Chapter Summaries

Zhao Fu claimed the Massacre Sword and freed the eight women bound to it, then continued through the Great Void Ruins with his group. After finding the sixth-level perilous land already cleared, he reached the Nine Kings Spirit Palace on the fifth level and suspected someone else had conquered it as well.

• Zhao Fu took the Level Six Earth Divine Artifact Massacre Sword, broke the crystal coffins’ restrictions, and freed the eight women whose souls the sword controlled.
• Zhao Fu emerged from the ruins as the crowd fled, then continued exploring with LeBlanc, Evelynn, Little Li, and the newly freed women.
• On the sixth level, Zhao Fu’s group defeated a flock of Void Beasts, but found the perilous land already cleared by a single person.
• After exploring other ruins without much success, Zhao Fu led the group back to the fifth level and headed for its perilous land.
• Zhao Fu found the Nine Kings Spirit Palace nearly empty of its powerful wraiths and wondered whether someone else had conquered it.

Zhao Fu and his companions found the deepest ruin already claimed and then reached the fifth-floor gate, where challengers had to withstand three attacks from a gate guard to advance. Bai Haoran and Shi Shuge passed the test, while the crowd’s attention turned to their strength and the Dao Cultivation Sect’s rising prestige.

• Zhao Fu and the others found the deepest ruin littered with battle remains and concluded that someone had already taken it.
• A burly man ranked one hundred eightieth challenged a gate guard but was blasted away by the guard’s first spear strike.
• A fat young man used a treasure shield to block the first two attacks, but the gate guard’s third strike shattered the barrier and defeated him.
• Bai Haoran used his Five Elements Domain to withstand all three attacks and passed the test, earning the crowd’s admiration and raising the Dao Cultivation Sect’s prestige.
• Shi Shuge also withstood the gate guard’s three attacks and passed, astonishing the gathered spectators.

Moon Night passed the gatekeeper’s test and entered the fourth level, while Zang Mingyue arrived and used his status as an Imperial Son to demand that Shi Shuge and other women serve him. A second Imperial Son appeared, and the gatekeeper’s respectful greeting eclipsed Zang Mingyue’s display, leaving his expression ugly.

• Moon Night fought the gatekeeper with his White Dragon Sword and passed the test to enter the fourth level.
• Zang Mingyue appeared, and the gatekeeper let him bypass the test because he was an Imperial Son.
• Zang Mingyue identified himself as the Sixth Imperial Son of the Zang Empire and basked in the crowd’s awe.
• More than a dozen women and other people offered to serve Zang Mingyue, who ordered Shi Shuge and other beauties to come serve him.
• A second Imperial Son arrived with an even more terrifying aura, and the gatekeeper respectfully greeted him, stunning the crowd and souring Zang Mingyue’s expression.

Zhao Fu confronted Zang Mingyue, the Sixth Imperial Son of the Zang Empire, after Zang Mingyue challenged his identity and attacked him. Their imperial powers clashed in a fierce battle, and Zhao Fu launched seventy-two blood-colored spears at Zang Mingyue as the fight continued.

• Zhao Fu declared that he wanted to enter the fourth level, but Zang Mingyue accused him of being a fraud and demanded that he pay his respects.
• Zang Mingyue attacked Zhao Fu with an invisible giant hand, and Zhao Fu cut it apart with a black crescent arc.
• Zhao Fu insulted Zang Mingyue, who unleashed his purple imperial power and nine purple dragons before charging with his saber.
• Zhao Fu released his own imperial power and nine Black Dragons, then clashed with Zang Mingyue as the surrounding crowd fled and the gatekeepers shielded the doors.
• Zang Mingyue struck Zhao Fu's Emperor Domain with six purple crescent arcs and forced him back several steps.
• Zhao Fu sent seventy-two blood-colored spears toward the charging Zang Mingyue.

