Chapter Summaries

Lu Shu infiltrated the enemy territory, destroyed its logistics base, and fought Francesco before escaping into the sea. After Chaos awoke and carried him into the sky, Lu Shu ran into two Puppeteers and had to flee again.

• Lu Shu killed invaders at Changbai Mountain before the Heavenly Network launched a general offensive and drove him from his camp.
• Lu Shu recognized Chen Zu'an after Chen announced himself, then noticed Yun Yi posing as a rogue cultivator and fled from her.
• Lu Shu zigzagged through enemy territory and destroyed its logistics base.
• Lu Shu exchanged blows with Francesco, an A-rank powerhouse, then jumped into the sea to escape.
• Chaos woke up, and Lu Shu rode it out of the water into the sky, where he encountered two Puppeteers and decided to flee.

Lu Xiaoyu exhausted herself turning the battlefield against the enemy, and Lu Shu arrived to rescue her before immediately leading the Heavenly Network in retreat. Nie Ting confronted Bishop and the Saints while Lu Shu's costly sword strike left him too drained to keep fighting.

• Lu Shu denied being himself to Yun Yi and Hu Zhi, claimed to be Nezha, and rode Chaos away.
• Lu Xiaoyu unleashed Sand Waterfall Funeral, killing over a hundred enemy earth-type awakeners before collapsing amid hostile forces.
• The Heavenly Network tried to reach Lu Xiaoyu, but enemy reinforcements blocked their rescue.
• Lu Shu arrived with a dragon’s roar, joined Lu Xiaoyu, and used a sword strike to kill two thousand enemy soldiers.
• Lu Shu carried Lu Xiaoyu away and told the stunned Bronze Armored Soldiers and Feng Yeming’s group to run, revealing that his attack had nearly exhausted him.
• Nie Ting faced Bishop and the Saints, rejected Bishop’s threat, and told him to scram.

The Bishop accused Lu Xiaoyu of detaining souls to undermine the Heavenly Network, prompting Lu Shu to fear that his comrades would reject her. Nie Ting declared Lu Xiaoyu the Heavenly Network’s Eleventh Heavenly Luo and vowed to make enemies of the world for her, while Lu Xiaoyu stopped Lu Shu from breaking the emotional moment.

• Lu Shu climbed onto the city wall and questioned why the Saint, Bishop, and their companion stood so far from Nie Ting.
• The Bishop revealed that Lu Xiaoyu was the person detaining souls, and Lu Shu worried that the Heavenly Network might turn against her.
• Chen Zu'an and Cheng Qiuqiao offered to leave with Lu Shu and Lu Xiaoyu rather than fight their own comrades.
• Nie Ting asked whether Lu Xiaoyu could detain an A-class, then named her the Heavenly Network’s Eleventh Heavenly Luo and pledged to face the world for her.
• Lu Xiaoyu tugged Lu Shu’s clothes and told him not to speak, cutting off his attempt to address the Bishop.

Nie Ting severed his cultivation foundation to kill an A-rank Bishop, then survived another heavenly tribulation with Lu Shu’s help. Lu Shu used the tribulation to devastate the enemy camp, and later confronted five hooded members of the Dark Kingdom beneath the blade formation.

• Nie Ting cut down his cultivation foundation and killed the A-rank Bishop with one slash, prompting the other two A-rank fighters to flee.
• Lu Shu stopped Nie Ting from pursuing them and used two Marrow Cleansing Fruits to repair his foundation as dark clouds gathered overhead.
• Lu Shu urged Nie Ting to undergo his tribulation in the enemy crowd, and the resulting lightning killed tens of thousands while earning Lu Shu enough negative emotion points to light his fourth star.
• Carol’s World Tree separated from her and became a pillar that stabilized the crumbling world, while Nie Ting survived the tribulation and Lu Shu charged his Sword Embryos.
• When Nie Ting thanked him, Lu Shu offered two more fruits in exchange for another tribulation, then decided to investigate the formation beneath the blade formation alone with Chaos.
• Lu Shu found five hooded members of the Dark Kingdom beneath the formation and immediately drove Chengying through the leader’s heart.

