Recaps

Lu Zhen revealed that he was Gu Chen and the Faceless Asura after winning the Mount Tai Debate for Traditional Martial Arts. Martial Saint Shi Kefa then took Lu Zhen and the others to his sky palace, where Lu Zhen demanded to know why the Martial Saints stayed out of the war and where the Hongwu Empire’s Martial Saints had gone.

• Lu Zhen reclaimed the golden fortune of the Divine Land and confirmed to Yan Nantian and Chen Kurong that Gu Chen, Lu Zhen, and the Faceless Asura were all him.
• The National Government official declared Traditional Martial Arts the winner, while the Western envoys and Martial Saint projections withdrew.
• Martial Saint Shi Kefa appeared on Mount Tai, introduced himself, and carried Lu Zhen and the others to his palace above the Ninth Heaven gales.
• Lu Zhen questioned Shi Kefa about why the Martial Saints would not defend the Divine Land, and Shi Kefa said their restraint followed Lord Hongwu’s command.
• Lu Zhen asked why the Hongwu Emperor had issued that command and where the Mingwu Empire’s Martial Saints had gone; Shi Kefa paused before answering.

Shi Kefa explained that the Nine Provinces was one of over a hundred small worlds governed by the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect, whose five-hundred-year merit rankings determined whether worlds were destroyed or enslaved. He revealed that the Nine Provinces ranked seventh from the bottom with 150 years until the next reckoning, while the Sacred Blood Realm’s agents sabotaged it to protect their own world and promised collaborators a chance to escape.

• Shi Kefa told Lu Zhen that the Nine Provinces was a small world in the Azure Wind Domain, alongside over a hundred others ruled by the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect.
• Shi Kefa explained that the sect ranked worlds by pooled merit every five hundred years, destroying the bottom ten and enslaving the next ten.
• Shi Kefa revealed that the Nine Provinces ranked seventh from the bottom and had 150 years before the next Heaven Ranking reckoning, while gray mist cut it off from the Great Wilderness.
• Shi Kefa identified the Remnants as agents from the Sacred Blood Realm, which ranked twenty-second from the bottom and sabotaged worlds in the bottom twenty to stay safe.
• Shi Kefa told Jiang Li that Nine Provinces collaborators served the Sacred Blood Realm because it promised to change their registration and save them from the coming calamity.

Shi Kefa explained that the Nine Provinces had survived the previous Kill Line because the Hongwu Emperor and Lord Yu Qian sold themselves into servitude, and he urged Lu Zhen and the others to fight for the world’s survival. After Lu Zhen’s victory at Mount Tai, the National Government seized control of Alienation Serum production, Western Battle Gear, and the sects’ Treasure Lands, while the Sacred Blood Realm’s agents waited for their masters to respond.

• Shi Kefa told Lu Zhen that the Great Wilderness ranked worlds through merit and that the Nine Provinces faced a Kill Line in 150 years.
• Shi Kefa revealed that the Hongwu Emperor and Lord Yu Qian became followers of a Supreme Unity Mystic Sect disciple to raise the Nine Provinces’ ranking and save its people from enslavement.
• Shi Kefa urged Yan Nantian, Chen Kurong, and the others not to give in to despair, pointing to Lu Zhen’s strength as the Nine Provinces’ chance to survive.
• After the Mount Tai battle, the National Government ordered Alienation Serum factories and Western Battle Gear bureaus sealed and took over the sects’ Treasure Lands.
• Alienated Martial Arts leaders accepted government officials without resistance, fearful of Lu Zhen’s power, while Fujiwara and the Western Martial Saints sent word to the Sacred Blood Realm and awaited its response.

Adams revealed the Sacred Blood Realm’s plan to seed the Treasure Land with a Devouring Spirit Broodmother and demanded Spirit Fusion Realm bodies as vessels, winning the submission of Martial Saint Fujiwara and the others with a promise of refuge. In Three Sects City, Lu Zhen struggled with the distance his status had created between him and his family and companions, then received an urgent summons about events in the north.

