Recaps

Chu Kuangren used the Secret Realm Origin and Time Stop to kill Bai Juexin and defeat the Blood Tribe’s forces. After the battle, the Firmament cultivators praised him as they began clearing the battlefield.

• Chu Kuangren used the secret realm’s power to turn Bai Juexin’s Sword Qi against him and overwhelm him in a clash of Minor Worlds.
• Bai Juexin began self-destructing, shattering the Heavenly Venerables’ Minor Worlds as he threatened to destroy everyone in the secret realm.
• Chu Kuangren used Time Stop to halt Bai Juexin and cut off his head, interrupting the self-destruction.
• Chu Kuangren reinforced the Secret Realm Barrier to prevent the Blood Tribe from escaping, then crushed their Minor Worlds and slaughtered their forces.
• Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable and the other commanders praised Chu Kuangren before the survivors began cleaning up the battlefield.

After completely refining the Secret Realm Origin, Chu Kuangren became a powerful Upper Heavenly Venerable and drew the god-tier Undying Star Body technique. He carried the Secret Realm within himself and began absorbing a nearby asteroid’s energy to cultivate the technique.

• Chu Kuangren left much of the Secret Realm’s treasure haul to Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable, who estimated that Chu Kuangren’s battle merit could place him among the overall top hundred.
• Chu Kuangren stayed in the Secret Realm and spent a month refining its Origin and absorbing treasures, reaching the Upper Heavenly Venerable realm.
• Chu Kuangren drew and learned the god-tier body-refining technique Undying Star Body, which tempered the body by devouring the stars.
• Chu Kuangren shrank the Pink Secret Realm and stored it within his body before asking Xiao Ai to analyze the nearby Seventh Asteroid as a source of energy.
• Chu Kuangren entered the asteroid’s core and activated the Undying Star Body to absorb its energy, then used Heaven and Earth Furnace Body to speed up the process.

Chu Kuangren absorbed several asteroids and advanced his Undying Star Body to minor accomplishment, then decided against consuming the sun and headed back to the Seventeenth Fortress. There, Yin Honghua learned that he had earned immense battle merit and a special reward from the Heavenly Venerable Association.

• Chu Kuangren used his Heaven and Earth Furnace Body to absorb the Seventh Asteroid, then destroyed an enormous meteorite with one punch.
• Chu Kuangren absorbed several more asteroids over a month and brought his Undying Star Body to minor accomplishment.
• Chu Kuangren considered absorbing the sun but decided against endangering Firmament Star and the surrounding star system.
• Chu Kuangren boarded the warship left by Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable and returned toward the Seventeenth Fortress.
• Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable told Yin Honghua that the Seventeenth Fortress would receive the largest share of the Secret Realm resources.
• Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable revealed that Chu Kuangren had earned enormous battle merit, would appear on the Battle Achievement Ranking, and would receive a special reward.

Jian Wuwei arrived at the Seventeenth Fortress to challenge Chu Kuangren over their agreement, while the fortress’s cultivators learned about Chu’s extraordinary record. After Chu returned, he explained that he had killed Jian Que, and Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable condemned Jian Wuwei for seeking a duel.

• Jian Wuwei arrived at the General's Residence and told Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable that he had come to fulfill his agreement to fight Chu Kuangren.
• Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable said Chu had not returned, so Jian Wuwei announced he would wait for him in the dueling arena.
• Word of the challenge spread, and cultivators investigated Chu Kuangren’s achievements and debated whether he could defeat Jian Wuwei.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Seventeenth Fortress and met Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable at the General's Residence.
• Chu Kuangren explained that he had killed Jian Que, prompting Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable to angrily denounce Jian Que and Jian Wuwei.

Jian Wuwei waited ten days in the Seventeenth Fortress dueling arena and defeated ninety-eight challengers before Chu Kuangren arrived. Chu Kuangren dismissed Jian Wuwei as too weak, and the two prepared to settle the matter by fighting.

