Chapter Summaries

The Minor Extreme Palace audited its accounts and discovered that more than half of the Spirit Treasury’s expected reserves were missing, strengthening the Minor Extreme Earth Venerable’s resolve to pass leadership to Lu Ming. As people from the Nine Provinces World continued breaking through, Jing Junmeng reached the Human Venerable Realm, and Lu Ming agreed to take Qingqiu Luo Li with him to seek what she needed to awaken her Nine-Tailed Bloodline.

• The Minor Extreme Palace audited its realms and found that more than half of the Spirit Treasury’s expected reserves were missing.
• The Minor Extreme Earth Venerable became more certain that Lu Ming should inherit his position, citing Lu Ming’s strength and the support of the Sword Venerable and Mysterious Venerable.
• Several people from the Nine Provinces World underwent Supreme Heavenly Tribulations, and Minor Extreme Palace members discussed their rapid cultivation and origins.
• Lu Ming welcomed Jing Junmeng after she successfully broke through to the Human Venerable Realm.
• Lu Ming reassured Qingqiu Luo Li that he would seek the item needed to help her break through her Nine-Tailed Bloodline and agreed to take her along.

After learning Lu Ming was the true identity behind Ye Ze and had become a Domain Lord, Huang Daoqi lost control until Great Emperor Yuanji arrived and restored his composure. Yuanji advised his son to accept setbacks, then asked to see Lu Ming, prompting Fairy Lingji to step forward and identify herself as a disciple of the Mysterious Venerable.

• Ju Daozi and the other prodigies learned that Ye Ze was Lu Ming, whose strength and status left them stunned and discouraged.
• Huang Daoqi erupted in anger after realizing Lu Ming had not fought him at full strength, and the gathered prodigies worried that his Dao Heart might break.
• Lu Ming stepped out of a void treasure ship with Fairy Lingji and Zhao Kongming, but Great Emperor Yuanji's aura calmed Huang Daoqi before Zhao Kongming could intervene.
• Great Emperor Yuanji told Huang Daoqi to accept failure and grow from setbacks, and Huang Daoqi promised to remember his advice.
• Great Emperor Yuanji asked who Lu Ming was, and Fairy Lingji introduced herself as a disciple of the Mysterious Venerable.
• Great Emperor Yuanji accused Fairy Lingji of trying to use her master to pressure him.

Great Emperor Yuanji questioned Lu Ming about cultivating darkness and heard his claim that his Darkness Dao Body had been destroyed in the Great Void Abyss. The Mysterious Venerable vouched for Lu Ming, and Yuanji left after warning him to remain within the Human Race Heavenly Domain; Fairy Lingji then asked to travel with Lu Ming to the Minor Extreme Realm Domain.

• Great Emperor Yuanji questioned Lu Ming about his past battles and asked whether he had cultivated the power of darkness.
• Lu Ming admitted cultivating darkness but said his Darkness Dao Body had been ground away in the Great Void Abyss while helping him escape the Evil Empress.
• Great Emperor Yuanji asked whether others would believe Lu Ming, and Lu Ming replied that those who wanted to slander him would find excuses.
• The Mysterious Venerable arrived and vouched for Lu Ming, saying the Human Race's destiny was closely bound to him rather than threatened by him.
• Great Emperor Yuanji accepted the Mysterious Venerable's assurance, warned Lu Ming not to leave the Human Race Heavenly Domain, and departed with the Yuanji Heavenly Palace group.
• Fairy Lingji asked the Mysterious Venerable to let her travel with Lu Ming to the Minor Extreme Realm Domain while he took the other disciples home.

After the Heavenly God Star incident, Lu Ming’s reputation grew as he secluded his original body and sent his other Dao Bodies and companions into hiding. At the Rebellious Grave, the Phoenix Spirit Demon Emperor warned his Darkness Dao Body about corruption and revealed the danger of a true Eerie Emperor before beginning to explain the opportunity she and Holy Spirit had sought to become Emperors.

