Chapter Summaries

Su Tu received an apparent divine acknowledgment from the Bountiful God, then resisted an attempt to pull his mind away while dining with Dong Dong. His True Self World instead drew in the Spirit Communication Elder, and Su Tu sensed another extraordinary presence arriving there.

• Su Tu refrained from bowing to the Bountiful God, praised its compassionate deeds, and heard it thank him for granting divine recognition.
• Dong Dong showed Su Tu around the Feng God Temple, then took him to a barbecue restaurant for starry sky Beast skewers.
• A secret art failed to pull Su Tu's mind from his True Self World, where his inner powers stabilized him.
• Su Tu commanded his True Self World to bring the attacker to him, and the Blood Moon Doll and Black Mountain responded.
• The Spirit Communication Elder's mind was drawn away, horrifying Chen Zian and his brothers.
• As Dong Dong invited Su Tu to the Martial Arts Arena, Su Tu sensed an extraordinary presence in his True Self World.

Su Tu devoured Spirit Communication Elder after learning that Chen Zian wanted to cooperate with him, then used Black Mountain to speak with the Chen Family and heard they shared a common enemy. At the Martial Arts Arena, Su Tu invited the gathered gatekeepers to fight him all at once, leaving Dong Dong surprised to learn he would be joining them.

• Spirit Communication Elder entered Su Tu's True Self World, revealed that Chen Zian had sent him, and was devoured by White Tiger.
• Su Tu learned that Chen Zian wanted to cooperate and that Black Mountain could communicate with him.
• Black Mountain spoke through Spirit Communication Elder to Chen Zian, who claimed the Chen Family and Su Tu had a common enemy.
• Su Tu and Dong Dong arrived at the Martial Arts Arena, where Liu Zi and the other gatekeepers gathered to meet them.
• Su Tu offered to spar with all the gatekeepers at once, then told Dong Dong he would fight alongside them.

Su Tu overwhelmed the Martial Examination gatekeepers, then learned that the Chen Family had asked him to help kill Chen Shan and free the clan from the Immortal Garment. He accepted the dangerous pact in exchange for the relic, the Chen Family’s wealth, and its allegiance, and left with the ruin key already in hand.

• Su Tu defeated the gatekeepers with his full strength, unleashed Second Level Sacrifice Dao and imperial might against Dong Dong, and accidentally destroyed the Martial Arts Arena.
• The gatekeepers and examiners learned that Su Tu had caused the damage, while Dong Dong praised Su Tu’s strength in the group chat.
• Su Tu realized the Chen Family’s ruin key had given him a secret inside his mind, and Chen Zian and Chen Ziming discussed their alliance with him and the loss of Elder Tong.
• In a flashback, Chen Zian told Su Tu that Chen Shan had used the Immortal Garment to turn the Chen Family into sacrifices and asked him to help restrain the relic so they could kill their ancestor and extract its threads.
• Su Tu warned that removing the Celestial Silk could kill the Chen family members, but Chen Zian insisted that the clan would rather die than remain enslaved and offered him the Immortal Garment, half the family’s wealth, and the survivors’ allegiance.
• Su Tu demanded the ruin key immediately, signed the Bloodline Spirit Contract, and later recognized that Chen Zian had designed it to curse the Chen Family if their plan failed.

Su Tu entered the Chen Family ruins and discovered an ancient War Merit Wall that rewarded him with a Heaven Blood Dragon Pill and the rank of Squad Leader for killing two Void Spirits. After taking the pill and gaining strength, he suspected that the Void Spirits were the Beasts he had already killed.

• Su Tu questioned the War Lord’s sudden interest in him and resolved to grow stronger before worrying about hidden schemes.
• Su Tu activated the ruins key and was pulled through a blue gate into a desolate realm filled with dead stars and death intent.
• Su Tu released Weapons of War Killing Intent at a bloodstained black wall, which awarded him a Heaven Blood Dragon Pill and a Squad Leader token for killing two Void Spirits.
• Su Tu searched for information on Void Spirits, then consumed the pill after sensing it for poison and gained Battle Body Proficiency and faster power fusion.
• Su Tu realized that the two Void Spirits might have been the Beasts Ka Sha Shi and Xi Ge’s online girlfriend, and wondered whether humanity had fought Beasts since ancient times.

