Recaps

Lu Zhen advanced his light-law mastery and the Grand Luo Myriad Phenomena Star-Devouring Record, then demonstrated a devastating sword strike that drew the Great Luo Divine Dynasty’s attention. The dynasty rated him Spirit Moon Tier and notified the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect, leaving Hidden Dragon Pavilion master Mo Changfeng stunned as he searched for the disciple’s identity.

• Lu Zhen used 600 billion general experience to advance the Grand Evolution Star God Sword Record to the law domain realm, then spent more than 3 trillion to raise the Grand Luo Myriad Phenomena Star-Devouring Record to Source Devouring.
• Lu Zhen assessed his inner landscape and star vortices, then entered the Void Realm to test his new power.
• Lu Zhen used his law domain to fuse light and lightning through the Nine Heavens Tribulation Thunder Sword Formation, flattening a hundred-mile area with a strike assessed at six trillion streams of power.
• The Great Luo Celestial Pivot Institute rated Lu Zhen Spirit Moon Tier after detecting his combat strength and sent a notification to the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect.
• Mo Changfeng received the notification at Hidden Dragon Pavilion and was shocked by the Spirit Moon Tier rating, then examined the information to learn who the disciple was.

Lu Zhen arrived at the Thousand Mechanism Grounds during a Newcomer Welcome where senior disciples had been defeating newcomers in contests of Law control and taking their points. After Zhao Li publicly slandered Lu Zhen and challenged him to a match, the chapter left Lu Zhen facing the provocation.

• Lu Zhen left the Void Realm and headed to the Thousand Mechanism Grounds after messages from Dantai Ming and Li Du told him the newcomers were being challenged.
• Lu Zhen joined Dantai Ming, Wu Tian, and the other newcomers as they watched Little Thunder God lose to an Inner Sect senior disciple who used Wind Law to exploit his lightning puppet’s weakness.
• The Inner Sect disciples’ betting pool took the newcomers’ points, while the senior disciples mocked them and tried to impress Leng Qiu.
• Qi Xuan noticed Leng Qiu watching Lu Zhen and signaled Zhao Li to target him.
• Zhao Li accused Lu Zhen of obtaining Yu Sanniang’s sword through their private relationship, then challenged him to fight in a contest of Law control.

Lu Zhen wagered ten thousand Spirit Crystals against Zhao Li in a battle-puppet match and overwhelmed him with precise control of the Light Law. He shattered Zhao Li’s puppet’s core, leaving the match decided in his favor.

• Lu Zhen rejected Zhao Li’s five-hundred-point wager and staked ten thousand Spirit Crystals instead, which Zhao Li accepted after Qi Xuan nodded.
• Lu Zhen and Zhao Li chose battle puppets, and Zhao Li attacked with his crimson puppet’s Fire Law while Lu Zhen controlled a dark gold puppet.
• Lu Zhen used fine strands of the Light Law to counter Zhao Li’s precise attack and began striking weaknesses in the crimson puppet’s Law circulation.
• The watching disciples recognized Lu Zhen’s control and learned from Little Thunder God that his Law comprehension had reached the Peak Second Realm.
• Lu Zhen ended the battle by driving a Light Law punch into the crimson puppet’s chest and shattering its formation core.

Lu Zhen defeated Zhao Li in the formation, then agreed to face the formidable Lin Xiao under the newcomer rules. Hidden Dragon Pavilion Master Mo Changfeng secretly arrived and became intrigued by Lu Zhen’s concealed cultivation and talent.

• Lu Zhen defeated Zhao Li, prompting the newcomers to cheer and the Inner Sect veterans to challenge him again.
• Lin Xiao stepped forward, praised Lu Zhen’s control of the laws, and proposed a match with both cultivations suppressed and one hundred points at stake.
• Lu Zhen accepted Lin Xiao’s wager, and the two entered the formation as their battle puppets rose.
• Mo Changfeng arrived unnoticed above Thousand Mechanism Grounds, startling the Dao Academy elders.
• Mo Changfeng recognized that Lu Zhen had likely reached the Law Domain but was hiding his true level, and he grew interested in the young cultivator.

Lu Zhen defeated several top-ranked Inner Sect disciples in puppet combat, drawing Qi Xuan into challenging him to a life-and-death arena match. Lu Zhen accepted and set the match for three months later, leaving the sect’s disciples stunned.

