Chapter Summaries

Yan Ming summoned two Bifang Divine Feathers, using their divine might to suppress Lu Chenzhou and turn the battlefield against the Profound Heaven Alliance. As dragon and phoenix ancestors fought back, Lu Chenzhou endured a Myriad-Ages Mind-Refining Tribulation, while his hidden seniors realized that passing it could forge his will to the level of a mighty expert.

• Yan Ming sacrificed origin divine blood to summon the Bifang Divine Feather, overwhelming most fighters and focusing its divine might on Lu Chenzhou.
• The Spirit Phoenix Sovereign summoned phoenix ancestors, and Myriad Dragon Palace awakened dragon ancestors to resist the feather; the Five-Elements True Dragon explained that the divine might could be resisted with a firm will.
• Yan Ming summoned a second Bifang Divine Feather and urged the other Realm Sovereigns to unleash their trump cards, driving the battle into a desperate clash.
• Lu Chenzhou became immobilized inside a purgatorial vision of Bifang's divine fire and used the Pure Ice Divine Eyes to steady his mind as he endured the Myriad-Ages Mind-Refining Tribulation.
• An old man in white robes and a young woman watched from hiding and recognized that Lu Chenzhou's tribulation could either forge a lofty heart or destroy his body and Dao.

For four years, Flamebright Realm Sovereign used Bifang’s divine feathers to trap and destroy Lu Chenzhou, but the ordeal strengthened Lu Chenzhou’s will and body. Lu Chenzhou overcame the Myriad-Ages Mind-Refining Tribulation and turned to confront the feathers’ lingering power.

• As the war turned against the Divine Alliance, its Realm Kings urged the Realm Sovereigns to retreat, but they refused while Yan Ming continued fighting Lu Chenzhou.
• Wu offered Yan Ming a way to kill Lu Chenzhou in exchange for the three Bifang divine feathers, but Yan Ming rejected him and destroyed his projection.
• After four years of torment, Lu Chenzhou’s will ascended, and he used his green radiance and mental attacks to extinguish the divine-might flames and shatter the Bifang phantom.
• Lu Chenzhou realized that his undying body had also grown stronger, while Flamebright Realm Sovereign accepted that his attempt to kill him had failed.
• The lingering will within the three Bifang divine feathers emerged as a flaming bird, and Lu Chenzhou struck it with a punch manifested as a black tiger.

Lu Chenzhou endured Bifang’s divine might while the Profound Heaven Alliance overwhelmed the Divine Alliance, and the ancient dragon and phoenix souls departed. Two years later, he exhausted Bifang’s power, killed Yan Ming with his hammer and Reaper’s Scythe, and called on the surviving factions to join the battle against the forbidden zones.

• Black Tiger fought Bifang under Lu Chenzhou’s direction, while Lu Chenzhou’s Great Power-level will made the divine might ineffective and lifted its suppression of the Profound Heaven army.
• The residual souls of the ancient dragon and phoenix ancestors dissipated after warning that the evil gods of the forbidden zones were the true enemy.
• Iceheart Realm Sovereign, Azurelight Realm Sovereign, and Golden Realm Sovereign arrived to join Profound Heaven, but Spirit Phoenix Sovereign and others rejected their request to share the victory.
• Over two years, Lu Chenzhou and the primordial true spirits wore down Bifang until the power in its three divine feathers was exhausted, and Lu Chenzhou collected them.
• Lu Chenzhou broke Yan Ming’s divine power barrier, killed him with his hammer and Reaper’s Scythe, and collected his soul.
• Lu Chenzhou declared the Divine Alliance defeated and urged everyone willing to fight the forbidden zones to remain with him, warning that the struggle for survival had begun.

After defeating the Divine Alliance, Lu Chenzhou forced its surviving leaders to submit and warned the Three Thousand Worlds’ recluses to join the fight against the forbidden zones. Back in Aurora Palace, he refined Yan Ming’s soul, gained a powerful fire ability, and prepared to strengthen himself before the demigods emerged.

