Chapter Summaries

Lu Chenzhou survived the Blood Hidden Tower Master's ambush but vanished into the Void Sea, allowing the demons to spread rumors of his death. He chose to remain hidden and cultivate in the starry sky while the Council protected Su City and concealed his ranking.

• The Blood Hidden Tower Master used a death-substitution treasure to survive Lu Chenzhou's attack, then battered him with his Fallen World domain until Lu Chenzhou shattered the void and escaped, leaving the enemy to believe he was dead.
• The giant Dao soldier found no trace of Lu Chenzhou, and the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King confirmed that Lu Chenzhou's soul lamp remained lit despite the rumors of his death.
• The Blood Hidden Tower Master and the Wu Lord spread news of Lu Chenzhou's supposed death, while the Demon Emperor Palace and other enemies prepared to test the Council's defenses.
• The Sky-Piercing Demon Emperor led an attack on Su City, but Old Man Hanshan, Sea-Trapping Dragon, and Yu Zhou forced the invaders to retreat.
• One month later, Lu Chenzhou contacted the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King from the Void Sea, explained his escape, and asked the Council to keep him presumed dead and hide his Heavenly Human Ranking while he cultivated.

Lu Chenzhou spent a year in seclusion on an asteroid, refining his spear techniques while the Xia Realm and its enemies believed he was dead. He finally faced the Blood Hidden Tower Lord in the martial journey and unleashed a new technique as a sun rose over the asteroid.

• Lu Chenzhou hid on an asteroid, absorbed karmic Dao essence, and began creating his first peerless divine-art-grade spear technique.
• The Council of Ten Thousand Nations concealed Lu Chenzhou’s survival while rumors of his death emboldened the forbidden zones and spread panic across the Xia Realm.
• The Blood Hidden Tower Lord celebrated Lu Chenzhou’s supposed death, while the Wu Lord asked Toad Lord to investigate and learned Netherchild was still recovering.
• Over the following months, demons and ghosts raided the human world, Lin Xia became a Grand Master, and Lu Chenzhou’s family waited for his return.
• After a year of spear practice, Lu Chenzhou fought the Blood Hidden Tower Lord in the martial journey and answered Thousand-Leaf Flow · Fallen World with a charge backed by fourteen versions of himself.

Lu Chenzhou created the peerless Martial God Spear, advancing his Dao and combat power before learning that the war on the Xia Realm was nearing its end. As he traveled home, the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King outlined plans to seize the Profound Heaven Realm, while Toad Lord abandoned a failed attempt to curse Lu Chenzhou to death.

• Lu Chenzhou perfected the Martial God Spear, reached the fifth realm of the Chaos Dao, and gained the killing move Proud Sun Like Me.
• Lu Chenzhou reflected on the limits of the Dao and the path to godhood before the fox woman and Second Mother congratulated him on his breakthrough.
• Lu Chenzhou told the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King that he had created a peerless divine art, and the Heavenly King reported that the war was nearly over and explained plans to rebuild the Xia Realm and seize the Profound Heaven Realm.
• A month later, a toad-like freak awoke after his curse failed, confirmed through karma that Lu Chenzhou was alive, and heard Toad Lord decide to stop trying to curse him.

Lu Chenzhou followed a fresh karmic thread and found Nether Child Demon Sovereign, who fled after their battle. Lu Chenzhou tracked him through the starry sky and attacked again, while the gods had agreed to send Moonwatch Demon Saint after him.

• Lu Chenzhou used the Eye of Misfortune to follow a fading karmic thread toward an asteroid belt, while Wu and the other gods discussed his survival and agreed to give Toad Lord a Demon Saint slot for Moonwatch Demon Saint.
• Lu Chenzhou searched an uninhabited planet, then found Nether Child Demon Sovereign on an unnamed planet and attacked him with his spear.
• Nether Child Demon Sovereign trapped Lu Chenzhou with karmic threads and slammed him into the asteroid, but Lu Chenzhou broke free and pierced through his defenses with a spear strike.
• Nether Child Demon Sovereign summoned karmic chains, then escaped into the void; Lu Chenzhou used the Eye of Misfortune to follow their increasingly entangled karmic thread.
• Nether Child Demon Sovereign stopped on a meteorite to restore his body, but Lu Chenzhou caught up and thrust his spear at him again.

Lu Chenzhou pursued Netherchild Demon Venerable through the starry sky, broke his ancient battlefield domain, and followed him to Blood Vine Demon Emperor. The two demons trapped Lu Chenzhou on a planet while Blood Vine prepared to unleash a powerful being sealed beneath its surface.