• News spread that the Mysterious Venerable had vouched for Lu Ming, while people doubted whether he could cultivate multiple Supreme Laws to the Heaven Supreme level; Lu Ming’s original body entered seclusion, and his other Dao Bodies and companions disappeared.
• Fairy Liuli lamented that she could not catch up to Lu Ming, but Yu Liancheng urged her to become a Heaven Supreme and keep striving.
• At the Rebellious Grave, Lu Ming’s Darkness Dao Body saw that the Phoenix Spirit Demon Emperor’s vitality was recovering, and she warned him that darkness power could corrupt him.
• The Phoenix Spirit Demon Emperor told Lu Ming that she and Holy Spirit had battled three Quasi-Emperor Eerie Creatures, one armed with the Sun-Destroying Sword, and explained how their self-sacrifices left her skeleton chained in the void.
• The Phoenix Spirit Demon Emperor said she had stopped Lu Ming from absorbing darkness power to avoid alerting a true Eerie Emperor, then asked whether he knew what opportunity she and Holy Spirit had sought; Lu Ming asked her to explain.

The Phoenix Spirit Demon Emperor explained the grades of creation origin and revealed a map leading to the Origin-Opening Ancestral World, where upper-grade creation origin might help Lu Ming become an emperor. Lu Ming left to return to the Witch World before deciding whether to venture into the Weird Race's heartland, while the Phoenix Spirit Demon Emperor reflected on their strange connection and her hidden plans for him.

• The Phoenix Spirit Demon Emperor explained that creation origin came in lower, middle, and upper grades, and that darkness had concentrated it in Lost Worlds.
• She told Lu Ming that she and Holy Spirit had sought the Origin-Opening Ancestral World, whose location and upper-grade creation origin were recorded on a silk scroll.
• Lu Ming asked whether the scroll might be bait from the Weird Race, and the Phoenix Spirit Demon Emperor said they had considered that possibility but pursued it for the chance to become emperors.
• The Phoenix Spirit Demon Emperor showed Lu Ming a route map and left him to decide whether to travel into the Weird Race's heartland.
• One day later, Lu Ming left and headed back to the Witch World to check on his first disciple instead of immediately following the map.
• The Phoenix Spirit Demon Emperor watched Lu Ming go and reflected that he had awakened her, while she hoped his journey might free him from dark power.

Lu Ming returned to the Witch World and promised to evacuate its inhabitants, then traveled through several dark worlds to study darkness and search for creation origins and sword materials. In the latest world, he encountered Princess Ling You, a self-aware dark creature, and their clash began as she struck at him with a powerful finger technique.

• Lu Ming visited the Witch World, where Yiyue and Bai Ci welcomed him, and told them his Dao bodies would arrive within three months to take everyone away.
• Lu Ming left the Witch World and explored a fully darkened world, destroying a hostile tree and finding no creation origin or useful materials.
• Lu Ming traveled through eight worlds over half a year, gaining insight into darkness but finding no creation origins or high-grade sword materials.
• After Lu Ming departed from one world, Princess Ling You appeared and assessed his cultivation and Sword Dao before he returned to confront her.
• Princess Ling You introduced herself and attacked Lu Ming with a devastating finger technique, and Lu Ming met it with his own finger.

Lu Ming defeated Ling You in a clash of powers, then posed as the Profound Lotus Sword Emperor to learn more about the Weird Race. After reaching the Origin-Opening Ancestral World, he heard about a human-made secret realm that might contain the Origin of Creation and decided to enter it.

• Lu Ming's black lotus absorbed Ling You's finger force and shattered her palm, forcing her to retreat.
• Lu Ming confirmed that the Weird understood the Endless Realm's common tongue and introduced himself to Ling You as Xuan Jian, titled the Profound Lotus Sword Emperor.
• Ling You told Lu Ming that anyone who cultivated dark power and reached the Saint Emperor Realm belonged with the Weird, then left without giving him a chance to question her further.
• Several months later, Lu Ming reached the Origin-Opening Ancestral World, learned the Weird's common language, and entered a city to search for clues and treasures.
• Lu Ming overheard Weird beings discussing the Origin-Opening Ancestral Domain, its human relics, and a Half-Venerable Artifact, and decided to investigate the secret realm.

Lu Ming found a hidden realm filled with spiritual herbs and ancient martial arts legacies, collecting the herbs and taking two Martial Dao Steles. After spotting a mysterious shimmer that vanished from his search, he began combing the entire realm for it.

