Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen faced Silent Terror King after Leng Fanfei defeated Azure Moon Young Master, whose Blood Derivation Pearl let him survive the saber strike. Ye Chen evaded Silent Terror King's demonic art and beheaded him with a brief flash of sword momentum, then let him live as Leng Fanfei and Azure Moon Young Master departed.

• Leng Fanfei split Azure Moon Young Master's body apart with a two-layer saber strike, but Azure Moon Young Master revived using a Blood Derivation Pearl and acknowledged Leng Fanfei's superiority.
• Leng Fanfei turned his attention to Ye Chen as Silent Terror King demanded Ye Chen's small Heavenly King-Class Warship.
• Silent Terror King attacked Ye Chen with the Silent Terror Demon Sting, but Ye Chen moved through the attack's blind spots and avoided harm.
• Silent Terror King charged Ye Chen at close range, but Ye Chen's sword momentum froze him briefly and a sword strike sent his head flying.
• Ye Chen spared Silent Terror King, who reattached his head and fled, while Leng Fanfei and Azure Moon Young Master left to prepare for the Trials of the Gods.

After the Alien Race Calamity, the people of the True Spirit Continent found Barren Stones at Desolate Wilds Ridge, while Ye Chen established the Falling Dust Sword Pavilion in Blazing Fire City. He revealed himself as the shop’s owner and continued adding swords to its display, having become a Heavenly King-level swordsmith.

• Life and Death Realm Kings searched the collapsed center of Desolate Wilds Ridge, spread the news, and later found enough Barren Stones for many people, including Murong Qingcheng, Xu Jing, Dugu Jue, and the Snow Sword Emperor.
• Customers visited the Falling Dust Sword Pavilion, questioned its high prices, and inspected its Pseudo Top-Grade and Top-Grade Treasure Swords, which were not yet for sale.
• The shopkeeper Zhang Fengyi told customers that the owner planned to add Top-Grade Treasure Swords until the display reached a certain number before setting prices.
• Ye Chen emerged from the courtyard, greeted the shop staff, and added two Top-Grade Treasure Swords to the third-floor display.
• Ye Chen assessed that his success rate forging swords below the Heavenly King-level had reached one hundred percent and expected to open for business in three months.

Ye Chen forged Purple Soul and Heaven One and planned to build the Falling Flower Sword Pavilion into a renowned shop selling Top-Grade Treasure Swords, hoping to secure the Origin Stones he needed. Forging had already improved his swordsmanship, and he believed it could also help his Destruction Sword Intent reach the seventh tier.

• Ye Chen completed Purple Soul, a mid-tier Top-Grade Treasure Sword with the metal attribute, and Heaven One, a high-tier sword with combined metal-water attributes.
• Ye Chen reviewed the heavy costs of his Heavenly King-Class Warship and weapon shop, realizing he needed to earn Origin Stones by selling swords.
• Ye Chen stocked the shop's first and second floors with purchased swords marked at high prices, reserving the third floor to display Top-Grade Treasure Swords he would not yet sell.
• Ye Chen planned to build the Falling Flower Sword Pavilion's reputation by accumulating an impressive collection of Top-Grade Treasure Swords before selling them at high prices.
• Ye Chen realized that forging had advanced his No Sword in Hand, No Sword in Heart realm to the middle stage and could accelerate his Destruction Sword Intent toward the seventh tier.

Ye Chen sold the first fifty-four top-grade treasure swords forged at Falling Dust Sword Pavilion, then set out for the Five Elements Land to find materials for Celestial King-Grade Swords. Elsewhere, Zhao Wuque challenged Leng Fanfei again and revealed that he had comprehended the Selfless State, but Leng Fanfei showed that he had mastered it earlier and more completely.