• Adams appeared at the altar and announced that Merlin and nine Spirit Fusion Realm fighters had been killed by an Inner Landscape Spirit Fusion expert.
• Adams explained that the Devouring Spirit Broodmother would spawn an insect army and needed Spirit Fusion Realm bodies to hatch Insect Ancestors capable of matching Inner Landscape Spirit Fusion.
• Adams promised the gathered leaders passage to the Sacred Blood Realm if they helped seize the Nine Provinces and sever its dragon veins, and Martial Saint Fujiwara and the Western Martial Saints agreed to serve.
• Lu Zhen reflected on how his newfound status had made Sister Shen, Lu Fang, Lu Wan, Chu Yunshu, and Xiao Yuqing wary around him, while the Myriad People Pearl strengthened his Inner Landscape and nourished Guga.
• Lei Zhen and Qin Wei summoned Lu Zhen to the council hall, reporting an urgent dispatch from the north.

Lu Zhen learned that an insect swarm released from the Heavenly Pool Sect’s Treasure Land was devouring the northern region and that its broodmother could destroy Nine Provinces when its final mother insect hatched. With the Great Wilderness Council choosing to save only a handful of Spirit Fusion experts, Lu Zhen set out to delay the insects and help civilians evacuate.

• Yan Nantian told Lu Zhen that insects had devastated several northern cities, and Shi Kefa explained that a Devouring Spirit Broodmother was consuming Nine Provinces’ spiritual essence.
• Shi Kefa revealed that the Great Wilderness Council had sent a formation disk to protect Three Sects City for a year and would evacuate only a dozen or so Spirit Fusion experts.
• Lu Zhen learned that the Council would leave ordinary people behind because it considered Nine Provinces a doomed world and prioritized the approaching kill line.
• Lu Zhen ordered the experts to help civilians retreat toward Three Sects City and volunteered to delay the insect swarm at the northern front.
• Shi Kefa gave Lu Zhen a wooden token and said he would break the rules to save him if the situation became hopeless; Lu Zhen accepted it and left the hall.

Lu Zhen witnessed both cruelty and compassion in Three Sects City, deepening his understanding of the human world and advancing his Spirit Fusion. Pei Yuan revealed that he and Su Ya came from the higher-ranked Myriad Stars Minor World and explained the Myriad Stars Tower’s business of recruiting prodigies.

• Lu Zhen secretly surveyed Three Sects City and saw a clan elder threaten his nephew’s wife, merchants hoard grain, and other residents feed refugees and shelter orphans.
• Lu Zhen reflected that the human world held both good and evil, and his Inner Landscape’s metal and wood forces began to merge, improving his Spirit Fusion.
• Pei Yuan approached Lu Zhen and praised his talent as a thirty-one-year-old Inner Landscape Spirit Fusion cultivator.
• Pei Yuan told Lu Zhen that he and his wife, Su Ya, came from the Myriad Stars Minor World, which ranked fiftieth and had escaped the Kill Line.
• Pei Yuan explained that the Myriad Stars Lineage established towers to trade and sell intelligence in lower-ranked minor worlds and recruit exceptional prodigies like Lu Zhen.

Pei Yuan offered Lu Zhen a chance to flee with ten people by joining Myriad Stars, but Lu Zhen rejected the prospect of abandoning Nine Provinces and headed north to confront the insect threat. At Horsefall Slope, he saved the Guan Family’s rearguard by slaughtering the swarm, then continued toward the Heavenly Pool Treasure Land after realizing the mother nest was hatching faster than expected.

• Pei Yuan invited Lu Zhen to immigrate to the Myriad Stars Lineage and offered resources and ten escape slots for his loved ones.
• Lu Zhen decided to stay and fight for Nine Provinces, then flew north toward the border.
• Old Master Guan refused to abandon the people fleeing with his family and ordered Master Zhao and the younger Guan masters to delay the swarm at Horsefall Slope.
• Lu Zhen arrived at Horsefall Slope and slaughtered the tens of thousands of insects threatening Master Zhao and the Guan Family.
• Lu Zhen concluded that the mother nest was hatching ahead of schedule and continued toward the Heavenly Pool Treasure Land.

Lu Zhen reached the Northern Frontier as news spread of his slaughter of the insect swarms, while Adams revealed that the newly hatched Insect Ancestors could command swarms and wield overwhelming strength. At Yanmen Pass, Lu Zhen agreed to defend Iron Wire Valley for three days and headed there, calculating that he was about ten days from advancing a martial technique to the Profound Extremity realm.

