Chapter Summaries

Lu Xun used the Earth’s power to accelerate his evolution, transforming his body into a coordinated system of superpowered cells as he rushed toward Shijia. The chapter ended with his new magnetic-field organ and cellular network coordinating his abilities.

• Lu Xun broke through his former biological limits by using the Earth to calculate and accelerate his genetic evolution.
• Protected by the Humanity Sacred Sword, Lu Xun harnessed the Earth’s power to advance martial arts beyond ordinary limits.
• Lu Xun charged toward Shijia, and his skin evolved into a system of cells with abilities including energy absorption, sensing, toughness, and regeneration.
• Lu Xun’s pineal gland transformed into a new organ that coordinated his life magnetic field with the surrounding field.
• A cellular network spread from the new organ throughout Lu Xun’s body, coordinating his superpowered cells and abilities.

Lu Xun unleashed the ultimate power born from combining his superpowers and fought Shijia, while Zhao Cheng underwent super-evolution in the Divine Capital and sent Zhao Xiang a sealed imperial decree. Lu Xun damaged Shijia’s body, but Shijia recovered, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Lu Xun activated his 1,296 superpowers, combining them into an ultimate power tied to his enduring true essence.
• Shijia attacked Lu Xun with a devastating punch and declared that the great Momentum would destroy the earth.
• Lu Xun took Shijia’s punch, then used his Divine Martial Killing Path, Divine Martial Seven Kills, to unleash a barrage of attacks and crack Shijia’s Dharma Image and body.
• The Divine Martial Sword completed its super-evolution, understood Lu Xun’s power, and fused with the sword it had devoured.
• Shijia recovered from his injuries within a breath, leaving the fight ongoing.
• Zhao Cheng underwent super-evolution while drafting and sealing an imperial decree, which Zhao Xiang opened but found impossible to unseal.

Shijia unleashed his time-stopping Dao Truth against Lu Xun and struck him with the combined force of one hundred thousand punches. The chapter left the attack’s damage unresolved as time resumed and Shijia’s earth-bound physical form remained vulnerable to destruction.

• Shijia’s reason faltered after Lu Xun provoked him, and his void-born madness erupted.
• Shijia stopped time across a region of more than ten li, trapping Lu Xun within a gray-white domain.
• During the time stop, Shijia struck Lu Xun’s exact same spot one hundred thousand times without visibly harming him.
• When time resumed, Lu Xun felt a single punch carrying the force of all one hundred thousand blows.
• Shijia relied on his physical form to persist on earth, where destroying his body and shell could inflict devastating damage.

Shijia seemingly destroyed Lu Xun with a barrage of time-stopping punches, while a hidden alliance of Celestial Emperors discussed using the coming sacrifice to seize a Dao Fruit. Lu Xun’s name was called through the national fortune and his body reassembled, but Shijia immediately attacked him again.

• Shijia froze time repeatedly and blasted Lu Xun into scattered light-wave particles, while his surviving believers replenished his power with destiny.
• Thirty-three Celestial Emperors watched the battle through their grand formation and planned to join forces, exploit the Child of the Heavenly Mandate’s sacrifice, and claim a Dao Fruit.
• The Celestial Emperors discussed the missing ancient Heaven’s Wills and dismissed Zhao Cheng as no threat to their alliance.
• Lu Xun’s consciousness sank toward a partially decayed fruit of Immortality, where he wondered whether Immortality could still be Immortality if it decayed.
• The people calling for the Divine Martial King drew Lu Xun back, and national fortune reassembled his body before Shijia struck him again.

Shijia repeatedly destroyed Lu Xun, whose body reassembled through the power of the earth and humanity’s spirit, but each resurrection depleted his will. After countless deaths, Lu Xun became an empty shell, and Shijia stopped attacking.

