Chapter Summaries

Lu Chenzhou returned to Yunmeng Marsh after decades away and rescued Yang Hong from the Water-Swallowing Demon King. He effortlessly endured the Demon King's attacks, subdued it, and brought it to Five-Thunder Hall.

• Lu Chenzhou learned that it was January 1st, 2240, and Wang Gang told him another Demon King was attacking the martial artists.
• Lu Chenzhou and Wang Gang found Yang Hong gravely wounded while she fought the Water-Swallowing Demon King, and Lu Chenzhou rescued her from its hammer strike.
• Lu Chenzhou stood unharmed against the Demon King's first two attacks, while the second shattered the Demon King's hammer.
• The Water-Swallowing Demon King unleashed a massive lightning attack, but Lu Chenzhou's invisible defense stopped it completely.
• Lu Chenzhou interrupted the Demon King's attempt to self-destruct, subdued it with his Royal Domain and punches, and carried it to Five-Thunder Hall.

Lu Chenzhou returned to a human world transformed by years of war and change after killing two Demon Kings and rescuing a trial team. He reached the gates of the Myriad Forms Dao’s city, where a voice identified him as Wang Changming’s disciple.

• Lu Chenzhou captured the Water-Swallowing Demon King in Lock Dragon Well, then reunited with Yang Hong and the trial team after killing it and the Snowfield Demoness.
• Li Minghuang welcomed Lu Chenzhou back, but Lu declined his invitation and learned that Dragon City University of Martial Arts had merged into the Myriad Forms Dao.
• Qin Xiao and Qin Hui discussed Lu Chenzhou’s return, their plans to escape through a cross-realm teleportation array, and the Black Water Profound Serpent they had captured.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King, the Spirit-Eyed Demon Emperor, and Lu Chenzhou each learned of his return and considered its implications.
• Lu Chenzhou found that Su City lay submerged beneath Yunmeng Marsh, taught a spear technique to a demon-hunting squad, and continued toward a new city.
• At the city gate, Lu Chenzhou removed his helmet to prove his identity, and a voice inside the city recognized him as Wang Changming’s disciple.

Lu Chenzhou returned after six years away as a Grandmaster, reunited with his family and allies, and revealed his extraordinary Immortal Saint Armor. After arranging for his spear to be reforged, he entered seclusion again while demons plotted to kill him and visitors gathered to congratulate him.

• Lu Chenzhou returned to the base city, greeted Du Men, and reunited with Lin Xia and Wang Xian, who showed him their Tiger-Eagle Beast.
• Lu Chenzhou reunited with his aging parents and learned that his allies and family had advanced during his absence.
• Wang Changming discovered that Lu Chenzhou was twenty-nine years old, had condensed forty-eight thousand True Astral Stones, and possessed an invisible Immortal Saint Armor that resisted Lin Xia's attack.
• Lu Chenzhou visited Ji Feiyan, Shi Ruyu, and their circle, learned how they had progressed, and announced that he would enter seclusion for at least two years.
• Demon Kings discussed plans to assassinate Lu Chenzhou, while he sent his spear and materials to Grandmaster Ye for reforging.
• Lu Chenzhou entered Five-Thunder Hall and vanished into seclusion as visitors crowded Su City to congratulate him; one month later, a powerful young monk arrived at Randuo Temple.

Lu Chenzhou purified Randuo Temple, returned to the human world, and spent two years cultivating in seclusion. After perfecting his Ghost Tiger Overlord Body, he began combining body-tempering arts to create a new divine skill while preparing for Wu’s expected assassination attempts.

• Lu Chenzhou killed the two powerful guardians of Randuo Temple, gained spiritual power, and gave his old equipment to Zhending before exploring the outside world.
• A year later, Hong Tianxiang became a Grandmaster and learned that Lu Chenzhou had returned and slain the Water-Swallowing Demon King.
• In Five-Thunder Hall, Lu Chenzhou perfected the Ghost Tiger Overlord Body and conceived its Divine Seed, gaining the Evil Ghost Entanglement form.
• Lu Chenzhou tested the form’s immense boost to strength and defense, then studied body-tempering manuals to develop his own divine skill.
• After two years of secluded cultivation, Lu Chenzhou remained wary of Wu and aimed to become strong enough to survive attacks from Great Demon Kings and a Demon Emperor.

After two years of seclusion, Lu Chenzhou reached the mid-realm of grandmasterhood and completed his transition to Black Tortoise True Astral Force, then prepared to travel and improve his body-tempering art. The World Nations Martial Arts Council discovered a Creation-Origin Ore mine occupied by demons and proposed sending young grandmasters to reclaim it as a trial.

