Chapter Summaries

Lu Ren equipped the Dragon Machine Type 46 Power Armor and traveled to the Kunlun entrance, where he met Chen Lan and learned that rival Martial Daoists had gathered. He prepared to enter Kunlun while recognizing that the armor could restrict him if he unleashed his full strength.

• Lu Ren tested the High-Frequency Vibration Sword and learned its scabbard stored electrical charge for a powerful draw.
• Lu Ren left the base with Xiao Chen's approval and rode to the heavily guarded Kunlun entrance.
• Lu Ren inspected the ancient altar beneath the spatial distortion and met Chen Lan, who asked him to defend the Southwest's reputation against other Martial Daoists.
• Chen Lan named Li Kan and Luo Shou as rival fighters gathered at Kunlun, but Lu Ren showed little interest in competing with them.
• Lu Ren realized the Power Armor suited ordinary people but might restrain a Martial Daoist using his full strength.

Lu Ren entered the Kunlun Otherworld and immediately attacked Wu Qi, who wanted revenge for Tie Feng. After Wu Qi survived the first shots and healed his chest, Lu Ren put away his sword and prepared to fight him hand to hand.

• Chen Lan warned Lu Ren that Wu Qi was waiting for him, and Lu Ren asked her to tell those inside to ignore whatever they saw.
• Lu Ren entered Kunlun with a group of thirty and saw the vast underground world and the forward base inside the massive tomb.
• After declining Li Tiansheng’s offer to team up, Lu Ren suddenly shot Wu Qi twice, wounding him but failing to land a lethal hit.
• Wu Qi forced the bullet from his chest and healed the wound, while Lu Ren put away his High-Frequency Vibration Sword and stepped forward to fight.

Lu Ren fought Wu Qi, whose Dragon Elephant Bedrock Style and immense strength pushed the battle to a brutal grapple and slam. Lu Ren survived the impact and discovered that the attack had advanced his Ten-Realm Mahayana Golden Body Bodhisattva Path to Beginner's Insight, strengthening his body.

• Lu Ren and Wu Qi transformed their bodies and exchanged blows, with Lu Ren matching Wu Qi despite his smaller frame and damaged Power Armor.
• Lu Ren struck Wu Qi in the groin, then used Falcon, Spread Your Wings to unleash a spirit-and-physique attack.
• Wu Qi endured Lu Ren's assault, seized him in a grapple, and slammed him into the ground with Dragon Elephant Somersault.
• Lu Ren rose from the crater unharmed, while the system reported that the blow had advanced his Ten-Realm Mahayana Golden Body Bodhisattva Path.
• Lu Ren examined the golden light on his skin and concluded that the attack had confirmed the technique's instant body-strengthening effect.

Lu Ren killed Wu Qi in a brutal fight, and Falcon Fist broke through to the Divine Skill tier, bringing Lu Ren into a new state of awareness and bodily control. He rested in a temporary military shelter as his physique and spirit continued to change.

• Lu Ren recovered from Wu Qi’s crushing embrace, sensed the world’s Magnetic Field, and challenged Wu Qi to help him cultivate.
• Lu Ren fused Falcon Wing Strike with Falcon Beak and battered Wu Qi until he died.
• Lu Ren’s Falcon Fist reached the Divine Skill tier, triggering advances in his other techniques and a breakthrough beyond the limits of the human body.
• Lu Ren explored his ability to perceive and adjust his cells, then returned to normal and inspected his damaged Power Armor.
• A soldier escorted Lu Ren to a temporary resting area, where he swallowed nutrient pills and compressed water as his Four-Dimensional Attributes began rising.

After reaching Enlightened Awareness, Lu Ren inspected his dramatic physical changes and the Alteration Stage One ability of the Ten-Realm Mahayana Golden Body Bodhisattva Path. He headed toward the Underground Forest to search for Li Ziqing, then stopped at a military station as the forest drew near.

• Lu Ren checked his status panel and saw that his attributes had reached First Tier, First Level, while Falcon Fist had attained Divine Mastery.
• Lu Ren examined how Alteration Stage One was reshaping his bones and muscles, and believed he could kill Wu Qi with one punch.
• After resting for nearly ten hours, Lu Ren replenished his supplies and set out toward the depths, keeping Li Ziqing's disappearance site and the surface exit in mind.
• Lu Ren approached the Underground Forest and observed the cleared road, heavy weapons, and military forces guarding against another beast tide.
• As the forest drew closer, Lu Ren's expression changed, and he showed his identification at a nearby military station before sitting down.

