Recaps

Ye Chen destroyed the Skymang Empire envoy and Emperor Chu Long, allowing the Mandate Army to take the capital and Prince Duan to ascend the throne. After nobles gathered at Ye Chen’s manor to recognize his real power, the White Lotus Sect leader revealed that the imperial clan’s Founding Treasure lay beneath the Imperial Mausoleum and was connected to Ancient Martial Artists.

• Ye Chen gave the capital twelve hours to surrender, while Chu Long prepared to rely on a Skymang Empire martial artist and the Founding Treasure.
• When the deadline passed, Chu Long confronted Ye Chen outside the capital, and the Skymang envoy attacked Ye Chen with the power of fifteen Ancient Crystals.
• Ye Chen overwhelmed the envoy with his purple-gold force field and killed him, then slew Chu Long with a sword strike that bloomed into a green lotus.
• The White Lotus Sect leader turned her followers against the imperial guards and welcomed the Mandate Army into the capital.
• Ye Chen freed Prince Duan from the heavenly prison, and Prince Duan took the throne as nobles gathered at Ye Chen’s manor.
• The White Lotus Sect leader told Ye Chen that the Founding Treasure was hidden beneath the Imperial Mausoleum and had a connection to Ancient Martial Artists.

Ye Chen opened the Great Abyss Imperial Mausoleum’s Underground Palace and discovered Purple-Gold Ancient Crystals, a Star Guiding Token, and a message from the founding ancestor about the Star Abyss Sect and a Mysterious Secret Realm. He left with a path to greater power and wondered what the system’s upcoming settlement would do to the naturally formed crystals.

• Pei Yuluo told Ye Chen that opening the Underground Palace required the Imperial Heirloom Seal and imperial bloodline essence, and Ye Chen assigned her to serve under Qin Xiao.
• Ye Chen sent the Mandate Army away, used the seal and blood to activate the Dragon-Severing Stone gate, then forced it open with his Ancient Martial Artist power.
• Ye Chen entered the Underground Palace and found three Purple-Gold Star Cores, a jade slip, and a star-patterned token on an altar.
• The founding ancestor’s afterimage explained that the Purple-Gold Ancient Crystals came from a Mysterious Secret Realm in the Skymang Empire and directed a successful wielder of the Star Guiding Token to the Star Abyss Sect.
• Ye Chen took the Star Guiding Token and considered how the system’s coming Daily Settlement might transform the naturally formed Purple-Gold Ancient Crystals.

Hongwu endured serving as a body-tempering tool for a Netherblood Sect witch so he could delay the Blood Butcher Old Fiend’s plans and give Lu Zhen time to grow. Lu Zhen arrived in Supreme Unity Mystic City with the other trainees, and Dantai Ming invited them to meet an Inner Sect senior brother over a feast.

• Hongwu learned that one prisoner was taken every three days to be refined into a Blood Pill and resolved to buy Lu Zhen and the Nine Provinces as much time as he could.
• The Demon Sect witch summoned Hongwu to strike her, using his blows and blood qi to advance her Weeping Blood Jade Bone Art; Hongwu hit her hard and accepted his role in order to delay the sect.
• Lu Zhen and the other trainees arrived at Supreme Unity Mystic City, where the purple-robed vice hall master warned them to obey the city’s strict rules before departing.
• Dantai Ming offered to treat the trainees at Mengpin House and told them he had arranged a meeting with his Inner Sect cousin, Li Du.
• Lu Zhen accepted Dantai Ming’s invitation, and the group headed into the city.

Dantai Ming brought Lu Zhen and the other new disciples to Mengpin House, where Li Du explained how outsiders banded together in the In the Same Boat Society. Their welcome was disrupted when Liu Yin left Li Du to perform for Yan Zheng, leaving Li Du mocked in the corridor.

• Dantai Ming took the group to Mengpin House in an Earth-Walking Dragon and explained that the sect had credited them with Mystic Crystals, including one hundred thousand for Lu Zhen.
• Li Du welcomed the newcomers and told them that Inner Sect disciples from outside the Direct Territory had formed the In the Same Boat Society to support one another.
• Li Du showed the group the beast-fighting arena and arranged for Liu Yin to perform the zither at their private room.
• Liu Yin left Li Du's party after an attendant summoned her to play at Yan Zheng's banquet instead.
• Yan Zheng mocked Li Du and challenged him to pit a beast against his in the arena.

