Chapter Summaries

Zhao Linyuan joined the Boundless Sect’s expedition to seize a five-element ore vein in the Mountain and Sea Realm, while learning that Blue Star might also harbor dangerous hidden ore deposits. After speaking with his master Zhao Yingchun, he became intrigued by Meng Chuan’s progress in combining Xingyi and Xiangxing, and contacted him through the Dao Domain Network.

• Lan Zhan agreed to lead the Boundless Sect’s expedition, and he, Zhao Linyuan, Baierlun, and Haili departed with the Star Mothership fleet for the Mountain and Sea Realm.
• Baierlun warned Zhao Linyuan that Blue Star’s life-bearing status suggested it could conceal valuable ore veins, drawing Cosmos’s attention and putting the planet at risk.
• Zhao Linyuan told Zhao Yingchun about the possible ore deposits, and they agreed to leave countermeasures to the Human Alliance’s decision-making council until the veins emerged.
• Zhao Yingchun told Zhao Linyuan that Meng Chuan had advanced to tier four and was cultivating Xingyi and Xiangxing together, with Xiangxing meridians growing in his Inner World.
• Zhao Linyuan asked for Meng Chuan’s Dao Domain Network ID and sent L9 a friend request under the name L1.

Meng Chuan received guidance and 100,000 Star Coins from Zhao Linyuan, then continued cultivating while preparing for the battle over the Demon Mountain Ore Vein. After gathering the Enforcement Bureau’s elite and traveling to Ye City, he led them into the Qilian Mountains as the campaign began.

• Zhao Linyuan met Meng Chuan in the Dao Domain Network, shared his interstellar knowledge and experience, and sent him 100,000 Star Coins for enlightenment.
• Over the following month, Meng Chuan cultivated, invested his company dividends in innate baleful qi, and learned that Xu Qingfeng had reached tier two.
• Cui Yunyu informed Meng Chuan that the Demon Mountain Ore Vein mission had begun, and he mobilized his team and briefed them on the dangerous Purgatory races guarding the mine.
• Meng Chuan led Li Mountain’s mission personnel through the wilderness to Ye City, where he attended strategy meetings and assembled the Enforcement Bureau combat teams.
• At dawn on the fifth day, Meng Chuan led the teams toward the Demon Mountain lair in the Qilian Mountains and ordered them to prepare for the operation.

Meng Chuan led a hundred thousand human fighters into the Demon Mountain Nest to seize its ore vein, where Purgatory’s forces prepared a massive defense under Red Lotus’s concealed watch. The two armies advanced toward their first clash as Red Lotus’s plan to plant the God Seed in Meng Chuan remained poised to unfold.

• Meng Chuan and Li Wenshu led the human forces into the Qilian Mountains, while Cui Yunyu appointed Meng Chuan overall commander and military inspector.
• After three days of travel, Sui Chunqiu opened a dimensional passage into the Demon Mountain Nest, and the human troops entered under the protection of six supreme human powerhouses.
• Purgatory leaders learned that Meng Chuan had entered the nest and revealed that Red Lotus had been ordered to plant a God Seed in him.
• Neltharion sent Mo Jue to investigate why the human main force had returned to Qilian.
• Meng Chuan equipped himself and led the hundred-thousand-strong army toward Black Mountain with the Blood Qi Dragon City Grand Formation in place.
• Red Lotus watched Purgatory’s forces form a defensive line as scouts announced the approaching human army.

Meng Chuan concealed himself in the void and sabotaged the Heavenly Demon defenses as the human army launched its assault. With the battlefield locked in a costly stalemate and a warning stopping him from attacking Shadow Demon, Meng Chuan summoned a huge dragon whose brow eye opened.

• Meng Chuan surveyed the Heavenly Demon defenses, chose powerful targets for ambush, and killed the elephant Great Demon Kunta with Demon-Subduing.
• Meng Chuan used Soul Devouring to guide Kunta's corpse into a rampage that wrecked the first defensive line, while Shadow Demon ordered Hunter Owl to respond.
• Gao Qun killed Hunter Owl as the human army arrived, and Meng Chuan used Gao Qun as bait to ambush and kill several dozen Heavenly Demon experts.
• The human army and Heavenly Demons fought across the ruined trench as both sides suffered heavy casualties, while Meng Chuan refrained from attacking the massed forces.
• Meng Chuan considered attacking Shadow Demon but sensed danger, so he summoned an enormous dragon whose brow eye opened.

