Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Su Mingyue and Su Baoqing are saved when Chen Mu’s sword strike shatters Zhang Zhenshi’s formation. Seeing Chen’s strength, they thank and submit to him.
• Su Baoqing is especially awed by Ye Qingcheng’s sword technique: she wields sword power with two fingers rather than a blade.
• A strange celestial phenomenon begins as someone attempts to break through to the Great Emperor Realm, apparently using Zhang Zhenshi’s death as an opportunity. Chen suspects the newcomer could threaten his control of the Three Thousand Worlds and goes to investigate with Ye.
• The source is a temple where an abbot is attempting the breakthrough. Elder Huineng warns the pair to leave, but Ye reflects his powerful Buddhist sound attack back at him, injuring him.
• The monks reveal their hostility and prepare to attack, claiming they must protect the abbot’s breakthrough. Chen’s system inspection confirms they are actually demonic cultivators hiding in the temple. Their leader intends to become a Great Emperor, then massacre the five kingdoms to empower the Demon Cult.
• As the chapter ends, the demonic monks charge Chen and Ye.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu remains calm and decisive. He recognizes that the breakthrough may produce a rival beyond his control and investigates rather than allowing the threat to emerge unchecked.
• Ye Qingcheng displays immense mastery by effortlessly returning Huineng’s attack. She agrees with Chen’s suspicions and serves as his perceptive companion.
• Su Mingyue shows loyalty by planning to alert her family so they can support Chen.
• Su Baoqing admires Ye’s swordsmanship and quickly follows Chen, understanding that his family’s presence is a way to demonstrate allegiance.
• Huineng and the monks initially present themselves as defenders of sacred ground, but their aggression exposes their true, violent nature.

Significant themes

• Power and political legitimacy: Chen’s overwhelming strength reinforces the belief that he is the rightful ruler.
• Hidden identities and deception: The monks’ religious appearance conceals their demonic past and murderous ambitions.
• Opportunity and control: Zhang Zhenshi’s death creates an opening for a new Great Emperor—and a potential challenge to Chen’s authority.
• Loyalty as action: The Su siblings seek to demonstrate allegiance through practical support, regardless of how much they can contribute.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mu identifies the monks as evil cultivators. At his approval, Ye Qingcheng kills the dozens of attackers with a casual sweep of sword qi, leaving no trace.
• Chen Mu uses his Theft ability during the fight, stealing their cultivation resources, techniques, and weapons.
• Huineng, realizing he cannot win, tries to recruit Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng into the Purity-Extinguishing Temple to serve its aspiring Great Emperor. They reject the offer.
• Ye Qingcheng appears before Huineng and releases a tiny amount of Emperor’s Might. The pressure destroys his Dao and spirit, frightening him to death.
• In an underground chamber, the abbot learns Huineng has died. Confident that his own breakthrough is nearly complete, he sends six Human Immortal Realm guards to stop the intruders.
• The guards trap Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng in a Golden Lotus Prison, a formation that threatens to burn them with karmic flames. Ye Qingcheng’s sword intent suppresses the flames and shatters the prison with a single finger, blasting the guards away.
• The guards speculate that Ye Qingcheng must be an exceptionally powerful Quasi-Emperor. The chapter closes as they wrongly assume the pair came to prevent the abbot’s rise so they could claim his fortune.

Character developments

• Ye Qingcheng displays overwhelming confidence and power, defeating multiple groups without drawing her sword. Her effortless control confirms that she is a genuine Great Emperor, far beyond the level her enemies imagine.
• Chen Mu remains calm and lets Ye Qingcheng handle the fighting while exploiting the encounter to steal valuable items and abilities.
• Huineng shifts from hostility to flattery and attempted recruitment once he recognizes the pair’s strength, but his fear proves fatal.
• The abbot and his guards are arrogant and overconfident: the abbot treats his future advancement as certain, while the guards trust their numbers and formation too much.

Significant themes

• Power and misjudgment: The villains repeatedly underestimate Ye Qingcheng, unable to grasp the gap between their strength and hers.
• Arrogance before a fall: The abbot’s certainty and the guards’ confidence contrast with their rapidly collapsing situation.
• Righteousness versus evil: The monks’ outward religious identity masks their violent, secretive nature as evil cultivators.
• Strength and status: Huineng’s offer assumes that serving a Great Emperor is an irresistible honor, but Ye Qingcheng considers herself already above such service.

Character interactions

• Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng act in close accord: he approves her judgment and silently supports her, while she handles their enemies.
• Huineng attempts to persuade the pair with promises of status, but their shared laughter dismisses both his offer and his assumptions.
• The six guards coordinate their attack through the Golden Lotus Prison, only to be overwhelmed by Ye Qingcheng’s sword intent.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mu redirects and absorbs all the Heavenly Dao’s fortune, ruining the abbot’s attempt to become a Great Emperor.
• Ye Qingcheng prevents the cult’s guardians from interfering by forcing them to kneel. The abbot attacks Chen Mu, but Ye Qingcheng’s Sword Qi wounds him badly and destroys much of the temple.
• The abbot survives as a face of black fog, giving the guardians hope that he still has a hidden advantage.
• Ye Qingcheng detects movement underground. Hundreds of Corpse Fiends emerge, and Chen Mu identifies them as products of a low-grade Corpse Refinement Art.
• The cult leader, Lin Chaotian, reveals the scale of his forces: more than ten thousand Corpse Fiends are buried across Black Wind Mountain, with stronger Corpse Generals and Corpse Kings in reserve.
• As the Corpse Generals approach, Chen Mu’s actions force Lin Chaotian to consider releasing the Corpse Kings early.