Li Du and the Same Boat Society faced insults at the beast-fighting arena, where Yan Zheng challenged them to wager against his powerful Azure-Scaled Horned Wolf at one-to-one-hundred odds. As Li Du prepared to leave to protect his junior brothers’ morale, Lu Zhen focused on the chance to win a large payout.

• Li Du suppressed his anger after being mocked, and his companions defended him before they watched a black serpent defeat a Crimson-Armored Ape.
• Lu Zhen judged the black serpent to be powerful but beneath his own strength, while Li Du reassured the others that their youth meant they still had time to grow.
• Yan Zheng showed off his mutant Azure-Scaled Horned Wolf and challenged Li Du’s group to a beast fight with one-to-one-hundred odds.
• People in nearby pavilions mocked disciples from remote worlds, and Li Du apologized to his junior brothers before urging them to leave.
• Lu Zhen stayed seated, thinking that winning Yan Zheng’s wager could help him afford a weapon or magical treasure.

Lu Zhen wagered one hundred thousand Mystic Crystals against Yan Zheng’s Azure-Scaled Horn Wolf and entered the arena, provoking a frenzy of betting at Mengpin House. As the crowd backed the mutated beast, Yu Sanniang and Lei Lie watched with interest, and Lu Zhen’s friends feared for his life.

• Lu Zhen ignored Li Du and his friends’ warnings and bet one hundred thousand Mystic Crystals on himself to fight Yan Zheng’s Azure-Scaled Horn Wolf.
• Yan Zheng accepted the wager at one hundred to one and staked his fifth-grade Azure Nether Mystic Light Mirror against Lu Zhen’s bet.
• Lu Zhen sealed the contract and leaped into the arena, while Lei Lie watched from a private room and Li Du frantically sought help.
• Yu Sanniang reviewed Mengpin House’s grand examination betting odds, then noticed Lu Zhen in the arena and decided to watch the fight.
• Mengpin House opened betting on the match, and nearly everyone wagered on the Azure-Scaled Horn Wolf.

Lu Zhen defeated the Azure-Scaled Horn Wolf, revealing that he had reached the Law Realm and mastered a Ten-Extreme Gravity Field. He claimed the match’s winnings and the Azure Nether Mystic Light Mirror, while Yu Sanniang ordered his name added to the examination odds list.

• Li Du, Dantai Ming, Shi Lei, and the others wagered their Mystic Crystals on Lu Zhen, while Hou Jin and Taishi Kong refused to bet and Taishi Kong withdrew from the Same Boat Society.
• Lu Zhen wounded the Azure-Scaled Horn Wolf with a sword technique empowered by the Light Law, shocking the spectators with his Law Realm attainment.
• Yu Sanniang ordered her accountant to add Lu Zhen to the odds list for the upcoming examination.
• Lu Zhen used his Gravity Field and three Ancient God phantoms to hold the horn wolf in place, then killed it with a sword strike.
• The Mengpin House steward declared Lu Zhen the winner and handed him his Mystic Crystal winnings and the Azure Nether Mystic Light Mirror.

Lu Zhen accepted Han Ang’s challenge, but Han Ang fed his Three-Tailed Snow Leopard a fifth-grade Blood Frenzy Pill, making the beast far more dangerous. Yu Sanniang acknowledged Mengpin House’s rules had left Lu Zhen at a disadvantage and added a Five Aggregates Lingzhi to the stakes as the match began.

• Fairy Liuyin and the men who had scorned Lu Zhen regretted their choices after he defeated Yan Zheng’s beast and won the Azure Nether Mystic Light Mirror.
• Three Tongzhou Society disciples praised Lu Zhen, while Han Ang rebuked Yan Zheng and challenged Lu Zhen to another beast fight for the mirror.
• Lu Zhen accepted Han Ang’s ten-to-one wager, and Han Ang put up a complete set of Earth Fiend Sea-Calming Pearls.
• Han Ang secretly fed his Three-Tailed Snow Leopard a fifth-grade Blood Frenzy Pill, boosting its aura tenfold and drawing angry protests from the Tongzhou Society and Lei Lie.
• Han Ang insisted the pill did not violate Mengpin House’s rules, and Yu Sanniang offered a Five Aggregates Lingzhi to sweeten the wager for Lu Zhen.

