Chapter Summaries

The Rebellion God Society spread its call to resist the divine weapons, and Xu Chong was recruited after speaking up at a tavern. Si Konglun led him through the Underground Palace to meet the Rebellion God Society’s most important figure, Lin Yuan, whom Si Konglun regarded as the Master of Weapons.

• Divine weapon consciousnesses searched for Eighteenth Brother and warned one another to conceal their true forms while pursuing their next step.
• Over the following ten years, the Rebellion God Society’s conflict with the Central Plains Thirty-Six Kingdoms intensified as the truth about living beings being raised as offerings spread.
• A storyteller in a Great Xia tavern urged people to resist the divine weapons, and Xu Chong spoke up after his father had died in his place as an offering.
• The storyteller recruited Xu Chong, whose powerful innate spirit caught the attention of an evil weapon, and brought him to the Underground Palace.
• Si Konglun reassured Xu Chong that his family would be protected and led him to meet the Rebellion God Society’s most important person.
• When Xu Chong asked if that person was a Weapon Envoy, Si Konglun dismissed the title and thought of Lin Yuan as the Master of Weapons.

Lin Yuan left the palace to travel the world, while the Rebellion God Society gained ground and Xu Chong became the bearer of the Heaven Splitting Axe. When the returning Divine Weapons began devouring the armies at the Five Peaks Battlefield, Xu Chong called for the Yan Emperor, and Lin Yuan arrived to face them.

• Lin Yuan gave Xu Chong the Heaven Splitting Axe and told him to learn its power before leaving to travel the world.
• Ten years later, the Rebellion God Society had captured seven dynasties, and the Great Qi emperor prepared to fight a decisive battle, expecting the Divine Weapons to return.
• At the Five Peaks Battlefield, Xu Chong and the Rebellion God Society fought the Thirty-Five Kingdoms’ forces, but thirty-five Divine Weapons appeared in the sky and began devouring soldiers.
• With the battlefield sealed and hope fading, Xu Chong shouted “Yan Emperor,” summoning Lin Yuan, who confronted the thirty-five Divine Weapons above the clouds.

Lin Yuan revealed that he had spent eight years preparing the Five Peaks Battlefield as a furnace to trap the Thirty-Five Divine Weapons. He suppressed all thirty-six Divine Weapons inside it and sat down to comprehend them.

• Lin Yuan confronted the Thirty-Five Divine Weapons alone, while observers wondered at his strength and the absence of Great Yan Dynasty's Nation-Protecting Divine Weapon.
• Lin Yuan activated the Five Peaks Furnace, which he had formed by secretly preparing the battlefield and guiding the war there.
• The Thirty-Five Divine Weapons fled, but Lin Yuan expanded his Taiji Field and blocked the Tower-Shaped Divine Weapon's attempt to break through.
• Lin Yuan formed a hundred-mile Taiji Furnace around the Thirty-Five Divine Weapons and drew the Sun Moon Spear inside as well.
• Lin Yuan sat atop the furnace to suppress and comprehend the thirty-six Divine Weapons, leaving the witnesses stunned.

Lin Yuan comprehended the rule essences of the Thirty-Six Divine Weapons, helping the Great Yan Dynasty and the Rebellion God Society subdue the Thirty-Five Kingdoms. After learning where the Ancient Godly Human had departed for, Lin Yuan shattered the Divine Weapons and watched the Taiji Furnace disappear.

• Lin Yuan suppressed the Thirty-Six Divine Weapons while the Thirty-Five Kingdoms’ emperors lost hope, and Si Konglun led the Great Yan Dynasty and the Rebellion God Society to conquer their lands.
• An umbrella-shaped Divine Weapon and the other gathered Evil Weapons judged that Lin Yuan had approached Father God’s level.
• After twenty years of comprehending the Divine Weapons, Lin Yuan glimpsed the path to Tier 5 and learned from the Tower-Shaped Divine Weapon that the Ancient Godly Human had left through a crack at the world’s edge to return to his home world.
• Lin Yuan decided to consider traveling to that world later, then shattered the Thirty-Six Divine Weapons after erasing their consciousnesses.
• The Taiji Furnace dissipated before the crowds gathered at the Five Peaks Battlefield.

