Chapter Summaries

The World-Destroying Martial Master returned with the God of Slaughter's Inheritance and joined the Black Dragon King, Dragon Hunter Chief, and Formation King in attacking Chu Kuangren. Outnumbered and driven back, Chu Kuangren revealed the World-Destroying Martial Master's seized Monarch Heart as the four prepared to finish him.

• The World-Destroying Martial Master appeared with greatly increased power, and Chu Kuangren recognized the God of Slaughter's Inheritance within him.
• Chu Kuangren and the World-Destroying Martial Master clashed with their blades and Ultimate Moves, shaking the Purple Luo Mist Barrier Formation.
• The Black Dragon King reattached his severed arm, and he, the Dragon Hunter Chief, and the Formation King joined the World-Destroying Martial Master in attacking Chu Kuangren.
• The four Monarchs overwhelmed Chu Kuangren and blasted him through mountain peaks while the World-Destroying Martial Master threatened to target King Lan next.
• Chu Kuangren asked whether the Monarchs involved in the operation were all present, then revealed the World-Destroying Martial Master's seized Monarch Heart.

Chu Kuangren crushed the Monarch Heart and drew power from the Marshland Battle Map Grand Array, reaching the Monarch level as he fought the four Monarchs attacking the Beacon Domain. The battle left the attackers injured and the barrier shattered, while Monarchs across the Hongmeng World witnessed Chu Kuangren’s power and realized he had become a Monarch.

• Chu Kuangren crushed the Monarch Heart, then used the Marshland Battle Map Grand Array’s accumulated slaughter aura to raise his strength to the Monarch level.
• The World-Destroying Martial Master attacked Chu Kuangren, but Chu Kuangren froze and shattered his strike with a gesture.
• The World-Destroying Martial Master, the Formation King, the Black Dragon King, and the Dragon Hunter Chief joined forces against Chu Kuangren, who countered them with Sword Twenty-Four.
• The clash shattered the Purple Luo Mist Barrier Formation and sent Monarch power across the Hongmeng World, revealing that four Monarchs had attacked the Beacon Domain and Pangu Sect.
• The Goddess of Light prepared to go to the Beacon Domain, then saw that Chu Kuangren had injured his attackers and stood amid the battlefield with Monarch-level power.

Chu Kuangren used his borrowed Monarch-level power to overwhelm four Monarchs in the Beacon Domain and trap them so they could not escape. He cleaved the Black Dragon King in two and devoured his Great Dao Law Power, while the remaining Monarchs faced him inside his prison.

• The Ancestral Dragon King and Heavenly God Clan Leader watched Chu Kuangren overpower the four Monarchs, and the Heavenly God Clan Leader resolved to summon his clan’s Monarch Seeds to the Great World of Hongmeng.
• Chu Kuangren struck the Black Dragon King with the Dragon-Slaying Blade, leaving him on the brink of death, then blasted back the World-Destroying Martial Master.
• The Formation King and Dragon Hunter Chief attacked together, but Chu Kuangren blocked their strikes with the Domain of Infinity’s Spatial Barrier.
• The World-Destroying Martial Master, Formation King, and Dragon Hunter Chief considered retreating, but Chu Kuangren combined the Domain of Infinity with the Time-Space Treasure Mirror to trap them.
• Chu Kuangren cleaved the Black Dragon King in two and used the Heaven-Devouring Art to devour his Great Dao Law Power, shocking the watching Monarchs and terrifying his opponents.

Chu Kuangren fought the World-Destroying Martial Master while Ming Fei arrived to punish the allied forces and pursue the fleeing Formation King and Dragon Hunter Chief. The Goddess of Light confronted the two Monarchs, and as the Dragon Hunter Chief attacked her, a mysterious voice emerged from a black vortex.

• Chu Kuangren disrupted the World-Destroying Martial Master's attempt to break the Domain of Infinity and wounded him, but the World-Destroying Martial Master devoured his followers' power to strengthen himself.
• The Formation King and Dragon Hunter Chief fled as the allied forces scattered, but Ming Fei arrived with the Paladins and led the slaughter of their forces alongside the Pangu Sect.
• Chu Kuangren's control of space trapped the Formation King and Dragon Hunter Chief within the Beacon Domain, while the Goddess of Light appeared before them.
• The Dragon Hunter Chief crushed and absorbed a dragon heart to heal himself, then attacked the Goddess of Light despite her condemnation of his actions.
• A black vortex appeared as the Dragon Hunter Chief attacked, and a bright, enchanting voice called out that two Monarchs were bullying a delicate little sister.