Su Tu began his gatekeeping duties at the Ultimate Gate as the retest opened, while the challengers arrived in unexpectedly large numbers. He easily stopped Ling Tian, then discovered that challengers meant for different districts had all gathered in Liuyun District.

• Su Tu reflected on his plans for Star Ark Academy and looked forward to seeing his mother after the retest.
• The retest began, and students traveled to their assigned districts to face the Ultimate Gates.
• Su Tu waited at the Ultimate Gate, suspecting that being a gatekeeper carried hidden benefits.
• Ling Tian charged at Su Tu, but Su Tu’s pressure stopped him just short of reaching the gatekeeper.
• A huge crowd of challengers appeared in Liuyun District, confused about why they had all been sent to the same district.

A routing error sent more than seven hundred challengers to Su Tu’s gate, where he overwhelmed their mass attack and discovered a Heart Face Beast disguised as one of them. The beast triggered a Blood Curtain over the examination grounds, cutting off surveillance and beginning a catastrophe.

• Assistant Li Liang’s routing mistake sent every district’s challengers to Su Tu’s gate, and examiners argued over whether to redistribute them.
• Su Tu refused the challengers’ request to step aside, and more than seven hundred martial warriors charged him together.
• Su Tu used Prajna Seven Kills to halt the assault and steadily knocked out the challengers, drawing increasing power from the Ultimate Gate.
• Su Tu’s Centurion Token alerted him to a pale-faced martial warrior, and he pierced the warrior’s chest to reveal a Heart Face Beast.
• The Heart Face Beast unleashed a Blood Curtain that covered the examination grounds and blacked out every surveillance screen.

Su Tu discovered that a Heart Face Beast had raised the Blood Curtain and was trying to consume the Ultimate Gate, while the examiners outside prepared to enter after thirty-five minutes even if it cost the examinees their lives. Su Tu resisted the Beast’s mind pressure and killed it, revealing that he could see the threads binding minds to the curtain and that his Centurion Token awarded battle merits for killing Void Spirits.

• Yun Yong told Cheng Tian and Ming Yuan that the Heart Face Beast’s Blood Curtain could not be breached by anyone above the examinees’ average life level, and said he would enter in thirty-five minutes to protect the Ultimate Gate.
• The Heart Face Beast stunned the examinees unconscious and sent a corrosive red swamp toward the Ultimate Gate, while claiming its kind would reclaim every gate.
• Su Tu remained conscious despite the Beast’s mind pressure and demanded that it explain what its kind planned to do with the Ultimate Gates.
• Su Tu unleashed pressure in the True Self World, causing the Heart Face Beast to collapse into rotten flesh and making the Blood Curtain ripple.
• Su Tu saw threads connecting minds to the Blood Curtain and learned from his Centurion Token that killing a Void Spirit earned one hundred battle merits.

Su Tu used Mistake to draw the Heart Face Beasts to him and killed them, but the Blood Curtain remained. As gatekeepers fell from the sky, a powerful presence appeared beside Su Tu and called the beasts trash for being killed by a monkey.

• In the Dead Star Region, two mysterious figures argued over the Heart Face Beasts’ attack and the attempt to steal the Ultimate Gates, and one warned the other not to touch someone he was protecting.
• Su Tu used the Centurion Token to locate Heart Face Beasts near the other Ultimate Gates and killed the beast threatening Liu Zi.
• Su Tu knocked Liu Zi unconscious and used Mistake to manipulate the beasts’ shared mental net into gathering around him.
• Su Tu killed twelve Heart Face Beasts, gaining Candle Wisdom Proficiency and battle merits, but the Blood Curtain remained in place.
• Gatekeepers began falling from the sky, and Su Tu sensed an overwhelming presence before a voice beside him mocked the beasts for being killed by a monkey.

