Chapter Summaries

Mu Yuan began planning to accelerate Lapis’s progress along the Angel King’s Road by recruiting and nurturing a powerful Angel Legion, while preparing Tian Yuan City for Dragon Sleeping Valley’s possible retaliation. Meanwhile, reports of Tian Yuan City’s strength prompted the Divine Glory Empire to abandon recruitment plans and pursue friendly relations.

• Lapis’s progress on the Angel King’s Road advanced after she incorporated the angels, and Mu Yuan concluded that their number, strength, and growth would provide her with the power to climb the path.
• Mu Yuan planned to recruit and rapidly train more than two hundred angels, making Lapis’s advancement a priority because Dragon Sleeping Valley might attack during the Calamity Moon of the Red Mist.
• Mu Yuan urged the self-aware angels, especially Tila, to cultivate diligently before leaving them in Lapis’s care.
• Radiant Glory Duke told the One-Eyed Prince that reports of Tian Yuan City’s strength were accurate and revealed that its Azure King had escaped a sacred-realm strike.
• The One-Eyed Prince decided that Tian Yuan City must be befriended and assigned Radiant Glory Duke to handle the effort.
• The Divine Glory Empire convened a meeting and chose to pursue good relations with Tian Yuan City, disregarding Duke Meka’s objection.

The Seven Cities Federation and the Divine Glory Empire sent delegations to visit Tian Yuan City, while Ancient Sword Divine Lord learned from Wu Ming and Jin Xiang about the astonishing strength of a new generation of experts. The Divine Glory delegation arrived to find Tian Yuan City far more prosperous and advanced than Diamond Queen Vivian remembered, and its welcoming troops matched the empire’s honor guard.

• The Seven Cities Federation’s leaders argued over who would lead the visit, then agreed to travel together.
• Wu Ming and Jin Xiang told Ancient Sword Divine Lord about powerful experts who had advanced rapidly and faced Law Realm and Saint Realm opponents, leaving him astonished and curious about Tian Yuan City.
• Radiant Glory Garcia, Diamond Queen Vivian, Blazing Fire He Le, and the Divine Glory delegation crossed the domains aboard a platinum ark toward the Ten Directions Island Domain.
• The Divine Glory delegation saw Tian Yuan City’s sprawling railways, towns, extraordinary buildings, and busy streets, surprising Radiant Glory and Vivian.
• The Divine Glory delegation landed at Tian Yuan City’s airport, where reporters observed that the city’s Fourth Order Peak archers rivaled or surpassed the empire’s Radiant Glory Swordsmen.

Tian Yuan City received delegations from the Divine Glory Empire and the Seven Cities Federation, whose leaders were astonished by its elite troops and hidden strength. An Ancient Sword Divine Lord observed the city from afar, sensed a Legendary Lifeform within it, and departed after concluding that a legendary existence was guiding its lord.

• Radiant Glory Duke saw Tian Yuan City's two hundred elite divine marksmen and inferred that the city could train Star Commanders like Star Shattering Arrow Master.
• Radiant Glory Duke noticed the Seven Cities Federation arriving aboard its Sky Tower and recognized how seriously it regarded Tian Yuan City.
• True Flame Principal and Learned Sage arrived with the federation's delegation, and Mu Yuan personally welcomed them alongside two hundred golden-armored Imperial Guards.
• True Flame Principal recognized that some of Tian Yuan City's Imperial Guards might be Epic Fearless War Marshals, while a Four-Winged Angel sensed angels and something more within the city's Heaven's Domain.
• The Ancient Sword Divine Lord examined Tian Yuan City from a distant mountain, sensed a Legendary Lifeform there, and left after deciding an old legendary acquaintance was guiding Mu Yuan.

After a month of growth and relative calm in Tian Yuan City, Mu Yuan assessed rising dangers across the Eternal World and attended the Bestowal of Honors ceremony in Xuan Capital. The memorial service ended with a review of the honors to come, including Mu Yuan’s promotion to Seven Star Pioneer General.

• Tian Yuan City prospered as merchant groups, adventurers, and new camps brought trade and income, while Mu Yuan noted that the lull in disasters was only a brief calm before the storm.
• Mu Yuan reviewed reports of Cold Moon City Lord’s victories, the Nation of Merchants and Divine Wood Dynasty’s failed campaign against Shadow King City, and increased defensive preparations across the great nations.
• Mu Yuan received official notice that his achievements in destroying the Dragon Sleeping disaster had earned him the title of Seven Star Pioneer General.
• Mu Yuan brought Duolai, Uta, Lu Liu, A'Sun, and his other generals to Xuan Capital for the Bestowal of Honors ceremony.
• At the Nine Colors Tower, Old Man Lin presented memorials for fallen experts, and Mount Luofu Master urged the Pioneer Lords to believe they could defeat the disasters before the ceremony’s honors review began.