The Demon King joined the Goddess of Light while Chu Kuangren fought the World-Destroying Martial Master. Chu Kuangren detonated the Cosmic Sky Pearl to defeat him, then killed the Formation King and Dragon Hunter Chief, leaving all four Monarchs who had targeted the Pangu Sect dead.

• The Demon King emerged from a black vortex, wounded the Dragon Hunter Chief, and joined the Goddess of Light against him and the Formation King.
• Chu Kuangren threw the Cosmic Sky Pearl at the World-Destroying Martial Master and detonated it, grievously injuring him.
• Chu Kuangren absorbed the World-Destroying Martial Master's leaking Law Power, killed him with the Dragon-Slaying Blade, and claimed his Slayer God Ring.
• Chu Kuangren appeared before the Formation King and Dragon Hunter Chief and struck them with the Dragon-Slaying Blade.
• Chu Kuangren killed the Formation King and Dragon Hunter Chief, ending the lives of all four Monarchs who had come to attack the Pangu Sect.

After slaying four Monarchs, Chu Kuangren returned to the Great Dao Supreme God Realm and learned that ancient forces still planned to contend for the era’s fortune. The Demon King left him with cryptic warnings about the Darkness of Doomsday and a future alliance, while the battle against the remaining allied armies continued at the Pangu Sect.

• After the Marshland Battle Map Grand Array dissipated, Chu Kuangren’s cultivation fell back to the Great Dao Supreme God Realm, and Xiao Ai reminded him that his Monarch power had come from an external source.
• Cultivators and Monarchs across the Great World of Hongmeng witnessed Chu Kuangren’s feat, though ancient Monarchs insisted that the era’s supremacy remained undecided until someone became a Monarch and gained the blessing of fortune.
• Chu Kuangren thanked the Goddess of Light and the Demon King for their help, then told the Goddess of Light about the Doomsday Cult; she promised to investigate it and left Ming Fei with him.
• The Demon King claimed she had seen something far more terrifying than the Darkness of Doomsday and teased the Goddess of Light by offering to preserve the Ming Clan if she called her big sister.
• The Demon King called Chu Kuangren her future closest comrade-in-arms, touched his brow, and departed through a black vortex, leaving him to wonder about a coming war.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Pangu Sect, where its forces and the Paladins were still fighting the allied armies; he prepared to deal with the remaining enemies himself.

Chu Kuangren returned to the battlefield and helped the Pangu Sect annihilate the allied forces, then celebrated the victory by drinking Dream of Yellow Millet with Ming Fei and Wine Venerable. He woke after two years to learn the sect had suffered almost no casualties, Ming Fei had left, and Wine Venerable planned to stay.

• Chu Kuangren used the Domain of Infinity to restrain the allied forces, allowing Lan Yu, Yin Honghua, and the others to rout them.
• Heavenly Shadow thanked Chu Kuangren for his strength and explained that the Demon King had nurtured him; Chu Kuangren also greeted Ming Fei, who had advanced to Supreme Being.
• Chu Kuangren, Ming Fei, and Wine Venerable drank Dream of Yellow Millet until all three were drunk, and Lan Yu carried Chu Kuangren away.
• Lan Yu told Chu Kuangren that he had slept for two years and that the Pangu Sect had finished sorting the spoils with almost no casualties.
• Chu Kuangren learned that Ming Fei had left and Wine Venerable wanted to stay in the Pangu Sect long-term.

After defeating four Monarchs, Chu Kuangren entered seclusion while the Pangu Sect grew in influence and attracted millions of applicants. In Ten Thousand Weapons City, Yu Ling and Gu Linglong sought to join the sect, and a fortune-teller revealed that Gu Linglong had an extraordinary Fate Chart and would be regarded as a Noble Benefactor.