• Lu Chenzhou chased Netherchild Demon Venerable through an asteroid belt and shattered the resentment domain he raised over an ancient demon battlefield.
• Netherchild called Toad Lord for help, prompting the evil gods to send Blood Vine Demon Emperor to assist him.
• Netherchild led Lu Chenzhou to Blood Vine on a planet, where Lu Chenzhou attacked and forced the demons to fight together.
• Blood Vine and Netherchild poured their strength into vines and chains of karma to hold Lu Chenzhou on the planet while Blood Vine activated her trump card.
• Blood Vine's avatar reached a bronze coffin beneath the planet and prepared to release a fearsome crimson skeleton she believed could kill Lu Chenzhou.

Blood Vine awakened an ancient Tiger Flood Dragon, which attacked Lu Chenzhou but failed to kill him before its chains dragged it back into captivity. The demons and Wu Lord learned Lu Chenzhou had survived, while Lu Chenzhou recovered inside Aurora Palace and suspected his dragon aura had attracted the beast.

• Blood Vine awakened a chained ancient beast by feeding it corpses, and it absorbed her avatar before attacking Lu Chenzhou.
• Lu Chenzhou used his spirit weapons, Rising Sun, self-destruction, and Aurora Palace to escape the Tiger Flood Dragon’s attacks, while the beast was dragged back and transformed into a young man.
• The Blood Vine Demon Emperor and Nether Pupil Demon Venerable reported to the Blood Ancient God, who warned them not to act independently and ordered them to withdraw.
• Wu Lord sought confirmation of Lu Chenzhou’s death and planned to control the ferocious creature, but Nether Pupil’s karmic investigation revealed that Lu Chenzhou was alive.
• Lu Chenzhou meditated inside Aurora Palace and wondered whether the Tiger Flood Dragon had targeted him because he carried true dragon aura from a Dragonblood Treasure Fruit.

Lu Chenzhou defeated Ghost Child Demon Venerable and Blood Vine Demon Emperor after surviving Ghost Child’s lethal curse through the Vast Sea World’s fortune. The Eye of Truth concluded that Lu Chenzhou might have mastered karma, and Wu ordered the second phase of the plan while abandoning everything except hidden pieces in the Xia Realm.

• Northern Pacifying Heavenly King received Lu Chenzhou’s report about an ancient Tiger Flood Dragon, while Wan Shixian learned that Lord of Myriad Light’s backup plan had emerged.
• After recovering, Lu Chenzhou followed karma threads to Ghost Child Demon Venerable and Blood Vine Demon Emperor, who joined forces to fight him.
• Ghost Child used Witch’s Touch to curse Lu Chenzhou, but the Vast Sea World’s fortune consumed one point of Low-Grade World Fortune and shielded him from the curse.
• The curse rebounded onto Blood Vine Demon Emperor; Ghost Child fled, but Lu Chenzhou caught and killed him, then refined his soul and advanced his Karma Dao.
• Blood Vine Demon Emperor died, leaving a blood-colored crystal that Lu Chenzhou collected before departing.
• At the Eye of Truth, Wu surmised that Lu Chenzhou had grasped karma and ordered the second phase of the plan, abandoning everything except the hidden pieces in the Xia Realm.

After Heavenly King Lu killed Blood Vine and Ghost Child, humanity celebrated its first major victory in the Xia Realm war, while the Forbidden Zone shifted toward a strategic retreat. Across the Three Thousand Worlds, Yaochi Fairy entered an ancient cave abode in Kunxu, and Lu Chenzhou continued investigating his karmic ties to the master of Blood Hidden Tower.

• Wu persuaded the evil gods to change strategies and treat their withdrawal from the Xia Realm as a strategic retreat.
• The Council of Ten Thousand Nations learned that Heavenly King Lu had killed Blood Vine and Ghost Child, and its leaders ordered the remaining forces to pursue the demons while strengthening their defenses.
• People across the Council's base cities celebrated the deaths of the two demons and remembered victims including Li Chan, whom Ghost Child had cursed to death.
• Yaochi Fairy declined Ming Daozi's invitation to join forces, then watched the Chrysanthemum Mountain Three Friends enter the newly opened ancient cultivator's cave abode.
• Wan Shixian read the news of Lu Chenzhou's progress and trusted Shangguan Xian to survive in Kunxu, while Lu Chenzhou examined a crimson karmic thread connecting him to the master of Blood Hidden Tower.

As Lu Chenzhou approached Xia Star, he discovered the fortunes protecting him and the Kungu Realm’s plea for help, while the demons, ghosts, and invading forces launched retreats and desperate counterattacks. The chapter ended with Sky-Piercing Demon Emperor slain by newly advanced Seventh Realm fighter Balhulier, bringing down all four Demon Emperors.

