Chapter Summaries

After Ye Gao’s execution, Lu Chenzhou advanced to the Third Realm and trained the Mountain Lord Quest Fist, mastering Immortal Points the Way. He demonstrated the move in the Star-Plucking Tower and left Lin Xia astonished by how quickly he had learned it.

• Ye Shoujing condemned Ye Gao’s actions, while Wei Jing urged him to sever ties with the clan’s splinter families and cooperate with the Investigation Bureau.
• The Investigation Bureau investigated the Ye Family, and Ye Gao confessed to colluding with the churches before being sentenced to death and executed.
• Gu Qianqian and Li Haocheng joined forces with Black Fu King and promised to gather Jiangnan’s church and demon forces to attack the base cities and avenge the Little Demon King.
• Wang Hongdao saw Lu Chenzhou training under a hundredfold gravity and resented rumors accusing Lu of framing Ye Gao.
• Lu Chenzhou mastered Immortal Points the Way, tested it by killing Ye Gao in the Battle Journey, and reflected on the power of divine arts and martial evolution.
• Lu Chenzhou used Immortal Points the Way to defeat a Dragon Descendant Fighter in the Star-Plucking Tower, and Lin Xia watched in disbelief at his progress.

After clearing thirty floors in Star-Plucking Tower, Lu Chenzhou studied a body-tempering art and prepared to enter the All-Nations Martial Arts Tournament. The Wu Shui Ling revealed powerful competitors from across the Three Thousand Worlds, including Lu Chenzhou's own trial footage, while No. 000 Lan Daogang regarded them all as future stepping stones.

• Lu Chenzhou cleared thirty consecutive floors of Star-Plucking Tower, reached the 2,080th floor, and obtained a jade slip containing the Dragon Yang Body-Tempering Art.
• Lu Chenzhou studied the art and found its supplements and body-conditioning methods useful, though its practice of harvesting primordial yin was unsuitable for the present era.
• Lu Chenzhou agreed to register for the All-Nations Martial Arts Tournament, and his sectmates advised him to prioritize safety on the Life-and-Death Platform.
• The Wu Shui Ling projected trial participants including Fang Bifan and Luis, then showed Lu Chenzhou defeating the Little Demon King in Yunmeng Marsh.
• Luis watched the projections in the Ancient Dragon Realm and resolved to sweep through the other competitors in two years.
• Lan Daogang, the holder of the No. 000 token, watched the projections from the Heavenly Moon and declared the others would become his stepping stones.

Lu Chenzhou deliberately endured the White Bone Blade Demon’s deadly technique to comprehend a third killing move, then defeated him and advanced to the 2,320th floor. His new night-aligned spear art drew attention across Great Xia, while he also learned of a rare treasure that might transform Tiger Bro and continued seeking the Vast Sea Sect.

• Lu Chenzhou fought the White Bone Blade Demon on the 2,300th floor and deliberately endured Thunder Stirring in Eight Directions to study its blade technique.
• Lu Chenzhou’s World Dao advanced, and he created Nightfall Elegy, a killing move that increased his speed and strength in darkness, before killing the Blade Demon.
• Lu Chenzhou continued through the tower to the 2,320th floor, then received the sixth-rank Thunder Stirring in Eight Directions jade slip and exchanged it for military merit.
• The sword spirit told Lu Chenzhou that Lunar Yin Amber could possibly improve Tiger Bro’s aptitude, though using it carried a grave risk.
• Lu Chenzhou asked Chan Master Dingyuan about the Vast Sea Sect’s hidden mountain gate, while reports of his dark spear technique spread and prompted calls for the Lamplighters to investigate him.

Lu Chenzhou advanced his cultivation and tower-climbing feats while rumors, factional rivalries, and an invitation from Li Minghuang drew him toward the coming All-Nations Martial Arts Tournament. After declining Li Minghuang’s invitation, Lu Chenzhou entered his inner landscape and deepened his understanding of the World Dao, while Qin Xiao left Cloud Dream Base City to make preparations.

• Lu Chenzhou dismissed rumors that he followed the path of darkness, and Wang Xian and Lin Xia agreed the rumors could conceal his World Path.
• Lu Chenzhou passed Vegeta, defeated the Demon Mountain Swordsman, and cleared the 2,500th floor, becoming the first tournament qualifier and the only early-stage grandmaster among those who had qualified.
• Lu Chenzhou converted all his true qi into true astral force, condensed more than a thousand true astral stones, and watched Mount Penglai take shape in his inner landscape.
• Lu Chenzhou declined Li Minghuang’s invitation to Cloud Dream Base City and learned from Lin Xia that Li Minghuang’s faction had a longstanding feud with his master.
• Qin Xiao and Li Minghuang discussed Lu Chenzhou’s refusal, and Qin Xiao left Cloud Dream Base City for the wilderness.

