Chapter Summaries

After killing the Cold Toad King, Li Ziyu received a specialized Storage Bracelet from Zhang Zhicheng, but an Emperor-grade Phoenix appeared near Cold Pond and forced everyone to flee. Once they returned to Desert City, Li Ziyu alerted Zhang Beihai and left for Nanshi to destroy a Zeroing Cult branch and investigate the Yanhuang Empire ruins.

• Zhang Zhicheng gave Li Ziyu a large, temperature-controlled Storage Bracelet for Fierce Beast corpses, which Li Ziyu accepted.
• A huge, two-headed Emperor-grade Phoenix appeared in the sky, and Zhang Zhicheng urged everyone to escape aboard the airship.
• Li Ziyu pulled the stunned Cang Miaoyin aboard, and the airship fled as the Phoenix watched without pursuing them.
• Zhang Zhicheng and Cang Miaoyin said the Phoenix’s appearance in Wilderness Area No. 2 needed to be reported to the military.
• After returning to Desert City, Li Ziyu messaged Zhang Beihai and boarded an airship to Nanshi to attack a Zeroing Cult branch and pursue his other goal at the Yanhuang Empire ruins.

Li Ziyu entered the Primordial Energy Sun Fusion Manual and discovered that it let him absorb Origin Energy, a power far stronger than vitality. After confirming he could fight a Great Grandmaster, he spoke with Zhang Beihai, who acknowledged his rapid growth as the Fourth World Resonance crisis approached.

• Li Ziyu used the system to enter the Primordial Energy Sun Fusion Manual, and his vitality and martial techniques temporarily lost their power.
• As his vitality nearly ran out, Li Ziyu began absorbing Origin Energy and found that it greatly strengthened his body.
• Li Ziyu tested his new strength with a punch that blasted a vast path through the forest, then decided to cultivate the manual alone.
• Zhang Beihai contacted Li Ziyu and asked whether he could fight a Great Grandmaster head-on.
• Li Ziyu confirmed that he could, and Zhang Beihai expressed surprise at how quickly he was approaching the strength of Lord Star Brilliance Martial Saint.

Li Ziyu learned that the caves and fierce beasts might be preparing to attack humanity and uncovered a Zeroing Cult plan tied to a Blue Sky Group gathering. He headed toward the banquet, where Cang Miaoyin was attending, as the cult’s sacrificial ritual loomed.

• Zhang Beihai told Li Ziyu that a mysterious figure had united the caves and fierce beasts, and Li Ziyu agreed to join the Central War Zone if war broke out.
• Li Ziyu showed Zhang Beihai a sheepskin scroll from the Toad King’s cave, and Zhang arranged for specialists to decipher it.
• Li Ziyu overheard two Zeroing Cult members discussing a sacrificial ritual, disguised himself as one of them, and immobilized them when they attacked.
• The two cultists began to reveal that the ritual involved a Blue Sky Group gathering, but a mental restriction caused their heads to explode.
• Li Ziyu learned that Blue Sky Group’s new drug release conference would draw Nanshi’s elite and decided to attend to confront the Zeroing Cult.
• Cang Miaoyin attended the banquet in Nanshi after returning from Desert City, bored by the event and thinking about asking Li Ziyu for martial arts guidance.

At a banquet in Nanshi, Li Ziyu told Cang Miaoyin that the Zeroing Cult planned to sacrifice everyone present, and the two discussed the danger while Liu Wanting and Li Haoyang watched them. Cang Miaoyin’s parents noticed her closeness with Li Ziyu just as several imposing guests entered the hall.

• Liu Wanting introduced her boyfriend, Li Haoyang, to Cang Miaoyin, who ignored him and recalled how Liu Wanting’s past betrayal had ended their friendship.
• Cang Miaoyin approached Li Ziyu, and he told her he was investigating the Zeroing Cult and suspected the banquet was part of a sacrificial plot.
• Cang Miaoyin stopped herself from looking around to avoid alerting the cult and said she trusted Li Ziyu to handle the danger.
• Liu Wanting and Li Haoyang dismissed Li Ziyu as an ordinary man or gigolo after Cang Miaoyin sent them away.
• Cang Miaoyin’s parents spotted her sitting with Li Ziyu and speculated about whether he was her boyfriend.
• Several imposing people entered the grand hall.

At a Blue Sky Group gathering, Lan Xiangyu revealed his devotion to Di as his servant Old Liu murdered Liu Zhan and exposed his Level Eight Great Grandmaster strength. When Old Liu attacked Cang Miaoyin, Li Ziyu stopped his palm with one hand, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Lan Xiangyu announced that humanity should embrace Di, prompting Liu Zhan to challenge him.
• Old Liu suddenly appeared behind Liu Zhan, thrust a hand through his chest, and killed him.
• Liu Wanting pleaded with Li Haoyang to avenge her father, but Li Haoyang recognized that Old Liu was a Peak Grandmaster and feared he was no match.
• Lan Xiangyu identified Cang Miaoyin as a Peak Grandmaster, and Old Liu revealed himself as a Level Eight Great Grandmaster.
• Old Liu attacked Cang Miaoyin, who calmly called on Li Ziyu for help.
• Li Ziyu appeared to block Old Liu's strike with one hand, stopping his palm before it reached Cang Miaoyin.

