Arc 6The Heavenly Pride Competition
Lu Ming survived a corpse outbreak, grew stronger, and reached the Heavenly Pride Competition after defeating Xuan Yin Shang Ren. At the competition, he advanced to the Prodigy Ranking battles, where the leading fighters began contesting their places.
- Lu Ming cleared the Blood Kill Token’s Trial Tower, gained the [Great Profound True Martial Art] and Will of Slaughter, then returned to the grasslands as a corpse tide threatened the towns.
- Lu Ming fought alongside Song Jianqing and other experts against Corpse-ified Demonic Beasts, while Venerable Ningguang revealed that a Sea Transformation Realm cultivator was raising corpses in a tomb.
- Lu Ming advanced to the Late Gang Qi Realm, cultivated Destruction Sword Intent on Lightningfall Mountain, and left Qingxi Village with an ancestral map from Nie Zhao.
- Xuan Yin Shang Ren pursued Lu Ming for the Stone Slab, but Lu Ming wounded him with Destruction Sword Qi and escaped with two mysterious Stone Slabs from his Storage Ring.
- Lu Ming arrived at the Heavenly Pride Competition and helped Wuji Sect confront the Blood Kill Sect, which accused him of involvement in its Young Sect Master’s disappearance.
- Lu Ming and Guan Wuli reached the Ascension Ladder’s summit, and the remaining contestants were divided into groups for the elimination matches.
- Lu Ming won his elimination matches and advanced to the Prodigy Ranking battles alongside Guan Wuli and Zhu Ningyun, while Zhu Ningyun’s parents worried about her growing feelings for him.
- Lu Ming defeated Sha Yue by redirecting his fire-dragon Sword Qi, and Yuan Xinzhu defeated Meng Wu after breaking through his Void Array Breaking Style with a Saber Light.