Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren defeated Dai Tian in an artifact-refining contest and took the Imperial Artifact Seal. The Supreme Being Ranking appeared and several divine rankings changed, with Weapon Calamity rising to second on the Great Dao Ranking.

• Chu Kuangren finished a longsword before Dai Tian completed his saber, and both weapons were tested in a clash.
• Ou Yeruo wielded Chu Kuangren’s longsword and broke Dai Tian’s saber, revealing the sword to be a half-step chaos supreme treasure.
• Dai Tian accused Chu Kuangren of cheating, but Chu Kuangren threatened him into handing over the Imperial Artifact Seal and then left.
• The major forces doubted that Chu Kuangren had beaten the top-ranked Artifact Refiner as the Hongmeng Divine Ranking had never been wrong.
• The Supreme Being Ranking appeared with twenty-four Great Dao Supreme Beings, and the other rankings updated, placing Weapon Calamity second on the Great Dao Ranking and Dugu Bupo third on the Human Race Divine Son Ranking.
• People were shocked by unexpected changes to the Artifact Refining Ranking and Formation Ranking.

The Hongmeng Divine Ranking placed Chu Kuangren first in both artifact refining and formations, provoking the Formation King and drawing the World-Destroying Martial Master into a scheme against him. Chu Kuangren gained more fortune from the rankings and imagined one day raising the whole Pangu Universe to the Dao.

• Dai Tian saw Chu Kuangren take first place on the Artifact Refining Ranking and the Formation Ranking, realizing the rankings credited him with genuine skill.
• The Formation King resented being surpassed by Chu Kuangren, and the World-Destroying Martial Master proposed they join forces against him.
• The World-Destroying Martial Master hinted that Chu Kuangren had made many enemies, and the Formation King showed interest in hearing his plan.
• Chu Kuangren noticed his new rankings and received surges of fortune from both lists.
• Chu Kuangren reflected that his fortune could benefit the Pangu Sect and hoped that everyone in the Pangu Universe might one day attain the Dao.

Chu Kuangren discovered and killed Huang Weiwei, then learned the Dragon Blood Yellow Lineage planned to take the Dragon-Slaying Blade from him or the Dragon Hunters. He sold the blade to Wang Yi, setting the stage for the Yellow Lineage’s scheme.

• Chu Kuangren sensed Huang Weiwei following him, trapped her in a formation, and killed her after searching her memories.
• Chu Kuangren learned that the Dragon Blood Yellow Lineage wanted to seize the Dragon-Slaying Blade and told Lan Yu to notify him when the Dragon Hunters returned.
• Wang Yi visited Chu Kuangren again and offered additional resources for the Dragon-Slaying Blade.
• Chu Kuangren accepted Wang Yi’s payment and handed over the genuine Dragon-Slaying Blade.
• Wang Yi left with the blade, and Chu Kuangren said the show had begun after Lan Yu reported that the news had been sent out.

The Dragon-Blood Yellow Lineage ambushed Wang Yi and his companions to seize the Dragon-Slaying Blade, while the Dragon Hunter leader learned that Chu Kuangren had handed it over. Wang Yi escaped with secret help, but the Yellow Lineage kept the blade and remained unaware of who had intervened.

• The Dragon-Blood Yellow Lineage learned that the Dragon Hunters had obtained the Dragon-Slaying Blade and set out to intercept Wang Yi’s group.
• The Dragon Hunter leader confirmed the blade’s identity, ordered Wang Yi to bring it back, and said Chu Kuangren’s gift could not undo his earlier killings.
• The Dragon-Blood Yellow Lineage trapped Wang Yi and his companions, killed Lu Yun, and took the Dragon-Slaying Blade from Wang Yi.
• A mysterious figure attacked the Yellow Lineage and snatched the bronze case, but the old man knocked it loose and his men recovered it before the figure vanished.
• As Yellow Lineage cultivators pursued Wang Yi, an unseen force struck them back and helped him escape; the pursuers returned with the Dragon-Slaying Blade.