Li Ziyu defeated the Zeroing Cult’s defenders, found the third Yanhuang Empire ruin, and entered a vast underground city. Its immense walls had been torn open despite their extraordinary strength, leading him to suspect that something other than vicious beasts destroyed the empire.

• Li Ziyu overwhelmed the Level Eight Great Grandmaster and killed Lan Xiangyu, then left to search for the ruins.
• Li Ziyu located the buried entrance to the third ruin and opened its bronze gate with the Natural Breathing Method.
• Li Ziyu descended into the deep passage and followed it to a gigantic underground city.
• Li Ziyu tested the city wall with the Blade of Destiny and found that it resisted a strike capable of cutting through powerful alloy.
• Li Ziyu concluded that vicious beasts were unlikely to have destroyed the Yanhuang Empire and considered other civilizations or a crisis like the World Echo Crisis.

Li Ziyu entered Yanhuang City and uncovered memories of the Yanhuang Empire’s destruction before finding its final inheritance, the Star of Hope. The artificial intelligence revealed that the device could predict the future with 99.99% accuracy, though its predictions could be changed.

• Li Ziyu used the Crystal Key and Blade of Destiny together, triggering memories of the Yanhuang Empire’s wars and its destruction by a vast blue-violet hand.
• Li Ziyu followed the memories to Yanhuang City’s center and found a silver sphere in an underground hall.
• The sphere recognized Li Ziyu as an SS-rank authority holder and addressed him as His Majesty Yanhuang.
• The artificial intelligence identified the sphere as the Star of Hope and explained that it could deduce changeable futures with 99.99% accuracy.

Li Ziyu asked the predictive AI about humanity’s future and learned that it foresaw humanity’s extinction and his own death at Tianwei Xing’s hands. He decided that knowing the prediction gave him a chance to change the future, and rejected the forecast of humanity’s destruction.

• Li Ziyu tested the Blue-clothed beauty’s predictive ability and asked whether the Great Xia Nation would survive the Fourth World Resonance.
• After 36 billion calculations, the AI predicted that humanity would be wiped out in the War of Civilizations a few years later.
• Li Ziyu asked the AI to display his life trajectory and saw that Tianwei Xing would kill him during a mission to rescue Yu Ningmo.
• The résumé predicted that Yu Ningmo would kill Tianwei Xing, lose her cultivation, and trigger the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall and the Transcendent Martial Arts Hall to rule Great Xia together.
• Li Ziyu checked the predicted futures of people around him, including Lei Zhan, and concluded that the predictions could change once he acted on them.
• Li Ziyu resolved that Tianwei Xing’s ambush and humanity’s destruction would not happen now that he knew about them.

Li Ziyu found his purpose and broke through to Grandmaster Level by creating the Heart's Will Art, a technique that fused his martial arts and amplified their power through psychological suggestion. After testing its effects, he set out to face Tianwei Xing.

• Li Ziyu gained resolve to transcend humanity and declared that killing Tianwei Xing was the beginning of his path to godhood.
• Li Ziyu broke through to Grandmaster Level and fused his martial arts into the Heart's Will Art.
• Li Ziyu experienced an illusion of omnipotence and used his enhanced abilities to move through space, distort the hall's dome, and change his size.
• Li Ziyu realized the Heart's Will Art worked through powerful psychological suggestion, strengthening his combat techniques rather than granting actual omnipotence.
• Li Ziyu concluded that the Heart's Will Art might eventually let him make his words reality and announced that he was coming for Tianwei Xing.

After learning that the caves were in revolt, Li Ziyu verified that Lei Zhan planned to enlist and decided to build strength before confronting Tianwei Xing. He traveled to Cave No. 7 and joined the queue to enter alone.

• Li Ziyu called Lei Zhan, who said he had submitted an enlistment application after the Military Department announced the caves were in revolt.
• Li Ziyu considered warning Yu Ningmo about her predicted mission to Wilderness Area No. 2, but chose to let events proceed so he could ambush Tianwei Xing there.
• Li Ziyu decided to gather vitality points at Cave No. 7 before the predicted events unfolded within a week.
• Li Ziyu arrived by train at Cave No. 7 and observed the armed defenses, martial artists, and warnings about stronger monsters appearing in the caves.
• A level six martial artist invited Li Ziyu to team up and descend to the twentieth floor, but Li Ziyu declined and said he preferred going alone.

