Chapter Summaries

Lu Chenzhou broke through to the fifth rank of the Great Dream Dao, developed another divine ability, and continued improving the Nalanda Heart Sutra. In the Kungu Realm, he reached the ancient cultivator’s cave and learned that the one who had summoned him was Azurecloud Adept.

• Lu Chenzhou comprehended the Great Dream Dao for half a year and advanced it from the fourth rank to the fifth, then began using the seven-colored butterfly’s Dao characters to refine the Nalanda Heart Sutra.
• Fang Xingyu and Yin Jiujiao attacked a group of Void Dragon descendants, enslaved their father, killed the survivors, and covered up the massacre with Demon Venerable blood essence.
• A Void Dragon woman sensed her child’s disappearance, while Heavenly Xia promoted childbirth and expanded martial education to grow its population and talent pool.
• Lu Chenzhou told Mr. Turtle that he had developed another Great Dream Dao divine ability, then traveled to the Kungu Realm to investigate the ancient cultivator who had invited him.
• At the Great Rift Valley, Lu Chenzhou met the ancient cultivator inside the great hall and learned that he was called Azurecloud Adept.

Lu Chenzhou considered Azurecloud Adept’s inheritance and agreed to fulfill two of his requests, while leaving revenge and resurrection uncertain. Before they could settle matters further, three powerful demons arrived outside the cave abode, including a red-haired woman Lu Chenzhou suspected was connected to Blood Vine Demon Emperor.

• Azurecloud Adept revealed that he had died and become the artifact spirit of the Myriad Swords Radiant Dragon Armor, then offered Lu Chenzhou his inheritance in exchange for several requests.
• Lu Chenzhou learned that Azurecloud Adept wanted him to find a sword-cultivator disciple, protect the Azure Cloud Realm if possible, and kill two traitorous disciples in the Kunxu Realm.
• Lu Chenzhou investigated Azurecloud Adept’s history and learned about his treasures, the Kunxu Ancestor, and the power of the two disciples he had been asked to kill.
• After a month, Lu Chenzhou agreed to the first two requests within his abilities but made no promise to avenge Azurecloud Adept or resurrect him.
• Lu Chenzhou sensed an attack as the Blood Flood Dragon Demon Venerable, the Mountain Forest Demon Sovereign, and a red-haired woman appeared outside the formation.

Lu Chenzhou used his soul abilities and Great Dream Dao to trap the demons in a dream while Azurecloud Adept fought Blood Demon Matriarch. He left the chapter having defeated the Mountain Forest Demon Sovereign and captured its soul, while the Blood Flood Dragon Demon Venerable remained lost in the nightmare.

• Lu Chenzhou and Azurecloud Adept joined forces against Blood Demon Matriarch, the Blood Flood Dragon Demon Venerable, and the Mountain Forest Demon Sovereign.
• Lu Chenzhou's incarnation struck the Blood Flood Dragon Demon Venerable with the Demon-Prisoning Hand, but the demon broke free and trapped a sword puppet in his Bloodweb Heavenly Snare.
• Lu Chenzhou unleashed Great Dream of Three Thousand Worlds, One Feather Proves Suchness, sending the demons and Azurecloud Adept into a dream and forcing Blood Demon Matriarch to flee before she fell unconscious.
• The Blood Flood Dragon Demon Venerable tried to escape the nightmare by slitting his throat, while the Mountain Forest Demon Sovereign repeatedly shattered layers of illusion and was ultimately burned to ashes by blue butterflies.
• Lu Chenzhou appeared above the dreamscape and drew in the bewildered souls of the Blood Flood Dragon Demon Venerable and the Mountain Forest Demon Sovereign.

Lu Chenzhou used his Butterfly Dream of the Cosmos to kill Blood Flood Dragon and Mountain Forest Demon Sovereign, then trapped the Blood Demon Matriarch in a dream until Azurecloud Adept wounded her and forced her to retreat. After waking, Lu Chenzhou considered the danger surrounding the Tiger Flood Dragon and Lunar Yin Amber, while Azurecloud Adept praised his talent and compared him to the Kunxu Ancestor.