• Lu Chenzhou examined karmic ties, found that many people close to him had died, and discovered the blessings of the Xia Realm, the Vast Sea, and the Kungu Realm in his Fortune Section.
• Ancient Moon Demon Venerable and the other Demon Emperors chose to slaughter humans rather than flee, while Myriad Spider Ghost Mother led eight million ghosts toward the human world.
• Wu ordered the Xia Realm troops withdrawn to the Profound Heaven Realm and directed Shadowflow Sovereign to leave hidden Shadow Kill Clan operatives behind to gather intelligence and target other geniuses.
• Red Lotus Demon Venerable refused to leave the Xia Realm, and Wu allowed him to stay despite the danger posed by Lu Chenzhou.
• The Eye of Truth and Shadow Kill Clan withdrew as demons and ghosts continued their counterattack; Yellow River Old Ghost and Li Xiuying pursued the wounded Ancient Moon Demon Venerable.
• Balhulier killed Sky-Piercing Demon Emperor during a raid on Yinshan Base City, completing the fall of all four Demon Emperors.

Lu Chenzhou returned to Su City after the war, made plans to guard his family and hunt the remaining Seventh Realm threats, then went to confront the Blood Hidden Tower Master at Sakura Base City. The Blood Hidden Tower Master slaughtered Sakura’s defenders, and the chapter ended as he sensed someone arriving.

• The Council of Ten Thousand Nations placed the Northern Alliance and Silver Eagle Federation under a ten-year probation before possible admission.
• Lu Chenzhou returned to Su City, reunited with his companions, and learned that the council had simplified his Dragon Chanting Tiger Roar Art into two defensive and offensive true arts.
• Lu Chenzhou created a powerful avatar, gave it the Heart-Shocking Thorn, and visited his family in the Rivers-and-Mountains Painting without revealing his late Heavenly King breakthrough.
• The Council of Elders reported that the Blood Hidden Tower Master had appeared in Sakura Base City, and Lu Chenzhou set out to confront him.
• The Blood Hidden Tower Master attacked Sakura Base City, defeated Yagyu Genichi, and killed the three other family heads after they refused to follow him.
• The Blood Hidden Tower Master sensed someone approaching and tore open the void to meet them.

Lu Chenzhou pursued the Blood Hidden Tower Lord and fought him above a Base City, where the tower lord transformed into a six-headed demon and tried to destroy the city. With Balhulier’s help, Lu Chenzhou stopped the explosion and killed him, leaving the city’s residents in awe of Lu’s strength.

• Lu Chenzhou arrived at Sakura after the Blood Hidden Tower Lord had killed hundreds of thousands of people, then left Yue Pingsheng to guard the city and pursued the fleeing enemy.
• Yagyu Genichi reassured Shizuka that Great Xia would not abandon Sakura, while she accepted that her hopes of connecting herself to Lu Chenzhou were unrealistic.
• The Blood Hidden Tower Lord reached another Base City and attacked its barrier, forcing Plum Blossom Immortal and Jade Fan Immortal to prepare the city for battle.
• Lu Chenzhou burned his avatar’s power and struck the Blood Hidden Tower Lord with Proud Sun Like Me, but the wounded tower lord transformed into a six-headed demon and attacked the city again.
• Lu Chenzhou bound the demon with Fox Maiden, and Balhulier helped contain its self-destruction as Lu’s Eastern White Chant domain shielded the Base City.
• Lu Chenzhou confirmed the Blood Hidden Tower Lord was dead, while Balhulier, Li Kongkong, and the city’s residents witnessed the power of Lu’s incarnation.

Lu Chenzhou joined four seventh-realm experts in hunting Ancient Moon Demon Venerable, Gu Yue, across the Southern Sea. After studying the battle and nearly striking Li Xiuying with his spear, Lu Chenzhou’s attack followed a karmic ring and pierced Gu Yue’s head, leaving his corpse to fall into the sea.

• Lu Chenzhou greeted Lu Xuanjian, congratulated him on his marriage to Ling Susu, and invited him to join an expedition to the Profound Heaven Realm.
• Lu Chenzhou used karmic threads to locate Gu Yue in the Southern Sea, where four seventh-realm experts surrounded the demon.
• Gu Yue fought the four experts, but Lu Chenzhou watched and gained insight into spear techniques as his Martial Dao Tree grew.
• Gu Yue broke through the battle to attack Lu Chenzhou, who wounded him with a spear strike before retreating behind the experts.
• After half a day of fighting, Lu Chenzhou launched a powerful spear strike, and Gu Yue swapped places with Li Xiuying to make her its target.
• Lu Chenzhou’s spear vanished and reappeared through a golden karmic ring, catching Gu Yue as he fled and piercing his head.

