo Shen and his companions entered Qingshan Town to find the Qingli Ancient Well, but the townsfolk reacted strangely when he asked about it. After Number One failed to locate the well and mysterious figures investigated the spot where he vanished, Luo Shen became determined to uncover the town’s secrets.

• Luo Shen, Ju Mang, and Chao Yong received entry tokens and passed through Qingshan Town’s gate, where a mysterious force swept over them.
• Luo Shen asked a tavern waiter about the Qingli Ancient Well, and the waiter and nearby customers reacted subtly before directing him to a different well called the Wishing Well.
• Luo Shen told Ju Mang not to ask questions, then arranged rooms for the group to stay in town while they looked for the Qingli Ancient Well.
• Luo Shen sent Number One to investigate, but a mysterious force limited his perception and he could not find the ancient well.
• Several figures gathered at the place where Number One had vanished, then departed, convincing Luo Shen that Qingshan Town held deeper secrets.

Luo Shen tracked the disturbances in Qingshan Town to the spirit of the Qingli Ancient Well and captured her after she tried to flee. He discovered a Heart of a God King among her belongings, then crushed it, releasing a surge of divine power.

• Luo Shen found the Wishing Well and noticed that it had appeared since Number One's inspection and that the town's memories and details had changed.
• Luo Shen spoke to the token and deduced that its hidden spirit had used the Wishing Well to encourage him to leave; the spirit emerged as a little girl.
• The spirit recognized Luo Shen as connected to Jiujiang and attacked him with a storm, while Luo Shen sent Ju Mang back to the Primordial Universe.
• The spirit vanished from Luo Shen's first attempt to imprison her, but Luo Shen teleported to an old house and restrained her before she could escape again.
• Luo Shen found a complete Heart of a God King among the spirit's scattered belongings and crushed it, unleashing a burst of white light and divine power.

Luo Shen met Di Huang, the powerful spirit of the Qingli Ancient Well, and negotiated to buy her treasures on credit. After Di Huang revealed that she knew about the Chaos Rulers in his small world, she pulled the enslaved Blood War Great Sage out of the Primordial Universe and reached for his head.

• Luo Shen exposed the Ancient Well Spirit’s illusion and learned that she was Di Huang, who had once met Marquis Jiujiang.
• Di Huang offered Luo Shen Earth Marrow and revealed treasures including an Origin Embryo, Imperial Prison, and an incomplete Brilliant Law.
• Luo Shen bargained for credit, and Di Huang agreed in exchange for one of the Chaos Rulers in his small world as interest.
• Di Huang revealed that she knew about Luo Shen’s hidden world and pulled the Blood War Great Sage out of the Primordial Universe.
• Di Huang seized the Blood War Great Sage and reached toward his head as a terrifying power overwhelmed the surrounding laws.

After the Qingli Ancient Well's spirit removed Blood War Great Sage and sealed the witnesses' memories, Luo Shen resumed his journey toward the Yan Feng Ancient Kingdom and gained an initial insight into Brilliant True Meaning. He diverted the Golden Pagoda toward a confrontation in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, where a golden-armored man demanded that Beast Saint Tuodi return his young master.

• Di Huang pulled Blood War Great Sage's incomplete law from him, while the Qingli Ancient Well's spirit left Luo Shen unharmed and sealed Ju Mang and Chao Yong's memories.
• Luo Shen warned himself to strengthen his defenses, then continued toward the Yan Feng Ancient Kingdom with Ju Mang and Chao Yong aboard the Golden Pagoda.
• Di Huang remarked that Luo Shen had cultivated Yuan's Lie Yuan Technique and threatened the presence trapped inside the ancient well.
• While Chao Yong piloted through the Hundred Thousand Mountains, a roar revealed a disturbance involving the region's Chaos Ruler-level beasts, and Luo Shen decided to investigate.
• Luo Shen told Chao Yong he had gained an initial insight into Brilliant True Meaning and directed the Golden Pagoda toward the disturbance.
• Beast Saint Tuodi confronted a golden-armored man, who demanded the return of his young master and threatened to destroy the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

Beast Saint Tuodi and Feather Saint confronted the Golden Armored Man, who was searching the Hundred Thousand Mountains for his missing young master, and drove him to leave without finding him. Afterward, Chao Yong arrived and challenged the two beasts for accepting the humans’ threats without fighting back.

• Beast Saint Tuodi refused to let the Golden Armored Man search his lair, where his long-awaited descendant was being nurtured.
• Feather Saint arrived and warned the Golden Armored Man that the Savage Beasts would fight if he forced his way into the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• The Golden Armored Man ordered a carpet search for his young master, threatened the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and left with his group.
• Feather Saint privately told Beast Saint Tuodi that the missing young master might have a powerful backing, while Beast Saint Tuodi vowed to defend his descendant.
• Chao Yong appeared before Feather Saint and Beast Saint Tuodi and mocked them for failing to fight back against the Golden Armored Man.

