Chapter Summaries

Sheng Rui arrived in Dragon City to serve Lu Changfeng, joining Sheng Ming at the Swordplay House, where the brothers competed and trained under their great-grandfather. After Hua Yiran died, Lu Changfeng withdrew into solitude, then trained the two brothers; Sheng Ming eventually left to fight the Demon Race, while Sheng Rui emerged with a new integrated talent.

• Sheng Rui brought Lu Changfeng rare sword manuals and asked to stay at the Swordplay House, where Lu Changfeng assigned Sheng Ming to teach him the shop’s work.
• Sheng Rui and Sheng Ming competed to please Lu Changfeng, trained in his formations, and spent a year cultivating together.
• Hua Yiran died, and Lu Changfeng placed her body in Dragon Space before leaving town to grieve in solitude.
• Lu Changfeng created a formation to develop Sheng Rui’s blade and sword talents, and ten years later Sheng Ming cleared his simulation formation and left to rejoin the Monster Extermination Division.
• Sheng Rui emerged from the Blade and Sword Domain formation with the integrated talent [Blade and Sword Domain].

Lu Changfeng vanished as Sheng Qi exiled Sheng Ming and named Sheng Rui Crown Prince, and the Holy Kingdom passed through several generations as martial cultivation declined. A century later, technology was spreading across a united Mystic Realm, where Sheng Min had become the sixth emperor and the weakened Demon Race hid among humans.

• Lu Changfeng left the Swordplay House, and Sheng Qi exiled Sheng Ming to the Eastern Sea before appointing Sheng Rui Crown Prince because of his bloodline.
• Sheng Rui inherited the throne ten years later, suppressed the Demon Race with Sheng Ming's support, and ruled as the Mystic Realm's Origin Energy continued to decline.
• Lu Changfeng traveled the Mystic Realm collecting swordplay manuals and Origin Stones, then entered the Southern Kingdom Islet and put his main body into slumber.
• Over the next century, martial cultivation declined, technology developed, and the three regions merged as Heaven and Earth Origin Energy disappeared.
• After Sheng Rui and Sheng Bai died, Sheng Min became the sixth emperor and promoted technological transportation while the Demon Race retreated into human society.

Lu Jian brought Liu Qing to Southern Kingdom Islet, where Lu Changfeng awakened from a century of slumber and learned why Liu Qing had sought his ancestor. After reviewing Lu Jian’s collected sword techniques and Liu Qing’s memories, Lu Changfeng offered to preserve Lu Jian’s consciousness in another clone, and Lu Jian accepted.

• Lu Jian met Liu Qing aboard a cruise ship and learned that Liu Qing, a descendant of Sheng Ming, wanted to deliver his grandfather’s letter to the First Holy Lord.
• Liu Qing revealed that Sheng Ming had faked his death after reaching the Fetal Transformation Realm and had traveled beyond the Mystic Realm.
• Lu Jian took Liu Qing through a hidden entrance to Southern Kingdom Islet and led him to a volcanic island.
• Lu Jian contacted Lu Changfeng, who woke from his century-long slumber and emerged from his formation coffin.
• Lu Changfeng absorbed the sword techniques Lu Jian had collected and discovered his stored lifespan had reached two hundred and fifty thousand years.
• Lu Changfeng offered to preserve Lu Jian’s Chaos Consciousness in another clone, and Lu Jian agreed.

Lu Changfeng restored Lu Jian in a new body, then learned from Lu Jun’s memories about the Heart Realm, a tightly controlled world that captures Domain Breakers and seeks to drain other worlds’ energy. He decided to enter it after reaching Spirit Condensation and returned to seclusion while Lu Jian and Liu Qing left to gather resources and reunite with Liu Qing’s family.

• Lu Changfeng transferred Lu Jian’s Chaos Consciousness into a young man’s body, absorbed Sheng Ming’s letter, and began copying the memories of his clones.
• Lu Changfeng learned that Wei He had been killed after entering the Heart Realm, while Lu Jun had been imprisoned and discovered the Heart Realm’s strict control of Heaven and Earth Origin Energy.
• Lu Jun asked Lu Changfeng to end her life after sharing what she had learned, and her clone dragon scale dissipated as she died in the prison.
• Lu Changfeng chose the Heart Realm as his next destination and planned to enter after reaching Spirit Condensation.
• Over ten years, Lu Changfeng raised Lu Jian to the Bone Refining Realm and helped Liu Qing reach the Intermediate Muscle Tendon Realm.
• Lu Changfeng returned to the crystal coffin to cultivate, while Lu Jian and Liu Qing left the Realm within a Realm to gather resources and visit Liu Qing’s family.

