Chapter Summaries

Xu Jingming encountered Allen and his followers before the Void Shattering Tower opened, while privately considering how to obtain a Red Cloud Fruit from Qiao Lin to cure Su Qingli’s side effects. Nearby, Li Hao and Tian Yao planned to use a team of powerful fighters to kill Xu Jingming and Ling Shuang inside the tower.

• Allen taunted Xu Jingming and said he hoped the newly rated Aurora Level would challenge his position, while Xu Jingming ignored him and noticed Qiao Lin, who had once possessed traces of a Red Cloud Fruit.
• Xu Jingming considered trading with Qiao Lin for the fruit to help Su Qingli, but resolved to seek it by force if she refused and he became strong enough.
• Qiao Lin resented Xu Jingming for ignoring Allen, and Allen told his followers to test Xu Jingming inside the Void Shattering Tower.
• Li Hao, concealed in the crowd, burned with anger at Xu Jingming and Ling Shuang, while Tian Yao warned him to hide his aura and arranged for them to meet inside the tower.
• Li Hao vowed to avenge his humiliation and condemned Ling Shuang for choosing Xu Jingming, while Tian Yao resolved to kill them both with the help of four Ninth-Order fighters under their control.

High Priest Aimer, Redding, and Ers opened the Void Shattering Tower for hundreds of thousands of Metahumans, including Xu Jingming and Su Qingli. After they entered, Aimer reflected that Xu Jingming’s unpredictable future might bring a surprise.

• Aimer explained that the tower’s seventh floor required thirty thousand sixth-tier experts to open, then joined Redding and Ers in unleashing their power to open it.
• Xu Jingming and Su Qingli said goodbye to Ling Shuang, who warned them that multiple ninth-tier members of Heaven's Mandate Sect had entered the tower.
• Xu Jingming embraced Ling Shuang, then flew into the tower with Su Qingli while Ling Shuang resolved to begin cultivating.
• After hundreds of thousands of Metahumans entered, Ers and Aimer observed that the growing Space Rifts meant the tower could only be opened two or three more times.
• Aimer recalled that her Eye of Destiny could not foresee beyond the seventh floor and suspected that Xu Jingming might surprise her.

Xu Jingming and Su Qingli entered the Void Shattering Tower on different teleportation channels from Allen, Li Hao, and Tian Yao, then flew toward the first-floor endpoint. Xu Jingming killed a beast along the way and discovered that the system now identified beasts as demon beasts and awarded twice as many Ability Points.

• Xu Jingming and Su Qingli arrived at No. 3 Channel and learned that the first-floor endpoint lay about three hundred kilometers away.
• Xu Jingming and Su Qingli flew toward the endpoint while other Metahumans traveled by air, vehicle, or on foot.
• Allen arrived at No. 1 Channel, while Li Hao and Tian Yao arrived at No. 2 Channel and planned to find Xu Jingming and his companions.
• Xu Jingming killed a flying ferocious beast with his Chaos Divine Lightning, even though it was too weak to yield useful materials.
• Xu Jingming received a system notification identifying the beast as a Fifth-Order Middle Position demon beast and awarding him 1,012 Ability Points.

Xu Jingming discovered that demon beasts in the Void Shattering Tower granted twice as many Ability Points, then hunted them as he and Su Qingli advanced to the fifth floor. After making a hidden underground refuge, he spent 900,000 Ability Points to raise his Thunder Sea Meditation Technique to the sixth level.

• Xu Jingming killed an Azure Bird and confirmed that demon beasts granted him twice the Ability Points of ferocious beasts.
• Xu Jingming and Su Qingli entered the black teleportation gate to the next floor, and Xu Jingming continued killing every beast they encountered as they traveled.
• Four days later, Xu Jingming and Su Qingli reached the fifth floor and decided to rest before heading into the more dangerous sixth floor.
• Xu Jingming dug more than a hundred meters underground to hide from Allen and the Heaven's Mandate Sect, while Clematis reinforced their shelter.
• Xu Jingming checked his 924,000 Ability Points and spent 900,000 to raise the Thunder Sea Meditation Technique from the fifth level to the sixth, asking Su Qingli to protect him.

Xu Jingming broke through to the Sixth Level of the Thunder Sea Meditation Technique, causing a bright moon to rise in his Sea of Consciousness and his Mental Strength to surge. After he awakened, he asked Su Qingli to keep watch while he examined the changes, and she quietly reflected on her distraction.

