Chapter Summaries

Lu Chuan unleashed the Book of Epochs and its Epoch Fire against the united Alien race forces after they broke through his Mental Shock. The flames destroyed their combined attack and drove the survivors to flee, leaving the battlefield beneath the mountain empty.

• A Blood Race expert used an Exotic Treasure to summon power from the Endless Blood Sea and shatter Lu Chuan’s Mysterious Gate of the Female, but Lu Chuan’s remaining Blade Qi struck the Alien camp and severely wounded him.
• A Spirit Race expert and the other Alien forces attacked Lu Chuan together with their strongest strikes.
• Luo Tian and Kast prepared to activate the defensive Great Array to help Lu Chuan, but Ye Yunqing told them to trust him and hold back.
• Lu Chuan’s Saber Energy transformed into the Book of Epochs, which released Epoch Fire and melted the Aliens’ attacks.
• The Epoch Fire burned many Alien fighters and their Soul Consciousness to ash, while the survivors fled or used void-shifting methods to escape.

Lu Chuan defeated the invading Foreign Races, collected the twelve drops of Heavenly Origin Spirit Marrow, and returned to seclusion. The surviving Foreign Race experts planned to summon Monster-level Prodigies and watch the Human Race until reinforcements arrived.

• Lu Chuan’s victory over the Foreign Races left the Human Race in awe, while Luo Tian and Kast discussed his potential to reach the Mystic Ascension Realm.
• Lu Chuan collected and sealed all twelve drops of Heavenly Origin Spirit Marrow, then told Ye Yunqing that he would hold them until they could distribute them after leaving.
• Ye Yunqing accepted Lu Chuan’s decision and hoped his strength would keep the Foreign Races from attacking recklessly.
• Lu Chuan returned to the mountaintop and resumed seclusion to consolidate his cultivation and prepare for the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations.
• The surviving Demon, Spirit, Blood, and other Foreign Race experts resolved to report Lu Chuan to their races, call in Monster-level Prodigies, and avoid provoking him in the meantime.

Lu Chuan underwent the Heavenly Fire Tribulation and extinguished it with a command, then triggered the Lightning Tribulation and several other calamities at once. As thunder, gale, flood, and frost converged on him, the mountain’s people watched in alarm.

• Lu Chuan’s Heavenly Fire Tribulation erupted at the summit, alarming the people on the mountain.
• Ye Yunqing recognized that Lu Chuan was advancing from the Dharma Aspect Realm toward the Calamity Realm and wondered whether he could challenge the Mystic Ascension Realm.
• The heavenly fire melted the boulder and scorched the summit, prompting people to fear the mountain and mineral vein would be destroyed.
• Lu Chuan shouted “Annihilate,” extinguishing the Heavenly Fire Tribulation in an instant.
• Lu Chuan then rose into the air and triggered the Lightning Tribulation along with several other calamities, bringing thunder, gale, flood, and frost down upon himself.

Lu Chuan forcibly devoured and refined the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations, advancing directly into the Fate Defying Realm and strengthening his body, spiritual power, and Blade Intent. He returned to the Human Race's Temporary Camp, where Ye Yunqing admitted she had nearly ordered an evacuation.

• The tribulation clouds became a Blood Sea, and the resulting calamity creatures charged at Lu Chuan as the mountain peak was trapped by warped space.
• Lu Chuan summoned the Heaven and Earth Furnace and drew the tribulation clouds inside, refining them until they dispersed.
• Lu Chuan checked his Attribute Panel and found that he had reached the early stage of the Fate Defying Realm, while his Blade Intent had neared perfection.
• Lu Chuan arrived at the Human Race's Temporary Camp and apologized to Ye Yunqing for the danger his tribulation had caused.
• Ye Yunqing told Lu Chuan she had nearly ordered everyone to withdraw.

