Chapter Summaries

Su Chen defeated Hong Xuan in the arena by enduring his Scarlet Flame Thunder Dragon attack and overpowering it with his enhanced Azure Thunder abilities. After the Holy Envoy from Yuandu stopped Su Chen from striking the weakened Hong Xuan, Wu Chenpei conceded the loss, and the chapter ended with Hong Xuan suspecting Su Chen had acquired many special Professions.

• Hong Xuan transformed into a Scarlet Flame Thunder Dragon and unleashed a wide-area attack after Su Chen repeatedly evaded him.
• Su Chen solidified, activated Azure Thunder Overlord and Indestructible Gang-Thunder Armor, and withstood Hong Xuan's dragon strike.
• Su Chen bound the dragon with Azure Thunder Cloudbreaker and reshaped it into a spear aimed at Hong Xuan.
• The Holy Envoy from Yuandu intercepted Su Chen's spear, and Wu Chenpei acknowledged Hong Xuan's defeat.
• Chong Jingtian discussed the wager with Wu Chenpei, Hong Xuan, and Tang Chen after the match.
• Hong Xuan told Wu Chenpei that Su Chen seemed to have acquired many special Professions, while Wu Chenpei privately remained unsettled.

Chong Jingtian and the others discussed the difficult conditions for gaining recognition from the spirituality of the Crimson Flame Thunder Venerable profession, then told Su Chen what they knew. They decided to trade the Saint to Yuandu for Essence of Spirituality so Su Chen could improve his chances, leaving him suspicious of their urgency.

• Jiang Shumo, You Shan, and Chong Jingtian discussed the profession, talent, age, gender, and other conditions for gaining recognition, and considered whether Su Chen could qualify.
• The three discussed Su Chen's origins as a survivor of Cliff Mountain City, and Chong Jingtian said he would accept Su Chen seeking revenge if he became valued by the Royal Court.
• Su Chen met with the three, learned the wager had revealed information about the Crimson Flame Thunder Venerable, and agreed to keep his Fourth Rank profession plans unchanged.
• Chong Jingtian asked about Su Chen's talent-enhancing professions and learned that Su Chen had tried and failed to find Essence of Spirituality in the Nether Domain.
• Chong Jingtian proposed trading the Saint to Yuandu for Essence of Spirituality, reasoning that the exchange could improve Su Chen's chance of gaining recognition.
• Su Chen realized the others seemed unusually anxious about the profession and grew suspicious of their motives.

Chong Jingtian told Su Chen that the Strange Gods’ Holy Feast was imminent and that the Royal Court might intervene if someone gained the Crimson Flame Thunder Venerable’s recognition. As Su Chen resumed training, Wu Chenpei traded the Saint for two portions of Essence of Spirituality, and Jiang Shumo brought Su Chen a pure Eye of the Thunder God.

• Chong Jingtian explained that the Holy Feast could break the barrier to the Strange Gods, and revealed that the Royal Court ruled many planets beyond Scarlet Thunder Star.
• Su Chen left the arena, evaded the crowd with his Mimicry Mask, and recommitted himself to reaching Tier 4 and exploring the stars.
• Xia Hanshi and Yuan Poshan followed the Faceless Ghost’s followers as they moved an enormous divine statue through the fog.
• Wu Chenpei agreed to give Chong Jingtian two portions of Essence of Spirituality in exchange for the Saint, believing Su Chen was unlikely to gain recognition.
• Su Chen returned to training while Yingfeng prepared for new assessments, and Jiang Shumo brought him a flawless Eye of the Thunder God.

Su Chen absorbed the Eye of the Thunder God, advanced to Wordspirit Lawlord, and discovered that his new Word Spirit ability made commands come true at a cost in mental energy. Meanwhile, Chong Jingtian brought Tribunal Inner Court seeds to view a dangerous Stone Tablet, but none succeeded, leaving Su Chen and Hong Xuan as the remaining hopes for the looming ruins.

• Jiang Shumo delivered the Eye of the Thunder God, which Su Chen absorbed to complete Calamity Walker's evolution into Calamity Envoy.
• Su Chen advanced to Wordspirit Lawlord, formed a mental core, and gained Word Spirit, then tested the ability and learned that precise commands cost less mental energy than vague ones.
• Su Chen decided to keep developing Azure Thunder Overlord, asked Gu Bing to prepare materials for upgrading his equipment, and postponed choosing another Mystic Artifact to control.
• Chong Jingtian led He Kang, Ren Yong, and the other Tribunal Inner Court seeds to a crimson-misted Stone Tablet, where each was struck back and injured after trying to view it.
• Chong Jingtian and Pu Zhenghong concluded that the seeds' scarlet-gold talent made their attempts futile and discussed relying on Su Chen or Hong Xuan to face the coming challenge at the ruins.