• Xu Jingming's Sixth-Level breakthrough stirred a storm in his Sea of Consciousness, where a bright moon rose and calmed the turbulent Mental Strength.
• Xu Jingming realized that the moon could nurture a Guardian Spirit and was pleased that he had achieved the rare Sea Rising Bright Moon phenomenon.
• Su Qingli sensed Xu Jingming's Mental Strength continuing to grow and observed him, briefly forgetting to focus on his breakthrough.
• Xu Jingming opened his eyes and asked Su Qingli what she had been looking at, and she said she had been studying his Mental Strength.
• Xu Jingming asked Su Qingli to keep watch while he examined his Mental Strength, and she relaxed after he closed his eyes again.

Xu Jingming reached the Sixth Level of the Thunder Sea Meditation Technique, greatly increasing his Mental Strength and ability control, then hunted beasts while waiting for enough Metahumans to gather. When the required number assembled, a voice announced the start of Noah Civilization’s 1,031st trial.

• Xu Jingming advanced his Refining Spirit Art to the Sixth Level, gaining a Guardian Spirit in the form of a full moon and raising his Mental Strength to 125,791 Hz.
• Xu Jingming discovered that his improved Mental Strength let him control Chaos Divine Lightning faster, bringing his ability proficiency into the Crystallization realm.
• Xu Jingming and Su Qingli reached the Sixth Level’s exit, learned that 30,000 Sixth-Order Metahumans were needed to open the next passage, and went hunting while they waited.
• Over six days, Xu Jingming gathered Ability Points by hunting beasts as the number of Metahumans at the exit climbed toward 30,000.
• After the count reached 29,785, Xu Jingming and Su Qingli waited near the exit until a voice announced that the required number had been met and Noah Civilization’s 1,031st trial had begun.

As the seventh floor of the Void Shattering Tower opened, Xu Jingming learned that the trial would rank entrants by Void Stones and that no one could leave once they advanced. Despite the danger, he and Su Qingli entered the seventh floor, leaving the story at the start of the unknown Noah Civilization trial.

• The Tower announced the unknown Noah Civilization trial, assigned Xu Jingming and Su Qingli serial numbers 344 and 345, and revealed that Void Stones determined rankings and rewards.
• The Tower warned that later floors held powerful demonic beasts and Void Creatures and offered no departure passages, prompting about a third of the gathered Metahumans to leave.
• Xu Jingming chose to continue, and Su Qingli agreed to follow him.
• Allen led his followers into the seventh-floor passage, while Blood Sword and other Great Xia Ninth-Order Councilors gathered their compatriots into a group.
• Xu Jingming and Su Qingli bypassed Blood Sword's group and entered the black Teleportation Channel to the seventh floor.

After the Void Shattering Tower revealed that it came from the Noah Civilization, Xu Jingming and Su Qingli entered its seventh floor, a frozen world with extreme cold and triple gravity. While Li Hao organized a search for them, Xu Jingming deployed Gilded Guardians and drones to map the floor and locate its exit.

• The tower announced the Noah Civilization as its source, prompting Aimer, Redding, and Ers to discuss what they knew about it.
• Xu Jingming and Su Qingli arrived on the seventh floor, where Eva reported temperatures of minus seventy-two degrees Celsius and triple Blue Star gravity.
• Li Hao split his group into two teams to search for the passage onward and for Xu Jingming and Su Qingli.
• Xu Jingming sent out twenty Gilded Guardians, each supported by fifty drones, to explore the seventh floor and find demonic-beast gathering places.

Xu Jingming and Su Qingli encountered a Glacier Giant on the seventh floor of the Void Shattering Tower, and Su Qingli fought it while Xu Jingming studied her Thunder God Descends. When the battle reached a deadlock, Xu Jingming unleashed his full strength and charged the giant, which answered by summoning a lethal blizzard.

• Xu Jingming and Su Qingli flew across the seventh floor’s ice plains and sensed Mental Strength fluctuations coming from a glacier.
• A Glacier Giant rose from the ice and declared that Xu Jingming and Su Qingli had trespassed on its territory.
• Xu Jingming asked Su Qingli to fight the giant so he could observe her Thunder God Descends, and she attacked it with Thunder Dragon Art.
• Su Qingli and the Glacier Giant fought for more than ten minutes without either gaining the upper hand because the giant absorbed Ice Element from its surroundings.
• Xu Jingming entered Thunderstorm State and charged the Glacier Giant with his spear.
• The Glacier Giant unleashed a blizzard that plunged the temperature to two hundred degrees below zero, and Su Qingli warned Xu Jingming to be careful.

Xu Jingming destroyed a Glacier Giant and discovered that its remains formed a rare Ice Elemental Essence with a chance of raising an S-rank ice ability to SS-rank. Su Qingli then spotted something else nearby, leaving them to investigate.