Lu Ren explored his Inner World, met with Subhuti, and learned that Kunlun was an immortal realm where the world’s cultivation environment was changing. He refused to release Subhuti until he revealed his Clairvoyant Realm art, then continued toward the Kunlun Domain and reached a checkpoint where he was warned he would soon have to travel alone.

• Lu Ren entered his Inner World and found Subhuti bound by chains of spiritual light.
• Subhuti praised Lu Ren’s progress into the Clairvoyant Realm and explained that the world’s environment was loosening its restraints.
• Subhuti described Kunlun as a true immortal realm and offered Lu Ren a Tathagata cultivation art in exchange for being released.
• Lu Ren demanded the cultivation art first, but Subhuti refused, so Lu Ren returned to reality without freeing him.
• Lu Ren learned that only a second had passed while he spoke with Subhuti in the Inner World.
• At a checkpoint near the Kunlun Domain, an officer warned Lu Ren that he would likely have to proceed alone and asked whether he had enough supplies.

Lu Ren entered the Kunlun Otherworld to confirm Li Ziqing’s whereabouts and discovered Xu Fu’s corpse-built tomb, then pressed on through a tunnel toward the interior. He encountered Li Tiansheng and his group but did not stop, leaving them behind as he continued his search.

• Lu Ren passed through the checkpoint and reached the massive stone gate, where Subhuti identified the site as Xu Fu’s tomb built with the First Emperor’s soldiers and laborers.
• Lu Ren used Burning Lamp Freedom to see through the heavenly palace illusion and found a horrifying formation made from corpses and bones.
• Lu Ren rejected Subhuti’s suggestion to explore the Flesh Chamber and chose to search for Li Ziqing deeper inside instead.
• Lu Ren found a tunnel behind the palace that led outside and confirmed the Security Administration Bureau’s information before entering it.
• Lu Ren encountered Li Tiansheng and his group, ignored Li Tiansheng’s greeting, and sped past them.

Lu Ren entered the Kunlun Domain and discovered that the seemingly grand Heavenly Palace was an illusion concealing a vast Cemetery of Corpses. After landing in the strange, seemingly endless wilderness, he reunited with former colleagues and began investigating the unusual particles that strengthened him there.

• Lu Ren raced through the tunnel, realizing that the Heavenly Palace was an illusion hiding a Cemetery of Corpses and that Xu Fu's spiritual will remained dormant within it.
• Lu Ren charged out of the tunnel and found himself falling from a cliff, but he caught the rock wall and landed safely at a camp of explorers.
• Lu Ren greeted Chen Daoli and the other Security Administration Bureau members, who were frightened of him, and offered them a way to request support.
• Chen Daoli told Lu Ren that he had encountered Li Ziqing three days earlier in the southeast, and Lu Ren said he would remember the information.
• Lu Ren descended the cliff by cable and noticed that the Kunlun Domain's Strange Particles were more than twice as abundant and seemed to sustain his body.

Lu Ren learned to use his Magnetic Field as a protective dojo and to track someone through the Thousand Mile Soul Locking Method. He followed the connection to Li Ziqing and reached him just as his strength gave out.

• Lu Ren spread his Magnetic Field to repel nearby creatures, and Subhuti explained how qi could create a protective dojo.
• Subhuti taught Lu Ren the Thousand Mile Soul Locking Method, which used a target’s frequently carried object and Magnetic Field to trace them.
• Lu Ren used his Falcon Fist and Magnetic Field to lock onto Li Ziqing’s location.
• Lu Ren sprinted and leaped for more than six hours, covering over a thousand kilometers before finding Li Ziqing gravely injured and near death.
• Li Ziqing recognized Lu Ren and collapsed, and Lu Ren caught him and told him he had arrived.

After Li Ziqing died from his wounds, Lu Ren buried him and faced the two North American Super-Modified Warriors who had killed him. Lu Ren dodged their gunfire and charged as Quisans drew his sword to attack.

• Li Ziqing revealed that North American Super-Modified Warriors had attacked him, warned Lu Ren that overseas forces would target him, and asked him to teach his daughter Falcon Fist.
• Li Ziqing died, and Lu Ren buried him before turning to meet the approaching warriors.
• Quisans and the bald warrior confirmed Li Ziqing was dead, and the bald warrior shot at Lu Ren.
• Lu Ren dodged the gunfire and charged the bald warrior, whose machine gun and targeting systems could not hit him.
• Quisans stepped in front of the bald warrior and slashed at Lu Ren with a lightning-trailing sword.

