Chapter Summaries

Lu Chenzhou cleared the Heart Sutra’s first trial, defeated the Spirit of Wrath, and obtained the first part of the Great Vajra Tiger Subduing Arhat Seal, while Zhending escaped one danger only to encounter a more terrifying monk. After waking, Lu Chenzhou strengthened his martial arts and spiritual power, but discovered the newly acquired mind-based technique was incomplete.

• Lu Chenzhou fought off waves of strange monks in the Heart Sutra illusion and defeated the Spirit of Wrath with a spiritual-power-fueled punch.
• Lu Chenzhou advanced to the second layer of the Heart Sutra trial and found a jade slip containing the Great Vajra Tiger Subduing Arhat Seal.
• Zhending fled from a giant bear monster but ran into the Bear-Head Old Monk, then escaped into the forest when the monk recognized his manifested arhat spirit.
• Lu Chenzhou woke from the trial, practiced the Mountain God Demon-Subduing Fist to a new level, and assessed his growing combat strength.
• Lu Chenzhou reached 100 Prajna of spiritual power and found the Great Vajra Tiger Subduing Arhat Seal on the Martial Dao Tree, where it was listed as an incomplete first part.

Lu Chenzhou learned and cultivated Randuo Temple’s curse-seal method, shared his findings with the Mind Sect group, and earned military merit by submitting it. At the Sword Mound, he immersed himself in the Tianyuan Cauldron Sword’s history and witnessed its legendary bond with Zhang Sanfeng, but the chapter left the sword’s response to Lu Chenzhou unresolved.

• Lu Chenzhou cultivated the Vajra Curse Seal and tested its barrier by having Dog Ghost attack him with ghostfire, which the seal deflected.
• Ye Lingyun defeated three challengers at Jiangnan Martial University and resolved to enter the Boundary Realm before the Water Mansion opened.
• Lu Chenzhou exchanged information about Randuo Temple’s world with the Mind Sect group, then submitted the Arhat Seal method to the military and received 10,000 military merit.
• Yue Xiping practiced at the Sword Mound, hoping to win the Tianyuan Cauldron Sword’s recognition, as Lu Chenzhou arrived and drew the attention of Ye Lingyun and the crowd.
• Lu Chenzhou immersed himself in the Tianyuan Cauldron Sword’s memories and saw its origins, Zhang Sanfeng claim it, and Zhang Zu use it to slay a Great Demon King and enter the fifth realm.

The Ding Sword recalled its survival through the Great Wilderness’s war against the stars and its long history of rejecting would-be wielders before meeting Lu Chenzhou. Though Lu Chenzhou declined to pursue the sword path, the sword secretly followed him aboard the Xiangyun Ship and asked again.

• After Zhang Zu died without entering the sixth realm, the Ding Sword remembered how the Xuan Emperor and the Heavenly Sword Sect fought the Great Wilderness Divine Court and the stars, leaving the sword as one of the sect’s few survivors.
• The Ding Sword recalled rejecting generations of visitors, then sensed Zhang Zu’s Dao Resonance and a vast Martial Dao Tree in Yue Xiping’s bearing.
• The Ding Sword offered to help Lu Chenzhou rise through sword cultivation, but he declined and gained insights that strengthened his Martial Dao Tree, fist principles, and spiritual power.
• Lu Chenzhou left the Sword Mound with the Ding Sword still in place, while Yue Xiping abandoned his own attempt and observers discussed the sword’s refusal.
• Ye Changkong completed Lu Chenzhou’s Gold-Surging Water-Parting Bracelet, and Lu Chenzhou put it on before leaving the Sword Hut.
• A phantom of the Ding Sword slipped aboard Lu Chenzhou’s Xiangyun Ship and asked whether he truly would not cultivate the sword path.

Lu Chenzhou accepted Ding Sword’s sword spirit as a companion and learned more about the Great Wilderness, the Nine Fiends, and the evil gods. After a month of training, he decided to enter the upcoming World Spear Skills Exchange Tournament, whose unusual format was called the Fighting Realm.

