Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren battled six Saint Kings with two Emperor Weapons, shrugging off their attacks and breaking their Mystic Yellow One Qi Formation. After shattering the four Mystic Yellow Steles and replenishing his Spiritual Power, he challenged his enemies to use whatever moves they had left.

• Chu Kuangren detected and blocked Yuntao Daoist’s invisible attacks, then broke apart the Death Hall Master’s Death Qi Sinking and Floating Pool with his Killing Intent.
• Chu Kuangren revealed that the Yin-Yang Soul Pill had strengthened his soul power, allowing him to wield two Emperor Weapons for longer than before.
• Changguang Saint King used four Mystic Yellow Steles to trap Chu Kuangren while the other Saint Kings attacked him; Chu Kuangren’s Undying Body healed the damage he sustained.
• Chu Kuangren activated his Heavenly Baleful Manifestation and the Nine Deaths Blood-Burning Art, overwhelming the formation and cracking the steles despite the four Great Saints’ efforts to sustain them.
• Chu Kuangren shattered the Mystic Yellow Steles, killing three of the Great Saints and leaving the fourth near death, then used the Taotie Technique to replenish his Spiritual Power and dared the Saint Kings to attack again.

Chu Kuangren faced two Quasi-Emperors who joined the siege and repeatedly destroyed his body, only for his Undying Body to restore him. The Quasi-Emperors decided to take him apart and divide him between them, while Chu Kuangren smiled and looked up at the sky.

• Chu Kuangren prepared to attack the six Saint Kings, but sensed two powerful auras approaching from different directions.
• Changguang Saint King and the Great Ruins Master of Guixu welcomed their forefathers, Quasi-Emperors Changguang and Haiyue.
• Quasi-Emperor Changguang struck Chu Kuangren with a palm, gravely injuring him, but Chu Kuangren's Undying Body restored him.
• Quasi-Emperor Haiyue trapped Chu Kuangren in a crushing sphere of water, and Chu Kuangren broke free using the Sea God Trident.
• The two Quasi-Emperors repeatedly attacked Chu Kuangren and watched him recover, then agreed to take half his body each.
• Bloodied but smiling, Chu Kuangren looked up at the sky as the Quasi-Emperors prepared to divide him.

Chu Kuangren revealed that his true trump card was the Nine-Colored Heavenly Tribulation he had concealed with the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation. He had drawn more than a hundred thousand attackers, including Quasi-Emperors, into the tribulation and vowed none would leave alive.

• Chu Kuangren laughed at the attackers and declared that they stood at death’s door despite their Quasi-Emperors and his apparent helplessness.
• Quasi-Emperor Changguang struck Chu Kuangren, but his body healed as he challenged the cultivators to guess his real trump card.
• Chu Kuangren pointed his Sea God Trident at the sky, revealing a vast Nine-Colored Heavenly Tribulation that engulfed the surrounding thousand li.
• Quasi-Emperor Changguang realized the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation had concealed the tribulation until the attackers were all recognized as participants.
• The cultivators discovered that more than a hundred thousand people had been dragged into Chu Kuangren’s tribulation, and he invited them to face its deadly power.

Chu Kuangren summoned a Nine-Colored Heavenly Tribulation against the allied army, whose first two waves devastated the attackers. He discovered that his Heaven and Earth Furnace Body could convert tribulation lightning into stored energy, but Quasi-Emperor Changguang attacked him as the second wave ended.

• Changguang Saint King urged the allied army to kill Chu Kuangren before the Heavenly Tribulation began, and the army charged while Chu Kuangren's Heavenly Baleful Manifestation blocked their attacks.
• The Nine-Colored Heavenly Tribulation descended, and its first wave killed ninety percent of the army while Mystic Heaven Sect's cultivators watched from the Mirage Tower.
• Chu Kuangren shattered his first bolt of tribulation lightning and realized its energy stirred a reaction in his Heaven and Earth Furnace Body.
• The second wave killed more cultivators, and Chu Kuangren deliberately endured his stronger bolt, converting the lightning into pure energy stored in his Furnace Body.
• Quasi-Emperor Changguang launched a tremendous palm strike at Chu Kuangren.

