Chapter Summaries

Luo Shen rejected Chu Luo Hou’s offer to abandon Di Chu-Yu, and the attackers moved to subdue him. He revealed overwhelming strength, broke their restraints, and killed the emerald-green-robed Peak Chaos Ruler, leaving Marquis Chu Yuan and Chu Luo Hou stunned.

• Luo Shen encountered Marquis Chu Yuan, Chu Luo Hou, and four retainers while patrolling the city wall.
• Chu Luo Hou offered Luo Shen a choice between leaving Di Chu-Yu and becoming their ally or remaining his enemy, but Luo Shen refused.
• The elderly woman obscured Luo Shen’s senses while the Golden Hoop retainer and the emerald-green-robed retainer bound him with their techniques.
• Luo Shen shattered the Golden Hoops and Heaven and Earth Chains with his divine body, prompting the emerald-green-robed retainer to flee.
• Luo Shen trapped the emerald-green-robed retainer inside a golden light cage and annihilated him with one strike.
• Marquis Chu Yuan and Chu Luo Hou watched in shock as Luo Shen’s strength became clear.

Luo Shen overwhelmed the experts trapped in his cage, killing two Peak Chaos Rulers while Chu Luo Hou escaped with Guest Official Xun. As Luo Shen cornered the last survivor, the old man who wielded the Boundless Evasion Technique, he drew the Abyss Battle Saber and prepared to strike with Afterimage—Heaven-Cleaving.

• Luo Shen trapped the enemy group in his cage, and Guest Official Xun used the Karma Evasion Technique to rescue Chu Luo Hou.
• Luo Shen seized the tall guest official and killed him with Yin Yang—Annihilation, then collected his treasures.
• Chu Luo Hou and Guest Official Xun discussed how they could not rescue Marquis Chu Yuan, while Di Chu-Yu learned that Luo Shen had reached Chaos Ruler Transcendence.
• Di Chu-Yu celebrated Luo Shen's victory, while the other First-rank Marquises mistakenly assumed Marquis Chu Yuan's side had won.
• The old man begged Luo Shen to spare him, but Luo Shen refused, drew the Abyss Battle Saber, and used Afterimage—Heaven-Cleaving.

Luo Shen defeated the old man and fought Marquis Chu Yuan, overpowering him and taking his God King-level staff. Marquis Chu Yuan’s exceptionally tough body resisted Luo Shen’s attacks, leaving Luo Shen to continue battering his scattered Lightning Liquid form.

• Luo Shen annihilated the old man with a sea of saber lights and collected the weapon treasures he left behind.
• Marquis Chu Yuan surrendered and tried to recruit Luo Shen, but Luo Shen refused and attacked him.
• Marquis Chu Yuan struck Luo Shen with a lightning-charged staff, but Luo Shen seized it and cut at him, forcing him to retreat and abandon the weapon.
• Luo Shen used the Blue Silver Cage to bind Marquis Chu Yuan, but the liquid could not tear apart his exceptionally durable divine body.
• Luo Shen shattered Marquis Chu Yuan’s body with more than a thousand palm strikes, yet the resulting Lightning Liquid retained nearly all its power and was quickly replenished by his Miniature Universe.

Luo Shen studied Marquis Chu Yuan’s Lightning Liquid inside the Silver-Blue Cage while Di Chu’s lineage observed his power and considered recruiting him. After reviving, Sky Great Sage decided to leave the Yan Feng Ancient Kingdom, and Di Chu summoned Di Jie to discuss Luo Shen’s future.

• Luo Shen turned the Silver-Blue Cage into a laboratory and began studying the particles of Marquis Chu Yuan’s Lightning Liquid, while asking Chu Yuhou to cancel his Patrol Division mission.
• Di Chu and the Di Chu lineage’s ancestors watched Luo Shen overpower Marquis Chu Yuan and praised his combat strength and mastery of the Great Dao of Life Origin.
• Sky Great Sage revived in the Imperial Capital, accepted that his lost weapons and formation diagram had weakened him, and decided to leave for the Thunder Ancient Kingdom.
• Di Chu recognized that Luo Shen was studying a new path toward Chaos Ruler Transcendence, ordered an investigation, and considered bringing him into his branch.
• Di Chu summoned Di Jie to discuss Luo Shen, while Di Jie joked that he expected Qinghua Brew in return for his help.

