Chapter Summaries

Zhou Wuliang used sealed crimson beads to destroy a Seven Great Alliances fortress and kill its representatives, then headed for the alliance’s main stronghold. As the God Sons’ warship entered human territory, Li Hu moved to attack them, but a familiar youth appeared before his restraints could break.

• Zhou Wuliang crushed Shan Qiu, Kong Tao, Zi Chen, and the Seven Great Alliances’ Starry Sky Fortress with the power sealed in crimson beads.
• Zhou Wuliang revealed twenty-four beads and set off alone toward the Seven Great Alliances’ main alliance.
• The Seven Great Alliances’ God Sons discussed the deaths of their representatives, then stopped when a human blocked their warship’s route through Federation territory.
• Li Hu attacked the Serpent Race member and moved against the hunched God Son, but Liu Tian and his brothers intervened to protect the Martial Examination candidates.
• Old Chen warned Li Hu that breaking free of his restraints would ruin years of effort, but Li Hu’s killing intent continued to rise.
• A familiar youth appeared and asked Li Hu whether he had come to pick him up.

Su Tu returned alive after the Particle Engine explosion and reunited with Li Hu, shocking the humans and their allies. After striking a God Son who had insulted him, Su Tu left everyone stunned when they realized he had reached the Fourth Realm at eighteen.

• Su Tu appeared in the starry river, and Li Hu verified his identity with a secret known only to their fellow disciples.
• Su Tu told Li Hu to restrain his power, then greeted Old Chen, who was shocked to see that Su Tu could move effortlessly through the void.
• When the hunchbacked youth demanded that Su Tu display Baxia's aura, Su Tu slapped him into the battleship.
• The battleship's protector unleashed a demonic shadow, but Old Chen dismissed it before the youth rejected the protector's attempt to pull him away and challenged Su Tu.
• Su Tu regarded the God Sons as sources of Divine Skills, while Li Hu and Liu Tian worried about the risk of a fight.
• Li Hu realized Su Tu had been walking and fighting freely in the void and asked if he had reached the Fourth Realm; the others were stunned by the prospect of an eighteen-year-old Fourth Realm powerhouse.

Su Tu defeated Xuan Yin and revealed that he had created a new realm by merging Martial Dao True Intent with his entire body. Old Chen stopped the fight before Xuan Yin could invoke divine power, and Su Tu looked forward to facing the God Sons again in the final examination.

• Su Tu crushed Xuan Yin's arm and shattered his barriers, while Jiu Hua sensed that Su Tu's life level was flawless.
• Su Tu explained to himself that he had returned Martial Dao to its original path by merging Emperor Bone Power throughout his body, allowing his True Intent to temper him without restriction.
• Su Tu prepared to kill Xuan Yin, but Old Chen and the Old Shadow Clan elder intervened before Xuan Yin could invoke divine power.
• Old Chen escorted Su Tu behind him, and the Old Shadow Demon took Xuan Yin back to the warship after arguing with Chen Yu.
• Su Tu gained system proficiency from the encounter and watched the departing God Sons as prey, while Teng Xian vowed to remember him.

After surviving the explosion, Su Tu returned to Treading Moon Martial Hall and learned how far his loved ones had gone to avenge him. He named his newly unified realm Truth Seeking and received a system notification granting him the qualification to ascend as an Extreme Martial God.

• Li Hu told Su Tu that Zhou Wuliang and the Old Arts Research Program had attacked the Seven Great Alliances, while She Taijun had hunted people connected to the Three Deviant Sect.
• Zhou Wuliang used sealed treasures to pressure a Seven Great Alliances Dao Lord and demanded the Fallen Dao White Lotus.
• Su Tu reunited with She Taijun, contacted his parents, and reflected on the people who had died in the explosion, vowing that those involved would pay.
• Li Hu asked Su Tu to explain his strange cultivation, and Su Tu described how he had fused his bone manifestation and Martial Dao True Intent.
• Su Tu named his new realm Truth Seeking, and a system notification granted him the qualification to ascend as an Extreme Martial God.

