Chapter Summaries

Lu Chenzhou fought Violent Mountain while the Council of Ten Thousand Nations watched and judged their chances. After revealing his strength, secret techniques, and undying body, Lu Chenzhou killed Violent Mountain with Nightmare Poison, leaving the Jiao Emperor still waiting on the beach.

• Violent Mountain probed Lu Chenzhou's spear techniques while fighting him, and observers from Great Xia and the Western Fighting Realm debated their chances.
• Lu Chenzhou used the Dao of the Five Elements to turn Violent Mountain's flames back against him, then revealed the Seven Mountains technique and blasted Violent Mountain with its force.
• Violent Mountain unleashed his bear techniques and a sublimation secret technique, while Lu Chenzhou activated the Kun Formula and raised his qi-blood to one hundred twenty thousand.
• Violent Mountain burned ten years of his lifespan for a Sacrificial Strike, shattered the Immortal Saint Armor, and struck Lu Chenzhou as the spear pierced his palm.
• Lu Chenzhou's spear illusion made Violent Mountain lose his senses, and Violent Mountain discovered that Lu Chenzhou had an undying body.
• Violent Mountain tried to surrender, but Lu Chenzhou's seven-colored ghostly light delivered Nightmare Poison to his soul and killed him.

Lu Chenzhou defeated and killed Violent Mountain, prompting Western accusations and a tense response from the Council of Ten Thousand Nations. The Shark Emperor plotted against Lu Chenzhou, while the Eye of Truth shifted its focus toward provoking war and finding a way to bring foreign forces into the mortal world.

• Lu Chenzhou rose to 551st on the Heavenly Human Ranking after defeating Violent Mountain, and the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King recognized his formidable techniques and suspected the death had been deliberate.
• Violent Mountain vanished from the ranking, and Western media and officials accused Great Xia of a cover-up; the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King defended the spar and refused to release its projection.
• At Reeseburg Palace, the Shark Emperor considered how to retaliate against Lu Chenzhou, but Beichen Guijian revealed that he knew the Shark Emperor was Carefree Wander's right deputy leader and offered intelligence on Lu Chenzhou.
• The Witch God Sect Leader ordered the Eye of Truth to stop targeting Lu Chenzhou directly and instead search for teleportation arrays, recruit outside forces, and foment conflict between East and West.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King learned from Lu Chenzhou that Violent Mountain had come with a mission and approved of Lu Chenzhou killing him in the Fighting Realm.

After killing Violent Mountain, Lu Chenzhou studied new martial arts while preparing for the Jiao Emperor’s retaliation and eventually reached the eighth-to-ninth-step barrier in his spear Dao. At fifty, he reflected on the diverging fates of old friends and pierced the barrier as dawn broke over Su City.

• Lu Chenzhou examined Violent Mountain’s spoils, learned that a star chart could guide him to stellar oddities, and heard Mr. Turtle explain their uses for later cultivation.
• Lu Chenzhou copied divine arts from the Myriad Forms Dao’s Myriad Scrolls Pavilion, including Azure Dragon Six Scrolls and Black Tortoise Sea-Suppressing Fist, then adapted their principles to his spear arts.
• Over two years, Lu Chenzhou cultivated the new arts while planning to break through the sixth limit in case the Jiao Emperor retaliated.
• At the 2255 sect gathering, Li Yao and Shi Ruyu had reached the third limit, Chen Jiu had become a Grandmaster, and Lu Chenzhou recalled the varied fortunes of his former classmates and companions.
• On his fiftieth birthday, Lu Chenzhou drank beside Stone Lake and, dancing through his spear techniques, pierced the barrier between the eighth and ninth steps as dawn illuminated Su City.

After two years of seclusion, Lu Chenzhou perfected the Martial God Spear and entered the Dao of Chaos and the Ultimate Dao of Strength. He reviewed his progress and emerged from seclusion when the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King appeared.

• Lu Chenzhou completed the Martial God Spear, gaining the defensive domain technique Eastern White Chant.
• Lu Chenzhou opened the Dao Gate and glimpsed ancient palaces and the universe’s rules before reaching the fourth rank of Chaos.
• Lu Chenzhou learned that he was the sole cultivator to have entered the Dao of Chaos, while the fallen Yuan Jiugong had explored the more widely practiced Ultimate Dao of Strength.
• Lu Chenzhou examined the Dao paths controlled by gods and reviewed the progress of his cultivation and martial arts after two years of seclusion.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King appeared through the Lantern-Bearing Token and greeted Lu Chenzhou as he emerged from seclusion.

