Chapter Summaries

Gu Liangli ordered Royal Family members to hunt Lu Xingshi, expecting the Otherworld Demon Curse to kill him after his second advancement. The Otherworld Demon, imprisoned within the World Core, recognized the danger posed by the new Heavenly Mandate but remained trapped.

• Gu Liangli recalled killing the first Heavenly Mandate, joining the Otherworld Demons, and weakening the world by sacrificing its World Core.
• Gu Liangli decided Lu Xingshi would likely reach level fifty after killing Gu Liangling and her daughter, and planned to claim his World Core after the curse killed him.
• Gu Liangli ordered Gu Lianggu and other Royal Family members to lead troops against Lu Xingshi as expendable pursuers.
• Gu Liangli resented that the Heavenly Mandate had not chosen her and blamed its preference for men, while the chapter noted Lu Xingshi offered the world a chance of restoration.
• The Otherworld Demon dismissed Gu Liangli's ambition to overthrow him and worried that Lu Xingshi's new Heavenly Mandate resembled the first generation, though its curse might stop him.

After freeing Xi City from the Royal Family’s influence, Lu Xingshi agreed to lead a resistance against the Da Ci Dynasty and the Otherworld Demons. He proposed a federal system instead of a new emperor, and the family head made him the movement’s leader while promising he could focus on becoming stronger.

• Lu Xingshi learned that killing Xi City’s Royal Family had freed its people from their influence, and he explained to a surviving family head how the infection had distorted their thinking.
• The family head said the people had regained their conviction to resist the Otherworld Demons because their professions connected them to the world’s struggle.
• The family head asked Lu Xingshi to lead the resistance so he could free them again if the Royal Family controlled them in the future, and offered him the chance to become the New Emperor.
• Lu Xingshi rejected the imperial system and proposed a federal structure that distributed authority among regional powers.
• The family head agreed to make Lu Xingshi the transitional leader and let him focus on becoming stronger while the noble families managed the federation.

Lu Xingshi used the growing Resistance Army and his boosted combat strength to weaken the Da Ci Dynasty while serving as the Federation’s first Grand President. Zheng Xiang tried to secure Lu Xingshi’s support for dismantling noble families, but Lu Xingshi left him to pursue the plan on his own.

• The Resistance Army expanded rapidly as Lu Xingshi received increasing Talent Points from the world and killed high-level Professionals sent by the Da Ci Dynasty.
• Lu Xingshi returned with a captured high-level Professional, and Zheng Xiang asked him to explain how to deal with noble families and wealthy clans.
• Lu Xingshi refused to discuss Zheng Xiang’s political plans and went to dissect the captured Professional for research on the Blessing of Heaven and Earth.
• Zheng Xiang’s rivals criticized his ambition, but he continued trying to win Lu Xingshi’s backing so he could use the Grand President’s power to advance his decrees.
• While dissecting the Professional, Lu Xingshi concluded that noble families would have to adapt to the Federal System or be destroyed, and he decided Zheng Xiang could handle the political struggle without his help.

Gu Liangli sought the Otherworld Demon's help against the rebels who had seized half the Da Ci Dynasty, agreeing to prepare fifty cities for sacrifice. The Otherworld Demon revealed his concern that the new Child of Destiny could threaten both the dynasty and his realm, while Gu Liangli remained unaware that he had been manipulating her.

• Gu Liangli asked the Otherworld Demon to eliminate the rebels, and he demanded sacrifices from fifty cities to create a clone.
• The Otherworld Demon flattered Gu Liangli and encouraged her to blame her subordinates for the dynasty's losses.
• He urged Gu Liangli to arrange the sacrifices and kill the new Child of Destiny, claiming his injuries were worsening.
• After Gu Liangli left, the Otherworld Demon admitted that he had manipulated her and recognized the new Child of Destiny as a serious threat.
• The Otherworld Demon concluded that the Da Ci Dynasty had to survive and worried that the Child of Destiny's World Core abilities might overpower his incarnation.

