Chapter Summaries

Li Wuji led Chen Sheng, Ol, and Rhine into the Celestials' fiery underground Sleeping Land, where their attempts to protect equipment revealed the power saturating the tunnel. Chen Sheng secretly tested his abilities and briefly compelled Ol to obey him, leaving Ol determined to surpass him as the group continued onward.

• Li Wuji and the others descended through the icy pit and landed in the blazing underground tunnel beneath the Southernmost Continent.
• Chen Sheng discovered that Water Essence was absent from the tunnel and suspected the Celestials' power had displaced reality's laws.
• Li Wuji failed to keep the flames extinguished, while Rhine's ice also shattered; Ol then protected a detector with the Engraving Method's holy light.
• Chen Sheng touched the flames barehanded and used Gluttony to grind away the burning rock without revealing his power.
• Chen Sheng's words briefly compelled Ol to act, and Ol recovered with renewed determination to treat Chen Sheng as a rival worth surpassing.

Chen Sheng and the others reached the deepest part of the tunnel after he blew away the sea of fire. They found a magma-filled chamber but no sign of the Celestials, and something concealed within the magma began to stir.

• Ol took Li Wuji's detectors and placed them along the tunnel as the group advanced through increasingly intense heat.
• Li Wuji investigated the enormous sea of white fire and found that it blocked their senses, making it dangerous to cross blindly.
• Chen Sheng pushed Li Wuji aside and unleashed a tremendous blast that cleared the sea of fire, leaving the ground crystallized.
• The group crossed the crystallized ground and entered a chamber divided from the fire-filled tunnel, where a large pool of dark-red magma lay before them.
• Rhine warned that something was wrong with the magma, and Chen Sheng sensed an approaching presence, stepped in front of the others, and began drawing on his power.

Chen Sheng and the others encountered a mysterious Celestial in the lava, then learned from Li Wuji that some Celestials might not hate humanity. After Chen Sheng found a route beneath the lava, the group followed him into it.

• A beautiful woman emerged from the lava, revealed herself as a Celestial, and Chen Sheng struck her down, only for her body to turn into black sand.
• The woman reappeared beside Chen Sheng, confirmed that her main body was beneath the lava, and asked why he was not afraid; Chen Sheng said he could kill her and destroyed her again.
• Li Wuji explained his theory that some Celestials had lived alongside Homo sapiens and that a mysterious statue's blessing had awakened Celestial bloodlines, while warning the others that this was only speculation.
• Chen Sheng offered to scout the lava pool, found a route beneath it, and signaled the others to follow.
• Li Wuji, Ol, and Rhine linked together and followed Chen Sheng through the scorching lava as he told them they were nearly there.

Li Wuji and his companions found Red Haze in a ruined Celestial tomb, where she revealed a bronze coffin containing the Fire God Zhurong. After Li Wuji realized Red Haze had been subtly manipulating their minds and ordered an attack, Chen Sheng struck her before she could stop them.

• Li Wuji, Chen Sheng, Ol, and Rhine crossed the cave and followed Red Haze's aura into a tomb.
• Red Haze introduced herself and opened a bronze coffin, naming the Celestial inside as Zhurong, the God of Fire.
• Li Wuji grew alarmed at Zhurong's aura, but Chen Sheng reassured him that Mako was watching over events outside.
• Li Wuji realized Red Haze had been altering their thoughts and memories, then shouted for the group to attack.
• Red Haze tried to command Li Wuji to stop, but Chen Sheng appeared behind her and struck, tearing her gauzy robe and cutting her skin with the force of his blow.

Chen Sheng unleashed his full strength and struck down Red Haze and Fire God Zhurong after Li Wuji, Rhine, and Ol escaped the collapsing Celestials' Sleeping Land. Li Wuji then learned from a researcher that the entire Southernmost Continent had shifted.

• Chen Sheng repeatedly shattered Red Haze's body, but she revived through the body of Fire God Zhurong and continued to taunt him.
• Chen Sheng increased his strength, forcing Li Wuji, Rhine, and Ol to flee after they deployed Authority Inhibitors; the Sleeping Land collapsed and buried them beneath rubble and magma.
• Red Haze drew on Fire God Zhurong's power and formed magma armor, but Chen Sheng released his suppressed aura and grew to a towering size.
• Chen Sheng used his full strength to overpower Red Haze and deliver a final punch.
• Li Wuji contacted a researcher, who told him that the entire Southernmost Continent had shifted.

A massive tremor shifts the Southernmost Continent’s tectonic plate, and Li Wuji, Ol, and Rhine discover that Chen Sheng has defeated the Celestials. They find him holding Zhurong’s head, learn that Red Haze is temporarily dead, and follow Chen Sheng back toward the surface.