• Chu Kuangren declined Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable's offer to deal with Jian Wuwei and went to meet him himself.
• Jian Wuwei defeated the Green-Clothed Sword, bringing his streak in the arena to ninety-nine victories.
• After the defeated swordsman shoved at Chu Kuangren, Chu Kuangren effortlessly grabbed him and flung him into the arena wall.
• Jian Wuwei recognized Chu Kuangren and challenged him, drawing the crowd's attention.
• Chu Kuangren said he regretted the fight because Jian Wuwei was no longer strong enough to be his opponent, angering Jian Wuwei.
• Chu Kuangren entered the arena and told Jian Wuwei to let strength decide the matter.

Chu Kuangren faced Jian Wuwei in the dueling arena and promised to let him make three moves before defeating him in one. He effortlessly stopped Jian Wuwei's first two attacks with a minor world condensed at his fingertips, then met Jian Wuwei's final thrust as a concealed attack emerged.

• Chu Kuangren clarified that he would let Jian Wuwei attack three times before defeating him, drawing disbelief and mockery from the crowd.
• Jian Wuwei thrust his sword at Chu Kuangren, who caught it between two fingers and nullified its power with a minor world.
• Jian Wuwei unleashed his minor world and Dark Void Slash, but Chu Kuangren dismantled the attack with one finger and remained unharmed.
• Jian Wuwei used Dark Void Thrust, and Chu Kuangren met the sword tip with his fingertip as Jian Wuwei's apparent form dissolved and his Shadow Clone Sword struck from another direction.

Chu Kuangren crushed Jian Wuwei in a duel, then appeared thirty-first on the Battle Merit Overall Ranking with one hundred million battle merit. A Dao Lord's envoy arrived at the General's Residence and asked him to go to the Heavenly Origin Dojo.

• Jian Wuwei's hidden sword strike failed to pierce Chu Kuangren, who crushed his Emperor Weapon with his bare hand.
• Chu Kuangren shattered the arena barrier with a punch, defeated Jian Wuwei, and left him unconscious in the rubble.
• Cultivators discovered Chu Kuangren ranked thirty-first on the Battle Merit Overall Ranking with one hundred million battle merit, sparking an uproar across the fortresses.
• A Dao Lord's envoy came to the General's Residence, met Chu Kuangren, and invited him to accompany the envoy to the Heavenly Origin Dojo.

Chu Kuangren accepted an invitation to enter the Heavenly Origin Dojo, a secret realm that could accelerate Dao comprehension, and traveled to the battlefield gathering. A Dao Lord and nine others opened the gate for Chu Kuangren and eleven other battle-honored Heavenly Venerables, leaving them ready to enter for ten days.

• A Dao Lord's envoy explained the Heavenly Origin Dojo to Chu Kuangren and said they would depart the next day.
• On the journey, Chu Kuangren learned that Firmament Star had twenty-four known Dao Lords, including Xuanhuang Dao Lord, Myriad Laws Dao Lord, and Haoyue Dao Lord.
• Chu Kuangren arrived at the asteroid site near Fortress Thirty, where Hu Fei, Heavenly Bull Venerable, and other accomplished Heavenly Venerables greeted him.
• A white-haired Dao Lord arrived and told the twelve Heavenly Venerables they had ten days in the dojo.
• The Dao Lord and nine others sent their power into a white gate and opened the Heavenly Origin Dojo.

Chu Kuangren mastered the ultimate mystery in the Heavenly Origin Dojo, then used Xiao Ai to analyze the dojo’s Dao patterns and began applying them to his Heavenly Punishment Dao patterns. As the ten-day period neared its end, his Dao patterns resonated with the dojo and the Heavenly Dao of Firmament Star.

• Chu Kuangren comprehended the ultimate mystery in two days, astonishing the Dao Lords observing the Heavenly Origin Dojo.
• Chu Kuangren found his Dao understanding nearing a bottleneck and used Xiao Ai to analyze the dojo’s Dao patterns.
• The Dao Lords sensed an unexplained probing of the Heavenly Origin Dojo but could not identify its source.
• Chu Kuangren discovered the dojo’s Dao patterns shared a connection with his Heavenly Punishment Dao patterns and began studying them.
• The Heavenly Origin Dojo shook as its Dao patterns revolved around Chu Kuangren, whose patterns resonated with them and with Firmament Star’s Heavenly Dao.