• Shijia realized Lu Xun could be killed by exhausting his spiritual will, even though the earth kept restoring his body.
• Shijia repeatedly blasted Lu Xun apart as he reassembled, and Lu Xun grew stronger with each death.
• Lu Xun eventually felt profound exhaustion and lost control of his thoughts as his will wore away.
• Lu Xun stopped answering the call that had pulled him back from the abyss and wanted only to disappear.
• Lu Xun’s body reassembled once more, but Shijia did not strike because Lu Xun’s will had scattered, leaving only an empty shell.

After killing Lu Xun repeatedly, Shijia used his body to create an avatar and set out to find Supreme, intending to cooperate or devour him. Gao Shou reached Supreme first, but Supreme exiled him to the Land of No-Delusion and took control of his body and spirit, gaining a chance to challenge Shijia.

• Shijia blasted Lu Xun to death sixty thousand times, then made Lu Xun's empty shell into an avatar of the Buddha of the Past.
• Shijia changed direction to seek Supreme, who sensed him coming and chose not to flee.
• Gao Shou found Supreme first and fused the Sacred Flourishing Brush and the earth's power into his spirit.
• Gao Shou invoked the right to execute heretics, but Supreme anchored their karma and exiled Gao Shou to the Land of No-Delusion.
• Supreme transformed Gao Shou's body and spirit into a Daoist and decided he might now be able to devour Shijia.

The emperors discussed the anomalies surrounding the calamity and the obscured future, while Zhao Cheng watched Lu Xun and Gao Shou battle Shijia and Supreme. Zhao Cheng’s plan had already forged the crucial anchor between the human path and the earth, leaving him to wait for a fleeting opportunity.

• The emperors debated the mystery of Yuanshi status reassembling and Heaven-Answering Kingdom awakening, and wondered whether Jun or the Ancient Ones had caused the changes.
• The emperors recalled that the calamity had made the future impossible to see and suspected that a hidden hand was pushing events forward.
• Zhao Cheng presided over court in the Divine Capital while tracking the battle in the vault of heaven through his grasp of the human path.
• Zhao Cheng knew that Lu Xun and Gao Shou had been blasted apart by Shijia and Supreme, but regarded their struggle as a chance to temper themselves and approach the earth’s hidden truth.
• Zhao Cheng realized that the human path’s spirit and the earth’s power had converged within him, forging the crucial anchor he needed.

Zhao Cheng reflected on the aging founders of Great New and the cycle linking the mortal and heavenly Dao Nations, while considering the resignations of Li Tonghai and Lin Yi. Meanwhile, Lu Xun reached a strange realm beyond the Immortality Fruit, where a familiar demon god’s punch sparked his first thought and drove him out.

• Zhao Cheng considered how his followers had grown old and how the mortal and heavenly Dao Nations would form a cycle through ascension and reincarnation.
• Li Tonghai and Lin Yi resigned from their posts, recommending Cao Zheng and Xu Qing as their successors, but Zhao Cheng postponed his decision.
• Zhao Xiang studied the ministers’ factions and wondered what Zhao Cheng had written in the imperial edict, while privately resenting his secrecy.
• Lu Xun’s thought-form crossed the decayed Immortality Fruit into a bizarre realm but remained empty and unable to gather primal motive force.
• A familiar demon god struck Lu Xun’s thought-body, prompting him to think “Again?!” and forcing his thought-form out of the realm.

Zhao Cheng gave Lu Xun only limited help, then used Gao Shou’s consciousness to unfold a page of time. Meanwhile, Shijia and Taishang met in Qing Province and immediately began a life-and-death battle.

• Zhao Cheng watched Lu Xun depart, choosing not to give him more help so he could preserve his potential.
• Zhao Cheng found the exiled Gao Shou and merged his consciousness with Nothingness to set a page of time unfolding.
• Shijia and Taishang left their followers behind and traveled across Divine Province to meet in Qing Province.
• Shijia and Taishang confronted each other at Blackwater and began fighting without speaking.
• Shijia stepped forward from the Buddhist light and struck with a fist, using Lu Xun’s body fused from 120,600 superpowers.

