Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren drove Yuan Wu Dao from the White Lotus Sect, killed King Yama, and refused to let the hook-nosed old man reclaim Saint Heifeng’s remains. Yuan Wu Dao left without the Hell Three-Headed Hound’s corpse and considered seeking demon qi at the Featherfolk’s sealed Demon Well, but feared Chu Kuangren would intervene.

• Chu Kuangren overwhelmed Yuan Wu Dao with Buddha Light and crushed King Yama into blood mist.
• Yuan Wu Dao conceded and left after Chu Kuangren asked whether he wanted to leave on his own or be shown out.
• Chu Kuangren told the hook-nosed old man that he had destroyed Saint Heifeng’s remains, and the old man backed down.
• Saint Qianyue explained that the Overseas Thirty-Six Islands offered sacrifices to the Snake God every ten years, prompting Chu Kuangren to consider meeting the deity someday.
• After leaving, Yuan Wu Dao considered seeking a corpse at the Featherfolk’s sealed Demon Well, then worried that Chu Kuangren’s Featherfolk companion could bring Chu Kuangren after him.

Chu Kuangren drew the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation and uncovered a Netherworld plot involving poison, the Featherfolk, and the Demon Well. The Netherworld’s kings attacked the Featherfolk’s seal but could not break it.

• Chu Kuangren drew the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation and decided to return to the Mystic Heaven Sect to arrange its installation.
• Elder Ruyan told Chu Kuangren that the Netherworld had ordered Zhao Tianlong to poison the sect and that it planned to attack the Featherfolk.
• Chu Kuangren deduced that the Netherworld wanted to draw him back while pursuing a plan connected to the Featherfolk’s Demon Well, and he instructed Elder Ruyan to play along.
• The Netherworld’s kings heard that Chu Kuangren had returned to the Mystic Heaven Sect and sent the King of the Turning Wheel, the King of the Five Officials, and King Chu Jiang to assist the Young Manor Lord.
• Three Netherworld kings and their Demonic Cultivators invaded the Featherfolk and attacked the runic restriction sealing the Demon Well, but the Bright Saint King’s seal withstood them.

Yuan Wu Dao opened the Featherfolk’s Demon Well to collect Demonic Beasts, then used their blood and his own to unlock the Thieving Demon Ancestor’s bronze door. As sealed demonic qi poured out, Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu had secretly followed him to the mountains.

• Yuan Wu Dao broke the restriction on the Featherfolk’s Demon Well, and he and the other Netherworld cultivators hunted the Demonic Beasts that emerged.
• Chu Kuangren destroyed the remaining Demonic Beasts with Buddha Light while Lan Yu repaired the Demon Well’s restriction with the Staff of Light.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu secretly followed Yuan Wu Dao and his group to a mountain range, where they found an eerie bronze door.
• Yuan Wu Dao ordered King of the Turning Wheel and the others to drain the collected Demonic Beasts’ blood onto the door, but it did not open.
• Yuan Wu Dao cut his wrist and fed his own demon blood to the bronze door, which opened and released sealed demonic qi.

Yuan Wu Dao and the other Demon Cultivators found the Thieving Demon Ancestor’s research, Hellfire, and a pool of Demon Liquid that Yuan Wu Dao hoped would help him reach the Saint realm. Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu appeared, revealed they had followed the group all along, and claimed the Demon Liquid, prompting the King of the Turning Wheel and the King of the Five Officials to attack.

• Yuan Wu Dao examined the Thieving Demon Ancestor’s notes and collected Demon Pills from the chamber.
• The group found Hellfire and a pool of Demon Liquid in the basement, and Yuan Wu Dao declared that absorbing it could let him reach the Saint realm.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu appeared behind the Demon Cultivators, and Chu Kuangren admitted he had followed them from the start.
• Chu Kuangren refused Yuan Wu Dao’s pleas and said he would take the Demon Liquid.
• The King of the Turning Wheel and the King of the Five Officials attacked Chu Kuangren in a desperate attempt to survive.

Chu Kuangren absorbed the demon liquid and Hellfire that flooded the Demon-Stealing Old Man's residence, revealing the power of his heaven and earth furnace body. He kept the energy stored within himself rather than refining it, intending to use it to condense his supreme saint foundation.

