Chapter Summaries

Lu Chenzhou rejected mediation and continued his campaign against the Divine Alliance, while neutral God Clans allied with Heavenly Xia and condemned the war. The Divine Alliance’s rulers resolved to defend their territory and eliminate Lu Chenzhou, as support for Heavenly Xia spread across the Three Thousand Worlds.

• Lu Chenzhou told Nami and Bodong that Heavenly Xia would not stop unless the Divine Alliance paid enormous compensation and swore never to oppose it again.
• Bodong presented aid from the Overseas Tyrant Royal Clan, and Lu Chenzhou agreed to nonbinding cooperation with its envoy.
• The Overseas Tyrant Royal Clan, Azure Light Divine Clan, and Iceheart Spirit Clan allied with Heavenly Xia and called on the Divine Alliance to withdraw and compensate it, while the Gold Clan echoed their demand.
• Flamebright Realm Sovereign and the other rulers discussed Lu Chenzhou’s growing strength, and Flamebright Realm Sovereign ordered the Divine Alliance to defend the Eastern Extremity Realm Tower until he could reach the Third Step and kill Lu Chenzhou himself.
• Thunder Realm Venerable reported that public opinion had turned against the Divine Alliance as civilizations and independent Seventh Realm powerhouses voiced support for Heavenly Xia.

Flamebright Realm Sovereign rejected a prophecy of doom, killed his mother, and resolved to pursue power and war, while several enemies prepared to target Lu Chenzhou. Moonwatch Demon Saint launched a powerful curse and poison attack against Lu Chenzhou, who collapsed in the middle of a celebration.

• Flamebright Realm Sovereign refused his mother's warning to stop the war and revealed his ambition to seize control of the great universe's will.
• Flamebright Realm Sovereign killed his mother, the High Priestess, and absorbed her crimson Bifang feather into his heart.
• The other God Clan realms debated the war, while Heaven Gu Daoist sought an alliance with Thunder Realm Venerable and the girl aboard the Black Boat headed toward Profound Heaven to target Lu Chenzhou.
• Moonwatch Demon Saint prepared a curse using three billion sacrifices, the Cursegrudge Robe, and his poison arts, then attacked Lu Chenzhou through their karmic connection.
• Lu Chenzhou collapsed and shattered the ground while drinking with his allies after the Heavenly Xia legion captured five more God Clan mines.

Lu Chenzhou was struck by a curse and lethal poison, leaving him unconscious and near death. His allies sought a way to save him, while the enemy celebrated the attack and remained confident he would die.

• Lu Chenzhou’s body erupted with poisonous growths, and Heart-Dream Great Emperor contained the spreading poison while King of Northern Defense cut off Wang Changming’s poisoned arms.
• Dikshita summoned the Five-Poison Heavenly Physician, who used a Blood-Poison Gu to buy Lu Chenzhou time and said he needed Clearblood Grass from the Divine Prison Realm to survive.
• Wang Changming insisted on entering the Divine Prison Realm to save his disciple, but Dikshita arranged for Wan Shixian to go instead, and Yaochi Fairy and White Phoenix volunteered to join.
• Wan Shixian set out for the Divine Prison Realm, hoping to find the rare grass before Lu Chenzhou’s treatment window closed.
• Moonwatch Demon Saint and Toad Lord confirmed that the curse had worked, and Toad Lord boasted that Lu Chenzhou’s poison could only be cured with Heart-Clearing Grass from the Divine Prison Realm.
• Wu remained unconvinced by Toad Lord’s confidence and wondered whether the attack had truly succeeded.

As Lu Chenzhou’s body slowly adapted to a devastating poison curse, his allies faced mounting pressure from the Divine Alliance and prepared to defend their mines. The chapter ended with Wan Shixian appearing to Dikshita as the enemies gathered to attack.