Shijia and Supreme fought to a standstill as the Emperor Lords secretly manipulated the earth, causing the Human Path spirit to merge with the Void and trigger a catastrophic collapse. Zhao Cheng realized his plans had gone awry and prepared to risk everything as the day of the sacrifice to Heaven arrived.

• Shijia used a time-stopping barrage to shatter Supreme's apparent body, but Supreme's true body emerged beyond the attack's range and countered with Supreme Clarity Immortal Light.
• Shijia and Supreme exchanged attacks without gaining the upper hand, devastating White Mountain and its surrounding waters.
• The Emperor Lords decided to manipulate the earth's spiritual force to disrupt Heaven-Answering Kingdom's plans and remove Shijia and Supreme from the struggle.
• The Emperor Lords caused the stolen Human Way spirit to merge with Shijia and Supreme's Void power, triggering an explosion that collapsed part of the world and halted the battle.
• Zhao Cheng recognized that his incomplete knowledge had led to a miscalculation and prepared to gamble everything as the sacrifice to Heaven drew near.
• Lu Xun and Gao Shou remained unable to be reborn until the Human Path spirit recovered, and the final stretch of time passed in silence before the sacrifice to Heaven.

Divine Capital prepared for Zhao Cheng’s Heaven Sacrifice as officials and citizens gathered to watch his procession. Seeing the Empire’s reverence and vast national fortune, Zhao Cheng reflected on how his reforms had secured Great New’s rule as the sun rose.

• Li Tonghai left home before dawn, troubled by the unrealized Dao Nation and Zhao Cheng’s coming Heaven Sacrifice.
• Li Tonghai passed Lin Yi’s ox-cart as carriages from across Divine Capital headed toward the city gates.
• Zhao Cheng set out after six in the morning, leading his ceremonial procession through crowds of citizens and foreign youths.
• Zhao Cheng sensed the crowd’s reverence and fear and reflected on Great New’s stability and the changes that had displaced the Cang Dynasty.
• Zhao Cheng looked toward the red sunrise and recalled the turbulent years of his rule.

Zhao Cheng proclaimed Great New a Dao Kingdom in a grand ceremony, awakening the spirit of the Human Way and merging with its fire. As the demonic taint in his spirit weakened, an unexpected event occurred.

• Transmigrators watched Zhao Cheng’s procession and reflected on how unlikely his rise from the Chain Mountains had been.
• Zhao Cheng arrived at the immense altar, where Empress Zhang Huang'er, Zhao Xiang, the princes, officials, soldiers, and citizens had gathered.
• Zhao Cheng climbed the altar and proclaimed that Great New would govern Heaven and Earth as a Dao Kingdom.
• The awakened spirit of the Human Way formed a blue dragon and plunged into the cauldron, transforming its flames and filling them with visions of human history.
• The gathered people and the figures within the flames cried out “Long live” for Zhao Cheng, whose spirit merged with the Human Way and shed much of its demonic taint.
• A sudden, unexpected event occurred as Zhao Cheng shone like a sun.

As Zhao Cheng sacrificed to Heaven and Earth, the sky fractured and supernatural forces condemned his defiance, while powerful enemies gathered around him. He accepted the danger, intending to plunge fate into chaos and seize a chance to survive the Void’s demonic taint, even if the road ahead led to death.

• The heavens split open above Great New, and people turned toward Zhao Cheng on the altar as a towering figure holding up the sky.
• A voice condemned humanity’s defiance and urged obedience to Heaven, while Zhao Cheng endured the pressure and refused to kneel.
• Zhao Cheng recognized that the celestial upheaval was only a prelude to powerful enemies, who had waited for humanity to awaken before making their move.
• Zhao Cheng reasoned that he needed to throw fate and the Great Dao into chaos to escape the Void’s demonic taint and create a chance to seize the Dragon of the Great Dao.
• Zhao Cheng recalled Chen Sheng and Wu Guang and decided that, despite the danger, moving forward was his only chance to live.