• Chu Kuangren casually struck King of the Turning Wheel and King of the Five Officials, sending them into the Hellfire and demon liquid, where they died.
• Yuan Wu Dao realized the demon liquid assimilated spiritual power into demonic qi as the pool swelled and flooded the basement, killing King Chu Jiang and the other demon cultivators.
• The Hellfire spread across the demon liquid, while Yuan Wu Dao saw an opportunity to absorb it and Chu Kuangren told Lan Yu to stay back.
• Chu Kuangren walked into the pool without defenses and used his heaven and earth furnace body to draw all the demon liquid and Hellfire into himself.
• Chu Kuangren explained that he had stored the absorbed energy to use later, and answered Yuan Wu Dao's shocked question with the Demon-Subduing Great Hand Seal.

Chu Kuangren defeated Yuan Wu Dao, who escaped with a Great Teleportation Talisman after losing an arm, and recovered a jade jue tied to a major opportunity. Back at the Mystic Heaven Sect, he rewarded Zhao Tianlong and set out to find materials for the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation as World Walkers began making new moves.

• Chu Kuangren overpowered Yuan Wu Dao in a clash of Emperor Techniques, and Yuan Wu Dao escaped by teleportation after Chu Kuangren severed his arm and took his Heaven and Earth Ring.
• Chu Kuangren and Lan Yu fled the collapsing Secret Realm, and Chu Kuangren retrieved a jade jue from Yuan Wu Dao's ring.
• Yuan Wu Dao vowed to recover the jade jue, which he said was a token connected to a greater opportunity sought by many World Walkers.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Mystic Heaven Sect, learned that the poisoning plot had caused no serious losses, and rewarded Zhao Tianlong with access to one of the sect's twelve Sage Laws.
• Chu Kuangren prepared to seek the two missing materials for the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation, while a World Walker claiming to come from the Nine Heavens challenged the others at Heavenly Universe Peak.

Chu Kuangren visited the Four Seas Merchant House to buy materials for the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation and learned he needed to seek Piaomiao Heaven’s World Walker for rare Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow. Tianjizi also identified Chu Kuangren’s jade token as one of eight keys to the Qian Emperor Palace and revealed that the Unknowable Places had erased records of Emperors to monopolize their legacies.

• Chu Kuangren asked the Four Seas Merchant House’s branch manager to contact chief manager Qian Fugui, who agreed to meet him the next day.
• Qian Fugui arrived with Tianjizi, who explained that he had met Qian Fugui while traveling and had been relying on him for food and lodging.
• Chu Kuangren ordered ten million catties of flowing cloud ore and a thousand catties of high-grade Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow, and Tianjizi directed him to find Piaomiao Heaven’s World Walker at Heavenly Universe Peak.
• Chu Kuangren entrusted the flowing cloud ore purchase to Qian Fugui and set out to seek the World Walker of Piaomiao Heaven.
• Tianjizi identified Chu Kuangren’s jade token as one of eight required to enter the Qian Emperor Palace and explained that the Unknowable Places had erased records of Emperors to claim their legacies.

Chu Kuangren mocked the Unknowable Places for hiding the Emperors’ legacies, then traveled to Heavenly Universe Peak, where Ling Xiao had gathered World Walkers for a contest. The assembled challengers were driven back when Chu Kuangren arrived and declared himself the greatest in the world.

• Chu Kuangren criticized the Unknowable Places for concealing Emperors’ histories, and Tianjizi encouraged him to defy them by becoming an Emperor.
• Chu Kuangren flew to Heavenly Universe Peak, where Ling Xiao had drawn Heavenly Prides and Saints to his arena.
• Li Fuping arrived to challenge Ling Xiao, who said he wanted more opponents before fighting.
• Feng Yaorao, Ye Xin, Guo Shan, Zhan Long, and Xue Zheng arrived, followed by Jin Bujue and a World Walker from the Death Sacred Hall.
• Ling Xiao called for the World Walkers to compete, but Chu Kuangren’s ancient sword landed among them and its sword qi forced them back.
• Chu Kuangren descended before the crowd and claimed that he, not anyone else, was the greatest in the world.