Chu Kuangren recovered the real Dragon-Slaying Blade and left the Yellow Lineage with a fake, causing the Dragon Hunters and Yellow Lineage to turn against each other. The Dragon Hunter leader attacked the Yellow Lineage, whose head prepared to confront him in dragon-scale Battle Armor.

• Weapon Calamity discussed Chu Kuangren’s scheme, then left as Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu departed with the real Dragon-Slaying Blade.
• Wang Yi returned to the Dragon Hunters wounded and reported that the Yellow Lineage had seized the blade.
• The Dragon Hunter leader led his army toward the Yellow Lineage to retrieve the blade and wipe out the scum of the Human Race.
• The Yellow Lineage Head opened the seized iron box and discovered it held a fake Dragon-Slaying Blade.
• The Dragon Hunter leader arrived with his army and challenged the Yellow Lineage, while the Yellow Lineage Head donned dragon-scale Battle Armor.

The Dragon Hunters and Yellow Lineage fought over the Dragon-Slaying Blade until they realized Chu Kuangren had deceived both sides with a counterfeit and stolen the real treasure. The World-Destroying Martial Master arrived and persuaded them to unite against Chu Kuangren by promising the Dragon-Slaying Blade to the Dragon Hunters and the Primordial Torch Dragon Power to the Yellow Lineage.

• The Dragon Hunters attacked the Yellow Lineage, and the two sides clashed in a fierce battle over the Dragon-Slaying Blade.
• The Dragon Hunter leader and Yellow Lineage head stopped the fighting when they suspected Chu Kuangren had taken the real blade.
• Wang Yi and the Yellow Lineage head reviewed what happened and concluded that Chu Kuangren had used a counterfeit to trick them into fighting.
• The Dragon Hunter leader stopped Wang Yi from seeking revenge and faced a renewed standoff with the Yellow Lineage.
• The World-Destroying Martial Master appeared and offered to mediate, proposing that the two sides kill Chu Kuangren and divide his treasures.
• The Yellow Lineage head agreed to the plan, and the World-Destroying Martial Master assured the Dragon Hunter leader that everything was under control.

Chu Kuangren studied the Imperial Artifact Seal and mastered the Heart of Myriad Artifacts while the Pangu Sect grew stronger as its members advanced to the Great Dao Realm. The Formation King prepared a formation to challenge Chu Kuangren, who remained focused on his cultivation in Ten Thousand Weapons City.

• Chu Kuangren learned that the World-Destroying Martial Master had approached the Dragon Hunter Lineage and the Dragon-Blood Yellow Lineage, and he wondered who else the man had recruited to oppose him.
• Lan Yu broke through to the Great Dao Realm, followed by Yin Honghua, whose new strength included powerful Dragon Clan secret techniques.
• Fuxi, Tongtian, Yuanshi, Yangmei, Zhenyuanzi, Ancestral Dragon Wasteland, and other Primordial Immortal Era figures advanced to the Great Dao Realm, strengthening the Pangu Sect.
• A Divine Medicine Ranking appeared, and the refreshed Great Dao Ranking showed many Pangu Universe cultivators, while Chu Kuangren remained first.
• The Formation King began constructing the Purple Luo Mist Barrier Formation and vowed to settle matters with Chu Kuangren once it was complete.
• Chu Kuangren mastered the Heart of Myriad Artifacts from the Imperial Artifact Seal with Xiao Ai's help, though he had not yet reached major accomplishment.

Chu Kuangren refined the Dragon-Slaying Blade, mastered the Heart of Myriad Artifacts and began comprehending the Domain of Infinity before accepting an invitation to the Human Race gathering at Jiufang Mountain. There, the Divine Sons and Goddesses had assembled, and Lu Wuhen and the famed Bright Moon Wuxia drew the crowd’s attention.

• Chu Kuangren used the Heart of Myriad Artifacts to refine the Dragon-Slaying Blade and comprehended the Void Heaven Seal’s Domain of Infinity.
• Chu Kuangren learned that Lan Yu, Yin Honghua, and others had reached the Great Dao Realm, and he recognized the Six Eyes power in Heavenly Maiden You.
• A Messenger Bird invited Chu Kuangren to the Human Race gathering at Jiufang Mountain, and Wa Huang asked to accompany him.
• Chu Kuangren and Wa Huang traveled to Jiufang Mountain while Lan Yu and Yin Honghua stayed behind to consolidate their cultivation.
• The gathered Human Race Divine Sons and Goddesses discussed Lu Wuhen and Bright Moon Wuxia, the top-ranked woman on the Goddess Ranking.

