Chapter Summaries

Lu Sheng wiped out Saint Dragon Molly’s Wind Dragon tribe with Winter Night Roar, then brought the surviving Molly back to the village while he considered how to advance further. After learning of the slaughter, the Three-Eyed Saint Dragon sent Gray Star and his Elf Dragon tribe to punish the murderer.

• Lu Sheng found Molly alive among the fallen Green Dragons, devoured the Green Dragons for stored essence, and collected more than a thousand units of God-Entrusting Power from their belongings.
• Lu Sheng dragged Molly to the village, where White Ash helped settle the werewolves and Lu Sheng moved them into nearby ruins.
• Lu Sheng’s Winter Night Roar frightened neighboring dragon tribes, and news of Molly’s tribe being wiped out spread across the mountain range.
• The Three-Eyed Saint Dragon grieved for Molly and declared that her death had to be avenged.
• Gray Star volunteered to hunt the murderer and said he would lead the Elf Dragon tribe to eradicate him.

Lu Sheng subdued Poison Dragon Pool and gathered its inheritance diagrams, but the neighboring tribes had fled. He discovered the Hill Giants trading with humans and encountered another Descender before continuing his search for diagrams.

• Lu Sheng forced the Poison Dragons to submit, collected their five inheritance diagrams, and ordered them to send their oldest treasures to the Frost Clan’s settlement.
• Lu Sheng found the Four-Winged Iron Eagles, Earth Dragon Rhinos, and Giant Lizards had abandoned their territories, leaving Poison Dragon Pool as the only nearby tribe.
• Lu Sheng crossed the mountains and encountered the Hill Giants, who refused his offer to join the Frost Clan.
• Lu Sheng noticed human swordsmen emerging from a Hill Giant tunnel, and a giant’s attempt to stop him ended with its arm frozen by Lu Sheng’s Legendary radiance.
• The swordsmen’s leader ordered his group not to provoke Lu Sheng, and Lu Sheng realized the man was another Descender before setting off to collect more diagrams.

Sun Chaser Ebenhagen and the King of Ash led an army of orcs and monstrous birds toward the Green Plains Mountain Range, while the Three-Eyed Saint Dragon abandoned the region where Lu Sheng had gathered his forces. Lu Sheng organized his newly subdued clans into patrols and an army, then learned that Ash’s coalition was approaching.

• Sun Chaser Ebenhagen announced that he had honored his agreement, and the King of Ash emerged from a rift with countless Black Stone Birds to join the orc army marching toward the mountains.
• The Three-Eyed Saint Dragon recognized Ash’s approach and ordered Gray Star to halt, deciding to abandon the region where Lu Sheng was stationed.
• Lu Sheng gathered the nearby clan chiefs, collected their inherited diagrams, and ordered them to create patrol teams and an army to protect their clans from Saint Dragon Hall.
• The Three-Tailed Scorpion King challenged Lu Sheng’s authority but agreed to follow his orders after Lu Sheng threatened him.
• A Poison Dragon reported that an unknown coalition army of orcs and Black Stone Birds was approaching, and the Giant Bear King identified its leader as Ash, a powerful black Saint Dragon.

Lu Sheng joined King of Ash’s campaign against Saint Dragon Hall after learning that the Demigod possessed the Blood Seal Dragon Spear, a weapon that could threaten him. As the Ash Army advanced into the mountains, the Devil King hinted that he had another treasure capable of helping ice-type creatures grow stronger.

• The Giant Bear King warned Lu Sheng that the approaching Ash Army was led by a high-level Legendary creature, and the Poison Dragon confirmed that it was heading toward them.
• Lu Sheng and the clan chiefs saw the vast Ash Army and its Giant Eater Birds, while the Poison Dragon proposed surrendering to Ash.
• King of Ash and the four Great Elf kings surveyed Lu Sheng, and King of Ash sensed that he might be willing to oppose Saint Dragon Hall.
• Lu Sheng sensed a power that threatened him, learned that King of Ash carried the Semi-Divine Artifact Blood Seal Dragon Spear, and agreed to join the attack on Saint Dragon Hall.
• The Ash Army entered the mountain range, and the Devil King suggested that he possessed a treasure that could help ice-type creatures advance.

