Chapter Summaries

Ryōken fought the Barbarian King in the virtual challenge space and defeated him with a sword attack that exploited Endless Fury’s weakness to soul attacks. He released the battle video, drawing a crowd eager to watch, while the Barbarian King and Yi recognized what Ryōken’s 6.0 Trial Tower rating meant for humanity’s final battle.

• Ashe predicted Ryōken would win, while Yi voiced confidence in the Barbarian King before their duel began.
• The challenge space revealed Ryōken’s 6.0 Trial Tower rating and the Barbarian King’s 5.1 rating, but the Barbarian King chose to fight.
• The Barbarian King activated Endless Fury and gained the upper hand, forcing Ryōken to retreat and search for a weakness.
• Ryōken used his sword intent to attack the Barbarian King’s soul, instantly defeating him despite his Endless Fury.
• Ryōken chose to share the battle video, and the crowd outside rushed to pool points to watch it.
• The Barbarian King admitted his mistake, while he and Yi agreed that Ryōken’s strength could give humanity more chances in the final battle.

The Council of Elders made the Void Trial compulsory for official students and discussed Ryōken’s growing importance and the coming Mount Targon secret realm. As Ryōken and other War College prodigies trained together, they formed an influential circle that drew the Star Spirit Race’s attention.

• Leng Yue announced that all official students had to participate in the Void Trial and that she would choose the battlefield.
• Eagle Spirit dismissed Ryōken as an ungrown genius, but Leng Yue warned that Lord Gods had taken an interest and said no one could cross the line during the coming calamity.
• Leng Yue announced the approaching Mount Targon secret realm and said academy participation would be voluntary; after the Council departed, Hong revealed himself and asked her to choose the Void Trial battlefield so they could settle scores with Eagle Spirit.
• Cang Yuan left to inform Ryōken, while news of the compulsory Void Trial prompted students to train harder.
• Ashe, Lux, Garen, Tryndamere, the Barbarian King, Yi, and other geniuses gathered at Ryōken’s villa to train and exchange insights, helping Ashe and Lux reach the demigod realm.
• Ryōken shared his cultivation methods freely and gained the respect of the gathered geniuses, whose growing circle drew attention and made the Star Spirit Race wary.

After a long period of cultivation, Ryōken prepared for War College’s Void Trial and reunited with Ashe and Lux. The trial began as the students gathered, with the arrival of top-ranked Cher Baker stirring unease.

• Ryōken refined his cultivation in the villa’s secret chamber and judged that he could break through the fifth level without using his world clone.
• Ryōken emerged and found Ashe and Lux cultivating in high-grade leather outfits; Lux ran away in embarrassment while Ashe asked about the Void Trial.
• Ryōken, Ashe, and Lux joined more than two hundred students at the academy’s teleportation plaza, where students greeted Ryōken respectfully.
• Ahri warned Ryōken that the Star Spirit Race would target him, and Ryōken thanked her before she walked away.
• Cher Baker arrived in black robes, and Pantheon and Aatrox sensed that he had grown stronger.
• The veiled dean appeared above the gathered students and announced the start of the Void Trial.

Ryōken entered the trial battlefield, hunted Void Creatures, and discovered a sleeping True God-level Rift Herald beneath the ground. He ambushed it, but the creature emerged and unleashed an overwhelming aura.

• Chel entered the teleportation array first, and Ashe and Lux warned Ryōken that the Star Spirit Race might target him.
• Ryōken arrived alone on a frozen battlefield and found his trial score was zero.
• Ryōken killed Void Creatures with Starry Night and used his sword soul perception to search the area.
• Ryōken detected a sleeping Rift Herald buried three kilometers underground and recognized it as a True God-level Void Creature.
• Ryōken crept toward the Rift Herald and thrust his sword when its eye closed, unleashing a devastating Sword Ray.
• The Rift Herald burst through the ground, closed its eye, and released an aura that froze and shattered the winds above.

Ryōken killed the Rift Herald and drew Eagle Spirit into an attempted assassination, but Hong’s intervention and Ryōken’s counterstrike killed Eagle Spirit. The chapter ended with Eagle Spirit dead and Ryōken unharmed.