• Ding Sword’s spirit refused to return to the Sword Tomb, and Ye Xiaoyao allowed Lu Chenzhou to take it along without affecting others’ ability to comprehend the Dao essence.
• Ding Sword’s spirit explained that Qiheng was one of the Nine Fiends and revealed that the Deer Lord behind Eternal Heaven was the Lord of Distant Mountains; it also warned Lu Chenzhou about Wu.
• Tang Zheng met Gu Qianqian, who offered him an opportunity to kill Lu Chenzhou through a subordinate with a Wu Shui token.
• Heaven-Seeker awoke from a nightmare about Qiheng and dismissed the danger posed by the Divine Court’s remaining contingencies.
• In April, Lu Chenzhou learned that the Alliance of Ten Thousand Nations would hold a World Spear Skills Exchange Tournament in June, and he chose to compete for its Nine-Heavens Star Spirit Pill.
• After hearing the tournament’s format, Lu Chenzhou reacted with surprise when he learned it was called the Fighting Realm.

Lu Chenzhou learned about the Fighting Realm and the Four Great Heavenly Sects, then prepared for the World Spear Skills Exchange Tournament. As fighters from across the world gathered for the event, he trained until the end of May and refined his body-tempering and Pure Yang True Core.

• Lu Chenzhou asked the sword spirit about the Fighting Realm and learned that its Wild Hunt Island had once been part of the Tiandou Sect’s Wilds Tower.
• The sword spirit explained the origins of the Four Great Heavenly Sects and their founders, including the Battle Emperor, Dragon Emperor, and Heart Emperor.
• Horus ordered his daughter Wajit to enter the World Spear Skills Exchange Tournament and warned her to watch Lu Chenzhou.
• The Demon Mountain Emperor reminded Silver Bear to compete, as spear masters across the world turned their attention to the Fighting Realm.
• Lu Chenzhou confirmed to Zhao Yunzong that he would participate and focused on body-tempering to prepare for the tournament.
• At the end of May, Lu Chenzhou completed intense training under fifty times gravity, with his body and Pure Yang True Core strengthened.

After a month of training, Lu Chenzhou strengthened his body and spear techniques before joining Great Xia’s team for the first World Spear Skills Exchange Tournament. The tournament began inside the Fighting Realm, where Lu Chenzhou immediately eliminated Emiya Kuro with two spear strikes.

• Lu Chenzhou advanced the Ghost Tiger Overlord Body to mastery, raised his attack power, and tested the strength of his Pure Yang Shield.
• Old Master Yu arrived to escort Lu Chenzhou to the tournament, and Lu Chenzhou demonstrated attacks reaching 170 dings before departing aboard the White Jade Disc with Great Xia’s contestants.
• At Anubis, the Five Elders opened the tournament, and Lu Chenzhou encountered the favored Silver Bear Craig before entering the Fighting Realm.
• Lu Chenzhou landed on the island and discovered that its gravity was ten times stronger than outside, then Emiya Kuro arrived nearby.
• Lu Chenzhou ambushed Emiya Kuro and defeated him in two spear strikes, sending him out of the Fighting Realm as the first eliminated contestant.

Lu Chenzhou fought his way through the Fighting Realm, defeating Pangong before facing Silver Bear in the final clash. He killed Silver Bear with Ragnarok, then found himself alone on the mountaintop as the last fighter standing.

• Lu Chenzhou rescued Zhao Yunzong from two peninsula fighters and later gathered a team of Great Xia fighters.
• Silver Bear raised his kill count to fourteen while Lu Chenzhou climbed to second place.
• Pangong ambushed Yang Tian with several fighters, but Yang Tian eliminated one attacker before being eliminated alongside another fighter.
• Lu Chenzhou seized Pangong's Sun Spear barehanded and defeated him, then led his teammates toward Silver Bear.
• As tsunamis forced the survivors to the island's center, Silver Bear and Wajit allied against the Great Xia fighters, and Lu Chenzhou challenged Silver Bear alone.
• Lu Chenzhou unleashed Ragnarok to defeat Silver Bear, then looked around in confusion when he found himself alone on the battlefield.

