Chapter Summaries

Cao Bing fought an Ancient Thunder Crocodile Shark Void True God and escaped Thunder Marsh Bend by splitting its lightning spear with his Blade Heart. After the army’s rules kept the enemy from pursuing him, Cao Bing reflected on the danger of the fight and the growth it brought him.

• Cao Bing decapitated the Void True God, but its head quickly returned to its body and it attacked him in fury.
• The Void True God enlarged its body and struck Cao Bing with a lightning spear, but Cao Bing split the spear with a slash.
• The spear’s attack blasted Cao Bing outside Thunder Marsh Bend, where the Northern Army’s rules prevented the Void True God and its followers from pursuing him.
• Cao Bing released his beyond-limit state and watched the Ancient Thunder Crocodile Sharks withdraw into Thunder Marsh Bend.
• Cao Bing judged that the Void True God had been relatively weak, while recognizing how close he had come to being trapped and feeling his Blade Heart had grown stronger.

Cao Bing and thirty elite Fighters of the Duodu Tribe reached the Northern Army camp and entered its brutal enlistment trials. After a half-month wait, Cao Bing’s group was sent through a stone archway into a desolate sandy land to begin the slaughter selection, where he aimed to join a special legion.

• Cao Bing arrived at the Northern Army camp after traveling north for roughly two months and saw its vast army and powerful mechanical treasures.
• Cao Bing led the thirty elite Fighters of the Duodu Tribe to enlist and waited in line for half a month as other candidates underwent brutal trials.
• A crimson-flamed humanoid called the next batch of three thousand candidates, including Cao Bing and the Duodu Tribe Fighters, into the selection process.
• The candidates learned they would be divided into two camps and forced to slaughter one another, while exceptional survivors could join special legions.
• Cao Bing entered the stone archway with the group, and space-time shifted them to a vast, desolate land covered in sand.

Cao Bing entered the Northern Army camp selection and was ordered to fight in a life-or-death battle against the other group. After overwhelming the battlefield and enduring the bald man's pressure, Cao Bing was appointed squad leader in the Cold Armor Army and awarded fifty thousand military merits.

• A bald man divided the Fighters and strange beasts into two camps and ordered them to slaughter one another until he called a stop.
• Cao Bing charged into the opposing camp and killed its Universe Masters, defeating even groups that tried to surround him.
• Cao Bing collected dozens of Peak supreme treasures and three True God-level Ultimate supreme treasures from the battlefield.
• The bald man ordered everyone to stop and pressed the survivors to the ground, but Cao Bing remained standing through ten minutes of intensified pressure.
• The bald man assigned Cao Bing as a squad leader in the Cold Armor Army with fifty thousand military merits, while the others became ordinary soldiers.

Cao Bing earned Yu He's favor after surviving the recruit selection and was appointed a Cold Armor Army squad leader with fifty thousand military merits. Hu Yi escorted him to the Northern Army camp, where he received standard armor and special wings before preparing to report to his new legion.

• Yu He appointed Cao Bing a Cold Armor Army squad leader and awarded him fifty thousand military merits.
• The surviving recruits feared Cao Bing after he had killed more than three hundred Universe Masters, and Hu Yi escorted him to the Cold Armor Army garrison.
• Hu Yi warned Cao Bing that the Cold Armor Army's missions were exceptionally dangerous and that failing one meant execution.
• At the Northern Army camp, Hu Yi gave Cao Bing a peak eighth-rank True God Cold Sky Armor and Cold Sky Wings personally granted by Yu He.
• Hu Yi told Cao Bing to bind the armor and follow him to report to the Cold Armor Army.

Cao Bing equipped himself with Cold Sky Armor and Cold Sky Wings, then joined the Cold Armor Army as captain of the Seventeenth Squad. After reviewing the army manual, he learned that the squad faced an ordinary mission soon and a reincarnation-level mission in three epochs.

• Cao Bing bound the Cold Sky Armor and Cold Sky Wings, increasing his protection and strength.
• Hu Yi brought Cao Bing to the Ninth Brigade’s Seventeenth Squad, where only five soldiers remained after a failed mission.
• Cao Bing told the five soldiers he would not manage them and warned them not to hinder him during missions.
• The surviving soldiers discussed recruiting new members and preparing for a reincarnation-level mission in three epochs.
• Cao Bing read the Northern Army camp manual and learned about military missions, penalties, and the squad’s approaching reincarnation-level mission.