After returning from ten years on the Southern Kingdom Islet, Liu Qing learned that his mother had died and his half-brother had taken his place in the family. He chose to pursue the martial path like Sheng Ming, striking a bargain with Lu Changfeng to trade ten thousand sword techniques for help advancing to the Bone Refining Realm, and began building ways to gather them in Sword City.

• Liu Qing returned to Linhai City, learned his family had presumed him dead, and visited his mother's grave, where he reunited with Liu Xiong and met Liu Huan.
• Liu Qing told Liu Xiong he would leave to follow Sheng Ming's path, spent the night drinking with his family, and departed with fifty million Saint Origin.
• Liu Qing found Lu Jian in Sword City and agreed to collect ten thousand complete, non-duplicate sword techniques in exchange for Lu Changfeng's help reaching the Bone Refining Realm.
• Liu Qing registered with the Assassination Guild as Blood Sword, offering to take assassination missions in return for newly created sword techniques.
• Liu Qing joined the Swordsmanship Guild as an authoritative figure in Sword City and planned to establish the country's first swordsmanship academy.
• People from the Assassination Guild arrived at the Swordplay House with a mission for Liu Qing.

Liu Qing and Lu Jian completed an assassination mission that earned one hundred sword techniques, though Lu Jian was wounded by modern firearms. Liu Qing then founded a swordsmanship academy, built its reputation with the Holy Emperor’s support, and left the story with new Blood Tempering Realm sword techniques emerging across the academies.

• Liu Qing accepted a mission to kill Song Yuan in exchange for one hundred sword techniques, and Lu Jian agreed to help.
• Lu Jian killed Song Yuan and escaped gunfire, but bullets wounded him before he used Demon Dragon Nirvana to heal.
• Liu Qing delivered Song Yuan’s head to the Assassin’s Guild and received the sword techniques, then founded Sword City’s first Swordsmanship academy with Jiang Sheng’s support.
• Liu Qing trained students and secured them employment, and the academy later won the national Swordsmanship tournament and the title of First Swordsmanship Academy of the Holy Kingdom.
• Holy Emperor Sheng Min pledged support for Liu Qing’s work after learning of his family origins, and he revealed that an ancestor had urged him in a dream to develop swordsmanship.
• Liu Qing encouraged the creation of new sword techniques, and techniques suited to the Blood Tempering Realm began appearing across the academies.

After gathering more than ten thousand swordsmanship manuals, Liu Qing joined Lu Changfeng in the Realm within a Realm, where he cultivated for fifty-six years and advanced to the Fetal Transformation Realm. Lu Changfeng broke through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, then prepared to leave the Mystic Realm with Liu Qing after one final search for Origin Stones.

• Liu Qing delivered 10,800 swordsmanship manuals to Lu Jian and agreed to seek the truth of the world even if it meant witnessing destruction.
• Lu Changfeng welcomed Liu Qing into the Realm within a Realm, arranged for Lu Jian to inherit the academy, and gave Liu Qing a bloodline and cultivation method to prepare him for the Outer Realm.
• Liu Qing cultivated for fifty-six years as Lu Changfeng prepared to break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm.
• Lu Changfeng absorbed the Realm within a Realm's Heaven and Earth Origin Energy and successfully gained divine sense, while Liu Qing used the breakthrough's momentum to reach the Fetal Transformation Realm with Lu Changfeng's help.
• Lu Changfeng dismantled the formations, restored the Southern Kingdom Islet to the Mystic Realm, and began searching for Origin Stones before leaving with Liu Qing.

Lu Changfeng prepared to leave the Mystic Realm, upgraded his Bone Structure to Heavenly Pride, and drained the realm of Heaven and Earth Origin Energy before breaking through its Domain Membrane. He sent Liu Qing on his own path through the Chaos Great World and began traveling toward the Heart Realm.