Lu Chuan finished collecting the Heavenly Origin Spirit Marrow from the mine and decided to leave the Grotto-Heaven rather than risk exploring the dangerous wilderness beyond the city. Ye Yunqing, Luo Tian, and Kast prepared to leave with him, while Lu Chuan hinted that enemies outside might be waiting for him.

• Lu Chuan told Ye Yunqing to calm the miners and keep mining, promising that he would handle any retaliation from the other races.
• Lu Chuan returned to the mountaintop, reshaped it into a platform, and cultivated to consolidate his breakthrough as Ye Yunqing, Luo Tian, and Kast helped restore order.
• After half a month, Lu Chuan collected the final seven drops of Heavenly Origin Spirit Marrow, bringing his total haul to 108 drops.
• Lu Chuan recalled that the mist beyond a hundred li from the city obscured perception and Spiritual Power, and that a terrifying presence there had made him sense mortal danger.
• Ye Yunqing, Luo Tian, and Kast told Lu Chuan that the mine had been fully cleared and that they planned to leave without exploring beyond the city.
• Lu Chuan agreed to leave the Grotto-Heaven and said that some people outside might be growing impatient.

Lu Chuan left the Grotto-Heaven ahead of Ye Yunqing’s group to confront the Foreign Races waiting outside, while assigning the Crimson Flame Wind Wolf King to monitor the Star Realm for him. As Ye Yunqing, Luo Tian, and Kast led several thousand people toward the exit, they learned that Profound Rankings of the Heavens experts Shi Quan and Tu Yuan had entered the Star Realm.

• Ye Yunqing told Lu Chuan that the major Foreign Races had sent Monster-level Prodigies to wait outside the Grotto-Heaven, and that Xuanhuang Hall was sending Demon Prodigies to meet them.
• Lu Chuan ordered the Crimson Flame Wind Wolf King to secretly monitor the Star Realm and the Grotto-Heaven, then gave it several Treasure Tools.
• Lu Chuan left ahead of Ye Yunqing’s group, intending to face the Foreign Races waiting outside and complete the slaughter required for his new Entry.
• Ye Yunqing, Luo Tian, and Kast led several thousand people toward the passage exit, and Luo Tian worried Lu Chuan might be facing too many powerful enemies alone.
• Luo Tian revealed that Shi Quan of the Demon Race and Tu Yuan of the Asura Race had entered the Star Realm, apparently seeking the Heavenly Origin Spirit Marrow.

Luo Tian revealed that Shi Quan and Tu Yuan, two top-ranked Transcendent Secret Realm experts, were approaching the Grotto-Heaven, and Ye Yunqing tried to warn Lu Chuan. Lu Chuan had already left, but welcomed the coming fight as Shi Quan and Tu Yuan arrived with a large force of foreign race experts.

• Luo Tian told Ye Yunqing that Shi Quan and Tu Yuan were coming, prompting her to accuse him of withholding the warning until Lu Chuan had left.
• Ye Yunqing sent Lu Chuan a message warning him not to go out, but he had already passed through the passage and returned to the Star Realm.
• Lu Chuan heard Ye Yunqing's warning, recognized that it had come too late, and responded with excitement rather than fear.
• Lu Chuan sensed Shi Quan and Tu Yuan approaching with nearly a thousand foreign race experts and assessed the strength of their forces.
• Shi Quan and Tu Yuan sped toward Lu Chuan and stopped a hundred li away.

Lu Chuan faced the ranked Demon and Asura prodigies Shi Quan and Tu Yuan, who demanded his Heavenly Origin Spirit Marrow. The chapter ended with Lu Chuan cracking Tu Yuan’s High-grade Treasure Tool with a bare-handed punch.

