Chapter Summaries

Lu Sheng encountered the Child of the Original Nucleus inside Zhao Sheng Ying’s Heart-Image World and concealed his inability to help her by suggesting there might be a way. Meanwhile, a Third Heavenly Devil King investigated Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s destruction, discovered Lu Sheng had escaped, and ordered the Ghost Poluo Realm’s assassins to track him down.

• Lu Sheng was drawn into Zhao Sheng Ying’s Doomsday Garden, where the Child of the Original Nucleus identified herself as an Undying City Tinder and asked him to create a charm-enhancing Life Nurturing Technique.
• Lu Sheng returned to the room, realized no one else had noticed his brief disappearance, and told Zhao Sheng Ying he was at his wit’s end before hinting that a solution might exist.
• A Third Heavenly Devil King and shadowy agents used a Time-Space Imprint to review the events before Cloud Heaven Pavilion exploded.
• The group found footage of Lu Sheng escaping through a gray fissure and concluded that he might be connected to Zhuang Jiu’s death and the destruction of Cloud Heaven Pavilion.
• The Third Heavenly Devil King ordered the agents to trace Lu Sheng through his blood relatives and warned them not to provoke the Eight-Headed Eagle Lion Clan.

Lu Sheng researched the Children of the Original Nucleus, learned about the wider universe, and descended to the Iron Flag Society to seek cultivation resources. He arrived at its Silver Sea headquarters, where Mi Guang Ying welcomed him and gave him a membership token, and he began browsing the society’s skills listings.

• Lu Sheng searched the library’s forbidden books and learned that Children of the Original Nucleus hid in Heart-Image Worlds and were linked to the Root of Emptiness.
• After finding no useful cultivation arts in the library, Lu Sheng decided to visit the Iron Flag Society and used a Descent Array to travel there.
• Lu Sheng arrived at the Iron Flag Society’s Metal Interstice headquarters, where Mi Guang Ying welcomed him and gave him a Primal Stone membership token.
• Lu Sheng learned how members earned and spent contribution points, then opened the token’s screen and sorted the skills listings by level.

Lu Sheng joined the Iron Flag Society’s task market, earned contribution points by healing injured clients, and completed Zhao LuoYing’s treatment while working toward buying a Void Nether cultivation technique. After Tu Jin sent word that something had happened to Chen Chen, Lu Sheng returned to the Fourth District, where Tu Jin and De Yun were being held by a hooded man.

• Lu Sheng found cultivation manuals and healing tasks on the Iron Flag Society’s trading platform and accepted a job treating a wounded White Dragon.
• Lu Sheng healed the White Dragon with Soul-Stirring Silk over five visits, earned contribution points, and received a Dragon Force Crystal as thanks.
• Lu Sheng continued taking healing tasks, sometimes earning rewards and sometimes facing illnesses and poisons he could not treat.
• Lu Sheng finished Zhao LuoYing’s treatment, made an ordinary beauty-preserving technique for Zhao Sheng Ying, and continued saving for a Void Nether cultivation technique.
• After Tu Jin sent him a letter about Chen Chen, Lu Sheng returned to the Fourth District and found Tu Jin and De Yun bound in the Tu household courtyard while a hooded man waited for him.

Lu Sheng returned to the Tu Family Residence and found Ju Ye holding Tu Jin, De Yun, and Chen Chen captive while searching for answers about Lu Sheng's flight from Cloud Heaven Pavilion. After Lu Sheng described his past and recognized the woman in Ju Ye's image as his mother, Ju Ye concluded that Lu Sheng might be Lord Zhuang Jiu's reincarnated biological younger brother.

• Ju Ye restrained Tu Jin, De Yun, and Chen Chen while waiting for Lu Sheng, and the bloodline signs on his palm grew stronger.
• Lu Sheng returned to the Tu Family Residence, found his teacher and companions bound and unconscious, and confronted Ju Ye.
• Ju Ye questioned Lu Sheng about leaving Cloud Heaven Pavilion's testing passage, and Lu Sheng gave him a fabricated account involving Lord Zhuang Jiu and his previous life.
• Ju Ye showed Lu Sheng an image of a veiled woman, and Lu Sheng said she felt like a stern elder before suddenly calling her his mother.
• Ju Ye identified the woman as Lord Zhuang Jiu's biological mother and said Lu Sheng might be Lord Zhuang Jiu's reincarnated biological younger brother.