• Lu Ming entered a colorful hidden world and encountered a brightly striped tiger, which he tossed away without harming it.
• Lu Ming gathered spiritual herbs and minerals as he explored the realm's buildings and deeper regions.
• Lu Ming studied the ancient Martial Dao Stele's first- through third-tier techniques and stored the stele in his Storage Ring.
• Lu Ming found a second Martial Dao Stele with fourth- through sixth-tier martial arts and took that one too.
• Lu Ming spotted a fast-moving shimmer, failed to locate it with his divine sense, and began searching the secret realm for traces of it.

Lu Ming discovered that the Treasure Pagoda contained a sentient seven-colored deer and persuaded it to accompany him. He took the pagoda, collapsing the secret realm, and was confronted by several figures as he tried to leave.

• Lu Ming tried to pull the Treasure Pagoda from the ground, triggering its power and learning that it was the origin of creation he had been seeking.
• Lu Ming outmaneuvered the pagoda’s attacks, separated its inner and outer power, and trapped its outer power in a Black Lotus.
• Lu Ming released the seven-colored deer and persuaded it that he was human and that it should face its fear of dark power by staying with him.
• Little Deer explained that the pagoda sustained the secret realm, and Lu Ming warned that eerie beings might discover and refine it if it stayed behind.
• Lu Ming took the pagoda, causing the secret realm to collapse, and turned it into a pendant before several figures blocked his way.

Lu Ming studied how darkness transformed other powers and used the idea to devise a sword technique that evolved the Dao through yin, yang, and the five elements. He completed its general formula and turned to Little Deer to help him comprehend the remaining laws.

• Ling You heard that a mysterious Holy Emperor had shattered the Origin-Opening Ancestral Domain, then visited Pu Duman's residence and was welcomed as the princess.
• Lu Ming realized that darkness could devour other powers and transform them into new forms, inspiring him to create the Darkness Dao-Evolving Divine Sword.
• Lu Ming recalled his Infinite Birth and Death Sword and devised a technique that began with darkness, split into yin and yang, and then gave rise to five elemental swords and a final Dao Sword.
• Lu Ming completed the technique's general formula and recognized that he needed to comprehend seven laws, with Little Deer's Dao resonances able to help him.
• Lu Ming asked Little Deer to let him examine his body, and Little Deer looked at him in confusion.

Lu Ming fused his Slaughter and Light paths into a new Saint Light Dao and broke through to Middle Earth Supreme while undergoing tribulation in the Ancient Starry Sky Battlefield. The gathered humans and devils recognized him after the tribulation, and he challenged anyone considering attacking him.

• Lu Ming conceived the Saint Light Dao as a fusion of his Slaughter and Light paths, grounded in the lives he had protected, and began forging it from their two Primordial Spirits.
• After three years of secluded cultivation, Lu Ming completed the Saint saber and broke through from Lower Earth Supreme to Middle Earth Supreme.
• Lu Ming emerged from his underground retreat as lightning tribulation gathered over the Ancient Starry Sky Battlefield, drawing humans, devils, and other races to watch.
• The tribulation’s power climbed far beyond that of an ordinary breakthrough, and the Jiu Demon Emperor admitted that he would flee rather than face Lu Ming.
• When the clouds cleared, the gathered beings recognized Lu Ming, whose aura was weakened by the tribulation, and he asked whether they had come to test his saber.

Lu Ming survived his tribulation and emerged as a Middle Earth Supreme, displaying power that led others to speculate he could rival a Pseudo-Heaven Supreme. After recovering, he studied the Lightning Tribulation Body Tempering Art and went to share it with the Minor Extreme Earth Venerable.

• Lu Ming’s holy white light wounded the Devil Emperors and drove them away, while the human Earth Supremes greeted him as their Domain Lord.
• Li Tianshui, Shen Ruochu, and Xu Qinghe discussed Lu Ming’s strength and speculated that his merged bodies could rival a Pseudo-Heaven Supreme.
• Lu Ming secluded himself to recover from the tribulation and realized that its lightning had refined his body and natal soul.
• Lu Ming studied the fragmentary Lightning Tribulation Body Tempering Art and considered how it could help him and his companions withstand tribulations.
• Lu Ming left his cultivation chamber and called out to the secluded Minor Extreme Earth Venerable.

