Chapter Summaries

Lu Chenzhou killed the Hundred-Eyed Emperor and, through a breakthrough in his spiritual cultivation, created the Nalanda Heart Sutra and advanced his Great Dream Dao. The chapter ended with a swordsman at the edge of the Vast Sea World opening his eyes as Lu Chenzhou’s power shook the world.

• Lu Chenzhou revealed his power at Sakya Temple, and the Sakya Patriarch recognized him as a successor of the Blue Mountain Buddha Ancestor.
• Lu Chenzhou and the Sakya Patriarch went to the Divine Armament Pavilion and persuaded Pavilion Master Li to release the Hundred-Eyed Emperor.
• Lu Chenzhou killed the Hundred-Eyed Emperor with the Demon-Prisoning Hand, increasing his Great Wilderness Demon-Prisoning Mantra and Great Emptiness Boundless Incantation.
• Lu Chenzhou’s Heart Sutra of Tribulation advanced, and he modified it into the Nalanda Heart Sutra, raising his mental cultivation to the middle stage of the sixth realm.
• Lu Chenzhou’s Illusory Realm Dao transformed into the fourth-rank Great Dream Dao, and his mind power shook the world.
• At the edge of the Vast Sea World, a middle-aged swordsman on a giant sword opened his eyes.

Lu Chenzhou, known as the Faceless Monk, purged the Vast Sea Realm of demons, taught its people martial and spiritual arts at Randuo Temple, and then departed by a golden bridge. The realm began a new era under his teachings, though his true name remained unknown to later generations.

• Longyue learned that the Faceless Monk had attained the Dao, while Sky Supporting Mendicant discovered that Lu Chenzhou had reached the sixth realm.
• Lu Chenzhou announced that he would preach at Randuo Temple, explained the Heart Sutra to Zhending, and appointed him to reopen the temple and spread his teachings.
• Powerhouses and people from across the Vast Sea Realm gathered at Randuo Temple, where Lu Chenzhou exposed and killed 1,024 disguised demons.
• Lu Chenzhou taught four foundational arts—the Four Forms Heaven-Penetrating Fist, Dragon Tiger Art, Great Dream Sutra, and Compendium of Martial Arts—and left them inscribed at the temple gate.
• Lu Chenzhou ascended on a golden bridge and left behind a Merit Golden Pagoda of artifacts, which Zhending said could be earned through diligent cultivation and virtuous deeds.
• Later generations remembered Lu Chenzhou as the Demon-Quelling Patriarch, Formless Venerable, and Great Dream Patriarch, but never learned his true name.

Lu Chenzhou received a gift from the Vast Sea World's will and entered the Azure Cloud Realm in search of a sword treasure. Meanwhile, he lured the Black Mountain Demon Saint into the Ancient Plains World, where the demon trapped Aurora Palace in its destructive domain and Yaochi Fairy prepared to face it.

• The Snow Mountain Luminous Buddha and the Heavenly Heart Sect remnants suspected that Lu Chenzhou was the returned Heart Emperor and ordered their followers to protect him.
• The Vast Sea World's will offered Lu Chenzhou a wisp of World Origin and information about two ancient inheritances, but he declined the reward and asked it to favor Randuo Temple's cultivators.
• Lu Chenzhou chose the Azure Cloud Realm as his next destination and descended into it disguised as a swordsman to seek Li the Sword Immortal's secret treasure.
• Lu Chenzhou kept Aurora Palace appearing unstable to encourage the pursuing Black Mountain Demon Saint to follow it into the Ancient Plains World.
• Aurora Palace crashed into the Ancient Plains World, where Black Mountain Demon Saint unleashed its Black Lotus Like Hell domain and trapped the palace in black fire.
• Yaochi Fairy told Lu Chenzhou to remain inside Aurora Palace while she and the others handled the Demon Saint.

Yaochi Fairy confronted the Black Mountain Demon Saint but was overwhelmed until eight Great Xia supreme experts trapped it in the Eight Trigrams Profound Heaven Demon-Subduing Formation. As the battle became a stamina contest, Lu Chenzhou prepared to use Aurora Palace’s killing formation to strike the weakened Demon Saint.

