Chapter Summaries

Lu Sheng failed to decipher the Saint Sword Mud Slab before his teacher, Su Ningfei, summoned him to retrieve Su Yuanyuan. Meanwhile, Qing Baiwu and other powerful figures disputed the Myriad Transformation Divine Weapon, and a Mystic Sound Pavilion woman warned them about Lu Sheng, leaving them newly wary of his strength.

• Lu Sheng studied the Saint Sword Mud Slab and failed to uncover its secrets despite trying multiple methods and Deep Blue.
• Su Ningfei sent word asking Lu Sheng to go to Dou Xing Cliff and bring back Su Yuanyuan.
• Qing Baiwu met with Wen Chang and explained that he intended to teach the Thousand Sun Sect another lesson over the Myriad Transformation Divine Weapon.
• Representatives of the Twelve Heavens and another group of women confronted Qing Baiwu and demanded the weapon and Qiong Shang.
• A woman from Mystic Sound Pavilion warned the assembled powers that the Thousand Sun Sect could send Lu Sheng against them and described his reputation and abilities.
• The groups listened to her account and grew solemn about the danger Lu Sheng posed.

Lu Sheng traveled to Dou Xing Cliff to rescue Su Yuanyuan and swiftly defeated Qing Baiwu and his ally, but damaged the Overturning Sea Pearl during their fight. Su Ningfei intervened before Lu Sheng could kill Qing Baiwu, and Lu Sheng agreed to let her handle the search for her daughter.

• Lu Sheng reached Dou Xing Cliff and killed the Golden Dragon Cave messenger who appeared before him.
• Lu Sheng found Qing Baiwu and a disheveled old man in a cave, killed the old man, and captured the pieces of his crimson Divine Weapon.
• Lu Sheng caught Qing Baiwu as he fled and clashed with his Nine Dragons Opening Cloud Saber using the Overturning Sea Pearl, cracking the artifact.
• Su Ningfei arrived and blocked Lu Sheng from killing Qing Baiwu, offering to compensate him for the damaged artifact.
• Lu Sheng stopped attacking when he recognized Su Ningfei as his teacher, and she rebuked him for risking her chance to find Su Yuanyuan.

Lu Sheng uncovered an abandoned teleportation trap, prepared a new Descent Array, and began his third descent. He arrived in the body of Luo Sang at a deserted town, where a scarred man urged him to remember their shared past and follow him.

• Su Ningfei gave Lu Sheng a Golden Leaf Divine Weapon as compensation, and Lu Sheng left to pursue greater strength.
• Lu Sheng discovered and destroyed hastily abandoned teleportation formations set to lure him away, but found no trace of whoever had arranged them.
• Lu Sheng returned to the Yuan Devil Sect, learned Yuan Yuan had been rescued, and later helped Black Gold develop in Du Ming Town in the World of Pain.
• Lu Sheng rebuilt the Descent Array, used his Profound Water Divine Mark to stabilize it, and departed on his third descent after encountering Time-Space Vortex Worms.
• Luo Sang found himself in his abandoned hometown, Wind Falcon Town, beside a scarred man who told him to remember the place and walked toward it.

Luo Sang’s despair over his nightmares and his father’s notes led him to nearly die, but Lu Sheng took over his body and began investigating the monsters tied to their past. Lu Sheng left the bedroom to meet Luo Di and assess the unfamiliar world and its dangers.

• Luo Sang woke from another nightmare, threw away his heart medicine, and fell to the floor after learning that Luo Di’s preparations to face the small town’s monsters had not stopped them from being hunted.
• A red light entered Luo Sang through a crack at his neck, and Lu Sheng took control of his body, eased his heart spasms, and examined Luo Sang’s memories and karmic ties.
• Lu Sheng learned that Luo Di and Luo Sang had fled the small town twenty years earlier and that the town’s monsters had killed many of their relatives and continued pursuing them.
• Lu Sheng tested the world’s energy and found that its spiritual energy was absent while other forms of power were difficult to gather.
• Lu Sheng went outside and found Luo Di practicing saber forms in the courtyard, where Luo Di greeted him.

Lu Sheng decided to learn Luo Di’s blade art after realizing it might reveal this world’s power system and help him protect Luo Sang’s body. Luo Di began teaching him Jerello Blade Art and explained its three realms, leaving Lu Sheng with a new path to pursue.

• Lu Sheng watched Luo Di practice and learned from his notes that his father planned to leave the manor soon to seek revenge.
• Luo Di noticed Lu Sheng’s changed demeanor and offered to teach him blade art; Lu Sheng accepted.
• Luo Di took Lu Sheng to a clearing and began teaching him the force and stance behind Jerello Blade Art.
• Luo Di explained that Jerello Blade Art focused on developing strength and speed and described its realms: Skilled Hand, Lone Hand, and Master.