Zhao Fu and Zang Mingyue fought a destructive battle, each unleashing powerful bloodline and weapon abilities. After their clash devastated the battlefield, Zhao Fu knocked Zang Mingyue into a crater, leaving him badly wounded and struggling to stand.

• Zang Mingyue's purple dragon attack was destroyed by Zhao Fu, who then overcame his ghosts with Emperor Blood and sent him flying with a sword strike.
• Zang Mingyue unleashed ten thousand blade lights, breaking Zhao Fu's defensive barrier and wounding him, but Zhao Fu struck back and cut Zang Mingyue's chest.
• Zang Mingyue summoned a colossal saber phantom, and Zhao Fu answered with the Death Clan Sword as a deathly figure appeared in its light.
• Zhao Fu and Zang Mingyue's attacks collided, creating a vast crater and leaving both of them injured.
• Zhao Fu struck Zang Mingyue into the ground, and Zang Mingyue rose shakily after coughing up blood as his attendants watched in alarm.

Zang Mingyue summoned the founding Emperor of the Zang Empire and fought Zhao Fu with overwhelming power. Zhao Fu countered with the Six Paths Demon Idols and the Massacre Sword, leaving their battle at a devastating clash between his slaughtering force and Zang Mingyue’s Blade Sea Killing Domain.

• Zang Mingyue summoned the Zang Empire’s founding Emperor, whose phantom entered his body and greatly increased his power.
• Zang Mingyue and Zhao Fu resumed their battle, trading attacks with ancestral power and the Six Paths Demon Idols.
• Zhao Fu suppressed Zang Mingyue’s Evil Hand Devour, unleashed ghosts against him, and knocked him into a crater.
• Zang Mingyue invoked the Blade Sea Killing Domain, filling the sky with saber qi that threatened everyone nearby.
• Zhao Fu drew the Massacre Sword and unleashed Slaughter the World against Zang Mingyue’s saber sea, causing a cataclysmic collision.

Zhao Fu defeated Zang Mingyue, who escaped the Great Void Ruins and forfeited his points, pushing Zhao Fu to first place in the rankings. After leaving his companions behind at the red gate, Zhao Fu entered the fourth level, the first of the dangerous Dark Three Domains.

• Zhao Fu overpowered Zang Mingyue with his Imperial blood and forced him to withdraw from the Great Void Ruins.
• Zang Mingyue's withdrawal gave Zhao Fu all his points, raising him to first place with one million points.
• Xiao Li praised Zhao Fu, and he led his companions to the red gate, where the guard explained that only Zhao Fu could enter without a trial.
• Zhao Fu left his companions on the fifth level and flew through the red gate alone.
• Zhao Fu arrived on the fourth level, where Saint Realm Void Beasts made the Dark Three Domains extremely dangerous.

Zhao Fu hunted dark-attributed Void Beasts on the second, third, and fourth floors, collecting Darkness Crystals and Dark Ape Hearts that could boost cultivation and grant dark bloodlines. He continued searching for ruins and considered fusing the items into himself to strengthen his Emperor Bloodline, which was close to becoming a Heavenly Saint Bloodline.

• Zhao Fu killed a black ape and obtained a Darkness Crystal and a Dark Ape Heart, learning that they could increase cultivation and grant a dark bloodline.
• Zhao Fu killed a two-headed black lion and obtained stronger versions of the Darkness Crystal and Dark Ape Heart.
• Zhao Fu fought and killed a leader-grade black deer, earning higher-grade items and more points.
• Zhao Fu considered using the Darkness Crystals and Dark Ape Hearts to strengthen his Emperor Bloodline.

Zhao Fu killed the Dark Dragon King and absorbed its King-grade Dark Crystal and Dark Bloodline, but his Emperor Bloodline still fell just short of becoming a Heavenly Saint Bloodline. Elsewhere, a dark queen’s army attacked Bai Shengjun’s five-colored barrier without damaging it.