• Ye Chen forged fifty-four top-grade treasure swords from metal- and water-aspected materials, and Falling Dust Sword Pavilion became famous across Blazing Fire City.
• Ye Chen sold all fifty-four swords in less than half a day for forty-six thousand origin stones and decided to seek Celestial King-grade materials at the Five Elements Land.
• Near Great Blade Star, Zhao Wuque challenged Leng Fanfei to the rematch they had agreed to three years earlier, while Yan Feihua and the Strange Speed Wolf King watched.
• Leng Fanfei struck Zhao Wuque back with a powerful saber slash, but Zhao Wuque recovered and entered the Selfless State.
• Leng Fanfei revealed that he had already comprehended the Selfless State during their last battle, then fought Zhao Wuque at greatly increased speed and power.

Zhao Wuque survived Leng Fanfei’s Asura Strike after touching the Selfless Eye of Heaven State, while Leng Fanfei warned him about a swordsman in sky-blue clothes. Ye Chen reached the Five Elements Land and rescued two Half-Demon Kings from a powerful Five-Elements Metal Spirit King.

• Zhao Wuque’s senses awakened under Leng Fanfei’s Asura Strike, letting him blunt most of its power and graze Leng Fanfei with his sword Qi.
• Leng Fanfei told Zhao Wuque to formally enter the Selfless Eye of Heaven State before challenging him again and warned him about a remarkable swordsman wearing sky-blue clothes.
• Ye Chen piloted the Golden Shadow to the Five Elements Land, killed a Metal Spirit King, and ventured deeper into the region.
• A dark-gold Five-Elements Metal Spirit King cornered two Half-Demon Kings, who could not break its defenses and tried to retreat.
• Ye Chen arrived and blasted the Five-Elements Metal Spirit King into pieces, shocking the two Half-Demon Kings.

Ye Chen killed the Five-Elements Metal Spirit King with Triple Force after it survived his Double Force strike, then warned two Half-Demon Kings to flee as more enemies approached. Elsewhere, Swift Goose Young Master defeated Phantom Sword King with Triple Force ahead of the Trials of the Gods, while Lan Xian’er watched and reflected on Ye Chen’s guidance.

• Ye Chen’s Sword Domain slowed the Five-Elements Metal Spirit King, and his Double Force strike shattered it, but the creature reassembled with greater defense.
• Ye Chen destroyed the Five-Elements Metal Spirit King with Triple Force and told the two Half-Demon Kings to leave as more of the creatures approached.
• Swift Goose Young Master returned to Swift Goose City and challenged Phantom Sword King at Wildview Plain to prepare for the Trials of the Gods.
• After hundreds of exchanges, Swift Goose Young Master used Triple Force to defeat Phantom Sword King.
• Lan Xian’er watched the duel and thought about how Ye Chen’s guidance had helped her reach Double Force.

Ye Chen returned to Blazing Fire City with rare metals and tested Lan Xian'er’s potential to awaken the Selfless State, setting her a swordsmanship challenge. As she struggled to pierce a Star Iron stake, he let her watch him forge a Celestial King-Grade Sword, and his forging began to sharpen her sword heart.

• Ye Chen found Platinum Stone and Dragon Spring Iron in Five Elements Land, then flew to Blazing Fire City and returned to Falling Dust Sword Pavilion.
• Lan Xian'er asked Ye Chen to instruct her for the Trials of the Gods, and he saw signs that she could awaken the Selfless State.
• Ye Chen told Lan Xian'er to pierce a Star Iron stake within a month before he would give her special training, then learned from her about the Trials of the Gods and the Garden of the Gods.
• Ye Chen spent half a month forging a Celestial King-Grade Sword while Lan Xian'er trained and managed to pierce only one-third of the stake.
• Ye Chen advised Lan Xian'er to pause and think, then invited her to watch him forge swords; his Oscillating Sword Intent Forging Method left her sword heart clearer.

Lan Xian'er mastered Triple Force and, with Ye Chen's help, entered the Selfless State through repeated combat. After nearly four months of training and forging, Ye Chen completed a Celestial King-Grade Sword and named it the Dragon Spring Sword.