After Lu Chenzhou’s decisive spear strike won the international tournament, the Martial Dao Tree unlocked a function that let him relive major battles through projections. He refined his Martial King Spear with Yang Jue, learned more about the Great Wilderness and its fading worlds, and received a mysterious token.

• Lu Chenzhou’s battle memories unlocked a Martial Dao Tree function that let him use mental power to summon projections of significant opponents and fight them again.
• The Fighting Realm expelled Lu Chenzhou, Silver Bear, Wajit, and the other fighters after Lu Chenzhou’s domain-like spear strike threatened everyone nearby; witnesses recognized that he had grasped the embryonic form of a dharma realm.
• Yang Jue announced Lu Chenzhou as the tournament’s champion, and the other nations’ fighters and spectators acknowledged the strength of his final strike.
• Lu Chenzhou practiced for Yang Jue, who demonstrated the Azure Sea Soaring King Spear and helped him complete the Martial King Spear and create the fifth form, Milky Way Falls Through the Nine Heavens.
• Yang Jue explained that the Fighting Realm reflected the Great Wilderness’s starry sky and that dim stars represented human realms nearing destruction, then urged Lu Chenzhou to prepare to fight evil gods.
• Yang Jue gave Lu Chenzhou a deep-blue token, and a primordial voice echoed in his mind.

Lu Chenzhou returned to Su City after winning the world championship, learned more about his place in the revived Tiandou Sect, and used the Martial Dao Tree to relive past battles with his current strength. He defeated the Mantis Demon in the replay, but a hidden worm-like creature killed him and burrowed into his head.

• Yang Jue explained that Lu Chenzhou was the Tiandou Sect’s Ninth Star and that its ranking could change through challenges, while the sect recruited disciples across worlds.
• Lu Chenzhou returned to Su City Longwu, greeted his parents and elders, and visited Li Gui and Chen Jiu.
• Lu Chenzhou discovered that the Martial Dao Tree could let him replay past battles using his current cultivation and skills, though the scenes consumed mental power.
• Lu Chenzhou received the Nine-Heavens Star Spirit Pill from the Spear Arts Association and set it aside until his hidden injuries healed.
• Lu Chenzhou entered the Mantis Demon battle scene and defeated the demon with his spear, but a worm-like creature struck through his forehead and burrowed into his head.

Lu Chenzhou repeatedly fought the Mantis Demon in the Martial Dao Tree’s battle scene, learning from his deaths and eventually defeating it with sword qi. He used the resulting sudden inspiration to improve his Cloud-Climbing Ladder and continued training, ending with a new opportunity for his Martial King Spear to give rise to wisdom.

• Lu Chenzhou learned that a Golden Thread Worm had killed him after the Mantis Demon’s death and studied its danger rating and habits.
• Lu Chenzhou entered the battle scene again without his Dharma Robe, but the Mantis Demon killed him after he misjudged its tactics.
• Lu Chenzhou used forest terrain and hit-and-run attacks against the Mantis Demon, then pursued it into the air and was killed by its counterattack.
• Lu Chenzhou killed the Mantis Demon with Life-Death Formless Void-Breaking Sword Qi, unlocked the Golden Thread Worm battle scene, and gained sudden inspiration for Cloud-Climbing Ladder.
• Lu Chenzhou practiced Cloud-Climbing Ladder and improved its proficiency by 9%, then spent the following days repeatedly battling the Mantis Demon without gaining another sudden inspiration.
• Lu Chenzhou continued alternating spear and fist techniques against the Mantis Demon, and after another spear victory, the Martial Dao Tree granted an opportunity for Martial King Spear to give rise to wisdom.

