Chapter Summaries

Ren Xiaoyao defeated the Human King, learned how the Human King gained the Martial Shattering Void Realm and obtained the Mysterious Sky Dao Ruler. As Ren Xiaoyao’s fame spread, Meishan Grotto-Heaven’s Yuan Hao and a purple-robed elder discussed him as a threat and resolved to eliminate him.

• Ren Xiaoyao seized the Golden Crow True Talisman and extinguished its flames, leaving the Human King helpless as the watching Martial Artists recognized Ren Xiaoyao’s overwhelming strength.
• Ren Xiaoyao kept the dying Human King alive long enough to question him, and the Human King revealed that he had found the Ancient Emperor’s heart blood and the talisman in Great Shang Celestial Dynasty territory.
• Ren Xiaoyao withdrew his protection of the Human King, who died, and received the Mysterious Sky Dao Ruler as his reward for defeating him.
• Ren Xiaoyao returned to Fulong Mountain as his victory made him famous across the three great Celestial Dynasties and established him as Number One Under Heaven.
• At Meishan Grotto-Heaven, Yuan Hao warned a purple-robed elder that Ren Xiaoyao’s strength could threaten them, and the elder said they should eliminate him.

Meishan Grotto-Heaven Enforcement Elder Xing Wuzheng ordered Yuan Hao to take the Myriad Monster Umbrella and kill Ren Xiaoyao, while the Great Qin Emperor decided to seek reconciliation with him. As Ren Xiaoyao benefited from his growing Incense Power, he learned Yuan Hao was coming and was offered a choice that could reveal the Fusang Divine Tree’s whereabouts.

• Xing Wuzheng explained that Meishan Grotto-Heaven had failed to kill Ren Zhitian and ordered Yuan Hao to use the Myriad Monster Umbrella against Ren Xiaoyao.
• Yuan Hao accepted Xing Wuzheng’s order, recognizing that obeying could make him a trusted ally in the struggle for control of Meishan Grotto-Heaven.
• Qin Wushuang and Grand Xuan Daoist reported Ren Xiaoyao’s strength to Qin Chenyi, who decided to apologize to him and seek an alliance.
• Ren Xiaoyao’s Incense Power surpassed one million, strengthening Bai Ze until it overtook Lu Youruo and neared the True Dragon’s power.
• Ren Xiaoyao learned Yuan Hao was searching for him with the Myriad Monster Umbrella, then received a choice between defeating Yuan Hao publicly for Incense Power or killing him discreetly to learn the Fusang Divine Tree’s whereabouts.

Ren Xiaoyao sought the Fusang Divine Tree as a way to overcome his shortage of spiritual energy and went to the Great Zhou Capital City to lure Yuan Hao into a trap. Instead, the Great Qin Emperor Qin Chenyi arrived to propose an alliance against Meishan Grotto-Heaven, just as another danger appeared behind him.

• After learning that the Fusang Divine Tree could provide abundant spiritual energy, Ren Xiaoyao chose to eliminate Yuan Hao and traveled to the Great Zhou Capital City to wait for him.
• Ren Xiaoyao told Duan Yichen that a Martial Shattering Void Realm expert might come for him, then released his aura to draw that enemy out.
• Three days later, Ren Xiaoyao detected Qin Chenyi and Grand Xuan Daoist arriving and learned that Qin Chenyi had come to pay his respects, not attack him.
• Qin Chenyi warned Ren Xiaoyao that Meishan Grotto-Heaven would target him and urged him to join an alliance with Qin Chenyi and the Son of Heaven of the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty.
• Ren Xiaoyao dismissed the proposed alliance as inadequate, then sensed a sinister presence behind Qin Chenyi and said it had finally arrived.

Yuan Hao of Meishan Grotto-Heaven infiltrated Great Zhou's Capital City to kill Ren Xiaoyao, but Ren detected him and crushed him in battle. Yuan Hao then activated the Myriad Monster Umbrella and unleashed the Myriad Monster Domain, and Ren Xiaoyao began answering with his own overwhelming power.

• Yuan Hao sneaked into the capital at night, but Ren Xiaoyao exposed him and ordered him to come down.
• Yuan Hao taunted Qin Chenyi and challenged Ren Xiaoyao, who declared that he would fight Meishan Grotto-Heaven to the death.
• Ren Xiaoyao overwhelmed Yuan Hao with a series of punches and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Yuan Hao rose and activated the Myriad Monster Umbrella, alarming Bai Ze, Lu Youruo, and Qin Chenyi.
• Yuan Hao attacked Ren Xiaoyao with the Myriad Monster Domain, and Ren Xiaoyao unleashed a vast aura to meet his strike.

