Chapter Summaries

Lu Chenzhou reached the Final Realm of Grandmaster and reunited with his senior siblings before preparing to lead Myriad Forms Dao’s team into the Minor Realm. At the battle-group selection, Blade-Hugging Tiger challenged the announced assessment by asking what would happen if someone defeated Great Grandmaster Wei.

• Lu Chenzhou formed the beginnings of his Southern Sea and Western Sea Astral Forces, assigned Elder Silver to the mine, and placed the Golden Sword Deacon at Myriad Forms Dao.
• Lu Chenzhou visited Wang Xian and Lin Xia, then joined his extended martial family as they discussed the wilderness expedition and Li Yao’s training while he was away.
• Wang Changming warned Lu Chenzhou, Wang Xian, and Lin Xia to prioritize survival in the Minor Realm and gave them Great Grandmaster-level life-saving sword qi.
• Lu Chenzhou led Myriad Forms Dao’s Su City team to headquarters for selection, where he encountered Blade-Hugging Tiger, Li Hu, and learned that Great Grandmaster Wei would assess the candidates.
• Blade-Hugging Tiger asked Li Jin what would happen if a candidate defeated Great Grandmaster Wei during the selection.

Lu Chenzhou challenged Wei Fenghua after the other Grandmasters competed in an assessment, matching her Cloud-Water Azure-Heaven Vase with his Myriad Manifestations Realm. He forced her to release her suppressed cultivation with a newly devised Life and Death, Vast and Empty strike, earning first place and the role of deputy commander for the expedition.

• Li Jin moved the assessment to Heaven's Cry Hall, where Wei Fenghua invited the Grandmasters to challenge her with her cultivation suppressed.
• Sun Shisan was defeated in two moves, while Lin Xia lasted thirty-three moves and Wang Xian lasted fifty.
• Blade-Hugging Tiger fought Wei Fenghua for five hundred moves with his superior divine weapon, then lost after gaining insight into his saber Dao.
• Lu Chenzhou's Myriad Manifestations Realm rivaled Wei Fenghua's Cloud-Water Azure-Heaven Vase, and the two fought evenly for hundreds of moves.
• When Wei Fenghua's Azure Crane Pecking Heart struck Lu Chenzhou's sacred armor, he countered with Life and Death, Vast and Empty and forced her to release her cultivation.
• Wei Fenghua declared Lu Chenzhou first in the assessment and appointed him deputy commander of the expedition.

The Great Reclamation began after Lu Chenzhou and four other Grandmasters were selected to lead the expedition into the Mining Realm. As the battle groups entered, the Silver Eagle Federation failed to secure access to the mines, while the Demon Emperor Palace planned to target Lu Chenzhou.

• The Grandmasters selected Lu Chenzhou, Blade-Hugging Tiger, Li Dalong, Chen Tang, and Wang Xian for the reclamation, and Li Jin ordered the trial's details kept secret.
• Three days later, twenty-seven battle groups assembled at the Mining Realm entrance, where the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King opened the gateway and declared the Great Reclamation underway.
• The Yellow River Old Ghost and Sunrise East stayed behind to guard the entrance after the battle groups entered the Mining Realm.
• Silver Eagle Federation Heavenly Kings asked Black Prison Archduke to negotiate for access to origin minerals, but he refused and vanished.
• Demon Emperors ordered Great Demon Kings to hunt Lu Chenzhou in the Mining Realm and planned to use hidden Demon God Incarnations to kill him by surprise.

The human expedition established a base in the Mining Realm and spent six months surveying and exploring while Grandmasters tested the weakened laws of the realm. At a command meeting, Wei Fenghua identified four valuable but perilous mid-grade mine veins, setting up the campaign’s next struggle.

• The arriving experts discovered that the Mining Realm’s weakened laws made flight, combat, and spatial traversal easier, and prominent Heaven Ranking fighters demonstrated their abilities.
• Lu Chenzhou learned that the pioneer trial’s top four individual performers could choose among four Heavenly-Grade treasures, including the Nine-Aperture Exquisite Grass and Dragon Blood Coral.
• The twenty-seven battle corps established a city and explored outward for six months while Lu Chenzhou secretly mastered spatial traversal and earned merit by killing a First Realm Demon King.
• Wei Fenghua announced that surveys had revealed more than a hundred mine veins, including four mid-grade veins that could secure Myriad Forms Battle Corps a top-three position.
• Wei Fenghua described the four dangerous sites: the Demon King Palace, the Ten Thousand Ghost Grotto, a scorching fire-aspected mine near the realm’s core, and the territory of the powerful Lion Ape King.

