Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen deduced the Earth-Absolute Blade, while Lin Jia escaped Storm Land only to be hunted by Mu Rongyu and his forces. In the arena, Primordial Chaos and Slaughter moved to attack Lin Chen while he remained unconscious, forcing Sword Lord to defend him alone.

• Lin Chen spent years practicing the Earth-Absolute Blade, first learning to split the parched ground and draw out water, then mastering a woodcutter's chopping posture until his blade opened a spatial rift.
• Lin Jia emerged from Storm Land at the edge of the Apocalypse Universe and encountered Mu Rongyu, who ordered his forces to capture her after learning she was an Apocalypse Bearer.
• Lin Jia killed ten Domain Lord experts with golden sword aura, then fled when ten peak World Lord experts pursued her.
• Sword Lord guarded the unconscious Lin Chen as Primordial Chaos and the others approached, hoping to exploit his condition.
• Primordial Chaos blocked Sword Lord while Slaughter appeared before Lin Chen, leaving Sword Lord furious and unable to stop the attack.

Lin Chen woke just before Slaughter could kill him, then crushed Primordial Chaos with Immortal Level pressure despite his ties to the Heavenly Venerable Hall. Slaughter revealed his own Immortal Level strength and Slaughter Rule, and charged at Lin Chen as their fight began.

• Slaughter nearly beheaded the unconscious Lin Chen, but Lin Chen woke and sent him flying with a crushing force.
• Lin Chen struck Primordial Chaos down and suppressed him with Immortal Level rules, killing him when he invoked the Heavenly Venerable Hall.
• Slaughter tried to retreat, but Lin Chen's mental force immobilized him.
• Slaughter broke through from the Peak Ninth-Layer World Lord Level to the Fourth-Layer Immortal Level and declared Lin Chen his first sacrifice.
• Slaughter unleashed the Slaughter Rule, drew his blade, and charged at Lin Chen.

Lin Chen fought Slaughter in a contest of physical strength, then revealed his Skyfire Elemental Family form and knocked Slaughter back with the First Clone. After Slaughter claimed he would win, Lin Chen returned to human form and unleashed his spiritual power, leaving Slaughter stunned.

• Slaughter unleashed most of his power and clashed with Lin Chen, while onlookers and the Apocalypse Universe Alliance discussed the fight and Lin Chen's prospects.
• Lin Chen and Slaughter traded punches until Lin Chen revealed his Skyfire Elemental Family form and used the First Clone to blast Slaughter away.
• The crowd and the Alliance factions reacted with shock to Lin Chen's revealed form, and Slaughter summoned his Crescent Moon Scimitar.
• Slaughter approached Lin Chen and claimed that his remaining strength would be enough to kill him.
• Lin Chen said he had only been playing and unleashed a terrifying burst of spiritual power, startling Slaughter.

Lin Chen suppressed Slaughter with his psychic power, then spared him and helped him recover his resolve. As the arena’s challenges continued, the Blood Shadow Lord prepared to reveal that the losers would be trapped in the Blood Shadow World as bait.

• Lin Chen overwhelmed Slaughter with psychic power, and the crowd realized how formidable his dual martial-psychic strength had become.
• Slaughter admitted defeat and asked Lin Chen to kill him, but Lin Chen spared him and told him to fight for his Invincible Heart.
• Slaughter thanked Lin Chen, then left after the psychic pressure on him vanished.
• Qingkong continued fleeing Mu Rongyu through the Soaring Star River and suspected its powerful Human Race civilization was connected to Blue Star.
• The Blood Shadow Lord learned that the qualified contestants had entered the Blood Shadow World and ordered his subordinate to announce that winners could leave while losers would remain there.

Lin Chen devoured the Blood Shadow Crystals awarded for clearing ten stages, then returned to the Blood Shadow World to slaughter wave after wave of enemies and grow stronger. While the Sword Lord and the others cleared stages 10–20, Lin Chen advanced to stages 30–40 and kept grinding.