Cao Bing found the inheritances at the armaments point far beyond his means and decided to pursue a title-bestowing mission instead. After a hundred years, he went to the mission hall and accepted one, aiming for a title no one in the World of Jin had ever earned.

• Cao Bing viewed the armaments point’s inheritance list but found the techniques he wanted cost far more than his fifty thousand military merits.
• Cao Bing resolved to seek the Lie Yuan Shu inheritance in Wu Qi Lou and returned to his cave residence to study the World of Jin corpses and life tissues he had collected.
• A hundred years later, Cao Bing headed to the mission hall as the Seventeenth Squad’s next missions began.
• Cao Bing reviewed the three paths to a title and chose the title-bestowing mission, a challenge no one had completed.
• Cao Bing asked the mission hall to assign him a title-bestowing mission.

Cao Bing accepted a title mission to reach the ninth floor of Wu Qi Lou in God King Valley, despite its ninety percent fatality rate. After arriving and waiting for nine other soldiers, he was prepared to enter as part of the sixth batch.

• Cao Bing accepted the title mission and traveled from the Northern Army camp to the God King Realm.
• A Void True God guard escorted Cao Bing into God King Valley and directed him to Wu Qi Lou.
• The guards allowed Cao Bing to approach Wu Qi Lou but warned him not to fly inside the valley.
• A one-horned True God told Cao Bing that ten soldiers had to enter together and that he was the eighth in the batch.
• Cao Bing waited alone for half a month until the final two soldiers arrived, and the one-horned True God warned the group that more than half of the first five batches had died.

Cao Bing entered Wu Qi Lou’s second floor after swiftly killing a warrior, while the remaining warriors followed and learned that the next trial would test their ability to survive attacks in separate small worlds. The earlier batch was teleported first, leaving Cao Bing and the others waiting for their turn.

• A pillar of light appeared in the first-floor desert, and Wu Qi Lou required each warrior to kill someone before entering the second floor.
• Cao Bing quickly killed an unnamed warrior and flew through the passage; the eight remaining warriors then fought among themselves.
• Cao Bing reached the second floor and waited as the other warriors arrived, keeping their distance from him because they feared his strength.
• Wu Qi Lou announced that the second-floor trial would teleport each warrior into a small world and require them to survive every attack.
• The five warriors from the earlier batch were teleported into separate small worlds, while the remaining four were relieved to be spared from facing Cao Bing.

Warriors faced a brutal second-floor trial as beams and True God-level stone giants attacked them, while Cao Bing effortlessly evaded and overwhelmed his own giant. His display of movement and attack power drew the attention of the four commanders of God King Valley, who gathered to watch him.

• An ancient array bombarded warriors in five small worlds while crimson stone giants emerged and attacked them, killing the first warrior who could no longer endure.
• The array descended and space-time shifted, teleporting the remaining warriors, including Cao Bing, into their own small worlds.
• Cao Bing dodged every beam and sent a peak eighth-tier stone giant flying with a single hand-blade strike.
• A black-mist commander recognized Cao Bing’s exceptional movement and attack power, learned that he was Blade Heart of the Cold Armor Army, and summoned the other three commanders.
• The four commanders assembled in the palace and watched Cao Bing suppress the stone giant.

Cao Bing dominated the second-level Wu Qi Lou trial while the other soldiers were killed or driven to the brink by escalating attacks. The trial ended with three soldiers, including Cao Bing, surviving and being transported away.

• The four commanders watched Cao Bing effortlessly pin a True God-level stone giant, and the burly commander said he might reach the summit of Wu Qi Lou.
• The trial intensified as the rock giants howled, four enormous rocky hands emerged, and two soldiers were crushed and killed.
• The rain of light, stone giants, and rocky hands overwhelmed the remaining soldiers, while Cao Bing fought them off without burning divine power.
• The commanders praised Cao Bing’s strength and identified him as the likeliest soldier to reach Wu Qi Lou’s ninth level.
• After several more minutes, three small worlds vanished, the attacks ceased, and pillars of light transported Cao Bing and two other soldiers away.