Lu Ren killed Yanukis with a powerful sword strike and faced Quisans, who activated his plasma-powered armor. Lu Ren entered the First Transformation Stage of the Ten-Realm Mahayana Golden Body Bodhisattva Path, and his enormous scaled hand trapped Quisans's blade as their fight began.

• Lu Ren evaded Quisans's attack and cut Yanukis in half with a supersonic sword strike.
• Quisans recognized Lu Ren's High-Frequency Vibration Sword, and the two exchanged remarks about their weapons and technology.
• Quisans activated overload mode, revealing a plasma arc reaction device that let him lift fifty tons in an instant.
• Quisans charged, and Lu Ren activated the First Transformation Stage, transforming his left arm into a massive bronze-scaled hand.
• Quisans's sword cut between Lu Ren's fingers but became trapped as the flesh closed around the blade.

Lu Ren defeated Quisans and discovered that his Enlightened Awareness let him transform his body by using his will to interfere with reality. After extracting information about a passageway near Skia and North America’s advanced technology, Lu Ren killed Quisans and considered the growing risk of war.

• Lu Ren used the First Transformation Stage to overpower Quisans, then disabled his power reactor by forcing his Magnetic Field into Quisans’s body.
• Quisans recognized Lu Ren as a Clairvoyant Martial Daoist, and Lu Ren demanded to know where his base was.
• Lu Ren broke Quisans’s mind with the True Phoenix of his Falcon Fist, and Quisans revealed that North America had acquired advanced equipment and technology from another realm.
• Quisans said a permanent passageway had appeared near Skia in Northern Europe, where tensions between the Nordic Alliance and Northern Bear were rising.
• Lu Ren destroyed Quisans’s head to ensure he could not survive, then reflected on how the conflict over Skia could lead to a wider war.

Lu Ren pressed on toward the United States' passage through the forest, where he confronted a subspecies qilin. He transformed into his Fourth Ground Bodhisattva Form and caught the fleeing creature by its tail.

• Lu Ren found that his communication device was ruined, left Quisans's corpse behind, and continued toward the passage instead of pressing his armor's distress button.
• Lu Ren encountered giant apes and other dangerous creatures as he traveled deeper into the forest.
• A subspecies qilin charged at Lu Ren, and he decided to test the limits of his transformation despite the damage it would do to his clothing.
• Lu Ren activated the first transformation state of the Ten-Realm Mahayana Golden Body Bodhisattva Path and grew into a bronze-skinned giant.
• The subspecies qilin fled in terror, but Lu Ren caught it by the tail.

Lu Ren killed a Subspecies Qilin and discovered that eating its flesh strengthened his physique. After questioning how far his transformation had taken him, he explored fusing Buddhist practices and compressed his Fourth Ground Bodhisattva Form, though his body still struggled to return to normal.

• Lu Ren subdued the Subspecies Qilin and killed it with a barrage of Falcon Beak punches.
• Lu Ren dissected and ate the Subspecies Qilin, and the system reported that his physique had grown stronger.
• Lu Ren questioned Subhuti about the Ten Grounds and learned that his bodily transformation surpassed the changes Subhuti had seen in other Enlightened Awareness experts.
• Lu Ren tried to fuse Burning Lamp Freedom with Flame Wisdom Ground, but the system indicated that he lacked sufficient accumulation.
• Lu Ren used his will and Magnetic Field to compress his Fourth Ground form until he stood about two-point-one meters tall, but his left leg began swelling back toward the Bodhisattva Form.

Lu Ren discovered that his Ten-Realm Mahayana Golden Body Bodhisattva Path had transformed his body in an unusual way, and he used his new control over his form while hunting creatures in the Kunlun Domain. Near a North American fortress, he tracked down Tigos, a colossal beast with the bloodline of the Eternal Serpent Ouroboros.

• Lu Ren named his new method for altering his bodily structure Ten Realms Seal, and Subhuti explained that Lu Ren’s spiritual manifestation was directly changing his physical form.
• Lu Ren hunted and ate powerful creatures in the forest, including an Emperor Beast, while avoiding areas with enormous life Magnetic Fields.
• A Five-Colored Chicken wounded Lu Ren with its beak, so he killed it and carried it toward a North American fortress.
• Lu Ren reached the fortress, observed its defenses and signs of a past beast tide, and considered causing trouble there.
• Lu Ren stealthily climbed a nearby hill and discovered the enormous Tigos resting beyond the ridge.

