Chapter Summaries

Lu Cang convinced Saint One that losing his Reincarnation Mark was necessary to obtain a permanent second Reincarnation, then secretly arranged a drugging of Saint One’s original body. Believing the dungeon’s trial matched the Prophet’s warning, Saint One shed his mechanical body and returned alone to the Second Reincarnation Sanctuary.

• Lu Cang told Saint One that a second Reincarnation inheritance awaited those who lost their Reincarnation Mark and described the fate of Saint One’s lover from his third life.
• Lu Cang revealed that he had used rehearsals, gathered personal details, and his Prophet ability to make his claims seem credible.
• Leng Qingying told Lu Cang she had injected his liquid into the tank holding Saint One’s original body, while Lu Cang explained that it would appear to be nutrient solution without another poison.
• Saint One paid the churches to secure exclusive control of the Tier 7 Dungeon, then entered its restricted hall and found a trial apparently meant for someone who had lost Reincarnation.
• Saint One removed his mechanical body and returned to his original flesh-and-blood body, then went alone to the Second Reincarnation Sanctuary at dawn.

Lu Cang killed Sheng Yi in a staged reincarnation trial, then claimed his body, undead, and possessions. After reading Sheng Yi’s letter about the Reincarnation Sect and his research, Lu Cang left the underground city and turned toward the Tree Sea to hunt Tier 7 monsters.

• Sheng Yi entered Lu Cang’s Hall of Reincarnation trial after removing his equipment, and Lu Cang attacked him with a spear while the robe and poisonous mist blocked his magic and prepared call for help.
• Lu Cang killed Sheng Yi, captured his soul, and let him die believing he had failed a genuine reincarnation trial.
• Lu Cang raised Sheng Yi as an undead and searched his storage pouch, finding many life-saving items and a letter describing Sheng Yi’s research, the Reincarnation Sect, and his doubts about immortality.
• Lu Cang considered the preparations and contingencies he had made to kill Sheng Yi, then left the sealed underground city with the Observer and Sheng Yi’s undead.
• Lu Cang approached a colossal tree in the Tree Sea, intending to test himself against Tier 7 monsters and gather souls for his plans.

Lu Cang cleared a path through the 7th-tier tree monsters, investigated a mark left by the divine weapon wielded by Yelia, and pressed deeper into the dungeon. He reached a white forest and found an immense, halo-wreathed tree stretching from earth to sky.

• The white-robed envoy and black-robed messenger worried over Lord Saint One, but he told them his troubles had nothing to do with reincarnation.
• Lu Cang used his knowledge of tree monsters to destroy more than ten 7th-tier trees and return to the dungeon entrance.
• A light mark burned into Lu Cang’s arm, so he cut the arm off and learned the mark came from the divine weapon Sword of Netfire Judgment, wielded by Yelia.
• Lu Cang examined traces of the Church of Light’s visit, identified Yelia’s pure light-element mana and forbidden spell, and resolved to prepare against her and the Luck Church’s successor.
• Lu Cang attacked and split a giant tree with Invincible Style, then continued inward through increasingly pale and fragile trees.
• After killing more than fifty trees, Lu Cang reached a pure white area and saw a massive halo-wreathed tree stretching from earth to sky.

Lu Cang killed the Pure Whitening Tree in the Tier 7 dungeon, then returned to Atlantis City as rumors spread that Sheng Yi had vanished. On the last night of March, he joined Yelia, Rhein, and Light to explore ruins, and the arrival of April opened a chaotic spatial gate before them.

• Lu Cang used Source and Nether Purge to destroy the Pure Whitening Tree instantly, then summoned Erupting Black Ant Mountain to advance using the Tier 7 monster corpses.
• Three days later, rumors spread that Sheng Yi had disappeared inside a Tier 7 dungeon, while Missilshu began learning about Loren and Lu Cang considered warning Aijin and the others.
• On March 31, Lu Cang gained new insights into Fate and magic before meeting Yelia, Rhein, and Light in the wilderness for a ruin expedition.
• Rhein, Yelia, and Light agreed that Lu Cang would solve the ruins' puzzles while they handled combat, since Sheng Yi was not joining them.
• When April began, Chaos polluted the sky, a violent storm swept the wilderness, and a bizarre spatial gate appeared before Lu Cang and the others.

Lu Cang and his companions explored an ancient ruin after entering through a portal that resonated with his talents and marks. In the ruin’s darkness, Lu Cang discovered four mysterious gates created by a chaotic event, each bearing a different name.