Chu Kuangren endured increasingly powerful waves of Heavenly Tribulation while Quasi-Emperors Changguang and Haiyue shielded the gathered cultivators. The Seventh Wave killed nearly everyone present, but Chu Kuangren survived and the story left only seven others alive alongside the two Quasi-Emperors.

• After Chu Kuangren warned that the Third Heavenly Tribulation was approaching, Quasi-Emperor Changguang agreed to shelter the Saints behind him.
• Quasi-Emperor Changguang shielded the Saints from the Third Wave, while Chu Kuangren endured it directly and stored its energy with his Heaven and Earth Furnace Body.
• As the Fourth and Fifth Waves intensified, Quasi-Emperor Changguang and Quasi-Emperor Haiyue joined forces to block the lightning aimed at the gathered cultivators.
• A multicolored lightning python struck Chu Kuangren with the Sixth Wave and drove him deep underground, but the arrival of the Seventh Wave revealed that he was still alive.
• The Seventh Wave's lightning pythons killed most of those present; Changguang Saint King, Yuntao Daoist, the Yellow Springs Manor Lord, the Death Hall Master, and the Great Ruins Master survived alongside the two Quasi-Emperors.

Chu Kuangren survived the seventh bolt of his enormous Nine-Colored Heavenly Tribulation, while its eighth bolt killed the remaining Saint Kings and gravely wounded two Quasi-Emperors. As the Quasi-Emperors attacked him, Chu Kuangren used the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation to repel them, but his Heavenly Baleful Manifestation shattered when it met the eighth bolt.

• Chu Kuangren absorbed the seventh tribulation lightning bolt after drawing on the surrounding corpses and using the Heaven and Earth Furnace Body.
• Seven multicolored Thunder Dragons killed Changguang Saint King, the Yellow Springs Manor Lord, and the other Saint Kings, while the two Quasi-Emperors survived but were badly wounded.
• A huge lightning sphere formed as Chu Kuangren's eighth tribulation bolt, and Quasi-Emperor Changguang and Quasi-Emperor Haiyue attacked him, hoping to prevent it from becoming their ninth bolt.
• Chu Kuangren summoned the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation's Cloud Dragon, which shattered Changguang's palm attack and blasted both Quasi-Emperors backward.
• Chu Kuangren used the Heavenly Baleful Manifestation to strike the lightning sphere, but the manifestation broke apart as the bolt crashed down.

Chu Kuangren endured the ninth tribulation bolt by refining the energy he had stored and forcing a breakthrough to Sainthood, forming a ninth-grade supreme saint foundation. His emergence shook Firmament Star, the Nine Heavens, and the Hell Demon Realm, while their powerful beings searched in vain for him.

• Chu Kuangren survived the eighth tribulation bolt as his Heaven and Earth Furnace Body absorbed lightning and his undying body repaired his injuries.
• The ninth tribulation bolts killed Quasi-Emperor Changguang and Quasi-Emperor Haiyue, leaving Chu Kuangren alone beneath the tribulation cloud.
• Chu Kuangren endured the prolonged ninth bolt, then converted his stored energy and absorbed the essence of corpses to force his cultivation toward Sainthood.
• A nine-petaled heart lotus formed in Chu Kuangren's Spirit Ruins, creating a ninth-grade supreme saint foundation as purple qi spread across Firmament Star.
• The purple-qi phenomenon also appeared in the Nine Heavens and the Hell Demon Realm, whose powerful beings searched for the newly emerged Supreme Saint.

Chu Kuangren survived the ninth bolt of Heavenly Tribulation and became a Supreme Saint, but the heavens answered with a Heavenly Punishment Seal that stripped him of his cultivation. As the world believed he could no longer compete, other Heavenly Prides began to rise.