Lu Chenzhou advanced his spear technique and received Gongsun Ying’s guidance on the sixth realm of fist principles. After taking the Nine-Heavens Star Spirit Pill, he gained insight into 310 additional acupoints, accelerating his cultivation as he continued working toward Grandmaster.

• Lu Chenzhou entered Heart-Reached Wisdom-Birth, comprehended Long River Setting Sun Round, and advanced the Martial King Spear to its second transformation.
• Lu Chenzhou questioned the Sword Spirit about its master, then studied An Analysis of the Dao and sought Gongsun Ying’s advice about fist principles.
• Gongsun Ying explained how martial arts imitated the forms of heaven and earth and described the sixth realm as Three Flowers Gather at the Crown, Five Principles Return to One.
• Lu Chenzhou returned home with a clearer understanding of the sixth realm, and his Martial Dao Tree neared the fourth spiral step.
• On July 1st, Lu Chenzhou swallowed the Nine-Heavens Star Spirit Pill, which revealed 310 additional acupoints and increased his acupoint-opening speed by one-third.
• Lu Chenzhou tested the pill’s effects and decided to train thirteen hours a day, aiming to open four acupoints each month.

After reaching the final realm of martial arts, Lu Chenzhou joined an operation against a Witch God Sect stronghold and killed its leader, Wu Tiandiao. He destroyed the cultists and their breeding pool, while Miao Xiaofeng later arrived and vowed to find the person responsible.

• Lu Chenzhou returned to Dali City after gaining strength from the Nine-Heavens Star Spirit Pill, and Bai Miaomiao noticed he had broken through to the final realm.
• Bai Miaomiao told Lu Chenzhou about an upcoming operation against a Witch God Sect stronghold, and he agreed to join.
• Lu Chenzhou attacked Wu Tiandiao's stronghold in the Hengduan Mountains, defeated his gu demons, and killed him with the Taisui Life-Severing Saber before he could become a ghost.
• Lu Chenzhou killed the stronghold's core cultists and burned the gu demon breeding pool, then left with Bai Miaomiao and Zhou Ruoxue.
• Miao Xiaofeng inspected the destroyed stronghold and vowed to discover who had killed Wu Tiandiao.

Lu Chenzhou trained in Dali City while preparing for future tournaments and strengthening his spiritual defenses. As he prepared to undergo tribulation, the sword spirit finally revealed that its former master, Sword Immortal Li Mo Li, had a treasure that Lu Chenzhou might want.

• Miao Xiaofeng learned that the Witch God had chosen Lu Chenzhou as its future Divine Son, though she could not understand why.
• Lu Chenzhou discussed the upcoming All-Nations Martial Arts Tournament with Bai Miaomiao and Zhou Ruoxue and confirmed he planned to enter the Earth Ranking.
• Rien reached the mid-stage of the fighter realm and decided to leave his mountain training to compete in the tournament.
• Lu Chenzhou measured the spiritual energy cost of his techniques, then used his second-level Vajra Curse Seal to withstand Dog Ghost’s strongest mental attacks.
• As Lu Chenzhou prepared to undergo tribulation, the sword spirit revealed that its former master was Sword Immortal Li Mo Li and hinted that he had a treasure.

Lu Chenzhou learned a basic sword art to persuade Ding Sword to reveal a secret treasure’s location, then explored Randuo Temple and discovered a divine weapon and a vision of a future blood moon. As his cultivation advanced and he defeated a third-realm demon in training, he found that he had risen to first place on the Hidden Dragon Rankings.