After the Empress’s blood sacrifice summoned a powerful Otherworld Demon, Lu Xingshi confronted Zheng Xiang over the Federal Army’s failure to prepare and demanded payment before agreeing to deal with the threat. The demon sensed Lu Xingshi approaching and recognized him as a dangerous Child of Destiny.

• Lu Xingshi learned that the Empress had sacrificed twenty-five million people across fifty cities to summon an Otherworld Demon.
• Zheng Xiang reported that the demon had destroyed twelve cities and that dozens of Level 100 Professionals had failed to stop it.
• Lu Xingshi criticized the Federation’s leaders for coming to him only after their mistakes and presented Zheng Xiang with a long list of demands.
• Zheng Xiang promised the Federation would provide Lu Xingshi’s requested goods if he returned victorious.
• The Otherworld Demon reflected on the seals dividing his power and sensed that Lu Xingshi was approaching.

Lu Xingshi confronted the Otherworld Demon, a clone tasked with destroying the Federation Resistance Army, and fought him with water-based powers and dirty tricks. Lu Xingshi’s Life Force-infused attacks caused the demon’s body to mutate, and the chapter ended as another burst of mutations spread from the demon’s back.

• Lu Xingshi identified the Otherworld Demon as a clone and demanded that he die, but the demon refused because he had promised the Ci Emperor to destroy the Federation Resistance Army.
• Lu Xingshi and the Otherworld Demon attacked each other with spells and attempted sneak attacks, then recognized that they were both devious fighters.
• Lu Xingshi used water-based talents and the Cloud River Kun to gain control of the battlefield, while the Otherworld Demon struggled against the draining of his bodily fluids.
• Lu Xingshi pierced the Otherworld Demon with an attack infused with Life Force, causing useless arms and malformed eyes to grow from his body.
• Lu Xingshi struck the demon’s newly vulnerable back with a high-pressure water cannon, and the Life Force in the attack triggered mutations that began spreading through his body.

Lu Xingshi defeated and killed an Otherworld Demon clone, learned that the demon’s true body was in the Imperial City, and kept the corpse to study its mutations. The true Otherworld Demon felt the clone’s death and began plotting how to bring Lu Xingshi to him without using himself as bait.

• Lu Xingshi confirmed the Otherworld Demon clone was connected to his curse and rejected its offer to trade the curse’s removal for his Life Force ability.
• Lu Xingshi tore the Aberrant Tree from the clone’s back, and the clone warned that the World Core and Heaven-and-Earth Blessing would be taken back if the Otherworld Demon threat vanished.
• The clone told Lu Xingshi that its true body was in the Imperial City and urged him to come learn the truth of the world before dying from blood loss and exhaustion.
• Lu Xingshi received Talent Points and Spirit Treasure materials, then kept the corpse to study how overflowing Life Force had caused its mutations.
• The true Otherworld Demon sensed the clone’s suffering and saw Lu Xingshi’s Life Force as a possible means of healing his ancient injuries.
• The Otherworld Demon considered manipulating the Federation Resistance Army to bring Lu Xingshi to the Imperial City, but rejected using himself as bait.

Lu Xingshi returned to the Federation Main City with an Otherworld Demon's corpse and forced the councilors to accept his demands by killing one who challenged him. After giving them three days to deliver his requested resources, he stored the corpse in his laboratory and considered the Empress's sacrifices and the curse threatening his life.

• Lu Xingshi presented the Otherworld Demon's corpse to the councilors, and Zheng Xiang questioned whether it was the same demon.
• When a councilor challenged him, Lu Xingshi poured Life Force into him, transforming him into a monster that burst apart and died.
• Lu Xingshi gave the councilors three days to deliver all the resources he had requested and warned them of the consequences if they failed.
• Zheng Xiang and the other councilors agreed to the deadline and left, while Lu Xingshi mocked them and dragged the corpse to his laboratory.
• Lu Xingshi wondered whether the Empress would sacrifice more cities and recognized that the demon's curse was deepening and could eventually kill him.