Su Tu returned after surviving the explosion and reached the Truth Seeking Realm, while Zhou Wuliang gave him the Skyreach Jade and hid the realm’s cultivation method. Zhou Wuliang secretly began purifying a Fallen Dao White Lotus despite his weakening life, and Su Tu left to train before the Martial Examination, troubled by evidence that the War Lord had hoped he was dead.

• Su Tu and Li Hu discussed the Truth Seeking Realm before Zhou Wuliang arrived and confirmed Su Tu was safe.
• Zhou Wuliang warned Su Tu to keep his cultivation method secret and gave him the Skyreach Jade to conceal his aura.
• After Su Tu left, Black Mist Man confronted Zhou Wuliang about his failing Life Anchor and urged him to transfer it to another Dao Heritage.
• Black Mist Man revealed that Zhou Wuliang had obtained a Fallen Dao White Lotus for Su Tu, and Zhou Wuliang began purifying its turbid qi himself.
• Su Tu went to train for the Martial Examination and recalled seeing the War Lord search for him, then show relief when he found no sign of life.

Su Tu trained in Burial of Immortals and finally defeated Li Binghu, while the Federation’s Supremes decided to confront the Seven Great Alliances and investigate unrest beyond the galaxy. Li Binghu briefly showed signs of awareness before Su Tu’s training ended, leaving Su Tu with a flood of new techniques and insights.

• Su Tu suspected that beasts were connected to the force that had suppressed Gong Cheng, then went to train rather than tell anyone.
• The Supreme Council rejected the Seven Great Alliances’ compensation demands and discussed pushing the frontline forward.
• The War Lord, Strategist Lord, and Fate Lord agreed to make the Seven Great Alliances feel the consequences of their actions and noted signs of unrest beyond the realms.
• The Strategist Lord confirmed that the Ancestral Star’s final Martial Examination would take place in the Second Realm, near the Dou Shuai Palace Ruins.
• Su Tu defeated Li Binghu with Heaven Flipping Seal, but Li Binghu reappeared with defiant eyes and spoke before the training space collapsed.
• Su Tu’s training ended with increased Battle Body Proficiency and a flood of techniques and insights from Burial of Immortals.

Su Tu gained the Azure Heaven Overlord Fist after cultivating the Burial of Immortals and prepared for the final examination, which was set to take place in the Second Realm near Hangu Pass. As the God Sons underestimated humanity and the Ancestral Star gathered to watch, the unified Martial Examination began.

• Su Tu discovered that killing Li Binghu may have triggered an insight from the Burial of Immortals, then mastered and named the technique Azure Heaven Overlord Fist.
• Su Tu met his classmates and friends, and Feng explained that the final examination would be held in the Federation’s Second Realm and have four rounds.
• Feng warned that Jiu Hua and the Serpent Race excelled at heart and mind trials, while Su Tu quietly believed his own heart and mind would be hard to surpass.
• Teng Xian, Jiu Hua, Shadow Fiend, and the other God Sons mocked humanity’s choice of the Ascension Ladder, while Jiu Hua privately worried that Su Tu might rival her.
• A chef restrained a Black Ox and planned to roast it with Samadhi True Fire after Su Tu’s examination.
• The Ancestral Star’s contestants traveled toward Hangu Pass aboard airships as the first unified Martial Examination began live across the planet.

Su Tu and the other examinees arrived at the Second Realm for the Grand Examination, where the seven foreign God Sons provoked the human students. Mu Wuyang challenged Teng Xian’s display of power, while Su Tu and Feng warned other God Sons against provoking them.

• Su Tu watched martial fortune gather as the airship carried the examinees toward Hangu Pass, and he reflected on the Three Great Taboos and his plans for Kong Jinyin.
• The airship entered a crimson gate above Hangu Pass and brought the examinees to the Second Realm, where they gathered to collect their identification numbers.
• Feng and Mu Wuyang met North Gate Street Tian, who revealed that he had come under the name Zhang Tianyu and that his family's San Er had also arrived.
• Zhou Dong introduced the Grand Examination and announced that seven foreign students from the Seven Great Alliances would compete alongside the human examinees.
• Teng Xian provoked the students and unleashed his aura, but Mu Wuyang emerged and suppressed his World Tree phantom with a blazing sun.
• Su Tu warned the hunched God Son not to provoke him, while Feng threatened Shadow Fiend against putting on an act around Su Tu.

