Chapter Summaries

Lu Chenzhou distributed his spoils and prepared for the coming war as new threats gathered around him. Black Boat Ancestor sought a way to capture him, while the Heavenly Xia Alliance gained new allies in the Profound Heaven Realm.

• Lu Chenzhou gave Wang Changming the Flamefire Greatblade and Lava Divine Armor, distributed heavenly treasures, and repaid the essence stones he had borrowed.
• Heavenly Gu Daoist refused Black Boat Ancestor's offer to become her pet, but she subdued him with a Kunpeng talisman and made him into a True Spirit Divine Talisman.
• Black Boat Ancestor resolved to capture Lu Chenzhou before he reached the Eighth Realm, hoping to seize the opportunity behind his rapid growth.
• Achilles's surviving avatar learned that his main body had been destroyed and decided to hide and grow stronger until Lu Chenzhou died of old age.
• Kunxu Ancestor considered the Red Dust Great Serpent scale but left it behind, judging its price and the Calamity Demon Lord's strength beyond his reach.
• Lu Chenzhou returned to the Profound Heaven Realm with Li Minghe, the Six Sons of the Vast Sea, and Longyue, while Fishing Mountain Old Man and the other Heavenly Xia powerhouses welcomed the growing alliance.

Lu Chenzhou welcomed the Heavenwalking Swordsman, the Phoenix Clan, and the Dragon Clan as allies, then brought the powers of the Three Thousand Worlds together to establish the Profound Heaven Alliance. The chapter ended with Lu Chenzhou asking the alliance members to swear a Great Dao oath at a founding banquet.

• The Heavenwalking Swordsman joined Lu Chenzhou after revealing that he had killed the Raging Wind Divine Clan commander Sima Le in revenge for his teacher and Fishing Mountain Old Man's destroyed homeworld.
• Spirit Phoenix Sovereign arrived at Profound Heaven with Myriad Feather Mountain and twenty-four Phoenix Clan experts, affirming the Phoenix Clan's alliance with Heavenly Xia.
• The Dragon Lord arrived with the Dragon Clan, and Lu Chenzhou began discussions on Heavenly Xia's future and the alliance's organization.
• After a hundred days of negotiations, the factions established the Profound Heaven Alliance and signed treaties opposing the God Clan and forbidden zones.
• At a banquet in Aurora Palace, Lu Chenzhou called on the alliance's leaders to drink together and swear a Great Dao oath.

Lu Chenzhou established the Profound Heaven Alliance after its leaders swore Great Dao Oaths, then prepared the new coalition to fight the Divine Alliance and the Evil Gods. As the Divine Alliance and Evil Gods plotted against the alliance, a powerful woman in a Black Boat headed for the Profound Heaven Realm, convinced she could become a god without Kunxu intervening.

• Lu Chenzhou and the allied leaders swore Great Dao Oaths, and Tuken was exposed as a traitor and destroyed by the oath’s backlash.
• Lu Chenzhou killed spies among the lower-ranking allies and formally established the Profound Heaven Alliance with himself as Alliance Leader and seven others as Vice Alliance Leaders.
• The Divine Alliance’s Realm Sovereigns mocked Lu Chenzhou and chose to defend their worlds rather than attack the newly formed alliance.
• The Evil God Lord of Death and the Blood Ancient God planned to let the two alliances weaken each other before the Evil Gods attacked, while Wu warned that the Great Curtain would soon fail.
• A woman in a Black Boat subdued the Wind-Thunder Golden Roc, judged herself unrivaled unless Kunxu emerged, and set course for the Profound Heaven Realm.

The Three Friends of Guixu rejected Heavenly Xia’s invitation, while Lu Chenzhou and the Dragon and Phoenix leaders entered the Eastern Extremity Realm Tower to explore it for the Profound Heaven Alliance. An ancient demon general awakened inside the tower and chose Lu Chenzhou as its target for possession.