Lu Chenzhou learned that the Great Curtain might fail within a century and agreed to help investigate the Shadow Kill Clan, while Lord Wu directed the clan’s attacks on human talents. When Shadow Kill assassins targeted Li Yao during a combat trial, Lu Chenzhou secretly intervened and captured them.

• Lu Chenzhou told the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King that he had entered the Dao, and the chairman explained that a Shadow Kill Clan assassin had infiltrated the Xia Realm and that the Great Curtain might last only another sixty to one hundred eighty years.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King asked Lu Chenzhou to use his ghost-servant method to help enslave Shadow Kill Clan members and uncover their teleportation array.
• Lord Wu gave the Shadowflow Sovereign a fragment of Wangliang’s finger, ordered it to advance its avatar and target Council of Ten Thousand Nations’ geniuses, but told it to avoid Lu Chenzhou.
• At the Yunmeng Marsh Combat Trial, Adis led Shadow Kill Clan members in an ambush, prioritizing Li Yao because she was Lu Chenzhou’s disciple.
• Lu Chenzhou swept the assassins into a shadow world and captured them, then scolded Li Yao through a voice transmission for neglecting her safety.

Lu Chenzhou learned that the demons had planted treasures in a Yunmeng Marsh abode to lure human prodigies, then hurried to Tai Lake Base City when Tang Zheng went on a murderous rampage. After defeating Tang Zheng’s incarnation projection, he faced the Blood Ancient God, whose domain had spread across the area.

• Lu Chenzhou considered turning captured Shadow Kill Clan members into tiger ghosts or extracting their memories and Dao essence through the World Tree.
• A demon-hunting squad discovered a Heaven Realm cultivator’s abode in Yunmeng Marsh, which Moon-Gazing Demon Emperor revealed the demons had filled with bait to lure human martial artists into a trap.
• Grandmasters Lin Xia, Wang Xian, and Qingtian Cang passed the Council of Ten Thousand Nations’ trial to explore the abode, while Chen Jiu was eliminated; Lu Chenzhou gave the selected grandmasters defensive treasures.
• Bai Miaomiao and Zhou Ruoxue reported that Tang Zheng had gone mad and was slaughtering people in Tai Lake Base City, so Lu Chenzhou left to support them.
• Lu Chenzhou identified Tang Zheng as an evil god’s incarnation projection and crushed him, then challenged the Blood Ancient God as its Blood Tide domain spread across a hundred li.

Lu Chenzhou endured the Blood Ancient God's divine domain, absorbed its Blood Moon Dao essence, and revealed his newly formed Martial Dao Dharma Realm. The Blood Ancient God escaped his first strike but was ambushed by Chen Beiming, and Lu Chenzhou destroyed its remnant soul, leaving the Martial Dao Tree greatly strengthened.

• The Blood Ancient God recalled how it had corrupted the Mad Dragon King and used Tang Zheng as a vessel before confronting Lu Chenzhou with its Blood Moon divine domain.
• Lu Chenzhou withstood the divine domain and Blood Spears while the Martial Dao Tree absorbed Blood Moon Dao essence.
• The Blood Ancient God compressed its divine domain into a crimson sphere, but Lu Chenzhou formed his Martial Dao Dharma Realm, Ragnarok, and split the god with a spear strike.
• The Blood Ancient God fled, and Chen Beiming ambushed it with a blade strike that shattered the ruins of Tin City.
• Lu Chenzhou caught the Blood Ancient God's fleeing remnant soul with nightmare poison, crushed it, and let the Martial Dao Tree absorb its essence.

After Lu Chenzhou suppressed Tang Zheng’s divine projection, Northern Pacifying Heavenly King confirmed that he had formed a martial domain and warned him to beware the evil gods. Lu Chenzhou learned how Domains of Laws worked, gained new spirit-weapon allies, and tested his domain before asking Mr. Turtle how large his was.