• Old Li announced that Lu Zhen had killed tens of thousands of insects and escorted civilians to safety across the Northern Frontier.
• Adams explained that the Insect Ancestors could channel the strength of hundreds of thousands of insects, then sent two of them after Lu Zhen.
• Jiang Li and the patriarchs discussed the danger of the hatched Insect Ancestors and the need to protect the civilian evacuation route.
• Lu Zhen volunteered to defend Iron Wire Valley for three days so hundreds of thousands of civilians could pass through.
• Lu Zhen reviewed his growing resources and experience, estimated he was about ten days from advancing a martial technique to Profound Extremity, and set off for Iron Wire Valley.

Lu Zhen arrived at Iron Wire Valley as an enormous insect swarm approached and slaughtered it with a thousand flying swords. The surviving disciples and elder witnessed his overwhelming strength firsthand.

• Chu He and the wounded disciples despaired as they learned that a massive insect swarm was advancing toward Iron Wire Valley.
• Lu Zhen appeared at the valley entrance and ordered the defenders to retreat and treat their injuries.
• A Supreme Clarity Sect elder told Lu Zhen that thirty insect generals and tens of thousands of insect soldiers would arrive within half an hour.
• When the swarm reached the valley, Lu Zhen summoned a thousand crimson-gold flying swords and attacked with the Lesser Thousand Sword Formation.
• Lu Zhen's swords shredded the insect generals and soldiers, leaving Chu He and the others stunned by his power.

Adams sent four Insect Ancestors and the main insect swarm toward Iron Wire Valley, where Lu Zhen refused to retreat while hundreds of thousands of civilians evacuated. When Nie Xingkong arrived to urge him to withdraw, Lu Zhen challenged him to a movement-technique contest and revealed speed that matched the Heavenly Abyss Ranking’s fastest expert, leaving him confident he could fight the Insect Ancestors.

• Adams ordered all four Insect Ancestors and the main insect swarm to attack Iron Wire Valley.
• Jiang Li and the Yanmen Pass commanders learned that the Insect Ancestors were coming, while Lu Zhen received the warning at the valley entrance.
• Lu Zhen refused to retreat and pledged to hold Iron Wire Valley for a day and a half so the remaining civilians could cross the border.
• Nie Xingkong arrived at Iron Wire Valley and warned Lu Zhen that he could not withstand all four Insect Ancestors, urging him to retreat.
• Lu Zhen challenged Nie Xingkong to a movement-technique contest and matched his speed with the Eight Wastes Wandering Dragon Step.
• Lu Zhen reflected on how much his strength had grown and concluded that he might now be able to fight the four Insect Ancestors.

Lu Zhen and Nie Xingkong chose to defend Iron Wire Valley so hundreds of thousands of civilians could escape, and reinforcements joined them. As they prepared to face the insect progenitors, Shi Kefa and Western Martial Saints arrived to watch for any breach of the rules.

• Lu Zhen and Nie Xingkong returned to Iron Wire Valley and rejected headquarters’ order to retreat, deciding to delay the insect swarm for the civilians.
• At Yanmen Pass, three Spirit Fusion Realm ancestors and Jiang Li volunteered to reinforce Iron Wire Valley.
• Lu Zhen assigned himself and Nie Xingkong to meet the enemy at Wild Boar Forest while the others defended the valley entrance.
• Shi Kefa arrived and explained that he could not fight the insects, but would prevent the opposing Martial Saints from interfering.
• Adams and Fujiwara learned that the reinforcements had reached Iron Wire Valley and went there to watch for Shi Kefa to enter the battle.

As four Insect Ancestors approached Iron Wire Valley, the Military Intelligence Bureau broadcast the battle across the Nine Provinces to rally public will behind the defenders. Lu Zhen and Nie Xingkong revealed towering divine forms, and the broadcast ended with Old Li voicing hope that Lu Zhen might create another miracle.

• At Yanmen Pass, the one-eyed patriarch ordered the Military Intelligence Bureau to broadcast the battle so the people’s will could strengthen the defenders.
• At Three Sects City, Old Li and a scholar announced that four Insect Ancestors and their army were advancing on Iron Wire Valley, threatening hundreds of thousands of fleeing civilians.
• Xiao Wang reported that the enemy was twenty li from the valley and confirmed that all four Insect Ancestors were sentient.
• Nie Xingkong manifested an eighteen-thousand-meter golden body as Lu Zhen revealed a twenty-five-thousand-meter divine avatar accompanied by a great sun, a Golden Crow, and an Azure Dragon.
• Old Li reported Lu Zhen’s immense form to listeners and expressed hope that he would achieve another miracle.