Lu Zhen defeated the tenfold-boosted Three-Tailed Snow Leopard by revealing his Second Law Realm and using the Light Law with his sword. Yu Sanniang invited him to her private room to discuss matters, while Han Ang left in frustration.

• Han Ang expected Lu Zhen to die as the Three-Tailed Snow Leopard's strength surged tenfold.
• Lu Zhen used his Gravity Field and Second Law Realm swordsmanship, then infused his flying sword with the Light Law to kill the snow leopard.
• Dantai Ming and Senior Brother Chen recognized Lu Zhen's Second Layer of Law, while Han Ang reacted with disbelief.
• Yu Sanniang saw Lu Zhen as a promising draw for Mengpin House and invited him to her top-floor private room.
• Lu Zhen accepted Yu Sanniang's invitation, told Li Du and the others he would return, and Han Ang left without confronting them.

Lu Zhen negotiated with Yu Sanniang to trade his treasures for the Purple Firmament Thunderstrike Swords, and her soul probe revealed that he was more formidable than she expected. After he left, Yu Sanniang ordered Mengpin House to rank him among the grand examination’s top ten talents, despite Old Xu’s warning that the bet could ruin them.

• Lu Zhen offered Yu Sanniang his Earth Fiend Sea-Calming Pearls and Five Aggregates Lingzhi in exchange for suitable flying swords.
• Yu Sanniang showed Lu Zhen two fifth-grade sword sets, and he bargained for a discount on the Purple Firmament Thunderstrike Swords.
• Yu Sanniang secretly probed Lu Zhen’s soul while he massaged her shoulders, but the force of his sea of consciousness surprised her.
• Yu Sanniang sold Lu Zhen the Purple Firmament Thunderstrike Swords for thirty-six Spirit Crystals and returned the remaining fourteen from his fifty.
• Yu Sanniang ordered Old Xu to place Lu Zhen among the examination’s top ten talents, dismissing his warning that the odds could expose Mengpin House to enormous losses.

After claiming first place in the Special Training Camp, Lu Zhen tested his newly acquired Purple Firmament Thunderstrike Swords in the Void Realm and unleashed power rated comparable to a combined strike from ninety-eight Rushing River Realm experts. Two days of training later, his monthly settlement awarded enormous experience gains, leaving him far better prepared for the major examination.

• Dantai Ming told Lu Zhen that only one person from their side had ever reached the major examination's top ten: Xuanyuan Chang Kong, now a Fourth Realm powerhouse and dean of the Divine Firmament Thunder Academy.
• Lu Zhen returned to the Welcoming Martial Academy, entered the Void Realm, and used his Grade Seven manifestation authority to simulate snow mountains.
• Lu Zhen wielded the seventy-two Purple Firmament Thunderstrike Swords with his Grand Evolution Star God Sword Record, destroying a towering mountain with his Domain technique.
• The Void Realm assessed Lu Zhen's sword strike at 59 billion streams of power and rated it Might of a Hundred Tribulations River-Rushing.
• After two days of training, Lu Zhen received an upper sixth-grade monthly settlement evaluation, triggering a 3,360-fold bonus and gains including 1.176 trillion General Experience and 2.016 trillion Daily Settlement Level experience.

Lu Zhen’s settlement multiplied his resources and upgraded his treasures, while his Inner Landscape grew powerful enough to generate fifteen thousand streams of strength. He chose Martial Plunder as his new trait, preparing to grow stronger by defeating powerful enemies before the major examination.

• Lu Zhen’s settlement produced 47,040 spirit crystals, three Chaos Star Cores, a Nine-Turn Dao Lotus, and a Nine Heavens Tribulation Thunder Sword Formation.
• Inner Landscape Nourishment increased the strength his Inner Landscape could generate to fifteen thousand streams.
• Lu Zhen selected Martial Plunder, allowing him to convert a portion of powerful enemies’ cultivation into Daily Settlement experience.
• Lu Zhen inspected his spirit crystals, the Nine-Turn Dao Lotus, and the upgraded sword formation, recognizing the treasures’ immense value and power.