During the first stage of the final examination, the Heavenly Ladder tested the examinees’ minds, and Jiu Hua quickly surpassed humanity’s limits. Su Tu was summoned last, but instead of facing the ladder’s pressure, he was carried upward by it.

• Feng confronted Shadow Fiend before Zhou Dong restored order, and Su Tu realized the clash had stirred the human examinees’ martial fortune.
• Zhou Dong announced the Heavenly Ladder test and drew the examinees’ minds into a world where the ladder’s steps tested their inner essence.
• Luo Fan climbed thirteen steps before the pressure forced him off the ladder, while the examinees with stronger mind talent continued upward.
• Jiu Hua reached the seventy-second step, prompting Mu Wuyang to bet Teng Xian that another human could still challenge her lead.
• Su Tu stepped onto the Heavenly Ladder and found that it carried him upward like an elevator instead of pressing him down.

The Strategist Lord and Futa Supreme argued over the Dragonfall Star Region while watching the Heavenly Ladder trial. Su Tu raced past the other examinees, and Jiu Hua saw the ladder’s godhood bowing before him as he approached her.

• Futa Supreme demanded that the Federation return the Dragonfall Star Region, but the Strategist Lord questioned his claim and watched Su Tu climb the Heavenly Ladder.
• Su Tu passed Zhao Budian and surged past the fiftieth level, sensing that the ladder’s power was causing Little Green to undergo a transformation.
• Su Tu became a streak of light and shot upward, knocking Shadow Fiend from the ladder as he raced past him.
• Su Tu flew past Jiu Hua and returned briefly to greet Mu Wuyang, confirming the wager and leaving Teng Xian stunned.
• Jiu Hua reached the eighty-ninth level and prepared to turn back, but saw Su Tu approaching as the godhoods before him lowered their heads and worshiped him.

Su Tu climbed the Heavenly Ladder to its summit, revealing a status that overwhelmed even true gods and stunned Jiu Hua and the observers. He faced the final step’s immense pressure and stepped onto it, leaving the examinees celebrating his achievement.

• Jiu Hua broke free of her urge to peer into Su Tu’s status, then watched in shock as he caught up to her and crossed the ninetieth step.
• Su Tu’s true name and prayers from above the origin suppressed the true god status, allowing him to climb to the ninety-eighth step as his True Self World transformed.
• The Strategist Lord confronted Futa Supreme about the hidden eighty thousand Starry Sky troops in the Dragonfall Star Region and demanded to discuss their worth.
• Su Tu recognized the ninety-ninth step as the boundary between the mortal and the divine, rejected the warning to retreat, and stepped onto the summit.
• The examinees and God Sons witnessed Su Tu reach the summit, while a human examinee celebrated his feat.

Su Tu endured the gods’ pressure on the Heavenly Ladder’s ninety-ninth level to raise his Candle Wisdom and Dao Transformation Proficiency, then stepped into a newly revealed hundredth level. As the other examinees were expelled, he saw a World Encircling God-like phantom empower him and stood above the gods, poised to transcend them.

• Su Tu smiled through the gods’ pressure on the ninety-ninth level and gained 1,000 Proficiency in Candle Wisdom and Dao Transformation for each minute he remained there.
• Su Tu stepped into the void beyond the ninety-ninth level, causing a phantom stairway to appear and the Heavenly Ladder to shake violently.
• The Heavenly Ladder expelled most examinees, while Teng Xian formed killing intent toward Su Tu and Feng taunted him about his wager.
• Zhou Dong checked the Heavenly Ladder Record and discovered that Su Tu had reached a hundredth step beyond the ladder’s known limit.
• Jiu Hua was expelled after seeing a half-human, half-serpent phantom resembling the World Encircling God empower Su Tu on the hundredth step.

