Chapter Summaries

Lu Cang infiltrated a devilish creature stronghold, killed Compound Eye, and trapped Gray Mask to question it about Euynri. He left Gray Mask suspecting a traitor among its own ranks and offered to reveal the culprit if it shared what it knew.

• Lu Cang appeared behind Gray Mask and killed Compound Eye with a single strike.
• Lu Cang sealed the imperial palace against escape and pierced the eyes of Gray Mask and the creatures attacking him.
• Lu Cang told Gray Mask he wanted information about Euynri and claimed someone among the devilish creatures had helped him infiltrate the stronghold.
• Lu Cang used Mind Magic to make Gray Mask doubt its allies, then promised to reveal the supposed traitor if Gray Mask told him everything it knew about Euynri.

Lu Cang fought an Eighth-tier Devilish Creature that refused to reveal information about Euynri, then killed it and examined its unusual loyalty and humanlike appearance. He was left wondering whether the creatures could be bred in greater numbers and what their hidden faces meant.

• The Gray Mask Devilish Creature rejected Lu Cang's Mind Magic and attacked him with spikes erupting from its body, the sea, and the land.
• Lu Cang used Shocking Wind Slash to cut the creature in two, then pinned it down and showed it books and blueprints left by Euynri.
• The creature doubted Lu Cang's claim of friendship with Euynri and refused to answer his questions, so Lu Cang sealed its bloodline and vital energy.
• When the creature swelled to attack, Lu Cang destroyed it with Skyward Flow's sixth form, Ruin · Annihilation · Inferno.
• Lu Cang analyzed the creature's instinctive loyalty and strength, removed its Gray Mask to reveal a humanoid face, and considered whether Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures could be mass-produced.

Lu Cang spread his Sea of Magic Power across the Moon Sea, created an escape route through the devastated Secret Sea, and returned to defend the Land of Seeing the Moon. He began the ritual to advance to Level 6 Warrior, and the Warrior’s Source appeared in the sky.

• Lu Cang used Phase Shuttle to expand his Sea of Magic Power across the Moon Sea and established control over the separated areas.
• Lu Cang traveled to the destroyed Secret Sea and left a Sea of Magic Power there as another escape route.
• Lu Cang returned to the Land of Seeing the Moon, where Devilish Creatures threatened its failing defenses and its people faced imminent death.
• Lu Cang modified the Promotion Ritual beneath his manor and began advancing to Level 6 Warrior.
• The Warrior’s Source appeared as a sword wreathed in blazing vigor, stirring hope among the Land of Seeing the Moon’s residents.

During his Level 5 Warrior Promotion Ritual, Lu Cang encountered Yang Ming, a Level 9 Warrior who challenged every perfectly recognized Warrior to prove he was the strongest in history. Their battle began over the sea, with Lu Cang using magic and combat techniques to strike Yang Ming with a barrage of blows.

• Lu Cang faced a white-haired figure who introduced himself as Yang Ming, a Level 9 Warrior who had advanced five years earlier during the incident at Boundless Mountain.
• Yang Ming said he challenged every Warrior who earned perfect recognition, aiming to prove himself the strongest by defeating them at the same level.
• Lu Cang and Yang Ming exchanged attacks, and Lu Cang stopped Yang Ming's punch with Skyward Flow's Tenth Form, causing the monsters attacking the Land of Seeing the Moon to explode.
• Yang Ming followed Lu Cang through a passage to a distant sea so their battle would not harm ordinary people, and invited him to use all his magic.
• Lu Cang slowed time with his Second Forbidden Magic and countered Yang Ming's countless punches, striking him with ten thousand blows.

Lu Cang overwhelmed Yang Ming in their fight, repeatedly breaking through the level-five Warrior’s defenses and leaving him gravely injured. Yang Ming regenerated and renewed his attack, determined to keep fighting as he demanded Lu Cang’s name.

• Lu Cang struck Yang Ming ten thousand times in an instant, disrupting his breathing and shattering much of his protective qi.
• Yang Ming used Divine Wind Style to counterattack by borrowing Lu Cang’s force, but Lu Cang evaded and attacked from above with Skyward Flow.
• Lu Cang’s attacks shattered Yang Ming’s skull, bones, and organs, but Yang Ming activated Emperor Flow to regenerate.
• Lu Cang followed with another kick that destroyed Yang Ming’s arms, then struck through his chest after shifting his position and exploiting Yang Ming’s defense.
• Yang Ming regenerated, asked Lu Cang to tell him his name, and launched another attack despite his injuries.

