Chapter Summaries

A mysterious entity failed to find Su Tu and revealed its plans through a youth whose body it was possessing. After Mu Wuyang nearly attacked Kong Jinyin before the final assessment, Su Tu stopped him and secretly stirred Kong Jinyin’s bad luck, leaving him to face an unknown encounter at the examination grounds.

• A strange figure tried to enter Su Tu’s room, but an unseen force erased it after Su Tu’s presence vanished.
• A youth woke from a nightmare and argued with a shattered-eyeball entity, which promised to help him win the Grand Examination before planning to merge with his body.
• Su Tu practiced the Heaven Flipping Seal and sensed Kong Jinyin nearby through the Tiger Tally.
• Mu Wuyang tried to leave and kill Kong Jinyin, but Su Tu persuaded him to wait until the final assessment.
• Su Tu stirred Kong Jinyin’s bad luck through the Karma Threads, while Kong Jinyin angrily confronted a martial artist guarding the examination grounds.

Kong Jinyin attacked a gate guard and was impaled by Shadow Fiend, whose attempt to kill him triggered divine favor and intervention by a Great Divine Power Expert. Su Tu witnessed the hidden events and suspected Kong Jinyin’s body was part of the God of Wealth’s scheme, while the final assessment began the next morning as a Battle Royale.

• Kong Jinyin ignored Zhou Dong’s warning, summoned remnant soldiers, and ordered them to kill the gate guard.
• Shadow Fiend intervened when the soldiers’ blades struck him, then attacked Kong Jinyin after he insulted him.
• A Great Divine Power Expert restrained Shadow Fiend, but Shadow Fiend invoked the God of Shadows and broke free before the expert concealed the witnesses’ memories.
• Su Tu watched through the Tiger Tally and saw a slender figure emerge from Kong Jinyin’s body before the remnant soldiers were destroyed.
• Kong Jinyin thanked the little boy for his help and discussed a long-prepared deal with the Council of Elders before his memories were altered.
• The examination gates opened the next morning, beginning the final Battle Royale assessment.

Su Tu entered the Eternal Night examination, discovered that killing Beasts increased his score and military merit, and used his Karma Eye to follow a thread toward a guardian. He heard Xuan Yin tormenting human candidates and threatening a defiant girl.

• The black gates opened onto Eternal Night, and Old Tang announced that candidates had to earn points from Beasts and defeat five guardians to escape, with the first seven to leave becoming the top candidates.
• Luo Mo gave Su Tu a Yunyang True Monarch Talisman that nourished Mind Cultivation and could preserve its final spark after death.
• Su Tu entered Eternal Night, killed several Beasts for points and military merit, and realized his Examination Number Plate's growing glow attracted stronger Beasts.
• Su Tu killed a Beast imitating Luo Fan, then used his Karma Eye to follow a thread toward one of the five guardians.
• Xuan Yin tortured several human candidates and threatened a defiant girl who declared that humans would one day stand as high as the gods.

Li Shiyong sacrificed himself to save two examinees from Xuan Yin, and Su Tu arrived to confront the God Son. When Xuan Yin invoked the Xuan God's divine favor, Su Tu's words drove the divine presence away and forced Xuan Yin to kneel before him.

• Li Shiyong tricked Xuan Yin into releasing his restraints, then self-destructed to protect the dark-skinned girl and another examinee.
• Li Shiyong awoke in the examination area, learned Great Wall Military Academy wanted to assess him, and worried about the two examinees left behind.
• Su Tu reached the shattered mountain and found the two examinees dying; they had chosen to die by his hand so he could claim their points and avenge them.
• Su Tu overwhelmed Xuan Yin, but Xuan Yin summoned the Xuan God's divine status and shattered the mountain with its power.
• Su Tu warned Xuan Yin to behave, causing the divine presence to flee and Xuan Yin to kneel and kowtow before him.