Lu Sheng learned that Ju Ye believed he might be the reincarnation of Lord Zhuang Jiu’s younger brother, and that Zhuang Jiu had died fighting the Eight-Headed Eagle Lion Beast clan. After arranging for his companions’ safety, Lu Sheng sought help from Mi Guang Ying to relocate people and asked how to handle an impending investigation by a stronger enemy.

• Ju Ye told Lu Sheng that he might be Lord Zhuang Jiu’s younger brother and confirmed that Zhuang Jiu had died at the hands of the Eight-Headed Eagle Lion Beast clan.
• Ju Ye gave Lu Sheng Huang Meng Pills for Tu Jin and the others, a pendant for emergencies, and promised to investigate evidence of their possible kinship.
• Lu Sheng treated Tu Jin and the others, invited them to move to the main city, and then returned there to investigate nearby star domains and prepare for trouble from the Ghost Poluo Realm.
• Mi Guang Ying asked Lu Sheng to treat her uncle’s Mi Tian Guang Zhen Poison, and Lu Sheng agreed to suppress it in exchange for her help relocating people and fighting if necessary.
• Lu Sheng asked Mi Guang Ying how she would respond to an impending investigation after causing a major disaster, with an enemy far stronger than her.

Lu Sheng secured Mi Guang Ying’s help to relocate his relatives and the Yuan Devil Sect, then cured her uncle’s poison for contribution points. He bought the Eastern Garden Autumn Dew Fertilizing Art and learned that breaking through to the Bewilderment Realm required deeper comprehension of laws, so he planned to cultivate in a world with a much faster flow of time.

• Lu Sheng agreed to help cure Mi Guang Ying’s uncle’s poison in exchange for her protection of his relatives.
• Lu Sheng analyzed the poison, developed an antidote, and arranged for Mi Guang Ying to relocate his relatives and the Yuan Devil Sect to Libra City.
• Mi Guang Ying’s uncle paid Lu Sheng six hundred thousand contribution points for the antidote, and Lu Sheng used his savings to buy the Eastern Garden Autumn Dew Fertilizing Art.
• Lu Sheng learned that reaching the Bewilderment Realm required strengthening his soul and condensing a divine emblem through comprehension of laws.
• Lu Sheng decided to seek a descended world with a greatly accelerated flow of time so he could deepen his spiritual comprehension.

Lu Sheng descended into a low-energy world as fifteen-year-old Zhuo Zhenyu, hoping to gain insight while learning the world’s art of painting. He began adapting to life with his father, Zhuo Siqing, whose latest competition ended in another defeat.

• Lu Sheng prepared a vast formation, stored his possessions in the Overturning Sea Pearl, and crossed into another world.
• Lu Sheng took over Zhuo Zhenyu’s body and learned that Painters could gain supernatural abilities through the secret technique Painting Soul.
• Lu Sheng met Zhuo Siqing, assessed the world’s time difference, and decided to cultivate and study painting while seeking insight.
• Lu Sheng spent several days learning basic painting as Zhuo Siqing competed and returned after failing to reach the district finals.
• Lu Sheng asked Zhuo Siqing whether he had made the finals, and Zhuo Siqing claimed he had voluntarily yielded his place to an elderly contestant.

Lu Sheng accompanied Zhuo Siqing to the district painting competition, where he met Zhuo Siqing’s teammates Rui Xiong and Ai Lin and saw their extraordinary paintings. The group’s presentation ended in embarrassment when Zhuo Siqing unveiled a painting depicting all three adults naked beneath the stars.

• Lu Sheng spent more than a month training his painting skills and the Eastern Garden Autumn Dew Fertilizing Art, while his body grew taller and stronger.
• Lu Sheng accompanied Zhuo Siqing to register for the district round of the national Painters competition and entered the exhibition hall with him.
• Zhuo Siqing introduced Lu Sheng to his teammates Rui Xiong and Ai Lin, and Lu Sheng helped Rui Xiong dislodge bread stuck in his throat.
• Ai Lin revealed a harvest painting that immersed viewers in the sensation of standing among golden wheat, and Rui Xiong showed a fruit painting that filled the senses with fruit aromas and flavors.
• Zhuo Siqing unveiled his own painting of himself, Rui Xiong, and Ai Lin naked beneath a starry sky, leaving the compartment silent.