Lu Chenzhou entered Yellow Wind Valley alone to investigate its hidden threat and fought the three Demon Kings amid the Grit Sand Gale. He split Sand King’s body with a spear strike, prompting Sand King to call for the Great Demon King sleeping beneath the valley.

• Wei Fenghua asked the Masters to lead an assault on Yellow Wind Valley, and Lu Chenzhou volunteered with Wang Xian and Chen Tang.
• The Cloud Mountain Battle Group retreated from Yellow Wind Valley after Sand King drove back Ling Susu and Qi Jingtian.
• Sand King and his brothers learned Lu Chenzhou was approaching and woke Earthshaking Ancestor, who agreed to capture him.
• Lu Chenzhou sensed a concealed Great Demon King and entered the valley alone while Wang Xian and Chen Tang waited outside.
• Lu Chenzhou fought the three Yellow Wind Demon Kings and pierced Sand King with the Tiger Soul Myriad Souls Spear.
• Sand King’s body split into two worms, and he cried out for Ancestor to save him.

Lu Chenzhou killed the Sand King and fought Earthshaking Ancestor, a Great Demon King, inside Yellow Wind Valley. After his armor shattered and he was badly wounded, he used an illusion-like technique to distract the ancestor and beheaded it, while allies and Wei Fenghua hurried to help.

• The Sand King tried to escape underground, but Lu Chenzhou forced it to the surface and killed both of its clones with two spear strikes.
• Earthshaking Ancestor arrived and attacked Lu Chenzhou, while the Sand King's two surviving brothers fled behind their ancestor.
• Ling Susu learned that a Great Demon King was in Yellow Wind Valley and set out with Qi Jingtian to assist Lu Chenzhou; Wei Fenghua also left the base after hearing the news.
• Earthshaking Ancestor corroded Lu Chenzhou's spear and shattered his Immortal Saint Armor, but Lu Chenzhou used void traversal to evade its attacks and launch a counterattack.
• Earthshaking Ancestor trapped Lu Chenzhou's escape route and blasted him out of the valley, leaving him gravely wounded.
• When Earthshaking Ancestor pursued Lu Chenzhou, he disoriented it with a vast vision in its mind and beheaded it.

Lu Chenzhou killed Earthshaking Ancestor, then fought off an attack by a powerful green-scaled foe until Wei Fenghua rescued him. The foe was revealed to be an avatar of the Demon King Palace’s lord, who planned to wait for the humans to gather before striking as a Demon Emperor, and the battle group withdrew to prepare for further danger.

• Lu Chenzhou used Mountain Lord Questions Heaven to break Earthshaking Ancestor’s will and beheaded it.
• A green-scaled claw attacked Lu Chenzhou, who unleashed several killing moves before Wei Fenghua cut off the claw and pulled him into the void.
• At Yellow Wind Valley, the Palace Lord revealed that it had mastered avatars, that its true body guarded the Demon King Palace, and that it intended to destroy the humans with a single Demon Emperor strike.
• The Cloud Mountain Battle Group celebrated Lu Chenzhou’s strength, while Chen Tang and Wang Xian discussed how wise it had been to stay out of the fight.
• Wei Fenghua ordered the battle group to withdraw, then warned Sky Supporting Mendicant that a Demon King Palace avatar might be active and that all battle groups should remain alert.

Lu Chenzhou’s victory over the Sand King and the Nameless Great Demon King earned him a commanding lead in merit, while the Demon King Palace resolved to keep him trapped in the Minor Realm. After two years of frontier development, the operation paused following sudden demon power-ups and Grandmaster casualties, and Lu Chenzhou emerged from seclusion to find himself ranked seventh.

• Daoist Zhongchong awarded Lu Chenzhou 1,000 merit points for killing the Sand King and severely wounding the Nameless Great Demon King, lifting the Myriad Forms Battle Corps to twelfth place.
• Dream Ring broke through to become a Mind Grandmaster, while the Demon King Palace discussed Lu Chenzhou’s strength and chose to wait inside Black Bone Marsh rather than attack the human outpost.
• Lu Chenzhou, Wang Xian, and Chen Tang returned to Yellow Wind Valley, where the Myriad Forms Battle Corps mined its essence-stone deposits and Lu Chenzhou began secluded cultivation.
• Over the next year and a half, Dream Ring and Wan Tiankong became Grandmasters and gained major merit, but empowered Demon Kings injured Wan Tiankong and killed a Kunlun Dao Grandmaster, causing the command headquarters to suspend frontier work.
• Lu Chenzhou emerged from seclusion after two years of frontier development, saw that he had fallen to seventh place, and wondered whether Blade-Hugging Tiger had advanced.