Lu Shu killed Zemeng, but Zemeng sealed the power of stars in Lu Shu’s body before Lu Shu entered the spatial gate and arrived in Lu Zhou. Stranded without his powers, Lu Shu began practicing swordsmanship, only to learn that a poem he wrote was already known as the old God King’s work.

• Lu Shu killed one of Zemeng’s personalities, and the remaining Zemeng repeatedly gave him negative emotion points as Lu Shu refused to hear his questions.
• Zemeng sealed Lu Shu’s power of stars, but the spatial gate admitted Lu Shu and rejected Zemeng because he was no longer a Puppeteer.
• Yun Yi and the other Puppeteers explained Zemeng’s betrayal, while Nie Ting and the others waited anxiously for Lu Shu to return.
• Lu Shu arrived in Lu Zhou, where Zhang Weiyu told him the name of the world, and Lu Shu’s power of stars remained sealed.
• Lu Shu practiced swordsmanship and wrote a poem; Yu Die recognized it as a poem by the old God King.

Lu Xiaoyu crossed through the spatial gate to help Lu Shu, and the two reunited after narrowly missing each other. They encountered Liu Yizhao and the Qing Sai Army, who had come after the Black Feather Army was wiped out, and Liu Yizhao invited Lu Shu to travel with him to Nangeng City.

• Lu Shu learned that the old God King had already written poems he had hoped to plagiarize, while the Black Feather Army pursued him and Zhang Weiyu.
• Yun Yi and Hu Zhi told Lu Xiaoyu how to cross the spatial gate after realizing Lu Shu needed help, and she buried the Black Feather Army soldiers who confronted her.
• Lu Shu sensed Lu Xiaoyu’s arrival through the negative emotions he received, turned back with Zhang Weiyu, and reunited with her after the two had briefly missed each other.
• Lu Xiaoyu claimed she was Lu Shu’s slave owner to explain their relationship to Zhang Weiyu, and the two dropped the matter with a casual excuse.
• Liu Yizhao arrived with the Qing Sai Army after the Black Feather Army was wiped out, shielded Lu Shu with Lu Xiaoyu, and invited Lu Shu to travel to Nangeng City.

Lu Shu and Lu Xiaoyu headed toward Royal City after Zhang Weiyu pointed them to Sword Hut as a possible source of information about returning home. After Lu Shu took over Green Dragon Stronghold and began planning to sell soap, the Martial Guard Army leader was killed, and its remnants offered to make Lu Shu their new leader so he could still seek a Sword Hut selection quota.

• Liu Yizhao privately revealed that Zhang Weiyu had been one of the Imperial Dragon Guard’s three hundred first-rank experts, though he had lost his cultivation.
• Zhang Weiyu told Lu Shu and Lu Xiaoyu that Sword Hut held many ancient books, and Lu Shu set out for Royal City with Lu Xiaoyu while Zhang Weiyu stayed behind.
• Lu Shu and Lu Xiaoyu got lost and entered a city, where Lu Shu decided to make money before continuing his search for a way home.
• Lu Shu and Lu Xiaoyu defeated Green Dragon Stronghold, and Lu Shu took charge of the remaining bandits and began quietly preparing to sell soap.
• The Black Feather Army killed the Martial Guard Army leader, eliminating Lu Shu’s selection quota, so the remaining soldiers offered to support him as their new leader.

After becoming commander of the Martial Guard Army, Lu Shu sheltered his forces from the war and recruited Zhang Weiyu and his companions to train them. He refused to enslave Li Heitan’s men, but made them sign a protective pact, then imposed homework alongside their cultivation training.

• Lu Shu led the Martial Guard Army and the people of Green Dragon Stronghold to a secret cave, which Lu Xiaoyu named Lu Wang Mountain.
• Lu Shu took in Zhang Weiyu and his companions after the Black Feather Army’s invasion forced them to flee Tiangeng Town.
• Zhang Weiyu offered five cultivation techniques and training, and Lu Shu negotiated for the techniques while waiving the daily pay of two thousand God Notes.
• Zhang Weiyu proposed binding Li Heitan’s men to Lu Shu, but Lu Shu refused a slave contract and settled on an alliance pact despite their protests.
• Zhang Weiyu and his companions taught cultivation techniques to the Martial Guard Army, and Lu Shu assigned its members homework.