Lu Sheng discovered that paintings capable of stirring the soul could strengthen him, so he recruited the dying genius Jie Li'an to help complete a mysterious painting. Months later, the Silver Hand had conquered much of the Federation using power linked to that painting, and Osiris examined it as rumors of its potential spread.

• After Zhuo Siqing's explicit painting caused a fight, Lu Sheng blurred its details and explored the exhibition, where several paintings gave him a profound, soul-shaking sensation.
• Lu Sheng secretly sought out the top painters and found Jie Li'an, a gifted, terminally ill artist whose soul was exceptionally powerful.
• Lu Sheng promised to cure Jie Li'an and asked him to help complete a painting; Jie Li'an agreed to lend his strength.
• Over the following months, Lu Sheng's Silver Hand expanded across the Federation, and rumors spread that its rise came from a supernatural painting.
• Osiris examined the gray wheel-shaped painting and heard that completing it correctly could grant unimaginable power.

Lu Sheng built the Silver Hand into a world-spanning power while using its Painters to refine the Heart-Image World’s rules. A call from Zhuo Siqing brought him home, where Zhuo Siqing agreed to return to the Zhuo family only if his son Zhuo Zhenyu severed all legal ties to it.

• Osiris refused to fill in the remaining blanks in the painting, calling it a conspiracy, while the platinum-haired woman admitted she had tried.
• Lu Sheng examined the Heart-Image World’s Radiance Disk, which held emblems for Poison, Yin Fire, and Mystic Water, and began cultivating the Tu Style Healing Art to add more rules.
• Over five years, Lu Sheng secretly expanded the Silver Hand into a major force and used its Painters’ collective work to bring about a hundred rules close to condensing into emblems.
• Zhuo Siqing summoned Lu Sheng home, where his white-haired father demanded that he return to the Zhuo family after his eldest brother’s death.
• Zhuo Siqing agreed to return on the condition that Zhuo Zhenyu sever all legal ties and inheritance rights to the Zhuo family, while remaining his son.

Lu Sheng expanded his Heart-Image World while building his rule comprehension and overseeing the conflict between Eye of God and Silver Hand. After suppressing a violent escalation, he ordered Black Light Hand’s leaders to contain the fallout and restore stability.

• Lu Sheng returned home, learned from a call that the Zhuo Family’s main branch wanted Zhuo Siqing to inherit its business, and accepted that his father might leave.
• Lu Sheng advanced his Heart-Image World, brought in animals and people, and spent more than half a year comprehending over three hundred rules as Eye of God and Silver Hand fought to a stalemate.
• Lu Sheng gathered antiques to accumulate God-Entrusting Power and watched his Heart-Image World grow into a flourishing refuge, though it still lacked a natural cycle and the essence of combustion.
• Lu Sheng confronted two leaders of Black Light Hand after their actions helped provoke a major battle with Eye of God, which nearly escalated into an international war.
• Lu Sheng ordered the leaders to calm the international coalition, influence politicians, manage public opinion, and bury the incident within three days.

Lu Sheng rushed to Kunni City after learning Zhuo Siqing had been injured, only to discover that the accident and his family’s troubles involved Zhuo Family coercion. He summoned armed forces and ordered the Zhuo Family’s upper ranks brought to the hospital, leaving Zhuo Siqing’s relatives under guard.

• Lu Sheng received a call saying Zhuo Siqing had been in a car accident and immediately arranged a flight to Kunni City.
• Lin Shengya picked Lu Sheng up and took him to a residential building, where he found Zhuo Siqing hospitalized with Zhuo Xinxin and Lin Xuan'er beside him.
• A fat Uncle mocked Zhuo Siqing, harassed Zhuo Xinxin, and threatened the family while demanding that Zhuo Siqing sign an agreement.
• Lu Sheng ordered his forces to bring every member of the Zhuo Family’s upper ranks to the building within half an hour and seal off the residential complex.
• Black-Clothed Men stormed the room, guarded those inside, and one of Lu Sheng’s officers kicked the fat Uncle as the troops moved into position.