Ren Xiaoyao defeated Yuan Hao despite the Myriad Monster Umbrella, but the weapon then drained Yuan Hao and unleashed its demonic hordes. As the phantom monsters swarmed him, Ren Xiaoyao invoked Heaven and Earth Manifestation and revealed a power that stunned everyone.

• Ren Xiaoyao shattered Yuan Hao’s assault and sent him flying with a palm strike, knocking the Myriad Monster Umbrella away.
• The Myriad Monster Umbrella trapped Yuan Hao in black light and began draining his qi, blood, and True Essence.
• The umbrella released countless powerful demons, and Lu Youruo recognized it as Meishan Grotto-Heaven’s legendary fiendish weapon.
• The umbrella opened fully and sent its phantom monsters surging toward Ren Xiaoyao.
• Ren Xiaoyao activated Heaven and Earth Manifestation, filling the area with a vast light and supreme Dao Intent that left Bai Ze, Lu Youruo, Qin Chenyi, Grand Xuan Daoist, and the others stunned.

Ren Xiaoyao used Heaven and Earth Manifestation to overwhelm the Myriad Monster Umbrella and destroy its core pearl. After the umbrella’s phantoms vanished and Bai Ze, Qin Chenyi, and Lu Youruo were injured by the clash, Ren Xiaoyao declared that his technique stood above all Martial Dao.

• Ren Xiaoyao saw that the Myriad Monster Umbrella’s beast phantoms were assembled from Vital Blood and Demon Cores and used Heaven and Earth Manifestation to draw on the world’s power.
• Ren Xiaoyao fired countless light arrows and a massive pillar of light, tearing through the demon beast phantoms as the Myriad Monster Umbrella sent more to attack.
• Ren Xiaoyao sensed the umbrella’s core pearl and formed a light sword to strike it, while the awakened will within the pearl roared at him.
• The clash sent Bai Ze, Qin Chenyi, and Lu Youruo flying and injured them, but Ren Xiaoyao’s sword pierced the pearl and shattered it.
• The Myriad Monster Umbrella lost its power and its remaining phantoms disappeared; Ren Xiaoyao told Qin Chen that Heaven and Earth Manifestation was a technique he had comprehended that stood above Martial Dao.

Ren Xiaoyao destroyed Yuan Hao’s Myriad Monster Umbrella, drained Yuan Hao’s fortune, and killed him, forcing Qin Chenyi to abandon his attempt to bargain and flee. Back at Fulong Mountain, Ren Xiaoyao learned the history of the Fusang Divine Tree and discovered it was hidden somewhere within the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty, though its exact location remained unknown.

• Ren Xiaoyao shattered the Myriad Monster Umbrella and made Yuan Hao kneel and beg for his life.
• Ren Xiaoyao drained Yuan Hao’s fortune with the Purple Gold Fortune Gourd, then blasted him into a blood mist.
• Qin Chenyi apologized to Ren Xiaoyao and fled with Grand Xuan Daoist after Ren Xiaoyao warned him not to offend him again.
• Ren Xiaoyao returned to Fulong Mountain with Bai Ze, Lu Youruo, and the True Dragon, then inspected the information gained from killing Yuan Hao.
• Ren Xiaoyao learned that the Fusang Divine Tree had once belonged to the Golden Crow, Phoenix, Qilin, and Da Rong, and that it had vanished during an ancient war.
• Ren Xiaoyao discovered that the Fusang Divine Tree had helped establish the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty and was now hidden somewhere within its territory.

Ren Xiaoyao sent Bai Ze, Lu Youruo, and the True Dragon to Great Shang to investigate the Fusang Divine Tree and settle its turmoil. At Meishan Grotto-Heaven, Xing Wuzheng and Dong Ruoxu blamed Yuan Hao for the destruction of the Myriad Monster Umbrella, incited loyal elders to hunt Ren Xiaoyao, and prompted a choice between waiting for them and attacking Meishan directly.

