Chapter Summaries

Lu Chenzhou advanced his Phoenix Form training while preparing for the Water Mansion, where monster forces gathered to capture him. As a worldwide monster tide began and nations debated cooperation, he finally defeated Mamba Queen Collins in Battle Journey and reached Proficient mastery in Phoenix Cry Across the Nine Heavens.

• Gongsun Ying taught Lu Chenzhou the risks of drawing vitality from living beings and guided him in Phoenix Cry Across the Nine Heavens, which he began cultivating.
• Lu Chenzhou trained in Five-Thunder Hall and Battle Journey, practicing movement under extreme gravity and repeatedly fighting Mamba Queen Collins.
• On the eve of the Water Mansion's opening, Black Fu King announced a reward for capturing Lu Chenzhou alive as monster armies gathered at Tai Lake and elsewhere.
• Monster tides struck across the world as the Alliance of Ten Thousand Nations discussed forming a voluntary martial council and Great Xia proposed creating a large safe zone.
• Lu Chenzhou reached near-sonic speed, killed Mamba Queen Collins in Battle Journey, and advanced Phoenix Cry Across the Nine Heavens to Proficient before returning to Su City Longwu.

As Jiangnan’s demon kings attacked Su City, Lu Chenzhou was assigned to protect the Water Mansion expedition while defending a shelter at Su City Longwu. He destroyed a nightmare mark threatening Yao'er, then discovered that demons were converging on him and prepared to fight them.

• Gongsun Ying gathered Su City’s grandmasters, assigned them to intercept the demon kings, and told Lu Chenzhou to protect the Lamplighter team and enter the Zouyu Water Mansion safely.
• The demon forces attacked Su City from above and underground, and Gongsun Ying and the other grandmasters engaged the demon kings outside the city.
• Lu Chenzhou entered Yao'er's dream and used a World Tree formed from his mental power to destroy the giant deer nightmare mark, absorbing starlight that raised his spiritual power to nine hundred points.
• Lu Chenzhou returned from Yao'er's dream and joined the Lamplighter team as demons and ghosts besieged Su City Longwu.
• Zhou Ruoxue realized the demons were targeting Lu Chenzhou, who welcomed their attention and charged into the enemy ranks.

Lu Chenzhou defended Su City Longwu from a massive demon assault, killed the Eternal Life Cult Protector who had taken Li Yao, and was cornered by Blood Heavenly Dog after exhausting his strength. Just as Blood Heavenly Dog struck, an unknown old man intervened, leaving Lu Chenzhou’s fate unresolved.

• Gongsun Ying learned the demons had launched their attack to target Lu Chenzhou, while Lu Chenzhou and his companions fought to defend Su City Longwu.
• The Moon-Shooting Little Demon King attacked Lu Chenzhou, but Lu Chenzhou dodged its axe and killed it before cutting through the demon horde with his spear and perfected Arhat seal.
• Li Haocheng, Protector of Eternal Heaven, seized Li Yao, but Lu Chenzhou stopped him and Wang Changming’s sword aura killed the Protector; Qingtian Cang then evacuated Lu Chenzhou and Li Yao.
• Blood Heavenly Dog attacked the exhausted group, and Lu Chenzhou summoned the Mystic Heaven River-Severing Sword, which briefly fought the demon king before returning to him.
• Lu Chenzhou refused to flee and charged Blood Heavenly Dog, but the demon king knocked his spear away and struck at his head before an unknown old man blocked the blow.

Old Man Hanshan emerged as a Heavenly King and helped turn the defense of Su City into a decisive victory, while Lu Chenzhou’s extraordinary stand earned him recognition and a valuable reward. As nations around the world faced the demon tide and considered relocation, Great Xia prepared for the coming Zouyu Water Mansion trial.

• Old Man Hanshan killed the Blood Heavenly Dog and wiped out most of the demons in Su City with his magnetic powers and sound-based attack.
• Gong Jiu and Zhou Ming joined the battle with reinforcements, and the human forces killed the retreating Demon Kings, including the Black Fu King.
• Lu Chenzhou recovered in the shelter as his companions discussed protecting him during the Water Mansion trial.
• Old Man Hanshan confirmed that Li Haocheng had been killed by Lu Chenzhou, then awarded Gongsun Ying an opportunity to study in Void City and granted Lu Chenzhou Earth Mother Origin-Opening Milk and a place in future Master meetings.
• Anubis, the Winter Kingdom, and the Aztec civilization considered relocating, while the Northern Alliance and Silver Eagle Federation declined to join the World Nations Martial Arts Council for now.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King reviewed the battle reports and concluded that Lu Chenzhou’s feat gave humanity hope in the Zouyu Water Mansion.