Su Tu escaped the powerful Heart Face Beast’s Mind Shackles by using the bell his martial uncle had given him, then attacked the creature while it claimed he came from the Void. As the Ultimate Gate neared its return, Su Tu stopped fighting after completing the patterns on the Beast and gained 200 Good Fortune Proficiency.

• Su Tu struck Dong Dong’s possessed body, but the Heart Face Beast suppressed his abilities and bound him with Mind Shackles.
• The Beast mistook Su Tu’s strength and powers for signs that he came from the Void and believed he had ties to the Strength Race.
• Su Tu tricked the Beast into taking out his bell, whose Mind Power broke the restraints and expelled the Beast from Dong Dong.
• Su Tu relentlessly attacked the expelled Heart Face Beast, but its body withstood his blows as it warned that the Ultimate Gate would soon return.
• Su Tu stopped after completing the patterns on the Beast’s body and gained 200 Good Fortune Proficiency.

Su Tu killed the Heart-Faced Beast King, ending the attack on the examination site, while a Celestial Being Honored One restrained the Federation’s personnel outside. The fifteen Ultimate Gates then summoned Su Tu to a boundless white room, where an unknown man greeted him.

• Outside the Blood Curtain, Yun Yong realized the Heart Face Beasts’ sudden deaths suggested a beast King was inside and ordered the stationed martial artists to break through.
• A young man in a white coat paralyzed many of the personnel with flowers linked to their hearts and warned them that they would die if his junior brother, Su Tu, did not return.
• Su Tu used Ash’s hidden Execution effect, triggered by Good Fortune, to kill the Heart-Faced Beast King, and learned that the Void had noticed him.
• The Heart Face Beast’s death dispersed the Blood Curtain and swamp, restored the Ultimate Gates, and sent true spirits into the scattered Gatekeepers.
• All fifteen Ultimate Gates enveloped Su Tu in light and brought his consciousness to a boundless white room, where a man greeted him.

Su Tu encountered Martial God Jian Kong inside the Ultimate Gate and received a mind-sealing divine ability, which he mastered almost instantly. After Su Tu remained unconscious in the hospital, his senior brother nearly killed the people responsible, but Su Tu woke in time to stop him.

• Su Tu resisted Jian Kong’s blank face when ancient voices anchored his mind, and Jian Kong praised his ability to leave words upon the origin.
• Jian Kong revealed that he was the Martial God who created Secret Paintings and bestowed on Su Tu the divine ability Door of Emptiness.
• Su Tu constructed the Door of Emptiness immediately, astonishing Jian Kong, but the gateway collapsed when Jian Kong jokingly suggested Su Tu become the Martial God.
• Doctors could not explain why Su Tu remained unconscious despite his healthy, strengthening mind, while his senior brother threatened the gathered examiners and officials.
• Su Tu opened his mind stabilization pod and asked whether the flowers around the room were for him, prompting his senior brother to wither them and spare everyone present.

Su Tu reunited with his mother Shang Zichun and accompanied her to Dragon Raising Temple, where the Martial Bell rang ten times. Golden light formed a staircase at their feet, leaving the crowd stunned and the identity of the bell’s visitor unclear.

• Su Tu met his senior brother Le Yiwen, who examined Shang Zichun and found no signs of parasitism.
• Su Tu reunited with Shang Zichun, then accompanied her to Dragon Raising Temple to seek a protective talisman for him.
• Shang Zichun defended her choice to let Su Tu pursue his own path when another worshipper criticized her parenting.
• Dragon Raising Temple’s Martial Bell rang nine times, drawing monks and worshippers to search for the visiting prodigy.
• The bell rang a tenth time, and golden light descended as a staircase at Su Tu and Shang Zichun’s feet.

Su Tu refused to enter Dragon Raising Temple’s golden reception path without Shang Zichun, prompting the Martial Bell to ring an unprecedented eleventh time and invite them both. As they walked the path, Su Tu heard profound Martial Dao teachings, questioned why the Third and Fourth Realms split a cycle that seemed naturally complete, and then saw a vision of a blindfolded man teaching ten youths in a dilapidated temple.