Chao Yong warned Beast Saint Tuodi and Feather Saint that outsiders were targeting the Hundred Thousand Mountains, then introduced Luo Shen as a potential protector. After Luo Shen revealed his claimed connection to the Yan Feng Ancient Kingdom, Feather Saint considered accepting his help, though he still wanted proof.

• Chao Yong told Beast Saint Tuodi and Feather Saint that no Young Master was in the Hundred Thousand Mountains and that the Golden Armored Man’s party wanted their bodies.
• Feather Saint explained that the surrounding Eternal Kingdoms kept the Hundred Thousand Mountains trapped between them, while leaving would expose the beasts to capture.
• Chao Yong offered a proposal, and Beast Saint Tuodi called him a traitor before Luo Shen struck Tuodi with an invisible blade and sent him back to his nest.
• Feather Saint asked Luo Shen how he could protect them, and Luo Shen claimed to be a guest elder invited by Prince Di Chu-Yu of the Yan Feng Ancient Kingdom.
• Feather Saint asked for proof, but Luo Shen said he had none and that he was helping because of Chao Yong; Feather Saint began to see Luo Shen’s claimed identity as a reason to trust him.

Luo Shen offered to help Feather Saint’s beasts leave the Hundred Thousand Mountains in exchange for ten thousand epochs of service, while he waited there and pursued his cultivation. Beast Saint Tuodi led Luo Shen to a hidden opportunity beneath a lake, where they passed through an invisible barrier and encountered a vast, majestic aura.

• Feather Saint agreed to consider Luo Shen’s offer after deciding the surrounding Eternal Kingdoms posed an imminent threat, though he privately believed his forces could match Luo Shen’s two Chaos Rulers.
• Luo Shen gave Feather Saint time to persuade the beasts and stayed in the Hundred Thousand Mountains to study Intent Laws, while Chao Yong relaxed at a nearby lake.
• Beast Saint Tuodi repeatedly urged Luo Shen to accept his unborn son as a disciple, hoping to secure the child’s future.
• Tuodi revealed that an opportunity lay beneath Chao Yong’s lake and led Luo Shen through deep rock layers despite Luo Shen’s inability to sense anything unusual.
• After two hours, Luo Shen and Tuodi crossed an invisible membrane and felt a vast, majestic aura.

Luo Shen distrusted Beast Saint Tuodi’s account of the Ascension Stairway, subdued him, and tested the stairs with Niulang. Niulang failed at the twenty-sixth step, revealing that the stairway attacked climbers with both repelling force and Willpower Impacts.

• Beast Saint Tuodi described the Ascension Stairway and claimed he had gained strength from its hundredth-step reward after reaching the 361st step.
• Luo Shen struck Beast Saint Tuodi with Willpower Impacts, shattered his golden-bell defense, and put him to sleep in the Primordial Universe.
• Luo Shen summoned Niulang and promised the Ox-Horn Tribe its own territory if Niulang could climb one hundred steps.
• Niulang climbed to the twenty-fifth step, then was thrown off by the force of the next step.
• Niulang told Luo Shen that each step exerted repelling force and a Willpower Impact, which made climbing especially difficult for the Ox-Horn Tribe.

Luo Shen tested the Ascension Stairway after other cultivators failed to climb far, and discovered that a Sector Beast was rejected by the inheritance’s creator. He began climbing himself and found that the stairway’s life energy rapidly transformed his divine power, leaving him investigating how its rewards increased with each step.

• Luo Shen learned that Eternal True Gods could reach only as high as the sixty-third step and questioned how Beast Saint Tuodi had supposedly climbed much farther.
• Luo Shen sent World Beast Warrior Number Two onto the stairway, where its creator’s voice rejected him for belonging to another race and blasted him away.
• Luo Shen returned Number Two to his inner world, prepared for danger by leaving his Abyss Clone outside, and stepped onto the stairway himself.
• Luo Shen endured the first steps’ pressure and discovered that their life energy merged with the Method of Melting and Refining to transform his divine body and divine power.
• Luo Shen climbed several more steps and observed that the life energy increased with each step, though the increases were modest.

Luo Shen climbed the Ascension Stairway, exploiting its life energy to strengthen his divine body and its growing Willpower Impact to temper his will. At the ninety-ninth step, he faced pressure approaching the limit of an Eternal True God and stepped onto the hundredth, where a crushing Chaos Ruler-level force erupted.