• The dead Blood-Poison Gu fused into Lu Chenzhou and became a second heart that filtered the poison, allowing his first heart and body to begin recovering.
• Lu Chenzhou’s lingering consciousness discovered the new organ and resolved to use it as the basis for a Poison Dao divine ability while enduring the curse until he reached the eighth realm.
• The King of Northern Defense reported that Yin Jiujiao’s forces had harassed Heavenly Xia and gravely wounded Five-Poison Heavenly Physician, so Dikshita ordered a retreat to Aurora Palace to defend the mines.
• At Mount Yuan Grotto-Heaven, Mr. Turtle and the two apes chose to trust Lu Chenzhou to survive his tribulation and discussed his talent and prospects.
• Fang Bifan, Fang Xingyu, and Yin Jiujiao planned to besiege Heavenly Xia, reclaim the mines, and kill Lu Chenzhou, while Heavenly Gu Daoist offered the Thunder Realm Venerable help in exchange for Lu Chenzhou’s body and soul.
• As danger gathered in the Profound Heaven Realm, Wan Shixian’s projection appeared before Dikshita, who asked how the commander was.

While Lu Chenzhou remained unconscious under a deadly poison curse, Heavenly Xia prepared for the Divine Alliance’s long-awaited assault. The battle began in Heavenly Xia’s favor, but Heaven Gu arrived and cast a dream across the battlefield.

• Dikshita recalled everyone to Aurora Palace as the Divine Alliance’s attack drew near, while Yaochi Fairy and Wang Changming watched for signs that Lu Chenzhou was recovering.
• The Moonwatch Demon Saint prepared another curse against Lu Chenzhou, and the Wu Lord ordered Achilles to strike if the Divine Alliance failed to kill him.
• The Ten Thousand Waters Realm Sovereign persuaded the other three neutral God Clans to form a secret alliance and wait before changing sides.
• Lu Chenzhou gained insight into the Poison Dao and began developing a technique that combined poison with karma.
• The Divine Alliance attacked Aurora Palace with two Realm Venerables and sixteen other seventh-realm fighters, but the Father and Dikshita confronted them while Heavenly Xia defended its fortress.
• Heaven Gu appeared above the battlefield and spread a dream over the mine, declaring that everyone would enter it.

Heavenly Xia’s fighters battled the Divine Alliance for the unconscious Lu Chenzhou as Heavenly Gu Daoist and Yin Jiujiao shifted the fight against them. Aurora Palace eventually carried the survivors away, but Achilles ambushed them and demanded Lu Chenzhou.

• Godfather broke Heavenly Gu Daoist’s Yellow Millet Dream illusion, and Heavenly Xia’s fighters fought back against the three eighth-realm enemies.
• Fang Xingyu attacked Lu Chenzhou, while Yaochi Fairy and E'Xian fought to protect him and Wang Changming guarded his side.
• Yin Jiujiao’s arrow gravely wounded Wang Changming, but Wang’s interception redirected it into Lu Chenzhou’s Purple Thunder Armor; Yaochi Fairy caught Yin’s next arrow and sent E'Xian after him.
• Yaochi Fairy summoned Zhang Zu’s projection, and Aurora Palace used its Jade Pivot Aurora Sword Formation and Quiet Heaven to retreat with the Heavenly Xia army.
• Godfather carried Lu Chenzhou away while Dikshita rescued Yaochi Fairy, but Achilles ambushed Godfather and tried to seize Lu Chenzhou before demanding that they hand him over.

The Godfather sacrificed himself to send Aurora Palace into the Void Sea while Achilles and the Heavenly Gu Daoist pursued it. Lu Chenzhou awakened, recovered enough to protect his companions, and spent months refining his body until he reached nine million qi and blood, though he remained at the Seventh Realm limit.