Character developments

• Chen Mu demonstrates extraordinary power by seizing the Heavenly Dao’s fortune and remaining composed before the cult’s overwhelming undead army. His dismissal of the Corpse Refinement Art as low-grade also provokes Lin Chaotian.
• Ye Qingcheng proves vastly stronger than the guardians expect, controlling them with a single command and effortlessly defeating the abbot’s attack.
• Lin Chaotian is revealed as the cult leader and mastermind behind the corpse army. His pride in the art and anger at Chen Mu’s taunts expose a sensitive wound: despite his past ambitions, he never achieved world domination.
• The six guardians shift from alarm to renewed confidence when they believe their leader has survived, then begin imagining Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng as future Corpse Fiends.

Significant themes

• Power and ambition: Chen Mu’s seizure of the Heavenly Dao’s fortune overturns the cult’s plans for advancement.
• Hubris and failure: Lin Chaotian boasts of his past accomplishments, but Chen Mu points out that he ultimately failed.
• Hidden evil beneath beauty: Black Wind Mountain’s scenic appearance conceals a vast underground network of corpses and a powerful spirit vein.
• Escalating threats: The cult’s forces grow from Corpse Fiends to Corpse Generals and the more dangerous Corpse Kings.

Character interactions

• The guardians try to stop Chen Mu, but Ye Qingcheng subdues them.
• The abbot attacks Chen Mu; Ye Qingcheng intercepts and defeats him.
• Lin Chaotian boasts about his corpse-refining legacy, while Chen Mu mocks his failure, provoking him to unleash his undead forces.
• Ye Qingcheng alerts Chen Mu to danger underground, and the two prepare to face the cult’s escalating forces.

Plot points and events

• Chen Mu opens gates to the Shadow World and unleashes thousands of undead, whose preserved combat skills and cultivation make short work of the Corpse Fiends and Corpse Generals.
• Lin Chaotian and the Demonic Protectors regain confidence when their mature Corpse King appears, supposedly strong enough to rival a Quasi-Emperor.
• Chen Mu responds by summoning a hundred genuine Quasi-Emperor undead. One kills the Corpse King with a single strike.
• Lin Chaotian tries to flee, but Chen Mu’s Emperor’s Might knocks him down and exposes his true, skeletal form. Ye Qingcheng adds her own Emperor’s Might, revealing that she, too, is a Great Emperor.
• Lin Chaotian begs for mercy and offers his treasures. Chen Mu uses his theft ability to strip him of possessions and resources, while Ye Qingcheng rejects his excuses for evil.
• Lin Chaotian declares he will make everyone perish with him. The Demonic Protectors sense imminent danger and try to run.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu remains calm and overwhelming: he counters the Corpse King with vastly greater force, stops Lin Chaotian’s escape, and takes his belongings without needing to negotiate.
• Ye Qingcheng is revealed as a Great Emperor in her own right. She backs Chen Mu’s judgment and challenges Lin Chaotian’s claim that their conflict is merely about opposing factions.
• Lin Chaotian shifts from arrogant confidence to disbelief, fear, pleading, and finally desperate defiance as his plans collapse.
• The Demonic Protectors move from relief at the Corpse King’s arrival to shock at its instant defeat, then panic when Lin Chaotian threatens to take everyone down.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and escalation: Chen Mu answers a supposedly unbeatable foe with forces far beyond it.
• The limits of cultivated strength: The Corpse King’s near-Quasi-Emperor power proves no match for true Quasi-Emperors.
• Moral accountability: Ye Qingcheng argues that Lin Chaotian’s methods—refining living people into corpses—distinguish him from his opponents.
• Hubris and reversal: Lin Chaotian’s confidence in his creations gives way to helplessness once he confronts Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng’s true strength.

Plot points and events

• Lin Chaotian activates a hidden killing formation around Black Wind Mountain, trapping his own guardians along with Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng. Chen Mu infiltrates and alters the formation, shutting it down.
• The panicked guardians try to flee, but Chen Mu opens a portal to the Shadow World and sends out an undead Great Emperor, who erases them.
• Lin Chaotian recognizes Chen Mu as the rumored Tianyuan Young Master. Chen Mu kills him with a glance. The summoned undead then eliminate the remaining corpse puppets, and Chen Mu gains 13,442 new undead.
• Su Mingyue arrives with the Su Family’s forces. After witnessing Chen Mu’s power, they kneel in respect and pledge, implicitly, not to oppose him.
• Chen Mu accepts Su Changyu’s invitation to a banquet. He transports the group to the Su Residence through a Spatial Teleportation Gate.
• At the banquet, Su Changyu asks Chen Mu who should succeed Zhang Zhenshi as ruler of the Golden Dragon World, hoping to prevent disorder after the realm’s leadership has been wiped out.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu remains calm throughout the crisis, effortlessly disarming the formation, commanding overwhelming undead forces, and killing Lin Chaotian. He also shows approval of the Su Family for supporting him in person rather than only seeking favor in times of success.
• Ye Qingcheng reinforces Chen Mu’s reputation by telling Lin Chaotian that no one in Great Cang can surpass Chen Mu in formations.
• Lin Chaotian shifts from confidence in his trap to disbelief and desperation as Chen Mu dismantles it and reveals his strength.
• Su Baoqing arrives after the battle and is awestruck by Chen Mu’s power.
• Su Changyu and the Su Family move from rumor-based caution to firsthand reverence, treating Chen Mu as a figure they must never antagonize. Su Changyu also seeks his guidance on restoring order.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and reputation: Chen Mu’s abilities exceed even the astonishing rumors about him.
• Loyalty in adversity: Chen Mu values allies who show up during danger, not merely those who seek to share in success.
• Power and political responsibility: With the region’s leaders dead, the Su Family faces the challenge of restoring stability and choosing a successor.
• Humility before superior strength: Lin Chaotian’s confidence and the Su Family’s caution both give way to awe when confronted with Chen Mu’s capabilities.