• Lu Chenzhou mastered the Basic Sword Art, gained Swordheart Without Regret, and learned that Li the Sword Immortal’s first secret treasure was somewhere in the Vast Sea Realm.
• In Randuo Temple, Lu Chenzhou destroyed a lust wraith, found a monk’s staff that seemed to be a divine weapon, and glimpsed a blood-red hound swallowing the moon.
• Mingxin told the Randuo Temple chat group about a powerful demon beneath Sakya Temple and the hidden Vast Sea Sect, while Lu Chenzhou asked Ding Sword about the Vast Sea Realm.
• Lu Chenzhou formed his 210th acupoint star, raised his blood qi, and killed the Mantis Demon with knuckle blades before the Golden Thread Worm killed him in turn.
• Lu Chenzhou advanced the Mountain God Demon-Subduing Fist to major mastery and decided to slow his Tiger Demon Tai Sui Method until he reached the Third Realm.
• Lu Chenzhou checked the Hidden Dragon Rankings and discovered that his 660,000 points had placed him first.

After taking first place on the Hidden Dragon Rankings, Lu Chenzhou discovered a monster in Erhai Lake and learned from the sword spirit how qi cultivation could strengthen his sword qi. He then visited Wang Xian, who began breaking through the fourth barrier as Lu Chenzhou and Lin Xia stood guard.

• Lu Chenzhou celebrated his rise to first on the Hidden Dragon Rankings as congratulations arrived from Bai Miaomiao and Hong Fu.
• Lu Chenzhou killed a weak fish monster in Erhai Lake, reported the possible new convergence point to Grandmaster Duan, and perfected Jujube-Kernel Nailhead Arrow.
• Lu Chenzhou tested his improved accuracy against Golden Thread Worms, then asked the sword spirit how to strengthen his innate sword qi and learned about qi cultivation and treasure qi.
• Wang Xian invited Lu Chenzhou to watch his breakthrough, and Lin Xia explained that crossing the fourth barrier required tempering the bones and forming an imperishable bone.
• Wang Xian began breaking through his shackles as Lu Chenzhou and Lin Xia guarded him.

Wang Xian broke through to the Grandmaster realm, while Lu Chenzhou learned more about the fourth-realm breakthrough and helped welcome guests. The Hengduan Mountains then fell to demons, and pinnacle experts began a major confrontation as the restricted zones threatened human infrastructure.

• Lin Xia explained to Lu Chenzhou how to choose an imperishable bone and described the difficulties of having descendants after reaching the seventh realm.
• Wang Xian endured the bone-forging trial and inner demons, then succeeded in becoming a Grandmaster and manifested his Outer Landscape.
• Lu Chenzhou told Wang Xian and Lin Xia that his Mountain God Demon-Subduing Fist had reached major mastery as congratulations and visitors arrived at the university.
• Li Ao visited Wang Xian, and Lu Chenzhou later sensed tremors before Bai Miaomiao told him that demons had overrun the Hengduan Mountains and Dali City had been evacuated.
• Satellites fell as pinnacle-level powers clashed beyond the atmosphere, while demons occupied Dali City and searched for the Divine Son.
• At the Hengduan Mountains, phantom ranges merged with the mountains as relics across the world lit up, and Wan Shixian told the assembled pinnacle experts to begin.

The Star Lord of Fate revealed a five-step plan to strengthen humanity, remake the human world, and oppose the evil gods, then sealed the world against powerful demons and ghosts. As ancient relics awakened and distributed tokens across the Three Thousand Worlds, Lu Chenzhou and his companions learned that a new age of competition had begun.

• The Star Lord of Fate explained his plan to unite supreme experts as the Crimson Dragon Hall, expand the human world with Tianyuan Mountain's earth veins, send experts across the Three Thousand Worlds, help Wan Shixian pursue the eighth realm, and seal the human world.
• The Red Extremity confronted the Star Lord of Fate, warning that drawing on Tianyuan Mountain would bring demon hordes into the human world, but the Star Lord activated the Great Curtain and dispersed.
• Relics across the worlds awakened and sent tokens to cultivators, while Lu Chenzhou and Wang Xian received Water Mansion and Deercall Underground Palace opportunities and learned that the Ding Sword had chosen Lu Chenzhou.
• Lu Chenzhou received Heavenly Dragon and Heavenly Heart Tokens, while Wang Xian, Master Ji, and other cultivators received their own tokens and learned that the Fighting Realm was open to martial artists.
• Wang Tianwang returned and told Lu Chenzhou and Wang Xian that the army had withdrawn from Oasis City, the Demon Venerables had been slain, and attacks on infrastructure would make the coming war increasingly difficult.