• Ryōken wounded the Rift Herald’s eye, then overwhelmed it with repeated sword strikes until it was near death.
• Ryōken’s score surged to nine digits after the Rift Herald died, and Eagle Spirit attacked him from the void.
• Ryōken evaded Eagle Spirit’s first thrust with a fake, then prepared to counter as Eagle Spirit launched another attack.
• Hong emerged and unleashed a devastating axe strike, revealing the attack was a trap, but Eagle Spirit accelerated toward Ryōken anyway.
• Ryōken’s sword shattered Eagle Spirit’s weapon and cut him in half, and Hong’s axe strike destroyed his body and soul.

After Hong killed Eagle Spirit, he gave Ryōken a small axe and returned to the front lines. Ryōken returned from the trial unharmed, learned that he had placed third, and left with Ashe and Lux as the students celebrated Eagle Spirit’s death.

• Hong praised Ryōken for helping kill Eagle Spirit, gave him a small axe, and returned to the front lines.
• Ryōken reflected on Hong’s Main God power before the trial’s teleportation returned him to the plaza.
• Ryōken healed Ashe and Lux, while Leng Yue announced that 198 students had survived and 32 had died and promised compensation for Eagle Spirit’s attack.
• The students checked the rankings: Cher Baker placed first, Ryōken third, Aatrox was nearly tied with him, and Pantheon placed fifth.
• Ryōken left with Ashe and Lux as Pantheon grew angry and the other students celebrated Eagle Spirit’s death.

Ryōken returned to the Trial Tower and cleared its previously unreachable seventh floor, shocking War College before disappearing. He then returned to the Naruto World, where he reunited with Hiwa in Avarosa.

• Ryōken entered the Trial Tower and cleared its sixth floor, filling the tower and War College with violet-gold light.
• Ryōken cleared the seventh floor, setting an unprecedented record, then vanished before War College's elders could summon him.
• Ryōken returned to the Naruto World and traveled through Avarosa, admiring the city's technological progress.
• Ryōken arrived at Hiwa's courtyard, and Hiwa recognized him and threw herself into his embrace.
• Ryōken and Hiwa vanished together, leaving the merchant who had threatened him to regret his words.

Ryōken and Hiwa learned that Kushina had died and went to Konoha, where they stopped a Cloud Ninja from abducting young Hinata. After Hiashi took Hinata home, Ryōken and Hiwa continued into Konoha to handle other matters.

• Ryōken and Hiwa woke together before Konan reported that Kushina and Minato had died in an attack by a masked man with space-time ninjutsu.
• Ryōken and Hiwa traveled to Konoha and noticed a Cloud Ninja carrying off young Hinata.
• Ryōken rescued Hinata from the Cloud Ninja, who then disintegrated under Ryōken's power.
• Hiwa comforted Hinata and handed her to Hiashi, who thanked Ryōken and called him and Hiwa legendary figures.
• Hiashi took Hinata home while Ryōken and Hiwa headed farther into Konoha.

Ryōken used his power over Pure Land Paradise to revive Kushina Uzumaki, though the laws of life and death limited him to one resurrection every ten years. As Konoha struggled to comprehend the miracle, Ryōken settled into a peaceful life with Hatake Sakumo’s family and said Minato could be revived in a few more years.

• Ryōken reached into Pure Land Paradise to retrieve Kushina, but a backlash from the world's laws restricted him to reviving one person every ten years.
• Ryōken raised Kushina's coffin from her grave, and she awoke before the gathered grave guards and ANBU could stop him.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi suppressed the cemetery incident, while the Cloud Ninja forces fled Konoha after learning Ryōken had returned.
• Kakashi watched Ryōken with awe and hoped he would offer swordsmanship guidance, while Ryōken praised Kakashi's potential to Hatake Sakumo.
• Hatake Sakumo told Ryōken that Hiruzen had asked about reviving Minato, and Ryōken said he could do so in a few more years.

Kushina awakened years after her death and discovered that Naruto was living in neglect in Konoha. After embracing him, she chose to take him with her, and she saw Ryōken off the next day with Naruto in her arms.

• Kushina woke after Ryōken revived her and urgently asked Hiwa whether Naruto was safe.
• Ryōken told Kushina she could take Naruto to Avarosa without Konoha interfering, and she rushed to find him.
• Kushina saw Naruto living in poor conditions and broke down when he offered her his instant noodles.
• Ryōken confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi over Naruto's neglect and warned Konoha not to interfere with Kushina's choices.
• The next day, Kushina saw Ryōken and Hiwa off with Naruto in her arms, and Ryōken gave Naruto a protective wristwatch.