Zheng Xiang rejected the councilors’ attempt to make him help remove Lu Xingshi, while Lu Xingshi accepted the resources and considered using the Federation’s political system to entrench his power. Meanwhile, Gu Liangli learned that the Otherworld Demon’s clone had been killed by the Child of Destiny, but refused to confront him herself and was refused when she offered another blood sacrifice.

• Zheng Xiang told the councilors that Lu Xingshi had established the Federation and refused to take responsibility for their plan to depose him.
• The councilors abandoned their proposal and left the meeting without acting against Lu Xingshi.
• Lu Xingshi inventoried the delivered resources and considered using political donations, political correctness, and other rules to deepen the Federation’s internal divisions.
• Gu Liangli questioned the Otherworld Demon about the lost cities and learned its clone had been killed by this generation’s Child of Destiny.
• The Otherworld Demon urged Gu Liangli to fight the Child of Destiny herself, but she refused and offered another hundred cities for a blood sacrifice instead.
• The Otherworld Demon refused Gu Liangli’s offer to have it deal with the Child of Destiny again.

Lu Xingshi investigated the Professional System’s connection to the Otherworld Demons and decided to seek the Source of Corruption’s parent body and the demon’s true body in the Imperial City for an experiment. He then let Zheng Xiang use a list of political rivals to consolidate power, demanding ninety percent of the benefits while warning him not to hinder the Federation’s campaign against the Da Ci Dynasty.

• Lu Xingshi concluded that the Professional System was adapted from the Otherworld Demons’ devouring power and considered replacing it with a mutated form of that power.
• Lu Xingshi decided to travel to the Imperial City to obtain the Source of Corruption’s parent body and the Otherworld Demon’s true body for his experiment.
• Zheng Xiang reported that the Da Ci Empress had ordered the rebellion suppressed within a month and presented Lu Xingshi with a sealed list of legislators who had opposed him.
• Lu Xingshi demanded ninety percent of the gains from Zheng Xiang’s plan to eliminate his rivals and authorized him to kill those on the list.
• Lu Xingshi warned Zheng Xiang not to obstruct the overthrow of the Da Ci Dynasty, and Zheng Xiang left to carry out the plan.

Lu Xingshi entered the Imperial City disguised as a ruined Noble, learned how its residents treated poverty and outsiders, and watched Lord Gu Liangmei ride out from the palace. He suspected the Empress was receiving another powerful Otherworld Demon because the Otherworld Demon Source would no longer help her confront him.

• Lu Xingshi left the Federation under several acting presidents, expecting their rivalry to hasten its corruption and eventual takeover by the Yan Army.
• Lu Xingshi entered the Imperial City disguised as a down-and-out young man from a Noble family and discovered that the city had no Slums because the poor were killed.
• Lu Xingshi considered infiltrating the Imperial Palace and taking the Empress’s vast wealth for himself.
• Lu Xingshi heard a merchant praise Lord Gu Liangmei as the Da Ci First War God, but recognized that her reputation came from trivial achievements rather than actual battles.
• Lu Xingshi saw Gu Liangmei’s knights ride out and suspected the Empress had summoned another Otherworld Demon because the Otherworld Demon Source had stopped aiding her.

Lu Xingshi watched a Giant Otherworld Demon approach the Imperial City, where Empress Gu Liangli forced it to retreat. He followed the demon to capture it for experiments, while the Otherworld Demon Source planned to exploit Greed’s release to escape its seal.

• A Giant Otherworld Demon smashed through the Imperial City's walls, and Empress Gu Liangli ordered it to leave.
• The Giant Otherworld Demon retreated from the city, and its residents praised the Empress while Lu Xingshi questioned how she had obtained it.
• Lu Xingshi followed the Giant Otherworld Demon, planning to capture it alive and test Purification Dew on it.
• The Otherworld Demon Source sensed Greed had been released and considered how the demon might help it break free from its seal.

Lu Xingshi cornered the Greedy Otherworld Demon and demanded to conduct experiments on him, revealing his identity as the Federation’s Grand President. After the demon surrendered and then fled, Lu Xingshi pursued him, confident his enormous target could not escape.