• Luo Shen crossed several steps at a time, gaining life energy and encountering a faint Willpower Impact from the tenth step onward.
• He continued climbing despite doubting he could reach the top, intending to use the stairway to transform his divine body and temper his will.
• By the fifty-sixth step, seven ten-thousandths of Luo Shen's divine body had transformed into God King essence as he absorbed the life energy between groups of steps.
• Luo Shen reached the ninety-ninth step, where the pressure approached the limit of an Eternal True God.
• After preparing his body, spirit, and will, Luo Shen stepped onto the hundredth step, and Chaos Ruler-level pressure crashed down on him.

Luo Shen passed the first hundred steps of the Ascension Stairway and received the Heart of Strength, which gave him power comparable to a God King. Energized by the reward, he continued climbing and cultivating, while Chao Yong and Feather Saint neared a fight after failing to find him or Beast Saint Tuodi.

• Luo Shen questioned why Beast Saint Tuodi had claimed there would be a reward at the hundredth step, then stepped onto the hundred and first level.
• The inheritance space congratulated Luo Shen for passing the first hundred levels and gave him the Heart of Strength, which revealed knowledge of his powerful divine body.
• Suspecting the life energy might be unusual, Luo Shen stopped absorbing it directly and stored it in the Primordial Universe.
• Luo Shen ate the Heart of Strength, comprehended the true meaning of strength, and unleashed a punch with power comparable to a God King.
• Determined to reach the summit, Luo Shen climbed five more steps, stored the excess life energy in the Primordial Universe, and used the Method of Melting and Refining to strengthen his divine power.
• While Luo Shen climbed beneath the lake, Chao Yong and Feather Saint, unable to find him or Beast Saint Tuodi, came close to fighting.

Feather Saint sought Luo Shen and confirmed that the Hundred Thousand Mountains’ Savage Beasts had agreed to follow his proposal, while Chao Yong concealed Luo Shen’s whereabouts. Elsewhere, a Golden Armored Man plotted to uncover Beast Saint Tuodi’s opportunity, and Luo Shen reached the eighth-hundredth stair, completing the seventh level of the Method of Melting and Refining as the staircase’s Willpower Impact threatened to overwhelm him.

• Feather Saint questioned Chao Yong about Luo Shen, then told him that the Savage Beasts of the Hundred Thousand Mountains had made their final choice and would await Luo Shen’s return.
• Chao Yong admitted that Luo Shen had left with Beast Saint Tuodi to pursue a fortuitous opportunity, then fell asleep after Feather Saint departed.
• The Golden Armored Man reported to an Eternal Kingdom’s Kingdom Lord that the Savage Beasts remained stubborn, while privately revealing that he was a double agent searching for Beast Saint Tuodi’s opportunity.
• The Golden Armored Man suspected the opportunity lay in Beast Saint Tuodi’s lair and hoped his pressure would make the cautious beast reveal its location.
• Luo Shen passed the eight-hundredth stair, completed the seventh level of the Method of Melting and Refining, and gained a God King divine body.
• Luo Shen realized the staircase’s Willpower Impact had reached the limit of a Chaos Ruler and feared his will would fail before he reached two thousand steps.

Luo Shen reached the 1,001st step of the Ascension Stairway and became a Chosen One Candidate, learning about the mark, trials, and dangers attached to the role. He continued to consider why so many candidates had died as he prepared to face the threats ahead.

• Luo Shen reached the 1,000th step, absorbed its life energy, and found it insufficient to ignite any of the eighth level’s Melting Stars.
• Luo Shen stepped onto the 1,001st step and stood firm against an impact comparable to a God King’s strike.
• The previous Chosen One announced that Luo Shen was the 1,081st candidate and explained that the Chosen One’s Mark held secret arts, inheritances, treasures, and law imprints.
• The previous Chosen One revealed that only nine candidates remained and that they had to survive difficult trials to become the final Chosen One.
• Luo Shen learned that the mark concealed candidates from one another and wondered why most of the previous candidates had died.

After becoming a Chosen One Candidate, Luo Shen chose the Water Realm Armor from the Chosen One treasury to protect himself and support his cultivation on the Ascension Stairway. He tested it against the Abyss Clone’s Destruction attack and found that the armor transferred the force away without causing him discomfort.

• Luo Shen received the Chosen One’s Mark and gained access to the candidate’s portion of the Chosen One Space and its treasury.
• Luo Shen decided that he needed stronger protection and selected Realm Armor for its exceptional defense.
• Luo Shen chose the Water Realm Armor because no fire-element version suited him.
• Luo Shen summoned the Abyss Clone, which had reached the Chaos Ruler Realm and was nearing the God King Realm.
• The Abyss Clone struck Luo Shen with a Destruction attack, but the Water Realm Armor redirected the force into its inner realm without harming him.
• Luo Shen asked the Abyss Clone to unleash an even stronger attack.

Luo Shen tested the Abyss Clone’s combined Destruction and saw the limits of the Realm Armor, then chose powerful secret arts to improve his survival and prepare for future battles. He continued climbing the Ascension Stairway while planning to cultivate his new techniques in the Inheritance Space.

