Chapter Summaries

Key events

• Supreme Dark Lion enters the Primordial Grand Palace and finds Luo Feng already undergoing Origin Power infusion. He is shocked that a God King arrived before him and has endured far more infusions than anyone in the realm’s history.
• Luo Feng continues through the seventh, eighth, and ninth infusions. The pain pushes his body and will to their limits, but he refuses to give up.
• During the ninth infusion, Luo Feng’s will breaks through the God King Limit and reaches the Supreme Level. The breakthrough renews his strength, allowing him to complete the ninth infusion and begin the tenth.
• Dark Lion, enduring his own fourth infusion, witnesses Luo Feng’s achievement and realizes that opposing him would be foolish.
• Nearly twenty Supremes and God Kings reach the mountaintop. They discuss the three Primordial Golden Seals and wonder who is already challenging a Heavenly Tower; none knows Luo Feng is inside the palace.
• As they speculate, a terrifying force envelops the Primordial Grand Palace, and a fearsome will stirs above it.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng demonstrates extraordinary endurance and gains a major advance in willpower. His Heart Like a Blade mindset lets him confront pain directly, and his breakthrough gives him the strength to keep going.
• Supreme Dark Lion shifts from confidence in his own standing to awe and caution toward Luo Feng. He concludes that making Luo Feng an enemy is no longer an option and decides he should seek his friendship.
• The arriving group— including Venerable Qiuhe, Supreme Yanxian, and Venerable Zhen Wang—speculates about the seal’s whereabouts and the unidentified tower challenger, unaware of Luo Feng’s progress.

Significant themes

• Will forged through suffering: Luo Feng’s breakthrough comes when pain and exhaustion drive his resolve to its absolute limit.
• Potential and power: His unprecedented progress changes how even established Supremes judge him.
• Pragmatism and shifting loyalties: Dark Lion recognizes that Luo Feng’s growing power makes friendship safer than hostility.

Chapter Summary: “Entering the Heavenly Tower”

Key plot points and events

• After completing his tenth Origin Power infusion, Luo Feng is transformed by a brief descent of the world’s will and power. His body, soul, and will all become dramatically stronger.
• Luo Feng estimates that his physical strength now rivals that of powerful Born Beast Gods. His soul gains a layer of pale-golden protective power, and his will rises to roughly Supreme Poheng’s level—strong enough, he believes, to enslave Poheng.
• His affinity with all ten origins improves enormously. He expects to grasp their mysteries far more easily, though fusing them into the Ultimate Chaos Origin Mysteries will remain difficult.
• Luo Feng is transported out of the Heavenly Ze Platform and emerges from the Primordial Grand Palace ahead of the others. The gathered Supremes and God Kings are baffled that he reached the summit before them.
• When asked about the world’s power, Luo Feng feigns ignorance. The others assume Dark Lion Supreme caused its descent, unaware that Luo Feng was the true recipient.
• The group turns to the nine Heavenly Towers, where each tower can produce only one Heaven Ascender. Luo Feng chooses a tower already selected by the White God Tribe’s chief and a Supreme from Heavenly Mountain City, then enters alongside them.

Character developments

• Luo Feng undergoes a major power-up in body, soul, will, and comprehension. His confidence grows, and he now believes he can challenge much stronger opponents.
• Dark Lion Supreme remains on the platform undergoing the baptism. Others mistakenly credit him with the world’s blessing and expect his future strength to increase greatly.
• Venerable Qiuhe and the other Supremes are surprised by Luo Feng’s sudden arrival and envious of the advantages they believe Dark Lion has gained.

Character interactions

• Montan Sheng’en asks Luo Feng whether he found a shortcut; Luo Feng casually claims he arrived by luck.
• Qiuhe and Supreme Yanxian question Luo Feng about the world’s descent. He hides his role by acting confused.
• The White God Tribe’s chief and the Heavenly Mountain City Supreme regard Luo Feng as a dangerous rival, but neither confronts him before entering the tower.

Significant themes

• Hidden strength and deception: Luo Feng conceals his transformation and lets others misattribute the world’s blessing to Dark Lion.
• Competition and ambition: The limited number of Heaven Ascender positions drives the Supremes and God Kings to choose towers strategically.
• Growth through trials: Luo Feng’s gains broaden his potential, but his ultimate goal—fusing the origins—still demands difficult, sustained effort.

Summary of “The Tenth-Floor Trial”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Luo Feng enters the Heavenly Tower, learning that challengers are separated into different spacetime layers despite entering together. The tower contains ten layers:
  • Layers One through Eight are ten-day survival trials with lethal consequences.
  • The Ninth Layer tests willpower.
  • The Tenth Layer tests comprehension and has no time limit.
• Luo Feng effortlessly clears the First and Second Layers, then progresses through the first seven with little difficulty. The Seventh Layer requires more thought but does not seriously endanger him.
• The Eighth Layer becomes a major challenge. Luo Feng is attacked simultaneously by vines, burrowing scorpions, will-attacking toads, Void Shadow Assassins, and ten powerful Origin Gods modeled after the beings from the Primordial Grand Palace.
• The ten Origin Gods imitate Luo Feng’s own blade techniques, movement skills, and combat methods, but refine them and enhance them with Origin Power. They are roughly fifty percent stronger than his Seventh-Layer version of himself.
• Luo Feng’s domain, will techniques, and World Projection prove ineffective. He is forced to endure an endless assault while struggling to survive.
• Rather than merely resisting, Luo Feng studies the copied techniques. Seeing his own abilities used against him allows him to recognize their weaknesses and improve his blade and movement methods. After ten days, he successfully clears the Eighth Layer.
• On the Ninth Layer, Luo Feng faces a colossal Void God Eye that unleashes an increasingly powerful Will Impact. Because his will is already comparable to that of a Supreme who has condensed one strand of the Origin, he withstands the full ten days with ease.
• The Tenth Layer is a boundless white world where an elderly Alien Race figure explains the final trial. Luo Feng must learn a single ultimate technique, use it to defeat the elder’s Phantom Body, and become a Heaven Ascender.
• The elder warns that if another challenger succeeds first, Luo Feng will be banished to Purgatory World for hundreds of millions of epochs, where survival is uncertain.
• The elder demonstrates a devastating blade strike that combines ten Origin Mysteries with a trace of Chaos Origin Mysteries. The technique perfectly matches Luo Feng’s strengths, immediately drawing him into deep contemplation.

Character Development

• Luo Feng’s confidence and strength are established: The early layers pose almost no threat, demonstrating how far he has advanced.
• He displays adaptability under pressure: On the Eighth Layer, he is unable to rely on his usual suppressive techniques and must survive through direct combat and endurance.
• He turns disadvantage into instruction: Watching improved versions of his own techniques exposes flaws he could not easily see himself. This marks a major step in his martial and strategic growth.
• His willpower is revealed as exceptional: The Ninth Layer confirms that his will is already near Supreme level, far exceeding that of most God Kings.
• His ambition and focus intensify: The Tenth Layer presents both an unprecedented opportunity and severe time pressure, immediately forcing him into concentrated study.