• Xu Jingming overwhelmed the Glacier Giant with his Perfect Level Spear Technique and lightning Battle Techniques, destroying it in less than five minutes.
• Xu Jingming noticed new energy forming after the Glacier Giant fell and prepared to attack in case it was not truly dead.
• Xu Jingming and Su Qingli discovered a basketball-sized snow-white sphere, which Eva identified as rare S-rank Ice Elemental Essence.
• Eva explained that the essence might let an S-rank ice-element Metahuman evolve to SS-rank, though the chance was below one percent.
• Su Qingli called Xu Jingming over after noticing something else nearby.

Xu Jingming, Su Qingli, and Eva collected 100,000 Void Stones from the collapsed glacier on the Void Shattering Tower’s 7th Floor and learned that the tower tracked every participant. Xu Jingming then sensed Clematis nearing its breakthrough to the ninth order.

• Xu Jingming found Void Stones beneath the collapsed glacier and split the search area among himself, Su Qingli, and Eva.
• The three collected 100,000 Void Stones, and the leaderboard showed Xu Jingming in 23rd place, Su Qingli in 25th, and the Redding Family’s Ninth-Order Peak member in first.
• Su Qingli offered Xu Jingming her Void Stones, but he declined and said they should split future finds equally; Eva kept her own after revealing her ranking.
• Xu Jingming sensed a strange fluctuation from his Space Ring and realized Clematis was about to break through to the ninth order.

Xu Jingming and Su Qingli witnessed the Clematis break through to the ninth order and use its new illusion ability to help locate Void Stones. After finding over a million Void Stones underground, the Clematis detected a terrifying Ninth-Order Peak powerhouse nearby, leaving the group uncertain whether they could claim them.

• The Clematis broke through to the ninth order, gaining the ability to create illusions, extend its vines fifty kilometers, and greatly increased vitality.
• Xu Jingming tested the Clematis's illusion, and his Mental Strength overcame it while he praised its potential against ordinary Ninth-Order Metahumans.
• The Clematis searched underground and in caves, raising Xu Jingming and Su Qingli's Void Stone totals to 150,000 each and Eva's to 50,000.
• Eva reported that a Sub-body had located an S-class beast horde southeast of the group, and Xu Jingming agreed to head there.
• The Clematis found over a million Void Stones forty kilometers underground to the northwest, then detected a Ninth-Order Peak powerhouse nearby.
• Su Qingli recognized the immense aura as belonging to a Ninth-Order Peak powerhouse and doubted they could take the Void Stones.

Xu Jingming had Clematis secretly collect Void Stones from beneath the territory claimed by Rio, a Ninth-Order Peak Martial Saint, while he led Su Qingli away. Rio and his team began sweeping the area, unaware that Clematis was already taking the stones underground.

• Xu Jingming told Clematis to camouflage its Mental Strength, approach the Void Stones, and withdraw its vines if discovered.
• Clematis reached the stones and sensed Rio alongside two other Ninth-Order experts, so Xu Jingming gave it Space Rings and ordered it to start collecting while leaving decoy vines nearby.
• Xu Jingming took Su Qingli away and left Clematis to continue its operation.
• Rio dismissed concerns about losing contact with Allen and said his team should not interfere in any conflict between Allen and Xu Jingming because of Aimer.
• Warren reported that the area held over one million Void Stones, and Rio ordered his team to gather them.
• As Rio and the others began collecting, Clematis's vines dug more than 150 meters underground and secretly stored Void Stones in Space Rings.

Xu Jingming and Su Qingli used Clematis to lure Rio away while secretly collecting Void Stones. The chapter ended with them waiting underground for Rio to get farther away so they could resume digging.

• Rio, Warren, and Demi excavated the ice field but found far fewer Void Stones than expected, and Rio warned Warren about his faulty sensing.
• Warren detected Void Stones vanishing underground and alerted Rio that someone was beneath them.
• Rio attacked the suspected location and severed one of Clematis's vines, revealing the Plant Life hiding underground.
• Xu Jingming ordered Clematis to withdraw its vines and flee as Rio chased it with Warren, leaving Demi behind.
• Xu Jingming told Su Qingli to wait until Rio had flown farther away before they continued secretly collecting Void Stones.

Xu Jingming, Su Qingli, and Eva took advantage of Rio’s absence to steal Void Stones, then escaped using the Space Beast Bone. Rio returned to find most of the stones gone and noticed three rankings had surged into the top five, but he did not know who had robbed him.

• Xu Jingming revealed his plan to steal the underground Void Stones, and he, Su Qingli, and Eva split up to collect them.
• Rio and Warren searched for Clematis but found only decoys, so Rio turned back toward the Void Stones.
• Clematis warned Xu Jingming that Rio and Warren were returning, and Xu Jingming gathered Su Qingli and Eva before they escaped with the Space Beast Bone.
• Rio returned and learned that more than half the underground Void Stones had been stolen, leaving fewer than one hundred thousand behind.
• Rio saw that rankings 344, 345, and 347 had entered the top five and vowed to find the thieves.