• Su Tu held on to Shang Zichun and rejected the golden staircase when the Old Monk explained it could carry only one Heaven’s Pride.
• The Martial Bell rang for an eleventh time, solidifying the staircase and inviting Shang Zichun to walk it with Su Tu.
• Su Tu and Shang Zichun entered Dragon Raising Temple together, and the Old Monk closed the temple to other visitors.
• As they walked the Martial Path, Su Tu heard teachings that deepened his understanding of Martial Dao and accelerated the fusion of his new power.
• Su Tu questioned why the Third and Fourth Realms divided a cycle that seemed complete, then saw a vision of a blindfolded man seated among ten youths in a ruined temple.

Su Tu received insight into the origins and limits of the Martial Dao from the Martial Bell, then accepted Dragon Raising Temple's invitation to climb the Martial Inquiry Bell Tower at its Grand Ceremony. As he left with Shang Zichun, a young monk revealed plans to study Buddhist principles and challenge him before the ceremony.

• Su Tu witnessed a blindfolded teacher explain that humanity's weak foundations made the Martial Dao's Third Realm difficult to attain and question how the path should be walked.
• Su Tu emerged from the Martial Path and met Ku Wen, who explained that the Martial Bell's main body rested atop the Martial Inquiry Bell Tower and could grant the Martial God's personal teachings to climbers who reached its summit.
• Ku Wen invited Su Tu to take Dragon Raising Temple's final tower-climbing slot, citing the bell's eleven rings, Su Tu's talent, and his connection to Zhou Wuliang; Su Tu agreed.
• Ku Wen offered to help Su Tu seek the path back to his Dao lineage, and Su Tu and Shang Zichun left Dragon Raising Temple in a private car.
• Su Tu exchanged salutes with a young monk at a bridge, and the monk later told a senior monk that he was not yet Su Tu's match but would study Buddhist principles before the December seventh Grand Ceremony.

Su Tu realized that the Martial Dao’s five foundational realms had been formed by splitting an original, perfect realm, and believed his unusual body and power might let him follow the original path. He also learned that a representative of the Seven Great Alliances had crippled Wang Yao in a spar, leaving Su Tu determined to uncover the realm’s secrets and prepare for the final examination.

• Su Tu noticed Buddha Child Jia Xun silently warn him to beware, and connected Jia Xun’s strange behavior to the Golden Pool Great Monk.
• Su Tu concluded that Dao One Martial God had divided the original Third Realm into the Leaf Falling and Source Seeing realms to overcome humanity’s limitations, and that his own foundation might let him pursue the original path.
• Su Tu returned with Shang Zichun to their hotel, spoke briefly with Old Zhou, and checked that his classmates had no unusual problems before calling Mu Wuyang.
• Mu Wuyang told Su Tu that a Seven Great Alliances representative had defeated Wang Yao within three moves and shattered her bone manifestation, preventing her from joining the final examination.
• Mu Wuyang revealed that he had entered the Leaf Falling Realm, and Su Tu vowed to test whether he could break through by following the original Martial Dao path before the examination.

Su Tu reunited with Shang Zichun before she returned to work on Ruins Star, then joined Le Yiwen to investigate whether the Zhui Ye and Source Seeing realms had once been one. Their first idea failed, but Le Yiwen agreed to help Su Tu keep experimenting for five days before the general examination.

• Shang Zichun learned that scholars had dug a tunnel on Ruins Star and left Celestial Capital Star after Su Qingping arranged an airship to collect her.
• Su Tu saw Shang Zichun off at the airport and reflected that Le Yiwen had confirmed she was healthy and had not been parasitized.
• Le Yiwen summoned Su Tu to his laboratory and explained that keeping Martial Dao True Intent inside the body prevented it from being tempered.
• Le Yiwen warned Su Tu not to risk his Martial Dao Foundation, but agreed to help him research for five days before he returned to Ancestral Star for the general examination.
• Su Tu and Le Yiwen resumed their experiments, proposing to shatter True Intent as it formed and merge it directly with the physical body.