Chu Kuangren began merging with the Heavenly Origin Dojo’s Dao Patterns, prompting Firmament Star’s Dao Lords to debate whether to stop him. Xuanhuang Dao Lord’s vote authorized intervention, but Chu Kuangren interrupted the decision by asking whether he had a vote.

• The Dao Lords pulled the Heavenly Venerables out of the dojo and saw Chu Kuangren’s Heavenly Punishment Dao Patterns merging with its Dao Patterns.
• Hu Fei, Heavenly Bull Venerable, and several other Heavenly Venerables urged the Dao Lords to show Chu Kuangren leniency before leaving Heavenly Origin Planet.
• Firmament Star’s twenty-four Dao Lords gathered, and Xuanhuang Dao Lord called for Chu Kuangren to be stopped while Myriad Laws Dao Lord defended him.
• Haoyue Dao Lord and the other Demon Race Dao Lords abstained, and most of the remaining Dao Lords opposed Myriad Laws Dao Lord’s position.
• Xuanhuang Dao Lord ordered the Dao Lords to intervene, but Chu Kuangren asked whether he had a vote.

Luo Shui and the Heavenly Punishers joined the vote to protect Chu Kuangren, allowing him to continue absorbing the Heavenly Origin Dojo’s Dao Patterns. Their fusion connected him to the Firmament Star’s Heavenly Dao, and the chapter ended as the collapsing dojo left him wondering whether the Dao Lords would attack.

• Luo Shui appeared and threatened to kill the Xuanhuang Dao Lord if he harmed Chu Kuangren after she regained her Dao Lord cultivation.
• The First Heavenly Punisher and the other Heavenly Punishers declared they would protect Chu Kuangren, bringing the vote to sixteen in favor and fourteen opposed.
• Chu Kuangren continued fusing the Heavenly Punishment Dao Patterns with the Heavenly Origin Dojo’s Dao Patterns as the Dao Lords watched.
• The completed fusion connected Chu Kuangren to the Firmament Star’s Heavenly Dao and gave him access to some of its authority.
• The Heavenly Origin Dojo began collapsing after Chu Kuangren absorbed its Dao Patterns, and he worried that the Dao Lords might attack him.

After destroying the Heavenly Origin Dojo, Chu Kuangren left with Luo Shui, who revealed that Wuhen Heavenly Venerable had helped sever her head during her breakthrough. Luo Shui went to the Thirty-First Fortress to confront him, and Chu Kuangren sealed off the other Heavenly Venerables so they could fight undisturbed.

• Chu Kuangren told the Dao Lords that he had merged with the Heavenly Origin Dojo's Dao Patterns, then left Heavenly Origin Planet with Luo Shui.
• Luo Shui warned Chu Kuangren about Xuanhuang Dao Lord and explained that Wuhen Heavenly Venerable had attacked her during her breakthrough, leaving her head separated from her body.
• Chu Kuangren gave Luo Shui the Chaos Emperor Scripture entrusted to him by Chaos Dao Lord, and Luo Shui explained that nine Dao Lords had become formation cores to create Hate Separation Heaven and protect Firmament Star.
• Luo Shui and Chu Kuangren reached the Thirty-First Fortress, where Luo Shui attacked the General's Residence and demanded that Wuhen Heavenly Venerable face her.
• Wuhen Heavenly Venerable emerged and fought Luo Shui, who suppressed the gathered Heavenly Venerables with her Minor World.
• Chu Kuangren raised a barrier around Luo Shui and Wuhen Heavenly Venerable, preventing the other Heavenly Venerables from joining the battle.

Chu Kuangren restrained Fortress Thirty-One’s Heavenly Venerables while Luo Shui defeated and killed Wuhen Heavenly Venerable. A decree from Myriad Laws Dao Lord made Luo Shui the fortress’s new commander, leaving her former opponents to accept her authority.