At Jiufang Mountain’s Human Race gathering, Bright Moon Wuxia watched the Divine Sons fight and wondered whether Chu Kuangren could match her. She anticipated his arrival, while Lu Wuhen grew jealous of her interest in him.

• Bright Moon Wuxia drew attention as the top-ranked Goddess and a Monarch seed, while the guardian deities discussed whether Humanity’s Nine Treasures might be gathered in this epoch.
• Liu Ruohuo challenged the gathered talents and defeated Leng Xiaotian before Ao Qingtian stepped forward to fight him.
• Bright Moon Wuxia judged the Divine Sons beneath her, though she took some interest in Wind and Moon Divine Son and Gu Chan.
• Bright Moon Wuxia asked Lu Wuhen whether Chu Kuangren would attend, and Lu Wuhen said he probably would.
• Bright Moon Wuxia looked forward to meeting Chu Kuangren, and Lu Wuhen grew resentful and jealous.

Lu Wuhen defeated Ao Qingtian and Liu Ruohuo by redirecting their attacks with the Celestial Person Sacred Land's Taiji techniques. When others questioned whether Chu Kuangren would appear, he arrived in dazzling fashion, and Bright Moon Wuxia was delighted to meet a worthy rival.

• Lu Wuhen stepped between Ao Qingtian and Liu Ruohuo and unraveled their Ultimate Moves with his Taiji technique.
• Lu Wuhen turned the Divine Sons' attacks back on them, forcing Ao Qingtian and Liu Ruohuo to concede.
• A Celestial Person Sacred Land cultivator suggested Lu Wuhen deserved the top spot on the Divine Son Ranking and speculated that Chu Kuangren was afraid to appear.
• Chu Kuangren arrived amid surging spiritual energy and immortal radiance, drawing the attention of everyone present.
• Bright Moon Wuxia fixed her gaze on Chu Kuangren and felt delighted to have found a worthy opponent.

Chu Kuangren arrived at the Divine Son gathering and provoked Lu Wuhen into a duel by claiming he would kill himself if Lu Wuhen forced him to retreat or use his other hand. Chu Kuangren overwhelmed Lu Wuhen with Sword Twenty-One, but Lu Wuhen rose again and unleashed his ultimate move.

• Chu Kuangren arrived, drew the attention of the gathered Divine Sons and Goddesses, and sent Wa Huang to meet the Guardian Gods above.
• Lu Wuhen grew jealous after seeing Bright Moon Wuxia gaze at Chu Kuangren, while Chu Kuangren noticed Lu Wuhen's hostility and mocked his denial.
• Chu Kuangren challenged Lu Wuhen to force him back or make him use his other hand, promising to slit his own throat if Lu Wuhen succeeded.
• Lu Wuhen attacked with Yin-Yang Power, but Chu Kuangren shattered the attack and stopped Lu Wuhen from returning his Sword Qi.
• Chu Kuangren used Sword Twenty-One to break Lu Wuhen's Celestial Person Taiji and send him flying.
• Lu Wuhen wiped blood from his mouth, released his full Great Dao Supreme Being power, and launched One Breath of Yin and Yang Shatters Heaven and Earth.

Chu Kuangren effortlessly endured Lu Wuhen’s strongest attack, then nearly killed him with Sword Twenty-Two before a Celestial Person Sacred Land Guardian God intervened. As Chu Kuangren prepared to finish Lu Wuhen with Sword Twenty-Three, Dugu Bupo appeared and challenged him, and their Sword Intents collided.