Lu Sheng learned the Jerallo Blade Art and its secret medicinal training methods from Luo Di, then used Deep Blue to discover how he could accelerate the medicine’s effects. After Luo Di departed to draw away the pursuing monster, Lu Sheng resolved to strengthen his body quickly before the danger returned.

• Luo Di taught Lu Sheng the basic blade techniques and the first-stage physical training method, along with pills that stimulated bodily growth.
• Lu Sheng examined the pills and learned that Deep Blue could master the school’s training methods to speed up the absorption of their effects.
• Over the next month, Luo Di trained Lu Sheng in other skills and left him a large supply of medicinal tablets.
• Luo Di departed from the manor, telling Lu Sheng that he would return after passing on everything he could teach.
• Jialin invited Lu Sheng to a ball, but he declined so he could keep training while Luo Di was away.
• Lu Sheng concluded that Deep Blue could help him reach the Jerello Swordsmanship School’s physical limits and planned to use the pills to strengthen himself quickly.

Luo Di learned that Qiao Man and four others had died to an Executioner and prepared to face his own pursuit, while Lu Sheng tested pills to improve his saber technique. The chapter ended as Lu Sheng focused on Deep Blue’s Modifier to begin the improvement.

• Luo Di decoded a message reporting that Qiao Man and four others had gone missing after encountering an Executioner.
• At the White Eagle tavern, Luo Di told the marked survivors that Executioners could not be killed and that his slick potion might help delay them.
• Luo Di announced he would leave for three to five months to face an Executioner and, eventually, the Death Realm.
• In Sunset County, Lu Sheng swallowed a bottle of strength-enhancing pills and ate to support his body as the medicine took effect.
• Lu Sheng prepared to use Deep Blue to improve his saber technique, despite having to spend God-Entrusting Power because he could not yet reproduce this world's food nutrition with Yang Essence.

Lu Sheng used Deep Blue and Luo Di’s medicines to rapidly raise his Jerallo Blade Art to the Lone Hand stage, then prepared to consume the last five bottles to reach its peak. Meanwhile, Luo Di fought the Executioner in a foggy town and trapped it, but the monster’s sudden teleportation let it resume its pursuit.

• Lu Sheng upgraded his Jerallo Blade Art to Skilled Hand, improving his strength, constitution, and speed.
• After taking more medicine, Lu Sheng upgraded the art to Lone Hand and matched Luo Di’s realm, though he believed he had not yet reached master level.
• Luo Di lured the Executioner into a slick area and then a deep trap pit, but the monster teleported out and attacked from behind.
• Luo Di evaded the Executioner’s chain and used explosive medicine to slow its pursuit while changing positions.
• Lu Sheng, feeling recovered, arranged the remaining five bottles of medicine and swallowed them to pursue the blade school’s peak.

Lu Sheng used the Jerello Swordsmanship School’s Black Spikes potion and Deep Blue to push his body far beyond its normal limits, then exhausted Luo Di’s concentrated supply over two months of training. With the medicine no longer effective, he decided to leave the manor and seek new ways to grow stronger.

• Lu Sheng enhanced the Jerello swordsmanship and discovered that Black Spikes strengthened his muscles and constitution but left his organs vulnerable to toxins.
• Lu Sheng found Luo Di’s concealed letter and a vial of concentrated Black Spikes, learned the potion’s formula, and began using Deep Blue to accelerate his training and purge its toxins.
• Over the next two months, Lu Sheng consumed the entire vial and raised his strength, constitution, and speed to level ninety-nine, transforming Luo Sang’s body into a massive physique.
• Lu Sheng confirmed that Black Spikes no longer strengthened him and decided to travel to the places Luo Di had mentioned in search of new potions.

Lu Sheng traveled to Betas City, where Bei Long gave him the Red Thorns Potion recipe and its training method before directing him to Banba Academy for more potion knowledge. Elsewhere, General Wu Lusi confronted a cloaked survivor about the Death Realm and learned only that he should not run away.

• Lu Sheng took Jialin to Betas City to find Bei Long and obtain a different potion to test.
• Lu Sheng and Jialin encountered a group of hostile men in the streets before Bei Long recognized Lu Sheng and welcomed him.
• Bei Long gave Lu Sheng the Red Thorns Potion, its recipe, and its matching training method, and warned him never to fight monsters head-on.
• Lu Sheng tested the potion, found it effective, then sent Jialin home and traveled alone to Yellow Mallow City to seek help at Banba Academy.
• In Elma Forest, General Wu Lusi told a cloaked figure that the Death Realm had begun moving again, and the figure warned him not to run away.

