Chapter Summaries

Lu Xingshi found the Earthly and Human Luck Pearls while traveling through Jin Kingdom and encountered bandits impersonating him as Yan Emperor. He exposed their leader’s bewitching ability and ordered the captive impostor stripped, leaving a strange chest tattoo as the likely source of his power.

• Lu Xingshi found the Earthly and Human Luck Pearls in a destroyed Secret Realm and learned their effects on Physical Constitution, cultivation speed, and Spiritual Luck.
• Lu Xingshi ran into bandits in Jin Kingdom who claimed their boss served Yan Emperor, so he ordered Zhu Yan to cripple one and reveal the stronghold’s location.
• Lu Xingshi confronted the young man posing as Yan Emperor and resisted his mental bewitchment with the Purple Star Emperor’s effect, exposing him as a fraud.
• The stronghold chief and bandits seized the impostor and handed him to Lu Xingshi after realizing they had been bewitched.
• Lu Xingshi had the bandits strip the impostor, found a strange tattoo on his chest, and suspected it granted his ability.

Lu Xingshi uncovered Black Heaven’s role in a plot to ruin his reputation and killed the agent who possessed Guan Shu. Black Heaven’s surviving Children discussed replacing the dead operative and continued preparing for Black Heaven’s descent.

• Guan Shu told Lu Xingshi that Black Heaven had recruited him, given him an incomplete Bewitching Heart Seal, and sent him to damage Lu Xingshi’s reputation.
• Lu Xingshi learned that Guan Shu knew little about Black Heaven’s hidden base, then refused his plea for mercy and rejected his offer to serve.
• Guan Shu activated a fatal technique and attacked Lu Xingshi, but Zhu Yan restrained him as a Black Heaven member took control of his body.
• Lu Xingshi traced the mind-control connection and struck the intruder twice, killing him and Guan Shu before turning toward the bandits.
• The Children of Black Heaven discussed replacing the dead member, and an aged voice arrived praising Black Heaven’s coming descent.

Lu Xingshi learned that the Black Heaven Organization had chosen him as the Black Sun King, a vessel for Black Heaven’s descent, and discovered that the Grotto-heaven Ancestors intended to use him against them. He took the threat seriously, while the Ancestors agreed to let him confront Black Heaven as their vanguard.

• Lu Xingshi entered the desert and found that he could only suppress the Yellow Sand Poison Fire for three days, too briefly to clear a route for the Yan Army.
• The Western Mysterious Ancestor told Lu Xingshi that the Children of Black Heaven had revived across eras and that their attacks could accelerate Black Heaven’s formation.
• The Western Mysterious Ancestor revealed that the Black Heaven Organization had chosen Lu Xingshi as the Black Sun King, the vessel for Black Heaven’s descent.
• Lu Xingshi questioned the Western Mysterious Ancestor about the organization and Secret Realms, then prepared to destroy his projection, which dissipated on its own.
• The Western Mysterious Ancestor recounted the encounter to the other Ancestor projections, and they agreed that Lu Xingshi would serve as their vanguard against Black Heaven.

Lu Xingshi returned to the Yan Kingdom and saw how rapidly True Qi Technology had transformed the country, while recognizing the growing strain between its development and its lower levels. He told his officials he would stay to address the problem and expected to indirectly resolve the Poison Fire and Sword Qi within a year by eliminating the Grotto-heaven Forces.

• Lu Xingshi arrived in Saibei, examined the Yan Kingdom’s railways, communications, and upgraded military, and traveled to the Capital on a private train.
• Lu Xingshi praised the railway workers and reflected that the Yan Kingdom needed to redirect its internal conflicts outward before rapid development caused greater strain.
• Luo Lin, Pei Ming, and others welcomed Lu Xingshi at the Capital, where he reviewed reports and learned that the lower levels were struggling to keep pace with the country’s growth.
• Lu Xingshi said he had returned to address the problems and expected to remain in the Yan Kingdom for about a year.
• Pei Lin asked if Lu Xingshi could pacify the Poison Fire and Sword Qi, and Lu Xingshi said he would solve the crisis indirectly by eliminating the Grotto-heaven Forces.