• Ren Xiaoyao learned hidden history from the Fusang Divine Tree and sent Bai Ze, Lu Youruo, and the True Dragon to Great Shang to resolve its crisis and seek the tree’s location.
• Xing Wuzheng and Dong Ruoxu discussed how to evade blame for the destroyed Myriad Monster Umbrella and planned to use Immortal Chang Sheng against their political rivals.
• Xing Wuzheng told Meishan Grotto-Heaven’s elders that Immortal Chang Sheng had destroyed the Myriad Monster Umbrella, inflaming their anger.
• Xing Wuzheng and Dong Ruoxu persuaded several elders loyal to the grotto-heaven’s master to search for and kill Immortal Chang Sheng.
• Ren Xiaoyao received a choice to wait for Wu Tian, Wufa, and Wu Zhong or invade Meishan Grotto-Heaven and destroy his enemies.

Ren Xiaoyao traveled to Mount Mei to claim a divine ability from Meishan Grotto-Heaven, where he discovered Ning Longxiao, a Heaven Realm reincarnator and the ninth life of the Great Qin Celestial Dynasty’s founding emperor. Ning Longxiao challenged him to a fight, but Ren Xiaoyao stopped his sword with one finger and blasted him into the mountainside.

• Ren Xiaoyao chose the system’s divine ability reward and flew to Mount Mei, where his Spiritual Sense revealed Meishan Grotto-Heaven’s damaged Space Barrier.
• The system identified Ning Longxiao nearby as a Heaven Realm reincarnator, the ninth reincarnation of the Great Qin Celestial Dynasty’s founding emperor.
• Ren Xiaoyao found Ning Longxiao on Mount Mei, introduced himself as Immortal Chang Sheng, and asked why he had come.
• Ning Longxiao explained that he sought fierce battles in Meishan Grotto-Heaven to break through toward the Heaven Realm, then decided to challenge Ren Xiaoyao instead.
• Ning Longxiao attacked with his longsword, but Ren Xiaoyao stopped the blade with one finger, shattered it, and sent Ning Longxiao crashing into Mount Mei.

Ren Xiaoyao easily defeated Ning Longxiao’s ultimate sword technique, then invited him to enter the Meishan Grotto-Heaven together. Ren Xiaoyao announced his arrival with overwhelming power, throwing the grotto-heaven into chaos as its Martial Artists vowed to fight him.

• Ning Longxiao launched his Heaven and Earth One Sword Slash, but Ren Xiaoyao caught the blade between two fingers and sent him crashing into a tree.
• Ning Longxiao asked whether Ren Xiaoyao had reached the Heaven Realm; Ren Xiaoyao denied it and privately revealed that he had surpassed it and reached Beyond the Shore.
• Ning Longxiao gave up challenging Ren Xiaoyao, then agreed to accompany him into the Meishan Grotto-Heaven to observe his battles.
• Ren Xiaoyao and Ning Longxiao entered the Meishan Grotto-Heaven, where Ren Xiaoyao released an aura near the Heaven Realm and demanded that its Martial Artists come out and accept death.
• The Meishan Grotto-Heaven’s Elders and Martial Artists panicked at Ren Xiaoyao’s arrival, then answered his challenge with angry cries.

Ren Xiaoyao faced Meishan Grotto-Heaven’s twelve elders and easily withstood their combined attacks. The elders activated the Twelve Heavenly Gang Immortal-Slaying Array, leaving Ren Xiaoyao at its center as they expected it to defeat him.

• Xing Wuzheng and the other elders confronted Ren Xiaoyao, furious that he had entered Meishan Grotto-Heaven.
• Xing Wuzheng attacked with his sword, but Ren Xiaoyao evaded the strike, then blocked Dong Ruoxu’s battle axe with a palm strike.
• Elder Wu Fa, Elder Wu Tian, Elder Wu Zhong, and the other elders attacked together, but Ren Xiaoyao dodged their moves and forced them into disarray.
• Ren Xiaoyao warned the elders to show their true skill or die, prompting Xing Wuzheng to call for the Twelve Heavenly Gang Immortal-Slaying Array.
• The twelve elders activated the array, summoning storms, lightning, lava, and frost around Ren Xiaoyao as they prepared to overwhelm him.

Ren Xiaoyao effortlessly blocked and shattered Meishan Grotto-Heaven’s Twelve Immortal Slaying Heavenly Gang Array, leaving its elders badly injured. The elders then sacrificed their lives and souls to transform into twelve Demon Gods and power the array again, as Ren Xiaoyao brought out the Mysterious Sky Dao Ruler.