• Yelia, Leite, Rhein, and Lu Cang entered the ancient ruin, after Lu Cang planted several thousand magic circles at its entrance.
• Rhein chose their route by tossing a stick, and Yelia swiftly defeated the monsters they encountered as the group traveled deeper into the ruin.
• Rhein triggered a mechanism that summoned a seventh-tier monster, and Yelia cut it down with the Sword of Netfire Judgment.
• Lu Cang read tablets describing the short-lived Gomir race and found a corpse bearing the name Luomoxi, whose nameplate he kept.
• Yelia stopped before four newly appeared portals, and Lu Cang examined them and identified them as a random event of the Month of Chaos and Madness.

Lu Cang followed Wright through the Gate of Eternal Life and discovered a 10th-level wonder created by Difu: a stairway whose steps granted immortality. In the simulation, he left the stairs to investigate the Celestial Realm below the clouds, but his powerful attack barely disturbed them.

• Wright read the Chaos inscription on the door, called it the Gate of Eternal Life, and entered without waiting for the others.
• Lu Cang simulated the future, followed Wright through the door, and found himself before a golden stairway with no way back.
• Lu Cang learned that Difu had created the 10th-level Grand Wonder, the Eternal Life Stairway, and that each step granted true immortality.
• After climbing a few hundred steps, Lu Cang stopped and flew onto the clouds, where he found an inscription identifying them as the Dome of the Celestial Realm.
• Lu Cang sacrificed two trillion souls to strike the stairway with his Void Ring Star Battle Spear, but the stairs remained unharmed and the clouds below stayed immensely deep.

Lu Cang descended through the sea of clouds, was killed by Leisi, and survived thanks to Sheng Yi's protection. He spent the rest of the simulation learning about the Heavenly Realm from Zhuya's second angel before the simulation ended, then warned the others not to enter the door.

• Lu Cang chose to descend through the sea of clouds rather than keep climbing the Eternal Life Stairway, and his shields cleared a path toward the Heavenly Realm.
• A sudden attack shattered Lu Cang, but Sheng Yi's Heart Soul Existence Protection preserved his soul and Myriad Battles Absolute Body restored him.
• Lu Cang discovered that Leisi, Lord Zhuya's second angel, had attacked him; he spoke with her and learned she was a level 8 guardian who barred entry to the Heavenly Forbidden Zone.
• Leisi told Lu Cang about Lord Zhuya's angels, the other realms, and the evolution ranks of monsters, while he learned the eight combat techniques of Sinful Burning Sin Stream.
• The simulation ended, and Lu Cang returned to reality and told the other two that the door led nowhere and they should not enter it.

Lu Cang used Fate Cards to assess four gates and chose the Ascension Gate with Yelia and Rhein, where they were drawn into Aegimiss’s chaotic carnival. The first trial began with a monster-hunting game, and Rhein entered it with a huge points lead.

• Lu Cang divined that the God-Ascension Gate and the Gate of Chaos and Disorder were dangerous, while the Ascension Gate offered both risk and opportunity.
• Rhein entered the Ascension Gate first, and Lu Cang and Yelia followed him into a strange gathering where only people who had entered through the same gate could recognize one another.
• Aegimiss’s chaotic incarnation announced a carnival with no death penalty, awarded Rhein two hundred million points for laughing, and chose him to spin the wheel for the first round.
• Rhein spun the wheel, which selected an invasion of lairs where monster kills would earn points and random ruin items.
• Aegimiss began the lair-invasion trial, and the leaderboard showed Rhein in first place with two hundred million points.

Lu Cang, Rhine, and Yelia entered Aegimiss’s three-day trial after the host promised rewards for ranking points and no deaths. They arrived on Longle Continent, where Yelia began hunting monsters and Kumiloni appeared on the leaderboard, while Lu Cang noticed an unusually valuable drop.

• Aegimiss set the trial’s deadline at three days, promised rewards for high rankings, and created portals that could lead anywhere in the present world.
• Lu Cang agreed to travel with Rhine and Yelia, and Rhine revealed that a Divine Decree from Yakartikto told him to enjoy the feast.
• The three entered a portal and arrived on Longle Continent, an uninhabited land in the Turbid Sea.
• Yelia killed nearby monsters with a rapid combat technique and gained points on the leaderboard.
• Lu Cang spotted Kumiloni’s name among the competitors and noticed that Yelia’s kills had dropped a Longevity Flower.

Lu Cang left Lain and Yelia, entered a door in the chaotic Trial Land, and arrived at the monster-dense Land of Original White, where he began farming dungeons and rare drops. After a brief battle, his score rose to second place, and he found a Molten Solidifying Holy Flame that he considered using in his own magic.

• Lain gave the Longevity Flower she found inside a monster to Yelia, and Lu Cang left the two to investigate a puzzle and pursue more Ascending Realm potions.
• Lu Cang chose the twelve o’clock door, arrived on the Land of Original White, and killed the monsters that immediately attacked him.
• Lu Cang summoned the Tainted Ant Mountain and the Source of Calamity, gathered dungeons, and sacrificed souls to enter a Tier 6 Dungeon.
• Lu Cang used the Pure Whitening Tree to destroy thousands of monsters and obtained another Longevity Flower and a Molten Solidifying Holy Flame.
• Lu Cang noticed that his score had climbed from zero to second place, far ahead of the person ranked third.