• Shi Quan and Tu Yuan confronted Lu Chuan and demanded that he hand over the Heavenly Origin Spirit Marrow.
• Lu Chuan revealed that he had one hundred and eight drops, provoking the greed and killing intent of the gathered Foreign Races.
• Tu Yuan transformed into his true Asura body and charged Lu Chuan with his Bloodthirsty War Spear.
• Lu Chuan used his Indestructible Golden Body and a seven-star punch to blast Tu Yuan backward and crack his spear.
• Tu Yuan stared in disbelief at the damage to his High-grade Treasure Tool and Lu Chuan’s powerful fleshly body.

Lu Chuan overwhelmed Tu Yuan with his Beidou Divine Fist, destroying Tu Yuan’s spear and forcing him to rely on a blood-colored tower for defense. Fearing Lu Chuan would become a threat to the Foreign Races, Shi Quan led their fighters into a Formation Diagram to trap and suppress him.

• Lu Chuan attacked Tu Yuan again with the Beidou Divine Fist, shattering his High-grade Treasure Tool war spear.
• Tu Yuan summoned a blood-colored small tower that blocked Lu Chuan’s punch, but the impact wounded him and left him coughing blood.
• Shi Quan recognized Lu Chuan’s strength as a danger and decided the Foreign Races could not let him leave the Star Realm alive.
• Shi Quan ordered the Foreign Race fighters to form a battle formation and unfurled a Formation Diagram.
• Shi Quan, Tu Yuan, and more than a thousand Foreign Race fighters entered the diagram, which descended over Lu Chuan like a mountain.

Lu Chuan destroyed the killing formation, slew more than a thousand Foreign Race members, and drove the survivors to flee. As Shi Quan and Tu Yuan escaped, the Dao Fruit on the Bronze Ancient Tree’s fifth branch ripened and merged into Lu Chuan’s Sea of Consciousness.

• Shi Quan used the Great Array’s power to attack Lu Chuan, but Lu Chuan’s saber slash shattered the formation and forced Shi Quan, Tu Yuan, and fewer than twenty others to escape with Void Displacement.
• Lu Chuan used Heart Burning Blade to kill the more than a thousand Foreign Race members left trapped in an illusion.
• Human Race onlookers marveled at Lu Chuan’s strength, while distant Foreign Races panicked and fled.
• Lu Chuan ignored the fleeing enemies and the spoils, focusing on the Dao Fruit that ripened on the Bronze Ancient Tree’s fifth branch and merged into his Sea of Consciousness.

Lu Chuan formed his Fifth Entry, Clearing Thorns and Thistles, and felt his combat power increase. After collecting the Foreign Race beings’ spoils, he found treasures that could strengthen his Spiritual Power and will and serve as materials for upgrading his War Blade.

• Lu Chuan formed the Fifth Entry, Clearing Thorns and Thistles, gaining unparalleled offense and the ability to become stronger against stronger opponents.
• Lu Chuan adapted to his new sharpness and gathered the belongings of more than a thousand dead Foreign Race beings.
• Lu Chuan found ten drops of Starlight Soul Condensing Liquid that could improve his Spiritual Power.
• Lu Chuan secured an unidentified golden spiritual metal stone that could be used for artifact refining.
• Lu Chuan discovered a seven-leaf grass whose sharp intent could temper his will and improve his Blade Intent.
• Lu Chuan considered using the stone and other rare materials to refine a Quasi-Dao Tool and upgrade his War Blade.

Lu Chuan defeated over a thousand Foreign Race fighters and drove off the Mystic Rankings experts Shi Quan and Tu Yuan, astonishing the Human Race Pioneer Team. The group headed back to report their mission as news of Lu Chuan’s feat spread through the War Fortress and reached Wan Sanqian.

• Ye Yunqing, Luo Tian, Kast, and the other Pioneer Team members emerged from the Grotto-Heaven and saw the battlefield covered with Foreign Race corpses.
• Uncle Yu arrived and told them that Lu Chuan had defeated Shi Quan and Tu Yuan and slaughtered over a thousand Foreign Race members.
• Luo Tian and the others were stunned by Lu Chuan’s strength, while Ye Yunqing concluded he remained in the Transcendent Secret Realm.
• Lu Chuan finished counting the spoils and offered to help sweep across the Star Realm, but Ye Yunqing declined and led the team back toward Human Race territory.
• News and recordings of Lu Chuan’s battle spread through the War Fortress and the Virtual World, and Wan Sanqian watched the footage in a meeting room.