Lu Sheng agreed to cooperate with Ju and the Devil King in the struggle over the Eternal Cold Spring, trading for secret arts that Deep Blue could develop. As the Devil King and Lu Sheng attacked the Saint Dragon Hall, Lu Sheng overwhelmed Gray Star and began devouring him.

• The Devil King brought Lu Sheng aboard a Floating Ship and introduced him to a red-haired woman and her disciple Ju, who had their own plan to enter the Saint Dragon Hall.
• Lu Sheng and Ju shared their karmas and agreed to cooperate, with Ju trading him more than ten godly-mark secret arts that Lu Sheng learned through Deep Blue.
• The Devil King and Lu Sheng departed for the Green Plains Mountain Range after the Devil King gave Lu Sheng an icy white crystal and explained their plan.
• The Saint Dragon King and the King of Ash fought above Saint Dragon Mountain while the Devil King and Lu Sheng approached the Saint Dragon Hall.
• The Devil King immobilized Gray Star with the Mind-Sucking Art, and Lu Sheng tore into the helpless dragon, devouring his flesh as the other Saint Dragons tried to stop him.

Lu Sheng and the Devil King entered the Saint Dragon Hall seeking the Eternal Cold Spring, but the Saint Dragons revealed their trap and surrounded them. Ju sacrificed himself to unleash a devastating crystal blast, leaving Lu Sheng alive to claim an array to the Ghost Poluo Realm and discover the exposed spring.

• Lu Sheng devoured Gray Star before following the Devil King through a portal into the Saint Dragon Hall.
• The Devil King attacked Ju, but Lu Sheng lunged for the Eternal Cold Spring and was wounded by the Giant Scythe before healing and biting the Devil King.
• The King of Ash and the Three-Eyed Saint Dragon King revealed their ambush and demanded that Lu Sheng surrender or serve as a sacrifice.
• Ju told Lu Sheng he could hold out for ten breaths, then exploded into purple crystals that engulfed the hall and killed the surrounding Saint Dragons and Ash Army.
• Ju gave Lu Sheng his true name, Zhuang Jiu, before the crystals vanished, and Lu Sheng found an array for communicating with the Ghost Poluo Realm.
• Lu Sheng reached the former hall and discovered the Eternal Cold Spring flowing from a distortion in the air.

Lu Sheng absorbed the Eternal Cold Spring’s power, transformed into a demigod Hundred-Headed Devil Wolf, and took control of the Green Plains Mountain Range. After using a formation to draw much of the spring’s power into a new divine mark, he prepared to leave as Black Bone’s soul merged with his own.

• Lu Sheng absorbed the cold spring’s energy and grew into a nearly twenty-meter-tall Hundred-Headed Devil Wolf.
• Lu Sheng found Giant Bear King and the surviving commanders, then subdued the races across the Green Plains Mountain Range.
• Lu Sheng guarded the Eternal Cold Spring and spent ten days preparing a formation to convert its power into divine mark power.
• Lu Sheng activated the formation, merged the Profound Water Divine Mark with the Frost Divine Mark, and transferred the resulting Anomaly divine mark to his palm.
• Lu Sheng stopped the formation with only a fist-sized remnant of the cold spring left and departed as Black Bone’s soul continued merging with his own.

Lu Sheng returned to Great Yin after completing his work in the other world, bringing back the fused Divine Rune and the power of the Hundred-Headed Devil Wolf. After assessing his gains, he prepared to challenge the Gate of the Lord of War.

• Lu Sheng gave White Ash a three-use power imprint and a cultivation method, then told him to guide the Frost Clan back to its homeland and prepare for changes in the mountains.
• Lu Sheng entered the formation and devoured the Blood Seal Dragon Spear, merging the Hundred-Headed Devil Wolf into his true body before returning to Great Yin.
• Lu Sheng emerged from the fissure, found that only a few days had passed, and used his divine soul to inspect the devil palace and the Lu Estate.
• Lu Sheng discovered his divine soul had grown by sixty percent and decided to challenge the Gate of the Lord of War.
• Lu Sheng checked Deep Blue and found that the spear had given him more than ninety thousand units of God-Entrusting Power, while the wolf's remaining strength had become Doomsday Breath.

