Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hao learned from Jiang Hai that the Lu Clan had taken Chu Kuang and the other two, then went to the Lu Clan Mansion to confront them. He defeated the guards and three Lu Clan elders, and the clan’s signal summoned more powerful fighters.

• Jiang Hai hinted that the Lu Clan had taken Chu Kuang and the other two, and Jiang Hao understood that he needed to confront them.
• Jiang Hao arrived at the Lu Clan Mansion and knocked two mid-stage Martial Venerable guards through the gates with one punch.
• Three Lu Clan elders at Martial Venerable Perfection attacked Jiang Hao, but he crushed their techniques and sent them flying with a single punch.
• The guards fired a signal bearing the Lu character, and powerful auras rose from the mansion as Lu Clan members shouted at Jiang Hao.

Jiang Hao fought his way through the Lu Clan, defeating its elders and leaving Lu Qingtian and Lu Zhanfeng stunned by his strength. Chu Kuang, Lu Yuan, and Su Yue saw the battle from above and watched Jiang Hao rout the Lu Clan’s leaders.

• Lu Qingtian arrived with Lu Zhanfeng and ordered the Lu Clan elders to trap Jiang Hao in a killing Formation.
• Jiang Hao used Within Reach, Yet Worlds Apart to escape the Formation, then shattered it with his Falling Star Spear Technique and blasted away the elders who formed it.
• Lu Zhanfeng questioned Jiang Hao’s strength, and Jiang Hao said he had always been that strong.
• Lu Qingtian led dozens of powerful Lu Clan fighters against Jiang Hao, but Jiang Hao dodged their attacks and struck them down with his spear techniques.
• Chu Kuang, Lu Yuan, and Su Yue flew above the battlefield and watched Jiang Hao overwhelm the Lu Clan’s leadership.

Jiang Hao overwhelmed the Lu Clan in its ruined courtyard, defeating Lu Qingtian and his imperial weapon before Lu Wanshan, a late-stage Martial Emperor, emerged from seclusion. As Lu Wanshan attacked, Jiang Hao unleashed his Spear Dao Domain and Sacrifice Spear Art to meet him head-on.

• Lu Qingtian summoned the Lu Clan’s bronze imperial weapon, but Jiang Hao shattered its formations and pinned both the seal and Lu Qingtian to a ruined wall with his spear.
• Jiang Hao prepared to cripple Lu Qingtian, but Lu Wanshan emerged from the void and imposed his late-stage Martial Emperor pressure over the courtyard.
• Lu Wanshan saw the devastation of the Lu Clan and struck at Jiang Hao with a massive hand formed from Martial Emperor Law.
• Chu Kuang, Lu Yuan, and Su Yue urged Jiang Hao to dodge, but he stood his ground and unleashed his Spear Dao Domain.
• Jiang Hao channeled Sacrifice Spear Art into the Heaven-Breaking Spear, combining it with his vitality and domain to push back against Lu Wanshan’s aura.

Jiang Hao clashed with Lu Wanshan and survived the late-stage Martial Emperor’s attack, stunning the powerhouses across Heavenly Star Lord City. He rescued Chu Kuang, Lu Yuan, and Su Yue from the Lu Clan and escaped, leaving Lu Wanshan furious and Lu Qingtian suspecting Jiang Hao was a Human God Prodigy.

• Jiang Hao used the Shatter Void Collapse Realm Strike to break Lu Wanshan’s colossal palm of law, drawing the attention of powerful figures throughout Heavenly Star Lord City.
• Chu Kuang, Lu Yuan, and Su Yue watched in shock as Jiang Hao stood unharmed after facing Lu Wanshan’s strike.
• Jiang Hao sensed several more Martial Emperor auras in the Lu Clan Mansion and decided to flee with Chu Kuang, Lu Yuan, and Su Yue.
• Lu Wanshan attacked again, but Jiang Hao used Within Reach, Yet Worlds Apart to escape with the three companions.
• Lu Qingtian concluded that Jiang Hao might be a top-ranked Human God Prodigy, while Lu Wanshan ordered the Lu Clan to clean up the scene and report what had happened.

