Chapter Summaries

Heart Medium located Lu Chenzhou after the Holy Lord teleported him away, while Ye Xiaoyao killed the Spirit-Eyed Demon Emperor and rushed to help. The Holy Lord’s remnant soul tried to possess Lu Chenzhou, but found itself in a strange world beneath a giant tree, facing a white figure.

• Heart Medium burned the cult leader’s remains, discovered Lu Chenzhou was missing, and used Shiva’s Eye to locate him.
• Ye Xiaoyao killed the Spirit-Eyed Demon Emperor with the Ding Sword, destroyed the pale-faced gentleman, and set off after Lu Chenzhou.
• The Holy Lord’s remnant soul trapped Lu Chenzhou in a soul-transference ritual and suppressed his true astral force.
• Lu Chenzhou used his physical strength and Three Mountains Shift to smash the Holy Lord’s giant snake form and tear apart the ritual.
• The Holy Lord’s remnant soul invaded Lu Chenzhou’s mind, where it encountered a towering tree and a white figure that greeted it, “Hello, little snake.”

Lu Chenzhou defeated the Holy Lord’s remnant soul during his enlightenment, and the Martial Dao Tree absorbed its poison laws as he developed the Dao of Kurong. After senior experts arrived to check on him, he returned to Su City with new insights and plans to improve his martial arts.

• The Holy Lord tried to break Lu Chenzhou’s Dao heart and possess him, but Lu Chenzhou’s World Tree withered and flourished again before the Holy Lord’s remnant soul burned away.
• The Martial Dao Tree absorbed the Holy Lord’s poisonous Dao essence, forming a Poison bubble and giving Lu Chenzhou new insights into poison arts.
• Lu Chenzhou reviewed his advances in Chaos, Force Extremity, and Kurong, reflecting on how his World Dao contained and evolved all things.
• The Heart Medium and Ye Xiaoyao arrived, praised Lu Chenzhou’s will, and warned him to disguise himself when traveling abroad.
• Ye Xiaoyao brought Lu Chenzhou back to Su City, where the assembled experts checked on him and discussed future martial arts exchanges.

Lu Chenzhou returned to Mount Yuan Grotto-Heaven after surviving a calamity and rapidly advanced to the power of three mountains, prompting Mr. Turtle to teach him about concealment arts and the coming Mountain-Sea Tower. As Lu Chenzhou began cultivating, the Seven Saints’ spirit weapons argued over which of them should become his master.

• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King celebrated the deaths of the White-Faced Lord, the Spirit-Eyed Demon Emperor, and the Holy Lord Church leader, while the Holy Lord raged in the Heavenly Serpent Forbidden Zone.
• Mr. Turtle learned that Lu Chenzhou had reached the power of three mountains and the third level of the Extreme Dao of Strength after entering unity between man and heaven.
• Mr. Turtle removed a soul-brand tracking mark from Lu Chenzhou and offered to teach him the seventh-rank Hidden Origin Art for one thousand mid-grade origin stones.
• Mr. Turtle told Lu Chenzhou that Mountain-Sea Tower might soon emerge and explained its trading rules, entry requirements, and dangers.
• Lu Chenzhou returned to cultivate, while the Seven Saints’ spirit weapons quarreled over which one should acknowledge him as master.

Second Lady Spear and other seventh-rank spirit weapons went down the mountain to seek Lu Chenzhou, while the eighth-rank weapons waited for him to reach the Heaven Realm. Months later, the Heavenly Human Ranking drew countless challengers, and Du Meng defeated Wan Tiankong to enter the top thousand, eager to face Lu Chenzhou.