Lu Cang used an insect nest to rapidly kill monsters, collect rare treasures, and build his score, while Ghul opened multiple lairs through a ritual to farm monsters. The chapter left Ghul stunned as Lu Cang's score surged past 2.7 million.

• Lu Cang entered an insect nest, where the Pure Whitening Tree killed swarms of monsters and earned him more than 1.8 million points.
• Lu Cang collected a Longevity Flower, Molten Solidifying Holy Flame, Body-Penetrating Thorn Water, and Unrestrained Heart Lightning, then left the insect nest's guardian alive so he could upgrade the dungeon through further sacrifices.
• Ghul used a Lair Descent Ritual at the Turbid Sea—Isle of Myriad Spirits to open several lairs and summon monsters, quickly earning thousands of points.
• Ghul saw Lu Cang reach 826,732 points and opened more spatial tears to summon additional monsters, hoping to catch up.
• After Ghul gained another two thousand points, he checked the rankings and saw Lu Cang's score had climbed to 2,723,415.

Lu Cang became a Level 1 Alchemist and gained the God-Tier Ultimate Perfection talent, which transformed Ascending Realm into a potion that permanently lowered advancement requirements. After farming more rewards, he entered another insect-hive dungeon and encountered a spear-wielding man who attacked him from the shadows.

• Lu Cang farmed the insect-nest dungeon until he obtained Ascending Realm, an Elixir of Immortality recipe, and other valuable rewards.
• Lu Cang decided to become an Alchemist and used Origin Magic—Beginning while performing the class-change ritual.
• Lu Cang gained the Alchemist profession and the God-Tier Ultimate Perfection talent, then perfected Ascending Realm into a potion that permanently lowered advancement requirements for all professions.
• Lu Cang stored the perfected potion and offered two million souls to open another insect-hive dungeon.
• Lu Cang entered the dungeon, found a man with a black battle spear instead of monsters, and dodged the man's shadow attack before striking with Skyward Flow—Second Form: End Law Vertical Cleave.

Lu Cang fought Eci, a shadow vanguard who mistook him for a monster, then learned that the Dark Church planned to destroy the Insect Nest. After hearing Eci’s lengthy account, Lu Cang left him alive, checked the leaderboard, and entered another dungeon to resume farming.

• Lu Cang used a holy spear and holy flames to defeat Eci, then pinned a fragment of his shadow and demanded an explanation for the attack.
• Eci explained that he had been sent to sweep the sixth-level nest ahead of a Dark Church war against the Insect Nest, and Lu Cang claimed to be Zhuya’s successor.
• Eci described the nest’s expansion into the Abyss and the Dark Church’s plans, along with extensive background and other intelligence; Lu Cang eventually told him to stop and left him alive.
• Lu Cang checked the leaderboard and saw Yelia in third place with 150,000 points, while Kumiloni still had none.
• Lu Cang entered another Insect Nest dungeon after sacrificing a hundred thousand souls, summoned the Pure Whitening Tree, and cleared the map instantly.

Lu Cang spent the carnival farming Insect Nest Dungeons, raising his score to 320 million and collecting thirty bottles of Ultimate Perfect Ascending Realm. After drinking ten bottles and greatly lowering his class advancement requirements, he decided to save the rest and keep farming while the event lasted.

• Lu Cang used the Pure Whitening Tree to clear Insect Nest Dungeon waves in seconds and gathered more than a million points per cycle.
• Yelia saw Lu Cang take first place with nearly 286 million points, while Rhine guessed he had discovered a special scoring method.
• Lu Cang stopped after reaching 320 million points and counted thirty bottles of Ascending Realm among his rewards.
• Lu Cang drank ten bottles and found that the potion brought his existence closer to class origins and reduced his advancement requirements.
• Lu Cang saved the remaining twenty bottles as samples and returned to farming before the carnival ended.

Lu Cang attempted to promote his Death Priest class after gathering an enormous number of souls, but the ritual triggered a strange descent of Death and Destruction instead of the expected advancement. He prepared for the unknown threat as the surrounding dungeons shattered and the land turned white.

• Lu Cang assigned Moon Star Intent: Chaos to his Movement form and used the final hours to strengthen himself while holding a vast lead in points.
• Lu Cang opened a seventh-tier dungeon with Source of Calamity and began the Death Priest Promotion Ritual, offering up fifty billion souls.
• Lu Cang reflected on Sheng Yi's teachings and concluded that he should understand all classes and forge a path of his own.
• When the final soul entered the origin of death, Lu Cang gained no expected class transformation, and the surrounding dungeon entrances froze and shattered.
• The land turned pure white beneath the dense aura of Death and Destruction, so Lu Cang surrounded himself with shields, protective items, potions, and magic arrays.