Lu Ming gave the Heavenly Thunder Body Tempering Great Method to the Minor Extreme Earth Venerable, improving his chances of surviving his coming tribulation. He then created ten thousand Holy Light Incarnations to practice sageliness, and the chapter ended with Wang Xuan teaming up with Lin Zhou to kill a demonic beast.

• Lu Ming showed the Minor Extreme Earth Venerable the Heavenly Thunder Body Tempering Great Method, which raised the elder's survival chances from ten percent to forty percent.
• Lu Ming promised to bring the Minor Extreme Earth Venerable a more complete version of the method after developing it further.
• Lu Ming created low-ranked Holy Light Incarnations and sent them across worlds along the border of the Demon Domain to gather experiences and insights.
• After deploying ten thousand incarnations, Lu Ming stopped because his natal soul had begun to grow unstable.
• Wang Xuan helped villagers fight an armored gray wolf, and Lin Zhou joined him to bring the beast down.
• Lin Zhou introduced himself to Wang Xuan and invited him back to the village.

Huang Daoqi reached Middle Earth Supreme, while Lu Ming’s rapid breakthroughs made him the focus of growing concern across the Endless Realm. Hidden Weird Race spies discussed how to weaken Lu Ming by targeting one or more of his clones, but they had not settled on a plan.

• Huang Daoqi endured his tribulation and became a Middle Earth Supreme, prompting people to compare him with Lu Ming.
• News spread that Lu Ming’s thunder law reached four seals and his Destruction Dao Body reached five-seal Middle Earth Supreme.
• Great Emperor Yuanji advised Huang Daoqi to leave seclusion but remain within the Human Race Heavenly Domain, and Huang Daoqi set out.
• Two Weird Race spies exchanged intelligence about Lu Ming, including his darkness clone and its destruction by the Evil Empress.
• The spies considered provoking the Devil Race to destroy one or two of Lu Ming’s clones and agreed to plan carefully.

Lu Ming refined his five-element Darkness Dao-Evolution Sword Art into a powerful Saint Lotus technique and traveled to the Origin Realm, where he encountered Ling You. Their expected fight stopped when Ling You recognized the mysterious tree-root sword in his hand and called it Wudang.

• Lu Ming cultivated five black lotuses, merged them into one devastating attack, and decided to name his technique the Saint Lotus Dao-Evolution Sword Art.
• Lu Ming traveled through low-level worlds to study the spread of darkness and found a mysterious black tree root, which he carved into a sword.
• Lu Ming reached the Origin Realm and encountered Ling You, who had advanced to the Saint Emperor realm.
• Ling You challenged Lu Ming to fight, but stopped when she saw his wooden sword and asked where he had gotten it.
• Lu Ming said he had picked up the sword, and Ling You identified it as Wudang.

Ling You explained that Wudang Trees were sacred to the Dark Race and that their Tree Hearts could greatly aid cultivation. She and Lu Ming agreed to search for a Wudang Tree Fragment together, and she lent him the emperor-rank sword Chongxuan so she could use her secret art to track one.

• Ling You told Lu Ming that Wudang Trees formed from World Tree seeds in the Yuansheng Sea and that a fragment’s Tree Heart contained powerful Darkness Law and Sacred Wood Law.
• Ling You explained that she was seeking fragments because a piece had flown into the area during an ancient battle, while the Tree Heart had disappeared into the void.
• Lu Ming agreed to work with Ling You but refused to hand over his Wudang Sword, wary that she might escape with it.
• Ling You offered Lu Ming the high-grade emperor-rank sword Chongxuan in exchange for the crude wooden Wudang Sword, and he accepted.
• Ling You put away the Wudang Sword and asked Lu Ming to find another place while she prepared her secret art.

Lu Ming and Ling You entered the dangerous Ancient Desolate Continent to track the Wudang Sword’s original body, where fragmented rules suppressed them and powerful beasts tested their strength. After Lu Ming slew a peak Upper Rank Beast Emperor Thunder Beast with his incomplete Dao Sword, Ling You realized he had comprehended all five elemental laws.