• The Eight-Headed Flood Dragon Emperor, the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Giant, and the Six-Armed Sea Demon refused Heavenly Xia’s invitation for a second time.
• In the Divine Prison Realm, Wan Shixian guarded the Clear Spirit Grass and worried about Lu Chenzhou as an ominous face appeared overhead.
• Lu Chenzhou opened the Boundary Tower with his sixth-level Void Dao, impressing the Dragon and Phoenix leaders, and the three entered together.
• The three searched the tower’s first level and collected surviving Seventh and Eighth Rank spirit weapons.
• An ancient Death Crow Great Sage awakened, assessed the three intruders, and decided to possess Lu Chenzhou, sending a wisp of green flame toward him.

Lu Chenzhou defeated Death Crow Great Sage’s attempt to possess him and absorbed the Great Sage’s Death Dao essence, greatly strengthening his Dao of Withering and Flourishing. He awakened to a powerful death-based divine ability and reassured Spirit Phoenix Sovereign and the bald giant that he was safe.

• Death Crow Great Sage possessed Lu Chenzhou, but Lu recognized that the remnant soul was weakened and resisted its attack with his formidable mindscape.
• Lu Chenzhou summoned the Ice Qilin’s lingering will to fight Death Crow Great Sage, then rejected the Great Sage’s offer of a demigod artifact and destroyed him with repeated palm strikes.
• Lu Chenzhou absorbed Death Crow Great Sage’s soul essence, raising his Dao of Withering and Flourishing to Tier 6 at 81% and learning the Scythe of Death divine ability.
• Spirit Phoenix Sovereign used a bloodline ability to bolster Lu Chenzhou’s spiritual power while the bald giant guarded him and tested whether he was truly the Alliance Leader.
• Lu Chenzhou woke and told Spirit Phoenix Sovereign and the bald giant that he had killed the remnant soul and grown stronger.

Lu Chenzhou explored the Boundary Tower’s second level, learned of the dangerous demigod battlefield on the third, and continued building the Profound Heaven Alliance. A year later, he began breaking through to the Eighth Realm as allies gathered to guard him and the Divine Alliance’s response remained uncertain.

• Lu Chenzhou accepted Spirit Phoenix Sovereign and the bald giant man’s spoils and proposed a public treasury and battle merit exchange system for the alliance.
• Lu Chenzhou found Zhao Feng’s secret art, Half a Move Beyond Heaven, and entered the second level, where he discovered ancient teleportation gates connecting countless worlds.
• Lu Chenzhou warned that the third level was a demigod battlefield and that he lacked the mastery needed to refine the Boundary Tower, while a court-dressed woman was attacked by the lingering obsession of a Longbo Giant.
• Over the following year, the Profound Heaven Alliance completed its battle merit exchange system and prepared its army, while Lu Chenzhou began secluded cultivation to break through to the Eighth Realm.
• Lu Chenzhou broke the shackles of his cells and began transforming them into stars, drawing power from across ninety thousand miles as Spirit Phoenix Sovereign, Dikshita, and other allies prepared to protect him.

Lu Chenzhou broke through to the Eighth Realm while the Profound Heaven Alliance guarded him and rival powers watched from the shadows. He survived eight devastating Great Dao attacks, but no heavenly demon tribulation came, and he collapsed after his cultivation stabilized.

• Dikshita organized the Profound Heaven Alliance’s powerful experts into a defensive cordon around Lu Chenzhou as he underwent his tribulation.
• Black Boat Ancestor, the Star-Devouring Sword Demon, and other hidden observers considered interfering, but the Divine Alliance turned its attention to the Ten Thousand Waters Realm Sovereign’s attack on the Crimson-Feather Clan.
• After three years, Ten Thousand Waters Realm Sovereign was suppressed while Flamebright Realm Sovereign continued his seclusion.
• Lu Chenzhou condensed one hundred stellar crystals, reached the early Eighth Realm, and faced a Great Dao tribulation that manifested more than a hundred paths.
• Lu Chenzhou endured all eight Great Dao attacks with his indestructible body, shattered the final giant face, and completed the tribulation without experiencing a heavenly demon tribulation.
• Red-Leaf Ancient Emperor and the Buddhas of the Buddha Kingdom recognized Lu Chenzhou’s extraordinary state of mind, while Lu Chenzhou’s aura stabilized before he collapsed from exhaustion.