• Lu Changfeng gathered two thousand Origin Stones and recalled Lu Jian, bringing his reserve lifespan to five hundred thousand years before preparing to leave the Mystic Realm with Liu Qing.
• At the Domain Membrane, Lu Changfeng fused his Heroic Bone Structures into Earth Spirit Bone Structures and then into the pinnacle Heavenly Pride Bone Structure.
• Lu Changfeng used his new Bone Structure to absorb vast amounts of the Mystic Realm's Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, storing enough to power ten thousand years of Idle Flight.
• Lu Changfeng opened a passage through the Domain Membrane, took Liu Qing into the Chaos Great World, and gave him a map before Liu Qing departed alone.
• Lu Changfeng set out toward the Heart Realm in Idle Flight mode and used his Chaos Power to move through the Chaos Clouds.

After escaping the Chaos Mist, Lu Changfeng encountered two pursuing ships and used his overwhelming Annihilation Blade Domain to make them halt. He boarded the Ancient Starship after its crew mistook his ancient accent for proof that he was a senior from the Primordial Era, and began asking Du Fangli about the Chaos Great World.

• Lu Changfeng crossed the Chaos Mist and traveled through the starry sky, avoiding other travelers until an Ancient Starship pursued him.
• When a technological starry-sky battleship attacked the Ancient Starship, Lu Changfeng stopped fleeing and gathered more than 150,000 points of Annihilation Value to threaten both ships.
• Du Fangli thanked Lu Changfeng for his help, and the two ships stopped while the starry-sky battleship withdrew.
• Lu Changfeng examined the Ancient Starship's crew and invited Du Fangli to answer his questions in exchange for his assistance.
• Du Fangli mistook Lu Changfeng's ancient accent for that of a Primordial Era senior and led him into the ship's tea room.

Lu Changfeng learned from Du Fangli about the Chaos Expanse, its star domains, and the advanced civilizations that lived there. After inspecting the Duwu Hao’s integrated energy core, he decided to visit the Heart Realm despite Du Fangli’s warning that its powerful Martial Artists would kill outsiders.

• Lu Changfeng asked Du Fangli about the Chaos Expanse, and she explained that she was a Star Nomad who had spent her life aboard the Ancient Starship Duwu Hao.
• Du Fangli showed Lu Changfeng a map of the Northern Heaven Star Domain and explained that the Tuvasa Empire was pursuing them because her crew had raided one of its energy stations.
• Du Fangli gave Lu Changfeng a Star Union watch, and he used it to study the star map and its information about the region’s civilizations.
• Du Fangli led Lu Changfeng to the Duwu Hao’s integrated energy core, where he saw how Martial Dao methods and technology combined to convert Light Stone energy.
• Lu Changfeng asked about the Heart Realm, and Du Fangli warned that its powerful Martial Artists would kill outsiders who approached it.
• Lu Changfeng resolved to sneak into the Heart Realm and see its Martial Dao for himself.

Lu Changfeng reached the Tuvasa Empire and landed on Planet 54, where President Barrett welcomed him and showed him the empire’s advanced technology. After agreeing to attend a welcoming dinner, Lu Changfeng set off alone to explore a nearby city.

• Du Fangli directed the Duwu Hao toward a newly discovered small world, while Lu Changfeng resumed cruising toward the Tuvasa Empire.
• Tuvasa Imperial Warships repeatedly interrogated Lu Changfeng as he approached the empire, then issued him a Temporary ID Card.
• Lu Changfeng landed at Planet 54 and met President Barrett, who welcomed him and arranged a tour of the planet.
• Barrett showed Lu Changfeng the Light of Tuvasa and explained that killing a Chaos Beast marked a civilization’s rise to level-three status.
• Barrett gave Lu Changfeng a communicator and a high-authority Flight Permit, then invited him to a welcoming dinner.
• Barrett ordered his staff to stop tracking Lu Changfeng, who sensed the change and descended toward a large city.

Lu Changfeng accepted Tuvasa’s foreign citizenship and Barrett’s gift of an advanced interstellar spaceship, then traveled toward Heart Realm. As he neared the guarded realm, he concealed the ship and continued onward with his body wrapped in Chaos Power.

• Lu Changfeng explored Tuvasa, attended Barrett’s banquet, and accepted a special foreign citizen identity card.
• Barrett gave Lu Changfeng a Zhilian 180 spaceship, and Lu Changfeng gave him Blood Tempering Realm pills in return.
• After Councilor Tang demanded the pills for the Federal Center, Barrett sent thirteen of the eighteen pills and kept five.
• Lu Changfeng used the spaceship to travel through the Chaos Expanse, shielding it with Chaos Power to cross a Chaos Mist area.
• As Lu Changfeng approached Heart Realm, he stored the spaceship in Dragon Space and flew onward in concealment.