Key plot points

• Chen Mu consults Su Changyu about whether Zhang Zhenshi should continue governing the Golden Spirit Realm. Su Changyu cautiously favors continuity, while admitting that new leadership might bring progress.
• Chen Mu decides to keep Zhang in charge—but reveals that Zhang is dead. He summons the Undead Zhang Zhenshi, startling the Su Family, especially Su Baoqing, who believes he killed him.
• Chen Mu has Zhang use the Disguise Art to regain his former appearance. The system will operate Zhang automatically, preserving his strengths and removing his flaws.
• Chen Mu leaves with Ye Qingcheng, instructing Zhang to perform well and telling the Su Family to bring any concerns to him.
• After Chen Mu departs, the Su elders speculate that powerful figures across the Great Cang World may all be puppets under his control.
• The elders then try to match Su Mingyue with Chen Mu as a concubine. She points out that he already has Ye Qingcheng, but the elders agree she may not be suitable for him, leaving her speechless.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu remains confident and pragmatic, treating Zhang’s rule as an efficient way to manage the realm. His resurrection-like powers deepen the Su Family’s awe and fear.
• Su Changyu speaks carefully, prioritizing stability and his family’s interests. The Su Family’s deference reflects their awareness that power leaves them little room to object.
• Su Baoqing is shaken when the man he killed reappears, and begins to suspect Chen Mu can override death itself.
• Zhang Zhenshi returns as an obedient Undead servant, addressing Chen Mu as his master and resuming his role as ruler.
• Su Mingyue is uncomfortable with the elders’ matchmaking schemes and modest about her chances with Chen Mu. The elders’ blunt agreement only makes the situation more awkward.
• Ye Qingcheng accompanies Chen Mu as he leaves, and is identified by Su Mingyue as his worthy match.

Significant themes

• Power and submission: The Su Family’s caution shows how overwhelming strength determines who gets to make decisions.
• Control and autonomy: Zhang is restored as a ruler but will be managed by the system, suggesting that effective leadership comes at the cost of independent will.
• Fear of the unknown: Chen Mu’s ability to command the dead inspires conspiracy theories and dread.
• Status and romance: The elders treat marriage as a strategic opportunity, while Su Mingyue’s discomfort highlights the gap between their ambitions and her own feelings.

Key plot points and events

• The Su Family marvels at Chen Mu’s extraordinary reputation, while Su Mingyue reflects on how his achievements make even exceptional people seem ordinary.
• Su Baoqing displays the rare treasures he acquired at Heavenly Treasure Auction City: high-grade pills, peerless manuals, divine weapons, and artifacts. The family realizes why their own auction business has struggled and considers yielding the market to Heavenly Treasure.
• Su Baoqing reveals the auction’s grand finale: an Immortal-Grade Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapon. Su Changyu initially panics, believing it was stolen from the deceased Great Emperor Zhang Zhenshi, but learns it was purchased legally.
• The weapon was personally forged by Chen Mu—not granted by the Heavenly Dao—and can be wielded by cultivators below the Great Emperor realm, provided they have enough Qi-Replenishing Pills.
• Su Mingyue confirms she used it to cut through Zhang Zhenshi’s Emperor’s Might. The Su Family’s awe of Chen Mu intensifies.
• Meanwhile, Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng return to Qingyun Prefecture as preparations for his ascension as Thousand-World Ruler near completion.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Mingyue feels humbled by Chen Mu’s unmatched accomplishments but confirms firsthand that his weapon can overcome a Great Emperor’s might.
• Su Baoqing proudly presents the treasures and corrects his father’s assumptions about the Emperor Weapon’s origin and use.
• Su Changyu shifts from alarm and caution to amazement, though he remains concerned about the family acting recklessly or attracting enemies.
• The Su Family moves from practical anxiety about its failing auction business to near-religious reverence for Chen Mu.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming genius: Chen Mu’s achievements make even other talented people feel insignificant.
• Power beyond conventional limits: He has forged a weapon surpassing ordinary Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapons and usable by people without Great Emperor cultivation.
• Prudence versus ambition: Su Changyu urges restraint, while Su Baoqing sees the weapon as a means to defend the family.
• Reverence and influence: Chen Mu’s creations inspire loyalty and awe, strengthening his standing with the Su Family.

Chapter summary

Tianyuan Holy Land prepares for Chen Mu’s ascension as Thousand-World Ruler. Chen Mu sees the role mostly as a formality: his overwhelming strength will serve as a deterrent against rebellion. He shares a playful, affectionate moment with his Dao companion, Ye Qingcheng, who looks forward to the ceremony and proudly imagines the world honoring him.
Their conversation is interrupted by Chen Mu’s uncle, Chen Yihe, a celebrated creator of cultivation techniques. He warmly praises Chen Mu’s transformation and meets Ye Qingcheng, whom Chen Mu formally introduces as his Dao companion. Chen Yihe welcomes her by giving her ten exceptionally rare, top-grade Heaven Rank sword techniques. Ye Qingcheng accepts them gratefully, while Chen Mu recognizes how carefully his uncle chose the manuals for her.
Chen Yihe marvels at how much Chen Mu has accomplished since his last visit: uniting the Three Thousand Worlds, becoming their ruler, and commanding three thousand Great Emperors. Chen Mu jokingly attributes his success to good fortune. At that moment, his system asks to rename itself “Heavenly Dao,” apparently jealous of the praise; Chen Mu silently dismisses the request, though it repeats after a sign-in reward.
The conversation turns serious when Chen Yihe mentions hearing that Chen Mu can create cultivation techniques. Though Chen Mu admits he knows the art, he downplays his skill. Chen Yihe reveals that others have warned him not to take Chen Mu’s modest claims at face value, then eagerly challenges him to a contest. Chen Mu agrees, aware that his uncle would persist until he accepted.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu remains confident and playful, treating his rise to power casually. He is affectionate with Ye Qingcheng, respectful toward his uncle, and characteristically modest about his remarkable abilities.
• Ye Qingcheng openly admires Chen Mu and is comfortable showing affection with him. She also earns Chen Yihe’s approval and receives valuable techniques suited to her sword cultivation.
• Chen Yihe returns as a proud, caring uncle. Beneath his renowned aloofness, he is enthusiastic about Chen Mu and eager to test his nephew’s skill.
• The system provides comic relief by seeking the grand title “Heavenly Dao,” while Chen Mu firmly rejects the idea.

