Chapter Summaries

Luo Jun defeated Xue Lan in the semi-finals, and Adam faced Wu Feng in the final match. Wu Feng used the Absolute Fairness Arena to strip them of their powers, and when they returned, he had beaten Adam in a bare-handed fight.

• Luo Jun won his match against Xue Lan after charging into her blizzard, triggering Rebirth Blessing and surprising the audience.
• Adam used his Manipulation School ability to control the arena’s bricks, air, and Defense Barrier, suppressing Wu Feng with a barrage of attacks.
• Wu Feng realized Adam controlled objects rather than wielding elemental powers and spread his Gang Qi across the ground to disrupt Adam’s control.
• Adam used a Hundred-Splitting Spear against Wu Feng, but Wu Feng activated the Absolute Fairness Arena, preventing both of them from using Vital Energy, Treasure Tools, or other acquired enhancements.
• Wu Feng and Adam reappeared ten minutes later with Wu Feng holding Adam in a rear naked choke while Adam lay battered and unable to fight back.

At the semi-final award ceremony, Gonzales accused the contestant posing as Luo Jun of cheating by taking part in both the tournament and a Chaos Mission. The Autumn Hair Mirror tested whether he had entered the Preliminary Selection and quarter-finals, and confirmed that his answer was truthful.

• Wu Feng defeated Adam in the Absolute Fairness Arena, then killed him outside it to activate his Rebirth Blessing; the four semi-finalists received their Treasure Tool medals.
• Gonzales interrupted Luo Jun's award ceremony and claimed that the contestant was an impostor who had also participated in a Chaos Mission.
• Wan Guiyuan challenged Gonzales's accusation, and Taimu said he could not confirm whether the Luo Jun from the mission and the contestant were the same person.
• Gonzales asked the Gold Emperor to use the Autumn Hair Mirror to test whether Luo Jun had participated in the Preliminary Selection and quarter-finals, with Curse Kill as the price of lying.
• Aishiliya, disguised as Luo Jun, answered that she had participated in both stages, and the Gold Emperor confirmed that she had spoken the truth.

After Gonzales’s outburst delayed the tournament semifinals, the gates of [Heaven] unexpectedly sealed shut. In the [Hell] sub-world, Dampes discovered that “Luo Jun” was Lilith in disguise, captured Yuan Shouzhen, and attacked the real Luo Jun as he fled in the Cozy Home.

• Saint Andariel stopped Gonzales from challenging the competition result, and Gonzales apologized to “Luo Jun.”
• The Gold Emperor announced that the livestream signal had failed, and spectators discovered that the gates of [Heaven] had closed ahead of schedule.
• In the Cozy Home, Yuan Shouzhen and Lilith struggled with worsening pollution while Luo Jun remained in seclusion.
• Dampes confronted Yuan Shouzhen for information about Heather’s child, then exposed Lilith’s disguise and attacked her.
• Yuan Shouzhen drew Dampes away while Lilith escaped in the Cozy Home, but Dampes defeated Yuan Shouzhen and captured him.
• Dampes caught up with the Cozy Home, blew it up, and fired a red blast at the injured Luo Jun.

Luo Jun awakened after completing a breakthrough that restored his Vital Energy and discovered that Dampes had abducted Old Yuan while he was unconscious. Using his new Keen Eye ability, Luo Jun identified flaws in the artificial world and prepared to test a way out by summoning one hundred million creatures.

• Dampes attacked Luo Jun, but Luo Jun instinctively dodged and countered while remaining unconscious, forcing Dampes to retreat after sensing Mad King Fraym approaching his Demon Palace.
• Luo Jun used the Dice of Heavenly Secrets to break through the final bottleneck of the revised Supreme Handbook cultivation technique and restored Vital Energy to his meridians.
• Luo Jun awoke in the polluted wilderness, where Lilith told him he had been unconscious for three or four days and that Dampes had abducted Old Yuan.
• Luo Jun gained a level, received 77 Attribute Points, and unlocked Keen Eye after his Perception reached 500.
• Luo Jun used Keen Eye to examine the artificial world, then equipped his Energy-Saving Bracelet and Projection Ring and prepared to draw one hundred million creatures with the Creation Chessboard.

