Chapter Summaries

Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er fell into a place where their powers vanished, but Zhao Fu used the Six Paths Demon Idols to defeat a goat-headed monster and force it to submit. He accepted Mosak as his servant and gained enough points for an unnamed person to rise to fifth place in the rankings.

• Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er lost their power upon landing in the darkness and were approached by a goat-headed monster.
• The monster attacked Zhao Fu, but Zhao Fu used the Six Paths Demon Idols' power to strike it while the power was briefly active in his body.
• Zhao Fu wounded the monster with repeated sword attacks and prepared to kill it.
• The monster begged for its life, and Zhao Fu accepted its submission after learning it had no treasure to offer.
• Zhao Fu subdued Mosak, Hand of Nothingness, and gained 75,000 points, placing an unnamed person fifth in the rankings.

After mining a vast supply of Spirit-Absorbing Jade on the tenth layer, Zhao Fu brought Lin Yan'er and Mosak to the ninth layer, Blue Thorn Plain. He reached a dangerous land centered on a huge vortex and asked Mosak what lay inside.

• Zhao Fu discovered that Mosak could create a Void Domain that weakened nearby creatures and used it to restore Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er’s strength.
• Zhao Fu found a mountain of Spirit-Absorbing Jade and spent several days mining enough to make about five billion ordinary blocks for Great Qin.
• While Zhao Fu’s group mined, his points fell behind the leaders, and the rankings showed unknown first and second place, Bai Shengjun in third, and Zang Mingyue in fourth.
• After killing a leader-class Void Beast, Zhao Fu, Lin Yan'er, and Mosak traveled to the ninth layer, where they encountered stronger Void Beasts that moved in packs.
• Mosak used his Void Domain to weaken a flock of monster birds, and Zhao Fu received the points for their deaths.
• Zhao Fu reached a dangerous land marked by a vast, chaotic vortex and asked Mosak what was inside.

Zhao Fu, Lin Yan'er, and Mosak entered the ninth level of the Abyss and fought their way through a valley filled with dangerous Void Beasts. Zhao Fu reached their nest and encountered a cloaked figure that attacked him, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Mosak used his Null Domain to shield Zhao Fu and Lin Yan'er as they crossed the vortex into the ninth level.
• Lin Yan'er and Mosak helped Zhao Fu defeat smaller Void Beasts, and Zhao Fu slew two enormous ones and had their valuable materials collected.
• Zhao Fu left Lin Yan'er and Mosak behind and flew deeper into the valley, where he found a silver cube above a platform and a cloaked figure.
• The cloaked figure attacked Zhao Fu with a dagger, then vanished into the void to evade his counterattack.

Zhao Fu defeated the Void-Walking Beast Molafei, forced him to submit, and gained enough points to rise to fourth place in the rankings. He collected a Void Beast nest and a Void Cloak blueprint, intending to strengthen Great Qin.

• Zhao Fu used chains to trap Molafei after his void-hiding attacks wounded him, then struck him with electricity until Mosak persuaded him to surrender.
• Zhao Fu accepted Molafei’s submission and gained 140,000 points, raising his total to 215,000 and moving him to fourth place.
• Bai Haoran felt greater pressure, Zang Mingyue reacted angrily to falling to fifth, and the leaders in first and second place remained focused on their own pursuits.
• Zhao Fu inspected and took the Epic Void Beast Nest, planning to add its beasts to Great Qin’s City Lord Seal.
• Molafei gave Zhao Fu a Void Cloak blueprint describing cloaks that could teleport one hundred, one thousand, or ten thousand meters.

Zhao Fu cornered Long Yang’s seven women after they fled a Void Beast attack and forced them to reveal an undiscovered ruin. He left them alive for now, demanding they save Long Yang and warning them that he would punish them if the ruin disappointed him.

• Long Yang fought off swarms of Void Beasts and sent his seven women away to protect them.
• Zhao Fu spotted the fleeing women, blocked their path, and asked where Long Yang was.
• Frost offered Zhao Fu the location of an undiscovered ruin in exchange for their safety and his help rescuing Long Yang.
• Zhao Fu bound the women and used Six Desires Demonic Qi to pressure them for the ruin’s location.
• After the women remained defiant, Zhao Fu suppressed the demonic qi and threatened to turn their hides into Sky Lanterns if the ruin held nothing valuable.

