Chapter Summaries

Tao Yang survived an attack by Grotto-heaven Disciples after Zhu Yan invoked Lu Xingshi’s reputation to make the attackers retreat. Tang Bo arrived and took Tao Yang away, while Zhu Yan and Wang Cai followed them after receiving Lu Xingshi’s transmission.

• Wang Cai fought the attackers outside while Zhu Yan killed an assassin who tried to strike Tao Yang.
• Tao Yang warned the attackers that the Yan Emperor was returning, and they withdrew rather than face Zhu Yan.
• Wang Cai returned wounded, and Zhu Yan refused Tao Yang’s request to escort him back to the city.
• Tang Bo arrived, explained that Qi Country was in chaos, and took Tao Yang with him while leaving the others behind.
• Zhu Yan and Wang Cai received Lu Xingshi’s transmission and followed Tang Bo and Tao Yang into the darkness.

Tang Bo brought Tao Yang to an artificial Secret Realm, hoping to obtain the martial arts inheritance that would complete his counterfeit Son of Heaven Destiny. The Realm activated in an unexpected way, and Lu Xingshi arrived, exposing Tang Bo’s secret and warning that the Realm had developed a problem.

• Tang Bo explained that he possessed the Divine Weapon Embryo Terror and that the Mysterious Spirit Society had created an artificial Secret Realm to produce its corresponding martial arts inheritance.
• The artificial Secret Realm activated and spread outward, while Tang Bo’s cooperation with the royal family and Tao Family was revealed as a plan to protect their bloodlines amid the chaos.
• Tao Yang recognized the spreading radiance as a Secret Realm, and Tang Bo realized its behavior differed from what the Mysterious Spirit Society’s legacy described.
• Lu Xingshi arrived with Zhu Yan and Wang Cai, revealed that he had learned about Terror from a surviving Mysterious Spirit Society creator, and exposed Tang Bo’s background.
• Tang Bo restrained his guards, and Tao Yang asked Lu Xingshi what had gone wrong; Lu Xingshi said the Realm’s flaw could mean death and suggested Tang Bo might know more.

Lu Xingshi explored the collapsing artificial Secret Realm that reproduced the Mysterious Spirit Society, fighting starving desiccated corpses as he headed toward its Underground Palace. Tang Bo was teleported there separately, where Tao Yang died saving him and Tang Bo fled using Terror.

• Lu Xingshi realized the artificial Secret Realm would collapse within about two days and was recreating the Mysterious Spirit Society in its ancient, freezing environment.
• Lu Xingshi found and killed a desiccated corpse in a provisions chamber, then left to seek the Underground Palace.
• Lu Xingshi crossed the black-snow-covered ruins and killed the desiccated corpses that attacked him.
• Tao Yang shoved Tang Bo out of a desiccated corpse's attack, was fatally bitten, and urged Tang Bo to escape.
• Tang Bo activated Terror's bluffing effect to get away, then wondered why the Underground Palace was full of monsters instead of the Society Leader.

Lu Xingshi uncovered the Mysterious Spirit Society’s records and learned how its artificial Secret Realm survived Heaven and Earth’s Decline, then set out to find Tang Bo and claim the Divine Weapon Embryo Terror. Tang Bo met the Mysterious Spirit Society Leader, who revealed that he could not complete Terror and that Tang Bo would have to find a way himself.

• Lu Xingshi searched the underground palace and recorded the Mysterious Spirit Society’s research on artificial Divine Weapons and Secret Realms.
• Lu Xingshi discovered that Grotto-heaven Ancestors had shared Cave Heaven data with the Mysterious Spirit Society, giving its artificial Secret Realm traits that let it survive across eras.
• Lu Xingshi noticed the desiccated corpses had gone quiet and suspected Tang Bo or the malfunctioning Secret Realm was responsible, so he decided to find Tang Bo and take his opportunity.
• Tang Bo met the Mysterious Spirit Society Leader, who confirmed that the society had been destroyed in the previous era and could not complete Divine Weapon Terror.
• The Mysterious Spirit Society Leader told Tang Bo that only he could make Terror grow, but admitted he did not know how and said the Divine Weapon had chosen Tang Bo as its master.