Di Chu asked Di Jie to consider taking Luo Shen as a disciple after Luo Shen displayed remarkable talent while studying Chu Yuan’s divine power. Di Jie agreed to the possibility but grew wary when Di Chu mentioned Di Luo as an alternative.

• Di Jie arrived expecting a fight, but Di Chu pointed out Luo Shen and asked him to assess the young cultivator as a potential disciple.
• Luo Shen examined Chu Yuan’s divine power and repeatedly adjusted his particle structure to strengthen his divine body’s vitality.
• Di Jie recognized Luo Shen’s growing life aura, and Di Chu and Di Jie speculated that Luo Shen had come from an Original Universe and possessed one.
• Di Chu explained that Luo Shen was a guest retainer brought back by Chu Yu, not a member of his lineage, and asked whether Di Jie would take him as a disciple.
• Di Jie said he was interested in Luo Shen but objected when Di Chu threatened to ask Di Luo instead.

Di Chu-Yu learned that Luo Shen had defeated the six Peak Chaos Rulers and canceled the Inspection Division mission, then found him holding Marquis Chu Yuan captive. Luo Shen released Marquis Chu Yuan and left to cultivate, while Chu Yuhou prepared an elaborate welcome for his uncle.

• Di Jie declared that he would take Abyss as his disciple and rush-ordered invitations to the Emperors of every major branch.
• After hearing Luo Shen had defeated four of six Peak Chaos Rulers and driven off the other two, Di Chu-Yu canceled the Inspection Division mission and hurried to Chu City.
• Di Chu-Yu found Luo Shen holding Marquis Chu Yuan in Lightning Liquid and watched him torment his captive while refusing to release him immediately.
• Luo Shen eventually restored Marquis Chu Yuan's form and sent him away with a warning; Marquis Chu Yuan fled without threatening him.
• Luo Shen entered seclusion in Chu City, then left after sensing observers, while Chu Yuhou ordered servants to prepare his residence for his uncle's visit.

After Great Sage Abyss’s victory at Chu City shifted the balance around Di Chu-Yu, Luo Shen declined border missions and focused on cultivation. Meanwhile, reincarnated Mountain Lord learned that Luo Shen had risen to Chaos Ruler Transcendence and hoped the Yan Feng Emperors would protect him from the Shi Kingdom.

• Di Chu-Yu’s family welcomed Luo Shen at a banquet and celebrated how his strength had improved their standing in the manor.
• Di Chu-Yu offered Luo Shen lucrative border missions, but Luo Shen chose to study his insights from the battle of Chu City and cultivate further.
• Zuo Shanjin learned that Abyss had become a Chaos Ruler Transcendence-level expert and recognized him as Luo Shen, hoping Yan Feng’s Emperors would shield him from the Shi Kingdom.
• Luo Shen avoided visiting guests and potential disciples by asking Di Chu-Yu to receive them while he cultivated in seclusion.
• Luo Shen reached the 4,500th step of the Ascension Stairway and felt his divine body approaching a breakthrough, though his life essence, spirituality, and vitality still lagged behind.

After advancing his Method of Melting and Refining to the eighth level, Luo Shen emerged from seclusion with a divine body capable of confronting a fourth-level God King. He reviewed high-reward missions from Di Chu-Yu, but the dangers of killing ancient experts and seizing treasures left his next move undecided.

• Luo Shen took another step during his cultivation, reached the eighth level of the Method of Melting and Refining, and transformed his divine body into a God King Body.
• Luo Shen met Di Chu-Yu, who shared a list of difficult missions offering high Merit Point rewards.
• Luo Shen examined a mission to kill Sealing Marquis, a Peak Chaos Ruler in Thunder Ancient Kingdom, but found that completely destroying him would be difficult.
• Luo Shen reflected on the daunting task of annihilating Shi Kingdom and its God Kings, then continued reviewing missions involving bounty targets and rare treasures.
• Luo Shen concluded that bounty and treasure-seizing missions carried grave risks, while guarding missions were safer but offered fewer Merit Points.

Luo Shen chose a bounty mission to kill Great Sage Liu Yu, a Chaos Ruler who captured cultivators and forced them to fight for his insights into the Great Dao of Life Origin. He killed Liu Yu with the Lie Yuan Technique and rescued a city, but concluded that he still needed a karma secret art to permanently eliminate foes with God King-level will.