Lu Ren stole Tigos's egg-like organ and fled, provoking the colossal creature into a destructive chase. He headed toward the North American base while Tigos pursued him with Flame Breath, leaving the forest in flames and ruin.

• Lu Ren crept behind Tigos and cut an egg-like organ from its lower body with his High-Frequency Vibration Sword.
• Tigos screamed in pain, realized Lu Ren had stolen its egg, and swept its tail at him as he fled.
• Lu Ren dodged the tail, then sprinted toward the North American base with the egg to keep Tigos enraged.
• Tigos chased Lu Ren and attacked with green Flame Breath, while Lu Ren released the Ten Realms Seal and raced ahead at supersonic speed.
• Tigos's pursuit devastated the mountains and forests, setting the woods ablaze and forcing their inhabitants to flee.

Lu Ren led a beast tide to Beacon Country Fortress while carrying the egg he had taken from Tigos, and the fortress opened fire on the approaching creatures. He breached the walls, fought the defenders, and began eating the egg to restore his energy.

• Soldiers at Beacon Country Fortress discussed an expedition and plotted to cause an accident before they noticed the ground shaking and raised the alarm over a beast tide.
• Lu Ren evaded the fortress's missiles and gunfire as he raced ahead of the herd with Tigos pursuing him and demanding its egg back.
• Lu Ren leaped over the fortress wall and charged into the base, where two Super-Modified Warriors challenged him.
• Lu Ren let one warrior's blade cut his shoulder, then smashed the attacker through a concrete wall and drove the other away.
• Lu Ren rapidly healed his wound, then bit into the egg and felt its nourishment spread through his body.

After devouring Tigos’s Dragon Treasure, Lu Ren grew stronger and escaped through the Beacon Country passage into the Kunlun Otherworld. While camping in the mountains, he encountered a mysterious Magnetic Field being that appeared able to stand in sunlight, and drew its attention with a display of power.

• Lu Ren ate Tigos’s Dragon Treasure as Tigos raged and destroyed the Beacon Country fortress, then received a system warning that Tigos would pursue him as a mortal enemy.
• Lu Ren smashed an automated turret, crossed the otherworld passage, and fled into the mountains while Tigos remained occupied by the Super-Modified Warriors and artillery.
• After running for nearly three hours, Lu Ren killed a Four Symbols creature, returned to human form, and began roasting it at a sheltered campsite.
• Lu Ren practiced his Breathing Technique and reflected on his body’s transformation, the Strange Particles, and his progress toward the Fifth Ground.
• Lu Ren noticed a tall black Magnetic Field being beside the fire and suspected it was a Yang Spirit; he demonstrated his strength, prompting it to look at him.

Lu Ren encountered a powerful Yang Spirit who identified himself as Kong Qiu, or Confucius, and learned that the mountain was where Kong Qiu’s body had been buried. Kong Qiu asked Lu Ren to open his coffin, leaving Lu Ren poised to discover how he planned to return to his body.

• Lu Ren questioned the intelligent spirit, who introduced himself as Kong Qiu, courtesy name Zhongni.
• Kong Qiu manifested a muscular form, declined Lu Ren’s challenge without his physical body, and said he had awakened after sensing human presence.
• Kong Qiu explained that the mountain held his bones and used qi to dig up his coffin, which he said contained his body.
• Kong Qiu asked Lu Ren to open the coffin, and Lu Ren kicked its lid open, triggering a Status Panel message about Chen Shen Wood.

Kong Qiu awakened in a body preserved by Chen Shen Wood and explained that he had spent decades in the Endless Wilderness. After Lu Ren shared a meal with him, Kong Qiu began teaching him Spring and Autumn, leaving Lu Ren with a faint insight into the fist art’s ideas.

• Kong Qiu synchronized his spirit with the Chen Shen Wood body and awakened, while Lu Ren wondered whether the process was resurrection or possession.
• Kong Qiu told Lu Ren he had entered Kunlun at seventy-two, lived to one hundred and ten, and found Chen Shen Wood in the Endless Wilderness.
• Lu Ren and Kong Qiu ate roasted Four Symbols beast, and Kong Qiu offered to repay Lu Ren by sharing his life’s cultivation, Spring and Autumn.
• Kong Qiu showed Lu Ren a silk scroll written in small seal script, then began explaining the Spring and Autumn fist art after learning Lu Ren could not read it.
• Lu Ren gained a faint insight into Spring and Autumn, and Kong Qiu looked astonished and pleased by his response.