• The Spirit-Eyed Demon Emperor ordered the demon kings to watch for Lu Chenzhou and kill him as soon as he appeared.
• Qingtian Cang became a grandmaster, and the teachers and students of the Myriad Forms Dao congratulated him.
• Lu Chenzhou formed Northern Sea True Astral Force, opened 428 acupoints, and assessed his strength as sufficient to protect himself from most grandmasters and great demon kings.
• The Martial Arts Heavenly Kings learned that demons occupied a Creation-Origin Ore site in a collapsing Minor Realm west of Tianfu Base City.
• Wang Changming and the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King proposed sending teams led by young grandmasters into the Minor Realm to defeat the demons and make the expedition a trial.

Wang Changming secured an under-one-hundred age limit for the Grandmaster trial in the Creation Origin Minefield, while Lu Chenzhou revealed how much he had advanced during seclusion. As the human lineages prepared to compete, the Demon Emperors planned an ambush in the minefield, and Ye Changkong began forging a powerful divine weapon.

• Wang Changming learned that Lu Chenzhou had reached the middle Grandmaster realm, opened 428 acupoints, and completed his Ghost Tiger Overlord Body, then returned to the meeting confident in his disciple.
• The Council of Elders set the trial age limit at under one hundred and assigned each lineage five Grandmasters and one Great Grandmaster for the minefield expedition.
• Zhang Lingmiao welcomed the chance to join the trial, while Hong Tianxiang emerged from seclusion hoping to test himself against the other young Grandmasters.
• The Red Lotus Demon Venerable agreed with the Spirit-Eyed Demon Emperor to let humans enter the Minor Realm and ambush their Grandmasters while keeping the Heavenly Kings outside.
• Ye Changkong drew a sixteen-foot spear from the Sword Hut furnace, producing a blood-flame tiger phenomenon that signaled a superior divine weapon was nearing completion.

Lu Chenzhou collected his newly forged high-grade divine weapon, the Tiger Soul Myriad Souls Spear, and joined Lin Xia and Wang Xian to explore the Deercall Underground Palace. After revealing his new ability, Listening to the World's Voice, he neared the treasure site, where Wang Xian encountered Qin Xiao and the others fighting an immortal puppet.

• Lu Chenzhou received the Tiger Soul Myriad Souls Spear from Ye Changkong, inspected the monstrous blood-tree within it, and learned its fourth divine property was still gestating.
• Lu Chenzhou named the spear the Tiger Soul Myriad Souls Spear and gave Ye Changkong Earth Mother Origin-Opening Milk as payment for forging it.
• Lin Xia and Wang Xian brought Lu Chenzhou to the Deercall Underground Palace to help defeat a powerful immortal construct guarding a treasure site.
• Lu Chenzhou sensed and drove off a hidden Wood Goblin, then explained that his world dao had granted him the ability he called Listening to the World's Voice.
• Wang Xian scouted the battle ahead and found Qin Xiao, Li Minghuang, and a Black Serpent fighting an immortal puppet; Qin Xiao spotted Wang Xian, who withdrew without confronting them.

Lu Chenzhou and his companions reached the Hanging Temple and fought its immortal puppet, while Qin Xiao plotted to kill Lu Chenzhou and steal his supposed opportunity. After defeating the puppet, Lu Chenzhou gained insight into the kind of body-tempering divine art he wanted to create.

• Lin Xia, Wang Xian, and Lu Chenzhou found that Qin Xiao had reached the Hanging Temple first, but turned back after seeing him and Li Minghuang flee from its immortal puppet.
• Qin Xiao decided to target Lu Chenzhou, proposing that he and Li Minghuang lure an injured peak Ghost King into attacking him and then escape to a Minor Realm.
• At the Hanging Temple, Lu Chenzhou tested the immortal puppet and fought it alongside Lin Xia, whose Nine-Mountain Dark Vestment shattered during the battle.
• Lu Chenzhou faced the puppet alone and used Mountain Lord Offers Wine and Battlefield Descends, exhausting its power until it collapsed into a silver sphere.
• After his Immortal Saint Armor shattered, Lu Chenzhou studied the puppet's flowing, waterlike defenses and realized his future body-tempering art should avoid overwhelming force instead of merely resisting it.

Qin Xiao and Red Shang plotted to possess Lu Chenzhou, while Lu and his companions looted the Hanging Temple and chose to go into seclusion. The chapter ended with Lu discovering Chenghuang Essence, a rare treasure that could extend lifespan, as Qin Xiao, Li Minghuang, and Red Shang closed in.