Significant Themes

• Growth through adversity: The Eighth Layer shows that difficult opponents and unfavorable conditions can reveal weaknesses more effectively than easy victories.
• Self-confrontation: Luo Feng literally fights refined versions of his own techniques, making the trial a confrontation with his past limitations.
• Survival versus advancement: The first eight layers emphasize endurance and the constant possibility of death, while the final layers test inner qualities rather than physical survival.
• Talent, will, and comprehension: Progress depends not only on strength but also on willpower and the ability to understand profound techniques.
• Competition and urgency: The possibility that another challenger may ascend first gives the Tenth Layer a race-against-time element and raises the stakes beyond personal achievement.

Character Interactions

• Luo Feng primarily interacts with the tower’s trials rather than with other challengers, since each entrant is isolated in a separate spacetime layer.
• His most important confrontation is with the ten Origin Gods on the Eighth Layer. Because they imitate and improve upon his own abilities, the battle functions as both combat and instruction.
• On the Tenth Layer, Luo Feng encounters the emotionless elderly Alien Race figure, who acts as teacher, judge, and opponent. The elder explains the conditions of ascension, demonstrates the required ultimate art, and establishes the danger of failure.
• Luo Feng’s relationship with his opponents shifts from simple resistance to observation and learning, especially during the Eighth Layer and the elder’s demonstration on the Tenth.

Key plot points and events

• After the Alien Race elder demonstrates a seemingly effortless blade, Luo Feng devotes himself to studying it, replaying the strike in his mind while his clones work on understanding it too.
• Luo Feng’s first attempt imitates the blade’s appearance but lacks its power. He realizes he has copied its form without grasping its meaning.
• The White God Tribe Patriarch and the Heaven Mountain City Supreme also fail to defeat the elder. The Patriarch suspects he must reproduce comparable strength without relying on a Supreme Treasure.
• A delayed group of God Kings reaches the mountaintop and finds the Heavenly Towers already occupied. Believing the final trials may take years or millennia, they begin their own challenges. They wonder briefly what happened to Luo Feng, unaware that he arrived earlier.
• After sustained study, Luo Feng understands that the blade is guided by the heart: intention directs the blade even when no weapon is held. His next strike combines this insight with his Origin Mysteries and cuts a narrow crack in the void.
• The elder reappears, praises Luo Feng’s rapid progress, introduces himself as Xiang He, and invites Luo Feng to exchange further moves so he can demonstrate more of his understanding.

Character developments

• Luo Feng advances from a superficial grasp of Blade Heart to genuinely wielding it through intention. He recognizes his exceptional potential in both the Origin Mystery and the Way of the Blade, and is eager to continue learning.
• Xiang He shifts from a distant trial opponent to a perceptibly emotional, encouraging mentor figure. He reveals both his admiration for Luo Feng and his own lifelong aspiration toward the higher Way of the Blade.
• The White God Tribe Patriarch and Heaven Mountain City Supreme confront the limits of their current abilities and remain unable to pass the final trial.
• The arriving God Kings move from frustration over losing their first chance at the towers to taking action and starting their challenges.

Significant themes

• Understanding over imitation: Reproducing a technique’s outward form is insufficient; true mastery requires grasping its inner principle.
• The heart guides action: Luo Feng’s insight is that the blade follows thought and intent, not merely a weapon in hand.
• The Dao must be personally realized: Xiang He can demonstrate and inspire, but cannot directly teach the Way of the Blade; each practitioner must discover it for themselves.
• Ambition and limits: Both Luo Feng and Xiang He aspire to higher realms, while the other challengers encounter the difficulty of reaching them.

Character interactions

• Luo Feng studies Xiang He’s demonstration, then respectfully asks his name and requests guidance.
• Xiang He praises Luo Feng, explains the stages of the Blade Heart and the elusive Way of the Blade, and offers another contest as a chance to display his understanding.
• Luo Feng accepts, prepared to attack first with the Blade Heart he has now comprehended.

Plot points and events

• Luo Feng completes the Heavenly Tower’s final trial by defeating Xiang He’s Phantom Body with the same blade technique Xiang He taught him. The Supreme Treasure-enhanced strike overpowers the guardian’s.
• Xiang He declares Luo Feng a Heaven Ascender and opens the passage to the tower’s summit. All other challengers are sent to the Purgatory World, where they must survive for billions of epochs.
• At the summit, Luo Feng touches a vast field of white light—the “sky”—and finds an immense realm filled with the traces and mysteries of every Origin. Its abundance makes Origin comprehension unusually accessible.
• Luo Feng weighs two paths: perfecting each Origin separately to become a Supreme sooner, or pursuing the more difficult fusion of Origin Mysteries. He chooses fusion as his own path and begins studying and combining the Mysteries.
• Later, Mo Hanshan, Bulin, and the Blazing Star God King also become Heaven Ascenders. Bai Bing fails his trial and is cast into the Purgatory World.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng learns from Xiang He’s refined blade work, recognizes the difference in their Blade Heart understanding, and applies what he has learned to pass the trial. He remains committed to forging a distinct path through fusion rather than taking the faster route.
• Xiang He shifts from testing Luo Feng to teaching him, then congratulates him and hints that they may meet again. His true identity and level of power remain unknown.
• The other challengers, including You Shi and Bai Bing, react with shock and resentment when Luo Feng passes. They are forced into a hostile survival ordeal, while Bai Bing is particularly frustrated that entering first did not help him succeed.

Significant themes

• Comprehension and perseverance: Luo Feng’s success comes from careful learning and applying insight, not luck.
• Choosing one’s path: Faster advancement may come at the cost of deeper possibilities; Luo Feng accepts the harder route of fusion.
• Trial and consequence: One person’s advancement sends the remaining challengers into a brutal test of survival.
• Limitless knowledge, individual effort: The summit reveals Origin Mysteries, but combining them still depends on Luo Feng’s own work.