Xia Hanshi returned to Yingfeng with news that a powerful Faceless Ghost Believer force was approaching, while the Tribunal debated how to counter the threat and whether Su Chen should pursue the Stone Tablet. After Ming Lin advanced to the fourth rank, Xia Hanshi reunited with Su Chen and agreed he should examine the Stone Tablet after gaining the Spirit Master Profession.

• Xia Hanshi warned Chong Jingtian, Jiang Shumo, and You Shan that the Faceless Ghost Believers were less than ten thousand kilometers from Yingfeng and might bring a Strange God vessel.
• Chong Jingtian and the others explained that Yuandu's Hong Xuan had defeated the other Core Seeds, leaving Su Chen as their best candidate to pursue the Stone Tablet; Xia Hanshi agreed to their plan after hearing that Su Chen had beaten Hong Xuan.
• Ming Lin told Su Chen that he had advanced to a top-tier fourth-rank Profession and advised him to begin preparing for Profession requirements early.
• Su Chen sensed Xia Hanshi as soon as he appeared at the villa, leading Xia Hanshi to suspect that Su Chen had advanced to the fourth rank.
• Xia Hanshi told Su Chen to examine the Stone Tablet after the essence of spirituality arrived and he took up the Spirit Master Profession, saying he would decide what to do after the result was clear.

Xia Hanshi returned to guard Yingfeng as the Faceless Ghost Believers prepared an assault, and he discussed the threat and recent conflicts with Su Chen. Su Chen later entered a prepared thunderstorm outside the city to fulfill a Calamity Walker advancement requirement, endured the lightning for a day, and left unharmed.

• Xia Hanshi told Su Chen that the Faceless Ghost Believers were preparing an independent attack on Yingfeng, not the Holy Feast, and assured him the city could withstand it.
• Su Chen recounted the trial hall events surrounding Meng Qi's death, and Xia Hanshi decided Xue Fei would be sent to investigate the Faceless Ghost Believers near the front.
• Xia Hanshi told Su Chen to focus on training, while Yingfeng's organizations postponed assessments and the city's forces prepared for an approaching battle.
• Su Chen advanced Shadow-Sprint Body Forging Method to Master level and traveled with Teng Liang to a thunderstorm zone prepared by the Career Analysis Office.
• Su Chen entered the storm without defensive measures, activated Indestructible Gang-Thunder Armor, and endured lightning for twenty-four hours before leaving without wounds.

Su Chen advanced to Calamity Envoy, upgraded his Mystic Artifacts, and collected Yuandu’s essence of spirituality. At the Translation Office, he discovered the peculiar Ravager Profession and its painful initiation requirements, which had already registered one percent completion.

• Su Chen met friends and recruits from Southwind City, received letters from Little Pigeon and Yuan Chenyang, and asked Du Yu to return the Mist Nightmare Pearl to Hu Xiang.
• After maxing Azure Thunder Overlord, Su Chen advanced to Calamity Envoy and gained new calamity abilities.
• Su Chen upgraded his Violet-Gold Scale Armor, Formless True Edge, and Heavenstride War Boots to tier four.
• Su Chen collected two portions of essence of spirituality from Pu Zhenghong and declined to begin his Spirit Master initiation while watched.
• Sang Vast Sea told Su Chen about Yuandu’s compensation Professions, including the difficult Ravager, whose requirements involved enduring pain and piercing his heart with a Bloodweeping Iron Branch.
• Su Chen saw the Ravager’s consolidated requirements at one percent completion and wondered whether he could satisfy the Profession by beating it.

Su Chen acquired the Spirit Master Profession and reached dual ink-jade talent, while the Tribunal arranged to let Hong Xuan behold the Stone Tablet in exchange for Wu Chenpei’s help against the Faceless Ghost Believers. The chapter ended with Su Chen arriving as the group prepared to visit the Stone Tablet.

• Su Chen acquired the Spirit Master Profession, gained the Spirit Body ability, and found that his talent still registered as ink jade in both tests.
• Chong Jingtian outlined Yingfeng’s preparations against the Faceless Ghost Believers and discussed the danger Wu Chenpei posed while the leaders deployed.
• Wu Chenpei agreed to help fight the Faceless Ghost Believers if Hong Xuan could behold spirituality first, and Xia Hanshi accepted the condition.
• Xia Hanshi revealed that Su Chen had already advanced to the fourth tier, and Chong Jingtian confirmed that Su Chen had acquired Spirit Master.
• Chong Jingtian, Xia Hanshi, Wu Chenpei, Hong Xuan, Ming Lin, and Wei Yufan gathered to visit the Stone Tablet, and Su Chen arrived late.