• Luo Shen selected the 150,000-Merit bounty on Great Sage Liu Yu, judging that his own willpower techniques could overcome Liu Yu’s life-preserving abilities.
• Great Sage Liu Yu prepared to seize a city and drag its citizens into his portable universe so he could watch them fight.
• Luo Shen appeared as Liu Yu was lifting the city and used the Lie Yuan Technique to annihilate Liu Yu’s will.
• The city lord halted the city’s fall, and Luo Shen collected Liu Yu’s corpse.
• Luo Shen reflected that defeating enemies with God King-level will would require a karma secret art to destroy their revival vessels completely.

Luo Shen killed Great Sage Liu Yu and collected the mission reward, alarming Chaos Rulers and surprising Di Chu-Yu, who decided to promote Luo Shen to the Inheritance Hall. There, Luo Shen spent Merit Points on the Twelve Styles of Heaven Slaying and discovered the power of the Sky Splitting Saber Art, but realized he needed to comprehend it before its fading inheritance imprint disappeared.

• News spread that Great Sage Liu Yu's karma had vanished, and memory stones confirmed that a mysterious expert had killed him almost instantly.
• Luo Shen learned that other Chaos Rulers feared Liu Yu's death, while he considered their alarm excessive because he had killed Liu Yu only to complete his mission.
• Di Chu-Yu learned that Abyss had killed Great Sage Liu Yu and suspected Luo Shen had hidden methods, so he headed to the Inheritance Hall to help advance Luo Shen's prospects.
• The Inheritance Hall verified Luo Shen's proof of the kill and awarded him 150,000 Merit Points, bringing his total to more than 300,000.
• Luo Shen exchanged 110,000 Merit Points for the first volume of the Twelve Styles of Heaven Slaying and used its imprint to perform a Sky Splitting Saber Art strike that cut through the Inheritance Hall's sturdy space.
• Luo Shen noticed the strike's imprint had faded after guiding him and resolved to comprehend the saber art before its guidance disappeared.

Luo Shen studied the Twelve Styles of Heaven Slaying, absorbed Great Sage Liu Yu’s corpse through his Abyss Clone, and greatly improved his understanding of the Great Dao of Destruction Origin. As Luo Shen continued cultivating in the Imperial Capital, a mysterious senior brother arrived at Marquis Chu Yuan’s manor, seemingly close to becoming a God King.

• Luo Shen examined the Heaven Slaying and Sky Splitting saber arts, recognizing that their fusion could potentially break through the cage’s membrane wall.
• Emperor Chu watched Luo Shen’s recorded battle with Great Sage Liu Yu, then received a divine transmission and sent Di Chu-Yu back to Chu Yuhou’s Marquis Manor.
• Luo Shen recalled his Abyss Clone and had it absorb Great Sage Liu Yu’s intact corpse, accelerating its realm growth and its comprehension of the Great Dao of Destruction Origin.
• Luo Shen spent more than an era studying the inheritance and learned to wield the saber arts with far greater precision and force.
• A dark-robed, blue-scaled figure appeared at Marquis Chu Yuan’s manor, and Chu Yuan recognized him as his senior brother, whose power seemed close to God King level.

Abyss Mansion Lord Yuan Xiu visited Marquis Chu Yuan on his teacher’s request to meet Great Sage Abyss, and Chu Yuan arranged a banquet and discussion of the Dao. Luo Shen accepted the invitation, and the chapter left him meeting Yuan Xiu at the Imperial Capital’s Star-Gazing Hall as Yuan Xiu sensed the strength of his divine body.

• Abyss Mansion Lord Yuan Xiu told Marquis Chu Yuan that their teacher wanted him to meet the newly advanced Great Sage Abyss, and asked Chu Yuan to arrange an introduction.
• Marquis Chu Yuan visited Luo Shen and invited him to a banquet and discussion of the Dao on Yuan Xiu’s behalf.
• Chao Yong told Luo Shen that Chu Yuan’s gift had helped Ju Mang break through to Chaos Ruler, and Luo Shen agreed to attend the gathering.
• Marquis Chu Yuan hosted a lavish banquet at the Star-Gazing Hall, drawing numerous imperial marquises and speculation about his political loyalties.
• Luo Shen arrived with Di Chu-Yu and exchanged greetings with Abyss Mansion Lord Yuan Xiu, who sensed that Luo Shen’s divine body was exceptionally powerful.