• Chu Kuangren endured the ninth tribulation lightning bolt as his cultivation and undying body advanced, completing his breakthrough to Supreme Saint.
• The tribulation clouds remained after the nine bolts, and mighty beings recognized that Heavenly Punishment had descended upon Chu Kuangren.
• Multicolored chains bound Chu Kuangren and sealed his Spiritual Power and Spirit Thought, trapping his foundations and unfinished heart lotus.
• The tribulation clouds dispersed, and the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation kept others from attacking Chu Kuangren, whom they believed could never break the seal.
• News of Chu Kuangren’s battle and sealing spread across Firmament Star, and Heavenly Prides who had once been overshadowed began displaying their prowess.

After the battle, Chu Kuangren was left bound by the Heavenly Punishment Seal, unable to use his Spiritual Power, and ordered the Mystic Heaven Sect to withdraw behind its formation. He discovered that comprehending the seal could gradually speed its refinement, while the sect gathered enormous spoils to support its future.

• The Cloud Sea Wonder Formation hid the Mystic Heaven Sect, and people outside lamented that Chu Kuangren's era had ended.
• Chu Kuangren ordered Elder Ruyan to keep the formation running, withdraw the sect from the world, and collect the battlefield spoils.
• Chu Kuangren found that the Heavenly Punishment Seal had sealed his powers and body, but his Heaven and Earth Furnace Body could still refine it.
• Chu Kuangren spent a day comprehending the seal and found that understanding its Daoist Rhyme slightly accelerated its refinement.
• Elder Ruyan reported that the Mystic Heaven Sect had recovered vast stores of spirit stones, pills, artifacts, and damaged Immortal Boats.

Chu Kuangren ordered the Mystic Heaven Sect to spend its resources rapidly on cultivating disciples while he studied the Heavenly Punishment Seal in seclusion. As the Great Age of Strife unfolded without him, Xiao Jingchen and other Heavenly Prides from the Nine Heavens arrived to compete for Emperor opportunities.

• Chu Kuangren told the Mystic Heaven Sect elders to use its resources within ten years to strengthen its disciples and elders.
• The Mystic Heaven Sect stayed hidden behind the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation while new Emperor opportunities and Heavenly Prides appeared across the Firmament Star.
• A white-robed old man remarked that the era lacked a peerless talent like Chu Kuangren, just before a pillar of light appeared.
• Xiao Jingchen announced that he had returned from the Nine Heavens to compete for the chance to become an Emperor and asked the Xuanhuang Divine Palace for support.
• More pillars of light descended in the following months, bringing unfamiliar Heavenly Prides from the Nine Heavens to the Firmament Star.

Chu Kuangren drew an Enlightenment Tea Tree and used its leaves to accelerate his comprehension of the Heavenly Punishment Seal, recovering his Spirit Thought. After he gave the tree to Saint Qingshuang to cultivate, roasted tea made from its leaves helped Venerable Xuanqi become a Saint.

• Chu Kuangren drew the Enlightenment Tea Tree, consumed a top-grade leaf, and greatly advanced his understanding of the Heavenly Punishment Seal.
• Chu Kuangren comprehended two of the seal’s nine layers and temporarily recovered his Spirit Thought, though his fundamental cultivation remained sealed.
• Chu Kuangren entrusted the Enlightenment Tea Tree to Saint Qingshuang, who offered him Spirit-Nurturing Pills developed with Grandmaster Gu.
• Saint Qingshuang sent Chu Kuangren several boxes of roasted Enlightenment Tea leaves, and he shared some with the Mystic Heaven Sect’s ancestors.
• Venerable Xuanqi drank the tea and became a Saint, prompting Dao phenomena across the Mystic Heaven Sect.

Chu Kuangren reassured the Mystic Heaven Sect that he could overcome the Heavenly Punishment Seal, then entered seclusion after Gu Linglong's cooking proved disastrous. Three years later, while he remained secluded, the sect discussed the rising Heavenly Prides and a Hidden Dragon List whose first place was still blank.