Lu Sheng reached Yellow Mallow City and obtained 181 poison formulas from Professor Ke Ke An Da, intending to use them to strengthen himself. Before leaving, he noticed a statue of the evil god Mi Sha and headed back to prepare the potions.

• Lu Sheng arrived in Yellow Mallow City and entered Banba Academy with Bei Long’s letter of introduction.
• Professor Ke Ke An Da gave Lu Sheng a collection of 181 poison formulas and warned him that the potions required suitable training methods.
• Lu Sheng learned that the formulas had once been ordinary poisons before training methods made them useful for strengthening the body.
• Lu Sheng noticed a statue of Mi Sha, an evil god associated with the boundary between life and death and with pain and pleasure.
• Lu Sheng left the academy and ran back toward his starting point, planning to brew and consume the potions.

Lu Sheng learned from Solomon that his father, Luo Di, was nearing the Death Realm and decided to go see him. After seven days of intensive training, Lu Sheng set out with Solomon to reach the Death Realm before it was too late.

• Lu Sheng drank a massive batch of medicinal paste and used Deep Blue to upgrade his Jerallo Blade Art, growing into a giant.
• Solomon arrived to tell Luo Sang that Luo Di was about to die, and Lu Sheng injured him before learning who he was and apologizing.
• Solomon explained Luo Di’s situation and warned Lu Sheng that the monsters in the Death Realm could not be killed; Lu Sheng insisted on going with him.
• Wu Lusi brought troops and twenty-five heavy cannons to the old town, hoping to destroy it before facing the Death Realm.
• Lu Sheng spent seven days absorbing medicinal paste and strengthening his body, then left with Solomon to find Luo Di.

Luo Di led a small group of Imprinters toward the town, but Hunters and Stranglers forced them to flee. Lu Sheng reached the White Eagle gathering place and learned Luo Di had gone to Gathering Valley, then set off to find him.

• Luo Di proposed that the Imprinters enter the town to learn the truth, and the old scholar agreed to go with him.
• Hunters and Stranglers attacked the group, so Luo Di ordered everyone to scatter and ran from the town.
• Solomon brought Lu Sheng near the town and told him that Luo Di had gone to the White Eagle gathering place.
• Mei La and her companions discussed Luo Di and his son before Lu Sheng arrived and asked where his father was.
• Mei La told Lu Sheng that Luo Di had gone to Gathering Valley, and Lu Sheng left to find him.

Luo Sang found Luo Di in the fog and effortlessly rescued him from several monster plants, revealing how powerful he had become. Luo Di brought his son toward the town, where Luo Sang promptly destroyed a threatening woman in a building with a single strike.

• Luo Di escaped a monster plant that had killed his Death Realm teammates, while Wu Lusi's cannon attack on the town failed and brought further casualties.
• Luo Sang arrived, revealed that practicing Luo Di's blade techniques and taking medicine had transformed him, and cut down three monster plants attacking his father.
• Luo Di saw the deep Blade Marks Luo Sang had left and decided to take him toward the town so he could witness its dangers.
• Luo Di and Luo Sang met the injured Ai Xinluo and two other survivors near a Small Building, and Luo Di introduced Luo Sang as his son.
• A long-haired woman appeared in a window and began threatening them, but Luo Sang smashed her, the window, and part of the building with a powerful strike.

Mei La and Luo Di’s groups were caught by a catastrophic flood caused by Wu Lusi’s destruction of the upstream Snow Eagle Dam, forcing them to seek refuge inside the dangerous town. The groups entered separately, and the chapter ended as a black tentacle attacked Lu Sheng from behind a room door.

• Mei La realized Wu Lusi had destroyed the Snow Eagle Dam when a flood surged toward her group, and she led them into the town for shelter.
• Luo Di and his companions saw the towering flood approaching and decided to enter the town, while two members resisted.
• Lu Sheng carried Luo Di and the injured Ai Xinluo into the town at extraordinary speed as the flood struck outside and the town’s damaged roof began to heal.
• Luo Di, Lu Sheng, and Ai Xinluo searched a four-story building for refuge and went up to its fourth floor.
• Lu Sheng opened a room door, and a thick black tentacle shot out toward his face.

Lu Sheng and his companions took shelter in the Small Building, where he killed several monsters while Luo Di and Ai Xinluo discovered the town was surrounded by water and planned to escape by raft. As Lu Sheng continued searching for the key to destroying the town, an Executioner emerged from the corridor fog.

