Chapter Summaries

Lu Chenzhou joined King of Strong Liquor to search for Red Lotus and learned about White Phoenix’s injuries and the Divine Alliance’s threat. At the planet’s core, Lu Chenzhou found Red Lotus’s trail, discovered the beast was hiding inside the Sun Star, and provoked its vow to kill him.

• Northern Pacifying Heavenly King explained that White Phoenix needed another drop of Heavenly Immortal Dew, and White Phoenix warned Lu Chenzhou about divine abilities and the Divine Alliance’s strength.
• Lu Chenzhou learned that the Divine Alliance might use realm towers to invade the Xia Realm, then entered the Kungu Realm to locate a top-grade mineral vein.
• Lu Chenzhou and King of Strong Liquor searched the blazing planetary core, while a colossal beast noticed their arrival.
• Lu Chenzhou found a giant eggshell connected to the karmic thread and spoke with the hidden beast, which challenged him to find it.
• Lu Chenzhou guessed the beast was inside the Sun Star, dismissed it as unworthy, and his avatar dissipated as the beast vowed to kill him.

Lu Chenzhou learned that Red Lotus Demon Venerable had fled to the Sun Star, then recovered the demon dragon’s valuable eggshell and began cultivating the Five Elements Tribulation Scripture. After a year of training, he found a rich yuan mine in Kungu Realm and encountered a fleeing Heavenly Immortal Dew.

• Lu Chenzhou told the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King that Red Lotus Demon Venerable had reached the Sun Star, and they agreed to set the threat aside while Great Xia strengthened its defenses and he pursued a breakthrough.
• Lu Chenzhou returned to Xia Star’s core, collected Red Lotus Demon Venerable’s eggshell, and turned it into rare crimson-flame metal.
• Lu Chenzhou exchanged for the Five Elements Tribulation Scripture and cultivated it to the sixth level, refining his true-gang energy and strengthening his martial path.
• After a year of secluded cultivation, Lu Chenzhou defeated an ape demon emperor in Kungu Realm and discovered a high-grade yuan mine.
• Lu Chenzhou chased a tiny being that emerged from the mine, but it melted into the earth and escaped; he identified it as Heavenly Immortal Dew.

Lu Chenzhou collected rare treasures across the Kungu Realm and escaped after encountering two powerful Demon Venerables at the Nameless Great Rift. Back in the Xia Realm, he and other experts protected the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King as he endured four types of tribulation and reached the seventh realm.

• Lu Chenzhou captured Heavenly Immortal Dew and collected twenty-four bottles of Earth Immortal Dew from a spring in a high-grade origin mine.
• Lu Chenzhou found sixteen mature Nine-Aperture Exquisite Grasses and a fossil, then continued gathering treasures across the Kungu Realm.
• At the Nameless Great Rift, Lu Chenzhou hid as the Nation-Devouring Demon Sovereign and Blood Flood Dragon Demon Venerable arrived to search for an ancient cultivator's cave abode.
• Blood Flood Dragon sensed someone nearby and attacked, prompting Lu Chenzhou to flee the Kungu Realm before returning to investigate later.
• Lu Chenzhou and the other experts guarded the Northern Pacifying Heavenly King as he faced four types of tribulation outside North Emperor City.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King passed his tribulation and descended from the ninth heavens, having broken through to the seventh realm.

Lu Chenzhou and the Heavenly Xia leaders planned to lure Red Lotus Demon Venerable into an Eight Trigrams Profound Heaven Demon-Subduing Formation during Lu Chenzhou’s tribulation. Lu Chenzhou then approached Aishwarya and offered to use his fifth-rank World Dao and Great Dream Dao to help her break through to the seventh realm.