• Yaochi Fairy used the Undying Divine Phoenix Armor to fight the Black Mountain Demon Saint, but its attacks repeatedly battered her and drained the armor’s energy.
• The Black Mountain Demon Saint chased Yaochi Fairy into a basin, where an eighth-rank formation activated and trapped it beneath Purple Firmament Divine Thunder.
• Longhu Grand Celestial Master, Abbot Huikong, South Mountain Sword, Elephant-Washing Divine Nun, Sword Sect, Daoist Dongyue, Sea-Covering Spear, and White Phoenix appeared and joined the formation.
• The Black Mountain Demon Saint targeted White Phoenix as the formation’s weakest point, but White Phoenix survived with the Cry of the Wutong Phoenix spirit armament.
• The eight supreme experts used the formation’s attacks to wound the Black Mountain Demon Saint through a battle lasting half a day, while both sides struggled to outlast the other.
• Lu Chenzhou told White Phoenix that he would coordinate with the others and use Aurora Palace to bombard the weakened Demon Saint.

Lu Chenzhou and the peak experts used Aurora Palace’s Jade Pivot Aurora Sword Formation to destroy Black Mountain Demon Saint, but its soul unleashed another attack before Wan Shixian appeared and defeated it. Lu Chenzhou received the sealed soul, then reunited with Lu Fang, who had also reached the sixth realm.

• White Phoenix used Heaven-Escaping Mystic Light to bring Lu Chenzhou into the formation as Black Mountain Demon Saint broke free of the Earthvein Dragon-Binding Formation.
• Lu Chenzhou activated Aurora Palace’s Jade Pivot Aurora Sword Formation, which pulverized Black Mountain Demon Saint’s body and shattered the surrounding space.
• The Demon Saint’s soul transformed into a scarlet evil dragon and unleashed Supernova Explosion, breaking the formation and threatening the experts.
• Wan Shixian appeared in the eighth realm, destroyed the evil dragon with his blade, and sealed Black Mountain Demon Saint’s soul for Lu Chenzhou.
• Lu Fang reunited with Lu Chenzhou and revealed that he had reached the sixth realm before the age of one hundred.

Aboard the Aurora Palace, Wan Shixian explained Great Xia’s plans for the war and rewarded the fighters who killed the Black Mountain Demon Saint with his cultivation notes. The group prepared to return to the Xia Realm, while Lu Fang agreed to keep building alliances in the Profound Heaven Realm.

• Lu Fang recounted how he built the Ten-Thousand Thunder Hall in the Profound Heaven Realm and reunited with Yaochi Fairy, who had pursued the Xia Realm’s prodigies there.
• Wan Shixian promised to send Grandmasters and Heavenly Kings to help Lu Fang, revealed that Lu Fang’s daughter had become a Grandmaster, and offered support for Gong Jiu’s advancement.
• Wan Shixian explained that he had secretly entered the eighth realm, intervened to help defeat the Black Mountain Demon Saint, and would now seek opportunities in the Three Thousand Worlds while the younger generation faced the coming war.
• Wan Shixian distributed his cultivation notes to trusted Heaven Realm experts and selected sixth-realm cultivators, warning them to protect the insights from Wu and human traitors.
• Wan Shixian urged the group to spread news that Great Xia had killed a Demon Saint without revealing its tactics or Lu Chenzhou’s identity, and told Lu Chenzhou to return before the restricted zones publicized his Aurora Palace.
• The Heaven Realm experts praised Lu Chenzhou’s role in the victory, while South Mountain Sword lamented that Heavenly King Wei of South Mountain had betrayed civilization.

After the Kungu Realm battle, Lu Chenzhou received praise and a gift from the Heaven Realm experts before preparing to return to the Xia Realm. Meanwhile, the Raging Wind Realm Sovereign questioned the Divine Alliance expedition, while Wu decided that Wan Shixian’s departure created an opening for the Restricted Zone’s plans.

• Yaochi Fairy and the other experts praised Lu Chenzhou, and they shared insights about cultivation and breaking through to the seventh realm.
• The Raging Wind Realm Sovereign found evidence of a terrifying saber intent in the Ancient Plains World and urged the Flamebright Realm Sovereign to postpone the expedition, but the Flamebright Realm Sovereign refused.
• Wu explained that Wan Shixian’s breakthrough and departure from the Xia Realm had exposed Great Xia’s strength, then authorized the Restricted Zone to reveal previously withheld plans.
• Several months later, Lu Fang and the other experts said farewell to Lu Chenzhou, and Yaochi Fairy gave him a storage ring and told him about the fortune gained by completing world-saving missions.
• Wan Shixian escorted Lu Chenzhou aboard Aurora Palace toward the Xia Realm, and Lu Chenzhou looked forward to going home.

After Wan Shixian left the Xia Realm, the restricted zones prepared a coordinated guerrilla offensive while the Council of Ten Thousand Nations planned surprise attacks in response. Zhang Jizhi revealed that Lu Chenzhou had become a Heavenly King and was still outside the Xia Realm, bringing relief and pride to his friends and teachers.