Lu Chenzhou completed the Cloud-Mist Threaded Vestment while the All-Nations Martial Arts Tournament began and the Earth Ranking proved much tougher than expected for young masters. He tested the vestment against powerful opponents and prepared to enter the tournament, confident it could keep him alive against Limit Masters.

• Lu Chenzhou studied methods for weaving the Cloud-Mist Threaded Vestment as he prepared for the tournament and hoped to place in the Earth Ranking.
• The tournament notice confirmed the participants and rules, and martial artists across several nations rallied their fighters with promises and encouragement.
• Old Ji, Ji Feiyan, and others began their first matches in the Fighting Realm; Old Ji defeated a Sakura Island warrior and briefly took first place on the Yellow Ranking.
• After thirty days, prodigies had advanced on the Mysterious and Yellow Rankings, while young masters struggled against late-stage and Limit Masters; Lu Chenzhou remained at zero points on the Earth Ranking.
• Lu Chenzhou finished weaving the Cloud-Mist Threaded Vestment and tested it against the Mantis Demon and Yagyu Ichiro, finding that it deflected some of Yagyu Ichiro's powerful strike.

After leaving seclusion, Lu Chenzhou equipped his sect and entered the All-Nations Martial Arts Tournament, where he defeated Lu Xuanjian in his first match. He later escaped a lethal psychic attack from Tamil and suspected the Posuo master was deliberately targeting him.

• Lu Chenzhou emerged with his Cloud-Mist Threaded Vestment, gave Old Ji his Ten Directions Cloud-Treading Boots, and distributed battle weapons to his fellow disciples.
• Lu Chenzhou entered the Fighting Realm and defeated Lu Xuanjian after an intense duel, earning his first point and advancing to rank 12,000.
• On the thirty-third day of the competition, Tamil attacked Lu Chenzhou with the Shiva Great Hand Seal, and Lu Chenzhou surrendered to escape.
• Lu Chenzhou investigated Tamil and suspected the old master was targeting him after noticing he was lingering among novice matches.
• Aboard a ghost ship in the Caribbean Sea, Tamil opened his eyes as Beichen Guijian stood at the bow with the Hundred Demons Cutter.

Lu Chenzhou bought Brahma's Arrow to protect himself from Black Warrior assassins and continued winning matches in the tournament. After developing the strength of nine oxen and two tigers, he fought the supersonic Bullet Flow master Redus and left the bout victorious.

• Lu Chenzhou warned the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King that Tamil had tried to assassinate him, then urged his family and friends to wear spiritual artifacts and cultivate the Heart Sutra.
• Lu Chenzhou bought Brahma's Arrow and used it to block Kafar's mental attack before defeating the Posuo mind cultivator.
• Qin Xiao sent the newly final-realm River-Turning King into the tournament, intending him to kill Lu Chenzhou if they met.
• Lu Chenzhou reached nine consecutive victories and achieved minor mastery of the Ghost Tiger Overlord Body, gaining the strength of nine oxen and two tigers.
• Redus attacked Lu Chenzhou with his supersonic Bullet Flow technique, but Lu Chenzhou countered with the World King Path and shattered Redus's arms.
• Redus surrendered before Lu Chenzhou could finish him, leaving Lu Chenzhou standing victorious on the beach.

Lu Chenzhou extended his winning streak at the All-Nations Martial Arts Tournament, but Qingtian Cang ended it by defeating him with Heaven-Piercing Immortal Armor. By the hundredth day, Lu had reached the top thousand of the Earth Ranking and was greeted at his door by an old monk.

• Lu Chenzhou defeated Redus, known as Black Bullet, with a head-on punch, while fighters across the tournament reacted to his strength.
• Qingtian Cang defeated Hong Tianxiang by shattering his Undying Black Tortoise Body with Heaven-Piercing Immortal Armor.
• Tyrant Fist Du Meng visited the injured Redus and told him to recover rather than compete in the coming matches.
• Lu Fang trained with the Ten Thousand Thunder Manual in the abandoned Ten Thousand Thunder Sect and neared the strength of a late-stage grandmaster.
• Lu Chenzhou reached seventeen consecutive victories before facing Qingtian Cang, who overcame Ragnarok and ended his streak.
• On the hundredth day, Lu Chenzhou reached the top thousand of the Earth Ranking, then found a kind-faced old monk waiting outside his door.