Meng Chuan helped the human army break through Purgatory’s first line of defense and attacked the Shadow Demon commander, drawing out Red Lotus at Black Mountain. The two fought in the sky before landing amid the battlefield, where Red Lotus revealed his Starry Sky Demon Scorpion form.

• Meng Chuan used the Dragon Demon to ambush and kill a mantis demon while the human army broke through Purgatory’s first defensive line.
• Aolie attacked the human breach, but Huijue, Chen Canglie, and Lu Yuanhu intercepted him while archers drove him away.
• The human army advanced toward Black Mountain, where a beetle Heavenly Demon’s sweeping divine attack injured Yang Long before the army overwhelmed it.
• Meng Chuan unleashed a colossal palm strike, crushed the Shadow Demon commander, and tore up the earth around him.
• Red Lotus confronted Meng Chuan, and the two exchanged lethal attacks before landing as Red Lotus revealed his Starry Sky Demon Scorpion form.

Meng Chuan fought Purgatory’s Chosen One, Red Lotus, while the human army battled the Heavenly Demons below. After overcoming Red Lotus’s laws and trapping him with his tail, Meng Chuan used the Destruction Law to pierce and pin him with the Devouring Blade.

• Red Lotus and Meng Chuan exchanged powerful blows above the battlefield as both armies withdrew toward Black Mountain.
• Red Lotus revealed that he had come for Meng Chuan and taunted him about the Crimson Refinement Divine Banner, prompting Meng Chuan to attack with Abyss Cleave.
• Huijue, Gao Qun, and the human forces fought the Heavenly Demons, with the Thunder Clan joining the battle and the humans gradually gaining ground.
• Red Lotus transformed into a giant demon scorpion and attacked Meng Chuan with poisoned tails, but Meng Chuan evaded the strike and seized his true tail.
• Meng Chuan unleashed the Destruction Law, shattered Red Lotus’s divine power, and drove his halberd through him despite Red Lotus’s pleas and threats.

Meng Chuan killed Red Lotus, turning the battle at Black Mountain in humanity’s favor, then was trapped by a flame phantom sent by Fury. As the flames began consuming his defenses, Meng Chuan waited for a chance to use Destruction without revealing it.

• Meng Chuan killed Red Lotus with his halberd, and the demon’s corpse crashed onto the battlefield.
• Humanity’s forces cheered and charged toward Black Mountain as the Purgatory army faltered after Red Lotus’s death.
• Meng Chuan used Elephant God to devour Red Lotus’s soul and gained his memories, including information that alarmed him.
• Fury’s flame phantom appeared, praised Meng Chuan’s talent, and asked him to become His son; Meng Chuan refused.
• Fury’s phantom engulfed Meng Chuan in flames that absorbed his qi and burned through his defenses.
• Meng Chuan prepared to use Destruction once the flames entered his body, while converting his remaining qi into water to endure the heat.

Meng Chuan survived the flames of Fury, comprehended part of the Law of Fury, and strengthened his Destruction technique and body. He concluded that acquiring the Divine Powers tied to higher laws would require seeking them in the cosmos, then prepared to pursue creating a Dao beyond the Martial Dao.

• The demons learned that Red Lotus had died and tried to hide the news from Burning Ash, fearing his wrath.
• Trapped in Fury’s flames, Meng Chuan used Supreme Destruction and the Infinite Ultimate Intent Art to resist their corruption and steady his mind.
• Meng Chuan studied the flames, entered an Imagery World where he faced Fury, and gained insights that advanced his Destruction technique and mutated his cells.
• Mo Jue watched the flames around the Demon Nest and resolved to kill Meng Chuan if he emerged weakened.
• Meng Chuan escaped the flames, found that his technique’s completeness had increased after fusing the Fury chapter, and rejected absorbing or storing the dangerous flame energy.
• Meng Chuan reasoned that higher-law Divine Powers might have to be acquired directly, reaffirmed the Martial Dao as his foundation, and considered creating a path beyond it.

Meng Chuan survived the Fire Domain, returned to Black Mountain, and fought Mo Jue after the bird demon ambushed him. As their battle intensified, Meng Chuan broke through his limits and reached toward the Dao, but the fight remained unresolved.