• Lu Chenzhou offered Lie Feng, Hanging Mountain Realm Sovereign, and Thunder a chance to live if they swore to serve Profound Heaven, and all three surrendered under slave contracts.
• Lu Chenzhou dismissed the defeated Divine Alliance remnants, ordered aid for the casualties, and told the watching recluses they would face the consequences if they stayed out of the war.
• Iceheart Realm Sovereign, Golden Realm Sovereign, and Azurelight Realm Sovereign asked to join the Profound Heaven Alliance, but Lu Chenzhou offered them subordinate positions without elder privileges.
• Ice Serpent challenged Lu Chenzhou’s terms, and Iceheart Realm Sovereign struck him down before Lu Chenzhou left for the Void Sea.
• In Aurora Palace, Lu Chenzhou refined Yan Ming’s soul, strengthened his Martial Dao Tree, and acquired the Flame King True Form ability.
• Lu Chenzhou resolved to retrieve the stellar treasure Mount Yuan Master had left him and hurry his cultivation before the demigods emerged.

Lu Chenzhou claimed several of Yan Ming’s treasures, including the Radiant Apex Nine-Star Shield, the Golden Crow Orb, and a Great Dao Puppet that could save him from a demigod’s attack. He drained the damaged divine sword in Thunder World to advance his Five Elements Great Dao, but the sword escaped toward the Great Dao after destroying its own body.

• Lu Chenzhou refined the Radiant Apex Nine-Star Shield and proved its defensive and offensive power against the Dragon and Phoenix Sovereigns.
• Lu Chenzhou subdued the Golden Crow Orb’s spirit and learned that the treasure could release enough stored true sunfire to kill ordinary third-step experts.
• Lu Chenzhou used his Flame King True Form to bypass the Great Dao Puppet’s bloodline restriction and refined the treasure, which still had one use remaining.
• Lu Chenzhou entered Thunder World and let the Martial Dao Tree absorb the damaged divine sword’s fire laws, raising his Five Elements Great Dao to seventh rank, thirty percent.
• The broken sword self-destructed, reformed from fire particles, and flew toward the Great Dao.

Lu Chenzhou's forces liberated the Divine Alliance's colonies as his reputation spread, while the Frost Ancestor's awakening threatened the Minor Cold Great World. After strengthening his Dao and spiritual power, Lu Chenzhou departed for the Divine Prison Realm to rescue Chairman Wan.

• Wang Changming defeated and killed the Realm King on Black Rock World, then announced that the Profound Heaven Alliance had freed the colonized worlds and would establish a Dao Academy branch there.
• The Profound Heaven Army liberated the Divine Alliance's worlds, and Lu Chenzhou's growing influence stirred resistance in the territories of the Iceheart, Golden, and Azurelight Realm Sovereigns.
• The Iceheart Realm Sovereign learned that the Blackwater God, also called the Frost Ancestor, was awakening in the Floating Netherworld and fled after seeing the world split open.
• Lu Chenzhou exchanged his spoils for Origin Stones, concluded that killing demigods was the practical way to earn enough for a great power's opportunity, and spent seven days advancing his Great Daos and spiritual power.
• After Dikshita warned him about a dangerous entity in the Divine Prison Realm, Lu Chenzhou accepted a map and departed to rescue Chairman Wan, encouraged by Yaochi Fairy's warning to protect himself.

Lu Chenzhou took the Star-Binding Divine Chains and Jin Yan’er from the Crimson Star wonder, then entered the Divine Prison Realm to find Wan Shixian. On the seventh level, his improved Karma Dao revealed a trail leading to Achilles, who was being exploited by a masked figure called Senior Smile.