Lu Xingshi defeated the Mysterious Spirit Society Leader and obtained Divine Weapon Terror after Tang Bo escaped the first attack but was caught in the destruction of the underground palace. He decided to remain in the Artificial Secret Realm to study it rather than return to Yan Kingdom immediately.

• Lu Xingshi confronted Tang Bo and the Mysterious Spirit Society Leader, then refused the Leader's offer of the Decayed Wood Returns to Spring Scripture unless he also surrendered Terror.
• The Mysterious Spirit Society Leader rejected Lu Xingshi's demand and held off his first Great Handprint long enough for Tang Bo to flee the room.
• Lu Xingshi unleashed a second Great Handprint that destroyed the underground palace and killed the Mysterious Spirit Society Leader and Tang Bo.
• Lu Xingshi searched the ruins and found Divine Weapon Terror, whose attributes were Ferocious Might +10 and Heavenly Mandate +7.
• Lu Xingshi chose to stay in the Artificial Secret Realm to study it instead of destroying it or returning to Yan Kingdom.

After escaping the Artificial Secret Realm with the incomplete Heart-Stabilizing Wisdom prototype, Lu Xingshi killed the Grotto-heaven Disciples who confronted him in Qi Country and discovered that a Cave-heaven Ancestor had intervened through a projection. He realized Cave Heavens could yield enormous Influence Value and planned to use the Mysterious Spirit Society’s technology to drag one into the Mortal World ahead of schedule.

• Lu Xingshi examined the Heart-Stabilizing Wisdom prototype and concluded that he would use it as raw material rather than complete it.
• Lu Xingshi encountered the Grotto-heaven Disciples and their troops outside the shattered Secret Realm, then trapped and killed them with Limitless Realm.
• A Grotto-heaven Ancestor’s projection tried to save the disciples, but Lu Xingshi spotted it and let it self-detonate.
• Lu Xingshi noticed that destroying the group had advanced Divine Weapon All Under Heaven and deduced that the Influence Value came from the Cave Heavens.
• Lu Xingshi decided to study the Artificial Secret Realm technology and use it to pull a Cave Heaven into the Mortal World before it could normally appear.

Lu Xingshi explored the struggling Wei Capital and learned how Grotto-heaven Disciples had seized control from the Noble families amid the Wei Emperor’s illness and succession crisis. At a banquet where the Nangong Family gave its daughter to a Grotto-heaven Disciple as a concubine, Lu Xingshi intervened when her former fiancé caused a disturbance.

• Lu Xingshi learned that Grotto-heaven Disciples had coerced the Noble families, while inflation and political turmoil weakened the Wei Kingdom.
• Lu Xingshi heard that the Nangong Family was holding a three-day banquet and suspected it was linked to a Cave Heaven faction.
• Lu Xingshi discovered that the banquet celebrated the Nangong Family’s Eldest Daughter becoming a Grotto-heaven Disciple’s concubine, not someone entering a Cave Heaven as a disciple.
• Lu Xingshi learned that the woman’s childhood sweetheart and former fiancé had confronted the Nangong Family after they tore up their engagement to curry favor with the powerful.
• Lu Xingshi stood up to speak on the young man’s behalf, then sat back down and told the Nangong Family he had come to take sides.

Lu Xingshi intervened in the Nangong Family’s conflict and acquired the Xun Wind Jade Pendant from a dying young man whose beloved had taken her own life. After promising to bury them together, he killed the nobles who tried to seize the pendant and resolved to destroy the Nangong Family and Prince Xin Wu Kuo.

• Lu Xingshi beat the Nangong Family men who tried to intimidate him, then challenged Nangong Fei after learning Prince Xin Wu Kuo had obtained the Son of Heaven Destiny.
• The young man whose fiancée had been stolen unleashed the Xun Wind Jade Pendant’s wind blades, killing Nangong Fei and the rest of the Nangong Family at the cost of his vitality.
• Lu Xingshi helped the dying young man reach his beloved, but they found that she had poisoned herself and died.
• The young man gave Lu Xingshi the Xun Wind Jade Pendant and clues to seven others, asked him to bury them together, and then took poison and died beside her.
• Lu Xingshi carried the bodies out and vowed to destroy the Nangong Family and Prince Xin Wu Kuo, then burned the minds and spirits of the nobles who tried to take the pendant with his Mysterious Nether Fire.