The projection reviewed the military achievements of several Pioneer Lords, including Glory, Flying Cloud, Old General Zhou, and Cold Moon City Lord, before turning to Tian Yuan City Lord’s victories in the Broken Island War Zone. It ended as Tian Yuan’s battle records continued to unfold, leaving the audience watching for the rest of his achievements.

• Glory’s projection showed how he turned the Drifting Lake Domain Battle around by killing three Shadow Dukes and displayed his other major military achievements.
• Flying Cloud’s record described his victories against the Hand of Azure Sky, his rescues during the Sky Rift Disaster, and his resistance to a Law Realm Duke.
• Old General Zhou was celebrated for reaching the Law Realm and advancing to seven stars, becoming a Pioneer General.
• Cold Moon City Lord’s record revealed that she had defeated more than twenty Law Realm Monsters and annihilated three of them.
• Tian Yuan City Lord’s projection showed how he used the Broken Island War Zone’s power to reverse battles against Dragon Sleeping Valley and defeat the Gluttony Grand Duke’s projection.
• The projection continued presenting Tian Yuan City Lord’s spectacular battle records.

At a ceremony honoring the Alliance’s distinguished lords, Mu Yuan’s achievements in the Dragon Sleeping Valley campaign and his commanders’ decisive roles astonished the gathered Pioneer Lords. He received the title of Seven-Star Pioneer General and the protection of national fortune, marking Tian Yuan City’s rise to the Alliance’s highest ranks.

• The Alliance’s public account of Tian Yuan City’s accomplishments described the Devouring Heaven Master’s Red Mist devouring, Uta’s slaying of the Myriad Thunder Grand Duke, Mu Yuan’s killing of the Gluttony Grand Duke, and the Azure King’s rescue of the joint team.
• The Pioneer Lords praised Tian Yuan City’s crucial role in destroying Dragon Sleeping Valley’s contamination core, while the Cold Moon City Lord privately resolved to surpass Mu Yuan next time.
• Mu Yuan, Cold Moon, Feiyun, and other accomplished lords underwent their bestowal ceremonies as national fortune descended upon them.
• Mu Yuan received the title of Tai Xuan Alliance Seven-Star Pioneer General, expanded Alliance authority, cultivation benefits, and a strand of national fortune that could protect him from mortal danger.
• In the Alliance’s sixty-second year, two years after Tian Yuan City was established, Mu Yuan became a Pioneer General.

Hegemon Dragon read the Alliance’s advance list of the Tai Xuan Thirteen Illusory Gods as the Sky Rift Disaster approached, and saw Tian Yuan ranked fourth. The Tunnel Alliance’s prodigies reviewed the list, leaving Qingxin City Lord annoyed that she had been ranked last.

• Hegemon Dragon checked the high-level Pioneer Group forum for news about the approaching disaster.
• Hegemon Dragon opened the Thirteen Illusory Gods list and saw Duke Bei Ting, Liu Shi Sword Master, Cold Moon City Lord, and Tian Yuan City Lord among its leading names.
• Wuji, You Shan, and other powerful lords were stunned that Tian Yuan ranked fourth, while Divine Glory Empire’s Peak Lords debated his ranking and potential.
• Mu Yuan, Cold Moon City Lord, Liu Shi Sword Master, and Qingxin City Lord discussed the list during a meeting in Tian Yuan City.
• Qingxin City Lord complained about being ranked last, and Cold Moon City Lord laughed despite trying to reassure her.

Mu Yuan learned that the coming Red Mist Calamity Moon could let Law Realm Monsters from Dragon Sleeping Valley attack Tian Yuan City, so he prepared by exchanging for powerful defensive treasures. His purchases arrived safely in Tian Yuan City, including the Celestial Four Symbols Array.