At Marquis Chu Yuan’s banquet, Luo Shen and Abyss Mansion Lord Yuan Xiu began a Dao discussion, testing their divine-body techniques before moving on to their strongest attacks. The chapter ended as Yuan Xiu’s descending axe continued to gather momentum against Luo Shen’s saber strike.

• Marquis Chu Yuan hosted a feast for Luo Shen, Abyss Mansion Lord Yuan Xiu, and the assembled guests before inviting the two experts to discuss the Dao.
• Yuan Xiu unleashed his Dark Mansion Flame, and Luo Shen contained it within his Silver-Blue Cage.
• Yuan Xiu dissolved the trapped flames and praised Luo Shen’s technique, while Luo Shen wondered how the flames had escaped without his noticing.
• Yuan Xiu announced his axe technique and summoned a massive blade in the darkness, warning Luo Shen that it was one of his strongest methods.
• Luo Shen formed an enormous saber blade from yin-yang particles as the guests watched the two attacks approach.
• The guests realized Yuan Xiu’s descending axe was still gathering momentum.

Luo Shen overpowered Abyss Mansion Lord Yuan Xiu’s axe technique during their discussion of the Dao, prompting Yuan Xiu to invite him into the Dark Mansion Prison for a spar. Marquis Chu Xiong arrived, guaranteed the Star Observation Tower’s safety, and Luo Shen accepted the challenge as Yuan Xiu’s prison power began to engulf him.

• Luo Shen used Reverse Heaven Slaying to split Yuan Xiu’s axe blade and its Dark Mansion Prison phantom, astonishing the banquet guests.
• Yuan Xiu praised Luo Shen’s Dao comprehension and asked him to test the full might of the Dark Mansion Prison.
• Di Chuxiong arrived and assured the gathered guests that the Star Observation Tower’s formations could withstand their battle.
• Luo Shen accepted Yuan Xiu’s invitation after Chu Yuhou nodded his approval.
• Yuan Xiu unleashed the Dark Mansion Prison’s dragging force, but Luo Shen remained standing as Di Chuxiong watched their clash.

Luo Shen and Abyss Mansion Lord Yuan Xiu ended their sparring match in a draw, after which Yuan Xiu revealed that his master wanted to take Luo Shen as a disciple. Before he could identify his teacher, nine Yan Feng Guards arrived at the Star Observation Tower, leaving the gathered experts guessing whom the progenitor had summoned.

• Abyss Mansion Lord Yuan Xiu released the Dark Mansion Prison and bound Luo Shen with eight chains, but Luo Shen resisted the prison’s force and could not be harmed.
• Abyss Mansion Lord Yuan Xiu admitted he could not injure Luo Shen and proposed a draw, which Luo Shen accepted.
• Marquis Chu Xiong declined Yuan Xiu’s invitation to spar and left the Star Observation Tower’s main hall.
• Abyss Mansion Lord Yuan Xiu told Luo Shen that he had come under his master’s orders to ask whether Luo Shen would accept the master as his teacher.
• Nine Yan Feng Guards appeared above the Star Observation Tower, and Abyss Mansion Lord Yuan Xiu recognized them as the progenitor’s personal guards.
• Emperor Chu inferred that another genius from his lineage had earned the progenitor’s favor, while other Emperor Lords speculated that Yuan Xiu or Marquis Chu Xiong was the target.

Luo Shen accepted Yan Feng Progenitor’s offer to become his registered disciple and was brought to Progenitor Palace. Yan Feng Progenitor revealed that Luo Shen’s exceptional divine-body talent was the reason he chose him, leaving Luo Shen before his new master.

• The leading Yan Feng Guard broke Luo Shen free from his realm of intent and offered him Yan Feng Progenitor’s tutelage as a registered disciple.
• Luo Shen agreed to become Yan Feng Progenitor’s disciple, and Abyss Mansion Lord Yuan Xiu and Di Chu-Yu congratulated him.
• The Yan Feng Guards escorted Luo Shen to Progenitor Palace while the Emperors discussed how his rise had altered the Imperial Son competition between Emperor Chu’s and Di Chuxiong’s branches.
• The leading Yan Feng Guard brought Luo Shen into the great hall to meet Yan Feng Progenitor, whose presence nearly overwhelmed him.
• Yan Feng Progenitor recognized Luo Shen’s background and said he had accepted him because his divine-body talent was unparalleled.

