Chapter Summaries

The Goddess of Light confronted the World-Destroying Martial Master and demanded that he stop targeting Chu Kuangren, but the Formation King joined the dispute because he wanted King Lan’s Inheritance. They agreed to spare Chu Kuangren if he ranked in the top ten of any Hongmeng Divine Ranking list, leaving the Martial Master convinced Chu Kuangren would fail.

• The Goddess of Light warned the World-Destroying Martial Master to stop targeting Chu Kuangren, but he refused and demanded the Right Heavenly King of Light as compensation.
• The Goddess of Light rejected his demand and threatened war rather than surrender Ming Fei.
• The Formation King appeared and revealed that he wanted King Lan’s Inheritance, which Chu Kuangren possessed.
• The Formation King proposed that he and the World-Destroying Martial Master stop targeting Chu Kuangren if he placed in the top ten of any Hongmeng Divine Ranking list, and the Goddess of Light accepted.
• The World-Destroying Martial Master doubted Chu Kuangren could rank in the top ten and vowed to get him.

Ou Chen sabotaged Ou Yeruo’s nearly completed Hongmeng Supreme Treasure by detonating a Suppressing Pillar of Fire and destroying Ten Thousand Weapons City’s earth veins. The city was engulfed in beacon flames, Ou Yeruo’s forging failed at the final step, and Chu Kuangren’s unfinished weapon remained suspended in the air.

• Ou Yeruo brought his ancient jade-white sword close to completion, but the Suppressing Pillar of Fire restrained Beacon Fire Mountain’s flames.
• Ming Fei struck the pillar with the Great Dao of Light, cracking it and injuring Ou Chen, who controlled it from afar.
• Ou Chen made the Suppressing Pillar of Fire self-destruct, damaging the earth veins and unleashing beacon flames across Ten Thousand Weapons City.
• Many Artifact Refiners were burned to ashes as the city became a fiery purgatory, while Ou Chen gloated over the destruction.
• Ou Yeruo watched the flames fade and realized he could no longer complete the Hongmeng Supreme Treasure, then vowed to kill Ou Chen.

After Ou Chen destroyed the earth vein and halted the tempering of the Hongmeng Supreme Treasure, Chu Kuangren decided to finish it with heavenly thunder. He summoned a nine-colored primordial chaos tribulation and used its lightning to temper the sword, but the third bolt formed a dangerous multicolored spear.

• Ou Chen's destruction of the earth vein ended the flames of war and left the Hongmeng Supreme Treasure unfinished, angering the Artifact Refiners.
• Chu Kuangren recalled the Heavenly Thunder Artifact Tempering Technique and chose to use heavenly thunder to salvage the treasure.
• Chu Kuangren summoned a nine-colored primordial chaos tribulation, stunning Ming Fei and the onlookers.
• Chu Kuangren endured the first two lightning bolts and channeled them into the sword, bringing the Hongmeng Supreme Treasure to ninety-seven percent completion.
• The tribulation condensed its third bolt into a multicolored spear, and Chu Kuangren sensed its immense danger.

Chu Kuangren completed the Hongmeng Supreme Treasure by using his body to channel the primordial chaos tribulation, then turned the remaining lightning toward his own cultivation. As he absorbed King Lan’s body-tempering treasures and tribulation power, onlookers realized he had inherited King Lan’s techniques.

• Chu Kuangren endured the third heavenly thunder and completed the Hongmeng Supreme Treasure, while Xiao Ai announced its completion rate had reached one hundred percent.
• Chu Kuangren called forth Kunwu, whose sword body shattered so its spirit could enter and merge with the new treasure.
• Chu Kuangren faced the fourth, fifth, and sixth heavenly thunders with his primordial chaos power, shattering the fifth and sixth bolts.
• Chu Kuangren deliberately let tribulation lightning into his body and absorbed the body-tempering treasures King Lan had given him to advance his primordial chaos nine tribulations body.
• Chu Kuangren endured the seventh tribulation lightning as it helped his body absorb the treasures, prompting ancient beings to recognize King Lan’s inheritance.