After Lu Zhanfeng’s actions nearly brought disaster on the Lu Clan, Lu Wanshan ordered him to apologize to Jiang Hao. News of Jiang Hao’s fight with Lu Wanshan reached the city’s powerful families, and Ji Tianming sent Ji Mingyue to meet him and try to recruit him as her follower.

• Lu Qingtian recounted how Lu Zhanfeng’s grudge led to Jiang Hao’s assault on the Lu Clan and the rescue of Chu Kuang and the others.
• Lu Wanshan berated Lu Zhanfeng, then ordered him to bring a generous gift and apologize to Jiang Hao in person.
• Reports of Jiang Hao matching Lu Wanshan despite being only a Martial Venerable spread through Heavenly Star Lord City.
• Jiang Daoyi praised Ancestor Jiang Hai’s judgment and recognized Jiang Hao as a peerless talent for the Chaos Battlefield.
• Ji Tianming discussed Jiang Hao’s battle with Ji Mingyue and instructed her to meet him and try to make him her follower.

After confronting the Lu Clan, Jiang Hao planned to enter the Dao Pavilion’s Heavenly Dao Stele Forest to break through to the Martial Emperor Realm. At the Dao Pavilion branch, manager Qin Wanshuang invited him to join, and Jiang Hao said he would consider it.

• Chu Kuang, Lu Yuan, and Su Yue marveled at Jiang Hao’s strength, and Jiang Hao said he planned to break through to the Martial Emperor Realm and destroy the Lu Clan.
• Jiang Hao told Chu Kuang and the others to remain in Heavenly Star Lord City until he resolved the Lu Clan matter, and asked Chu Kuang to thank Jiang Hai for helping them.
• Jiang Hao went to the Dao Pavilion branch and requested entry to its Heavenly Dao Stele Forest.
• Qin Wanshuang welcomed Jiang Hao, invited him to join the Dao Pavilion, and explained its mission to protect the Human Race and resist foreign races.
• Jiang Hao thanked Qin Wanshuang and said he would consider joining the Dao Pavilion.

Qin Wanshuang escorted Jiang Hao to the Dao Pavilion’s Heavenly Dao Stele Forest, where he began deriving the later stages of the Primal Chaos Nine Revolutions Ancestral God Technique. The Human King Prodigies mistook his lack of response to the steles for poor talent, unaware that his technique’s proficiency was steadily increasing.

• Qin Wanshuang led Jiang Hao through the Dao Pavilion branch to the Heavenly Dao Stele Forest.
• Jiang Hao ignored the five Human King Prodigies and sat in the center of the forest to derive his technique.
• Jiang Hao’s Divine Sense examined the ancient steles, and he recognized the martial Dao resonance they contained.
• Lin Tianchen, Zhao Feng, Han Lie, Shen Yu, and Gu Qingxue mocked Jiang Hao for failing to awaken a stele and having only a Radiant Sun Grade Martial Bone.
• Jiang Hao continued digesting martial arts insights as notifications showed his technique’s proficiency increasing.

Jiang Hao used the Heavenly Dao Stele Forest’s martial insights to advance the Primal Chaos Nine Revolutions Ancestral God Technique to its eighteenth layer, draining the forest’s entire allotment of Dao Rhymes. The five Human King Ranking prodigies watched in shock and shame as the steles dimmed.

• Jiang Hao reached the fourteenth layer of the Primal Chaos Nine Revolutions Ancestral God Technique and gained the ability to break through to Martial Emperor, but chose to keep deducing the art.
• Jiang Hao’s Divine Sense triggered a resonance across more than ten thousand ancient steles, drawing their golden Dao Rhymes into a vortex around him.
• Lin Tianchen, Zhao Feng, Han Lie, Shen Yu, and Gu Qingxue woke and realized Jiang Hao had caused the unprecedented resonance.
• Jiang Hao refined the steles’ martial insights and advanced the Ancestral God Art through its fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth layers.
• The steles dimmed after Jiang Hao absorbed all the insights available, leaving the five prodigies stunned and ashamed of having mocked him.