• Chu Kuangren gave Venerable Xuanqi and the forefathers Enlightenment Tea and told them he had a way to deal with the Heavenly Punishment Seal.
• Gu Linglong tried cooking for Chu Kuangren, but her meals were so bad that he entered seclusion to undo the seal and avoid eating them.
• Three years passed as Gu Linglong, Lan Yu, and Xiao Bing discussed the Mystic Heaven Sect's withdrawal from the world and the Daoist Seeds' progress.
• Xiao Bing said Nangong Huang had defeated a World Walker, while Gu Linglong noted that Murong Xuan had reached forty-ninth place on the Hidden Dragon List.
• Xiao Bing said first place on the Hidden Dragon List remained blank because Tianjizi was waiting for someone worthy of ranking first in the world.

Liu Yiqing and Yin Li infiltrated the Mystic Heaven Sect by secretly following Junyi and Jin Feiyan through its Cloud Sea Wonder Formation. As the two women reached Ling Tian Dao Palace, a Divine Phoenix detected the intruders and challenged them.

• Liu Yiqing and Yin Li, both resentful of Chu Kuangren's fame, decided to enter the Mystic Heaven Sect and meet him.
• The pair concealed themselves and followed Junyi and Jin Feiyan through the dangerous Cloud Sea Wonder Formation.
• After reaching the sect, Liu Yiqing and Yin Li followed the women to Ling Tian Dao Palace and overheard them discuss Chu Kuangren's prolonged closed-door cultivation.
• A Divine Phoenix rose above Ling Tian Dao Palace and confronted the hidden intruders.

Lan Yu and the others confronted Liu Yiqing and Yin Li after the two infiltrated the Mystic Heaven Sect to find Chu Kuangren. When Yin Li tried to seize the Kunwu Sword outside Chu Kuangren’s sealed cultivation room, a vast Sword Dao attack burst from within and sent him flying.

• The Divine Phoenix detected Liu Yiqing and Yin Li, who revealed that they had entered the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation to meet Chu Kuangren.
• Lan Yu attacked Liu Yiqing while Yin Li vanished into the shadows and searched for Chu Kuangren’s secluded cultivation room.
• The Divine Phoenix spotted Yin Li and attacked him with golden flames, but he found the room’s restriction and tried to break through it.
• Kunwu Sword emerged to guard the room, and Yin Li used his Quasi-Emperor Weapon canopy to block the others and reach for the sword.
• Chu Kuangren’s voice sounded from inside the room, and a golden Runic sword split Yin Li’s canopy and sent him flying from the Dao Palace, drenched in blood.

After emerging from three years of seclusion, Chu Kuangren subdued Liu Yiqing and Yin Li and told the Mystic Heaven Sect that he had nearly broken the Heavenly Punishment Seal. He prepared to leave the sect, demonstrating that his mastery of runes could protect him despite the seal still being intact.

• Chu Kuangren emerged from the Dao Palace, reclaimed Kunwu, and asked Liu Yiqing and Yin Li why they had come.
• Liu Yiqing attacked Chu Kuangren, but Chu Kuangren’s Heavenly Dao-like pressure scattered his palm force and drove him to his knees.
• Chu Kuangren used runes to bind Liu Yiqing and Yin Li, then told Elder Ruyan that he had not broken the seal but had comprehended all nine layers and refined away eight.
• Elder Ruyan reported that the Mystic Heaven Sect’s disciples had advanced and several elders had become Quasi-Saints, while the sect still had abundant resources.
• Chu Kuangren announced that he would go out for a stroll and displayed a sky full of runes to reassure the elders that he could protect himself.

After Chu Kuangren demonstrated his Rune techniques despite the Heavenly Punishment Seal, he imprisoned Liu Yiqing and Yin Li and arranged to collect ransom from them. He then left the Mystic Heaven Sect, and two women and a man emerged from the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation behind Old Li.

• Chu Kuangren used Runes to defeat Liu Yiqing and Yin Li, impressing the Mystic Heaven Sect disciples and ending their resistance.
• Chu Kuangren explained that he used Spirit Thought to command heaven and earth’s spiritual qi, then demanded ransom and learned of Yin Li’s Emperor opportunity.
• Liu Yiqing wrote a ransom letter, and Yin Li described the opportunity; Chu Kuangren sealed their prison with the Nine Profound Heavenly Fire Cover.
• Cultivators continued searching the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation for treasures left behind after the great battle, though many had died in the attempt.
• Old Li and a middle-aged cultivator saw two women and a man emerge from the formation, and the middle-aged cultivator stared in shock.