• Achilles, the Heavenly Gu Daoist, and the Divine Alliance agreed to hunt Lu Chenzhou and divide his spoils, so the Godfather used the Time-Space Lightwheel to send Aurora Palace into the Void Sea and collapsed from the effort.
• The Thunder Realm Venerable and Fang Xingyu attacked the Godfather, then presumed him dead and abandoned the pursuit while Achilles and the Heavenly Gu Daoist followed Aurora Palace.
• Lu Chenzhou awakened after seven days, mastered the Myriad Poisons Heart, and learned that the curse still damaged his body even though it no longer prevented him from fighting.
• Lu Chenzhou healed Wang Changming and checked on Yaochi Fairy and the other wounded, then kept his awakening secret from Heavenly Xia's soldiers while pursuers remained nearby.
• Lu Chenzhou spent months refining 108 high-grade origin stones and slaughtering demons through his mental avatar, raising his qi and blood to the Seventh Realm limit of nine million.
• Dikshita mistook Lu Chenzhou's immense aura for Eighth Realm power, but Lu Chenzhou clarified that he had only reached the Seventh Realm limit.

Lu Chenzhou cultivated Pure Yang True Flame and forged a new spear while Dikshita held off his pursuers. As Lu Chenzhou awakened the weapon spirit of Tiger Soul, Heavenly Gu Daoist and Achilles swore an oath to divide the spoils of capturing him.

• Dikshita urged Lu Chenzhou to stabilize his strength, while Lu Chenzhou planned to finish cultivating and complete his Speed Ultimate Path inheritance trial.
• Heavenly Gu Daoist and Achilles agreed to swear Great Path oaths, with Heavenly Gu claiming Lu Chenzhou's body and soul and Achilles receiving his treasures and the other spoils.
• Lu Chenzhou completed the Five Elements Tribulation Scripture and discovered that his Pure Yang True Flame could become a devastating attack, which he named Pure White Sun.
• Lu Chenzhou spent a month cultivating and forging a heavy quasi-eighth-rank spear from rare metals.
• Lu Chenzhou named the spear Tiger Soul, merged it with his heart's blood, and awakened its confused weapon spirit.

Lu Chenzhou fought Achilles while concealing the strength of his recovery, using the repeated destruction of his body to discover a path to indestructibility. After Achilles appeared to kill him, Lu Chenzhou returned through the blood on the Shadow God Blade and attacked, declaring that he was everywhere.

• Lu Chenzhou trained with Tiger Soul, then deliberately lowered his cultivation to make Achilles and Heavenly Gu Daoist believe he had not recovered.
• Aurora Palace ran low on energy, and Achilles and Heavenly Gu Daoist surrounded it and demanded that Dikshita hand over Lu Chenzhou.
• Lu Chenzhou emerged despite his injuries and fought Achilles while Dikshita battled Heavenly Gu Daoist.
• Achilles repeatedly tore Lu Chenzhou apart, and Lu Chenzhou used the cycle of death and revival to approach an indestructible body.
• Achilles destroyed Lu Chenzhou's body and soul, swallowed the blood mist, and took his dropped possessions, but Lu Chenzhou's blood on the Shadow God Blade revived and pierced him.
• Lu Chenzhou appeared again as Achilles struggled to understand what had happened, then declared, "I am everywhere."

Lu Chenzhou revealed that he had reached the Imperishable realm, forcing Heavenly Gu Daoist to abandon the fight and flee. Achilles then summoned the Wangliang Progenitor through the Shadow God Blade, and Lu Chenzhou and Dikshita joined forces against him.

• Lu Chenzhou survived Achilles's attacks and struck back with the Nine Tribulations Lotus, while Heavenly Gu Daoist recognized that Lu Chenzhou had become Imperishable.
• Heavenly Gu Daoist concluded that Lu Chenzhou could not be killed by anyone present, abandoned the operation, and gave Lu Chenzhou the Qianman Sword and Zhushou Sword as an apology.
• Dikshita drove Achilles back with the Great Formless Finger, and Achilles decided to escape with the Wangliang Finger Bone and Lu Chenzhou's storage ring.
• Achilles burned his shadow blood and used the Shadow God Blade to summon the Wangliang Progenitor.
• Lu Chenzhou expanded into a hundred-mile body as Dikshita summoned the Thunder Emperor, and the three colossal figures clashed across the Void Sea.

