Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan learned about Shaolin’s forces and heard rumors of a dragon vein beneath Yong’an Martial Arts University, which strengthened his suspicions about Principal Yin Tianshou. While cultivating in the Crimson Refinement Banner, he completed his first Star Vein and realized that One Qi Encompasses the Cosmos might let humanity draw power from beyond Blue Star, leaving him determined to ask Principal Sui how to develop the idea.

• Meng Chuan spoke with Liaohai about Shaolin’s mobilized martial monks and Four Great Divine Rods, then learned that Master Huiyuan had joined the External Affairs Enforcement Hall.
• Meng Chuan celebrated New Year’s Eve with Meng Yiyi, Yu Kaidong, and his aunt and uncle, and used Yu’s stories to learn about Principal Yin and rumors of a dragon vein beneath Yong’an Martial Arts University.
• Meng Chuan concluded that the supposed dragon vein might conceal evidence of Yin Tianshou’s true identity, and decided he would search for it alongside Fire Dragon Cave.
• Meng Chuan entered the Crimson Refinement Banner to cultivate and completed his first Star Vein in less than ten days.
• Meng Chuan reasoned that One Qi Encompasses the Cosmos might eventually let humanity refine cosmic objects into qi, and considered using Limit Breaking to develop the technique before spreading it.
• Meng Chuan stopped speculating about the distant plan and decided to ask Principal Sui for advice.

Meng Chuan sent his soul out of his body, discovered that his Mind-Intent had greatly expanded, and traveled toward Yong'an Martial Arts University. At Mount Taihang, Great Chu prepared its Grand Luotian Rite while the Mountain Range Divine Lord awakened the Demon Nest and sent its forces to meet the coming attack.

• Meng Chuan practiced Dragon King Stirs the Sea until it reached Perfection, then meditated with the Flying Descent Art and formed a soul-body outside his physical body.
• Meng Chuan explored the city as a soul, perceived the flows of heaven-and-earth energy, and expanded his Mind-Intent range to eighty zhang.
• Meng Chuan's soul drifted toward Yong'an Martial Arts University, while the four Wudang Daoist Lords and nearly ten thousand Great Chu grandmasters prepared the ritual array at Mount Taihang.
• The demons learned that humans had formed an array to attack, and the Heavenly Demon Commanders rallied their forces to meet them.
• The Mountain Range Divine Lord transformed the Demon Nest into a living war machine, while the Buddha Head secretly planned to defect if the humans defeated him.
• Meng Chuan entered Yong'an Martial Arts University as a soul and confirmed that its guards and duty captain could not perceive him.

Meng Chuan infiltrated Yin Tianshou’s hidden cultivation chamber and discovered that Yin was a dragon extracting blood from a captive Candle Dragon. As Meng Chuan gathered evidence and took the Candle Dragon’s reverse scale, live reports revealed the battle at Taihang Mountain, where Great Chu’s forces fought behind a blood-and-qi Great Wall.

• Meng Chuan possessed a hui from the Crimson Refinement Banner and used it to enter Yin Tianshou’s forbidden chamber without exposing his soul body.
• Meng Chuan found a living Candle Dragon sealed in the wall, which accused Yin Tianshou of stealing its treasure and draining its blood to transform himself.
• The Candle Dragon offered Meng Chuan its reverse scale and asked him to seek help from the Dragon Kingdom, while Meng Chuan recorded the exchange as evidence against Yin Tianshou.
• Meng Chuan searched the chamber for clues about why Yin Tianshou coveted him but found none, then decided to leave the matter to the state.
• Meng Chuan followed live reports showing that Mountain Whisper had descended and Taihang Mountain had been destroyed.
• At the Taihang plateau, Tu Qianshan led Great Chu’s blood-and-qi military formation as Lu Ang and the Heavenly Kings fought the invading demons.

Zhang Sanfeng, Xuan Mou, and the other Great Sages joined forces against Mountain Whisper, but the demon broke their formation and plunged the world into darkness. As humanity’s defenders struggled to hold the line, Zhao Linyuan appeared and unleashed overwhelming Water Dao power against the demons, leaving the battle poised for his confrontation with Mountain Whisper.

