Chapter Summaries

Tian Shang Xing took Zhao Yanan hostage and headed to Wilderness Area Two to confront Li Ziyu, while Li Ziyu hunted ferocious beasts and Zhang Beihai arrived to meet him. The chapter left Zhang Beihai facing Tian Shang Xing as the two accused each other of causing their sides’ deaths and prepared for a clash.

• Tian Shang Xing interrogated Zhao Yanan, then knocked her unconscious and ordered his disciple to bring her along as leverage against Li Ziyu.
• Li Ziyu killed a Bloodthirsty Mad Bull and decided to strengthen himself before approaching the core of Wilderness Area Two.
• Zhang Beihai learned that a Great Grandmaster was approaching and identified him as Tian Shang Xing, who was carrying Zhao Yanan.
• Zhang Beihai confronted Tian Shang Xing and demanded that he release Zhao Yanan, warning that his actions could start a conflict with the military.
• Tian Shang Xing refused and accused the military of using Li Ziyu as bait to kill his sixth brother.

Tian Shang Xing overwhelmed Zhang Beihai, who escaped with the unconscious Zhao Yanan and warned Li Ziyu to run. After learning Tian Shang Xing had targeted his companions, Li Ziyu used his enhanced Spiritual Sense to search for him and found him.

• Tian Shang Xing revealed his Advanced Great Grandmaster strength, wounded Zhang Beihai, and attacked him over the death of Tianwei Xing.
• Zhang Beihai used the Blood Burst Technique and a Spatial Teleportation Stone to escape with Zhao Yanan, while Tian Shang Xing pursued them.
• Zhang Beihai sent Li Ziyu a warning and destroyed his communicator before hiding to keep Tian Shang Xing from tracking Li Ziyu.
• Li Ziyu received Zhang Beihai's message and picture, then used the God Form and Divine Illumination Underworld King Scripture to extend his Spiritual Sense to one hundred kilometers.
• Li Ziyu searched the surrounding area at high speed and found Tian Shang Xing.

Li Ziyu killed Tian Shang Xing and decided to dismantle the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall, though he planned to grow stronger and study its movements before facing its Martial Saint. He reached Zhang Beihai, who had mistaken the battle for a fight involving military reinforcements.

• Tian Shang Xing confronted Li Ziyu and demanded to know whether he had helped the military ambush Tian Shang Xing's sixth brother.
• Li Ziyu blasted Tian Shang Xing away, then killed him with Nine Heavens Ruthless Slash.
• Li Ziyu decided to uproot the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall and planned to predict its movements before attacking its main forces.
• Li Ziyu destroyed Tian Shang Xing's remains, killed the scar-faced disciple, and found little useful in Tian Shang Xing's Storage Bracelet.
• Zhang Beihai heard the battle and assumed Lieutenant General Li Wudi had arrived, but Li Ziyu appeared at the cave and identified himself.

Li Ziyu revealed that he had killed Tian Shang Xing, leaving Zhang Beihai and Zhao Yanan stunned. After demonstrating his growing physical strength in Wilderness Area No. 2, he headed for its core area to see a Twelve-Star Lieutenant General fight the Phoenix and hunt the beast himself.

• Li Ziyu offered Zhang Beihai a healing pill, but Zhang and Zhao Yanan urged him to flee from Tian Shang Xing.
• Li Ziyu told them he had dealt with Tian Shang Xing and showed Zhang the enemy’s Storage Bracelet, confirming the kill.
• Zhang discovered the military reinforcements had only just reached the area and promised to report Li Ziyu’s sacrifice to the Marshal for compensation.
• Zhang assumed Li Ziyu had used a single-use secret treasure to kill Tian Shang Xing, and Li Ziyu let the misunderstanding stand.
• Li Ziyu tested his strength by shrugging off a poisonous scorpion’s attack and killing a Peak Grandmaster-level beast with a punch.
• Li Ziyu learned that a Twelve-Star Lieutenant General had been sent to suppress the Phoenix, then flew toward the core area to witness the fight and hunt the Phoenix.

General Liu and his squad hunted the Phoenix, but an overwhelming force of Fierce Beasts trapped them and blocked their distress signal. With Eagle Eye and Fox Immortal gravely wounded and Ran Xiaoli exhausted, Liu Wudi prepared to face the Phoenix as it finally appeared before the cave.

• Ran Xiaoli briefed General Liu, Eagle Eye, and Fox Immortal on the Phoenix’s strength and rapid healing, then proposed a plan to ambush and defeat it.
• General Liu and his squad were surrounded by numerous Advanced Fierce Beasts, and Ran Xiaoli discovered that a shielding field had blocked all signals.
• Liu Wudi shielded Ran Xiaoli while she checked on Eagle Eye and Fox Immortal, who were both near death.
• A Fierce Beast ambushed Liu Wudi, but he tore it in two and dared the Phoenix to come take his life.
• The Phoenix appeared above the cave, and the surrounding Fierce Beasts stopped attacking and prostrated themselves.