• Lu Sheng killed a tentacled Mimic that attacked from a room, then discovered a decaying woman on the bed and bound her after she screamed.
• Luo Di and Ai Xinluo saw gray water and thick fog surrounding the town; Ai Xinluo proposed building a raft from a wooden house, and Luo Di warned that danger could arrive after three hours.
• Lu Sheng left to patrol the Small Building, killed three more monsters, and searched for a way to destroy the town.
• On the third floor, Lu Sheng killed a spider-bodied old woman and several monsters that attacked from the carpets, then called out the creatures hiding in the fog.
• A chained Executioner emerged from the corridor fog in front of Lu Sheng.

Lu Sheng defeated the Executioner, discovered that draining its blood weakened it, and began searching the town for lumber while Luo Di reunited with Mei La and the others. After returning with logs, Lu Sheng noticed a little boy watching a television in a dark classroom.

• Luo Di left Ai Xinluo in the Small Building to investigate a sound, while Ai Xinluo began drawing on the floor with red chalk.
• Lu Sheng fought the Executioner, released one percent of his power, tore off its head, and watched its body dissolve into black water.
• Lu Sheng cleared the Small Building and told Luo Di to stay with Ai Xinluo while he went to find lumber.
• Luo Di reunited with Fu Lan, Mei La, and their companions as Lu Sheng left to search the town.
• Lu Sheng fought and killed a fused-corpse Anomaly, searched the town, and returned with more than a dozen logs.
• Lu Sheng noticed a little boy watching a black-and-white television in a dark classroom.

Lu Sheng explored the Small Building’s supernatural classrooms, surviving a series of traps and visions that revealed children being forced into a violent religious ritual. When the boy attacked him amid a fire engulfing the school, Lu Sheng stopped the strike and sent him crashing through several houses.

• Lu Sheng saw a little boy and an intact classroom that vanished when Luo Di arrived, strengthening his suspicion that the Small Building was central to the town’s mystery.
• While the others assembled a raft, Lu Sheng searched the school and encountered apparitions of silent teachers and students, then fell through the classroom floor into a spike trap.
• Lu Sheng escaped the trap, followed the boy through a doorway, and fell down a cliff into a strange gray landscape before climbing back to a door leading into the classroom.
• Lu Sheng overheard a woman urging children to sacrifice themselves in a ritual and punishing a boy named Ryan, then returned to the first classroom as it caught fire.
• The boy approached Lu Sheng and attacked with black spikes, but Lu Sheng remained unharmed and blasted him through the school and several houses.

Lu Sheng fought through the monsters to reach the boy, while Luo Di’s group and Wu Lusi’s forces converged on the ruins. The boy’s monster horde overwhelmed Lu Sheng, and the survivors were immobilized when the creatures fused into a towering horned monster.

• Lu Sheng approached the boy through the flames, resisted the insects pouring from his eyes, and lifted him as Executioners gathered nearby.
• Luo Di, Mei La, and Fu Lan escaped the school’s monsters, saw flames erupt from the Small Building, and set out to find Luo Sang and Ai Xinluo.
• Wu Lusi reunited with You Ya at the church, then led his remaining guards toward the fire in hopes of finding a way out.
• The boy’s screams drew a horde that overwhelmed Lu Sheng, and Luo Di’s group arrived as Lu Sheng disappeared beneath the monsters.
• Wu Lusi and his guards fired at the boy, but the monsters attacked and killed the guards as You Ya stayed beside her father.
• The monsters fused into a towering horned creature, whose icy aura froze Wu Lusi, You Ya, and Mei La’s group in place.

Lu Sang annihilated the monsters threatening the town with a single slash, then destroyed a mysterious fragment that tried to tempt him with power. As the town dissolved, he regrouped with the survivors and learned from Ai Xinluo that the mark on his arm was a basic symbol in Ancient God Script.

• Lu Sang emerged from the monster horde and split the ram-horned monster, the boy, and the town with one slash, revealing his many medicinal enhancement marks.
• Mei La recognized Lu Sang as the pinnacle of the Slaughter School’s medicinal enhancements, while Wu Lusi and You Ya debated whether he was human or a monster.
• Lu Sang approached the boy’s corpse, drew out a talking purple fragment, and bit it until its voice fell silent.
• The town dissolved into black water as Lu Sang returned to normal size, reunited with Luo Di, and told him that something seemed to be calling him away.
• Lu Sang agreed to remain while the survivors investigated the town, and Ai Xinluo identified the mark on his arm as a basic Ancient God Script symbol.