• Lu Chenzhou's Butterfly Dream of the Cosmos killed two mid-stage Demon Venerables and absorbed their memories and Dao essence, greatly improving his laws and divine abilities.
• Lu Chenzhou learned that the Blood Demon Matriarch was searching for tiger blood essence and suspected that the search was connected to the sealed Tiger Flood Dragon and the Lunar Yin Amber.
• The Blood Demon Matriarch broke through Lu Chenzhou's dream worlds, found his sleeping true body, and attacked it, but Lu Chenzhou's dream-born butterflies blasted her away.
• The Blood Demon Matriarch escaped the dream and was struck by Azurecloud Adept's Ten Thousand Swords Pierce the Heart before fleeing under cover of Mist Conceals a Thousand Mountains.
• Lu Chenzhou woke and admitted that he had only been bluffing about using his dream ability again, while Azurecloud Adept praised his feat and compared his talent to the Kunxu Ancestor.

Lu Chenzhou accepted Azurecloud Adept’s request to take Kungu’s inheritance, but learned that the world’s will was close to perishing and could not be saved by ordinary means. Back in the Xia Realm, he began devising a peerless internal art based on his World Dao, hoping to draw energy from the world itself.

• Lu Chenzhou hid the demon corpses and agreed to return with his true body to collect Azurecloud Adept’s inheritance and treasures.
• Worryfree Matriarch and the evil gods learned that a suspected reincarnation of the Heart Emperor had killed Mountain Forest Demon Sovereign and Blood Flood Dragon, and Worryfree Matriarch set out to confront him.
• Gu Diao sent Heaven Gu to the Eastern Extremity Realm to find and devour a seventh-realm Great Dream Dao cultivator.
• Lu Chenzhou and Azurecloud Adept found Kungu’s will trapped by the Constellations’ contamination, and Azurecloud Adept explained that only a great power using Dao-commanding will could wear it away.
• By 2278, Lu Chenzhou had perfected the Lu Wu Demon-Suppressing True Scripture and sought to create his own peerless internal art.
• Wan Shixian advised Lu Chenzhou that his World Dao could draw on the world’s qi, inspiring him to consider using the Xia Realm or its sea of stars as his source of energy.

Lu Chenzhou set out to explore the starry sky and gather stellar treasures so he could develop his own internal art and strengthen his cultivation before the Great Curtain fell. Meanwhile, the Azure Heaven Dragon King advanced to the eighth realm and planned a dangerous attempt at the Fighting Ancestor’s tomb, as the Divine Alliance struggled to open the Boundary Tower and considered recruiting Lu Chenzhou.

• Lu Chenzhou reflected on the relationship between essence, qi, spirit, and the Dao, then decided to study the world beyond secluded research.
• Lu Chenzhou told the Council of Elders he would travel, and Mr. Turtle lent him the Mount Yuan Star Compass and the Wandering Stars Catalog for his journey through the starry sky.
• The Azure Heaven Dragon King left the Moon-Cold Realm after cultivating there and told its will he would take the universe’s place if it tried to prevent his transcendence.
• Wan Shixian learned that the Dragon King had reached the eighth realm, and the Dragon King announced he would attempt the Fighting Ancestor’s Ancient Tomb.
• The Divine Alliance failed to keep the Boundary Tower open, and Fang Bifan suggested that Lu Chenzhou’s knowledge of the void Dao might help them.
• Wu judged the God Clan’s leading genius to have a fragile will and believed the Divine Alliance’s strength and its intelligence could trouble Heavenly Xia.

After years of wandering the stars, Lu Chenzhou glimpsed the immense will of the Xia Realm and advanced his cultivation. He pursued Achilles after finding that the Shadowflow Sovereign had taken a stellar wondrous item, then destroyed his avatar and refined his soul.