Chu Kuangren survived the nine-colored primordial chaos tribulation and completed the ninth tribulation of his Primordial Chaos Nine Tribulations Body. The tribulation did not end, however, as a second primordial chaos tribulation gathered overhead.

• Chu Kuangren used the nine-colored tribulation lightning to refine the treasures within his body and advance through the tribulations of his Primordial Chaos Nine Tribulations Body.
• Ming Fei and the onlookers witnessed the final multicolored thunder dragon descend, and Chu Kuangren absorbed and refined its lightning energy.
• Chu Kuangren completed the ninth tribulation and reached major accomplishment in the Primordial Chaos Nine Tribulations Body, astonishing the spectators and ancient beings.
• The Formation King identified King Lan's Inheritance within Chu Kuangren as the key to countering King Lan's cultivation technique.
• King Lan praised Chu Kuangren's breakthrough, then realized his tribulation had not ended; Ming Fei and others also sensed a second primordial chaos tribulation.

After surviving the nine-colored primordial chaos tribulation, Chu Kuangren learned that eight tribulations accumulated by his rapidly advancing primordial chaos nine tribulations body had combined with it to form the rare Hongmeng primordial chaos tribulation. He fought through its first eight bolts, leaving the final bolt still to come.

• A purple Hongmeng primordial chaos tribulation appeared after Chu Kuangren survived the nine-colored tribulation, shocking the observers and ancient Kings.
• Chu Kuangren realized that eight accumulated tribulations from his body's breakthroughs had stacked with the nine-colored tribulation to create the Hongmeng primordial chaos tribulation.
• Chu Kuangren endured the first four bolts with his physical body, then used Blood Qi Divine Aura to counter the fifth and sixth.
• Chu Kuangren used Three Thousand Great Worlds to withstand the seventh bolt, suffering injuries from the collision.
• Chu Kuangren combined demonic power and primordial chaos power to meet the eighth bolt, whose impact shattered buildings throughout Ten Thousand Weapons City.

Chu Kuangren faced the final strike of the Hongmeng Primordial Chaos Tribulation while badly injured and drew on his first self-created sword technique. He cleaved apart the purple giant and the tribulation, leaving the sky clear.

• Chu Kuangren survived the eighth Heavenly Thunder but remained gravely injured as observers doubted he could withstand the last strike.
• The final Heavenly Thunder formed into a purple giant whose contemptuous gaze stirred an unknown anger in Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren summoned the newly transformed Kunwu Sword and prepared to face the purple giant.
• Chu Kuangren recalled his first sword technique, the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art, and condensed the Three Thousand Daos into one sword strike.
• Chu Kuangren's sword strike split the sea of lightning and destroyed the purple giant and the Hongmeng Primordial Chaos Tribulation.

Chu Kuangren survived the Hongmeng Primordial Chaos Tribulation, gaining breakthroughs in his cultivation, body, and soul. Afterward, he asked Ou Yeruo to take control of Ten Thousand Weapons City for him, while Ming Fei departed after saying the World-Destroying Martial Association would leave him alone for now.

• Chu Kuangren destroyed the Hongmeng Primordial Chaos Tribulation with one strike and absorbed the Great World of Hongmeng’s spiritual energy.
• The spiritual energy raised Chu Kuangren’s cultivation to the ninth profound realm of Primordial Chaos, pushed his body beyond the ninth tribulation, and advanced his soul to transcendence.
• Chu Kuangren gave the remaining Hongmeng Spiritual Energy to the Kunwu Sword, which absorbed it and gained a faint purple tint.
• Chu Kuangren returned to Beacon Fire Mountain, where Ou Yeruo refused his payment and explained that Ou Chen had fled Ten Thousand Weapons City.
• Chu Kuangren asked Ou Yeruo to control Ten Thousand Weapons City for him, and Ou Yeruo accepted and addressed him as Master.
• Ming Fei told Chu Kuangren that the World-Destroying Martial Association would not trouble him for now, then left on her white Heavenly Horse.

Ming Fei rescued Lan Yu from her pursuers and took her as a disciple, while Chu Kuangren struggled to reproduce the profound Heaven-Slaying sword strike he had unleashed during his tribulation. After learning that Ou Chen had fled to a World-Destroying Martial Association branch, Chu Kuangren used the Time-Space Treasure Mirror to pursue him, and Ou Yeruo recognized the mirror as a Hongmeng Supreme Treasure.