• Second Lady Spear told Mr. Turtle that Lu Chenzhou was worthy of inheriting Lord Canglang's spear arts, and seven other spirit weapons descended to the dojo as well.
• The eighth-rank spirit weapons discussed their requirement that Lu Chenzhou reach the Heaven Realm before they could acknowledge him, and worried about the dangers facing him.
• As the Heavenly Human Ranking stirred the cultivation world, Lu Chenzhou received more than ninety-nine challenge messages but remained out of contact.
• Tyrant Fist Du Meng arrived at Xinghe Martial University and challenged Wan Tiankong, who accepted and entered the Fighting Realm with him.
• Du Meng defeated Wan Tiankong in ten moves and took the number 1000 spot on the Heavenly Human Ranking, while Wan Tiankong fell to number 1111.
• After Wan Tiankong told him Lu Chenzhou had defeated him with one spear strike, Du Meng became eager to challenge Lu Chenzhou.

After half a year in seclusion, Lu Chenzhou’s projection defeated nearly two hundred challengers with one spear strike, securing his place at rank 888 on the Heavenly Human Ranking. Another half year passed, and as Lu Chenzhou continued refining his body and Dao, a strange new withering-and-flourishing essence appeared outside his dojo.

• Lu Chenzhou studied how to combine his body-tempering path with the Withering and Flourishing Dao to create an immortal body.
• After the challenge grace period ended, Li Xiuyi faced Lu Chenzhou’s projection and lost to a single spear strike.
• Zen Master Dingfeng and numerous other challengers, including renowned Final Realm Grandmasters, also lost to the projection’s spear.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King recognized Lu Chenzhou’s strike as a nearly high-grade divine art that he had created himself.
• Over the next half year, Du Meng climbed to rank 950 while the martial world heard news of Ling Tong’s presumed death and the Evil Gods’ retreat from assassination attempts against Lu Chenzhou.
• A withering-and-flourishing Dao essence spread from Lu Chenzhou’s dojo, and Mr. Turtle suspected it was a Dao unseen before in the Great Wilderness.

Lu Chenzhou emerged from a year of seclusion with a powerful Kurong body-tempering art and a newly comprehended Dao. He refused to make Second Lady Spear his natal weapon, but she chose to pass on her spear art after he took up her weapon.

• Mr. Turtle and the spirit weapons discussed the unprecedented Dao Lu Chenzhou had comprehended as he cultivated beneath a phantom tree.
• Lu Chenzhou completed the Kurong Body and advanced the Flowing Water Body, reaching the late Grandmaster level and gaining an art that could restore his body at the cost of lifespan.
• Lu Chenzhou revealed that his new Dao was Kurong, formed by combining the Daos of life, death, chaos, and order.
• Second Lady Spear asked Lu Chenzhou to make her his natal spirit weapon, but he chose to keep the Tiger Soul Myriad Souls Spear and offered to take her into the human world instead.
• Second Lady Spear transformed into a spear and showed Lu Chenzhou the essence of her spear art, advising him to use it as a reference while staying true to his own Dao.

Lu Chenzhou emerged from seclusion after inheriting the Azure Sea Dragon-Driving Art and advanced to Final Realm Grandmaster, while the Eye of Truth’s growing influence sparked conflict between the Council and ordinary people. After a Blood Hidden Tower assassin attacked Wang Xian during a raid, Lu Chenzhou defeated and captured him alive.

• Lu Chenzhou awakened with the Azure Sea Dragon-Driving Art at its first layer, and Second Lady Spear agreed to protect him as he cultivated.
• Mr. Turtle offered the fox woman another chance to become Lu Chenzhou’s spirit weapon if he mastered the Moving Mountains Scripture or reached the Sixth Realm within ten years.
• Lu Chenzhou returned to Myriad Forms Dao, learned he had fallen one place on the Heavenly Human Ranking, and told Lin Xia he had advanced to Final Realm Grandmaster.
• Lin Xia explained that the Eye of Truth was attracting ordinary people with its fast-growing Truth Sorcery, despite the Council’s warnings about its connection to Wu.
• Wang Xian raided an Eye of Truth gathering, but a Blood Hidden Tower assassin attacked and collapsed the unfinished building, attempting to turn the public against the Council.
• Lu Chenzhou struck down the fleeing assassin, identified him as Heaven Division Number Seven, and restored his body so he could question him alive.