Blade-Hugging Tiger advanced to Grandmaster while Lu Chenzhou reached the master's Limit Realm, and the human battle corps prepared a joint campaign against Lion Ape King. Lu Chenzhou agreed to join, encouraged by the sword spirit’s account of the ape king’s potential and the rare Jufu Fruit.

• Blade-Hugging Tiger emerged from seclusion as a Grandmaster, and Wei Fenghua, Sky Supporting Mendicant, and Lu Chenzhou congratulated him.
• Sky Supporting Mendicant recognized that Lu Chenzhou had reached the Limit Realm, with more than 13,000 points of vital energy and blood and 470 Aperture Heavenly Stars.
• Six-Head and the Demon King Palace discussed a major campaign against humanity, and a headless knight offered the support of Ten Thousand Ghost Grotto.
• The twenty-seven battle corps agreed to cooperate in an attempt to seize Lion Ape King’s mid-grade mineral vein after an earlier group of Grandmasters had failed to defeat him.
• Wei Fenghua asked her team to join the campaign, and Blade-Hugging Tiger and Lu Chenzhou agreed to participate.
• The sword spirit urged Lu Chenzhou to subdue Lion Ape King and seek Jufu Fruit, then described the War Emperor’s Cosmic Pillar and his duel with the Xuan Emperor.

Lu Chenzhou was elected captain of a forty-person force sent to kill the Lion Ape King, while Wan Tiankong privately revealed that he had mastered the Stellar Chaos Saber. At Drunken Immortal Lake, the force’s formation weakened the Ape King, and the battle began with Lu Chenzhou and the others gradually suppressing it despite its overwhelming strength.

• Lu Chenzhou and Wang Xian joined the campaign, while Chen Tang stayed behind to guard the base and pursue a breakthrough.
• The participating martial artists voted Lu Chenzhou and Wan Tiankong into a tie for captain, but Wan Tiankong declined a deciding match and accepted the role of vice-captain.
• Wan Tiankong told his battle group that he had perfected the Stellar Chaos Saber and planned to reveal its power at the martial tournament.
• Forty fighters traveled secretly to Drunken Immortal Lake, where twenty-eight grandmasters activated the Big Dipper Seven-Star Demon-Subduing Formation to weaken the Lion Ape King.
• The Lion Ape King struck Wan Tiankong hard, but Lu Chenzhou led the assault, stabbed the beast with the Tiger Soul Spear, and helped the group steadily suppress it.

The demon-ghost army launched an early assault on the outpost while Lu Chenzhou and eight Grand Grandmasters battled the Lion Ape King at Drunken Immortal Lake. After they defeated the Ape King, a colossal turtle emerged from beneath the lake and swallowed them into its whirlpool.

• The Blood Prison Ghost King and the Demon King Palace led a vast army against the outpost, where Wei Fenghua and Daoist Zhongchong defended the Four Symbols Imperial Heaven Formation.
• Daoist Zhongchong urged the soldiers to fight from behind the formation and announced doubled merit points and increased Heaven-grade treasure rewards; the Council of Ten Thousand Nations chose to observe the battle.
• At Drunken Immortal Lake, Lu Chenzhou and eight Grand Grandmasters wore down the Lion Ape King until it collapsed, while Lu Chenzhou remained largely unharmed.
• After recovering, Lu Chenzhou and the others struck the unconscious Ape King together, but its body vanished, and the island sank beneath the lake.
• A colossal turtle surfaced and drew Lu Chenzhou and the others into a vast whirlpool with its suction.

Lu Chenzhou and the others were trapped inside the World-Carrying Spirit Turtle and discovered the inheritance grounds of Ancestor Ape God. After Mister Gui revealed that the Heavenly Battle Tokens could unlock the inheritance trial, the group entered, and Lu Chenzhou began his own trial before three ape statues.

• Lu Chenzhou led the group through the turtle’s pocket world and ordered them to avoid provoking its inhabitants as they searched for a way out.
• The Lion Ape King attacked again, but a white-robed elder stopped it and healed the injured group with Earth Immortal Dew.
• The elder introduced himself as Gui Yannian, recognized the group’s Heavenly Battle Tokens, and explained the inheritance trial at Ancestor Ape God’s former cave abode.
• Li Long and Wang Xian tried the trial, with Wang Xian surviving ten moves and receiving a fifth-grade battle weapon.
• Lu Chenzhou entered the inheritance space and found three ape statues before one identified himself as Yuan Jiugong.