• Luo Shui fought Wuhen Heavenly Venerable in the void while Chu Kuangren watched, ready to intervene if needed.
• Fortress Thirty-One’s Heavenly Venerables attacked Chu Kuangren, but he absorbed and returned their mysteries, then bound them with World Lock.
• Luo Shui suppressed Wuhen Heavenly Venerable, severed his head, and destroyed it with Emperor Qi.
• A Dao Lord’s Emissary announced that Fortress Thirty-One would come under Luo Shui’s command by Myriad Laws Dao Lord’s decree.
• Chu Kuangren released the bound Heavenly Venerables, and Luo Shui kept them as commanders while telling the Emissary she accepted the appointment.

As the Blood Tribe prepared to launch the eighth Blood-Colored Firmament War, Chu Kuangren and Luo Shui learned that its vanguard was approaching the Thirty-First Fortress. Chu Kuangren struck first, destroying dozens of enemy warships and killing tens of thousands of Blood Tribe cultivators.

• Xuanhuang Dao Lord worried that Luo Shui, the Chaos Dao Lord, and the Heavenly Punishers would threaten his control of Firmament Star, and considered using them to deal with the Heavenly Punishers.
• Chu Kuangren received a warning from Yue Zhaowu that the White Clan's Blood King had ordered his death and that the Blood Tribe was gathering for war.
• The fortress bells announced the start of the eighth Blood-Colored Firmament War, and Luo Shui led a three-day military conference to coordinate defenses.
• Luo Shui showed Chu Kuangren images of the Blood Tribe's enormous vanguard and estimated that it would reach the fortress in ten days.
• As the vanguard drew within several hundred thousand kilometers of the Thirty-First Fortress, Chu Kuangren attacked with a palm strike that destroyed dozens of warships and killed tens of thousands of Blood Tribe cultivators.

Chu Kuangren used his spatial techniques and Sword Qi Clones to devastate the Blood Tribe army attacking the Thirty-First Fortress. Luo Shui killed the enemy Half-Step Dao Lord, and the fortress forces wiped out nearly the entire invading army.

• Chu Kuangren redirected the fortress forces' attacks through space, striking the distant Blood Tribe fleet and destroying warships and soldiers.
• The Blood Tribe commanders activated their warship barriers and used Heavenly Venerables' Minor Worlds to disrupt space, but Chu Kuangren adapted and resumed his attacks.
• A Blood Tribe Half-Step Dao Lord and its Heavenly Venerables advanced on the fortress, while Luo Shui intercepted the Half-Step Dao Lord's spear.
• The Thirty-First Fortress forces met the advancing Blood Tribe army, and Chu Kuangren sent tens of thousands of Sword Qi Clones across the battlefield.
• When the Blood Tribe troops tried to retreat, Chu Kuangren trapped them in his Minor World, and Luo Shui killed their Half-Step Dao Lord.
• The battle lasted a day, and the Thirty-First Fortress forces wiped out almost the entire Blood Tribe army.

After the first battle left the Thirty-First Fortress with exceptionally light casualties, the Blood Kings identified Chu Kuangren as a major threat and prepared a second attack with the Dao Weapon World-Sealing Seal. The second battle began with Chu Kuangren surrounded and his Space Transport Technique restricted.

• Luo Shui learned that the Thirty-First Fortress had lost only 167 warships and suffered over eight million soldiers killed or wounded, largely thanks to Chu Kuangren.
• Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable warned Luo Shui that the Blood Tribe would prepare for Chu Kuangren in its next attack.
• Ming King told the Blood Kings about Chu Kuangren, and White King ordered White Corpse to join the assault while Ming King arranged for Half-Step Dao Lords to carry the World-Sealing Seal.
• Several days later, the Blood Tribe launched a larger second attack, and Chu Kuangren faced White Corpse and three Half-Step Dao Lords while Luo Shui fought another Half-Step Dao Lord.
• A Blood Tribe Half-Step Dao Lord activated the World-Sealing Seal, trapping Chu Kuangren in a barrier that strengthened space and restricted his Space Transport Technique.

Chu Kuangren fought four Half-Step Dao Lords while trapped by the World-Sealing Seal, overwhelming them with his minor world, an ultimate mystery, and the Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation. He killed White Corpse in three punches, shattering the barrier and leaving the battlefield stunned.