Su Chen entered the Crimson Flame Thunder Venerable’s trial after Hong Xuan gained approval, and the stone tablet initially recognized him despite sensing something suspicious. When Su Chen uncovered the tablet’s requirements, a powerful presence appeared and granted him the highest recognition and a one-use restoration blessing.

• Chong Jingtian brought Su Chen and the others to the hidden chamber containing the Crimson Flame Thunder Venerable’s stone tablet.
• Wei Yufan and Ming Lin entered the crimson mist but failed to gain the spirit’s approval, while Hong Xuan manifested two dragon shadows and succeeded.
• Su Chen entered the mist, sensed familiarity from the tablet, and received a single dragon phantom’s reluctant acknowledgment.
• Su Chen used his lightning abilities to scatter the mist and reveal the tablet’s golden inscriptions, uncovering the Profession requirement to destroy himself with the Terminus Thunder Mark and be reborn through the Crimson Fire Seed.
• A towering presence appeared, the tablet’s sentience revered it, and Su Chen received the highest recognition and the Primordial Fire Rekindling blessing.

Su Chen gained recognition from the Crimson Flame Thunder Venerable’s spirit and manifested a dragon phenomenon that surpassed the Three-Dragon Shadow Manifestation, alarming Hong Xuan and the Holy Envoy. Far beyond Scarlet Thunder Star, a bronze giant learned of the recognition and ordered Qing Cang to retrieve the spirit and the person it had recognized.

• Su Chen studied the Profession requirements revealed by the panel, then emerged from the mist after the spirit’s dragon manifestation had disappeared.
• Su Chen first manifested one dragon, prompting Wu Chenpei to claim that a single dragon was insufficient to become the chosen one.
• Three dragons formed, merged into a great crimson dragon around Su Chen, and produced a phenomenon that Hong Xuan recognized as a sign of becoming the chosen one.
• Hong Xuan suppressed his killing intent after Xia Hanshi and others reacted, and Chong Jingtian led the group away with Su Chen.
• A bronze giant detected that someone had gained the Crimson Flame Thunder Venerable’s recognition and ordered Qing Cang to retrieve the spirit and the recognized person from Scarlet Thunder.

Qing Cang received permission to bring three disciples to Scarlet Thunder Star after the bronze giant detected a second person recognized by the Morning Star spirituality. In Yingfeng, Su Chen prepared to travel to the ruins, while Wu Chenpei and Hong Xuan planned to kill him before the spirituality became complete.

• The bronze giant allowed Qing Cang to take three people to Scarlet Thunder Star but forbade him from killing the first recognized person without permission, then detected a second recognized person and gave Qing Cang a bronze figure.
• He Kang entered Yingfeng with a group from Ancient River City while secretly planning to draw the city's forces outside and investigate his destroyed Faceless vessel.
• Wu Chenpei and Hong Xuan agreed they could not attack Su Chen in Yingfeng and resolved to target him during the journey to the ruins before the spirituality became complete.
• Xia Hanshi told Su Chen that Wu Chenpei had been badly wounded when Yingfeng seized the Stone Tablet and that Yuandu had later forced the cities to share control of the ruins.
• Chong Jingtian said Yingfeng and Yuandu had agreed to reopen the ruins after dealing with the Faceless Ghost Believers, and Xia Hanshi dismissed Pu Zhenghong's concern about Su Chen's visit.
• Su Chen told Ming Lin that he thought the Great Venerable Profession was physical and wondered whether he still needed a mental Morning Star Rank Profession.

Su Chen told Xia Hanshi that contact with things related to Strange Gods sometimes gave him visions, and Xia Hanshi linked this ability to the failed God's Son ritual at Cliff Mountain City. Xia Hanshi planned to test whether the visions could expose the Faceless Ghost Believers’ suspected diversion, while Su Chen revealed that the visions consumed Strange God power.

• Su Chen considered the secrets of Morning Star Rank professions and Hong Xuan’s unusual profession-fusion state as he walked with Xia Hanshi and Ming Lin.
• Xia Hanshi told Su Chen that Wu Chenpei and Hong Xuan had reacted strongly to the recognition phenomenon, then suggested striking first against Hong Xuan.
• Xia Hanshi confronted Su Chen about how he had anticipated past events, and Su Chen claimed that Strange God-related things sometimes caused him to see visions.
• Xia Hanshi explained that Su Chen came from Cliff Mountain City, where a Strange God ritual to bring a God's Son into the world had been interrupted, and theorized that survivors might sense Strange God-related things.
• Xia Hanshi suspected the Faceless Ghost Believers had deliberately drawn him and Yuan Poshan away, and asked Su Chen to use his visions to investigate.
• Su Chen warned that visions might require Strange Artifacts and revealed that the vision after Qi Chuan’s death had left the Strange Artifact empty.