Lu Cang overwhelmed Yang Ming in their trial fight, neutralizing his attacks and killing him after pinning him with a spear. Yang Ming vowed to defeat Lu Cang in the future, while Lu Cang advanced to level six.

• Yang Ming grew stronger after Lu Cang pierced him, but Lu Cang stopped his kick with the Tenth Form, Halt.
• Lu Cang shattered Yang Ming’s protective qi with a punch and sent him flying.
• Lu Cang summoned and forged a Holy Thunder Spear, then swept aside Yang Ming’s afterimages and struck his real body.
• Yang Ming attacked with spiraling qi and briefly vanished from Lu Cang’s perception, but Lu Cang avoided and countered both attacks.
• Lu Cang pinned Yang Ming with the spear and killed him with destructive force; Yang Ming vowed to defeat him before dissolving into ashes.
• Lu Cang became a level-six warrior after winning the trial.

After reaching level 6 as a Warrior, Lu Cang gained new proficiencies and the God-Tier talent Manifestation of Ten Thousand Ways, which let him glimpse the Way and turn martial skills into paradoxical attacks. He began slaughtering Devilish Creatures to deepen his insight and prepared to seek the final push by fighting Eighth-tier foes.

• Lu Cang reflected on his level 6 Warrior advancement, sensed the Way, and received the Extreme Time and Omni-Skill Mastery proficiencies.
• Lu Cang acquired Manifestation of Ten Thousand Ways, which let him comprehend multiple ways of entering the Way and perceive martial skills’ Way-manifesting forms.
• Lu Cang used Skyward Flow’s Third Form to create Illusory Rain of Annihilation, striking Devilish Creatures before he physically thrust his spear and weaving impossible principles into a Way-Manifesting Skill.
• Lu Cang’s insights brought him close to entering the Way, and he decided that fighting would provide the final push.
• Lu Cang stopped and instantly obliterated all Devilish Creatures within a million kilometers, then turned his attention to the Eighth-tier creatures he had been watching.

Lu Cang tested his new Skyward Way technique on the Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures Modher and Haran. He killed both from a distance and continued hunting the creatures within his expanding perception range.

• Lu Cang's Absolute Sea of Magic Power expanded to a radius of several hundred billion kilometers, bringing more than seven hundred Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures within his perception.
• Haran and Modher discussed the disappearance of Desmanchi and whether they should be cautious around humans.
• Lu Cang appeared between Haran and Modher, sealed their surroundings against escape, and struck them with Illusory Rain of Annihilation.
• Modher died immediately, while Haran fled with his body riddled with wounds that could not heal.
• Lu Cang struck Haran again from afar, killing him as the delayed effect of the attack caught up.

Lu Cang effortlessly killed an Eighth-tier Devilish Creature, then comprehended a new Way-Manifesting Skill while battling a colossal turtle and destroyed it with one strike. After saving the continent the turtle had nearly swallowed, he turned toward two more Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures and appeared behind them.

• Lu Cang reflected that killing Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures was easy, though he still felt uncertain about facing a 9th Tier Class-changer or a true god.
• Lu Cang confronted a giant turtle that attacked his mind, and his defenses absorbed the attack.
• Lu Cang comprehended Skyward Way—Way Two: Untangle All Things and struck the turtle across its many layers of existence.
• Lu Cang held up the continent the turtle had nearly swallowed, killed the turtle, and gently returned the continent to the sea.
• Lu Cang sensed two Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures approaching and appeared behind them, placing his hands on their shoulders.

Lu Cang slaughtered Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures while rapidly comprehending and combining Way-Manifesting Skills. He confronted a one-eyed devilish creature in Loren’s wizard’s robe and recognized it.

• Lu Cang killed two Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures with his Way of Original Severing.
• He destroyed a mountain-shaped devilish creature with the Skyward Way and Path of Invincibility, then continued fighting to approach the Way.
• Lu Cang killed dozens of Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures and developed many Way-Manifesting Skills from their attacks.
• He used Phase Mystery Void to evade attacks, then severed all six arms of a Red Mask Devilish Creature.
• A red-robed devilish creature froze Lu Cang with Eighth-tier ice magic, but he walked free, disabled its magic, and recognized its robe as Loren’s.