• The Abyss Clone merged two Destructions into Gate of Realm and blasted Luo Shen back, leaving a hole in his Realm Armor.
• Luo Shen recognized that the Realm Armor could be damaged and considered the threat posed by powerful God Kings.
• Luo Shen selected Spiral Nine Shadows to replace Eastern Splendor as his escape art and to cultivate Gale Intent.
• Luo Shen chose Nine Refinements Divine and Golden Wu Shu Moon, whose supreme Intents could later support the Ice Fire Two Forms Eye secret art.
• Luo Shen planned to cultivate all three secret arts to the Proficiency-level using a divine power clone in the time-accelerated Inheritance Space while continuing to climb the Ascension Stairway.

Luo Shen returned to the Hundred Thousand Mountains and rescued Feather Saint and Chao Yong from the Golden Armored Man and the allied Chaos Rulers. After defeating the attackers, he confronted the Golden Armored Man over Beast Saint Tuodi’s descendant, leaving their conflict poised for a decisive battle.

• Luo Shen learned that the Golden Armored Man had led several Eternal Kingdoms’ Chaos Rulers in an attack on the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• The Golden Armored Man held Beast Saint Tuodi’s descendant while Feather Saint warned him that Chao Yong belonged to a Yan Feng Ancient Kingdom guest official.
• The Golden Armored Man dismissed Chao Yong’s claim, and the Chaos Rulers resumed their attack.
• Luo Shen arrived, used Spiral Nine Shadows and his strength to knock the Chaos Rulers underground, and left the Golden Armored Man standing alone.
• Chao Yong clung to Luo Shen and pretended to cry about the attack, while Luo Shen questioned the Golden Armored Man about the descendant he was holding.
• Luo Shen and the Golden Armored Man faced off, with the outcome of their coming battle determining what happened next.

Luo Shen overwhelmed the Golden Armored Man in a spar, forcing him to bargain while they continued pretending to fight. The man revealed that he was Liu Tianfang, an attendant serving His Highness Di Chuxiong, leaving Luo Shen with a lead on who had ordered the conflict.

• Luo Shen invited the Golden Armored Man to fight, and the man attacked with his Fang Tian Hua Ji.
• Luo Shen deflected the weapon and battered the Golden Armored Man at close range, deliberately humiliating him while the watching Chaos Rulers discussed whether to submit to Luo Shen.
• Luo Shen struck the Golden Armored Man with Destruction Law, frightening him into pleading for mercy and offering compensation.
• Luo Shen asked whom the Golden Armored Man served, and the man disclosed that he was Liu Tianfang, a personal attendant of His Highness Di Chuxiong from the Liu Tian Clan.

Luo Shen uncovered Liu Tianfang’s true search for Beast Saint Tuodi’s opportunity and captured the Yan Feng Ancient Kingdom envoy and the other Chaos Rulers to keep the Ascension Stairway space hidden. He enslaved Feather Saint and took every Savage Beast from the Hundred Thousand Mountains, leaving the surrounding God Kings with an emptied territory and no clues.

• Luo Shen questioned Liu Tianfang, saw through his story about seeking Feather Saint’s inheritance, and deduced that Imperial Son Di Chuxiong was probing for Beast Saint Tuodi’s opportunity.
• Luo Shen demanded Liu Tianfang leave treasures behind, then knocked him unconscious with the Mind’s Eye Saber and took him into his Primordial World.
• Luo Shen and his World Beast Warriors captured the fleeing Chaos Rulers before they could report Liu Tianfang’s disappearance.
• Luo Shen knocked Feather Saint unconscious and made him his Soul Servant, then gathered Feather Saint and all the Savage Beasts of the Hundred Thousand Mountains into his Primordial Universe.
• The surrounding kingdoms’ God Kings investigated and found the Hundred Thousand Mountains emptied of beasts, with no useful clues left behind.

Luo Shen and Chao Yong reached Yan Feng Ancient City, where Luo Shen intended to join Di Chu-Yu’s faction in the struggle for Imperial Son. Di Chu-Yu welcomed him with conspicuous warmth, but Luo Shen recognized the distance between them and followed him to a private room at Heavenly Realm.

• Luo Shen and Chao Yong arrived at Yan Feng Ancient City and saw its immense gates, guarded by four Chaos Ruler-level combatants.
• Di Chu-Yu hurried to meet Luo Shen with several Chaos Ruler followers and warmly led him into the city.
• Luo Shen noticed Di Chu-Yu’s attention to the onlookers and realized their old friendship mattered less to Di Chu-Yu than securing Luo Shen’s support.
• Di Chu-Yu took Luo Shen and his companions to Heavenly Realm, a luxurious restaurant expanded with spatial folding technology.
• An attendant led the group to a private room, where an array sealed them off from outside eavesdroppers.