Chapter Summaries

Su Tu received and quickly mastered the Thousand Paths Flowing Gold, while Granny She warned him that the tiger talismans he had made were being mistaken for dangerous Divine Objects. He discovered that Kong Jinyin was secretly feeding one of the talismans with Mind Power to summon the Remnant Army.

• In the Burial Zone, a fortune-telling youth discussed Su Tu’s rise and argued with the being sealed inside a crystal about whether to fight him or intervene on Ancestral Star.
• Su Tu returned to She Taijun after his victory, and she gifted him the Thousand Transformations Gilded Gold for reaching the minimum Mind Power standard to use a Divine Object.
• Su Tu poured Mind Power into the Divine Object and immediately transformed it into weapons, armor, and other forms, impressing She Taijun with how quickly he mastered it.
• She Taijun explained that the tiger talismans were being treated as crude Divine Objects and sealed away because they consumed enormous amounts of Mind Power while summoning ancient battle souls.
• She Taijun said Kong Jinyin possessed the last known tiger talisman, and Su Tu sensed that it was in the North Sea and being nourished.
• At the sanatorium, Kong Jinyin ordered martial artists to keep feeding the tiger talisman with their Mind Power, hoping to summon the Remnant Army and take revenge on Su Tu.

After the Sacrificial Path intensified Burial of Immortals, Su Tu entered a new Inner World, stepped onto an endless road, and saw a red North at its end. He emerged with six transformations of his Martial Bone, just as Luo Fan opened his bones and his friends discovered Su Tu’s changes.

• Su Tu completed the brief Direct Admission procedures and headed to Treading Moon Martial Hall to study the link between the Sacrificial Path and Burial of Immortals.
• Su Tu noticed that Kong Jinyin had strengthened the Remnant Army Tiger Talisman and decided to let him keep contributing before Su Tu killed him.
• Su Tu used the Sacrificial Path while performing Burial of Immortals, enduring severe pain as his body strengthened and his Emperor Bone began to transform.
• Su Tu entered Burial of Immortals’ Inner World, rejected the kneeling figures’ demands that he turn back, and stepped onto the road, where he saw a frail figure and the red character for North.
• Su Tu returned to the cultivation room after his Martial Bone completed two transformations, bringing him to six transformations, and received a system notice recording his training gains.
• Fat Zhuge called Su Tu over because Luo Fan had opened his bones, then Luo Fan and the others saw Su Tu’s transformed arms and reacted with astonishment.

Su Tu guided his classmates in the Martial Arts Hall and discovered that hidden observers had used a consciousness ability to arrange the session as a test. After a squad of elite soldiers surrounded him at home, they saluted and revealed they had come to protect him as their Young Master.

• Su Tu praised Luo Fan's newly opened Heaven Mountain Bone, then agreed to guide his classmates' techniques at the Martial Arts Hall.
• Su Tu detected a lingering consciousness ability on Luo Fan and crushed its trace, while two hidden observers decided to appoint Su Tu as a Martial Examination examiner.
• After dinner with his classmates, Su Tu noticed that the unusually silent Taibo District had been cleared and confronted a group of armed martial artists.
• Ke Jian and the Federal Fourth Army Third Division Seventh Squad Black Crow saluted Su Tu and announced that they had been ordered to protect him until the Martial Examination ended.

Zhou Wuliang and the War Lord learned of the Three Gods Sect’s threat to Su Tu and mobilized their forces to protect him. After Black Crow captured Kong Jinyin’s investigators, Su Tu went to confront Kong Jinyin and slapped him until the young heir was terrified.

• Zhou Wuliang sent word that he had taken a final disciple, while the War Lord ordered Black Crow to protect Su Tu and began searching for the Three Deviant Sect’s headquarters.
• Black Crow arrived at Su Tu’s home and offered to carry out even his joking order to destroy the Martial Arts Department, then promised to conceal themselves unless danger appeared.
• Su Tu explored the Mortal Realm in a dream and found that martial artists had mistaken his projected True Self World for an immortal mountain.
• Black Crow reported that Kong Jinyin’s people were investigating Su Tu, captured them, and located Kong Jinyin; Su Tu ordered Black Crow to take him there.
• Ke Jian’s Black Crow Squad entered Kong Jinyin’s hospital room, and Su Tu slapped Kong Jinyin until he wet the bed in fear.