• Chu Kuangren refined the World-Destroying Martial Master's Monarch Heart fragments and hoped to advance his cultivation during seclusion.
• Nearly a hundred years passed as the Pangu Sect developed, and news of Chu Kuangren killing four Monarchs drew countless people hoping to join.
• Yu Ling and Gu Linglong arrived in Ten Thousand Weapons City to take the Pangu Sect's assessment, and Yu Ling promised to help Gu Linglong join if she passed.
• Yu Ling paid a fortune-teller to divine her prospects, and he predicted a few twists and turns before she passed with help from a Noble Benefactor.
• The fortune-teller struggled to divine Gu Linglong's extraordinary Fate Chart and offered to read both women's fortunes for free, but Yu Ling saw through his attempt to form a karmic bond and returned the crystals.

Gu Linglong reunited with her acquaintances at the Pangu Sect while Yu Ling passed the entrance examination on her own merits. After Li Jun settled Yu Ling into her new residence, hostile cultivators arrived and demanded that she surrender it.

• The Fortune-Telling Master suspected that Gu Linglong's exalted Fate Chart had been elevated by a powerful unknown existence.
• Gu Linglong accompanied Yu Ling to the Pangu Sect examination and signaled Lan Yu not to greet her in front of the applicants.
• Gu Linglong reunited with Lan Yu and the others while Yu Ling took the examination, declined Yin Honghua's offer to admit Yu Ling directly, and learned that Chu Kuangren was in seclusion.
• Yu Ling passed the examination, and Li Jun personally escorted her to her residence after explaining that Gu Linglong had stepped away.
• Several hostile cultivators confronted Yu Ling outside her residence the next day and demanded that she hand it over.

Gu Linglong confronted misconduct in the Pangu Sect after seeing Yu Ling bullied, then called a council meeting to demand that the sect halt its expansion. She exposed wrongdoing by several elders and left the gathered cultivators facing the evidence against them.

• Gu Linglong found disciples trying to drive Yu Ling from her residence, and Lan Yu forced them to leave after learning they served Rain Daoist.
• Gu Linglong warned Lan Yu that the Pangu Sect’s rapid growth had brought in corrupt people, and Yu Ling learned that Gu Linglong was the sect master’s wife.
• A month later, Gu Linglong sat in Chu Kuangren’s seat of honor at a council meeting, and Lan Yu announced her identity to the assembled elders.
• Gu Linglong called for the Pangu Sect to halt its expansion and accused Rain Daoist, Six-Artifact Heavenly Lord, Hundred-Eyed Demon Daoist, and others of misconduct.
• Gu Linglong handed Li Jun and the other elders Jade Slips documenting the sect’s failings, leaving the accused elders visibly shaken.

Gu Linglong reformed the Pangu Sect while Chu Kuangren broke through to Great Dao Supreme Being and took first place on the Supreme Being Ranking. The chapter ended with Luohou realizing Chu Kuangren had not truly lost the top spot on the Great Dao Ranking, and rival Monarchs worrying about his growing power.

• Gu Linglong halted the Pangu Sect's expansion and introduced regulations, a Discipline Hall, and a system for allocating resources and nurturing elite disciples.
• The Fortune-Telling Master noticed the Pangu Sect had changed after Gu Linglong arrived and saw a Divine Flame Ranking appear.
• Luohou took first place on the Great Dao Ranking, replacing Chu Kuangren, who disappeared from that ranking entirely.
• The Fortune-Telling Master explained that Chu Kuangren had left the ranking because he had broken through to Great Dao Supreme Being.
• Chu Kuangren's Supreme Being aura erupted from the Pangu Sect, revealing him as the first-ranked cultivator on the Supreme Being Ranking.
• Luohou realized Chu Kuangren had merely moved on to a higher ranking, while Monarchs from rival forces worried about his rise.

After breaking through to Supreme Being, Chu Kuangren reunited with Gu Linglong and corrected the Pangu Sect’s leadership before exploring the Slayer God Ring. He ended the chapter by drawing the Eternal-tier Creation Pool from the Fantasy Roulette.

• Chu Kuangren reached Supreme Being, examined the rapidly growing Pangu Sect, and found Gu Linglong managing its affairs.
• Chu Kuangren and Gu Linglong spent thirty-three days together behind sealed restrictions, breaking their previous record.
• Chu Kuangren reunited with Lan Yu, Yin Honghua, Chu Hong, and Yu Ling, then reprimanded Li Jun and the others for letting the Pangu Sect grow recklessly.
• Chu Kuangren asked Fuxi, Wa Huang, and the other experienced leaders to manage the sect when he was absent.
• Chu Kuangren discovered the Slayer God Ring contained the God of Slaughter’s inheritance and had once served as a token of authority.
• Chu Kuangren used the Fantasy Roulette and drew the Eternal-tier Creation Pool.