Significant themes

The chapter emphasizes family affection and welcome, humility amid extraordinary achievement, and the value of sharing knowledge and helping others grow. It also contrasts Chen Mu’s effortless confidence with Chen Yihe’s passionate dedication to cultivation techniques.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Yihe challenges his nephew, Chen Mu, to create a cultivation technique for Ye Qingcheng to judge. He hopes the contest will impress Chen Mu and persuade him to become his disciple.
• Chen Yihe forms a cultivation-technique furnace and begins crafting his technique. Chen Mu instead uses his system to generate a sword technique almost instantly, naming it Invincible Sword Strike.
• Worried that rushing could cause Chen Yihe’s furnace to explode, Chen Mu urges him to take his time. After about a cup of tea, Chen Yihe completes Heavenly Rainbow, a top-grade Heaven Rank technique.
• Chen Mu produces his own manual—and it is also a top-grade Heaven Rank technique, astonishing Chen Yihe. Chen Mu claims that, at full mastery, it can kill any opponent below the user’s cultivation level with one sword strike.

Character developments

• Chen Mu displays remarkable talent and confidence, though his effortless system-assisted creation contrasts with the painstaking work required of other creators. He also shows concern for his uncle’s safety.
• Chen Yihe is ambitious for Chen Mu’s future and willing to be surpassed, but enters the contest confident that his experience will give him the advantage. Chen Mu’s result leaves him shocked and intensely curious.
• Ye Qingcheng agrees to judge impartially and is treated as a trusted, neutral participant.

Significant themes

• Effort versus extraordinary advantage: Chen Yihe’s laborious craft is set against Chen Mu’s near-instant system generation.
• Mentorship, pride, and family affection: Chen Yihe’s competitive challenge is motivated by his desire to guide Chen Mu, not resentment.
• Power and responsibility: Chen Mu’s warning about the furnace reflects concern for the danger that unchecked haste could pose to its creator and those nearby.

Character interactions

• Chen Yihe frames the contest as friendly and asks Ye Qingcheng not to favor Chen Mu; she promises fairness.
• Chen Mu calmly agrees, finishes first, and patiently encourages his uncle not to rush.
• After seeing Chen Mu’s Heaven Rank technique, Chen Yihe questions its bold name and demands to know what makes it “invincible.”

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mu reveals Invincible Sword Strike, a technique that can kill any opponent beneath the user’s realm—and even someone of the same realm—with one blow. He claims a Great Emperor who masters it would be virtually unstoppable.
• Chen Yihe, a celebrated technique creator, concedes that Chen Mu’s creation surpasses his own. He then reads the technique and praises it as a pinnacle work and a potential textbook for technique creation.
• Ye Qingcheng studies the technique and, aided by Chen Mu’s enhanced comprehension, masters it within moments.
• To test it, Chen Mu summons a Divine-Rank Shadow Puppet: a Great Emperor with two supreme saint bodies. Ye Qingcheng faces it with the Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapon.
• The puppet charges with flaming fists. Chen Yihe fears for Ye Qingcheng, but Chen Mu assures him she is safe. As the puppet closes in, Ye Qingcheng opens her eyes and strikes; the chapter ends with her sword attack sweeping forward.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu displays extraordinary confidence in his technique and continues to astonish those around him. He calmly sets up a live test of Ye Qingcheng’s new skill.
• Ye Qingcheng is thrilled by the technique’s power, masters it quickly, and eagerly accepts Chen Mu’s challenge to test it.
• Chen Yihe shifts from disbelief to admiration, conceding defeat and recognizing Chen Mu’s genius. Despite his pride, he is delighted to have such a gifted nephew and worries protectively when Ye Qingcheng faces the puppet.
• Chen Yihe passes the technique to Ye Qingcheng rather than keeping it for himself, and Chen Mu reassures him that she can handle the test.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming talent and power: Chen Mu’s abilities exceed even the expectations of experts.
• The limits of imagination: Chen Yihe admits that his own weakness kept him from conceiving of what Chen Mu could create.
• Knowledge as transformative: The technique’s quality impresses even a master creator, while Ye Qingcheng’s comprehension lets her master it almost immediately.
• Trust and confidence: Chen Mu trusts Ye Qingcheng’s strength, while Chen Yihe’s concern highlights his affection for her.