Su Tu reached the hundredth step of the Heavenly Ladder, where the phantoms of Tongtian and Nuwa appeared and strengthened his mind. As he celebrated winning the first round of the martial examination, Futa Supreme tried to use a Karma Thread to kill him, but a sword strike from Tongtian shattered the thread and wounded Futa.

• Su Tu stepped onto the hundredth stair, and Tongtian and Nuwa appeared behind him, scattering the gods and bolstering his mind.
• Yellow Heaven's phantom emerged with Su Tu's features as he gained insight into how the mind could connect the present, past, and future.
• Su Tu returned from the Heavenly Ladder to cheers, won the first round, and learned that Teng Xian had lost a bet requiring him to call himself Su Tu's dog.
• Futa Supreme vented his anger over his failed negotiations, then used a Karma Thread linked through Jiu Hua to target Su Tu.
• Tongtian's sword destroyed the Karma Thread and struck Futa Supreme, leaving a sword scar across the starry sky and a bloody line on his cheek.

After Fu Tu was killed by a sword strike, the Seven Alliances' supreme beings debated whether to confront humanity, but the Turtle Spirit Grand Sacrifice ordered them to wait for the gods' return. At Hangu Pass, Teng Xian honored his wager by declaring himself Su Tu's dog, and Su Tu privately resolved to kill him.

• The Seven Alliances' supreme beings discussed Fu Tu's death and suspected that Skyreach Paragon might still be alive.
• The Turtle Spirit Grand Sacrifice ordered the Seven Alliances to end actions against humanity, abandon claims to Fu Tu's star region, and await the gods' return on the day the Black Sun rose.
• At the Second Realm examination grounds, Zhao Budian and Su Tu pressed Teng Xian to honor his wager while Shadow Fiend and the other God Sons objected.
• Teng Xian declared, "I'm Su Tu's dog!!!" and said he had fulfilled the wager before leaving with the other God Sons.
• Su Tu acknowledged Teng Xian's resolve but decided that, as an enemy, Teng Xian had to die.

Zhou Dong reported Su Tu's unprecedented climb of the Heavenly Ladder while an unexplained SS-rank document and a Serpent Race attendant's sudden deference suggested that a major event had shaken the galaxy. At the examinees' dormitory, Su Tu met Bei Men Bugu, learned about the upcoming trials, and discovered that Bei Men Bugu had recognized the Ancient Original Skill behind his cultivation.

• Zhou Dong filed an S-rank report about Su Tu reaching the Heavenly Ladder's hundredth step, then noticed an inaccessible SS-rank document and wondered whether a Supreme had fallen after a Serpent Race attendant abruptly apologized to him.
• Su Tu joined Mu Wuyang, Feng, and Bei Men Bugu in the top examinees' dormitory, where Feng introduced Bei Men Bugu as a Heaven's Pride True Ranking member.
• Mu Wuyang explained the unchallengeable first and second positions on the Initial Ranking, and Su Tu decided he would aim for the True Ranking instead.
• Bei Men Bugu warned that the Seven Divine Sons were formidable, described the upcoming physical and combat trials, and revealed that the fourth round would be a deadly battle royale in the Second Realm.
• As Su Tu entered the mind cultivation room, Bei Men Bugu privately asked what he had comprehended from the Ancient Original Skill, and Su Tu agreed to talk later.

Su Tu gained the incomplete karmic skill Grasp Cause Plant Effect after a Supreme’s attack on him was stopped by an unknown Unspeakable One, then allied with Bei Men Bugu to explore a mysterious collapsed world. When examiners launched a surprise test against the top students, Su Tu detected the intruders and confronted their leader.

• Su Tu’s High-level Candle Wisdom let him see Karma Threads, and he absorbed Fu Tu’s severed thread to obtain the incomplete Divine Skill Grasp Cause Plant Effect.
• Su Tu tested the skill by stirring Feng’s thread and causing Feng’s bed to collapse, then learned that skill advancement requirements had changed to Truth Seeking Realm Completion.
• Su Tu met Bei Men Bugu, who explained that they shared a Base Skill from a collapsed world and proposed an alliance to enter it when it opened.
• Su Tu agreed to cooperate with Bei Men Bugu, who revealed that Dong Dong was his childhood friend and asked Su Tu to help him find something inside the world.
• Su Tu saw Karma Threads stretching toward the corridor and discovered dozens of powerful examiners preparing a surprise test for the top students.
• A tall, thin examiner entered a room unnoticed, but Su Tu appeared behind him, placed a hand on his shoulder, and asked whether he had been looking for him.