After surviving his Tier Eight tribulation, Lu Chenzhou woke two years later and learned that the Profound Heaven Alliance had grown stronger in his absence. As he recovered, he welcomed Ming Daozi into the alliance and called a meeting to organize aid for the besieged Ten Thousand Waters Realm.

• Kunxu Ancestor revealed that he had protected Lu Chenzhou from Black Boat Ancestor, warned her of another hidden senior, and departed while the Star-Devouring Sword Demon challenged her.
• Lu Chenzhou slept for two years after his tribulation, then woke in Aurora Palace as his companions congratulated him on reaching Tier Eight.
• Dikshita and Yaochi Fairy told Lu Chenzhou to recuperate because the Great Dao attacks had damaged his soul, while the Vast Sea Sect Master urged the others to plan a rescue for the Ten Thousand Waters Realm Sovereign.
• Ming Daozi visited to congratulate Lu Chenzhou, joined the Profound Heaven Alliance, and asked for help against a demon in his homeworld; Lu Chenzhou promised to go in two years.
• Lu Chenzhou convened an Alliance Leader's meeting and asked who would lead troops to aid the Ten Thousand Waters Realm while he recovered.

Lu Chenzhou’s allies intervened to rescue the besieged Ten Thousand Waters Realm, while his avatar advanced to the Eighth Realm and defeated Dragon Tiger Great Sage in a trial of strength. After recovering from his tribulation injuries, Lu Chenzhou left Profound Heaven with Ming Daozi to hunt demons in the Origin Azure Realm.

• Lu Chenzhou assigned the Vast Sea Sect Master and himself to guard Profound Heaven while Dikshita, Spirit Phoenix Sovereign, and Old Dragon led forces to relieve Ten Thousand Waters Realm.
• As the Overseas Tyrant Royal Clan faced defeat, Ten Thousand Waters Realm Sovereign told his warriors that the clan’s seeds had been sent to other worlds.
• Old Dragon and Spirit Phoenix Sovereign attacked the encircling Realm Sovereigns, and Dikshita arrived with the Profound Heaven Alliance army to rescue the defenders.
• Lu Chenzhou’s avatar survived the Great Dao Tribulation, then struck down Dragon Tiger Great Sage and learned that completing three trials would earn him the Myriad Dao Book and Lord of Myriad Light’s inheritance.
• After recovering for another year, Lu Chenzhou asked Ming Daozi to accompany him to the Origin Azure Realm to hunt its sleeping demons, leaving Li to guard Profound Heaven.

Lu Chenzhou tried to kill Great Sage Gaoliu without harming the Origin Azure Realm, then lured the ancient willow demon into the Void Sea and destroyed it. He left Ming Daozi's homeworld safe and claimed Gaoliu's valuable tree core.

• Lu Chenzhou found Great Sage Gaoliu rooted into the Origin Azure Realm and learned from Ming Daozi that the ancient Flesh-Ghost Willow could survive as long as one branch remained.
• Lu Chenzhou's Great Dream Dao failed to kill Gaoliu, and Gaoliu sent two willow giants after Ming Daozi while keeping its true body inside the realm.
• Lu Chenzhou pretended to be a badly wounded First Step cultivator and destroyed both giants, persuading Gaoliu to leave the Origin Azure Realm and attack him in the Void Sea.
• Lu Chenzhou revealed his strength, used Fire Crane and his divine lotus to destroy Gaoliu's body, and collected its tree core as a natural weapon.
• Gaoliu threatened to destroy the Origin Azure Realm from a hidden root, but Lu Chenzhou killed it with a faint flash, causing its remaining roots and branches to wither.