Key events

• Ye Qingcheng tests Chen Mu’s custom technique, Invincible Sword Strike, and uses a single blow to destroy the Divine-Rank Shadow Puppet’s sword-shadow body. The puppet is not permanently lost; the system begins repairing it, with an estimated two-hour wait.
• Chen Yihe is stunned by Ye Qingcheng’s power and learns she has reached the Great Emperor Realm. He is fully convinced of Chen Mu’s talent and receives advice from him on creating cultivation techniques.
• Lu Yang visits Chen Mu, claiming he came to congratulate him on becoming a Thousand-World Ruler. Chen Mu sees through the excuse: Lu Yang needs weapons for the assassin nation he has developed from the Killing God Pavilion.
• Instead of handing over ordinary divine or sacred weapons, Chen Mu checks the system shop and buys a Barrett heavy sniper rifle, curious how the system’s “when in Rome, do as the Romans do” setting might affect it. Lu Yang is baffled by the unfamiliar weapon.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Qingcheng demonstrates her Great Emperor-level strength and is exhilarated by the technique Chen Mu created for her.
• Chen Yihe abandons his earlier confidence about surpassing Chen Mu. Rather than feeling resentful, he accepts that he has much to learn and plans to study Chen Mu’s advice.
• Chen Mu remains relaxed and self-assured, but also shows concern that his friend Jiang Sheng may be overworking himself trying to keep up with Chen Mu’s achievements.
• Lu Yang is candid once Chen Mu challenges his pretext. Their familiar, teasing exchange shows his trust in Chen Mu, while Chen Mu’s unexpected rifle leaves him confused.

Significant themes

• Power and humility: Ye Qingcheng’s strike and Chen Mu’s expertise overturn others’ assumptions about what is possible.
• Learning and ambition: Chen Yihe recognizes the gap between himself and Chen Mu but treats it as motivation to improve.
• Innovation across worlds: Chen Mu applies ideas from his previous life to a cultivation-world problem, using the system shop to explore firearms as tools for assassination.
• The cost of comparison: Chen Mu’s concern for Jiang Sheng suggests that striving to match another person can become harmful.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mu reveals a strange black device: an enhanced heavy sniper rifle, which he calls an Assassination Artifact. Lu Yang and Ye Qingcheng are intrigued but cannot identify how it works.
• Rather than test it on Demon Beasts that have submitted to him, Chen Mu asks Lu Yang for a suitable assassination target. Lu Yang names Huo Tianhao, the brutal emperor of the Luoshu Dynasty.
• Huo Tianhao is protected by a million-strong army and the powerful Shadow Organization, making him nearly impossible for ordinary assassins to reach. Lu Yang has avoided acting openly because a Great Emperor’s intervention could cause wider political trouble.
• Chen Mu accepts the target and uses his system to open a Spatial Teleportation Gate. He, Lu Yang, and Ye Qingcheng arrive on a cliff roughly a hundred miles from the imperial palace.
• Chen Mu’s upgraded rifle can magnify targets at extreme distances and fires compressed Spiritual Qi bullets, giving it a range of a thousand miles and power comparable to an Immortal-Grade Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapon.
• As Chen Mu searches the palace through the scope, Huo Tianhao murders the chancellor’s daughter after she resists his advances. He then prepares to execute the chancellor, boasting that he alone is heaven in his realm.
• Chen Mu finally spots Huo Tianhao and locks onto him, preparing to fire.

Character developments

• Chen Mu is confident in his artifact and chooses to demonstrate its power against a genuinely dangerous and reprehensible target.
• Lu Yang is initially skeptical of the rifle’s appearance and range, but his past experience with Chen Mu’s impossible feats leads him to trust that it may work.
• Ye Qingcheng shares Lu Yang’s curiosity about the unfamiliar weapon.
• Huo Tianhao is shown as a cruel, arrogant tyrant who believes his power places him beyond justice.
• The chancellor moves from desperate pleading to defiance, condemning Huo Tianhao even though he expects to die.

Significant themes

• Tyranny and injustice: Huo Tianhao abuses his absolute power, while ordinary people suffer under his rule.
• Justice and retribution: The chapter contrasts Huo Tianhao’s disbelief in divine punishment with the possibility of Chen Mu delivering justice from afar.
• Power and restraint: Lu Yang’s reluctance to intervene openly reflects the political consequences that powerful figures can cause.
• The extraordinary versus the familiar: The rifle’s strange appearance and unprecedented range challenge the characters’ understanding of what a weapon can be.

Character interactions

• Chen Mu explains the artifact’s purpose and asks Lu Yang to identify a target; Lu Yang supplies the background on Huo Tianhao and the obstacles protecting him.
• Lu Yang and Ye Qingcheng watch with curiosity as Chen Mu prepares the rifle, while Lu Yang’s trust in Chen Mu overcomes his doubts.
• In the palace, Huo Tianhao taunts the chancellor and asserts his authority; the chancellor condemns him and invokes heaven’s judgment.
• The chapter ends with Chen Mu aiming at Huo Tianhao, setting up the assassination.

Plot points and events

• From a concealed position, Chen Mu uses the Heaven-Peering Mirror to show Lu Yang and Ye Qingcheng the abuses of Emperor Huo Tianhao, including his attempt to kill the Chancellor.
• Chen Mu demonstrates the Heavy Sniper Rifle by shooting Huo Tianhao from roughly a hundred kilometers away. The shot instantly blows apart the emperor’s head before he can bring down his sword.
• The Chancellor survives and calls Huo Tianhao’s death heaven’s punishment. The palace officials and guards are left bewildered, unsure who struck the emperor or what will happen next.
• Deep within the palace, Huo Tianhao’s grandfather, Huo Cheng, senses his grandson’s death. Having enabled Huo Tianhao’s tyranny and helped suppress opposition, he burns an expensive Teleportation Talisman to pursue the assassin and exact revenge.