• Lu Zhen adapted to Lin Xiao’s wind-and-metal techniques and turned the puppet duel around, forcing Lin Xiao to concede after his Third Realm power broke through.
• Lu Zhen defeated two more Inner Sect disciples, while the gathered elders praised his learning and combat potential.
• Little Thunder God mocked the Inner Sect disciples until Qi Xuan stepped forward and challenged Lu Zhen to a real arena fight.
• Qi Xuan proposed a life-and-death match three years later, expecting Lu Zhen to refuse or fall into his trap.
• Lu Zhen signed the life-and-death pact and declared that the match would take place in three months.

Lu Zhen signed a life-and-death agreement to fight Qi Xuan in three months, intending to use the challenge to attract the attention of powerful experts while advancing his cultivation at the Fallen Sky Dojo. Leng Qiu warned him about the danger, then left her outer robe behind, and Lu Zhen wondered whether it was intentional.

• Lu Zhen's agreement to fight Qi Xuan in three months shocked the disciples, elders, and Leng Yan, while Mo Changfeng secretly unlocked valuable Void Terminal permissions for him.
• Lu Zhen explained to himself that he had deliberately used Qi Xuan's provocation to create a high-stakes fight that could draw the Fifth Realm experts' attention.
• Lu Zhen decided to travel to the Fallen Sky Dojo's disciple assessment and use the opportunity to break into the Rushing River Realm before facing Qi Xuan.
• Leng Qiu visited Lu Zhen and angrily warned him about Qi Xuan's resources, treasures, and possible countermeasures against his Light Law.
• Lu Zhen teased Leng Qiu about worrying over him, and she hurried away after leaving a jade box and her blue outer robe behind.

Leng Qiu left her robe behind after visiting Lu Zhen, prompting Qi Xuan to believe they were involved and renew his vow to kill Lu Zhen. Lu Zhen refused Leng Yan’s offer to cancel his Life-and-Death match, leaving the contract in place for the Arena in three months.

• Leng Qiu realized she had left her deacon’s robe with Lu Zhen and fled to her dormitory as her bloodline surged.
• Qi Xuan’s spy reported that Leng Qiu had entered Lu Zhen’s dormitory wearing her robe and left flushed without it, enraging Qi Xuan.
• Lu Zhen inspected the Fifth-Grade Spirit Medicine Leng Qiu had given him and decided to report to Leng Yan before going to the Fallen Sky Dojo.
• Leng Yan warned Lu Zhen about Qi Xuan and offered to help cancel the Life-and-Death Pact if Lu Zhen ended his connection with Leng Qiu.
• Lu Zhen refused Leng Yan’s offer and insisted he would honor the contract and face Qi Xuan in the Arena in three months.

Lu Zhen got Leng Yan’s permission to leave the sect and received a powerful protective talisman before heading to Supreme Unity Mystic City. He paid a million spirit crystals for a Void-Piercing Shuttle to reach the Nine Provinces Small World within days, and Bai Xiu began offering him a personal attendant for the trip.

• Lu Zhen insisted on leaving the sect to temper himself, and Leng Yan gave him permission along with a life-saving talisman.
• At the crane platform, Xu Jiao invoked Inner Sect priority to take the first spirit crane, so Lu Zhen waited for another one and flew to Supreme Unity Mystic City.
• Lu Zhen went to the Heavenly Passage Pavilion and asked Bai Xiu for the fastest trip to the Nine Provinces Small World.
• Bai Xiu quoted a million spirit crystals for a top-grade fourth-rank Void-Piercing Shuttle, and Lu Zhen paid the full price.
• Bai Xiu showed Lu Zhen the shuttle and explained its features, then offered to arrange a personal attendant, including Inner Sect disciples.

Lu Zhen hired a luxurious Void-Piercing Shuttle and discovered that Xu Jiao, the disciple who had cut in front of him, was working aboard it. After several days traveling, he left Xu Jiao on the shuttle and headed for the Fallen Sky Dojo to take the direct disciple assessment.