• Zhao Fu used Destruction Crystals to weaken the Dark Dragon King’s group, then defeated the king with his attacks.
• Zhao Fu obtained a King-grade Dark Crystal and King-grade Dark Bloodline from the Dark Dragon King.
• Zhao Fu fused the items into his heart, and his Emperor Bloodline devoured the dark king’s power, strengthening his body and cultivation.
• Zhao Fu left the cave disappointed that his bloodline had not advanced to the Heavenly Saint Bloodline and resumed hunting void beasts.
• A silver-haired dark queen led her soldiers against Bai Shengjun’s five-colored barrier, which absorbed their attacks and remained undamaged.

Zhao Fu accepted Dark Queen Syndra’s surrender to obtain her Dark Source Crystal, then fought Bai Shengjun to protect her. Their battle shook the fourth level, and Zhao Fu’s empowered strike sent Bai Shengjun flying.

• Dark Queen Syndra failed to break Bai Shengjun’s Five Elements Shield and submitted to the newly arrived Zhao Fu.
• Syndra revealed that she possessed a Dark Source Crystal, and Golden Dragon explained it could help Zhao Fu produce Dark Crystals in great quantities.
• Zhao Fu accepted Syndra’s allegiance and refused Bai Shengjun’s demand to hand her over.
• Bai Shengjun summoned five elemental beasts, while Zhao Fu answered with five swords, and their attacks collided across the sky.
• Zhao Fu and Bai Shengjun clashed sword to sword, and Zhao Fu’s surging Emperor Blood strengthened him enough to send Bai Shengjun flying.

Zhao Fu and Bai Shengjun fought fiercely on the fourth level, unleashing the Five Elements Sword, deathly energy, chains, and powerful attacks. After both were injured and Bai Shengjun counterattacked with a towering lava hand, Zhao Fu formed a giant ghost hand to strike him, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Bai Shengjun sent Zhao Fu flying with a blazing hand, and the two exchanged powerful crescent slashes as Syndra and other onlookers watched.
• Bai Shengjun summoned five enormous swords of light with the Five Elements Sword, and Zhao Fu used the Death Clan Sword to form a vast vortex of deathly energy.
• Bai Shengjun empowered the five swords until they broke through Zhao Fu's vortex, but Zhao Fu's gray sword light cut them apart and left him injured.
• Zhao Fu launched iron chains at Bai Shengjun, then a giant evil ghost struck Bai Shengjun into a pit while Zhao Fu prepared to attack.
• Bai Shengjun summoned earthen pillars and a column of lava to drive Zhao Fu back, and Zhao Fu formed a giant ghost hand as Bai Shengjun shaped the lava into a matching hand.

Zhao Fu fought Bai Shengjun, who unleashed the Five-Colored Spirit Stone’s immense power to trap and crush him. Zhao Fu summoned the Six Paths Demon Idols to resist, while Shi Shuge, Ming Jian, Youquan, and the others approached the battle and recognized Zhao Fu’s aura.

• Zhao Fu used Ghost Devour and Ghost God Armorer, but Bai Shengjun evaded the ghost weapons and counterattacked with his Five-Colored sword.
• Zhao Fu unleashed his Emperor Blood and death qi, overpowering Bai Shengjun and blasting him from the air.
• Bai Shengjun revealed a Five-Colored pendant empowered by a mighty expert and invoked the Five Elements World, creating a vast destructive barrier.
• As Bai Shengjun’s barrier charged toward him, Zhao Fu released the Six Paths Demon Idols, which struck the barrier into the ground.
• Shi Shuge, Ming Jian, Youquan, and the others hurried toward the battle, then stopped when they recognized Zhao Fu’s aura.

Bai Shengjun unleashed Five Elements Annihilation against Zhao Fu, but Zhao Fu used the Six Paths Demon Idols and the Netherworld’s yin aura to bind and drag down the five-colored sun. The Six Paths Demon Gods battered the trapped barrier until it cracked, leaving Bai Shengjun close to defeat.

