Chapter Summaries

Lu Ren recovered after using the Mingyang Great Radiance Art and entered his Inner World, where his captives argued and fought. He questioned Ao Li about the enemy who had mortally wounded him, but Ao Li refused to answer, leaving Lu Ren with no new information.

• Lu Ren restored his original appearance, considered the energy he had spent, and returned to his room to meditate.
• Lu Ren entered his Inner World and found Xu Fu, Chen Xuzi, and the others fighting Subhuti and Kong Qiu; he stopped them and asked where they were.
• Chen Xuzi identified their location as the Netherworld and argued with Xu Fu, while Kong Qiu joined their brawl.
• Lu Ren spoke with Ao Li and asked what enemy had caused his fatal injuries.
• Ao Li warned Lu Ren that hearing the enemy's name could destroy his Spirit Soul, then angrily ordered him to leave when Lu Ren suggested he feared drawing that enemy's attention.

Lu Ren went to the ruins of Zhuan Kong Temple and killed Xie Kong, erasing his spirit soul after drawing it into his Inner World. He confronted Liu Changkui, who appeared pleased by Xie Kong’s death despite condemning Lu Ren, and recognized that the prefect had wanted it to happen.

• Xu Li asked Lu Ren to meet her at noon the next day, then left after he agreed to consider it.
• Lu Ren disguised himself and went to Zhuan Kong Temple, where Xie Kong was recovering beneath the ruins.
• Liu Changkui arrived and warned Lu Ren to stop, revealing himself as a powerful Transcendence Realm martial artist.
• Lu Ren stomped on Xie Kong’s head, drew his spirit soul into the Inner World, and completely erased it.
• Xie Kong’s death caused spiritual rain in the Inner World, which Xu Fu tried and failed to absorb.
• Liu Changkui condemned Lu Ren but showed delight at Xie Kong’s death, prompting Lu Ren to say that the prefect had wanted it.

Lu Ren revealed his Sixteen Foot Golden Body and overwhelmed Liu Changkui with his speed and strength. After Liu Changkui recovered from Lu Ren's first blows and blocked another punch, Lu Ren seized him and began striking him repeatedly.

• Lu Ren told Liu Changkui that martial arts and qi refining both led toward the Dao Determination Realm.
• Lu Ren unfolded the Phoenix Bodhisattva Appearance of the sixth manifestation, prompting Liu Changkui to mistake him for a demon.
• Lu Ren charged Liu Changkui and punched him through walls and into a boulder.
• Liu Changkui healed his broken arms with his blood and qi and blocked Lu Ren's next punch.
• Lu Ren seized Liu Changkui's arms and pummelled him with his three free hands.

The Li Yuan Organization activated a citywide blood sacrifice in Juliu City, killing tens of thousands of people to summon Doyagara and overturn the city's Magnetic Field. Lu Ren realized the sacrifice was absorbing the dead and strengthening the Yin energy as it spread.

• As fireworks formed a pattern over Juliu City, more than sixty thousand executors killed their closest relatives, painted blood sigils, and many took their own lives.
• Li Yuan Organization assassins slaughtered Liu Changkui's family, while a young girl entered the Prefect's Manor and began the Life Sacrifice to summon Doyagara.
• The girl's body dissolved into the runes, and the death warriors sacrificed themselves, activating the blood sigils throughout the manor and more than fifty thousand homes.
• The city's Magnetic Field turned chaotic, driving soldiers mad as they attacked Lu Ren, who killed them with Bright Yang True Qi.
• Lu Ren saw the soldiers' blood and souls drawn into the air to strengthen the Yin-attributed Magnetic Field, which was devouring the city's Yang energy.

Lu Ren discovered that the Life Sacrifice grand formation had doomed Juliu City and tried to escape with Li Tianming. He flew over the sealed city wall, only to be repelled by an invisible barrier.