Lu Zhen and Nie Xingkong fought the Insect Ancestors at Iron Wire Valley, dodging their combined attack and targeting the swarm that powered it. Lu Zhen's living sword array slaughtered a huge section of the insect army as the watching Martial Saints reacted in shock.

• The four Insect Ancestors gathered the swarm's blood energy for a combined attack, forcing Lu Zhen and Nie Xingkong to evade rather than fight them head-on.
• Nie Xingkong told Lu Zhen to attack the insect soldiers and generals to cut off the Insect Ancestors' power supply, and they split up to strike the swarm's flanks.
• Shi Kefa warned Adams, Martial Saint Fujiwara, and the other Martial Saints not to interfere, while Fujiwara predicted the Insect Ancestors would kill Lu Zhen.
• The Insect Ancestors unleashed torrents of blood energy at Lu Zhen and Nie Xingkong; Nie Xingkong avoided most of the force, and Lu Zhen regenerated his damaged shoulder.
• Lu Zhen summoned a thousand crimson-gold flying swords and used them to kill vast numbers of insect soldiers and generals, making Adams and the Western Martial Saints react in shock.

Lu Zhen and Nie Xingkong repeatedly retreated under the Insect Ancestors’ overwhelming attacks, buying time for hundreds of thousands of evacuees. After a day of bloody battles, Lu Zhen realized he might fuse his thousand flying swords into one to counter the enemy’s concentrated power.

• The Insect Ancestors unleashed a sweeping blood-energy attack that disrupted Lu Zhen’s flying-sword formation and forced him and Nie Xingkong to retreat thirty li.
• Lu Zhen ordered the defenders to establish a new line and continue delaying the swarm while evacuees fled.
• Old Li reported the retreat and the defenders’ sacrifices, while Fang Wen confronted locals who mocked the evacuation and frontline fighters.
• After more than a dozen battles in a day, Lu Zhen studied how the Insect Ancestors combined their forces and conceived of fusing his thousand swords into one.

At Yanbei Pass, Lu Zhen concentrated his flying swords into pinpoint strikes and killed all four Insect Ancestors, turning the battle into a victory for the Nine Provinces. His feat alarmed the foreign Martial Saints, who debated how to kill him while Shi Kefa watched their moves.

• Lu Zhen refused Nie Xingkong's suggestion to retreat and killed the first Insect Ancestor with a concentrated sword strike.
• Adams and the Western Martial Saints recognized that Lu Zhen's attack had approached Martial Saint power, while Shi Kefa grew wary of their reaction.
• Lu Zhen killed the other three Insect Ancestors, collected their gray flesh-and-blood cores, and secured the victory at Yanbei Pass.
• Jiang Li reflected on how far Lu Zhen had surpassed her, while Old Li announced the victory over Three Sects City Central Radio and crowds celebrated across the Nine Provinces.
• Adams, Fujiwara, and the other Western Martial Saints withdrew to the Heavenly Pool Sect's Treasure Land, where they argued about killing Lu Zhen and Adams warned that any attack had to succeed in one strike.

After Lu Zhen slew four Insect Ancestors, Adams planned a new attack while Lu Zhen sought a way to kill the Devouring Spirit Broodmother before it emerged. Guga ate the transformed cores and began glowing with holy light, as the gray mist around the broodmother suddenly went wild.

• Adams persuaded Fujiwara and the Western Martial Saints to sacrifice peak Spirit Fusion experts to hatch stronger Insect Ancestors, then planned to attack the Tang Clan's Treasure Land in Central Shu.
• Lu Zhen warned Shi Kefa that the Devouring Spirit Broodmother would emerge in a year and asked for a weapon from the Nine Provinces Council; Shi Kefa said they could send one mid-grade Xuan-level item, and Lu Zhen accepted the one-percent chance of success.
• Lu Zhen's daily settlement transformed the four Insect Ancestor cores into jade, and he let Guga eat them.
• Guga began hovering in a burst of holy light after swallowing the cores.
• The gray mist in the Heavenly Pool Treasure Land churned violently and surged toward the Devouring Spirit Broodmother, alarming Adams, Fujiwara, and the Western Martial Saints.

Lu Zhen began seclusion while Guga evolved, as the Broodmother’s hatching accelerated and its allies prepared to lure Lu Zhen into a trap. The insect swarm emerged in Central Shu and slaughtered the Tang Clan’s young trainees, revealing that the invasion had reached the rear.