• Lu Chenzhou met Jin Yan’er inside the cauldron and made a Great Dao oath with her before lifting the Star-Binding Divine Chains into his Thunder World.
• Mr. Turtle realized Lu Chenzhou had taken Mount Yuan Master’s altered Crimson Star wonder, which had given rise to an unknown being.
• Lu Chenzhou entered the True God’s skull and reached the seventh level of the Divine Prison Realm, where he used Dao-Comprehension Steles to raise his Karma Dao to seventh rank, 30%.
• Lu Chenzhou followed a blood-red karmic thread that seemed to carry Achilles’s aura after finding no thread connected to Wan Shixian.
• Achilles hid Origin Stones from Senior Smile, who confiscated most of them and warned him not to resist.
• A masked cultivator on the seventh level discussed the recently captured Second Step cultivator and wondered whether that person could help them escape the Divine Prison Realm.

Lu Chenzhou entered the Divine Prison Realm, forced Achilles to guide him, and gained the Shattering the Void Dao from the secret spear art Extreme Point. He set out to reach Mara Palace’s higher-ups, while Wan Shixian remained imprisoned and feared Lu Chenzhou would come for him.

• Lu Chenzhou appeared before Achilles, defeated his attacks, and made him swear an oath to guide him through the shifting Divine Prison Realm.
• Achilles explained Mara Palace’s strength and offered Lu Chenzhou the jade slip containing Extreme Point, which revealed the spear technique’s origins and the Shattering the Void Dao.
• Lu Chenzhou comprehended Extreme Point to its eighth level and advanced Shattering the Void Dao to the seventh rank during a state of unity between man and heaven.
• Achilles warned Lu Chenzhou that Mara Palace’s Master had captured Wan Shixian and that its protectors included third-step experts, but agreed to lead Lu Chenzhou to the higher-ups.
• On the eighth level, Wan Shixian questioned the enormous face in the sky, learned it was waiting for someone, and silently begged Lu Chenzhou not to come.

Lu Chenzhou entered the Divine Prison Realm’s eighth level to rescue Wan Shixian and confronted Mara Palace’s protectors. After Old Man Laughs and two other protectors failed to stop him, the First Protector remained the palace’s strongest likely opponent.

• The Mara Palace master sealed Wan Shixian’s attempt to self-destruct and revealed that Lu Chenzhou had arrived to save him.
• Lu Chenzhou entered the eighth level with Achilles despite being weakened by the realm’s rules, then defeated Old Man Laughs’s attacks and forced him to flee.
• Old Man Laughs reported his defeat to the two masked protectors, while the First Protector contemplated merging his eighth-order Chaos and Order Daos.
• The crying-masked protector attacked Lu Chenzhou and was shattered by Frost Ancestor’s hammer before reappearing at the black tower.
• Lady Fury also returned after conceding defeat, leaving the First Protector to face Lu Chenzhou.

Lu Chenzhou fought the Great Protector of Mara Palace, whose eighth-rank Chaos and Order Daos made him one of the strongest opponents Lu had faced. After three days of battle, Lu integrated the essence of the Extreme Point into his spear technique, leaving the fight unresolved.

• The Great Protector emerged from seclusion after Lady Fury and Crying Butcher reported that Lu Chenzhou had defeated them, and he waited atop the tower to confront Lu.
• Lu Chenzhou arrived and attacked with his frost warhammer; the Great Protector caught the strike, but Lu’s Kurong-powered blow shattered his fists and revealed that the Great Protector wielded two eighth-rank Daos.
• The Great Protector unleashed Dao Law Chains and Calamity Upon All Living Beings, captured Lu’s hammer, and learned that Lu possessed mighty-power will after Lu erased his thought from the weapon.
• Lu broke free and fought the Great Protector with his many seventh-rank Daos, while Kurong neutralized the Great Protector’s Chaos and Order powers; the other three protectors tried to join the fight, but the Great Protector stopped them.
• After three days of battle, Lu Chenzhou integrated the essence of the Extreme Point into his spear technique and thrust at the Great Protector.

Lu Chenzhou defeated the Grand Protector, entered the ninth level to confront the Lord of Mara, and was nearly killed by the imprisoned demigod. He escaped the fatal blow by using a Great Dao Puppet and pierced the Lord of Mara’s head with a concentrated spear strike.