Su Tu killed Kong Jinyin and discovered that he could revive, while surveillance captured his secret about the Tiger Tally and his hatred of the Hall of Immortals. An examination of Kong Jinyin’s flesh revealed that it had fused with the Ancestral Star’s Martial Dao Luck.

• Su Tu had the Black Crows slaughter Kong Jinyin’s guards, then crushed Kong Jinyin with the Sacrificial Stele Offering while arranging a cover story and discussing the Tiger Tally.
• Kong Jinyin regenerated from the remains, revealed that a Tiger Tally could summon a Venerable, and vowed to hide and use it against the Hall of Immortals.
• Su Tu watched the Black Crow Squad’s surveillance of the revived Kong Jinyin and concluded that the Spring Autumn God of Wealth had a scheme involving him.
• A Black Crow member detected an Ascension-Class Concept fused with Kong Jinyin’s flesh, and Su Tu recognized its golden radiance as the Ancestral Star’s Martial Dao Luck.

Su Tu realized that Spring Autumn God of Wealth was contaminating the Ancestral Star’s Martial Dao Luck through Kong Jinyin, and he decided to turn Kong Chunqiu’s scheme against him. After talking with Uncle Gong, Su Tu met Feng and Zhao Budian outside Treading Moon Martial Hall, where Mu Wuyang suddenly appeared beside him.

• Su Tu received the lingering favor of Martial Dao Luck, saw the Three Great Taboos and the tainted luck, and concluded that Kong Jinyin was part of Spring Autumn God of Wealth’s scheme.
• Ke Jian speculated that Kong Chunqiu planned to use Kong Jinyin’s body for a bloodline rebirth, while Su Tu suspected the Martial Examination was also part of the scheme.
• Su Tu decided to seize the opportunity to disrupt Kong Chunqiu’s plan and, after eating at Old Gong Restaurant, took Uncle Gong’s advice to protect his home until he could confront the intruder.
• Feng and Zhao Budian told Su Tu that Mu Wuyang had arrived in the North Sea to meet the group, and Su Tu raised his hand as a blazing sun erupted beside him.

Su Tu met Mu Wuyang, exchanged martial insights with him, and learned why Feng feared Senior Sister Xiao. At the Heaven's Pride Ranking, Chen Xian brutally tortured Zhao Budian to provoke Su Tu, then challenged him to fight in the real world; Su Tu accepted with a threat of his own.

• Mu Wuyang apologized for striking at Su Tu and gave him a Candle Yang Pill as compensation.
• Feng explained that Senior Sister Xiao had hammered him for three months after he accidentally knocked down a mural she was studying.
• Su Tu and Mu Wuyang exchanged cultivation insights, and Mu Wuyang praised Su Tu's talent before accepting that Moon Treading was Su Tu's home.
• Mu Wuyang said Kong Jinyin had disappeared but was expected to enter the Martial Examination, where they could settle their grudge.
• Zhao Budian entered the Heaven's Pride Ranking to test his Thousand Grind Art and faced Chen Xian, who overpowered him and tortured him while demanding to know whether he was better than Su Tu.
• Chen Xian challenged Su Tu to fight in the real world, and Su Tu answered that Chen Xian would be nothing but a dead dog beneath his fist.

Su Tu accepted Chen Xian’s provocation and revealed that he had reached the Sixth Transformation of Martial Bone and the Ta Fan level of Mind Cultivation. Meanwhile, Chen Xian prepared to travel to the Ancestral Star, admitting that he was acting because the Chen Family’s foundation was there.

• Chen Xian withdrew from the Heaven's Pride Ranking after challenging Su Tu, while Su Tu and the others left to check on Zhao Budian.
• Zhao Budian described how Chen Xian had disrupted his awareness and nearly killed him, but refused to blame Su Tu for his defeat.
• Su Tu declared that he would beat Chen Xian into a dead dog and revealed his Sixth Transformation of Martial Bone, astonishing Feng and Zhao Budian.
• Mu Wuyang disclosed that he had touched the threshold of Ta Fan, but then learned that Su Tu had already reached Ta Fan as well.
• At the Chen Family Ancestral Residence, Chen Xian told the Chen Family Fourth Ancestors that he would go to the Ancestral Star to challenge Su Tu and explained that the Chen Family’s foundation was there.