Zhao Fu rescued Long Yang from a swarm of void beasts and forced the seven women to lead him to the ruins. After a rival faction yielded the site, Zhao Fu entered the cave with the women and their injured husband, leaving them to face its dangers together.

• Zhao Fu had Mosak disable the void beasts attacking Long Yang, and Lin Yan'er and Molafei killed them while the seven women treated Long Yang's injuries.
• Zhao Fu made Frost lead the group to the ruins, where they found a faction preparing to enter the cave.
• The rival faction's senior brother recognized Zhao Fu as a peerless fighter and led his people away after yielding the ruins.
• Zhao Fu entered the cave with the seven women and found a massive wooden door; Frost warned him that ghosts made the ruins dangerous.
• Zhao Fu refused to let the women leave Long Yang outside and insisted that the injured man go inside with them.

Zhao Fu's group cleared waves of undead in the ruins, summoned Kalista, and reached a hall guarded by giant skeletons. Zhao Fu failed to subdue the skeletons and ordered the group to kill them.

• Zhao Fu's group defeated waves of ghost soldiers and reached a hall filled with more than ten thousand ghosts.
• Zhao Fu used the Angel Sword to destroy most of the ghost soldiers, then activated the summoning platform and gained Kalista's loyalty.
• Zhao Fu's group passed through another door and slaughtered waves of skeleton soldiers, while Zhao Fu searched for Soldier Souls and found none.
• Zhao Fu led the others into a vast hall guarded by a thousand giant skeletons and had Lin Yan'er and the seven women withdraw.
• Zhao Fu tried to subdue several dozen giant skeletons with his aura and contracts, but neither method worked, so he ordered everyone to kill them.

Zhao Fu and his companions defeated the giant skeletons, summoned Evelynn, and entered a flower-lined corridor filled with illusion-inducing fragrance. They found a way to resist the increasingly potent blood mist by layering their domains together.

• Zhao Fu and his companions slew the giant skeletons and reached a summoning platform.
• Zhao Fu summoned Evelynn, who pledged her loyalty to him.
• The corridor beyond the next door trapped Zhao Fu and his companions in illusions, but Zhao Fu broke free and restored the others' clarity.
• Zhao Fu left Frost, the other princesses, and Lin Yan'er outside while he and the others continued through the corridor.
• The blood-colored fragrant mist penetrated Zhao Fu's defenses, so he had his companions layer their domains with his own to hold it back.

Zhao Fu cleared the final chamber of the ruins and summoned LeBlanc, then refused to release Frost and the others as he led the group out. After stopping for the night, the Imperial Ruin Curse flared up, and Zhao Fu forced himself on Lin Yan'er and Frost's group while Long Yang briefly awoke and saw them.

• Zhao Fu used the Royal Wood Sword to drain the hall's attacking vines, then activated the summoning platform and gained LeBlanc's loyalty.
• Zhao Fu finished exploring the ruins and returned to Frost and the others, but ignored their request to leave and continued onward with them.
• The group emerged after dark, and Zhao Fu stopped to rest while Molafei, LeBlanc, and the others kept watch.
• The Imperial Ruin Curse caused Zhao Fu pain, and he forced himself on Lin Yan'er before commanding Frost and the other women to come to him.
• Long Yang briefly regained consciousness, saw Zhao Fu with the women he loved, and passed out again.
• LeBlanc, Evelynn, and Kalista approached Zhao Fu, brushed aside Mosak's warning, and joined him.

Zhao Fu left Long Yang behind after taking Frost and the others, then sent Molafei to kill him, but Long Yang had disappeared. After entering the eighth level’s Blood Sand Forbidden Zone, Zhao Fu’s group drew the attention of a huge swarm of sandworms, while fleeing contestants tried to use them as bait.

• Frost asked Zhao Fu to spare Long Yang, and Zhao Fu agreed to leave his fate to chance; he then departed with the others and left Long Yang unconscious.
• Zhao Fu sent Molafei back to kill Long Yang, but Molafei found that Long Yang had vanished and returned to report the failure.
• Zhao Fu’s group found the pass token, entered the eighth level, and headed into the Blood Sand Forbidden Zone; Zhao Fu’s ranking had fallen to nineteenth place.
• A swarm of more than ten thousand sandworms attacked a group of over three hundred contestants, leaving only a dozen survivors fleeing.
• The survivors lured the sandworms toward Zhao Fu’s group, expecting the newcomers to die, but the chapter ended as a shocking scene unfolded.

