Chapter Summaries

After the first battle left the Thirty-First Fortress with exceptionally light casualties, the Blood Kings identified Chu Kuangren as a major threat and prepared a second attack with the Dao Weapon World-Sealing Seal. The second battle began with Chu Kuangren surrounded and his Space Transport Technique restricted.

• Luo Shui learned that the Thirty-First Fortress had lost only 167 warships and suffered over eight million soldiers killed or wounded, largely thanks to Chu Kuangren.
• Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable warned Luo Shui that the Blood Tribe would prepare for Chu Kuangren in its next attack.
• Ming King told the Blood Kings about Chu Kuangren, and White King ordered White Corpse to join the assault while Ming King arranged for Half-Step Dao Lords to carry the World-Sealing Seal.
• Several days later, the Blood Tribe launched a larger second attack, and Chu Kuangren faced White Corpse and three Half-Step Dao Lords while Luo Shui fought another Half-Step Dao Lord.
• A Blood Tribe Half-Step Dao Lord activated the World-Sealing Seal, trapping Chu Kuangren in a barrier that strengthened space and restricted his Space Transport Technique.

Chu Kuangren fought four Half-Step Dao Lords while trapped by the World-Sealing Seal, overwhelming them with his minor world, an ultimate mystery, and the Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation. He killed White Corpse in three punches, shattering the barrier and leaving the battlefield stunned.

• The World-Sealing Seal trapped Chu Kuangren, and four Half-Step Dao Lords surrounded him as the Blood Kings watched from afar.
• Chu Kuangren wounded one Half-Step Dao Lord with a single sword strike, then crushed the three opponents’ minor worlds with his own.
• Chu Kuangren used an ultimate mystery to absorb and rebound the four Half-Step Dao Lords’ attacks, then unleashed his Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation.
• Chu Kuangren’s manifestation killed three Half-Step Dao Lords with three punches.
• White Corpse attacked Chu Kuangren at close range, but Chu Kuangren killed him with three punches and shattered the World-Sealing Seal’s barrier.

Chu Kuangren defeated the Blood Tribe forces at the Thirty-First Fortress, seized the World-Sealing Seal, and was sent to reinforce the Thirty-Eighth Fortress. He arrived as Mo Ling Heavenly Venerable and the fortress defenders were on the verge of defeat.

• Chu Kuangren killed a Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerable, shattered the World-Sealing Seal’s barrier, and captured the Daoist Weapon as the Blood Tribe retreated.
• The Blood Tribe’s Ming King called for information about Chu Kuangren and discussed avoiding the Thirty-First Fortress while he guarded it.
• Luo Shui told Chu Kuangren that the Thirty-Eighth Fortress needed reinforcements, and he traveled there through the teleportation formation.
• At the Thirty-Eighth Fortress, Mo Ling Heavenly Venerable, Hu Fei, and other defenders struggled against a powerful Blood Beast Tribe Half-Step Dao Lord; Hu Fei was wounded, and the enemy severed three of Mo Ling’s heads.
• As the Blood Tribe Half-Step Dao Lord prepared to strike Mo Ling, a white jade sword swept in and cut down Blood Tribe members across its path.

Chu Kuangren arrived at the Thirty-Eighth Fortress, defeated the Blood Tribe forces, and became famous as a battlefield champion while roaming the fortresses as an Independent Soldier. Three months later, he was recovering aboard a warship as Luo Shui reported that the Blood Tribe’s offensives had weakened temporarily.

• Chu Kuangren struck down a Blood Beast Tribe Half-Step Dao Lord, then killed the Blood Tribe’s Heavenly Venerables and used Sword Qi Clone to help wipe out their troops.
• Chu Kuangren healed Heavenly Venerable Moling and countless soldiers, and Mingxin Emperor recognized him as the one who had learned Sword Qi Clone from him.
• Chu Kuangren traveled between fortresses as an Independent Soldier, fighting wherever battles were most desperate and earning titles such as Battlefield Master and White-Robed God of War.
• Three months later, Chu Kuangren absorbed spiritual qi aboard a warship at the Thirty-First Fortress while his growing Power of Faith aided his recovery.
• Luo Shui told Chu Kuangren that the Blood Tribe’s offensives had weakened, and nearby soldiers announced that the Battle Achievement Ranking had been updated.