After leaving the Naruto World, Ryōken returned to the War College and found Alpha coercing Ashe to accept him. Ryōken confronted Alpha despite warnings about his father, the Thunderflame God, leaving the standoff unresolved.

• Hinata practiced the Eight Trigrams Palm and impressed Hiwa with her Vacuum Palm, while Ryōken told her to rest.
• Ryōken told Hiwa he would be gone for at most a year, and he vanished from the Naruto World before dawn.
• Ashe told Lux, the Barbarian King, and Yi that Alpha was pressuring her to accept him, and she considered hiding to avoid him.
• Alpha confronted Ashe with two human True Gods and threatened her, while she feared that resisting him could harm humanity.
• Ryōken arrived, stepped between Alpha and Ashe, and ignored warnings that the Thunderflame God favored Alpha.
• Alpha threatened Ryōken and claimed that even Hong would support his union with Ashe.

Hong intervened when Alpha threatened Ryōken and Ashe, forcing Alpha to destroy one arm and sending his True God bodyguards to the void front. After Hong reassured Ryōken and humanity’s companions gathered to prepare, the Mount Targon secret realm opened at dawn.

• Hong appeared and ordered Alpha to sever one arm, while his two True God bodyguards were injured and ordered to report to the void front in ten days.
• Alpha destroyed his own arm and left, hiding his killing intent as he departed.
• Hong told Ryōken that humanity would stand behind him, then praised his resolve and warmly acknowledged Ashe.
• Ryōken invited Ashe to reunite, and friends gathered at his villa to exchange information and plan for Mount Targon.
• At dawn, the Mount Targon secret realm opened, admitting demigods and stronger opponents.

Ryōken and the others gathered atop Mount Targon as powerful figures arrived for the secret realm opening. Lei Ling opened the entrance, revealing Origin Qi, while Ryōken felt an unexplained familiarity with the world inside.

• Ryōken learned that the secret realm had outer, inner, and core regions, each presenting greater dangers and stronger opponents.
• Ao Jin, the Dragon Clan patriarch, arrived and exchanged a knowing smile with Ryōken.
• Lei Ling arrived with Pantheon and the Solar and Lunar Star Spirits, and Ashe identified them for Ryōken.
• Lei Ling opened a vortex into the secret realm, releasing Origin Qi that astonished the gathered Demigods and True Gods.
• Ryōken sensed that the world within the vortex was strangely familiar to him.

Ryōken was secretly sent into the secret realm’s core, where two Main God-level beasts threatened his life. A mysterious silver disk drove them away and then transported Ryōken elsewhere, leaving Hong stunned and searching for his true body.

• Lei Ling sent the entrants into the secret realm, while Pantheon revealed his grudge against Ryōken and his role in arranging the trap.
• Ryōken found himself in the core region, recognized the danger, and concealed his presence from a colossal Main God-level beast.
• A gigantic bird arrived to confront the golden-scaled beast, and Hong appeared to help Ryōken escape.
• The two beasts discovered Ryōken and sealed the area, leaving him and Hong with little chance to flee.
• An ancient silver disk appeared and intimidated the beasts, which left after glancing at Ryōken.
• The disk transported Ryōken away, while Hong realized his true body had arrived and set out to find it.

Ryōken absorbed a vast amount of Origin Energy as he began breaking through into the True God Realm, while the secret realm descended into war after Void Creatures and Void Lords appeared. As Pantheon cultivated under Lei Ling’s guidance, phenomena caused by Ryōken’s breakthrough made Lei Ling believe Pantheon was receiving heaven’s favor.

• Ryōken began absorbing Origin Energy, transforming his body, power, soul, and Sword Soul as he broke through toward the True God Realm.
• Void Creatures and Void Lords appeared in the secret realm, inflicting heavy losses until the universe’s Main Gods joined the battle.
• The Main Gods at the frontline headquarters discussed Sol’s grave injuries, blamed the Star Spirit Race’s betrayal, and feared the consequences of losing their commander.
• Lei Ling brought Pantheon to a place rich in Origin Energy so he could break through, while reflecting on the Star Spirit Race’s ambition to seize a crown and rule the universe.
• Ryōken’s breakthrough unleashed vast Origin Energy and dazzling Sword Dao phenomena near Pantheon, which Lei Ling mistook for signs of Pantheon’s extraordinary potential.