Lu Sheng retaliated against the people who had targeted Zhuo Siqing, using his Black Guard forces to seize Zhuo Family members and capture Zhao Longkui. After learning someone was kneeling outside, he ordered Lin Shengya to take him to the Zhuo Family's main residence, but she refused.

• Lu Sheng's men captured the men who had attacked Zhuo Siqing, and Lin Shengya and the others realized Lu Sheng wielded unexpected power.
• Lu Sheng gathered Zhuo Family branch members, ordered his father moved to intensive care, and learned Zhao Longkui had targeted Zhuo Siqing.
• Hols agreed to have Director Gao Yan investigate after Zhuo Xincheng offered the city police department fifty million.
• Lu Sheng attacked Zhao Longkui at his villa and had him dragged away, while his men detained the other guests.
• Lu Sheng had Lin Shengya brought to him and ordered her to lead him to the Zhuo Family's main residence, but she refused.

Lu Sheng forced Lin Shengya to take him to the Zhuo Family residence, where he confronted Zhuo Xincheng about his father and struck him down. As the Federation and Eye of God forces overwhelmed Lu Sheng’s troops, Augustus appeared in the sky, revealing a supernatural power that stunned everyone.

• Lu Sheng made Lin Shengya lead him to the Zhuo Family main residence and ordered his forces to surround it.
• Lin Shengya brought Lu Sheng to Zhuo Xincheng and Hols, where Lu Sheng demanded to know what had happened to his father.
• Zhuo Xincheng blamed Lu Sheng’s father for provoking the Zhao Family, and Lu Sheng slapped him across the room when he called for guards.
• Hong Shenlu warned Lu Sheng that the Federation and Radiant Knight Order were attacking, then reported that Augustus’s Eye of God Holy Guard had appeared before communications cut off.
• Lu Sheng sensed his Blood Spirit Guards being overwhelmed and recognized Augustus’s talent as the man walked through the air toward him.
• Lin Shengya, Zhuo Xincheng, and Hols watched Augustus in shock as Zhuo Xincheng realized Zhuo Siqing had been protected by a terrifying force.

Augustus led the Silver Hand and Eye of God against Lu Sheng after freeing the poisoned Painters, but Lu Sheng revealed overwhelming strength and began defeating the assembled forces. The chapter leaves Augustus trapped in Lu Sheng’s illusion, struggling to reach him as the battle continues.

• Augustus told Lu Sheng that the Silver Hand’s Four Great Halls had allied with him and that the poisoned experts had been freed.
• Lu Sheng transformed and survived Augustus’s plasma attack, then struck him into a crater and destroyed the attacking helicopters.
• Lu Sheng offered Augustus the chance to become his disciple, but a Painting Saint attacked with flaming Black Crows and Lu Sheng burned him with his own crow technique.
• Augustus attacked Lu Sheng again with a Wind Eye Spear, but Lu Sheng shattered it and blasted him into a building.
• Jie Li'an joined the attackers and bound Lu Sheng with threads while Augustus prepared a Thunder Emperor attack.
• Augustus found himself alone in an illusion palace, where Lu Sheng sat on a throne and Augustus struggled to approach him.

Lu Sheng defeated the Eye of God and the Radiant Knight Order, then rebuilt the laws of his Heart-Image World around six forms of power. After consolidating control of the Silver Hand and Kunni City, he visited Zhuo Siqing and turned down Lin Shengya’s plea to spare her uncle’s family, leaving him poised to advance into the Bewilderment Realm.

• Augustus and the other Painting Saints broke free of an illusion and attacked Lu Sheng, but he survived their assault and killed Augustus.
• Lu Sheng brought down a building on the Radiant Knight Order, killing most of its members, and realized his Radiance Disk needed rules of power.
• Lu Sheng used Deep Blue to fill six emblems with different forms of power and reshaped the laws of his Heart-Image World.
• After the battle of Kunni City, Lu Sheng became the world’s only Painting Saint, while the Eye of God was destroyed and the Painter’s path entered a period of decline.
• Lu Sheng visited the injured Zhuo Siqing in the hospital and told him that the affairs in Kunni City were mostly settled.
• Lin Shengya asked Lu Sheng to spare her uncle’s family, but he told her to ask Zhuo Siqing and left to pursue his advancement into the Bewilderment Realm.