Plot points and events

• Bai Bing is thrown into the Heavenly Tower’s Purgatory World after failing to qualify. The realm is more dangerous than the Eighth Layer: enemies are stronger, combat stretches across vastly longer periods, and hiding in a Palace Supreme Treasure is impossible.
• Swarmed by relentless attackers, Bai Bing is driven close to death. Under extreme pressure, he uses the Ice God Race’s once-in-a-lifetime secret art, which makes his mind cold and clear. This lets him understand the old man’s sword strike and grasp the Sword Heart. His swordsmanship improves, shifting the battle from hopeless defense to a fight he may survive.
• As the Primordial Mountain Realm’s emergence ends, nine Heaven Ascenders are transported to the summit plaza: Luo Feng, Mo Hanshan, Bulin, Chixing, the God King of the Void Realm, Swift Blade King, Underworld God Zhou, Saint Sword Liu Yepiao, and Supreme Yanxian.
• Bulin and the God King of the Void Realm have both advanced to the Supreme Realm. Of the Supremes who entered, only Supreme Yanxian became a Heaven Ascender. Bai Bing is absent, suggesting he failed to qualify.
• Luo Feng accepts challenges from Liu Yepiao and Swift Blade King. He also agrees to fight Mo Hanshan, who wants to experience defeat for the first time before advancing to the Supreme Realm. Luo Feng claims he is now close to the highest level of strength and promises to face Mo Hanshan within a billion epochs.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Bing turns a desperate near-death struggle into a breakthrough in understanding, gaining insight into Sword Heart and unlocking new potential.
• Luo Feng emerges more confident in his strength and eager to test himself against skilled blade and sword users.
• Bulin and the God King of the Void Realm reach the Supreme Realm, earning congratulations from the others. Bulin urges Mo Hanshan to advance so they can explore the Chaos Abyss together.
• Mo Hanshan remains a God King despite being strong enough to advance. Still unmatched, he openly longs for a worthy opponent and sees Luo Feng as a potential challenger.
• Liu Yepiao renews his rivalry with Luo Feng after their earlier match ended in a draw. Swift Blade King also seeks a match with him.

Significant themes

• Growth through crisis: Bai Bing’s breakthrough comes only when survival pressure clears his mind.
• Rivalry and the pursuit of worthy opponents: Luo Feng’s upcoming duels and Mo Hanshan’s desire to lose reflect the characters’ drive to test their limits.
• Achievement and patience: Bulin and the God King of the Void Realm advance, while Mo Hanshan deliberately waits despite being ready.
• Uncertainty of survival and success: The trials distinguish those who endure from those who fail, and Bai Bing’s fate remains unclear.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Feng and Mo Hanshan are poised to determine who is the strongest God King when survivors of the Primordial Mountain Realm begin reappearing.
• The group’s casualties are severe: three Supremes and twenty-seven God Kings died. Luo Feng mourns Montan Sheng’en, who had helped him, while Supreme Liyang openly celebrates the deaths of Montan and Venerable Qiuhe.
• The survivors are expelled from the realm and scattered across the Hunyuan Divine Realm. Luo Feng finds himself near Supreme Liyang, who immediately traps the area in his Absolute Domain and attacks.
• Liyang unleashes his World Projection, Wood-origin domain, and club strike. Luo Feng counters with Star Tower, Haotian Mirror, and Winter’s Realm, then overwhelms Liyang’s projection with his own.
• Luo Feng answers Liyang’s attack with Galaxy Piercing the Sky, a blade technique powered by his divine strength and Blade Heart. The chapter ends as Liyang recognizes the strike’s power and reacts in disbelief.

Character developments

• Luo Feng has gained enormously from his time in the Primordial Mountain Realm and nearly ten trillion epochs of accelerated cultivation. His Origin Mystery understanding approaches perfection, his foundation is stronger, and his Blade Heart has advanced. He is now confident enough to test himself against a Supreme.
• Bai Bing returns markedly stronger and more coldly reserved, though he shows warmth toward Luo Feng.
• Supreme Liyang is newly emboldened by his growth in Purgatory World and believes himself untouchable against a God King. Luo Feng’s strength quickly unsettles that certainty.
• Supreme Yanxian and Mo Hanshan show sadness over the fallen Supremes, contrasting with Liyang’s callous reaction.

Significant themes

• Growth and changed status: Luo Feng’s development challenges the assumed gap between God Kings and Supremes.
• The cost of advancement: The Primordial Mountain Realm offers tremendous opportunity but exacts a heavy toll in lives.
• Confidence tested by reality: Liyang’s certainty that he is invincible falters when confronted with Luo Feng’s power.
• Different sources of strength: Luo Feng’s blade skill and personal power prove capable of rivaling the forces of domains and Origin Power.

Character interactions

• Luo Feng and Bai Bing greet each other warmly, while Bai Bing’s reserved demeanor reflects his transformation.
• Supreme Dark Lion also greets Luo Feng with unusual friendliness, surprising onlookers familiar with his temperament.
• Liyang’s mockery of the dead provokes disapproval from Yanxian and Mo Hanshan and reinforces Luo Feng’s hostility toward him.
• Once the two are isolated, Liyang taunts and attacks Luo Feng; Luo Feng remains composed and meets him head-on.

Plot points and events

• Luo Feng overwhelms Supreme Liyang in combat, despite being a God King. His domains blunt Liyang’s Absolute Domain, while Luo Feng’s blade skill, divine power, and physical strength give him the advantage.
• Liyang realizes he cannot win and contacts Qiansi Luoshan for help. Luoshan is trapped in the Chaos Abyss and orders Liyang to escape.
• To break away, Liyang throws a powerful explosive sphere at Luo Feng. Star Tower and Luo Feng’s defenses absorb most of the blast, and Luo Feng survives with only minor damage.
• Luo Feng pursues Liyang with his domain, Star Tower, and the Astral Dao Manual. Liyang escapes using a spatial treasure that carries him through space-time.
• Luo Feng concludes that he can contend with a Supreme who has condensed one Origin, though he is not confident against stronger Supremes. He heads toward Frost City, intending to try enslaving Supreme Poheng.
• At the end, Luo Feng enters Star Tower’s Sealing Space and confronts Poheng, who remains defiant.

Character developments

• Luo Feng demonstrates a dramatic increase in strength and confidence. He tests himself against a Supreme and learns the limits of his current power, while remaining frustrated that Liyang escapes.
• Supreme Liyang shifts from disbelief and anger to fear. Recognizing that he is outmatched, he abandons the fight and uses costly measures to flee.
• Qiansi Luoshan acknowledges Luo Feng as a serious future threat but cannot intervene, leaving Liyang to save himself.
• Supreme Poheng remains contemptuous of Luo Feng’s attempt to enslave him, setting up the next confrontation.

Significant themes

• Rapid growth and underestimated potential: Luo Feng’s rise overturns expectations about the gap between God Kings and Supremes.
• Power versus survival: Even when decisively outmatched, Liyang escapes through preparation and a special treasure, showing that strength alone does not guarantee victory—or capture.
• Limits of power: Luo Feng can dominate a first-level Supreme but recognizes that higher-level Supremes may be beyond him.
• Confidence and ambition: Each encounter helps Luo Feng measure his abilities and pursue greater control over powerful opponents.

Character interactions

• Luo Feng taunts Liyang to fight without relying on Absolute Domain; Liyang privately resents the challenge because he is already losing.
• Liyang warns Qiansi Luoshan about Luo Feng’s potential, but Luoshan can only advise him to flee.
• Luo Feng pursues Liyang relentlessly, but Liyang’s escape treasure defeats the pursuit.
• Luo Feng then turns his attention to Poheng, who rejects the idea that a God King could enslave a Supreme.