Lu Chenzhou joined Hong Tianxiang on the Ancient Dragon Path to enter Five-Thunder Hall and retrieve a body-tempering inheritance for Great Xia. The hall’s thunder dragon chose Lu because it sensed the Innate Thunderous Treasure Qi he carried, and he left with the inheritance, its pendant, and ownership of the cave estate.

• Sky Supporting Mendicant asked Lu Chenzhou to enter a Qi Refiner’s cave estate on the Ancient Dragon Path, promising him any treasure and fifty thousand battle merits in exchange for copying its techniques for Great Xia.
• Lu Chenzhou and Hong Tianxiang traveled to Five-Thunder Hall, where Thunder Ghost King Carlosk and his fighters challenged their prospects of obtaining the inheritance.
• Five-Thunder Daoist’s trial required the entrants to tame a thunder dragon, but it rejected each fighter and blasted away those who tried to seize it by force.
• The thunder dragon sensed Lu Chenzhou’s aura, coiled around him, and selected him, sending the other entrants outside the hall.
• Lu Chenzhou received the Five-Thunder Vajra Treasure Canon and the Heavenly Heart Five-Thunder Pendant, then copied the technique for Sky Supporting Mendicant and earned two hundred thousand battle merits.
• Lu Chenzhou returned to Five-Thunder Hall and learned that the pendant let him enter the cave estate, which now belonged to him.

Lu Chenzhou inspected his newly inherited Five-Thunder Hall, trained in its lightning pool, and sought a lightning-element demon to restore it. He later defeated Yagyu Ichiro in the battle journey and gained new insight into his martial arts.

• Lu Chenzhou found the Lock Dragon Well’s Demon Emperor skeleton had crumbled to dust, and Sister Hong explained that he could reactivate the lightning pool by imprisoning a lightning-element creature inside it.
• Sister Hong inspected Five-Thunder Hall, discussed the upcoming Zouyu Water Mansion with Lu Chenzhou, and left after he gave her a mysterious-grade treasure.
• Lu Chenzhou trained against a thunder dragon phantom, improved his Ghost Tiger Overlord Body, and asked Bai Miaomiao to track down Little Spirit-Sense King.
• Lu Chenzhou’s tournament ranking rose to 468th, and Ye Zhiqiu joined his Lamplighter team after breaking through the Three Shackles.
• Lu Chenzhou defeated Yagyu Ichiro after a fierce battle, then received a Martial Dao Tree notification that his Martial King Spear and Mountain Lord Quest Fist had improved.

Lu Chenzhou fought River-Turning King in the Life-and-Death Platform and killed him with Mountain Lord Worships the Moon after surviving the bandit king’s strongest saber strike. The chapter ended with Lin Xia and Wang Xian raiding the Wilderness Brotherhood’s hideout and discovering that Lu Chenzhou had slain River-Turning King.

• Lu Chenzhou practiced Mountain Lord Quest Fist until he reached proficiency, raising his vitality to eight hundred.
• Lu Chenzhou matched against River-Turning King, whose wilderness bandit followers and spectators feared he would kill the young Master.
• River-Turning King unleashed Chaos-Era Saber, shattered Lu Chenzhou’s legs, and believed he had killed him, but Lu Chenzhou appeared behind him and used Mountain Lord Worships the Moon to defeat him.
• Lu Chenzhou overcame River-Turning King’s mental defenses, struck through his protection, and tore off his head before the Fighting Realm could register his surrender.
• Lin Xia and Wang Xian raided the Wilderness Brotherhood’s hideout, where Lin Xia found River-Turning King’s head and Wang Xian learned Lu Chenzhou had killed him with one palm.

After recovering from his fight with the River-Turning King, Lu Chenzhou gathered valuable equipment and continued climbing the competition rankings while the Lamplighters investigated the Wilderness Brotherhood. By the chapter’s end, he had gained powerful treasures and strengthened his spiritual cultivation, but Tamil had withdrawn before Lu Chenzhou could settle their grudge.

• Qin Hui ordered his people to pause operations against Lu Chenzhou and let the Demon Kings and sects take the risk, while Tamil withdrew after being told to wait for the Wushui Trial.
• Lu Chenzhou recovered, examined the River-Turning King’s belongings, and arranged for Master Ye to forge a helmet and boots from the Tiger Flood Dragon skull and Ink Meteor Ore.
• Lu Chenzhou rose to 156th place in the competition as Lin Xia suspected the Wild Boar King might be a false identity and went to investigate at Martial Prison.
• In the Heart Sutra illusion realm, Lu Chenzhou defeated the rat-headed guardian of Randuo Temple’s Treasure Pavilion and claimed Vabhuti’s Robe and the Extreme Cold Hell saber.
• Lu Chenzhou destroyed Greed Soul when it ambushed him, then watched his spiritual power and Martial Dao Tree grow while reflecting that Tamil had already left the competition.