• Qingxin City Lord recounted how the Myriad Phenomena Empire's failed attempt to destroy a Monster Overlord left it vulnerable to the Great Calamity, and Liu Shi Sword Master warned that the coming Red Mist Calamity Moon and Sky Rift Disaster could unleash Law Realm Monsters.
• Mu Yuan considered the threat Dragon Sleeping Valley posed to Tian Yuan City and exchanged for two Lights of Purification along with other Epic treasures and materials.
• Mu Yuan found the Celestial Four Symbols Array and decided Tian Yuan City's many Legendary Realm powerhouses could meet its demanding activation requirements, so he exchanged for it.
• A Pioneer Group transport squad arrived by railway and World Tunnel and delivered Mu Yuan's order to Tian Yuan City.
• Mu Yuan verified his identity and unlocked the sealed cargo box, revealing the treasures inside.

Mu Yuan prepared the Celestial Four Symbols Array to defend Tian Yuan City by choosing its ley-line foundations and creating a volcano and Wind Valley. He reviewed the city’s growing ranks of Legendary Realm experts and planned how to divide them between array training and other duties.

• Mu Yuan and Isroya selected earth and water ley-line foundations for the Celestial Four Symbols Array, then decided to create suitable fire and wind foundations themselves.
• Mu Yuan raised a mountain into an active volcano, and Falcon Lord gathered the winds to form a new Wind Valley treasure land.
• Professionists in Tian Yuan City witnessed the changes, while longtime residents praised Mu Yuan’s miracles and he collected a small amount of Miracle Power.
• Mu Yuan selected several legions and planned to station forty-one Legendary Realm experts in the array for training and wartime control.
• Mu Yuan counted 173 Legendary Realm experts in Tian Yuan City and considered how to allocate them between the Celestial Four Symbols Array, the Ancient Mage Tower, and other duties.

Mu Yuan learned that Dragon Sleeping Valley remained powerful and that monster factions were gaining new Saint Realm beings even before the great calamity. After the Divine Glory Empire announced its first true Saint Realm wielder, Sky Apex, Isroya led Tian Yuan City's delegation to the empire for his Ascension Saint Banquet.

• Mu Yuan explained to Jiang Luo Xing how powerful Law Realm fighters combined foundational abilities into unique killer moves and considered the significance of the Eternal Star Empire's thirty-six Peak Lords.
• Duo Lai and Sophia observed High Hunting Grand Duke defeat three Law Realm foes in Dragon Sleeping Valley, then gathered intelligence on the territory and its Filth Nexuses.
• Mu Yuan uploaded Sophia's findings to the Pioneer Group database and received reports that Shadow King City and Snake God Shrine had gained new Saint Realm monsters.
• The Divine Glory Empire announced that Sky Apex had become its first true Saint Realm wielder and invited powerful figures from other nations to his Ascension Saint Banquet.
• Isroya led Tian Yuan City's delegation to Xuan Capital, joined representatives from other cities, and traveled with them toward the Divine Glory Empire.

Tai Xuan’s convoy came under attack from the Fallen God Sect after entering the Divine Glory Empire, and Isroya sensed a greater threat hidden nearby as the battle intensified. Ten Thousand Snakes chose to fight Isroya rather than retreat from a Tian Yuan expert.

• War Armor General, Blood Weeping Sword Shi Yue, Aurora Snow Fox, Isroya, and other experts traveled toward the Divine Glory Empire and passed through Black Storm Fortress.
• Isroya and Aurora Snow Fox sensed danger shortly after the convoy entered the empire, and enemies attacked the lead flying ship.
• Lord Wuji identified the attackers as the Fallen God Sect, whose emissary used the Ten Thousand Snakes Seize the Heart technique to incapacitate many of the convoy’s experts.
• The Fallen God Sect emissary defeated Lord Wuji, while Aurora Snow Fox and the arriving Tai Xuan experts fought back against the attackers.
• Ten Thousand Snakes intercepted Blood Weeping Sword, War Armor General, Moon Sword Immortal, and others as the sky turned red and communications were cut off.
• Isroya joined the fight and drove Ten Thousand Snakes back, but sensed a more terrifying threat nearby; Ten Thousand Snakes resolved to slay the Tian Yuan expert instead of retreating.

Isroya revealed her Law Realm strength and protected the envoy delegation from Blood Ghost Ward’s assault. As Blood Ghost tried to escape, the Tian Yuan City Lord appeared to strike him with a finger.