• Lu Chenzhou spent five years cultivating among the stars, reaching the mid-stage of the seventh realm and witnessing what he believed was the will of the Xia Realm.
• After three more years of searching, Lu Chenzhou followed the Star Compass to a Gold Star-grade wondrous item, but discovered that Achilles had already taken it.
• Lu Chenzhou traced Achilles through a karmic thread and pursued him into the shadow dimension, striking him with a long-range spear attack.
• Achilles unleashed Shadow Thousand Tribulation Blades, but Lu Chenzhou transformed into a Golden-Winged Roc and caught up with him.
• Achilles self-destructed into ten thousand shadows, and Lu Chenzhou destroyed them with his nine-colored lotus before refining Achilles's trapped soul.

Lu Chenzhou absorbed the Shadow Kill Clan’s techniques and the power of a demigod relic, advancing his Void Dao while repelling the relic’s lingering will. He uncovered valuable materials among Achilles’s spoils and considered using them to forge a supreme spear.

• Achilles concealed from Wu that Lu Chenzhou had mastered true spirit transformations and ordered the Four Shadow Commanders to self-destruct.
• Lu Chenzhou absorbed Achilles’s split soul, gaining Shadow Kill Clan insights and secret arts, and tested Shadow Teleportation and his Golden Peng transformation.
• Lu Chenzhou refined Wangliang’s demigod finger, advanced his Void Dao to the fifth tier, and learned to travel the Void Sea using the Void Kun.
• Wangliang’s residual will attacked Lu Chenzhou’s spiritual world, but he trapped it with Wandering Lament from the Great Emptiness Boundless Incantation.
• Lu Chenzhou searched Achilles’s storage ring, found Shadow God Iron and other spoils, and considered gathering rare materials to forge a powerful divine spear.

Lu Chenzhou used his new treasures to advance his cultivation, broke through to the Moving Mountains Scripture’s fourth layer, and demonstrated strength capable of moving a planet. As he slept after exhausting himself, a phantom of Mountain-Sea Tower appeared in the starry sky.

• Lu Chenzhou gained karmic essence from Toad Lord’s jade tablet, confirmed that the Shadow Kill Clan had left the Xia Realm, and departed with the spoils.
• The Blood Demon Matriarch defeated Azurecloud Adept, took him and his treasures, and left two avatars in ambush for the Heart Emperor reincarnation; six months later, the Heavenly Gu Daoist began watching the Kungu Realm.
• Lu Chenzhou cultivated with the Magnetic Origin Star Ring until it vanished, advancing the Moving Mountains Scripture to the fourth layer and the Strength Extremity Path to the fifth rank.
• Lu Chenzhou saw the Ancestor’s lingering apparition, assessed his strength and the coming appearance of Mountain-Sea Tower, then used Baxia Transformation and the Kunpeng Formula to hurl a small planet into another and destroy both.
• After falling asleep on a meteor from exhaustion, Lu Chenzhou woke when a phantom of Mountain-Sea Tower appeared in the starry sky.

Lu Chenzhou entered the Mountain-Sea Tower disguised as an old man, explored its markets and inheritances, and discovered the bounty Liu Suifeng had completed. The chapter left him face-to-face with Liu Suifeng after the latter answered his mutter.

• Lu Chenzhou concealed his identity, entered the Mountain-Sea Tower, and bought a Heaven Token as the tower gathered cultivators from across the Three Thousand Worlds.
• He purchased Five-Soul Wood and spotted Shadowflow Sovereign searching the plaza for him.
• Lu Chenzhou explored the Techniques Pavilion and found numerous mighty being inheritances, including an incomplete Three-Zhang Scripture that prompted him to consider challenging the Ancient Dragon Path.
• He browsed the Spirit Weapon Pavilion and Rare Treasures Pavilion, found treasures far beyond his means, and decided he needed to make money.
• In the Myriad Realms Pavilion, Lu Chenzhou read that Liu Suifeng had completed Kunxu's bounty for the Fish Demon Sovereign, and Liu Suifeng appeared after hearing him speak.

Lu Chenzhou met Kunxu Ancestor in the Mountain-Sea Tower and learned that thirteen sealed demigods still threatened the Three Thousand Worlds. After spending most of his yuan stones on cultivation resources and buying True Spirit blood from Feng Jiuli, he entered seclusion on an uninhabited planet before preparing to leave the Xia Realm.