Chapter Summary: “Enslaving Supreme Poheng”

Key plot points and events

• Luo Feng explains why his earlier attempts to enslave Supreme Poheng failed: Poheng’s soul was strengthened and shielded by Origin Power, which broke down Luo Feng’s weaker techniques.
• Having learned the Eternal Lock technique from the Ice God Race, Luo Feng uses one of its rare, flower-shaped Soul Locks on Poheng. The lock overcomes the Origin Power defense and successfully enslaves him.
• Poheng becomes Luo Feng’s first Supreme servant, pledging to follow him into battle. Luo Feng returns Poheng’s long staff, which Brena had given him, and tells him that defeating Brena will be difficult.
• Luo Feng remains cautious about provoking Brena, fearing her revenge could endanger Humanity. He considers Qiansi Luoshan the more immediate great enemy.
• Elsewhere, Tianxun City’s lord, He Tianxun, sends Supreme A Tu to recruit “Starlight”—Luo Feng—offering Humanity a vast territory and protection. He Tianxun also hopes Luo Feng can help him obtain something from the Ancient Corpse Tomb and perhaps advance toward the highest realm.
• After several hundred years, Luo Feng returns to Frost City with Poheng. The Frost Lord summons him and reveals that he recently fought Qiansi Luoshan, using the Pole-Realm Staff’s power despite being affected by the Ten-Thousand Springs Nether Ice.
• The Frost Lord asks about Luo Feng’s progress in the Primordial Mountain Realm. Luo Feng admits he endured the tenth Origin Empowerment Baptism, leaving the Frost Lord visibly stunned.

Character developments

• Luo Feng demonstrates greater power and confidence by successfully enslaving a Supreme. He gains a formidable ally but remains thoughtful about the dangers of revenge and the safety of Humanity.
• Supreme Poheng shifts from defiant captive to devoted servant, adopting Luo Feng’s enemies as his own. He regrets having once agreed to trade Luo Feng’s life for Brena’s staff.
• The Frost Lord shows signs of strain after his battle with Qiansi Luoshan, but remains composed. Luo Feng’s tenth baptism surprises him.
• He Tianxun reveals both political ambition and personal need: he wants Luo Feng’s cooperation, potentially as a path to securing the Ancient Corpse Tomb’s contents and reaching a higher realm.

Significant themes

• Power and loyalty: Luo Feng’s growing strength lets him command a Supreme, while Poheng’s loyalty becomes absolute through enslavement.
• Strategic restraint: Luo Feng avoids rashly confronting Brena because a failed attack could invite devastating retaliation against Humanity.
• Ambition and cooperation: He Tianxun seeks to recruit Luo Feng, recognizing his rare potential and the value of an alliance.
• The cost of advancement: Luo Feng’s exceptional progress and the Frost Lord’s dangerous battles underline the risks involved in pursuing greater power.

Character interactions

• Luo Feng tests Poheng’s defiance, overcomes his soul defenses, and receives his pledge of service.
• Poheng apologizes for his past bargain with Brena and vows to serve Luo Feng; Luo Feng tempers his eagerness for revenge with a warning about Brena’s strength.
• He Tianxun instructs A Tu to offer Luo Feng and Humanity protection and territory in exchange for joining Tianxun City.
• The Frost Lord and Luo Feng discuss the battle with Qiansi Luoshan and Luo Feng’s baptism achievement, ending with the Frost Lord stunned by the news.
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Chapter Summary: “Tianxun City’s Invitation”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Luo Feng reveals to Frost Lord that he endured ten Origin Empowerment Baptisms, surpassing the previous record of six held by the genius Noming. Frost Lord is deeply shocked, since even Supremes usually struggle to withstand five.
• Frost Lord explains that those who receive the baptism often make extraordinary breakthroughs. He compares Luo Feng’s potential to legendary figures such as Yuan City Envoy, Xiao Wangtian, and possibly She Chuan, the strongest existence in the divine realm.
• Frost Lord warns that if Qiansi Luoshan learns of Luo Feng’s achievement, he may personally attack Luo Feng before he has a chance to mature.
• Frost Lord promises to protect Luo Feng within Frost City and asks the Tianxun City Lord to keep the matter confidential. He predicts that Tianxun City will try to recruit Luo Feng.
• Supreme Tulu arrives on behalf of the Tianxun City Lord and invites Luo Feng to join Tianxun City. The offer includes:
  • A territory spanning one hundred billion light-years for Humanity.
  • Protection for Luo Feng and Humanity, even against Qiansi Luoshan.
• Luo Feng declines the offer, choosing to remain in Frost City because Frost Lord has shown him great kindness and because repaying that kindness accords with his Dao heart.
• Tulu accepts Luo Feng’s decision and invites him to visit Tianxun City in the future.
• Luo Feng mentions his upcoming blade-technique battle with Swift Blade King, Tianxun City’s strongest God King. Tulu enthusiastically arranges for the battle to take place in Tianxun City and offers to accompany Luo Feng there when Swift Blade King returns.
• Luo Feng reports the invitation and his decision to Frost Lord, who is relieved and pleased. Frost Lord begins to imagine Frost City’s status rising because of Luo Feng’s future potential.
• The chapter ends when Luo Feng receives word that Bai Bing has returned, setting up the next development.

Character Developments

• Luo Feng: Demonstrates exceptional potential by surviving ten baptisms. Despite the tempting protection and territory offered by Tianxun City, he remains loyal to Frost City and follows his personal principles of repaying kindness. His confidence is also evident in his lack of fear toward Qiansi Luoshan.
• Frost Lord: Moves from astonishment to protective concern. He recognizes Luo Feng as a future peer—or possibly rival—of the strongest beings and becomes increasingly invested in supporting him.
• Supreme Tulu: Presents Tianxun City’s offer diplomatically and respectfully. After Luo Feng refuses, Tulu admires his integrity and seeks to build a friendly relationship with him.
• Tianxun City Lord: Though absent and trapped in the Chaos Abyss, he demonstrates foresight by recognizing Luo Feng’s talent and offering unusually generous terms.
• Qiansi Luoshan: Remains offscreen but becomes a major looming threat due to his potential fear of Luo Feng’s growth.
• Swift Blade King: Is established as a powerful God King who shares Luo Feng’s understanding of the Blade Heart and will soon become his opponent.

Significant Themes

• Loyalty and gratitude: Luo Feng refuses to abandon Frost City after receiving Frost Lord’s help, emphasizing that repaying kindness is central to his Dao.
• Personal principles versus practical advantage: Tianxun City’s offer provides safety, territory, and prestige, but Luo Feng chooses according to his convictions rather than material benefits.
• Hidden potential and danger: Luo Feng’s unprecedented baptism achievement marks him as a future powerhouse, but it also makes him a target for powerful enemies.
• Protection and political influence: The competing offers from Frost City and Tianxun City show how Luo Feng’s rise affects the balance of power among the great cities.
• Future greatness: The chapter repeatedly foreshadows Luo Feng becoming a terrifying Supreme-level figure capable of elevating Frost City’s status.