Lu Chenzhou and Dikshita fought Achilles, whose Shadow God Blade and hidden demigod powers turned the battle against them. Lu Chenzhou broke free of Achilles’s Shadow World with Poison Fire, then exposed and devoured Achilles’s escaped soul, killing him for good.

• Achilles burned his Shadow Blood, shattered Lu Chenzhou’s Thunder Emperor Dharma Avatar, and killed Dikshita’s mind incarnation with the Shadow God Blade.
• Achilles trapped Lu Chenzhou inside a Shadow World using Wangliang’s Eye, a demigod power stored in the Shadow God Blade.
• Lu Chenzhou combined Pure Yang Fire with his strange poison power, creating a green Poison Fire sun that tore apart the Shadow World.
• Lu Chenzhou pursued Achilles with his spear, Golden Peng form, and Thunder Dragon attacks, destroying Achilles’s body as Achilles’s soul escaped in the Shadow God Blade.
• Achilles believed he had escaped with the Wangliang Finger Bone and storage ring, but Lu Chenzhou revealed they were illusions and devoured Achilles’s soul.

Lu Chenzhou killed Achilles and seized his shadow-based divine ability, then returned to Aurora Palace and explained how he had defeated the eighth-realm assassin. He set out for Profound Heaven to eliminate the Shadow Kill Clan’s leaders before advancing to the eighth realm.

• Lu Chenzhou clarified how the Undying Body worked, resolved to pursue immortality, and gained the Shadow God Descends divine ability from Achilles.
• Lu Chenzhou collected Achilles’s corpse, severed finger, Shadow God Blade, and storage artifact before leaving to seek a place to break through.
• The Heavenly Xia experts welcomed Lu Chenzhou back, and he confirmed that Achilles’s main body was dead while warning that clones might remain.
• Lu Chenzhou explained that illusion, deception, and favorable circumstances had helped him kill Achilles, then announced he would return to Profound Heaven to wipe out the Shadow Kill Clan’s leaders.
• Dikshita rejoiced at Achilles’s death and urged Di Jialou to learn from Lu Chenzhou.

After killing Achilles, Lu Chenzhou ordered Heavenly Xia to eliminate the Shadow Kill Clan spies hidden across its cities, and news of his victory spread throughout Xia Star. Months later, he attacked the Shadow Kill Clan’s stronghold in Profound Heaven, where he began destroying the clan and its imperial bloodline.

• Lu Chenzhou told the Council of Elders that he had killed Achilles and gave them a list of four Shadow Kill Clan spies to hunt down.
• The Council’s Seventh Realm powerhouses killed the spies, and word of Achilles’s death spread across Xia Star as Ji Xuantong and Shi Ruyu learned of Lu Chenzhou’s achievement.
• Months later, Lu Chenzhou found the Shadow Kill Clan’s asteroid stronghold and shattered its crust with a high-speed strike.
• Lu Chenzhou used twelve Nine Tribulations Lotuses to seal the asteroid and began destroying it, terrifying the Shadow Kill Eight Kings and their gathered forces.
• A prince threatened Lu Chenzhou in Achilles’s name, and Lu Chenzhou’s gaze burned the prince and Achilles’s blood-related imperial clan members into blue butterflies.

Lu Chenzhou exterminated the Shadow Kill Clan on their home planet and warned the Three Thousand Worlds against serving the Forbidden Zone. As the evil gods abandoned their attempt to curse him, Ten Thousand Waters Realm Sovereign sought guidance about Flamebright Realm Sovereign’s growing power and heard the first of two possible paths.