• Kunxu Ancestor revealed that thirteen demigods remained sealed and explained that the Mountain-Sea Tower sought to eliminate them before they could break free.
• Lu Chenzhou checked the bounty missions, found no demigod targets in the Xia Realm, and earned twenty-five high-grade yuan stones by turning in demon venerable corpses.
• Lu Chenzhou bought five Seventh Realm Dao-Comprehension Steles and Breathstone, then purchased True Spirit blood from Feng Jiuli and exchanged contact information with her.
• Feng Jiuli returned to the Spirit Phoenix Clan, where the Spirit Phoenix Sovereign told her they would travel to the Profound Heaven Realm to ally with Heavenly Xia against the Divine Alliance.
• The Spirit Phoenix Sovereign explained that a human in the direction of the Xia Realm might complete a divine ability that could help primordial True Spirit descendants break their path to godhood.
• Lu Chenzhou entered seclusion on an uninhabited planet to digest his gains before leaving the Xia Realm.

Achilles exposed Lu Chenzhou’s treasures and placed a bounty on him, prompting Heavenly Xia’s experts to confront him at Mountain-Sea Tower. A month later, Lu Chenzhou advanced Heavenly Escape to the Eighth Layer and tested his new speed, leaving himself close to the Ninth Layer’s limit.

• Achilles offered the White Bone Saber to anyone who killed Lu Chenzhou and brought back his corpse, while Sea-Covering Spear, Black Tortoise Daoist, Four Symbols Adept, Huikong, and other Heavenly Xia experts denounced him.
• The Northern Suppression King showed projections of the Shadow Kill Clan cooperating with demons and ghosts, and Achilles argued that the weak had to submit to the strong.
• Achilles revealed that Lu Chenzhou possessed Aurora Palace and the Sun-Chasing Dragon Emperor’s legacy, exposing him to the greed of powerful cultivators.
• Black Boat ordered Astral Lodge’s couple to investigate Lu Chenzhou, and they decided to begin with a woman from Heavenly Xia who had visited Space-Time Sword Immortal’s cave abode.
• A month later, Lu Chenzhou advanced Lightning to the Fifth Rank, Chaos to fifty percent of the Fifth Rank, and Heavenly Escape to the Eighth Layer.
• Lu Chenzhou tested his speed on a dead planet, reaching 6,666 times the speed of sound with the Golden-Winged Roc transformation and approaching the Ninth Layer’s limit.

Lu Chenzhou refined the Five-Soul Wood, strengthening his soul, then discovered a red-star wonder deep inside a star and learned he needed much greater strength to claim it. As he left, a mysterious voice inside the star’s core cauldron commented on his daring approach.

• Lu Chenzhou discussed using the Martial Dao Tree to advance his Dao and heard from the Northern Suppression King that Achilles had placed a bounty on him.
• Lu Chenzhou learned about Achilles’ Shadow God Blade and spent a month refining the Five-Soul Wood, raising his spiritual power and strengthening his soul origin.
• Lu Chenzhou spent three years searching the starry sky before discovering a red-star wonder formed by chains binding nine planets around a star.
• Lu Chenzhou sent a True Astral avatar into the star, reached its core, and saw the Star-Imprisoning Divine Chains wrapped around a golden pillar.
• Lu Chenzhou’s avatar was destroyed, and he concluded that he needed peak seventh-realm strength to approach the wonder and eighth-realm strength to refine it.
• A voice inside a crimson-bronze cauldron beneath the pillar remarked on Lu Chenzhou’s ability to penetrate so deeply into the star.

Wang Changming survived his tribulation and became the Three-Extremes King, while Lu Chenzhou helped the four lineage treasures ascend and sent Great Xia’s departed sages into the Three Thousand Worlds. After his soul and comprehension improved, Lu Chenzhou advanced his Virulent Poisons Dao; elsewhere, the Blood Demon Matriarch and Azurecloud Adept failed to achieve their aims at the Astral Lodge, whose ancestor prepared to confront Azurecloud Adept.