Su Tu defeated Xuan Yin, kept him from escaping the Grand Examination, and gained the incomplete Godslayer Divine Skill. While investigating the Eternal Night and its Black Tide, Su Tu was ambushed by three God Sons, but he turned the fight around and stood ready to attack Shadow Fiend and Chang Qi.

• The examiners feared for Su Tu after Xuan Yin's divine power shattered the monitoring screens, but Old Tang insisted humanity's Emperor could withstand a god.
• Sister A Chang's words made the Xuan God's authority flee and forced Xuan Yin to kneel; Su Tu crushed his bones, killed him, and used Mistake to trick his consciousness into returning to Eternal Night instead of withdrawing.
• Su Tu received the incomplete Godslayer Divine Skill, then set out to find the Guardian and hunt the other divine favors.
• Su Tu met Li Fei, learned the Examination Number Plate's light attracted stronger Beasts and that the Black Tide threatened candidates, then rescued Li Fei when the Tide swept through the supposed safe zone.
• Shadow Fiend, Amber, and Chang Qi ambushed Su Tu together, but Su Tu survived, used Plunder and Eternal Life to recover, and battered Amber into the ground.
• Su Tu turned toward Shadow Fiend and Chang Qi and declared that his turn had come.

Su Tu killed Chang Qi and Shadow Fiend, captured Amber, and learned that the Void Spirits had nearly destroyed the galaxy before their existence was erased from history. When Su Tu asked Amber about the Xie Race, Amber’s mind convulsed, leaving Su Tu facing a chilling suspicion.

• Zhou Dong and the examiners lost surveillance of the God Sons after their divine power shattered the light screens, while Old Tang secretly hoped Su Tu would kill more of them and considered helping him escape a coming transaction.
• Chang Qi attacked Su Tu with his water-mist Divine Favor, but Su Tu’s adaptation to Chang Qi’s power let him cleave the water giant apart and kill him.
• Shadow Fiend tried to flee, but Su Tu dragged him back with Thousand Transformations Gilded Gold and killed him; Su Tu then found and pulled Amber from the mountain.
• Su Tu used Error to question the unconscious Amber, who revealed that he could not use Divine Favor and explained that Eternal Night concealed the Void Spirits, creatures from a collapsed galaxy whose invasion had been erased from history.
• Amber said the Xie Race had fought the Void Spirits, but his mind began convulsing when Su Tu asked how he knew about them and why he remembered them.

Su Tu uncovered a force that had concealed the Void Spirits’ history and tried to rewrite his memories, but his transformed True Self World and the blessings of Nüwa and Supreme Purity protected him. After exploring the transformed world and learning about Little Candle’s power, he returned to the Grand Examination, where he found Mu Wuyang facing Feng Zhi and the treacherous Kong Jinyin.

• Su Tu realized that the Beasts and Void Spirits were connected, glimpsed a white jade hand holding the galaxy, and resisted its attempt to rewrite his memories.
• In a distant void, a candle-flame figure and three shadowy beings discussed Su Tu; the backward-riding figure ordered the candle flame not to interfere with him.
• Su Tu killed Amber, entered his transformed True Self World, and found that Little Green had become a crimson dragon he named Little Candle.
• A youth manipulated by a rotten eyeball grew stronger by eating Foreign Races and vowed to take Su Tu’s authority and life.
• After completing a Sacred Realm Dao Gathering, Su Tu inferred that deaths would summon the Grand Examination’s Guardian and saw that the Guardian’s Karma Thread had grown clearer.
• Su Tu rushed toward Old Mu’s Great Sun light and found Mu Wuyang wounded but still fighting Feng Zhi, while Kong Jinyin taunted him and threatened him with dark shadows.

Mu Wuyang nearly killed Kong Jinyin and Feng Zhi, but Su Tu arrived, erased Feng Zhi with Candle Time, and turned the Remnant Army against Kong Jinyin. The chapter then revealed Kong Chunqiu’s scheme involving Ancestral Star martial fortune and ended with Su Tu drawing Jiu Hua into his True Self World.