• Lu Chenzhou used the Dao of Karma to find and kill the Achilles bloodline, then forced the Shadow Kill Clan to fight until only 132 people could live.
• Lu Chenzhou enslaved the strongest survivors, destroyed the planet, and ordered King of Northern Defense to publicize the Shadow Kill Clan’s extermination as a warning.
• Wu and the other evil gods concluded that Achilles was likely dead and ordered Wangyue to stop cursing Lu Chenzhou and flee to the Disaster Forbidden Zone.
• Ten Thousand Waters Realm Sovereign prayed to Sea God · Heluo Fish for help against Flamebright Realm Sovereign’s rising strength.
• Heluo Fish told Ten Thousand Waters Realm Sovereign that his first path was to sever relations with Heavenly Xia, apologize to Flamebright Realm Sovereign, and join the Divine Alliance.

Ten Thousand Waters Realm Sovereign chose to support Heavenly Xia and launched a surprise attack on Flamebright, while the Dragon and Phoenix Clans declared war on the Divine Alliance. At the Profound Heaven mining grounds, Lu Chenzhou confronted Fang Xingyu and Thunder Realm Venerable as they prepared to destroy the main vein.

• After learning Lu Chenzhou survived and killed Achilles, Ten Thousand Waters Realm Sovereign ordered Bodong and Nami to prepare a secret expedition against Flamebright.
• Azurelight Realm Sovereign, Minor Cold Realm Sovereign, and Golden Realm Sovereign discussed the news and criticized Ten Thousand Waters Realm Sovereign's decision to attack.
• Spirit Phoenix Overlord gathered Phoenix Clan powerhouses and declared war on the Divine Alliance, while the Lord of the Ancient Dragons led the Dragon Clan toward Profound Heaven.
• At the mining grounds, Fang Xingyu insisted on testing Lu Chenzhou, but Thunder Realm Venerable persuaded her to withdraw and proposed destroying the Profound Heaven main vein.
• Lu Chenzhou arrived and challenged Thunder Realm Venerable, forming a nine-colored spear and saying he wanted to test whether he could defeat them.

Lu Chenzhou fought Fang Xingyu and Thunder Realm Venerable at the mining site, revealing an indestructible body after they thought they had killed him. He poisoned Fang Xingyu with Pure Yang poisonfire, leaving her alone and begging for death as Thunder Realm Venerable and Yin Jiujiao fled.

• Fang Xingyu denounced humanity and attacked Lu Chenzhou, who countered her blade with his spear and speed.
• Thunder Realm Venerable joined the fight and struck Lu Chenzhou with Thunderous Cry, while Fang Xingyu used the forbidden art Fire Gods' Dance to destroy his scattered remains.
• Fang Xingyu believed Lu Chenzhou was dead and turned to leave, but he reformed from a trace of blood on her blade and shattered her body.
• Lu Chenzhou destroyed Fang Xingyu's head and infected her flame form with Pure Yang poisonfire.
• Thunder Realm Venerable and Yin Jiujiao fled, while Fang Xingyu, weakened and poisoned, demanded that Lu Chenzhou kill her.

Lu Chenzhou hunted down the God Clan survivors and pursued Yin Jiujiao into the Vast Sea World, where Yin threatened to destroy its sixty million people. Lu Chenzhou stopped the exploding wind vortices and killed Yin Jiujiao before he could carry out the threat.

• The Profound Heaven Thunder Realm showed an appetite for Fang Xingyu, so Lu Chenzhou contained her and set out after Yin Jiujiao and Fang Bifan.
• Lu Chenzhou confronted Wu, destroyed his projection, rejected the offer to join the Constellations, and continued killing the stranded God Clan experts.
• Yin Jiujiao fled into the Vast Sea World, learned of Great Dream Patriarch, and realized the world was connected to Lu Chenzhou.
• Lu Chenzhou found Yin Jiujiao as he tried to leave, and Yin threatened to destroy the world’s sixty million people if Lu killed him.
• Yin Jiujiao detonated the wind vortices, but Lu Chenzhou absorbed them with his golden roc form and crushed Yin’s body and soul.

