Chapter Summaries

Lu Ming healed from his injuries, advanced his Law of Fire, and developed a rough six-grade classification for Quasi-Emperors as he assessed his own growing strength. While fighting through the space against lower-grade Quasi-Emperors, he wounded one opponent, who turned to launch a desperate punch at him.

• Lu Ming used the lingering fire force in his body to comprehend the Fire Dao, raising his Law of Fire to the peak of four imprints before leaving his hidden refuge to seek a safe place to break through.
• Lu Ming created the Starburst Sword by combining the Darkness Sword Dao with the Law of Fire, then estimated that his strength was approaching that of a low-grade Quasi-Emperor after his Law of Fire reached five imprints.
• Lu Ming outlined six grades of Quasi-Emperor based on their Supreme Laws and ordinary laws, while noting that matchups and individual powers could affect the outcome of a fight.
• Lu Ming encountered more Quasi-Emperors as he traveled through the space, though most were ordinary Quasi-Emperors whom he could handle.
• Lu Ming shattered a Quasi-Emperor’s fist attack with Starburst Sword, pursued him, and used Bone-baring to inflict icy sword force before the opponent counterattacked with Earth Explosive Slaughter Fist.

Lu Ming killed a quasi-emperor, evaded a second attacker, and collected more God King Token Fragments before finding Xin Yuan fighting a lesser quasi-emperor. He joined the battle to help her, but Xin Yuan did not recognize him and allied with him because she also had a grudge against their opponent.

• Lu Ming killed the earth-law quasi-emperor with the Divine Manifestation Sword, then repelled a concealed attacker who escaped using the law of shadow.
• Lu Ming found six God King Token Fragments in the dead quasi-emperor's Storage Ring and stored three fragments at a secluded resting spot.
• Lu Ming recognized Xin Yuan fighting a lesser quasi-emperor who intended to make her his concubine, and he attacked the man before the Four-Dragon Seal could crush her.
• Lu Ming clashed with the lesser quasi-emperor, and his Starburst Sword annihilated the opponent's Four-Dragon Annihilation Seal.
• Xin Yuan came to Lu Ming's side and offered to fight alongside him, though she did not recognize him.

Lu Ming used his Black Dwarf Sword to break the low-tier Quasi-Emperor’s Ultimate Annihilation and save Xin Yuan, then tried to leave without revealing his identity. Xin Yuan recognized him, and they exchanged news about how each had survived and ended up in the Darkness Race’s territory.

• The low-tier Quasi-Emperor merged his black dragons into one and sent it to annihilate Lu Ming while Xin Yuan was pinned down.
• Lu Ming unleashed his Black Dwarf Sword, pierced the giant black dragon, and forced the low-tier Quasi-Emperor to flee.
• Xin Yuan thanked Lu Ming, and he introduced himself as Xuan Jian before attempting to leave.
• Xin Yuan recognized Lu Ming from his mannerisms and confronted him for hiding his identity; Lu Ming asked how she knew who he was.
• Xin Yuan explained that she had searched the Endless Realm for news of Lu Ming, then came to the Darkness Race’s territory because she was hunted for cultivating its methods.
• Lu Ming recounted his escape from the Evil Empress, and Xin Yuan admired his luck and strength.

Lu Ming tried to part ways with Xin Yuan, but she insisted on settling their debt from the past. She shared a cultivation method for the Immortal Origin Flame and discovered that Lu Ming had another Darkness Clan inheritance token, then suggested he study her instead.

• Lu Ming agreed to follow Xin Yuan to her resting space after she said she needed to settle something with him.
• Xin Yuan tried to repay her debt by offering herself, but Lu Ming refused and asked her to put her clothes back on.
• Lu Ming asked about Xin Yuan's black flames, and she gave him an ancient token containing the Immortal Origin Flame cultivation method.
• Lu Ming produced a matching token from his Storage Ring, and Xin Yuan identified it as the cultivation method for Immortal Origin Metal.
• Xin Yuan explained the link between the Immortal Origin methods and immortal power, then offered to help Lu Ming learn by studying her.