Zhao Cheng wielded the Human Emperor’s sword against the Imperial Lords from the Void, who sought to capture him and use his awakened human-path spirit to refine the earth. They trapped him in the Thirty-Six Heavens Beyond Heavens, where he endured countless lifetimes and tribulations as the Imperial Lords fought him within the array.

• Zhao Cheng cleaved open the heavens with his sword and wounded the palms of the Imperial Lords from the Void.
• The Imperial Lords discussed how to seize Zhao Cheng and use his human-path spirit to join with the human path and refine the earth.
• The thirty-six Imperial Lords combined their seals into the Thirty-Six Heavens Grand Array and sent its world, the Thirty-Six Heavens Beyond Heavens, crashing down on Zhao Cheng.
• Zhao Cheng met the descending world with his second sword and was swallowed by it.
• Time accelerated within the Beyond Heavens, forcing Zhao Cheng through countless changing identities and tribulations while the Imperial Lords fought him through the array.

Zhao Cheng used the Thirty-Sixfold Heaven Beyond Heaven Grand Array to force out and refine the demonic seed within him, freeing himself from the void’s controlling will and shattering the array. The thirty-six Imperial Lords responded by sacrificing their Dao Fruits to manifest the body of the Heavenly Emperor.

• The Imperial Lords trapped Zhao Cheng in Heaven Beyond Heaven, where he grew stronger while enduring countless cycles of battle.
• Zhao Cheng forced the intelligent demonic seed within his origin to reveal itself, then used the divine ability’s power to weaken and refine it into a Demon Fetus.
• As Zhao Cheng became a demon by choice, information about a flaw in the Thirty-Sixfold Heaven Beyond Heaven Grand Array surfaced in his mind.
• Zhao Cheng broke free of the array, gained control over the void’s demonic contamination alongside its will, and further sublimated his understanding.
• The Imperial Lords activated a costly transformation that consumed their Dao Fruits and jointly manifested the Heavenly Emperor’s body.
• The Heavenly Emperor struck as Zhao Cheng’s demonic power formed a giant palm aimed at the Imperial Lords.

Zhao Cheng faced the Heavenly Emperor while the Heavenly Demon’s will tried to consume his mind, but he gained new insight into the Dao and broke free of his former role as a mere piece in the Heavenly Demon’s plans. The chapter left him trapped between two forces seeking to destroy him, relying on his own resolve and the powerful beings who wanted him alive for a chance to survive.

• The Heavenly Emperor’s combined power overwhelmed Zhao Cheng, who repeatedly exploded and reformed while grasping the principles behind the Heavenly Emperor’s Dao.
• Zhao Cheng absorbed the Imperial Lords’ insights and, after fusing with the demon seed, became more ruthless and gained new understandings of Void, Earth, and the Human Dao.
• The Heavenly Demon’s diffuse will continued attacking Zhao Cheng, but refining the demon seed had raised him to a status equal to that will, letting him step partly beyond its control.
• The Heavenly Emperor tried to refine Zhao Cheng by compressing space-time around him as the Heavenly Demon assaulted his mind through karma and sin.
• Zhao Cheng remained confident because powerful beings wanted him alive, and he saw their interest in his Dao Fruits as his chance to survive.

Zhao Cheng joined forces with the heavenly demon to seize its innate mysteries while refining the Heavenly Emperor's secrets, triggering a violent clash that transformed him into a world-destroying Dao Fruit. He manifested an incomplete Earthly Dao Kingdom throne, frightening the Heavenly Emperor's dharma body and forcing the Imperial Sovereigns to unite against him.