Lu Cang traced Hun Mu’s mage robe to a monster mage and learned that it had taken the robe from a corpse on Duoduoduo Continent. He traveled there, found the body, and touched it in hopes of discovering what had happened to Hun Mu.

• Lu Cang recognized the monster mage’s robe as an old Loren Mage Tower design and questioned the monster holding it.
• The monster said it had taken the robe from a corpse on Duoduoduo Continent half a year earlier.
• Lu Cang opened a Phase Passage and brought the monster mage to Duoduoduo Continent to locate the corpse.
• Lu Cang found the headless body and killed the monsters celebrating in the former human cities.
• Lu Cang touched the corpse, hoping to find clues about Hun Mu.

After completing his Dao entry by killing nearly a thousand Eighth-tier Devilish Creatures, Lu Cang sensed the paths of other Warriors who had entered the Dao and realized none of them suited him. He began to form his own Origin Demonic Path, and a bright-red fruit appeared at the end of the road.

• Lu Cang learned from a corpse that Hun Mu was in the Shattered Void Realm, then killed a one-eyed devilish creature after its spirit withered before it could answer questions about Euynri.
• Lu Cang killed every Eighth-tier Devilish Creature within his perceptive range in less than half a day, expanding his sea of magic to two hundred billion kilometers.
• After killing nearly a thousand creatures, Lu Cang completed his Dao entry and saw the road of Warriors who had entered the Dao, including Chicheng and Yang Ming.
• Lu Cang sensed Yang Ming's Emperor's Path and mastered his Way-Manifesting Skill, The Only Supreme Emperor Body Under Heaven.
• Lu Cang rejected the paths left by others and named his own path the Origin Demonic Path, causing a bright-red fruit to appear at the end of the road.

After ten years missing, Lu Cang reappeared on the Warrior path and entered the Dao, uniting all laws into a new path called Cang Dao. He demonstrated its powers at the Land of Seeing the Moon, where he remained untouchable as monsters attacked.

• Chicheng recognized Lu Cang on the Dao-entry path and signaled that he was still at the Tree of the World Center.
• Lu Cang touched the crimson fruit, declared that he had entered the Dao, and united his many body-tempering methods into Cang Dao.
• Lu Cang returned to the Land of Seeing the Moon and used Fate of Certain Death to make Meng Sur's arrow kill the Taoye Demon at once.
• Lu Cang described Cang Dao as a new school beyond combat techniques, magic, and talents.
• Fifth- and sixth-rank monsters attacked Lu Cang, but their attacks passed through him and struck one another as he used Eternal Void Misplacement.

Lu Cang unleashed his new techniques against the devilish creatures attacking the Land of Seeing the Moon, killing their leader with Origin Demonic Path—World of Self. The leader vanished from the present world, leaving its fate inside Lu Cang’s self-created realm unknown.

• Lu Cang used One Realm Cage to drain the approaching devilish creatures, while a seventh-tier archer watched in confusion.
• The archer warned Lu Cang that the half-dragon devilish creature leading the siege was the army’s overlord.
• Lu Cang fought the sevenfold-metamorphosis creature, breaking its sound wave and destroying its tail with Reversal.
• Lu Cang touched the creature’s head and cast Origin Demonic Path—World of Self: Inner, pulling it into a world formed by his own rules.
• Lu Cang remained in the present world as the half-dragon creature disappeared from it.

Lu Cang returned to the Land of Seeing the Moon after killing the devilish creatures threatening it, then confronted Lotdan about the reward for his actions. While observing the king, Lu Cang sensed a golden glow that seemed connected to fortune.

• Lu Cang drained the devilish creatures emerging from the abyss and returned to the Land of Seeing the Moon, where the surviving Class-changers found the invasion ended.
• Lotdan asked Lu Cang whether he had killed the creatures, and Lu Cang displayed the heads of numerous eighth-tier devilish creatures.
• Lu Cang told Lotdan that he had killed all eighth-tier devilish creatures within three hundred billion kilometers and asked what reward he would receive.
• Lotdan acknowledged Lu Cang's strength and asked whether he needed anything, but Lu Cang said he wanted only a reward calculated according to his achievements.
• Lu Cang used his perception to examine Lotdan and saw a golden glow around him that seemed tied to fortune.