Lu Changfeng infiltrated the Heart Realm, evaded its Imperial Realm Investigation Team, and investigated how its Heart Emperor Core monitored Heaven and Earth Origin Energy. He then took over the newborn Lu You to establish a legitimate identity, and the story left him beginning to attract attention as a martial prodigy.

• Lu Changfeng sent a Devil Race clone through the Heart Realm's Domain Membrane and learned that the Heart Emperor Core tracked fluctuations in Heaven and Earth Origin Energy.
• After the Imperial Realm Investigation Team hunted the clone, Lu Changfeng hid through the night, escaped, and returned with his true body while suppressing its energy absorption.
• Lu Changfeng searched the Heart Realm's maternity wards and chose three-day-old Lu You, an infant with three Martial Arts Talents and a Grade A Mid foundation.
• Lu Changfeng extracted Lu You's soul, embedded dragon scales in the infant, and descended into his body to gain a legitimate identity.
• As Lu You grew, he began speaking in complete sentences, entered a martial arts beginner's academy at age three, and quickly outperformed older students.
• Father and Mother Lu quit their jobs to pursue business, becoming wealthy enough by Lu You's primary-school age to fund his martial training.

Lu Changfeng, living as Lu You, entered Dragon Capital Rakshasa Martial Primary School and used his exceptional talent to advance through its rigorous studies. After six years of perfect scores and approved advancement rituals, he graduated at eleven in the early Muscle Tendon Realm, far ahead of his classmates.

• Father and Mother Lu enrolled Lu You at Dragon Capital Rakshasa Martial Primary School after he astonished the admissions staff by copying formation runes.
• Lu Changfeng studied martial and cultural subjects while keeping his abilities hidden, then earned perfect marks and an advancement opportunity in his first-grade examinations.
• Lu Changfeng entered the Dragon Capital Heart Emperor Pool, where the Heart Emperor Realm safely advanced him to the first level of the Blood Tempering Realm.
• Over six years, Lu Changfeng earned perfect scores and additional advancement opportunities, reaching the early Muscle Tendon Realm by graduation.
• Lu Changfeng stood at the head of the graduating sixth-grade procession, while many classmates struggled to meet the requirements to graduate or enter Rakshasa Academy.

After graduating from elementary school, Lu Changfeng dealt with his grasping aunt and her troublesome son before beginning his studies at Rakshasa Academy. He arrived at the boarding academy determined to learn its seven-star Rakshasa Sword Intent.

• Lu Changfeng reviewed his gains from elementary school, including advanced Lingbo True Intent and extensive knowledge of martial array runes.
• Lu Hong asked Father Lu to get Liu Fei into a martial academy, then left with him after Lu Changfeng arranged an excuse to avoid hosting them for lunch.
• Lu Changfeng arranged through the Red Signal for Liu Fei to be beaten and driven out of Dragon Capital, while Lu Hong failed to warn Father Lu about the threat to his business.
• Lu Changfeng started at Rakshasa Academy, whose Rakshasa Sword Art could cultivate seven-star sword intent, and headed toward his dormitory.

Lu Changfeng began life at Rakshasa Academy, where he brushed aside the second-years’ welcoming beatdown and chose courses suited to his goal of mastering the seven-star Rakshasa Sword Art. After exploring the academy, he left behind a Rune Bomb so skillfully made that an older student bought it for the upcoming competition.

• Lu Changfeng moved into Room 909, met Fang Yuan, Lin Baiyu, and Ao Min, and declined to join them in fighting the second-years at first.
• After the elevator stopped working, Lu Changfeng descended from the ninth floor and kicked an elite second-year unconscious when the student blocked his way.
• Lu Changfeng registered for Swordsmanship Class with Luo Xu, compulsory Martial Arts Rune Class with Ye Weng, and the Lingbo Light Body Technique elective with Qiu Feng.
• Lu Changfeng watched advanced students spar in the combat zone and gained insights into his Martial Dao True Intent.
• Lu Changfeng made a Rune Bomb in the Test Zone, and a bespectacled youth bought it to use in the coming competition.