Chu Kuangren topped the Battle Achievement Ranking with 1.3 billion battle merits, then learned the Blood Tribe was awaiting resources from the rear. Using intelligence from Yue Zhaowu, he intercepted and destroyed a Blood Tribe transport fleet, leaving him to pursue the remaining routes.

• Luo Shui and the soldiers saw that Chu Kuangren ranked first on the Battle Achievement Ranking with 1.3 billion battle merits, while Luo Shui ranked forty-first.
• The Blood Tribe slowed its offensive, and Chu Kuangren refined the World-Sealing Seal before contacting Yue Zhaowu for intelligence.
• Yue Zhaowu gave Chu Kuangren some of the Blood Tribe's resource transport routes, and Chu Kuangren told Luo Shui he would intercept the shipments using his Secret Realm to store them.
• Chu Kuangren used the Space Transport Technique to reach a Blood Tribe fleet, killed its cultivators, and collected its resources into his Secret Realm.

After the Blood Tribe lost fourteen resource shipments, Ming King ordered a plan to kill Chu Kuangren. Chu Kuangren left for the Sixty-Fourth Small Planet to rescue Yin Honghua, whose hiding place was discovered just as Blood Tribe reinforcements arrived.

• Ming King blamed a suspected traitor for the stolen shipments and ordered the Blood Tribe to begin its operation against Chu Kuangren.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Thirty-First Fortress, distributed the stolen resources, and learned that Yin Honghua was trapped on the Sixty-Fourth Small Planet.
• Chu Kuangren promised Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable that he would rescue Yin Honghua and set out alone.
• Yin Honghua led the wounded Red-Clad Guards through the woods, but they encountered Blood Tribe soldiers searching for them.
• Yin Honghua killed the soldiers with her Heavenly Venerable minor world, drawing dozens of Blood Tribe powerhouses who surrounded the Red-Clad Guards.

Yin Honghua used the Resentful Qi Crystal to defeat the Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerable who had struck her down, then fought the Blood-Robed Youth’s other subordinates. As the Blood-Robed Youth killed the Red-Clad Guards to torment her, an unknown figure intervened and shattered his attacks.

• The Blood-Robed Youth revealed that he had killed Yin Honghua’s parents, and one of his Heavenly Venerables defeated her first assault.
• Yin Honghua crushed her Resentful Qi Crystal, unleashed its accumulated resentful qi, and killed the Heavenly Venerable who fought her.
• Yin Honghua charged the Blood-Robed Youth, but several Heavenly Venerables joined forces to hold her back.
• The Blood-Robed Youth killed Red-Clad Guards with blood-colored energy while taunting Yin Honghua about her parents’ deaths.
• An unseen figure’s voice rang out, and an invisible force shattered the Blood-Robed Youth’s attacks as killing intent descended upon the Blood Tribe cultivators.

Chu Kuangren arrived at Asteroid 64, rescued Yin Honghua, and effortlessly defeated the Blood Tribe forces that had used her as bait. After sealing the planet inside a barrier, he faced the hidden trap waiting for him.

• Chu Kuangren arrived and used the World-Sealing Seal to prevent the blood-robed young man from escaping with his teleportation crystal.
• Chu Kuangren drew the resentful qi out of Yin Honghua and absorbed it without harm.
• Chu Kuangren bound the Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerables with World Lock and killed them with Sword Qi.
• Chu Kuangren tortured and killed the blood-robed young man, then sent Yin Honghua and the others into the Secret Realm.
• Dao Patterns formed a barrier around Asteroid 64, and Chu Kuangren challenged whoever had trapped him.

Chu Kuangren faced the Blood Tribe’s White King in a duel while Dao Lords clashed outside the Sixty-Fourth Small Planet. Their battle destroyed the planet, but the golden barrier kept them sealed inside to continue fighting.

• A dozen planets sent Dao Lords to aid Chu Kuangren, but the Blood Tribe’s eighteen Dao Lords arrived and blocked them outside the planet.
• Myriad Laws Dao Lord and Ming King began fighting, and the other Dao Lords joined them in an all-out battle across space.
• Chu Kuangren identified his opponent as White King Bai Juexin’s father and welcomed his first fight against a Dao Lord.
• The White King damaged Chu Kuangren’s Kunwu Sword with his Dao Weapon greataxe, so Chu Kuangren put the sword away and empowered himself with the Nine Dragons Divine Transformation.
• Chu Kuangren summoned his Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation and clashed with the White King, destroying the Sixty-Fourth Small Planet while the golden barrier kept them trapped inside.