• Lu Chenzhou’s Extreme Point spear pierced the Grand Protector and the tower, and the defeated Grand Protector recognized the technique as the work of the Nine Extremes Spear Saint before fading away.
• Achilles warned Lu Chenzhou that the ninth level was likely a trap, but Lu Chenzhou entered in search of Wan Shixian.
• The Lord of Mara subdued Lu Chenzhou with a Six-Finger Mountain and demanded that Lu Chenzhou transfer his opportunity to reach the eighth rank.
• Lu Chenzhou resisted with his Great Power’s will, Swallow Heaven, Devour Earth, and several treasures, but the Lord of Mara’s attacks overwhelmed his defenses.
• The Lord of Mara’s Great Dao attack annihilated Lu Chenzhou’s body, but he discovered he had struck a Great Dao Puppet as Lu Chenzhou’s essence, qi, and spirit formed a spear that pierced his head.

Wan Shixian escaped the Divine Prison Realm after the Grand Protector rebelled, while the Profound Heaven Alliance organized plans to rescue Lu Chenzhou and confront the awakened demigod Camilla. Lu Chenzhou remained trapped on the ninth level, fighting the Moro Hall Master as his remaining revivals dwindled.

• The Grand Protector rescued Wan Shixian, gave him supplies, and helped him escape the Divine Prison Realm while Lu Chenzhou held off the Moro Hall Master.
• Wan Shixian learned of Lu Chenzhou’s achievements and returned toward the Profound Heaven Realm as the Iceheart Realm Sovereign asked the Profound Heaven Alliance for protection.
• Kunxu proposed assembling a team to kill Camilla, then agreed to help rescue Lu Chenzhou after learning he was trapped on the ninth level and that the Grand Protector had rebelled.
• Kunxu and the Star-Devouring Sword Demon prepared to enter the Divine Prison Realm, while the Grand Protector fought the other Grand Protectors on the eighth level.
• Lu Chenzhou continued battling the Moro Hall Master on the ninth level, having used more than seven thousand of his 10,081 revivals, and the fight lasted for months.

Lu Chenzhou endured the Mara Palace Lord’s demigod attacks until Kunxu Ancestor arrived with a Creation Treasure Pill and joined the fight. The Star-Devouring Sword Demon then appeared to help attack the old man, leaving the three allies poised to slay him.

• Lu Chenzhou’s techniques advanced, but the Mara Palace Lord’s Extinction-Character Divine Talisman destroyed his shields and repeatedly drained his remaining lives.
• With only a thousand lives left, Lu Chenzhou used Baxia blood essence to transform and batter the old man, forcing him onto the defensive.
• As the Baxia Transformation ended and the Martial Dao Tree neared completion, Kunxu Ancestor arrived, trapped the old man with the Square Jade Platform, and gave Lu Chenzhou a Creation Treasure Pill.
• Lu Chenzhou swallowed the pill, recovered from his injuries, and raised his blood qi to thirty-nine million while Kunxu Ancestor fought the old man.
• The Star-Devouring Sword Demon ambushed the old man with the Annihilating Dark Divine Sword, and Lu Chenzhou declared that the three of them would slay a god.

Lu Chenzhou, Kunxu Ancestor, and the Star-Devouring Sword Demon fought the Mara Palace Master as Lu Chenzhou’s power grew and the Martial Dao Tree unlocked its Planting the Dao function. After planting Dao Seeds in the Mara Palace Master and Kunxu Ancestor, Lu Chenzhou rejoined the battle, and the Mara Palace Master vanished as the Divine Prison Realm began to tremble.

• The Mara Palace Master’s mighty will incapacitated Kunxu Ancestor and the Star-Devouring Sword Demon, but Lu Chenzhou attacked and fought him with the Moving Mountains Scripture.
• Kunxu Ancestor comprehended mighty will and struck the Mara Palace Master with a flood of spiritual force, then kept fighting while Lu Chenzhou recovered.
• The Martial Dao Tree completed its metamorphosis and unlocked Planting the Dao, allowing Lu Chenzhou to create seeds that shared Great Dao progress.
• Lu Chenzhou planted a Destruction Dao Seed in Rahu, the Mara Palace Master, and a Metal Dao Seed in Liu Suifeng, Kunxu Ancestor, while learning their identities and tracking their shared progress.
• Lu Chenzhou returned to the battle with twenty-four divine lotuses and helped Kunxu and the Star-Devouring Sword Demon overwhelm the Mara Palace Master.
• The Mara Palace Master disintegrated into black smoke, and the Divine Prison Realm trembled as his furious face appeared on the giant god’s head.