• Mu Wuyang used illusions and a devastating sun-based strike against Kong Jinyin and Feng Zhi, but Kong Jinyin survived through the power hidden within him and summoned the Remnant Army.
• Su Tu arrived as Feng Zhi charged the exhausted Mu Wuyang, then used Candle Time to reduce Feng Zhi to Mind Power and devoured him in his True Self World.
• Su Tu took control of Kong Jinyin’s Remnant Army and ordered it to flay him; after Kong Jinyin’s head was severed and devoured by a monster, Mu Wuyang’s strike destroyed the remains, and Kong Jinyin reappeared.
• Kong Chunqiu told Wen Shi and Cheng Zhen that he had learned of Biyou Palace from the Forbidden Zone and described a plan to draw out the Ancestral Star’s martial fortune; he angrily lamented Kong Jinyin’s death and threatened to erase him himself.
• Jiu Hua escaped Bei Men Bugu, then tried to locate Feng Zhi and was pulled into Su Tu’s True Self World, where Su Tu offered her the chance to see his rank.

Jiu Hua died after seeing Su Tu’s true rank, and Su Tu turned her mind-born creation Feng Zhi into a fanatically loyal spy posing as her. As the Grand Examination grew more dangerous, Su Tu searched for the remaining God Sons, while a disfigured Liu Tianyi was urged to hunt him down.

• Jiu Hua’s divine favor and true spirit collapsed after she saw that the majestic figure above the Yellow Heaven was Su Tu himself, and Big Cat devoured her remaining Mind Power.
• Su Tu made Feng Zhi a believer and sent him back to the Seven Great Alliances disguised as Jiu Hua, ordering him to report important information.
• Bei Men Bugu pursued Jiu Hua, noticed her fervent faith, and wondered whether something had changed about her.
• The Three Deviant Sect Sufferer and his followers plotted to act after the Martial Examination and proclaimed that the Three Gods would return.
• Su Tu easily defeated an examinee, continued searching for Si and Teng Xian, and sensed that the Grand Examination’s real danger was beginning.
• Liu Tianyi, now a mutilated figure accompanied by a rotten eyeball, was told to find Su Tu and reclaim what he supposedly owed, but Su Tu denied owing him anything.

Su Tu defeated Dialona with Little Blood Moon’s help, restored Divine Skill: Error, and killed the God Sons Si and Teng Xian. After unlocking Godslayer and advancing his Martial Dao True Intent, he watched Eternal Night contract as a colossal monster appeared, beginning the final assessment.

• Su Tu confronted Liu Tianyi and Dialona, beat Liu Tianyi, and let Little Blood Moon devour Dialona, restoring Divine Skill: Error.
• Su Tu learned that Dialona had altered Liu Tianyi’s memories and suspected Little Blood Moon was connected to the Subspace and the Three Deviant Gods.
• Su Tu used Dialona’s planted influence to make Teng Xian kill himself, then attacked Si and killed him after a fierce battle.
• Su Tu broke through the threshold of his fiftieth Bone Root and unlocked Divine Skill: Godslayer.
• Eternal Night contracted, revealing a colossal monster as the final assessment began.

Su Tu led the examinees in fighting the awakened Nethermoon Giant, then used his abilities to kill it and took first place in the Ancestral Star Grand Examination. His victory unleashed Ancestral Star’s martial fortune, and Tushita Palace appeared as the Second Realm collapsed.