• Bai Shengjun formed five spheres of light and unleashed Five Elements Annihilation, creating a five-colored sun that devastated the surrounding land.
• Zhao Fu brought the Six Paths Demon Idols to the ground and drew on the Netherworld’s yin aura to summon chains that bound the five-colored sun.
• Bai Haoran reignited the barrier and tried to break free, but Zhao Fu summoned more chains and dragged the sun down, injuring Bai Haoran.
• The Six Paths Demon Gods surrounded the chained barrier and attacked it with their weapons until cracks spread across it.
• Bai Shengjun watched the barrier near breaking as the Six Paths Demon Gods continued their assault.

The white-haired youth joined Bai Shengjun in attacking Zhao Fu, leaving Zhao Fu unable to use the Six Paths Demon Idols as Bai Shengjun restrained them. Zhao Fu and the youth unleashed their strongest powers against each other, and their attacks collided in a world-shaking clash.

• The white-haired youth arrived and struck Zhao Fu, then proposed joining forces with Bai Shengjun to kill him.
• Bai Shengjun agreed and used five-colored tentacles to restrain the Six Paths Demon Idols while the white-haired youth attacked Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu fought back with the King's Profound Meaning and the Death Clan Sword, but the white-haired youth struck him and summoned a blood tiger.
• Zhao Fu pierced through the blood tiger with seventy-two blood spears, but the white-haired youth appeared beside him and kicked him away.
• Zhao Fu burned his Emperor's Blood and unleashed a vast sea of corpses with the Massacre Sword as the white-haired youth transformed into a thousand-meter blood-colored giant.
• The sea of corpses collided with the giant's charge, and both attacks rapidly lost power in the resulting explosion.

Zhao Fu fought Bai Shengjun and the white-haired youth, who overwhelmed him until he unleashed the Imperial Killing Sword’s power. As thousands of sword souls charged at his enemies, both opponents summoned their defenses again.

• The blood-colored giant hurled a spear at Zhao Fu, and Zhao Fu cleaved it apart before the Six Paths Demon Idols began resisting his control and he pulled them back into his body.
• Bai Shengjun withdrew the Five Elements World, and he and the white-haired youth attacked Zhao Fu together while distant observers gathered to watch.
• The two opponents knocked Zhao Fu into a crater and prepared to kill him, but he unleashed a vast sword strike and transformed, his eyes and hair turning blood-red as he revealed the Imperial Killing Sword.
• Zhao Fu summoned more than ten thousand sword souls and sent them charging at Bai Shengjun and the white-haired youth, who answered with the Five Elements World and the Blood Spirit Divine Man.

Zhao Fu fought Bai Shengjun and the white-haired youth in a devastating two-on-one battle. After all three unleashed their strongest attacks, their powers collided in an explosion that annihilated everything within a hundred li.

• Zhao Fu struck Bai Haoran aside, then held off the white-haired youth's crimson giant and Bai Shengjun's Five Elements power.
• Bai Shengjun and the white-haired youth enlarged their powers and joined forces against Zhao Fu as onlookers recognized him as the Imperial Son.
• The three fighters traded increasingly powerful attacks and were all sent flying with injuries.
• Bai Shengjun unleashed Five Elements Annihilation, while the white-haired youth formed the Heavenly Serpent from his crimson spear.
• Zhao Fu summoned a black-crimson magic formation and brought down countless crimson sword lights against both opponents' attacks.
• The three attacks collided, destroying everything within a hundred li and leaving the land shattered.

Zhao Fu survived the battle, discovered that the white-haired youth had died from a secret technique’s backlash, and learned that Bai Shengjun had escaped. Meanwhile, Zang Wuyue went to question Zang Mingyue about the person who had insulted the Zang Empire.