• Zhang Sanfeng took the Demon-Severing Hero Sword from Zhang Jingshi and joined Xuan Mou and the other Great Sages in attacking Mountain Whisper.
• Mountain Whisper swallowed the combined assault, shattered the Grand Luotian Rite, and destroyed Black Tortoise’s Dharma manifestation as the battlefield and the human world fell into blackness.
• Meng Chuan sensed the world darkening, while Yin Tianshou and Tu Qianshan rallied the Blood and Qi Great Wall’s defenders and drove Buddha Head back from its attempted escape.
• Loulan’s two Saints and three Russian powerhouses joined the fight, bringing the number of attacking Great Sages to fourteen as Mountain Whisper prepared to leave Shanghao’s gaze.
• Zhao Linyuan appeared in white robes and used his Water Dao to restore the night sky and devastate the Heavenly Demons, while the defenders fled the expected aftermath of his power.

Zhao Linyuan used the World-Extinguishing Deluge and the Calamity-Avoiding Jade to kill Mountain Whisper without triggering Blue Star’s ascension or awakening the trapped gods. After humanity celebrated its victory, Zhao told the world’s Great Sages he had to leave for the Azure Sea Realm to complete his Eighth Breakthrough beyond the world, and promised to leave behind his perfected divine art.

• Zhao Linyuan fought Mountain Whisper beneath the Water Grand Dao’s world-destroying calamity while the other Great Sages learned that he had not yet broken the Eighth Great Limit.
• Zhao Linyuan used the Calamity-Avoiding Jade from the Azure Sea Realm to stop the calamity after Mountain Whisper’s soul was destroyed, while Mountain Whisper ordered his people in the Tree Realm to invade Blue Star.
• Zhao Linyuan ordered Ancestor Sanfeng and Abbot Xuan Mou to finish off the remaining Cosmic forces, and the human armies celebrated Mountain Whisper’s death.
• Zhao Linyuan gathered the world’s Seventh Great Limit experts and Heavenly Kings, explaining that he had to face his Eighth Breakthrough beyond the world to prevent Blue Star’s ascension and the awakening of the gods.
• Zhao Linyuan announced that he would go to the Azure Sea Realm and leave behind his perfected Heaven Abyss Calamity-Cleaving Sky-Subduing Dao-Union Art, imprinting his Divine Charm upon it so others could comprehend the Water Grand Dao.

Zhao Linyuan explained the path to the Eighth Breakthrough, won agreement to name it Shattering the Void, and prepared to leave Blue Star for the Azure Sea Realm. As Great Chu considered uniting humanity, Meng Chuan investigated Yin Tianshou’s secret, and Zhao Linyuan visited his master before his imminent breakthrough.

• Zhao Linyuan explained that perfecting a Divine Art let a martial artist enter a Dao Path, and said the Boundless Patriarch had offered him a way past Shanghao’s blockade to the Azure Sea Realm.
• Zhao Linyuan urged the assembled leaders to prepare for the Cosmic invasion, and they agreed to use the Morning Dawn Martial Exercise to gauge other countries’ responses and named the Eighth Great Limit Shattering the Void.
• The United States’ angels discussed seeking Mountain Whisper Demon Nest research through the martial arts gathering, while Yin Tianshou worried that his imprisonment of the Candle Dragon would be exposed.
• Bai Bao recovered the Vairocana Dharma Crown, unknowingly carrying the Buddha Head’s hidden lingering spirit, and Meng Chuan resolved to train harder before calling Lu Ang about Yin Tianshou and the Candle Dragon Reverse Scale.
• Zhao Linyuan visited Zhao Yingchun and revealed that the Dao Embryo within him was becoming difficult to suppress and that his breakthrough was imminent.

After the Taihang victory, Zhao Linyuan visited Meng Chuan, praised his martial foundation, and shared his vision for humanity’s future. When Meng Chuan demonstrated the Guoyi Fist, Zhao Linyuan recognized his extraordinary devotion to martial arts and taught him his water-element method, leaving Meng Chuan absorbing the Ugly Grand Dao.