Lu Chenzhou captured a Blood Hidden Tower assassin and learned that the organization served the Eye of Truth, while he continued preparing to forge his own divine weapon and climbed Star-Plucking Tower. Du Meng arrived in Su City to challenge him, setting up a battle between two of the age’s foremost geniuses.

• Lu Chenzhou ordered the Blood Prison Ghost King to enslave Number Seven, then took the captured assassin to the Lamplighter Bureau, where he revealed his identity as Qian Yejing San and his ties to the Eye of Truth.
• Qian Yejing San disclosed that the Eye of Truth monitored Blood Hidden Tower members and that he knew of a branch base, but an oath prevented him from revealing its location; Old Man Hanshan took him away to investigate.
• Lu Chenzhou received 300 Candleflame points for the capture, searched the Lamplighter shop for Spiritglow Jade Dew, and decided to save for the resources needed to upgrade Tiger Soul.
• Du Meng defeated Chen Ming at Magic City University of Martial Arts and set out for Su City after seeing Lu Chenzhou rise on the Heavenly Human Ranking.
• Lu Chenzhou climbed from the 3,000th to the 4,000th floor of Star-Plucking Tower, earning origin stones and earth-grade treasures as he defeated its opponents.
• Du Meng reached Su City at dawn and publicly called out Lu Chenzhou for a challenge.

Lu Chenzhou cleared 1,900 floors of Star-Plucking Tower and agreed to face Du Meng immediately, despite his companions’ concerns. Their clash began with Du Meng’s Black Annihilation Divine Fist devouring Lu Chenzhou’s world-like spear force, but Lu Chenzhou hinted the fight was not over.

• Du Meng arrived in Su City to challenge Lu Chenzhou, then agreed to wait after learning Lu was still clearing the tower.
• Du Meng studied Lu Chenzhou’s repeated spear strikes and considered how their principles might advance his Black Hole Style.
• Lu Chenzhou reached the 4,900th floor, developed his twelfth spear strike during battle, defeated the sword immortal, and received a Nine-Aperture Exquisite Grass.
• After Lu returned, he insisted on fighting Du Meng at once, while Wang Xian, Lin Xia, and the others urged him to rest.
• In the Divine-Demon Battlefield, Lu Chenzhou and Du Meng each used one attack; Du Meng’s Black Annihilation Divine Fist devoured Lu’s spear force, and Lu told him to look behind him.

Lu Chenzhou defeated Du Meng, who left the planet to pursue cultivation in the starry sky. Months later, Lu Chenzhou prepared to claim the Tiger Form Faction leadership and hunt a newly advanced Heavenly King, while Du Meng survived attacks and continued his starry-sky trial.

• Lu Chenzhou defeated Du Meng with the twelfth form of the Martial God Spear, and Du Meng resolved to travel into the starry sky to cultivate.
• The Heavenly Human Ranking placed Lu Chenzhou at 600 and Du Meng at 888; Du Meng left the planet, prompting the Silver Eagle Federation and Demon Emperor Palace to send hunters after him.
• Lu Chenzhou told his sect about the duel and planned a mission against Blood Hidden Tower’s Heavenly King, Piercing Thorn Carter Hilo, with several newly advanced Heavenly Kings.
• Months later, Lu Chenzhou reached rank 580 and decided to compete for the Tiger Form Faction leadership to obtain the Mountain Lord Seal before his planned hunt.
• In a pocket-heaven beneath the moon, the wounded Du Meng learned that both the Silver Eagle Federation and Demon Emperor Palace were pursuing him, and the golden dragon urged him to continue cultivating the Black Nihility Devouring Body.