• Qin Hui explained that the Qin Family could evacuate only a small number of people, while the World Nations Martial Arts Council seized the Origin Ore Minor Realm and prepared to explore it.
• Qin Xiao revealed his alliance with Red Shang, who planned to possess Lu Chenzhou, and Red Shang defeated Li Minghuang.
• Lu Chenzhou, Lin Xia, and Wang Xian destroyed the Hanging Temple’s formation, defeated its immortal puppets, and divided the treasury’s treasures.
• Lu Chenzhou chose to enter seclusion, and Lin Xia agreed to guard him while Wang Xian moved on.
• Qin Xiao, Li Minghuang, and Red Shang arrived at the temple ruins and began searching for Lu Chenzhou.
• Lu Chenzhou found Chenghuang Essence behind a waterfall and learned it could extend his lifespan.

Lu Chenzhou created and perfected the divine-grade body-tempering skill Gold-Mercury Jade-Elixir Flowing Water Body, gaining extraordinary control over his body and greatly increasing his strength. As he left his hiding place, he discovered that his senior brother and senior sister were missing, while Qin Xiao and the Red Sorrow Ghost King were closing in on his group.

• Lu Chenzhou imprinted his control mark on the Golden Sword Steward and Silver Mercury Elder, then studied the Silver Mercury Elder’s ability to soften and shift its body to evade attacks.
• Lu Fang considered a fluid, lightning-forged approach to body tempering and learned of a Profound Heaven Sect paradise with an interrealm teleportation formation that could help him leave the Void Realm.
• A Wood Kui scout found traces of Lu Chenzhou’s group, and Qin Xiao sent the Red Sorrow Ghost King to lead them to the group before their time in the Deercall Underground Palace ran out.
• Lu Chenzhou completed the Gold-Mercury Jade-Elixir Flowing Water Body, transforming his inner landscape and gaining abilities that let him reshape his body and disperse fatal attacks.
• After testing his new powers and leaving the waterfall cavern, Lu Chenzhou spread out his thought force and realized his senior brother and senior sister were missing.

Wang Xian and Lin Xia were ambushed by Red Shang Ghost King, Qin Xiao, and Li Minghuang; Lin Xia was dragged away, and Wang Xian was left unconscious. Lu Chenzhou arrived to face the Ghost King inside a ghost wall, where he found Red Shang Ghost King hiding.

• Wang Xian and Lin Xia sparred, and Lin Xia narrowly defeated him.
• Red Shang Ghost King attacked Wang Xian and Lin Xia; Li Minghuang stabbed Lin Xia, but she released Wang Changming’s Vermilion Bird Sword Qi before being dragged into a spatial rift.
• Wang Xian resisted Red Shang Ghost King’s attempt to mark him as a ghost slave by burning his soul essence, but he collapsed before he could escape.
• Lu Chenzhou arrived, rescued Wang Xian, and fought Red Shang Ghost King while Qin Xiao and Li Minghuang harassed him inside the ghost domain.
• Lu Chenzhou became trapped in Red Shang Ghost King’s ghost wall, but a Mountain Lord phantom appeared behind the Ghost King and found him.

Lu Chenzhou broke the Red Sorrow Ghost King's domain, killed Li Minghuang and Qin Xiao, and pursued the fleeing Ghost King until White Phoenix arrived and destroyed it. White Phoenix revealed that Heavenly King Wei and several major families had defected, while Lin Xia's whereabouts remained unknown.

• Lu Chenzhou used the Dao of the World to break the Red Sorrow Ghost King's ghost domain, but the Ghost King wounded him after his armor failed.
• Li Minghuang pierced Lu Chenzhou's chest, but Lu Chenzhou healed, unleashed Kun Transforms into Peng, and killed him before defeating Qin Xiao.
• Lu Chenzhou pursued the Red Sorrow Ghost King and perfected Cloud-Climbing Ladder, greatly increasing his speed, but turned back when his secret art began to near its limit.
• White Phoenix arrived, killed the Red Sorrow Ghost King, and told Lu Chenzhou that Heavenly King Wei and the Cai, Ye, Dong, and Qin families had tried to defect through a secret Minor Realm.
• Lu Chenzhou asked about Lin Xia, and White Phoenix said he had not seen her but believed she would be teleported out if she was alive and still in the underground palace.

Lu Chenzhou subdued the Black Water Profound Serpent and helped White Phoenix stabilize Wang Xian’s severe soul injury, learning that he needed a rare treasure or an expert healer to recover. Afterward, he rescued Lin Xia at the Deercall Underground Palace entrance, and the siblings set out hoping to find a way to save Wang Xian.