Lu Chenzhou challenged Yuan Jiugong’s middle-aged inheritance statue and fought to qualify as a direct disciple. After enduring fifty-nine increasingly powerful attacks, he was battered and struggled to find a way through the Ape God Ancestor’s overwhelming staff technique.

• Lu Chenzhou chose to challenge the middle-aged statue, which matched his Limit Realm and sealed away his divine equipment.
• The golden-armored ape overwhelmed Lu Chenzhou with its strength and staff technique, but he adapted and endured thirty-one moves to qualify as an inner disciple.
• Outside the inheritance space, Mr. Turtle reported that only a small number of challengers had qualified as disciples and explained that the statue’s attacks grew stronger after thirty moves.
• Wang Xian argued that Lu Chenzhou could have endured more moves at full strength, while Mr. Turtle explained that the battle tested combat skill rather than explosive secret arts.
• Lu Chenzhou endured the fifty-ninth move with severe injuries, recognized that the ape’s staff technique had suppressed all his methods, and searched for a way to break its next attack.

Lu Chenzhou destroyed the Golden-Armored Ape’s inheritance projection after comprehending a powerful new spear technique, disrupting the other trials and forcing Mr. Turtle to restart them. He learned that his Martial God Spear had reached the eighth rank and left confident that he would one day surpass Ape God.

• Mr. Turtle and the Grandmasters watched Lu Chenzhou endure seventy-one moves against the Golden-Armored Ape before he was teleported out and entered a state of sudden insight.
• After Lu Chenzhou asked to challenge the ape again, Mr. Turtle granted him and the other candidates another attempt within three days.
• Lu Chenzhou used his newly comprehended Falling Stars Like Rain technique to shatter the Golden-Armored Ape, damaging the inheritance projection and slowing the apes in the other parallel trials.
• Mr. Turtle restarted the inheritance space, invalidated the second trial’s results, and told Lu Chenzhou to stay behind, without confirming whether he had passed the personal disciple assessment.
• Lu Chenzhou discovered that his Martial God Spear had reached the eighth rank, gained the Dao-Seeing Realm, and created the killing move Falling Stars Like Rain.
• Lu Chenzhou reviewed his improved spear technique, qi-blood, and spiritual power, then resolved to surpass Ape God one day.

Lu Chenzhou remained in Plainclothes Ape’s inheritance space while Mr. Turtle appointed disciples and sent the others back to the besieged human base. As the battle intensified, Six-Head concluded that Lu Chenzhou had been killed by the Ape King, unaware that he was still inside the inheritance space.

• Mr. Turtle named seven outer disciples, assigned yearly origin-stone allowances and assessments, and gave the disciples identity tokens and rules to follow.
• Mr. Turtle sent everyone except Lu Chenzhou out of the inheritance space, and the others speculated about what rank he had earned.
• Wan Tiankong and other fighters attacked the demon-ghost army as the besieged human base continued to defend itself with the Four Symbols Imperial Heaven Formation.
• Six-Head investigated the Ape King’s island and mistakenly decided that Lu Chenzhou had died luring the Ape King away from the human squad.

The demons learned that Lu Chenzhou was alive and besieged the human stronghold to force his surrender, but the Lion Ape King intervened to rescue five captives. While Lu Chenzhou trained in the Ape God's Abode, Mr. Turtle taught him about the Ancestor’s Ultimate Dao of Strength and the Nine Dukes Move Mountains Scripture; Lu Chenzhou chose to return to help his comrades and received the Nine-Aperture Exquisite Grass.

• Wu told the demon emperors that Lu Chenzhou was still alive and likely in seclusion, prompting Six-Head Hall Master to threaten the human stronghold.
• The Blood Prison Ghost King trapped Zhending, the Demon Fist Tyrant, and three young Grandmasters, then demanded that the humans surrender Lu Chenzhou or watch them die.
• The Lion Ape King tore apart the ghost domain, rescued the five captives, and fought the Blood Prison Ghost King as Daoist Zhongchong ordered the humans to join the battle.
• Mr. Turtle explained the Ancestor’s Ultimate Dao of Strength, revealed that it was based on the power of the stars, and taught Lu Chenzhou part of the Nine Dukes Move Mountains Scripture.
• Mr. Turtle offered Lu Chenzhou Jufu Fruits and a Nine-Leaf Stargrass if he remained in seclusion, but Lu Chenzhou insisted on returning to his comrades and received the grass.