At the Tiger Form faction’s succession trial, Lu Chenzhou fought White-Robed Tiger to learn the spatial principles behind her unusual attack. The chapter ended as he apparently reproduced her technique, creating a vortex of flesh and blood in her incoming palm.

• Wu Long welcomed the Heavenly Kings and received gifts to aid his attempt to advance, while they acknowledged Lu Chenzhou’s importance to the Tiger Form faction’s future.
• Wu Long announced that the candidates had to defeat their opponents using Tiger Form arts, earn the Profound Lord’s recognition, and refine the Mountain Lord Seal to become faction master.
• Lu Chenzhou defeated Blade-Hugging Tiger, and White-Robed Tiger eliminated Tiger King Venerable before challenging him.
• Lu Chenzhou and White-Robed Tiger exchanged hundreds of moves until she used her self-created spatial technique, Rend, to tear open his defenses and wound him.
• Lu Chenzhou continued the duel to study Rend, and the watching Heavenly Kings realized he was imitating it.
• Lu Chenzhou formed a similar gleam around his fingertip and created a vortex of flesh and blood in White-Robed Tiger’s incoming palm.

Lu Chenzhou defeated White-Robed Tiger and, inspired by the fight, comprehended the terrifying new Dao of Revolution before becoming the Profound Lord. He left Dragon City, while the leftover vortex continued to grow and the Spirit of the Prison Tower warned that it could not be stopped.

• Lu Chenzhou manifested Revolution during his fight with White-Robed Tiger, severed her arm to save her from the vortex, and then restored it using Kurong at the cost of a year of his lifespan.
• White-Robed Tiger admitted defeat, and Wu Long handed Lu Chenzhou the Mountain Lord Seal after the spectators celebrated his victory.
• The Mountain Lord Seal made Lu Chenzhou the Profound Lord, granting him immense power and black tiger armor, and he left Dragon City that day.
• Three days later, Li Jin and Yellow River Old Ghost found that the leftover Revolution vortex had grown, and Northern Pacifying Heavenly King summoned the Spirit of the Prison Tower to examine it.
• The vortex swallowed the Spirit of the Prison Tower's chain, and the spirit identified it as a force resembling but surpassing the Dao of devouring and declared there was no solution.

Lu Chenzhou investigated the dangerous Rotation vortex he had created and learned about the Dragon Emperors’ Daos from Mr. Turtle. After becoming the youngest Tiger Form faction leader, he sought Spiritglow Jade Dew to reforge his divine weapon, and two unfamiliar Heavenly Kings arrived to meet him.

• Lu Chenzhou told Mr. Turtle about his world-threatening vortex, and Mr. Turtle identified Rotation as a Dao related to Devouring and warned him that its danger could grow with his cultivation.
• Mr. Turtle explained that the Black Annihilation Dragon Emperor cultivated Devouring, the Three-Zhang Dragon Emperor wielded Ultimate Defense, the Sun-Chasing Dragon Emperor wielded Ultimate Speed, and the Dragon Emperor wielded the supreme Dao of Time.
• Lu Chenzhou became the youngest Tiger Form faction leader, drew visitors to Su City, and offered to buy Spiritglow Jade Dew with his treasures to reforge his divine weapon.
• The Ancient Moon and Sky-Piercing Demon Emperors searched their followers for Spiritglow Jade Dew, and the Moon-Gazing Demon Emperor revealed a pool of clear water that appeared to be it.
• On March 1, a man and a woman with unfamiliar Heavenly King auras appeared before Lu Chenzhou and asked whether he was ready.

Lu Chenzhou joined Golden Light Master and Plum Blossom Immortal to capture Heart-Piercing Thorn, while the Eye of Truth and Heart-Piercing Thorn prepared deadly counterattacks. The ambush began at Yunmeng Marsh, where Lu Chenzhou struck Heart-Piercing Thorn from the Shadow Realm with his spear.