Zhao Fu and his subordinates fought their way through the sandworm swarms to the dangerous land’s depths, where they faced a giant Desert Behemoth. After it feigned submission and swallowed Zhao Fu, he killed it from within and earned 100,000 points.

• Mosak weakened the sandworms and LeBlanc’s illusion turned them against each other, allowing Zhao Fu’s group to wipe out the swarm and continue deeper into the dangerous land.
• A colossal sandworm emerged, and Mosak, Molafei, Kalista, Evelynn, LeBlanc, and Zhao Fu attacked it together.
• When the wounded sandworm tried to flee, Zhao Fu bound it with chains, and the group dragged it down and battered it into submission.
• The sandworm appeared willing to submit, then snapped several chains and swallowed Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu unleashed his power inside the sandworm and killed it with a sword strike; he then received 100,000 points for killing the Desert Behemoth.

Zhao Fu claimed third place in the rankings after killing the sand beast and obtained a powerful Sand Pearl. He and his group reached the seventh-level checkpoint, where challengers had to prove their strength by marking a towering stone stele.

• Zhao Fu's 310,000 points put him in third place above Bai Shengjun, while Zang Mingyue fell to fifth and the higher-ranked prodigies took notice of Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu found a Sand Pearl in the sand beast's body and used it to summon more than a hundred towering sand soldiers.
• Zhao Fu's group headed toward the increasingly dangerous seventh level and arrived at a stone stele that challengers had to mark to proceed.
• The crowd saw that the first-ranked person, the second-ranked person, Bai Haoran, and Zang Mingyue had left marks deeper than the legendary nine-inch record.
• Li Ye left a six-inch mark and entered through the gate with his attendants, then the seventh-ranked young man left an eight-inch spear mark and waited to see who else could surpass him.

Geniuses tested their strength against the stone monument in the Great Void Ruins, but Zhao Fu’s arrival and twelve-inch sword mark eclipsed them all. He entered a black gate with his people, leaving the crowd stunned by the gap between him and the others.

• Ming Jian, Leng Shang, Bai Haoran, and Shi Shuge each struck the monument, leaving marks from six to nearly nine inches deep.
• A man dressed in beast hide kicked the monument and left a nine-inch imprint, shocking the crowd.
• Zhao Fu appeared with an overwhelming imperial aura, alarming Bai Haoran, Yin Ruoshi, Bing Qixue, Shi Shuge, and Youquan.
• Zhao Fu swung his sword and left a twelve-inch mark on the monument.
• Zhao Fu opened a black gate, led his people through it, and vanished; the crowd realized he was ranked third, while his acquaintances stared at his mark in dismay.

Zhao Fu and his companions entered the seventh layer, crossed its dangerous stone forest, and fought through waves of stone beasts to reach its deepest clearing. There, a powerful stone man appeared and attacked Zhao Fu, but Evelynn confronted it before he could act.

• Zhao Fu led his companions across the seventh layer’s Azure Rock Heavy Land toward its dangerous land, a stone forest.
• Mosak weakened more than a thousand charging stone beasts with his Null Domain while Zhao Fu and the others killed them by destroying the crystals in their heads.
• Zhao Fu marked the stone pillars as the group became lost, and after more than a day they reached the forest’s deepest clearing.
• Zhao Fu entered the clearing and triggered an azure formation that summoned a five-meter-tall stone man.
• The stone man charged Zhao Fu, but Evelynn rushed forward and met its punch with her own.

Zhao Fu and his allies fought the powerful Stone Giant, combining their attacks to weaken and restrain it. Zhao Fu ended the chapter by plunging the Death Clan Sword into its chest, leaving the giant gravely wounded.

• Evelynn attacked the Stone Man, but Zhao Fu stopped her and Mosak, Molafei, LeBlanc, Zhao Fu, and Kalista joined the battle.
• The Stone Man unleashed shockwaves, flying rocks, and stone pillars, while Zhao Fu and his allies dodged and countered its attacks.
• Zhao Fu struck the Stone Man with a surge of death energy, and Kalista, Molafei, LeBlanc, and Evelynn landed further blows that cracked its body and weakened it.
• Mosak drove his steel fork into the Stone Giant as the Null Domain weakened it, and more than a thousand iron chains bound it.
• Zhao Fu thrust the Death Clan Sword deep into the Stone Giant's chest, leaving it gravely wounded.