Su Tu escaped his obsession with merging the Third and Fourth Realms, earned a Centurion rank, and tried to draw a dragon clan innate ability from Heaven Blood Dragon Pills. Meanwhile, the Seven Great Alliances’ God Sons headed for Ancestral Star, while Zi Chen revealed that he planned to keep Su Tu out of the Martial Examination.

• Su Tu realized his fixation on the two realms had caused Heart Demon Obstruction, calmed himself, and regained his composure.
• Su Tu used the Black Wall, was promoted to Centurion for killing fifteen Void Spirits including a High Grade Void Spirit, and exchanged war merit for fifteen Heaven Blood Dragon Pills.
• Su Tu swallowed the pills in repeated attempts to awaken a dragon clan innate divine ability, but he saw no dragon shadow or other sign of success.
• Teng Xian, Jiu Hua, Si, Shadow Fiend, and the other God Sons discussed humanity’s prodigies as their fleet traveled toward Ancestral Star.
• Zi Chen showed a Mountain God Race member information about Su Tu’s kills and said Su Tu would not be able to participate in the Martial Examination.

Su Tu tested his new dragon-race ability by defeating Little Fire God, then boarded a heavily guarded airship back to the Ancestral Star. The airship exploded after an unknown force suppressed Gong Cheng, killing everyone aboard, including Su Tu.

• Zi Chen rejected Old Shan’s objections and said that other races, even bitter enemies, had cooperated with the filthy black mist.
• Su Tu adapted to Little Fire God’s golden flames, defeated him with a single punch, and withdrew from the Heaven’s Pride Ranking when he sensed someone approaching his main body.
• Gong Cheng told Su Tu that the airship would reach the Ancestral Star in about seven hours and explained the protections in place for his return.
• The airship’s systems failed and its dynamic Particle Engine neared explosion, so Gong Cheng tried to tear through space and escape with Su Tu.
• An unknown force suppressed the void and Gong Cheng’s power, and the airship exploded, killing everyone aboard.

Li Hu learned that Su Tu had apparently died when the 071 Yingdong Starship’s Particle Engine exploded, and suspected the Seven Great Alliances had arranged the accident. As the War Lord and Dao Lord Cong Yun investigated the wreckage and found no survivors, a mysterious figure formed from the ruins and addressed the departed War Lord as “Martial Uncle.”

• A suited man told Li Hu that the 071 Yingdong Starship had exploded in a spatial collapse, killing Su Tu, Gong Cheng, and everyone aboard.
• Li Hu questioned the official accident report, suspected the Seven Great Alliances, took five days of leave, and left to act on his suspicions.
• Dao Lord Cong Yun reconstructed the explosion and concluded it appeared to be an accident, while the War Lord demanded the flight personnel be interrogated.
• The War Lord and Cong Yun discussed the possibility that the Seven Great Alliances had caused the disaster and left the ruined starry river.
• After they departed, a glimmer of spiritual light gathered life force and formed a humanoid silhouette that called the War Lord “Martial Uncle.”

Su Tu was annihilated in the airship explosion but revived through My Life Everlasting, gaining a new insight into the Martial Dao and resolving to return to the Ancestral Star. As Li Hu and Old Zhou prepared to retaliate and Zi Chen dismissed suspicion of the Seven Great Alliances, a lone figure appeared before their Starry Sky Fortress.

• Su Tu was reborn after the Particle Engine explosion activated My Life Everlasting, and he realized that the true foundation for advancing the Martial Dao was himself rather than his bone manifestation.
• Su Tu vowed to return to the Ancestral Star, correct the Martial Dao, and settle accounts with whoever had arranged the attack.
• Li Hu told Old Zhou that Su Tu had died, and Old Zhou urged him not to suppress his killing intent while declaring that he would act as well.
• Zi Chen and Shan Qiu discussed the risk of the Seven Great Alliances being blamed, while Zi Chen gave Kong Tao money and secured his cooperation in presenting the alliance as innocent.
• A thin figure appeared in the path of the advancing Starry Sky Fortress, and its operator ignored the obstruction.