• Lu Wuhen attacked Chu Kuangren with Yin-Yang Power, but Chu Kuangren blocked it with one hand and remained unharmed.
• Chu Kuangren struck Lu Wuhen with Sword Twenty-Two, shattering his Taiji Diagram and gravely damaging his body and Great Dao.
• A Celestial Person Sacred Land Guardian God intervened to save Lu Wuhen, but Chu Kuangren prepared to strike again with Destroy Heaven and Earth Sword Twenty-Three.
• Dugu Bupo sent his own Sword Twenty-Three against Chu Kuangren’s attack, then introduced himself as the Sword Devil and challenged him.
• Chu Kuangren released his Sword Intent, overwhelming Dugu Bupo’s as Dugu Bupo rejoiced at finding a worthy opponent.

Chu Kuangren and Dugu Bupo fought with the Saint Spirit Sword Technique, destroying Jiufang Mountain and sending sword qi into the stars. Just as they prepared to clash with their ultimate moves, the Jiufang Spirit World opened beneath the mountain, interrupting their duel.

• Dugu Bupo attacked Chu Kuangren, and they countered each other with increasingly powerful moves from the Saint Spirit Sword Technique.
• Their Sword Twenty-Three attacks collided, destroying Jiufang Mountain and blasting a sword-qi tornado into the starry sky.
• Dugu Bupo summoned his Sword Dao Gods and Devils Dharma Form and prepared a colossal sword strike, while Chu Kuangren drew Kunwu.
• Jiufang Mountain split open and revealed the entrance to the Jiufang Spirit World, causing Dugu Bupo to rein in his sword qi and pause the duel.

Chu Kuangren and Wa Huang entered the Jiufang Spirit World and encountered native youths fighting Leng Xiaotian over a divine medicine. After Chu Kuangren scared Leng Xiaotian into fleeing, he learned the youths belonged to the Jiufang tribe, whose chief had predicted the outsiders’ arrival, and decided to seek the tribe out.

• Chu Kuangren learned from Xiao Ai that the Jiufang Spirit World had once been a human homeland and that the human ancestor was called Jiufang.
• Chu Kuangren and Wa Huang found Leng Xiaotian fighting native youths over a divine medicine.
• Chu Kuangren intervened to protect the youths, and Leng Xiaotian fled using a costly escape technique.
• Wa Huang spoke with the youths, who felt an affinity with her, while Chu Kuangren learned their chief was injured and had warned them about outsiders.
• The youths refused to take Chu Kuangren and Wa Huang to their tribe, but Chu Kuangren decided to find it anyway.

Chu Kuangren and Wa Huang found the Jiufang Tribe hidden behind a natural grand array, only to discover that the tribe’s chief was struggling to contain the Darkness of Doomsday. Elder Heimu broke free and attacked the tribe, but Chu Kuangren answered with a vast aura of light.

• Chu Kuangren and Wa Huang followed the youths into the mountains and found the Jiufang Tribe concealed by a natural grand array.
• The tribe’s Great Dao Supreme Sages confronted the outsiders, then recognized Wa Huang’s Creation Crystal as their sacred object.
• The Jiufang Tribe’s chief, Jiufang Yan, struggled to suppress the Darkness of Doomsday within him while Ah Shan and the other youths watched anxiously.
• Elder Heimu broke free from Jiufang Yan, seized him, and unleashed the Power of Darkness against the tribe.
• Chu Kuangren released a powerful aura of light that dissolved Heimu’s attack and approached along a radiant path.

Chu Kuangren defeated Old Man Blackwood and captured the Darkness of Doomsday, which merged with the darkness inside him. Chieftain Jiufang revealed that Blackwood had mentioned the Doomsday Cult, giving Chu Kuangren a possible lead on the darkness’s origins.

• Chu Kuangren arrived in the Jiufang Tribe and effortlessly broke Old Man Blackwood’s darkness attacks with his power of light.
• Chu Kuangren destroyed Old Man Blackwood with the Great Judgment of Light and trapped the Darkness of Doomsday as it tried to escape.
• The Darkness of Doomsday within Chu Kuangren swallowed the captured strand and grew stronger, while his power of light suppressed it.
• Chu Kuangren healed Chieftain Jiufang and asked him where Old Man Blackwood and the darkness had come from.
• Chieftain Jiufang said Blackwood had been an outsider seeking the tribe’s treasure and had mentioned an organization called the Doomsday Cult.