After absorbing the Heavenly Dao Stele Forest’s Dao resonance, Jiang Hao left the Dao Pavilion and sensed that he was ready to break through to Martial Emperor. He departed Heavenly Star Lord City to find a place where he could undergo the required tribulation.

• Jiang Hao finished comprehending the eighteenth level of the Ancestral God Art and left the drained Heavenly Dao Stele Forest without acknowledging Lin Tianchen, Zhao Feng, Han Lie, Shen Yu, or Gu Qingxue.
• Qin Wanshuang and two Martial Emperor elders saw that the forest’s ten thousand Dao steles had gone dim and realized Jiang Hao had absorbed their Dao resonance.
• Qin Wanshuang invited Jiang Hao to join the Dao Pavilion and offered its resources, but he politely said he would consider it and left.
• Jiang Hao sensed the barrier between Martial Venerable and Martial Emperor had vanished and realized he needed to undergo a tribulation to forge a Martial Emperor body.
• Jiang Hao used Within Reach, Yet Worlds Apart to cross Heavenly Star Lord City’s walls and head outside the city.

Jiang Hao unlocked his dormant blood energy on the Chaos Plain and triggered an enormous Martial Emperor tribulation. Its ten-thousand-mile cloud spread over Heavenly Star Lord City, drawing the city’s Martial Emperors and Martial God family prodigies toward the outskirts while Jiang Hao focused on the thunder above him.

• Jiang Hao traveled to a desolate stretch of the Chaos Plain, checked that no one was nearby, and released all the shackles in his body.
• Jiang Hao’s blood energy surged as the fourteenth layer of the Ancestral God Art rumbled into motion, summoning a vast tribulation cloud.
• The tribulation cloud expanded to ten thousand miles and cast half of Heavenly Star Lord City into darkness.
• The city’s cultivators watched in alarm and speculated about who was undergoing tribulation beyond the city.
• Martial Emperors, including Jiang Daoyi and Ji Mingyue, flew toward the outskirts to investigate the heavenly phenomenon.
• Jiang Hao remained beneath the tribulation cloud, unaware that the city’s powerful figures were approaching, and watched the dark golden thunder above him.

Jiang Hao faced his heavenly tribulation head-on, destroying its lightning with his fists and spear as Martial Emperor powerhouses and Martial Venerables watched in shock. The onlookers recognized his extraordinary strength, and Jiang Daoyi and Ji Mingyue resolved even more firmly to recruit him as a follower.

• Jiang Hao charged into the first mountain-sized tribulation bolt and shattered it with a punch fueled by ten billion units of qi and blood.
• Jiang Daoyi, Ji Mingyue, and the arriving Martial Emperor powerhouses recognized Jiang Hao and were astonished by his feat.
• Dark golden Thunder Dragons emerged from the tribulation clouds and attacked Jiang Hao from every direction.
• Jiang Hao summoned the Heaven-Breaking Spear and used his spear techniques to tear apart the Thunder Dragons.
• Martial Venerables arrived and stood stunned as Jiang Hao charged into the lightning and destroyed it at will.

Jiang Hao destroyed the final Humanoid Lightning strike of his World-Extinguishing Heavenly Tribulation and used the descending world essence to break through to the early stage of the Martial Emperor realm. His immense foundation and Martial Dao Divine Radiance revealed that he was destined to become a Human God, and the chapter ended with Jiang Daoyi, Ji Mingyue, and the other Martial Emperors congratulating him.

• Jiang Hao shattered the Humanoid Lightning with Dragon Roar Nine Heavens, ending his heavenly tribulation.
• Jiang Hao absorbed the golden world essence, broke through to the early stage of the Martial Emperor realm, and perfected the fourteenth layer of the Primal Chaos Nine Revolutions Ancestral God Technique.
• Jiang Hao's blood energy surpassed twenty billion units, and his imperial pressure shocked the Martial Venerables and Martial Emperors watching nearby.
• Jiang Hao radiated Martial Dao Divine Radiance, leading the onlookers to recognize him as destined to become a Human God and a supreme contender for the Human God Ranking.
• Jiang Daoyi and Ji Mingyue congratulated Jiang Hao, and the other Martial Emperors hurried forward to do the same.