Before the great examination, Lu Zhen used an enlightenment opportunity to deepen his understanding of the Light Law, then spent General Experience to advance Floating Light Shadow. His sword strike reached the Might of Eight Hundred Tribulations River-Rushing, and his movement technique let him instantly travel through places where light interwove.

• Lu Zhen studied his panel and decided to use his enlightenment opportunity to improve his Laws before the great examination.
• His enlightenment deepened his comprehension of the Grand Evolution Star God Sword Record, but he remained short of reaching the Third Realm.
• Lu Zhen spent 832 billion General Experience to advance Floating Light Shadow to the Weaving Law realm.
• In the Void Realm, Lu Zhen tested his sword formation and earned an assessment of 486 billion streams of might, dubbed the Might of Eight Hundred Tribulations River-Rushing.
• Lu Zhen tested his movement technique by flickering across the snow mountains, traveling instantly wherever light interwove.

Lu Zhen wagered his spirit crystals on placing in the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect’s grand examination, while people in the Nine Provinces reacted to his rising reputation and the Netherblood Sect continued to threaten its prisoners. The chapter left Hongwu being summoned by a demoness as he silently hoped the Nine Provinces would find good fortune.

• Lu Zhen bet thirty-seven thousand spirit crystals on reaching the top ten and ten thousand on taking first place in the grand examination.
• Liu Jingyi told her livestream audience that Mengpin House had ranked Lu Zhen among the ten greatest geniuses, prompting excitement and skepticism from viewers.
• Liu Bowen stood before the Nine Provinces’ ancestral tablets, holding onto the hope Lu Zhen’s strength had offered.
• A Netherblood Sect demoness ordered fifty dungeon prisoners taken away to be used as medicinal ingredients.
• Hongwu and Yu Qian realized their time had been shortened, and Hongwu hoped Lu Zhen might bring the Nine Provinces good fortune.
• The demoness returned and summoned Hongwu, who followed her out of his cell without protest.

Lu Zhen consumed the Dao Lotus before the grand examination and traveled with the Special Training Camp trainees to the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect. There, he and the others waited as the great domains’ geniuses arrived, including Zhou Luotian and the Little Thunder God.

• Lu Zhen ate the Dao Lotus, strengthening his soul and sharpening his perception of the laws.
• A silver-robed deacon arrived on a fourth-tier mystic bird and carried the trainees toward the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect.
• The trainees landed in a vast square beneath a gigantic mountain where laws flowed visibly in a river of light.
• After waiting, the Special Training Camp trainees watched geniuses from other great domains arrive.
• Zhou Luotian, the Little Thunder God, and an ice-law genius from the Northern Frigid Domain appeared among the arrivals.

The Supreme Unity Mystic Sect began its grand assessment with a trial to climb the Counterflow River and leap the Dragon Gate Waterfall. Lu Zhen adapted to the river’s law pressure and prepared to advance from the middle of the pack.

• Examiners from the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect’s Dao Academies watched candidates through the Heaven-Watching Mystic Mirror, while people across the Nine Provinces followed Lu Zhen’s progress.
• Elder Xuanjizi announced that candidates had to travel upstream along the Counterflow River and leap the Dragon Gate Waterfall to qualify for the assessment.
• The candidates learned that the river’s law pressure made the trial far more difficult than ordinary water-walking, and Dantai Ming and Hou Jin warned of the distance and danger ahead.
• Tens of thousands of geniuses entered the river, where weaker candidates were swept away and Law Realm cultivators surged ahead.
• Zhou Luotian led the first echelon, while Lu Zhen sensed the river’s laws, understood what the trial tested, and prepared to move faster.

Lu Zhen used his Light Law and Floating Light Shadow technique to surge through the Counterflow River and claim third place, stunning the exam spectators and threatening the bets against him. As Zhou Luotian and Little Thunder God held the lead, Lu Zhen’s understanding of the Light Law deepened and his speed began to rise further.