Su Tu discussed combat techniques with Mu Wuyang, Feng, and the other Heaven's Pride Ranking prodigies, improving his Heavenly Martial Proficiency as the Martial Examination approached. When Federal Martial Arts Headquarters commissioners arrived to invite him to serve as an examiner and instructor, Su Tu subdued their arrogant companion and revealed that his Initial Crown rank outranked the man’s status.

• Mu Wuyang and Feng asked Su Tu to settle their argument about how to respond to an opponent’s counter, and Su Tu explained that the right technique depended on the fighters and their available counters.
• Su Tu discovered that discussing technique paths with Mu Wuyang increased his Heavenly Martial Proficiency, while the Remnant Army Tiger Talisman trembled from Kong Jinyin’s efforts to fill it with Mind Power.
• A strange, arrogant visitor kicked open the training hall doors and demanded Su Tu, so Su Tu shattered the man’s helmet and grabbed his head.
• Mu Wuyang and Feng blocked two approaching men, who explained that they were Federal Martial Arts Headquarters commissioners inviting Su Tu to be an examiner and instructor for the preliminary examination.
• The commissioners revealed that the strange visitor was a human and Black Scale Race descendant and a Peace Ambassador, but Su Tu slammed him into the ground and mocked his status.
• Su Tu reminded the visitor that the Initial Crown held the Federation’s highest rank and was not subject to suppression, and the man fainted after realizing who Su Tu was.

Su Tu agreed to become chief examiner of the Third Examination Hall, while a supposed peace ambassador secretly reported that Su Tu should be eliminated during the Martial Examination. In the Inner World, Su Tu discovered a mysterious symbol on his Great Luo Bone that summoned a powerful figure and halted the collapsing road.

• Cheng Wen and Lin Dong explained that the strange man had taken credit for their work and invited Su Tu to serve as a preliminary Martial Examination examiner.
• Su Tu accepted the role for the chance to gain Proficiency, and the students celebrated by playfully piling onto him.
• The strange man woke in the medical room, sent a secret warning to the Seven Great Alliances that Su Tu was a threat, and disguised his message-sending scale.
• Su Tu entered the Inner World and continued cultivating, noticing that his Emperor Bone neared its seventh transformation while his Great Luo Bone remained unchanged.
• Su Tu discovered a mysterious symbol on his Great Luo Bone, triggering the road's collapse and the appearance of a majestic figure who restored it.

Su Tu summoned a future version of himself through the Great Luo Bone and learned that the future remained open, but the ability came at a severe cost. After recovering, he resolved to approach the Martial Examination cautiously and discovered that his Emperor Bone had undergone eight transformations.

• Su Tu recognized the figure in the Inner World of Burial of Immortals as a possible future version of himself and asked whether his future had already been determined.
• The future Su Tu explained that the Great Luo Bone reflected one of countless possible futures and warned that summoning him had nearly destroyed the Inner World.
• Su Tu accepted that his future remained unwritten, and the future figure vanished after telling him he possessed infinite possibilities.
• Su Tu recovered from the summoning, inferred that the Martial Examination would bring a major upheaval, and decided to take it seriously.
• Su Tu discovered that his Emperor Bone had undergone eight transformations, while a future version of him fought monstrous creatures and sensed someone scheming against their future self.

The Seven Great Alliances learned that Bull Chief had vanished near Blue Star and decided to target a human genius as a warning before the Martial Examination. At a tea house, Su Tu recognized the girl asking for his contact as an assassin and threatened her.

• Zi Chen and the other alliance representatives blamed Blue Star's hidden defenses for Bull Chief's disappearance and resolved to prepare for war if the Martial Examination went badly.
• Zi Chen revealed information on local human geniuses and proposed killing one to warn the Federation, but the Supreme One ordered them to kill only a single target: Su Tu.
• Su Tu told his aunt, Shang Muxia, that he had become an examiner for the Martial Examination, and she teased him before leaving for Ruins Star.
• A ponytailed girl approached Su Tu at the tea house and asked to add him as a contact, while Shang Muxia encouraged her.
• Su Tu leaned toward the girl and revealed that he knew she was an assassin, warning that he had planned to leave her with intact corpses.

Su Tu thwarted an alien plot against his aunt and uncovered the Seven Great Alliances’ connection to a mission targeting him. After vowing to deal with their representatives, he realized the attack might be linked to the spacesuited Peace Ambassador.