Lu Changfeng began classes at Rakshasa Academy and drew the attention of students and instructors with his exceptional talent. After agreeing to duel second-year student Camus, Lu Changfeng was named class representative for demonstrating four-star Sword Intent.

• Lu Changfeng returned to Dorm 909, where his injured roommates Fang Yuan, Lin Baiyu, and Ao Min recovered and registered for courses; he learned their powerful backgrounds and that others had arranged for them to room with him.
• The next morning, Lu Changfeng and his roommates attracted attention from first-year students, and second-year student Camus challenged Lu Changfeng over an injury to Camus's cousin.
• Lu Changfeng accepted Camus's challenge for after class, while Lin Baiyu passed him information about Camus's strength and swordsmanship before their Martial Arts Rune Class.
• Instructor Ye Weng taught the students to make a Fire Gathering Formation using Simplified Runes, then Luo Xu began teaching Rakshasa Sword Intent in swordsmanship class.
• When Luo Xu asked who had condensed four-star Sword Intent or higher, Lu Changfeng alone kept his hand raised, and Luo Xu appointed him class representative.

Lu Changfeng attended his first Rakshasa Sword Art and Lingbo Light Body Technique classes, then defeated Camus in the battle zone by amplifying his four-star Death Sword Intent. His victory established his reputation at Rakshasa Academy, where he and his dormmates focused on cultivation until the next swordsmanship class.

• Lu Changfeng learned the foundational Rakshasa Sword forms and began studying its sword skills, then memorized the basics of Lingbo Light Body Technique in Qiu Feng's class.
• Lu Changfeng ate lunch before heading to the battle zone with Fang Yuan, Lin Baiyu, and Ao Min, who followed him and helped him avoid unwanted attention.
• Lu Changfeng faced Camus in the arena and activated his four-star Death Sword Intent against Camus's three-star Rakshasa Sword Intent.
• Lu Changfeng used [Longevity Sword Dao] to triple his combat power, shattered Camus's Rakshasa Descends, and forced him to admit defeat.
• Lu Changfeng's victory made him famous at Rakshasa Academy, while Fang Yuan and the others became more dedicated to cultivation in Dorm 909.
• Three days later, Lu Changfeng returned to swordsmanship class.

Lu Changfeng demonstrated his exceptional Rakshasa Sword Art, condensed Rakshasa Sword Intent with a Chaos rune, and was selected with nine other students for a real-combat trip. The chapter ended as Luo Xu prepared the students to enter the Blood Wolf Demon Realm, where they would face blood wolves and dangerous death-row criminals.

• Lu Changfeng demonstrated all 256 Rakshasa Sword forms and mastered all 36 ordinary Sword Moves, astonishing Luo Xu and his classmates.
• Lu Changfeng followed Luo Xu's guidance to condense Rakshasa Sword Intent and inscribed the Chaos rune, which Luo Xu considered an unsuitable choice.
• Luo Xu selected Lu Changfeng, Lin Baiyu, Zhou Hong, Fang Yuan, and six others for a trip to the demon realm, and Lu Changfeng reassured his nervous Dorm 909 companions.
• Lu Changfeng attended his martial and cultural classes, considered which rune to use for Lingbo True Intent, and struggled with the increasingly technical cultural curriculum.
• Luo Xu led the ten selected students toward the Blood Wolf Demon Realm and explained that they would need to beware both savage blood wolves and surviving death-row criminals.

Lu Changfeng entered Rakshasa Academy’s Blood Wolf Demon Realm with Fang Yuan and confronted Abaka, a death-row inmate who had survived there for more than thirty years. After defeating him, Lu Changfeng brought his true body into the secret realm to test whether he could secretly absorb its Heaven and Earth Origin Energy.

• Luo Xu led ten students into the Blood Wolf Demon Realm and gave them twenty-four hours to hunt a Blood Wolf, recommending that they work in pairs.
• Fang Yuan followed Lu Changfeng into the forest, where Lu Changfeng sensed Abaka lying in wait for them.
• Abaka revealed his history as a former Rakshasa Academy student who murdered a classmate and survived in the secret realm for more than thirty years.
• Abaka attacked Fang Yuan, but Lu Changfeng intervened, pursued him through the forest, and defeated him with Rakshasa Sword Intent.
• Lu Changfeng returned to his true body and used [Extreme Dao Breaking Domain] to bring it into the secret realm, intending to test whether it could absorb the realm’s Heaven and Earth Origin Energy.