• Lan Xian'er pierced and shattered the Star Iron stake, completing her Triple Force breakthrough.
• Ye Chen began helping Lan Xian'er open the Selfless State by gradually increasing the force of their exchanges.
• After weeks of escalating combat, Lan Xian'er entered the Selfless State and transformed some of her potential into combat power.
• Nearly four months after beginning the sword, Ye Chen completed a Celestial King-Grade Sword with metal and water attributes.
• Ye Chen named the completed sword the Dragon Spring Sword.

Ye Chen refused to sell the Dragon Spring Sword and helped Lan Xian'er enter the Selfless State again as geniuses across the starry universe trained for the Trials of the Gods. Zhao Wuque advanced his Selfless Eye of Heaven, while the Black Annihilation King completed his training on a White Dwarf Star and set out toward an unknown destination.

• Ye Chen kept the Dragon Spring Sword and urged Lan Xian'er to strengthen her fighting spirit, helping her enter the Selfless State for the third time.
• The Swift Goose Young Master entered the Selfless State and resolved to deepen it before the Trials of the Gods opened.
• Zhao Wuque reached the Selfless Eye of Heaven and dismantled a dead star by striking its weakness, though he still believed he could not defeat Leng Fanfei.
• The Black Annihilation King trained on a White Dwarf Star, demonstrating Quadruple Force despite being only at the Life and Death Realm Fourth Heaven.
• The Black Annihilation King used a rope and a Heavenly King-Class Warship to leave the White Dwarf Star, then declared that he had arrived.

Ye Chen and Lan Xian'er set out for the Trials of the Gods and traveled to God Star, where candidates had to endure crushing gravity for three hours to qualify. Ye Chen easily withstood the pressure and defended Lan Xian'er, while Luo Yinkong was expelled and Yuan Qing endured.

• Ye Chen warned Lan Xian'er that repeated use of the Selfless State had exhausted her potential, then urged her to keep practicing basic swordsmanship.
• Ye Chen reflected on how the Essence of Speed and Slowness Profundity worked through perception, and connected them to the Selfless Eye of Heaven.
• Ye Chen and Lan Xian'er left for the Trials of the Gods, traveled through a stellar teleportation array, and met Luo Yinkong and Yuan Qing on the way to God Star.
• Ye Chen and Lan Xian'er reached God Star, where its immense gravity began testing the candidates; Luo Yinkong failed after a quarter hour, while Yuan Qing endured.
• A burly young man attacked Ye Chen and Lan Xian'er, but Ye Chen blasted him away with one palm, causing a golden bubble to expel him from God Star.

Ye Chen and Lan Xian'er passed God Star’s gravity trial and boarded the God Ship with the other successful geniuses. After reaching the Trials of the Gods, Ye Chen was separated from the others and followed a light screen’s golden markers into a mist-filled forest.

• Ye Chen identified Hunter King as a pawn led into attacking them by an unknown illusionist, and warned Lan Xian'er not to seek out the caster.
• After three hours under God Star’s gravity, Ye Chen, Lan Xian'er, and four other people from Firebird Star received Trial Tokens.
• A gigantic God Ship arrived, and the successful candidates boarded it and traveled toward the region between the Four Great Life Starfields.
• The God Ship reached a desolate continent with a colossal golden gate, and the golden light from the gate transported the geniuses into separate locations.
• Ye Chen appeared alone in a foggy forest, saw golden markers on a light screen from his Trial Token, and entered the mist toward the next marker.

Ye Chen crossed the deadly Mist Forest and reached a track where God Coins awaited the fastest finishers. After most contestants failed to cross the forest, the track opened and revealed crushing gravity and a ban on using energy, leaving the remaining geniuses to face a new test.