Lu Chenzhou revealed that his spear technique worked through karma and led the Seventh-Realm powerhouses to search for Gu Yue, whom he believed had survived by hiding part of his body and soul. Meanwhile, the hierarchs gathered in the Profound Heaven Realm discussed how to overcome the suppression weakening them there.

• Li Xiuying killed Gu Yue with the Extinction Divine Sword, and Lu Chenzhou refined his remnant soul to advance the Blood Moon Dao.
• Lu Chenzhou found a living fragment of Gu Yue's flesh, then spent three days tracing its karmic thread while the others searched the area.
• Lu Chenzhou explained the Karmic Ring and concluded that Gu Yue had not died because his karma remained unsevered.
• Lu Chenzhou led the Seventh-Realm powerhouses along Gu Yue's karmic thread toward his hidden location.
• In the Profound Heaven Realm, Wu and the hierarchs discussed the severe suppression they faced and decided to borrow strength from the Divine Alliance.

Wu and the forbidden-zone gods plotted to set the Divine Alliance against humanity while accelerating their recovery, as Ancient Moon Demon Venerable secretly revived in the Xia Realm. Lu Chenzhou and the human experts killed Gu Yue and destroyed the Demon Emperor Palace, then searched the Rakshasa Ghost Kingdom for the Myriad Spider Ghost Queen without success.

• Wu persuaded the other gods that the Divine Alliance would take the bait and ordered them to suppress humanity’s rising powers while the Blood Ancient God provoked a conflict.
• Toad Lord encouraged a giant egg in his forbidden zone to hatch and help him regain his peak strength.
• Ancient Moon Demon Venerable revived from a hidden piece of flesh and divine soul, but Lu Chenzhou and four human experts found and killed it before it could escape.
• Lu Chenzhou refined Gu Yue’s remnant soul, gained Blood Moon and Karma Dao progress, and received the shattered Jade Toad Ancient Coin from the human experts.
• The group reported the Demon Emperor Palace’s destruction to the Council of Elders and searched the Rakshasa Ghost Kingdom for seven days, but found no trace of the Myriad Spider Ghost Queen.

After the demon-ghost war, Lu Chenzhou received major rewards as the Council of Ten Thousand Nations planned reforms for a unified human civilization. The chapter ended with Wan Shixian preparing to use the Heavenly Human Martial Exhibition to spread Heavenly Xia’s influence across the Three Thousand Worlds.

• Lu Chenzhou and the Heavenly Kings failed to find the Myriad Spider Ghost Queen, who had escaped with the Jade Toad Ancient Coin, and agreed to keep watch for her.
• At the Eye of Truth, Wu warned the demon forces that Lu Chenzhou could gain insight from treasures and ordered their people to self-destruct rather than give him an opportunity.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King announced that Gu Yue had been slain and presented Lu Chenzhou’s eighteen approved rewards, including Eastern Sea Aeon Cold Iron.
• The Council of Ten Thousand Nations announced plans to consolidate the base cities, establish four super cities and holy lands, and unite humanity as Heavenly Xia Human Civilization.
• Wan Shixian decided that Heavenly Xia would use the Heavenly Human Martial Exhibition to spread its martial arts throughout the Three Thousand Worlds.

Lu Chenzhou tested his improved escape speed and pushed deeper into the Ancient Dragon Path, while the human world began building four super-giant base cities. In the Profound Heaven Realm, the Divine Alliance expedition advanced against the Xia Realm, and White Phoenix escaped with the Ten-Thousand Thunder Hall experts to a hidden artificial star.

• Lu Chenzhou sparred with the Empress and determined that his escape speed could briefly reach two thousand times the speed of sound.
• Lu Chenzhou entered the sixth zone of the Ancient Dragon Path and steadily cultivated under gravity that reached sixty thousand times normal.
• After six months, four super-giant base cities began rising across Heavenly Xia as human civilization entered a nationwide construction era.
• Fang Xingyu, Yin Jiujiao, Lei Wanliu, and Qiu Kuangyi led the Divine Alliance forces toward the Eastern Extremity Realm Tower after White Phoenix escaped their pursuit.
• White Phoenix reached a hidden artificial star and reunited with Lu Fang, Ye Xiaoyao, and the Ten-Thousand Thunder Hall experts.