• Zhao Fu found the white-haired youth’s corpse, and Golden Dragon identified him as a Heaven and Earth Realm expert who had died from backlash rather than Zhao Fu’s attack.
• Zhao Fu failed to find Bai Shengjun, then hid and healed while Syndra stood guard; the rankings showed Zhao Fu still first and the white-haired youth’s name gone.
• Bai Haoran helped the injured Bai Shengjun flee, and Bai Shengjun admitted that he had lost despite using his master’s means and joining forces with another opponent.
• Zang Mingyue returned to the Zang Empire and asked his royal father to send Emperor Heaven Realm experts to punish Zhao Fu.
• Zang Wuyue visited Zang Mingyue and asked him to explain what had happened before deciding how to respond.

Zang Mingyue told Zang Wuyue about Zhao Fu and his unusually pure Emperor Blood, prompting the Zang Empire to use Ghost Emperor Tracking to locate him. The secret art failed against a deadly force surrounding Zhao Fu and unleashed an Imperial Ruin Curse, which the Zang ruler eventually suppressed.

• Zang Mingyue recounted his defeat by Zhao Fu, and Zang Wuyue concluded that Zhao Fu possessed First-Generation Emperor Blood.
• Zang Wuyue told the Zang Empire’s ruler and court about Zhao Fu, and the ruler ordered them to use the empire’s secret art to find him.
• A priest used Ghost Emperor Tracking with Zhao Fu’s bloodstained garment, but the Ghost Emperor’s consciousness was swallowed by a sea of deathly mist.
• The Ghost Emperor shattered, and the resulting deathly aura devoured the life force of nearby soldiers and resisted the ruler’s Emperor’s Power.
• The ruler recognized the force as the Imperial Ruin Curse and used immense Emperor’s Power to destroy it.

The Zang Empire discovered that the person behind the Imperial Ruin Curse was so dangerous that Heaven's Secret Pavilion refused to track him, while Zhao Fu remained unaware and explored the ruins. After finding a Taiji Stone and learning how to produce Darkness Crystals, Zhao Fu reached the second level, where an ordinary young man seemed to be waiting for him.

• The refined middle-aged man ordered the Zang Empire to keep the Imperial Ruin Curse secret and investigate the person behind it, but Heaven's Secret Pavilion refused to calculate his whereabouts and the search uncovered nothing.
• The refined middle-aged man decided the Zang Empire would either pay to resolve the enmity or eliminate the person, while Zang Mingyue was placed under temporary confinement.
• Zhao Fu recovered from his injuries, opened the white-haired old man's storage ring, and discovered that the man had been a Heaven and Earth Realm expert and kingdom ruler.
• Zhao Fu fused the Taiji Stone into his body through the Sun Demon and Moon Demon marks, then asked Syndra how to produce Darkness Crystals and learned the method from the Golden Dragon.
• Zhao Fu explored the third level, obtained a clearance token, Darkness King Crystal, and Darkness King Bloodline, then entered the second level with Syndra and encountered a smiling young man.

Zhao Fu encountered Wu Wu, a powerful Heaven Domain fighter who forced him into battle and overwhelmed him with sheer strength. After Wu Wu challenged him to reveal his hidden power, Zhao Fu unleashed the Imperial Killing Sword and unleashed a devastating attack across the second layer.

• Wu Wu introduced himself as a member of the Wu Family in the Heaven Domain and attacked Zhao Fu despite Zhao Fu's refusal to fight.
• Wu Wu shattered Zhao Fu's Emperor Domain, knocked him through a giant tree, and countered his blood spears, ghostly chains, and sword attack.
• Wu Wu appeared behind Zhao Fu and struck him down, then said Zhao Fu could not defeat him without using his hidden power.
• Zhao Fu unleashed the Imperial Killing Sword, turning the sky blood-red and surrounding himself with black-blood flames.
• Zhao Fu swung the Imperial Killing Sword and carved a massive scar into the ground, sending a terrifying power across the second layer and drawing the attention of nearby fighters.