• Wang Changming endured five tribulations at Yunmeng Marsh and broke through to the seventh realm, becoming the Three-Extremes King.
• Lu Chenzhou named the four newly ascended artifact spirits and 108 spirits of the departed, who crossed golden bridges to spread martial teachings throughout the Three Thousand Worlds.
• The Heavenly Human Ranking evolved into a quasi-supreme treasure, strengthening Lu Chenzhou’s soul enough for him to advance his Virulent Poisons Dao from third rank to fourth rank.
• The Blood Demon Matriarch escaped the Astral Lodge after Azurecloud Adept’s plan to pit her against his former disciples failed.
• The Astral Lodge’s ancestor gave the middle-aged couple an eighth-rank Ink Dragon Slaying talisman and dismissed Lu Chenzhou’s rapid progress as no guarantee of reaching the ninth realm.

Lu Chenzhou gained the Xia Realm’s recognition and explored the universe through its World Dao while studying a technique, as the Divine Alliance escalated its invasion of Profound Heaven. Dikshita repelled the Thunder Realm Venerable, and the chapter ended with a meteor gathering dust in the starry sky in Year 2290.

• Black Boat Ancestor left after dismissing Heavenly Xia’s martial arts and warned that the great calamity was approaching.
• In Year 2288, Lu Chenzhou connected with the Xia Realm’s will, surveyed the starry sky through the World Tree, and began experimenting with a technique in his body.
• The Divine Alliance sent the Thunder Realm Venerable to command its forces and capture Lu Chenzhou alive.
• Yin Jiujiao wounded E'Xian, but she revealed her White Phoenix bloodline and drove him into retreat before the Thunder Realm Venerable intervened.
• Dikshita struck the Thunder Realm Venerable and helped E'Xian escape, prompting Heavenly Xia’s Council of Elders to welcome another eighth-realm ally.
• In Year 2290, a meteor drifted through space as surrounding dust gathered around it.

Lu Chenzhou emerged from an asteroid after creating an inner cultivation art, gaining a deeper understanding of the Xia Realm’s cosmic history and the Divine Court’s origins. He suspected the Divine Court had prevented new true spirits and gods from arising, and wondered whether a hidden force had drawn the evil gods from the Land of Stars into the universe.

• Lu Chenzhou awakened inside the asteroid, broke through its blazing shell, and used a vortex to travel instantly to the sun.
• Lu Chenzhou saw that his Chaos, Chaotic Abyss, and Kurong Daos had all advanced after he created an inner cultivation art, and he named his new energy Cosmic True Aura.
• Lu Chenzhou recalled the Xia Realm’s history and identified the nine Star Lords, including the Golden Crow Emperor, Demon Lord Ganqi, Candle Nine-Yin, Lu Wu, Red Extremity, and the Nether Queen Mother.
• Lu Chenzhou concluded that stellar wonders might be embryonic true spirits and theorized that the Divine Court had suppressed their birth to preserve its forty-nine immortal seats.
• Lu Chenzhou considered whether the fallen Divine Court had opened the way for new gods, then wondered if a hidden force had led the evil gods from the Land of Stars to the universe.

Lu Chenzhou created and shared the Chaos-Furnace Method, gaining a powerful teleportation ability that he kept secret. As he prepared to enter the Profound Heaven Realm, Wan Shixian warned him about dangerous experts across the Three Thousand Worlds, and Lu Chenzhou received a million mid-grade Origin Stones.

• Lu Chenzhou created the tenth-rank Chaos-Furnace Method, which expanded his energy reserves and granted him the Chaos Portal, allowing him to travel to places he had visited within the Xia Realm.
• Lu Chenzhou used the Chaos Portal to return to Cloud Dream City, then spent seven days traveling through the human world and reflecting on how its people and leaders had changed.
• Mr. Turtle told Lu Chenzhou that the Star-Imprisoning Divine Chains had been prepared by the ancestor for his inheritors, while the Magnetic Origin Star Ring had been a matter of luck.
• Lu Chenzhou uploaded the Chaos-Furnace Method to the Candle Dragon Origin Space, where Wan Shixian praised it and cautioned Lu Chenzhou not to rush into the Profound Heaven Realm.
• Wan Shixian warned Lu Chenzhou about the Blood Demon Matriarch, the Black Boat Ancestor, and other powerful hidden experts, and advised him to use the Heavenly Human Ranking if endangered outside the Xia Realm.
• After sleeping for a full day, Lu Chenzhou woke to find one million mid-grade Origin Stones in his Candle Dragon Token.