After a year of work, Lu Xingshi completed the Luck Dao Companion Spirit Object Golden Crow, though it still needed a day to hatch. He used its power to begin feeding the Yan Kingdom’s Influence Value into Divine Weapon All Under Heaven while keeping the kingdom’s Influence Value unchanged with modifications.

• Lu Xingshi spent a year refining a Luck Dao Companion Spirit Object from the Earth Mother Book, the Three Luck Beads, the Spiritual Pivot Disk, and other treasures.
• Black Heaven sent a projection to attack Lu Xingshi’s mind, but he destroyed it with Limitless Realm before it could leave a trace.
• Lu Xingshi chose to shape the Companion Spirit Object as a two-footed Golden Crow, blending the Dark Bird with the sun-associated creature.
• The completed Golden Crow merged into Lu Xingshi and revealed talents including Heavenly Secrets, Fortune Devouring, and Spirit Vein, but remained an egg that needed a day to hatch.
• Lu Xingshi activated Divine Weapon All Under Heaven and used Golden Crow to feed it the Yan Kingdom’s National Luck and Heavenly Mandate while modifying the falling Influence Value back to its original level.

Lu Xingshi completed his Great Saint Body and formed the Mountains and Rivers Sheji Diagram as his Son of Heaven Destiny, then assessed the limits on his further growth. After a year of peaceful development, he ordered Yan Kingdom’s Ministry of Revenue to bring its accounts for inspection.

• Lu Xingshi perfected his Great Saint Body and chose the Mountains and Rivers Sheji Diagram over the Golden Crow for his Son of Heaven Destiny.
• Lu Xingshi concluded he had surpassed the world’s spiritual energy recovery limit and explained that martial arts overlap and attribute caps restricted his further growth.
• Lu Xingshi decided to keep developing until his attributes and Innate One Qi were complete before leaving the mountain.
• Lu Xingshi summoned the Ministry of Revenue and the inner guard commander to inspect Yan Kingdom’s yearly accounts.
• The eunuch delivered the summons, while Ministry of Revenue personnel began preparing the kingdom’s account books.

Lu Xingshi inspected Yan Kingdom’s ministries, assessed its military strength and lingering problems, and announced that he could now overcome the Grotto-heaven Forces’ defenses. He ordered preparations for war, giving his ministers half a month to mobilize Yan Kingdom before he set out.

• Lu Xingshi audited the Ministry of Revenue and inspected the Ministries of Industry and War, finding that Yan Kingdom had developed powerful True Qi armies but also faced problems caused by its rapid growth.
• Lu Xingshi considered the benefits of expanding Yan Kingdom and noted that his Three-Dimensional Attributes and ability caps were too costly to raise further with Gold Coins.
• Lu Xingshi summoned his ministers to the Hall of Heavenly Purity and told them he had broken through again and could quell the Great Abyss Sword Qi and Yellow Sand Poison Fire.
• Luo Lin asked when Lu Xingshi would set out, and Pei Ming said Yan Kingdom could mobilize in three days.
• Lu Xingshi gave the ministers half a month to prepare for war and warned Pei Ming that he would bear responsibility if problems remained.

Lu Xingshi confronted the Western Mysterious Ancestor, rejected the Grotto-heaven Forces’ possible surrender, and demonstrated the power he had prepared for the coming war. The Western Mysterious Ancestor faced Lu Xingshi’s Companion Spirit Object and newly revealed Divine Weapon as battle approached.

• Lu Xingshi detected the Western Mysterious Ancestor’s projection outside Tiange Pass and discussed Yan Kingdom’s rising power and the Grotto-heaven Forces’ plans.
• The Western Mysterious Ancestor asked whether Lu Xingshi would recruit the ancestors if they lost, but Lu Xingshi refused and vowed to wipe out everyone in Cave Heaven.
• The Western Mysterious Ancestor threatened Yan Kingdom and unleashed Poison Fire Sword Qi made from Great Abyss Sword Qi and Yellow Sand Poison Fire.
• Lu Xingshi suppressed the attack with his Companion Spirit Object, Golden Crow, and revealed that the Grotto-heaven Ancestors had underestimated his strength.
• Lu Xingshi began transforming with his Divine Weapon, All Under Heaven, while the Western Mysterious Ancestor watched.