After returning to the Great Yan capital, Lin Yuan passed down a cultivation system that could let humanity resist Divine Weapons, then destroyed the Heaven Splitting Axe and departed. After spending twenty years exploring the world, he entered the Space Rift in the Far North just as his stay was ending.

• Si Konglun learned that Lin Yuan had returned and asked about the vanished furnace and the Divine Weapons.
• Lin Yuan explained that he had shattered the Divine Weapons and taught Si Konglun and Xu Chong a cultivation system with the Martial God and Celestial Being realms.
• Lin Yuan destroyed the Heaven Splitting Axe and told Xu Chong that he might reach the Martial God Realm by cultivating the new system.
• Lin Yuan left, and Si Konglun recorded the cultivation system for the Human Race.
• Lin Yuan found the Space Rift in the Far North but turned back, then spent twenty years traveling as the Great Yan Dynasty grew stronger and the new system spread.
• As his remaining stay time dwindled to one hour, Lin Yuan returned to the Space Rift, strengthened his Taiji Field, and stepped inside.

After returning from the Divine Weapon World, Lin Yuan restored his strength with rare Cosmic Spiritual Objects and uploaded the Third Order Chapter of the Martial Path of Evolution, raising its potential and ranking it first on the Azure Wave Evolution Chart. As he prepared for the Arena Tournament’s top-ten contest, Chairman Liao brought him videos of his opponents, whom Lin Yuan now considered far too weak.

• Lin Yuan returned to the Main World after spending 160 years in the Divine Weapon World, having advanced to Tier 4, Ninth Stage in realm while his strength remained at Tier 3 Initial Stage.
• Lin Yuan bought two high-grade Cosmic Spiritual Objects and refined the Third Order Chapter of the Martial Path of Evolution for Main World citizens.
• The Goddess of Wisdom awarded Lin Yuan forty thousand Merit Points and assessed the Martial Path of Evolution as having a guaranteed chance to reach Tier 5 and a sixty percent chance to reach Tier 6.
• Lin Yuan checked that the Martial Path of Evolution ranked first on the Azure Wave Evolution Chart, though he still lacked the Merit Points needed to become a Fifth Level Citizen.
• Chairman Liao showed Lin Yuan combat footage and analyses of the other Arena Tournament top-ten contestants, but Lin Yuan was no longer concerned by their strength.

As the Martial Path of Evolution reached the top of the Azure Wave Evolution Chart, Lin Yuan refined two Cosmic Spiritual Objects and recovered to Tier 4, Ninth Stage, with his Taiji Field becoming a true Domain. The Arena Tournament neared, and Lin Yuan ranked only ninth in a fan-based popularity list.

• Chairman Liao left after Lin Yuan showed little interest in the other top Evolutionaries, including Fang Qing.
• The Azure Wave Evolution Chart updated, placing the Martial Path of Evolution above the Purple Thunder Evolutionary Path and stirring debate across the Central Plaza Area.
• Lou Lan Yu initially ordered Lou Lanhe to abandon the Martial Path, but changed his mind after reading its new Third Order Chapter and seeing its improved chance of reaching Tier 6.
• Lin Yuan refined the Vermillion Fruit and Cold Jade, recovered to Tier 4, Ninth Stage, and expanded his Taiji Field across East Ning City.
• As the Arena Tournament approached, people argued over the leading contenders, and a streamer ranked Thunder God first, Fang Qing second, Yang Wei third, Lin Yuan ninth, and Ruan Du tenth in popularity.

The global top ten competition began with a Points Tournament, while Lin Yuan learned that the Martial Path of Evolution had earned him 1.536 billion in revenue sharing. Lin Yuan waited as the others collected blue crystals, then abruptly eliminated Yang Wei, leaving the audience stunned.

• Lin Yuan declined a prepared pre-match script and said he hoped everyone enjoyed the competition.
• Lin Yuan checked the Martial Path of Evolution's settlement and discovered his revenue-sharing income was 1.536 billion, with more than two hundred Third Order Chapters sold.
• The ten contestants began the Points Tournament on an island, where they had to collect blue crystals while fighting was allowed.
• Fang Qing, the Thunder God, and Yang Wei used their abilities to find crystals while Lin Yuan rested on a boulder and waited for the others to gather them.
• Lin Yuan sensed three contestants with his Taiji Domain and vanished from his boulder.
• Yang Wei found his tenth crystal, then a terrifying pressure struck and instantly killed him, cutting off his viewpoint and shocking the spectators.