• The Blood Shadow Lord resented the Source Heavenly Venerable and secretly vowed to lead his clan against the Heavenly Venerable Hall if he escaped control.
• The Blood Shadow Lord awarded Blood Shadow Crystals to those who had passed ten stages and explained that the crystals contained qi-blood and could aid cultivation.
• Lin Chen devoured his two crystals, gaining one hundred thousand Qi-Blood Value, then entered a trial vortex with the Sword Lord, Slaughter, Qingkong, Cangwu, and others.
• Lin Chen cleared stages 20–30 by killing ten thousand Stellar Level Blood Shadow Warriors, gaining qi-blood and mental power before choosing to challenge stages 30–40.
• The Sword Lord and the others cleared stages 10–20, but the Sword Lord found Lin Chen still fighting and called him a freakish grind king.

Lin Chen cleared stages 30–40 of the Blood Shadow World by slaughtering enormous waves of Ninth-Layer Stellar Level Peak Blood Shadow Warriors, leaving the other prodigies stunned by his strength. He declined the next challenge and returned to stabilize his cultivation, where the Sword Lord asked whether he would continue.

• Lin Chen killed the first ten thousand Ninth-Layer Stellar Level Peak Blood Shadow Warriors with Three Thousand Thunderbolts and his Demon Blade.
• Lin Chen wiped out another twenty thousand Blood Shadow Warriors with Earth-Absolute Blade and continued slaughtering the waves that followed.
• The Sword Lord and Slaughter watched Lin Chen's massacre and felt immense pressure at how far his strength surpassed theirs.
• Lin Chen used Three Thousand Thunderbolts, Earth-Absolute Blade, and Psychic Domain to clear stages 30–40 and received a Blood Shadow Crystal.
• Lin Chen declined to challenge stages 40–50 and exited the Blood Shadow World, causing everyone nearby to retreat from his tangible killing intent.
• The Sword Lord approached Lin Chen and asked whether he planned to continue to the next stage.

Lin Chen broke through to the Eighth Immortal Level and Third-Level Psychic Venerable while training in the Blood Shadow World, then chose to keep challenging its stages. As Shen Yingqing neared childbirth without telling him, Sword Lord urged Lin Chen to leave the trial, but Lin Chen still had not answered.

• Lin Chen entered the Psychic Domain and discovered that his martial and psychic realms had surged, then resolved to pursue the King-Ranked Immortal stage.
• The Apocalypse Universe Alliance members watched Lin Chen clear the fortieth stage and argued about his prospects, while Blade Venerable rejoiced that Lin Chen stayed in the Blood Shadow World.
• Shen Yingqing, close to giving birth, watched Lin Chen's livestream and refused Hu Xing'er's suggestion to tell him, so Hu Xing'er stayed by her side.
• Chief Night Owl dismissed Silver Dragon Chief's concern that Lin Chen was falling behind by remaining in the Blood Shadow World, while Upal searched for a way out and vowed to kill Lin Chen.
• More competitors left the arena as Cangwu, Qingkong, and Sword Lord continued their challenges; after Slaughter left following the thirtieth stage, Sword Lord confronted Lin Chen for staying after clearing forty stages.

Lin Chen cleared Stages 40-50 of the Blood Shadow World and immediately pushed on to the next challenge, while the Sword Lord left and landed in a war-torn world filled with ruins. There, the Sword Lord encountered a Death Warrior and recognized it as a warrior from a vanished ancient race.

• Qingkong left the Blood Shadow World with a Blood Shadow Crystal, while Cangwu continued challenging stages and later emerged bloodied after clearing Stage 35.
• After recovering overnight, Lin Chen reentered the Blood Shadow World and accepted the challenge for Stages 40-50.
• Lin Chen slaughtered waves of Cosmic Level Blood Shadow Warriors with his Willow Leaf Blades and other techniques, clearing the stages and earning a Blood Shadow Crystal.
• Lin Chen accepted the next challenge, while the Sword Lord finished Stages 30-40, gave up trying to keep pace, and exited through the vortex.
• The Sword Lord arrived in a ruined world full of battlefield wreckage, found a dead genius contestant, and encountered a Death Warrior from an ancient race.