Lu Sheng confronted the beastly and demonic parts of himself at the Boundary Gate, then accidentally ate the gate while pursuing his desire to advance. He explored the darkness beyond it, found a recreation of his former home on Earth, and encountered his past self blocking the doorway.

• Lu Sheng faced two bat-like manifestations of his beastly and demonic sides, which urged him to abandon restraint and indulge his desires.
• Lu Sheng transformed, seized and swallowed the bats, then tried to push open the Boundary Gate using his heart.
• Lu Sheng realized he had eaten the Boundary Gate and its final fragments, leaving him unsure how he could advance.
• Lu Sheng explored the dark inner space and discovered a street and apartment complex resembling his former home on Earth.
• Lu Sheng entered Building Seventeen, Room 503, where he found a familiar young man resembling his former self and checked for his breath.

After breaking through to Lord of War, Lu Sheng discovered the Heart-Image World, a silent realm tied to his divine soul, and tested its powers and limits. He learned that it could drain a captive’s life force while time passed extremely slowly, then continued searching for more test subjects.

• Lu Sheng entered the Heart-Image World and recognized the familiar corpses there, including his own, the bandits who had abducted Lu Qingqing, a female ghost, and a girl he had killed in Great Song.
• Lu Sheng inspected Deep Blue and confirmed his breakthrough to the Sixth Realm, Tracing Origin, with the Heart-Image trait; he found a winged-serpent symbol in his divine soul that let him enter the world.
• Lu Sheng tested the realm’s time flow and spatial solidity, discovering that time moved extremely slowly and that he could not bring objects into it.
• Lu Sheng left the Research Hall and drew a fleeing female deer demon into the Heart-Image World, where her divine soul died after wandering for over an hour.
• Lu Sheng conducted more than ten experiments and learned that one hour in the Heart-Image World drained life force equivalent to three outside-world breaths, and that he could kill captives by destroying their bodies in Great Yin.

Lu Sheng studied the limits of his Heart Devil World while considering how to protect survivors in Autumn Moon County, then received an invitation from powerful cultivators and learned of a formidable Evil Spirit threat. The chapter ended as Heartless Saint Lord and another Blood Sun Holy Lord confronted Evil Spirit King Zola.

• Lu Sheng found that his Heart Devil World remained small and unchanged after he dragged in and killed roughly a hundred creatures, including Evil Spirits, demons, and devils.
• Liu Shanzi told Lu Sheng that nearly ninety percent of Autumn Moon County’s ordinary people had been slaughtered, and Lu Sheng proposed recruiting disciples and building a safe zone for them and three people they referred.
• Lu Sheng received an invitation from Golden Dawn Cave Master Sheng Fen and Cheng Li, the Heaven Burning Daoist, but chose to deal with the threat near Autumn Moon County first.
• Evil Spirit King Zola learned that one Giant Shark had died, received the location of the routed Third Legion, and began draining the land’s essence as he crawled toward Autumn Moon County.
• Heartless Saint Lord and a scarred Blood Sun Holy Lord intercepted Zola, and Heartless Saint Lord raised his transformed arm to fight.

Zola and Lu Sheng slaughtered Evil Spirits as they crossed the Nine Bright Province border, with Lu Sheng discovering that the Heart Devil World could absorb vast numbers of them and strengthen his soul. After Lu Sheng erased every Evil Spirit within a hundred li, he encountered Zola, and both claimed to be pacifists while sizing each other up.

• Zola killed Saint Lord Tong Ling after Tong Ling attacked him, then killed a red-clothed Thousand Sun Sect Holy Lord who accidentally collided with him while fleeing.
• Lu Sheng defeated and ate the Titled Evil Spirit Kan Di, then headed toward a plain crowded with Evil Spirits.
• Lu Sheng used the Heart Devil World to absorb tens of thousands of Evil Spirits and felt their souls strengthen his own.
• Lu Sheng unleashed Birth Extinction Subjugation and dragged every Evil Spirit within a hundred li into the void.
• Zola sensed Lu Sheng's power and approached him, and the two giant beings introduced themselves as pacifists.