Character Interactions

• Luo Feng and Frost Lord: Discuss Luo Feng’s baptism achievement, the danger posed by Qiansi Luoshan, and Luo Feng’s loyalty to Frost City. Their relationship becomes more trusting and mutually supportive.
• Luo Feng and Supreme Tulu: Begin with polite hospitality before discussing Tianxun City’s recruitment offer. Their conversation ends cordially despite Luo Feng’s refusal.
• Tulu and Frost Lord: Their interaction is indirect but cooperative; Tulu remains in Frost City with its approval while awaiting Swift Blade King’s return.
• Luo Feng and Swift Blade King: They have not yet met in the chapter, but their planned blade battle establishes an upcoming contest between two Blade Heart experts.

Plot points and events

• Luo Feng spars with Bai Bing in the Ice God World, where their blade and sword energies reshape the realm.
• Bai Bing, strengthened by gaining the Sword Heart and enduring immense trials, hopes to test how much closer he has come to Luo Feng. But Luo Feng’s blade-energy control overwhelms him: he first blocks Bai Bing’s attacks, then drives him onto the defensive with a relentless assault.
• Frustrated, Bai Bing breaks their agreement to use only their own techniques and divine power by activating Divine Flame and a secret technique. Even after escalating their attacks, he cannot force Luo Feng into close combat. A final clash tears open deeper layers of space and unleashes a destructive storm; Bai Bing is thrown back, while Luo Feng remains unharmed.
• Bai Bing concedes defeat. Luo Feng judges him strong enough to survive a fight with an ordinary Supreme, though still far below the most elite Supremes.
• Bai Bing invites Luo Feng to explore dangerous realms. He plans to visit the Ancestral Dragon Secret Realm, which may help him advance toward the Supreme Realm. Luo Feng declines interest in that realm and Netherwood Sea, preferring the Chaos Abyss or, once eligible, the Ancient Corpse Tomb. The two leave together, and Luo Feng is likely to head to Tianxun City to see Swift Blade King’s blade.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Bing has grown markedly stronger, especially in his Frost Intent Sword Chill, and has mastered the Sword Heart. Yet the spar reveals that his progress has not narrowed the gap with Luo Feng. His frustration leads him to violate the match’s rules, but he ultimately accepts the difference in their strength and stops comparing himself to Luo Feng.
• Luo Feng displays overwhelming control and confidence, suppressing Bai Bing without drawing a blade. He gives constructive advice on improving the balance between the power and soul-affecting qualities of Bai Bing’s technique.
• Their relationship is friendly and candid: Luo Feng coaches Bai Bing, while Bai Bing challenges him, admits defeat, and invites him on an expedition.

Significant themes

• Unequal growth and perspective: Bai Bing’s substantial improvement feels small beside Luo Feng’s even greater rise.
• Discipline and limits: Bai Bing’s desperation to overcome Luo Feng pushes him to break the rules, but force alone cannot bridge the gap.
• Ambition tempered by judgment: Bai Bing seeks a dangerous realm suited to his current abilities and cultivation goals, while Luo Feng sets his sights on more extreme challenges.

Chapter Summary: He Tianxun

Key Plot Points and Events

• After spending over a century enjoying Frost City, Supreme Tulu returns to the Ice God Race and comes to escort Luo Feng to Tianxun City.
• Luo Feng informs the Frost Lord of his departure. The Frost Lord supports the trip, believing that meeting stronger cultivators and exchanging techniques will help Luo Feng grow and may provide protection against Qiansi Luoshan.
• Supreme Tulu transports Luo Feng to Tianxun City, a powerful and prosperous city centered on competition, talent, and cultivation.
• On the way to the City Lord’s Residence, Supreme Tulu introduces Luo Feng to Tianxun Tower, whose rankings reward the strongest cultivators at each realm. Swift Blade King ranks first among God Kings, while Supreme Tulu ranks first among Supremes beneath the City Lord.
• Supreme Tulu explains the dangers of the Chaos Abyss, warning Luo Feng that even powerful Supremes can die there. He advises Luo Feng to begin in its shallower regions if he eventually enters.
• Luo Feng learns more about Tianxun City’s culture, including its Heavenly Battle Arena, deadly contests, wagered matches, and thriving commercial industries. He reflects that desire drives civilization and creates diverse cultures.
• Luo Feng meets He Tianxun, the Lord of Tianxun City, who appears through a Divine Power Avatar. He Tianxun offers him rare Heavenly Fire Nectar and again invites him to join Tianxun City.
• Luo Feng respectfully refuses because of his principles. Rather than taking offense, He Tianxun approves of his resolve and grants him access to important areas of the city without asking for anything in return.
• By the end of the meeting, Luo Feng develops a favorable impression of He Tianxun and recognizes his apparent sincerity.

Character Developments

• Luo Feng: Becomes more aware of the vast power hierarchy surrounding him, especially after seeing Tianxun Tower and hearing of the Chaos Abyss’s dangers. Although tempted by the benefits of joining Tianxun City, he remains committed to his principles. His judgment of He Tianxun shifts from cautious curiosity to trust and respect.
• Supreme Tulu: Acts as Luo Feng’s guide and protector, explaining Tianxun City, its ranking system, and the dangers of the Chaos Abyss. His first-place Supreme ranking is revealed to be partly the result of the death of an even stronger Supreme.
• He Tianxun: Shows keen insight into Luo Feng’s potential and openly acknowledges that he underestimated him in the past. He remains interested in recruiting Luo Feng but respects his refusal, choosing to invest in him freely.
• The Frost Lord: Demonstrates concern for Luo Feng’s development and recognizes the strategic value of his relationship with He Tianxun.

Significant Themes

• Power and danger: The rankings and discussion of the Chaos Abyss emphasize how immense the gap between powerful cultivators can be and how even the strongest remain vulnerable.
• Talent and opportunity: Tianxun City rewards ability, and He Tianxun sees Luo Feng as a rare talent worth cultivating.
• Principles and independence: Luo Feng refuses a powerful alliance despite its advantages, choosing to preserve his autonomy.
• Trust and investment: He Tianxun’s willingness to help Luo Feng without demanding loyalty suggests that long-term relationships and potential can be more valuable than immediate gain.
• Desire and civilization: Luo Feng reflects on how the desires of living beings create commerce, culture, and social development.

Important Character Interactions

• Luo Feng and Supreme Tulu: Tulu serves as Luo Feng’s escort and mentor, introducing him to the city and cautioning him about the Chaos Abyss.
• Luo Feng and the Frost Lord: Their brief exchange shows mutual trust; the Frost Lord supports Luo Feng’s journey while accepting the risks of outside influence.
• Luo Feng and He Tianxun: Their meeting combines recruitment, hospitality, and evaluation. Luo Feng declines He Tianxun’s offer, but the City Lord responds with approval and generosity, establishing the foundation for a potentially valuable alliance.