• Tens of thousands of crimson lights rose from Juliu City, and Liu Changkui realized Xie Kong had sacrificed the city.
• Lu Ren saw the formation had already taken shape, told Liu Changkui his family was likely dead, and urged him to seek vengeance.
• Lu Ren returned to the noodle shop, found the people there dead, and carried Li Tianming away as blood flowed into an array pattern.
• Lu Ren killed the maddened Xu Li when she charged at them, then burned away the baleful aura drawn to him.
• Lu Ren reached the city gate, found Juliu City sealed, and tried to fly over the wall, but an invisible barrier threw him back through several houses.

Lu Ren and Li Tianming tried to escape Guang Chengzi’s Heaven Earth Lockdown as Guang Chengzi revealed his plan to use collapsing realms and Juliu City’s people to attain the Dao. Lu Ren broke through the underground air wall, but tentacles seized him, leaving Li Tianming trapped outside while Guang Chengzi transformed into a monstrous mass of flesh and attacked Lu Ren.

• Lu Ren slapped Li Tianming for panicking, then dug beneath Juliu City’s air wall while Guang Chengzi revealed that he had founded the Li Yuan Organization and intended to use the city’s people as provisions.
• Guang Chengzi explained that he sought the Dao Fruit of rules by causing mortal realms and their rules to collapse, and Lu Ren questioned the danger of invoking a high-dimensional evil god.
• Lu Ren unleashed his Bright Yang True Qi and struck the weaker underground air wall with a golden Buddha palm, opening a passage through it.
• Tentacles grabbed Lu Ren as he tried to escape, but he flung Li Tianming beyond the air wall before being pulled back; Li Tianming was left unable to dig his way out.
• Guang Chengzi merged with the flesh of Juliu City’s inhabitants and attacked Lu Ren with red beams, while Lu Ren dodged and taunted him as he searched for a way to survive.

Lu Ren evaded Guang Chengzi’s attention and discovered that Juliu City’s inhabitants had been sacrificed to power a vast ritual. He met the long-lived Daoist Chen Guanzhen, who claimed he could find a flaw in the formation trapping the city.

• Guang Chengzi boasted that Juliu City was under Heaven Earth Lockdown, but Lu Ren concealed his aura and slipped away from his sight.
• Lu Ren reached the Prefect’s Manor and saw that the city’s people had been absorbed into a mass of flesh and blood above Juliu City as part of a Life Sacrifice.
• Xu Fu, Kong Qiu, and Chen Xuzi reacted to the sacrifice, while Ao Li sensed that strange power was building a passage.
• Lu Ren found Liu Changkui in the empty Prefect’s Manor and confirmed that nearly everyone in Juliu City had vanished.
• Lu Ren coaxed Chen Guanzhen out of a cellar and recognized that the old Daoist had locked away his Essence, Qi, and Spirit to prolong his life.
• Chen Guanzhen revealed that he could break the formation if he found its flaw, and Lu Ren asked why he was still waiting to die in the cellar.

Lu Ren and Chen Guanzhen discussed how to exploit a flaw in the Destroyer Great Formation and agreed to prepare a counter-formation. Chen Guanzhen taught Lu Ren the Supreme Inspiration Prolonging Heart Sutra, though Lu Ren found the preservation method of little use to him.

• Chen Guanzhen explained that the formation would become vulnerable when its accumulated power peaked and began to decline.
• Lu Ren refused to enter Chen Guanzhen's cellar and decided cooperation was safer than trying to subdue him.
• Chen Guanzhen emerged with nearly a thousand rune-covered flags and proposed planting them across the city to create a formation within the formation.
• Lu Ren asked Chen Guanzhen to explain his preservation method, and Chen Guanzhen described his lineage before teaching him the Supreme Inspiration Prolonging Heart Sutra.
• After studying the sutra for nearly two hours and gaining insight into it, Lu Ren stood up with a regretful expression.