• Zhao Linyuan reassured Zhao Yingchun that humanity could grow stronger, defeat the demons, and eventually break Shanghao’s hold over Blue Star.
• Zhao Yingchun urged Zhao Linyuan to visit Meng Chuan in Yong'an, and Zhao Linyuan agreed to meet the young martial artist.
• Meng Chuan waited for Guardian Lu’s call, considered the danger posed by Yin Tianshou and the Candle Dragon, and planned to fuse Dao Heart Demon Seeding chapters and obtain a divine halberd.
• Zhao Linyuan arrived at Meng Chuan’s home, examined his physique, and asked him to demonstrate his optimized Guoyi Fist in exchange for a complete water-element cultivation method.
• After watching Meng Chuan perform, Zhao Linyuan recognized his potential to pursue martial arts as a path to the Dao and exposed him to his comprehension of the Ugly Grand Dao.
• Meng Chuan absorbed the Ugly Grand Dao, causing his Five Elements Mountain to rise to a hundred zhang and his Dragon King Stirs the Sea mastery and Limit-Breaking progress to advance rapidly.

Meng Chuan received Zhao Linyuan’s complete Divine Art and Peerless Technique, then entered its Imagery World and began to glimpse the Dao of Water. As Zhao Linyuan warned that Meng Chuan was not ready to withstand its calamities, Meng Chuan guessed that gang qi could reveal another side of the world.

• Zhao Linyuan imparted the Heaven Abyss Calamity-Cleaving Sky-Subduing Dao-Union Art to Meng Chuan and left him a spiritual imprint that would last ten years.
• After Zhao Linyuan departed, Meng Chuan told Lu Ang that Yin Tianshou was not human and that he had obtained a Candle Dragon Reverse Scale, which the state planned to collect in exchange for a valuable reward.
• Li Xiao and the God Summoning Hall pledged themselves to the Purgatory Divine Lord, whose envoys empowered them and ordered them to gather emotional power and search for the Crimson Refinement Banner.
• Meng Chuan received a Zhenwu statue for Xue Na, then entered Zhao Linyuan’s Imagery World to study the divine art and saw the Great Sage appear amid strange, tangible rain.
• Zhao Linyuan warned Meng Chuan that his body was not ready to perceive the other side of the world or withstand its calamities, and Meng Chuan asked whether gang qi could alter perception and reveal that world.

Meng Chuan endured Zhao Linyuan’s fatal spear strike in the Imagery World, then returned home and rebuilt the Dragon Demon before merging the Confusing Heart chapter into Dao Heart Demon-Seeding. He strengthened his cultivation and Death Imagery Realm, discovered the chapter reduced Dao Heart Blood Draw, and finished studying the Angry chapter after three days.

• Meng Chuan was struck down by Zhao Linyuan’s spear in the Imagery World and returned home mentally exhausted, unable to understand the technique’s principles.
• Meng Chuan examined his cultivation panel, then recondensed the Dragon Demon and sent it into the Crimson Refinement Banner to hunt dragon vipers for nourishment.
• Meng Chuan merged the Confusing Heart chapter into Dao Heart Demon-Seeding, raising the technique’s level and power and making his Death Imagery Realm more dangerous.
• Meng Chuan found that the new chapter reduced Dao Heart Blood Draw, increasing his daily vitality and blood gains, and unlocked a second ultimate skill on his panel.
• Meng Chuan studied the Angry chapter continuously for three days and completed it before leaving the banner on the afternoon of the third day.

Meng Chuan received his rewards for the Taihang demon extermination and planned to reforge his halberd, Yingzhao, while preparing to improve his cultivation. As Demon Nest riots transformed Great Chu and devastated regions abroad, Meng Chuan stayed focused on training and arranged to refine a stronger Three-Origin Brain God Pill.