• The Greedy Otherworld Demon tried to crush Lu Xingshi, but Lu Xingshi survived and made him hear his condition.
• Lu Xingshi asked to dissect the demon, draw his blood, and conduct physical experiments, provoking an attack.
• Lu Xingshi used a tiny stream of water to twist the demon’s right arm and badly wound his left claw.
• Lu Xingshi revealed that he was the Federation’s Grand President and explained he had entered the Imperial City to speak with the Empress.
• The Greedy Otherworld Demon surrendered to Lu Xingshi, but fled when Lu Xingshi made clear he would not accept him.
• Lu Xingshi chased after the fleeing demon, saying his size made him easy to track.

Lu Xingshi interrogated the dismembered Greedy Otherworld Demon, who revealed the Source Otherworld Demon’s history and the truth behind the First Generation Child of Destiny’s defeat. The chapter left Lu Xingshi confronting the scale of the ancient threat and learning that Gu Liangli’s betrayal had been enabled by Heavenly Mandate.

• Lu Xingshi kept the dismembered Greedy Otherworld Demon conscious and questioned him about his poor regenerative abilities and unusual body.
• The Greedy Otherworld Demon explained that the Source Otherworld Demon had been weakened by the First Generation Child of Destiny, then turned the tables when Gu Liangli betrayed her fiancé.
• The Greedy Otherworld Demon revealed that other Otherworld Demons did not want to return to the Source Otherworld Demon, who would reclaim them if he escaped his seal.
• Lu Xingshi deduced that the Greedy Otherworld Demon had opposed the Federation’s entry into the Imperial City to prevent it from releasing the Source Otherworld Demon.
• The Greedy Otherworld Demon explained that the First Generation Child of Destiny broke through to Ten Reincarnations but could only seal the Source Otherworld Demon.
• The Greedy Otherworld Demon said Gu Liangli had been tainted with Heavenly Mandate, which enabled her betrayal and helped the Source Otherworld Demon curse later generations of Children of Destiny.

Lu Xingshi killed the Greedy Otherworld Demon and turned his remains into an anchor to locate the Source Otherworld Demon, planning to use Empress Gu Liangli as well. Sealed in the World Core, the Source Otherworld Demon sensed Greedy’s death and prepared to trap Lu Xingshi in the Imperial City.

• Lu Xingshi learned that the Source Otherworld Demon had used the Da Ci Dynasty’s Heavenly Mandate to turn the Child of Destiny’s advantage against the world, and rejected the idea of raising a Child of Destiny himself.
• The Greedy Otherworld Demon offered to help Lu Xingshi invade the Otherworld Demon Realm, but Lu Xingshi refused and extracted his body into a crystal anchor.
• Lu Xingshi extracted the Greedy Otherworld Demon’s head and killed him, then concluded that he needed the Source of Corruption Mother to locate the Source Otherworld Demon.
• Lu Xingshi planned to use Empress Gu Liangli’s cooperation before taking her Heavenly Mandate to strengthen his own identity.
• The sealed Source Otherworld Demon sensed Greedy’s death, guessed that the current Child of Destiny had killed him, and began plotting to capture Lu Xingshi in the Imperial City.

Lu Xingshi attacked the Imperial City from outside, draining its moisture and blood to weaken Gu Liangli and her supporters before confronting her. After crushing waves of Professionals, he watched Gu Liangli flee, but judged that the Source Otherworld Demon would not let its weapon escape.

• Lu Xingshi used the Greedy Otherworld Demon Crystal to draw moisture and air from the Imperial City, then shifted his focus to extracting blood when he could not drain the whole city.
• Gu Liangli attacked Lu Xingshi from afar, but he rode the Cloud River Kun through her skills and knocked her from the sky.
• Imperial City Professionals rushed to protect Gu Liangli, and Lu Xingshi used crushing pressure to kill many of them and suppress the survivors.
• Gu Liangli feared Lu Xingshi and tried to flee, but he said the Source Otherworld Demon would have to allow her to leave.