Lu Xingshi rejected the Wei Emperor’s attempts to bargain for his help and left him to face Wei Kingdom’s crisis. After the Wei Emperor’s advisers discussed killing Lu Xingshi, Lu returned and crushed Wei Capital with his Great Handprint.

• Lu Xingshi discovered that the damaged Xun Wind Jade Pendant was overdrawn and would take at least a hundred days to recover.
• The Wei Emperor offered Lu Xingshi territory or a Blessed Land in exchange for support, but Lu rejected both proposals and refused an alliance.
• The Wei Emperor departed and considered having his forces kill Lu Xingshi, while Lin Ning warned that doing so would bring disaster upon Wei Kingdom.
• Lu Xingshi overheard the Wei Emperor’s party plotting and declared that he would raze Wei Capital to prevent others from thinking him easy to bully.
• Lu Xingshi struck Wei Capital with his Great Handprint and crushed the entire city.

After destroying Wei Capital, Lu Xingshi killed a Grotto-heaven Ancestor's projection and defeated Lin Ning, then found a map to the other seven Jade Pendants. The Grotto-heaven Ancestors realized he could detect their projections and began testing the discovery.

• Lu Xingshi finished the meridian tier of Divine Weapon All Under Heaven and considered how to use Gu Insects to build customizable acupoints.
• Lu Xingshi sensed and seized a Grotto-heaven Ancestor's projection, then pulverized it before it could escape.
• Lin Ning confronted Lu Xingshi over Wei Capital's destruction, and Zhu Yan killed Lin Ning when he attacked.
• Lu Xingshi used the genealogy book Zhu Yan retrieved to reveal a map marking the locations of the remaining seven Jade Pendants.
• The Grotto-heaven Ancestors learned Lu Xingshi could detect their projections, and Western Mysterious Ancestor prepared to test the claim with his projection.

Lu Xingshi entered a city controlled by Marquis Lu Niu Jie while searching for the remaining Jade Pendants. After the innkeeper drugged him and tried to steal his pendant, Lu Xingshi stopped him and learned that Marquis Lu possessed a matching one.

• Lu Xingshi traveled through the Wei Kingdom while developing companion spirit creatures and Gu Insects, reaching his limit at 9,999 Gu Insects installed in his body.
• Lu Xingshi entered a city controlled by Niu Jie, known as Marquis Lu, and checked into an inn after showing his Travel Permit.
• The shop waiter brought Lu Xingshi a lavish meal laced with a weak sedative, which Lu Xingshi ate before pretending to fall asleep.
• The innkeeper and waiter entered at midnight to steal Lu Xingshi's Jade Pendant, and the innkeeper tried to untie his belt when the pendant would not come off.
• Lu Xingshi woke, crushed the innkeeper's knife, and demanded to know why he wanted the pendant; the innkeeper admitted that Marquis Lu had one too.

Lu Xingshi learned that Marquis Lu Niu Jie might possess the remaining Xun Wind Jade Pendants and planned to kill him to take them. After a soldier arrested the innkeeper for murder, Lu Xingshi left the city to confront Marquis Lu, while Hu Ji uncovered the innkeeper’s crimes during interrogation.

• Lu Xingshi learned that the innkeeper had targeted his jade pendant and speculated that Marquis Lu Niu Jie might have gathered the remaining pendants.
• The innkeeper brought soldiers to Lu Xingshi’s room, but the soldier doubted the innkeeper’s claims and arrested him instead.
• Lu Xingshi decided to leave the city and go after Marquis Lu, and he considered recruiting the fair-minded soldier for Yan Kingdom.
• Hu Ji questioned the innkeeper, dismissed his claims about Lu Xingshi’s jade pendant, and confronted him with evidence of murder and human remains hidden in the inn.

Lu Xingshi destroyed the White Horse Mysterious Light Grotto-heaven’s influence in the Wei Kingdom and claimed the Spiritual Pivot Disk, but he could not learn how to use it. Ancestor Wu Ling sacrificed an incarnation to kill Niu Jie and taunted Lu Xingshi before the Grotto-heaven Ancestors learned that the disk had fallen into his hands.