Luo Jun broke free of the contaminated world by overwhelming it with summoned creatures and a devastating strike, then returned to Hell and found Dampes fighting Fraym near the ruined Demon Palace. He crippled Dampes to force him to lead the way to Yuan Shouzhen, while Rolf and the captured exploration team escaped their prison amid the destruction.

• Luo Jun summoned hundreds of millions of zombies, Skeleton Soldiers, and Goblins to consume the contaminated world's energy, then shattered its unstable space with a hammer strike.
• Luo Jun returned to Hell and flew toward a distant explosion, discovering that Dampes's Demon Palace had been devastated and Dampes was fighting Fraym.
• Luo Jun seized Dampes and demanded Yuan Shouzhen's whereabouts; after the dice confirmed Dampes was telling the truth, Luo Jun crippled him rather than trust him.
• Fraym attacked Luo Jun and Dampes, so Luo Jun dragged the crippled Dampes out of the Molten Pit to continue the fight above ground.
• Rolf, Vincent, and the captured exploration team escaped their prison after the blast killed its guard and opened the cell door.

Old Vincent and the escaped explorers reached the surface amid the battle between Mad King Fraym and Night, who had captured the wounded Dampes. Night used True Damage Spray to overcome Fraym’s elemental defenses and drove him into retreat, leaving the explorers to wonder whether he had also defeated King of Fate Destonie.

• Old Vincent led the freed explorers toward the surface, where Kuwen located a thin section of rock and Vincent concealed the group with Dust of Concealment.
• The explorers emerged while Fraym and an opponent fought overhead, then discovered that Night—not Dampes—was battling Fraym while holding the injured Space-Time Demon King.
• Night coated his hammer with True Damage Spray and struck Fraym, whose elemental body could no longer evade the attacks, repeatedly injuring him.
• Fraym created an illusionary explosion to escape, but Kuwen sensed that he remained alive as Night pursued him.
• The explorers speculated that Night had also defeated Destonie and might have brought down three Demon Kings.

Luo Jun defeated Fraym, seized his demon core, and forced Dampes to take him from Hell to the Empire of Glory, where he learned that Yuan Shouzhen and Destiny were nearby. After Dampes admitted he could no longer teleport, Luo Jun stored him in the Smart Equipment Pack and began using the Teleportation Staff to reach Yuan Shouzhen.

• Luo Jun caught Fraym's demon core and erased the Mad King's remaining consciousness with a Mental Shock.
• Luo Jun returned to the ruined Demon Palace, found the Smart Equipment Pack, and made the weakened Dampes teleport him away.
• The Empire prisoners were swept through a space-time distortion to Green Valley Fortress, where Luo Jun killed an evolved Spike Demon and flew off.
• Dampes told Luo Jun that he had sent Yuan Shouzhen and Destiny to the Empire of Glory because their fates had become entwined.
• Dampes claimed he needed Fraym's demon core to regain enough strength to teleport, but Luo Jun put him in the Smart Equipment Pack and activated the Teleportation Staff toward Yuan Shouzhen.

Luo Jun rescued Old Yuan from Blackstone Prison, then sent him away and disguised himself as Dampes to meet Destiny and Duke Osman. Osman revealed a terrifying killing intent, leaving Luo Jun facing the strongest opponent he had encountered since becoming a Saint.

• Luo Jun teleported to Blackstone Prison, freed Old Yuan from his shackles, and used a card to purify some of his pollution.
• Old Yuan explained that Destiny was meeting Duke Osman, a powerful Polluter and former chief Holy Knight, and warned that Dampes’s presence would alert the local Ascension-level beings.
• Luo Jun sent Old Yuan through a teleportation gate, copied Dampes’s appearance with the Imposter Mask, and waited for Destiny.
• Destiny led Luo Jun, disguised as Dampes, to the lord’s hall to meet Duke Osman.
• Osman unleashed a crushing killing intent, and Luo Jun realized he was stronger than any opponent he had faced since becoming a Saint.