Lu Chenzhou fought the Gray Knight Martin for a place in the tournament’s top hundred and lost after a prolonged battle that helped him deepen his spear techniques. He returned to Su City Longwu badly injured but focused on recovering and continuing to grow through battle.

• Lu Chenzhou entered the match on a nineteen-win streak, facing the Gray Knight Martin, ranked just behind him.
• Martin overwhelmed Lu Chenzhou with refined dominance, fighting aura armor, and his Dao of Battle, while Lu Chenzhou fought back with his spear techniques.
• Martin recognized Lu Chenzhou’s World Dao and prolonged the battle so Lu Chenzhou could learn and test his Spear Dao.
• Lu Chenzhou unleashed the eighth form of the Martial King Spear, The General Dies After a Hundred Battles, but Martin defeated him and stopped his lance just short of Lu Chenzhou’s face.
• Martin explained that he had deliberately delayed entering the top hundred to fight more opponents, and that defeating Lu Chenzhou was an accomplishment.
• Back at Su City Longwu, Lin Xia urged Lu Chenzhou to rest, and he agreed while reflecting on how the battle had advanced his spear techniques.

After recovering from his injuries and withdrawing from the Earth Ranking tournament, Lu Chenzhou continued refining his spear arts before joining Zhou Ruoxue and Ye Zhiqiu to confront the Little Spirit-Sense King at Tai Lake. He appeared badly outmatched underwater, then used his bracelet and a surprise attack to capture the demon alive and bring it ashore.

• Lu Chenzhou recovered from his injuries, reflected on Martin Knight’s fighting style, and continued practicing The General Dies After a Hundred Battles.
• At dinner, Lu Chenzhou reassured his family that fighting the Gray Knight had mattered more to him than making the Earth Ranking top hundred.
• Zhou Ruoxue told Lu Chenzhou that they had found traces of the Little Spirit-Sense King and took him and Ye Zhiqiu to the Tai Lake outpost.
• The Little Spirit-Sense King challenged Lu Chenzhou to fight underwater, and Lu Chenzhou accepted despite Shentu Youshan’s warning.
• The Little Spirit-Sense King struck Lu Chenzhou with lightning underwater, but Lu Chenzhou used his bracelet to create a patch of land and pierced the demon’s nape with his spear.
• Lu Chenzhou carried the wounded Little Spirit-Sense King ashore, pinned it against the city wall, and captured it alive.

Lu Chenzhou imprisoned Little Spirit-Sense King, drove off the Fish Demons at Tai Lake, and joined the Reincarnation Battle after vacancies opened in the rankings. On the final day of the tournament, he had fought through a grueling schedule and continued pursuing growth through battle.

• Lu Chenzhou trapped Little Spirit-Sense King in the Lock Dragon Well’s sixth-rank formation and left it imprisoned with food.
• Lu Chenzhou defeated a Fish Demon leader at Tai Lake, ended the outpost crisis, and warned the Inspiration Demon King that he would come for it.
• Lu Chenzhou watched Zhang Shentong defeat Gray Knight and Wooster before joining the Reincarnation Battle after several ranked fighters were disqualified, pursued, or promoted to Grandmaster.
• Lu Chenzhou lost his first match to Gray Knight, then defeated Southern Star Divine Claw, lost to Zhang Shentong, and made Pargel concede.
• Lu Chenzhou kept fighting through the Reincarnation Battle, and more than half a month later its final day arrived.

Lu Chenzhou faced Wooster in the Divine-Demon Battlefield and used the fight’s life-and-death pressure to break through to major-success Overlord Body. Wooster ultimately defeated him, then began breaking through to Rank Four and asked Lu to guard him.

• Lu Chenzhou trained in the 160-times-gravity region and assessed his improved vitality, martial strength, and mental power before his final tournament match with Wooster.
• Lu Chenzhou and Wooster fought on the deadly Divine-Demon Battlefield, where Wooster’s immense strength and Thunder Sword Armor gradually overwhelmed him.
• As Wooster’s Thunder God’s Stomp drove him toward the arena’s abyss, Lu Chenzhou broke through to major-success Overlord Body and launched increasingly powerful spear attacks.
• Wooster unleashed his full Black Thunder Demon Body and kicked Lu Chenzhou off the arena, but a powerful hand returned Lu to safety.
• Lu Chenzhou admitted defeat, and Wooster sat down to break through to Rank Four, asking Lu to stand guard.