Lu Ming and Xin Yuan prepared to reach the God King Tower after it appeared, disguising themselves as Saint Prodigy Ranking prodigies to pass the powerful Quasi-Emperors guarding its entrance. Xin Yuan entered the protected plaza as Ling You, while Lu Ming approached the guards disguised as Chigudu.

• Lu Ming and Xin Yuan ended their cultivation, then agreed to retrieve their stored God King Token Fragments before heading to the tower together.
• After collecting the fragments, Lu Ming proposed that they disguise themselves as Saint Prodigy Ranking prodigies to avoid being targeted on the road.
• Near the God King Tower, Xin Yuan identified at least eleven middle Quasi-Emperors guarding the entrance, and Lu Ming sent her ahead while he waited to support her.
• Xin Yuan took Ling You's appearance, convinced a guard she was the Spirit Emperor's Daughter, and passed through the golden light into the plaza.
• Lu Ming changed his appearance to Chigudu's and approached the old man in multicolored robes guarding the entrance.

Lu Ming entered the God King Tower with Xin Yuan and used its law-rich currents to advance his cultivation. After months of progress and a long struggle to comprehend the later stages of supreme laws, he prepared to break through to six imprints in his Darkness Sword Dao.

• Lu Ming disguised himself as Chigudu, broke past old Mo Lu, and entered the plaza before Yilou Yuan also arrived.
• Lu Ming and Xin Yuan entered the divine tower using their God King Token Fragments, but were separated inside.
• Lu Ming chose to raise his metal, earth, and wood laws to five imprints while Little Deer emerged from the Treasure Pagoda and began absorbing the tower’s currents.
• Lu Ming raised wood to five imprints, then raised metal and earth to five imprints eight months later, reaching the peak of the middle Saint Emperor level.
• After ten more months struggling to advance his Darkness Sword Dao, Lu Ming finally reached six imprints, and tribulation clouds gathered.

Lu Ming continued cultivating in the God King Tower, advancing the Five Elements and indestructible laws while preparing to overcome the barrier between six and seven imprints. With seventy-nine months left, he began comprehending Yin-Yang, while Little Deer felt a persistent call from the tower’s deepest area.

• Lu Ming raised his Darkness Sword Dao to the peak of six imprints and reflected that reaching seven imprints would be difficult.
• Lu Ming brought all Five Elements laws to six imprints, then transformed his immortal profound truth into the indestructible law and raised it to six imprints.
• Lu Ming’s Five Elements sword lotuses gained indestructibility and formed a cycle through his five internal organs, leaving only the Yin-Yang sword lotuses needed to complete his Dao-Evolving Immortal Body.
• Lu Ming assessed that his combined laws could match a Lower Rank Heaven Supreme, then began comprehending Yin-Yang with seventy-nine months remaining.
• Little Deer continued devouring the currents of law, having reached a realm comparable to an Upper Rank Earth Supreme, but felt called toward the deepest part of the tower.

Lu Ming completed his Dao-Evolving Immortal Sword Body after comprehending six-imprint yin and yang laws, gaining power he believed could contend with Heaven Supremes. He then raced through the God King Tower in search of Little Deer but found its space behaving in baffling ways.

• When the God King Tower’s minimum stay ended, Chigudu and Pilouzhen challenged each other over their fifth- and sixth-place positions on the Saint Prodigy Ranking.
• Moberuo emerged after eleven years with combat strength rivaling a High Grade Quasi-Emperor and set out to find more God King Token Fragments.
• On the last day of the thirteenth year inside the tower, Lu Ming completed his Dao-Evolving Immortal Sword Body by placing yin and yang qi in his upper and lower dantians.
• Lu Ming judged that his combined sword, yin-yang, and five-element laws could defeat an ordinary Lower Rank Heaven Supreme and contend with someone wielding a supreme law.
• Lu Ming used his Dao-Evolving Immortal Sword Body’s traversal ability to travel at over a hundred times the speed of light, but repeatedly returned to the same stone platform without realizing he was going in circles.

Lu Ming reunited with Little Deer in the God King Tower, returned the Treasure Pagoda, and left him to grow in his home among the Law Crystals. After leaving the tower, Lu Ming continued his cultivation while his Supreme Destruction Sword Body advanced rapidly in the Divine Revelation Continent.