Lin Yuan revealed overwhelming Tier 4 strength, eliminated every other contestant in the Points Tournament, and won the individual Arena Tournament on Azure Wave Star. After the other finalists forfeited their head-to-head matches, officials presented Lin Yuan with the reward for being number one in the world.

• The host replayed Yang Wei’s elimination and revealed that Lin Yuan had crushed him with domain power and taken his blue crystals.
• Lin Yuan crushed Fan Yue and several other contestants, drawing hundreds of billions of viewers to his perspective.
• Lin Yuan suppressed Thunder God’s Thunder Domain Prototype and studied his lightning transformation before Thunder God died after using it three times.
• Fang Qing encountered Lin Yuan, was repeatedly suppressed, and joined the other eliminated contestants in the rest area.
• Lin Yuan became the sole remaining contestant, and Fang Qing and the others forfeited their head-to-head matches against him.
• The officials announced Lin Yuan as the individual champion on Azure Wave Star and showed him the reward list.

After winning the arena tournament, Lin Yuan selected five valuable rewards and learned that the Crimson Kun Star Region might contact him. He discovered that a beautiful woman in his residential district was a Flower God Race infiltrator targeting him, but decided not to pursue her himself.

• Lin Yuan chose a Tier 4 life fruit, the Soul Suppressing Bell, Nine Li Liquid, Soul Nourishing Jade, and the Floating Pagoda Evolutionary Path from the tournament rewards.
• Fang Qing took second place, and the white-bearded old man reassured him that the Ancient God evolutionary path could eventually help him surpass Lin Yuan.
• A Flower God Race woman arrived on Azure Wave Star to recruit and influence its newly revealed Tier 4 genius, Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan studied the Floating Pagoda Evolutionary Path, then detected and comprehended the woman's bewitching art when she crossed his path in Water Moon District.
• The Goddess of Wisdom identified the bewitching art as a Flower God Race technique, and Lin Yuan reported the suspected infiltrator to her.

After Lin Yuan reported Yao Qingqing as an alien spy, the Goddess of Wisdom identified her as a Flower God Race infiltrator and had a Tier 5 Evolutionary capture her. The encounter left Lin Yuan wary, so he moved his family to a protected manor, where his Arena Tournament prizes arrived.

• Lin Yuan reported Yao Qingqing to the Goddess of Wisdom, which uncovered evidence that she had been replaced and was an alien spy.
• A Tier 5 soul illusion-type Evolutionary captured Yao Qingqing at a café, and the Goddess of Wisdom told Lin Yuan she had concealed her true strength.
• Lin Yuan decided Water Moon District was unsafe and moved with his parents and sister to Manor Number Sixty-Six in Central Continent.
• The Arena Tournament prizes arrived at the manor, and Lin Yuan opened the case to find a palm-sized black bell.

Lin Yuan refined several tournament prizes and strengthened his body with Nine Li Liquid before sparring with Fang Qing, whose teacher recognized Lin Yuan’s grasp of the Origin Laws. Meanwhile, the Crimson Kun Star Lord awoke and began reviewing Arena Tournament matches to choose a star system.

• Lin Yuan refined the Soul Suppressing Bell, stored the Life Fruit, wore the Soul Nourishing Jade, and used Nine Li Liquid to strengthen his body by thirty to fifty percent.
• Lin Yuan repeatedly defeated Fang Qing in Virtual World sparring and gained insights into the Ancient God Evolutionary Path and the rules behind paths beyond Tier 6.
• The White-Bearded Old Man told Fang Qing that Lin Yuan had touched the Origin Laws and had at least a fifty percent chance of reaching Tier 6.
• The Crimson Kun Star Lord awoke, connected to the Virtual World, and began reviewing Arena Tournament matches before one match suddenly caught his attention.

