Chapter Summaries

Li Ziyu challenged the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall and defeated Coach Niu, drawing the Fourth Elder and the hall’s disciples. The Hall Master’s son stepped in to fight him, and Li Ziyu raised one finger to meet his Extreme Dao Fist.

• A disciple told the Fourth Elder that a challenger had defeated Coach Niu, so the elder went downstairs to investigate.
• Li Ziyu introduced himself as a member of the Hongchuan Martial Arts Hall and challenged the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall.
• The Fourth Elder prepared to attack Li Ziyu, but the Brocade-robed Youth asked to fight in his place.
• The Brocade-robed Youth charged Li Ziyu with the Extreme Dao Fist, and Li Ziyu calmly pointed one finger at his fist.

Li Ziyu crushed a richly dressed youth’s arm with one finger, then transformed into a golden giant and overwhelmed Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall’s Fourth Elder. As the Fourth Elder tried to sever his trapped arm and escape, Li Ziyu struck him in the face.

• Li Ziyu defeated the richly dressed youth’s Extreme Fist with a single finger, shattering his arm and knocking him unconscious.
• The Fourth Elder threatened Li Ziyu for injuring the Head of Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall’s son and attacked with Strength God—Extreme Fist: Sky Collapse.
• Li Ziyu transformed into a five-meter-tall golden giant and caught the Fourth Elder’s punch in one hand.
• Li Ziyu crushed the Fourth Elder’s fist as the Fourth Elder realized he could not win and tried to cut off his trapped arm.
• Li Ziyu punched the Fourth Elder in the face and declared that he would die.

Li Ziyu killed the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall’s Fourth Elder and the Head’s son to provoke the Extreme Path Martial Saint into revealing whether he could leave seclusion. He then used his Twelve-star General authority to search military intelligence for a way to gather vital-energy points, and discovered that Dong Qingxue was in the camp.

• Li Ziyu killed the Fourth Elder and an ornate-clothed young man at an Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall branch, then blamed Wang Dali of Hongchuan Martial Arts Hall and invited students to enroll there.
• Bai Haoran watched Li Ziyu vanish and wondered whether Hongchuan Martial Arts Hall was the same one in Xujiang City.
• Li Ziyu decided to wait half a month for the Extreme Path Martial Saint to emerge, then attack the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall’s headquarters if he did not.
• Li Ziyu flew to the Central War Zone to obtain a ferocious-beast or underground-cavern deployment map and gather vital-energy points.
• Li Ziyu used his Twelve-star General-level access at the Mission Hall console to view top-secret military information and discovered that Dong Qingxue was in the camp.

Li Ziyu returned to the Central War Zone and invited Dong Qingxue to dinner, while Marshal Chen Yuan prepared to meet him quietly. Dong Qingxue worried about her family’s arranged marriage, but Li Ziyu’s message lifted her spirits as she left her squad to see him.

• Li Ziyu checked Dong Qingxue’s profile, learned she had become an Intermediate Grandmaster, and invited her to dinner.
• Chen Yuan watched Li Ziyu’s test footage and concluded that Li Ziyu had reached Half-Saint strength.
• A school officer told Chen Yuan that Li Ziyu had returned, and Chen Yuan decided to meet him in plain clothes.
• Dong Qingxue’s Snow Rose Star General Squad tried to comfort her about the marriage her father had arranged, and Wang Mei offered to seek Major General Wang Hongyu’s help.
• Dong Qingxue received Li Ziyu’s message, smiled, and left her squad as its members teased her about meeting a handsome man.

Li Ziyu relaxed at a café in the Central War Zone, where Wang Ziqiang approached him and learned the hard way that Li Ziyu was far stronger than he appeared. After a woman sat down with Li Ziyu, Wang Ziqiang grew jealous and called for people to come over.

• Li Ziyu reflected that Great Xia’s ferocious beasts and underground-cave creatures were his best sources of Blood Qi Points.
• Wang Ziqiang approached Li Ziyu to introduce himself and asked which General Star squad he belonged to.
• Li Ziyu asked whether Wang Ziqiang was threatening him, and his gaze left Wang Ziqiang overwhelmed with fear.
• Wang Ziqiang decided Li Ziyu was likely a powerful General Star and left the café without provoking him further.
• A woman entered, sat across from Li Ziyu, and smiled gently at him, prompting Wang Ziqiang to call Li Long and demand that he bring people over.