Chu Kuangren arrived at Heavenly Universe Peak and began fighting Jin Bujue, overpowering him with his techniques. He left the World Walkers furious when he said that fighting them one at a time would waste time and called for them all to attack together.

• Chu Kuangren arrived at Heavenly Universe Peak, where the World Walkers and spectators recognized him and Ling Xiao greeted him.
• Chu Kuangren spotted Xue Zheng of Piaomiao Heaven, whom he had come to find for the Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow.
• Jin Bujue challenged Chu Kuangren and attacked with golden Sword Qi, but Chu Kuangren's Human Mountain Power sent him flying without harming him.
• Jin Bujue struck again, and Chu Kuangren's Wrathful God Fist shattered his Sword Qi and sent him flying, making him spit blood.
• Jin Bujue prepared to use his family's Emperor Technique, but Chu Kuangren asked why the other World Walkers were waiting and said fighting them one at a time wasted time.
• Jin Bujue angrily objected to Chu Kuangren's plan to fight all the World Walkers at once.

Chu Kuangren overwhelmed Jin Bujue and challenged the World Walkers to attack him together, then held off their combined assault on Heavenly Universe Peak. As the battle continued, he faced Ling Xiao and Li Fuping while his sword qi clones fought four other World Walkers.

• Chu Kuangren blasted Jin Bujue with a powerful punch that sent him flying and left him grievously wounded.
• At Zhan Long's urging, Ling Xiao and the other World Walkers set aside their pride and attacked Chu Kuangren together.
• Chu Kuangren used Gods and Devils Eight Tones, Heaven and Earth Double Resonance and White Lotus Purification of the World Chapter to break their attacks, then sent sword qi clones to fight Zhan Long, Feng Yaorao, Ye Xin, and Guo Shan.
• Gui Wuchou demanded that Chu Kuangren return the Taotie Technique, but Chu Kuangren refused and dismissed the Death Sacred Hall's threat.
• Chu Kuangren clashed with Ling Xiao's spear using the Kunwu Sword, then cut through Li Fuping's sword light and counterattacked him.

Chu Kuangren fought the World Walkers on Heavenly Universe Peak as they unleashed their strongest techniques and surrounded him. With nine World Walkers closing in, he declared that he had not even exerted himself yet and released a power that shook them all.

• Li Fuping struggled to match Chu Kuangren’s sword strikes, while Chu Kuangren manifested the phenomena of his nine-orifice exquisite sword heart.
• Ling Xiao, Gui Wuchou, Li Fuping, and Xue Zheng activated their trump cards and attacked Chu Kuangren together.
• Chu Kuangren repelled Gui Wuchou’s Helpless Finger with his Heart-Severing Finger, then countered Xue Zheng’s hidden attack and damaged Li Fuping’s sword phenomenon.
• Gui Wuchou recovered through his Dao of Death, and Jin Bujue returned to the fight after using a medicinal pill.
• Zhan Long, Ye Xin, Guo Shan, and Feng Yaorao joined the others after defeating Chu Kuangren’s sword qi clones, bringing the number surrounding him to nine.
• Chu Kuangren said he had not yet exerted himself and released a tremendous power that changed the World Walkers’ expressions.

Chu Kuangren defeated all nine World Walkers at Heavenly Universe Peak, overwhelming them with his three supreme Dao bodies and the zither piece Heaven and Earth Double Resonance. As the spectators hailed him as the world’s foremost Heavenly Pride, an unknown challenger appeared, declaring that his Xuanhuang Heavenly Venerable Body would contest Chu Kuangren’s claim.

• Chu Kuangren activated his three supreme Dao bodies and sent Zhan Long flying with a single punch.
• The eight remaining World Walkers attacked together, but Chu Kuangren’s Heavenly Baleful Manifestation blocked their combined techniques while he remained unharmed.
• Chu Kuangren played Heaven and Earth Double Resonance, shattering the World Walkers’ apparitions and defeating them all.
• The spectators celebrated Chu Kuangren as the greatest Heavenly Pride, while the defeated World Walkers stared at him in disbelief.
• A distant challenger formed a Heavenly Venerable manifestation, claimed to possess the Xuanhuang Heavenly Venerable Body, and punched toward Chu Kuangren.