Lin Chen cleared stages 50 through 60 by slaughtering waves of Blood Shadow Warriors, then met the Blood Shadow Lord, who invited him to join the Blood Shadow Clan again. The Sword Lord also discovered and killed a Facehugger disguised within a Death Warrior.

• The Sword Lord killed a Facehugger that emerged from a Death Warrior, then left the area wary of the creatures.
• Lin Chen entered stages 50 through 60 and used the Demon Blade and Earth-Absolute Blade to kill tens of thousands of Peak Ninth-Layer Cosmic Level Blood Shadow Warriors.
• As the battle continued, Lin Chen gained Qi-Blood Value and Mental Power with each kill, while the Blood Shadow Warriors could not spawn fast enough to match his slaughter.
• Lin Chen cleared stages 50 through 60, but before he could accept the challenge for stages 60 through 70, he was transported to a blood-red palace.
• The Blood Shadow Lord praised Lin Chen's Slaughter Saint Body and invited him once again to join the Blood Shadow Clan, offering to meet any conditions.

Lin Chen refused Blood Shadow Lord’s invitation, learned about the Slaughter Domain, and advanced to the Ultimate Immortal Monarch stage while continuing the trial. Meanwhile, Lin Jia remained imprisoned by Mu Rongyu, who offered to free her if she married him and brought her books about the Soaring Star River.

• Lin Chen rejected Blood Shadow Lord, who explained that passing ninety-nine stages could grant the Slaughter Domain and its hundredfold combat boost.
• Lin Chen left the Blood Shadow World after passing stages fifty through sixty and prepared to continue the trial.
• Lin Chen’s qi-blood and spiritual power rose as he broke through to Ultimate Immortal Monarch and Level 5 Psychic Venerable.
• Lin Jia remained trapped in a palace on a super ancient star, unable to contact anyone for help.
• Mu Rongyu offered Lin Jia freedom in exchange for marriage and had books on the history of the Soaring Star River brought to her.
• Lin Jia warned Mu Rongyu that refusing to release her would bring trouble upon the Soaring Star River, but he dismissed her threat.

Lin Jia studied Soaring Star River’s history while Lin Chen returned to the Blood Shadow World and slaughtered increasingly powerful Blood Shadow Warriors. As the other contestants struggled through a dangerous stage world, Lin Chen continued his rampage against a growing Domain Lord Level legion.

• Lin Jia read that Soaring Star River had once been a top Human Race power and was now ruled largely by the Five Surnames and Seven Houses, with the Murong House at their head.
• Lin Chen entered the Blood Shadow World after reaching the Immortal Monarch Ultimate Stage, while viewers noticed his competition ranking slipping as he stayed in the trial.
• The Sword Lord fled when an Immortal Level broodmother facehugger emerged, while Qingkong killed monsters until she rose to first place and wondered when Lin Chen would arrive.
• Lin Chen accepted the challenge to stages 60–70 and used his Willow Leaf Blades to wipe out the first thousand Domain Lord Level Blood Shadow Warriors.
• Lin Chen massacred successive waves numbering up to tens of thousands, gaining Qi-Blood and Mental Power as he urged his blades to kill again.

Lin Chen cleared stages 60–70 and challenged an army of peak ninth-layer Domain Lord Level Blood Shadow Warriors, despite onlookers believing the battle exceeded his limits. He slaughtered the entire army and stood alone, asking who else dared fight him.

• Lin Chen killed thousands of Domain Lord Level Blood Shadow Warriors, completed stages 60–70, and chose to challenge stages 70–80.
• Lin Chen’s next opponents appeared: an army of peak ninth-layer Domain Lord Level warriors whose combined power shocked the watching geniuses and the Blood Shadow Lord.
• The Apocalypse Universe Alliance’s conference-room observers doubted Lin Chen’s chances, while Blade Venerable welcomed his apparent missteps and considered Lin Chen a threat to Blade Domain.
• Lin Chen used Asura Armor and the Demon Blade to break through the army’s law-based formation and kill wave after wave of warriors.
• After killing the final Blood Shadow Warrior, Lin Chen raised the Demon Blade and asked, “Who else dares fight me?”