• The examination grounds collapsed toward the Nethermoon Giant, and Su Tu charged it before it could fully awaken; Feng, Mu Wuyang, and North Gate Street Tian joined the attack.
• Su Tu’s Azure Heaven Overlord Fist staggered the giant, inspiring the examinees to attack, but the awakened creature’s counterattack eliminated most of them.
• Su Tu’s Godly Killing Star frightened the Nethermoon Giant into fleeing, but Old Tang intervened and forced it to turn back and fight.
• As the giant began disintegrating, Su Tu used the Karma Eye and Bei Men Bugu’s vision of its death to complete his attack; All to Ash activated and killed the giant.
• Old Tang declared Su Tu first place, and his victory triggered a surge of martial fortune across Ancestral Star as the Second Realm collapsed.
• After the examinees evacuated, Su Tu saw Tushita Palace appear where the Second Realm had been.

After the Grand Examination, Su Tu learned that Tushita Palace was forming and prepared to enter it with Zhou Wuliang. Back home, he discovered that the entrance to Tushita Palace had appeared inside his house.

• Tushita Palace emerged above Hangu Pass as the Grand Examination ended, and Su Tu realized he had seen the entire realm of Lihèn Heaven.
• Jiu Hua told Supreme Ju Yuan that Dialona had killed the other six God Sons, prompting Ju Yuan to investigate the Evil God's attempt to steal divine favor.
• On the airship, Su Tu recognized that Bei Men Bugu's predictions could interfere with karma, then agreed to fight Mu Wuyang after returning home.
• Su Tu told Zhou Wuliang about Tushita Palace, received the Supreme Single Thought secret art, and agreed to explore the ruins with his master when they opened.
• After returning home, Su Tu saw martial fortune gather into a golden gate bearing the plaque Tushita Palace.

Su Tu entered Tushita Palace through a gate formed by Martial Fortune and experienced life there as Supreme One’s disciple, receiving a flawed Nine Revolutions Golden Pill before returning to his room. The pill transformed his foundation, and he found himself surrounded by martial academy recruiters who had come to claim him.

• Su Tu’s Martial Fortune gate opened and pulled him into Tushita Palace, where he discovered the ruin extended into Lihèn Heaven.
• Inside Tushita Palace, Su Tu became a child and was treated as the Little Senior Brother of A Da and Xiao Er, attendants who said Supreme One planned to grant him a Daoist title.
• A Da gave Su Tu a flawed Nine Revolutions Golden Pill, and Su Tu returned to his room holding it.
• Su Tu swallowed the pill as it began to dissipate, refining his body and merging his fifteen Celestial Orifices into one grotto-heaven.
• Su Tu’s newfound power disturbed the space in his room, drawing martial artists from several academies who argued over recruiting him.

The Ten Great Martial Academies’ recruiters surrounded Su Tu after he touched space, then suspected he shared Slaughtering Heaven Zhao Zizai’s rare constitution and raced to secure him. Su Tu began cultivating Supreme Single Thought, found a path to the origin in the Mortal Dust Sacred Realm, and met a man who had regained his clarity; meanwhile, Great Wall Military Academy prepared an extraordinary offer to recruit Su Tu.

• The recruiters mistook Su Tu’s spatial fluctuation for an attack, then learned he had caused it while cultivating and tried to persuade him to choose their academies.
• Su Tu said he favored Star Ark Academy, and the recruiters carried off Liu Linglie after restraining him while slipping Su Tu black cards with recruitment messages.
• The recruiters discussed whether Su Tu shared Slaughtering Heaven Zhao Zizai’s constitution, then left to persuade their deans to offer him more.
• Su Tu had his divine oddities balance his thoughts to cultivate Supreme Single Thought, found an origin fragment in the Mortal Dust Sacred Realm, and awakened its dark radiance.
• After understanding tranquility and inaction, Su Tu met a once-confused man at a café who said he planned to commit patricide before his death.
• Great Wall Military Academy’s president ordered Head of Punishments to recruit Su Tu with a top-tier contract and gave him an additional mysterious offering to take to the Ancestral Star.

Su Tu learned that Kong Chunqiu and the Council of Elders planned to drain Blue Star’s Martial Dao Luck, then began preparing to thwart their scheme with Kong Jinyin’s help. After strengthening his techniques and gaining Old Zhou’s support for establishing the Heaven Reaching Dao Heritage on Blue Star, Su Tu was drawn into another vision of Tushita Palace, where three powerful beings competed to become his master.