Character developments

• Chen Mu shows his precision and willingness to use overwhelming force against a cruel ruler. His restraint in wielding power contrasts with Huo Tianhao’s abuse of it.
• Lu Yang is astonished by the rifle’s range and lethality, and imagines how it could transform his Killing God Pavilion—while affirming that the organization should not take immoral contracts.
• Ye Qingcheng shares Chen Mu’s disgust at Huo Tianhao’s conduct. The shot also makes her realize how difficult such a weapon would be to defend against.
• The Chancellor shifts from facing imminent death to seeing Huo Tianhao’s killing as long-overdue justice.
• Huo Cheng is revealed as a key enabler of Huo Tianhao’s rule. His grief and fury lead him to pursue the killer.

Significant themes

• Justice and tyranny: Huo Tianhao’s abuse of power makes his death seem like retribution to those he oppressed.
• Power and responsibility: Chen Mu’s conduct is contrasted with Huo Tianhao’s, emphasizing that power alone does not determine how someone rules.
• The terror of unseen force: The rifle’s speed and distance make it nearly impossible to anticipate or resist.
• Complicity and consequences: Huo Cheng’s protection of his grandson helped sustain the disorder; now the consequences reach him personally.

Character interactions

• Chen Mu includes Lu Yang and Ye Qingcheng in the demonstration, warning Lu Yang to watch carefully.
• Lu Yang and Ye Qingcheng react with awe and moral approval, though Ye Qingcheng also fears the weapon’s potential.
• The Chancellor’s relief and the officials’ whispered speculation reveal the court’s fear under Huo Tianhao’s rule.
• Huo Cheng’s connection to Huo Tianhao turns the assassination into a new conflict, as he sets out to confront the unknown shooter.

Key plot points and events

• Huo Cheng, restored to youth and newly at peak Quasi-Emperor strength, decides to reclaim the Luoshu Dynasty’s throne. He plans to kill those responsible for Huo Tianhao’s death to reinforce his authority and reputation.
• A teleportation talisman brings him to Chen Mu, Ye Qingcheng, and Lu Yang. Huo Cheng attacks Lu Yang, but Lu Yang repels him with a casual flick, hurling him through trees and into a boulder.
• Huo Cheng recovers and claims he will take Lu Yang’s innate divine strength. Chen Mu investigates Huo Cheng’s status and discovers he practices the Little Demon-Devouring Art, a flawed demonic technique that steals others’ cultivation, abilities, and vitality.
• Huo Cheng had secretly used the technique to drain palace servants and guards, burning their remains to conceal the murders. His crimes went unnoticed because he cultivated in isolation and Huo Tianhao ignored the servants’ disappearances.
• Huo Cheng attacks Lu Yang again and begins draining his spiritual qi. The amount he takes is negligible compared with Lu Yang’s continual replenishment. Huo Cheng senses that Lu Yang’s energy is immense and carries traces of Emperor’s Might.

Character developments and interactions

• Huo Cheng shifts from triumphant confidence to alarm. His ambition, vanity, and cruelty are revealed, along with his willingness to murder the powerless for strength and longevity.
• Lu Yang remains relaxed and dismissive, demonstrating that his Great Emperor-level strength far exceeds Huo Cheng’s. He lets Huo Cheng attack without concern.
• Chen Mu stays observant and composed, using the system to uncover Huo Cheng’s secret technique and past crimes. He trusts Lu Yang to handle the fight.
• Ye Qingcheng prepares to intervene, but Chen Mu stops her, confident Lu Yang can manage Huo Cheng.

Significant themes

• Power and arrogance: Huo Cheng believes strength entitles him to reclaim the throne and command respect, but Lu Yang’s effortless superiority exposes the limits of his confidence.
• Exploitation and moral corruption: Huo Cheng’s cultivation depends on secretly consuming the lives and vitality of palace servants.
• False appearances and hidden threats: Huo Cheng presents himself as a ruler reclaiming authority, while his power rests on a concealed demonic practice and repeated murders.

Plot points and events

• Huo Cheng realizes Lu Yang’s spiritual qi carries the overwhelming might of a true Great Emperor, not merely a Quasi-Emperor’s.
• Lu Yang forces spiritual qi into Huo Cheng, who escapes by cutting off his own right arm and treating the wound.
• Huo Cheng tries to intimidate Lu Yang by invoking the Clearwind Realm’s ruler and Tianyuan’s Divine Son and Young Master, whom he believes will punish anyone who harms him. Lu Yang’s reaction suggests that Chen Mu is the very person Huo Cheng is trying to use as a protector.
• Lu Yang refuses Huo Cheng’s offer to let the matter go and punches him through a boulder and the mountaintop. Huo Cheng survives by activating his protective aura.
• Huo Cheng reaches for a teleportation talisman, but a theft notification reveals that his Spatial Ring’s contents—including his talismans, pills, weapons, and cultivation techniques—have been stolen.
• As Huo Cheng tries to flee, he discovers both legs have been severed. Lu Yang corners him and prepares to crush his skull.
• Huo Cheng pleads that he is acquainted with Great Emperor Hu Chengsheng, but Lu Yang asks if those are his last words. Just before Lu Yang kills him, an unseen person shouts for him to stop.

Character developments and interactions

• Huo Cheng shifts from arrogant confidence to terror and desperation. He sacrifices an arm to escape Lu Yang’s forced spiritual-qi absorption, then repeatedly tries threats, negotiation, and appeals to powerful connections to survive.
• Lu Yang is playful and taunting while displaying overwhelming strength. He ignores Huo Cheng’s threats and proceeds to punish him, seemingly aware that Huo Cheng’s supposed Tianyuan backer is present.
• Chen Mu remains silent, but Lu Yang’s knowing glance links him to the authority Huo Cheng invokes. The contrast underscores Huo Cheng’s ignorance of whom he has actually offended.
• Their interaction is a stark reversal of power: Huo Cheng’s status and bluster prove useless against Lu Yang’s strength and control.