• Lu Chenzhou arrived at the hidden nest, wounded the Black Water Profound Serpent, and forced it to submit.
• Lu Chenzhou examined Wang Xian and learned from White Phoenix that an earth-grade soul treasure or a skilled healer was needed to treat his damaged soul.
• White Phoenix used Azure Phoenix Carries a Branch to preserve Wang Xian’s life for up to ten years and named several experts who might be able to heal him.
• White Phoenix taught Lu Chenzhou the remaining methods of Phoenix Cry Across the Nine Heavens and asked him to look after his junior sister, Gongsun Ying, before leaving to prepare for his breakthrough.
• Lu Chenzhou rescued the badly injured Lin Xia at the underground palace entrance and healed her with Earth Immortal Dew.
• Lin Xia learned what had happened to Wang Xian, then left with Lu Chenzhou to seek a way to save him.

Lu Chenzhou joined the campaign against the Evacuation Faction while searching for treatment for his injured senior brother, then fought his way toward the faction’s one-way teleportation array. He learned that the evacuation to the Profound Heaven Realm was nearly complete as Heavenly King Wei was cornered by the Council’s forces.

• Lu Chenzhou brought Wang Xian to Li Jin, who promised to seek treatment for him while urging Lu Chenzhou to carry out his Lamplighter mission.
• Lu Chenzhou entered a Minor Realm to arrest or kill listed Evacuation Faction leaders, while Qin Hui’s family and other faction members prepared to flee through a teleportation array.
• Heavenly King Wei fought Yellow River Old Ghost and Wang Changming, insisting that escaping to another world offered humanity a chance to survive.
• Hong Tianxiang confronted his former teacher, Tortoise Daoist, but Tortoise Daoist defeated him before Lu Chenzhou arrived and killed him after he refused to surrender.
• Lu Chenzhou and Hong Tianxiang swept through the Evacuation Faction, obtained the array’s location, and Lu Chenzhou sent the intelligence to his master before heading there with three Grandmasters.
• Qin Hui learned that Heavenly King Wei could not reach the teleportation hall, while Wei was surrounded by Li Xiuying, Wang Changming, and the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King.

Heavenly King Wei lost his resolve and attempted to break through the seventh realm amid battle, while Qin Hui hijacked the evacuation teleportation to save the Qin Family. Lu Chenzhou fought his way into the hall and halted the evacuation, confronting Qin Hui as the chapter ended.

• Heavenly King Wei declared that humanity had no hope against Wu and launched an unprepared attempt to walk the Path to Heaven, drawing attacks from Wang Changming and Li Xiuying.
• Qin Hui forced the Qin Family to the front of the evacuation line, killed a Wei Family disciple who resisted, and pressured the Wei Family Grandmasters into helping protect the teleportation hall.
• Lu Chenzhou, Hong Tianxiang, and Leaf-Plucking Hand fought their way into the passage; Lu killed one Wei Family Grandmaster and broke through toward Qin Hui.
• Qin Hui continued preparing to evacuate his family as Lu Chenzhou entered the great hall and warned that anyone who stepped into the teleportation array would die.
• Lu Chenzhou killed a Qin Family disciple who tried to teleport and revealed the Tianyuan Cauldron Sword, challenging the remaining evacuees to test him.

Lu Chenzhou fought Qin Hui to keep the Qin Family from escaping through the teleportation array, enduring devastating attacks with his armor, speed, and Soft Formula. He finally pierced Qin Hui’s defenses with the ninth form of the Martial God Spear, leaving both fighters near their limits as Wang Changming watched.

• Lu Chenzhou attacked Qin Hui while Leaf-Picking Hand tried to destroy the teleportation array, and Qin Hui ordered the Qin Family disciples to protect it.
• Qin Hui unleashed the Mountain-River Sword Technique and shattered Lu Chenzhou’s armor, but Lu Chenzhou continued fighting after discarding it.
• Qin Hui suppressed Lu Chenzhou with Stabilizing Heaven and Earth and severed his shoulder, but Lu Chenzhou’s body flowed back together through the Soft Formula.
• Leaf-Picking Hand joined the battle, reinforcements arrived, and Wang Changming reached the underground area but chose to watch Lu Chenzhou fight.
• Lu Chenzhou pierced Qin Hui’s Nine-Mountain Dark Vestment with Dripping Water Pierces Stone, and the Tiger Soul Myriad Souls Spear began devouring Qin Hui’s body.