Luo Jun and Destiny considered Duke Osman's proposal to join his revenge mission against Heaven before the Day of Descent. Osman revealed his allies, including Alfred, the new Fear Demon King, and left Luo Jun facing a dangerous alliance whose targets might overlap with his own.

• Osman explained that he planned to attack Heaven before the Day of Descent and offered to help the Demon Kings find the people they sought if they joined him.
• Destiny questioned whether Osman could act without the Emperor's approval, and Osman said his plan required no large armies or official permission.
• Osman revealed that at least six angels and several Great Demon-level experts would oppose them, prompting Luo Jun to challenge him to show his preparations.
• Osman summoned four subordinates, including Alfred, whom Destiny identified as the Fear Demon King.
• Alfred greeted Destiny and Luo Jun, then revealed that he had devoured the Gluttony Demon King and taken his place after Gluttony attacked him.

Luo Jun joined Duke Osman’s expedition to attack [Heaven], but the invasion revealed that the angels were manufactured machines and that [Heaven] was a vast production facility. The expedition faced Meridia and a Giant Angel Mecha as the battle began.

• Duke Osman introduced Alemont, Ilwen, and Matia as legendary allies, and Luo Jun and Destiny agreed to join his counterattack on [Heaven].
• Osman’s army activated a teleportation array while the Heavenly Origin Tournament venue was sealed off, and both groups prepared for the space distortions around them.
• Hundreds of mechanical angels attacked the tournament venue, followed by towering Giant Angels that emerged through the Space Rifts.
• Osman’s army arrived in an underground facility producing thousands of angels, and Destiny recognized the machines as the kind that had once killed many Demon Race members.
• Meridia confronted Osman and sent the unfinished angels against his army before revealing a hundred-meter-tall Giant Angel Mecha.

Osman and the other Ascension Experts fought through Meridia’s angel army, but Meridia used a Bronze Mirror to send fourteen combatants away. On Sky Island, Luan Fei revealed that the attacks had been a test and unleashed a new generation of terrifying angels against the assembled Cultivators.

• Osman used his lock-on ability to attack Meridia, but she sacrificed her pink hair as a decoy before an unseen enemy broke his lock-on.
• Meridia and six allies emerged from the darkness, and she activated a Bronze Mirror that transported fourteen people away.
• On Sky Island, the Cultivators destroyed the ordinary Mechanical Angels and considered escaping through the Space Rifts.
• Luan Fei emerged from a rift and confronted Wan Guiyuan, who condemned him for pursuing power by devouring others’ Life Essence.
• Luan Fei summoned stronger, skin-covered angel monsters and announced that the Heaven’s Revival Project had replicated the Ultimate Biological Weapon known as Angel’s Wrath.

Luo Jun was trapped in a challenge arena where he and SpongeBob took turns choosing punishments for each other to endure. After surviving SpongeBob’s poisonous gas for fifteen minutes, Luo Jun faced the next punishment: a nuclear strike.

• Luo Jun discovered the arena suppressed his Treasure Tools and learned that losing would seal his Vital Energy before a fight to the death.
• SpongeBob chose Truth, and Luo Jun answered questions honestly but knew little about his companions or their abilities.
• Luo Jun endured Truth for five minutes, earned five points, and could not afford any of the challenge’s point-based options.
• Luo Jun used his turn to draw Poisonous Gas, which SpongeBob endured for fifteen minutes and earned fifteen points.
• SpongeBob chose the middle punishment again, revealing Nuclear Strike for Luo Jun.

Luo Jun endured repeated punishments in the challenge chamber, including nuclear blasts, while SpongeBob tried to learn what kind of opponent he faced. After SpongeBob amplified a Vital Energy Backlash punishment to drain 75% of Luo Jun’s Vital Energy, the drain continued for ten minutes without triggering the monster, leaving SpongeBob unsettled by Luo Jun’s enormous reserves.