Su Tu knocked out an assessment examiner and realized that defeating more examiners could raise his skills, so he went looking for them. He arrived just as another examiner was testing Chang Wu and attacked the examiner from behind.

• Su Tu suppressed the tall, skinny examiner's Martial Dao True Intent and knocked him unconscious.
• After receiving proficiency for defeating the examiner, Su Tu decided to seek out more examiners under the pretense of protecting the students.
• Chang Wu found Liu Fan and Zhang Yang defeated, realized the dormitory's signals were blocked, and tried to escape the masked examiner.
• Chang Wu chose to fight the examiner after escape proved impossible, recalling Su Tu's lesson that martial artists must fight.
• Su Tu appeared behind the examiner and struck him with Prajna Seven Kills before slamming his head into the ground.

Su Tu defeated the assessment instructors on the ninth floor, and Battle Body advanced to High Grade, unleashing a violent surge of power. When chief examiner Zhou Dong rushed to investigate, he mistook Su Tu for an attacker and struck back, leaving the two on a collision course.

• Chang Wu returned to hiding after Su Tu told him that an invading enemy had caused trouble, then gained Candle Wisdom and Acting Proficiency by interpreting Su Tu's actions as a lesson.
• Su Tu considered how to gain more Proficiency and began taking down the assessment instructors on the ninth floor.
• Zhou Dong learned that the instructors on the ninth floor had lost contact and flew there alone to investigate.
• Su Tu defeated another instructor, gained enough Proficiency for Battle Body to reach High Grade, and struggled to contain the violent power surging through him.
• Zhou Dong attacked Su Tu with his frost techniques, mistaking him for an enemy, just as Su Tu charged out shouting that someone was interfering with the final examination.

Su Tu survived Zhou Dong’s Frost Slaughter by using the Battle Body’s new Blood-Lock Hack, then received full marks for his response to the floor-wide attack. As the Foreign Race God Sons planned to kill him in the final examination, Si and Jiu Hua suspected that a god had intervened to change Teng Xian’s behavior.

• Su Tu burned his blood qi to enter an invincible state and withstand Zhou Dong’s Frost Slaughter unharmed.
• Su Tu explained the attackers’ intrusion to Zhou Dong, who awarded him full marks and gave the students in his dormitory full marks as well.
• Zhou Dong warned the other examiners to prepare for the final examination, then praised Su Tu’s strength and told them to grade the ninth floor using the existing records.
• Shadow Fiend, Teng Xian, Amber, and the other Foreign Race God Sons discussed Su Tu’s strength and planned to surround and kill him during the battle royale.
• Si and Jiu Hua separately questioned Teng Xian’s sudden change in temperament and concluded that a god had intervened.

Si and Jiu Hua suspected that a Subspace Evil God had influenced Teng Xian, but agreed to keep their suspicions secret. As Su Tu slept in the dormitory, an unseen intruder entered his room and demanded that he return the authority it claimed he had stolen.

• Si and Jiu Hua reasoned that no human gods or the Three Deviant Sect’s Abomination Gods could have affected Teng Xian, leaving the Subspace Evil Gods as their leading suspect.
• Jiu Hua recalled Su Tu’s ascent of the Heavenly Ladder and wondered whether humanity truly had no god, but she dared not look into his mind.
• Si urged Jiu Hua to say nothing about their suspicions, and she agreed to act as though they knew nothing.
• Su Tu returned to the dormitory, reflected on his gains from the Heavenly Ladder, and went to sleep before midnight.
• An undetectable figure entered Su Tu’s room, collapsed into rotten mud, and accused him of stealing its authority before demanding it back.