• Ancient Moon Demon Venerable and the Shadowflow Sovereign joined forces with the Rakshasa Ghost Kingdom and Blood Hidden Tower to wear down humanity through guerrilla warfare.
• The Fire Saint King urged Red Lotus to regain his strength and become a Demon Venerable, while the Myriad Spider Ghost Venerable ordered the Ghost Kings to attack humans for rewards.
• The Witch Lord gave the master of the Blood Hidden Tower a Demon Venerable Blood Crystal to help him attempt a breakthrough to the seventh realm.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King announced that Great Xia had slain a Demon Saint and ordered surprise attacks on Demon Emperor hideouts before the enemy offensive began.
• Zhang Jizhi told the gathered Myriad Forms Dao members that Lu Chenzhou had become a Heavenly King and that he, Wang Xian, Lin Xia, and Qingtian Cang were outside the Xia Realm.
• Old Ji, Shi Ruyu, Hong Fu, and Chen Jiu celebrated Lu Chenzhou’s achievement and remembered his rise from a young practitioner.

Lu Chenzhou’s return and achievements inspired humanity and drew the dragon and phoenix clans into an alliance against the restricted zones. After three years of seclusion, he advanced to the middle stage of the sixth realm, and Wan Shixian explained how martial arts produced divine abilities.

• Zhang Jizhi told Lu Chenzhou’s family and friends that Lu had helped slay a Demon Saint and was returning, then arranged for them to move to the Rivers-and-Mountains Grotto-Heaven for safety.
• News of Wan Shixian’s breakthrough and Lu Chenzhou’s victory spread hope among humanity, while Jiao Emperor abandoned his plan to seize Lu’s opportunity and Shark Emperor Reese died attempting to reach the seventh realm.
• The Phoenix Clan left the Phoenix Spirit Realm and allied with the Xia Realm, and the Golden-Eyed Human Clan followed by leaving the Ancient Dragon Continent.
• Over the next half year, dragons, phoenixes, and allies across the Three Thousand Worlds joined Red Extremity Hall, while Lu Chenzhou became a celebrated figure.
• After three years in seclusion, Lu Chenzhou reached the middle stage of the sixth realm with 650 acupoints opened, and Wan Shixian explained the origins and grades of divine abilities.

Lu Chenzhou returned to the Xia Realm after half a year of training with Wan Shixian, then killed the Black Sand Demon Emperor and reunited with the Council, his family, and his friends. After the New Year, the Council of Elders convened to discuss what came next.

• Wan Shixian refused to return to the Xia Realm, and Lu Chenzhou traveled there aboard Aurora Palace with the Grandmasters and Three Suns Palace survivors.
• Lan Zhuzi and Purple Dragon Daoist wounded the Black Sand Demon Emperor, but Lu Chenzhou tracked it down and killed it before announcing his return to the Demon Emperor Palace.
• Lu Chenzhou reached the Council of Ten Thousand Nations, where Chen Beiming and the other leaders welcomed him and learned he had reached the middle stage of the Heavenly King realm.
• Lu Chenzhou visited Master Ji, reunited with his family and friends, and brought his parents into the Rivers-and-Mountains Painting.
• After the New Year of 2262, Lu Chenzhou returned to the human world, and the Council of Elders convened.

The Council of Elders rewarded Lu Chenzhou with a Void Dao Stele and discussed how to break the deadlock in the war against the Demon Emperor Palace. Lu Chenzhou volunteered to hunt the Cloud-Mo Demon Emperor, then returned to Su City and began comprehending the stele.

• The Council of Elders awarded Lu Chenzhou the Void Dao Stele, twenty thousand mid-grade origin stones, and two high-grade origin stones for his service.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King described the war’s losses and identified the Four Emperors as the chief obstacles to defeating the demon forces.
• Lu Chenzhou offered to lure the Cloud-Mo Demon Emperor to the Yunmeng Metropolitan Region and fight it, and the council approved his attempt.
• Lu Chenzhou returned to Su City and found eight peerless divine art inheritances, over a million mid-grade origin stones, and more than a thousand Jufu Fruit in the ring from Yaochi Fairy.
• Lu Chenzhou used his Dao essence to sense the Void Dao Stele and saw the laws of the universe intertwining at its birth.

Lu Chenzhou used the Void Dao Stele to advance his World Dao and master the Sovereign Apex Dao, then proved he could withstand a powerful seventh-realm strike. Meanwhile, Blood Vine massacred civilians in Yuhang Base City and escaped Yu Zhou, before Gu Yue warned her that Lu Chenzhou had returned.