Plot points and events

• After meeting the Tianxun City Lord, Luo Feng tours Tianxun City with Supreme Tulu. The city is buzzing about his upcoming fight with its celebrated local champion, the Swift Blade King.
• At the Heavenly Battle Arena, the fighters’ blade energies reveal Luo Feng’s clear advantage. He Tianxun and the other spectators recognize that Luo Feng’s Blade Heart is likely Emperor-Level—above the Swift Blade King’s Heaven-Level Blade Heart.
• The Swift Blade King begins with a powerful blade strike, but Luo Feng blocks it effortlessly. He then parries the King’s rapid, forceful attacks without counterattacking.
• The King escalates with Divine Power Secret Techniques and Origin Power, making his attacks more potent and difficult to read. Still, Luo Feng defends with ease.
• Wanting to learn the full extent of the gap, the Swift Blade King asks Luo Feng to use his strongest attack. Luo Feng unleashes Galaxy Piercing the Sky, a devastating river of blade light that overwhelms the King and tears apart the surrounding spacetime. The passage ends as the King is swallowed by the strike.

Character developments

• Luo Feng demonstrates superior blade mastery, speed, strength, and composure. Though he initially holds back, he readily shows his full power when asked.
• The Swift Blade King shifts from confidence and pride to respect and fierce determination. Even after realizing he is outmatched, he fights on and seeks to test himself against Luo Feng’s strongest move.
• He Tianxun and the spectators move from curiosity to astonishment as they recognize the scale of Luo Feng’s ability.

Significant themes

• Mastery versus raw power: The fight begins as a test of blade understanding, then expands to include divine power and Origin Mystery.
• Respect through challenge: The Swift Blade King accepts the gap between them but remains committed to facing Luo Feng honestly.
• Reputation and spectacle: Tianxun City’s promotion of the match turns it into a major public event, raising the stakes for both fighters.

Character interactions

• Supreme Tulu guides Luo Feng through the city, while the Tianxun City Lord and other elites observe the contest.
• The Swift Blade King openly acknowledges Luo Feng’s skill, then challenges him to bring out his full strength.
• Luo Feng answers the challenge directly, transforming the bout from a controlled defensive display into a decisive demonstration of his strongest blade technique.

Key plot points and events

• After their duel, Swift Blade King appears badly injured, having lost nearly three percent of his divine body in one strike. He admits defeat, while Luo Feng acknowledges that the blow was close to—but not—his full strength.
• Tianxun City’s lord recognizes that Luo Feng’s advantages extend beyond blade skill and Origin Mysteries to extraordinary physical power.
• Supreme Tulu invites Luo Feng to challenge Tianxun Tower. The City Lord has made an exception to the tower’s usual restriction against outsiders: if Luo Feng takes first place, he may receive Tianxun City’s Saint Spring baptism, which strengthens both body and soul.
• Luo Feng enters the tower alone. His rapid ascent draws the city’s attention, and he soon overtakes God King Yanfeng, who fears losing the resources attached to a top-ten ranking.
• Swift Blade King also returns to the tower, hoping to measure himself against Luo Feng. But Luo Feng climbs far beyond his record of floor 93, taking first place at floor 94 and then reaching floor 100—the tower’s final floor.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng remains modest after defeating Swift Blade King, but his tower run reveals just how far his strength exceeds the other God Kings’. He accepts the challenge after learning he may qualify for the Saint Spring.
• Swift Blade King accepts defeat without resentment, then becomes determined to test his improved strength against Luo Feng’s tower performance. His progress to floor 94 only underscores the widening gap.
• Tianxun City’s lord is intrigued by Luo Feng’s hidden potential and expects him to impress further.
• God King Yanfeng reacts with anger and anxiety when Luo Feng threatens his top-ten position and its associated resources.
• Supreme Tulu acts as the intermediary who explains the tower’s reward and the special permission granted to Luo Feng.

Significant themes

• The difference between apparent and true strength: Luo Feng held back in the duel, and the tower reveals an even greater gap than spectators initially understood.
• Competition and status: Rankings determine access to valuable cultivation resources, making Luo Feng’s ascent a threat to established positions.
• Recognition through achievement: Although an outsider, Luo Feng earns access to Tianxun Tower through the City Lord’s favor—and proves his place through extraordinary results.
• Potential beyond established limits: Reaching the hundredth floor suggests Luo Feng’s strength surpasses that of many Supremes and may set a historic record.

Summary of “The Hundredth Floor”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Luo Feng reaches the hundredth floor of Tianxun Tower, where he encounters a guardian identical to himself.
• The guardian can use all of Luo Feng’s previously revealed abilities—including his blade techniques, Origin Mysteries, World Projection, movement skills, illusion techniques, and sealing domain—but the tower’s formation enhances the guardian’s speed and power.
• Luo Feng is initially overwhelmed and forced onto the defensive. The guardian’s version of Galaxy Piercing the Sky is stronger than Luo Feng’s own, and the guardian moves roughly thirty to fifty percent faster.
• Because of Luo Feng’s exceptionally durable body, he survives the guardian’s attacks and uses the battle as an opportunity to study his own weaknesses. The fight continues for days, allowing him to improve his blade techniques and movement skills.
• Once his growth begins to slow, Luo Feng unveils his strongest unshown technique: Astral Dao Manual, empowered by Dragon Tower Realm. He gathers the energy of countless stars and launches God Annihilation, compressing the power into a devastating black celestial body.
• The guardian counters with the enhanced Galaxy Piercing the Sky, but Luo Feng’s attack defeats him. The clash tears open space-time and forces the tower’s formation to repair the damaged area.
• The guardian congratulates Luo Feng, declaring him the first God King in Tianxun Tower’s history to clear all one hundred floors.
• Outside the tower, the entire Tianxun City witnesses its brilliant radiance, making Luo Feng’s achievement known throughout the city.

Character Developments

• Luo Feng demonstrates confidence, resilience, and a strong desire for improvement. Rather than becoming discouraged by his initial disadvantage, he treats the guardian as the perfect opponent for identifying his own flaws.
• His powerful body proves crucial, allowing him to endure attacks that would otherwise end the trial immediately.
• Luo Feng advances his understanding of his blade techniques and recognizes that his next stage of growth will require studying and integrating his Origin Mysteries.
• By using Astral Dao Manual and God Annihilation for the first time in battle, he reveals a major increase in combat power and proves capable of defeating an opponent modeled on his own abilities.
• Swift Blade King suffers a severe psychological blow after realizing how far Luo Feng has surpassed him.
• Supreme Tulu and the lord of Tianxun City acknowledge Luo Feng’s extraordinary strength, particularly his God King body and power approaching that of a Second Source Supreme.