Lu Chenzhou became the eighteenth personal disciple of the master of Mount Yuan Grotto-Heaven and received a rare acupoint-opening treasure and a powerful place to cultivate. He decided to train there before returning to the battlefield, with permission to bring low-level family members and friends.

• Mr. Turtle gave Lu Chenzhou the Nine-Aperture Exquisite Grass and advised him to cultivate before going to the battlefield.
• Mr. Turtle showed Lu Chenzhou Mount Yuan Grotto-Heaven, described its ancient history, and recounted the Seven Sages of Mount Yuan’s travels and legends.
• Mr. Turtle brought Lu Chenzhou to Manor Mountain Lord’s former cultivation ground, where a medicinal field and a sealed miniature high-grade origin ore vein remained.
• Lu Chenzhou realized the origin qi and Nine-Aperture Exquisite Grass could help him reach the fifth realm within a year and a half, so he chose to cultivate there.
• Mr. Turtle allowed Lu Chenzhou to bring family members with cultivation below the Heaven Realm, and Lu Chenzhou became Mount Yuan Grotto-Heaven’s eighteenth personal disciple.

Lu Chenzhou learned about Mount Yuan Grotto-Heaven and tested his strength against the weapons of Ingot Mountain, where he reached the fifth-rank area before retreating. The Heaven-Piercing Spirit Weapons discussed whether to accept him as their master, while Mr. Turtle decided to let him follow his own path.

• Mr. Turtle explained the grotto-heaven’s history and refused to help Lu Chenzhou enter the Heavenly Abyss, warning him that it was too dangerous.
• Mr. Turtle told Lu Chenzhou about the benefits and obligations of being a direct disciple, including the Heaven-Piercing Spirit Weapons on Ingot Mountain.
• Lu Chenzhou inspected the herb garden, found valuable spirit plants and treasure trees, and planned to leave their care to Great-Grandmaster Qingtian Cang.
• Lu Chenzhou climbed Ingot Mountain and fought through its weapon attacks, but powerful fifth-rank weapons overwhelmed him and forced him to retreat.
• The spirit weapons debated whether Lu Chenzhou was worthy of becoming their master, and Mr. Turtle revealed that Lu Chenzhou had his own path and should not be taught or redirected.

Lu Chenzhou cultivated the Nine Dukes Move Mountains Scripture in the heavenly grotto, entering its first level’s basics after a month and gaining insight into how cultivation could turn the false into the real. As he continued training, the war outside remained at a stalemate, and the chapter ended with a long howl from the Mountain Lord’s dojo.

• Lu Chenzhou meditated in the Mountain Lord’s dojo and learned that the Creation Origin Qi accelerated his cultivation and sharpened his thoughts.
• Lu Chenzhou spent a month studying the Nine Dukes Move Mountains Scripture and reached 2% proficiency in its first level, while his body developed a mountain-shaped phenomenon.
• Lu Chenzhou paused his scripture training to pursue other forms of cultivation, and Mr. Turtle realized he had entered the basics after only a month.
• Mr. Turtle remembered that the Jufu Fruit in the grotto would sustain Lu Chenzhou only through the third level and considered sending him to the Profound Heaven Realm for more.
• The Wasteland-Reclamation Warband remained locked in a stalemate, while Wei Fenghua confirmed that Lu Chenzhou had not returned and had fallen out of the top ten in the merit rankings.
• A long howl rang from the Mountain Lord’s dojo as winter gave way to summer.

Lu Chenzhou broke the fifth shackle by transforming his heart and entered the Grandmaster realm. While consolidating his new strength, his World Tiger Fist advanced and gained the ability to create minion spirits from powerful enemies.

• Lu Chenzhou began his Grandmaster breakthrough after completing all six requirements, choosing to transform his heart despite its difficulty.
• After months of dangerous cultivation, Lu Chenzhou completed the heart transformation, awakened fetal breathing, and rebuilt his body with a glazed luster.
• Lu Chenzhou tested his strength against the training stele and discussed leaving the ancient abode with the sword spirit after consolidating his realm.
• Lu Chenzhou continued training, and his World Tiger Fist advanced to a mid-grade divine martial art with an eighth-rank divine seed.
• The World Tiger Fist gained Tiger's Minions, which let Lu Chenzhou trap the spiritual wills of enemies above the fourth realm and use them in battle.