• Lu Zhen found Guga sealed inside a cocoon of holy light, checked his growing martial arts reserves, and began cultivating while waiting for news from Martial Saint Shi Kefa.
• Martial Saint Fujiwara and the other Western Martial Saints learned that five Insect Ancestors were nearing hatching and agreed to guard the Treasure Land entrance in Shu to ambush Lu Zhen.
• Adams ordered the Tang Clan ancestor and Tang Si to help arrange the ambush, while Tang Si accepted the plan to protect his family from the coming swarm.
• Stone and the other children trained at the Tang Clan’s Outer Sect compound, where Instructor Zhao warned them that they were not ready to fight insects.
• A swarm poured from the Treasure Land entrance beneath Mount Qingcheng, killed Instructor Zhao, and overran Stone and the other children before advancing toward the town.

The swarm broke through the Tang Clan’s Treasure Land entrance in Central Shu, and Three Sects City learned that five Insect Ancestors showed signs of Martial Saint-level pseudo-domains. While the city prepared to open its protective formation for a limited evacuation, Lu Zhen witnessed Guga’s transformation and learned she had gained a powerful soul-devouring ability.

• Li Changqing saw the swarm pouring out of the Tang Clan’s territory and rushed to report the breach to Three Sects City.
• Jiang Li and the leaders in Three Sects City concluded that the Tang Clan had opened the gates to the swarm, and scouts reported five Insect Ancestors with signs of pseudo-domains.
• Chen Kurong ordered the Thousand-Li Grand Formation prepared for a brief evacuation, and Nie Xingkong ordered a message sent to Lu Zhen to return from Yanbei Pass.
• Lu Zhen watched Guga transform into a hundred-meter-tall penguin and learned she could use Soul Devouring to instantly kill living beings at her level.
• Guga returned to her small form and settled in Lu Zhen’s arms as his daily settlement rewards were recorded.

Lu Zhen advanced the True Manual of Sword Control to Profound Extremity and revealed the overwhelming power of his perfected Lesser Thousand Sword Formation. After learning that the Tang Clan had opened the Treasure Land entrance and sent the insect swarm into Central Shu, he ordered a retreat and flew toward the Shu Lands, where Three Sects City’s sealed formation left countless refugees outside.

• Lu Zhen spent his saved experience to raise the True Manual of Sword Control to Profound Extremity, deepening the fusion of metal and wood within his Inner Landscape.
• Lu Zhen demonstrated the Lesser Thousand Sword Formation, combining a thousand flying swords into one meteor-like strike that split the void and multiplied his offensive power a hundredfold.
• A telegram informed Lu Zhen that the Tang Clan had opened the Treasure Land entrance and let the insect swarm into Central Shu, threatening its tens of millions of civilians.
• Lu Zhen ordered the camp to retreat to Three Sects City and flew toward the Shu Lands at top speed.
• At Three Sects City, refugees begged to enter the sealed Thousand-Li City-Guarding Formation while disciples debated opening it.
• Yan Min forbade anyone from tampering with the formation, warning that opening it could let the swarm reach the hundreds of millions already inside.

The Nine Provinces Council rejected Lu Zhen’s request for a weapon to fight the Devouring Spirit Broodmother, judging that saving him and the small world was not worth the merit. As the insect army devastated the Shu Lands, Adams ordered it toward Three Sects City to force Lu Zhen to appear.

• Liu Bowen urged the Nine Provinces Council to provide Lu Zhen with a weapon, arguing that his talent and recent victories made him worth saving.
• Chen Zonghan argued that the Nine Provinces’ Heavenly Dao would survive even if the world’s life was wiped out, and the council rejected Lu Zhen’s request by ten votes to five.
• Fujiwara and the Western Martial Saints watched the insect army destroy towns in the Shu Lands while Lu Zhen failed to appear.
• Adams ordered the Insect Ancestors to lead the army toward Three Sects City and attack people outside its closed grand formation to draw Lu Zhen out.

Lu Zhen faced five Martial Saints and five Martial Saint-level Insect Ancestors after going out to protect the refugees outside Three Sects City. Surrounded and outnumbered, he refused Adams’s claim that he would need another life to be stronger.