Lu Chenzhou, Kunxu Ancestor, and Star-Devouring Sword Demon were trapped on the Divine Prison Realm’s ninth level by Mara Palace’s master, who had become one with the realm. With help from Black Boat Ancestor and Riverblade Great Sage outside, Lu Chenzhou used ninth-rank King Beast essence blood to break open the prison and escape with his companions.

• Black Boat Ancestor and Riverblade Great Sage discussed joining forces as demigods began to emerge, while the Golden Realm Sovereign and Azurelight Realm Sovereign decided to seek refuge with the Profound Heaven Alliance.
• The Black Annihilation Dragon Emperor left Du Meng to cultivate alone and went to face an old enemy who was about to emerge.
• Mara Palace’s master overwhelmed Lu Chenzhou, Kunxu Ancestor, and Star-Devouring Sword Demon on the ninth level, and they failed to break through the realm barrier.
• Black Boat Ancestor and Riverblade Great Sage attacked the Divine Prison Realm from outside, giving the trapped fighters a chance to strike from within.
• Lu Chenzhou activated ninth-rank King Beast essence blood, transformed into a Golden-Winged Roc, and helped tear open the prison with Kunxu Ancestor and Star-Devouring Sword Demon.
• Lu Chenzhou carried Kunxu Ancestor and Star-Devouring Sword Demon through the opening before it closed, while Mara Palace’s master was dragged back into the ninth level.

Lu Chenzhou escaped the Divine Prison Realm after defeating the Lord of Mara Palace’s plans, then agreed to join a campaign against emerging demigods. The three great God Clans joined his Profound Heaven Alliance, bringing the Three Thousand Worlds closer to unification, while Godfather remained missing and pursued the Yuming Sword in the Three-Inch Grotto-Heaven.

• The Lord of Mara Palace imprisoned Luan Chunqiu and planned to refine the Divine Prison Realm into a World God, while an old man in white offered to help.
• Lu Chenzhou thanked Kunxu Ancestor and the Star-Devouring Sword Demon for rescuing him, then agreed to join Kunxu’s action squad against the demigod Camilla.
• Iceheart, Azure Radiance, and Golden Realm Sovereigns offered gifts and swore oaths to join the Profound Heaven Alliance; Lu Chenzhou agreed to fight Camilla.
• Lu Chenzhou met Wan Shixian, who said Godfather’s Cosmic Sword Immortal inheritance might keep him alive despite his disappearance.
• In the Three-Inch Grotto-Heaven, a silver-haired woman told Godfather to master eighth-rank Time Dao before seeking the Yuming Sword and facing demigods.
• The Profound Heaven Alliance announced the three great God Clans’ membership, uniting the leading forces of the Three Thousand Worlds under Lu Chenzhou’s leadership.

After the Great Curtain shattered, Lu Chenzhou and the Profound Heaven Alliance prepared the worlds for the forbidden zones’ return while moving civilizations toward the Xia Realm. The Zouyu Water Mansion reappeared as the Innate Water Spirit summoned its trial participants to prepare for the coming struggle against the Constellations.

• Lu Chenzhou reached the seventh tier, and Yaochi Fairy successfully broke through to the eighth realm.
• Three years later, the Great Curtain dissolved over Xia Star, and Heavenly Xia called its people to arms as the forbidden zones prepared to invade.
• Lu Chenzhou directed the Profound Heaven Alliance to consolidate civilizations around Profound Heaven and the Xia Realm, then departed to refine the Boundary Tower.
• The Demon Serpent prepared to attack, while the Wu Forbidden Zone’s white-robed old man anticipated the Constellations’ return.
• The Innate Water Spirit restored the Myriad Rivers Flowing Water Diagram and summoned the trial participants as the Zouyu Water Mansion appeared across the worlds.