Significant Themes

• Confronting oneself: The hundredth-floor trial literalizes the idea that Luo Feng’s greatest opponent is himself. Victory requires surpassing his own established limits.
• Growth through adversity: Luo Feng uses an overwhelming disadvantage as a training opportunity, turning repeated failure to gain the upper hand into a means of refinement.
• The importance of hidden strength and innovation: His previous techniques are insufficient against the enhanced copy, so he must reveal a new technique and unleash previously unused power.
• Physical foundation and endurance: Luo Feng’s exceptional body enables him to survive long enough to learn, adapt, and eventually counterattack.
• Recognition and reputation: Clearing the hundredth floor transforms Luo Feng from an outstanding competitor into a legendary figure known throughout Tianxun City.

Character Interactions

• Luo Feng and the guardian engage in a prolonged battle in which the guardian mirrors Luo Feng’s abilities while surpassing him through the tower’s enhancements.
• Their fight becomes an indirect dialogue between Luo Feng’s current self and an improved version of himself, exposing both his strengths and weaknesses.
• After being defeated, the guardian acknowledges Luo Feng’s achievement and disappears with a faint smile, while Luo Feng respectfully recognizes that the guardian gave him a valuable fight.
• Outside the tower, Swift Blade King reacts with jealousy and discouragement, while Supreme Tulu and Tianxun City’s lord respond with admiration and surprise.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• After clearing Tianxun Tower’s hundredth floor, Luo Feng is transported to He Tianxun’s courtyard. The City Lord offers him one of ten mysterious rewards, with no descriptions, making the choice a test in itself.
• Guided by the Star Tower Spirit, Luo Feng chooses a black multifaceted cube. He Tianxun identifies it as the Shadow-Stacking Magic Box, a spacetime treasure from Infinite Hunyuan Space.
• Luo Feng learns that the box creates a hundred powerful Overlapping Shadows. They move unpredictably, can pass through folded space, and let Luo Feng switch places with them—making the treasure exceptionally useful for combat and assassination. He decides not to let the Star Tower devour it yet.
• He Tianxun congratulates Luo Feng on his record-setting achievement and promises him a Saint Spring Baptism. Although offered lodging in Tianxun City, Luo Feng chooses to return to Frost City rather than take undue advantage of its hospitality.
• The next day, Supreme Tulu guides Luo Feng into the Jiuli Tribe’s sacred grounds. The formation there gathers many forms of power, and the underground palace contains statues whose energies may eventually make them living beings.
• They reach the Hall of Gods, where top Tianxun Tower finalists can cultivate in seclusion and the remains of fallen Jiuli Supremes are being nurtured. The chapter ends as Tulu reveals the red-and-gold pool at its center: the Saint Spring.

Character developments

• Luo Feng gains a formidable new tactical weapon and shows both ambition and restraint: he eagerly accepts the reward and baptism, but remains mindful of his ties to Frost City and avoids imposing on Tianxun.
• He Tianxun is impressed by Luo Feng and sees him as a possible means of surpassing She Chuan. He believes Luo Feng may meet his requirements because of his Origin Baptism and recognition by a Source World’s Origin Will, though the Saint Spring Baptism is still to come.
• Supreme Tulu acts as Luo Feng’s guide, explaining the Jiuli Tribe’s sacred sites and traditions.

Significant themes

• Opportunity and judgment: Luo Feng’s reward depends on choosing without information, testing his discernment as well as his strength.
• Power and preparation: The magic box, sacred formation, and Saint Spring all demonstrate how powerful resources can shape a cultivator’s future.
• Loyalty and humility: Despite receiving Tianxun’s favor, Luo Feng remains connected to Frost City and downplays his accomplishments.
• Ambition and hidden purpose: He Tianxun’s praise is sincere, but also tied to his private hopes of using Luo Feng to advance his own rivalry.

Character interactions

• He Tianxun tests Luo Feng with the blind choice, then praises his selection and promises the baptism.
• Luo Feng responds respectfully and gratefully, while declining to settle in Tianxun City.
• Tulu respects Luo Feng’s preference, arranges the visit, and explains the sacred grounds, Hall of Gods, and Saint Spring as they travel together.

Plot points and events

• Supreme Tulu introduces Luo Feng to Tianxun City’s Saint Spring, explaining that it contains accumulated formation energy and rare treasures—including blood from powerful Chaos Abyss lifeforms. A baptism lasts one hundred years.
• Luo Feng enters the immense, viscous spring. Its energy pours into his body and soul, while a beam of light accelerates his absorption. A faint golden film around his soul filters out impurities in the spring’s power.
• Luo Feng’s cells absorb the energy eagerly, gradually strengthening his body and soul and expelling cellular impurities. Supreme Tulu is astonished by his absorption rate and worries about the strain on the spring’s reserves.
• He Tianxun learns that Luo Feng has Perfect Genes. He secretly covets Luo Feng’s body, believing it could help him rival She Chuan or even approach Yuan’s level. He also intends to use Luo Feng to obtain a treasure from the Ancient Corpse Tomb before taking him over.
• In the forty-third year, Luo Feng’s absorption slows and the baptism shifts to harsh tempering: flames burn his skin and lightning repeatedly strikes him. He endures the pain, welcoming it if it helps him absorb more power.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng remains grateful and determined, accepting the costly gift as an investment he intends to repay. He shows confidence and endurance as the baptism intensifies.
• Supreme Tulu treats the baptism as both generosity and investment, then marvels at Luo Feng’s exceptional physique and energy consumption.
• He Tianxun reveals his ambition and treachery. Though he presents the baptism as a means of strengthening Luo Feng, he plans to exploit its effects to make Luo Feng’s body more compatible with his own soul before possessing him.