• A researcher on the Southernmost Continent rescues people and equipment as violent waves strike the ships, then learns from Kyoto that the continent’s tectonic plate has shifted several centimeters.
• Buried beneath rock, Li Wuji realizes the tremor was likely caused by Chen Sheng or the Celestials, and he reunites with Ol and Rhine.
• Li Wuji, Ol, and Rhine approach the battlefield, where Chen Sheng tells them the fight is over and opens a way through the rock.
• The group finds Chen Sheng holding the head of Zhurong, who introduces himself and falls asleep when Chen Sheng shakes him.
• Chen Sheng tells Li Wuji that Red Haze is temporarily dead, borrows clothes from Rhine, and heads for the surface with the others following.

After the Sleeping Land disaster, Chen Sheng rescued the stranded association personnel and returned to Kyoto with Li Wuji and Zhurong's head. At the research institute, Chen Sheng began explaining the Celestials and revealed that Zhurong's memories showed him things he believed he should not have seen.

• Chen Sheng cleared the avalanche, then took Rhine and Ol to trapped evacuees while Li Wuji carried Zhurong's head toward the coast.
• Chen Sheng, Li Wuji, Rhine, and Ol rescued most of the association personnel, and Chen Sheng let the Celia Empire and the Charter United States take Zhurong's head only if they could seize it from him.
• Li Wuji brought Zhurong's head to Kyoto's underground research institute, where it absorbed nutrient solution and regrew half a body.
• Chen Sheng and Li Wuji discussed the Celestials in a secluded room after the researchers began studying Zhurong.
• Chen Sheng told Li Wuji that Red Haze's soul had been erased, but that he had glimpsed fragments of Zhurong's memories and things he should not have seen.

Chen Sheng experienced Zhurong’s memory of a dying father whose soul was drawn to the Celestials’ ritual before an enormous eye chose him across space and time. The memory ended with Li Wuji realizing the eye had been referring to Chen Sheng.

• Chen Sheng relived Zhurong’s memory of a father trying to keep his son warm in a cave, but the fire went out and both were overcome by cold and darkness.
• Zhurong’s soul was drawn to a forest where upper-class Celestials prayed to a massive eyeball statue and offered their blood for power, revenge, and immortality.
• The statue’s gaze sent Zhurong’s soul beyond Earth into a dark expanse filled with streams of light leading toward other worlds.
• An immense eye appeared above the expanse, granted the Celestials the Supreme Demon’s blessing, and demanded Zhurong’s soul as an additional sacrifice.
• The eye corrected itself, selected Chen Sheng instead, and reached through space and time to mark his soul.
• Beneath the Martial Arts Association in Kyoto, Li Wuji asked Chen Sheng in disbelief whether the eye had been talking about him.

Chen Sheng told Li Wuji that a being called the Supreme Demon had noticed him in Zhurong’s memories, then resolved to grow stronger and learn more about the Celestials. He took Zhurong away to try to wake him and uncover the Celestials’ movements and main camp, while Li Wuji arranged a call with the Charter United States.

• Chen Sheng explained how he had escaped the Supreme Demon’s restraint in Zhurong’s memory and said he needed Zhurong to learn more.
• Chen Sheng reassured Li Wuji that he would face their enemies while Li Wuji protected ordinary people, then said he planned to wake Zhurong and find the Celestials’ main camp.
• Li Wuji warned Chen Sheng against attacking the main camp, but Chen Sheng declared that he would hunt the Celestials and make them fear him.
• Chen Sheng and Li Wuji entered the research hall, where Li Wuji dismissed the off-duty researchers and Chen Sheng found Zhurong’s body restored.
• Chen Sheng took Zhurong from the research institute to conduct experiments elsewhere, while Li Wuji ordered a conference call with the Charter United States.

Chen Sheng took the awakened Celestial Chi far out to sea and forced him to explain how Celestials could be killed. Chi revealed that Celestials drew their power and limited revivals from a statue linked to a higher existence, leaving Chen Sheng with more questions about the Celestials and their origins.

• Chen Sheng used Xiao Hei to try to tear a fragment from Chi's soul, but stopped when Chi woke and politely asked him to stop.
• Chi introduced himself as Chi and explained that Zhurong was one of the many names others had given him.
• Chen Sheng asked how to kill all Celestials, and Chi warned that the task was nearly impossible before proposing a spar to test Chen Sheng's strength.
• Chen Sheng struck Chi before he could finish proposing their terms, destroying his body and sending his head far across the sea.
• Chen Sheng demanded an answer, and Chi explained that Celestials drew their power from a statue containing a portion of a higher being's power and shared a limited number of revivals.