The Crimson Kun Star Lord selected 118 geniuses for the Seven Stars Cave Trial, including Lin Yuan, who received a Gold Mark. Lin Yuan learned that information about the trial was restricted and could not obtain it from the Goddess of Wisdom, while Fang Qing arrived with a copy prepared by his late master.

• The Crimson Kun Star Lord reviewed the Arena Tournament footage, judged Lin Yuan’s dual extreme-attribute rules promising but difficult, and assigned marks to the selected Evolutionaries.
• Lin Yuan was forcibly transported to Seven Stars Cave World, received a Gold Mark, and learned from other Evolutionaries that the trial qualified successful candidates to enter the Crimson Kun Lineage.
• A towering phantom announced that the seven-stage trial would begin in twenty-four hours and warned that its process could not be shared outside.
• Lin Yuan failed to obtain reliable trial information from other Evolutionaries or the Goddess of Wisdom, then returned to cultivation without it.
• Fang Qing arrived at Lin Yuan’s manor as the White-Bearded Old Man urged him to deliver the Seven Stars Cave information his late master had prepared.

Fang Qing shared secret information about the Seven Stars Cave Trial with Lin Yuan, including its tests and the chance to join the Crimson Kun Star Lord’s lineage. After the trial rules were announced, more than a million Evolutionaries were sent into the Star Caves as the Star Lord’s twelve disciples watched for prospects.

• Fang Qing told Lin Yuan that passing the Seven Stars Cave Trial could earn an Evolutionary a chance to become one of the Crimson Kun Star Lord’s disciples, and that the seven caves tested different abilities, including comprehension.
• Lin Yuan and Fang Qing discussed the Crimson Kun Star Lord’s Starry Sea Roaming Kun body and agreed that concealing their identities in the Seven Stars Cave World was safer.
• After Fang Qing returned to his manor, the White-Bearded Old Man praised him for befriending Lin Yuan and predicted Lin Yuan could pass all seven Star Caves.
• Twenty-four hours later, Lin Yuan returned to the Seven Stars Cave World as a towering figure restated the rules and sent more than a million Evolutionaries into the trial.
• The Crimson Kun Star Lord’s twelve disciples appeared in a mysterious space and began watching the trial through threads of Consciousness Descent.

Lin Yuan entered the First Star Cave and crossed its black racetrack, where escalating gravity tested the evolutionaries’ physical bodies. He reached the Second Star Cave while relying only on his body to withstand the pressure.

• The Twelve Figures discussed the promising trial-takers and agreed that Silver Spirit would belong to the eldest figure.
• The towering figure announced that evolutionaries had one month to reach the end of the black racetrack to enter the Second Star Cave.
• A burly Tier 3 evolutionary tested the track and discovered that its gravity increased with distance.
• Lin Yuan entered the track and walked through increasingly intense gravity without using his Taiji Domain or other techniques.
• Trista saw Lin Yuan’s relaxed progress, recognized his Gold Mark, and respectfully addressed him as Lord Gold Mark.
• Lin Yuan passed the green-haired Gold Mark woman and completed the hundred-li track, arriving at the Second Star Cave.

Lin Yuan observed the Second Star Cave’s speed trial and gained the Blood Burning Art by watching another Evolutionary. After seeing the Silver-Haired Woman use Spatial Traversal, he deepened his understanding of space, advanced to Tier 4, Tenth Stage, and returned to watch the other Crimson Mark candidates.

• Lin Yuan studied the Second Star Cave’s forty-thousand-meter passage and its laser trial while waiting to see how the other Evolutionaries would cross it.
• A gaunt man used the Blood Burning Art to speed through the passage, and Lin Yuan comprehended the technique by watching him.
• A burly Evolutionary tried to withstand the lasers but was destroyed, confirming that the trial tested speed rather than defense.
• The Silver-Haired Woman crossed the passage with Spatial Traversal, and Lin Yuan gained a deeper comprehension of space.
• Lin Yuan returned to reality, used his new insights to advance from Tier 4, Ninth Stage to Tier 4, Tenth Stage, then re-entered the Virtual World and watched the remaining Crimson Mark candidates.