Lu Xingshi used the Eastern Sovereign Form and his ultimate Limitless Realm to destroy the Grotto-heaven Ancestors’ incarnations and flatten the Yellow Sand Poison Fire desert, then burned the surviving Western Mysterious Ancestor. Meanwhile, Black Cross realized Yan Kingdom’s power made a direct confrontation hopeless and began scheming to escape Black Heaven’s control.

• Lu Xingshi summoned the Jade Emperor Phantom and used his ultimate Limitless Realm to shatter the forty-six Grotto-heaven Ancestors’ incarnations and compress the desert.
• Lu Xingshi found the Western Mysterious Ancestor’s projection still alive and burned it with Golden Crow Mysterious Fire.
• The Children of Black Heaven learned the desert no longer blocked the way into Yan Kingdom, and Black Cross proposed targeting Lu Xingshi from Jin Kingdom instead.
• After the other Children of Black Heaven left, Black Cross admitted he feared Lu Xingshi’s power and began plotting to free himself from Black Heaven.

After the Grotto-heaven Ancestors failed to stop Lu Xingshi, the nations prepared to resist the Yan Army’s advance into Jin Kingdom. Tian Fu’s forces entered Jin Kingdom after civilians refused to clear the road, and Tian Jian killed Black Meteor, who had stirred up the resistance.

• News of the Yan Army’s coming spread, and the Grotto-heaven Disciples formed an alliance after learning that Lu Xingshi had destroyed the Ancestors’ incarnations and their battlefield barriers.
• The nations sent troops into Jin Kingdom, but Tian Fu and Tian Jian’s Ground Armored Forces reached its border first.
• Tian Fu discovered that the Black Heaven Organization had incited civilians to block the army, announced that the Yan Army would not collect grain, and gave them half an hour to move.
• When the civilians remained in the army’s path, Tian Fu ordered the forces to enter Jin Kingdom and kill anyone who stood before them.
• Tian Jian attacked Black Meteor, who had been watching the army, and killed him after he fled using Black Heaven’s power.

Tian Fu’s Yan Army took control of Jin Kingdom, and Pei Ming arrived to interrogate its former ministers and nobles over their support for the Black Heaven Organization’s smear campaign against Lu Xingshi. Tian Fu left to continue the conquest while Pei Ming prepared a purge and warned that the suspects would face torture or death.

• Jin Kingdom’s upper echelon surrendered after the Yan Army swiftly defeated the weakened state, but Tian Fu rejected their claims of innocence and ordered them to cooperate with an investigation.
• Pei Ming arrived and proposed leveling the Jin imperial palace, while Tian Fu said the decision required Prime Minister Luo’s approval.
• Pei Ming and Tian Fu determined that former Jin officials had sheltered Black Heaven Organization members who smeared Lu Xingshi, and Pei Ming selected an eager defendant to face interrogation first.
• Tian Fu left to continue conquering kingdoms after Pei Ming promised to secure the rear and produce results within three days.
• Pei Ming’s subordinates brought in torture instruments, and he prepared to interrogate the former Jin ministers and nobles.

Lu Xingshi studied captured Children of Black Heaven and failed to create a contagious version of the Golden Book Jade Scroll, concluding he needed Black Cross to reach Black Heaven. Black Cross received a warning that his life was in danger and decided to flee from Lu Xingshi.

• Lu Xingshi reviewed Pei Ming's report that former Jin nobles who colluded with the Black Heaven Organization had been executed or had their clans punished.
• Lu Xingshi examined captured Children of Black Heaven, inferred that Black Heaven was a strange natural phenomenon, and learned that Black Cross had vanished after an internal conflict.
• Lu Xingshi tested a modified Golden Book Jade Scroll made from the Ten Evils Great Art and Children of Black Heaven, but it failed because the Children were not powerful enough.
• Black Cross recovered from injuries he had deliberately inflicted to escape the Black Heaven Organization's internal turmoil and heard that Jin Kingdom had fallen.
• Black Heaven warned Black Cross of danger, leading him to suspect Lu Xingshi and plan to flee rather than face the death tribulation.