• Northern Pacifying Heavenly King arrived after Lu Chenzhou defeated Tang Zheng’s divine projection, learned that Lu Chenzhou had formed a martial domain, and took him back to Su City.
• Old Man Hanshan learned of Lu Chenzhou’s new domain, while Northern Pacifying Heavenly King warned him that the evil gods might retaliate and discussed the threat posed by the Shadow Kill Clan’s teleportation array.
• The Blood God Sect Master raged over the loss of his incarnation, and the Witch God Sect Master said the encounter had revealed that Lu Chenzhou possessed a Domain of Laws.
• Mr. Turtle explained that martial domains and divine domains were related, warned Lu Chenzhou not to underestimate divine beings, and offered him another spirit weapon to protect his Dao.
• Lu Chenzhou chose a fox-woman spirit weapon, then tested his seven-kilometer martial domain at Mount Yuan Grotto-Heaven as Northern Pacifying Heavenly King displayed his much larger domain.
• Lu Chenzhou asked Mr. Turtle how large his own domain was.

Lu Chenzhou cleared the Star-Plucking Tower’s 5000th floor using a newly created Tiger Form fist art and received Yuan Shenzi’s eighth-rank battle art. Back in Su City, he completed the superior divine art Western Heaven Realm Divine Fist and planned to develop the Lu Clan Four Symbols Fist further.

• Mr. Turtle impressed Lu Chenzhou and Northern Pacifying Heavenly King with his power, then encouraged Lu Chenzhou to trust in his own potential.
• Hong Tianxiang emerged from three years of seclusion and learned that Lu Chenzhou had reached rank 501 on the Heavenly Human Ranking, surpassing many Heavenly Kings.
• Lu Chenzhou fought Yuan Shenzi’s projection on the Star-Plucking Tower’s 5000th floor, forged a new Tiger Form fist art, and endured until the projection’s quarter-hour limit expired.
• Lu Chenzhou received the eighth-rank staff art Eight Pillars Supporting Heaven, while spectators celebrated his record-breaking clear and Wu Long became Tiger Form’s second Heavenly King.
• Lu Chenzhou fused Mountain Lord Quest Fist and World Tiger Fist into Western Heaven Realm Divine Fist, gaining a versatile domain and White Tiger Realm God form.

After completing his seclusion, Lu Chenzhou learned that the Shadow Kill Clan’s teleportation array lay somewhere in the starry sky and was invited to join the Council of Elders. The Council began planning a campaign to eliminate the Demon Emperor Palace and Rakshasa Ghost Kingdom, while Lu Chenzhou was assigned to search Yunmeng Marsh.

• Lu Chenzhou inspected his perfected Life-Death Divine Seed, which extended his lifespan by two kalpas, and assessed how his cultivation had strengthened his body.
• Lu Chenzhou questioned Adis, a converted Shadow Kill Clan elder, and learned that the clan had reached the Xia Realm through a teleportation array somewhere in the starry sky.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King summoned Lu Chenzhou to the Fighting Realm, where the Council of Elders recognized him as its 333rd elder for passing the five-thousandth floor and his proven achievements.
• The Council of Ten Thousand Nations resolved to locate and destroy the Demon Emperor Palace and Rakshasa Ghost Kingdom as the Shadow Kill Clan and hostile Divine Clans threatened the Xia Realm.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King assigned Lu Chenzhou to search Yunmeng Marsh, and a Yangtze River elder offered to trade a sixth-rank top-grade war weapon for Spiritglow Jade Dew.

Lu Chenzhou joined the Yunmeng Marsh team, learned the benefits and rules of becoming an elder, and studied the Mortal Demon Ranking. When an ancient cave abode opened, he secretly entered it disguised as Han Feiyu and joined Wang Xian, Lin Xia, and Qingtian Cang.

• Lu Chenzhou met the Yunmeng Marsh team’s Heavenly Kings and agreed to enter seclusion while Chu Yu and the others guarded the marsh.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King gave Lu Chenzhou the Elder Manual, which detailed the Council of Elders’ rules and benefits.
• Lu Chenzhou read the Mortal Demon Ranking and noted the many dangerous cult leaders, ghosts, and Demon Emperors listed among the world’s enemies.
• Seven days later, a cave abode opened in Yunmeng Marsh, and a white-robed Lu Chenzhou entered after the other cultivators.
• Disguised as Han Feiyu, Lu Chenzhou caught up with Wang Xian, Lin Xia, and Qingtian Cang, who agreed to let him travel with them.

Lu Chenzhou entered the ancient abode disguised as Han Feiyu and crossed the Heart-Questioning Bridge, where he gained the Galan Nine Secrets’ Great Emptiness Boundless Incantation. As the group advanced, the demons revealed they had secretly taken control of the third-stage guardian, while Wang Xian also gained a powerful inheritance.