• Golden Light Master and Plum Blossom Immortal met Lu Chenzhou, who concealed his true spiritual power with the Hidden Origin Art before they departed to hunt Heart-Piercing Thorn.
• Plum Blossom Immortal told Lu Chenzhou that Ling Susu wanted to become his Dao companion, and Ling Susu later concluded that he had rejected her.
• The Eye of Truth learned Lu Chenzhou had left and ordered the Blood Hidden Tower to attack him briefly before withdrawing if the ambush failed.
• Heart-Piercing Thorn revealed that he had obtained the seventh-order Heart-Shocking Thorn and believed he could kill Lu Chenzhou with it.
• Golden Light Master engaged Heart-Piercing Thorn at Yunmeng Marsh, and Plum Blossom Immortal shattered his mind barrier with her sword.
• Lu Chenzhou slipped through the Shadow Realm and pierced Heart-Piercing Thorn with his spear, breaking through his mind barrier and driving the weapon into his body.

Heart-Piercing Thorn used a hidden weapon to seemingly shatter Lu Chenzhou, but he survived and tracked the assassin to the marsh. As Heart-Piercing Thorn transformed into a giant serpent and attacked again, Lu Chenzhou confronted him.

• Lu Chenzhou split Heart-Piercing Thorn’s body apart, but a seven-colored embroidery needle pierced his defenses and blasted his body into fragments.
• Plum Blossom Immortal and Golden Light Master searched the lakebed, concluded Lu Chenzhou was likely dead, and left to report the attack and check his life candle.
• Heart-Piercing Thorn revealed he had used a flesh-and-blood Immortal Puppet to survive, then returned to the battlefield and reported Lu Chenzhou’s apparent death to the Bright Cult Master.
• The Bright Cult Master warned that Lu Chenzhou could recover if his head remained and rewarded Heart-Piercing Thorn with a Heavenly Ghost Soul Crystal.
• Lu Chenzhou emerged unharmed, suppressed Heart-Piercing Thorn against the lakebed, and watched him transform into a giant serpent and attack again.

Lu Chenzhou defeated Heart-Piercing Thorn after surviving the serpent puppet’s assault and resisting possession with the World Tree. Golden Light Master then ambushed him, but Lu Chenzhou revealed another hidden attack and struck from behind as the monk tried to flee.

• Lu Chenzhou fought Heart-Piercing Thorn’s great serpent, endured the nightmare poison, and advanced his poison path to Rank 3.
• Heart-Piercing Thorn tried to possess Lu Chenzhou, but the World Tree destroyed his soul, and Lu Chenzhou gathered the spoils.
• Golden Light Master struck Lu Chenzhou with the Tathagata Divine Palm and believed he had killed him.
• Lu Chenzhou survived and pierced Golden Light Master from behind, shattering his Buddha Dharma manifestation.
• Golden Light Master fled and destroyed Lu Chenzhou’s power clone, but a much stronger figure attacked him from behind with a spear.

Lu Chenzhou and the Plum Blossom Immortal joined forces to expose and fight the Golden Light Master, who had betrayed humanity. As the master burned himself into a grotesque Buddha and called upon the Worryfree Matriarch, Lu Chenzhou used a time-warping spear thrust to destroy the Buddha, while the Matriarch vanished after warning him they would meet again.

• Lu Chenzhou fought the Golden Light Master, who tried to steal his spiritual weapon and argued that humanity could not withstand the coming demons.
• The Golden Light Master destroyed his Buddhist staff to escape, but the Plum Blossom Immortal arrived and severed his arm with her sword.
• The Plum Blossom Immortal revealed her Dharma Domain, and she and Lu Chenzhou overwhelmed the Golden Light Master as Lu explained how they had uncovered his betrayal and staged his death.
• The Golden Light Master burned his essence and transformed into a grotesque Buddha, while the Worryfree Matriarch appeared behind him and drained Lu Chenzhou's strength.
• Lu Chenzhou combined the principles of life, death, and time into a spear thrust that struck the Matriarch's finger and accelerated the grotesque Buddha's remaining time until it turned to ash.
• The Worryfree Matriarch faded away without looking at the Plum Blossom Immortal and told Lu Chenzhou they would meet again.