• Ming Fei wondered whether Chu Kuangren might become the Goddess of Light's enemy, then spotted Lan Yu being hunted and killed her pursuers.
• Ming Fei admired Lan Yu's fighting spirit, offered to take her as a disciple, and learned her name.
• Chu Kuangren practiced after his breakthrough but found that he could not yet reproduce the Hongmeng-grade Heaven-Slaying sword strike.
• Ou Yeruo told Chu Kuangren that Ten Thousand Weapons City was recovering and that Ou Chen had taken refuge at a World-Destroying Martial Association branch.
• Chu Kuangren used the Time-Space Treasure Mirror to travel to the branch, and Ou Yeruo recognized it as a Hongmeng Supreme Treasure.

Chu Kuangren caught up with Ou Chen and the World-Destroying Martial Association members as they tried to teleport away, then destroyed their formation and attacked the branch. He sealed the area and fought Phoenix Kill, overwhelming him despite only having broken through to the Primordial Chaos Realm.

• Ou Chen and Phoenix Kill prepared to leave Beacon Domain through the World-Destroying Martial Association's Teleportation Formation, but Chu Kuangren arrived as it activated.
• Chu Kuangren used the Time-Space Treasure Mirror to destabilize and destroy the Teleportation Formation, injuring Phoenix Kill, Ou Chen, and the others.
• Chu Kuangren struck the branch cultivators with spacetime energy, killing most of them and leaving Young Master Yuan gravely wounded.
• Chu Kuangren attacked Ou Chen, but Phoenix Kill intercepted the blow and told the others to escape while he held Chu Kuangren back.
• Chu Kuangren sealed the area with spacetime power and Sixty-Four Light Prison, then clashed with Phoenix Kill and sent him flying.

Chu Kuangren used Kunwu and his blood qi to overwhelm the World-Destroying Martial Association’s fighters and seize the Cosmic Sky Pearl. He killed Bear Kill and defeated Phoenix Kill, who fell after unleashing his final attack.

• Chu Kuangren countered Phoenix Kill’s attacks with blood qi as their clash devastated the association’s branch, while Bear Kill joined the fight and Tiger Kill remained too injured to intervene.
• Ou Chen unleashed the Cosmic Sky Pearl, but Chu Kuangren blocked its strike and shattered the universe it formed with Kunwu, causing Ou Chen to suffer backlash.
• Chu Kuangren destroyed the Divine Phoenix and Giant Bear manifestations, then killed Bear Kill by shattering his Great Dao.
• Chu Kuangren broke Phoenix Kill’s spear with Kunwu and took control of the Cosmic Sky Pearl from Ou Chen.
• Phoenix Kill transformed into a Divine Phoenix for a final attack, but Chu Kuangren countered with Three Thousand Light Worlds and Phoenix Kill fell.

Chu Kuangren killed Phoenix Kill, Elder Yun, Bear Kill, Young Master Yuan, and Ou Chen after storming a branch of the World-Destroying Martial Association. The Goddess of Light stopped the World-Destroying Martial Master from retaliating, and Chu Kuangren later learned about the Hongmeng Divine Ranking and the Association’s search for the God of Slaughter.

• Chu Kuangren killed Phoenix Kill, Elder Yun, Bear Kill, Young Master Yuan, and Ou Chen with his Sword Qi and Kunwu.
• The World-Destroying Martial Master's will descended, but the Goddess of Light intervened and invoked their wager to prevent him from attacking Chu Kuangren.
• The Goddess of Light told Chu Kuangren that the Divine Ranking would soon appear, then her will vanished.
• Chu Kuangren searched the branch, took its documents, and read that the Hongmeng Divine Ranking appeared after each reset and granted fortune to those ranked on it.
• Chu Kuangren found that the World-Destroying Martial Association was searching for the ancient God of Slaughter, then decided to refine the Spatial Heaven Pearl.