• The World-Sealing Seal trapped Chu Kuangren, and four Half-Step Dao Lords surrounded him as the Blood Kings watched from afar.
• Chu Kuangren wounded one Half-Step Dao Lord with a single sword strike, then crushed the three opponents’ minor worlds with his own.
• Chu Kuangren used an ultimate mystery to absorb and rebound the four Half-Step Dao Lords’ attacks, then unleashed his Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation.
• Chu Kuangren’s manifestation killed three Half-Step Dao Lords with three punches.
• White Corpse attacked Chu Kuangren at close range, but Chu Kuangren killed him with three punches and shattered the World-Sealing Seal’s barrier.

Chu Kuangren defeated the Blood Tribe forces at the Thirty-First Fortress, seized the World-Sealing Seal, and was sent to reinforce the Thirty-Eighth Fortress. He arrived as Mo Ling Heavenly Venerable and the fortress defenders were on the verge of defeat.

• Chu Kuangren killed a Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerable, shattered the World-Sealing Seal’s barrier, and captured the Daoist Weapon as the Blood Tribe retreated.
• The Blood Tribe’s Ming King called for information about Chu Kuangren and discussed avoiding the Thirty-First Fortress while he guarded it.
• Luo Shui told Chu Kuangren that the Thirty-Eighth Fortress needed reinforcements, and he traveled there through the teleportation formation.
• At the Thirty-Eighth Fortress, Mo Ling Heavenly Venerable, Hu Fei, and other defenders struggled against a powerful Blood Beast Tribe Half-Step Dao Lord; Hu Fei was wounded, and the enemy severed three of Mo Ling’s heads.
• As the Blood Tribe Half-Step Dao Lord prepared to strike Mo Ling, a white jade sword swept in and cut down Blood Tribe members across its path.

Chu Kuangren arrived at the Thirty-Eighth Fortress, defeated the Blood Tribe forces, and became famous as a battlefield champion while roaming the fortresses as an Independent Soldier. Three months later, he was recovering aboard a warship as Luo Shui reported that the Blood Tribe’s offensives had weakened temporarily.

• Chu Kuangren struck down a Blood Beast Tribe Half-Step Dao Lord, then killed the Blood Tribe’s Heavenly Venerables and used Sword Qi Clone to help wipe out their troops.
• Chu Kuangren healed Heavenly Venerable Moling and countless soldiers, and Mingxin Emperor recognized him as the one who had learned Sword Qi Clone from him.
• Chu Kuangren traveled between fortresses as an Independent Soldier, fighting wherever battles were most desperate and earning titles such as Battlefield Master and White-Robed God of War.
• Three months later, Chu Kuangren absorbed spiritual qi aboard a warship at the Thirty-First Fortress while his growing Power of Faith aided his recovery.
• Luo Shui told Chu Kuangren that the Blood Tribe’s offensives had weakened, and nearby soldiers announced that the Battle Achievement Ranking had been updated.

Chu Kuangren topped the Battle Achievement Ranking with 1.3 billion battle merits, then learned the Blood Tribe was awaiting resources from the rear. Using intelligence from Yue Zhaowu, he intercepted and destroyed a Blood Tribe transport fleet, leaving him to pursue the remaining routes.

• Luo Shui and the soldiers saw that Chu Kuangren ranked first on the Battle Achievement Ranking with 1.3 billion battle merits, while Luo Shui ranked forty-first.
• The Blood Tribe slowed its offensive, and Chu Kuangren refined the World-Sealing Seal before contacting Yue Zhaowu for intelligence.
• Yue Zhaowu gave Chu Kuangren some of the Blood Tribe's resource transport routes, and Chu Kuangren told Luo Shui he would intercept the shipments using his Secret Realm to store them.
• Chu Kuangren used the Space Transport Technique to reach a Blood Tribe fleet, killed its cultivators, and collected its resources into his Secret Realm.

After the Blood Tribe lost fourteen resource shipments, Ming King ordered a plan to kill Chu Kuangren. Chu Kuangren left for the Sixty-Fourth Small Planet to rescue Yin Honghua, whose hiding place was discovered just as Blood Tribe reinforcements arrived.