• Zhao Cheng discovered hidden Heavenly Emperor secrets and suspected that an Imperial Sovereign was betraying the others, but he kept the information from his Dao Fruit to avoid its concealed traps.
• As the Heavenly Emperor's dharma body refined him and the heavenly demon attacked his will, Zhao Cheng cooperated with the heavenly demon and let it occupy part of his origin in exchange for its core mysteries of Void.
• The heavenly demon tried to erode Zhao Cheng's foundations, while Zhao Cheng refined the Heavenly Emperor's secrets into his spiritual world, causing the innate Great Dao, acquired Great Dao, and his own Dao Fruit to clash.
• The Heavenly Emperor's dharma body summoned Stellar Dao Fire, but Zhao Cheng exploded into fragments that formed a nebula, then collapsed into a point and burst forth, knocking away the fire's world-destroying mill and cracking the dharma body's palm.
• Zhao Cheng proclaimed his vows as the Lord of World Destruction, and treasures gathered from across the mortal realm to form a throne that the Heavenly Emperor's dharma body recognized as an incomplete Earthly Dao Kingdom.
• The Imperial Sovereigns united their wills and ordered Zhao Cheng killed before his incomplete Dao Fruit could develop further.

The Imperial Lords suspected that Zhao Cheng’s illogical rise came from a hidden traitor or Jun’s schemes, while secretly maneuvering to gain allies for the eventual struggle over the Dao Fruit. After uniting their wills, they transformed the Heavenly Emperor Dharma Body into a more complete being with a virtual personality, which confronted Heaven-Answering Kingdom.

• The Imperial Lords judged Zhao Cheng’s mixed Dao Fruit to contain both heavenly demon power and traces of the Heavenly Emperor Dharma Body.
• Zhou and Flame Heavenly Emperor publicly blamed Jun, while Zhou and the other Imperial Lords privately accused one another of being the traitor.
• The Imperial Lords secretly sought allies and prepared to compete for the Dao Fruit after Zhao Cheng’s death, despite continuing to cooperate against him.
• The Imperial Lords temporarily merged their wills, revealing the deeper mysteries of the Heavenly Emperor Dharma Body and making it appear like a genuine living being.
• The newly formed virtual personality of the Heavenly Emperor Dharma Body told Heaven-Answering Kingdom that it had underestimated him and should have killed him at once.

Zhao Cheng transformed one-tenth of Divine Province with demonic power and shattered the Heavenly Emperor Dharma Body, while the Emperor Lords’ attempt to reassemble it was hijacked by Gu, who sought forbidden Immortality. Gu then invoked the Old Gods and declared the realm Heavenly Origin, leaving Zhao Cheng facing a new power.

• Zhao Cheng stained one-tenth of Divine Province and its inhabitants red and black, turning many people into dark lifeforms.
• Zhao Cheng’s strike shattered the Heavenly Emperor Dharma Body, and his next attack threatened to refine the Emperor Lords.
• Flame Heavenly Emperor struck the other Emperor Lords as the Dharma Body reassembled, revealing that Gu had taken control of them.
• Zhao Cheng killed Gu with a single thrust, but Gu returned and invoked the Old Gods through a great seal.
• Gu declared himself the Dao Venerable, and the surroundings transformed into a desolate realm that everyone recognized as Heavenly Origin.

Gu used a Heavenly Origin Grand Seal to evolve the Dao Venerable's Dao Body and transform himself, hoping to claim a Forbidden Dao Fruit and gain great fortune. He became a green-robed Daoist recognized by all as the Dao Venerable, then moved to seize the Dao Fruit.

• The beings of the Dao Fruit World reacted to visions of Heavenly Origin and the Dao Venerable's Dharma.
• Gu explained that he was using a mass-produced Heavenly Origin Grand Seal to recreate the Dao Venerable's Dao Body in this world rich with Heavenly Origin elements.
• Gu recalled that he had changed his name to Gu in hopes of gaining the fortune of the ancient being who had contended with the Dao Venerable.
• Gu transformed from a Heavenly Emperor into a green-robed Daoist whose appearance inspired all intelligent beings to recognize him as the Dao Venerable.
• The green-robed Daoist declared that the Dao Fruit would be his and pointed a finger, unleashing boundless transformations.