After refining the Cosmic Sky Pearl, Chu Kuangren discovered a dangerous grotto-heaven beneath Beacon Fire Mountain and found a figure with a terrifying slaughter aura seated on a throne of skulls. Shenchu broke through to the Great Dao Realm, and the chapter ended as the Hongmeng Divine Ranking began to appear.

• Chu Kuangren finished refining the Cosmic Sky Pearl, giving him three Hongmeng Supreme Treasures.
• Ou Yeruo led Chu Kuangren to a pitch-black grotto-heaven beneath Beacon Fire Mountain, where earlier investigators had disappeared.
• Chu Kuangren sent a clone inside and saw the corpses of Ten Thousand Weapons City Artifact Refiners and a blurred figure seated on a skull throne; the figure's murderous intent destroyed his clone.
• Chu Kuangren ordered Ou Yeruo to seal the grotto-heaven and secretly forge components for the Marshland Battle Map Grand Array.
• Shenchu broke through to the Great Dao Realm, and Chu Kuangren released her from his personal universe and explained her circumstances.
• Vast purple radiance filled the sky as ancient beings announced that the Hongmeng Divine Ranking was about to appear.

The Hongmeng Divine Ranking revealed its Primordial Chaos Ranking, naming the strongest Primordial Chaos cultivators and granting listed cultivators fortune. As familiar figures from the Pangu Universe appeared, Chu Kuangren wondered why Li Jun had not yet been named as the ranking reached its top ten.

• The Hongmeng Divine Ranking appeared and announced that its Primordial Chaos Ranking would list one thousand cultivators by combat strength, while the Goddess of Light and Ming Fei watched.
• Yao Tian and other ranked cultivators received blessings of fortune, with higher-ranking names bringing greater fortune.
• Lan Yu appeared at rank 666 from the Pangu Universe, and Ming Fei told her she had received a fortune blessing.
• Chu Kuangren saw Papiyas, Zhunti, Jieyin, Queen Mother of the West, Luohou, Tongtian, and Yuanshi among the ranked Pangu Universe figures.
• As the ranking reached its top ten, Chu Kuangren considered whether Li Jun had perished, reached the Great Dao Realm, or ranked among the top ten.

As the Primordial Chaos Ranking revealed its top ten, Shi Long, Ancestral Dragon Chengtao, and Heavenly God Zang were shocked to find themselves lower than expected. The ranking reached second place with Heavenly God Zang, leaving the identity of the first-ranked cultivator unrevealed.

• Shi Long learned he ranked tenth and wondered who had surpassed him, while the Goddess of Light celebrated Chu Kuangren's likely place in the top ten and the World-Destroying Martial Master regretted losing their wager.
• Heavenly God Zang and Ancestral Dragon Chengtao each declared their intention to claim first place after suppressing their cultivation for years.
• The ranking revealed Mo Liu in ninth, Lie Feng in eighth, Dugu Bubai in seventh, Yangmei in sixth, and Bi Gu in fifth.
• Ancestral Dragon Chengtao appeared in fourth place and reacted with disbelief and anger at missing first place.
• Weapon Calamity of the Pangu Universe took third place, surprising cultivators and drawing interest in that universe.
• Heavenly God Zang appeared in second place and wondered who had taken first.

The Primordial Chaos Ranking revealed Chu Kuangren of the Pangu Universe in first place, drawing astonished and hostile reactions across Hongmeng. As his allies resolved to grow stronger and his rivals took notice, Weapon Calamity confronted Luohou but failed to catch him when he escaped.

• The Primordial Chaos Ranking named Chu Kuangren of the Pangu Universe as its first-place cultivator, shocking observers throughout Hongmeng.
• The World-Destroying Martial Master raged at Chu Kuangren’s ranking, while the Formation King accepted it and the Goddess of Light celebrated her wager’s victory.
• Lan Yu and Yuzhi resolved to work harder, while Heavenly God Zang and Ancestral Dragon Cheng Tao vowed to remember Chu Kuangren and challenge him in the future.
• Zhunti and Jieyin marveled at Chu Kuangren’s rise and wondered whether Taiqing had attained the Great Dao; the Queen Mother of the West warned that the Pangu Universe’s high rankings might attract attention.
• Weapon Calamity found Luohou and attacked him, but Luohou used a supreme treasure to escape, leaving Weapon Calamity unable to catch him.

