Chapter Summaries

After watching several hundred thousand years of history unfold, Fang Xing sensed the world entering a new stage that might allow experts to approach the realms needed to revive Pangu Wu. He revealed himself to Gui Yan Nian inside the True Martial Space and left the Turtle Snake Stream’s Faction Master wondering who he was.

• Fang Xing reviewed the True Martial Talisman's history, from the fall of True Martial Mountain to its passage through many hands and its eventual concealment by the Turtle Snake Stream.
• Fang Xing sensed the world's transformation and the opening of a crack in the Gate of Longevity, which could allow Eleventh- or Twelfth-Realm experts to emerge.
• Gui Yan Nian entered the Ancestral Hall, verified that the True Martial Talisman was safe, and used it to cultivate and practice a new palm technique.
• The True Martial Space expanded, and Fang Xing appeared on a throne above Gui Yan Nian, whose resistance to Fang Xing's pressure failed.
• Fang Xing introduced himself as the True Martial Space's sleeping Artifact Spirit and recalled meeting Xun Black Tiger and Xia Mang, while Gui Yan Nian tried to identify him.

Fang Xing learned that the Great Luo world had expanded to include the White Eagle Continent, then watched decades of conflict and exchange between the civilizations. The chapter ended when an impostor who had stolen the True Martial Talisman entered True Martial Space, where Fang Xing identified him as a Fourth Rank Thousand-Faced Lord of the demonic cult.

• Fang Xing told Gui Yan Nian that the coming upheaval would remove the Void Realm’s limits and ordered him to investigate the world.
• Gui Yan Nian reported that a Black Ship from another continent had landed in Hai Province, leading to clashes with local martial artists and plans for an expedition.
• Fang Xing gave Gui Yan Nian the Black Tortoise True Skill and told him to seek the True Martial Dao Tradition and heirs of the True Martial Saint Physique.
• The Great Luo Dynasty and the White Eagle Federation later fought a naval war as people and martial artists increasingly crossed between the continents.
• An impostor posing as Gui Yan Nian stole the True Martial Talisman from Turtle Snake Stream and entered True Martial Space.
• Fang Xing recognized the impostor as a Fourth Rank Thousand-Faced Lord and warned that the demonic cult’s members could not touch True Martial sacred relics.

Gui Yan Nian fought off the Demonic Sect after it attacked Turtle Snake Stream and exposed the True Martial Talisman, but the Demonic Sect Master gravely wounded him. Before drawing the pursuers away in a final attack, Gui Yan Nian sent the talisman off inside a black catfish and secured Fang Xing’s promise to preserve the Turtle Snake lineage.

• Gui Yan Nian discovered that the impostor had been reduced to corpse oil, recovered the True Martial Talisman, and ordered Turtle Snake Stream’s elders and disciples to flee.
• The Eternally Dark Marquis attacked Gui Yan Nian, and the Demonic Sect Master trapped him in a Chaos Hole and struck him with a Returning Void Fist.
• Gui Yan Nian hid in a sewer and pleaded with Fang Xing to save him, but Fang Xing refused; he agreed to pass down the Turtle Snake lineage.
• Gui Yan Nian concealed the True Martial Talisman inside a black catfish and sent it away, then broke through the earth to draw the Demonic Sect’s pursuit toward himself.
• Gui Yan Nian killed the Eternally Dark Marquis with a final Black Tortoise attack and fled as a blood-colored rainbow, drawing the arriving martial experts after him.

Li Wei, a mixed-heritage youth in New Wind City’s slums, trained in the Cross Breathing Method under his injured teacher Kyle while doubting the knight path could rival Daluo martial arts. He returned to his adoptive family for the night, carrying a Stone Talisman he had found inside a fish.

• Fang Xing briefly brought a catfish into True Martial Space, dismissed the idea that it could practice martial arts, and tossed it back out.
• Li Wei caught a large catfish and brought half of it to Kyle, who shared a meal with him and asked about his Cross Breathing Method practice.
• Kyle struck several points on Li Wei’s body as he practiced, helping him briefly sense the method’s rhythm, then warned that the training could damage him if he did not become a Formal Knight before twenty.
• Kyle revealed that his knight branch was the Red Serpent Stream and that its secret transmission could be learned after Li Wei condensed the Seed of Life.
• Li Wei returned to his adoptive parents and younger sister, helped with chores, and went to sleep.