• Luo Jun survived repeated 100,000-ton nuclear blasts without activating Immortality, and SpongeBob suspected he was a legendary Saint.
• Luo Jun used the Fate Peering Glasses to test whether he could force a Truth or Dare draw, but the event was too uncertain to determine.
• Luo Jun and SpongeBob alternated punishments, earning points through nuclear blasts, lasers, vacuum, machine-gun fire, and other challenges.
• After their scores passed 800 and 650, SpongeBob drew Vital Energy Backlash and spent 100 points to increase its drain from half to 75% of Luo Jun’s Vital Energy.
• Luo Jun’s Vital Energy began pouring out, but ten minutes passed without the punishment starting, and SpongeBob grew alarmed at how much Vital Energy Luo Jun possessed.

Luo Jun fought the Vital Energy monster through its first two forms and continued into a third stage, where it became a saber-wielding humanoid with concentrated Gang Qi. The monster’s blade left a mark on the supposedly indestructible transparent wall, leaving Luo Jun and SpongeBob shocked.

• Luo Jun battled the dinosaur-like Vital Energy monster, whose attacks damaged the room but failed to seriously hurt him.
• Luo Jun judged the monster weaker than himself and kept fighting to earn points, reaching 120 points after five minutes.
• Luo Jun accepted the next challenge, and the monster transformed into a fast, agile insectoid that fought him at high speed for five minutes.
• Luo Jun continued into the Third-Order stage, and the monster became humanoid, wielded an Alien Long Saber, and covered itself and its weapon in compressed Gang Qi.
• The monster’s saber struck the transparent screen wall and left a clear mark, surprising Luo Jun and SpongeBob.

Luo Jun prevented Jian 007’s monster from damaging the barrier, then used a Truth punishment to learn about Tianluo Company and the God Ascension Plan. The chapter left Luo Jun facing an intensified Soul Burn punishment after Jian 007 chose it for him.

• Luo Jun dragged the monster away from the barrier and beat it, but it recovered its blade and tried to stab him; the attack failed, and Luo Jun cut off its tail and limbs.
• Luo Jun spent a thousand points on Truth and learned that the factory was Heavenly Forge on Red Ghost Island in [Metropolis], and that Jian 007 was an artificial subject created by Tianluo Company’s God Ascension Plan.
• Jian 007 told Luo Jun that the plan aimed to help Wu Yingjie ascend, and that Wu and the company’s other directors were Polluters, though Wu Yingjie himself had never been polluted.
• Jian 007 used three hundred points to reveal three punishment options, then chose Soul Burn and spent another hundred points to intensify it.
• A mass of black flame flew into Luo Jun’s brow, and Soul-Eroding Fire began burning his soul.

Luo Jun endured Soul Burn long enough to study and attempt to reproduce the Black Fire, then broke through the barrier to help Jian 007 survive the repeated punishment. The challenge moved on to Feral Beast Unleashed, leaving Luo Jun ready to test what he had learned.

• Luo Jun resisted Soul Burn, discovered that the Black Fire consumed Mental Power as fuel, and extended the punishment so he could study it.
• After Soul Burn ended, Luo Jun tried to recreate the Black Fire but could not keep the black light stable.
• Soul Burn appeared again, and Luo Jun broke through the transparent barrier to reach Jian 007 as the punishment began.
• Luo Jun helped Jian 007 endure the burning for fifteen minutes while observing the Black Fire from another perspective.
• The challenge recalled Luo Jun to his room, where four monsters appeared for Feral Beast Unleashed, and he prepared to test his results.

Luo Jun mastered using Black Fire by touch, survived the Nuclear Strike punishment, and returned from the challenge disguised as Dampes. Osman’s group pursued Meridia and the man whose power worked through speech, while a battle between six Ascension-level experts and six angels raged in [Heaven].