Lu Shu’s newly trained army defeated the Qing Sai Army, and Liu Yizhao offered his savings for a meeting with the king, mistaking Lu Shu for the reincarnated God King. As Lu Shu and his group faced new battles and Wen Zaifou’s suspicions, a beautiful woman unexpectedly chose Lu Shu as her master.

• Lu Xiaoyu tore up Li Heitan’s completed homework and told him to write it again, earning his anger.
• The Qing Sai Army lost to Lu Shu’s transformed Martial Guard Army, and Liu Yizhao offered half his savings to meet Lu Shu.
• Liu Yizhao mistook Lu Shu for the old God King, while Zhang Weiyu tried to correct him and Lu Shu insisted he was the king of Lu Wang Mountain.
• Lu Shu’s group later fought the Black Feather Army, and Wen Zaifou suspected Lu Shu was the reincarnated God King and planned to place an informant near him.
• While accompanying aristocratic youths to select servants, Lu Shu was chosen by Xu Mujun, who said she wanted to serve the good-looking one.

Lu Shu rejected Xu Mujun’s attempt to stay by his side, then joined the merchant caravan after Sun Zhongyang offered him three million God Notes. After the caravan was ambushed, Lu Shu agreed to remain with them and turned Mo Xiaoya’s criticism back on Sun Zhongyang.

• Lu Shu recognized Xu Mujun as an informant planted by Wen Zaifou and refused to keep her as a servant, but accepted her savings when she offered them.
• Xu Mujun followed Lu Shu on the caravan’s journey, while the other travelers looked down on him for taking her money.
• After an ambush, Lu Shu saved the caravan boss and decided to leave rather than protect the group.
• Mo Xiaoya tried to pressure Lu Shu into staying, but Sun Zhongyang offered him more money, and Lu Shu called him brother.
• Sun Zhongyang offered Lu Shu three million God Notes, so Lu Shu agreed to stay with the caravan.
• Mo Xiaoya criticized Lu Shu for valuing money over his life, and Lu Shu told Sun Zhongyang that she had called him an idiot.

Lu Shu and Lu Xiaoyu fought off attackers while Lu Shu charged Song Bo and Sun Zhongyang for protection and supplies. Meanwhile, Zhong Yutang and Nie Ting questioned a mentally unstable man who identified Lu Shu as the commander of the Martial Guard Army.

• Sun Zhongyang and his companions struck back against their attackers while Lu Shu stayed at camp, where Lu Xiaoyu and Anthony wiped out a force sent to kill them.
• Lu Shu threatened Song Bo with a bloody disaster unless he paid for protection, and Song Bo agreed to pay five hundred thousand God Notes.
• Sun Zhongyang's group returned injured, and Lu Shu warned them about possible poison before offering to sell them food.
• Lu Shu and Lu Xiaoyu went into the forest to fight more attackers, while Lu Shu told Song Bo he would have to pay extra to join them.
• Zhong Yutang called in Nie Ting and Shi Xuejin to question a mentally unstable man, who said the Lu Shu he knew commanded the Martial Guard Army.

Lu Shu was recognized across worlds by his obnoxious reputation, while Little Squirrel quickly found his camp by following a clue on his soap. After breaking through to first rank in a fight with Yi Qian, Lu Shu spared the swordsman and tried to recruit him.

• Nie Ting and the others confirmed that the man described as infuriating people was Lu Shu, and Lu Shu complained that they should have recognized him by his looks.
• Little Squirrel crossed the Boundary Gate, spotted soap printed with its portrait, and followed it to the Martial Guard Army encampment.
• Lu Shu sensed Nie Ting's negative emotions abruptly stop, then joined Lu Xiaoyu in defeating their attackers and kept Yi Qian alive as a sparring partner.
• Lu Shu fought Yi Qian, broke through to first rank, fused his spiritual power with the power of the stars, and triggered a phenomenon spanning a hundred li.
• Yi Qian apologized and offered his savings to be spared, but Lu Shu decided to recruit him, while Lu Xiaoyu watched in boredom.