Lu Chenzhou entered the Zouyu Water Mansion trial, learned that only the top ten million participants would advance, and used Earth Mother Origin-Opening Milk to heal and strengthen his inner landscape. After three months of hunting demons with the Su City team, he reached rank 357 and completed his Kunlun Jade Vestment as the final stage began.

• Lu Chenzhou and the other trial participants were transported into Hongze Lake, where the Water Mansion spirit explained the three-month demon-hunting trial and its advancement rules.
• Lu Chenzhou consumed Earth Mother Origin-Opening Milk, recovering from his injuries and expanding his sea of qi as he completed the Three Mountains and Five Sacred Peaks and began forming Kunlun.
• Lu Chenzhou led the Su City trial team through the first night of demon attacks and discovered that otherworldly races with elemental powers dominated the leaderboard.
• Lu Chenzhou stayed on the island to cultivate while his companions explored Hongze Lake, and he helped the team survive the increasingly powerful demons without anyone being eliminated.
• At the start of the third month, Lu Chenzhou reached rank 357 and completed his Kunlun Jade Vestment.

Lu Chenzhou advanced through the Heaven-Through River while divine and extraordinary races targeted him, and he killed Fang Liu after discovering the prince’s group had come to eliminate him. After reaching the river’s end, he learned he had placed 1001st, just outside the million who would advance.

• Fang Bifan dismissed Lu Chenzhou as a mortal threat while the Water Mansion spirit reflected on the wilderness clans’ advantage over mortal clans.
• The first stage ended, and the Water Mansion spirit announced that only the first million to reach the Chess Heaven Divine Palace would advance through the Heaven-Through River.
• Shi Ruyu and several others withdrew, while the Shadow Kill Clan’s king ordered its members to capture or kill Lu Chenzhou.
• Lu Chenzhou fought off a Shadow Kill Clan assassin and pressed upstream as the Overseas Tyrant Royal Clan began reaching the river’s end.
• Fang Liu and three Crimson-Feather Clan fighters attacked Lu Chenzhou, but he killed Fang Liu and the others after revealing his mastery of the Law of the World.
• After a month of travel and repeated attacks, Lu Chenzhou reached the end of the Heaven-Through River and was ranked 1001st.

Lu Chenzhou and the other trial participants gathered at Chess Heaven Divine Palace for the final round, where they had to comprehend a Zouyu Secret Art from the Myriad Rivers Flowing Water Diagram. As the diagram’s power descended, Lu Chenzhou’s Martial Dao Tree stirred, setting the stage for his attempt to master its secrets.

• Lu Chenzhou met Fang Bifan, who vowed to kill him if the chance arose but said he would not avenge Fang Liu.
• Lu Chenzhou joined Zhang Shentong, Kshatriya, and Cloudsea Zen Master, then refined his spoils and raised his vital blood beyond 2,000 points.
• More participants arrived, including Tamil, while Lu Chenzhou noticed a masked woman whose killing intent toward him was intense.
• The Innate Water Spirit announced that the million participants would enter the Chess Heaven Divine Palace and compete by comprehending secret arts from the Myriad Rivers Flowing Water Diagram.
• The participants entered the palace, where the Innate Water Spirit warned them that the diagram’s true power could destroy them; when its projection released blue aura, Lu Chenzhou’s Martial Dao Tree rose in his consciousness.

Lu Chenzhou spent the year of the Water Mansion’s enlightenment trial training instead of comprehending a secret art, while other contestants gained increasingly powerful techniques. As the trial neared its end, his friends and allies suspected he was deliberately waiting for the final melee, where he could confront his enemies.

• Lan Daogang assessed the trial contestants, while the Innate Water Spirit explained the secret-art tiers and the Shadow Kill Clan worried that it could not complete its mission against Lu Chenzhou.
• Qike first comprehended a third-tier secret art, and more than three thousand contestants followed; Lu Chenzhou continued practicing rather than studying the diagram.
• Wang Hongdao comprehended the fifth-tier secret art “Swallow the Sea,” while Lu Chenzhou kept training and reached his 350th acupoint star.
• Fang Bifan comprehended a sixth-tier secret art, and ten months into the trial Oxi, Lijue, and Longyue each gained a seventh-tier one; many Xia Realm prodigies also attained sixth-tier arts.
• As the trial’s end approached, more than eighty thousand contestants had succeeded, but Lu Chenzhou remained in the Water Mansion, prompting concern among Great Xia’s leaders, teachers, and friends.
• Shi Ruyu and Old Ji realized Lu Chenzhou might be deliberately aiming to join the final melee, where he could face the divine races and the Shadow Kill Clan.