Lotdan privately welcomed Lu Cang and spoke with him about the years Lu Cang had been away. Their conversation turned to Fate Entanglement, and Lotdan claimed that Loren would never perish as long as he remained emperor before asking Lu Cang whether he was a good emperor.

• Lotdan left his throne, invited Lu Cang to speak privately, and led him to the rear garden.
• Lu Cang told Lotdan he had spent the missing years in some ruins, and Lotdan accepted that he had his own secrets.
• Lotdan asked Lu Cang about Fate and described how one person's decisions could entangle others' fates.
• Lu Cang identified the phenomenon as Fate Entanglement, and Lotdan suggested that his rule guaranteed Loren's survival.
• Lotdan asked Lu Cang whether he thought he was a good emperor.

Lotdan told Lu Cang about the Fate Tome, a book that records intertwined fates and may determine the world’s natural laws. Unable to open it himself, Lotdan revealed that he had hidden it beneath the Loren Continent and suggested Lu Cang might be able to open it.

• Lotdan asked Lu Cang whether he thought he would be a good emperor, and Lu Cang said his intuition told him Lotdan would be one.
• Lu Cang asked whether Lotdan could make him a level-nine Warrior, and Lotdan admitted he could not grant that wish.
• Lotdan explained that the Fate Tome records people’s fates and binds certain outcomes to conditions.
• Lotdan said he had seen his own fate in the Tome as a child: if he became king of Loren, Loren would endure forever.
• Lotdan described finding the Tome again after it was left in Loren, hiding it after ascending the throne, and being unable to open it.
• Lotdan told Lu Cang the Tome was hidden at the deepest point beneath the Loren Continent and suggested Lu Cang might be able to open it.

Lu Cang retrieved the Fate Tome from the Loren Continent and discovered that it required Prophet Level 3 to open. He then showed Lotdan and the people of the Land of Seeing the Moon the surrounding danger before using ninth-tier elemental magic to wipe out the Devilish Creatures across the sea.

• Lu Cang opened a spatial rift to the Loren Continent, retrieved the Fate Tome, and returned in a step, astonishing Lotdan.
• Lu Cang told Lotdan that the Loren Continent had been overrun by Devilish Creatures and that he had killed them there.
• Lu Cang identified the book’s creator as Erl Ripani, recognized the name Pali, and resolved to raise his Prophet level to three so he could open it.
• Lu Cang linked everyone’s senses to his and showed them the vast Moon Sea, the Devilish Creatures, and the sanctuary around the Land of Seeing the Moon.
• Lu Cang cast Solution—Elemental Myriad Manifestations, turning the Devilish Creatures within four thousand billion kilometers into pure elements.

Lu Cang used his Level 6 magic to annihilate the monsters across the Moon Sea, then began the rituals to advance as a Prophet and Death Priest. He wished for his Level 6 Death Priest talent to let him bring back the departed.

• Lu Cang unleashed an endless barrage of 9th-tier elemental magic, transforming the Moon Sea and burying the abyss beneath newly created land.
• Lu Cang ended the spell and cut off everyone’s perception of his senses; he told Lotdan he had only recently reached Level 6 and believed no one beneath the gods could defeat him.
• Lu Cang returned to his manor, prepared the Promotion Rituals for the Prophet and Death Priest, and stood within them.
• Lu Cang recalled Ansu, Chicheng, and the corruption’s influence, then wished for his Level 6 Death Priest talent to let him bring back the departed.

After reaching Level 6, Lu Cang acquired the God-Tier Rebirth Reincarnation talent, which let him awaken another person’s past-life memories and restore that life’s class level. He used it on a bard in the city, who regained memories and the abilities of his former life as a Level 7 archer.

• Lu Cang reached Level 6 and acquired the God-Tier Rebirth Reincarnation talent.
• Lu Cang examined a bard’s past lives and found one in which the man had been a Level 7 archer.
• Lu Cang awakened the bard’s memories from that life and restored his Level 7 archer class.
• The bard tested his restored abilities by unleashing the seventh-tier archery skill Star Burst.