Su Chen learned more about Pu Zhenghong’s work on the ruins, received a special Profession and a Holy Word Stone, and prepared for his next steps. While searching in his Faceless Ghost Priest disguise, he detected a familiar presence in Yingfeng’s southern district and realized the Faceless Ghost God’s Son had entered the city.

• Su Chen persuaded Xia Hanshi that his conditional precognition involved consuming strange god’s power, and Xia Hanshi agreed to keep it secret from Chong Jingtian.
• Sang Vast Sea brought Su Chen to meet Pu Zhenghong, who offered him the Wind-Chasing Dancer Profession and explained that his Divine Language research might help control the ruins.
• Pu Zhenghong gave Su Chen a Holy Word Stone containing more than thirty years of research and confirmed that the Defense Spirit Ring’s symbols came from the Stone Tablet.
• Su Chen returned to his residence, told Gu Bing to prepare support potions, and went to search for strange god-related presences in disguise.
• While disguised as a Faceless Ghost Priest, Su Chen detected a presence near Yingfeng’s southern district and recognized it as the Faceless Ghost God’s Son.

Su Chen sensed an infiltrator, prepared Grade C training methods, and advanced to Tier 4 while a disguised Faceless Ghost Priest investigated him and the Tribunal. The chapter ended with Bu Siqi testing Su Chen’s defenses, which effortlessly repelled his attack.

• Su Chen lost track of a divine son who had infiltrated Yingfeng, then selected the Grade C Cloud-Dragon Body-Tempering Method and Mirage-Sea Meditation Method.
• Gu Bing delivered Mystic Tiger Potions, and Su Chen trained under extreme gravity, finding that his improved talent kept his progress efficient at Tier 4.
• At a dinner in Yingfeng, He Kang told Xu Siyuan and the others that Su Chen had reached Tier 4 and recounted Su Chen’s achievements and Chu Xuan’s death.
• Xu Siyuan recognized Su Chen’s name and sensed a Faceless Ghost Believer nearby, then concealed himself when the presence disappeared.
• Several days later, Bu Siqi attacked blindfolded Su Chen with a blood-red strike, but Su Chen’s black lightning defense dispersed it without making him move.

Su Chen trained with Bu Siqi until he began mastering the Wind-Chasing Dancer’s dodge requirement, then discovered that Faceless Ghost essence could stimulate special Professions. After Xia Hanshi brought him a collection of Faceless Ghost artifacts, Su Chen claimed to see a disguised intruder in Yingfeng who resembled Meng Qi.

• Su Chen disabled his defenses and trained blindfolded with Bu Siqi until he made his first successful dodge, reaching 10% progress on the Wind-Chasing Dancer’s second requirement.
• Wu Chenpei told the delegation to follow guard captain Lu Kai while he accompanied Chong Jingtian to confront the Faceless Ghost army, and he privately told Hong Xuan that Yuandu had been making preparations for her to become the chosen one.
• Bu Siqi told Su Chen that Feng Ze, Liang Jingcheng, and Zhong Ming had gone to the front, while Su Chen and Ming Lin had been ordered to defend the Tribunal; he also reported that the Wind Song Gem and storm feather had arrived.
• Xia Hanshi took charge at the Tribunal and overruled Lei Tieyan’s objections to withdrawing sealed strange god’s power from the restricted vault.
• Su Chen touched Xia Hanshi’s Faceless Ghost statues and Strange Artifacts, extracting divine power and Faceless Ghost essence from some of them.
• Su Chen told Xia Hanshi that he saw someone enter Yingfeng in a convincing disguise and that the intruder resembled Meng Qi.

Su Chen helped Xia Hanshi deduce that the Faceless Ghost God's Son had infiltrated Yingfeng in search of the Stone Tablet, then learned that the statue's essence was tied to the God's Son. Back at his residence, Su Chen forged Faceless Ghost Essence from divine power and used existing essence to erase Wind-Chasing Dancer's second advancement requirement.