Adien learned that the golden-flamed Night Emperor could send him to another universe and gave him four days to open the way. Meanwhile, Lu Sheng watched his Heart-Image World expand and strengthen its inhabitants, then prepared to return to the Heavenly Devil World and advance to the Bewilderment Realm.

• Adien agreed to wait for the golden-flamed Night Emperor to send him beyond the universe, threatening to kill him if he failed within four days.
• Lu Sheng found that the Heart-Image World expanded with its population as its animals, insects, and people grew extraordinarily powerful.
• Lu Sheng observed that the world’s inhabitants had formed a stable ecosystem and decided to let them reproduce and eventually forget their hatred.
• Lu Sheng arranged the Zhuo Family’s future, healed Zhuo Siqing, and left the Eye of God and Devil’s Fang under the control of trusted successors.
• Lu Sheng returned to the Heavenly Devil World and began preparing for his breakthrough to the Bewilderment Realm.

Lu Sheng completed his preparations for the Bewilderment Realm and returned to Libra City, where he refined his Bewitching God Smoke. He learned that Mother of Pain had sealed off Third Yellow Springs Star, so he turned to the Red Moon Disciples for a way to reach his family and subordinates, and took a mutual-assistance mission near the Green Ravine Sect.

• Lu Sheng developed his Heart-Image World and attempted to fuse its insignias into a Divine Rune, but the process failed because it required immense soul force.
• After three months, Lu Sheng used a formation to travel through the Space-Time Vortex back to Libra City and confirmed that his Heart-Image World had weathered the journey.
• Lu Sheng refined his Bewitching God Smoke, completing an important step in establishing himself as a Bewilderment Realm expert.
• Mi Guang Ying told Lu Sheng that Mother of Pain's Grid Black Net had sealed off Third Yellow Springs Star, where his family and subordinates remained.
• Mi Guang Ying suggested that Lu Sheng rise within the Red Moon Cult so he could retrieve his people more easily, and she stayed in Libra City to repay her favors.
• Lu Sheng searched the Red Moon Disciples' mutual-assistance listings and accepted a mission to help a cult son near the Green Ravine Sect.

Lu Sheng joined a Red Moon mission to attack the Bei Long Clan on Looking Mountain Star, but found little profit among the clan’s weak forces. After hearing about a powerful Demon Dragon and its treasure at the Undying Abyss, he turned his attention toward a more promising target.

• Lu Sheng met Presiding Instructor Men Fa and the other Red Moon Disciples, who set out to kill Kanbi Bei Long and plunder the clan’s wealth.
• Men Fa and the instructors attacked the Bei Long Clan, swiftly defeating its defenders and scattering to claim valuables.
• Lu Sheng found the clan’s surrendered members offering only low-ranked treasures and decided the mission was not worth his time.
• Lu Sheng asked the clan’s elders about nearby ruins or powerful beings, and the leading elder told him about a Demon Dragon guarding the Undying Abyss.
• The elder explained that the Demon Dragon possessed the Mystic Heart Nine Dragons Banner, which had defeated even Weapon-Raising experts who tried to seize it.

Lu Sheng raided a Demon Dragon’s treasury and gained nearly five hundred thousand units of God-Entrusting Power before turning his attention to a wealthy fortress tied to the Void God Sect and the Natas Merchant Alliance. After accepting a token rather than risk a fight, he suspected the fortress hid a bloody scheme and lured Church Elder Men Fa there by claiming its occupants had stolen Mystery Crystals.

• Lu Sheng killed Hei Zhong, captured his escaping black light, and looted the Demon Dragon’s cave, gaining nearly five hundred thousand units of God-Entrusting Power.
• Lu Sheng raided more than ten small strongholds and confronted a fortress where a Natas Merchant Alliance woman and two Void God Sect officials were secretly refining Human Towers using the blood of over a million captives.
• Lu Sheng accepted a piece of high-quality black jade from the fortress’s occupants and flew away without fighting them.
• Lu Sheng raided other Void God Sect strongholds, found little treasure, and returned near the fortress after sensing blood and resentful souls within it.
• Lu Sheng wounded himself and told Men Fa that the fortress occupants had stolen his treasures and Mystery Crystals, prompting the church elder to rush to his aid.