Lu Sheng and Zola met, briefly mistook their intentions, and parted without fighting, though Zola was secretly under orders to kill him. After the Evil Spirit crisis subsided, news spread that the second Devil Emperor had appeared in Great Yin, and the chapter ended with a middle-aged gentleman questioning Ansha Jederman at the Heaven Piercing Crystal Pillar.

• Lu Sheng and Zola discussed their reluctance to fight, then Lu Sheng nearly devoured Zola when Zola suddenly blocked his path; they apologized and parted without battling.
• Zola admitted that the Evil Spirit Night Emperor had ordered him to kill Lu Sheng, but decided he would conceal his defiance and hoped they would meet again.
• Lu Sheng investigated which corpses appeared in his Heart Devil World, then received a warning from the Aurora Sect Master identifying Zola as Hypocrite Zola, a powerful Evil Spirit King.
• Lu Sheng ordered Nine Bright Province to eliminate the remaining Evil Spirits, while the three sects and other forces fought back until the crisis subsided after two months.
• News spread that the second Devil Emperor had appeared in Great Yin, and a middle-aged gentleman questioned Ansha Jederman beside the Heaven Piercing Crystal Pillar.

Ansha persuaded a middle-aged gentleman to help her bring new variables into the struggle against the Original World. At Three Saints Gate, Li Shunxi entered the Holy Hall to face its trial, while Lu Sheng worried about Lu Ning’s inability to cultivate essence energy and Lu Ning secretly trained under an old man who promised to help him surpass his father.

• Ansha told the middle-aged gentleman that she wanted to risk bringing in fresh players before the next great harvest, and he eventually agreed to help her.
• Kong Cheng led Li Shunxi to the Three Saints Gate Holy Hall and said he would reveal the Gate’s purpose if Li Shunxi passed its trial.
• Lu Sheng watched Lu Ning practice swordplay and worried that his son could not advance beyond the most basic level of any essence energy method.
• Lu Ning complained that Lu Sheng kept leaving, then resolved to grow stronger after speaking inwardly with the old man dwelling in his body.
• The old man urged Lu Ning to advance his mysterious cultivation technique quickly so they could escape the dangerous Yellow Springs Star.

Lu Sheng traveled to Yin Capital to seek information about the Lord of War while concealing his own strength. After a pickpocket named Xiu Er stole his money pouch with an unusual ability, he confronted her and left her companions badly injured.

• Lu Sheng reached Yin Capital after surveying Nine Bright Province and decided to seek Lord of War information covertly.
• He entered the capital, noticed the Jing Family acquiring Black Eyed Oxen, and observed the orderly city and its prosperous crowds.
• Xiu Er bumped into Lu Sheng, secretly stole his money pouch, and bragged to her companions about the theft.
• Lu Sheng followed Xiu Er into an alley, recovered his pouch, and asked how she had stolen it from him.
• When Xiu Er refused to explain, Lu Sheng struck her companions with invisible force, leaving them injured and one apparently near death.

Lu Sheng learned about the Stealing Heavens Gate while investigating the Lords of War, then met its sect master, Miao Xiang, who offered him information in exchange for investigating his son, Lu Ning. She revealed evidence that Lu Ning might be disguising himself as several people responsible for remarkable improvements across different fields, and Lu Sheng asked how he should cooperate.

• Lu Sheng questioned Xiu Er about Heaven Stealing and learned how the Stealing Heavens Gate used vital essence to steal objects.
• Xiu Er introduced Lu Sheng to another member of the Stealing Heavens Gate, and Miao Xiang arrived and identified herself as its sect master under the First Saint King.
• Miao Xiang offered information about the Lords of War in exchange for Lu Sheng secretly helping investigate Lu Ning.
• Miao Xiang showed Lu Sheng evidence linking Lu Ning to several aliases that had produced major advances in formations, potions, and other fields.
• Miao Xiang said the aliases' souls were more than eighty percent similar to Lu Ning's, and Lu Sheng asked how he could cooperate.