Cao Bing and the other surviving soldiers gathered on Wu Qi Lou’s third floor, where a divine eye announced that only fifteen of the forty could survive. As a willpower assault began, soldiers started attacking one another, while Cao Bing’s two companions planned to stay out of his way and rely on him to eliminate their rivals.

• Cao Bing cultivated on the grassland while the other survivors recovered from their injuries and later batches arrived.
• After two months, a vortex teleported all forty soldiers beneath a divine eye, which announced that only fifteen could advance and that entering a warship meant death.
• The divine eye began assaulting the soldiers’ wills, and some believed the floor was a test of consciousness.
• A giant strange beast killed a badly injured soldier, triggering a chaotic battle as stronger soldiers hunted the others.
• Cao Bing’s two companions fled to a distant corner and joined forces, hoping Cao Bing would kill enough rivals for them to advance.

Cao Bing massacred the elite soldiers on Wu Qi Lou’s third floor and advanced with the fourteen survivors to the fourth floor. The commanders watching in God King Valley recognized his extraordinary strength and hoped he might reach the tower’s summit.

• Cao Bing killed a minotaur fighter who attacked him, then decided to stop holding back and slaughter the soldiers on the third floor.
• Cao Bing swiftly killed the nearby fighters and pursued fleeing soldiers, eliminating all but fourteen others.
• A divine eye vanished, and fifteen pillars of light transported Cao Bing and the surviving soldiers from the third floor.
• The four commanders praised Cao Bing’s movement, blade technique, and will, and wondered whether he could reach Wu Qi Lou’s summit.

Cao Bing chose the divine power route in Wu Qi Lou’s fourth level and passed its first stage by completing a perfect life-form diagram. He reached a new passageway containing a river of ownerless divine power, replenished his divine body, and looked ahead for diagrams of the thirty-thousand-times gene level.

• Wu Qi Lou announced that the fourth level offered four reward paths, forbade soldiers from killing one another, and required each soldier to choose one passageway.
• Cao Bing entered the divine power route because perfecting his life gene level mattered more to him than treasures or secret techniques.
• Cao Bing studied the perfect life-form diagrams lining the passageway and completed the incomplete diagram on a door, which teleported him to the next stage.
• Cao Bing found a river of ownerless divine power, absorbed it, and restored his divine body to its most perfect state.
• Cao Bing expected the next stage to contain structural diagrams of the thirty-thousand-times gene level and looked ahead eagerly.

Cao Bing studied the life structure diagrams in Wu Qi Lou and broke through the sixty-thousand-times life gene level, reaching the second stage of the Divine Power Flow. After comprehending the remaining diagrams, he advanced his life gene level to sixty-three thousand eight hundred times and continued toward the end of the stage.

• Cao Bing completed the incomplete life diagram at the end of the second river passage and was teleported into the third section of the Road of True Gods.
• Cao Bing examined the life structure diagrams and, after more than a year at the thirtieth diagram, comprehended the barrier to the sixty-thousand-times life gene level.
• Cao Bing's divine body transformed and grew to one hundred million kilometers tall as his life gene level broke through sixty thousand times.
• Cao Bing continued studying the diagrams for ten years, raising his life gene level to sixty-three thousand eight hundred times before reaching the end of the stage.

After completing the fourth level of Wu Qi Lou, Cao Bing received a message from the God King of Jin and entered the fifth level. He defeated its white-robed opponent, whose blade techniques offered him little new insight, and awaited what lay ahead.

• Cao Bing completed the genetic diagram on the fourth-level door and witnessed a consciousness projection of the God King of Jin, who urged him to seek the ultimate within himself.
• Cao Bing arrived alone in the fifth level’s frozen world and learned he had to defeat a powerful opponent to advance.
• A white-robed man matched Cao Bing’s energy and challenged him to a blade fight, using techniques based on the ten fundamental laws.
• Cao Bing recognized the opponent’s techniques as guidance in fundamental laws, but found they offered him little inspiration.
• Cao Bing shattered the white-robed man with a single strike, and the man acknowledged his superior understanding before disappearing.

Cao Bing cleared the sixth floor of Wu Qi Lou by defeating the Thousand-Eyed Beast, then faced the Divine Eye’s trial on the seventh floor. While resisting its willpower assault, he discovered the Divine Eye Secret Technique, Volume One, and recognized it as a major opportunity to strengthen his consciousness.