• Meng Chuan escaped the Fire Domain and flew toward Black Mountain, while Mo Jue secretly followed and planned another attack.
• Human forces pressed their advantage at Black Mountain, using the Blood Qi Dragon City Grand Formation to overwhelm Purgatory's disorganized demons.
• Mo Jue launched a surprise attack on Meng Chuan, but Meng Chuan sensed him, evaded his claws, and transformed into the Limitless True Demon.
• Meng Chuan and Mo Jue fought at tremendous speed as Meng Chuan's intent surpassed its limit and Mo Jue realized he was using the battle to seek the Dao.
• Meng Chuan challenged Mo Jue to give him a stronger fight as their life-and-death battle continued.

Meng Chuan fought Mo Jue as the Roc Demon awakened its Mountain-Sea Roc bloodline and transformed into a Kunpeng, nearly reaching the sixth rank. Though Mo Jue gained the upper hand and devastated the battlefield, Meng Chuan continued fighting above the fleeing armies, seeking a chance to break through to the fifth realm.

• Meng Chuan countered Mo Jue’s invisible attacks with his heightened intent, then seized the Roc Demon and tore away part of its chest before Mo Jue severed its own wing to escape.
• Mo Jue awakened its bloodline and transformed into an evil Kunpeng, rising to the absolute peak of the fifth rank but failing to reach the sixth.
• Mo Jue overwhelmed Meng Chuan’s summoned Dragon Demon and Elephant God, then battered him with powerful attacks and taunted him about his Dao.
• Meng Chuan evaded Mo Jue’s strikes, fought back with Demon-Subduing and the Law of Destruction, and recognized the Kunpeng’s ability to draw on cosmic energy.
• Mo Jue’s attacks devastated Black Mountain, forcing humans and demons to flee as Meng Chuan raised the battle toward the Demon Nest’s ceiling.
• Meng Chuan continued clashing with Mo Jue high above the battlefield, while the terrified human army watched and feared what would happen if he fell.

Meng Chuan endured Mo Jue’s overwhelming assault, broke free of the Dark Abyss with Destruction, and deepened his understanding of Transforming Others into Martial Arts. He harnessed the Demon Nest’s energy to close the speed gap and prepared to use their fight to complete his Martial Dao and break through the fifth realm.

• Mo Jue’s evolved Kunpeng bloodline overwhelmed Meng Chuan with relentless blade attacks, forcing him underground to evade.
• With Mo Jue closing in, Meng Chuan recalled Luo Guanyun’s advice to find a path through a fight to the death and unleashed Destruction to shatter the Dark Abyss.
• Meng Chuan hid and contemplated the Martial Dao, using Mo Jue’s remaining divine power to deepen his understanding of Transforming Others into Martial Arts.
• Meng Chuan drew in the Demon Nest’s energy and transformed his body into a dark, powerful form, alarming Mo Jue.
• Meng Chuan merged with the surrounding darkness, matched Mo Jue’s speed for a time, and moved in to continue the battle as he sought to break through the fifth realm.

Meng Chuan fought Mo Jue while using the battle to create his own Martial Dao, reaching Heaven-Human Communion and discovering that his Inner World’s Qi could sustain it. He was still completing the Dao’s resonance, but gained heaven’s support and resolved to open Zhenwu through his fists and feet.

• Meng Chuan put away Demon-Subduing and fought Mo Jue with fists and feet, gradually gaining the upper hand as his transformed Divine Power injured Mo Jue’s origin.
• Mo Jue changed tactics and relied on speed to trap Meng Chuan in close combat, but Meng Chuan unified his martial techniques and seized control of water-aspected energy through Martial Arts.
• Meng Chuan perceived his Martial True Intent as a reflection of himself, heard the Dao sound of Martial in the mysterious pass, and entered Heaven-Human Communion as dark-gold martial intent spread across the battlefield.
• Meng Chuan suppressed Mo Jue while realizing that his Inner World’s Qi could serve as an independent energy source for Martial Dao, allowing him to create a path beyond the cosmic laws.
• Meng Chuan received the will of heaven as he sought to create Martial Dao and save humanity, then declared that his fists and feet would open Zhenwu and that his body itself was the Dao.