Li Wei awakened the True Martial Talisman’s inheritance, joined the Turtle Snake Stream, and became a Formal Knight. After discovering that his mother had been drawn into a Dark Lotus Bodhisattva cult, he attacked its local shaman and learned that she belonged to the demon cult, leaving him in danger.

• Fang Xing told Li Wei that the stone talisman was the True Martial Talisman and gave him the Turtle Snake Stream’s techniques in exchange for joining its tradition.
• Li Wei used True Martial Space to break through and become a Formal Knight, then told his parents he would move the family to New Wind City once he found work.
• Li Wei learned that his mother had prayed to the Dark Lotus Bodhisattva through Sang San Gu and went to confront the shaman.
• Li Wei beat Sang San Gu’s two guards and knocked her unconscious, then searched her at Fang Xing’s prompting.
• Li Wei found a note identifying Sang San Gu as a Ninth-Rank Peeping Specter and learned that she was a minor member of the demon cult.

Li Wei learned that the Demonic Sect's Rank One End Existence could prolong its life by harvesting vast numbers of people, and Fang Xing gave him a poison-based martial art as a countermeasure. As Li Wei began working and training in New Wind City, a research vessel in the Far North discovered a frozen Martial Artist who suddenly opened his eyes.

• Li Wei asked Fang Xing about awakening a True Martial Saint Physique, and Fang Xing explained that his mixed bloodline made it unlikely.
• Fang Xing revealed that the Demonic Sect's End Existence could extend its life by consuming human vitality and described the threat this posed to ordinary people.
• Li Wei vowed to stop the End Existence, and Fang Xing offered him the Life Defeat Poison Body Scripture as a way to poison those who tried to harvest life essence.
• Li Wei planned to find work in New Wind City and practice Martial Arts.
• A research vessel sailing through the Far North was nearly struck by a tsunami after a frozen continent broke apart.
• The crew spotted a Far East Martial Artist frozen in the ice, and he opened his eyes as the vessel approached.

Li Wei joined the final stage of the World's First Martial Arts Tournament on Death Island to stop the Demonic Sect Master's planned ascension, while Martial Madman set the contestants against one another to select challengers. The tournament began as Demonic Sect disciples prepared a ritual that would use the island's deaths to help the Sect Master become an End.

• Li Wei read that Martial Madman had emerged from ten-thousand-year black ice, taken over the White Eagle Continent, and helped arrange a tournament with a million-tael prize.
• Three years later, Li Wei sailed to Death Island after winning through the tournament to earn money for his sick little sister, A Ning, and learned the Demonic Sect Master also planned to attend.
• Fang Xing sensed that Death Island contained a Ritual Track for the Demonic Sect Master's attempted breakthrough, and Li Wei resolved to stop the End Existence.
• Martial Madman welcomed the contestants, scattered Command Token fragments, and ordered them to survive on the island and bring a complete token to the Dao Discussion Platform.
• Li Wei caught a token fragment and entered the forest, leaving other contestants to fight over the remaining fragments.
• Demonic Sect disciples guarded the Sect Master's black coffin and revealed that the deaths of the contestants would fuel the ritual, which Martial Madman had allowed to proceed.

Li Wei fought his way across Death Island and faced the northern grandmaster Gong Jiu Yuan, while the Martial Madman and Demonic Sect pursued their separate plans. The Demonic Sect Master’s apparent death unleashed a black, rune-filled substance that Fang Xing identified as the coming end.

• Li Wei killed a Saber-Toothed Tiger and defeated a White Eagle knight, learning that the Martial Madman’s conquered followers had become fanatically loyal through Spiritual Martial Arts.
• Li Wei encountered Gong Jiu Yuan, entered a spiritual clash with him, and later knocked him down to take his Command Token fragment.
• Avril killed an opponent for another Command Token fragment while wondering when she would encounter Li Wei.
• The Martial Madman told his Female Secretary that he sought the True Martial Talisman and might join the Demonic Sect if he failed to break through to a higher realm.
• The Lieshan Great Grandmaster split the Demonic Sect Master’s coffin and apparently killed him, but the body dissolved into black fluid filled with strange runes.
• Li Wei sensed a catastrophe, and Fang Xing declared that the end had descended.