Lu Chenzhou’s Chaos-Furnace Method became a popular source of income, while Yaochi Fairy obtained the Radiant Time Sword in Kunxu and escaped an ambush with Ming Daozi’s help. After learning what happened, Lu Chenzhou vowed to remember the Astral elders, then reached the Ancient Dragon Path’s Seventh Zone and met its golden-haired guardian.

• Lu Chenzhou checked the Chaos-Furnace Method’s sales and recognized it as a promising source of income, while Old Wang celebrated the prospect of relying on his disciples.
• Yaochi Fairy used the Radiant Time Sword to fight the Three Friends of Bamboo Mountain, but two Astral Lodge elders intervened and demanded that she join them.
• Yaochi Fairy and Ming Daozi fought back with the White Marsh Portrait, forcing their enemies to retreat and escaping into a small world through a fissure in space.
• Ming Daozi told Yaochi Fairy that an Eighth-Realm ghost would break free in Origin Azure Realm within thirty years, and she promised to contact Heavenly Xia’s Eighth-Realm experts.
• Lu Chenzhou learned of the Astral elders’ attack on Yaochi Fairy and resolved to remember the grudge.
• Lu Chenzhou entered the Ancient Dragon Path’s Seventh Zone, reached the eight-hundred-thousand-fold gravity area, and met the golden-haired man who called him the sixteenth person to reach the zone.

Lu Chenzhou entered the Three-Zhang Dragon Emperor’s trials to obtain the Three-Zhang Scripture and endured a swarm of Spirit-Eating Insects for twelve hours, earning its first layer. He chose to continue, and the Dragon Emperor began the second trial by summoning a Golden-Horn Beast projection to attack him.

• Lu Chenzhou rejected the Scripture Repository’s seventh-rank combat arts and asked to learn the Three-Zhang Scripture, accepting the Dragon Emperor’s dangerous assessment.
• The Three-Zhang Dragon Emperor tested Lu Chenzhou’s Sovereign Apex Dao, then sent him into the Golden-Horn Beast’s body to withstand nine hundred million Spirit-Eating Insects for twelve hours.
• Lu Chenzhou endured the insects without fighting back, while the Dragon Emperor explained that they were remnants of the Nether Mother, a powerful creature sealed within the Ancient Dragon Path.
• Lu Chenzhou passed the first trial, received the Mountain Realm chapter’s first layer and a dark-gold ore, and chose to attempt the second trial.
• The Three-Zhang Dragon Emperor summoned a Golden-Horn Beast projection and challenged Lu Chenzhou to endure its attacks for fifteen minutes using only his physical body and Sovereign Apex Dao.

Lu Chenzhou refined Void Dao Steles during his rest and advanced his Sovereign Apex Dao to the fifth rank before facing the Golden-Horn Beast in the second trial. After entering Unity of Man and Heaven and having his body destroyed, he revived three days later and persuaded the Three-Zhang Dragon Emperor to let him attempt the trial again.

• Lu Chenzhou refined two Void Dao Steles and advanced his Sovereign Apex Dao from the fourth rank to the fifth.
• The Three-Zhang Dragon Emperor began the second trial, where Lu Chenzhou endured the Golden-Horn Beast’s attacks rather than dodging.
• As Lu Chenzhou entered Unity of Man and Heaven, the Golden-Horn Beast tore apart his body and used its Cosmic-Piercing Golden Light to sever his neck, prompting the Three-Zhang Dragon Emperor to end the trial.
• The Three-Zhang Dragon Emperor gathered Lu Chenzhou’s unbroken nine-colored bones, and three days later Lu Chenzhou regrew his body and asked to retry the trial.
• The Three-Zhang Dragon Emperor agreed to let Lu Chenzhou try again, while Lu Chenzhou saw a new leaf, flower, and fruit appear on the nine-million-zhang Martial Dao Tree.