Meng Chuan created the martial arts Dao while fighting Mo Jue in the Demon Nest, transforming his aura into primordial qi and proclaiming the heavenly voice of martial arts. His Dao voice reached martial artists across the universe, who recognized him as the Martial Progenitor and celebrated the birth of true martial arts.

• Meng Chuan explored the energy within his body and began forging an exclusive primordial qi aura for martial arts while parrying Mo Jue.
• Meng Chuan transformed his aura into primordial qi, heard the Great Dao, and declared that he would create a Dao.
• Meng Chuan proclaimed the heavenly voice of martial arts, establishing its principles and imprinting his Martial True Intent across the universe.
• Martial artists throughout the world heard Meng Chuan's Dao voice, recognized him as its source, and hailed him as the Martial Progenitor.
• People across Blue Star celebrated the birth of true martial arts and wondered how far Meng Chuan would advance its Dao.

Meng Chuan created the Martial Dao, broke into the fifth tier, and subdued Mo Jue with his new Martial Domain. He then completed a martial arts divine art, replacing Destruction as his fundamental method with the limit-breaking trait Sever Heaven and Earth.

• Zhao Linyuan felt the Martial Dao’s ascension and told Lan Zhan, Haili, and Baierlun that a young Blue Star martial artist had created a Dao.
• Lan Zhan warned Zhao Linyuan to protect Meng Chuan and keep his identity secret from Cosmos, so Zhao arranged to send a Galactic Contract to Blue Star.
• Meng Chuan emerged from his breakthrough and used primordial qi and his Martial Domain to suppress Mo Jue, who fled before being buried underground.
• Meng Chuan completed his fifth bodily transformation, becoming a fifth-tier Martial Venerable, while humanity began clearing the Demon Nest of Heavenly Demons.
• Meng Chuan combined his Xingyi and Xiangxing knowledge and created a martial arts divine art that replaced Destruction as his fundamental method, gaining the trait Sever Heaven and Earth.

Meng Chuan created the Martial Dao General Outline, gained the super trait Sever Heaven and Earth, and broke through the fifth limit. After Mo Jue escaped to the Mountain and Sea Realm, Meng Chuan returned to Yong'an and began researching how to pursue him.

• Meng Chuan named his new cultivation path the Martial Dao General Outline and discovered its super limit-breaking trait, Sever Heaven and Earth.
• After reaching the fifth limit, Meng Chuan searched the Demon Nest for Mo Jue, but Mo Jue burned his bloodline and escaped through a dimensional fissure to the Mountain and Sea Realm.
• Luo Guanyun learned that Meng Chuan had created a Dao, while the Martial Saints kept the news secret under Zhao Linyuan's Galactic Contract.
• Sui Chunqiu told Meng Chuan that Mo Jue had reached the Mountain and Sea Realm and was protected from the void turbulence by its source power.
• Meng Chuan returned to Yong'an, entered seclusion, and bought intelligence reports about the Mountain and Sea Realm as he prepared to pursue Mo Jue.

After breaking through the fifth limit, Meng Chuan decided to travel to the Mountain and Sea Realm to find Mo Jue and seek the White Tiger inheritance despite the dangers posed by Purgatory’s fleet. During the journey, he discovered he could refine Void Aura into blood energy, then arrived in the Mountain and Sea Realm.

• Meng Chuan studied the Mountain and Sea Realm’s defenses, weighed the danger against his desire to avenge Long Jiu and the others, and decided to pursue Mo Jue while searching for the White Tiger inheritance.
• Meng Chuan confirmed the realm’s coordinates with Zou Wu, told his girlfriend about his breakthrough, and used Transcendence to begin the journey.
• During the voyage, Meng Chuan sensed how his new Soul Palace stabilized his soul and considered seeking the Boundless Sect’s Demon-Transforming Spirit-Nourishing Great Art.
• Meng Chuan converted a strand of Void Aura into nearly a thousand blood energy points and realized the Martial Dao General Outline could use cosmic auras as cultivation resources.
• Meng Chuan restrained himself from probing the void’s deeper mysteries and continued his journey to the Mountain and Sea Realm.
• After half a month, Meng Chuan arrived in the Mountain and Sea Realm, where the God-Banishing Formation had not stopped his dimensional travel.

Meng Chuan entered the Mountain and Sea Realm and decided to infiltrate the Purgatory Fleet to find Mo Jue. After killing Captain Moore and taking his identity, he prepared to pass himself off as a Purgatory soldier.