Significant themes

• Power and potential: Luo Feng’s Perfect Gene Body and rapid growth suggest extraordinary future strength.
• Generosity versus exploitation: The Saint Spring is offered as an investment in Luo Feng, while He Tianxun secretly views him as a tool.
• Endurance and transformation: Luo Feng accepts escalating pain as the price of growth.
• Hidden danger: The spring’s power contains impurities, and its apparent benefit is entangled with He Tianxun’s concealed plan.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Feng’s hundred-year baptism in Tianxun City’s Saint Spring ends. The spring has greatly toughened his body, bringing its defensive power beyond ordinary Supreme-Level Divine Weapons and perhaps close to a High Supreme-Level Divine Weapon.
• After thanking Supreme Tulu and Tianxun City’s lord, Luo Feng prepares to leave. His time in the city has brought him the High-Dimensional Rubik’s Cube, the Shadow-Stacking Magic Box, the baptism, and a valuable alliance that may help deter Qiansi Luoshan.
• Supreme Tulu tells Luo Feng that Swift Blade King wants to meet him. Swift Blade King, stung by Luo Feng’s victory and his achievement in clearing Tianxun Tower’s hundredth floor, invites him to a farewell gathering.
• Swift Blade King reveals he plans to go to the Chaos Abyss and asks Luo Feng to explain his understanding of the blade. Luo Feng instead demonstrates it with three unarmed, law-free strikes. Their pure, sharp blade intent nearly tears apart the private world before Tulu contains it.
• Swift Blade King recognizes that Luo Feng places the blade at the heart of his path, while he himself has treated it more as a weapon and prioritized Origin Mysteries and Origin Power.
• Tulu escorts Luo Feng to Peerless City, also called Peerless Sword City. He explains that its lord, Nangong Wushuang, is the Hunyuan Divine Realm’s strongest swordsman, and that his disciple Liu Yepiao is an exceptionally gifted swordsman.
• Drawn by the city’s sword intent, Luo Feng looks forward to facing Liu Yepiao in a contest of blade against sword.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng leaves Tianxun City stronger and with deeper ties there. He remains humble about his achievements, but his confidence and competitive spirit rise at the prospect of testing his blade against Liu Yepiao.
• Swift Blade King moves from wounded pride toward reflection. Luo Feng’s demonstration challenges his assumptions about Blade Heart and may reshape how he understands his own path.
• Supreme Tulu acts as mentor, escort, and protector—arranging the journey and containing the force of Luo Feng’s demonstration.
• Luo Feng and Swift Blade King share a respectful farewell: Luo offers his insight without claiming it is superior, while Swift Blade King receives it seriously.

Significant themes

• The blade as identity and purpose: For Luo Feng, the blade is not merely a tool; it represents protecting himself and what he cares about.
• Different paths to mastery: Luo Feng’s blade-centered understanding contrasts with Swift Blade King’s emphasis on Origin Mysteries and Origin Power.
• Growth through challenge: Defeat and comparison push Swift Blade King toward self-examination, while the prospect of Liu Yepiao inspires Luo Feng.
• Friendship and mutual support: Tianxun City’s bond with Luo Feng offers practical protection as well as personal loyalty.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Feng travels to Peerless City with Supreme Tulu to meet Liu Yepiao for their long-planned duel.
• Liu Yepiao interrupts a trial in the Peerless Sword Pavilion to welcome Luo Feng, then shows him around the city, whose culture is devoted to swordsmanship.
• Luo Feng asks whether anyone knows the Fallen Star God King, whom he considers one of his teachers. Liu has never heard of him; Luo Feng suspects Fallen Star is beyond the Hunyuan Divine Realm.
• The two agree to a contest at the Sword Discussion Pavilion, restricted to saber and sword techniques and fought with Divine Power Clones so the result depends on skill. They schedule it for thirty days later.
• Liu publicizes the match as “The Clash of Sword and Saber,” drawing a large audience eager to see whether the famed Saint Sword or Starlight is superior.
• At the opening of the match, both combatants display fierce confidence and battle intent. Saber qi and sword qi begin gathering around them, but the chapter ends before the first strike.

Character developments

• Luo Feng shows respect for Liu but remains confident in his own saber path. His search for Fallen Star reveals both his gratitude toward his teacher and his disappointment at the likely impossibility of meeting him.
• Liu Yepiao appears more proud and uncompromising when swordsmanship is at stake than in ordinary conversation. He is eager to test himself and believes his swordsmanship is exceptional.
• Supreme Zhi Xuan recognizes Luo Feng’s strength and judges the duel to be close, despite Liu’s reputation.
• Nangong Wushuang worries that the grand title may make a Liu defeat damaging to swordsmanship’s reputation, yet admires the bold, unyielding spirit a swordsman needs.

Significant themes

• Sword versus saber: The duel becomes a public test of two disciplines, though Nangong warns that neither fighter can represent an entire tradition.
• Confidence and ambition: Both men meet the challenge with the conviction that they can overcome any obstacle; the chapter also suggests that pride can be a source of strength and risk.
• Skill over raw power: Using Divine Power Clones and limiting the contest to their weapons is meant to make the duel a direct comparison of technique.
• Teachers and legacy: Luo Feng’s reflections on Fallen Star highlight how inherited instruction continues to shape his understanding and growth.

Character interactions

• Luo Feng and Liu Yepiao exchange friendly teasing and mutual respect before arranging the duel.
• Supreme Tulu accompanies Luo Feng and is recognized by Liu from a previous visit to Tianxun City.
• Zhi Xuan and Nangong Wushuang observe the coming match from different perspectives: she weighs the fighters’ abilities, while he worries about its wider consequences for Peerless City.

Key plot points and events

• In the Sword World of Unrivaled Heights, Luo Feng (“Starlight”) and Liu Yepiao begin a contest of blade and sword techniques, with no secret arts involved. Both recognize that the other’s weapon understanding has improved.
• Liu Yepiao traps Luo Feng with his Youjian Willow-Caress, but Luo Feng breaks the cage through the overwhelming force of his basic technique, Nine Saints Shatter Heaven.
• Liu Yepiao unleashes his strongest move, Sword Without Peer, drawing on second-level Sword Heart to form nearly tangible sword intent. Luo Feng’s blade-energy shield withstands it until Liu’s attack fades.
• Luo Feng answers with Galaxy Pierces the Sky. His slash cracks the Sword World, cuts through Liu Yepiao’s sword shield, and destroys his Divine Power Clone, decisively winning the duel.
• Liu Yepiao accepts that Luo Feng is formidable, but Peerless City’s swordsmen reject the idea that the sword itself has lost. They blame Liu’s defeat and even challenge his title as Saint Sword.
• A voice—belonging to Liu Yepiao’s senior sister, identified as Zhixuan—announces that she will face Luo Feng next, keeping the blade-versus-sword contest alive.

Character development and interactions

• Luo Feng shows rapidly advancing Blade Heart and confidence grounded in his technique. He admires Liu’s sword intent and welcomes the chance to learn from it, but ultimately proves his blade can overpower Liu’s refined swordsmanship.
• Liu Yepiao displays pride, courage, and loyalty to his sword tradition. Though he realizes defeat is inevitable, he refuses to surrender and fights to the end. His loss leaves his reputation among Peerless City’s swordsmen in dispute.
• Nangong Wushuang recognizes Luo Feng’s exceptional potential, judging him a more promising future rival than Yan Wudao, while reflecting on the limits of his own self-taught path.
• Supreme Tulu praises Luo Feng’s weapon skill, suggesting his blade technique may surpass even Tulu’s.
• Peerless City’s swordsmen react defensively to the result, separating Liu Yepiao’s failure from the honor of swordsmanship and demanding another match.

Significant themes

• Technique versus raw power: Liu’s swordsmanship is more intricate, but Luo Feng’s powerful fundamentals overcome it.
• Pride and perseverance: Liu fights on despite recognizing the likely outcome, unwilling to concede.
• Tradition, reputation, and rivalry: The spectators treat an individual defeat as a judgment on their whole weapon tradition, prompting a new challenge.
• Learning through worthy opponents: Luo Feng sees Liu’s advanced sword intent as something to study, not merely defeat.