• Meng Chuan handed Candle Dragon's reverse scale to Grandmaster Sun and received two liability-free exchange privileges from Guardian Lu.
• Meng Chuan learned from Grandmaster Yang that forging Yingzhao into a fifth-grade Zhenwu would require far more materials and a Venerable's continuous help, so he planned for a fourth-grade reforging instead.
• Meng Chuan exchanged his privileges for a fourth-grade Brain God Herb and fourth-tier Batwing Dragon wing bones and tendon to support cultivation and forge Yingzhao's shaft.
• After two weeks in seclusion, Meng Chuan learned that Demon Nest riots had expanded Great Chu's territory, displaced millions, and caused catastrophic destruction in other countries.
• Meng Chuan arranged to collect the Heavenly King's Vairocana Treasure Crown from Master Bai Bao and spoke with Shen Shuo about refining the Brain God Herb into a precious-pill-grade Three-Origin Brain God Pill.

Meng Chuan arranged funding for a Brain God Pill and continued his rapid cultivation while preparing to travel to Linzhou for his weapon. As he planned to help Meng Jiaolong cultivate to gather Anger, Yang Yuelian arrived to take him to Linzhou and hoped to learn more martial insight from him.

• Shen Shuo offered to cover the roughly one billion needed to refine the Brain God Pill, and Meng Chuan promised to repay him within a year.
• Meng Chuan calculated his finances, considered borrowing from the Infinite Martial Arts Hall, and returned to cultivating while devising a way to gather Anger through Meng Jiaolong.
• Chen Qiushui told Meng Chuan that United University would give him a Longevity Candle mark for emergency protection, and he planned to return to school in early April.
• Meng Chuan reviewed his progress, found his Star Veins and vitality advancing rapidly, and predicted that he could break Senior Zhao's Record of Breaking Four.
• Yang Yuelian arrived at Meng Chuan's home, ate breakfast with the family, and said she had come to take him to Linzhou while hoping to learn martial insight from him.

Meng Chuan traveled with Yang Yuelian to the Yang Family estate in Linzhou, where the family agreed to fund the first Infinite Martial Arts Hall branch. Huo Zhan confronted Meng Chuan after seeing him with Yang Yuelian, and a mysterious, anger-provoking man arrived and asked whether he was Meng Chuan.

• Xue Na mistook Meng Chuan’s visit to Yang Yuelian’s home for a romantic occasion, while Yang Yuelian asked him to spar so she could learn the power of intent.
• Meng Chuan took Yang Yuelian to his martial arts hall, where the new students greeted him as Senior Brother and he arranged for her to wait while he handled business.
• Meng Chuan and Yang Yuelian traveled to Linzhou, where they discussed the Yang Family’s investment in a new Infinite Martial Arts Hall branch.
• Yang Zhaoxing approved the branch contract and ordered construction to begin, while Huo Zhan learned that Yang Yuelian was returning with Meng Chuan and hurried to meet them.
• At the Yang Family reception hall, Yang Yuelian massaged Meng Chuan as he teased her, until Huo Zhan interrupted them and stirred Meng Chuan’s anger.
• A mysterious man entered the hall, caused the clouds to gather, and asked Meng Chuan whether he was the man from Yong'an.

Meng Chuan accepted Huo Zhan’s challenge at the Yang Family’s martial arena, where the two Third Limit masters fought before a crowd. Meng Chuan overwhelmed Huo Zhan’s opening attack, but Huo Zhan vanished and unleashed a flock of crow-like creatures, leaving their battle raging in a storm of red and black.

• Huo Zhan challenged Meng Chuan to impress Yang Yuelian and demonstrate the Huo Family’s strength, and Meng Chuan agreed.
• Yang Zhaoxing worried that Meng Chuan would lose, while Yang Yuelian and the gathered Yang Family members went with them to the martial arena.
• Huo Zhan wielded a specialized great spear, while Meng Chuan fitted his Fist Blades and faced him despite the crowd’s doubts.
• Meng Chuan expanded to a fifteen-meter form and struck Huo Zhan with overwhelming speed and force, then smashed Huo Zhan’s spear attack and night owl Dharma manifestation.
• Meng Chuan’s Dragon Demon fired a purple beam at Huo Zhan, who disappeared into black light and unleashed a flock of crow-like beasts.
• Meng Chuan blasted apart the flock and met its renewed assault with spiritual-power blades as a vast red-and-black storm engulfed the arena.