• Lu Zhen agreed to hire an Inner Sect disciple through the Heavenly Passage Pavilion and learned that Xu Jiao was among the women assigned to serve him.
• Lu Zhen chose Xu Jiao, reminded her that she had cut in line at the Flying Crane Platform, and asked her to tell him about the sect.
• During the journey, Xu Jiao learned more about Lu Zhen and began to wonder whether serving him could help her rise in the Inner Sect.
• As the Void-Piercing Shuttle reached the Nine Provinces Small World, Lu Zhen told Xu Jiao to stay aboard and left to handle something.
• Lu Zhen traveled through the passage toward the Great Wilderness, determined to take the direct disciple assessment at the Fallen Sky Dojo.

Lu Zhen returned to the Fallen Sky Dojo and asked Xuanyang about the Direct Disciple trial after his ratings revealed how dramatically his potential had improved in a year. Xuanyang explained the Great Xia Immortal Dynasty’s fall and revealed that his master, Yue Canghai, had led the Great Xia Martial Hall to preserve the dynasty and hoped to reclaim its lost lands and rescue its captive sovereigns.

• Lu Zhen’s dojo assessment showed upper-middle overall potential, far above his ratings from a year earlier.
• Xuanyang was astonished by Lu Zhen’s rapid transformation, then heard him ask about the Direct Disciple trial.
• Xuanyang described how the Great Xia Immortal Dynasty ruled the Dao Domain before the Heavenly Wolf Demon Kingdom invaded thirty-six thousand years ago and captured its two sovereigns.
• Xuanyang explained that the dynasty’s surviving forces fled south, where a descendant restored a diminished Great Xia that now governed just over thirty Star Provinces.
• Xuanyang revealed that the Fallen Sky Dojo had once been the Great Xia Martial Hall and that his master, Yue Canghai, had led it in protecting the dynasty’s last spark of strength.
• Xuanyang said Yue Canghai had hoped to reclaim the northern homeland and rescue the two captive sovereigns.

Lu Zhen accepted the Fallen Sky Dojo’s direct disciple trial, which required him to pass both the Asura Tower and the Northern Guardian Heaven Stele. As he entered the tower, Xuanyang summoned three former Martial Hall generals to watch, though they doubted he could survive.

• Xuanyang told Lu Zhen how the New Emperor recalled the Northern Guardian Divine General, destroyed him, and left the Fallen Sky Dojo as his final legacy.
• Xuanyang warned that becoming the dojo’s direct disciple could draw the Immortal Court’s attention, but Lu Zhen said he would focus on surviving and growing stronger.
• Xuanyang explained that Lu Zhen had to survive all nine floors of the Asura Tower and comprehend the Northern Guardian Heaven Stele to qualify for the inheritance.
• Lu Zhen entered the Asura Tower, and Xuanyang awakened three former Martial Hall generals to witness the trial.
• Xuanyang told the generals that Lu Zhen had risen to the late converging stream realm and comprehended the third realm of the Light Law in a year, but they remained doubtful.
• Hongfu questioned Lu Zhen’s worthiness, while Xuanyang insisted that surviving the trial would make him the dojo’s new master.

Lu Zhen entered the Asura Tower and defeated the first floor’s demon army with his Light Law and flying swords. He cleared the second floor as well, while the observers wondered how far he would advance.

• Xuanyang explained that the first seven floors were simulated battlefields, while the eighth and ninth held real demon soldiers and carried the risk of death.
• Lu Zhen summoned his seventy-two flying swords and faced more than a hundred Converging Stream Realm demon soldiers charging in formation.
• Lu Zhen used his Light Law and sword formation to break through the soldiers’ blood shield and slaughter them, clearing the first floor.
• Xue Qinghou, Li Bashan, Hongfu, and Xuanyang assessed Lu Zhen’s performance and doubted he would get far beyond the third floor.
• Lu Zhen reached the second floor, illuminated its swamp with his Law Domain, and used his flying swords to kill the lurking demon soldiers.

Lu Zhen cleared the Asura Tower’s third floor after a grueling battle, but Huyan Zhuo defeated him in one strike on the fourth. Given a month to pass the floor, Lu Zhen decided to use Huyan Zhuo as a training opponent and await the next settlement’s boost.