Chen Sheng learned more about the Celestial hierarchy and the First Generation Celestials’ impending awakening, then returned to Kyoto to share his findings with Li Wuji. After discovering similar energy anomalies at other Sleeping Lands, they split up to investigate two sites.

• Chi explained that Celestials were divided into First, Second, and Third Generation, and that First Generation Celestials had weakened him for repeatedly helping humanity.
• Chi warned that the First Generation Celestials would likely awaken within days, but Chen Sheng dismissed his advice to avoid fighting them.
• Chen Sheng told Li Wuji that the Celestials’ memories of the being who transformed them had been erased, while withholding what he had learned about their specific strength.
• Li Wuji reported that energy fluctuations similar to Red Haze’s had appeared at other Sleeping Lands, indicating that more Celestials might have awakened early.
• Chen Sheng and Li Wuji agreed to investigate separate anomalies, collected tracking displays, and departed for their respective Sleeping Lands.

Chen Sheng stopped the expanding desert with the Water Authority and drove the Martial Arts Association scouts to safety. He descended into a tomb, found a Third Generation Celestial Being, and killed it with a single strike.

• The Branch President and his scouting team watched a strange desert rapidly spread through the forest, while his son complained about their mission.
• Chen Sheng summoned rain that halted the desert’s expansion, then used the water to move the scouts away from the danger.
• Chen Sheng investigated the sand and sensed that it was draining vitality, then plunged underground toward the Celestial aura.
• Chen Sheng found a tomb containing a bronze coffin and kicked it open, provoking the Celestial inside to attack him.
• The Third Generation Celestial Being identified Chen Sheng as Homo sapiens and attacked, but Chen Sheng struck it apart before its first blow could reach him.

Chen Sheng fought Wing, a Third Generation Celestial Being who tried to drain his life force, and defeated him inside the tomb. After emerging with Wing’s battered head, Chen Sheng left as the Martial Arts Association squad watched in awe, inspiring the Branch President’s son to reconsider martial arts.

• Chen Sheng searched the tomb for the hidden Celestial Being, while Wing secretly planned to drain his life force and take his body.
• Wing sent regenerating flesh shells to attack Chen Sheng and used the power of Life and Death to absorb his vitality.
• Chen Sheng revealed that Wing’s draining had not weakened him, found him inside the rock, and dragged him out by the neck.
• Chen Sheng attacked Wing with the Desire Demon Body’s ability, then emerged from the tomb carrying Wing’s ruined head and flew away as lightning.
• The Branch President’s son watched Chen Sheng’s display and asked his father about becoming a martial artist.

Chen Sheng and Li Wuji subdued separate Celestials, and Chen Sheng had Xiao Hei devour Wing’s soul, gaining enough Soul Power to consider advancing the Wither Bloom Scripture. The chapter left Chen Sheng preparing to test whether his new strength could help him reach the third realm.

• Li Wuji defeated a Celestial in an overgrown village and restrained it with an Inhibition Rod before Chen Sheng arrived.
• Chen Sheng and Li Wuji returned to Kyoto, where the Martial Arts Association placed Li Wuji’s captured Celestial in a containment facility.
• Chen Sheng returned to YiHe Sect and had Xiao Hei quietly devour Wing’s soul while avoiding the consciousness of the Second Generation Celestial Being.
• Chen Sheng gained more than two hundred points of Soul Power from Wing, bringing his total to five hundred, while Wing’s memories revealed his past abuse and cruelty toward Homo sapiens.
• Chen Sheng studied the Wither Bloom Scripture’s third realm and began testing whether his Soul Power could help him attain it.

Chen Sheng tested the limits of his Inner Vision and began cultivating the third round of the Wither Bloom Scripture, while Wing relived his defeat and was revived among the First Generation Celestial Beings. Wing was welcomed by a gentle figure who comforted him, leaving him overwhelmed by memories of his mother’s warmth.

• Chen Sheng discovered that his Soul Power let him see down to the cellular level and concluded that absorbing more Third Generation Celestials could help him advance the Wither Bloom Scripture.
• Chen Sheng asked Xiao Hei about devouring the Third Generation Celestial, then contacted Li Wuji about the sleeping Second Generation Celestial and requested a Third Generation Celestial after it had been used.
• Wing recovered memories of Chen Sheng attacking him in the tomb, crushing his body, and destroying his soul.
• Wing was drawn through darkness toward a light and revived in a misty place among figures he believed were First Generation Celestial Beings.
• A gentle figure held Wing’s hands, told him he was not to blame, and welcomed him home, bringing him to tears.

Wing followed Ji through the mist to the World Core, where the Celestials’ king praised his resolve and explained the origin of World Consciousness. The king began revealing the path the Supreme Demon had given the Celestials, leaving Wing eager to learn their purpose.