• Wan Shixian praised Northern Pacifying Heavenly King for reaching the seventh realm and outlined plans to protect Heavenly Xia and unite the Three Thousand Worlds against the Divine Alliance and forbidden zones.
• Chen Beiming revealed that the Azure Heaven Dragon King had endured all eight seventh-realm tribulations, astonishing Lu Chenzhou and the others.
• Lu Chenzhou proposed using himself as bait to lure Red Lotus while he underwent tribulation, with the leaders preparing the Eight Trigrams Profound Heaven Demon-Subduing Formation.
• The group decided to ask Heart Medium to join the plan, and Lu Chenzhou visited Aishwarya in Southern Sea Megacity to fulfill their agreement.
• Lu Chenzhou revealed that his World Dao had reached the fifth rank and offered to simulate the Great Dream Dao to help Aishwarya advance her Dao of Illusion; Aishwarya said she could not comprehend the Karma Dao.

Aishwarya comprehended the Great Dream Dao through Lu Chenzhou’s demonstration, broke through to the Seventh Realm as the Heart-Dream Great Emperor, and offered to follow him. Meanwhile, the Council of Elders planned to use Lu Chenzhou’s coming tribulation to lure and trap Red Lotus Demon Venerable, while Wan Shixian recruited E’Xian to aid the campaign against the Divine Alliance.

• Lu Chenzhou guided Aishwarya into a Great Dream, and she later awakened with her own Great Dream Dao-essence.
• Aishwarya endured four tribulations at Southern Sea City, entered the Seventh Realm, and took the title Heart-Dream Great Emperor.
• Lu Chenzhou sent Aishwarya the Nalanda Heart Sutra, and she told Lin Xia she wanted to follow him.
• At a sect gathering, Wang Xian and Old Ji mistook Aishwarya’s offer to follow Lu Chenzhou for a marriage proposal.
• Chen Beiming told the Council of Elders that they would bait Red Lotus Demon Venerable during Lu Chenzhou’s tribulation and prepare the Eight Trigrams Profound Heaven Demon-Subduing Formation.
• Sword Elder sent E’Xian with Wan Shixian to help the three Seedfire Worlds, encouraging her to build a relationship with him and gain experience.

In 2275, Lu Chenzhou pushed his cultivation on the Ancient Dragon Path to the brink of completing all 720 apertures, while threats against him gathered in the Sun and the Profound Heaven Realm. After six months of motionless cultivation, his 719 open apertures resonated and a seven-colored star appeared in his Niwan Palace.

• Sword Elder told Lijue that it was too late for them to switch from the Dao to martial arts, and urged him to cultivate toward becoming a great power.
• The Council of Elders set the process for choosing the next academy presidents and Heavenly Xia military commander as the 2275 rankings approached.
• Red Lotus Demon Venerable learned that Lu Chenzhou had not yet entered the seventh realm and ordered Shadowflow Sovereign and the Myriad Spider Ghost Queen to watch for his tribulation and seize a chance to kill him.
• Fang Bifan found a descendant of the Boundary Tower's gatekeepers, who revealed that activating the tower required fifth-tier voidforce; Fang Xingyu then reported this to Flamebright Realm Sovereign and was ordered to seek Void Dragons in the Ancient Dragon Realm.
• Lu Chenzhou adapted to ninety-nine-thousandfold gravity on the Ancient Dragon Path and focused his effort on opening the final Tianyuan acupoint among his 720 apertures.
• After six months, Lu Chenzhou's 719 apertures resonated and their power opened a dazzling seven-colored star in his Niwan Palace.

Lu Chenzhou reached the limits of his sixth-realm body and mind, was recognized as first on the Heavenly Human Ranking, and prepared to undergo tribulation at Yunmeng Marsh. The chapter ended as his 720 apertures shattered and his consciousness sank into darkness, while Red Lotus Demon Venerable remained determined to face him.

• Lu Chenzhou completed all 720 acupoints and raised his vitality and blood to 800,000 while training on the Ancient Dragon Path.
• The Heavenly Human Ranking recognized Lu Chenzhou as first, surpassing Chen Beiming and alarming Red Lotus Demon Venerable, who chose to continue his operation despite his allies withdrawing.
• Three months later, Lu Chenzhou reached 600,000 Prajna in spiritual power and told Chen Beiming and the others that he was ready to break into the seventh realm.
• Chen Beiming organized the seventh-realm experts and Dao soldiers to protect the four cities and guard Lu Chenzhou at Yunmeng Marsh.
• Lu Chenzhou arrived at Yunmeng Marsh, sat within the formation, and shattered all 720 apertures as his consciousness sank into darkness.