• Blood Ghost Ward used his blood beads to grievously wound Blood Weeping Sword Shi Yue and attacked Aurora Snow Fox, Isroya, War Armor, Moon Sword Immortal, and the other experts.
• Isroya summoned the River of the Starry Sky, blocked Blood Ghost Ward’s blood beads, and was recognized as Tian Yuan City’s Starry Sky Master and a Law Realm expert.
• Blood Ghost Ward transformed into the Heavenly Serpent Blood Ghost and unleashed a vast attack, but Isroya countered him beneath a summoned starry sky.
• Isroya exposed Blood Ghost Ward’s hidden attacks with the Eye of the Starry Sky, but she could not find a way to finish him off before he escaped.
• Blood Ghost Ward and the Myriad Serpents fled as the blood clouds dissipated, but space and time froze and the Tian Yuan City Lord reached out from the starry sky to point at Blood Ghost.

Tian Yuan City Lord killed Blood Ghost with a single finger, and the Divine Glory Empire’s reinforcements learned that Starry Sky Master was a fourth Law Realm powerhouse of Tian Yuan City. At the Saint Realm Banquet, Heaven’s Peak Crown revealed his Concept Saint Body, leaving Mu Yuan and Deathbone in awe of the power they still had to surpass.

• Tian Yuan City Lord used Near Yet Far, Sure Hit Concept, and Dead Silence Death to kill Blood Ghost, while the Starry Sky Master shot down the fleeing Ten Thousand Serpents and Tai Xuan forces captured or killed the remaining enemies.
• Flame Grief Morton arrived with Divine Glory reinforcements and learned that Starry Sky Master had slain the Fallen God Sect’s Law Realm powerhouse.
• News spread that Tian Yuan City had gained a fourth Law Realm existence and that Tian Yuan City Lord had killed Blood Ghost with one finger.
• Mu Yuan attended Heaven’s Peak Crown’s Saint Realm Banquet with Cold Moon City Lord and Qingxin City Lord, and learned that Heaven’s Peak Saint had killed twenty or thirty Law Realm opponents.
• Heaven’s Peak Crown manifested his Concept Saint Body, and Mu Yuan shared the spectacle with Tian Yuan City while Deathbone watched from the Death Great Domain and resolved to pursue the Road to Sainthood.

Mu Yuan watched Deathbone search for a suitable Road to Sainthood as the undead lord cultivated alongside the Undead Kingdom. Deathbone reached the third stage of its Concept of Death and stepped onto the Road to Sainthood of the Undead Emperor.

• Mu Yuan reflected on the requirements for reaching the Saint Realm and considered Deathbone's progress alongside Lapis's.
• Deathbone rejected the God of Silent Death path and judged the Lord of the Undead Tide and Bone King paths, while sensing that a fourth, better path awaited it.
• Mu Yuan told Deathbone not to rush into the Bone King path and urged it to improve its foundation while relying on Tian Yuan City's support.
• Deathbone synchronized its breathing with the undead and mountains of its kingdom, then ascended into the Land of Origin through its own understanding of death.
• Deathbone cultivated its Concept of Death to the third stage, strengthened its Death Imprint, and gained a trace of authority over the origin of death.
• Deathbone set foot on the new Road to Sainthood called the Undead Emperor.

Mu Yuan examined Deathbone’s newly revealed Road to Sainthood as the Undead Emperor and decided to support him despite its daunting demands. He then evolved Dole, whose new abilities greatly expanded its devouring power and left Tian Yuan City with another potential Saint Realm powerhouse.

• Mu Yuan studied Deathbone’s Road to Sainthood, realized it required uniting the undead and possibly subduing Saint Realm beings, and resolved to help him pursue it.
• Mu Yuan considered Dole’s Devouring Lord road and spent three million Miracle Power to evolve Dole in the World Vine’s secret realm.
• Dole evolved to Legendary Three-Star, gained the Eternal World’s favor, and strengthened Tian Yuan Territory’s national fortune.
• Dole’s Devouring Heaven and Earth advanced into a great might that could increase in power over time and remotely anchor targets or concepts for devouring.
• Dole awakened Heaven and Earth Great Furnace, a devouring inner world that could store what it swallowed and burn its contents to replenish energy and boost its power.

Mu Yuan learned that Dole’s Devouring Lord Path had evolved and planned how Tian Yuan City could fulfill its major goals, including activating the Ancient Mage Tower’s second level. Meanwhile, the newly established Tian Yuan Academy began recruiting students and instructors, and Berserk Mercenary Group leader Lin Ang watched a powerful applicant fail its first screening.

