Summary: Chapter on the Pangu Divine Temple & Void Heaven Hall

Key Plot Points & Events

• News of the Mountain and Sea Realm's failing world will emerges — the planet's origin is weakening, prompting the Dao Domain to select inheritors who can sustain it via their own fate and fortune. Demon Race members from the Mountain and Sea Realm are eager to return and restore their mother planet.
• The Heaven-Opening Tower has been upgraded by an Inner Gate power, adding hidden challenge stages to floors eight and nine with better rewards and potential recruitment by Inner Gate factions.
• Meng Chuan's memory body on the fourth floor has become a notorious obstacle, plaguing many tower challengers, including prodigies from high-level planets.
• Hai Xingyun reveals the Inner Gate's faction structure: the Cosmic High Heaven (four Divine Lords) vs. the Void Heaven Hall (three Cosmic Legends), with seventeen large factions below them — ten Cosmos-aligned, seven Dao Domain-aligned.
• Meng Chuan declines Hai Xingyun's offer to join the Boundless Sect, affirming his commitment to the Dao of the Flesh.
• Meng Chuan resolves to aim for the Void Heaven Hall, the top Dao Domain faction, despite its extreme difficulty.
• Hai Xingyun suggests the Sea Emperor Palace (a major faction with three ninth-rank experts), which Meng Chuan internally rules out due to his fake Sea-Blue Person identity.
• Meng Chuan invites Hai Xingyun to a celebration dinner at Azure Sea Tavern.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan: Shows strategic caution and long-term vision. He refuses the safety of the Boundless Sect due to the risk of his secrets being discovered, prioritizes joining the Void Heaven Hall, and demonstrates growing leadership responsibility for Blue Star's future. His motivation is rooted in racial duty and the desire to advance the Five Forms Art.
• Hai Xingyun: Portrayed as a well-connected, experienced fellow countryman with genuine goodwill. He is practical, cautious, and somewhat pessimistic about the Void Heaven Hall's accessibility, but still shares extensive intelligence. His loyalty to the Boundless Sect is evident.

Significant Themes

• Ambition vs. Pragmatism: Meng Chuan's risky pursuit of the Void Heaven Hall contrasts with Hai Xingyun's safer recommendations.
• Identity and Concealment: Meng Chuan's false Sea-Blue Person registration forces him to avoid factions that might expose him.
• Internal Politics and Faction Dynamics: The Dao Domain and Cosmos maintain a tense, surface-level unity within the Pangu Divine Temple, with mutual competition and cooperation.
• Racial Responsibility and Pressure: Meng Chuan's drive is tied to Blue Star's survival and his future historical role, echoing themes of duty and sacrifice.

Character Interactions

• Meng Chuan & Hai Xingyun: A mutually respectful senior-junior conversation. Hai Xingyun shares intelligence and advice; Meng Chuan listens, asks pointed questions, and gracefully declines the Boundless Sect offer. Their exchange concludes warmly with a dinner invitation.
• Meng Chuan's internal reflections: He recalls teachings from Senior Lan Zhan, Garros, and Ao Shuang, weighing the risks of exposure and the importance of famous teachers.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan meets with Hai Xingyun and learns about Void Heaven Hall's high entry threshold.
• Meng Chuan books a hotel with a treasure ground for cultivation and begins preparing for his Heaven-Opening Tower challenge.
• Meng Chuan decides to seek intelligence on the hidden challenges and learns about the importance of practical combat ability.
• Meng Chuan contacts Ape Lord to discuss an exchange for the [Esoteric-Exoteric Perfectly Integrated True Dragon Art].
• Meng Chuan demonstrates his understanding of the Gravitational Dao Principle to Ape Lord.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan: Shows determination in challenging the Heaven-Opening Tower and seeking intelligence. He also demonstrates his understanding of the Gravitational Dao Principle to Ape Lord.
• Hai Xingyun: Expresses his concern for Meng Chuan's ambition to join Void Heaven Hall, showing a caring and supportive side.
• Ape Lord: Initially cautious about Meng Chuan's knowledge of the True Dragon Art, he becomes more open after Meng Chuan's demonstration of the Gravitational Dao Principle.

Significant Themes

• The importance of practical combat ability in challenging the Heaven-Opening Tower and gaining the favor of major factions.
• The value of intelligence and knowledge in preparation for challenges.
• The exchange of knowledge and skills between cultivators.

Character Interactions

• Meng Chuan and Hai Xingyun: They meet up and discuss their plans, with Hai Xingyun expressing concern for Meng Chuan's ambitions.
• Meng Chuan and Ape Lord: They discuss the possibility of an exchange for the True Dragon Art. Meng Chuan demonstrates his understanding of the Gravitational Dao Principle to Ape Lord, leading to a more open and friendly interaction.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan and Ape Lord return to their personal space after Meng Chuan demonstrates his understanding of the Gravitational Dao Principle.
• Ape Lord agrees to exchange his combat knowledge for Meng Chuan’s gravitational insights, but emphasizes that he is primarily motivated by Meng Chuan’s role in defending the Mountain and Sea Realm, Ape Lord’s homeland.
• As repayment, Ape Lord offers to teach Meng Chuan the ape race’s Battle Heaven Combat Art and the True Dragon Art, both of which require practical, physical training rather than mere communication through the Dao Domain Network.
• They meet at the Ruijin Hotel’s dimensional training ground, a costly venue capable of withstanding the destructive power of mortal-level experts.
• Ape Lord demonstrates his staff-based combat art. His techniques emphasize momentum, overwhelming pressure, initiative, and an increasingly powerful battle intent.
• Meng Chuan rapidly analyzes and imitates most of the technique after seeing it only once, adapting the staff art’s principles to his own spear-based combat style.
• Ape Lord then begins an actual sparring match to teach Meng Chuan through combat. Meng Chuan initially holds his own through superior adaptability, Perfect Body control, Dao transformation, and skillful borrowing of force.
• Ape Lord activates the Esoteric-Exoteric Perfectly Integrated True Dragon Art, causing his strength, speed, and destructive power to rise dramatically. His attacks reach Martial Saint-level power and force Meng Chuan into retreat.
• Ape Lord’s staff continually tracks Meng Chuan despite his evasive Water Grand Dao techniques, leaving Meng Chuan with no choice but to confront the attack directly.
• Meng Chuan activates all three defensive arts of the Undying Scripture for the first time in actual combat. Together, they neutralize most of Ape Lord’s overwhelming force and astonish him.
• Ape Lord increases the intensity further, breaking through Meng Chuan’s defensive barriers. Rather than panic, Meng Chuan treats the danger as an opportunity to understand the ape race’s combat intent.
• Under extreme pressure, Meng Chuan begins to grasp and reproduce the essence of Ape Lord’s battle aura. His attack even momentarily affects Ape Lord, a Rank 7 expert.
• The experience causes the stalled proficiency of Meng Chuan’s fifth-stage Martial God Halberd to begin advancing as the newly learned principles merge into his own martial path.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan demonstrates exceptional learning ability, rapidly dissecting Ape Lord’s combat art and reproducing its forms with remarkable accuracy.
• He recognizes that his own weapon path differs from the ape race’s: he focuses on efficiency and concentrated force, while the ape race relies on momentum, initiative, and relentless pressure.
• Meng Chuan becomes more open about accepting Ape Lord’s gratitude, realizing that his original motives do not invalidate the fact that he genuinely helped defend the Mountain and Sea Realm.
• His combat talent develops further as he learns to wield battle intent rather than merely imitate physical techniques.
• His calmness under overwhelming pressure reveals his experience from countless life-and-death battles.
• Ape Lord is shown to be straightforward, grateful, and strongly motivated by loyalty. He helps Meng Chuan without demanding anything beyond a fair exchange.
• Ape Lord is deeply impressed and increasingly excited by Meng Chuan’s talent, treating him like a rare piece of flawless jade. His sparring becomes progressively more intense both to teach Meng Chuan and to force out his potential.

Significant Themes

• Deeds versus intentions: Meng Chuan reflects that a person should be judged by what they accomplish rather than by their original motives. Though he entered the Mountain and Sea Realm seeking revenge, he still helped save Ape Lord’s homeland.
• Learning through actual combat: True mastery cannot be achieved through observation or conscious communication alone. Real danger and physical exchanges reveal the deeper principles of a combat art.
• Pressure as a catalyst for growth: Extreme danger awakens abilities that remain hidden under ordinary circumstances. Ape Lord deliberately pushes Meng Chuan to the edge so he can grasp the essence of battle.
• Adapting rather than copying: Meng Chuan does not simply imitate the ape race’s techniques. He absorbs their principles and integrates them into his own spear path and existing martial arts.
• The contrast between strength and technique: Ape Lord possesses overwhelming Rank 7 power, but Meng Chuan compensates through perfect control, defensive arts, adaptability, and the ability to redirect force.
• Friendship and mutual exchange: Their relationship develops through trust, gratitude, and reciprocal teaching rather than a purely transactional exchange.

Character Interactions

• Meng Chuan respectfully accepts Ape Lord’s offer and provides his Gravitational Dao insights.
• Ape Lord explains that his gratitude for Meng Chuan’s defense of the Mountain and Sea Realm is more important to him than simply acquiring new knowledge.
• During the demonstration, Ape Lord acts as teacher while Meng Chuan carefully observes and reconstructs the combat principles.
• Their relationship shifts into that of teacher and student, then sparring partners, as Ape Lord uses increasingly powerful attacks to force Meng Chuan’s improvement.
• Meng Chuan’s rapid imitation shocks Ape Lord, while Meng Chuan’s eventual ability to project battle intent earns Ape Lord’s approval and admiration.

Chapter Summary: Secret Treasury Nine Transformations, Ape God Activated!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan and Ape Lord engage in an intense, life-threatening battle within the Heaven-Opening Tower. Meng Chuan deliberately fights recklessly because he knows Ape Lord cannot truly kill him, using the pressure to accelerate his growth.
• Ape Lord activates a deeper level of the True Dragon Art, greatly increasing his strength. His staff attacks penetrate Meng Chuan’s defensive treasures and damage him internally by transmitting Dao principles through his body.
• Despite being badly injured and vomiting blood, Meng Chuan rapidly recovers through Rainbow Light Body Refinement and his powerful self-healing ability. He repeatedly returns to battle, impressing Ape Lord with his toughness and resilience.
• The battle greatly improves Meng Chuan’s Martial God Halberd: Rainbow Transformation Chapter, raising its proficiency by nearly thirty percent and bringing him closer to the Dao-Seeking Realm. He also begins incorporating the ape race’s superior momentum-based combat techniques into his own martial art.
• After the battle, Ape Lord reveals a massive ancient painting containing the residual thought of the Ape God Patriarch. The painting’s inheritance activates only when Meng Chuan displays a fearless, heaven-defying will to fight.
• Meng Chuan is drawn into the painting and witnesses the Ape God’s secret realm, entering through the Cangyuan River. There, he receives the inheritance of the Esoteric-Exoteric Perfectly Integrated True Dragon Art, also called the Ape Dao Divine Art.
• The art contains nine meridian diagrams. Each layer awakens hidden bodily potential and increases strength by roughly ten percent, with the enhancements stacking continuously.
• Meng Chuan memorizes all nine diagrams in three days, demonstrating his exceptional memory and comprehension.
• In return for Ape Lord’s sincerity, Meng Chuan gives him three defensive Dao arts and information regarding perfect foundation-laying, after first confirming with Dark Abyss that the knowledge can be passed on.
• Meng Chuan and Ape Lord celebrate their friendship by drinking together. The next morning, Meng Chuan is still affected by the potent alien wine.
• After recalling Ape Lord’s explanation of Heaven-Opening Tower’s hidden challenges, Meng Chuan begins reconsidering his cultivation plans. He hopes to complete the first two layers of the True Dragon Art and gain a twenty-percent strength increase before attempting the tower’s ninth-floor challenge.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan grows significantly through combat. His endurance, recovery, fighting instinct, and ability to convert pressure into insight are emphasized. He also develops a more refined understanding of his battle intent, recognizing that excessive fighting spirit can eventually overwhelm his reason.
• Meng Chuan’s martial arts expand beyond human techniques as he begins merging the ape race’s layered momentum and weapon-combat methods into his halberd art.
• His gratitude and sense of reciprocity become more evident. Because Ape Lord treats him sincerely, Meng Chuan deliberately returns the favor with valuable Dao arts and cultivation knowledge.
• Ape Lord gains a deeper respect for Meng Chuan, realizing that Meng may be capable of breaking through all nine hidden levels with a sixth-rank body. He comes to regard Meng Chuan as a genuine friend and valuable alien life-form.
• Dark Abyss continues acting as a watchful elder and protector. He understands Meng Chuan’s reckless but calculated approach to cultivation and is both worried by and pleased with his progress.
• Meng Chuan becomes more strategically aware. Rather than blindly pursuing the tower challenge, he weighs the time cost of traveling to Pangu Star, returning to the human world, visiting the Mountain and Sea Realm, and advancing his cultivation before the human world’s impending crisis.