• The Star Ark Academy dean ordered Liu Linglie to secure Su Tu with generous support, while the dean and a visiting elder recognized that Su Tu’s body resembled Slaughtering Heaven Zhao Zizai’s extraordinary constitution.
• Su Tu met the real Kong Jinyin, who explained how Kong Chunqiu and the Council of Elders had suppressed Blue Star’s Martial Dao Luck so they could eventually transfer it to the New Star.
• Kong Jinyin outlined three conditions for stopping the plan, and Su Tu believed he could meet them through the Heaven Reaching Dao Heritage, his own ability to bear Martial Dao Luck, and the three strands of hair in his mind.
• Su Tu returned to Treading Moon Martial Hall, where Old Zhou steadied his angry technique practice and readily supported making Blue Star the Heaven Reaching Dao Heritage’s Dao field.
• Su Tu advanced Heavenly Martial, gained a technique that unleashed every possible variation of a move, and learned that his replacement Heaven’s Pride Ranking anchor would arrive by noon the next day.
• A gate to Tushita Palace opened at Su Tu’s home, and he found three powerful beings arguing over who would become his master before asking him to choose.

Su Tu gained a lasting Wisdom Light blessing, advanced his Martial Dao True Intent, and discovered that Liu Yingjiao’s wooden carving matched a blood-red figure tied to a mystery he suspected. He tracked Xiao Ba to a Three Deviant Sect ritual, where Little Blood Moon redirected the believers’ faith to Su Tu; he killed Sufferer and then greeted Liu Ma.

• Su Tu rejected Primordial and Tongtian’s competing Dao paths, received gifts from the Three Pure Ones, and returned from Tushita Palace with Wisdom Light, a Dao seal, and a Chaos Egg that opened a storage space.
• Wisdom Light deepened Su Tu’s insights and helped him temper nearly all his remaining bones as his Martial Dao True Intent took on his own appearance.
• Su Tu agreed to return to Green Vine to promote its new Martial Dao curriculum, then recognized that Liu Yingjiao’s wooden carving shared distinctive marks with a sinister crimson figure.
• Su Tu used his enhanced perception to locate Xiao Ba and went with Little Blood Moon to the Three Deviant Sect’s underground ritual site.
• Little Blood Moon converted the gathered believers to Su Tu’s faith, causing his image to replace the Three Gods on their mural, while the Hua Brothers knelt to him.
• Su Tu killed Sufferer with one punch as the believers killed themselves, then turned toward Liu Yingjiao and greeted her.

Su Tu uncovered how Liu Ma was connected to the Three Deviant Sect and helped stop its attempt to unleash Divine Grace across North Sea. After Little Blood Moon devoured the Three Gods’ Blessing, Su Tu received an Origin-Born Qualification and found himself in the Subspace, where he suspected he had become a Subspace Evil God.

• Su Tu confronted Liu Yingjiao, who explained that she was his teacher Liu Ma, a fragment of White Robe’s Mind Power whose memories had awakened without replacing her own personality.
• Liu Ma told Su Tu that the Three Deviant Sect planned to use Nightmare to magnify fear during the Martial Dao boom and spread Divine Grace, and that she was needed to control the power on the Ancestral Star.
• Su Tu learned Number One’s location from Liu Ma and arranged for Li Hu and Old Tang to raid the Three Deviant Sect’s gathering in North Sea.
• Number One unleashed Divine Grace through Nightmare, but Su Tu and Liu Ma directed the power into the projected Blood Moon, which swallowed the three Abomination Gods formed from the mist.
• Little Blood Moon devoured the Three Gods’ Blessing, and Su Tu received an Origin-Born Qualification before finding himself in the Subspace.