• Luo Jun used Black Fire to kill or disable the beasts by touching their heads, then drew Nuclear Strike as his next punishment.
• SpongeBob reduced the nuclear bomb’s yield, but Jian 007 survived four detonations only by repeatedly restoring his Gang Qi with a life-draining secret art before the final blast vaporized him.
• After the challenge ended, Luo Jun retrieved his equipment and disguised himself as Dampes before returning to the Mechanical Angel production factory with six other survivors.
• Osman attacked Meridia, but the man with 'Speech' on Chest immobilized the group and escaped with her; Osman used the man’s forced command to track their direction and gave chase with his allies and Luo Jun.
• In [Heaven], spectators and contestants sheltered inside the arena barrier as six Main World Ascension-level experts fought six enormous angels around Sky Island, with Luan Fei inside one of the angels.

The Ascended Experts’ restrained battle proved devastating, but Meridia then trapped the arena’s cultivators in the Essence Devouring Furnace to refine them. Wu Feng, Ling Yao, Adam, and Taimu escaped, and Ling Yao and Adam flew to confront Meridia and her powerful guardian.

• A red beam from the distant battle split the spectator stands and showed the audience the Ascended Experts’ compressed attacks were immensely powerful.
• Meridia arrived with the Man with 'Speech' on Chest and trapped the arena’s cultivators inside her Essence Devouring Furnace to drain and refine them.
• Wu Feng organized the cultivators to lift the furnace, and Ling Yao, Adam, Wu Feng, and Taimu escaped before it fell back down on the others.
• Wu Feng revealed that Meridia could be refining the trapped cultivators into rare pills or consumables, and Ling Yao charged at her.
• The Man with 'Speech' on Chest knocked Ling Yao into the stands with a single attack, but Ling Yao recovered using his Demon-Breaking Golden Edge.
• Adam flew after Ling Yao, declaring that he and the Number One Under Ascension would challenge the pair.

Luo Jun was exposed as an impostor in the Chaos Space and learned that the battle had reached [Heaven], the Heavenly Origin Tournament venue. With Dampes's help, he found a route through the labyrinth and emerged into [Heaven], where a golden beam immediately targeted him.

• Destiny revealed that Luo Jun was not Dampes, and Luo Jun removed his disguise to reveal his identity as Night.
• Alfred explained that the Man with 'Speech' on Chest and his ally had gone to [Heaven], where their forces were fighting Ascended Experts.
• Luo Jun escaped the group, healed the imprisoned Dampes, and persuaded him to guide him out of the Chaos Space.
• Dampes led Luo Jun through a sequence of strange spaces until he reached a Space Rift opening into [Heaven].
• Luo Jun charged out of the rift toward the arena, which was covered by an upside-down giant pot, and a golden beam shot at him.

Luo Jun rescued the trapped contestants by flipping away Meridia’s Essence Devouring Furnace, then discovered how to resist Yan 026’s Word-Based Spell and attacked the pair. He seized Meridia, who invaded his Sea of Consciousness with her illusion technique, where she encountered black flames.

• Luo Jun learned that Meridia had trapped the contestants inside the Essence Devouring Furnace and tried to attack her, but Yan 026’s command forced him backward.
• Luo Jun enlisted Ling Yao to reinforce the ground, then used his strength to flip the furnace into the air and send it flying away, freeing the weakened contestants.
• Luo Jun warned the others that Dampes was a Demon King and flew up to confront Meridia and Yan 026, while the others stayed behind to help the people on the ground.
• Luo Jun broke free of Yan 026’s commands by relying on the overwhelming weight of his Saint’s Body and by storing and retrieving his hammer; Yan 026 then accidentally broke his own spell by speaking freely.
• Luo Jun pulled Meridia close with his chained hammer and grabbed her wrist, but she met his gaze and invaded his Sea of Consciousness with her illusion technique.
• Meridia pressed her mental attack deeper into Luo Jun’s Sea of Consciousness and encountered a mass of black flames.