• Lu Chenzhou used the Hidden Origin Art to disguise himself as Han Feiyu and joined the expedition to watch over his friends and relatives.
• The explorers crossed the Heart-Questioning Bridge, and one person who fell into the Emotion-Forsaking River reappeared outside with their memories erased.
• Lu Chenzhou absorbed the river’s Dao essence, advanced his Reincarnation comprehension, and received the Great Emptiness Boundless Incantation from the Galan Nine Secrets.
• The Demon Emperors discussed their plan to kill human grandmasters and revealed that the demons had gained control of the third-stage guardian.
• Wang Xian told Lin Xia that he had obtained the seventh-order Great Concealment Art while crossing the bridge.

Lu Chenzhou discovered that the residence’s trials were likely a trap and learned the second trial involved a mountain that amplified inner demons. As he began crossing it under the identity of Han Feiyu, he reached the far side of the summit but abruptly stopped during his descent.

• Lu Chenzhou warned the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King that the first trial’s difficulty and rewards seemed suspicious, and the Heavenly King confirmed the entrance had closed.
• The group reached a black mountain whose inscription warned of inner demons, and the artifact spirit identified it as a projection connected to Three-Filth Stone and possibly the Blue Mountain Ancient Emperor.
• Lord Wu’s demon emperors revealed they had deliberately weakened the first trial and planned to kill the survivors in later trials, while they had not found Lu Chenzhou.
• Hu Yixian and three Posuo mind cultivators succumbed to demonic corruption on the mountain, while Zhang Shentong crossed it safely.
• Lu Chenzhou, disguised as Han Feiyu, entered the mountain despite warnings and crossed its summit, but stopped midway down.

Lu Chenzhou faced a heart demon in Black Mountain while the authorities debated the danger of the inheritance trial and Mr. Turtle explained the five realms of the heart. As Lu Chenzhou’s struggle continued, a six-winged demonic bird emerged from his black qi and drove the other trial-takers into violent madness.

• Lu Chenzhou discovered that his heart demon could copy his techniques and abilities, then decided to seek an ingenious way to overcome it.
• The Demon Emperors celebrated the human Grandmasters’ corruption and ordered their forces to gather aperture-opening treasures to use as bait for more traps.
• At the Council of Elders, the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King and other leaders discussed the losses, learned that Zhang Shentong had passed, and considered suspending further attempts.
• Mr. Turtle refused to intervene in the trial and told the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King that Lu Chenzhou’s heart was close to the flawless realm.
• After standing on Black Mountain for two hours, Lu Chenzhou released black qi that formed a six-winged bird, whose influence sent the trial-takers into a frenzy and sparked a fight between Qingtian Cang and Lin Xia.

Han Feiyu drew Black Mountain’s inner demons onto himself, allowing the other trial participants to cross while he endured their assault. After seven days outside, Lu Chenzhou’s spiritual world had survived ten thousand cycles of destruction and rebirth, and a flawless golden seed finally sprouted.

• Han Feiyu absorbed Black Mountain’s inner demons, letting the trial participants cross the mountain safely while he remained behind.
• Xuankong, Zhang Lingmiao, Wang Hongdao, Zhang Shentong, Wang Xian, Lin Xia, and the others passed the mountain, then waited rather than enter the third stage.
• Wu revealed that it planned to unleash the third-stage guardian’s Sixth-Realm strength and turn everyone in the grotto abode into nourishment.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King chose not to intervene, while Mr. Turtle and a figure in the sapphire tower watched Lu Chenzhou’s trial with interest.
• After seven days, Lu Chenzhou’s spiritual world completed ten thousand cycles of destruction and rebirth, and a flawless golden seed sprouted beneath the World Tree.

Lu Chenzhou passed Black Mountain’s heart trial by using the Daos of Kurong and Reincarnation to protect and rebuild his mind, leaving his state of mind flawless and gaining several advances in his Daos. With Black Mountain gone, the Grandmasters continued toward the third trial while observers outside the cave abode praised Lu Chenzhou’s transformation.

• Lu Chenzhou realized that the Great Emptiness Boundless Incantation and the Daos of Kurong and Reincarnation had allowed him to withstand the heart demons by guarding the singularity of his mind.
• Lu Chenzhou merged Kurong and Reincarnation, advanced Kurong, Illusion, and Revolution, and strengthened Chaos through the trials.
• Lu Chenzhou’s mental world became flawless, his mental power reached seventy thousand Prajna, and his Martial Dao Tree grew to two hundred and twenty thousand zhang.
• Lu Chenzhou emerged as Black Mountain vanished, and Xuankong and the other Grandmasters mistook him for a supreme expert before he urged them onward to the third trial.
• The Yellow River Old Ghost, Abbot Hui Fa, the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King, and Mr. Turtle discussed Lu Chenzhou’s success and his potential to reach the Fifth Realm of the Heart.