The newly advanced Demonic Sect Master emerged on Death Island as a ravenous End Existence and fought Martial Madman. Li Wei and the surviving experts tried to intervene, but Pangu Wu Devil Venerable’s phantom appeared and the expanding black sea engulfed the island.

• The Demonic Sect Master appeared through a Chaos Hole and began consuming martial artists, while a Void Realm fighter’s Life Defeat Poison Body disgusted him.
• Martial Madman challenged the Demonic Sect Master, and their clash revealed that the End’s Chaos Holes could absorb attacks and distort space.
• The Demonic Sect Master engulfed Martial Madman in a spreading black sea, prompting Li Wei, Avril, and other contestants to attack.
• The black sea swallowed Avril and the other experts, while Martial Madman escaped with a severe chest wound and recognized Li Wei’s mastery of two martial traditions.
• The Demonic Sect Master’s madness worsened as Pangu Wu Devil Venerable’s phantom emerged, and the black sea expanded across Death Island, consuming its martial arts powerhouses.

Li Wei and Martial Madman faced the Demonic Sect Master after he became an End Existence, but neither could defeat him. Fang Xing took over Martial Madman’s body, destroyed the Demonic Sect Master and his phantom, then left Li Wei with knowledge of the poison threatening the world.

• Martial Madman used the True Martial inheritance to strike the Demonic Sect Master, but the Pangu Wu Devil Venerable’s phantom remained unharmed and the Demonic Sect Master battered him and Li Wei.
• Li Wei fused the Eastern True Martial system with the Western knightly path, but his attack failed to stop the Demonic Sect Master.
• Fang Xing asked to borrow Martial Madman’s body, and the True Martial Talisman entered Martial Madman as Fang Xing took control.
• Fang Xing used the True Martial Divine Palm to destroy the Demonic Sect Master and the Pangu Wu Devil Venerable’s phantom, leaving Li Wei with knowledge of the End Existence advancement path.
• Fang Xing departed after telling Li Wei their connection had ended, and Li Wei resolved to spread the Life Defeating Poison Body Skill to protect the common people from the poison left behind.

New student Vik arrived at Blue Star Academy, where he learned about the Alliance’s war against the Forbidden Star Federation and the academy’s legendary martial artists. After touching the statue of the First Generation Director, the Martial Madman, Vik found himself transported to a mysterious gray space beneath a pair of ancient, pure eyes.

• Vik and the other new students arrived on Source Star and discussed the Alliance’s conflict with the Forbidden Star Federation and its End Existences.
• Instructor Bond welcomed the students and brought them to Blue Star Academy, where they saw the statues of its twelve strongest figures.
• Liu Ru Xu told Vik that the statue tour’s promised opportunities were probably an old academy prank, but Vik still touched the Martial Madman’s statue and briefly felt dizzy.
• Vik passed his entrance medical examination with no problems and later meditated in his dormitory.
• Vik’s consciousness entered a hazy gray space with endless stone steps, where ancient eyes watched him from above.

Fang Xing revealed himself to Vik as the True Martial Talisman and gave him access to True Martial Space, which helped Vik break through to the Void Realm. As Vik accepted the power to pursue revenge against the Forbidden Star Federation, Fang Xing explained that Pangu Wu was everywhere and urged him to awaken the True Martial Saint Physique.

• Fang Xing explained that he had used the True Martial Talisman to seek suitable hosts for generations and judged Vik a promising candidate with the potential to awaken the True Martial Saint Physique.
• Fang Xing gave Vik a secret art and access to True Martial Space, then reflected that the coming world ascension would bring a final battle between the Source Star Alliance and the Forbidden Star Federation.
• After meditating overnight in True Martial Space, Vik broke through to the Void Realm and resolved to accept the gift so he could reach the Cosmic Realm and avenge the destruction of his hometown, Little Star City.
• Fang Xing told Vik that he would not harvest him and revealed that Pangu Wu existed throughout heaven and earth, rather than in Hyperspace.
• Fang Xing urged Vik to awaken the True Martial Saint Physique, then disclosed that it was the same physique as the Forbidden Star Federation's Pangu Wu Devil Body, differing only in how it was used.