• Meng Chuan surveyed Yu Mountain, sensed that Purgatory’s mining had damaged the realm, and planned to use the Purgatory Fleet’s intelligence network to locate Mo Jue.
• Moore led his squad on a patrol of Yu Mountain with Mela, while Meng Chuan cultivated nearby and sensed their approach.
• Meng Chuan ambushed Moore and Mela, overwhelmed them with his aura, and killed Moore with a strike empowered by the Mountain and Sea Realm’s five-element aura.
• Mela fled, but Meng Chuan hurled Demon-Subduing after her and killed her before she could reunite with the squad.
• Meng Chuan erased traces of the battle, transformed himself into Moore, and used the Magic Mirror and [Destruction] to imitate Moore’s appearance and Purgatory aura.
• Meng Chuan fed Mela’s corpse to Dragon Demon, which recreated her body; he told it to wipe away the dragon drool.

Meng Chuan impersonated Moore and infiltrated the Purgatory Fleet in the Mountain and Sea Realm, learning about its immense strength while planning to find and kill the wounded Mo Jue. He reached the fleet’s mothership beneath the Cangyuan River and began settling into his role, though a persistent sense of unease warned him not to stay long.

• Meng Chuan healed Mela, deleted Moore’s mission footage, and resumed the patrol while reviewing Moore’s memories.
• Meng Chuan learned that the Purgatory Fleet could overwhelm Blue Star and resolved to keep his identity as a Dao Creator concealed while he grew stronger.
• Meng Chuan considered where Mo Jue might be hiding and decided to gather intelligence before trying to capture him.
• Meng Chuan claimed Moore’s Black Dragon spear and standard-issue Purgatory armor, then returned to the fleet with his squad without raising suspicion.
• Meng Chuan led his squad aboard the mothership beneath the Cangyuan River, passed its aura scan, and briefed them on their upcoming assignments.
• Meng Chuan continued his disguise aboard the mothership with Dragon Demon posing as Mela, but remained troubled by a mysterious feeling of unease.

Meng Chuan patrolled Bifang Meadow while secretly planning to find the White Tiger Secret Realm and gather intelligence on Mo Jue. At a meeting, he impressed Dodota by pretending to study the Mountain and Sea Realm map, earning an invitation to accompany the commander during ore collection and a complete electronic map that revealed the secret realm’s location near the western mining district.

• Meng Chuan led his squad on a patrol through Bifang Meadow while weighing the destruction caused by mining and planning how to locate the White Tiger Secret Realm.
• After two weeks of routine work, Meng Chuan received Draven’s summons to a Yin Moon Legion meeting and went early to memorize the map in the conference room.
• Dodota caught Meng Chuan studying the map, and Meng Chuan used Moore’s notebook to pretend he was studying the commander’s geographical strategy.
• Dodota invited Meng Chuan to stand beside him during the upcoming ore collection and ordered Draven to send him a complete electronic map.
• Meng Chuan learned that accompanying Dodota could bring extra star ore, then used the map to locate the White Tiger Secret Realm near the western mining district and planned to investigate when the legion next collected ore there.

Meng Chuan began cultivating Principal Sui’s Great Sun Burning Heaven, then traveled with Dodota’s forces toward the South Mining Area while carefully maintaining Moore’s identity. As the army reached the Divine Mountain, the badly injured Mo Jue arrived at the Heavenly Peng Secret Realm and believed he had escaped Meng Chuan for good.

• Meng Chuan studied Moore’s notebook to prepare for speaking with Dodota, then entered Principal Sui’s Imagery World and learned the introductory method for Great Sun Burning Heaven.
• Meng Chuan cultivated the art to its first layer, realized Principal Sui had taught him only half of the complete method, and considered using the Mountain and Sea Realm’s suns or Radiant Star to improve it.
• Meng Chuan joined the Yin Moon Legion, and Dodota summoned him onto Nightmare, the nine-headed flood dragon who served as his mount.
• While flying toward the South Mining Area, Meng Chuan praised Dodota and narrowly avoided suspicion by recalling details from Moore’s notebook.
• Dodota’s party finally sighted the Divine Mountain, while Mo Jue reached the Heavenly Peng Secret Realm, collapsed in its ancestral nest, and celebrated escaping the human world.