Lu Chenzhou killed Great Sage Gao Liu, used the resulting Dao essence and an eighth-rank Chaos Stele to comprehend the World Dao, and turned his inner world real. When Blood Demon Matriarch arrived to attack him, Lu Chenzhou emerged from his breakthrough and trapped her inside his world.

• Lu Chenzhou absorbed Great Sage Gao Liu's soul and gained the secret arts Ten Thousand Willow Body and Riverside Wood, along with the divine power Ten Thousand Willows Entanglement.
• Lu Chenzhou asked Ming Daozi to guard him while he used an eighth-rank Chaos Stele to comprehend the Dao, and his inner world began turning from illusory to real.
• Ming Daozi watched Lu Chenzhou create a world and advanced his understanding of the Painting Dao, while Mist Hermit Xu Qing arrived to observe.
• Blood Demon Matriarch's second avatar came to investigate Great Sage Gao Liu's death and threatened Lu Chenzhou, but Mist Hermit refused to let her pass.
• Lu Chenzhou ended his comprehension, revealed his real world, and trapped Blood Demon Matriarch inside it before crushing her giant-tree form beneath a world-sized hand.

Lu Chenzhou concealed the Origin Azure Realm, opened a Dao field in the Xia Realm, and continued preparing for the coming demigod crisis. He arrived at the Ten Thousand Waters Realm as its war with the Divine Alliance reached a decisive point.

• Blood Demon Matriarch learned that Lu Chenzhou had killed Gao Liu and lost an avatar to him, so she and Blood God prioritized freeing the sealed demigods.
• Lu Chenzhou hid the Origin Azure Realm within the Void Sea and advised Ming Daozi on using the Painting Dao to make his homeworld a portable Dao field.
• Lu Chenzhou established a small world in the Xia Realm as his Dao field and considered his growing strength, cultivation arts, and plans to face the coming crisis.
• The war in the Ten Thousand Waters Realm continued to claim seventh-realm fighters while both alliances waited for reinforcements.
• Lu Chenzhou arrived at the Ten Thousand Waters Realm, causing the Divine Alliance's three Realm Sovereigns to fear his arrival while the Profound Heaven Alliance celebrated.

Lu Chenzhou fought the three Realm Sovereigns alone, revealing a real-world domain and overwhelming them with powerful techniques. The Hanging Mountain Realm Sovereign was destroyed, and the surviving Realm Sovereigns were captured as the battle ended.

• Lu Chenzhou arrived to aid the Ten Thousand Waters Realm and challenged the three Realm Sovereigns to attack him together.
• The three Realm Sovereigns unleashed their divine artifact projections, but Lu Chenzhou trapped them inside a real world he had created.
• Lu Chenzhou shattered the God-Striking Rod projection and used Ten Thousand Willows Entanglement and Blood Moon Shift to turn the Raging Wind Realm Sovereign's attack against the Thunder Realm Venerable.
• Lu Chenzhou crushed the Hanging Mountain Realm Sovereign with eighteen divine lotuses, but the Sovereign self-destructed and sent his divided soul fleeing.
• The Spirit Phoenix Sovereign froze the Hanging Mountain Realm Sovereign's divided soul, while the bald giant pinned the Thunder Realm Venerable to the Myriad Dragon Palace.

Lu Chenzhou defeated the Divine Alliance’s invading army, captured its soldiers, and killed two Realm Sovereign avatars, then welcomed the Ten Thousand Waters Realm into the Profound Heaven Alliance. After announcing a new expedition against the Divine Alliance, he became the focus of celebrations and political uncertainty, while the Raging Wind Realm Sovereign arrived at the Flamebright Great World with an urgent warning.