Xu Jingming, Su Qingli, Eva, and Clematis escaped with 567,000 Void Stones stolen from Rio and regrouped before heading to a ferocious beast gathering place. Xu Jingming unleashed Myriad Lightning Sky Prison Draw on the unknown ice-element beasts, beginning a massacre.

• Xu Jingming, Su Qingli, and Eva counted their haul and found that they had taken 567,000 Void Stones, while their rankings climbed and Rio remained first.
• Xu Jingming and Su Qingli agreed to rely on Clematis to find more Void Stones and waited for it to rejoin them.
• Clematis arrived with many Space Rings, and Xu Jingming rewarded it with Plant Holy Water.
• Xu Jingming, Su Qingli, Clematis, and Eva reached a gathering place filled with unfamiliar ice-element ferocious beasts.
• Xu Jingming cast Myriad Lightning Sky Prison Draw, and black lightning devastated the beasts across the area.

Xu Jingming wiped out a vast gathering of beasts with the Myriad Lightning Sky Prison Draw and used the resulting Ability Points to advance to Eighth-Order Middle Position. As he absorbed a massive surge of Origin Energy, Nava, Kent, and Nila flew toward the lightning, intending to kill whoever they found.

• Nava, Kent, and Nila spotted a distant display of powerful lightning and headed toward it, hoping to find Xu Jingming or another target to kill.
• Xu Jingming’s lightning attack killed the beasts across a thousand-square-kilometer area and earned him more than two million Ability Points.
• Xu Jingming asked Su Qingli to guard the area, then spent 1.98 million Ability Points to break through to Eighth-Order Middle Position.
• Xu Jingming absorbed a huge Yuan Energy Storm as his body and Mental Strength strengthened, while Su Qingli, Eva, and Clematis searched for approaching threats.

Nava, Kent, and Nila ambushed Su Qingli and Xu Jingming as he broke through, forcing Su Qingli to shield him from Kent’s SSS-rank fireball. Just as the attack overwhelmed her Lightning Barriers, Xu Jingming called out “Azure Thunder Shield.”

• Nava’s group found Su Qingli guarding Xu Jingming, who was absorbing the Yuan Energy Storm during his breakthrough.
• Kent used an SS-rank Stealth Art to approach unseen, and Nava ordered him to attack once they reached three kilometers.
• Su Qingli sensed something was wrong but detected no enemies until Kent’s enormous fireball appeared and the three attackers charged.
• Su Qingli told Little Lian to protect Xu Jingming, then formed a lightning shield around him and raised three Lightning Barriers against the fireball.
• Kent’s fireball shattered all three barriers, but Xu Jingming suddenly called out “Azure Thunder Shield.”

Xu Jingming completed his breakthrough to Eighth-Order Middle Position just in time to protect Su Qingli from Kent’s attack, then faced the Heaven’s Mandate Sect fighters as they unleashed the Divine Blood Secret Technique. He struck Nava with devastating force and blocked Nava’s counterattack, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Xu Jingming emerged from his breakthrough and joined Su Qingli in destroying Kent’s World Extinguishing Flame Orb.
• Nava ordered Kent and Nila to abandon their original objective and kill Xu Jingming, and the three activated the Divine Blood Secret Technique.
• Xu Jingming assigned Su Qingli to fight Kent and Clematis to fight Nila, then confronted Nava himself.
• Xu Jingming pierced Nava’s shoulder with his spear and used Chaos Divine Lightning to consume five percent of Nava’s Undying Substance.
• Nava swung his battle blade at Xu Jingming, but Xu Jingming’s black lightning shield stopped the strike.

After breaking through to Eighth-Order Middle Position, Xu Jingming overwhelmed Nava with rapid, powerful Combat Skills. He killed Nava and gained 200,000 Ability Points, then charged toward Kent.

• Xu Jingming blocked Nava's attack with Azure Thunder Shield and countered with Thunder Dragon Art.
• Xu Jingming used Phantom Lightning and Thunder Prison to catch Nava, then shattered his Qi-Blood barrier with Starry Lightning Spear.
• Kent and Nila intensified their attacks on Su Qingli and Clematis, but both held their ground as the three battlefields turned into suppressive engagements.
• After three minutes of fighting, Nava's Undying Substance was nearly exhausted, so he abandoned his teammates and tried to flee.
• Xu Jingming killed Nava with a gigantic lightning sword, gained 200,000 Ability Points, and charged toward Kent.