Meng Chuan defeated Huo Zhan by unleashing his Death Imagery Realm, then spared him after countering his desperate attack. The Yang Family prepared an extravagant banquet, while Meng Chuan rested and took a soul-stabilizing pill ahead of the evening gathering.

• Meng Chuan endured Huo Zhan's endless crow assaults, then spread death qi through the arena and swallowed the crows and Huo Zhan's Dharma Form domain.
• Huo Zhan abandoned his concealment and attacked Meng Chuan, but Meng Chuan countered his spear strike, seized him, and hurled him away without killing him.
• Meng Chuan warned Huo Zhan that he had spared him for Venerable Huo and Huo Yonglin, then recalled Huo Zhan's technique while resting.
• Yang Yuelian brought Meng Chuan a Starshine Soul-Stabilizing Pill, which he took before she reminded him about the seven o'clock banquet.
• A restaurant convoy delivered rare Martial Dao ingredients worth fifty million to the Yang Family estate for its family banquet.

At a lavish Yang Family banquet, Meng Chuan pondered the nature of the Dao after hearing how Principal Sui’s power affected the lotus pond. He then tested the Yang Family’s Yingzhao halberd and revealed astonishing strength and weapon skill, leaving Yang Zhaoxing and Yang Yuelian stunned.

• Yang Zhaoxing hosted Meng Chuan at a lavish banquet, apologized for the Yang Family’s earlier discourtesy, and offered to send him rare dragon-whiskered carp, which Meng Chuan declined.
• Yang Zhaoxing led Meng Chuan and Yang Yuelian to his garden and explained that Principal Sui’s power had caused the phoenix-tail lotuses to bloom out of season.
• Meng Chuan reflected on the difference between martial arts and the Dao, but broke off his sudden Enlightenment when he sensed the Inner Demon approaching.
• Yang Zhaoxing produced the third-rank Zhenwu Yingzhao and asked Meng Chuan to test its weight before it was reforged.
• Meng Chuan wielded Yingzhao with ease, displayed his halberd techniques in the sky, and amazed Yang Zhaoxing and Yang Yuelian with his final display of the Mad Demon Halberd Art.

Meng Chuan arranged for Yang Zhaoxing to reforge Yingzhao into a heavier fourth-rank Great Halberd, trading his Dragon-Pattern Three Treasures Pill and promising to help the Yang Family if it acted honorably. While the forging continued, Meng Chuan established the Infinite Martial Arts Hall’s Linzhou branch and learned that water demons had begun attacking towns along the Wei River, but he could not join the campaign until the weapon was finished.

• Meng Chuan asked Yang Zhaoxing to add Wish-Following Iron Crystal to Yingzhao, making it weigh about fifty tons and allowing it to grow up to tenfold in size.
• Meng Chuan offered Yang Zhaoxing a Dragon-Pattern Three Treasures Pill in return for the Iron Crystal, but Yang Zhaoxing refused payment and asked Meng Chuan to aid the Yang Family in future trouble; Meng Chuan agreed if the family had not strayed into wrongdoing.
• Yang Zhaoxing began reforging Yingzhao, and Meng Chuan coated the halberd blank with his blood as part of the Spirit Molding process before leaving the remaining work to him.
• Meng Chuan established the Infinite Martial Arts Hall’s Linzhou branch and chose Li Cuizhen, a second-limit Martial Artist, to lead it.
• As Yingzhao’s forging entered the Form Quenching stage, Meng Chuan read reports that water demons were attacking towns along the Wei River and disrupting Yong'an’s construction plans; he stayed behind because the weapon still needed his blood.

Meng Chuan broke Dragon King Stirs the Sea’s limit and advanced the Five Skandhas Universe Method to its fourth-stage core, greatly improving his control over the Five Elements. The breakthroughs also generated a surge of Qi and blood, while his investigation of his inner landscape left him close to, but not yet at, Recognition of Heaven and Earth.