At Blue Star Academy's graduation, Vik discovered that the Director had been replaced by an enemy as the Forbidden Star Federation launched a surprise attack on Source Star. After centuries of war and cultivation, Vik was asked to guard Teng Luo Tai during his breakthrough, but Teng Luo Tai appeared to have comprehended the Thunder Law first.

• At his graduation, Vik was attacked by the impostor Director, who branded him a traitor and killed students as the Federation's forces invaded Source Star.
• Vik learned that an enormous Ancient One had reached Source Star, then charged into space to fight as the planet and star system descended into war.
• Over the century-long conflict, Vik became known as Blood Butcher while Teng Luo Tai rose from an ordinary soldier to one of the Alliance Nine Generals.
• Centuries later, Vik remained unable to comprehend the Fire Law, and the Alliance asked him to protect Teng Luo Tai during his breakthrough.
• Vik flew to Teng Luo Tai, who opened his eyes amid a universe-spanning sea of azure lightning, revealing his Thunder Law.

Teng Luo Tai’s breakthrough awakened Pangu Wu within him, forcing Fang Xing to restrain the Pan Wu consciousness while Vik fought to stop him. After Vik destroyed the Forbidden Star Federation and the universe collapsed back into its source, Fang Xing returned and opened the True Martial Great Dao, while Pangu Wu began preparing for Transcendence.

• Teng Luo Tai attained the Law Lord Realm, but Pangu Wu awakened within him and his rampaging power destroyed Alliance ships and satellites.
• Fang Xing told Vik that he would restrain Teng Luo Tai, and Vik attacked the lightning giant as Fang Xing’s power entered its body.
• Vik fully comprehended the Fire Law and pierced Teng Luo Tai’s weakness, destroying the lightning giant as Fang Xing returned to the world’s source to balance the Pan Wu Great Dao.
• Vik swept across the Forbidden Star Federation and destroyed its Ancient Ones, enabling the Source Star Alliance to unify the universe.
• Fang Xing revealed that the universe and Vik were returning to the world’s source, then emerged beyond the world and opened the True Martial Great Dao.
• Pangu Wu sensed Fang Xing’s new Great Dao and resumed isolation to pursue Transcendence, leaving the Pan Wu Great Dao ownerless.

After reaching Fifteenth-Realm Eternity, Fang Xing learned to manipulate the Azure Origin Great World's origin and resurrected Qing Hua Niangniang, severing one of his causal ties. He then met Pangu Wu, discussed the Dao with him, and offered him Transcendent Blood as a possible path to a Transcendent Trait.

• Fang Xing broke through to Fifteenth-Realm Eternity and discovered that his Heart Power and Time-Space Indestructible Great Sun King Mantra had also reached Grandmaster level, granting him a second Transcendent Trait.
• Fang Xing found that Han Lin could be a candidate to Fill the Dao and identified his causal ties to Qing Hua Niangniang, the Zerg Civilization, and the Demon Venerable and Devil Venerable.
• Fang Xing used an Eternal Imprint to resurrect Qing Hua Niangniang in Qing Hua Small World, then ended their karma and left.
• Fang Xing located Pangu Wu, surpassed his teacher in the True Martial Great Dao, and discussed Transcendence with him.
• Fang Xing offered Pangu Wu the Transcendent Blood he had obtained, explaining that refining it could grant him a Transcendent Trait.

Fang Xing settled his remaining karma, revived Grey Robe Marquis, and revealed that he had attained Eternity. He located the sleeping Zerg Eternal Existences hidden beyond the Great Xia Universe, preparing to confront them.

• Fang Xing offered Pangu Wu the Transcendent Blood in exchange for an oath to fulfill one request after transcending, and Pangu Wu accepted.
• Fang Xing revived Grey Robe Marquis on New Blue Star and directed him toward work with Blue Star Civilization, Starry Sky Civilization, or life as a Cosmic Wanderer.
• Fang Xing visited Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord and confirmed that he had attained Eternity, then set out to deal with the two sleeping Zerg Eternal Existences himself.
• Using the Gate of Heavens, Fang Xing found Han Sen unconscious in a damaged Black Cross spacecraft hidden in the Great Xia Universe.
• Fang Xing searched beyond the Great Xia Universe and discovered the two Zerg Eternal Existences sleeping in a distant damaged Secret Realm guarded by Zerg warriors.