Significant Themes

• Risking one’s life to pursue the Dao: Meng Chuan uses danger as a tool for enlightenment, pushing himself to the edge without abandoning basic judgment.
• Resilience and self-transformation: His ability to endure devastating injuries and recover allows him to convert suffering into rapid improvement.
• Inheritance and hidden potential: The True Dragon Art reveals that immense power lies dormant within the body and can be awakened through precise cultivation.
• Combat intent and loss of reason: Battle will increases strength but can also lead to an irrational, berserk state, foreshadowing the dangers of combining it with other powerful transformations.
• Mutual trust and reciprocity: Meng Chuan and Ape Lord’s relationship shifts from teacher and student toward genuine friendship, strengthened by the exchange of knowledge and gifts.
• Strategic cultivation versus immediate opportunity: Meng Chuan must decide whether to pursue the dangerous Heaven-Opening Tower challenge now or follow his longer-term cultivation plan.
• The importance of foundations: Meng Chuan remains committed to perfecting the Dao of the Flesh and other fundamental aspects of cultivation, even when faster breakthroughs are tempting.

Important Character Interactions

• Meng Chuan and Ape Lord’s battle serves as both a test and a lesson. Ape Lord pressures him intensely while carefully preventing a true death, allowing Meng Chuan to improve without needless destruction.
• Ape Lord guides Meng Chuan through the Ape God inheritance, explaining that the correct combat spirit is necessary to activate it.
• Meng Chuan shows respect to the Ape God Patriarch, but Ape Lord clarifies that the figure is only an unconscious remnant thought preserved within the inheritance.
• Meng Chuan and Dark Abyss communicate internally about whether Dark Abyss’s defensive Dao arts may be transmitted to Ape Lord, highlighting the rules and qualifications governing high-level knowledge.
• The exchange of Dao arts and foundation-laying information deepens the bond between Meng Chuan and Ape Lord.
• Their night of drinking marks the emotional conclusion of the chapter: their relationship becomes openly warm and fraternal, with Meng Chuan calling him “Brother Ape.”
• By the end, Meng Chuan is inspired but cautious, planning to strengthen himself through the True Dragon Art before confronting the formidable hidden opponent on Heaven-Opening Tower’s ninth floor.

Chapter Summary: Fortune Refines the True Self, the Flesh Proves Supreme!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan continues preparing to challenge the Heaven-Opening Tower’s ninth-floor hidden stage, recognizing that he must reach the limit of his sixth-rank strength to defeat its unusually powerful seventh-rank opponent.
• He studies the Esoteric-Exoteric Perfectly Integrated True Dragon Art, a nine-level Ape Clan secret art focused on transforming and strengthening the body’s meridians.
• Because ape and human bodies differ, Meng Chuan painstakingly modifies the first meridian diagram to fit the human body. His exceptional control, Perfect Body foundation, and the support of One Proof Eternal Proof allow him to overcome the technique’s enormous complexity.
• After more than a day of effort, he successfully reaches Level One of the True Dragon Art. His meridians are renewed, his inner world becomes more stable, and his physical strength increases by roughly thirty percent.
• Meng Chuan estimates that completing the first two levels could provide about a twenty-percent overall increase in strength and may give him enough killing power to challenge the hidden ninth floor. He orders recovery elixirs to accelerate his training.
• He adopts a strict routine combining True Dragon Art cultivation, combat practice, martial training, and sparring with Ape Lord, steadily improving his Heaven-Opening Tower progress.
• During a meal with Ape Lord, they discuss the True Spirit Valley, Void Heaven Hall, and the strongest practitioners of the Dao of the Flesh. Ape Lord reveals his desire to join Void Heaven Hall but feels indebted to True Spirit Valley.
• Ape Lord also expresses concern for the declining Mountain and Sea Realm, whose origin is nearing destruction. He hopes to protect his homeland from falling into ruin.
• Meng Chuan tests his physical limits on Daoxuan Mountain, descending through its immense seabed pressure. By distributing the pressure precisely throughout his body using his Perfect Body and mental control, he reaches nine hundred steps—far beyond his previous limit.
• Before he can reach the thousand-step mark, Dark Abyss stops him. Dark Abyss offers to use the last strand of his remaining fortune to further refine Meng Chuan’s physique, warning that the immense power may be too much for Meng Chuan to withstand.
• Meng Chuan accepts the risk, believing that his unactivated World Force and the pressure of a life-or-death situation may allow him to survive and gain the strength needed to enter a supreme Divine Temple faction.
• The chapter ends as Dark Abyss releases a dense drop of black fortune into Meng Chuan’s body, overwhelming his senses and beginning the dangerous refinement.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan demonstrates extraordinary talent, patience, and control. He rapidly adapts an Ape Clan technique for human cultivation and succeeds in mastering its first level far faster than Ape Lord did.
• His understanding of his Perfect Body deepens. Rather than relying only on raw toughness, he learns to distribute external pressure across his entire body, greatly increasing his endurance.
• Meng Chuan becomes increasingly determined and ambitious. His goal is no longer merely to improve gradually; he is willing to risk severe bodily damage to secure the strength and recognition necessary to join Void Heaven Hall.
• Ape Lord is shown to be both impressed by Meng Chuan’s talent and burdened by personal responsibility. He envies Meng Chuan’s possible path toward Void Heaven Hall but remains loyal to True Spirit Valley and deeply concerned about the fate of the Mountain and Sea Realm.
• Dark Abyss remains cautious and protective despite his harsh manner. He warns Meng Chuan about the dangers of absorbing the final strand of fortune but ultimately allows him to attempt it.

Significant Themes

• Talent versus experience: Meng Chuan’s Perfect Body and superior control let him master in two days what took Ape Lord half a month, emphasizing the extraordinary advantages of his foundation.
• The body as the path to transcendence: The True Dragon Art and Daoxuan Mountain trial both portray physical cultivation as an intricate, almost cosmic discipline rather than mere muscle strengthening.
• Risk and ambition: Meng Chuan repeatedly pushes beyond safe limits because greater power is essential for surviving future trials and gaining entry to the highest factions.
• Responsibility and homeland: Ape Lord’s concern for the Mountain and Sea Realm shows that cultivation is tied not only to personal advancement but also to protecting one’s origins and people.
• The pursuit of supreme power: Discussions of Void Heaven Hall, Corona Walker, and the Flesh Supreme reveal a broader hierarchy of power that motivates Meng Chuan’s relentless progress.
• Fortune as both opportunity and danger: Dark Abyss’s remaining fortune may transform Meng Chuan’s physique, but its immense power could also overwhelm him.

Important Character Interactions

• Meng Chuan and Ape Lord: They spar together, discuss cultivation, share a meal, and compare their progress in the True Dragon Art. Ape Lord recognizes Meng Chuan’s remarkable talent and encourages his chances of clearing the ninth-floor challenge.
• Meng Chuan and Ape Lord on factional ambitions: Ape Lord confesses his desire to join Void Heaven Hall, while Meng Chuan comforts him by defending the value of True Spirit Valley. Their conversation reveals mutual respect and shared uncertainty about their futures.
• Meng Chuan and Ape Lord on the Mountain and Sea Realm: Ape Lord reveals his determination to preserve his homeland, giving Meng Chuan a clearer understanding of the older cultivator’s burdens.
• Meng Chuan and Dark Abyss: Dark Abyss observes Meng Chuan’s physical progress, interrupts his Daoxuan Mountain trial, and offers the dangerous final fortune refinement. Their relationship combines mentorship, skepticism, and trust.

Chapter Summary: Dao Passed Down to the Abyssal Sea, Becoming Dark Abyss's Disciple!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan begins absorbing the last remnant of Dark Abyss’s Fortune, a terrifying black, bloodlike substance containing the power of an entire Tier 10 existence.
• The fortune explodes inside him, violently destabilizing his Inner World and flooding his body with corrosive energy. His flesh begins to rot and crack under the backlash.
• To survive, Meng Chuan uses his newly developed World Force, generated through the integration of yin-yang, the five elements, and his martial arts. The World Force gradually devours and refines the scattered Dark Abyss Fortune.
• Dark Abyss watches anxiously, ready to intervene, but is astonished by the power of Meng Chuan’s World Force. Meng Chuan endures days of extreme pain, relying on pills, regenerative abilities, and his defensive cultivation to continue refining the fortune.
• After completely absorbing it, Meng Chuan is left nearly drained and emaciated. He replenishes himself by absorbing the vital energy of the blessed land.
• During the final transformation, Meng Chuan experiences a vision of the Dark Abyss and senses the influence of the Crimson Demon God, whose destructive power seems to have been involved in the original catastrophe surrounding Dark Abyss.
• Dark Abyss helps stabilize and heal Meng Chuan. The fortune then triggers a profound transformation of Meng Chuan’s body, greatly strengthening his physique and dramatically enhancing his comprehension of the Dao of Defense.
• Meng Chuan’s tendons, bones, flesh, meridians, and internal organs are all reforged. His defensive abilities become comparable to the combined effects of his former defensive Dao arts.
• His Bone Tempering talent also undergoes a major breakthrough. He becomes capable of cultivating multiple previously conflicting hard-training techniques simultaneously, greatly increasing the efficiency of his physical cultivation.
• Recognizing that Meng Chuan has passed the test and fully inherited his power, Dark Abyss accepts him as his disciple. Meng Chuan respectfully bows and addresses him as “Master.”
• The chapter ends with Meng Chuan preparing to test his newly enhanced body against a seventh-rank attack, hoping to gain the strength required to challenge the hidden ninth floor of the Heaven-Opening Tower.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan demonstrates extraordinary endurance, determination, and adaptability. Rather than relying solely on regeneration, he learns to use World Force to refine and control an energy vastly beyond his current level.
• His martial arts advance significantly. World Force becomes a powerful refining tool, while his understanding of defense and bodily cultivation reaches a new stage.
• His physical talent is fundamentally transformed. He can now combine numerous hard-training techniques and cultivate them in parallel, giving him enormous long-term potential.
• Meng Chuan becomes more confident but remains cautious and ambitious. He compares himself with the naturally gifted Charlesman and resolves to surpass him through continued improvement.
• Dark Abyss shifts from a remnant senior guiding Meng Chuan into a true master and inheritor. He feels immense relief and joy when Meng Chuan survives and successfully absorbs the fortune.