• Lu Chenzhou defeated three Realm Sovereign avatars, captured two, and watched the Raging Wind Realm Sovereign escape into the Void Sea.
• Lu Chenzhou offered the captured God Clan soldiers a chance to serve in a prisoner-of-war regiment, then killed the defiant Hanging Mountain Realm Sovereign and Thunder Realm Venerable.
• Lu Chenzhou’s Five Elements Dao and Wind-Thunder Dao advanced as his small world developed primitive life, and the Ten Thousand Waters Realm Sovereign swore allegiance to the Profound Heaven Alliance.
• Lu Chenzhou ordered a three-month rest before an expedition to the Flamebright Realm, while news of his victory spread and Heavenly Xia celebrated.
• The neutral Realm Sovereigns debated whether to join the Profound Heaven Alliance, and the evil gods lamented their inability to stop Lu Chenzhou.
• The Raging Wind Realm Sovereign arrived at the Flamebright Great World and urgently called out to his Big Brother.

After Lu Chenzhou’s rise to the eighth realm and his defeat of the Divine Alliance’s Realm Sovereigns, the God Clan’s worlds withdrew behind their defenses while other factions reconsidered their ties with him. As Lu Chenzhou’s army advanced through the Void Sea, he discovered Azurecloud Adept’s remaining consciousness in a damaged artifact and learned that his promised inheritances were in Azure Cloud Realm.

• Flamebright Realm Sovereign emerged from seclusion as a third-step cultivator, then learned that Lu Chenzhou had reached the eighth realm and defeated Thunder Realm Venerable and Hanging Mountain Realm Sovereign.
• Hanging Mountain Realm and Thunder Realm sealed themselves off, and the Divine Alliance’s four Great Worlds withdrew their forces and activated their defenses.
• Black Boat Ancestor ordered the Xingxiu Two Elders to deliver compensation to Lu Chenzhou and disavowed them if they would not obey.
• Mr. Turtle and Fairy Shell discussed Lu Chenzhou’s potential and whether he might inherit Carefree Sword Immortal’s sword arts.
• Lu Chenzhou advanced through the Void Sea, sorted his spoils, and found Azurecloud Adept’s battered armor in Blood Demon Matriarch’s storage pouch.
• Lu Chenzhou spoke with Azurecloud Adept, who said his promised inheritances were in Azure Cloud Realm.

Lu Chenzhou uncovered the Xingxiu Two Elders’ role in Azurecloud Adept’s murder and killed them after they confessed. He claimed their spoils and prepared to see how Black Boat Ancestor would respond.

• Lu Chenzhou learned that Azurecloud Adept’s legacy included the Myriad Swords Radiant Dragon Armor and promised to avenge him.
• The Xingxiu Two Elders arrived as Black Boat Ancestor’s envoys with congratulatory gifts, including a sword they claimed to have found while traveling.
• Lu Chenzhou recognized the sword as Azurecloud Adept’s and confronted the elders; they swore Great Dao oaths and admitted plotting with Black Boat Ancestor to murder their master for his inheritance.
• Lu Chenzhou rejected the elders’ pleas and crushed them with his Demon-Sealing Great Handprint, then absorbed their souls and gained the Yin-Yang Convergence divine ability.
• Lu Chenzhou learned that Black Boat Ancestor had kept back the ninth-rank Wood-Whisker Tiger essence blood, returned to Aurora Palace, and asked the bald giant man about spare dragon scales for the armor.

Lu Chenzhou prepared for the coming war by strengthening his allies and refining the Starbreaker Hammer. After mastering the Golden Light Mantra, he subdued the hammer’s spirit, learned its ancient origins, and gained Ice Ancestor Lin’s inheritance.

• The bald giant gave Lu Chenzhou dragon scales for the Myriad Dragon Armor, and Lu offered the Purple Thunder Armor and two spirit weapons in exchange.
• Spirit Phoenix Sovereign warned Lu Chenzhou that Black Boat Ancestor might retaliate, while reports spread that the Xingxiu Two Elders had died and Black Boat accepted her loss to avoid further conflict.
• The Vast Sea Seven Sons tested their Heaven-Severing Sword Formation against the bald giant, and Lu Chenzhou planned how his allies would counter the Divine Alliance’s Realm Sovereigns.
• Lu Chenzhou advanced the Great Stabilizing Golden Light Mantra to major mastery and used it to withstand the Starbreaker Hammer’s artifact spirit, Han Lin.
• Han Lin revealed that Ice Ancestor Lin had forged the hammer and left an inheritance, including the ninth-realm arts Eternal Netherfrost Body and Ice True Eyes.
• Lu Chenzhou learned that Starbreaker could withstand clashes with divine artifacts and prepared to use it against Yan Ming.