• Cao Bing encountered the Thousand-Eyed Beast, which attacked him with a thousand battle blades formed from the surrounding land.
• Cao Bing used Blade Heart Unity to shatter the blades and split the Thousand-Eyed Beast in two, then the beast acknowledged his power and let him proceed.
• Cao Bing reached the icy seventh floor, where the Divine Eye began a willpower trial and the aged voice told him that the eighth floor was the final obstacle before the top.
• Cao Bing withstood the Divine Eye’s assault and noticed the Divine Eye Secret Technique, Volume One, written inside a transparent ice mountain.
• Cao Bing realized the technique could help him temper his consciousness and amplify the destructive power of his Blade Heart path.

Cao Bing studied the Divine Eye Secret Technique and steadily strengthened his consciousness and Blade Heart as he mastered its first seven volumes. As he began the eighth volume, the Divine Eye’s pressure finally offered guidance that accelerated his understanding.

• Cao Bing read the first volume of the Divine Eye Secret Technique, which broadened his understanding of Blade Heart and consciousness.
• Cao Bing mastered the first four volumes within days, raising his consciousness to the peak of the mid Void True God stage.
• Cao Bing spent more than half a month comprehending the fifth volume and then advanced to the high Void True God stage through the sixth.
• Cao Bing spent more than two months mastering the seventh volume as the Divine Eye’s pressure rose to the peak Void True God level.
• Cao Bing began comprehending the eighth volume and sensed that the Divine Eye’s pressure was guiding him, speeding his progress.

Cao Bing fully comprehended all nine volumes of the Divine Eye Secret Technique, enduring the final volume’s overwhelming difficulty and pressure. His consciousness and Blade Heart grew tremendously, and the four God King Valley commanders were left astonished by his achievement.

• Cao Bing spent fifty years comprehending the eighth volume, astonishing the four God King Valley commanders with his progress.
• After Cao Bing completed the eighth volume, the Divine Eye’s pressure rose to the Eternal True God level, but he resisted it and began studying the ninth volume.
• Cao Bing gradually comprehended the ninth volume over more than two thousand years, spending a thousand years mastering its final tenth.
• Cao Bing’s Blade Intent shattered the Divine Eye, and his consciousness reached peak Void True God level while his Blade Heart underwent a further sublimation.
• Cao Bing declared that his Blade Heart could devastate the consciousness of Void True Gods, and the four commanders marveled at his mastery of all nine volumes.

Cao Bing reached the eighth floor of Wu Qi Lou, where he had to master a secret technique by interpreting a vast scroll. His consciousness entered the Scroll World, where a purple-horned beast introduced itself as the secret technique itself, suggesting Cao Bing had found the Lie Yuan Shu inheritance.

• Cao Bing arrived on Wu Qi Lou's eighth floor and read that mastering the secret technique would let him reach the ninth floor, while failure would erase his memories and send him away.
• Cao Bing studied the star-like characters in the void for five days, until the scroll drew his consciousness into the Scroll World.
• Cao Bing found himself before a purple-glowing palace and resisted its calls before entering its hall.
• A purple-horned beast appeared in the hall and told Cao Bing that it was the secret technique itself.
• Cao Bing recognized that the inheritance was likely the Lie Yuan Shu he had been seeking.

Cao Bing began cultivating the Nayin Secret Art, undergoing a soul trial that fused his consciousness with his divine body. After more than three hundred years, his consciousness pressure intensified, leaving even Chaos City Lord struggling to endure it.

• The purple-horned beast revealed the Nayin Secret Art on one of four scrolls and explained that mastering it was required to inherit the secret technique.
• Cao Bing studied the Nayin Secret Art and immediately began cultivating, while the purple-horned beast waited for him to fail.
• Cao Bing's cultivation drew the consciousnesses of his avatars into the process and released growing pressure that forced Luo Feng and nearby experts to retreat or seek shelter.
• Within the eighth level of Wu Qi Lou, white light and secret patterns spread through Cao Bing's divine power as his consciousness began fusing with his divine body.
• After more than three hundred years, the light around Cao Bing turned blue and his consciousness pressure surged, forcing Chaos City Lord to retreat while trapped Universe Sea experts struggled to endure it.