Significant themes

• Power and its perception: The difference between Great Emperor and Quasi-Emperor might becomes unmistakable in combat.
• Arrogance and misjudgment: Huo Cheng’s confidence in his allies and political protections cannot save him from the consequences of his actions.
• Desperation and survival: Huo Cheng sacrifices limbs, searches for escape, and bargains for his life as his options disappear.
• Irony: He invokes Chen Mu’s authority as a threat without realizing that Chen Mu is present—and apparently connected to Lu Yang.

Key events

• Huo Enxiang, the long-hidden Huo Family ancestor and a Half-Step Great Emperor, emerges to stop Lu Yang from killing Huo Cheng. He asks Lu Yang to spare his descendant and warns that the dynasty’s elder dragon soul could injure him badly.
• Lu Yang refuses: Huo Cheng had tried to kill Chen Mu, so Lu Yang crushes his head beneath his foot.
• Huo Enxiang summons the dragon soul, paying for its help with nearly all his spiritual energy. As it charges Lu Yang, Chen Mu flicks out a spiritual-qi sword that destroys the thousand-foot dragon in one strike.
• While Huo Enxiang is stunned, Lu Yang knocks him from the sky. As Lu Yang approaches to finish him, Huo Enxiang crushes a jade token and calls for the Great Emperor to save him.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yang remains fiercely loyal to Chen Mu and uncompromising toward anyone who threatens him. He seeks Chen Mu’s approval before acting, then kills Huo Cheng without hesitation. He is also openly impressed by Chen Mu’s effortless destruction of the dragon soul.
• Chen Mu acts with calm confidence, reassuring Lu Yang that he will handle the consequences. His single sword strike reveals overwhelming power.
• Huo Enxiang shifts from negotiation to threats and then desperate action when Lu Yang refuses to yield. He has spent centuries waiting to seize power if the reigning Great Emperor falls, but his leverage proves useless against Chen Mu.
• Huo Cheng begs his ancestor for help, but Lu Yang kills him despite Huo Enxiang’s plea.
• Ye Qingcheng witnesses the dynasty’s dragon soul and learns that it is the foundation of the Luoshu Dynasty.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and protection: Lu Yang’s actions are driven by his devotion to Chen Mu.
• Power and failed leverage: Huo Enxiang’s status, threats, and costly summon cannot challenge Chen Mu’s strength.
• Consequences and ruthlessness: Huo Cheng’s attempt on Chen Mu’s life seals his fate.
• Hidden ambitions: Huo Enxiang’s long seclusion was motivated by a plan to replace the reigning Great Emperor.

Key plot points and events

• Facing certain death, Huo Enxiang crushes a jade token that summons Clearwind Great Emperor Hu Yong. The token is repayment for a favor and entitles Huo to ask Hu Yong for one service.
• Hu Yong arrives prepared to investigate who harmed Huo and initially confronts Lu Yang, accusing him of interfering in Clearwind Realm affairs.
• Lu Yang defers to Chen Mu before acting. When Hu Yong notices Chen Mu, he recognizes him as the powerful World Ruler and kneels to pay his respects.
• Huo misunderstands Hu Yong’s deference as weakness and mocks him. Lu Yang then identifies Chen Mu as the Tianyuan Holy Land’s Young Master, known as the Thousand-World Ruler.

Character developments and interactions

• Huo Enxiang shifts from desperate hope to bewilderment and contempt: he expects Hu Yong to protect him, then cannot understand why Hu Yong kneels to his enemy. Even after realizing his situation is hopeless, he continues to insult Hu Yong.
• Hu Yong begins as a guarded, authoritative defender of his realm, but instantly becomes deferential once he recognizes Chen Mu. He explains that he came only because the token summoned him and insists he has no intention of betraying Chen Mu.
• Lu Yang remains ready to fight but checks with Chen Mu first. He later clarifies Chen Mu’s identity to Huo.
• Chen Mu stays calm and measured, reassuring Hu Yong that his concealed presence explains why he was not noticed.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: Hu Yong’s sudden submission reveals the vast difference between his standing and Chen Mu’s.
• Misjudgment and irony: Huo expects the token to save him, but the person it summons ultimately shows loyalty to Chen Mu instead.
• Dignity versus survival: Huo condemns Hu Yong’s deference as undignified, while Hu Yong prioritizes avoiding conflict with a vastly more powerful figure.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mu reveals that he is the legendary Thousand-World Ruler, stunning Huo Enxiang. Hu Yong, acting on Chen Mu’s orders, executes Huo Enxiang with a single blow.
• Huo Cheng’s surviving remnant soul hopes to possess a new body and rebuild his strength, but Chen Mu detects and destroys it before it can escape.
• Hu Yong respectfully sees Chen Mu, Ye Qingcheng, and Lu Yang off as they leave through a Spatial Teleportation Gate.
• Back in Qingyun Prefecture, Chen Mu asks Lu Yang about the heavy sniper rifle. Lu Yang is thrilled, seeing it as a major step toward building an assassination empire. Chen Mu gives him an Infinite Spatial Ring containing a thousand rifles; his gift-rebate ability yields a huge additional stock.
• Lu Yang departs through a portal to the Roaring Tiger Kingdom. Ye Qingcheng returns to cultivate, while Chen Mu goes to check on Jiang Sheng at the Artifact Refining Pavilion.
• Chen Mu arrives to find the pavilion’s disciples fleeing in panic, apparently because another dangerous mishap has occurred.

