Chapter Summaries

Shen Zhui secured the General Windwalk Token and recruited Yun Duo to help him gather Merit Points by hunting demonic cultivators in Immortal Crane City. After Xiao Huo wiped out a Yaohe Sect force that had massacred the Zhige Sect, Shen Zhui headed for another group, hoping to earn enough Merit Points for Lin Ze.

• The sixteen Titled Captains agreed to guarantee Shen Zhui’s safety, and Lu Yuanwei gave him the General Windwalk Token and authority to command Wu'an Army forces and execute offenders first.
• Shen Zhui asked Yun Duo to help him find demonic cultivators, then revealed that he owned the Fighting Vajra Xiao Huo and had caused the Lotus City incident.
• Xiao Huo detected seven groups in Immortal Crane City, and Shen Zhui chose a nearby demonic sect team as his first target for Merit Points.
• The Yaohe Sect Master ordered his forces to ambush and kill all twenty members of the Zhige Sect, then took their spoils.
• Shen Zhui and Yun Duo arrived with Xiao Huo, which killed all forty demonic cultivators in the Yaohe group and earned Shen Zhui 3.2 million Merit Points.
• Shen Zhui decided to hunt another group to earn enough Merit Points for Lin Ze.

Shen Zhui hunted demonic cultivator teams for Merit Points, then used them to give Lin Ze extra Awakening Time as he attempted to decipher the first difficulty. Lin Ze emerged as the one who completed it, leaving the Sect Alliance’s Qin Wu and Heavenly Absolute Venerable facing a last-moment defeat.

• The Liuhuo Envoy and Blood Red Fortress Master noticed that demonic cultivator casualties in Immortal Crane City had surged and suspected the Great Zhou Border Army was targeting them, so the Liuhuo Envoy ordered reserve Righteous Path sects to deploy.
• Heaven's Absolute Venerable learned that Qin Wu was close to deciphering the first solution and promised him a chance to become a Venerable if he obtained the Fighting Vajra method.
• Shen Zhui collected nearly six million Merit Points by hunting sect teams, then returned with Yun Duo and brought Lin Ze to the Chessboard Barrier.
• Shen Zhui exchanged his Merit Points for 5,800 seconds of Awakening Time and gave it to Lin Ze before Lin Ze entered the barrier; Fang Wen, Liu Ping, and Qin Wu also entered.
• As the Fighting Venerable emerged from the Zen Heart Hall, he pulled Lin Ze out of the Chessboard Barrier, and Heavenly Absolute Venerable realized Qin Wu had failed at the final moment.

After Lin Ze won the Fighting Vajra inheritance, Fighting Venerable stopped a Sect Alliance attack and imposed rules for the final trial. Shen Zhui entered Zen Heart Hall, where a power called All Beings Are Equal weakened the inheritors and sealed away many of their abilities.

• Heavenly Absolute Venerable blamed Shen Zhui for Lin Ze's victory, while Qin Wu fainted after losing the puzzle contest.
• Fighting Venerable awarded Lin Ze the Fighting Vajra and its refining method, then announced that all forty-nine inheritors could enter the final test.
• Purple Extreme Daoist attacked Lin Ze, but Fighting Venerable shattered the assault and barred further attacks or outside intervention in Immortal Crane City.
• The factions chose to wait while the inheritors decided whether to enter Zen Heart Hall; Lin Ze withdrew, and Zi Xuan gave Shen Zhui Xiao Huo for protection.
• Shen Zhui entered Zen Heart Hall with the other inheritors and discovered that their cultivation had been reduced and their equipment and powers restricted.
• Fighting Venerable announced that the final trial's Rule Power was called All Beings Are Equal.

Shen Zhui entered Ciyun Venerable’s final inheritance trial, where all inheritors were weakened and tasked with earning Contribution Points by hunting puppets or eliminating rivals. After defeating an inheritor and surviving the opening days, Shen Zhui remained near the bottom of the rankings while training his seven clones for a stronger assault.

• Fighting Venerable explained that the inheritors would be reduced to the First-tier Divine Ability Realm, and Lu Yuanwei clarified how the Venerable’s Rule Power affected them.
• The trial rules revealed 108,000 First-tier Divine Ability puppets, a one-month duration, and rewards for killing puppets or rival inheritors; Shen Zhui collected the weapons offered to him.
• Shen Zhui entered the inheritance space, sensed an approaching inheritor, and killed the black-armored man with his saber technique and Illusory God Dao.
• Shen Zhui escaped a growing crowd of puppets and later drove back a puppet nest, using his retained comprehension and powerful divine soul to overcome the weakened enemies.
• After three days, Shen Zhui had earned 372 Contribution Points and ranked thirty-second among forty-four inheritors while his seven clones continued cultivating their secret methods.