• The Void Dao Stele raised Lu Chenzhou's Martial Dao Tree to eight hundred thousand zhang, and he advanced his Sovereign Apex Dao to the fourth rank.
• Lu Chenzhou tested his golden armor at Ingot Mountain and withstood a strike from the high-grade spirit weapon Elder Deer.
• Lu Chenzhou told Mr. Turtle that he had comprehended the Sovereign Apex Dao after fighting a Demon Emperor, then considered the path from Dao Mastery to the Dao Lord Realm.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King saw Lu Chenzhou rise to thirty-sixth on the Heavenly Human Ranking and anticipated that he would soon challenge the top ranks.
• Blood Vine raised Yuhang Base City with her vines and killed thousands of people before Yu Zhou arrived and forced her to flee.
• Gu Yue appeared before Blood Vine on an uninhabited planet and warned her that Lu Chenzhou had returned.

The Blood Vine Demon Emperor planned to test Lu Chenzhou, while Skyscraper Demon Emperor plotted an attack on River City. A month later, Lu Chenzhou created a body-tempering technique and triggered a deadly tribulation that began tearing him apart.

• The Blood Vine Demon Emperor created a Ye Chen-like avatar to probe Lu Chenzhou and considered using his old friends and family against him.
• Skyscraper Demon Emperor escaped Li Xiuying and the Qingcheng vice principal, then chose River City as the target for a coordinated assault with Sky-Piercing Demon Emperor.
• Lu Chenzhou began creating a body-tempering technique at Mount Yuan Grotto-Heaven, drawing the attention of Mr. Turtle and the monkey.
• A black-wind Body-Splitting Tribulation appeared, and Mr. Turtle explained that surviving it would bring Lu Chenzhou into the true Deathless Realm.
• More than ten thousand figures attacked Lu Chenzhou with blades that bypassed his golden armor.

Lu Chenzhou survived the Black Wind Flesh-Rending Tribulation and perfected the Kurong Undying Art, gaining a truly undying body. After learning the limits and future trials of physical cultivation, he left the grotto-heaven pondering whether mastering both body and mind could lead to a tenth realm.

• The Black Wind Saber cut Lu Chenzhou into 10,081 pieces, and Mr. Turtle told the worried ape that his junior brother was close to death but not dead.
• The Kurong Undying Art appeared as a heavenly book, and Lu Chenzhou regenerated from the scattered fragments before the separate bodies merged together.
• Lu Chenzhou perfected the Kurong Undying Art, reached 170,000 qi and blood and Prajna spirit, and raised the Martial Dao Tree to 860,000 zhang.
• Mr. Turtle explained the five physical-body levels, Lu Chenzhou's remaining 10,080 resurrections, and the dangers of future tribulations.
• Lu Chenzhou wondered whether reaching the fifth level of both body and mind could lead to a tenth realm, then left the grotto-heaven and met Old Man Hanshan at Myriad Forms Dao.

Lu Chenzhou learned the One Dao Transforms into Three Bodies technique so an incarnation could guard Su City while he cultivated, as the Blood Vine Demon Emperor continued to evade capture. A year later, he had formed a capable incarnation, and the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King asked him to master curse arts to help kill Blood Vine.

• A Blood Vine avatar impersonated Ye Chen, attacked Su City’s Outer District, and provoked Lu Chenzhou before destroying itself; the real Blood Vine Demon Emperor resolved to risk her hidden contingency if Lu found her.
• Lu Chenzhou consulted the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King and began learning One Dao Transforms into Three Bodies so an incarnation could guard Su City during shallow seclusion.
• Over the following year, Great Xia’s martial arts ranks grew while the war against the Demon Emperor Palace cost eighteen Heavenly Kings their lives, and seventh-realm foes continued attacking the nations.
• Lu Chenzhou formed a second-level incarnation and tested its martial arts, estimating it could briefly contend with a peak Demon Emperor by burning its energy.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King told Lu Chenzhou that curse arts were needed to kill Blood Vine and asked him to learn them; Lu agreed to try but warned it could take years and might not succeed.

Lu Chenzhou learned the Eye of Misfortune, used his newly formed mind's eye to uncover and destroy heart demon seeds in Su City, and began studying karma to strengthen his curses. As Blood Vine prepared to advance and Netherchild emerged from hiding, Toad Lord tested its curse against Lu Chenzhou.