White Phoenix and the Ten-Thousand Thunder Hall survivors took refuge in the sea of stars while Heavenly Xia prepared for war with the Divine Alliance. Years later, Lu Chenzhou reached the Ancient Dragon Path’s 90,000x gravity zone and chose to cultivate there as he pursued the acupoint barrier before entering the Seventh Realm.

• White Phoenix revealed that his divine abilities had cost him two hundred years of lifespan and damaged his foundation, so Ye Xiaoyao arranged for him to recover while guarding the survivors.
• Ye Xiaoyao, White Phoenix, Lu Fang, and the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King discussed the Divine Alliance’s attack and the shortage of experts able to face Eighth Realm opponents.
• Lu Chenzhou advanced into the 80,000x gravity zone, while the King of Strong Liquor reached the seventh zone and met Mu En, the Three-Zhang Dragon Emperor.
• Humanity completed four great cities, and Starhammer King and Thunder King entered the Seventh Realm and began reforms in their respective regions.
• Lu Chenzhou reached the 90,000x gravity zone, adapted enough to keep his human form, and decided to cultivate there to accelerate opening his acupoints.

Lu Chenzhou saved the Azure Cloud Realm and learned that Azure Cloud Patriarch had traveled to the Kunxu region, gaining a cultivation fortune and strengthening his mental power. He then entered the demon-ravaged Kungu Realm to undergo his third tribulation and seek revenge on Shituo Palace, arriving amid the slaughter of its surviving humans.

• Lu Chenzhou visited the Azure Cloud Sect, where the Azure Nether Sword Master explained that Azure Cloud Patriarch had taken the Azure Cloud Sword and left through an ancient teleportation array three thousand years earlier.
• Lu Chenzhou learned from the Azure Cloud Realm's will that the patriarch had gone to the Kunxu region, then received Azure Cloud's Aid and completed his second tribulation.
• Lu Chenzhou discovered that the patriarch might be in the Kunxu Great World, where Yaochi Fairy had also gone, and chose the Kungu Realm for his third tribulation.
• In the Kungu Realm, Blood Flood Dragon Young Lord Horn Eighteen found an underground human refuge and dismissed its survivors as unfit to bring back to the Dragon Palace.
• Lu Chenzhou arrived at the underground cavern and saw human corpses and demons and ghosts running rampant across the collapsing realm.

Lu Chenzhou secretly killed the Blood Flood Dragons’ young master and planned to eliminate Shituo Palace’s demon emperors before confronting the demon sovereigns. After years of cultivation on the Ancient Dragon Path, he returned as a peak heavenly king and prepared to attend a Council of Elders meeting as the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King considered breaking through to the seventh realm.

• Lu Chenzhou killed the young master of the Blood Flood Dragons, absorbed his soul, and learned that three powerful demon sovereigns were active nearby.
• The Blood Flood Dragon Demon Sovereign discovered Horn Eighteen’s death and ordered an investigation while the Blood Demon Matriarch pressed him to find valuable ancient cultivator cave abodes.
• The Blood God Sect Master told the Blood Demon Matriarch to deny cultivators access to ancient inheritances and to search for ninth-realm tiger essence blood.
• Madam Myriad Spider approached the imprisoned Dragon Tiger Great Sage and used a projection of the Worryfree Matriarch to persuade him to discuss a deal.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King told Lu Chenzhou he intended to break through to the seventh realm, and Lu Chenzhou encouraged him rather than demanding a challenge first.
• Lu Chenzhou left the Ancient Dragon Path with 410,000 vitality and 420,000 Prajna, recognized himself as a peak heavenly king, and surveyed the transformed Cloud Dream Base City.

After emerging from seclusion, Lu Chenzhou saw how Cloud Dream City and human civilization had grown during the age of peace. At the Council of Elders, he used his fifth-rank Dao of Karma to locate Red Lotus Demon Venerable, helping the leaders prepare to eliminate the threat sleeping beneath the Earth.

• Lu Chenzhou visited Cloud Dream City and the Myriad Forms Dao Academy, where he reunited with friends and discussed the city's security and his friends' cultivation.
• Yellow River Old Ghost brought Lu Chenzhou to the Council of Elders, where the leaders discussed confronting Red Lotus Demon Venerable in the Earth's core.
• Lu Chenzhou opened his karmic dharma eye and searched for seven days, using his past battle with Red Lotus Demon Venerable to trace its karmic thread.
• Lu Chenzhou roughly located Red Lotus Demon Venerable but could not accurately identify its position because a treasure blocked his search.
• Lu Chenzhou said he could not yet track the Myriad Spider Ghost Queen or Shadowflow Sovereign, and the leaders noted that the Eye of Truth had left the Xia Realm.