Li Ziyu met Dong Qingxue, who told him that the Snow Rose Squad had discovered a Spatial Teleportation Stone mine on Cave No. 4's thirty-fourth level. Despite the danger, Li Ziyu showed interest in the mine and turned his attention to an elderly man approaching the coffee shop.

• Dong Qingxue told Li Ziyu that the Snow Rose Squad had found a Spatial Teleportation Stone mine on the thirty-fourth level of Cave No. 4.
• Dong Qingxue described how a mysterious voice had bewitched the squad into delving deeper and how her captain's mental-defense item helped them escape.
• Li Ziyu recognized the mine's value but learned that even Transcendent Martial Saint had only reached the thirty-fifth level of the cave.
• Dong Qingxue urged Li Ziyu not to pursue the mine, but Li Ziyu remained interested and said he would repay her by dealing with her trouble.
• Li Ziyu spotted an elderly man in a gray-white short jacket approaching the coffee shop.

Wang Ziqiang confronted Dong Qingxue and Li Ziyu with a Great Grandmaster from the Wang Family, but the old man recognized Li Ziyu and turned on his own junior. Li Ziyu judged the apology insufficient, and the old man broke Wang Ziqiang’s leg at his command.

• Wang Ziqiang arrived with a gray-robed Wang Family elder and accused Dong Qingxue of rejecting him while dating Li Ziyu.
• Wang Mei and the Snow Rose Squad members stood with Dong Qingxue, while Li Ziyu dismissed Wang Ziqiang’s threats and mocked the idea of an arranged marriage.
• When Wang Ziqiang ordered the elder to attack Li Ziyu, the elder slapped him twice, then apologized respectfully to Li Ziyu and kicked Wang Ziqiang’s two lackeys.
• Wang Mei and Dong Qingxue wondered why the elder had suddenly turned against Wang Ziqiang, and Li Ziyu said the two slaps were not enough.
• The gray-robed elder broke Wang Ziqiang’s right leg after Li Ziyu criticized the apology.

Li Ziyu spared Wang Ziqiang after accepting a Spatial Teleportation Stone as compensation, then met Chen Yuan, the Central War Zone's marshal, who wanted to show him the resources and residence available to a Star General. The chapter ended with Chen Yuan offering to have his secretary take Li Ziyu to the Central War Zone.

• Wang Ziqiang apologized to Li Ziyu and handed him a Spatial Teleportation Stone, and Li Ziyu let him and the gray-robed old man leave.
• Li Ziyu told Dong Qingxue that her matter was settled, and he agreed to let her treat him to a meal another day.
• Chen Yuan entered the café and introduced himself to Li Ziyu as a commander of the Central War Zone.
• Wang Mei recognized Chen Yuan as Marshal Chen, and she and Dong Qingxue were shocked by his cordial manner toward Li Ziyu.
• Chen Yuan offered to have his secretary show Li Ziyu the resources and residential district available to Central War Zone Star Generals.

Li Ziyu settled into his new residence in the Central War Zone after becoming its strongest Twelve-star General, while Wang Ziqiang learned why his family’s Attendant had punished him. The chapter left Li Ziyu freshly armed and ready to begin his new life there.

• Wang Ziqiang discovered that Li Ziyu was the top-ranked Twelve-star General and regretted that the Attendant had broken only one of his legs.
• Secretary Wang escorted Li Ziyu and Dong Qingxue to Li Ziyu’s lavish Central War Zone residence, where Dong Qingxue began serving as his tactical secretary.
• Secretary Wang explained the residence’s staff and resources before leaving Li Ziyu and Dong Qingxue to settle in.
• Li Ziyu showered, equipped two powerful pieces of armor, and opened his system panel.

Li Ziyu sought stronger protection against mental attacks and learned that a powerful talisman had come from the Suzhou Black Market. After receiving his quarterly cultivation resources, he traveled there under cover of night.

• Li Ziyu reviewed the war zone's mental-defense talismans and found their protection inadequate for his needs.
• Dong Qingxue told Li Ziyu that her team leader had obtained a mental-protection talisman at the Suzhou Black Market and informed him that his resources had arrived.
• Li Ziyu received his quarterly cultivation resources, worth several tens of billions of Great Xia Coins, and told Dong Qingxue he would go to Suzhou.
• Li Ziyu reached the abandoned chemical plant hosting the black market and overheard two guards discuss the Eastern War Zone's Twelve-star General entering the caverns.
• Li Ziyu slipped past the guards and entered the factory.

Li Ziyu found a bronze necklace that blocked his Spiritual Sense at an underground market and agreed to help its owner kill the men who had kidnapped the man’s daughter. At an abandoned plastic factory, Li Ziyu caught the owner trying to leave him behind and followed him inside, where someone praised the man for luring in several victims.