Significant Themes

• Inheritance and succession: Dark Abyss’s remaining fortune serves as his final legacy, allowing his path and power to continue through Meng Chuan.
• Endurance through transformation: Meng Chuan’s survival depends on enduring extreme pain and using every resource available rather than giving in to the destructive energy.
• Martial arts as a path of innovation: Meng Chuan’s World Force reveals the unique potential of his martial system, allowing him to refine powers that ordinary cultivators could never withstand.
• Talent versus effort: Although figures such as Charlesman possess innate advantages, Meng Chuan believes accumulated comprehension, traits, and persistent cultivation can eventually overcome natural disparity.
• The teacher-student bond: The acceptance ceremony formalizes the emotional and spiritual connection between Dark Abyss and Meng Chuan, transforming their relationship from guidance to genuine master-disciple inheritance.
• Preparation for greater challenges: Meng Chuan’s new strength is not an endpoint. His enhanced defense is portrayed as the foundation for confronting stronger enemies and testing the Heaven-Opening Tower’s hidden ninth floor.

Important Character Interactions

• Meng Chuan and Dark Abyss: Dark Abyss supervises the absorption and remains ready to save Meng Chuan, while Meng Chuan relies on his guidance but ultimately succeeds through his own martial path. Afterward, Meng Chuan bows and formally acknowledges Dark Abyss as his master.
• Dark Abyss and the Crimson Demon God: The vision of the Crimson Demon God evokes Dark Abyss’s complicated emotions and suggests unresolved history or conflict between them.
• Meng Chuan and his own cultivation: Much of the chapter focuses on his internal struggle as he battles the corrosive fortune, commands World Force, repairs his body, and comprehends the new abilities created by the transformation.
• Meng Chuan and future rivals: His thoughts about Charlesman reveal a competitive motivation and establish his determination to close the gap with naturally superior cultivators.

Chapter Summary: The Secret of Void Heaven Hall, Night Battle at the War God Tower!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan tests the defensive transformation brought about by the Ren-Gu Water mechanism and the fortune bestowed by an old veteran. His body now possesses a powerful defensive membrane resembling the protective light of advanced hard-body techniques.
• He tests this defense against Demon-Subduing, a sixth-tier divine weapon wielded at roughly eighty percent power. The blade initially leaves only a white mark, and after repeated strikes—especially with the Black Tortoise spirit reinforcing him—Meng Chuan’s hand remains completely unharmed. The weapon’s own radiance is damaged, while the impact force is fully dispersed.
• Meng Chuan concludes that ordinary Martial Saints likely cannot injure him without seventh-tier weapons. With the Undying Three Dao Arts, he believes he may even withstand the hidden ninth-floor guardian of the Heaven-Opening Tower.
• Rather than immediately attempting the hidden floors, Meng Chuan decides to spend roughly two months completing his True Chi Method cultivation and training combat techniques with Ape Lord. He wants not merely to win a Void Heaven Hall trial, but to win impressively enough to demonstrate his potential.
• Dark Abyss urges him to enter Void Heaven Hall eventually, even if he cannot do so immediately. He explains that its three Heavenly Venerables are supreme experts in the Dao of the Flesh and study powers connected to Pangu’s core inheritance.
• Void Heaven Hall is researching Pangu Will, represented by the Origin Light surrounding Pangu Star, in hopes of discovering a way for the Dao of the Flesh to break through the eleventh tier. Supreme Heaven, a rival within the Pangu Divine Temple, studies the supreme law of Opening Heaven and Splitting Earth, Unique Since Time Immemorial.
• Meng Chuan realizes that entry into Void Heaven Hall would grant access to secrets and opportunities involving Cosmic Legends, Origin Light, and potentially breakthroughs in the supreme physique. His determination to join grows stronger.
• Dark Abyss reveals that he has already divined Meng Chuan’s journey to Pangu Star and found its prospects favorable. However, he cannot safely predict the outcome of Garros’s mysterious request, since it may involve Cosmic Legends and dangerous secrets.
• Meng Chuan later enters the Heaven-Opening Tower to assess how the difficulty has changed as he ages:
  • He kills the fifth-floor elephant guardian instantly.
  • He defeats the sixth-floor Black Dragon guardian, likely Kote, with one punch.
  • On the seventh floor, he faces a silver-robed monk demon around the sixth tier and recognizes that its palm technique contains an unusual law capable of eroding lifespan. Meng Chuan exploits the tower’s restrictions and his superior physical speed to overwhelm and repeatedly batter it.
• Elsewhere, Sevis, the red dragon and Meng Chuan’s old rival, begins his own Heaven-Opening Tower challenge:
  • He easily defeats Meng Chuan’s fourth-floor incarnation, regarding the victory as overcoming a decade-long Inner Demon.
  • He barely defeats the fifth-floor centipede demon despite his Ancient Dragon Blood giving him an advantage.
  • He proceeds to the sixth floor only to inspect the challenge, not expecting to win.
  • Seeing the battlefield resemble the place of his former humiliation on Blue Star, Sevis remains calm and convinces himself that he has outgrown low-level opponents like Meng Chuan.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan gains tremendous confidence in his defensive ability. His new protection allows him to endure attacks from powerful divine weapons and greatly improves his prospects in the Heaven-Opening Tower.
• His goals become more ambitious: he is no longer focused merely on survival or victory, but on displaying overwhelming potential to qualify for Void Heaven Hall.
• Meng Chuan also shows increasing curiosity about higher-level laws, Pangu’s inheritance, Origin Light, and the mysterious life-eroding power of the monk demon.
• Dark Abyss acts as a cautious but supportive mentor. Though he lacks complete knowledge of Void Heaven Hall, he provides valuable context, warnings, and reassurance through divination.
• Sevis has grown dramatically stronger after breaking through to the fifth tier. He defeats the incarnation that once tormented him and treats the victory as symbolic proof that he has overcome his past weakness. However, his pride and fixation on Meng Chuan remain evident.

Significant Themes

• Power gained through fortune and opportunity: Meng Chuan’s defensive breakthrough results from an unexpected strand of fortune, showing how encounters with ancient experts and mysterious powers can radically alter a cultivator’s path.
• The importance of preparation: Meng Chuan refuses to rush into the most difficult challenges. He plans to refine his cultivation and combat techniques before making his decisive attempt.
• Secrets beyond the known realms: Void Heaven Hall represents access to knowledge normally restricted to Cosmic Legends, particularly research into Pangu Will, Origin Light, and eleventh-tier breakthroughs.
• Physical cultivation and the limits of the Dao: The chapter emphasizes the extraordinary potential of the Dao of the Flesh while also contrasting it with higher laws and Divine Powers that can bypass ordinary defenses.
• Rivalry and overcoming inner demons: Sevis’s battle against Meng Chuan’s incarnation is less about practical combat than about overcoming the psychological humiliation of their past encounters.
• Pride versus broader perspective: Sevis believes he has outgrown Meng Chuan and low-level lifeforms, but his continued attention to Meng shows that the rivalry still influences him.

Character Interactions

• Meng Chuan and Dark Abyss: Their master-disciple relationship is open and trusting. Meng Chuan freely voices his suspicions, while Dark Abyss provides explanations, warnings, and divination.
• Meng Chuan and Void Heaven Hall: Though he has not yet entered, Meng Chuan’s imagined connection to its experts and research becomes a major source of motivation.
• Meng Chuan and the Heaven-Opening Tower guardians: He dominates the lower floors through overwhelming defense, speed, and physical strength, while studying the unusual techniques of stronger opponents.
• Sevis and Meng Chuan: Their rivalry is shown indirectly through Sevis’s encounters with Meng’s tower incarnation. Sevis treats Meng as a former obstacle and Inner Demon, while Meng has already advanced far enough that the sixth-floor guardian presents only a modest challenge to him.
• Sevis and his dragonkin followers: His followers cheer his progress and reinforce his pride, celebrating his defeat of Meng and his rise to the sixth floor.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Sevis challenges the sixth floor of the Heaven-Opening Tower but is instantly defeated by an overwhelmingly powerful palm strike. His body is crushed nearly flat, and he only manages to surrender before dying. After exiting the tower, he awakens traumatized and fears being trapped on the sixth floor indefinitely.
• Meng Chuan rents the Dimensional Training Ground at Ruijin Hotel for a month and spars with Ape Lord. Ape Lord teases him about being the mysterious powerhouse who recently defeated several Pangu Sensitives on the tower’s sixth floor.
• The battle begins as a contest of water-based weapons: Ape Lord uses a staff, while Meng Chuan forms a more solid and refined halberd through his Five Elements comprehension. Meng Chuan’s weapon construction impresses Ape Lord and reveals that his understanding of the Five Elements has surpassed Ape Lord’s in some respects.
• Their sparring escalates into a full-power clash involving aura fields, the True Chi Method, the Gravitational Dao Principle, the Wuji True Demon Form, Star Convergence, and increasingly powerful weapon techniques.
• During the battle, Meng Chuan’s Martial God Halberd achieves its Sixth Breakthrough, advancing from Rank 5 Dao Hearing to Rank 6 Dao-Seeking. His combat offense and defense become significantly more refined.
• Ape Lord ultimately gains the upper hand temporarily and injures Meng Chuan with a powerful staff strike that caves in his chest. However, Meng Chuan’s increasing momentum eventually overwhelms him, causing Ape Lord to vomit blood after the battle.
• After recovering, Meng Chuan evaluates the fight and realizes he has reached the level required to challenge the Heaven-Opening Tower’s ninth-floor hidden guardian. He concludes that his defenses are sufficient, but his offensive killing power still needs improvement.
• Over the following month, Meng Chuan trains relentlessly, studies ordinary fist techniques, cultivates the True Chi Method, and completes the second meridian diagram of the Esoteric-Exoteric Perfectly Integrated True Dragon Art. His physical strength increases by another ten percent, and he reaches the third level of the art.
• He discovers that the Ape God Secret Art not only increases physical strength but also appears to improve his innate talent and cultivation efficiency.
• Meng Chuan spends enormous sums on Star Coins, medicines, technology-based body-tempering serums, and the Ruijin Hotel cultivation ground. He reflects that wealth and resources are essential to rapid advancement and decides that mining will be his long-term path to prosperity.
• Meng Chuan celebrates with Hai Xingyun and Ape Lord before preparing to challenge the ninth hidden floor. Hai Xingyun promises to publicize their friendship if Meng Chuan joins the Void Heaven Hall, while Ape Lord advises him to prepare a backup plan in case the faction rejects him.
• The next morning, Meng Chuan checks out of the hotel and heads toward the floating jade pavilion, fully prepared for the tower challenge.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan: Becomes markedly stronger through intensive training and sparring. He gains a breakthrough in the Martial God Halberd, improves his aura control, strengthens his body, and develops greater respect for Rank 7 opponents. Although he grows more confident, he remains cautious and analytical, recognizing that talent, resources, techniques, and allies all contribute to success.
• Ape Lord: Reveals the depth of his combat ability, combining the True Chi Method with the Gravitational Dao Principle. He serves as both Meng Chuan’s teacher and rival, taking pride in Meng Chuan’s rapid progress while still pushing him to his limits.
• Sevis: Suffers a devastating defeat that leaves him frightened and psychologically shaken. His inability even to identify or perceive his opponent emphasizes the terrifying strength of the higher-level tower guardians.
• Hai Xingyun: Demonstrates genuine friendship and enthusiasm for Meng Chuan’s potential, while also acting as a possible connection to the Sea Emperor Pavilion and other major factions.