• Lu Zhen pushed Floating Light Shadow to its limit and raced past the contestants until only Zhou Luotian and Little Thunder God remained ahead of him.
• Spectators across the Nine Provinces and elders in the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect watched Lu Zhen reach the top three, while some elders doubted his foundation would hold in later tests.
• Yu Sanniang celebrated Lu Zhen’s rise at Mengpin House, while Old Xu and gamblers feared the losses that would follow if he stayed near the front.
• Zhou Luotian noticed Lu Zhen, Little Thunder God urged him to keep up, and Ji Wushang and Yin Kuang tried to catch the leaders.
• Lu Zhen immersed himself in Floating Light Shadow and sensed the Counterflow River’s force of laws as interwoven nets, while the Nine-Turn Dao Lotus sharpened his perception and increased his speed.

Lu Zhen used the Light Law to take third place in the Counterflow River trial, surprising the instructors and gamblers who had underestimated him. At the Dragon Gate, Elder Xuanjizi announced the next trial: striking through Zhenhai Cliff to ring ancient bells.

• Zhou Luotian and Little Thunder God surged ahead in the Counterflow River while Lu Zhen realized he could merge with the surrounding light and laws to move through the ripples.
• Lu Zhen used the refracted light of the waterfall to reach the clifftop in third place, leaving Ji Wushang and the others behind.
• Gamblers in Supreme Unity Mystic City cursed their losses, while Liu Bowen and Shi Kefa celebrated Lu Zhen's result.
• Zhantai Ming, Shi Lei, and the other students gathered around Lu Zhen on the clifftop, amazed that he had placed in the top three.
• Elder Xuanjizi declared the Counterflow River trial complete and introduced the offensive-power trial at Zhenhai Cliff, where contestants had to strike through the cliff to ring ancient bells.

At Zhenhai Cliff, prodigies tested their strength by striking the cliff and ringing the ancient bells, with each resonance earning a higher Dao Academy classification. Zhou Luotian’s strike passed one hundred bells, leaving the elders in the Cloud-Sea Hall stunned as the ringing continued.

• Wu Tian rang twenty-seven bells and passed for a fourth-class or third-class Dao Academy.
• Chen Qing rang forty-six bells and earned a third-class Dao Academy classification.
• Wang Teng rang sixty-one bells and earned a second-class Dao Academy classification.
• Little Thunder God rang ninety-eight bells and qualified for a first-class Dao Academy.
• Zhou Luotian struck the cliff with his Void Blade, and the bells rapidly passed one hundred resonances.

Zhou Luotian’s record-breaking 112 tolls at Zhenhai Cliff stunned the crowd and drew fierce recruitment bids from the great academies, while Lu Zhen’s rising fame alarmed his enemies and inspired the small worlds. The assessment reached Lu Zhen, and the gathered prodigies turned to watch him take his test.

• Zhou Luotian rang 112 ancient bells, surpassing the century-old record and provoking academy elders to argue over recruiting him and Little Thunder God.
• Leng Qiu wondered whether Lu Zhen might match Zhou Luotian, then tried to suppress her belief in him.
• The Yun Clan head and Sacred Blood Realm leaders feared Lu Zhen’s growing influence and hoped he would fail at Zhenhai Cliff.
• Warriors across the Nine Provinces and the other small worlds watched Lu Zhen’s progress and silently hoped he would make them proud.
• The silver-robed deacon called Lu Zhen of the Nine Provinces Small World to the test, and Little Thunder God and Zhou Luotian turned to watch.

Lu Zhen fused the thunder law with his light law through his sword formation and struck Zhenhai Cliff for 115 chimes, surpassing Zhou Luotian. His victory thrilled the Nine Provinces and alarmed the Sacred Blood Realm, whose leaders continued to hope the Eternal Isle would assassinate him.

• Lu Zhen awakened the dark-gold tribulation thunder within his flying swords and combined it with his light law to form a massive sword of light.
• Lu Zhen struck Zhenhai Cliff and rang 115 bells, setting the grand examination’s attack-power record and beating Zhou Luotian.
• The crowd and academy elders reacted with shock as Little Thunder God, Dantai Ming, and Leng Yan recognized Lu Zhen’s strength.
• Leng Yan noticed Leng Qiu trembling and suspected that something had happened involving Leng Qiu, a puppet, and the Cold Clan’s bloodline backlash.
• People across the Nine Provinces and the other small worlds celebrated Lu Zhen’s achievement.
• The Sacred Blood Realm’s leaders feared Lu Zhen’s rise and clung to the hope that the Eternal Isle’s third assassination attempt would succeed.