Xiao Lintian, the Xuanhuang Divine Palace’s acquired Xuanhuang Heavenly Venerable Body holder, challenged Chu Kuangren after Chu defeated other World Walkers. Chu shattered Xiao Lintian’s Heavenly Venerable Dharma Form with one zither note, leaving Xiao utterly routed.

• Xiao Lintian appeared and declared that Chu Kuangren would have to defeat him to claim supremacy.
• Xue Zheng explained that the Xuanhuang Divine Palace had spent tens of thousands of years creating the Xuanhuang Heavenly Venerable Body after birth.
• Xiao Lintian called the other World Walkers small fry and offered Chu Kuangren time to recover, but Chu refused and mocked him.
• Xiao Lintian and Chu Kuangren traded punches, then Xiao summoned the Heavenly Venerable Dharma Form and attacked with the Golden Light Divine Fist.
• Chu Kuangren played Great Sound Has No Sound on the Lingering Echo Guqin, breaking Xiao Lintian’s attack and Dharma Form and sending him flying.
• Xiao Lintian lay defeated and could not believe that his Xuanhuang Heavenly Venerable Body had suffered an utter rout.

Chu Kuangren defeated Xiao Lintian and destroyed the Spirit Thought avatar of Changguang Saint King after the latter threatened the Mystic Heaven Sect. He sent a warning to the Xuanhuang Divine Palace, while Changguang Saint King suffered an injury from the avatar’s destruction.

• Chu Kuangren defeated Xiao Lintian in one move, and Xiao Lintian’s confidence and Dao Heart faltered.
• Changguang Saint King’s Spirit Thought emerged from Xiao Lintian and helped him steady his Dao Heart before threatening to destroy the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed his full strength and annihilated Changguang Saint King’s Spirit Thought with a sword strike that shattered more than a dozen mountain peaks.
• Chu Kuangren warned Xiao Lintian to tell the Xuanhuang Divine Palace that he would destroy it if it attacked the Mystic Heaven Sect, invoking the fate of Deep Sea Guixu.
• Changguang Saint King felt the avatar’s destruction, spat blood, and vowed that Chu Kuangren deserved to die.

After learning that the Headless Woman had devastated Guixu, Saint King Changguang hesitated to retaliate against Chu Kuangren but still plotted to kill him. Chu Kuangren then asked Xue Zheng to guide him to Piaomiao Heaven so he could trade for Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow, leaving with a defiant warning about the Xuanhuang Divine Palace.

• An ancestor warned Saint King Changguang that the Headless Woman had killed four of Guixu’s Seven Ruin Lords and advised him not to provoke Chu Kuangren rashly.
• Saint King Changguang ordered the Third Elder to find records about the Headless Woman, then resolved to seek a way to kill Chu Kuangren.
• After dominating the World Walkers’ arena matches, Chu Kuangren asked the defeated Xue Zheng to take him to Piaomiao Heaven.
• Xue Zheng suspected Chu Kuangren meant to attack Piaomiao Heaven, but Chu Kuangren explained that he only wanted Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow for a formation.
• Xue Zheng obtained permission from Piaomiao Heaven’s Sect Leader and led Chu Kuangren there.
• When Xue Zheng asked whether Chu Kuangren feared the Xuanhuang Divine Palace’s retaliation, Chu Kuangren coldly asked whether they would dare.

Chu Kuangren visited Piaomiao Heaven with Xue Zheng, concealing how precarious his conflict with the Unknowable Places remained. After arriving at the secret realm and drawing attention from its disciples, he met Sect Leader Yuntao Daoist.

• Chu Kuangren reflected that his threat against the Xuanhuang Divine Palace was a gamble backed by his connection to the Headless Woman, and resolved to press forward despite the danger.
• Xue Zheng used a jade token to open a passage into the hidden Piaomiao Heaven and brought Chu Kuangren inside.
• Caiyun and other Piaomiao Heaven disciples greeted Chu Kuangren and admired his looks, while Xue Zheng grew jealous of the attention.
• Xue Zheng escorted Chu Kuangren to the main palace, where Yuntao Daoist and other elders received him.