Li Ziyu tore through the Beast Tide with seemingly inexhaustible strength, turning Liu Wudi and Ran Xiaoli’s desperate battle into a rescue. Watching him fight, the two Central War Zone soldiers suspected that a Great General had arrived in person.

• Liu Wudi and Ran Xiaoli prepared to die as the Phoenix and Beast Tide overwhelmed them.
• A jet-black sword light cut through the Beast Tide, drawing the Fierce Beasts away from the cave.
• Liu Wudi and Ran Xiaoli saw Li Ziyu, shrouded in golden light, kill Fierce Beasts across the battlefield with powerful blade strikes and Spiritual Sense.
• Li Ziyu welcomed the seemingly endless Beast Tide because killing Fierce Beasts earned him Blood and Qi Points that replenished his strength.
• Liu Wudi and Ran Xiaoli watched Li Ziyu keep fighting without slowing and concluded that he might be a Great General.

Li Ziyu fought the Emperor-grade Phoenix, matching its strongest attacks and dodging its fiery barrage before wounding it with his blade. The Phoenix dove at him with its beak, and the chapter ended as Li Ziyu met it with his bare fist.

• The Phoenix recalled the fierce beasts and launched a sun-like fireball at Li Ziyu, who destroyed it with his Nine Heavens Thunder Blade.
• Li Ziyu struck the Phoenix's wing with his Ghost God Blade, then dodged its rain of flaming arrows without being hit.
• Li Ziyu continued attacking the Phoenix until its flames weakened, while Liu Wudi and Ran Xiaoli watched in amazement.
• The Phoenix dove at Li Ziyu with its beak, and Liu Wudi tried to help but was kicked aside and knocked unconscious.
• Li Ziyu put away his War Blade and collided his fist with the Phoenix's beak.

Li Ziyu killed the Emperor-grade Phoenix with one punch, while the Central War Zone learned the details of Tianwei Xing’s feud with him. The chapter ended with the military discovering that Liu Wudi was in critical condition and ordering a satellite deployed to investigate the danger in Wilderness Area No. 2.

• Li Ziyu killed the Phoenix with a single punch and waited until its flames stayed out to confirm it was dead.
• Zhang Beihai reported to the chief that Tianwei Xing had attacked Li Ziyu over a personal grudge and was now dead.
• The chief decided that the military’s elders would confront Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall over Tianwei Xing’s attack on a military member.
• Zhang Beihai told the chief that Li Ziyu had gone alone to the core region to see the Phoenix, and the chief ordered him to contact Liu Wudi.
• The technician reported that communications with Liu Wudi were blocked and that his life signs were critical.
• The chief ordered Great Xia’s SCD1 military satellite deployed after learning there was no life-monitoring data for Li Ziyu.

Old Wang secured approval to activate the SCD1 Military Satellite to investigate Wilderness Area No. 2 and rescue Li Ziyu and Liu Wudi. The satellite revealed Li Ziyu standing amid a vast field of Fierce Beast corpses beside the slain Phoenix, while Liu Wudi lay unconscious nearby.

• Old Wang told the four military-region marshals that Li Ziyu and Liu Wudi were trapped in Wilderness Area No. 2 and requested authorization to deploy the SCD1 Military Satellite.
• After reviewing Li Ziyu's battle record, the four marshals approved activation of the SCD1 Military Satellite, each praising his talent and some trying to recruit him.
• The satellite displayed Wilderness Area No. 2, where Old Wang and Zhang Beihai saw countless Fierce Beast corpses and Li Ziyu standing beside the Phoenix's body.
• The officials recognized the unconscious figure behind the Phoenix as General Liu and ordered combat airships and nearby forces to rescue Li Ziyu and Liu Wudi.

Viya and Wang Qiang’s squad explored Wilderness Area No. 2 and found signs that a powerful Great Grandmaster had killed a Blood-Thirst Scorpion. After Chief Chen Yuan ordered them to escort the gravely injured General Liu Wudi, they learned the Phoenix had been killed and marveled at the strength of a Twelve-Star Lieutenant General.

• Viya and her squadmates reported encountering very few fierce beasts in Wilderness Area No. 2, and Wang Qiang showed them a Blood-Thirst Scorpion killed with a single blow.
• Wang Qiang warned the squad not to provoke the Great Grandmaster who had likely slain the scorpion while they investigated the wilderness.
• Viya and the Bald Strongman asked whether Wang Qiang would train new recruits, and Wang Qiang said he planned to take the Star General Test first.
• Wang Qiang received an order from Chief Chen Yuan to enter the core area and escort the severely injured General Liu Wudi back to the Military Department.
• Viya and the Bald Strongman learned that the Phoenix had been killed and were stunned that General Liu Wudi had slain the Emperor-grade beast.