Chu Kuangren and Wa Huang learned that the Jiufang Tribe guarded the Tianli Sword, one of Humanity’s Nine Treasures, and that the sword could free them from their generations-long mission. Wa Huang could not approach it, so Chu Kuangren stepped forward to confront its Sword Intent.

• The Jiufang Clan Chief showed Chu Kuangren and Wa Huang murals about the Human Ancestor and explained the nine sacred relics and the first sword in the heavens.
• The Jiufang Clan Chief revealed that the Tianli Sword protected the Jiufang Tribe from epoch resets and that they had awaited a sacred-relic bearer to take it away.
• Wa Huang tried to approach the Tianli Sword with the Creation Crystal, but its Sword Intent overwhelmed her and forced her to retreat.
• Chu Kuangren walked toward the altar and met the Tianli Sword’s Sword Intent with his own.

Chu Kuangren merged Sword Twenty-Three and the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art to create Sword Twenty-Four, then used the Heart of Myriad Artifacts to try to tame the Tianli Sword. Outside the Jiufang Tribe, Leng Xiaotian, Liu Ruohuo, Ao Qingtian, the Wind and Moon Divine Son, and others gathered at its natural grand array as a new attacker arrived.

• Chu Kuangren drove Wa Huang and the Jiufang Clan Chief from the cavern while he continued his sword-intent contest with the Tianli Sword.
• Chu Kuangren merged the sword intents of Sword Twenty-Three and the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Art, creating Sword Twenty-Four and suppressing the Tianli Sword.
• Chu Kuangren used the Heart of Myriad Artifacts to resonate with the Tianli Sword and lessen its resistance.
• Leng Xiaotian, Liu Ruohuo, Ao Qingtian, the Wind and Moon Divine Son, and others gathered outside the Jiufang Tribe's natural grand array to seek its hidden opportunities.
• Earchu Elder studied the formation and said it might take a thousand years to break, before an unknown voice spoke and sword qi descended from the sky.

Dugu Bupo and the Wind and Moon Divine Son led the outsiders in destroying the Jiufang Tribe’s natural Grand Array and invading the tribe. After the Wind and Moon Divine Son slaughtered tens of thousands of tribespeople, Wa Huang confronted Earchu Elder and stood with the Jiufang chief.

• Dugu Bupo rejected Earchu Elder’s proposal to wait and urged the outsiders to break the array by force.
• Dugu Bupo, the Wind and Moon Divine Son, and the other Divine Sons and Goddesses attacked the Grand Array until it collapsed, killing a Jiufang Great Dao Supreme Sage who tried to stop them.
• Dugu Bupo and the outsiders entered the Jiufang Tribe, where they mocked its people as uncivilized natives.
• The Jiufang chief asked why they had intruded, and the Wind and Moon Divine Son struck the tribe, killing tens of thousands of people.
• Wa Huang condemned Earchu Elder for oppressing a Human Race tribe and moved to fight beside the Jiufang chief.

The Earchu Elder and the other factions attacked Wa Huang to seize the Creation Crystal, but Chu Kuangren arrived wielding the Tianli Sword and overwhelmed the Earchu Elder. The Wind and Moon Divine Son took Wa Huang hostage to demand the sword, but his water blades stopped just before striking her.

• The Earchu Elder attacked the Jiufang Clan Chief, and Wa Huang used the Creation Crystal to block him before Dugu Bupo shattered its barrier.
• Dugu Bupo, the Wind and Moon Divine Son, Ao Qingtian, Gu Chan, and others moved to seize the Creation Crystal, but Chu Kuangren arrived and drove back their attacks with his sword intent.
• The crowd recognized the Tianli Sword in Chu Kuangren's hand, and the Earchu Elder demanded that he surrender it along with the Creation Crystal.
• Chu Kuangren struck the Earchu Elder with Sword Twenty-two, tearing apart the Mountains and Rivers Treasure Seal and badly injuring him.
• The Wind and Moon Divine Son restrained Wa Huang with water and threatened to cut her apart unless Chu Kuangren handed over the Tianli Sword.
• When the Wind and Moon Divine Son sent the water blades toward Wa Huang, they stopped in midair under an invisible force.