Shen Zhui spent twelve days cultivating his secret methods while falling to last place in the inheritance rankings, then emerged and slaughtered a horde of puppets with his seven clones. As he hurried toward the central region to catch up, he encountered the Night Demon Sect Elder, who attacked him.

• Generals at Shen Zhui's estate worried over his last-place ranking, while observers outside Immortal Crane City discussed the leading inheritors and Xia Hong mocked Shen Zhui's poor standing.
• Shen Zhui completed his preparations in a ruined palace, bringing his seven Divine Ability Secret Methods close to mastery and deciding to begin hunting puppets in earnest.
• Shen Zhui and his seven clones killed all 136 nearby puppets in the time it took an incense stick to burn, using less than half a percent of his spiritual power.
• After seeing that the Purple Extreme Daoist had amassed 8,320 Contribution Points, Shen Zhui headed toward the central region at great speed.
• The Night Demon Sect Elder spotted Shen Zhui approaching and charged at him, and Shen Zhui met his attack.

Shen Zhui killed the Night Demon Sect Elder in the Inheritance Space, then used his seven clones to hunt puppets and rapidly climb the rankings. After reaching fifteenth place, he tested whether his five hundred thousand Merit Points could activate the Merit Barrier.

• The Night Demon Sect Elder attacked Shen Zhui with flaming rings, but Shen Zhui dodged them and struck back with his Thunderclap saber technique.
• Shen Zhui used his strength, Thunder God Art, and hidden clones to kill the Night Demon Sect Elder before he could escape with his inheritance token.
• Shen Zhui gained the Elder’s Contribution Points, rose to thirty-third place, and sent his seven clones out to hunt puppets while he searched for inheritors.
• Shen Zhui’s rank climbed rapidly as his clones slaughtered puppets, while commanders in Ten Thousand Peaks City watched him rise to fifteenth place.
• Shen Zhui rested amid the battlefield, considered his five hundred thousand Merit Points, and activated the Merit Barrier.

Shen Zhui tested how the Merit Barrier let him resist Rule Power in the Inheritance Space, then arranged for Lin Ze to kill demonic cultivators so he could recover Merit Points. He confronted Jian Jiu, a Spatial Sword Cultivator who had killed two inheritors, and unleashed his strongest Thunder God Art technique as their battle began.

• Shen Zhui discovered that the Merit Barrier restored his strength but drained Merit Points rapidly, especially when he brought powerful treasures out of his Cave Heaven World.
• Shen Zhui asked Lin Ze to kill more than a hundred named Night Demon Sect cultivators, hoping the system's gifting function would return the Merit Points he had given Lin Ze.
• Shen Zhui spotted Jian Jiu massacring inheritors and approached him after Jian Jiu's ranking rose from thirty-seventh to thirteenth.
• Shen Zhui and Jian Jiu each threw away their inheritance tokens to commit to a fight, while Shen Zhui's Earth Clone secretly retrieved his token.
• Jian Jiu deployed his Sword World and nine Flying Swords, but Shen Zhui's perfect Cave Heaven World cracked it apart.
• Shen Zhui gathered six thousand Thunderclap Lassos into a dragon shadow and attacked Jian Jiu with the Thunder God Art's Third Form, Sky-Tearing Claw.

Shen Zhui killed Jian Jiu with the amplified Thunder God Art and Merit Barrier, then rose through the Inheritance Space rankings by defeating or eliminating other heirs. With every puppet dead and only five inheritors remaining, he challenged the other four to a final battle.

• Shen Zhui activated the Merit Barrier, pierced Jian Jiu's defenses, and killed him after preventing his escape from the Cave Heaven World.
• Shen Zhui learned that killing Jian Jiu had raised him to twelfth place, then encountered Gu Chenxing, who declined to fight and left to seek Jiang Tianming.
• Shen Zhui killed or forced out several heirs over the following days, while Black Demon forced Yun Duo to withdraw and warned Shen Zhui about Black Demon's strength.
• By the twenty-eighth day, Shen Zhui had risen to fifth place, and only five heirs remained in the Inheritance Space.
• After all the puppets were slaughtered on the twenty-ninth day, Shen Zhui challenged Purple Extreme Daoist, Gu Chenxing, Black Demon, and Lan Chenguang to fight.
• Black Demon, Gu Chenxing, Lan Chenguang, and Purple Extreme Daoist arrived, setting the stage for the final battle among the five inheritors.