• Great Emperor Hanu arrived in Su City and taught Lu Chenzhou the Eye of Misfortune, which Lu Chenzhou mastered quickly enough to surprise him.
• Lu Chenzhou used his mind's eye to find heart demon seeds hidden in Yu Zheng and several others, then destroyed them and identified the Worryfree Matriarch's influence.
• Lu Chenzhou added the Eye of Misfortune to his training, mastered its first four levels, and began studying the karmic threads that made powerful curses possible.
• The Council of Ten Thousand Nations continued its war against the Demon Emperor Palace while Lu Chenzhou and Old Man Hanshan repelled attacks on Su City.
• By January of Year 64, Blood Vine had grown stronger and anticipated becoming a Demon Venerable, while Netherchild remained hidden.
• Toad Lord asked Netherchild to use a curse to test Lu Chenzhou's strength, insisting that no one could escape karma.

A toad-like monstrosity used Bai Miaomiao as a karmic relay to curse Lu Chenzhou, while Lu Chenzhou continued cultivating and prepared to target powerful demons. The curse reached him, but he sensed the attack and followed its karmic trace as the monstrosity collapsed.

• Toad Lord agreed to curse Lu Chenzhou, and Lord Wu accepted the risk of using him despite concerns about his motives.
• After stabilizing its realm, the toad-like monstrosity attached its curse to Bai Miaomiao's karmic connection with Lu Chenzhou, leaving her unconscious.
• Lu Chenzhou advanced his cultivation, discussed the Blood Vine Demon Emperor and Cloud-Mo Demon Emperor with the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King, and agreed to remain ready to act.
• The curse reached Lu Chenzhou, but he awoke with a sense of foreboding, detected чужая karmic essence on a thread, and flew after it.
• Toad Lord's projection appeared as the toad-like monstrosity convulsed on the ground.

Lu Chenzhou survived a curse aimed through his bond with Bai Miaomiao, then studied how divine powers were formed and reconsidered what his first one should be. He forged a new direction for the Martial God Spear, whose growth brought the Martial Dao Tree to 960,000 zhang.

• Toad Lord told the toad monster to try cursing Lu Chenzhou again after the first attempt failed, while the Old Mother and a red-haired woman considered the risks posed by curses.
• Lu Chenzhou found Bai Miaomiao weakened by a curse, removed the slime demon inside her mind, and saw his Karma Dao rise to Tier 3 at 35%.
• Lu Chenzhou studied the four categories of divine powers and weighed the Martial God Spear, Four Symbols Fist, and Kurong Undying Art as possible first divine powers.
• After training with his spear, Lu Chenzhou resolved to let martial arts break beyond conventional limits and created a strike that trapped a flying insect in an illusion of a complete lifetime.
• Mr. Turtle praised Lu Chenzhou's new spear technique, and the Martial Dao Tree grew to 960,000 zhang as the Martial God Spear reached Ninth Rank, Spear Technique Second Transformation.

Lu Chenzhou refined his spear technique, then raced to River City when Demon Emperors attacked and pursued the fleeing Cloud-Mo Demon Emperor. He killed Cloud-Mo despite its desperate attack, while the other attackers escaped.

• Lu Chenzhou developed Life as a Bubble, a control-focused Dharma Realm spanning more than a hundred kilometers.
• A young man in purple Daoist robes called Lu Chenzhou to reinforce River City, where Sky-Piercing Demon Emperor and Cloud-Mo Demon Emperor were attacking.
• Chu Yu fought Sky-Piercing Demon Emperor and a Shadow Kill Clan powerhouse, while Purple Dragon Daoist struggled against Cloud-Mo and waited for Lu Chenzhou.
• The toad-like freak sacrificed three hundred years of lifespan to curse Lu Chenzhou, but the curse failed to kill him.
• Lu Chenzhou reached River City at tremendous speed, causing the demons to retreat, then pursued Cloud-Mo along its karmic thread.
• Cloud-Mo unleashed a desperate lightning attack, but Lu Chenzhou survived unharmed, killed it with his spear, and seized its soul.

Lu Chenzhou fought the Blood Hidden Tower Master, who had ambushed him after forcing his way into the Seventh Realm. Lu Chenzhou refined his spear technique during the battle, then trapped the Blood Hidden Tower Master in a dream and killed him.

• The Blood Hidden Tower Master ambushed Lu Chenzhou and revealed that he had reached the Seventh Realm through demonic power.
• Lu Chenzhou and the Blood Hidden Tower Master clashed, and the Tower Master used several transformations from the Heavenly Demon Six Transformations.
• Lu Chenzhou set aside his armor and relied on spear technique alone, using the dangerous fight to refine the Martial God Spear.
• The Blood Hidden Tower Master decided to wait for Lu Chenzhou to weaken, but Lu Chenzhou enveloped him in a domain and induced a dream with the principles of the Great Dream.
• Lu Chenzhou used Life as a Bubble to sever the Blood Hidden Tower Master's vital point and kill him.