Lu Xingshi searched for Black Cross while testing ways to drag Cave Heavens into the Mortal World, but Black Heaven attacked him before he could find his target. He wounded Black Heaven and drove it off, then resolved to uncover the truth about Azure Heaven and find Black Cross.

• Lu Xingshi traveled through Jin Territory, dealt with its Secret Realms, and continued experimenting with Cave Heaven positioning.
• Lu Xingshi sensed a watcher, and Black Heaven attacked him with lightning and a voice declaring that Mysterious Heaven would rise.
• Lu Xingshi broke apart Black Heaven’s clouds, recognized its words as resembling the Yellow Turban rebellion’s slogan, and suspected it planned to replace humanity with the Children of Black Heaven.
• Black Heaven retreated when Lu Xingshi prepared his ultimate move, then doubled back to strike him; Lu Xingshi bombarded the area until Black Heaven confronted him directly.
• Lu Xingshi suppressed Black Heaven’s shadowy hand, pierced its canopy with the Mountains and Rivers Sheji Diagram, and wounded it before it escaped as black water.
• Lu Xingshi wondered whether Black Heaven was truly Heaven and what Azure Heaven’s supposed death meant, then concluded he needed to find Black Cross and remain alert to what Black Heaven had changed.

Black Cross decided to seek Lu Xingshi’s help to escape Black Heaven’s control, planning to offer information about the Cave Heaven as his token of allegiance. Meanwhile, Tian Fu’s Yan Army routed the All Nations Alliance’s vanguard, and he ordered the destruction of a noble family that tried to negotiate its surrender.

• Black Cross concluded that Black Heaven had been badly weakened after fighting Lu Xingshi and saw a chance to break their life bond with outside help.
• Black Cross chose Lu Xingshi as his best chance of gaining freedom and planned to offer knowledge that could help him find the Cave Heaven and the Grotto-heaven Ancestor.
• Black Cross decided to gather the heart’s blood of true disciples from the Ten Great Grotto-heavens and the Thirty-Six Grotto-heavens, intending to outwit them.
• Tian Fu watched the Yan Army defeat the All Nations Alliance’s roughly hundred-thousand-strong vanguard with superior modernized equipment and training.
• Tian Fu burned a noble family’s surrender letter and ordered his troops to wipe out the family for demanding guarantees of its status and power.

Lu Xingshi learned from Black Cross that Azure Heaven was a dead Heaven seeking revival while newborn Black Heaven sought to replace it, and that the conflict had shaped the world’s martial arts, Secret Realms, and Son of Heaven Destinies. Though he suspected Black Cross’s surrender was part of Black Heaven’s scheme, Lu Xingshi agreed to free him and kill Black Heaven first, then turned his attention to Black Cross’s method for dragging Cave Heavens into the Mortal World.

• Lu Xingshi met Black Cross, who offered to help locate Cave Heavens in exchange for being freed from Black Heaven’s control.
• Black Cross explained the Conflict Between the Old and New Heavens and how Azure Heaven’s death and Black Heaven’s birth had shaped the world.
• Lu Xingshi suspected Black Cross’s defection served Black Heaven’s scheme but decided the chance to replace a Heaven was worth the risk.
• Lu Xingshi proposed freeing Black Cross and killing Black Heaven before destroying the Cave Heavens.
• Black Cross gave Lu Xingshi forty-six pieces of Heart Blood Amber and explained that they could establish a cause-and-effect link to drag Cave Heavens into the Mortal World.
• Lu Xingshi asked Black Cross to teach him how he had created the Heart Blood Amber technique.

Lu Xingshi studied Black Cross and planned to use a Blessed Land to draw Black Heaven into a confrontation with Azure Heaven’s power. Before acting, he agreed to remove Black Heaven’s control over Black Cross, leaving their operation poised to begin.