Shen Zhui joined the other four surviving contenders in a battle for the Ninth Tier Venerable’s inheritance, but Black Demon revealed overwhelming power as a member of the Dark Moluo Race. Purple Extreme Daoist was gravely wounded and forced out, leaving the remaining fighters to face Black Demon.

• Shen Zhui and Lan Chenguang joined Gu Chenxing and Purple Extreme Daoist in attacking Black Demon, while Purple Extreme Daoist also tried to ambush his rivals.
• Black Demon unleashed a Darkness Domain and created powerful demonized clones, forcing all four opponents into separate fights.
• Lan Chenguang recognized Black Demon as a member of the Dark Moluo Race, and Shen Zhui noticed that the black mist slowed his attacks and devoured his Spirit Power.
• Black Demon’s clone struck Purple Extreme Daoist with a massive tentacle, severing him at the waist and forcing him to crush his inheritance token to escape.

Shen Zhui uncovered the Black Demon's true body and discovered that a True God-level Prince, King Xiangshan, had sent him to seize the Venerable's treasure. After the other challengers were forced from the Inheritance Space, Shen Zhui faced the Black Demon alone, and their battle began in earnest.

• The Purple Extreme Daoist emerged badly injured and warned that the Black Demon had not been suppressed by the Rule Power, prompting the Sect Alliance and Great Zhou Border Army to make plans outside the Inheritance Space.
• Shen Zhui activated the Merit Barrier, while Lan Chenguang fought the Black Demon and crushed his inheritance token to escape; the lost Contribution Points summoned nearly twenty thousand Divine Ability Puppets.
• The Black Demon targeted Gu Chenxing, but Shen Zhui used the Eye of Insight to reveal that the four apparent avatars were controlled by a true body concealed in the black mist.
• The Black Demon defeated Gu Chenxing, who crushed his inheritance token, leaving only Shen Zhui and the Black Demon in the Inheritance Space.
• Shen Zhui learned that the Black Demon's master was King Xiangshan, then unleashed his Cave Heaven World and God Slaying Saber to battle the Black Demon on equal terms.

Shen Zhui defeated Black Demon after surviving the detonation of a Blazing Fire Origin Crystal and claimed first place in the Inheritance Space. The Fighting Venerable appeared and congratulated him as the final inheritor, awarding him the Heart of the World.

• Black Demon revealed his Darkness Origin techniques and attacked Shen Zhui with four clones, but Shen Zhui summoned the Nine Star Soul Devouring Pearl and its nine Yakshas to counter them.
• Shen Zhui's Yakshas forced Black Demon to reveal his true body, and Black Demon unleashed the Blazing Fire Origin Crystal in an attempt to kill him.
• Shen Zhui survived the explosion inside the Ruyi Warship, recovered with Blood Origin Crystal Cores, and returned to confront Black Demon.
• Shen Zhui pursued Black Demon with the Ruyi Warship and killed him with the Fighting Vajra, taking his Contribution Points and securing first place.
• The Fighting Venerable appeared and named Shen Zhui the final inheritor, granting him the Heart of the World.

Shen Zhui accepted Ciyun Venerable’s inheritance, gaining the Twin World Heart and the promise of Zen Heart’s teachings, then returned to the Wu'an Army encampment. To conceal what happened and carry out the escape plan, he let a Wind Clone disguised as Black Demon flee through Zen Heart Hall’s teleportation array with the inheritance apparently in hand.

• Fighting Venerable showed Shen Zhui the Twin World Heart and explained that Ciyun Venerable had sacrificed his remaining life to create it and leave an inheritance.
• Fighting Venerable revealed the eight dead Divine Weapon Puppets and explained Ciyun Venerable’s dying wish to destroy the force that had ambushed him.
• Shen Zhui accepted Ciyun Venerable as his teacher, kowtowed before the Buddha statue, and drew the Twin World Heart into his Cave Heaven World.
• Shen Zhui stored the eight Fighting Venerable skeletons and learned that Zen Heart would aid him only in life-and-death danger and fully acknowledge him once he reached Ciyun Venerable’s former level.
• Shen Zhui asked Zen Heart to activate the teleportation array, then appeared above the Wu'an Army encampment and told the gathered experts that Black Demon had been too powerful to defeat.
• Zen Heart removed the barrier around Immortal Crane City as Shen Zhui’s Wind Clone, disguised as Black Demon, escaped through the spatial crack and claimed the Venerable inheritance.