Li Ziyu entered Cave No. 7 and discovered that his Yuan Energy could devour the corrosive black mist, potentially letting him cultivate there indefinitely. A deafening sound then drew a massive swarm of Silent Hunters, and the crew-cut youth’s team hid and prepared to investigate the source.

• A city guard recognized Li Ziyu’s Grandmaster-level clearance and escorted him past the queue into the city.
• Li Ziyu studied the black mist rising through the cave and leaped into its depths without using the ropes.
• Li Ziyu let the black mist touch him and found that his Yuan Energy consumed it without harming his body.
• A deafening boom in Cave No. 7 drew Silent Hunters from across the level into a stampede.
• The crew-cut youth’s team hid from the swarm, then decided to follow it and see who had caused the noise.

Li Ziyu descended through Cave No. 7, slaughtering Silent Hunters with his Spiritual Sense while gaining Blood and Qi Points and transforming black mist into Origin Energy. On the twenty-ninth level, his accumulated strength allowed him to advance to Intermediate Grandmaster.

• Li Ziyu used his Spiritual Sense to kill tens of thousands of Level Three Silent Hunters, while nearby martial artists watched in shock.
• Li Ziyu descended to the eighteenth level and continued killing Silent Hunters as the crew-cut young man's team followed him and debated his strength.
• Li Ziyu fought his way down to the twenty-fifth level, gaining Blood and Qi Points and wishing he could remain in the cave to cultivate.
• Li Ziyu continued through the twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, and twenty-eighth levels, where the Silent Hunters reached Level Seven and the crew-cut young man's team concluded he was a Great Grandmaster.
• Li Ziyu reached the twenty-ninth level, saw a plus sign appear beside his realm on the system panel, and ordered the system to raise his realm.

Li Ziyu tested his greatly increased power on the thirtieth level of Cave No. 7 and discovered a King of Silent Hunters commanding a vast horde. As the king prepared a deadly attack, Wang Qiang warned Li Ziyu and then turned to flee.

• Li Ziyu absorbed the black mist on the twenty-ninth level and found that his new Mind-Heart power and God Form could let him fight an Advanced Great Grandmaster.
• Li Ziyu descended to the thirtieth level and blasted a hill, but no Silent Hunters appeared in response.
• A colossal King of Silent Hunters stirred the cave’s Silent Hunters and led them toward the sound, while Wang Qiang hid underground and realized the creatures seemed organized.
• Wang Qiang followed the Silent Hunter horde and planned to report what he had seen, then spotted Li Ziyu confronting the king.
• The King of Silent Hunters gathered black energy into a huge vortex sphere, and Wang Qiang warned Li Ziyu that the attack could kill a Junior Great Grandmaster.
• Li Ziyu welcomed the attack as a test of his strength, while Wang Qiang gave up warning him and turned to run.

Li Ziyu effortlessly killed the King of Silent Hunters and wiped out the surrounding swarm, then met Major General Wang Qiang. Meanwhile, Tianwei Xing was attacked by the Zeroing Grand Archbishop over the failed assassination of Li Ziyu and was left furious after the attacker escaped.

• Li Ziyu split the Level 8 King of Silent Hunters with one sword and gained 25,000 vitality points.
• Li Ziyu killed thousands of Silent Hunters with his spiritual sense, and Wang Qiang thanked him for saving his life.
• Li Ziyu told Wang Qiang that he was a student at Magic City Martial Arts University and might soon serve in the Central War Zone.
• The Zeroing Grand Archbishop accused Tianwei Xing of failing to honor their agreement and trying to silence the Zeroing Cult branch, then attacked him.
• Tianwei Xing fought the Zeroing Grand Archbishop until approaching Great Grandmasters forced the attacker to retreat toward Nanshi.
• Tianwei Xing, battered and enraged, insisted that someone had framed him and vowed revenge.

After Li Ziyu emerged from Cave No. 7, he spoke with Yu Ningmo, who was heading to Wilderness Area No. 2 to monitor an Emperor-grade Fierce Beast. Li Ziyu realized Tianwei Xing might be waiting there to ambush him and prepared to set out.

• Martial Artists at Cave No. 7 praised Li Ziyu after learning he had swept through all thirty levels and killed hundreds of thousands of Silent Hunters.
• Li Ziyu left the cave and cultivated the Primordial Energy Sun Fusion Manual while waiting for a chance to kill Tianwei Xing.
• Yu Ningmo told Li Ziyu she was going to Wilderness Area No. 2 with two other Level Eight Great Grandmasters to watch an Emperor-grade Phoenix.
• Yu Ningmo revealed she had joined the military as a Seven-star Lieutenant General and offered to arrange a colonel's post for Li Ziyu after graduation.
• Li Ziyu declined Yu Ningmo's offer, inferred that Tianwei Xing would be waiting to ambush him in Wilderness Area No. 2, and prepared to leave.