Lu Chenzhou strengthened his combat abilities by mastering hammer techniques and merging the Profound Heaven Thunder Realm with his small world, then prepared to face Yan Ming. Meanwhile, Northern Dipper Divine Lord passed the Fighting Ancestor's third trial, learned of the Dragon King's achievement, and ordered his forces to march against the Divine Alliance.

• Lu Chenzhou sparred with the bald giant, used Ancient Chaos Eighteen Hammers to defeat him, and grew more confident in the coming battle.
• Lu Chenzhou merged the Profound Heaven Thunder Realm into his small world, creating a deadly Thunder World, and gathered the Starbreaker Hammer, Thunder Realm, and Shadow God Blade to deal with Yan Ming.
• Northern Dipper Divine Lord passed the Fighting Ancestor's third trial and learned that Azure Heaven Dragon King had become the fourteenth person to do so.
• Northern Dipper Divine Lord returned to the Northern Dipper Realm and learned that Lu Chenzhou had entered the Eighth Realm and defeated three Realm Sovereigns.
• Northern Dipper Divine Lord ordered the Northern Dipper Realm to march against the Divine Alliance despite his followers' warnings.

Lu Chenzhou led the Profound Heaven Army to attack the Flamebright Great World and challenged Yan Ming, who had entered the third step and wielded a divine artifact. As their forces clashed across several battlefronts, the Vast Sea Seven Sons came under heavy pressure, and a burly figure arrived to protect them.

• Lu Chenzhou brought the Profound Heaven Army to the Flamebright Great World and ordered the allied armies to encircle it, while he called Yan Ming out to fight.
• Yan Ming and three other Realm Sovereigns emerged to face Lu Chenzhou, and Yan Ming revealed a crimson broken sword that boosted his fire powers.
• Lu Chenzhou fought Yan Ming with his icy-blue warhammer, blocking Yan Ming's Flame Fists as both tested each other's strength.
• The Vast Sea Seven Sons used their sword formation and burned their blood essence to resist the Hanging Mountain Realm Sovereign, while the dragon and phoenix clans and the Ten Thousand Waters Realm Sovereign fought elsewhere.
• Lu Chenzhou worried that the Vast Sea Seven Sons would be overwhelmed, but a burly figure entered the battle and stood between them and the city wall.

Lu Chenzhou fought Flamebright Realm Sovereign Yan Ming as the Divine Alliance battle intensified, while Northern Dipper Divine Lord joined the battle on Lu Chenzhou’s side. Yan Ming unleashed the Bifang Divine Sword’s power, but Lu Chenzhou survived through repeated true spirit transformations; the chapter ended as Yan Ming began a bloodline sacrifice-to-heaven method.

• Northern Dipper Divine Lord arrived to support Lu Chenzhou and attacked the Hanging Mountain Realm faction, while Hanging Mountain Realm Sovereign fought him and the Vast Sea Seven Sons.
• Lu Chenzhou used Swallow Heaven, Devour Earth and intensified his hammer techniques as he sought to wound Yan Ming and finish him with the Reaper's Scythe.
• Yan Ming burned his origin divine blood to restore the Bifang Divine Sword and struck Lu Chenzhou with the Bifang Divine Flame.
• Lu Chenzhou transformed into a Golden-Winged Roc and used Heaven-Soaring Golden Light to evade Yan Ming’s sword, then transformed into a Gu Diao to catch Yan Ming off guard.
• Lu Chenzhou repeatedly used true spirit transformations to harass Yan Ming, who suffered wounds while spending more origin divine blood to counter him.
• Yan Ming invoked the bloodline sacrifice-to-heaven method, and the Scarlet Feather Divine Bird’s corpse released divine might across the battlefield.