Lu Chenzhou completed the third trial by comprehending the seventh-rank secret art “Myriad Waters Flow,” after spending the year cultivating and helping the Martial Dao Tree grow. The Innate Water Spirit sent the trial participants who had failed to attain enlightenment into the Myriad Spirits Battlefield for the final battle, where Lu Chenzhou would have to fight for advancement.

• The Innate Water Spirit announced that 81,000 participants had attained enlightenment and praised Oxi, Longyue, and Lijue for their performances.
• Lu Chenzhou awakened from the Myriad Rivers Flowing Water Diagram after experiencing Zouyu’s life and witnessing its battle with Qiheng.
• The divine artifact announced that Lu Chenzhou had comprehended the seventh-rank secret art “Myriad Waters Flow,” though he remained outside the 80,000 direct advancement slots.
• Lu Chenzhou reviewed his year of cultivation, including the growth of the Martial Dao Tree, the formation of Kunlun Mountain in his inner landscape, and his progress in martial arts.
• The Innate Water Spirit declared that participants who had failed to attain enlightenment would receive ordinary rewards and sent those willing to face death to the Myriad Spirits Battlefield for the final chaotic battle.

Lu Chenzhou entered the Ten-Thousand-Mile Landscape Scroll, survived Leiman’s lightning attack, and killed him in a death duel. As hostile clans hunted him across the shrinking battlefield, Lu confronted eighteen Purple Beard Clan fighters and killed their leader with a flying sword.

• 490,000 trial participants entered the Ten-Thousand-Mile Landscape Scroll, where they had 100 days to reduce their numbers to 19,000.
• Leiman ambushed Lu Chenzhou in a mountain village, but Lu resisted his lightning and killed him in their death duel.
• Thirty days into the trial, the Shadow Kill Clan planned to capture Xia Realm martial artists and use them as bait for Lu Chenzhou.
• Fang Ting arrived in the Savage Kingdom and ordered its ruler to mobilize the people to search for Lu Chenzhou.
• Lu Chenzhou reached a city in the Chu Kingdom, where eighteen Purple Beard Clan fighters confronted him; he killed their leader, Lei Ke, with a flying sword.

Lu Chenzhou defeated the Purple Beard Clan, passed martial arts methods to the Chu Kingdom, and learned that the Scarlet Feather Divine Race had gathered a powerful alliance. He organized the surviving Xia Realm participants and founded the Yellow Heaven Alliance to unite ordinary races against them, leaving plans to challenge the Scarlet Feather Alliance in the Savage Kingdom.

• Lu Chenzhou killed the Purple Beard Clan forces attacking him, collected their treasures, and gave Chu Renmei a jade slip of martial arts methods before leaving the Chu Kingdom.
• After hearing of Lu Chenzhou's victory, Fang Ting discussed the threat with the Crimson-Feather Clan and negotiated cooperation with the Shadow Kill Clan king, whose alliance later recruited trial participants.
• Lu Chenzhou met with thirty surviving Xia Realm participants, learned how the divine races were targeting him, and urged them to unite the ordinary races against the Scarlet-Feather-led coalition.
• Lu Chenzhou told the Xia Realm participants to spread claims of their strength, announced that he would go to the Savage Kingdom to disrupt the Scarlet Feather Alliance, and founded the Yellow Heaven Alliance.
• With the Chu Kingdom's help, rumors spread inviting members of the Three Thousand Worlds to join Lu Chenzhou's alliance and promising protection and a fair contest for the final slots.

Lu Chenzhou led the Yellow Heaven Alliance into the trial’s final battle against Fang Ting and the Scarlet Feather Alliance, then awakened the ability to borrow the power of heaven and earth. He killed Fang Ting, secured victory for the mortal races, and pushed his Martial Dao Tree beyond a thousand zhang.

• Zhang Shan watched the rising conflict, while Rav decided to join the Yellow Heaven Alliance and Luis fought off Fang Ting’s attempt to recruit him.
• Lu Chenzhou stormed the Scarlet Feather Alliance’s city, defeated its elites, and escaped Fang Ting’s forces, drawing many mortal-race participants into his alliance.
• After Lu Chenzhou rescued the wounded Luis, Luis joined the Yellow Heaven Alliance and vowed to take revenge on the Scarlet Feather Alliance.
• On the trial’s hundredth day, the two alliances met in a massive final battle, and Fang Ting trapped Lu Chenzhou in the Fire God Formation.
• Lu Chenzhou borrowed the power of heaven and earth, destroyed Fang Ting’s formation and firebird, killed Fang Ting, and surpassed the thousand-zhang limit with his Martial Dao Tree.