After Chu Kuangren left the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation, his name appeared at the top of the Hidden Dragon List for the first time in three years. The mighty figures questioned Tianjizi and reacted with alarm when they learned Chu Kuangren had also left the Mystic Heaven Sect, leaving his return to unsettle the world.

• Cultivators outside the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation recognized Chu Kuangren as he departed with two women.
• The Hidden Dragon List began changing, and Chu Kuangren’s name appeared in first place.
• People and mighty figures across Firmament Star questioned how Chu Kuangren could rank first while bearing the Heavenly Punishment Seal.
• Tianjizi said he had placed Chu Kuangren first based on his divination of heaven’s secrets.
• News arrived that Chu Kuangren had left the Mystic Heaven Sect, and the mighty figures reacted with alarm.

Gu Linglong returned to the Qingyun Dynasty with Chu Kuangren and learned that Yun Changfeng had taken the throne and was exploiting the people to pay tribute to the Mountain-Sea Tower. She headed for the Royal Capital to investigate, where Yun Changfeng learned that she and Chu Kuangren had arrived.

• Chu Kuangren’s return from the great formation stirred forces across the land, and Xiao Lintian set out to settle old grievances with him.
• Gu Linglong traveled to the Qingyun Dynasty with Chu Kuangren and found its people displaced while bandits preyed on royal shipments.
• Bai Long, a former sect master, recognized Gu Linglong, explained that Yun Changfeng had taken the throne and plundered the people for the Mountain-Sea Tower, and asked her to return to power.
• Gu Linglong resolved to investigate the accusations and hurried to the Royal Capital with her companions.
• Yun Changfeng offered tribute to a Mountain-Sea Tower elder and received pills, then learned that Gu Linglong had returned with Chu Kuangren.

Chu Kuangren and Gu Linglong confronted Yun Changfeng and the Mountain-Sea Tower elder at the Qingyun Dynasty palace. Though the Heavenly Punishment Seal appeared to leave Chu Kuangren powerless, he revealed immense strength and killed the elder, leaving the palace forces terrified.

• Yun Changfeng learned Chu Kuangren had arrived and ordered Gu Qing and the other imprisoned members of Gu Linglong's family brought out.
• Chu Kuangren walked through the palace grounds as tens of thousands of Imperial Guards retreated, then blasted aside a commander who attacked him.
• Yun Changfeng sent his Mountain-Sea Origin Soul at Gu Linglong, but she cut it in two with a saber strike.
• The Mountain-Sea Tower elder dismissed Chu Kuangren's warning and attacked him with a golden eagle Origin Soul, but Chu Kuangren formed a Runes Greatsword and defeated it.
• The elder fled through the palace roof, but Chu Kuangren seized him with invisible thought power and crushed him into a cloud of blood.

Chu Kuangren helped Gu Linglong reclaim the Qingyun Dynasty, then stayed in the Royal Capital as Mountain-Sea Tower and Yellow Springs Manor came seeking him and the Mountain-River Scroll. The chapter ended with Zheng Miao confronting Chu Kuangren alongside Yuan Xian and two Mountain-Sea Tower Saints.

• Chu Kuangren crushed the white-haired old man with telekinesis, and Yun Changfeng threatened Gu Linglong with her imprisoned father and brothers.
• Chu Kuangren forced Yun Changfeng to kneel, and Gu Linglong ordered the Imperial Guards to surrender before taking back control of the dynasty.
• Gu Linglong chose to stay and restore the Qingyun Dynasty, while Chu Kuangren remained in the Royal Capital for several days.
• Yuan Xian of Mountain-Sea Tower demanded that Chu Kuangren return the Mountain-River Scroll, but Chu Kuangren rebuked him for the invasion of Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Zheng Miao of Yellow Springs Manor entered the tavern as Yuan Xian and two Mountain-Sea Tower Saints kept Chu Kuangren under watch.