• Lu Ming found Little Deer in a hidden space surrounded by Law Crystals and learned that Little Deer wanted to stay there.
• Little Deer returned the Treasure Pagoda to its rightful owner and gave Lu Ming six six-imprint Law Crystals, but Lu Ming told him to keep them.
• Lu Ming said farewell to Little Deer, who promised to grow stronger, then spent his remaining time studying the space before being teleported out of the God King Tower.
• Lu Ming left the plaza and continued cultivating, while the chapter explained that the Divine Revelation Continent had opened to prodigies of the four great races.
• Lu Ming's Supreme Destruction Sword Body reached Peak Upper Rank Earth Supreme and gained the strength to defeat ordinary Lower Rank Heaven Supremes.
• Lu Ming decided to focus his efforts on improving his ice, lightning, and space laws.

Lu Ming defeated a peak Quasi-Emperor stone puppet and entered the Divine Revelation Continent’s peak Quasi-Emperor region, leaving the other prodigies stunned by the widening gap between them. More than a year later, prodigies emerged from the God King Tower with greatly increased strength, and a hostile encounter began on the Ancient Desolate Continent.

• Lu Ming advanced his Law of Ice to six imprints, continued cultivating other laws, and defeated a peak Quasi-Emperor stone puppet with one sword strike.
• Huang Daoqi, An Tianxun, Yuanxin, and Ao Che recognized that they could not match Lu Ming, then resumed their cultivation or search for Divine Stones.
• Yilou Yuan emerged from the God King Tower with combat strength comparable to an average lower Saint Sovereign, while Ruluo Jingyue reached a similar but weaker level.
• More than a dozen Emperor-level experts gathered in the God King Tower’s former location, where rivalries and old grudges led to friction.
• An unnamed expert laughed at an opponent who had escaped him before and declared that he would demonstrate a true Saint Sovereign’s combat strength.

Lu Ming arrived at an empty Heavenly Origin Pool and killed Calamity Fire Old Freak with a single sword strike, stunning the gathered cultivators. He left to search another location, planning to reach peak six-imprint laws before breaking through to Heaven Supreme.

• Lu Ming encountered Calamity Fire Old Freak and several cultivators at an empty Heavenly Origin Pool.
• Calamity Fire Old Freak attacked Lu Ming with his Nine-Turn Calamity Fire Finger, but Lu Ming's sword strike cleaved through the attack and killed him instantly.
• The terrified spectators, including Moberuo, fled while Lu Ming searched for Calamity Fire Old Freak's storage equipment and found nothing.
• Lu Ming checked the Heavenly Origin Pool for remaining treasures, found none, and left for the next location.
• Lu Ming reflected that his fire and earth laws had reached peak six imprints and planned to raise his other laws before breaking through to Heaven Supreme.

After leaving the God King Tower, Lu Ming’s effortless victory over Calamity Fire Old Freak spread among the cultivators, while Xin Yuan reflected on the growing gap between them. The tower later disappeared after Iron Sword Quasi-Emperor became Iron Sword Saint Sovereign, who learned that an unknown fighter had eclipsed even Yilou Yuan.

• Yilou Yuan accepted the reports of Lu Ming’s victory and vanished to seek him out, while other lower Saint Sovereigns hesitated to approach.
• Xin Yuan emerged from the God King Tower, recognized how far Lu Ming had surpassed her, and chose to follow her own path.
• Shi Yin Quasi-Emperor stopped Xin Yuan and threatened to take her as his concubine, but she attacked him before he could act.
• More than half a year later, the God King Tower vanished, and Iron Sword Quasi-Emperor emerged as Iron Sword Saint Sovereign after breaking through to the Saint Sovereign realm.
• Iron Sword Saint Sovereign questioned Daxi, Chedan, and Qifu about their progress, and Qifu told him that a mysterious individual had drawn more attention than Yilou Yuan.

Lu Ming advanced his Indestructible Law and created new sword techniques before confronting Cangyan Saint Sovereign, who demanded that he join the Azure Flame Palace. Lu Ming refused and attacked, and his shattered Yellow Springs Immortal Sword reformed to strike at Cangyan Saint Sovereign.