• Su Tu killed the girl who tried to attack him, and Ke Jian’s Black Crows protected Shang Muxia while eliminating the hidden attackers and erasing the evidence.
• Su Tu escorted Shang Muxia onto her interstellar flight and ordered Ke Jian to protect her, then returned home to question a captured alien with Divine Skill: Error.
• The alien revealed that the Shato Peiluo Clan had hired his Kaka Clan to watch Su Tu on behalf of the Seven Great Alliances.
• Su Tu concluded that the alien’s limited knowledge did not explain why he alone had been targeted, then remembered the strange figure in a spacesuit and suspected the Peace Ambassador.

After outsiders sent assassins against Su Tu and his family, he brought a captured Kaka Clan member to Li Hu and shared his suspicions about the Peace Ambassador. Li Hu mobilized the Public Security Bureau, while Su Tu proposed using further outsider attacks to expose the Three Deviant Sect’s hidden plans in North Sea.

• Su Tu went to the Public Security Bureau after an assassin targeted his family, and a secretary led him to Li Hu through the bureau’s hidden, Heart Questioning-protected facilities.
• Su Tu told Li Hu about the assassination attempt, the Black Crow Squad’s protection of his aunt, and his suspicions about the Peace Ambassador, then produced the captured Kaka Clan member.
• Li Hu ordered the bureau’s combat personnel to arrest the suspected collaborator at the Martial Arts Department, despite Su Tu warning that they lacked proof.
• Li Hu explained that he planned to publicize the matter so a Martial Uncle could intervene, while Su Tu asked about the Three Deviant Sect’s captured believers.
• Su Tu suggested that a continuing stream of outsider assassins might draw out the Three Deviant Sect’s arrangements, and Li Hu realized what he meant.

Su Tu and Li Hu arranged to use the Public Security Bureau to arrest Kati Luo and free Three Deviant Sect believers, while spreading accusations that Kati Luo had colluded with foreign races and the sect. Su Tu gained an Acting skill as the believers urged him to take shelter from a supposed assassination plot.

• Su Tu persuaded Li Hu to help him act against the Three Deviant Sect, and Li Hu agreed after hearing that Su Tu needed two things from the Public Security Bureau.
• The Public Security Bureau stormed the Martial Arts Department and arrested Kati Luo, accusing him of plotting against a human genius and conspiring with the Three Deviant Sect.
• Martial Arts Department employees watched Kati Luo being taken away, while two officials feared Su Tu’s retaliation for appointing him as an examiner at the third venue.
• Su Tu and Li Hu freed half of the captured believers, who thanked Su Tu and renewed their devotion to him.
• Su Tu gained the Acting skill, and the system warned that it might undergo unknown changes because it had been nourished by divinity.
• A senior believer warned Su Tu that foreign races wanted to kill him and urged him to go with the believers.

Su Tu used a staged rescue and a fiery speech to win the Three Gods believers’ trust, then lured Number One and the Sufferer into revealing themselves with the God-Bearing Statues. The statues’ faith vanished during a Shadow Clan attack, driving Number One into a rampage as Su Tu concealed his satisfaction.

• Su Tu’s converted believers urged him to escape, but he declared that he would stay for the Three Gods’ plan, impressing the gathered believers and raising his Acting Proficiency to High Grade.
• Number One and the Sufferer watched from hiding, arguing over whether Su Tu’s story made sense until Su Tu brought out the three God-Bearing Statues and called for them to be taken to the others.
• Number One and the Sufferer emerged to secure the statues, while Shadow Clan attackers struck the believers and attacked Su Tu; Number One fought off one attacker as the Sufferer took the statues from Su Tu.
• A shadow slashed the statues with a Black Spear, and the Sufferer discovered that their faith and spirituality had vanished; he crushed the shadow, which dissipated before he could question it.
• Number One unleashed his suppressed power in rage, wiping out the believers and Shadow Clan attackers as Su Tu feigned distress while secretly delighting at the outcome.

Su Tu used Blood Moon to devour the Three Gods’ traces in the God-Bearing Statue, then blamed the statue’s destruction on the Seven Great Alliances and manipulated the Sufferer into supporting his account. The Sufferer knelt to Su Tu and agreed to follow his lead as they put their plans on hold and prepared to deal with the Seven Great Alliances.