• Li Ziyu explored the underground market and discovered that a bronze necklace could completely block his Spiritual Sense.
• The bearded stall owner offered everything at his stall in exchange for Li Ziyu killing the kidnappers who had taken his daughter.
• Li Ziyu accepted and asked the owner to reveal where he had obtained the necklace afterward.
• The owner led Li Ziyu to an abandoned plastic factory and tried to wait outside, but Li Ziyu made him go in too.
• A voice inside the factory praised the owner for luring several fat lambs there within a week.

Li Ziyu entered a factory where a slovenly middle-aged man had lured him to a gang of kidnappers in exchange for a chance to save his daughter. After Li Ziyu swiftly killed three Level 6 Martial Artists with the Divine Beast Phoenix’s flame, the trench coat man was left terrified and facing him alone.

• Li Ziyu learned that the slovenly middle-aged man had brought him to the gang because they had kidnapped his daughter and threatened to keep her unless he lured in victims.
• The trench coat man sealed the factory with ice, threatened Li Ziyu with an ice cone, and offered him a place in the gang if he killed the middle-aged man.
• Li Ziyu questioned the gang’s confidence, then suddenly attacked before they could respond.
• The trench coat man raised layers of ice walls while his three underlings were swallowed by white flame and reduced to ash.
• Li Ziyu identified the flame as the flame of the Divine Beast Phoenix, leaving the trench coat man in shock.

Li Ziyu killed the robbers who had lured him to the factory and took the bronze necklace, which he recognized as a creation from the Cultivation World. After discovering the slovenly middle-aged man's daughter had already been killed, Li Ziyu's resolve to grow stronger deepened, and he sensed a path opening toward becoming a Level Eight Great Grandmaster.

• Li Ziyu killed the trench-coat-clad man and his three companions with his spiritual power and Divine Phoenix flame.
• The slovenly middle-aged man gave Li Ziyu the storage bracelet containing the bronze necklace and said he had found it near the Norma Mountain Range in the Bald Eagle Empire.
• Li Ziyu recognized the necklace as a creation from the Cultivation World and considered whether a passage to that world lay within the Norma Mountain Range.
• Li Ziyu killed the slovenly middle-aged man after learning why he had lured him to the factory.
• Li Ziyu discovered the middle-aged man's daughter had already been tortured to death and resolved to control his own fate by growing stronger.
• Li Ziyu sensed that he was close to advancing to a Level Eight Great Grandmaster.

Li Ziyu prepared to travel to Cave No. 4 in search of the Spatial Teleportation Stone Mine and agreed to let Wang Hongyu and Dong Qingxue accompany him. The chapter ended with him asking how the conflict between Great Xia and the fierce beasts was progressing.

• Li Ziyu learned about Cave No. 4's Lava Monsters and decided to go there for the Spatial Teleportation Stone Mine on its thirty-fourth floor.
• Li Ziyu assigned his Grandmaster Level security team to protect his aunt's family and considered confronting the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall if its Martial Saint did not emerge within five days.
• Wang Hongyu and Dong Qingxue asked to accompany Li Ziyu to Cave No. 4, and he accepted Wang Hongyu's offer to lead the way.
• Wang Hongyu's team teased her about pursuing Li Ziyu, while she admitted that she had applied for the mission after learning he planned to go.
• Inside the airship, Li Ziyu asked Wang Hongyu and Dong Qingxue why they were staring at him, then asked about Great Xia's conflict with the fierce beasts.

Li Ziyu learned that General Chen had gone to investigate the caves and had not reported back, then traveled with Wang Hongyu to Cave No. 4. Wang He welcomed Wang Hongyu but mistook Li Ziyu for a privileged young man seeking military merit.

• Wang Hongyu told Li Ziyu that troops were gathering in Wilderness Area No. 1 and that General Chen had not sent news since entering the caves.
• Wang Hongyu learned that Li Ziyu was thirty-two and had reached Level Eight Great Grandmaster.
• Li Ziyu and Wang Hongyu arrived at the fortified mountain city guarding Cave No. 4.
• Wang He welcomed Wang Hongyu, then assumed Li Ziyu was hiding his strength with high-level equipment and had come to scrounge for military merit.

Li Ziyu and Dong Qingxue descended into Cave No. 4 to hunt cave creatures as the black mist rapidly rose. Wang Hongyu changed her mission to enforce the blockade, while Long Zhan and the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall prepared to challenge the Military Department’s authority.