Lu Shu recruited Yi Qian, a former subordinate of the old God King, then revealed his identity to Sun Zhongyang and his group in Royal City. After his schemes to eliminate Sword Hut candidates failed, he defeated Duanmu Yun'ai and earned money from the resulting bets, leaving Royal City convinced he was hunting top candidates for his own reasons.

• Yi Qian refused Lu Shu's offer until he learned Lu Shu had allied with Liu Yizhao, then recognized him as his king and signed an alliance.
• Lu Shu's group arrived in Royal City, where Lu Shu revealed his identity to Sun Zhongyang and his group, who were too intimidated by his strength to act.
• Lu Shu tried to recruit Duanmu Yun'ai into a plan to eliminate second-rank experts, but Duanmu refused, so Lu Shu beat him and wrecked much of his residence.
• Lu Xiaoyu shared her winnings with Lu Shu after she had bet on Duanmu Yun'ai being eliminated, while Lu Shu regretted missing the wager himself.
• Royal City residents assumed Lu Shu was challenging Sword Hut's top candidates for prestige, unaware that he was targeting them to profit from bets.

Lu Shu arranged for the gambling house to reveal his residence so he could eliminate the gathered Sword Hut candidates at once, but his plan collapsed when far more people arrived than expected. He found himself facing a vast, furious crowd, while Li Fangfeng was stuck at the back.

• Lu Xiaoyu and Yi Qian noted that every Sword Hut contestant Lu Shu had seen had been eliminated, and Lu Xiaoyu said she was respecting history by doubting his plan.
• Lu Shu had the gambling house publicize his residence and learned that Li Fangfeng had gathered more than half the candidates to attack him.
• Yu Wentao, ranked fourth, came to warn Lu Shu about Li Fangfeng's group and claimed Lu Shu would owe him a favor.
• Lu Shu told Yu Wentao that every candidate who had seen him had been eliminated, leaving Yu Wentao frightened.
• Lu Shu looked outside and saw a huge crowd of angry Royal City citizens surrounding his residence, while Li Fangfeng was trapped at the back.

Lu Shu fled a swarm of enemies with Lu Xiaoyu, then confirmed Ming Yueye was the Puppeteers’ leader by tricking him into revealing his concern for them. After someone interrupted their exchange, Lu Shu left the Dark Orb and learned he had been admitted to the Sword Hut ahead of schedule.

• Lu Shu and Lu Xiaoyu fled the enemies pursuing them, and Lu Xiaoyu smashed a wooden bucket while scolding Lu Shu for his unreliable plans.
• Lu Shu entered the Dark Orb and falsely told Ming Yueye that the other Puppeteers were dead, drawing a thousand negative emotion points from him.
• Ming Yueye tested Lu Shu by asking him to name the Puppeteers, then realized they were safe when Lu Shu could not answer.
• Lu Shu asked Ming Yueye whether he knew who Lu Shu was, confirmed his identity, and earned another burst of negative emotion points.
• An intruder entered the fog of Chaos, so Lu Shu withdrew from the Dark Orb and learned the Sword Hut had admitted him early.

After the Sword Hut accepted Lu Shu early, he continued targeting candidates to profit from the betting pools. Tu Le paid Lu Shu to spare him, then realized he might be able to use Lu Shu to eliminate a rival.

• Lu Xiaoyu reminded Lu Shu that his early acceptance did not stop him from eliminating the other candidates, and Lu Shu decided to keep pursuing the betting money.
• Tu Le of Western State approached Lu Shu with a gift, but Lu Shu asked about his odds and only welcomed him warmly after Yi Qian said they were too low to be worth targeting.
• Lu Shu placed a bet on eliminating six candidates in one day and gathered Tu Le and five others, despite their combined strength.
• Tu Le offered to pay Lu Shu to spare him, and Lu Shu agreed, calling him brother.
• Lu Shu asked Tu Le to lure another candidate over, and Tu Le realized that paying Lu Shu could turn him into an ally against his rivals.

Lu Shu extorted money from the Sword Hut candidates, then faced Duanmu Huangqi, who arrived seeking revenge for his son. Lu Shu escaped with Lu Xiaoyu and rescued Li Liang, leaving Li Liang to wake on the floor because Lu Shu did not want him to dirty the bed.