• Lu Zhen searched for a flaw in the three hundred demon soldiers’ battle formation and destroyed it, clearing the third floor at great cost.
• Li Bashan, Hongfu, Xue Qinghou, and Xuanyang watched from outside the Asura Tower and doubted Lu Zhen could pass the fourth floor.
• Lu Zhen faced Huyan Zhuo, a rushing river realm demon general, and was defeated by a single lance thrust.
• Hongfu said Lu Zhen had one month to clear the fourth floor before he would be disqualified.
• Lu Zhen chose not to reveal his divine ability and resolved to use Huyan Zhuo’s attacks to hone his skills.

Lu Zhen endured a month of repeated defeats in the Asura Tower, improving through battles with Huyan Zhuo while the guardians debated whether to kill him if he failed. As the deadline neared, his monthly settlement brought enormous gains, strengthened his Inner Landscape, and rewarded his clone’s killings on the Ancient Star.

• Lu Zhen repeatedly entered the Asura Tower and fought Huyan Zhuo, gradually improving until he could trade dozens of blows with the Rushing River Realm demon general.
• Xuanyang, Li Bashan, Xue Qinghou, and Hongfu recognized Lu Zhen’s resolve but judged that he could not overcome the gap before the deadline; Hongfu vowed to kill him if he failed.
• Lu Zhen collapsed after another defeat and sat cross-legged, while the guardians assumed he had given up and prepared for the deadline to pass.
• Lu Zhen’s monthly settlement rated his accumulation Fourth-Grade Low and granted massive experience, a Nine-Turn Soul-Recovery Herb, and a Taiyi Annihilation Sword Talisman.
• The settlement infused Lu Zhen’s Inner Landscape, expanding its reserves from thirty thousand streams to sixty thousand streams.
• Lu Zhen’s Exclusive Martial Plunder trait awarded him 1.85 trillion General Experience from Ye Chen’s killings of Upper Extremity Realm experts on the Ancient Star.

Lu Zhen raised his Physique to level thirty, gained the Faceless Star Abyss trait, and fused light and tribulation thunder into a new stage of sword mastery. He returned to the Asura Tower and killed Huyan Zhuo and the bone beast in one strike.

• Lu Zhen spent General Experience to raise his Physique to level thirty, evolving it into Inner Landscape Starry Heaven and gaining the Faceless Star Abyss trait.
• Lu Zhen used both enlightenment chances to deepen his understanding of the Grand Evolution Star God Sword Record and fuse light with tribulation thunder.
• Lu Zhen spent more General Experience to advance the sword art to the Fourth Realm of Law, Lawful Fusion.
• Lu Zhen entered the fourth floor of the Asura Tower, where Huyan Zhuo charged him again.
• Lu Zhen fused seventy-two flying swords into a giant sword of light and thunder and killed Huyan Zhuo and the bone beast instantly.

Lu Zhen reached the seventh layer of the Asura Tower and defeated its powerful demon commander using his Gravity Field and Radiant Thunder sword. He withdrew before attempting the deadly eighth layer and began devouring the dojo’s laws to strengthen himself, giving the Martial Hall’s watchers renewed hope.

• Lu Zhen’s fused light and thunder laws let him kill Huyan Zhuo with one sword, astonishing the watchers outside the tower.
• Xuanyang argued that Lu Zhen offered hope of avenging the Martial Hall, while Hongfu warned that the later layers had defeated and killed past prodigies.
• Lu Zhen swept through the fifth and sixth layers before reaching the seventh, where a demon commander’s attack overwhelmed his sword formation.
• Lu Zhen slowed the commander with his Gravity Field and pierced its brow with his Radiant Thunder sword, conquering the seventh layer.
• Rather than risk the real Demon Kingdom soldiers on the eighth layer, Lu Zhen left the tower and cultivated in the square.
• Lu Zhen used Source Devouring to siphon the light and thunder laws, stunning the watchers and renewing their belief that he could succeed.

Lu Zhen devoured laws for more than twenty days, defeated the eighth-floor Demon Kingdom Centurion, and continued cultivating until his strength grew dramatically. Confident in his power, he entered the ninth floor to face its half-step Nu River Realm Demon General and claim the Fallen Sky Dojo.