• Wang He mistook Li Ziyu for a wealthy family’s young master, while Wang Hongyu introduced him as a general accompanying her to Cave No. 4.
• Long Zhan and the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall’s Martial Artists complained about the Military Department’s blockade, and Long Zhan decided to act after seeing that only a major general had arrived.
• Li Ziyu and Dong Qingxue saw that Cave No. 4’s black mist had risen to less than five meters from the ground, far higher than on their previous visit.
• Li Ziyu leaped into Cave No. 4 to begin hunting from the first level, and Dong Qingxue followed him down by rope.
• After learning that Li Ziyu had descended, Wang Hongyu changed her mission and declared that no one could enter Cave No. 4, threatening execution for anyone who disobeyed.

Li Ziyu descended through the magma-filled caves, killing Lava Giant Beasts with overwhelming ease while Dong Qingxue struggled to keep up. As he continued toward the twenty-eighth floor, he devised a way to use Divine Phoenix Fire to ignite the magma and began testing it.

• Li Ziyu killed a Lava Giant Beast with a shock wave that blasted magma into the air, leaving Dong Qingxue stunned by his strength.
• Li Ziyu told Dong Qingxue to wait while he cleared the next cave level, and she wondered whether her Grandmaster-level strength had made her a burden beside him.
• Li Ziyu descended through the caves, killing more Lava Giant Beasts and noting that they were more densely grouped below the tenth level.
• Li Ziyu realized that magma might fuel his Divine Phoenix Fire and let him kill Lava Giant Beasts in much greater numbers.
• Li Ziyu formed a large White Flame and sent it crashing toward the magma to test his idea.

Li Ziyu unleashed the Phoenix Flame in the cave, incinerating a vast area and killing many Lava Giant Beasts as he continued deeper. Meanwhile, Long Zhan defeated Wang Hongyu’s forces and led martial artists into the restricted cave, prompting Wang Hongyu to hurry after Li Ziyu before he could kill Long Zhan.

• Li Ziyu’s Phoenix Flame ignited the magma river, burned thousands of meters of the cave, and killed numerous Lava Giant Beasts.
• Long Zhan accused Wang Hongyu and the Central War Zone of obstructing his Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall, then overpowered her in battle.
• Long Zhan threatened to butcher Wang Hongyu, ordered his followers to kill anyone who obstructed them, and led them into the cave.
• Wang Mei tried to stop the intruders, but Long Zhan blasted her aside and continued onward with the crowd.
• Wang Hongyu told Wang He that someone inside the cave would deal with the intruders, then realized Li Ziyu might kill Long Zhan and set out to find him.

Li Ziyu descended through Cave No. 4, using the Phoenix Flame to destroy its Lava Giant Beasts and harvest blood energy as he planned to raise his realm. Meanwhile, Long Zhan's group entered the cave, and Wang Hongyu hurried after them to warn Li Ziyu about the threat, leaving his confrontation with Long Zhan pending.

• Li Ziyu burned through the Lava Giant Beasts below Level Seven and reached the twenty-fifth level, where he discovered his completed combat techniques could still be improved.
• Dong Qingxue stayed on the fifth level as Long Zhan and a crowd of martial artists passed her on their way down.
• Long Zhan found the upper cave levels empty and assumed the military had cleared them, while dismissing Li Ziyu as weak and foolish.
• Wang Hongyu led Wang He, Wang Mei, and four squad members into the cave after recovering from their injuries and learned Li Ziyu had gone to clear the twenty-eighth level.
• Wang Hongyu urged Dong Qingxue to join them in finding Li Ziyu, fearing Long Zhan might attack him and cause trouble with the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall.

Li Ziyu blasted through the Lava Giant Beasts on Cave Levels Twelve to Fifteen and unleashed white flames that consumed the caves as he continued downward. Long Zhan’s group investigated the strange chill and discovered a devastating scene below, leaving Long Zhan dumbfounded.

• Li Ziyu realized a powerful presence was suppressing the Lava Giant Beasts, then attacked them with his Phoenix Core-Nuclear Extreme Dao Fist.
• Li Ziyu’s punch annihilated the Lava Giant Beasts and triggered white flames that spread through the cave, while he continued toward the next level.
• Long Zhan and his group felt an unexpected chill near the tenth level and sent several people down to investigate, but none returned despite their life detectors showing they were alive.
• Long Zhan layered on armor and defensive techniques before descending, then saw the scouts staring at the devastation and exclaimed in shock about what had happened in Cave No. 4.