After Jiang Hao broke through to Martial Emperor, Jiang Daoyi and Ji Mingyue competed to recruit him with lavish offers. Jiang Hao rejected them both, saying he did not want to serve beneath anyone.

• Jiang Hao politely downplayed his breakthrough as the gathered powerhouses congratulated him.
• Jiang Daoyi offered Jiang Hao extensive Jiang Clan resources and privileges in exchange for becoming his follower.
• Ji Mingyue offered comparable resources, a Chaos Star Spiritual Vein, and access to a divine-grade Martial Skill if Jiang Hao became her personal guard.
• The crowd reacted with shock and jealousy at Ji Mingyue’s offer, while other would-be recruiters stayed silent.
• Jiang Hao thanked Jiang Daoyi and Ji Mingyue, then firmly refused both offers because he disliked being beneath anyone.

After Jiang Hao broke through to the Martial Emperor Realm and gained Martial Dao Divine Radiance, Lu Wanshan ordered Lu Zhanfeng to kneel at the city gate and personally wait for him. Jiang Hao refused offers to join the Jiang and Ji Clans, but accepted Jiang Daoyi’s offer of friendship and an invitation to a celebratory banquet.

• Lu Wanshan learned that Jiang Hao had become a Martial Emperor and ordered Lu Zhanfeng to kneel at Heavenly Star Lord City's main gate to welcome him.
• Lu Wanshan told Lu Zhanfeng that he would personally wait at the gate too, and Lu Zhanfeng hurried there to obey.
• Jiang Hao rejected Jiang Daoyi’s and Ji Mingyue’s offers to join their families as a subordinate.
• Ji Mingyue said she would continue trying to earn Jiang Hao’s loyalty, while Jiang Daoyi asked to be his true friend.
• Jiang Hao accepted Jiang Daoyi’s friendship, and Jiang Daoyi invited him to a grand celebratory banquet.

After Jiang Hao broke through to the Martial Emperor Realm, Jiang Daoyi invited him to a celebration in Heavenly Star Lord City, where the Lu Clan’s ancestor and Lu Zhanfeng waited to apologize. The chapter ended with Lu Zhanfeng kowtowing to Jiang Hao before the shocked crowd.

• Jiang Hao accepted Jiang Daoyi’s invitation, and Ji Mingyue joined them for the celebration.
• Jiang Hao and the Martial Emperor powerhouses arrived at Heavenly Star Lord City and found Lu Wanshan waiting outside the gate with Lu Zhanfeng kneeling before him.
• Lu Wanshan apologized to Jiang Hao for the Lu Clan’s earlier actions and blamed the conflict on his ignorance of its cause.
• Lu Wanshan ordered Lu Zhanfeng to crawl forward and apologize, and Lu Zhanfeng kowtowed to Jiang Hao as the crowd watched in shock.

Jiang Hao accepted the Lu Clan’s apology and lavish gift after defeating Lu Zhanfeng, then entered Heavenly Star Lord City with Jiang Daoyi and Ji Mingyue. At Star-Plucking Pavilion, Jiang Daoyi revealed a dangerous Martial Emperor opportunity that might hold secrets of the Martial God and invited them to join him.

• Lu Wanshan apologized on Lu Zhanfeng’s behalf, and Jiang Hao accepted the apology and the Lu Clan’s Storage Ring.
• Lu Wanshan declared Jiang Hao an honored guest of the Lu Clan, then took Lu Zhanfeng and left as the gathered cultivators watched.
• Jiang Daoyi led Jiang Hao, Ji Mingyue, and the others into Heavenly Star Lord City and hosted them at Star-Plucking Pavilion.
• Jiang Hao discovered the Storage Ring held five hundred Martial Venerable Star Cores, thirty Martial Venerable Rank Chaos Martial Medicines, and three Martial Emperor Rank Chaos Martial Medicines.
• Jiang Daoyi told Jiang Hao and Ji Mingyue about a Martial Emperor opportunity with an age restriction and a great terror inside, and said it might involve secrets of the Martial God.