Lu Chenzhou refused the Zouyu Water Mansion’s offer of godhood, choosing to pursue martial arts and a new path beyond the Divine Court’s way. As other trial participants pursued godhood, he advanced his cultivation and prepared to visit the Boundary Tower.

• The Innate Water Spirit summoned Lu Chenzhou and Lan Daogang, explained that Lu could become a god, and offered him control of the Water Mansion.
• Lu Chenzhou rejected godhood because it required abandoning martial arts, and the Water Spirit gave him a Myriad Rivers Token before turning to Lan Daogang as its candidate.
• Lu Chenzhou told the Profound Heaven Alliance that he had refused the divine path, and Wan Shixian, Wang Changming, and Yaochi Fairy supported his choice.
• The Forbidden Zone’s leaders discussed the Water Mansion, while twenty-four divine ruins emerged and their chosen candidates pursued godhood.
• Lu Chenzhou reached the fifth layer of the Moving Mountains Scripture, strengthened his Daos, and decided to visit the Boundary Tower.

Lu Chenzhou defeated Naira, took control of the Eastern Extremity Realm Tower, and brought the Longbo Giants and other powers into the Profound Heaven Alliance as the Three Thousand Worlds unified. Three years later, Lan Daogang began his divine ascension while the Innate Water Spirit warned that only a hundred years remained before Constellations returned and the evil gods descended.

• Lu Chenzhou defeated the Boundary Tower’s giant guardians, killed Naira, and learned from King of Longbo’s lingering will how to control the tower with the Heaven-Mixing Halberd.
• Lu Chenzhou found King of Longbo’s youngest son, Gu Xiao, in the Guixu Grand World and gave him his father’s blood essence, prompting Gu Xiao to join the Profound Heaven Alliance.
• The Eight-Headed Flood Dragon Emperor and the Eight-Armed Sea Clan later left Guixu and joined the alliance, helping bring the Three Thousand Worlds into a unified era.
• The alliance used the Boundary Tower to evacuate civilians to the Xia Realm and reorganize its armies, while Lu Chenzhou spent three years advancing his cultivation methods and techniques.
• Lan Daogang began his divine ascension in the Zouyu Water Mansion, as the Innate Water Spirit warned that the chosen ones and Lu Chenzhou had only a hundred years before Constellations returned.

Lu Chenzhou oversaw the mass production of Nine-Aperture Exquisite Grass as Heavenly Xia prepared for war, then defeated the Blood Demon Matriarch’s invasion and strengthened Xia Star’s defenses. As threats gathered around Floating Netherworld, he handed command to Wan Shixian and returned to cultivation, reflecting on the old friends he had lost.

• Lu Fang and the alien researchers revealed that captured Astral Spirit Beasts and Blue-Silver Nine-Leaf Grass could produce Nine-Aperture Exquisite Grass, which soon became widely available and eased martial artists’ cultivation.
• In Heavenly Xia Year 2325, the Blood Demon Matriarch led an army through a rift into Yunmeng Marsh, but Lu Chenzhou’s avatar struck her down and she later died in the Blood Tree Great World to a Dao attack.
• Lu Chenzhou absorbed the Blood Demon Matriarch’s Blood Moon Dao essence, then agreed with Kunxu Ancestor to help surround Floating Netherworld as Camilla prepared to emerge.
• Lu Chenzhou passed the Commander position to Wan Shixian and urged Heavenly Xia’s warriors to defend civilization without relying on him except in an existential crisis.
• Myriad Feather Mountain, Myriad Dragon Palace, the Vast Sea Sect, and other powerful guardians established a defense around Xia Star.
• Qin Zheng died after watching the Three Thousand Worlds unite, and Lu Chenzhou attended his funeral before returning to closed-door cultivation.