• Ming King blamed a suspected traitor for the stolen shipments and ordered the Blood Tribe to begin its operation against Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Thirty-First Fortress, distributed the stolen resources, and learned that Yin Honghua was trapped on the Sixty-Fourth Small Planet.
• Chu Kuangren promised Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable that he would rescue Yin Honghua and set out alone.
• Yin Honghua led the wounded Red-Clad Guards through the woods, but they encountered Blood Tribe soldiers searching for them.
• Yin Honghua killed the soldiers with her Heavenly Venerable minor world, drawing dozens of Blood Tribe powerhouses who surrounded the Red-Clad Guards.

Yin Honghua used the Resentful Qi Crystal to defeat the Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerable who had struck her down, then fought the Blood-Robed Youth’s other subordinates. As the Blood-Robed Youth killed the Red-Clad Guards to torment her, an unknown figure intervened and shattered his attacks.

• The Blood-Robed Youth revealed that he had killed Yin Honghua’s parents, and one of his Heavenly Venerables defeated her first assault.
• Yin Honghua crushed her Resentful Qi Crystal, unleashed its accumulated resentful qi, and killed the Heavenly Venerable who fought her.
• Yin Honghua charged the Blood-Robed Youth, but several Heavenly Venerables joined forces to hold her back.
• The Blood-Robed Youth killed Red-Clad Guards with blood-colored energy while taunting Yin Honghua about her parents’ deaths.
• An unseen figure’s voice rang out, and an invisible force shattered the Blood-Robed Youth’s attacks as killing intent descended upon the Blood Tribe cultivators.

Chu Kuangren arrived at Asteroid 64, rescued Yin Honghua, and effortlessly defeated the Blood Tribe forces that had used her as bait. After sealing the planet inside a barrier, he faced the hidden trap waiting for him.

• Chu Kuangren arrived and used the World-Sealing Seal to prevent the blood-robed young man from escaping with his teleportation crystal.
• Chu Kuangren drew the resentful qi out of Yin Honghua and absorbed it without harm.
• Chu Kuangren bound the Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerables with World Lock and killed them with Sword Qi.
• Chu Kuangren tortured and killed the blood-robed young man, then sent Yin Honghua and the others into the Secret Realm.
• Dao Patterns formed a barrier around Asteroid 64, and Chu Kuangren challenged whoever had trapped him.

Chu Kuangren faced the Blood Tribe’s White King in a duel while Dao Lords clashed outside the Sixty-Fourth Small Planet. Their battle destroyed the planet, but the golden barrier kept them sealed inside to continue fighting.

• A dozen planets sent Dao Lords to aid Chu Kuangren, but the Blood Tribe’s eighteen Dao Lords arrived and blocked them outside the planet.
• Myriad Laws Dao Lord and Ming King began fighting, and the other Dao Lords joined them in an all-out battle across space.
• Chu Kuangren identified his opponent as White King Bai Juexin’s father and welcomed his first fight against a Dao Lord.
• The White King damaged Chu Kuangren’s Kunwu Sword with his Dao Weapon greataxe, so Chu Kuangren put the sword away and empowered himself with the Nine Dragons Divine Transformation.
• Chu Kuangren summoned his Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation and clashed with the White King, destroying the Sixty-Fourth Small Planet while the golden barrier kept them trapped inside.

Chu Kuangren fought the White King inside the golden barrier, and his rapidly healing body let him withstand the Dao Lord’s attacks and turn the battle against him. As the White King tried to seal him, a vast power erupted from Chu Kuangren.

• The White King’s axe shattered Chu Kuangren’s Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation and tore a deep wound in his body.
• Chu Kuangren’s wound healed instantly, revealing his undying body and astonishing the White King.
• Chu Kuangren fought the White King ferociously, recovering from every injury while leaving the White King with bloody wounds.
• Chu Kuangren explained that only blasting him into countless particles might kill him, while the White King threatened to seal him and take him away.
• The White King threw Dao Pattern chains toward Chu Kuangren, but an immense surge of power suddenly erupted from him.