Jiang Hao agreed to join Jiang Daoyi and Ji Mingyue in exploring a shattered space left behind by a Martial God, which only Martial Emperors under one hundred could enter. After returning to Heavenly Star Lord City, he reassured Chu Kuang, Lu Yuan, and Su Yue that the Lu Clan matter was settled and they would be safe.

• Jiang Daoyi revealed that the Secret Realm was likely a shattered space left by a Martial God, with an entrance restricted to those who became Martial Emperors before age one hundred.
• Jiang Daoyi warned that a great terror lurked deep within the Secret Realm and asked Jiang Hao and Ji Mingyue to join him in exploring it.
• Jiang Hao agreed to go, and he, Jiang Daoyi, and Ji Mingyue arranged to meet outside Heavenly Star Lord City in three days.
• Jiang Hao returned to Earth Grade Residence 520, where Chu Kuang, Lu Yuan, and Su Yue greeted him in awe.
• Jiang Hao told Chu Kuang, Lu Yuan, and Su Yue that the Lu Clan matter was resolved and that no one would trouble them again.

Jiang Hao refined three Martial Emperor Pills, strengthening and solidifying his Martial Emperor foundation. He then joined Jiang Daoyi and Ji Mingyue at the city gate and departed with them toward the Chaos Battlefield.

• Jiang Hao dismissed Chu Kuang and the others, then entered his cultivation room to consolidate his newly reached Martial Emperor realm.
• Jiang Hao absorbed three Martial Emperor Pills, gaining 1.5 million Ancestral God Technique proficiency points but not enough to advance to the fifteenth layer.
• After meditating for three days, Jiang Hao fully stabilized his realm and increased his combat power by another tenth.
• Jiang Hao left his residence and met Jiang Daoyi and Ji Mingyue at Heavenly Star Lord City's gate.
• Jiang Hao, Jiang Daoyi, and Ji Mingyue flew toward the Chaos Battlefield, leaving the cultivators who tried to follow far behind.

Jiang Hao, Jiang Daoyi, and Ji Mingyue traveled into the Chaos Battlefield to investigate a space left behind by a Martial God. After Jiang Daoyi and Ji Mingyue were shocked by Jiang Hao’s rapid growth, they reached the enormous rift that served as the space’s entrance.

• Jiang Daoyi said they had shaken off the Martial Emperor experts who followed them from the city.
• Jiang Daoyi and Ji Mingyue noticed Jiang Hao’s aura had grown by more than a tenth in three days.
• Jiang Hao said he had consolidated his realm and refined several Martial Emperor Pills, leaving Jiang Daoyi astonished.
• Jiang Daoyi warned Jiang Hao and Ji Mingyue that Space Turbulence would grow denser as they continued onward.
• The three reached a vast rift, where Jiang Daoyi identified a rippling Law Light Screen as the barrier around the shattered space.

Jiang Hao, Jiang Daoyi, and Ji Mingyue entered an ancient shattered world through a barrier that checked their age and cultivation. Their investigation was interrupted by a gigantic Chaos Demon Ape, which Jiang Daoyi identified as a seemingly mindless creature at least at the perfected Martial Emperor level.

• Jiang Daoyi explained the barrier's restrictions and entered the rift first, followed by Ji Mingyue and Jiang Hao.
• Jiang Hao passed through the barrier and found himself in a desolate world with Ji Mingyue and Jiang Daoyi.
• Ji Mingyue and Jiang Daoyi discovered that the broken world's laws limited Divine Sense and weakened their Qi and Blood, while Jiang Hao seemed unaffected.
• A monstrous roar shook the plain, shattered the others' protective Qi and Blood, and prompted Jiang Hao to summon the Heaven-Breaking Spear.
• A thousand-zhang Chaos Demon Ape rose from the destroyed mountains, and Jiang Daoyi recognized it as a seemingly mindless creature of at least perfected Martial Emperor rank.