Lin Chen continued through the Blood Shadow World and faced a legion of World Lord Level Blood Shadow Warriors as the universe watched. Elsewhere, Sword Lord encountered a King-Ranked Facehugger Matriarch, while Fifth Elder worried that he could not resolve his conflict with Lin Chen.

• Lin Chen accepted the challenge beyond stages 70–80, and thousands of World Lord Level Blood Shadow Warriors appeared before him.
• Viewers across the universe watched Lin Chen’s challenge, while Night Owl and Silver Dragon Chief discussed his popularity and the protection of his family.
• Divine Flame guarded Lin Chen’s wife as Yuan Shui worried about his own family, and Fifth Elder grew anxious as Blue Star refused to communicate.
• Sword Lord checked the rankings, saw Lin Chen still ranked twenty-seventh, and fled when a King-Ranked Facehugger Matriarch burst from beneath a city.
• Lin Chen activated Metal Armor and used the Metal Rule to slaughter the World Lord Level warriors, gaining Qi-Blood Value and mental power.

Lin Chen slaughtered his way through stages 80 to 99 of the Blood Shadow World, drawing attention from the Apocalypse Universe and the Lord of Asura Hall. After clearing stage 99, he faced a new, ominous disturbance ahead.

• Lin Chen cleared stages 80 through 90 and accepted the challenge to continue.
• Lin Chen fought through growing legions of peak ninth-layer World Lord Level Blood Shadow Warriors and advanced to stage 95.
• Observers in the Apocalypse Universe conference room discussed Lin Chen’s strength, while Blade Venerable focused on Qingkong.
• Lord of Asura Hall told Situ that Lin Chen’s faction did not matter while Blue Star remained in the Judgment Prefecture, then privately reflected on a secret Lin Chen possessed.
• Lin Chen cleared stage 99, stopped fighting, and turned toward terrifying fluctuations ahead.

Lin Chen accepted Stage 100 and faced a copy of himself, whose identical abilities and lack of energy loss pushed him toward defeat. As False Lin Chen prepared to kill him, Sword Lord struggled against powerful monsters elsewhere, while Shen Yingqing watched Lin Chen’s battle with hope.

• Lin Chen accepted the hundredth-stage challenge and encountered a blood-red copy with his face, build, and abilities.
• The Blood Shadow Lord explained that Lin Chen’s trial required him to defeat himself, and the other geniuses watched the evenly matched fight.
• Sword Lord fled after an Immortal Monarch broodmother appeared amid the Facehuggers in his stage world.
• Lin Chen and False Lin Chen traded matching attacks as the battle was livestreamed, and Shen Yingqing worried over Lin Chen while her baby kicked.
• Lin Chen’s energy dwindled while False Lin Chen claimed he was eternally invincible and raised his blade to kill him.

Lin Chen sheltered himself behind a Psychic Domain shield and used Deduction to develop new techniques while False Lin Chen battered the barrier. Just as False Lin Chen shattered the shield, Lin Chen opened his eyes and asked if he was ready to be killed.

• Lin Chen raised a Psychic Domain shield and began using Deduction while False Lin Chen attacked it.
• Lin Chen practiced in a martial world for ten years, created the Mysterious Thunder Blade, and learned to freeze time around him.
• The duel’s spectators watched Lin Chen’s weakening shield, while the Blood Shadow Lord suspected Lin Chen was buying time and the Fifth Elder celebrated his apparent defeat.
• Upal escaped a strange region, reached the Immortal Level, and rejoiced at Lin Chen’s danger before fleeing as gray mist began spilling out.
• False Lin Chen shattered the Psychic Domain shield, and Lin Chen calmly opened his eyes and challenged him to prepare for death.