• Lu Shu raised Tu Le's ransom from four million to eight million God Notes, and other candidates paid him to secure their safety.
• Lu Shu became the Sword Hut's successor, bought armor from Sun Zhongyang, and joined the first round of selection as Duanmu Huangqi arrived to confront him.
• Duanmu Huangqi threw the injured Duanmu Yun'ai and the Black Feather Army commander before Lu Shu, then tried to suppress him with his aura.
• The Sword Hut blocked Duanmu Huangqi, and Lu Xiaoyu led Lu Shu away as he brought the injured Li Liang with them.
• Li Liang woke in a hidden residence and asked why he was on the floor, so Lu Shu said he did not want blood to dirty his bed.

Lu Shu entered the Sword Hut’s selection, stumbled into its hidden Library Pavilion, and discovered that its founder was Li Xianyi’s Sword Pavilion Founder. Meanwhile, the Black Feather Army invaded Blue Star as the Heavenly Network prepared to face the attack.

• The Martial Guard Army marched toward Kuang City after learning that Duanmu Huangqi had threatened Lu Shu, while Lu Shu allied with Li Liang and restored his damaged foundation with a Marrow Cleansing Fruit.
• At the Sword Hut’s blessing ceremony, Lu Shu wished the God King good health and wealth, angering Gu Lingfei and getting expelled from the selection because he was already a Sword Hut disciple.
• Lu Shu wandered into the Library Pavilion, found an authentic copy of Three Hundred Tang Poems, and triggered a mechanism that revealed the pavilion’s hidden collection.
• Lu Shu recognized the hidden volume’s description of the Sword Pavilion Founder and realized that Master of the Sword Hut was the same person Li Xianyi had described.
• While Gu Lingfei waited outside the pavilion for Lu Shu to emerge, the barrier between the worlds opened and Duanmu Huangqi’s Black Feather Army invaded Blue Star, where the Heavenly Network stood to resist them.

Shi Xuejin reached the Divine Treasury Realm and turned the battle against the Black Feather Army, while Lu Shu learned the passage between worlds had opened and raced to defend Huaxia. He fought Duanmu Huangqi’s retainers to advance his Star Map, only for his martial resonance to expose his embarrassing “Little Star” secret.

• Shi Xuejin saw through his Dao heart, reached the peak of the Divine Treasury Realm, and reversed the battle against the Black Feather Army.
• Lu Shu left the Sword Hut’s Library Pavilion with its classics, offering cultivators a chance to add their names for spirit crystals and revealing how to open the Qi Sea by grinding down Snow Mountain.
• Jiang Shuyi told Lu Shu that the passage between the worlds had opened and that Duanmu Huangqi’s Black Feather Army had attacked, prompting Lu Shu to rush toward Kuang City to protect Huaxia.
• Lu Shu fought Duanmu Huangqi’s first-rank retainers to advance his Star Map, and his martial resonance rang out as “Twinkle, twinkle, little star.”
• Lu Shu realized his “Little Star” secret had become public, then laughed after defeating another retainer—until he suddenly could not laugh anymore.

After advancing to Rank One, Lu Shu drove off an attack by twenty-one death warriors with help from the Martial Guard Army and prepared to return to Blue Star to aid the Heavenly Network. He tried to rally Zhang Weiyu and the others with supposed Marrow Cleansing Fruits, then revealed that he had handed them cherry tomatoes instead.

• Lu Xiaoyu taunted Lu Shu through words formed in the sand, exposing that she knew he had sung Little Star.
• Lu Shu faced twenty-one Rank One death warriors, shouted for them to run, and fled until the Martial Guard Army arrived.
• The death warriors crushed secret treasures and escaped through the void, while Lu Shu decided to return to Blue Star and support the Heavenly Network.
• Lu Shu gave Zhang Weiyu and the other Inner Palace Cultivators red fruits, asking them to join forces with him without demanding a pact.
• After they swallowed the fruits, Lu Shu revealed that they were scientifically called cherry tomatoes, not Marrow Cleansing Fruits.