Shen Zhui escaped the pursuit after Ciyun Venerable’s inheritance was intercepted, then led his troops into the Great Zhou–Sect Alliance battle. He charged through the enemy ranks to earn military merit, drawing the attention of a powerful demonic cultivator.

• Shen Zhui used the teleportation array to escape while Venerables pursued his Wind Clone, but King Xiangshan intercepted the barrier and crushed the remains it carried.
• Marquis Wu'an confronted King Xiangshan over the missing treasure, then examined the remains before they vanished.
• The Great Zhou and Sect Alliance armies clashed in Immortal Crane City, and Shen Zhui rapidly assembled more than six thousand soldiers and led them into battle.
• Shui Ruyu intercepted seven elders of the Primeval Demonic Sect who targeted Shen Zhui, while he continued directing his army toward enemies marked by his Eye of Insight.
• Yun Duo and Cheng Xin followed Shen Zhui through the battle as a Seventh-tier Divine Ability demonic cultivator noticed his charge and flew toward him.

Shen Zhui used Xiao Huo to kill powerful Sect Alliance experts across the northern front of Immortal Crane City, drawing five Blood Red Fortress guardians to attack him. As the guardians surrounded him, Shen Zhui unleashed the essence blood of the Heavenly Dipper Fierce Beast Hui, and its roar shook the battlefield.

• Zi Xuan warned Shen Zhui of the approaching Blood Shadow Guardian, whom Xiao Huo killed and whose soul the Soul Devouring Pearls devoured.
• Xing Sen and the Sea-Covering Sect Master recognized Shen Zhui as the person behind the Fighting Vajra’s role in the disaster at Lotus City.
• Shen Zhui sent Xiao Huo after the Green Demon Guardian and then continued hunting powerful enemies across the battlefield.
• Shen Zhui and Xiao Huo killed ten powerful figures in an hour, prompting Blood Red Fortress’s remaining guardians to seek him out.
• Five Blood Red Fortress guardians shattered Shen Zhui’s military-flag barrier and surrounded him, but Shen Zhui summoned the essence blood of Hui, the nineteenth-ranked Heavenly Dipper Fierce Beast.

Shen Zhui refined the fierce beast Hui’s essence blood and used its power to overwhelm the Blood Red Fortress guardians. As the Ninth-tier Heavenly Serpent Emissary attacked him, Lu Yuanwei appeared and stopped the blow.

• Shen Zhui incarnated as Hui, summoned eighty illusory stars, and sent the Shadow Guardian flying with a single attack.
• Shen Zhui resisted the Phantom Guardian’s illusion and injured her, then fought the Great Guardian Wu Ying, Blazing Fire, and the other guardians with Hui’s immense strength.
• Xia Hong noticed Shen Zhui’s transformation while fighting the Heavenly Elephant Holy Emissary, and the Heavenly Serpent Holy Emissary left to attack Shen Zhui.
• Shen Zhui used the Immovable Wisdom King Seal to crush the guardians into a pit, then continued battling them while his allies charged into the fight.
• The Heavenly Serpent Holy Emissary struck Shen Zhui and broke his defense, but Lu Yuanwei appeared beneath the club and stopped its next blow.

Lu Yuanwei killed the Heavenly Serpent Emissary, and Marquis Wu'an’s forces defeated the Sect Alliance after killing the Sorrow Demon Venerable. The battle ended under King Liang’s decree, and Shen Zhui began recovering while reviewing his weaknesses in Origin Comprehension.

• Lu Yuanwei killed the fleeing Heavenly Serpent Emissary with a single strike and told Shen Zhui to seize the chance to earn Merit Points.
• The Heavenly Absolute Venerable and Cold Light Venerable ordered the Sect Alliance to retreat, but Marquis Wu'an appeared with Marquis Divine Sword and Marquis Dingwu and revealed that he had killed the Sorrow Demon Venerable.
• Marquis Wu'an tried to stop the fleeing Sect Alliance Venerables, but King Tianyao intervened and King Liang’s imperial decree ordered the army to purge Ciyun World.
• Shen Zhui returned to human form, descended into Windwalk Hall, and began recovering while reflecting on his battle against the five guardians.
• Zenheart explained that Shen Zhui’s weak Origin Comprehension had left him at a disadvantage, then described Divine Ability Realm geniuses who had comprehended Rule Power or rivaled True God Level understanding.