Lu Chenzhou comprehended the fourth Martial King Spear killing move, broke through to the Quest Dao Realm, and gained the power to draw on heaven and earth. He slaughtered enemies across the battlefield, while another hidden attacker struck as the battle continued.

• Lu Chenzhou used the power of the World Dao to kill Fang Ting and the Scarlet Feather Divine Race fighters, leaving the Scarlet Feather Alliance in disarray.
• The Water Mansion spirit praised Lu Chenzhou’s comprehension of world laws, while people across Great Xia and Four Symbols Adept watched his breakthrough with admiration.
• Lu Chenzhou gained the Martial God Equaling Heaven divine seed and understood that his Lights of Ten Thousand Homes spear technique drew power from both heaven and earth and nearby allies.
• Lu Chenzhou killed four Shadow Kill Clan experts, then slew the masked assassin Qin Yuqing, whose body and weapon were destroyed by his spear.
• The Yellow Heaven Alliance drove back the weakened Scarlet Feather Alliance as the battlefield dwindled to twenty-three thousand fighters, and Lu Chenzhou killed nearly five hundred opponents.
• Lu Chenzhou struck a hidden Shadow Kill Clan expert from the shadows, just as a black blade stabbed toward him from the void.

The Innate Water Spirit rescued Lu Chenzhou from the Shadow Kill Clan’s deadly toxin and used the Myriad Rivers Flowing Water Diagram to cleanse his body, improving his innate talent, but the toxin remained stubbornly difficult to remove. As Lu Chenzhou’s friends and family waited without news, the chapter ended with them still believing he would return.

• The Shadow Kill Clan king stabbed an exhausted Lu Chenzhou with a blade that bypassed his defenses, but Luis killed the king as the toxin began draining Lu Chenzhou’s life force.
• The Innate Water Spirit ended the trial, eradicated the Shadow Kill Clan, and pulled Lu Chenzhou from the battlefield to treat him.
• The Innate Water Spirit used the Myriad Rivers Flowing Water Diagram to purge toxins from Lu Chenzhou, thoroughly cleansing his body and raising his martial arts innate talent.
• Lu Chenzhou’s companions, family, and allies gathered or returned home without news of him, while Wang Changming urged Wang Xian and Lin Xia to keep faith.
• Luis watched the Azure Heaven Dragon King defeat the Golden Holy Seat, then asked about Lu Chenzhou; the Dragon King confidently said Lu Chenzhou would not die.
• On Lu Chenzhou’s birthday in 2234, Shi Ruyu and Ji Feiyan ate in silence, and Old Ji went to practice while asking to be told if Lu Chenzhou returned.

Lu Chenzhou survived an illusion created by the evil god Wu, who had tried to make him a divine son, and awoke after the Innate Water Spirit cleansed and improved his body. As the Water Spirit sent him back to the human world, Wu’s sealed essence broke free and rushed toward him, threatening to use the Water Mansion to bypass the Great Curtain.

• Wu’s illusion made Lu Chenzhou relive his past and offered him power as a divine son, but Lu Chenzhou rejected him and destroyed the illusion with his inner landscape.
• The Innate Water Spirit removed the evil god’s toxins from Lu Chenzhou, remolded his body, and raised his natural aptitude to superior grade.
• Lu Chenzhou discovered that his spiritual power had reached 2,000 Prajna and learned that the Water Spirit had erased the Shadow Kill Clan members.
• The Water Spirit confirmed Lu Chenzhou had advanced to the second round and began sending him back to the human world.
• Wu’s sealed black essence broke free and charged toward Lu Chenzhou as the Water Spirit realized Wu intended to use them to cross the Great Curtain.

After the Innate Water Spirit sent Lu Chenzhou into a strange wilderness to escape Wu, Lu trained in Tiger Form and advanced to Grandmaster. He prepared to return home, while two years passed in Jiangnan and his friends continued to wonder where he was.

• The Innate Water Spirit sent Lu Chenzhou into the wilderness, while Wu revealed that he wanted the Myriad Rivers Flowing Water Diagram.
• Lu Chenzhou found a mountain that seemed connected to the Candle Realm, then developed the World Tiger Fist by sparring with the black tiger in the Heavenheart Imprint.
• Two years after the Water Mansion opened, Jiangnan expanded around Yunmeng Marsh, and Zhou Ruoxue urged the Lamplighter Guards to carry on while Lu was missing.
• Lu Chenzhou opened the remaining acupoints, condensed his Nine-Mountain Dark Vestment, and broke through to Grandmaster.
• Lu Chenzhou used his Royal Domain to destroy four thought souls, tested his new power, and decided to return home.