Lu Zhen placed second in the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect grand examination and chose to join the Tai'e Sword Academy, seeking a path to the Fifth Realm's attention and a way to protect Nine Provinces. He arrived at the sect's Grade-A Outer Sect Area with 3.7 million Spirit Crystals and 100 basic points for the month.

• The grand examination rankings placed Zhou Luotian first, Lu Zhen second, and Little Thunder God third, while Lu Zhen's betting winnings reached 3.7 million Spirit Crystals.
• Several first-class Dao academy elders offered Lu Zhen cultivation resources, but he chose Tai'e Sword Academy and Elder Leng Yan.
• Zhou Luotian joined Celestial Star Dao Academy, Little Thunder God joined Divine Firmament Thunder Academy, and the other geniuses selected their academies.
• Elder Xuanjizi sent the new disciples into the sect, and a white crane carried Lu Zhen to the Grade-A Outer Sect Area.
• Lu Zhen checked his Void Terminal and found that he had 100 basic points for the month, then considered using his Spirit Crystals to obtain resources.

Lu Zhen examined the academy’s point rankings and cultivation-method catalogue, then found a costly method from the Great Luo Divine Dynasty that he could afford with his spirit crystals. Meanwhile, Qi Xuan grew jealous over Lu Zhen’s rumored connection to Leng Qiu and planned to challenge him publicly at the newcomer welcome.

• Lu Zhen saw that academy access and advanced missions depended on points, and learned that he ranked last among Leng Yan’s disciples while Yan Shisan had reached the eighth floor of the Mystic Tower.
• Lu Zhen reviewed the new cultivation methods, learned why advanced methods were scarce, and found the Grand Luo Myriad Phenomena Star-Devouring Record priced at 2.4 million spirit crystals.
• Qi Xuan learned that Leng Qiu had secretly bought a seventh-grade transformation puppet and suspected that it was connected to Lu Zhen.
• Qi Xuan decided not to attack Lu Zhen directly and instead planned to challenge him to a public wagered duel at the newcomer welcome after Lu Zhen entered the Rushing River Realm.

Hongwu and Yu Qian learned that Lu Zhen had ranked second in the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect examination, giving them hope for the Nine Provinces. Lu Zhen obtained the Grand Luo Myriad Phenomena Star-Devouring Record and began studying its law-devouring method.

• Hongwu bribed the one-eyed guard for access to a Void Terminal, and he and Yu Qian read about Lu Zhen's examination results.
• Hongwu and Yu Qian learned Lu Zhen had ranked second overall and celebrated the hope his success brought the Nine Provinces.
• Lu Zhen spent 2.4 million spirit crystals to request the Grand Luo Myriad Phenomena Star-Devouring Record.
• Wei Wuya reviewed Lu Zhen's request, approved it, and sent him the dark gold jade slip.
• Lu Zhen absorbed the manual's information and learned that its first level formed a Devouring Vortex to forcibly draw laws into his body.

Lu Zhen studied and began cultivating the Grand Luo Myriad Phenomena Star-Devouring Record, then received his monthly settlement with massive experience gains and a surprising reward for kills made by his clone. The chapter left him eager to exploit the Martial Plunder trait in dangerous lands and secret realms.

• Lu Zhen read the Star-Devouring Record’s seven levels and learned that its ultimate method could devour ancient stars from the Void Sea.
• Lu Zhen watched a gray-robed elder demonstrate the technique, grasped that devouring relied on reversing the Star Vortex, and recorded the method at Lv.1.
• Lu Zhen cultivated for a month, then received a settlement that advanced his skills, strengthened his Inner Landscape, and granted him 34,640 billion General Experience.
• Lu Zhen discovered that Martial Plunder counted kills made by his clone, Ye Chen, earning him 5,600 billion General Experience from enemies slain on the Great Abyss Ancient Star.
• Lu Zhen praised the trait’s potential and considered using it to gain experience in dangerous lands and secret realms.