After Chu Kuangren claimed first place on the Primordial Chaos Ranking, he received a great blessing of fortune and drew attention to the Pangu Universe. The chapter ended as Liu Feng, ranked eleventh, arrived at Ten Thousand Weapons City to challenge him.

• Chu Kuangren took first place on the Primordial Chaos Ranking and received a vast blessing of fortune.
• Chu Kuangren asked Ou Yeruo about his prospects on the Artifact Refining Ranking, and Ou Yeruo said he expected to place in the top ten.
• Factions across the Great World of Hongmeng investigated the Pangu Universe, but most dismissed it as weak; the Goddess of Light argued that its reincarnated cultivators had exceptional potential.
• Liu Feng appeared above Ten Thousand Weapons City and announced that he had come to seek guidance from Chu Kuangren.
• Ou Yeruo and the other Artifact Refiners watched as gathered cultivators anticipated seeing the ranking's top fighter tested.

Liu Feng challenged Chu Kuangren in Ten Thousand Weapons City, but Chu killed him with a single sword strike without appearing. When Liu Feng’s guardian tried to flee, Chu crushed him with the Cosmic Sky Pearl, leaving the city’s witnesses stunned by his strength and treasure.

• Liu Feng arrived in Ten Thousand Weapons City and demanded to meet Chu Kuangren, while Ou Yeruo told him to present a formal visiting card.
• Liu Feng ignored Ou Yeruo and searched for Chu Kuangren with his Immortal Consciousness, then attacked the restricted area he believed was Chu’s cultivation site.
• Chu Kuangren’s sword strike cut through Liu Feng’s Sword Qi and killed him instantly without Chu appearing.
• Liu Feng’s guardian, a Great Dao Supreme Sage, attacked Chu’s sword shadow but was forced back and tried to escape.
• Chu Kuangren summoned the Cosmic Sky Pearl and crushed Liu Feng’s guardian, shocking the cultivators gathered in the city.

Chu Kuangren mastered the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art and returned to the Light God Temple, where he fought Ming Fei to test his strength. He landed a thrust, but her Great Dao of Light protected her from injury.

• Chu Kuangren's display of strength caused the Primordial Chaos Realm experts gathered outside Ten Thousand Weapons City to abandon their plans to test him and depart.
• After years of cultivation, Chu Kuangren comprehended the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art, condensing the Three Thousand Daos Laws into a single sword edge.
• Chu Kuangren entrusted Ten Thousand Weapons City to Ou Yeruo and returned to the Light God Temple, where he learned the Left Heavenly King of Light was going to exterminate the heretics who escaped from Blackfire City.
• The Goddess of Light praised Chu Kuangren for ranking first on the Primordial Chaos Ranking, and Ming Fei challenged him to a duel.
• Chu Kuangren fought Ming Fei with Kunwu and landed a thrust, but her Great Dao of Light formed close-fitting armor that prevented her from being injured.

Chu Kuangren learned that Ming Fei had taken Lan Yu as her disciple and went to Yinfeng Domain to find her, still suspecting Ming Fei might be using her to control him. He arrived in Northern Heaven City as Nine Yin attacked Lan Yu, and a vast Light Aura slammed the serpent into the ground.

• Chu Kuangren and Ming Fei ended their sparring match, and Ming Fei revealed that Lan Yu was her disciple and had gone to Yinfeng Domain.
• Chu Kuangren left for Yinfeng Domain, warning himself that he would treat Ming Fei as an enemy if she had taken Lan Yu to restrain him.
• Church cultivators learned that Nine Yin was attacking Northern Heaven City, where Lan Yu and Archbishop Li were fighting to protect the civilians.
• Chu Kuangren appeared at the Yinfeng Domain church as the Son of Light and immediately headed for Northern Heaven City.
• Lan Yu lured Nine Yin away from the city, but his Nine Yin Heavenly Serpent Roar struck her armor as he pursued her.
• A vast Light Aura descended and pressed Nine Yin flat against the ground.