Significant Themes

• The widening gap between realms: As cultivation levels rise, defeating stronger opponents becomes increasingly difficult because high-level experts are usually exceptional geniuses themselves.
• The value of resources: Meng Chuan’s progress depends heavily on Star Coins, medicines, technology, cultivation grounds, and rare techniques. Wealth directly accelerates his martial development.
• Sparring as a path to insight: Meng Chuan’s battle with Ape Lord allows him to break through in weapon combat and learn from a superior opponent.
• Humility and caution: Despite his rapid advancement, Meng Chuan recognizes the danger posed by Rank 7 experts and refuses to underestimate future enemies.
• Allies and companionship: Ape Lord’s guidance and Hai Xingyun’s friendship are portrayed as nearly as important as wealth and techniques.
• Natural cultivation versus technological aid: Meng Chuan once distrusted technological enhancement, but now embraces body-tempering serums and other external resources after experiencing their effectiveness.
• Ambition and uncertainty: Meng Chuan aims for the Void Heaven Hall but accepts that success is not guaranteed. His immediate goal is to display his full potential during the ninth-floor challenge.

Character Interactions

• Sevis is cared for by the dragons after his defeat, though they cannot understand what kind of enemy destroyed him so completely.
• Ape Lord jokes with Meng Chuan about the mysterious tower powerhouse, then fights him seriously while acting as both mentor and demanding opponent.
• During their duel, both warriors encourage each other and rejoice in the other’s improvements, showing mutual respect despite their fierce competition.
• Ape Lord’s defeat and injury affirm Meng Chuan’s progress, while his ultimate counterattack reminds Meng Chuan that he still has dangerous killing techniques.
• Meng Chuan later drinks with Ape Lord and Hai Xingyun. Hai Xingyun openly supports him, while Ape Lord offers practical advice to prepare for rejection by the Void Heaven Hall.
• The chapter ends with Meng Chuan leaving his companions and heading toward the next major trial, confident but aware of the risks.

Chapter Summary: “Meng and the Divine Descendant: Two Curtains Covering the Sky!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Outside the Pangu Heaven-Opening Tower, crowds gather to watch challengers and trade information. Meng Chuan has become infamous as the fourth-floor gatekeeper, regularly defeating challengers who encounter his projected avatar.
• Meng Chuan arrives at the tower disguised as an ordinary Dao Domain lifeform, accompanied by Ape Lord and Hai Xingyun. He prepares to challenge the tower again, hoping to attract the attention of inner sect powers and Divine Realm inspectors.
• The tower challenge begins. While Meng enters, spectators gradually discover that the disguised challenger is actually Meng. They are shocked to learn that he has already reached the eighth floor without being seen or stopped by the usual gatekeepers.
• Observers speculate that Meng’s strength has become so overwhelming that the tower cannot create projected avatars based on his combat techniques. Many fear that, if he clears the higher floors, his memory avatar will become another terrifying gatekeeper.
• At the same time, Qiu Dragon—also known as the Flood Dragon Gentleman or Coiled Dragon—activates the eighth-floor hidden challenge. He is a seventh-level divine descendant with two powerful bloodline laws and hopes to clear the challenge and join an inner sect major power.
• Meng also begins the eighth-floor hidden challenge despite being only at the sixth life level. Cosmic creatures mock his recklessness, claiming that even ordinary seventh-level experts would struggle with the hidden stage. Their ridicule sparks a heated verbal conflict between Cosmos and Dao Domain spectators.
• Ape Lord confidently declares that Meng’s strength is at least equal to Qiu Dragon’s. This reassures Hai Xingyun and reveals that Ape Lord has great faith in the results of Meng’s recent training.
• True Spirit Valley sends word that it will invite Meng if he clears the eighth-floor hidden challenge. This gives Meng a guaranteed opportunity to join an inner sect major power, while everyone wonders whether he can go further and attract the attention of the even more prestigious Void Heaven Hall.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan: His reputation has grown enormously since his previous tower challenge. Though embarrassed by being known as the fourth-floor “old monster,” he remains determined and enters the hidden challenge without hesitation. His rapid rise in life level and combat ability has made him the center of attention across Pangu Star.
• Ape Lord: Acts as Meng’s proud supporter and mentor. He displays strong confidence in Meng and calmly handles opportunistic challengers seeking free information. His loyalty and admiration for Meng are clear, as is his hope that Meng will join a top inner sect power.
• Hai Xingyun: Begins uncertain about Meng’s prospects but regains confidence after hearing Ape Lord’s assessment. He feels fortunate to have befriended Meng and recognizes the benefits this connection brings to the Boundless Bank.
• Qiu Dragon/Coiled Dragon: Presented as Meng’s major rival in the hidden challenge. As a powerful divine descendant who has recently advanced to the seventh level, he represents the Cosmos’s strongest young talents and seeks recognition from the Divine Temple’s inner sect.
• The spectators: Their attitudes shift from mockery and disbelief to tense anticipation once Meng’s true identity and hidden-challenge attempt are revealed.

Significant Themes

• Reputation and influence: Meng’s name alone causes fear and excitement. His past achievements have created a reputation powerful enough to affect the behavior of countless challengers.
• Talent versus cultivation stability: The Cosmos spectators criticize Meng for advancing too quickly, arguing that rapid growth may produce weaknesses. The chapter contrasts their cautious philosophy with Meng’s extraordinary ability to convert rapid advancement into real combat strength.
• Rivalry between the Cosmos and Dao Domain: The spectators’ arguments expose deep prejudice and hostility between the two sides. Meng’s performance becomes a chance for the Dao Domain to challenge the Cosmos’s assumed superiority.
• Recognition by greater powers: Success in the Heaven-Opening Tower is not merely a personal achievement; it determines whether Meng will be noticed and recruited by powerful inner sect organizations.
• Support and brotherhood: Ape Lord and Hai Xingyun provide Meng with emotional and practical support. Their faith in him contrasts with the doubts of the surrounding crowd.

Character Interactions

• The snake demons discuss another challenger’s defeat by Meng’s fourth-floor avatar, reinforcing Meng’s status as a notorious obstacle.
• Ape Lord jokes with and encourages Meng before the challenge, while Hai Xingyun explains how inspectors and projection screens will evaluate his performance.
• Spectators question Ape Lord for information about the hidden challenge, but he refuses to provide free intelligence and directs them to purchase it.
• Dao Domain and Cosmos creatures exchange insults over Meng’s decision to challenge the hidden stage at the sixth level, nearly provoking a fight before Pangu Star’s protection rules intervene.
• Hai Xingyun seeks reassurance from Ape Lord, who confidently tells him that Meng is no weaker than Qiu Dragon.
• True Spirit Valley’s message confirms that Meng’s performance has already attracted the attention of a major inner sect power, raising the stakes for his coming battle.

Chapter Summary: “Supreme Fist: Inspectors Descend!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan completes the eighth-floor challenge of the Heaven-Opening Tower by killing a sixth-rank demon general with a single devastating punch.
• His reward is a seventh-rank Frost Marrow Tempering Soul Pill worth approximately 600,000 star coins. Since Meng already possesses a Perfect Body, he decides to sell it rather than use it.
• The treasure reminds Meng of the value of Charlesman’s knowledge, which helped him avoid spending millions of star coins on body-tempering resources. He also remembers that he still owes Charlesman thirty million star coins.
• Meng activates the eighth-floor hidden challenge. Its guardian is the projection avatar of “Supreme Fist” Qing, a peak sixth-rank expert.
• Although Black Axe warns that Qing may be stronger than ordinary ninth-floor guardians, Meng confidently accepts the challenge.
• Outside the tower, vast numbers of spectators gather to watch Meng and Qiu Dragon attempt hidden challenges. Most believe Qiu Dragon has the better chance, while Meng’s early sixth-rank cultivation makes his success seem unlikely.
• Sevis arrives to observe Meng, whom he once regarded as an Inner Demon. Kote mocks him, then reveals that Meng passed Charlesman’s Bronze Trial, disrupted several legendary lands, and may be the future disciple of the Boundless Supreme of the Water Grand Dao.
• Sevis purchases intelligence about the Bronze Trial and becomes determined to forge a Perfect Body and awaken his Ancient Dragon bloodline. However, when Meng’s challenge begins, Sevis realizes that Meng had been the sixth-floor guardian he previously fought and could not defeat. He reluctantly concludes that he may fail again and disappoint his father.
• As the challenge begins, inspectors from the Cosmos’s ten major forces and the Dao Domain’s seven major forces arrive in the hidden space above the tower. They observe the challengers to determine whether either deserves recruitment.
• The inspectors study Meng’s background. Several recognize his extraordinary potential, while the True Spirit Valley and Sea Emperor Pavilion inspectors privately consider recruiting him. They suspect he may have backing from the Boundless Patriarch or another powerful force.
• The chapter ends as Meng enters the hidden battlefield: a boundless starry sky with no ground, where he floats under the influence of gravity and magnetic fields.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan: Displays overwhelming combat confidence and increasing financial awareness. He remains calm despite the hidden challenge’s difficulty and shows that his Perfect Body and accumulated experience have made him exceptionally powerful for someone only in the early sixth rank.
• Black Axe: Acts as Meng’s adviser and demonstrates concern about the danger posed by Supreme Fist Qing. It also tries to emphasize its usefulness by explaining the value of Meng’s reward.
• Sevis: Has become more composed and less openly hostile toward Meng. He claims he wants Meng to succeed so that defeating him later will be more meaningful, but Meng’s true strength forces Sevis to confront his own inferiority. His ambition shifts toward mastering the Perfect Body and fully awakening his true-dragon bloodline.
• Kote: Continues to tease Sevis but also provides valuable information about Meng’s achievements and background. His relationship with Sevis remains antagonistic, though he is willing to cooperate when useful.
• The inspectors: Begin treating Meng as a potentially recruitable genius rather than an insignificant mortal. Their interest depends on whether he can perform well in the hidden challenge.

Significant Themes

• Hidden strength versus apparent cultivation: Meng’s early sixth-rank realm conceals combat power capable of challenging far stronger opponents.
• Talent, resources, and backing: The observers debate whether Meng’s achievements come from personal ability, powerful patrons, or both. His success demonstrates the importance of talent, but the chapter also emphasizes how resources and connections shape advancement.
• Facing fear and rivals: Sevis attends partly to confront his psychological defeat by Meng. Instead, witnessing Meng’s strength forces him to reassess his own position and goals.
• The value of knowledge and preparation: Charlesman’s theoretical knowledge has saved Meng vast amounts of time and money, while Sevis seeks intelligence about the Bronze Trial to improve his own chances.
• Recruitment and competition among great powers: The inspectors treat the challenge as a selection process, with limited opportunities available only to the most exceptional geniuses.

Character Interactions

• Meng and Black Axe discuss the Frost Marrow Tempering Soul Pill and the danger of the hidden challenge.
• Sevis and Kote exchange sarcastic remarks, with Kote revealing Meng’s accomplishments on Radiant Star and Sevis immediately seeking related intelligence.
• Sevis privately compares himself with Meng, recognizing that Meng has already surpassed him despite Sevis’s superior background and resources.
• The inspectors silently evaluate Meng’s potential and speculate about his connection to the Boundless Patriarch, setting up possible recruitment offers after the challenge.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan enters the Heaven-Opening Tower’s eighth-floor hidden challenge, finding himself in an astonishingly realistic simulated universe filled with planets, stars, meteors, and nebulae.
• Black Axe explains that no living being truly controls the Heaven-Opening Tower; even tenth-rank beings can only use its existing rules. The tower ultimately belongs to Pangu’s will.
• Meng faces Qing, the tower’s gatekeeper and an infamous close-combat expert known as the “Fist King” or “Fist Demon.” Qing is nearly at the seventh rank, while Meng has only recently reached the sixth rank.
• Qing attacks first with overwhelming speed and countless fist shadows, immediately placing Meng in danger. Observers outside the tower assume Meng has little chance of winning.
• Meng counters Qing’s rapid attacks with powerful, layered punches, using strength and stability to break through the seemingly omnipresent fist momentum.
• Qing relies on extreme speed, afterimages, unpredictable movement, punches, and whip-like kicks. He lands several heavy blows on Meng, but Meng’s enhanced body and defensive techniques absorb them without forcing him back.
• Rather than immediately defeating Qing, Meng treats the battle as a rare opportunity to refine his martial arts against a highly skilled opponent. The two engage in an increasingly destructive exchange across the simulated starry sky.
• As the battle continues, Meng’s momentum steadily rises while Qing’s figure becomes increasingly insubstantial. Observers, examiners, and major factions begin reassessing Meng’s potential.
• Qiu Dragon completes his own eighth-level challenge, leaving Meng’s battle as the primary spectacle watched throughout the Cosmos.
• The various Dao Domain factions grow interested in recruiting Meng, though the elite Void Heaven Hall remains unconvinced because Meng lacks the light-based innate talent they prioritize.