Gu Liangli lost control of her power and froze in terror when the Source Otherworld Demon revealed its true form, so it took over her body and fought Lu Xingshi. Lu Xingshi defeated the demon’s vessel and demanded to be led to its true body, leaving with the Source Otherworld Demon as his guide.

• Gu Liangli repeatedly lost her powers whenever she tried to flee, then cowered instead of obeying the Source Otherworld Demon’s order to attack Lu Xingshi.
• The Source Otherworld Demon transformed Gu Liangli into its vessel, killing her and confronting Lu Xingshi.
• Lu Xingshi completed his charged attack, blocked the demon’s strike, and used enhanced water-made arms to wound and dismember its clone.
• Lu Xingshi pulled out the demon’s heart and asked about its power, while the Source Otherworld Demon offered to reveal everything at its palace.
• The Source Otherworld Demon said Gu Liangli had been the vessel for the Source of Corruption Mother and agreed to lead Lu Xingshi to its true body.

Lu Xingshi found the Mirror of Origin, which opened a path to the World Core, and questioned the Source Otherworld Demon about the curse behind the Source of Corruption Mother. He stored the mirror without entering, leaving his research unfinished and the demon still trying to lure him inside.

• Lu Xingshi found the Mirror of Origin in the imperial palace and learned it could send its user into the level 1000 Ten Reincarnations dungeon and the World Core.
• The Source Otherworld Demon tried to tempt Lu Xingshi into entering the World Core, but Lu Xingshi rejected his claims about what he wanted and continued dissecting the Source of Corruption Mother.
• Lu Xingshi inferred that the Source of Corruption Mother and the Curse of Mandate came from the same curse, and the Source Otherworld Demon confirmed that he was its true body.
• The Source Otherworld Demon refused to cooperate fully and urged Lu Xingshi to enter the World Core, while Lu Xingshi pressed him for answers and said the research might soon be complete.
• The Source Otherworld Demon faded from the mirror, and Lu Xingshi stored the Mirror of Origin in his Inventory before reflecting on the restrictive requirements of the Endless Sword.

Lu Xingshi reclaimed control of the Mirror of Origin and learned how heavily the First Generation Child of Destiny had been favored. As the Source Otherworld Demon tried to recruit him, Lu Xingshi forced his way into the World Core, leaving the demon frightened by his power.

• Lu Xingshi explained that he had beaten the Mirror of Origin into obeying him despite its insufficient permissions.
• The Source Otherworld Demon revealed that the First Generation Child of Destiny had possessed a unique Sword God profession and an unrestricted World Core, while later Children of Destiny were treated as tools.
• Lu Xingshi joked that he would have become sworn brothers with the First Generation Child of Destiny, then teased the Source Otherworld Demon about abandoning his plan to enter the World Core.
• The Source Otherworld Demon offered Lu Xingshi half the world and control of the Federation, but Lu Xingshi proceeded to adjust the Mirror of Origin's damaged passage.
• The passage cracked as Lu Xingshi forced his way into the World Core, and a massive flaming arm appeared before he entered and apologized for clearing the way.

Lu Xingshi defeated the Source Otherworld Demon in the World Core, but the world turned against him and began stripping away his powers and sealing him. After losing nearly all of his systems, Lu Xingshi proposed researching a way to escape, and the Source Otherworld Demon agreed to cooperate.

• Lu Xingshi used the Great Crimson Virtue Heavenly Emperor's power to overwhelm and capture the badly wounded Source Otherworld Demon.
• Lu Xingshi touched the First Generation Child of Destiny's skeleton, triggering a Final Cleanup Quest that began extracting the World Core and reclaiming the Endless Sword and Mirror of Origin.
• Lu Xingshi used the Bodhi Enlightenment True Lord's power to resist the world's extraction and annihilation procedures, but the world began sealing him and the Source Otherworld Demon.
• The world removed 99 percent of Lu Xingshi's World Core, Professional System, and Heavenly Mandate before the First Generation Child of Destiny's skeleton dissolved into the World Core.
• Lu Xingshi told the Source Otherworld Demon he could transform his remaining Transcendent Seed into a new system, and the demon agreed to help him escape or die trying.