Lu Ren helped Chen Guanzhen place the flags for a formation that would transform Juliu City’s Yin energy into Yang energy, while realizing Chen Guanzhen’s plans also served his own ambitions. After Lu Ren set the core flag and Chen Guanzhen activated the formation, Juliu City’s Magnetic Field began to shake.

• Chen Guanzhen explained why he had pursued his cultivation path, and Lu Ren kept him close while they planted the formation’s flags.
• Chen Guanzhen guided Lu Ren to place nearly a hundred flags, gradually converting the region’s Yin-aspected Magnetic Field into Yang-aspected energy.
• After nearly twelve hours, Chen Guanzhen told Lu Ren to plant the core flag and said the completed formation could restore daylight to Juliu City.
• Lu Ren saw that Guang Chengzi was forming a body by sacrificing the city’s million people, then planted the final flag despite recognizing Chen Guanzhen’s selfish motives.
• Chen Guanzhen performed hand seals and invoked the formation, which began swallowing Yin energy and transforming it into Yang as the Magnetic Field shook.

Chen Guanzhen used the Stellar Yang Gathering Array to draw down starlight and seize Juliu City's gathered spiritual power, interrupting Guang Chengzi's century-long plan. As Guang Chengzi attacked and offered a bargain, Chen Guanzhen refused, and Guang Chengzi began suppressing the array's power.

• Chen Guanzhen activated the Stellar Yang Gathering Array, drawing starlight down and using the city's human aura to strengthen himself.
• Guang Chengzi noticed Chen Guanzhen stealing the gathered power, transformed into a towering fleshly giant, and attacked him.
• Chen Guanzhen turned the starlight into countless swords that pierced Guang Chengzi's hand, while Lu Ren watched from a distant tavern.
• Guang Chengzi offered to spare Chen Guanzhen if he surrendered the array and promised him Juliu City's Dao fruit, but Chen Guanzhen refused.
• Guang Chengzi declared he had prepared sacrifices from other cities and then shrank the dark clouds, cutting the starlight reaching the array in half.

Chen Guanzhen’s attempt to seize the Dao left him gravely injured, and Lu Ren arrived to confront him. After learning about the Human King Tomb map, Lu Ren tried to kill Chen Guanzhen, who fled as Guang Chengzi’s shattered flesh hung in the sky.

• Chen Guanzhen’s golden lightning array clashed with Guang Chengzi’s scarlet power, leaving both badly injured.
• Lu Ren reached the weakened Chen Guanzhen, who admitted he lacked the courage to risk everything to advance.
• Chen Guanzhen revealed that the lower section of the Human King Tomb map was hidden at Luo Family Fortress, and Lu Ren showed him the Gate of Rebirth key.
• Concerned about the dangers gathering around him in the Netherworld, Lu Ren decided to visit the Human King Tomb.
• Lu Ren tried to stomp Chen Guanzhen to death, but Chen Guanzhen dodged and demanded to know why he was not allowed to run.

Lu Ren killed Chen Guanzhen, but the Netherworld's rules began rejecting him and the system set a deadline for his return. As a higher-dimensional being named Doyagara appeared and devoured Guang Chengzi, Lu Ren fled Juliu City and headed for the excavation site near the Human King Tomb.

• Lu Ren transformed into his Phoenix Bodhisattva form, detonated the Bright Yang True Qi inside Chen Guanzhen, and crushed him before destroying his fleeing spiritual consciousness.
• The system awarded Lu Ren two Skill Points for killing Chen Guanzhen and warned that the Netherworld's rules were rejecting him, then announced it would forcibly return him in half an hour.
• A gigantic tentacle covered in eyes and mouths appeared overhead and gathered up Guang Chengzi's remains, devouring his flesh and spiritual body.
• Lu Ren glimpsed Doyagara's body, and the system blocked the mental impact of the higher-dimensional lifeform.
• Lu Ren broke through Juliu City's defensive barrier and went to the excavation point he had chosen near the Human King Tomb.