The damaged Zouyu Water Mansion canceled its remaining trials and issued new missions, intensifying the race among the Three Thousand Worlds’ geniuses to become its master. Trapped in a vast mountain realm, Lu Chenzhou gained a Martial Dao Tree ability that could rewind failed breakthroughs, then began climbing toward the summit in search of a way out.

• The Innate Water Spirit activated Plan Two after the Myriad Rivers Flowing Water Diagram was damaged, announcing new missions for first-round candidates seeking the Water Mansion’s inheritance.
• Shi Ruyu learned of the revised trials, while Luis, Fang Bifan, Rex, Lan Daogang, and other geniuses reacted to the new race to reach the eighth realm; Fang Bifan resolved to target Lu Chenzhou and seek his father’s help in attacking the Xia Realm.
• The Water Mansion’s projections vanished throughout the Three Thousand Worlds, and the Innate Water Spirit went into slumber.
• Lu Chenzhou discovered that his Martial Dao Tree had gained Regret in Martial Dao, an ability to rewind time during breakthrough attempts or revive him from death, provided he had Time Dao Law power.
• Lu Chenzhou tried to fly through the mountain realm but was crushed back to the ground, so he climbed toward its distant summit and used the Nine-Mountain Dark Vestment to withstand the eerie winds.

Lu Chenzhou used the power of time to rewind to before his Grandmaster breakthrough and spent years in the Candle Realm cultivating until he condensed 48,000 True Astral Stones. He climbed Heavenly Candle Mountain through the deadly yin wind, reached its summit after his armor shattered, and heard an ancient voice welcome a visitor.

• Lu Chenzhou discovered a strand of the time Dao principle and used Martial Dao Rewind to return to seven days before his Grandmaster breakthrough.
• Lu Chenzhou spent years cultivating in seclusion, eventually forming 40,000 True Astral Stones as the Candle Realm’s distorted passage of time wore on him.
• Wang Changming and the others found the Candle Realm trembling, and the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King reported disturbances in both the realm and the human world.
• Lu Chenzhou consumed his remaining cultivation resources and condensed 48,000 True Astral Stones, forming a powerful invisible armor.
• Lu Chenzhou climbed Heavenly Candle Mountain past 40,000 zhang, reached the summit after his armor shattered, and heard an ancient voice say the place had gone a long time without visitors.

Lu Chenzhou used the World Dao to ignite Heavenly Candle Mountain and awaken the Candle Dragon’s temporal power, advancing his cultivation and activating the second step of the Rebuilding New Heaven Plan. He returned to the human realm as the Three Thousand Worlds began entering a period of accelerated time.

• The spirit of Heavenly Candle Mountain identified Lu Chenzhou as the Number Zero Apostle and asked him to ignite the mountain using the World Dao.
• Lu Chenzhou studied the ancient red-bronze lamp and witnessed the Candle Dragon’s history as the World Tree and his Inner Landscape transformed.
• Lu Chenzhou drew the Candle Dragon on the lamp, causing a leaf of the World Tree to grow into a world and Heavenly Candle Mountain to awaken as the Candle Dragon.
• The Candle Dragon illuminated the Three Thousand Worlds, activating the Rebuilding New Heaven Plan and accelerating time in the worlds beyond the Great Wilderness.
• Lu Chenzhou returned to the human realm above a vast marshland and rejoiced at being back.

The Candle Realm vanished, accelerating time across the human world and destroying two Forbidden Zones, while Lu Chenzhou emerged from Heavenly Candle Mountain as a Grandmaster. He rescued Wang Gang from a Snowfield Demoness King and declared that he would settle accounts with his enemies.

• The Candle Realm dissolved, and Wang Changming explained that its disappearance had brought the human world's flow of time closer to its own.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King reported that the Square-Skull Forbidden Zone and the Red Feather Forbidden Zone had vanished, while the Father used the accelerated time to defeat the Lord of Holy Mountain.
• Lu Fang witnessed the Candle Dragon destroy a being from the Square-Skull Forbidden Zone and worried that he had fallen behind the outside world.
• Lu Chenzhou examined his new Glazed Bone and Grandmaster cultivation, then sensed trouble near Yunmeng Marsh and rushed toward it.
• The Snowfield Demoness Queen trapped martial artists during a joint training exercise and pursued Wang Gang, who called for Lu Chenzhou.
• Lu Chenzhou appeared, destroyed the Snowfield Demoness King with one palm, and announced that he would settle accounts with his enemies.