After killing Yin Jiujiao, Lu Chenzhou gained powerful wind-based techniques and tested the Wind-Chasing Bow before leaving the Vast Sea World with its hidden Eighth Realm expert. He reunited with Longyue and discussed the Water Mansion trial, while the widening war pushed the Vast Sea Sect toward seeking his protection.

• Yin Jiujiao died, and Lu Chenzhou absorbed his soul, improving his Wind and Lightning Dao and comprehending the Lie Feng Divine Arrow and two bow arts.
• Lu Chenzhou resolved to seek Five Elements killing abilities without indiscriminately hunting God Clan descendants, then tested Yin Jiujiao's eighth-tier Wind-Chasing Bow with a strike that threatened a Second Step expert.
• An Eighth Realm swordsman from the Vast Sea Sect met Lu Chenzhou, and they departed together as Sakya Patriarch and the master of Mystic Arms Pavilion speculated that he might be Great Dream Patriarch's true self.
• Lu Chenzhou reunited with Longyue at the Vast Sea Sect, where the disciples marveled at his rise and the Sect Master offered him Azure Dragon Brew.
• The Vast Sea Sect Master asked whether Lu Chenzhou had completed Zouyu's Water Mansion trial by killing Achilles; Lu Chenzhou stayed guarded, while the Master recognized the need to find a powerful ally as the war spread.

Lu Chenzhou brought the Vast Sea Sect into the Heavenly Xia Alliance and defeated the Vast Sea Six Swords’ Heaven-Severing Sword Formation with a single punch. As the sect joined his campaign, Lu Chenzhou discussed gathering the Seven Swords of Li Heaven, while Ding Sword revealed that four ancient swords could form the god-killing Godslaying Sword Formation.

• The Vast Sea Sect Master pledged to join the Heavenly Xia Alliance and lead the sect against the Divine Alliance.
• The Vast Sea Six Swords challenged Lu Chenzhou with the sixth form of the Heaven-Severing Sword Formation, but he shattered their formation with one punch.
• Lu Chenzhou gave the Six Swords five top-grade seventh-rank flying swords, and they pledged to serve him.
• Lu Chenzhou and the Vast Sea Sect Master discussed gathering the Seven Swords of Li Heaven and restoring the Heaven-Severing Sword Formation.
• Ding Sword told Lu Chenzhou that combining the swords of Cosmos, Vastness, Desolation, and Primordial would form the Godslaying Sword Formation, which the Xuan Emperor had used to kill a true god.

Lu Chenzhou learned that Wilderness Sword Immortal’s estate held rare opportunities that could help cultivators become Mighty Ones, and considered entering its trial despite not practicing swordsmanship. After sparring with Yaochi Fairy, he improved his spear art and resolved to use the calm after the Divine Alliance’s expulsion to reach the Eighth Realm before Yan Ming advanced.

• Lu Chenzhou heard that Wilderness Sword Immortal’s ultimate inheritance included the Nine-Leaf Sword, the Supreme Yang Sword Scripture, and two rare treasures that could aid a cultivator’s advance into a Mighty One.
• The middle-aged man recounted how Han Adept had failed the ultimate trial and later died attempting the great tribulation without one of the rare treasures.
• Longyue and Bai Qiuzi explained how difficult it was to obtain a spear inheritance or defeat a Mighty One, and Lu Chenzhou said he was accustomed to creating his own path.
• Lu Chenzhou returned to Aurora Palace and decided that he wanted the opportunities for a Mighty One, though Wilderness Sword Immortal’s estate would not open for decades.
• Lu Chenzhou’s Twelve-Calamity Lotus pierced Yaochi Fairy’s Undying Divine Phoenix Armor during a sparring session, and he restored her body afterward.
• Lu Chenzhou perfected the Martial God Spear as a thirty-pattern technique and resolved to break into the Eighth Realm before Yan Ming entered the Third Step.