• Ling You infused the Wudang Sword with the Mysterious Wood Law, allowing her to sense the location of its original body, then traveled with Lu Ming toward it.
• Ling You brought Lu Ming into the Ancient Desolate Continent and explained that its fragmented rules grew stronger as they ventured deeper.
• Lu Ming and Ling You killed a Blood God Spider after Lu Ming’s sword strike exposed its weakness and Ling You finished it with her Netherworld Break.
• After days of fighting increasingly powerful beasts, Lu Ming faced a peak Upper Rank Beast Emperor Thunder Beast alone.
• Lu Ming unleashed an incomplete Dao Sword combining the five elements with his Darkness Sword Dao and destroyed the Thunder Beast before it could reassemble.
• Ling You watched the battle and recognized that Lu Ming had comprehended all five laws of the five elements.

Lu Ming learned that God King Tokens could grant access to a tower where cultivators advanced their laws, then searched the alternate space for fragments. After finally finding one during a fight between Moberuo and Chigudu, Lu Ming seized it and was threatened from behind.

• Lu Ming killed a peak upper-rank Emperor Realm lightning beast, and Ling You led him through a spatial entrance toward the Wudang Sacred Tree.
• Lu Ming and Ling You encountered Moberuo, who explained that powerful cultivators had come to compete for God King Tokens; Ling You told Lu Ming that the tokens opened a tower where cultivators could improve and even break through to the Saint Sovereign Realm.
• After learning that fragments were hidden inside demonic beasts, Lu Ming parted ways with Ling You and hunted more than ten Beast Emperor Realm beasts without finding one.
• Lu Ming came across Moberuo battling Chigudu, who ranked fifth on the Saint Prodigy Ranking, over a God King fragment.
• While Moberuo and Chigudu continued fighting, Lu Ming took the fragment from a caged demonic beast, and an angry voice ordered him to put it down.

Lu Ming defeated Moberuo, took a God King Token Fragment, and used the battle to complete a new Saint Water Sword technique before raising his Law of Water and breaking through to Middle Earth Supreme. Elsewhere, a woman in black obtained another fragment while thinking of Lu Ming, and the chapter ended as a hunchbacked old man attacked Lu Ming after his tribulation.

• Lu Ming shattered Moberuo's Netherworld Threefold Slash, escaped with the God King Token Fragment, and left Moberuo and Chigudu to pursue their own paths.
• Lu Ming studied the hardness and softness of Moberuo's water-based saber technique, completed the Hard-Soft Sword, and set out to develop two more Saint Water Sword strikes.
• A woman in black defeated a Darkness Clan elder and took his God King Token Fragment, then reflected on her wound and wondered whether Lu Ming was still alive.
• Lu Ming raised his Law of Water to the five-imprint level, broke through to Middle Earth Supreme, and endured a powerful lightning tribulation.
• After the tribulation, a hunchbacked old man struck at Lu Ming with a snake-headed staff, but Lu Ming blocked it with his Black Lotus, revealing his Emperor-Rank Upper-Grade Sacred Artifact.

After killing the Snake Staff Elder and another fragment-seeker, Lu Ming continued searching for God King Token fragments and ways to strengthen his laws. A peak Quasi-Emperor nearly killed him, but a black bull attacked the pursuer and gave Lu Ming a chance to hide in an alternate space.

• Lu Ming's Darkness Sword Dao and Law of Water reached the five-imprint realm, and he killed the Snake Staff Elder with his hard-soft sword techniques.
• Lu Ming found three God King Token fragments in the Snake Staff Elder's storage ring, bringing his total to five, then killed a saber-wielding man who tried to steal his fragments.
• Lu Ming realized that his growing collection made him easier to track and decided to subdue living demonic beasts to gain insights into other laws.
• A peak Quasi-Emperor with a six-imprint Darkness Law and a beyond-six-imprint Law of Fire overwhelmed Lu Ming and pursued him through the mountains.
• The red-robed old man's attacks awakened a peak Quasi-Emperor black bull, which fought the pursuer and drove him away from Lu Ming.
• Lu Ming hid in a nearby alternate space that blocked the fragments' mutual sensing and reflected on the severity of his injuries.