Shen Zhui discovered that Black Demon’s Storage Ring could expose him to King Xiangshan, but the Merit Barrier blocked the investigation at a steep cost. After Marquis Wu'an inspected Shen Zhui’s clones, Shen Zhui found a damaged Star Luo Mirror among Black Demon’s treasures and learned that Chanxin knew artifact refining.

• Chanxin urged Shen Zhui to aim beyond an ordinary level, and Shen Zhui vowed to become the strongest.
• Shen Zhui reviewed his Merit Points and treasures, then used the Merit Barrier to block a divine sense emerging from Black Demon’s Storage Ring, spending one million Merit Points.
• King Xiangshan failed to trace the person who touched the ring and sent his disciple Yiyi to Liang Kingdom to investigate Shen Zhui.
• Marquis Wu'an visited Shen Zhui, confirmed that he possessed the Five Elements Clone Technique, and told him to cultivate wholeheartedly.
• Shen Zhui searched Black Demon’s Storage Ring and found a damaged Star Luo Mirror, which Chanxin identified as a valuable artifact-refining treasure.

Shen Zhui learned that Chanxin carried Ciyun Venerable’s artifact-refining inheritance and began studying its foundational techniques. Meanwhile, officials in Ten Thousand Peaks City voted overwhelmingly to petition the Son of Heaven to promote Shen Zhui to Divine Might General, despite Xia Haiqing’s opposition.

• Chanxin explained that refining another Fighting Venerable would require the wealth of ten Venerables, and that Shen Zhui could request one artifact-refining service each time he broke through a minor realm.
• Chanxin transmitted the Myriad Fire Scripture and Hundred Refinements Cloak Hammer to Shen Zhui, who immersed himself in comprehending them for three days.
• An official proposed promoting Shen Zhui to Divine Might General, and Xia Haiqing argued that Shen Zhui had not met the rank’s requirements.
• A young official rebutted Xia Haiqing’s objections, and He Guangzheng warned him after he challenged the rules behind the Divine Might title.
• The officials voted overwhelmingly in favor of petitioning the Military Department, central authorities, and Son of Heaven to grant Shen Zhui the title in three days.

Shen Zhui failed to temper Purple Clay Iron correctly, but Chanxin identified his mistakes and urged him to balance his clone training with absorbing the Twin World Heart. The inheritance showed Shen Zhui the tragic story of a Shepherdess who was betrayed despite her kindness, and he realized Ciyun Venerable had been the Shepherdess; the backward-seated Bodhisattva then moved.

• Shen Zhui's Fire Element Clone broke the Purple Clay Iron while attempting to temper it, and Chanxin pinpointed the earlier errors that had doomed the process.
• Chanxin told Shen Zhui to resume cultivating his true body and absorb the Twin World Heart to access Ciyun Venerable's inheritance.
• Shen Zhui entered an ancient temple in the inheritance and witnessed the story of a Shepherdess who rescued a wounded young cultivator, taught him cultivation, and fell in love with him.
• The young cultivator abandoned his promise to the Shepherdess, then killed her to obtain her heart and liver as medicine for the Princess he had married.
• A Buddhist Bodhisattva tried to give the young cultivator a chance to repent, but he refused and was killed by lightning; the Bodhisattva restored the Shepherdess and took her away.
• Shen Zhui realized Ciyun Venerable had been the Shepherdess, a Ten Generations of Goodness with an Exquisite Heart with Seven Apertures, and watched the Bodhisattva Dharma Image move.

Shen Zhui learned about Ciyun Venerable’s two Supreme Skills and faced a final inheritance trial that demanded he kill an innocent woman. He refused, inherited the Twin World Heart, and began studying the skills after confirming Chanxin posed no threat.

• Ciyun Venerable explained the difficult mental cultivation method Exquisite Buddhist Treasury and the Fortune-and-Destiny arts of the Lotus Dao Fruit.
• Ciyun Venerable revealed that she wanted Shen Zhui to kill an innocent woman so she could restore her soul, but Shen Zhui refused her offer and threats.
• The Shepherdess’s illusion vanished, and Shen Zhui awoke in his Cave Heaven World with the Twin World Heart truly belonging to him.
• Chanxin explained that the request had tested Shen Zhui’s character and that he would have killed Shen Zhui if he had agreed to commit the murder.
• Shen Zhui used his Merit Barrier to check Chanxin, then began comprehending Exquisite Buddhist Treasury and Lotus Dao Fruit.