Lu Chenzhou endured the Inner World Great Tribulation and discovered that his Inner Landscape had become a starry sky reflecting the Xia Realm, a unique path through the World Dao. As his martial arts peak rose in the Inner Landscapes of martial artists across the world, he began climbing its steps toward the Seventh Realm.

• Lu Chenzhou's body shattered and regenerated as he underwent the Inner World Great Tribulation, while eight Seventh Realm experts guarded him in Yunmeng Marsh.
• Red Lotus Demon Venerable decided to wait for Lu Chenzhou's Outer World Great Tribulation so he could add another tribulation and attack amid the chaos.
• The gods discussed Lu Chenzhou's expected tribulations, while Wan Shixian received treasures from the strongest living dragon and continued seeking allies.
• Lu Chenzhou's Inner Landscape evolved from chaos into a universe containing a sun and a reflection of Xia Star, revealing his path through the World Dao.
• Lu Chenzhou saw that he could observe beings below the Sea Realm within the solar system, then withdrew his consciousness as his martial arts peak emerged in Inner Landscapes across the world.
• Old Ji watched Lu Chenzhou climb the martial arts peak from its first platform to the fourth, where he paused before continuing toward the seventh staircase.

Lu Chenzhou endured eight simultaneous heavenly tribulations, then Red Lotus Demon Venerable added a ninth and died in a suicide attack. Lu Chenzhou broke through to Tier 4 and destroyed the tribulations, but he was left as a cracked nine-colored skeleton unable to restore his flesh.

• Lu Chenzhou took the final step toward the Seventh Realm as the eight tribulations descended over Yunmeng Marsh.
• Chen Beiming and the Seventh Realm experts prepared to protect Lu Chenzhou, while Red Lotus Demon Venerable emerged from the earth and attacked him with the Karmic Fire Red Lotus.
• Lu Chenzhou repeatedly struck the eight-colored millstone with his spear, but it kept descending and wounded him; Red Lotus's attack trapped him in karmic fire.
• Chen Beiming and the others suppressed Red Lotus, but Red Lotus detonated himself, adding a ninth tribulation and scattering the defenders.
• Lu Chenzhou fused fragments of the Tiger Soul Spear into his arm, absorbed Red Lotus's Dao essence, broke through to Tier 4, and destroyed the millstone with a nine-colored spear strike.
• Lu Chenzhou survived as a cracked nine-colored skeleton, but his Kurong Art could not restore his flesh.

Lu Chenzhou survived his unprecedented ninth tribulation by using the Dao of Revolution and created the divine ability Nine Tribulations Lotus. He explored the nine primordial spirits in his inner landscape, then emerged as a seventh-realm expert whose cultivation surpassed everyone present.

• Lu Chenzhou used the Dao of Revolution to break the heavenly tribulation and comprehended the self-created divine ability Nine Tribulations Lotus.
• Lu Chenzhou discovered that his inner landscape had become the Nine Tribulations Star Lotus Diagram and that his divine ability nurtured nine connected primordial spirits.
• Lu Chenzhou inspected the nine primordial spirits and recognized them as the Nine Tribulations Primordial Spirit, with twenty-seven divine patterns in total.
• Lu Chenzhou emerged in a skeletal body, and Chen Beiming and the others questioned whether he was possessed before accepting his explanation.
• The gathered experts congratulated Lu Chenzhou on reaching the seventh realm and recognized that his cultivation and strength had made him the world's foremost expert.

After reaching the seventh realm, Lu Chenzhou recovered in Mount Yuan Grotto-Heaven, reunited with his master and senior siblings, and prepared to campaign in the Profound Heaven Realm. Across the human world, his achievement made him the leading choice to command its forces, while Wan Shixian continued traveling and began preparing a counterattack.