Lu Chenzhou passed the second trial and glimpsed the Great Wilderness Demon-Prisoning Mantra, then entered the third trial’s arena. A sixth-realm, three-headed peacock appeared, leaving the Grandmasters outside fearing for his life.

• Wu explained that his divination could not reliably predict Lu Chenzhou’s fate and said he had prepared a backup plan.
• Di Jialou’s master praised Lu Chenzhou’s mental cultivation after he passed the inner demon trial, while Di Jialou resolved to return to the Xia Realm after reaching the sixth realm.
• Lin Xia broke through to the Limit Realm, and Lu Chenzhou saw a vision of a blue-robed figure using the Great Wilderness Demon-Prisoning Mantra to defeat a demigod-level giant fish.
• Lu Chenzhou tested the mantra in his mental world and found that it could form a black hole when paired with his Dao of Revolution.
• At the third trial’s arena, Lu Chenzhou entered first and faced a three-headed, six-winged peacock whose aura indicated sixth-realm strength.

Lu Chenzhou fought Wrath’s Heavenly Demon incarnation in the Beast Arena and revealed strength far beyond an ordinary fifth-realm cultivator. After using his law realm to protect and move the challengers to safety, he called on the hidden Wu to face him.

• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King learned that a sixth-realm gatekeeper threatened the challengers and prepared with other experts to break into the cave abode if needed.
• Lu Chenzhou confronted the peacock, Wrath’s Heavenly Demon incarnation, and withstood its blade attack by unleashing his full cultivation and physical strength.
• Lu Chenzhou tore apart the peacock’s black tornado with the Western Heaven Realm Divine Fist and knocked the Heavenly Demon away.
• The peacock transformed, summoned heart demons, and covered the arena with its demon domain, causing challengers to attack one another.
• Lu Chenzhou summoned a high-level law realm that suppressed the demon domain, protected the challengers, and shifted them beyond the Beast Arena as the Blood Prison Ghost King’s puppet blocked the peacock’s attack.
• Lu Chenzhou challenged the hidden Wu to reveal its methods and face him.

Lu Chenzhou defeated and killed the celestial demon inside the cave abode, gaining its Formless Dao and combining it with Shadow to form the Grand Void Dao. The survivors collected the treasures and escaped through the cave abode’s exit, though laughter lingered after the vortex closed.

• Lu Chenzhou fought the six-winged peacock demon, broke through its domain, and forced it to use the Finger of Wrath and invade his mind.
• The demon repeatedly destroyed Lu Chenzhou’s mental world, but his Nirvana Heart-Refining Method restored it each time until he captured and killed the demon.
• Lu Chenzhou absorbed the demon’s mind power, reached the limit of ninety thousand spiritual power, and fused Formless with Shadow to create the Grand Void Dao.
• The survivors celebrated the victory and counted three Grandmasters dead, with more than ten others injured.
• Lu Chenzhou claimed the Spiritglow Jade Dew and told Grandmaster Yu to store the remaining treasures for the survivors to divide after they left.
• The survivors passed through the vortex to the great marsh, and the exit closed behind them as laughter sounded within the cave abode.

Wu altered the cave estate’s teleportation formation, sending Lu Chenzhou and nearly a hundred human prodigies to an unknown world while the demons began hunting for them across the Three Thousand Worlds. Lu took command of the stranded group and ordered them to stay hidden as they searched for a way back to the Xia Realm.

• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King forced open the cave estate and discovered that its survivors had been teleported away, while their allies mobilized to search for them.
• Wu revealed that he had altered the teleportation formation after Lu Chenzhou killed the heavenly demon, and ordered the demons of the Three Thousand Worlds to find Lu and the other prodigies.
• The ultimate experts received messages and began searching the Three Thousand Worlds, while Mr. Turtle learned that Lu had left the Xia Realm.
• Lu Chenzhou and the grandmasters arrived in an unfamiliar world with three suns, and Lu realized the teleportation had gone wrong.
• Lu ordered Wang Xian to lead a concealed scouting team and told the others to hide and cultivate while he sought a way to advance to Heavenly King and take them home.