Character developments and interactions

• Huo Enxiang abandons any hope of arguing once he learns Chen Mu’s identity and accepts his fate.
• Huo Cheng shifts from relief at surviving as a soul fragment to horror when he realizes Chen Mu can see him; his plan to possess a body is ended.
• Hu Yong demonstrates absolute obedience and deep respect for Chen Mu, while recognizing that the rumors about the ruler’s power are true.
• Lu Yang becomes increasingly excited about using the rifles to expand the Killing God Pavilion, and shares warm, familiar rapport with Chen Mu.
• Ye Qingcheng offers to accompany Chen Mu, but he assures her he can handle things and sends her back to cultivate.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and inevitability: Resistance and escape are futile before Chen Mu’s authority.
• Ambition enabled by powerful tools: Lu Yang sees the rifles as the foundation for transforming his organization.
• Loyalty and trust: Hu Yong obeys without hesitation, while Chen Mu supports Lu Yang and cares about Jiang Sheng’s well-being.
• Comic escalation: The chapter’s grim executions give way to the absurd image of frightened disciples fleeing another artifact-refining disaster.

Plot and events

• Chen Mu arrives at the Artifact Refining Pavilion after learning that Jiang Sheng has been repeatedly blowing up furnaces while attempting an ambitious forging project.
• He finds Jiang Sheng struggling to stabilize a dangerously overloaded furnace. Jiang Sheng is trying to forge a weapon beyond divine rank—something close to a Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapon.
• Rather than solve the crisis for him, Chen Mu offers indirect advice: refine the furnace flames and pay attention to the purity of the spiritual qi entering through the air vent. A newly acquired “Gold Medal Lecturer” title ensures Jiang Sheng understands Chen Mu completely.
• Jiang Sheng applies the guidance and steadies the furnace. The forging succeeds, producing an Emperor Weapon and a brilliant golden pillar of auspicious light that draws a crowd and fuels speculation about the weapon’s rank.
• Jiang Sheng credits Chen Mu and offers him the weapon. Chen Mu congratulates him and affirms that he has always considered Jiang Sheng the Great Cang World’s best artifact refiner. The two leave the pavilion to find a crowd waiting outside.

Character development and interactions

• Jiang Sheng shows determination and talent, risking repeated failures to reach beyond divine-rank forging. He is initially embarrassed to be seen struggling, but his anxiety gives way to pride and gratitude when he succeeds.
• Chen Mu acts as a supportive mentor rather than taking over. He protects Jiang Sheng’s confidence, offers carefully chosen guidance, and encourages him with genuine praise.
• Their cousinly bond is warm and trusting: Jiang Sheng respects Chen Mu’s skill, while Chen Mu recognizes Jiang Sheng’s independent ability and potential.

Significant themes

• Mentorship and self-reliance: Chen Mu helps Jiang Sheng succeed without depriving him of the achievement.
• Perseverance through failure: Jiang Sheng’s repeated furnace explosions lead to a major breakthrough.
• Talent and growth: Jiang Sheng’s success hints that he may eventually forge Emperor Weapons consistently.
• Recognition and encouragement: Chen Mu’s praise matters deeply to Jiang Sheng, reinforcing the value of support as well as accomplishment.

Plot points and events

• Jiang Sheng reveals that he has successfully forged an Emperor Weapon, prompting celebration throughout the Artifact Refining Pavilion. He credits Chen Mu’s guidance for his success.
• To mark the achievement, Chen Mu offers every member below the Great Emperor Realm a Divine-Rank Weapon. When the Armory Pavilion lacks enough, he supplies an Infinite Spatial Ring containing a million weapons. The gift earns him a huge wave of loyalty and praise.
• Chen Mu encourages Jiang Sheng to rest and enjoy life rather than focus constantly on refining. Jiang Sheng thanks him and agrees to consider it.
• Three days later, Tianyuan Holy Land hosts a ceremony celebrating Chen Mu as the first Thousand-World Ruler in Great Cang’s history. Visitors arrive with rare treasures and cultivation resources, eager to demonstrate their respect and goodwill.
• Before the ceremony, Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng share an affectionate moment. Once summoned, Chen prepares to depart in the Nine-Dragon Supreme Carriage to make a suitably grand entrance.

Character developments

• Jiang Sheng achieves a major breakthrough as a weapon refiner, while showing humility by acknowledging Chen Mu’s role. He also begins to consider a life beyond constant work.
• Chen Mu reinforces his reputation for generosity and power, using his resources to reward the sect and celebrate others. Despite his status, he remains relaxed and affectionate in private.
• Ye Qingcheng is supportive and openly proud of Chen Mu, sharing his happiness and responding warmly to their intimacy.
• Chen Tianlin remains confidently proud of his son, with no trace of envy over Chen Mu’s achievements.

Significant themes

• Mentorship and humility: Jiang Sheng’s success depends partly on Chen Mu’s guidance, and he freely gives him credit.
• Generosity as influence: Chen Mu’s enormous gift rewards the sect while strengthening loyalty and his reputation.
• Power and prestige: The gathering of powerful figures and lavish offerings reflects the political weight of Chen Mu’s new title.
• Private affection amid public grandeur: The intimate exchange between Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng contrasts with the ceremony’s imposing scale.

Character interactions

• Jiang Sheng publicly credits Chen Mu, and Chen responds with a generous celebration and personal advice.
• The sect members eagerly accept Chen Mu’s weapons, while the Armory Pavilion elder is overwhelmed by the million-item gift.
• Ye Qingcheng praises Chen Mu and congratulates him; they share a kiss before attendants call him to the ceremony.