• Yuan Qing, Firebird Young Master, and many other contestants died to the Mist Forest’s traps, while Lan Xian'er survived its wasps and arrow mechanisms and continued onward.
• Ye Chen crossed the Mist Forest with ease and arrived at a thousand-meter-wide track alongside several other leading geniuses.
• The young man in black explained that God Coins were currency in the Garden of the Gods and that the track awarded ten, five, and two coins to the top three finishers.
• After about two hours, only a little over four thousand of the original fifteen thousand contestants had reached the track, and Lan Xian'er warned Ye Chen that it might test more than speed.
• When the barrier disappeared, contestants who rushed onto the track discovered they could not use True Essence or other energy and were burdened by intense gravity; the young man in black and Ye Chen recognized the challenge.

Ye Chen pushed through the endurance trial and caught up to the leaders as the finish line appeared. When the young man in black surged ahead, Ye Chen unleashed his full speed to pursue first place and its ten God Coins.

• Ye Chen accelerated through the runners, knocked Iron Tiger King off the track with one sweep, and warned the other front-runners not to challenge him.
• Ye Chen and Lan Xian'er ran for over a month; Lan Xian'er kept going through exhaustion while most contestants were eliminated.
• Lu Wenxiu caught up to Du Sha and then joined the four runners ahead of Ye Chen.
• The runners spotted the triumphal arch, and the young man in black used an explosive burst to pull ahead of the others.
• Ye Chen saw the young man in black take the lead and accelerated to his limit in pursuit of first place.

Ye Chen raced Zhou Jian, the Black Annihilation King, for first place, and their contest turned into a fierce battle on the gravity track. Ye Chen and Zhou Jian crossed the Golden Triumphal Gate almost simultaneously as the leopardman closed in behind them, leaving the winner uncertain.

• Ye Chen, Zhou Jian, Lu Wenxiu, the leopardman, Qiao Erlang, and Baili Hun separated into three groups as they raced toward the finish.
• Zhou Jian challenged Ye Chen with Fourfold Force, but Ye Chen matched his attack with a palm that gathered power from all five fingers.
• Zhou Jian attacked again with Spike Thrust Exploding Fist, and Ye Chen drew the Demon Slayer Sword to fight back.
• Ye Chen wounded Zhou Jian with Autumn Water, and Zhou Jian stopped attacking after Ye Chen exposed a blind spot in his fighting style.
• Zhou Jian surged ahead near the finish, Ye Chen opened a body-length lead, and the leopardman rapidly closed the gap.
• Ye Chen, Zhou Jian, and the leopardman passed through the Golden Triumphal Gate almost simultaneously.

Ye Chen won the race in the second stage, drawing the attention of Black Annihilation King Zhou Jian, who postponed their fight after Lu Wenxiu intervened. In the third stage’s Stone Forest, Ye Chen’s group learned they had to hunt Cui Bailie’s team, whose members recognized Ye Chen with alarm.

• Ye Chen finished ahead of Zhou Jian and the Black Feather Leopard King, and everyone still on the track was teleported to the finish line.
• Demon Elephant Baidi mocked Zhou Jian, who killed him with one punch before confronting Ye Chen; Lu Wenxiu mediated, and Zhou Jian left after agreeing to fight Ye Chen later.
• Ye Chen and the others entered the Stone Forest, where groups of five were assigned target teams and competed for one of thirty passing places.
• Ye Chen formed a team with Du Sha, Lu Renyi, a young giant, and archer Xiao Xue, then identified their targets as Cui Bailie’s group, which included Duan Fan.
• Ye Chen assigned Lu Renyi to assassinate the target with the weakest aura, while Cui Bailie’s other teammates recognized Ye Chen’s image and grew fearful.

Ye Chen led his team through the Rock Forest trial, where the Trial Token stopped detecting the opposing team and both sides launched ambushes. Ye Chen saw through the enemy's clones and turned a dangerous attack into victory, leaving his team advancing in the trial.

• Cui Bolie and Duan Fan decided their team should target Ye Chen's teammates rather than try to defeat Ye Chen directly.
• Ye Chen assigned roles to Lu Renyi, Du Sha, Xiao Xue, and Ouyang Tie as his team advanced through the Rock Forest.
• When the Trial Token's detection stopped working, Ye Chen repositioned his teammates and told Du Sha to delay any attackers approaching from behind.
• Cui Bolie and Duan Fan's team ambushed Ye Chen's group, sending clones and red foxes against them while three fighters surrounded Ouyang Tie.
• Ye Chen identified Duan Fan's clones, killed Duan Fan's true body, and helped his teammates defeat the remaining opponents.