2. Character Developments

• Meng Chuan: Displays greater confidence, battle instinct, physical resilience, and mastery of martial techniques. His defense has improved dramatically through Dark Abyss Master’s fortune, Ren-Gui Breath, horizontal-training treasures, and other cultivation foundations. He shifts from merely surviving Qing’s assault to using the battle to identify and correct flaws in his own techniques.
• Qing: Establishes himself as an exceptionally dangerous combatant through overwhelming speed, precise attacks, deceptive afterimages, and seamless movement. Despite his advantage in realm, he is unable to break Meng’s defenses and gradually loses control of the battle’s momentum.
• Black Axe: Shows unusual patience and goodwill toward Meng by explaining the nature of the Heaven-Opening Tower and joking that he would follow Meng if Meng somehow controlled it.
• Hai Xingyun: Reveals that Qing’s projection avatar was the obstacle that once prevented him from breaking through the tower and entering the Divine Temple’s inner sect. His anxiety during the fight reflects Qing’s terrifying reputation, though he becomes confident once Meng withstands the initial assault.
• Cosmos inspectors: Move from contempt and mockery to caution and hostility. They recognize Meng as a potentially dangerous genius and begin considering assassination before he can grow stronger.
• Dao Domain factions: Become increasingly impressed and begin competing over the possibility of recruiting Meng, seeing him as a valuable body-cultivation talent.

3. Significant Themes

• Strength beyond cultivation realm: Although Meng is a beginner sixth-rank cultivator facing an opponent close to the seventh rank, his battle ability, defense, and martial foundation allow him to challenge Qing.
• Endurance and immovability: Meng’s ability to remain unmoved under Qing’s attacks symbolizes his formidable will and body cultivation. His defense becomes the foundation for turning a disadvantage into an opportunity.
• Combat as self-improvement: Meng does not view the battle solely as a contest to win; he uses Qing as a “mirror” to expose weaknesses and sharpen his techniques.
• Reputation versus reality: Qing’s legendary reputation causes nearly everyone to expect Meng’s defeat, but Meng’s performance challenges their assumptions.
• Talent creates danger: Meng’s growing potential attracts powerful allies, but also makes him a target for secret assassination by rival factions.
• The importance of innate gifts and factional values: Despite Meng’s outstanding combat ability, the Void Heaven Hall remains uninterested because he lacks the light-based talent they consider crucial.

4. Character Interactions

• Meng Chuan and Black Axe: Discuss the Heaven-Opening Tower’s ownership and limitations. Black Axe’s teasing reflects his growing regard for Meng.
• Meng Chuan and Qing: Their confrontation develops from Qing’s surprise assault into a fierce, technically sophisticated martial exchange. Meng withstands Qing’s attacks while answering with increasingly powerful and refined techniques.
• Hai Xingyun and Ape Lord: Ape Lord notices Hai Xingyun’s nervousness, prompting Hai to explain his personal history with Qing. Once Meng resists Qing, Hai regains confidence in Meng.
• Dao Domain and Cosmos inspectors: Their opposing reactions highlight the political stakes of Meng’s performance. The Dao Domain factions praise and seek to recruit him, while the Cosmos factions resent his potential and contemplate eliminating him.
• The major factions: Their attention shifts toward Meng as his battle demonstrates that he may become a major future power, with the Sea Emperor Pavilion appearing especially well positioned because of Meng’s shared Sea-Blue heritage.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan continues his Heaven-Opening Tower challenge against Qing, who reveals his true hidden ability by removing the cloth over his eyes and unleashing a powerful spiritual technique.
• Qing’s fighting style is revealed to be based on Primitive Techniques, methods originating from low-level planets that do not rely directly on the Dao. Meng realizes Qing, like himself, came from such a world.
• Qing enters a frenzied state, burning his own physique to achieve a temporary “ultimate sublimation.” His strength and speed increase dramatically, though his body rapidly ages.
• Meng Chuan counters by igniting his own spiritual power and using “Ascend the Tower,” ultimately defeating Qing with a devastating punch.
• Qing’s body ages away and disintegrates, confirming Meng’s victory in the eighth-floor hidden challenge.
• Meng learns that defeating Qing may attract attention from the Void Heaven Hall, though he remains focused on eventually joining it rather than merely impressing the Divine Temple’s factions.
• After the battle, Meng deduces Qing’s movement technique, transforming it into a new martial art called Phantom Demon Body. This realization gives him a major breakthrough: he can convert the Primitive Techniques of other low-level civilizations into martial arts and continue accumulating traits.
• The reward chest grants Meng a powerful ninth-injection serum, True Nine Dragons’ Power: Tyrannosaurus X-Type Serum, as well as a mysterious Tower Authority Token.
• Dark Abyss explains that the token could grant partial control over the Heaven-Opening Tower, but accepting such authority might bind Meng to the tower and allow the unknown owner to manipulate or strip his authority.
• Meng nevertheless uses all nine serum injections at once, despite Black Axe’s warnings. The medicine summons nine dragon phantoms and begins dramatically strengthening his body.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan: Demonstrates superior combat adaptability, learns from Qing during battle, and gains a new understanding of how to expand his martial arts through alien Primitive Techniques. He becomes more cautious about hidden schemes within the Divine Temple while continuing to pursue rapid physical advancement.
• Qing: Reveals himself as a fellow low-level-planet cultivator and a highly talented fighter. His willingness to burn his own body for a brief burst of power displays tremendous resolve, but it is ultimately insufficient against Meng.
• Black Axe: Remains enthusiastic and admiring of Meng’s talent, but also shows genuine concern over the dangers of the serum and the Tower Authority Token. However, it appears unaware of the deeper danger surrounding the token.
• Dark Abyss: Provides crucial warnings and absorbs the token’s energy. He recognizes that the token may be a trap designed to deepen Meng’s connection to the Heaven-Opening Tower.
• The hidden tower authority-holder: A mysterious powerful figure notices Meng’s actions, especially his decision to take all nine injections, and expresses interest in him.

Significant Themes

• Inheritance and continuous advancement: The Divine Temple’s factions thrive because successors surpass and build upon their predecessors.
• Martial arts as a universal discipline: Meng realizes that Primitive Techniques from different worlds can be transformed into martial arts, greatly expanding his future path of growth.
• The price of power: Qing burns his body for temporary strength, while Meng risks toxic overload by taking all nine injections. Power is achieved through dangerous sacrifice and careful control.
• Hidden dangers behind rewards: The Tower Authority Token appears beneficial but may secretly place Meng under the control of the tower’s masters.
• Adaptation and learning through combat: Meng’s victory comes not only from raw strength but from observing, absorbing, and refining Qing’s techniques.
• Caution beneath ambition: Although Meng seeks rapid advancement and recognition, he increasingly understands that the Divine Temple is filled with traps and concealed power struggles.

Character Interactions

• Meng and Qing engage in an escalating battle in which each recognizes the other’s combat talent. Meng studies Qing’s techniques even while overpowering him.
• Black Axe celebrates Meng’s victory, encourages his hopes of attracting the Void Heaven Hall, and warns him not to misuse the serum.
• Meng questions Black Axe about the Void Heaven Hall, the hidden challenges, and the Tower Authority Token, while privately becoming suspicious of the axe’s origins and possible memory loss.
• Dark Abyss warns Meng that the token may be dangerous and secretly absorbs its energy, prompting Meng to conceal his suspicions from Black Axe.
• Meng asks Dark Abyss whether he can survive all nine injections; reassured by his master, he proceeds despite Black Axe’s alarm.

Chapter Summary: “Mountain Lord Breaks the Limit, Ninth Floor Opens!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan absorbs the enormous medicinal power of the Nine Dragons potion inside Heaven-Opening Tower. Using Star Convergence, he coordinates numerous Horizontal Training martial arts simultaneously and extracts the potion’s power with maximum efficiency.
• Outside the tower, inspectors from the major Cosmos powers and Dao Domain factions discuss Meng Chuan’s victory over Qing and recognize that his physique is extraordinarily powerful—far beyond that of an ordinary newly advanced Rank 6 lifeform.
• Several factions begin competing to recruit him:
  • Sea Emperor Pavilion believes its connection as Meng’s fellow hometown faction gives it an advantage.
  • True Spirit Valley hopes to recruit him despite concerns that Void Heaven Hall may reject him.
  • True Dragon Tower offers him one set of the precious Nine Dragons Power every year.
  • Gorzan, a powerful Rank 8 wolf-dragon, later declares that Meng will belong to True Dragon Tower if Void Heaven Hall does not accept him.
• Attention shifts briefly to Qiu Dragon, who begins challenging the hidden ninth floor. The Dao Domain factions immediately consider assassinating him if he becomes a major threat.
• After finishing his absorption of the Nine Dragons Power, Meng Chuan’s blood vitality rises to an astonishing twenty-eight million. His body and aura become dramatically stronger.
• Several Horizontal Training arts break through their limits. Most notably, True Form of Eastern Peak evolves into the advanced trait Mountain Lord of All Peaks.
• The new trait greatly strengthens Meng Chuan’s body, increasing his internal toughness, external resistance, strength, stability, earth-element perception, and ability to draw power from the earth. Its “Mountain Lord” effect provides a strength increase comparable to two True Chi Method meridian diagrams.
• Meng inserts three newly improved Yin-Yang Horizontal Training traits into Transcendence, increasing its progress by six percent and bringing him closer to undoing the Yin-Yang Shackles.
• The immense growth of his physique once again causes an imbalance between his body and soul. His physical power begins pressing against the limits of his will, threatening to affect his mental state.
• Meng stabilizes himself with the Sitting Oblivion Dragon Elephant Prison Suppression technique and realizes that he must urgently improve his spiritual cultivation. He decides that acquiring Garros’s will-control secret arts will be essential for controlling his continually expanding body.
• Restored to peak condition, Meng steps onto the hidden ninth floor. His opponent is a gigantic Golden Phoenix wielding overwhelming lightning power.
• The Golden Phoenix launches a massive lightning assault, but Meng transforms into a giant, creates a great halberd, and clashes directly with her. Although he is forced back slightly, he severely injures and knocks her away, shocking her with the gap in their strength.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan grows substantially stronger through the Nine Dragons Power. His physique advances to a new level, and he gains the Mountain Lord of All Peaks trait.
• His progress reveals a growing problem: his physical body is advancing faster than his soul and will. He must now prioritize spiritual cultivation and better mind-body coordination.
• Meng becomes increasingly confident about challenging Void Heaven Hall and clearing the hidden ninth floor, though he recognizes that his mental instability could be a serious weakness.
• Gorzan is portrayed as an immensely influential and domineering powerhouse. Her support for Meng effectively places True Dragon Tower in a strong recruiting position.
• Mu, Qiu Lie, and the True Dragon Tower inspector openly compete over Meng’s allegiance, showing how highly the factions value his potential.
• Black Axe, observing Meng’s transformation, becomes convinced that Meng may truly have a chance of clearing the hidden ninth floor.
• Golden Phoenix, initially confident in her overwhelming lightning power, is stunned when Meng withstands her attack and defeats her in their first exchange.