Lu Cang confronted Ansu, an ancient soul who offered to become his master or grant wishes in exchange for Pure Souls. After Ansu threatened him, Lu Cang captured and subdued him, then prepared to question him about his identity.

• Ansu appeared in the sky and questioned Lu Cang about the Pure Souls he had sacrificed to the source of death.
• Lu Cang recognized Ansu as the creator of Ancient Ansou Secret Language, but declined his offer of discipleship and a soul-for-wishes deal.
• Ansu began to act against Lu Cang, so Lu Cang used God-tier Soul Master to take control of his soul.
• When Ansu resisted Lu Cang's control, Lu Cang used a Soul-Binding Ritual and a hundred bottles of potions to weaken and restrain him.
• Lu Cang asked Ansu to reveal his true identity while wondering why his promotion from Death Priest level 4 to 5 had stopped.

Lu Cang captured Ansu, a Level 9 Death Controller known as the Death Priest, and learned that Ansu was undergoing his ninth cycle of life and death. Unsure how to deal with Ansu without risking his escape or triggering something dangerous, Lu Cang pondered his options and then began setting up his Death Priest promotion ritual again.

• Lu Cang forced Ansu to reveal that he was a Level 9 Death Controller called the Death Priest and verified his identity as a remnant soul through the Void core.
• Lu Cang learned that Ansu was completing an Ascension through Life and Death ritual, having died eight times and now living his ninth life.
• Ansu explained that he sought souls to restore his peak condition and admitted he had intended to control Lu Cang and make him work for him.
• Lu Cang decided against killing or sealing Ansu immediately, concerned that Ansu might escape through reincarnation or that killing him could cause unforeseen harm.
• After an hour of considering how to handle Ansu and what abilities might help, Lu Cang stood up and began setting up his Death Priest promotion ritual again.

Lu Cang completed his advancement to level 5 Death Priest while Ansu tried to entice him with the path of reincarnation and hinted that he knew something about Lu Cang’s origins. After the advancement, Ansu sensed a new threat in Lu Cang and realized he would have to treat him cautiously.

• Lu Cang restarted the Death Priest advancement ritual, offering souls in small batches so Ansu could not intercept many of them.
• Ansu described how life, death, and reincarnation connected, then offered to teach Lu Cang the path to immortality.
• Lu Cang rejected reincarnation, saying he only cared about being invincible in this life, and completed the principles of death.
• The Source of Death baptized Lu Cang with spiritual power, completing his advancement to level 5 Death Priest and strengthening his control over Ansu.
• Ansu hinted that Lu Cang's origins were unusual and tried to use his knowledge as leverage, but Lu Cang claimed he already knew his origins.
• As Lu Cang faced Ansu after his advancement, Ansu felt uneasy and recognized that he now had to deal with Lu Cang cautiously.

Lu Cang used his God-Tier talent, Eternal Annihilation, to force Ansu to negotiate a master-servant contract. After the contract was formed, Lu Cang gained access to Ansu’s thoughts and secured its service until he became a Level 9 Class-changer or ten thousand years passed.

• Lu Cang revealed Eternal Annihilation to show Ansu that he could erase it permanently.
• Ansu agreed to serve Lu Cang but sought a way to be freed, and Lu Cang set the term at ten thousand years or until he reached Level 9.
• Lu Cang showed Ansu several other God-Tier Talents, leaving Ansu unable to remember their symbols but convinced of Lu Cang’s power.
• Ansu drew a master-servant ritual that would let Lu Cang sense its thoughts and require it to protect and assist him.
• Lu Cang and Ansu formed the contract, and Lu Cang immediately heard Ansu wonder whether contaminated knowledge could kill him.

Lu Cang emerged from the three-day event with 3.2 billion points and brought Ansu’s soul into his mindscape. At the awards ceremony, Aegimiss recognized Lu Cang as a mysterious participant and promised him an unusual reward.

• Lu Cang befriended Ansu and moved his soul into his mindscape using the Death Priest’s Soul Shrine ability.
• The event ended with Lu Cang in first place at 3.2 billion points and Ghul in second place.
• Lu Cang returned to the awards plaza with Rhine and Yelia, then learned from Ansu that Rona was an ancient Level 9 Merchant who traded in lifespans.
• Aegimiss began the awards ceremony, gave Xie Chen the thirteenth-place prize, and skipped ahead to Lu Cang.
• Aegimiss praised Lu Cang’s unexplained score and said his reward would have to be something unique.