Su Tu discovered that the End Deity could gestate within a Subspace source, steal power from other evil gods, and eventually let him wield the source’s power in reality. Back home, academy representatives competed to recruit him with increasingly extravagant offers, until Dean Situ arrived and asked him to become dean of Star Ark Academy.

• Su Tu learned he could shape the source into a body for the End Deity and feed it by stealing the concepts that empowered other evil gods, gaining large amounts of Proficiency.
• Su Tu returned to reality and realized the End Deity could serve as a controllable vessel for the source’s power while it continued to grow.
• Su Tu met Teacher Wang and the other academy recruitment heads, who gathered at his home to compete for his enrollment.
• Zhao Dayong offered Nine Heavens Martial Academy’s Brilliant Glazed Body, while Qian Yan offered Su Tu control of an undeveloped relic for three months on behalf of Liu Xing Research Academy.
• Head of Punishments revealed a Bodhi Leaf, and Dean Situ explained that it was a Great Dao fragment and a key to the Ultimate.
• Dean Situ appeared in person and asked Su Tu to become the dean of Star Ark Academy.

Su Tu chose Star Ark Academy despite competing offers from the Ten Great Martial Academies, then rapidly climbed the Heaven's Pride Ranking and received two unprecedented inscriptions. The inscriptions brought him to the Other Shore, where an unchallengeable figure from another era asked whether he truly intended to restore the Heaven-Piercing Dao Heritage despite the catastrophic price.

• Dean Situ, Xing Yinluo, and other academy representatives tried to recruit Su Tu, but Su Tu kept his application with Star Ark Academy because She Taijun and Wei Yang had treated him as family.
• She Taijun drove off the recruiters, and Su Tu signed Star Ark Academy's privileged contract, which required Situ Xuantian to provide him with two treasures matching the Great Dao Bodhi Leaf.
• Dean Situ secretly gave Su Tu a Sudden Moon Pill, while Zhou Wuliang warned him to stand up for himself at Star Ark and discussed Su Tu's rapid progress in Supreme Single Thought.
• Su Tu challenged the Heaven's Pride Ranking, defeated Wang Yao, advanced through the floors, and defeated Mu Wuyang after they exchanged martial arts advice during their fight.
• The Heaven's Pride Ranking awarded Su Tu two unprecedented inscriptions, declared him the age's seeker of truth in the Martial Dao, and sent him to the Other Shore.
• A fortune-telling youth who held second place on the Preliminary Rankings asked Su Tu whether he intended to restore the Heaven-Piercing Dao Heritage despite the danger of humanity's extinction.

Su Tu entered humanity’s Other Shore, learned that Tongtian’s erased trace was being suppressed, and restored the Heaven Reaching Dao Heritage with Sword Old’s Immortal Slaughtering Sword Shadow. The restoration revived Zhou Wuliang and empowered Tongtian’s scattered disciples, while Su Tu returned to the Martial Arts Hall with a new sword art: the Immortal Slaughtering Four Swords.

• Scheme Heaven Third Generation warned Su Tu that restoring Tongtian might destroy the starry river, then explained that Tongtian’s trace could be revived by a sufficiently prominent heir wielding its founding power.
• Su Tu used his status as Tongtian’s direct disciple and Sword Old’s Immortal Slaughtering Sword Shadow to destroy the force suppressing Tongtian’s trace and reopen the Dao Heritage.
• Zhou Wuliang sensed the restoration, regained his heart anchor, and began recovering his life and accumulated cultivation as Black Mist Man guarded him.
• Li Hu, Xiao, and other scattered members of Tongtian felt the restoration’s blessings, and several decided to return to their junior brother.
• A hostile eyeball appeared over Tongtian’s thatched-hut courtyard and was destroyed by Sword Old’s sword shadow, while another sword strike warned the Sages gathered at the subspace barrier.
• Su Tu returned to the Martial Arts Hall and received the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Shadow, which manifested behind him as four swords.