Chu Kuangren discovered that the Creation Pool could transform cultivation aptitude and harmonize the many powers in his Unique Origin Body. After Gu Linglong’s aptitude surged through its baptism, he began preparing to use the pool to strengthen trusted Pangu Sect members while keeping it secret.

• Chu Kuangren entered the Creation Pool, found a wall of light formed from origin power, and sublimated his Unique Origin Body until its various powers reached balance.
• Chu Kuangren brought Gu Linglong to the Creation Pool, where she absorbed its creation power and reached the ninth profound realm of Primordial Chaos.
• Chu Kuangren saw that the Creation Pool had consumed much of its power and fed it Great Dao Sources to replenish it.
• Chu Kuangren decided to bring Lan Yu and other trusted people to the pool while keeping its existence secret from the wider Great World of Hongmeng.

The Creation Pool’s baptism rapidly strengthened the Pangu Sect’s members, while Gu Linglong rose to third on the Goddess Ranking. As the Humanistic Ancestral Land neared its opening, powerful figures from several factions prepared to enter, including Chu Kuangren’s rivals and Gu Chan, who received one of Humanity’s Nine Treasures.

• Lan Yu, Yin Honghua, Chu Hong, and the others underwent the Creation Pool’s baptism, improving their aptitudes and rapidly advancing their cultivation.
• Gu Linglong appeared at third on the Goddess Ranking despite being in the Primordial Chaos Realm, and Chu Kuangren sensed that the Humanistic Ancestral Land was about to open.
• The Sword God Palace Master warned Dugu Bupo not to confront Chu Kuangren before condensing his Sword Dao laws, while Dugu Bupo said his Sword Twenty-Four had taken shape.
• After recovering, Lu Wuhen saw Chu Kuangren at the top of the Supreme Being Ranking and asked Bright Moon Wuxia about him; she said she looked forward to meeting him.
• A great Buddha bestowed the Purple Gold Alms Bowl on Gu Chan for his journey to the Humanistic Ancestral Land.

Dao Lingtian emerged from seclusion and became hostile toward Chu Kuangren after seeing him ranked above him. Meanwhile, the Son of the Void awakened, and a group of powerful beings revealed a plan to use Humanity’s Nine Treasures to attack the Human Race.

• Dao Lingtian emerged from seclusion after refining the Purple Rosy Cloud Divine Armor and vowed to claim the top spot in the Humanistic Ancestral Land.
• Dao Lingtian saw Chu Kuangren ranked first on both the Human Race Divine Son Ranking and the Supreme Being Ranking, then sought information about him and developed hostility and battle intent.
• Void Clan cultivators found the Son of the Void’s cocoon in the Intercosmic Void and awakened him with a treasure orb.
• The Son of the Void learned that the Void Clan did not know the Great World of Hongmeng’s current situation, then returned there with them.
• Powerful figures gathered on a divine mountain and planned to obtain the Human Ancestor’s blood, using the Cursed Blood Art to cripple the Human Race.
• The conspirators revealed that they held three of Humanity’s Nine Treasures and believed the remaining treasures would gather in the Humanistic Ancestral Land this epoch.

The Humanistic Ancestral Land opened, drawing human prodigies and rival races who planned to hunt them inside. Chu Kuangren arrived with his companions, but the sacred lands he had angered appeared poised to bar his entry.

• The Humanistic Ancestral Land opened, and Monarchs used Humanity's Nine Treasures and spatial techniques to send Monarch Seeds from other races inside.
• Wine Venerable warned Chu Kuangren that the Celestial Person Sacred Land and Ten Thousand Laws Dao Sect might oppose his entry, but Chu Kuangren set out with Yin Honghua, Ye Zhu, Wa Huang, and other human prodigies.
• Dugu Bupo, Dao Lingtian, and Bright Moon Wuxia entered the Ancestral Land as onlookers and Monarchs discussed their strength.
• Chu Kuangren arrived at the Divine Mountain, and the gathered factions recalled his clashes with several sacred lands and questioned whether he could enter despite their opposition.