• Dole’s Road to Sainthood changed into the Devouring Lord Path, which required it to devour ten island domains or a fragmented Great Domain to reach sainthood.
• Mu Yuan identified four priorities for Tian Yuan City: Lapis’s Angel King path, Deathbone’s Undead Emperor Path, Dole’s Devouring Lord Path, and the Ancient Mage Tower’s second level.
• Berserk Mercenary Group arrived in Tian Yuan City and learned that Tian Yuan Academy was recruiting students and instructors with valuable cultivation benefits.
• Lin Ang and other members of the group decided to apply for instructor positions and traveled by Iron Train to the academy.
• Lin Ang watched Thousand Water Blade Ye Qihang take the first instructor screening and get sent flying after failing to endure ten moves against a Fourth Order expert.

Tian Yuan Academy’s instructor screening arena tested applicants’ technique and combat experience by suppressing their strength, and its examiners defeated several renowned challengers. Legendary expert Yu Yangyi passed the ten-move first round, leaving the onlookers to consider trying the student recruitment assessment instead.

• A middle-aged man explained that the arena weakened contestants’ energy, bodies, and spirits to test their combat skills rather than their raw power.
• Berserk Regiment Commander Lin Ang challenged Examiner Number Seven but was defeated on the fifth move.
• Several other renowned experts lost to Examiners Number Seven and Number Nine, while the crowd learned Tian Yuan Academy had at least nine examiners of comparable skill.
• The middle-aged man revealed his Triple Casting technique and fought Examiner Number Seven through ten moves, passing the first round.
• An onlooker recognized the man as Master Yu Yangyi, a Legendary Realm expert, and the Berserk Regiment Commander suggested they try the student recruitment assessment instead.

Tian Yuan Academy’s student assessment drew aspiring students and powerful veterans, who discovered it offered a Legendary Class for Fourth Order Peak and limit experts. Mu Yuan explained why he founded the class, while eight-year-old Epic genius Wang Riyue enrolled at the academy and his parents debated whether leaving Canglan Academy had been worthwhile.

• Fourth Order powerhouses overcame their pride and joined the student assessment lines, where they saw that students faced tests in age, temperament, talent, knowledge, level, and skills.
• The Berserk Regiment Commander found the Legendary Class in the admissions booklet and led other powerhouses to register for its breakthrough training.
• Mu Yuan watched the academy’s growing crowds and explained that he had created the Legendary Class to help Fourth Order limit powerhouses reach the Legendary Realm and strengthen Taixuan for the coming calamity.
• Eight-year-old Wang Riyue enrolled as an Epic genius after reaching the high stage of the Elite Grade in two months, despite turning down Canglan Academy’s special treatment.
• Wang Riyue’s mother questioned whether Tian Yuan Academy valued her son enough, while his father called his enrollment there a great opportunity.

Wang Riyue and his parents toured Tian Yuan Academy, whose abundant cultivation buildings and rare paradises stunned the freshmen and spread the academy’s reputation. As instructor applications dwindled after a punishing assessment, a figure arrived at the deserted venue.

• Wang Riyue’s parents toured the academy’s dormitories and learned that credits governed access to its advanced facilities.
• Wang’s father and mother explored the Eastern District’s many cultivation buildings and paradises, including Wind Valley, Sky Dome Waterfall, Flame Furnace, and the Wither Bloom Ancient Tree.
• The Berserk Regiment Commander explained how Legendary Class students could earn credits, and the freshmen vowed to make the most of the academy’s benefits.
• News of Tian Yuan Academy’s exceptional resources spread widely, attracting instructor applicants from across Tai Xuan and beyond.
• Applicants complained that the four-round instructor assessment was too difficult, and the venue grew deserted as people left.
• A gust of wind swept through the instructor assessment venue, and a figure stepped through the air and descended.

Mu Yuan used Tian Yuan Academy’s recruitment drive to seek unaffiliated experts from beyond Tai Xuan who might accept temporary teaching posts. A mysterious gray-robed World-Class Expert arrived, cleared the academy’s first three assessments, and was identified as Ash Decay Wind.

• Mu Yuan reasoned that independent experts might accept short-term instructor or mentor positions even if they would never serve a lord, and hoped to attract them with Tian Yuan Academy’s benefits and Tian Yuan City’s national fortune.
• In Gu Shan Great City, a gray-robed man heard about Tian Yuan Academy’s recruitment and traveled to Tian Yuan City to investigate its claims.
• Reporters at the academy’s interview site discussed its demanding four-stage assessment and speculated that it sought unaffiliated experts from beyond Tai Xuan.
• The gray-robed man removed his hood, began the assessment, and passed the first two stages in seconds before easily clearing the third.
• An old reporter recognized the gray-robed man as Ash Decay Wind, a solitary World-Class Expert famous decades earlier.