• Lu Zhen spent more than twenty days devouring laws, deepening his understanding of the fusion of light and thunder.
• Lu Zhen entered the eighth floor and killed the Demon Kingdom Centurion with his Radiant Thunder sword formation.
• Xue Qinghou, Li Bashan, Hongfu, and Xuanyang praised Lu Zhen's strength, and Hongfu said he could contend for the final inheritance.
• Lu Zhen rested for several days as his Inner Landscape and Star Vortices expanded, raising his estimated combat strength to an unprecedented level.
• Lu Zhen entered the ninth floor to challenge the half-step Nu River Realm Demon General.

Lu Zhen defeated Tuoba Kuang with one strike in the Asura Tower’s Ninth Layer, completing the martial assessment. He then entered the Northern Guardian Heaven Stele for the scholarly trial and began to understand how laws combined into branches of the Great Dao.

• Lu Zhen faced Tuoba Kuang, a half-step Nu River Realm demon general imprisoned in the Ninth Layer, and unleashed power of seven hundred and ninety-two thousand tribulations.
• Lu Zhen shattered Tuoba Kuang’s axe and armor, then killed him with a single sword strike.
• The four spectral former generals celebrated Lu Zhen’s victory, while Hongfu reminded them that he still had to pass the scholarly trial.
• Xuanyang told Lu Zhen to comprehend an embryonic branch of the Great Dao from the Northern Guardian Heaven Stele within one month to become the Martial Hall’s Direct Disciple.
• Lu Zhen entered the stele’s starry realm and realized that mastering the Great Dao required fusing many different laws.

Lu Zhen used an epiphany opportunity under the Northern Guardian Heaven Stele to form an embryonic branch of the Great Dao of Tribulation Light and pass its trial. His success caused the stele to tremble and summon a mighty figure.

• Lu Zhen realized he could use the stele’s Great Dao trajectories to amplify his remaining epiphany opportunity and sat beneath it to study Tribulation Light.
• Li Bashan, Xue Qinghou, Hongfu, and Xuanyang watched anxiously as Lu Zhen remained motionless for more than ten days.
• Lu Zhen activated his epiphany and fused the laws of light and thunder into an embryonic Great Dao of Tribulation Light.
• Lu Zhen spent General Experience to complete the breakthrough and saw Tribulation Light listed on his Panel as an embryonic Great Dao branch.
• Lu Zhen displayed Tribulation Light, illuminating the training ground and making the Northern Guardian Heaven Stele shudder as a mighty figure appeared.

Lu Zhen passed the Northern Guardian Heaven Stele’s trial and became Yue Canghai’s Direct Disciple, inheriting the Fallen Sky Dojo and learning why the Immortal Court had framed his master. He vowed to avenge Yue Canghai, and Xuanyang, Li Bashan, Xue Qinghou, and Hongfu accepted him as their new lord.

• Yue Canghai appeared before Lu Zhen and reunited with Xuanyang, Li Bashan, Xue Qinghou, and Hongfu after thirty-six thousand years.
• Yue Canghai praised Lu Zhen’s breakthrough and offered to make him his Direct Disciple; Lu Zhen knelt and accepted.
• Yue Canghai warned Lu Zhen that the New Emperor and the Immortal Court might target him for inheriting the mantle, and asked him to report back if Great Xia reclaimed its homeland.
• After Yue Canghai vanished, Hongfu asked whether Lu Zhen would avenge the blood debt against the Immortal Court if he gained the strength to do so.
• Lu Zhen vowed to fight until one side was dead, and Xuanyang, Li Bashan, Xue Qinghou, and Hongfu knelt and greeted him as their lord.

Lu Zhen learned about the Fallen Sky Dojo, its restrictions, and the dangers of using its inherited martial art. He chose a Calamity-Substitute Puppet from the first treasury level and revealed that he was ready to advance to the Rushing River Realm.

• Xuanyang explained that the dojo was a damaged supreme-grade magic treasure and that Lu Zhen would need to reach the Fifth Realm to activate it fully.
• Xuanyang told Lu Zhen that the treasury opened one level at a time as he advanced, then passed him a powerful martial art and warned him not to use it carelessly.
• Xuanyang opened the first level of the treasury and allowed Lu Zhen to choose one treasure as a Converging Stream cultivator.
• Lu Zhen selected a Calamity-Substitute Puppet that could withstand a Fourth Realm attack and carry him to safety.
• Lu Zhen told Xuanyang that his Star Vortex was complete and that he could break through to the Rushing River Realm at any moment.