Lu Chenzhou recovered after defeating Qin Hui, learned about the Heaven Realm and divine powers, and traveled with Wang Changming to seek a cure for Wang Xian. The evacuation faction’s survivors began rebuilding in the Profound Heaven Realm, where Lu Fang arrived days later.

• Wang Changming killed Qin Hui, destroyed the teleportation array, and told Lu Chenzhou that the families who escaped to the Profound Heaven Realm should be left to develop there.
• Wang Changming explained the inner heaven tribulation and how cultivators could nurture divine powers in their apertures, while Lu Chenzhou kept more than a hundred pieces of Creation Origin Ore.
• Wang Changming warned Leaf-Picking Hand and Hong Tianxiang to conceal Lu Chenzhou’s battle with Qin Hui, then traveled with Lu Chenzhou to the Taihang Mountains.
• Wang Changming stopped Lu Chenzhou from spending his candleflames on Yin Soul Jade and said Aishwarya might trade Three-Soul Profound Water to heal Wang Xian.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King imprisoned Dong Ping in the Nine-Level Prison Pagoda after condemning his decision to flee to the Profound Heaven Realm.
• Six thousand aristocratic family disciples settled in the Profound Heaven Realm and founded the New Profound Heaven Sect, and Lu Fang arrived there several days later.

Lu Fang brought fifty-seven rescued clans out of the Void Realm and established the Ten Thousand Thunder Sect in the Profound Heaven Realm, hoping to find a route home and build a refuge for the Great Wilderness peoples. Meanwhile, Lu Chenzhou agreed to owe the Heart Medium a future favor in exchange for Three-Soul Profound Water to treat Wang Xian’s soul injury.

• Lu Fang gathered the fifty-seven clans, moved them through teleportation arrays, and established the Ten Thousand Thunder Sect in the Profound Heaven Realm.
• Lu Fang planned to find the realm’s major teleportation hub to return to Great Xia and make the Profound Heaven Realm a stronghold connecting the surviving peoples.
• Wang Changming brought Lu Chenzhou to the monastery where the Heart Medium was treating Wang Xian, whose soul injury had been stabilized but remained untreated.
• The Heart Medium offered Three-Soul Profound Water in exchange for Lu Chenzhou’s promise to assist her cultivation with his Dao of the World when she called in the favor.
• Lu Chenzhou accepted the favor under the condition that it would not violate morality or human ethics or put him in danger, and the Heart Medium gave Wang Xian the treasure.

Heart Medium gave Wang Xian Three-Soul Profound Water, while Lu Chenzhou trained as Tyrant Fist Du Meng rose to fame by defeating a Grand Grandmaster with his Fusion Style. A year later, the wilderness expedition was set to resume, and Du Meng survived a near-fatal assassination attempt by Demon Emperor Hua.

• Heart Medium used Three-Soul Profound Water to support her planned breakthrough and hoped Wang Xian would soon reach the seventh stage.
• Wang Xian took the Three-Soul Profound Water, while Wang Changming advised Lu Chenzhou to focus on cultivation during the delay to the wilderness expedition.
• Du Meng demonstrated his Thermonuclear Thermobaric Palm and defeated Silver Warplane · Baghdad, becoming the publicly recognized top Western martial artist under forty-five.
• Lu Chenzhou studied Du Meng's techniques and trained for a year as Great Xia dealt with the aftermath of the evacuation faction purge, delaying the wilderness expedition.
• Du Meng advanced to the Grand Grandmaster realm at forty-six, but Demon Emperor Hua nearly assassinated him before Black Prison Duke · McAllen killed the Demon Emperor and saved him.

Red Lotus Demon Venerable and the Demon Emperor Palace prepared to assassinate Lu Chenzhou in the Origin Ore Minor Realm, while Lu advanced his spear arts and cultivation. The chapter ended with Lu surveying his progress in the inner landscape and joking about the Dragon King's carving.

• Red Lotus Demon Venerable learned that the attempt to kill Du Meng had failed and discussed the threat posed by Four Emperors candidates across the Three Thousand Worlds.
• Red Lotus Demon Venerable ordered the Demon Emperors to ensure Lu Chenzhou's death in the coming Origin Ore Minor Realm expedition, and several Demon Emperors planted demon god incarnations among the demon kings there.
• Red Lotus Demon Venerable secretly sent its own demon god incarnation, despite the cost to its strength and cultivation plans.
• Lu Chenzhou completed the tenth move of the Martial God Spear, Life and Death, Vast and Empty, and used it to age a third-realm great demon to death.
• Lu Chenzhou reviewed his cultivation gains, including reaching the middle stage of Mind Grandmaster, before entering his inner landscape and observing the Dragon King's latest carving.