After humanity launched the Rebuilding New Heaven Plan, supreme experts departed to explore the Three Thousand Worlds while Great Xia prepared for demon incursions. On October 1, the Fighting Realm opened, and Tiger-Toothed Girl arrived at the Star-Plucking Tower to seize her opportunity.

• Wan Shixian explained that the Xia Realm was expanding and that concentrating humanity’s strength on a few fireseed worlds could keep seventh-realm demon ghosts out.
• The supreme experts held farewell meetings, and twenty-five of them departed to conquer the Three Thousand Worlds under the Crimson Dragon Hall Plan.
• Great Xia withdrew from the Void Realm, fortified its 108 base cities, and designated the Million Mountains a forbidden zone as the Shanhai Fission began.
• At Su City Longwu, Principal Wang urged Lu Chenzhou and his fellow disciples to explore the Fighting Realm and take the Star-Plucking Tower seriously.
• After killing a great demon near Su City, Tiger-Toothed Girl used her Heavenly Battle Token to teleport into the Fighting Realm and stood before the Star-Plucking Tower.

Rien and hundreds of challengers entered Star-Plucking Tower as Lu Chenzhou perfected the Lesser Bodhi Formula and waited to begin his own climb. Meanwhile, demon forces organized across the Great Curtain, humanity adapted to the expanding crisis, and attention turned to the tower rankings as everyone awaited Lu Chenzhou’s debut.

• Rien arrived at Star-Plucking Tower with the Elephant King and entered with the first wave of challengers.
• Lu Chenzhou perfected the Lesser Bodhi Formula, which concealed his aura from perception, then watched the tower projections before returning to cultivation.
• Wan Shixian faced Black Mountain Demon Lord and the other Demon Lords at the Great Curtain, then killed an unnamed Demon Emperor with a strike from his crescent blade.
• Black Mountain Demon Lord and the other Demon Lords established Stars Hall and sent forces to the Three Thousand Worlds, while demon factions and the Ancient God Church spread through the human world.
• Lu Chenzhou celebrated the New Year with friends and family as they discussed Star-Plucking Tower and its climbers.
• The All-Nations Martial Arts Tournament committee announced rankings for tower climbers, and Silver Bear reached the 2,000th floor while the public awaited Lu Chenzhou’s appearance.

Lu Chenzhou perfected his Pure Yang Grand Elixir Shield, overcame a lust-wraith inner demon, and gained a flawless golden elixir whose power grew further when the Crimson Crane Treasure Qi transformed into Golden Crow Treasure Qi. With his strength and true qi greatly increased, he prepared to challenge the tower.

• Lu Chenzhou completed his Pure Yang Grand Elixir Shield training, repelled a lust-wraith inner demon, and formed a flawless golden elixir that strengthened his body and endurance.
• The Crimson Crane Treasure Qi entered the great sun in Lu Chenzhou’s Inner Landscape and began transforming, while Lu Chenzhou learned from Indestructible Daoist that advanced martial arts could produce powerful inner demons.
• Seven days later, Lu Chenzhou tested his transformed treasure qi and found that its golden flames reached two thousand degrees Celsius, then used them to enhance his spear techniques at Stone Lake.
• The Crimson Crane Treasure Qi became Golden Crow Treasure Qi, enriching Lu Chenzhou’s Inner Landscape and raising his true qi to 3,000 strands.
• Lu Chenzhou decided that his completed Golden Core and increased strength made it time to challenge the tower, while the sword spirit complained that he still neglected sword practice.