• Qifu Yuan told Iron Sword Saint Sovereign that Calamity Fire Old Freak had been killed with ease, while the others waited for Cangyan Saint Sovereign to arrive.
• Lu Ming deduced the Indestructible Law and created Withered Wood Meets Spring, a technique that combined it with the Law of Wood.
• Lu Ming raised the Indestructible Law and the Law of Wood to Peak Six Imprints, then went to confront Cangyan Saint Sovereign.
• Cangyan Saint Sovereign identified himself as Calamity Fire Old Freak's superior and offered to spare Lu Ming if he served the Azure Flame Palace for a thousand years.
• Lu Ming refused and attacked with Yellow Springs Immortal Sword, but Cangyan Saint Sovereign shattered its Sword Qi.
• The shattered Sword Qi reformed and suddenly stabbed toward Cangyan Saint Sovereign's head.

Lu Ming fought Cangyan Saint Sovereign across the Ancient Desolate Continent, using increasingly powerful sword techniques to withstand his opponent's sovereign might. Lu Ming's black-hole sword destroyed Cangyan Saint Sovereign's attack, and their battle escalated into an even clash that astonished the watching experts.

• Lu Ming used the Indestructible Law to reform his shattered Sword Qi, then clashed with Cangyan Saint Sovereign's black-sun punch and was blasted away.
• Cangyan Saint Sovereign unleashed Fist Extremity Devours Space, and Lu Ming answered with Extreme Black Dwarf despite the danger.
• The collision drew distant observers, and Xin Yuan worried that the mysterious swordsman Xuan Jian was fighting Cangyan Saint Sovereign.
• Cangyan Saint Sovereign shattered Lu Ming's Extreme Black Dwarf sword, but Lu Ming countered with Dense Sword and destroyed his black sun.
• Cangyan Saint Sovereign attacked with Dark Sun Heaven-Collapse, and he and Lu Ming exchanged repeated blows across the Ancient Desolate Continent.
• Spectators recognized Xuan Jian as Lu Ming and watched him fight Cangyan Saint Sovereign on equal footing despite being a peak Saint Emperor.

Lu Ming struggled against Cangyan Saint Sovereign, whose Emperor Weapons gave him a major advantage, until Lu Ming unleashed his Dao Sword against the Saint Sovereign’s ultimate attack. Their collision ended with both fighters blasted away, and Lu Ming crashed into a mountain range.

• Lu Ming fought Cangyan Saint Sovereign for more than half a day, falling behind after his Heavy Xuan Jian shattered and Cangyan Saint Sovereign used his armor and Impact Gauntlets.
• Cangyan Saint Sovereign unleashed his Endless Killing Fist Barrier and Meteor Fist force, trapping Lu Ming in chaotic Space-Time.
• Lu Ming formed a Dao Sword from his fused powers, broke through the barrier, and sensed Great Dao rules within his attack.
• Lu Ming’s Dao Sword collided with Cangyan Saint Sovereign’s Meteor Fist force, sending destructive shockwaves across the Ancient Desolate Continent.
• Cangyan Saint Sovereign reinforced his attack by releasing the Impact Gauntlets’ source power, but Lu Ming detonated the black dragon of his Dao Sword and blasted them both away.
• Lu Ming crashed into a mountain range, shaking the earth and sending rocks flying.

After vanishing from the battlefield with Cangyan Saint Sovereign, Lu Ming recovered in a separate space where he further strengthened his cultivation and studied his opponent’s techniques. He suspected the Wudang Sacred Tree—and possibly Ling You—might also be in the space.

• Cangyan Saint Sovereign searched the mountains for Lu Ming, found no trace of him, and withdrew to heal his injuries.
• Lu Ming recovered in a hidden space after falling through an inconspicuous spatial entrance, then realized its powerful rules severely restricted his speed and divine sense.
• Lu Ming healed completely, improved his ability to fuse the various Daos, and decided to postpone his tribulation until his remaining laws reached peak six imprints.
• Lu Ming imitated Cangyan Saint Sovereign’s fist technique while traveling through the space and defeated beasts formed from strange energy.
• Lu Ming recognized that the beasts’ energy bore the auras of the Darkness Law and a sinister Wood Law, leading him to wonder whether the Wudang Sacred Tree and Ling You were nearby.