Chu Kuangren arrived at the Humanistic Ancestral Land, where the Sword God Palace Master tried to bar him from entering and several Monarchs challenged the intervention of the Goddess of Light and the Demon King. King Lan appeared atop the Five-Colored Divine Mountain, startling the assembled Monarchs.

• Chu Kuangren dispersed Heavenly Wind Sword Venerable’s attack and severed one of his arms with a sword strike.
• The Sword God Palace Master stopped Chu Kuangren from killing Heavenly Wind Sword Venerable and declared that Chu Kuangren and the Pangu Sect could not enter the Ancestral Land.
• Wine Venerable joined Chu Kuangren and dissolved the Sword God Palace Master’s Sword Intent with wine fumes.
• The Goddess of Light and the Demon King arrived to support Chu Kuangren, while the masters of the Ten Thousand Laws Dao Sect and Celestial Person Sacred Land argued that outsiders had no say in Human affairs.
• King Lan appeared atop the Five-Colored Divine Mountain, and her arrival made the Monarchs tremble with fear.

King Lan arrived at the Humanistic Ancestral Land and forced the Monarchs to let Chu Kuangren enter, then struck at the Celestial Person Sacred Land and Ten Thousand Laws Dao Sect to punish their earlier obstruction. The Celestial Person Holy Lord survived her wind-and-thunder attack with severe injuries, while her strike toward the Ten Thousand Laws Dao Sect remained unresolved.

• King Lan appeared at the Humanistic Ancestral Land and demanded to know why the Monarchs claimed it as their territory.
• King Lan repelled the Sword God Palace Master's Sword Twenty-Three with a casual strike, injuring him.
• The masters of the Ten Thousand Laws Sacred Land and Celestial Person Sacred Land agreed to let Chu Kuangren enter.
• King Lan declared that the obstruction would cost them one palm strike and sent Wind and Thunder Shakes the Heavenly Pass toward the Celestial Person Sacred Land.
• King Lan sent Yin and Yang Shakes the Universe toward the Ten Thousand Laws Dao Sect.
• The Celestial Person Holy Lord used Taiji Defense to withstand King Lan's attack but suffered major injuries.

King Lan severely injured the Celestial Person Holy Lord and the Wanfa Sect Master before publicly kneeling to Chu Kuangren and declaring her loyalty to him. Inside the Humanistic Ancestral Land, Chu Kuangren recognized an ancient statue as resembling the figure who had appeared during his Primordial Chaos Tribulation.

• King Lan struck the Celestial Person Holy Lord and the Wanfa Sect Master from afar, severely injuring both and damaging their sacred lands.
• King Lan descended before Chu Kuangren, knelt in front of the gathered cultivators, and declared that anyone who opposed him would have to fight her.
• Chu Kuangren led Ye Zhu and the others into the Humanistic Ancestral Land while King Lan thanked Wine Venerable for supporting her master.
• Chu Kuangren and his companions explored traces of human civilization and found a tribal settlement with an altar and an enormous statue.
• Chu Kuangren recognized the statue as resembling the purple figure who had appeared during his Hongmeng Primordial Chaos Tribulation and asked Xiao Ai to record everything they encountered.

Chu Kuangren encountered Luohou, Zhunti, and Jieyin in the Humanistic Ancestral Land and recruited the two monks to cooperate with him. After learning that Gu Chan was heading to Thunder Drum Divine Peak, Chu Kuangren set out to investigate the opportunity there.

• Chu Kuangren arrived at a battle between Luohou and Zhunti and Jieyin; Luohou fled, while Chu Kuangren restrained the two monks.
• Zhunti explained that they entered the Humanistic Ancestral Land inside Gu Chan’s Purple Gold Alms Bowl and gave Chu Kuangren the Divine Medicine they had fought over.
• Chu Kuangren offered to help Zhunti and Jieyin establish themselves in the Heavenly Buddha Pure Land in exchange for their cooperation, and they accepted.
• Zhunti told Chu Kuangren that Gu Chan and the others were heading to Thunder Drum Divine Peak to seek a major opportunity.
• Gu Chan struck the drum atop Thunder Drum Divine Peak, causing the Great Hero Hall to appear, and he and the other Buddhist Cultivators entered it.