Lu Zhen advanced to the Rushing River Realm, selected the Voidlight Shuttle from the treasury, and learned of a sealed opportunity awaiting him at the Fourth Realm. As he returned toward the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect, he studied Yue Canghai’s first-grade War Canon of Martial Mu and realized its upgrades demanded an enormous amount of experience.

• Lu Zhen broke through to the Rushing River Realm, increasing his foundation a thousandfold and astonishing Xuanyang.
• Lu Zhen chose the Voidlight Shuttle to protect himself from soul and karmic attacks, and Xuanyang told him a great opportunity in the dojo could only be unlocked at the Fourth Realm.
• Lu Zhen left the Fallen Sky Dojo to return to the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect, intending to draw the sect’s support before rescuing Senior Hongwu and Lord Yu from the Netherblood Sect.
• Xu Jiao was struck by Lu Zhen’s transformed presence aboard the flying vessel, and Lu Zhen concealed his aura before continuing the journey.
• Lu Zhen studied Yue Canghai’s War Canon of Martial Mu, recorded its first level on his Panel, and learned that improving it would require vast amounts of experience.

As the sect-wide life-and-death duel between Lu Zhen and Qi Xuan approached, bettors and Qi Xuan’s family prepared for Lu Zhen’s defeat. On the final day of his three-month journey, Lu Zhen received an enormous settlement that upgraded his escape treasures and brought him closer to the duel.

• Yu Sanniang lowered Mengpin House’s odds on Lu Zhen and secretly wagered half its available funds on his victory.
• Qi Yuan gave Qi Xuan the Law-Binding Golden Lock and ordered him to use it to kill Lu Zhen in the arena.
• Lu Zhen’s monthly settlement awarded him vast amounts of experience and upgraded his Calamity-Substitute Puppet into the Bloodfiend Substitute Death Puppet.
• The Voidlight Shuttle broke through to become the lower-tier first-grade Void-Escaping Shuttle, which could evade most spatial seals and conceal itself from heavenly divination.
• Lu Zhen’s Martial Plunder trait awarded him another 8.5 trillion general experience from powerful enemies slain by him and Ye Chen.

Lu Zhen upgraded his techniques and merged the Chaos Star Core, greatly strengthening his Gravity Field and Ancient God phantoms. He returned to Supreme Unity Mystic Sect for his Life-and-Death Arena match against Qi Xuan, while Pavilion Master Soaring Dragon hinted that Lu Zhen could earn a place in the sect’s expedition to a newly discovered Primeval Star.

• Lu Zhen raised the Black Heaven God-Subduing Record by two levels and the Grand Luo Myriad Phenomena Star-Devouring Record by one level.
• Lu Zhen’s clone merged the Chaos Star Core and gained a Gravity Field powerful enough to rival his original body’s full-force output.
• Lu Zhen’s original body sensed that it could use part of the field’s power, bringing its combat strength close to the Nu River Realm.
• Xu Jiao praised Lu Zhen’s chances against Qi Xuan, and Lu Zhen left the Void-Piercing Shuttle to return to Supreme Unity Mystic Sect.
• Lei Wanche explained that the sect had only three Rushing River Realm places for the Primeval Star expedition, and Pavilion Master Soaring Dragon suggested Lu Zhen might win one after his match.

Lu Zhen revealed that he had comprehended the Great Dao tribulation light branch during his life-and-death match with Qi Xuan, forcing Lei Wanche and Pavilion Master Soaring Dragon to intervene and cancel the fight. After Lu Zhen left the arena, the two powerful figures brought him to a mountaintop and introduced themselves.

• Qi Xuan unleashed his Metal Law Domain against Lu Zhen while spectators, including Xu Jiao, watched and argued over the outcome.
• Lu Zhen revealed the Great Dao tribulation light branch, startling Lei Wanche and Pavilion Master Soaring Dragon.
• Lei Wanche stopped both attacks and canceled the contest, then silenced Qi Xuan when he protested.
• Lu Zhen left the arena, while Leng Qiu suspected his recent disappearance had led to a major breakthrough.
• Lei Wanche and Pavilion Master Soaring Dragon transported Lu Zhen to a mountaintop and introduced themselves.