Fang Xing used the Gate of Heavens to destroy the Zerg hidden in a Secret Realm and awaken its two Eternal Existences. After his attacks proved impossible to counter, the Zerg leaders tried to flee, but Fang Xing sealed the world’s void and trapped them.

• A Zerg warrior celebrated a newly advanced Law Lord and cursed humanity and Fang Xing before Fang Xing’s giant hand destroyed the Secret Realm’s continent and killed its elite Zerg.
• The two Zerg Eternal Existences awakened, and Fang Xing struck them with the Great Sun Nirvana through the Gate of Heavens, badly injuring the white moth.
• The Zerg Eternal Existences tried to attack through the Gate when it connected to Fang Xing, but they failed to reach him and realized it was a supreme treasure left by a Transcender.
• The two Zerg Eternal Existences attempted to flee through void vortexes, but Fang Xing sealed all void in the Secret Realm and blocked their escape.

Fang Xing killed the Zerg’s two Eternal Existences and continued studying the path to Transcendence. After learning that Han Sen had awakened, he found him in the Black Cross ship and told him the Zerg threat was gone.

• Fang Xing sent Destruction Demon Wolves through the Gate of Heavens, annihilating the white moth’s true spirit before destroying Lilith with Great Sun Tathagata Palms.
• Fang Xing reflected that the deaths had loosened two of his causal threads and resumed his secluded cultivation while considering Transcendence.
• The Ten Thousand Swords Dao Lord told Fang Xing that Han Sen showed signs of awakening, and Fang Xing revealed he had already slain both Zerg Eternal Existences.
• Fang Xing traveled to the Black Cross ship and woke Han Sen from his nutrient chamber.
• Fang Xing told Han Sen that he had destroyed the Zerg Civilization and killed its two Eternal Existences, leaving Han Sen stunned.

Liu Wei learned that Fang Xing had reached Eternity and destroyed the Zerg Civilization’s two Eternal Existences, ending the threat to humanity. Hundreds of thousands of years later, Pangu Wu prepared to pursue Transcendence after refining a dangerous Transcendent Bloodline, while Fang Xing waited and considered how to prepare for his own breakthrough.

• Liu Wei received news that Fang Xing had advanced to Eternity and slain the Zerg Civilization’s two Eternal Existences, prompting celebration across Human Civilization.
• Hundreds of thousands of years later, Fang Xing reflected that all Eternal Existences stood at the same cultivation level and that pursuing Transcendence restricted their freedom to act.
• Fang Xing sent an Eternal Imprint to meet Pangu Wu, who had refined a Transcendent Bloodline and intended to attempt Transcendence in three days.
• Pangu Wu told Fang Xing that the bloodline’s original Transcender was likely dead, though its power was already affecting Pangu Wu’s mind and could soon overwhelm him.
• Fang Xing checked his cultivation progress and decided he might need a trump card before attempting Transcendence himself.

Fang Xing entered the True Immortal Realm, revived Azure Cloud Fairy and Lo Yun True Immortal, and discovered the Demon Venerable and Devil Venerable were destroying the Dao Court’s remaining stronghold. He left to confront them, while Dao Lord Gou Yi and the other Dao Lords faced annihilation.

• Fang Xing decided to use Eternal Existences to perfect his mantra and sent an Eternal Imprint into the True Immortal Realm while keeping his true body in the Great Xia Universe.
• The Demon Venerable attacked Carefree Dao Lord in the Dao Court, accusing him of failing to find a True Immortal and of secretly aiding the human cultivators.
• Fang Xing revived Azure Cloud Fairy and Lo Yun True Immortal, erased their memories of the Celestial Demon Transformation, and learned that the Dao Court was under attack.
• Fang Xing found the Devil Venerable besieging the Dao Court’s last stronghold and set off to kill the Demon Venerable and Devil Venerable.
• Dao Lord Gou Yi told the gathered Dao Lords that Carefree Dao Lord had sent word of the Demon Venerable’s attack, and they prepared to face their doom.