Lin Yuan passed the Second and Third Star Cave trials with ease, then quickly comprehended the Mountain secret art in the Fourth Star Cave. His swift success stunned the other challengers and drew the attention of all Twelve Figures as he entered the Fifth Star Cave.

• Lin Yuan watched several Evolutionaries attempt the Second Star Cave trial, recognizing Fang Qing and observing the strength and abilities of the Crimson Mark challengers.
• Fang Qing arrived, learned the Second Star Cave tested speed, and left the Virtual World to seek advice from his teacher.
• Lin Yuan crossed the forty-thousand-meter passage in under seven seconds and passed the Second Star Cave.
• Lin Yuan used his Taiji Domain to navigate the Meteorite Belt and pass the Third Star Cave despite a dangerous wave of meteorites.
• At the Fourth Star Cave, Lin Yuan comprehended the Mountain secret art almost immediately and was transported to the Fifth Star Cave, surprising the other challengers and the Twelve Figures.

Lin Yuan passed the Fourth Star Cave after comprehending the Mountain Secret Technique in twenty-three minutes, drawing the attention of powerful Crimson Kun Lineage figures. In the Fifth Star Cave, he used its soul-attack trial to strengthen his soul defenses, while Silver Spirit quickly climbed far ahead of him.

• The Twelve Figures praised Lin Yuan's comprehension, and three senior figures decided they wanted to accept him into the Crimson Kun Lineage.
• The Silver-Haired Woman, Brute Force, and the man with the bloodline renewed their efforts to comprehend the Fourth Star Cave's statue after Lin Yuan passed.
• Lin Yuan arrived in the Fifth Star Cave, learned that he had to climb a mountain path under repeated soul attacks, and found that his Taiji Millstone could withstand them.
• Lin Yuan's comprehension improved his soul defenses as he endured attacks on the first step, so he stayed there until the attacks could no longer shake his soul before continuing.
• Silver Spirit arrived in the Fifth Star Cave and climbed to the fortieth step, then noticed Lin Yuan was still only on the seventh.

Lin Yuan used the Fifth Star Cave’s soul attacks to strengthen his defenses and comprehended the Mind Treasure Pagoda, a powerful soul-defense secret art. After the attacks stopped threatening him, he passed the cave and headed for the Sixth Star Cave, while Gu Ze looked forward to his performance in the Seventh.

• Silver Spirit paused on the fortieth step to investigate Lin Yuan’s apparent strategy, but found that enduring the attacks brought her no benefit and resumed climbing.
• Lin Yuan remained on the mountain steps to improve his soul defense, while the Twelve Figures speculated about his slow progress and Gu Ze worried about his chances of finishing in time.
• Lin Yuan spoke with another Gold Mark trial-taker, who explained Silver Spirit’s background and described the Crimson Kun Star Lord’s feat of swallowing a Zerg Mother Nest.
• After sleeping to recover, Lin Yuan comprehended the soul-defense secret art Mind Treasure Pagoda, which surpassed the protection of his Soul Suppressing Bell.
• Lin Yuan tested the Mind Treasure Pagoda, continued climbing until the Fifth Star Cave’s attacks no longer affected him, and reached the summit.
• Lin Yuan entered the Sixth Star Cave, and Gu Ze expressed anticipation for his performance in the Seventh Star Cave.

Lin Yuan rapidly passed the Sixth Star Cave by breaking free of realistic illusions that tested wealth, beauty, status, strength, and love. In the Seventh Star Cave, he began examining stone statues that each contained a different Evolutionary Path and comprehended the Heavenly Wind path from the Spreading Wings Great Peng statue.

• Lin Yuan recognized the Sixth Star Cave's temptations as illusions and quickly broke free of each one, completing all ten steps.
• The Twelve Figures praised Lin Yuan's resolve and noted that he had passed the Sixth Star Cave faster than any previous challenger.
• Lin Yuan entered the Seventh Star Cave and learned that he had to comprehend an Evolutionary Path from one of its 136 stone statues.
• Lin Yuan studied the Spreading Wings Great Peng statue and comprehended the Heavenly Wind Evolutionary Path.
• Gu Ze and the other figures watched Lin Yuan, hoping the statues would reveal an Evolutionary Path especially suited to him.