Lu Ren escaped the Netherworld with Li Tianming and returned to Mount Qingcheng, where Ji Quanzhen urged him to leave. He then discovered that another universe was invading reality and altering people’s behavior, while the cause and extent of the upheaval remained unclear.

• Doyagara destroyed Juliu City while searching for Lu Ren, but Lu Ren used the system to escape the Netherworld with Li Tianming.
• Lu Ren arrived at Mount Qingcheng, where Ji Quanzhen recognized him and hurried him away from the sealed forbidden ground.
• Ji Quanzhen explained that cultivators could reach the divine immortal realm by refining and materializing their spirits, even without a qi seed.
• As Lu Ren and Li Tianming descended the mountain, Lu Ren sensed that the Magnetic Field had become chaotic and realized reality was being invaded by another universe.
• Li Tianming crushed a rat that was gnawing on a woman's finger, then fought off the women who protested while bystanders filmed him.

After returning from Mount Qingcheng, Lu Ren was summoned to Modu to investigate strange changes affecting reality and the injury of Eastern Sky Dragon Zhang Tongxuan. He arrived at the Oak Space Detection Center, where the tense gathering drew his attention to Zhang Tongxuan, whose cultivation seemed to parallel his own.

• Lu Ren returned to his residence, reported to Chen Changfeng and the Southwest Security Administration Bureau, and rested after arranging matters for Li Tianming.
• Zhang Li visited Lu Ren and asked him to come to Modu, explaining that strange rules were affecting reality and that Zhang Tongxuan had been injured.
• Lu Ren traveled to the jointly established Oak Space Detection Center, where Wang Yong and armed troops escorted him inside.
• Lu Ren entered the top floor and spotted Zhang Tongxuan, recognizing him as Eastern Sky Dragon and sensing his formidable vitality and unusual power.
• Zhang Tongxuan noticed Lu Ren and seemed surprised to find someone who had followed a path like his own.

Lu Ren met the powerful representatives of Northern Bear Country and the United States while speaking with Zhang Tongxuan about the world’s merging realms and his injury. As China, the United States, and the other nations argued over who should lead a Planetary Alliance, Lu Ren sensed that the negotiations would go nowhere.

• Lu Ren assessed the Northern Bear Country expert and the armored United States representative before greeting Zhang Tongxuan.
• Zhang Tongxuan praised Lu Ren’s cultivation, and Lu Ren said he had formed his qi seed using a Demon Core from Kunlun.
• Lu Ren asked about Zhang Tongxuan’s injury, prompting the other experts to realize he had concealed it.
• Zhang Tongxuan explained that an outer demon had attacked his body while he traveled through the multiverse, and that he had eaten it after suppressing it.
• China’s spokesperson proposed a Planetary Alliance, while the United States representative argued that their country should lead it.
• Lu Ren lost interest in the dispute and spread his spirit outward.

Lu Ren attended negotiations with Northern Bear and the United States over exploring an ancient lunar statue, then discussed the path to the Dao Determination Realm with Zhang Tongxuan. Zhang Tongxuan said the Inner World path seemed flawed and that the destination called the Endless Land remained unknown.

• Lu Ren’s presence pressured the Northern Bear and United States experts, but he sat down without starting a fight.
• Wang Yong explained that China, Northern Bear, and the United States were negotiating how to explore an ancient statue discovered beneath a lunar fissure.
• Lu Ren learned that China had prepared a spacecraft but needed Northern Bear’s heavy rocket and United States lunar technology to carry out the mission.
• Lu Ren discussed Enlightened Awareness and the Dao Determination Realm with Zhang Tongxuan, who said he had explored the Inner World but doubted it held the key to his breakthrough.
• Zhang Tongxuan said ancient accounts connected the Inner World to the Endless Land, but even past Heavenly Masters of Dragon Tiger Mountain had not established what lay there.