Lu Chenzhou finished the All-Nations Martial Arts Tournament ranked sixty-sixth on the Earth Ranking, then used his rewards to buy Nine-Bend Treasure Medicine and strengthen his body and Inner Landscape. As he prepared for the Zouyu Water Mansion trials, a sudden tremor across Great Xia heralded a new phenomenon on his martial arts peak.

• Wooster began his fourth breakthrough after his match with Lu Chenzhou, and Lu stood guard while he cultivated.
• Wooster became a grandmaster, leaving the Earth Ranking; Lu Chenzhou finished his remaining matches and placed sixty-sixth.
• Lu Chenzhou received his tournament awards and spent 1.1 million battle merits on Nine-Bend Treasure Medicine, which healed him and expanded his Inner Landscape.
• Lu Chenzhou resolved to recover and grow stronger before the Zouyu Water Mansion's first trial, less than six months away.
• In October, martial artists across Great Xia felt their Inner Landscapes tremble, and Lu Chenzhou saw his martial arts peak rise as a new phenomenon emerged.

After Master Xuankong became a pinnacle powerhouse, he passed the Lingkong Four Symbols Fist to Lu Chenzhou and explained that Four Symbols Adept was stranded in the powerful Heavenly Abyss world. Lu Chenzhou continued strengthening his martial arts, while Master Xuankong prepared to leave the human world and urged Mount Wutai and Dragon City to unite as the Myriad Forms Dao.

• Master Xuankong visited Lu Chenzhou, told him Four Symbols Adept was trapped in the Heavenly Abyss, and imparted the Lingkong Four Symbols Fist through Dao essence.
• Lu Chenzhou absorbed the Four Symbols inheritance, grew stronger, and vowed to make Form-Emulation Fist flourish.
• Master Xuankong told Zen Master Qingkong that he was leaving and directed him to merge Mount Wutai with Dragon City as the Myriad Forms Dao.
• A year passed as Lu Chenzhou trained in the Five-Thunder Hall, advanced his Tyrant Body and acupoints, and continued fighting through the Battle Journey.
• Lu Chenzhou celebrated his birthday with his family and martial-lineage companions as Qingtian Cang urged Ji Xuantong to advance to the Second Realm.

Lu Chenzhou traveled toward Hang City, escaped a fourth-realm Black Water Profound Serpent, and killed Lesser Demon King Black Jue during a demon tide. He collected a powerful divine helmet from Ye Changkong, while Black Jue’s father, the Nightbane Demon King, set out to avenge him.

• Sister Hong joined Lu Chenzhou and Wang Xian for New Year’s Eve and stayed at Su City Longwu to help Lu Chenzhou prepare for the Zouyu Water Mansion’s formation trials.
• While gliding toward Hang City, Lu Chenzhou dodged an attack from a fourth-realm Black Water Profound Serpent and fled before it could pursue him.
• Lu Chenzhou intercepted a flying demon tide and killed Lesser Demon King Black Jue with one punch, then advanced his Swallow Form technique into Dark Swallow Transforms into Phoenix Fist.
• The Nightbane Demon King learned of its son Black Jue’s death and headed toward Hang City to find Lu Chenzhou.
• At Jiangnan Martial University’s Sword Hut, Ye Changkong gave Lu Chenzhou the Tiger Flood Dragon Wind-Rousing Helm, which combined with his bracelet to create powerful waterspouts at great cost to his mental energy.

Lu Chenzhou received his newly forged divine armor and returned to Su City, where he began learning Phoenix Cry Across the Nine Heavens from Gongsun Ying. Meanwhile, Jiangnan’s demon kings prepared a surprise assault to capture or kill him, and Tang Zheng uncovered the Mad Dragon King’s secret treasure and revealed a mysterious armored woman.

• Ye Changkong presented Lu Chenzhou with the Gold-Silk Fire-Treading Boots, completing his divine armor set.
• Lu Chenzhou returned safely to Su City after deciding to hunt demons and clear the tower to earn the merit points needed to reforge his spear.
• Black Fu King announced that the demons would attack Su City Base City before the Zouyu Water Mansion opened and ordered them to capture Lu Chenzhou alive or kill him.
• Tang Zheng consumed the Mad Dragon King’s imperishable bone and revealed a masked, armored woman whom he considered suited to killing Lu Chenzhou.
• Lu Chenzhou asked Gongsun Ying to teach him Phoenix Cry Across the Nine Heavens, and she demonstrated its first three forms and explained their abilities.