Significant Themes

• Explosive growth and accumulated potential: Meng’s long-term preparation and stored-up proficiency finally erupt under the influence of the Nine Dragons Power.
• The body-and-soul balance: The chapter emphasizes that physical strength cannot grow independently forever; Meng’s expanding physique is beginning to overwhelm his spiritual control.
• Talent and factional competition: Meng’s performance attracts every major faction, highlighting his extraordinary potential and the political struggle surrounding powerful geniuses.
• Natural cultivation versus artificial enhancement: The inspectors debate the value and dangers of medicinal body refinement, especially the side effects of the Nine Dragons Power.
• Preparation versus luck: Black Axe hopes Meng will face a manageable opponent, but Meng’s history shows that his progress comes from deliberate cultivation rather than relying on fortune.
• Layered power systems: Limit-breaking traits, secret arts, meridian diagrams, and spiritual cultivation complement one another, with Meng seeking to combine them into a stronger, unified path.

Character Interactions

• Mu and Qiu Lie tease each other over which faction might recruit Meng, with Mu claiming Sea Emperor Pavilion has the advantage and Qiu Lie arguing for True Spirit Valley.
• The True Dragon Tower inspector interrupts their discussion by offering Meng an annual supply of Nine Dragons Power, provoking surprise and envy from the other factions.
• The Heaven-Victory Sect inspector criticizes True Dragon Tower’s reliance on medicine, while the dragonman dismisses the criticism as biased.
• Gorzan arrives and dominates the conversation, declaring that Meng will join True Dragon Tower if Void Heaven Hall does not choose him.
• Black Axe observes Meng’s transformation and silently evaluates his chances.
• Meng’s first encounter with the Golden Phoenix on the hidden ninth floor becomes an immediate test of his newly enhanced physique, ending with the Phoenix being decisively repelled.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• After consuming the Nine-Dragon Great Medicine, Meng Chuan’s physical strength increases dramatically. He overwhelms the Golden Phoenix, a peak sixth-tier creature, sending her flying with one blow.
• Meng continues attacking with Star Convergence, using gravity to lift and sweep the earth while bombarding Golden Phoenix with punches. Her body is severely damaged, but her extraordinary vitality allows her to survive.
• Meng finally grabs Golden Phoenix by the shoulders and begins tearing her apart, intending to kill her.
• Meanwhile, outside the Heaven-Opening Tower on Pangu Star, more than thirty hours pass without Meng’s ninth-floor hidden-challenge screen appearing. Many spectators assume he has failed, but Ape Lord and Hai Xingyun remain confident that he is digesting his gains and preparing for another breakthrough.
• Meng’s challenge screen eventually reappears, causing the crowd—especially the Dao Domain lifeforms—to erupt in excitement. Speculation begins over the identity and strength of his final opponent.
• At the same time, the arrival of Void Heaven Hall draws everyone’s attention. The projection of Tree Universe Heavenly Venerable illuminates Pangu Star, shocking and silencing the spectators.
• In the Higher-Dimensional Space, it is revealed that Tree Universe Heavenly Venerable has sent Argus, the Son of Titans, to act as Void Heaven Hall’s examiner. Argus claims that he alone will decide whether Meng qualifies for recruitment.
• Argus immediately looks down on Meng for attempting the hidden ninth floor while still in the early sixth tier and assumes Meng will fail.
• The examiners from True Spirit Valley and Sea Emperor Pavilion defend Meng, insisting that their factions will accept him even if he loses. Their exchange with Argus becomes tense, particularly when Mu mocks him for being the last surviving Titan.
• The final guardian of Meng’s hidden challenge appears. The silhouette and aura are instantly recognized by the examiners, who turn toward Gorzan.
• Gorzan reveals, with exasperation, that the guardian is actually herself.

2. Character Developments

• Meng Chuan: Demonstrates a huge increase in physical power after refining the Nine-Dragon Great Medicine. He is now capable of crushing powerful peak sixth-tier opponents through overwhelming strength, gravity manipulation, and relentless close combat. His decision to challenge the ninth-floor hidden trial at the early sixth tier highlights his extraordinary confidence and ambition.
• Golden Phoenix: Revealed to possess astonishing resilience, surviving repeated devastating attacks despite her body being nearly destroyed. However, she is ultimately pushed to the brink of death by Meng’s brutal assault.
• Hai Xingyun and Ape Lord: Remain loyal and optimistic supporters of Meng despite widespread doubt. Their confidence reflects their understanding of Meng’s potential and the treasures he has gained.
• Argus: Introduced as proud, dismissive, and arrogant. Though immensely talented and already a seventh-tier Titan descendant, he views Meng as reckless and assumes he will fail. His composure is shaken when Mu exposes his lonely status as the last Titan.
• Mu and Qiu Lie: Act as outspoken defenders of Meng. They challenge Argus verbally and reveal strong solidarity with the Sea-Blue People and True Spirit Valley.
• Gorzan: Revealed to have a personal connection to Meng’s final challenge, since she herself is the ultimate guardian he must face.

3. Significant Themes

• Talent and recognition: The Heaven-Opening Tower serves as a rigorous system for identifying beings with the potential to reach higher realms. Meng’s challenge attracts attention from the most powerful factions.
• Arrogance versus proven ability: Many dismiss Meng because of his low life level, but his actual combat performance contradicts conventional expectations. Argus’s confidence is similarly presented as potentially premature.
• Racial and factional solidarity: The Sea-Blue People and other factions openly support their younger members, contrasting with the isolated position of Argus, the last Titan.
• Power and hierarchy: The arrival of Tree Universe Heavenly Venerable demonstrates the enormous gap between ordinary cultivators, gods, and the highest Cosmic Legends. Even a projection can influence an entire world.
• Persistence and vitality: Both Meng and Golden Phoenix embody extreme endurance—Meng through relentless offense and Golden Phoenix through her ability to survive seemingly fatal damage.
• Fate and rivalry: The coincidence of Gorzan becoming Meng’s final opponent suggests a personal and dramatic confrontation, while Argus interprets the event as fate.

4. Character Interactions

• Meng brutally battles Golden Phoenix, overpowering her through repeated strikes and eventually attempting to tear her apart.
• Hai Xingyun and Ape Lord encourage one another while waiting for Meng’s challenge to appear, defending him against skeptical spectators.
• Argus interacts with the divine examiners and establishes his authority as Void Heaven Hall’s representative, provoking resentment through his dismissive attitude.
• Qiu Lie and the Sea Emperor Pavilion assessor jointly defend Meng and promise to recruit him if necessary.
• Mu directly insults Argus by highlighting the extinction of the Titans, prompting him to suppress his anger.
• The examiners’ argument reveals competing factional interests surrounding Meng’s recruitment.
• When the final guardian emerges, all attention shifts to Gorzan, who confirms that she is the opponent Meng must face.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• After defeating Golden Phoenix, Meng Chuan receives the Heaven-Opening Tower’s final fixed reward: a wisp of profound-black Pangu Fortune. He postpones refining it until the challenges are over.
• His next opponent is revealed to be the projection avatar of Senior Gorzan, also known as Lord Stellar-Core Fission. Though only an early Seventh Breakthrough avatar, Gorzan’s overwhelming physical power and gravity control immediately place Meng at a severe disadvantage.
• Gorzan begins the battle by descending from the sky with such force that the solitary peak and surrounding landscape collapse. Meng realizes that even one direct hit could severely damage his defenses and stamina.
• Meng uses Star Convergence, spatial movement, and Qing’s footwork to evade Gorzan, but she follows him relentlessly. His counterattacks barely affect her, while her physical strikes shatter multiple layers of his Hard-Training Treasure Light.
• Gorzan unleashes her dragon wings and challenges Meng to prove whether he qualifies to join the Void Heaven Hall. The battle is broadcast to spectators beneath the tower and observers in higher-dimensional space.
• The spectators and examiners recognize Gorzan as one of the most difficult possible opponents. Qiu Lie concludes that Meng has already met True Spirit Valley’s recruitment standards, while Argus argues that Meng still lacks the innate talent required by the Void Heaven Hall.
• Various powerful factions begin assessing Meng as both a potential recruit and a future threat. Some even consider eliminating him before he reaches the ninth rank.
• Despite being driven underground and apparently overwhelmed, Meng has not yet used his full strength. Encouraged by Ape Lord’s observation, he emerges with renewed fighting spirit.
• Gorzan launches an even more devastating assault using her Gravitational Stellar-Core Form. Meng rejects the idea that his battle is predetermined by karma for having stolen opportunities from two dragons on Radiant Star.
• He activates his Limit—Wuji True Demon Form and attacks with Abyss Cleave. Their collision ends with neither combatant being knocked back; they remain locked together as the chapter concludes, leaving the victor undecided.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan: Begins cautiously, fully aware of the enormous gap between himself and Gorzan’s avatar. His confidence is repeatedly tested as his defenses are broken and his body is overwhelmed. However, his fighting spirit eventually reignites. He rejects fate and karmic inevitability, transforms into his Wuji True Demon Form, and demonstrates that he still possesses untapped strength.
• Gorzan: Presented as an overwhelmingly powerful dragon-race expert. Even while using only a portion of her Stellar-Core Form’s power, she dominates the battle through gravity, speed, physical strength, and durability. She acknowledges that Meng might have a chance against her if he reaches the Seventh Breakthrough, but considers his current life level far too low.
• Black Axe: Recognizes Gorzan immediately and reacts with fear, emphasizing the danger of her projection.
• Ape Lord: Remains calm and correctly points out that Meng has not yet revealed his full strength, offering an important contrast to the panic of the spectators.
• Qiu Lie: Becomes more favorable toward Meng and confirms that his performance qualifies him for recruitment by True Spirit Valley.
• Argus: Continues to belittle Meng, partly because he does not want him competing for Void Heaven Hall resources. He places overwhelming emphasis on innate, universe-favored talent rather than combat ability.
• Kote and Sevis: Discuss whether Meng’s encounter with Gorzan is a form of karmic retribution. Sevis rejects the idea, while Kote treats the battle as proof of fate.
• Higher-dimensional observers: Begin viewing Meng as a serious future threat, not merely a talented challenger.

Significant Themes

• Strength versus innate talent: Meng’s extraordinary combat ability is acknowledged, but Argus argues that lacking Boundless Class talent and the universe’s innate favor prevents him from qualifying for the highest-level opportunities.
• Fate and karma versus free will: Meng considers whether his suffering is retribution for stealing opportunities from other dragons. He ultimately rejects fate and karma, choosing to fight through his own will.
• Physical power and life-level differences: The fight emphasizes the immense gap between realms. Gorzan’s Seventh Breakthrough body nearly overwhelms Meng without relying on elaborate divine arts.
• Potential hidden beneath apparent defeat: Meng’s repeated setbacks conceal the fact that he has not yet used his complete strength, reinforcing the theme that appearances can be misleading.
• Recruitment and political danger: Meng’s performance attracts both powerful allies and hostile attention. His future strength is valuable enough that multiple factions begin planning how to recruit or eliminate him.
• Respect earned through struggle: Even though Meng is losing ground, his resistance forces powerful observers to reassess his worth.