Lu Ming discovered Emperor Kong’s hidden chamber and obtained the Void Nether Dagger, an Emperor Weapon containing profound Space Law insights. After studying its inheritance, he put the dagger away and continued searching for the Wudang Sacred Tree.

• Lu Ming found a hidden stone chamber in a dense forest and drew a jade slip and dagger from within.
• Lu Ming read Emperor Kong’s account of his failed tomb robbery and learned that the Void Nether Dagger held Seven Imprints Space Law and an inheritance.
• Lu Ming learned that Emperor Kong’s notes described another tomb that might contain several Emperor Weapons, and considered carrying on his predecessor’s last wishes.
• Lu Ming broke the dagger’s seal and tested its spatial power, finding its close-combat style ill-suited to him.
• Lu Ming examined the Space Law writing within the dagger, synchronized it for later, and left the chamber to resume searching for the Wudang Sacred Tree.

Lu Ming found the Wudang Sacred Tree and reunited with Ling You, who revealed her origins and traded him a treasured sword. As Lu Ming planned to cultivate there, a sign appeared across the Human Race’s heavenly domain that someone was becoming a Heavenly Supreme.

• Lu Ming found the Wudang Sacred Tree’s separate space and encountered Ling You, whose cultivation had reached upper Saint Emperor.
• Ling You revealed that she was a portion of the original Wudang Sacred Tree’s Tree Heart, nurtured by the Spirit Emperor, and was reclaiming the tree’s essence.
• Lu Ming told Ling You that he had fought Cangyan Saint Sovereign and asked her for a replacement sword; she gave him Surging Waves in exchange for his insights into the Law of Wood.
• Lu Ming said he planned to cultivate his Darkness Law and Law of Wood at the tree.
• Heavenly flowers and golden lotuses appeared throughout the Human Race’s heavenly domain, signaling that someone was attaining Heavenly Supreme.

The Sword Venerable, Di Ming, broke through to Heaven Supreme, followed less than a month later by Venerable Heavenly Book, while breakthroughs across the Endless Realm signaled that a great calamity was approaching. Lu Ming focused on strengthening his Dao Bodies, and his attempt to advance his darkness Dao-evolving immortal sword Body threatened the Wudang Tree.

• The Sword Venerable broke through in the Sword Realm, and the Mysterious Venerable congratulated him as Di Ming resolved to seek a saint profound stone to repair his Dao Foundation.
• News of Di Ming’s breakthrough spread throughout the Endless Realm, delighting the Human Race and stirring envy among other races.
• Venerable Heavenly Book broke through less than a month after Di Ming, and further breakthroughs among veteran experts suggested that a great calamity was near.
• Lu Ming continued advancing his Dao Bodies, bringing several close to major breakthroughs while his space Dao Body progressed rapidly.
• Lu Ming’s darkness Dao-evolving immortal sword Body began breaking through to the Saint Sovereign realm, prompting someone to warn him that he was going to destroy the Wudang Tree.

Lu Ming overcame the Great Dao tribulation and became a Saint Sovereign, then learned from Ling You that the Sacred Mountain controlled the Darkness Clan. As the Sacred Mountain stirred, the Spirit Emperor and other powerful figures feared another upheaval and worried about their absent Sacred Ancestor.

• Lu Ming endured the Great Dao tribulation near the Wudang Sacred Tree and emerged as a Saint Sovereign, with his Darkness Sword Dao and Law of Wood reaching Seven Imprints.
• Ling You warned Lu Ming that the Sacred Mountain was both the origin of the Dark Race and the force that shackled the Darkness Clan.
• After Lu Ming and Ling You spoke of the Sacred Mountain, darkness and icy wind spread through the area, making them fear that it had sensed them.
• Lu Ming asked Ling You for Wudang roots or branches to forge a sword, and she angrily retreated into the space around the Wudang Sacred Tree.
• The Sacred Mountain stirred in the deepest part of the Dark Region, and the Spirit Emperor and three other figures feared the disturbance would herald a major upheaval.
• The Spirit Emperor told the others that he had heard nothing from the Sacred Ancestor since meeting him a hundred years earlier, while they lamented that Ancestor Tu Zhi was their only remaining Half-Step Dominion.