Ryōken reached True God and killed Lei Ling with a single strike, while learning that Starry Night held the origin of his previous universe. As the cosmic sides converged, Kha'Zix attacked Ryōken, leaving the others unable to reach him in time.

• Lei Ling watched Pantheon’s breakthrough phenomenon, but Ryōken emerged from the earth as Pantheon lay charred in a crater.
• Ryōken entered the True God realm, and Starry Night gained a silver disc that revealed it was the origin of his previous universe.
• Ryōken destroyed Lei Ling with one sword strike, scattering his body and soul.
• Ryōken learned that the disc had recorded his former universe and could restore its past once the universe was recreated.
• Kha'Zix arrived with the Void Creatures as the Chief Gods and Star Spirit Race approached, then attacked Ryōken while Hong and Leng Yue watched from too far away to help.

Ryōken confronted Kha'Zix, a powerful Void Lord, and revealed a sword technique that overwhelmed him and devastated the Void Creature army. He stood victorious over the battlefield after a single strike.

• Ryōken blocked Kha'Zix's attack with the Starry Night Sword, cracking Kha'Zix's scythe-like forelimbs and astonishing both armies.
• Kha'Zix vanished into the void with Void Assault, while the main gods and Leng Yue feared Ryōken could not survive the attack.
• Ryōken's sword intent forced Kha'Zix out of hiding and transformed the surrounding space into an extension of his Sword Dao.
• Ryōken unleashed a colossal Sword Ray that pulverized Kha'Zix and split the approaching tide of Void Creatures in two.
• Ryōken's sword intent scattered Kha'Zix's entire army, leaving him standing victorious over the battlefield.

Ryōken annihilated three Void Lords and countless Void Creatures with a single sword strike, then killed a purple-haired Star Spirit Race Main God and recovered Lord Sol’s crown. The battlefield fell silent before Ryōken’s overwhelming power, and he planned to visit the Naruto World before wrapping things up.

• The armies watched Ryōken’s sword strike kill Void Lord Kha'Zix, and the Main Gods hurried to support him as more Void Lords approached.
• Ryōken unleashed a sword rainbow that exterminated the Void Minotaur Golem, the Void Succubus, the Void Burrower, and every Void Creature within ten thousand li.
• The sword rainbow pierced the purple-haired Star Spirit Race Main God, and Lord Sol’s crown landed in Leng Yue’s hand.
• Hong and the other Main Gods arrived to find the battlefield cleared and bowed before Ryōken’s overwhelming power.
• Ryōken thought that he would visit the Naruto World before bringing things to a close.

Ryōken arrived in Konoha with Hinata, Aman, and Annie, where Naruto and Sasuke faced off against the visiting Sand siblings. His appearance stunned the young ninjas and halted Gaara’s urge to fight, leaving everyone curious about who he was.

• Hinata showed Aman and Annie around Konoha and pointed out its familiar dango shop.
• Kankuro grabbed Konohamaru, prompting Naruto to attack before Gaara restrained him with sand.
• Sasuke rescued Konohamaru and taunted Naruto as Gaara’s desire to kill began to rise.
• Ryōken arrived with Hinata, Aman, and Annie, and his overwhelming presence silenced the confrontation.
• Kakashi greeted Ryōken with reverence and escorted him to the Hokage, while Naruto, Sasuke, and Gaara left wondering about him.

Uchiha Fugaku told Itachi and Sasuke about Ryōken’s legendary power and warned them never to offend him. Ryōken arrived in Konoha, where Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Jonin welcomed him with solemn respect.

• Uchiha Fugaku recounted how Ryōken had defeated Madara Uchiha and destroyed the Uchiha Clan grounds, leaving Itachi stunned by his strength.
• Sasuke told Fugaku and Itachi that he had encountered a mysterious, powerful man, and they realized he had seen Ryōken.
• Uchiha Fugaku and Itachi warned Sasuke that offending Ryōken could doom the entire Uchiha Clan, even if Konoha would not protect them.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and several Jonin waited beneath the Hokage Building as villagers wondered who could warrant such a reception.
• Ryōken arrived, and Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Jonin bowed to welcome him while Kurenai Yuhi admired him.