• Lu Chenzhou regretted losing Red Lotus’s soul, thanked those who had guarded him, and planned to hunt the Myriad Spider Ghost Queen and Shadowflow Sovereign for their karma jade tablets.
• Ji Feiyan told Ji Xuantong that Lu Chenzhou had survived his tribulation and reached the supreme pinnacle, while Lu Chenzhou returned to Mount Yuan Grotto-Heaven as a nine-colored skeleton.
• Wang Changming emerged from forty years of seclusion near the limit of the Heavenly King realm, learned of Lu Chenzhou’s breakthrough, and agreed to join the campaign against the Divine Alliance in the Profound Heaven Realm.
• Mr. Turtle advised Lu Chenzhou about controlling tribulation power, warned him to prepare for future tribulations, and taught him the Blood-Refined Divine Weapon method.
• The Northern Pacifying Heavenly King welcomed the Northern Alliance and Silver Eagle Federation into the Heavenly Xia Human Civilization and announced Lu Chenzhou’s seventh-realm breakthrough, prompting Wang Changming to boast of his disciple.
• Wan Shixian failed to persuade an eighth-realm giant in the Guixu Great World to leave, then sent E'Xian to Xuantian and continued traveling to begin the counterattack.

After Lu Chenzhou reached the seventh realm, experts and enemies across the Three Thousand Worlds reacted to the news. In North Emperor City, Chen Beiming taught Lu Chenzhou to control the Heavenly Human Ranking and explained how it could eventually become the Investiture of the Gods.

• The Nine-Headed Flood Dragon Emperor and two other ancient powers refused to leave seclusion, while Four Symbols Adept and Sea-Covering Spear celebrated Lu Chenzhou’s breakthrough.
• Yaochi Fairy fought off the Chrysanthemum Mountain Three Friends after their True Treasures overwhelmed her, then drove them away with the Undying Divine Phoenix Armor.
• A jeweled Daoist emerged from a thousand-year sleep, and Blue Mountain Buddhist Kingdom sent Great Prajna Moonlight Buddha, Great Vajra Heavenly Dragon Buddha, and Di Jialou to contact newly advanced True Buddhas.
• Du Meng and the Black Annihilation Dragon Emperor reacted to Lu Chenzhou’s breakthrough, while the Wu Lord ordered Demon Venerables and Ghost Venerables to avoid him until the evil gods revived.
• In North Emperor City, Lu Chenzhou told Chen Beiming that his flesh had not recovered from the Nine Tribulations, then learned to control the Heavenly Human Ranking.
• Chen Beiming explained that the Heavenly Human Ranking could grow with Great Xia’s martial fortune and eventually become the Investiture of the Gods.

Lu Chenzhou learned that the Heavenly Human Ranking would use civilization-wide faith to create immortal spirits in heaven and eventually challenge the evil gods. After becoming its master, he explored the Martial World, asked its sages to develop an avatar technique, and discovered that the Xia Realm’s favor had strengthened him.

• Chen Beiming explained the Heavenly Human Martial Exhibition’s three stages and its plan to build a Martial World sustained by faith.
• Chen Beiming gave Lu Chenzhou a copy of Heavenly Human Notes and said Lu would become the Heavenly Xia Army Lord after the selection.
• Lu Chenzhou entered the Martial World, where Zhang Zu introduced its four embryonic supreme treasures and the gathered sages welcomed him as Ranking Master.
• Lu Chenzhou asked the sages to develop a cross-realm avatar technique using One Dao Transforms into Three Bodies and an Infantwood Blood Crystal.
• The sages began researching the avatar technique, and Lu Chenzhou found that his primary fortune had advanced to Xia Realm’s Favor, increasing his strength and suppressing enemies within the Xia Realm.

At the end of the year, Lu Chenzhou trained with the Spirits of Heaven and created the Four-Nine Profound Technique, which gave him a new transformation divine ability. He told Wan Shixian about its thirty patterns, leaving Wan Shixian stunned by a divine ability that exceeded the theoretical limit for low-grade techniques.