• Lu Xingshi examined the Spiritual Pivot Disk and discovered that its powers were limited by the current state of heaven and earth, making it weaker than the Xun Wind Jade Pendant had been.
• Lu Xingshi tried to make Marquis Lu Niu Jie reveal the disk’s method of use, and Niu Jie yielded after Lu Xingshi prepared torture instruments infused with True Qi.
• Lu Xingshi began torturing Niu Jie, but Ancestor Wu Ling’s incarnation arrived and killed Niu Jie to spare him further suffering.
• Ancestor Wu Ling refused to explain how to use the Spiritual Pivot Disk and mocked Lu Xingshi, who smashed the incarnation to pieces.
• Ancestor Wu Ling told the other Grotto-heaven Ancestors that Lu Xingshi had obtained the Spiritual Pivot Disk but did not know how to use it.

Lu Xingshi arrived in Prince Xin Wu Kuo’s territory seeking Divine Weapons, inheritances, and information about the Spiritual Pivot Disk. Wu Kuo prepared an extravagant welcome to deter him, while Ancestor Linhai offered little help and warned that the plan could let a wolf into the house.

• Lu Xingshi put the Spiritual Pivot Disk away after deciding he could not safely dismantle it, then headed for Wu Kuo’s territory to seize resources and seek information.
• After learning that Lu Xingshi had killed Niu Jie, Wu Kuo’s subordinates reported that someone was asking about him, and Wu Kuo recognized the visitor as Lu Xingshi.
• Wu Kuo accepted his strategist’s plan to invite Lu Xingshi publicly and honor him with the rites due a monarch, hoping public pressure would prevent an attack.
• Wu Kuo contacted the Chengde Yin Xuan Grotto-heaven for support, while Ancestor Linhai judged the plan risky and said Wu Kuo could flee if he could not prevail.

Lu Xingshi killed Wu Kuo after Wu Kuo refused to surrender his Divine Weapon, then searched Prince Xin Residence for the Martial Arts Method and the Art of Spiritual Pivot. He let one of Wu Kuo’s concubines go after she revealed where the secret art was hidden, and prepared to destroy the residence.

• Wu Kuo welcomed Lu Xingshi at Prince Xin Residence, but Lu Xingshi killed a scholar who interrupted their conversation.
• Wu Kuo refused to hand over the Divine Weapon, entered the Heavenly Mandate State, and attacked Lu Xingshi, who killed him with one punch.
• Lu Xingshi took the Divine Weapon and found its corresponding Martial Arts Method in Wu Kuo’s study.
• A concubine offered the Art of Spiritual Pivot in exchange for her life and led Lu Xingshi to Wu Kuo’s hidden storage cabinet.
• Lu Xingshi took the Art of Spiritual Pivot and gave the concubine one incense stick’s time to leave before he leveled Prince Xin Residence.

Lu Xingshi assessed the Spiritual Pivot Disk and his other materials, but could not yet determine how to refine a Luck Dao treasure. He set aside a risky code-modification approach and turned his attention to Wei Kingdom and the Grotto-heaven Forces’ plans to seize Son of Heaven Destinies.

• Lu Xingshi realized the Spiritual Pivot Disk was a Luck Dao treasure that could channel a faction’s strength to himself or enhance a group, rather than control elements.
• Lu Xingshi considered refining the Disk with the Earth Mother Book and using Influence Value to nourish Divine Weapon All Under Heaven, but lacked a reliable method to mobilize Luck Dao.
• Lu Xingshi considered modifying the Heavenly Spirit and Earthly Fiend Demon Stars Descend Upon the World trait’s code to bypass refining, but worried the incomplete translation could cause defects.
• Lu Xingshi decided to deal with Wei Kingdom’s Son of Heaven Destiny holders first and let his Mandate of Heaven Attribute rise before revisiting the refining problem.
• Lu Xingshi noted that Yan Kingdom’s Influence Value was recovering after Grotto-heaven Forces’ sabotage and considered provoking them to keep his faction united.
• Lu Xingshi suspected the withdrawing Grotto-heaven Forces would seize Son of Heaven Destinies before leaving Wei Kingdom, and resolved to learn how they managed it.