Character Interactions

• Meng consults the Black Axe about the identity of the approaching dragon and learns that she is Gorzan’s projection.
• Meng and Gorzan engage in a brutal exchange of evasions, physical blows, and escalating techniques. Gorzan taunts and tests him, demanding that he prove his qualification for the Void Heaven Hall.
• Spectators beneath the tower react with shock as Meng is repeatedly sent flying, while Hai Xingyun worries about his chances.
• Kote jokingly frames Meng’s battle as karmic punishment, but Sevis dismisses the interpretation.
• The examiners debate Meng’s future: Qiu Lie supports his recruitment into True Spirit Valley, while Argus denies that his talent is sufficient for the Void Heaven Hall.
• Ape Lord reassures the anxious observers by revealing that Meng has yet to fight at full power.
• The chapter ends with Meng and Gorzan locked in a direct clash after Meng unveils his Wuji True Demon Form, setting up the next stage of their battle.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan’s battle against Gorzan’s Rank 7 avatar in the Heaven-Opening Tower’s ninth-floor hidden level draws enormous attention across the Pangu Starfield. Countless beings, Divine Realm experts, and even Rank 9 powerhouses monitor the fight.
• Gorzan enters her 100% Gravitational Stellar-Core Form, becoming a colossal dragon whose gravity and physical strength overwhelm the battlefield. Meng responds by activating the Way of Undying, the True Chi Method, and his various body-refinement abilities.
• The battle becomes a brutal close-quarters clash. Gorzan’s claws and tail function like divine weapons, while Meng relies on the Five Elements, Yin-Yang power, defensive techniques, the Mother River of the Stars, and his ability to transform into energy to survive.
• Gorzan unleashes the terrifying Stellar Core Collapse, a gravity-based Dao technique capable of killing nearly any opponent of the same rank. Meng narrowly survives by reversing Yin-Yang energy and later using the Mother River of the Stars to escape her gravitational pull.
• Observers begin to realize that Meng possesses an unusual flesh-based path allowing him to control, transform, and manifest external energies. Gorzan identifies it as a possible branch of the Dao of Control, while others speculate that a Boundless Patriarch may be secretly guiding or experimenting through him.
• Several factions begin competing for Meng’s allegiance. Qiu Lie announces that True Spirit Valley will accept him regardless of the battle’s outcome, and Gorzan declares that the True Dragon Tower will do the same. Argus remains dismissive, insisting that Meng must defeat Gorzan to earn Void Heaven Hall’s recognition.
• Gorzan changes tactics, withdrawing from her Gravitational Stellar-Core Form and entering the far more dangerous Energy-Fission Form, also described as her Nightmare-in-Flames state. Her body burns from within, sacrificing defense for overwhelming destructive power.
• Realizing that endurance and strategy alone will not be enough, Meng unleashes all his hidden strength: Star Convergence, the Wuji True Demon Form, and maximum energy output. He pushes Star Convergence beyond its former limit, achieving roughly fiftyfold output and briefly reaching sixtyfold power through the True Chi Method.
• Meng’s overloaded state allows him to manifest traces of Dao Embryo Manifestation, making his body resemble the Mother River of the Stars. He can finally clash directly with Gorzan, injuring her and occasionally gaining the upper hand.
• For several minutes, Meng fights at an exhilarating pace, using defensive arts, killing techniques, Rainbow Light Body Refinement, and Abyss Cleave to gradually wear Gorzan down.
• Meng even blocks Gorzan’s devastating claw technique head-on and seizes the initiative, launching a relentless counterattack. However, Gorzan abruptly bites down on his left ear during the exchange. Meng survives but ends the chapter joking bitterly that he is now “down to one ear.”

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan: He undergoes a major psychological breakthrough. He abandons his fixation on joining Void Heaven Hall and stops caring about honor, reputation, or outside judgment. His only goal becomes victory. Under extreme pressure, he reveals new applications of his power, surpasses Star Convergence’s limits, begins grasping Dao Embryo Manifestation, and demonstrates the potential of a Dao Creator.
• Gorzan: She shifts from testing Meng to genuinely acknowledging his determination and talent. Though still overwhelmingly dominant, she becomes increasingly serious and uses progressively more dangerous forms and Dao techniques. She also recognizes that Meng’s abilities stem from an extraordinary flesh-based Dao path.
• Qiu Lie: He becomes openly supportive of Meng and actively tries to recruit him for True Spirit Valley. He understands Meng’s value and uses the revelation of competing offers to unsettle Argus.
• Argus: He remains arrogant and contemptuous, refusing to acknowledge Meng as Gorzan’s equal unless Meng wins outright. However, the possibility that a Boundless Patriarch stands behind Meng causes him to take the situation more seriously.
• The observers: The inspectors and Divine Realm experts move from curiosity to shock and intense interest. Meng’s performance convinces them that he may be an exceptionally rare Dao Creator-level talent.

Significant Themes

• Growth through desperate struggle: Meng’s greatest breakthroughs occur only when he is pushed to the edge of defeat.
• Determination over fear and reputation: Meng’s transformation begins when he stops fighting for admission to Void Heaven Hall and fights solely to win.
• Hidden potential and revelation: The battle forces Meng to expose one hidden ability after another, while the spectators attempt to understand the origins of his unusual path.
• Strategy versus overwhelming power: Meng initially tries to conserve his trump cards and win through endurance, but Gorzan’s transformed state proves that careful planning cannot replace absolute strength.
• Recognition and ambition: Meng’s performance turns him into a coveted recruit, while the various factions debate whether his talent is comparable to that of the greatest prodigies.
• The cost of advancement: Meng’s power comes at the price of immense stamina loss, bodily damage, and the risk of exhausting his techniques before Gorzan is defeated.

Character Interactions

• Meng and Gorzan exchange very few words, but their mutual respect grows through combat. Gorzan praises his determination, while Meng answers her challenge with the simple command, “Come fight.”
• Qiu Lie and Gorzan both announce that their factions will accept Meng, creating a direct recruitment contest.
• Qiu Lie uses Meng’s performance to needle Argus, while Argus dismisses Meng’s achievements and insists that only victory matters.
• Mu suggests that Meng may be backed by the Boundless Patriarch, causing Argus to reconsider the true significance of the battle.
• Dark Abyss praises Meng’s forced breakthrough, recognizing that the crisis has enabled him to surpass the limits of Star Convergence.
• The chapter ends with Meng and Gorzan still locked in battle, Meng having gained the ability to challenge her directly but suffering a humiliating and painful loss of his left ear.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan narrowly avoids having his head bitten off by Gorzan’s dragon avatar, losing only his left ear. He chooses not to regenerate it immediately to conserve energy.
• Realizing that ordinary methods are insufficient, Meng activates Ultimate Ascension, burning his body and soul to greatly amplify his strength. He also uses Nirvana Rebirth and Nirvana Rainbow Transformation to offset the technique’s life-force drain and sustain his combat state.
• His strength rises dramatically, allowing him to fight Gorzan’s seventh-tier Energy-Fission Form on equal terms despite being only sixth tier. Their battle devastates the surrounding space, making it nearly impossible for outside observers to follow.
• After two minutes, Meng shifts from defense to offense and launches an increasingly savage assault, using every martial art he knows. His attacks force Gorzan backward and heavily damage her dragon body.
• Gorzan’s Ancient Dragon Skin, inherited from the legendary Long, activates fully. The more severe her injuries become, the stronger her life force and regeneration grow, making her extraordinarily difficult to kill.
• With only thirty-five seconds left before Ultimate Ascension overwhelms him, Gorzan prepares to recruit Meng if he survives. Qiu Lie also emerges, and soon the examiners from all seven major powers appear. Including Gorzan’s true body, eight Divine Realm powerhouses gather to compete for Meng.
• In the final ten seconds, Meng comprehends and unleashes a new transformation: the Martial-Dao Body Transformation, or World Body. By merging his inner world, Primordial Qi, blood and qi, and multiple Dao laws, he produces a form of World Force resembling the essence of a Dao art.
• Empowered by the World Body, Meng prepares a decisive final punch against Gorzan. The chapter ends with the eight gods shocked by the power of his attack, while Argus desperately invents reasons to prevent Void Heaven Hall from recruiting him. A mysterious voice instructs Argus to stop Meng from joining Void Heaven Hall.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan demonstrates extraordinary courage, refusing to rely on cautious tactics and instead choosing to fight to the absolute limit. His mastery of martial arts reaches a new level as he seamlessly combines countless techniques, including seemingly ordinary fist arts.
• His regenerative abilities prove unusually compatible with Ultimate Ascension, allowing him to survive and even strengthen while burning his life force. However, the technique leaves him with only a few minutes before his body can no longer recover.
• Meng’s combat understanding deepens during the battle. Under extreme pressure, he comprehends the World Body, a unique Martial Dao transformation based on his inner world and World Force.
• Gorzan is revealed to possess terrifying durability and regeneration through her Ancient Dragon bloodline. Although shocked that Meng can match her strongest form, she remains composed and recognizes his immense potential.
• Argus becomes visibly shaken by Meng’s performance. His confidence collapses, and he begins searching for excuses to deny Meng recruitment, suggesting hidden opposition within or behind Void Heaven Hall.
• Qiu Lie and the other examiners grow increasingly impressed by Meng, while Qiu Lie takes particular satisfaction in seeing Argus unsettled.
• Ape Lord is astonished by Meng’s berserk fighting style and recognizes that Meng has reached an exceptionally refined level in fist-and-foot combat.

Significant Themes

• Risk and determination: Meng willingly gambles his life through Ultimate Ascension, choosing a glorious all-out battle over a cautious victory.
• The limits of mortality: The fight repeatedly pushes both combatants beyond ordinary sixth- and seventh-tier capabilities, emphasizing how talent and technique can challenge differences in life level.
• Regeneration versus destruction: Meng’s Nirvana-based recovery and Gorzan’s Ancient Dragon Skin create a battle between overwhelming offense and nearly endless restoration.
• Comprehension under pressure: Meng’s greatest breakthrough occurs at the edge of defeat, showing how extreme combat can force sudden insight and advancement.
• Recognition and competition: The arrival of eight gods demonstrates how extraordinary Meng’s performance is and turns his battle into a struggle among the major powers to claim him.
• Political interference: Argus’s attempts to disqualify Meng reveal that recruitment is not based solely on talent; factional interests and hidden agendas also shape his future.

Character Interactions

• Meng and Gorzan engage in a brutally close battle, with the advantage shifting from Gorzan’s initial dominance to Meng’s overwhelming offensive pressure.
• Gorzan’s true body and Qiu Lie emerge to receive and recruit Meng, while the representatives of all seven major powers gather to compete for him.
• Qiu Lie openly celebrates Meng’s performance and enjoys Argus’s growing anxiety.
• Argus attempts to undermine Meng by claiming that his primary Dao is unsuitable for Void Heaven Hall and that his potential has already been exhausted.
• The final mysterious instruction to Argus indicates that a powerful figure is actively plotting to keep Meng away from Void Heaven Hall.