• Lu Xingshi took a piece of Black Cross’s flesh to study the Children of Black Heaven’s abilities, deciding to use their traits as a reference rather than modify the Golden Book Jade Scroll with them.
• Black Cross warned that Black Heaven was recovering, and Lu Xingshi explained that he planned to catch it off guard by exploiting what he had learned from Black Cross.
• Lu Xingshi and Black Cross discovered a remote Blessed Land, and Lu Xingshi proposed overlapping its entrance with Black Heaven’s location to force a collision.
• Lu Xingshi said he could break through the spatial interference around the entrances with brute force, even if the attack alerted Black Heaven.
• Black Cross asked Lu Xingshi to remove Black Heaven’s control over him before the attack, and Lu Xingshi agreed to do it immediately.

Lu Xingshi intervened as Azure Heaven and Black Heaven fought, and the two forces appeared to destroy each other. Doubting that Black Heaven had truly died, he placed Black Cross under house arrest and planned to use him as bait.

• Black Cross urged Lu Xingshi to kill Black Heaven and offered him the Black Heaven Legacy in exchange for his help.
• Lu Xingshi attacked the entangled Azure Heaven and Black Heaven, scattering Black Heaven and triggering a clash of black and ash-gray lightning.
• Black Cross declared Black Heaven dead, but Lu Xingshi destroyed an azure cloud and a bolt of lightning that attacked him.
• Lu Xingshi found that Black Heaven's former location no longer existed and questioned Black Cross, who sensed no lingering problem.
• Lu Xingshi ordered Black Cross into house arrest, intending to use him as bait in case Black Heaven had survived.

Lu Xingshi followed Black Cross to the Yan Kingdom, where Black Heaven took over Black Cross and attacked him. Lu Xingshi revealed himself as a Heavenly Dao, devoured Black Heaven, and wondered whether he would replace it and how Azure Heaven was connected to transmigrators.

• Lu Xingshi learned the Black Heaven Legacy from Black Cross, then ordered him to go to the Yan Kingdom and help eliminate the other Children of Black Heaven.
• Lu Xingshi secretly followed Black Cross for nearly ten days until Black Cross’s disguise vanished and Mysterious Heaven revealed itself as Black Heaven.
• Black Heaven tried to kill Lu Xingshi and pull out his system, but instead extracted a Q Version Ghost Lu Xingshi from him.
• Lu Xingshi tore off and ate pieces of Black Heaven, then bit its head off and gained part of the Martial Arts World’s authority.
• Lu Xingshi returned to the Martial Arts Game Character and realized he was a Heavenly Dao who had already been devouring Azure Heaven through fused Secret Realms.

After devouring Black Heaven, Lu Xingshi considered how to claim New Heaven and use All Beings' Luck to oppose Azure Heaven. As the Luck Dao began to weaken, he decided to return to Yan Kingdom and move against the Cave Heavens before they could become part of Azure Heaven's defenses.

• Lu Xingshi examined his new authority and considered blending into New Heaven before killing Azure Heaven, but he lacked a way to take its place.
• He planned to alter the Golden Book Jade Scroll and use its contagious nature to turn everyone into Game Villagers, gathering All Beings' Luck for himself.
• Lu Xingshi learned that Azure Heaven had sent transmigrators to guide the era and boost its resurrection, while his own world and game were unfinished products.
• He noticed the Luck Dao's influence shrinking and feared that this would weaken his method for dragging the Cave Heavens.
• Lu Xingshi decided to return to Yan Kingdom and attack the Cave Heavens before they could become patches for Azure Heaven's logical rules.

Lu Xingshi ordered Luo Lin to gather resources and skilled craftsmen to build a Heaven Worship Platform as bait for the Cave Heavens, despite Yan Kingdom being at war. The preparations began, while Western Mysterious Ancestor sensed danger and wrongly suspected rival Cave Heavens.

• Lu Xingshi told Luo Lin he would act against the Cave Heavens immediately and ordered him to gather resources and skilled craftsmen for a Heaven Worship Platform.
• Luo Lin proposed drafting up to three million people, but Lu Xingshi settled on one hundred thousand and said he would provide the blueprints and supply list.
• Luo Lin dismissed objections from ministers, received Lu Xingshi’s documents, and assigned preparations for the costly project.
• Western Mysterious Ancestor sensed an unseen warning and concluded that another Cave Heaven was likely responsible.
• Western Mysterious Ancestor decided to probe the other Cave Heaven ancestors through a projection.