After finishing his campaign in the Wei Kingdom, Lu Xingshi chose to return to the Yan Kingdom and look for Feng Renjie along the way. At a ruined temple, he confronted an armed group fleeing with a veiled woman, and Wang Cai prepared to force them out.

• Lu Xingshi absorbed the Divine Weapons into Divine Weapon All Under Heaven, then made it reabsorb the excess red liquid metal it had spilled.
• Lu Xingshi weighed returning to the Yan Kingdom against attacking other dynasties and decided to head home while looking for Feng Renjie.
• A group of armored knights escorting a veiled woman arrived at the ruined temple and demanded that Lu Xingshi give up his shelter.
• Lu Xingshi refused to leave, and Wang Cai and Zhu Yan entered carrying firewood.
• When the knights insulted Wang Cai, Lu Xingshi ordered it to drive them out; the woman agreed to leave, but Wang Cai insisted they roll away, angering the lead knight.

Lu Xingshi captured two rival groups fighting over a treasure, only to discover that the Marrow Cleansing Pearl had already been absorbed by the servant Wang Sheng. Wang Sheng planned to rescue the Yu Family young lady, while Lu Xingshi decided to use her as bait to draw him out.

• Lu Xingshi had Wang Cai and Zhu Yan hang both groups upside down and forced them to explain their dispute over a treasure.
• When searches found no treasure, the pursuers blamed Wang Sheng, a servant of the female fugitive’s household.
• Lu Xingshi dismissed the man’s attempt to use him against Wang Sheng and decided to lure Wang Sheng out with the young lady as bait.
• Wang Sheng absorbed the Marrow Cleansing Pearl, improved his aptitude, and planned to rescue the young lady to gain the Mystic God Great Art.

Lu Xingshi encountered Wang Sheng as he planned to rescue Young Miss Wei, then took the Marrow Cleansing Pearl after Wang Sheng freed her. He discovered that killing Wang Sheng could cause his Luck Value to collapse, suspected the world was producing protagonists to eliminate him, and decided to kill Wang Sheng before he became a greater threat.

• Wang Sheng planned to lure the Yu Family guards away from the ruined temple, and Lu Xingshi approached him and refused to help without payment.
• Lu Xingshi deduced that Wang Sheng had a treasure and watched as Wang Sheng used a crude diversion to rescue Young Miss Wei.
• Young Miss Wei urged Wang Sheng to hand over the Marrow Cleansing Pearl, and Wang Sheng gave it to Lu Xingshi before leaving with her.
• Lu Xingshi noticed that attacking Wang Sheng could drive his Luck Value to zero or below, so he let the pair go for the moment.
• Lu Xingshi wondered whether Wang Sheng and other unusual figures were agents of the world meant to eliminate him, then decided to kill Wang Sheng before he could become a threat.

Lu Xingshi killed Wang Sheng and Wei Xian, then discovered Wang Sheng’s system crystal and learned that his Heavenly Luck Pearl was part of a larger treasure set. After using Gold Coins to reverse the backlash from killing a system-backed protagonist, Lu Xingshi began investigating a tracking marker, while distant Grotto-heaven Ancestors noticed that heaven and earth’s recovery had slowed.

• Wei Xian demanded revenge, but Wang Sheng refused to fight the Yu Family and the mysterious man who had defeated her.
• Lu Xingshi tracked Wang Sheng and Wei Xian down and crushed them with the Great Handprint, triggering a severe Luck Dao backlash that he reversed by spending Gold Coins.
• Lu Xingshi recovered a purple system crystal from the remains and found that it reacted to the system crystal he had obtained from Li Xuandao.
• Lu Xingshi retrieved the Heavenly Luck Pearl, realized it was an incomplete set treasure, and suspected Wang Sheng’s system had skimmed the benefits of its marrow-cleansing effect.
• Lu Xingshi identified a tracking marker attached to his Martial Arts Game Character and began searching its code while considering how to handle the system crystals.
• The Western Mysterious Ancestor and other Grotto-heaven Ancestors noticed heaven and earth’s recovery had slowed and speculated that an anomalous disaster star or a newly reborn transmigrator was responsible.