Zhao Fu subdued Stone Mountain, gained a Myriad-Weight Source Stone, and rose to second place in the rankings. As Zhao Fu headed to search the seventh floor for ruins and a clearance token, Chen Zhenghe approached him and offered his loyalty and a ruin.

• Zhao Fu used the Sand Pearl to torment Stone Mountain until he surrendered, earning 100,000 points and moving up one place in the rankings.
• The ranking changes angered Zang Mingyue and unsettled the white-haired youth, while Bai Shengjun accepted that Zhao Fu was advancing too quickly to catch.
• Stone Mountain gave Zhao Fu a Myriad-Weight Source Stone, and Golden Dragon explained that it could help build a sky city.
• Zhao Fu decided to construct a sky city and planned to search the seventh floor for ruins and a clearance token.
• Chen Zhenghe asked to follow Zhao Fu and offered to reveal a ruin and hand over his soul as proof of loyalty.

Zhao Fu and his companions entered a hidden ruin, where seven handsome men used a hall’s magic to immobilize and arouse them. Zhao Fu broke free, punished the men, and found valuable treasures in a secret chamber before leaving the men dead from exhaustion.

• Chen Zhenghe gave Zhao Fu his soul imprint and led the group to the hidden ruins.
• Zhao Fu and his companions entered a hall where seven handsome men immobilized them with a pink shockwave and tried to carry the women to the platform.
• Six Desires Demonic Qi burst from the women, freeing Zhao Fu, who bound the seven men and restored his companions.
• Zhao Fu forced the seven men to turn on one another with Six Desires Demonic Qi and left a drop of Six Desires Demonic Liquid in each of them.
• Zhao Fu found Charm Spirit Fragrant Fruits, a cultivation technique, and Saint-grade equipment in a secret chamber.
• Zhao Fu increased the demonic qi affecting the seven men, and they died from exhaustion.

After accepting Chen Zhenghe’s allegiance, Zhao Fu followed him to another ruin and entered a fortress alone, where he faced opponents ordered by clearance prompts to be brutally killed. He killed Diana and Sejuani by different methods, then attacked Shyvana when she appeared.

• Zhao Fu spared Chen Zhenghe, accepted his allegiance, and agreed to visit another ruin he knew about.
• Zhao Fu entered a fortress alone after its restriction allowed only one person inside.
• A clearance prompt ordered Zhao Fu to kill Diana, so he restrained her with chains and crushed her to death.
• A new prompt required Zhao Fu to kill Sejuani by a different method, and he split her chest open with his sword.
• Shyvana appeared before Zhao Fu, and he struck first as she raised a dragon-patterned shield.

Zhao Fu fought his way through a trial that forced him to kill and torment women, but refused to violate Ahri when the trial offered him a shortcut. When he tried to withdraw, the trial’s unseen master declared him successful, and Zhao Fu entered a blood-colored room containing a Blood Sword.

• Zhao Fu shattered Shyvana’s barrier, tore her apart with chains, and continued onward.
• Zhao Fu killed Sivir with ghosts and later defeated Fiora, leaving her as a blood-red skeleton.
• Zhao Fu found Ahri in a bedroom and refused the prompt to rape and kill her, despite Ahri and the trial master urging him to do so.
• Zhao Fu announced that he was withdrawing, prompting the trial master to urgently declare that he had passed.
• Zhao Fu entered a blood-colored room and found a Blood Sword embedded in a stone platform.

Zhao Fu took the Blood Sword, whose evil power tried to corrupt his body and soul, and fought back with the Imperial Killing Sword World. He suppressed the sword and began changing its nature, while a huge crowd gathered outside the ruins and threatened Evelynn and the others.

• Zhao Fu met the Blood Sword's deranged sword spirit, who chose him because of his terrifying bloodline and urged him to take her out to slaughter the world.
• Zhao Fu gripped the Blood Sword, unleashing a pillar of blood-red light that drew people from across the seventh level toward the ruins.
• Evelynn and the others guarded the entrance as more than ten thousand people gathered, and the crowd threatened to force its way inside for a share of the treasure.
• The Blood Sword's power began corrupting Zhao Fu, so he unleashed the Imperial Killing Sword World and suppressed it with his supreme Killing Sword Intent.
• Zhao Fu poured the Killing Sword Intent into the Blood Sword to change its twisted nature, causing its sword spirit to fall to the ground in pain.