• Meng Chuan visited the Yang Family Martial Arts Building to cultivate, while Yang Yuelian went to the nearby fire-element treasure ground and arranged ginseng soup for him.
• Meng Chuan broke Dragon King Stirs the Sea’s limit, gained the intermediate Rain Summoning Trait, and discovered that it could transform his hands into powerful dragon claws.
• Yang Yuelian left a note telling Meng Chuan that ginseng soup was waiting downstairs as he continued meditating on the Five Skandhas Universe Method.
• Meng Chuan achieved the third Limit Breaking of the Five Skandhas Universe Method, advancing Five Qi Towards Origin to a fourth-stage core and substantially strengthening his Five Elements control.
• The breakthrough drew heaven-and-earth Yuan Qi into Meng Chuan, producing nearly three thousand five hundred points of Qi and blood and changing four of his Star Veins.
• Meng Chuan examined his inner landscape and Natural Divine Mountain, concluded that his martial principles were still short of Recognition of Heaven and Earth, and judged that completing Yin and Yang was his remaining requirement.

Meng Chuan advanced his yin-yang cultivation, tested a new cloud-concealment ability, and began comprehending an Anger-based ultimate move. The vision showed him a planet repeatedly destroyed and reborn, and he recognized the scene from Burning Steel’s memories, but had not yet identified its location.

• Meng Chuan decided to strengthen his yin-yang Martial Principle as a step toward Recognition of Heaven and Earth and the fifth-rank realm.
• Meng Chuan used Cloudwalking and Rainmaking to hide within clouds while teaching Yang Yuelian to use intent, then agreed to go out with her that night.
• Meng Chuan received daily ginseng soup from Yang Yuelian and restrained the Dragon Demon from hunting more serpentine dragons so they could reproduce.
• Meng Chuan gathered enough Anger in his Daoxin and entered a comprehension state to seek an ultimate move.
• Meng Chuan witnessed a planet form from black mist, collapse into it, and form again, then concluded that Dao Heart Demon Seeding granted authority over destruction.
• Meng Chuan recognized the surrounding universe from a tiny detail in Burning Steel’s memories and began trying to pinpoint where he had seen it.

Meng Chuan discovered that Dao Heart Demon Seeding’s emotional powers guided him toward cosmic laws, then learned to unleash Star-Destroying through qi and blood as well as True Qi. As he considered the danger of pursuing the cosmic coordinates, he celebrated Bai Junfeng’s promotion and Golden Tiger Medal news, while his daily training with Yang Yuelian grew increasingly intimate.

• Meng Chuan recognized the cosmic ruin as the Scarlet Demon Race’s abandoned ancestral land and reasoned that Daoxin needed more emotional energy to reveal its coordinates.
• Daoxin repeatedly said “Law,” and Meng Chuan inferred that different chapters and negative emotions pointed toward corresponding cosmic laws.
• Back in the Crimson Refinement Banner, Meng Chuan saw that the panel’s Star Shattering and ultimate-technique entries had vanished, then discovered he could perform Star-Destroying with qi and blood and different kinds of True Qi.
• Meng Chuan concluded that he had merged the principles of laws into martial arts and cautiously considered the risks of pursuing the cosmic coordinates.
• Bai Junfeng told Meng Chuan that he had become a fourth-rank Grandmaster and that Meng Chuan’s Golden Tiger Medal had been approved; they planned a joint ceremony in Yong’an.
• Meng Chuan continued his daily training with Yang Yuelian, teaching her fist intent as their mutual attraction grew more apparent.

Meng Chuan helped Yang Zhaoxing forge Yingzhao into a fourth-rank divine halberd, overcame its True Spirit, and discovered that he could store and summon the weapon from his inner landscape. After testing its immense power, he and the Yangs began considering what to name it.

• During a close-range lesson, Yang Yuelian clung to Meng Chuan, and he left in embarrassment before he lost control.
• Yang Zhaoxing forged Meng Chuan's blood and Burning Steel's tailbone into the halberd, while Meng Chuan subdued Yingzhao's True Spirit with the Elephant God in his Sea of Consciousness.
• The completed halberd acknowledged Meng Chuan and entered his inner landscape, where he summoned it as a fifty-ton weapon.
• Meng Chuan tested the halberd outside, tearing through clouds with its strikes and startling people around Mount Erlang.
• Yang Zhaoxing gave Meng Chuan anti-slip paste and Purifying Rock, then asked him to name the halberd; Meng Chuan found their suggestions too over-the-top.