Chu Kuangren negotiated with Yuntao Daoist for Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow, but Piaomiao Heaven had nearly run out of its refined stock. Yuntao Daoist offered him several thousand jin of raw stones from a jade marrow vein instead, and Chu Kuangren found the deal appealing.

• Chu Kuangren asserted that he and Yuntao Daoist were equals as leaders of Daoist Traditions, and Yuntao Daoist rebuked an elder who objected.
• Chu Kuangren offered two hundred million high-grade spirit stones for a thousand jin of high-grade Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow, but Yuntao Daoist first demanded his Emperor Technique and then raised the price to one billion jin of spirit stones.
• Chu Kuangren accepted the billion-spirit-stone price because he needed the marrow for the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation.
• A Piaomiao Heaven disciple reported that less than a hundred jin of high-grade Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow remained, and Chu Kuangren confronted Yuntao Daoist with a threatening Sword Dao Rhythm.
• Yuntao Daoist offered Chu Kuangren several thousand jin of raw stones from Piaomiao Heaven's jade marrow vein, letting him keep whatever Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow he found inside.

Chu Kuangren went with Yuntao Daoist to collect rough stones from Piaomiao Heaven’s mineral vein as compensation for a shortage of Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow. Using the Treasure-Seeking Art, he uncovered extraordinary quantities of peerless jade marrow and heavenly crystal source, leaving Yuntao Daoist regretting the deal.

• At Piaomiao Heaven’s mineral vein, Chu Kuangren recognized the Third Governor of First City, who had joined Piaomiao Heaven as its Twelfth Elder.
• Yuntao Daoist offered Chu Kuangren ten thousand catties of rough stones in place of a thousand catties of high-grade Heavenly Crystal Jade Marrow.
• Chu Kuangren used the Treasure-Seeking Art, chose stones from inside the vein and the stored pile, and agreed to have them cut on the spot.
• The first stones yielded peerless heavenly crystal jade marrow, and dozens more produced the same rare treasure.
• A multicolored beam revealed heavenly crystal source, and the remaining stones yielded more of it.
• After the cutting ended, Chu Kuangren had gained a thousand catties of heavenly crystal source and four thousand catties of peerless jade marrow, while Yuntao Daoist’s heart bled over the loss.

Chu Kuangren left Piaomiao Heaven with the Heavenly Crystal Source and supreme-grade jade marrow he had won, then learned the flowing cloud ore for his formation was on its way. A Yellow Springs Manor elder offered compensation to settle a dispute, but Chu Kuangren refused and vowed to kill Yuan Wu Dao for poisoning his sect.

• Piaomiao Heaven's elders tried to stop Chu Kuangren from leaving with the Heavenly Crystal Source, but Yuntao Daoist honored their agreement and let him go.
• Chu Kuangren departed Piaomiao Heaven after telling Caiyun he might visit again, alarming Xue Zheng.
• Back at the Mystic Heaven Sect, Chu Kuangren learned that Qian Fugui had prepared the flowing cloud ore needed for the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation.
• Saint Hei Liu of Yellow Springs Manor offered Chu Kuangren a billion catties of high-grade spirit stones to resolve the conflict involving Wu Dao.
• Chu Kuangren rejected the offer and declared that Yuan Wu Dao's life was his because the Netherworld had secretly poisoned the Mystic Heaven Sect.

Chu Kuangren refused Saint Hei Liu’s demand for Yuan Wu Dao’s Heaven and Earth Ring and learned that his flowing cloud ore shipment had been plundered overseas. He tracked the ore to Black Wind Island and gathered power above it, as its cultivators looked up in alarm.

• Chu Kuangren rejected Saint Hei Liu’s offer of a billion catties of spirit stones, kept the Heavenly Jade Jue, and warned Yellow Springs Manor not to challenge him.
• Elder Ruyan pledged that the Mystic Heaven Sect would stand with Chu Kuangren, and he reassured her before receiving Boss Qian’s report that the flowing cloud ore convoy had been plundered.
• On Black Wind Island, Lu Jia and his men divided the stolen ore and prepared more than ten thousand captives for a sacrifice to the Snake God.
• Chu Kuangren followed the ore’s treasure fluctuations to the island and unleashed a powerful aura above it, startling its cultivators.