Lu Chenzhou and Plum Blossom Immortal uncovered the evil gods’ corruption of Golden Light Master and Golden Cicada, while the Council rejected Lu’s early promotion to reserve elder. At Mount Yuan Grotto-Heaven, Lu began refining the Heart-Shocking Thorn and challenged its weapon spirit to accept him despite his youth.

• Golden Light Master revealed that a Ghost King had infected him and Golden Cicada Master during an ancient ruin expedition, then died as the heart demon seed consumed his soul.
• Abbot Hui Fa found Golden Cicada Chan Master dead at Shaolin and raised a thousand-zhang golden flame lotus in fury at Ghost Mother.
• The Ming Cult Leader and Witch God Sect Leader discussed their failed attack on Lu Chenzhou and resolved to keep targeting him.
• Plum Blossom Immortal returned Golden Light Master's relics, and Old Man Hanshan warned that evil gods could have corrupted others within their organization.
• Northern Pacifying Heavenly King proposed Lu Chenzhou as a reserve elder, but the Council of Elders rejected the proposal by a seventy-percent vote; Lu later learned he had reached 568th place on the Heavenly Human Ranking and received 1,000 candle flames.
• Lu Chenzhou began refining the damaged Heart-Shocking Thorn, and its black snake weapon spirit questioned whether he was worthy; Lu replied that he had cultivated for over forty years, prompting the spirit's silence.

Lu Chenzhou refined Heart-Piercing Thorn, learned about its abilities and his new treasures, then cultivated his Dao and Phoenix Form Fist. A year later, he perfected Phoenix Cry Across the Nine Heavens and gained a Phoenix divine seed with new abilities.

• Second Lady Spear persuaded Black Snake to follow Lu Chenzhou, and he marked the spirit weapon as his own.
• Lu Chenzhou learned that Heart-Piercing Thorn could inflict nightmare poison, penetrate defenses, and control its victims through illusions.
• Lu Chenzhou tested a sixth-rank flesh puppet with Blood Prison Ghost King, then stored it away and sorted through Heart-Piercing Thorn's other gains and memories.
• Lu Chenzhou returned to his cave residence and decided to focus on improving his Dao, beginning with the Dao of shadow.
• After a year of seclusion, Lu Chenzhou perfected Phoenix Cry Across the Nine Heavens and transformed his Swallow Form divine seed into Phoenix Dance.
• Lu Chenzhou gained the abilities Returning Birds to the Nest, Seven Transformations of the Heavenly Phoenix, and Dragon Soars, Phoenix Dances, and wondered whether Dragon Tiger had a similar combination.

Lu Chenzhou planned to create the Lu Clan Four Symbols Fist and accepted Storm Mountain’s challenge in the Fighting Realm. Their battle began with Lu evading Storm Mountain’s attacks, while Shark Emperor Reese watched for a chance to capture him.

• Lu Chenzhou planned to develop the Lu Clan Four Symbols Fist after becoming a Heavenly King, combining it with the Martial God Spear as the basis for his own martial arts system.
• Storm Mountain challenged Lu Chenzhou to test his strength, and Lu accepted the challenge and entered the Fighting Realm.
• Storm Mountain’s teacher, Shark Emperor Reese, ordered his faction to observe the fight and planned to seize Lu Chenzhou if an opportunity arose.
• Storm Mountain attacked Lu Chenzhou on the Divine-Demon Battlefield with his Mad Bear Style, but Lu evaded his blows using his speed.
• Storm Mountain concluded that Lu’s ranking above him came from his speed, defense, and spear, and suspected Lu had defeated an early-stage Demon Emperor by chance.