• Lu Chenzhou defeated the Spear Immortal in the Martial World, then sparred with Master Xuankong and perfected the Azure Dragon Six Scrolls and Black Tortoise Sea-Suppressing Fist.
• At Mount Yuan Grotto-Heaven, Lu Chenzhou fused his Four Symbols forms into a new fist art as the phantoms of four true spirits appeared.
• Lu Chenzhou named the completed martial art Four-Nine Profound Technique and gained the Thirty-Six Transformations divine ability, which let him take on true-spirit forms.
• Lu Chenzhou asked Wan Shixian whether a low-grade divine ability could exceed twenty-seven patterns, and Wan Shixian realized Lu Chenzhou had comprehended one with thirty.

Lu Chenzhou learned that his Thirty-Six Patterns divine ability could transform him into true spirits and began choosing transformations with guidance and help from his seniors. As Great Xia’s leadership contests began, he remained undefeated and prepared to face Chen Beiming for the final decision over who would lead the nation.

• Wan Shixian praised Lu Chenzhou’s potential and told him to keep his Thirty-Six Patterns divine ability secret.
• Lu Chenzhou transformed into a Wind-Thunder Golden Roc, tested its immense speed, and learned about true spirits from Mr. Turtle.
• Mr. Turtle gave Lu Chenzhou Baxia essence blood so he could use a powerful defensive transformation.
• Jade Mountain Daoist and Cloud Mountain Daoist advanced to the Seventh Realm as Great Xia began contests for academy presidents and the Heavenly Xia Army commander.
• Lu Chenzhou defeated Yellow River Old Ghost and the Heart-Dream Great Emperor, then met Chen Beiming for their decisive battle.

Lu Chenzhou defeated Chen Beiming in the final match, and Heavenly Xia officially founded its human civilization with Lu Chenzhou as Military Lord. As the Divine Alliance tightened its grip elsewhere and the Toad Lord awaited Lu Chenzhou, Di Jialou returned to the changed Xia Realm and learned that Lu Chenzhou stood at humanity’s summit.

• Lu Chenzhou overcame Chen Beiming’s Domain and divine ability with his spear and Eastern White Chant Domain, winning without revealing his own divine abilities.
• On January 1, 2276, the Council of Elders founded the Heavenly Xia Human Civilization, elected Lu Chenzhou Military Lord, and assigned positions to the seventh-realm experts and top Heavenly Humans.
• White Phoenix, Ye Xiaoyao, and Abbot Hui Fa discussed the Divine Alliance’s control of the Profound Domain and waited for Military Lord Lu to take command.
• The Toad Lord learned that Wangyue had emerged and called for Lu Chenzhou to come to the Profound Heaven Realm, while the Wu Lord continued monitoring Lu Chenzhou.
• Di Jialou returned from the Heart Realm with Sky Dragon True Buddha and Moonlight True Buddha, then learned from Xiao Xinxiu that Lu Chenzhou was Heavenly Xia’s first-generation Military Lord and humanity’s leading prodigy.

Lu Chenzhou met Di Jialou and traveled with Heart-Dream Great Emperor and Hanu Great Emperor to the Buddha Kingdom of the Mind to meet the Blue Mountain Ancient Emperor. The Ancient Emperor revealed that the True Buddhas planned to reincarnate and cultivate anew to prepare for the coming calamity, and Red Leaf mistook Lu Chenzhou for the Heart Emperor.

• Di Jialou recognized Lu Chenzhou as the seventh-realm Heavenly Xia Army Lord and invited Heart-Dream Great Emperor and Hanu Great Emperor to meet the Blue Mountain Ancient Emperor.
• Lu Chenzhou consulted Eldest Senior Brother and Wan Shixian, then left an incarnation in the human world and traveled to the Heart Realm with Heart-Dream Great Emperor and Hanu Great Emperor.
• In the Buddha Kingdom of the Mind, the Blue Mountain Ancient Emperor recognized Lu Chenzhou's Great Wilderness Demon-Prisoning Mantra and learned he had reached the seventh realm after only seventy years of cultivation.
• The Blue Mountain Ancient Emperor explained that the forbidden zones were reviving and that he hoped to let three hundred True Buddhas reincarnate and cultivate anew.
• Red Leaf greeted Lu Chenzhou as the Heart Emperor.