• Su Chen described his vision to Xia Hanshi, who deduced that the Faceless Ghost God's Son had returned and was targeting the Stone Tablet.
• Su Chen told Xia Hanshi that the intruders looked unlike Yingfeng residents and that one appeared to be missing an arm, narrowing the search for the God's Son.
• Xia Hanshi identified the statue as an artifact seized during an earlier God's Son incursion and explained what God's Sons were.
• Su Chen combined his low-tier Faceless Ghost Power into nine mid-tier portions and spent nine mid-tier portions to forge Faceless Ghost Essence.
• Su Chen used Faceless Ghost Essence on Wind-Chasing Dancer, erasing its second advancement requirement, then arranged storm training and suspended striking training with Bu Siqi.

Su Chen completed the Wind-Chasing Dancer advancement inside a Level Eight hurricane and gained the Wind Dance Instinct. Meanwhile, Xu Siyuan planned to pursue his targets, but Xia Hanshi prepared to move against the people sheltering him.

• Xu Siyuan concluded that Teng Liang had exposed his vessel and decided to investigate him and infiltrate the Tribunal.
• Su Chen entered the hurricane's eye, formed the Wind Dance Pact with the Wind Song Gem, Storm Feather, and wind spirits, then completed his advancement.
• Su Chen tested his new ability, finding that it greatly increased his speed, reduced the disturbance he made while moving, and let him evade attacks instinctively.
• Zhang Lei led the people from Ancient River City to a new residence, while Xu Siyuan planned to use the move to prepare his ritual and pursue the Stone Tablet, Teng Liang, and Su Chen.
• Xia Hanshi revealed that Yuandu had used the reception office to shelter Xu Siyuan and prepared to act against them.

Su Chen acquired the Ravager Profession and discovered that injuries strengthened him, while Xia Hanshi surrounded the guesthouse and accused Yuandu’s delegation of colluding with Faceless Ghost Believers. As the two sides faced off, Xia Hanshi revealed his real concern: Yuandu might try to kill Su Chen, and the chapter ended with Lu Kai demanding an explanation.

• Su Chen completed the Ravager Profession acquisition and found that greater bodily damage increased his strength.
• Bu Siqi brought Su Chen and Ming Lin to the Tribunal after Xia Hanshi surrounded the guesthouse.
• Hong Xuan encountered Xu Siyuan just as Tang Chen reported the Tribunal’s accusation against Yuandu, and Hong Xuan ordered Xu Siyuan to come along.
• Xia Hanshi and Lei Tieyan argued over the blockade, with Xia Hanshi insisting that Yuandu would target Su Chen and that they needed to act first.
• Lu Kai confronted Xia Hanshi outside the surrounded guesthouse and demanded to know what he was doing.

Xia Hanshi accused Hong Xuan and Yuandu of colluding with the Faceless, but a real Faceless God-Child appeared and was suppressed by Shi Yunzhou’s Rune Array. Hong Xuan then demanded a rematch with Su Chen, offering to reveal the secrets of the Morning Star Rank if he lost.

• Xia Hanshi demanded that Yuandu surrender a supposed Faceless God-Child, while Shi Yunzhou urged an inspection and weighed the dispute.
• Hong Xuan came downstairs beside Xu Siyuan, whom Xia Hanshi identified as a Faceless God-Child; Xu Siyuan revealed his true nature and vanished after the Defense Spirit Ring and Rune Array trapped him.
• The Faceless God-Child blamed Teng Liang for seeing through his disguise, and Xia Hanshi used the incident to accuse Hong Xuan of collusion.
• Hong Xuan denied knowing the Faceless God-Child and accused Xia Hanshi of plotting against him, then threatened to destroy his mental core if taken away.
• Hong Xuan offered to reveal what he knew if he lost a rematch against Su Chen, and disclosed that reaching the Morning Star Rank required merging eighth-rank mental and physical Professions.

Su Chen accepted Hong Xuan’s wager and fought him while Hong Xuan and Lu Kai secretly planned to kill him. Su Chen overwhelmed Hong Xuan with an enhanced axe strike, leaving Hong Xuan screaming in pain as the fight’s outcome became clear.

• Shi Yunzhou agreed to Hong Xuan’s wager, while Xia Hanshi accepted the plan to kill Hong Xuan regardless of the fight’s outcome.
• Hong Xuan told Su Chen he would reveal his Profession-fusion method if he won, and Su Chen agreed to fight him.
• Hong Xuan privately urged Lu Kai to seize an opening to kill Su Chen, while Lu Kai doubted their chances of escaping afterward.
• Su Chen used Word Spirit and Saint’s Hand to amplify Pain Engine, then launched a lightning-charged attack with his transformed Formless True Edge.
• Hong Xuan countered with crimson flames and a spear, but Su Chen dodged his thrust and struck his shoulder with the axe.
• Black lightning spread across the area, and Hong Xuan screamed in agony as the spectators reacted to Su Chen’s overwhelming victory.