• Nie Xingkong warned Shi Kefa and the other ancestors that five Insect Ancestors were leading the swarm toward Three Sects City.
• Lu Zhen appeared outside the formation and transformed into a twenty-five-thousand-meter crimson-gold divine avatar as refugees begged him for help.
• Fujiwara, Adams, and three other Martial Saints ambushed Lu Zhen and sealed off his retreat as he approached the Insect Ancestors.
• Shi Kefa and Jiang Li watched helplessly while Shi Kefa remained at the formation core to protect the hundred million people inside.
• Adams called Lu Zhen foolish for risking himself to save the refugees, but Lu Zhen declared that he was inferior to no one in this life and his thousand flying swords vanished.

Lu Zhen annihilated five Insect Ancestors and defeated five Martial Saints, then slaughtered the insect tide and saved the refugees. Meanwhile, the Devouring Spirit Broodmother mutated, devoured Adams, and began incubating something that was awakening within it.

• Five Martial Saints and five Insect Ancestors attacked Lu Zhen, but his Profound Extremity technique killed all five Insect Ancestors and one Martial Saint while forcing the other four to flee.
• Lu Zhen collected a Space Ring and jade talisman from the fallen Martial Saint, then destroyed the remaining insect swarm and saved millions of refugees.
• Shi Kefa told Lu Zhen he had sent proof of his victory to the Great Wilderness, which he expected would persuade the Native Faction to grant the requested treasure.
• At the Heavenly Pool Treasure Land, Adams discovered that the Devouring Spirit Broodmother had mutated and was nearly fully formed.
• A tentacle seized Adams and dragged him into the Broodmother, which swallowed him as something began awakening inside it.

Lu Zhen organized the evacuation of civilians as the gray mist inside Heavenly Pool began behaving abnormally. After the mother nest devoured four Martial Saints, the mist spread across the Northern Frontier and threatened Three Sects City, leaving the Nine Provinces facing a possible catastrophe.

• A scout reported that the gray mist in Heavenly Pool had become violent, and Lu Zhen ordered the sects to gather civilians inside Three Sects City's formation and press the Nine Provinces Council for support.
• Lu Zhen considered returning to the Fallen Sky Dojo for its inheritance but realized he could not enter until he reached the converging stream realm, so he continued cultivating.
• Fujiwara and three Western Martial Saints found the mother nest partly hatched, and it killed and devoured all four of them.
• The mother nest's growth triggered the gray mist to surge out of Heavenly Pool and spread across the Northern Frontier, swallowing everything in its path.
• Jiang Li and the Spirit Fusion Realm patriarchs received urgent reports that the mist was advancing toward Three Sects City, and they feared the mother nest had hatched ahead of schedule.

Liu Bowen persuaded the Nine Provinces Council to send Lu Zhen a low-grade Xuan-tier treasure after seeing him defeat five Martial Saints. Lu Zhen improved his movement art to Profound Extremity and prepared to face the mutated insect nest, but decided to wait until midnight for a stronger trump card.

• Liu Bowen showed the council a recording of Lu Zhen killing five Insect Ancestors and secured enough votes to fund sending him a treasure.
• Lu Zhen spent most of his general experience raising Eight Wastes Wandering Dragon Step to Profound Extremity, gaining extraordinary speed.
• Shi Kefa gave Lu Zhen a low-grade Xuan-tier Thunderfire Heaven-Shaking Thunder and warned that it was unlikely to destroy the mutated brood nest.
• Lu Zhen accepted the treasure but chose to wait until midnight for the Panel's quality critical hit before setting out.

Lu Zhen refused Pei Yuan’s offer to evacuate and entered the gray mist with an enhanced thunderbolt, finding the awakened monster and fighting his way toward its core. As the monster attacked Three Sects City’s barrier, the city’s defenders and people realized Lu Zhen was their last hope.

• Pei Yuan offered Lu Zhen ten places to escape, but Lu Zhen stayed because the Nine Provinces were his roots.
• Lu Zhen’s settlement panel upgraded the Thunderfire Heaven-Shaking Thunder into an upper-grade Profound Nine Nether Annihilation Thunderbolt.
• Lu Zhen followed Guga through the gray mist and found the enormous mutated brood, which attacked him with its tentacles.
• Lu Zhen cut off several tentacles with his Ultimate Profound Sword Intent, then rushed toward the monster’s core with the thunderbolt in his robes.
• The monster struck Three Sects City’s barrier, and the terrified citizens prayed while Shi Kefa, Nie Xingkong, and the other experts watched it weaken.
• Shi Kefa said that Lu Zhen had chosen hope for everyone, whether civilization lived or died.