Lu Ren agreed to investigate the dangerous path into the Inner World and prepared for a space mission after Zhang Tongxuan warned him about encountering an identical version of himself there. A month later, as otherworldly incursions spread and China finalized its launch plan, Lu Ren stood suited up at the Northwest Space Launch Center.

• Zhang Tongxuan told Lu Ren that he had encountered an eerie version of himself on a path into his subconscious, then returned to Dragon Tiger Mountain to guard a passage to another foreign realm.
• Lu Ren agreed to try the investigation and began intensive training in spacecraft operation, spacesuits, and survival skills, memorizing the material in a week.
• Lu Ren arranged for Li Qingling to meet Li Tianming, and Li Qingling beat him before he began hellish training.
• The Demon Hunting Division used spatial monitoring equipment and magnetic-field energy weapons to predict and eliminate Netherworld and Kunlun incursions as the worlds began intertwining with reality.
• A month later, Lu Ren arrived at the Northwest Space Launch Center in a spacesuit and Fish Scale Combat Suit, ready for the planned launch.

Lu Ren traveled toward the Moon aboard the Yutu Rover with Nostrov, Jack the Lightning, and four researchers, while discovering that his Breathing Technique worked twice as efficiently in space. As the group gazed into the cosmos, Lu Ren sensed a strange message and exchanged tense words with Jack about his non-Earth technology.

• Lu Ren boarded the Yutu Rover with Nostrov, Jack the Lightning, and four researchers after privately being told not to hold back if conflict arose.
• Nostrov asked why Lu Ren carried a sword, and Lu Ren said he was a swordsman.
• The Arctic Light Super Heavy Rocket carried the craft into high Earth orbit, and the Yutu Rover began its journey toward the Moon.
• Lu Ren noticed that his Breathing Technique worked twice as efficiently in space, while Subhuti, Xu Fu, Chen Xuzi, and Crimson Dragon Ao Li reacted to the stars.
• Jack questioned Lu Ren about his fame, and Lu Ren recognized that Jack's body had been upgraded with technology not from Earth.
• Lu Ren turned his attention back to space as his Breathing Technique seemed to receive a strange message.

Lu Ren traveled to the moon aboard the Yutu Rover with Nostrov, Jack, and the researchers, keeping watch while cultivating during the journey. After warning Jack not to approach him, Lu Ren reached the lunar surface with the crew, fifty kilometers from the stone statue discovery site.

• The Yutu Rover accelerated toward the moon, and Lu Ren spent the journey cultivating instead of entering the Inner World.
• Jack approached to examine Lu Ren’s unusual life Magnetic Field, but Lu Ren warned that he would kill him if he came closer.
• Li Changming asked Lu Ren through his headset to protect their people, and Lu Ren agreed.
• The Yutu Rover entered lunar orbit and landed smoothly fifty kilometers from the stone statue discovery site.

Zhai Ruying’s team began building a semi-permanent lunar base while Lu Ren, Jack, and Nostrov headed for the stone statue. The statue’s powerful Magnetic Field disrupted their equipment and affected Jack and Nostrov, but Lu Ren remained unaffected as he inspected a deep fissure at its feet.

• Zhai Ruying confirmed that supplies from earlier missions would let the researchers build a lunar base, and Lu Ren set out with Jack and Nostrov.
• Jack and Nostrov used their enhanced abilities to race across the lunar surface, while Lu Ren warned Zhai Ruying to shoot them if they acted suspiciously.
• The three reached the stone statue, where its Magnetic Field overwhelmed their communications and slowed Jack.
• Jack activated his Magnetic Field energy suppressor, while Nostrov complained that the interference was making his head uncomfortable.
• Lu Ren revealed that the interference had no effect on him and examined the fissure beneath the statue.
• Lu Ren dropped a glow stick into the fissure, illuminating part of its rough interior.