After news spread that Yu Ningmo and others had entered a newly discovered secret realm, Tianwei Xing disguised himself and went to Desert City to ambush Li Ziyu. Li Ziyu recognized Tianwei Xing without being recognized in return, then was recruited by Zhao Sanshi to join the same team.

• News that Yu Ningmo and two other great grandmasters had fallen into a secret realm drew martial artists to Wilderness Area No. 2, and Li Ziyu announced he would go to rescue Yu Ningmo.
• Tianwei Xing learned Li Ziyu had destroyed the Zeroing Cult branch and killed its level eight great grandmaster, so he disguised himself and headed to Desert City to ambush him.
• Tianwei Xing agreed to form a team with Zhao Sanshi and two other level six martial artists while searching the crowd for Li Ziyu.
• Li Ziyu arrived disguised as a young man, sensed Tianwei Xing's blood qi, recognized him, and passed by without being recognized.
• Zhao Sanshi stopped Li Ziyu and urged him to join the team, promising he would be carried by the disguised expert.

Li Ziyu joined Tianwei Xing and Zhao Sanshi’s team to enter the secret realm in Wilderness Area No. 2, while Tianwei Xing planned to kill him once they were away from the crowded airport. At the secret realm’s gate, Li Ziyu saw several powerful figures gathered, including the wanted butcher Li Xuehe.

• Li Ziyu disguised his strength as that of a Level Five Martial Artist and accepted Zhao Sanshi’s invitation to join the team.
• Tianwei Xing waited at the airport for a day, hoping to spot Li Ziyu, then agreed to enter Wilderness Area No. 2 before the secret realm opened.
• The team traveled by airship to a valley, where Li Ziyu saw the silver gate of the secret realm and learned that Principal Yu Ningmo was trapped inside.
• Zhao Sanshi identified Xuan Yi, Wang Yidao, and Li Xuehe among the powerful figures gathered near the gate.
• Li Ziyu sensed that Li Xuehe’s qi and blood were close to those of an ordinary Junior Great Grandmaster.

Li Ziyu entered an extraordinary secret realm with Tianwei Xing and the others, then revealed overwhelming power when Tianwei Xing attacked him. Tianwei Xing recognized Li Ziyu and fled, intending to warn a Martial Saint.

• Tianwei Xing unleashed his Peak Grandmaster aura at the secret-realm entrance, drawing the attention of Li Xuehe and the other powerful Martial Artists.
• Li Ziyu and Tianwei Xing entered the secret realm, where they found a vast palace complex surrounded by towering mountains.
• Tianwei Xing decided to use Li Ziyu and the others as bait to scout the realm's dangers.
• Li Ziyu asked Tianwei Xing whether he was looking for Li Ziyu, then struck with the Mind-Heart Art—God Form and severed Tianwei Xing's arm.
• Tianwei Xing recognized Li Ziyu, panicked at his formidable aura, and fled to report him to the Martial Saint.

Li Ziyu killed Tianwei Xing, erased Zhao Sanshi and his companions’ memories, and headed toward the Alpine Palace. Li Xuehe entered the Secret Realm to hunt everyone inside, while Zhang He proposed an alliance with Xuan Yi.

• Li Ziyu overwhelmed Tianwei Xing with his God Form, severed his limbs, killed him, took his Storage Bracelet, and burned his corpse.
• Zhao Sanshi and two team members witnessed Tianwei Xing’s death, but Li Ziyu erased their memories before flying toward the palace.
• Li Xuehe entered the Secret Realm after everyone else, killed Zhao Sanshi and the two team members, and declared that the others would help him break through to Great Grandmaster.
• Zhang He offered Xuan Yi a seventy-thirty split to join forces while exploring the dangerous Secret Realm.

Li Xuehe revealed himself as a Half-step Great Grandmaster and declared the martial artists in the secret realm his prey. Meanwhile, Li Ziyu passed through a palace gate into Purple Kite Immortal City, where he learned he had entered a powerful cultivation civilization and heard about the Heavenly Sword Sect’s upcoming recruitment ceremony.

• Xuan Yi refused to join Zhang He and his three teammates, who then decided to seek help from other Peak Grandmasters.
• Li Xuehe attacked Zhang He’s group with a bloody blade ray, destroyed their defenses, and revealed that he was a Half-step Great Grandmaster.
• Li Xuehe declared that everyone in the secret realm was his prey and attacked the four men again.
• Li Ziyu entered a splendid palace gate and emerged in a bustling city that seemed to belong to another world.
• Li Ziyu traded a piece of Level 7 Asma Alloy for information from a local youth, who identified the city as Purple Kite Immortal City and described its powerful cultivators and the Heavenly Sword Sect’s recruitment ceremony in three days.