Wan Sanqian learned that footage of Lu Chuan had spread and rushed to intercept him, while Lu Chuan returned from the Star Realm with Ye Yunqing. After meeting city lord Li Yanshan, Lu Chuan refused his banquet and urged Ye Yunqing to leave the Star Realm quickly.

• Wan Sanqian ordered a subordinate to delay the other Xuanhuang Hall deacons and went to watch for Lu Chuan himself.
• Lu Chuan and Ye Yunqing returned safely to the Star Realm passage aboard Ye Yunqing's flying Treasure Tool.
• Ye Yunqing explained that Xuanhuang Hall planned to develop the Star Realm and introduced its city lord, Li Yanshan, to Lu Chuan.
• Lu Chuan suspected Li Yanshan might know that he had killed Li Yuntao and secretly watched his reactions.
• Li Yanshan praised Lu Chuan and invited him and Ye Yunqing to a banquet, but Lu Chuan declined and urged Ye Yunqing to leave the Star Realm.

Lu Chuan returned from the Star Realm with the Heavenly Origin Spirit Marrow and negotiated his share of the rewards with Wan Sanqian. Wan Sanqian offered him S-class membership in Xuanhuang Hall and asked him to enter Wuji Institute.

• Lu Chuan snubbed Li Yanshan at the city gates, and Li Yanshan concealed his anger despite knowing Lu Chuan was an enemy of the Li Family.
• Ye Yunqing led Lu Chuan and the others through the city and back through the passage to the War Fortress on Yunlan Star.
• Wan Sanqian welcomed the group and received the 96 drops of Heavenly Origin Spirit Marrow owed to Xuanhuang Hall.
• Lu Chuan requested 12 drops of Heavenly Origin Spirit Marrow and asked for his 20 percent share of the Heavenly Origin Spirit Gold to be converted into Contribution Points.
• Wan Sanqian promised to recommend Lu Chuan as an S-class member of Xuanhuang Hall and asked him to enter Wuji Institute.

Lu Chuan received S-class True Disciple status at Xuanhuang Hall, but he questioned joining the last-ranked Wuji Institute and bargained over its offer. The other six institutes’ Deacons arrived and competed to recruit him with increasingly generous treatment.

• Wan Sanqian offered Lu Chuan S-class membership and urged him to join Wuji Institute.
• Lu Chuan questioned Wuji Institute’s current standing and asked what benefits it could offer him.
• Wan Sanqian offered to increase Lu Chuan’s treatment by one-third.
• Deacons from the other six institutes arrived and accused Wan Sanqian of holding them back.
• The six Deacons competed to recruit Lu Chuan, promising better treatment and resources while Ye Yunqing and the others watched in amazement.

The institutes competed to recruit Lu Chuan, and Wan Sanqian offered him treatment three times that of an S-class member plus a God-Breaking Pill. After learning that the pill could greatly improve his chances of entering the Mystic Ascension Realm, Lu Chuan accepted the Wuji Institute’s offer.

• Deacons from the institutes raised their offers to recruit Lu Chuan.
• Wan Sanqian promised Lu Chuan triple S-class treatment and a God-Breaking Pill, shocking the other deacons.
• Wan Sanqian explained that the pill could increase the chance of opening a divine treasury and protect its user if the attempt failed.
• Wan Sanqian showed a message confirming that the Wuji Institute Master had approved the offer.
• Lu Chuan agreed to join the Wuji Institute without hesitation.