Lin Chen defeated his counterfeit self, cleared the hundredth stage, and absorbed the Slaughter Rule’s origin to gain the Slaughter Domain and grow immensely stronger. Meanwhile, the Blood Shadow Lord aided Lin Chen, and Sword Lord formed an alliance with Cangwu and Slaughter to survive the monsters in the new stage.

• Lin Chen froze and kicked away the fake Lin Chen, then killed him with the Mysterious Thunder Blade and cleared one hundred stages.
• A crimson pillar descended, and Lin Chen absorbed the Origin of the Slaughter Rule as his Slaughter Rule advanced toward a domain.
• The Blood Shadow Lord decided to strengthen Lin Chen’s baptism and gave him some of the Origin of the Slaughter Rule he had cultivated.
• On the Apocalypse Universe Information Network, viewers watched Lin Chen’s victory and speculated about his power and the stage rewards.
• In the new world stage, Sword Lord invited Cangwu to join an alliance with Slaughter, and Cangwu agreed.
• Lin Chen gained the Slaughter Domain, advanced to Ultimate Marquis-Ranked Immortal and Level 9 Psychic Venerable Lord, and saw his Qi-Blood and psychic power surge.

Lin Chen entered the ruined city stage and found Qingkong gravely injured and surrounded by Ultimate Mother Facehuggers. As he appeared before her, Qingkong mistook him for another illusion.

• Lin Chen promised the Blood Shadow Lord one request if he reached the top, then flew into the next stage.
• The Sword Lord, Slaughter, and Cangwu found themselves surrounded by Ultimate Mother Facehuggers and feared they would die.
• Qingkong was hunted by Death Warriors and Ultimate Mother Facehuggers until she could no longer escape.
• Mu Rongyu explained to Lin Jia that the Apocalypse Universe was nearing the end of its ninety-ninth epoch and that the Reincarnation Universe belonged to the previous era.
• Lin Chen entered the ruined city and spotted Qingkong being pursued by monsters stronger than the Immortal Level.
• An Ultimate Mother Facehugger attack left Qingkong wounded and unable to rise, and Lin Chen appeared in front of her as she wondered if he was an illusion.

Lin Chen returned to the competition and slaughtered the Facehuggers, clearing the area around Qingkong. He reunited with her, but she could not remember what had happened and fainted, while factions and enemies reacted to his return.

• Lin Chen crushed a mother-class Facehugger and realized monsters in the competition had weakened stats.
• Lin Chen killed waves of Facehuggers, drawing the attention of Qingkong, nearby prodigies, and the three Sword Lords.
• Lin Chen cleared the monsters within ten miles and then reached out to Qingkong, who took his hand.
• The Apocalypse Universe Alliance factions discussed recruiting Lin Chen, while Blade Venerable worried because Qingkong remembered him despite the poison.
• The Fifth Elder ordered Mad Lion Commander to keep seeking peace with Blue Star and privately considered a risky approach against Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen tried to help Qingkong and question her, but she knew nothing and suddenly fainted.

Lin Chen rescued the injured Qingkong, who had lost her memories, and told her about their past while they ate together. Their reunion sparked excitement and jokes across the Apocalypse Universe Alliance Information Network, while rising demand for Blue Star products led Old Li to ask about increasing meat production.

• Qingkong fainted, and Lin Chen caught her before carrying her to a safe stronghold.
• Lin Chen cooked Demon Beast meat while Qingkong lay unconscious, then gave her water and a Blood Shadow Crystal when she woke.
• Qingkong asked whether Lin Chen knew her, and Lin Chen told her how they had met on Blue Star and how Blade Venerable had taken her away.
• Qingkong could not remember their past but joined Lin Chen for grilled meat, which felt familiar to her.
• Viewers on the Apocalypse Universe Alliance Information Network discussed Lin Chen and Qingkong, while Chief Night Owl learned that orders for Blue Star water and meat had surged.
• Old Li asked Chief Night Owl whether the Meat Processing Plant should increase production, and Little Drillwind suggested they should not deceive customers about the meat.