Li Ziyu met Wang Qiang and the Blazing Dragon Squad after slaughtering the beasts in Wilderness Area No. 2, then decided to visit the Yanhuang Empire Ruins before heading to the Central War Zone. He traveled toward the ruins and stopped in the desert to eat and rest.

• Wang Qiang, Viya, and the Blazing Dragon Squad found Li Ziyu sitting atop a mountain of fierce beast corpses beside the dead Phoenix.
• Wang Qiang confirmed that Marshal Chen had sent the squad to receive General Liu, and Viya handed Li Ziyu the collected Phoenix remains in a Storage Bracelet.
• Li Ziyu decided to visit the Yanhuang Empire Ruins before going to the Central War Zone and asked the squad to leave an airship and wait for him.
• Li Ziyu flew toward the Yanhuang Empire, then stopped in a desert, killed a Tiger-type Fierce Beast, and roasted its meat.
• After eating and resting beneath the stars, Li Ziyu reminded himself that the crisis of the Fourth World Echo left no time for idleness.

After slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Fierce Beasts, Li Ziyu used the accumulated blood qi to reach Peak Grandmaster and gained powerful Divine Phoenix flames. The Martial God System then unlocked Bloodline Purification, leaving Li Ziyu to consider how the new function works.

• Li Ziyu checked his system panel and spent his accumulated blood qi to advance from Intermediate Grandmaster through Advanced Grandmaster to Peak Grandmaster.
• During the breakthrough, Li Ziyu saw a Divine Phoenix phantom strike his heart as his body grew stronger and pale white flames appeared around him.
• Li Ziyu tested the flames by vaporizing a sand dune, then concluded their power could make his attacks several times stronger.
• Li Ziyu checked the system panel and discovered that Bloodline Purification had unlocked and that he possessed the Phoenix Flame bloodline.
• Li Ziyu speculated that Bloodline Purification could identify and absorb ancestral bloodlines from Fierce Beasts.

Li Ziyu entered the Yanhuang Empire ruins and used its artificial intelligence to predict his future, discovering that the course of events had changed after he killed Tianwei Xing and Tian Shang Xing. The predictions revealed that Great Xia still faced a devastating war and eventual destruction, leaving Li Ziyu with advance knowledge he could use to try to change that outcome.

• Li Ziyu struck the ruins' alloy gates with his full strength, but they did not move, leading him to suspect the Yanhuang Emperor had been far stronger than he was.
• Li Ziyu used the Natural Breathing Method to open the gates and traveled down to the abandoned Yanhuang City.
• Li Ziyu asked Little Blue to predict his life history and learned that he would reach Level Eight Great Grandmaster, fight the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall, and disappear after battling the Extreme Path Martial Saint.
• Li Ziyu asked Little Blue to simulate Great Xia's future and learned that conflict with the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall would leave cities vulnerable and humanity weakened.
• Little Blue predicted that Li Ziyu would later defeat the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall's leaders, lose to the Extreme Path Martial Saint, and that the Fourth World Echoes would destroy human civilization in Great Xia Year 225.

After learning that the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall planned to ambush him and that humanity would eventually be destroyed, Li Ziyu decided to act before the predicted events unfolded. He traveled with Viya to the Central War Zone, where he began learning about its forces and facilities.

• Li Ziyu read the prediction that the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall would target him, the five marshals would be seriously injured, and humanity would ultimately be destroyed.
• Li Ziyu resolved to weaken the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall’s leaders and elders before facing the Extreme Dao Martial Saint.
• Li Ziyu returned to the airship, and Viya explained that the Central War Zone ranked second among the Five Great War Zones, behind the Eastern War Zone and its champion, Lin Dongyang.
• Li Ziyu and Viya reached the Central War Zone, where Wang Qiang reported that General Liu Wudi and the team members remained unconscious in treatment.
• Wang Qiang showed Li Ziyu the inner camp, and Li Ziyu observed its advanced cultivation equipment, powerful residents, and city-like amenities.

Li Ziyu asked about military protection for officers’ families and decided to certify his general rank so he could better protect his aunt’s family. At the operations-center building, Wang Hongyu confronted Wang Qiang for entering Cave No. 7 alone.

• Wang Qiang explained that officers’ families could settle in the Central War Zone or receive martial-artist security teams, with stronger protection for higher-ranking officers.
• Li Ziyu asked Wang Qiang to take him to certify his general rank, surprising Wang Qiang, who wondered whether Li Ziyu really was a student at Magic City Martial Arts University.
• Wang Qiang led Li Ziyu and Viya to a building in the operations center, where a middle-aged man praised Liu Wudi for killing the Phoenix.
• The middle-aged man told Wang Qiang that Wang Hongyu had been looking for him, and Wang Qiang tried to change the subject.
• Wang Hongyu arrived, grabbed Wang Qiang by the ear, and scolded him for going alone to the thirty-second level of Cave No. 7.