• Ji told Wing that the figures in the mist were First Generation Celestial Beings who had remained there for tens of thousands of years, and led him toward the answer he sought.
• Ji reassured Wing that he shared the First Generation Celestials’ pain and that transformation, not judgment, awaited him; Wing crossed the barrier into a ruined palace.
• Wing knelt before the Celestials’ king, who said Ji had shared Wing’s memories and summoned the other Celestials gathered in the hall.
• The king tested the gathered Celestials with his bloodline pressure; Wing remained standing, and the king praised him.
• The king identified the palace as the World Core, explained that World Consciousness was the aggregate of human consciousness, and said the Supreme Demon had granted the Celestials their power and a new path.

The King revealed that Chen Sheng was the key to the Celestials’ path to true immortality and ordered a hunt to kill or capture him. After the Celestials departed, Ji questioned the King, who admitted they could not defeat Chen Sheng and intended to draw him to the Celestial stronghold; when the World Consciousness appeared, the King seized it and hurled its avatar toward the ground.

• The King identified Chen Sheng as the key to the Celestials’ transformation, and Wing and Red Haze recognized him as the terrifying man who had defeated them.
• The King poured crimson energy into Wing, inflicting extreme pain, while the other Third Generation Celestial Beings volunteered to receive his blessing.
• The King ordered the Celestials and awakened Second Generation Celestial Beings to hunt Chen Sheng, either killing him or bringing him under control.
• After the Celestials left, Ji asked whether they could handle Chen Sheng, and the King admitted they could not but expected Chen Sheng to seek the truth and come to him.
• The World Consciousness appeared after sensing the King’s weakened aura, and the King seized its avatar, taunted it about Chen Sheng, and hurled it toward the ground.

Wang brutally battered the World Consciousness and explained how the Celestials had spent tens of thousands of years trying to harvest its Source Power for the Supreme Demon. After Wang restored the ruined World Core, Yi crossed into the real world with enhanced power, intending to reunite with the other Third Generation Celestial Beings and find Chen Sheng.

• Wang hurled the World Consciousness into the continent, then seized and pummeled it as the land split apart and erupted with lava.
• Ji explained that the Celestials had served the Supreme Demon by driving human civilization to produce more Source Power, while the World Consciousness had trapped them in the World Core and slowed the planet’s development.
• Wang mocked the World Consciousness for giving its Source Power to Chen Sheng, then dispersed its misty form and declared that their next encounter might be their last.
• Wang snapped his fingers and restored the Celestials’ settlement and the shattered continent, leaving the mist around the settlement gone.
• Yi traveled through the passage from the World Core, empowered by Wang, and resolved to gather the other Third Generation Celestial Beings and target Chen Sheng.

Chen Sheng dreamed of a warning to stay away from the World Core, then awoke and learned that Celestial activity had fallen strangely quiet. Li Wuji reported a newly discovered fluctuation linked to vanished Celestials, giving humanity a possible way to anticipate their movements.

• In a dream, Chen Sheng heard a familiar foggy figure warn him not to approach the World Core before a hostile aura shattered the Dream Realm.
• Chen Sheng woke at YiHe Sect, recalled the warning, and decided to focus on cultivating while waiting for his seven Seeds of Desire to mature.
• Chen Sheng read Li Wuji’s report that many Third Generation Celestials had taken over Second Generation bodies, but the expected attacks had not begun and Celestial activity had gone still.
• The next morning, Li Wuji told Chen Sheng that the captured Third Generation Celestial had vanished from Qi Han’s body and that researchers had detected an unknown fluctuation linked to the disappearance.
• Chen Sheng realized that tracking the fluctuation might let humanity predict where Celestials would emerge and prepare ambushes.

Chen Sheng completed the third cycle of the Seven Devil Scripture, raising his base attributes to 104,000, then went to a desert to perfect Thunder Breathing. After unleashing overwhelming power during the upgrade, he sensed that the watching thunderclouds were afraid of him.

• Chen Sheng continued training while the YiHe Sect remained undisturbed, then watched the cracked Seeds of Desire begin to shatter.
• Chen Sheng killed the seven desire clones as they emerged, absorbed their power, and completed the third cycle of the Seven Devil Scripture, bringing his three base attributes to 104,000.
• Chen Sheng saw that Thunder Breathing was still at level four and spent his 280,000 Skill Points to raise it toward perfection in a remote desert.
• Chen Sheng activated his combat amplifications beneath the storm, reaching an attribute value of 436 million as the lightning turned pure white and the thunderclouds seemed to watch him.
• Chen Sheng sensed the clouds cowering in fear and smiled at their reaction.