Luo Shen became Yan Feng Progenitor’s nominal disciple and learned that their master-disciple bond carried significant karma. Yan Feng Progenitor destroyed Luo Shen’s Soul Oath and offered him further God King-stage inheritance after he mastered its first volume.

• Yan Feng Progenitor accepted Luo Shen as his nominal disciple and warned him that their bond could draw the attention of his enemies, but Luo Shen knelt and completed the master-taking ceremony.
• Yan Feng Progenitor offered to resolve Luo Shen’s existing karmic entanglements, and Luo Shen chose to handle his enemy himself; Yan Feng Progenitor then identified his Soul Oath as a binding karmic chain.
• Yan Feng Progenitor used a transparent flame to shatter Luo Shen’s Soul Oath, while the Shi Kingdom Lord felt their karmic connection disappear and mistakenly suspected his enemy had perished or been reborn.
• Yan Feng Progenitor promised Luo Shen the subsequent God King-stage inheritance once he mastered the first volume of the Twelve Styles of Heaven Slaying, or another inheritance’s first volume.

Yan Feng Progenitor welcomed Luo Shen as his nominal disciple and bestowed three gifts: advanced cultivation inheritance, Primal Source Spirit Crystals, and a reforged Abyss Battle Saber. Luo Shen returned to his cave dwelling and began refining the crystals, whose energy rapidly strengthened his soul and improved his comprehension.

• Yan Feng Progenitor promised Luo Shen the later volumes of the Twelve Styles of Heaven Slaying Luo Shen once he mastered the first volume.
• Yan Feng Progenitor gave Luo Shen ten Primal Source Spirit Crystals and reforged the Abyss Battle Saber with rare materials, increasing its potential and teaching Luo Shen methods to nurture it.
• Yan Feng Progenitor told Luo Shen to earn what he wanted himself, offered his senior disciples' support against powerful enemies, and granted Luo Shen high status and access to Progenitor Palace.
• Luo Shen left Progenitor Palace, returned to his cave dwelling, and entered seclusion after telling Ju Mang and Chao Yong he would see no one.
• Luo Shen refined the Primal Source Spirit Crystals, which transformed his soul and made insights into the path of Life Spirituality come far more readily.

Luo Shen used a Primal Source Spirit Crystal to greatly advance his comprehension of the Great Daos of Life and Destruction, bringing him close to becoming a God King. After storing his remaining crystals and leaving seclusion, he attended gatherings in the Imperial Capital, where Qin Yin decided to seek his help with a problem at Qing Yin Pavilion.

• Luo Shen studied the complete Great Dao of Life Origin while the Primal Source Spirit Crystal enhanced his soul, thoughts, and comprehension.
• When the crystal's effects faded, Luo Shen found that his six branches of the Great Dao of Life Origin and the Great Dao of Destruction Origin had advanced, with Life Spirituality nearing completion.
• Luo Shen stored his nine remaining Primal Source Spirit Crystals and planned to keep cultivating before merging the mysteries of Life Spirituality to become a God King.
• Luo Shen left his quiet room, then continued cultivating in the Imperial Capital and occasionally attended banquets.
• Qin Yin recognized Luo Shen at Qing Yin Pavilion and decided to prepare her Rainbow Feather Dress before asking him to help with her troubles.

Luo Shen settled his conflict with Chu Luo Hou and secured Qing Yin Pavilion’s protection, then went to Yan Feng Guild Hall to sell treasures. The chapter left him meeting with Dark Hall Master Marquis Xin Huo, who offered to buy his treasures at the highest price.

• Chu Luo Hou apologized for his past actions and agreed to pay Luo Shen eighty billion Universe Sand in treasures or cultivation resources.
• Before leaving, Chu Luo Hou heard Luo Shen praise Qing Yin Pavilion’s Rainbow Feather Dress Melody, so he ordered his retainer to investigate the pavilion and place it under Marquis Chu Luo’s Residence’s protection.
• Qin Yin played the Rainbow Feather Dress Melody for Luo Shen, who promised that no one would bully Qing Yin Pavilion again and sent her a streak of Flowing Light containing information.
• Luo Shen visited Yan Feng Guild Hall to sell treasures, and Marquis Xin Huo personally welcomed him.
• Marquis Xin Huo offered to purchase Luo Shen’s treasures at the highest price.