Ye Chen and the surviving geniuses reached the fourth stage, where fighters from all four Great Life Starfields gathered in a palace. The trial allowed only ten arena masters to remain, leaving Ye Chen’s group facing a fierce contest for the final slots.

• Ye Chen’s group arrived at the fork, where Ji Chengyue’s group and then other teams cleared the previous trial; Zhou Jian’s team barely passed after adopting a more strategic leader.
• The survivors chose among five paths, and Ye Chen took the middle path while Lan Xian'er chose to travel independently.
• Ye Chen and other Vermilion Bird Starfield geniuses entered a vast palace and met the surviving fighters from the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise Starfields.
• The rules appeared: ten arena masters would clear the trial, while eliminated fighters could make one more challenge before being eliminated.
• Ye Chen warned his companions to be careful as the four starfields’ strongest fighters assessed the competition for the ten slots.

The fourth round began with participants forced into arena-master roles, and challengers fought to claim their arenas. Ye Chen challenged the Azure King, a top-ranked fighter, and left him defeated with a single unseen strike.

• Ten participants were randomly forced to become arena masters, and Yang Dingcheng defeated Zheng Wu with his Azure Dragon Soul Lock.
• Challengers began fighting across the arenas, and the rules required anyone who failed a challenge to try again within a quarter of an hour.
• The Azure King claimed Arena One, but Ye Chen stepped forward to challenge him while Du Sha, the Black Feather Leopard King, and Qiao Erlang watched.
• Gu Qingxue and Qi Hongyan judged Ye Chen a dangerous opponent, while the Azure Dragon Starfield geniuses voiced confidence in the Azure King.
• The Azure King attacked Ye Chen at close range, but Ye Chen struck him so quickly that the Azure King was sent flying into the arena barrier.

Ye Chen defeated Azure King after he entered the Demon Beast Realm, while fighters from several starfields battled for arena positions. With only a few spectators left, Qi Hongyan decided to challenge an arena after speaking with a mysterious dark-skinned youth.

• Azure King entered the Demon Beast Realm and attacked Ye Chen with Demon Light Cannon and Dragon Demon Annihilation Fist, but Ye Chen stopped his strongest punch and cut off his head with Autumn Water.
• Azure King became the master of Arena Three, while Du Sha and Qiao Erlang took Arenas Five and Seven.
• A fighter from the Azure Dragon Starfield defeated Qiao Erlang, who then lost his next challenge and was eliminated.
• Du Sha defeated Thunder King Tang Lin, and the Black Feather Leopard King claimed Arena Two by tearing off his opponent’s head.
• With only a few people left in the hall, Qi Hongyan spoke with a dark-skinned youth and chose to go down to challenge an arena.

Qi Hongyan defeated the Black Feather Leopard King, while Lan Xian'er and Swift Goose Young Master briefly brought attention to Firebird Star before suffering defeats. Gu Qingxue then challenged Ye Chen on Arena One, setting up their fight.

• Qi Hongyan challenged the Black Feather Leopard King on Arena Two and killed him with her platinum hair before he could force her into the Selfless State.
• Lan Xian'er entered the Selfless State, broke Cao Huan's Peacock Spreads Its Tail, and defeated him with Hurricane Divine Fire.
• Swift Goose Young Master defeated the Iron Whip King but later lost to the Silver Whip King, while Lan Xian'er was defeated by Liu Yu.
• The Black Feather Leopard King challenged Arena Eight after losing to Qi Hongyan and became its champion.
• Gu Qingxue challenged Ye Chen on Arena One, drawing the attention of Qi Hongyan, Du Sha, and the Black Feather Leopard King.