Chapter Summary: Supreme Heaven’s Open Scheme, Void Heaven Hall’s Invitation!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan completes his battle against seventh-rank Gorzan inside the Heaven-Opening Tower.
• Using his newly comprehended World Body, amplified by the martial art World Force and his ultimate Ascension state, he overwhelms Gorzan’s Ancient Dragon Skin.
• His final punch, embodying the perfected Martial Momentum, shatters Gorzan’s defenses and sends her flying beyond the nine heavens. She does not return, confirming Meng’s victory.
• The battle leaves Meng physically and mentally exhausted, but he is thrilled to have defeated an opponent vastly stronger than himself through sheer martial potential.
• After clearing the tower, Meng opens the final treasure chest and receives two powerful treasures:
  • Ancient One’s Bloodline Serum, apparently containing ancestor-level bloodline essence from the Heavenly Baleful Clan.
  • Sprout of New Life, a wood-attributed Cosmic wonder that enhances vitality, lifespan, bodily activity, and soul foundations.
• Meng refuses to use the bloodline serum himself because doing so could make him a Chosen One of the Cosmos and force him to betray humanity and the Dao Domain. Instead, he saves it for his master, Old Luo, whose mixed bloodline might benefit greatly from it.
• He also decides to keep the Sprout of New Life for his own future cultivation, intending to refine it alongside Pangu Fortune.
• Tree Universe, a powerful Cosmic Legend and senior figure of the Void Heaven Hall, personally appears and formally invites Meng to join the Hall. Meng accepts.
• Outside the tower, the spectators and representatives of the seven great powers are stunned by Meng’s victory and recruitment. Their attempts to recruit him become irrelevant once Tree Universe personally intervenes.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan reaches a major turning point in his cultivation. Under extreme pressure, he comprehends the World Body, a third powerful physical form that allows him to fully utilize World Force and dramatically strengthen his martial arts.
• His confidence rises after defeating Gorzan, and he begins openly envisioning a path toward becoming an eleventh-rank Martial Supreme.
• Despite his growing power, Meng remains cautious and politically aware. He worries that the Heaven-Opening Tower may reject him for using martial principles outside the Dao of the Flesh, but ultimately accepts that the consequences are beyond his control.
• Meng demonstrates strong loyalty and gratitude by preserving the priceless bloodline serum for his master rather than using or selling it.
• Gorzan is established as an overwhelming seventh-rank combatant, but even her strongest defensive transformation cannot withstand Meng’s perfected World Body martial power.
• Dark Abyss, Meng’s master and adviser, carefully examines the rewards and helps identify the bloodline serum’s origin and danger.
• Argus, who previously obstructed Meng’s prospects, realizes too late that Meng has been personally claimed by the Void Heaven Hall. His confidence collapses, and he attempts to change his earlier stance.
• Sevis, Gorzan’s younger relative, is forced to reevaluate Meng. Although Meng was once viewed as a rival, defeating Gorzan proves that his talent is on an entirely different level.

Significant Themes

• Growth through crisis: Meng’s greatest breakthrough occurs when he is pushed to the edge of defeat. Desperation allows him to completely digest his understanding of World Force and create the World Body.
• Martial potential versus fixed bloodline talent: Meng rejects the Heavenly Baleful bloodline because he believes his own Limit-Breaking Trait and human potential can surpass inherited gifts such as Phototropism.
• Loyalty over immediate power: Though the serum could make Meng a Chosen One, he chooses to preserve it for his master, emphasizing the depth of their bond.
• Hidden power and political consequences: Meng’s battle reveals that he is far more than an ordinary flesh cultivator and may expose his identity as a Dao Creator. He must balance his rapid rise with the danger of attracting attention from powerful cosmic factions.
• Recognition of true strength: The seven great powers and even Meng’s former enemies are forced to acknowledge that his achievement was earned through overwhelming combat ability, not favoritism or manipulation.
• The value of foundational cultivation: Meng prioritizes treasures that improve vitality, lifespan, physical foundations, and soul control, showing his long-term focus on building an unshakable path rather than pursuing temporary advantages.

Character Interactions

• Meng and Gorzan clash directly, with Meng overcoming her superior realm, defense, and Ancient Dragon Skin through his perfected martial arts.
• Meng and Dark Abyss discuss the risks and uses of the treasure rewards. Their relationship is marked by trust, caution, and mutual concern.
• Meng mentally considers the protection of the Boundless Supreme and Pangu Divine Temple, hoping their influence can shield him while he continues developing.
• Tree Universe personally appears, gives Meng the Sprout of New Life, and invites him into the Void Heaven Hall. His intervention immediately establishes Meng’s exceptional status.
• The representatives of the seven great powers, including Qiu Lie, Mu of the Sea Emperor Pavilion, and the Heaven-Victory Sect’s stone man, all acknowledge Meng’s talent and congratulate him after Tree Universe’s invitation.
• Hai Xingyun and Ape Lord celebrate wildly after Meng’s victory, reflecting the pride of the Dao Domain lifeforms.
• Argus realizes that his earlier schemes and opposition have failed once Meng is personally recruited by Tree Universe, while the surrounding observers conclude that Meng may eventually become a terrifying “Nightmare of the Cosmos.”

Key plot points and events

• After passing Void Heaven Hall’s trial, Meng Chuan is welcomed by eight Divine Realm examiners. He meets Gorzan again but hides their prior connection, planning to reveal his identity only once he becomes stronger.
• Qiu Lie and Examiner Mu warn Meng Chuan that Argus tried to prevent his admission and may cause trouble. Argus nevertheless approaches him warmly, pretending to welcome him as a fellow disciple.
• Tree Universe brings Meng Chuan and Argus to Void Heaven Hall’s headquarters. Meng Chuan receives a Time-Space Calamity Ring derivative, which serves as proof of membership and grants rapid travel within the Pangu Starfield.
• Argus returns to his residence and reveals his calculating nature. He is secretly tasked by a mysterious gray-robed agent with monitoring Meng Chuan and reporting whenever he uses the ring. Argus negotiates for increased cultivation resources in exchange.
• Meng Chuan settles on Floating Island 886 and studies the Hall’s information. He learns that Void Heaven Hall and Supreme Heaven are rival powers racing to uncover Pangu’s legacy; either could be destroyed if the other produces an eleventh-rank being first.
• Meng Chuan receives instruction from an avatar of Great Heavenly Venerable Pei Jian on the Pangu Creation Canon, the Hall’s supreme body-cultivation inheritance. He cannot formally study it until reaching the Seventh Breakthrough.
• His Star Convergence technique advances from 22% to 28%. He hopes that access to more Pangu Origin Light will help him reach the Seventh Breakthrough, but every available research project currently requires members above Tier 8.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan remains cautious about his identity and Argus, while gratefully accepting the examiners’ support. His ambition shifts toward accessing Origin Light and qualifying for the Creation Canon.
• Argus presents himself as friendly in public but is revealed as manipulative and opportunistic, willing to spy on Meng Chuan for personal cultivation benefits.
• Qiu Lie and Mu act as protective seniors, openly warning Meng Chuan about Argus and offering support.
• Gorzan recognizes Meng Chuan only as Mont and offers mild encouragement, unaware of their earlier connection.
• Tree Universe and Tree 1008 introduce Meng Chuan to Void Heaven Hall, its headquarters, and the ring’s functions. Pei Jian later instructs him in the Hall’s central cultivation method.

Significant themes

• Secrecy and trust: Meng Chuan conceals his identity, while Argus hides his true motives behind a friendly façade.
• Power and vulnerability: Meng Chuan has earned a place among powerful cultivators but remains a mortal-tier newcomer with limited access to the Hall’s resources.
• Competition and survival: Void Heaven Hall and Supreme Heaven are engaged in a high-stakes race to master Pangu’s legacy.
• Growth through cultivation: Meng Chuan’s progress, new inheritance, and desire to access Origin Light set the stage for his next breakthrough.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan learns that Void Heaven Hall’s experiments involving Origin Light are restricted to Divine Realm experts and other qualified beings, preventing him from participating for now. He decides to wait for a suitable opportunity because Origin Light is crucial to advancing his Mother River Dao Embryo, Dao of the Flesh, and eventual cultivation of the Pangu Creation Canon.
• Using the Time-Space Calamity Ring, he explores the benefits of joining Void Heaven Hall:
  • Access to Pangu City, an exclusive city for Inner Gate members and qualified disciples.
  • Entry to legendary cultivation sites modeled after Pangu’s body, such as Pangu’s Skull, Spine, and the Sun-Moon Divine Lamp.
  • Free access to an enormous Dao Path library containing cultivation methods for nearly every cosmic law, including powerful Dao of the Flesh techniques.
• Meng Chuan discovers that the library includes Senior Gorzan’s ninth-rank cultivation method, the Magnetic Origin Body of Myriad Kalpas. Members can also study cultivation “chips” left behind by senior experts.
• The library allows technological knowledge to be copied and shared externally, but cultivation methods are strictly restricted to Void Heaven Hall members. Violations are treated as betrayal.
• Meng Chuan claims his Void Heaven Hall recruitment gift package, receiving:
  • An S2 Miniature Void Heaven Shuttle, capable of extremely fast flight and emergency escape.
  • Thirty jars of Pangu Mud.
  • Ten drops of extremely precious Dark Matter Cavity Fluid.
• After consuming a drop of the Cavity Fluid, Meng Chuan experiences a dramatic increase in physical recovery, cultivation efficiency, and bodily resilience. He trains continuously for eighty hours and realizes he can reach the Seventh Breakthrough within roughly a dozen years, or within ten years with Origin Light’s help.
• Meng Chuan reflects on the enormous advantage provided by powerful factions and resources, recognizing that Void Heaven Hall has accelerated his cultivation enormously.
• He meets his master, Luo Guanyun, in the Dao Domain Network. Luo is frustrated because he has repeatedly failed to obtain a chance to evolve his Thunder Clan bloodline, though his Destruction Law cultivation is progressing.
• Meng Chuan offers Luo a Heavenly Baleful Clan Bloodline Reagent, obtained from the hidden ninth floor’s reward. The reagent can potentially elevate Luo to a Chosen One of the Cosmos and grant the rare ability “Phototropism.”
• Luo accepts the gift, deeply moved, and resolves to cultivate harder so he will not hinder his disciple. Meng Chuan awkwardly ends the conversation and arranges to have the reagent delivered, hoping it will restore Luo’s confidence and give him a chance to become a Cosmic Legend—or even a Cosmic God Lord.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan becomes increasingly aware of the value of Void Heaven Hall’s backing. His access to superior cultivation methods, resources, transportation, and safe cultivation grounds dramatically changes his prospects.
• His physical cultivation advances sharply after using Dark Matter Cavity Fluid. He becomes more confident that the Seventh and Eighth Breakthroughs are attainable within a relatively short period.
• Meng Chuan also demonstrates generosity and loyalty by giving his most precious bloodline reagent to Luo Guanyun rather than keeping it for himself.
• Luo Guanyun is revealed to be struggling within the Purgatory Thunder Clan. Despite being a Divine Son, he has repeatedly missed opportunities to improve his bloodline and remains far from becoming a divine descendant.
• Luo’s attitude shifts from frustration and resignation to renewed determination after receiving Meng Chuan’s gift.

Significant Themes

• The power of resources and factional support: Great factions can transform a genius’s potential by providing rare treasures, knowledge, and cultivation environments.
• Accumulation and efficiency: Meng Chuan’s rapid progress illustrates the “snowball effect,” in which better resources lead to faster cultivation, which then makes even greater achievements possible.
• Knowledge as a guarded inheritance: Cultivation methods are treated as precious secrets that must be earned and responsibly preserved.
• Mentorship and gratitude: Meng Chuan’s success is connected to the guidance and sacrifices of his master, and he repays that support through a life-changing gift.
• Generosity over personal advancement: Meng Chuan gives away an item capable of transforming his own future because he values Luo Guanyun’s dignity and potential.
• The gap between ordinary beings and higher realms: Even talented individuals face severe limitations without access to bloodline advantages, rare resources, or powerful backing.

Character Interactions

• Meng Chuan internally considers whether Argus might help him access an Origin Light experiment but rejects the idea because he suspects Argus has malicious intentions.
• His interaction with Void Heaven Hall’s systems emphasizes how the organization supports and regulates its members through libraries, rewards, restrictions, and cultivation resources.
• During his meeting with Luo Guanyun, Meng Chuan notices his master’s difficulties and offers him the Heavenly Baleful Clan reagent.
• Luo is shocked by the reagent’s value and emotionally affected by Meng Chuan’s generosity. Their exchange shows their close bond, though Meng Chuan avoids an overly emotional farewell because he is uncomfortable expressing his feelings.