Li Ziyu went to take the Star General Test, with Wang Qiang and Zhan Hongyu helping him past the certification requirements. After his identity passed verification, the group entered a vast testing hall containing three crystal pillars covered in names.

• Li Ziyu decided to take the Star General Test, and Wang Qiang introduced him to Zhan Hongyu as the person who had killed the King of Silent Hunters and Phoenix.
• Zhan Hongyu doubted Wang Qiang's claims but grew more respectful when she could not discern Li Ziyu's strength.
• A clerk rejected Li Ziyu's Level Four Martial Artist Badge for Star General certification until Zhan Hongyu vouched for him as an Eleven-star Major General.
• The clerk verified Li Ziyu's identity and discovered that it had Top Secret Clearance Level, then respectfully ushered the group into the testing hall.
• Li Ziyu, Wang Qiang, Zhan Hongyu, and Viya entered the huge hall and saw three crystal pillars covered with recorded names.

Li Ziyu tested his strength at the Major General pillar and reached the twelve-star rank, taking first place and astonishing everyone in the hall. His effortless result left Wang Hongyu and the others wondering how powerful he really was.

• Wang Qiang explained that the crystal pillars ranked Major Generals, Lieutenant Generals, and Generals by strength, while Li Ziyu noticed Wang Jiuyuan stood at the top of the General pillar.
• Sun Guotou struck the Major General pillar and earned fourth-star status, placing third among four-star Major Generals; Viya then mocked Wang Qiang for remaining at one star.
• Li Ziyu stepped up to take the Major General test, while Li Weihu questioned whether the unfamiliar newcomer could be stronger than Viya.
• Li Ziyu's punch shook the hall as the pillar's rainbow light climbed to twelve stars and placed him first among twelve-star Major Generals.
• The spectators reacted in shock, and Wang Hongyu realized Wang Qiang had been telling the truth about Li Ziyu's strength.

Li Weihu tried to recruit Li Ziyu into his Blazing Dragon Squad, then demonstrated his Five-Star Lieutenant General strength after Li Ziyu refused. Li Ziyu struck the Lieutenant General pillar and took first place with a Twelve-Star rating, leaving everyone stunned.

• Li Weihu invited Li Ziyu to join the Blazing Dragon Squad, but Li Ziyu declined.
• Li Weihu struck the Major General pillar to show he could reach Twelve-Star Major General strength, but Li Ziyu dismissed the feat.
• Li Weihu struck the Lieutenant General pillar and lit five stars, drawing praise from the onlookers.
• Li Ziyu punched the Lieutenant General pillar, which shook the room as twelve stars rapidly lit up.
• Li Ziyu's name rose to first place on the Lieutenant General pillar, revealing him as a Twelve-Star Lieutenant General stronger than General Liu Wudi.

Li Ziyu tested his strength at the Central War Zone and revealed power far beyond a twelve-star Lieutenant General. The General Pillar certified him as a twelve-star General, surpassing the zone’s number one.

• Li Weihu tested the Lieutenant General Pillar himself and had Wang Er confirm that it was working, proving Li Ziyu had reached twelve-star Lieutenant General.
• Wang Hongyu and Wang Qiang discussed how Li Ziyu might help the Central War Zone win the upcoming competition, while Li Weihu doubted he could match a twelve-star General.
• Li Ziyu went to the General Pillar, intending to reveal his full Combat Power and earn greater resources.
• Li Ziyu used Heart-Only Formula—God Form and Ghost God Blade—God Slayer's One Slash, unleashing a shockwave that hurled everyone in the room into the walls.
• The General Pillar lit up from base to ceiling with a rainbow-colored beam and displayed Li Ziyu’s name behind its twelve stars, identifying him as a twelve-star General.

After earning the top rank among the Central War Zone’s Twelve-star Generals, Li Ziyu went to the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall’s Demon Capital branch to challenge it and draw out its Fourth Elder, Tian Baixing. He defeated Coach Niu with one controlled strike and waited at the branch for his real target.

• Li Ziyu’s test revealed that he was a Twelve-star General ranked first, astonishing the Central War Zone’s General Stars.
• Li Ziyu decided to visit the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall, then disguised himself as Wang Dali and challenged its Demon Capital branch.
• Coach Niu accepted the challenge, while Bai Haoran recognized Li Ziyu as his former classmate and tried to persuade him to back down.
• Niu Hu attacked Li Ziyu with Mountain-Shattering Fist, but Li Ziyu sent him flying with a single strike without damaging the windows.
• Li Ziyu sat down in the training hall and waited for the branch’s Fourth Elder, Tian Baixing.