• Meishan Grotto-Heaven’s elders activated the Twelve Immortal Slaying Heavenly Gang Array against Ren Xiaoyao.
• Ren Xiaoyao stopped the array’s attacks with a spiritual barrier, then disrupted its energy and shattered it.
• Xing Wuzheng, Dong Ruoxu, Wu Fa, Wu Tian, Wu Zhong, and the other elders suffered the array’s backlash.
• The elders decided to activate the array again, burning their lives and souls to transform into twelve Demon Gods.
• The twelve Demon Gods empowered the array, plunging Meishan Grotto-Heaven into a destructive upheaval while Ning Longxiao watched in terror.
• Ren Xiaoyao remained calm and took the Spirit Treasure, the Mysterious Sky Dao Ruler, from his sleeve.

Ren Xiaoyao used the Mysterious Sky Dao Ruler to defeat the twelve Elders of Meishan Grotto-Heaven and destroy their Twelve Immortal Slaying Heavenly Gang Array. After the Elders tried to flee, he immobilized them and erased their bodies and souls.

• Ren Xiaoyao revealed the Mysterious Sky Dao Ruler, whose pressure shook Meishan Grotto-Heaven and frightened Ning Longxiao and the twelve Elders.
• Xing Wuzheng and the other Elders formed Demonic God bodies with the Twelve Immortal Slaying Heavenly Gang Array and attacked Ren Xiaoyao.
• Ren Xiaoyao repelled the Elders' attacks with the Mysterious Sky Dao Ruler, leaving them battered as Ning Longxiao suspected Ren Xiaoyao had reached the Heaven Realm.
• The twelve Elders rebuilt their formation and unleashed its Energy Vortex, but Ren Xiaoyao shattered it and defeated them all.
• Xing Wuzheng urged the Elders to escape, but Ren Xiaoyao immobilized them and swept the Mysterious Sky Dao Ruler through them, turning their bodies to ash and erasing their souls.

Ren Xiaoyao slaughtered Meishan Grotto-Heaven’s twelve elders, then faced the Array Spirit as it detonated the grotto-heaven to destroy him. Ren Xiaoyao protected Ning Longxiao and survived the destruction unharmed, revealing that he had transcended the Heaven Realm and reached the Shore Realm.

• Ren Xiaoyao killed the twelve elders of Meishan Grotto-Heaven, leaving only himself and Ning Longxiao alive within it.
• Meishan Grotto-Heaven began collapsing, and its Array Spirit emerged and identified itself as the Twelve Immortal Slaying Heavenly Gang Array’s spirit, formed from the wills of deceased masters.
• The Array Spirit declared that Ren Xiaoyao could not leave alive and began detonating the array and the entire grotto-heaven.
• Ren Xiaoyao shielded Ning Longxiao with golden light and withstood the destructive power as Meishan Grotto-Heaven shattered completely.
• The Array Spirit was left near destruction and demanded to know Ren Xiaoyao’s strength, so he revealed that he had reached the Shore Realm.

Ren Xiaoyao destroyed the array spirit of the Twelve Immortal Slaying Heavenly Gang Array, rescued Ning Longxiao, and returned to Fulong Mountain while resolving to find Meishan Grotto-Heaven’s surviving cave master. The cave master learned that Meishan Grotto-Heaven had fallen and feared Ren Xiaoyao’s power, while a new system message appeared before Ren Xiaoyao.

• Ren Xiaoyao destroyed the Twelve Immortal Slaying Heavenly Gang Array’s spirit and took the unconscious Ning Longxiao out of the ruined Meishan Grotto-Heaven.
• Ren Xiaoyao returned to Mount Mei and asked Ning Longxiao to investigate the whereabouts of Meishan Grotto-Heaven’s cave master, and Ning Longxiao agreed.
• Ning Longxiao asked whether Ren Xiaoyao had reached the Heaven Realm, and Ren Xiaoyao let him believe that he had.
• Ren Xiaoyao returned to Fulong Mountain, wondered why the system had not issued a reward, and later saw words appear before him.
• Zuo Daochan reported Meishan Grotto-Heaven’s destruction to its cave master, who concluded that Ren Xiaoyao might have reached the Heaven Realm and resolved to avoid him.

Ren Xiaoyao mastered the Divine Ghost Sword Execution and the Heaven and Earth Living Being Slash, then traveled with the True Dragon, Bai Ze, and Lu Youruo to the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty after they found traces of the Phoenix. He confronted the Phoenix in the Cold Palace and offered to bring her under his command, but she revealed her Heaven Realm power and overwhelmed his three companions with her aura.