Lu Chenzhou received the Galan Nine Secrets from Blue Mountain and Red-Leaf Ancient Emperor, while the Buddhist Kingdom came under attack from the Forbidden Zone and its Three Demons. After studying the inheritance, Lu Chenzhou advanced his cultivation, restored his physical body, and prepared to investigate an ancient cultivator’s cave abode.

• Red-Leaf Ancient Emperor and Blue Mountain Ancient Emperor suspected Lu Chenzhou was the reincarnated Heart Emperor, offered him the Galan Nine Secrets, and invited him to join the Buddhist Kingdom’s plans, but he said he needed time to consider.
• Red-Leaf Ancient Emperor gave Heart-Dream Great Emperor and Hanu Great Emperor the Scripture of Ascension, and Blue Mountain revealed that he had guided Indra Heaven Emperor and contacted the other seventh-realm mind cultivators from Hanu Great Emperor’s homeworld.
• After Lu Chenzhou and the others returned to the Xia Realm, the Forbidden Zone awakened and the Three Demons attacked the Buddhist Kingdom, swallowing a True Buddha before the kingdom regained calm.
• Lu Chenzhou studied the Galan Nine Secrets for three days, advanced his Dao of Kurong and three incantations, and absorbed reincarnation Dao essence through the Martial Dao Tree.
• Lu Chenzhou restored his physical body and demonstrated that he could withstand Second Mother’s attack and the fox woman’s whip with little injury.
• Lu Chenzhou’s mind incarnation opened its eyes at a superior-grade mineral vein in the Kungu Realm, and he decided to investigate an ancient cultivator’s cave abode.

Lu Chenzhou infiltrated the Great Rift Valley, found a sword-protected inheritance hall, and killed the Nation-Devouring Demon Sovereign after the Sword Men drove him away. As his exhausted incarnation prepared to leave, the Blood Flood Dragon and Mountain Forest Demon Sovereign arrived, while a voice from the valley called him over.

• Lu Chenzhou secretly entered the Great Rift Valley and followed the lingering sword intent to an ancient hall guarded by two Sword Men.
• The Sword Men barred Lu Chenzhou from entering the inheritance, and their attack forced him to flee the hall and alert the demons above.
• The Nation-Devouring Demon Sovereign intercepted Lu Chenzhou, but Lu Chenzhou unleashed the Great Wilderness Demon-Prisoning Hand and crushed him, refining his soul and gaining Devouring Dao essence.
• The Blood Flood Dragon and Mountain Forest Demon Sovereign arrived and recognized that Lu Chenzhou had killed Nation-Devouring.
• A voice from within the valley called Lu Chenzhou toward it.

Lu Chenzhou’s mental avatar fought the Blood Flood Dragon Demon Venerable and Mountain Forest Demon Sovereign before destroying itself, while the Blood Demon Matriarch prepared to send another avatar to Kungu. After recovering, Lu Chenzhou perfected the Nalanda Heart Sutra and used a Void Dao Stele to advance his Great Dream Dao, where he encountered a strange butterfly.

• Lu Chenzhou’s mental avatar killed the Nation-Devouring Demon Sovereign but was trapped and attacked by the Blood Flood Dragon Demon Venerable and Mountain Forest Demon Sovereign.
• The two Demon Venerables suspected Lu Chenzhou was only an avatar and discussed the sword cultivator’s cave abode in Kungu as they departed.
• The Blood Demon Matriarch learned that the cave abode might belong to Li the Sword Immortal and ordered the Ninth Blood Demon to go to Kungu after hearing that Lu Chenzhou had killed Nation-Devouring.
• Lu Chenzhou self-destructed his mental avatar, recovered at Mount Yuan Grotto-Heaven, and perfected the Nalanda Heart Sutra.
• Lu Chenzhou bought a discounted Void Dao Stele and began comprehending it, finding a dreamlike butterfly in the starry sky.