Lu Sheng allowed the Three Saints Gate investigators to probe Lu Ning, but refused their demand for a full physical examination. After the investigators left, they revealed that they had secretly replaced Lu Ning with a compatible lookalike, and the real Lu Ning awoke in a ruined room.

• Lu Ning visited Ming Xuan Workshop, then saved two poisoned homeless girls who possessed the Rootless Physique.
• Lu Sheng questioned Lu Ning about a prescription and his travels, then met investigators Zi Hengzi and Hong Meizi and agreed to cooperate under certain conditions.
• Over several months, Lu Sheng noticed his divine soul fusing with Yin Fire as the investigators watched Lu Ning's life.
• Lu Sheng refused Zi Hengzi's request for a comprehensive examination of Lu Ning and dismissed the investigation team.
• Zi Hengzi and Hong Meizi revealed they had replaced Lu Ning with a same-age soul possessing over ninety-five percent compatibility and implanted false memories.
• The real Lu Ning found himself in a ruined room after crossing into Lu Estate.

Lu Ning’s teacher, Evergreen Child, tried to help him escape from Zi Hengzi, Hong Meizi, and the Blue-Eyed Man, who sought to seize his Star Soul. After Evergreen Child sacrificed himself and Lu Ning was struck down, Lu Sheng sensed the attack on his son and unleashed his wrath against the First Saint Gate.

• Evergreen Child took control of Lu Ning’s body and fought Zi Hengzi and Hong Meizi, but the Blue-Eyed Man arrived and ordered them to seize Lu Ning’s Star Soul.
• Lu Ning fled across the wilderness while Evergreen Child fought the Blue-Eyed Man and sacrificed himself to buy Lu Ning time.
• A winged man blocked Lu Ning’s escape and struck him down with an invisible force as green flame appeared beside him.
• Lu Sheng sensed that someone had disturbed the seal and confronted a gigantic blue eye in the clouds.
• Lu Sheng destroyed the blue eye and ordered his forces to find Zi Hengzi and kill every member of the First Saint Gate.

Saint Lord Tu Lan and Saint Lord Zhao Yu mobilized a vast plant army to march on Autumn Moon County after the Yuan Devil Sect resisted. At the Demon Palace, the elders realized Lu Sheng had not summoned them or intended them to lead the response, as the vastly empowered Wrathful Lion departed alone.

• Saint Lord Tu Lan and Saint Lord Zhao Yu joined their keys to awaken Legion Commander Andilado and turn the forest into a vast army marching toward Autumn Moon County.
• The Yuan Devil Sect elders gathered to debate Lu Sheng’s kill order against Zi Hengzi and the danger of provoking the First Saint Gate.
• Old Shi revealed that Zi Hengzi belonged to the First Saint Gate’s investigation team and was a powerful Weapon Master, prompting the elders to reconsider why Lu Sheng had not summoned them.
• The elders discovered black-green flames consuming the Demon Palace grounds as the Wrathful Lion appeared and roared them back.
• The Wrathful Lion flew away, leaving Liu Shanzi and the elders shocked by its immense power and Lu Sheng’s hidden forces.

Devil creatures emerged across Nine Bright Province as black devilish qi blanketed the land, trapping Lu Ning and the Blue-Eyed Man’s group amid a hunt by powerful monsters. The Blue-Eyed Man was nearly overwhelmed until a blue arm intervened, while an enormous white wolf prepared to attack from a hundred li away.

• A Human-Faced Snake and other giant beasts emerged from their hiding places as devilish qi spread across Nine Bright Province.
• The Black-Winged Man trapped Lu Ning in Ice Sand, but the spreading black qi and incoming monsters disrupted the group.
• A giant worm killed Zi Hengzi, broke through the Blue-Eyed Man’s Thousand Silks, and forced the group to flee with Lu Ning.
• A grayish-yellow eagle destroyed the Blue-Eyed Man’s signal pill, while a goat-headed giant’s illusion sent the fleeing group back toward danger.
• The Blue-Eyed Man spotted thousands of black dogs chasing them and faced a colossal bull’s bloody lightning attack.
• A blurry blue arm intercepted the lightning, and a many-headed white wolf prepared to unleash white light from a hundred li away.