• Ren Xiaoyao inherited the Divine Ghost Sword Execution, tested its devastating power, and used Incense Power to cultivate the Heaven and Earth Living Being Slash to its highest level.
• The True Dragon, Bai Ze, and Lu Youruo returned from the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty with news that they had sensed the Phoenix in its Cold Palace.
• Ren Xiaoyao learned that the Phoenix might lead them to the Fusang Divine Tree and set out with the three demon beasts to subdue her.
• Ren Xiaoyao located the Phoenix in the Cold Palace and discovered that her aura had reached the Heaven Realm, though it seemed unstable.
• The Phoenix rejected Ren Xiaoyao's offer to serve him, unleashed her Heaven Realm pressure, and left the True Dragon, Bai Ze, and Lu Youruo trembling in fear.

The Phoenix unleashed her Heaven Realm power against Ren Xiaoyao, but he effortlessly stopped her first attack and countered her strongest technique, Phoenix Burial World, with Divine Ghost Sword Execution. The Phoenix was blasted to the ground, crying out in defeat.

• The Phoenix's pressure terrified the True Dragon, Bai Ze, and Lu Youruo, while Ren Xiaoyao stood calm and challenged her to submit.
• The Phoenix attacked Ren Xiaoyao with a golden sphere, but the strike vanished against an invisible barrier without moving him.
• Provoked by Ren Xiaoyao, the Phoenix unleashed Phoenix Burial World, sending two enormous flaming blades toward him.
• Ren Xiaoyao summoned Divine Ghost Sword Execution, which shattered the Phoenix's blades and pierced through her defenses.
• The sword's residual force blasted the Phoenix to the ground, and she cried out in disbelief.

Ren Xiaoyao defeated the Phoenix, forced her to submit, and secretly placed a Life and Death Mark in her body. He then asked why she had stayed in the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty, and she revealed that the Fusang Divine Tree had trapped her.

• Ren Xiaoyao overwhelmed the Phoenix with Divine Ghost Sword Execution, and she learned he had used only thirty percent of his strength.
• The Phoenix submitted to Ren Xiaoyao, who healed her injuries and chronic ailments; when she considered challenging him again, he crushed her resistance with his pressure.
• The Phoenix pledged wholehearted loyalty, and Ren Xiaoyao secretly planted a Life and Death Mark in her body.
• Ren Xiaoyao asked why the Phoenix had been lurking in the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty, and she explained that the Fusang Divine Tree had trapped her.

Ren Xiaoyao learned that the Golden Crow controlled the Fusang Divine Tree and that Chang Henjun, the Golden Crow’s incarnation, might reveal its plans. After freeing Phoenix and confronting Chang Henjun, Ren Xiaoyao overwhelmed him in battle, leaving the incarnation injured and terrified.

• Phoenix told Ren Xiaoyao that the Golden Crow’s will had corrupted the Fusang Divine Tree, imprisoned her, and was gathering power for a world-changing disaster.
• Phoenix identified Chang Henjun, the Imperial Preceptor of the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty, as the Golden Crow’s incarnation, and Ren Xiaoyao shattered the barrier holding her captive.
• Ren Xiaoyao brought Phoenix and his companions to Chang Henjun’s residence, where Chang Henjun trapped them inside a golden barrier and threatened Ren Xiaoyao.
• Ren Xiaoyao used the True Eye of Breaking Illusions to learn that Chang Henjun was a Shore Realm incarnation whose true body had been severely injured.
• Chang Henjun attacked Ren Xiaoyao with dark energy, but Ren Xiaoyao blocked it and struck Chang Henjun down with a single finger.
• Chang Henjun crawled from the pit, wounded and frightened, and asked Ren Xiaoyao who he was.

Ren Xiaoyao defeated Chang Henjun, then feigned weakness to make him reveal the Fusang Divine Tree clone. Chang Henjun summoned it and joined its power to his own, while Ren Xiaoyao revealed that finding the tree had been his goal.

• Ren Xiaoyao rejected Chang Henjun's offer to spare the clone and declared that he would kill him.
• Chang Henjun unleashed a desperate Golden Crow attack, and Ren Xiaoyao pretended to struggle against it.
• Believing Ren Xiaoyao was weakened, Chang Henjun summoned his Fusang Divine Tree clone and combined their power.
• Ren Xiaoyao became excited at the tree's appearance and revealed that he had deliberately baited Chang Henjun into showing it.