• Blood Moon devoured the Three Gods’ traces from the God-Bearing Statue while White Tiger and Green Snake faced the sinister figure emerging from the Blood Moon.
• Su Tu watched his Candle Wisdom and Dao Transformation grow as Number One mourned the lost traces and the Sufferer feared punishment for failing to protect the statue.
• Su Tu claimed the Seven Great Alliances had targeted the statue, and Number One seized the Sufferer until Su Tu ordered him to let go.
• Su Tu declared that the Three Gods lived on through their believers, convincing Number One and earning increased Acting Proficiency.
• Su Tu presented a fabricated account blaming the Shadow Clan and the Seven Great Alliances, and the Sufferer accepted it and knelt before him.
• Su Tu told the Sufferer to suspend their plans until the Seven Great Alliances’ arrangements on the Ancestral Star were eliminated.

After manipulating Sufferer into serving as his cover against the Seven Great Alliances, Su Tu returned to his True Self World and confronted his divine manifestations over their secret clash. Blood Moon transformed into a talking baby that claimed to be a god and promised to help Su Tu in the real world once he reached Leaf Falling, leaving him surprised that it had overheard his call with his father.

• Su Tu refused Sufferer's invitation to the Three Deviant Sect's base, while Sufferer and Number One bowed and left after agreeing to report to headquarters.
• Su Tu planned to use Sufferer to pit the Three Deviant Sect against the Seven Great Alliances and to conceal his actions involving the God-Bearing Statue.
• The Blood Moon, Bright Moon, and Black Mountain clashed in the True Self World until Su Tu arrived and demanded an explanation from his divine manifestations.
• Blood Moon became a black baby, told Su Tu that it and the others were enemies, and agreed not to eat White Tiger or Green Snake after Su Tu stopped their fight.
• The baby said it and the Three Deviant Sect's Abomination Gods shared an origin, but claimed that it was a god and that they were merely its rations.
• The baby promised it could enter the real world and help Su Tu after he reached Leaf Falling, then revealed it had overheard his call with his father.

Su Tu accepted the post of examiner for North Sea’s troublesome third Martial Examination site, then broke through to the ninth Martial Bone transformation after a deadly encounter in his Inner World. The Heaven’s Pride Ranking announced his achievement across the galaxy, drawing the attention of a powerful man who said Su Tu might help gather the remaining inscriptions for the Martial God Secret Treasure.

• Three Gods Believers killed a Shadow Clan assassin, while Li Hu’s Public Security officers arrested the believers and used the clashes to expose Seven Great Alliances infiltrators and a hidden North Sea higher-up.
• Two officials told Su Tu that the third examination site was reserved for spoiled, powerful clan heirs, and Su Tu eagerly accepted the assignment after hearing the students could take a beating.
• Su Tu entered his Inner World to cultivate Burial of Immortals, but seeing a kneeling figure distracted him and transported him to a sea of stars.
• A hammer-wielding figure identified by the stars as Li Binghu killed Su Tu, then fought him again; Su Tu activated the Sacrificial Path and forced the figure back before it destroyed its hammers and revealed its overwhelming strength.
• Su Tu returned from the Inner World and realized he had achieved the ninth Martial Bone transformation, prompting the Heaven’s Pride Ranking to proclaim him peerless among heaven’s prides after thirteen days.
• A powerful man emerged from a black hole, praised Su Tu’s breakthrough, and said three more inscriptions could complete the keys to the Martial God Secret Treasure.

After learning the Heaven's Pride Ranking’s records were keys to the Martial God Secret Treasure, Su Tu became interested in collecting the remaining inscriptions. He also investigated Li Binghu, the overwhelming opponent he had faced in the Burial of Immortals, and the chapter left Wei Yang mobilizing historians while suspecting that a supreme figure might have erased Li Binghu from history.

• Su Tu reflected on completing the nine transformations of his Emperor Bone and gained Battle Body Proficiency from his brief fight with Li Binghu in the Burial of Immortals.
• Mu Wuyang told Su Tu that inscriptions recorded by the Heaven's Pride Ranking formed keys to the Martial God Secret Treasure and that Su Tu’s record gave him the qualification to seek three remaining inscriptions.
• Su Tu asked Mu Wuyang and Wei Yang about Li Binghu, but neither initially knew who he was.
• Wei Yang contacted the Historical Studies Alliance to investigate Li Binghu and promised Su Tu they would search for him.
• While examining relics from Ruins Star, Wei Yang found traces of a suspicious brown liquid and worried it might belong to beings once suppressed and driven back.
• Su Tu thanked Wei Yang and considered whether Li Binghu had never existed or had been erased from history by a supreme figure.