Lu Chuan arrived at Xuanhuang Star with Ye Yunqing and the others and learned that Wuji Institute’s prodigies resented his status as a True Disciple. He headed into Xuanhuang Hall’s mountain gate to face the trouble awaiting him.

• Lu Chuan and Ye Yunqing looked out at Xuanhuang Star as Wan Sanqian’s spaceship entered the planet’s defenses.
• The spaceship stopped above Xuanhuang Hall’s mountain range, and Wan Sanqian led everyone onto a rainbow path into the mountain gate.
• Wan Sanqian warned Lu Chuan that he might encounter trouble, then disappeared.
• Ye Yunqing and Luo Tian explained that the other prodigies resented Lu Chuan for gaining access to scarce True Disciple resources.
• Lu Chuan quickened his pace into the mountain range, while Luo Tian and Kast predicted he would easily defeat the troublemakers and Luo Tian joked about starting a betting pool.

Lu Chuan entered sudden enlightenment after reading the characters above Xuanhuang Hall’s Mountain Gate, revealing a terrifying Blade Intent. As Ye Yunqing, Luo Tian, and Kast tried to protect him, Xiao Yunsheng attacked them and moved to disrupt Lu Chuan’s comprehension.

• Lu Chuan gazed at the Mountain Gate’s characters and entered sudden enlightenment, unleashing a sharp Blade Intent that cleared the area around him.
• Ye Yunqing told Luo Tian and Kast to protect Lu Chuan, and the three formed a defensive formation around him.
• Xiao Yunsheng sent a giant palm and a devastating sound-wave attack toward Lu Chuan and his protectors.
• Ye Yunqing Ice Sealed the palm briefly, but Xiao Yunsheng’s attack broke through and injured her, while Luo Tian and Kast were also shaken.
• Xiao Yunsheng confronted Ye Yunqing and struck at Luo Tian, but Ye Yunqing blocked him with her spear and continued shielding Lu Chuan.

Xiao Yunsheng, Chu Guanyu, and Tu Zhan confronted Lu Chuan over his promotion to True Disciple, while he remained in sudden enlightenment. Chu Guanyu attacked Ye Yunqing, but Lu Chuan opened his eyes and cut off Chu Guanyu’s hand with a flash of Blade Qi.

• Xiao Yunsheng called Chu Guanyu and Tu Zhan out from behind the Mountain Gate, and the three Monster-level Prodigies gathered to challenge Lu Chuan.
• Ye Yunqing confronted the three and accused them of trying to interrupt Lu Chuan’s sudden enlightenment.
• Chu Guanyu attacked Ye Yunqing with lethal intent, and Ye Yunqing struggled to defend herself against her superior strength.
• Chu Guanyu struck again and shattered Ye Yunqing’s Protective Barrier as Luo Tian and Kast cried out a warning.
• Lu Chuan opened his eyes and slashed Chu Guanyu’s hand off with Blade Qi, leaving her gravely wounded.

Lu Chuan defeated Chu Guanyu’s attack and revealed the Big Dipper Star Robe, a defensive Quasi-Dao Tool. After she tried to kill him with the Azure Lightning Sword, he seized and sealed it, then turned his killing intent on her.

• Lu Chuan thanked Ye Yunqing and the other two for protecting him, then faced Chu Guanyu, Xiao Yunsheng, and Tu Zhan.
• Chu Guanyu attacked Lu Chuan with her Azure Lightning Sword, a Quasi-Dao Tool, but the Big Dipper Star Robe blocked it.
• Xiao Yunsheng and Tu Zhan grew jealous and greedy when they realized Lu Chuan possessed a defensive Quasi-Dao Tool.
• Lu Chuan used a Heaven and Earth Furnace to erase Chu Guanyu’s spiritual brand from the Azure Lightning Sword and seal the weapon, causing her to spit blood.
• Chu Guanyu demanded her sword back and threatened Lu Chuan’s family, so he raised a finger at her with killing intent.