Chu Kuangren fought the White King inside the golden barrier, and his rapidly healing body let him withstand the Dao Lord’s attacks and turn the battle against him. As the White King tried to seal him, a vast power erupted from Chu Kuangren.

• The White King’s axe shattered Chu Kuangren’s Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation and tore a deep wound in his body.
• Chu Kuangren’s wound healed instantly, revealing his undying body and astonishing the White King.
• Chu Kuangren fought the White King ferociously, recovering from every injury while leaving the White King with bloody wounds.
• Chu Kuangren explained that only blasting him into countless particles might kill him, while the White King threatened to seal him and take him away.
• The White King threw Dao Pattern chains toward Chu Kuangren, but an immense surge of power suddenly erupted from him.

Chu Kuangren invoked Firmament Star's Heavenly Dao to suppress the White King and gain the upper hand in their battle. After Chu Kuangren used an Immortal Art, the White King was left shocked that Firmament Star possessed one.

• Outside the golden barrier, the Ming King mocked Firmament Star's Dao Lords, while the Bull-Demon Dao Lord insisted Chu Kuangren could defeat the White King.
• A strange fluctuation from the barrier made the Blood Kings sense the Heavenly Dao and gave the Myriad Laws Dao Lord and the others hope.
• Inside the barrier, Chu Kuangren entered the Union with the Dao State and used Heavenly Dao power to suppress the White King's Dao.
• Chu Kuangren shattered the White King's Blood-Devouring Slash and sent him flying with Heaven and Earth Reversed.
• Chu Kuangren used Phantom Nether Seven Emotions Melody to weaken the White King's battle intent, but the White King broke free and recognized it as an Immortal Art.

Chu Kuangren defeated and killed the White King inside the golden barrier, then emerged carrying his head and drove the Blood Kings to retreat. Though he had exhausted much of his strength, his uninjured appearance made the survivors believe he could slay Dao Lords with ease.

• The White King tried to escape the golden barrier, but Chu Kuangren used purple World Locks to bind him and drag him back.
• The Ming King and other Blood Kings failed to rescue the White King as the Myriad Laws Dao Lord and his allies blocked them.
• Chu Kuangren battered the bound White King with his Myriad Daoist Law Manifestation and killed him with the White King's axe.
• Chu Kuangren emerged from the shattered barrier carrying the White King's head and challenged the Blood Kings to send someone stronger.
• The Ming King ordered the Blood Kings to retreat, while Chu Kuangren admitted that his imposing display had been a bluff.

Chu Kuangren returned after killing White King, while the Blood Kings voted to activate Blood Abyss to destroy Firmament Star’s defenses and eliminate him. At the Thirty-First Fortress, he mourned the crack in Kunwu, and Luo Shui offered to find Red Sun Dao Lord, a weapon-refining expert who might repair it.

• The Blood Kings unanimously voted to activate Blood Abyss despite its enormous cost, deciding Chu Kuangren had to be eliminated.
• Ghost Blade Heavenly Venerable learned that the Heavenly Venerable who killed Yin Honghua’s parents was dead, and Yin Honghua resolved to keep fighting until the Blood Tribe was eradicated.
• Chu Kuangren returned to the Thirty-First Fortress, recovered from his battle, and examined White King’s Dao Weapon and his damaged Kunwu Sword.
• Chu Kuangren lost his temper over Kunwu’s crack, and Luo Shui suggested asking Red Sun Dao Lord to repair the sword.
• Luo Shui contacted Myriad Laws Dao Lord to find out where Red Sun Dao Lord was.

Chu Kuangren asked Crimson Sun Dao Lord to repair Kunwu and forge a powerful weapon using his Secret Realm and Qianyuan Purple Gold. While the weapon was being made, Chu Kuangren learned about the Purple-Gold Star System and Firmament Star’s lost immortal art, then discussed the Dao with Myriad Laws Dao Lord for three days and nights.

• Chu Kuangren arrived at Crimson Sun Small Planet, where Crimson Sun Dao Lord examined Kunwu and agreed to repair it.
• Crimson Sun Dao Lord recognized Qianyuan Purple Gold in White King's axe and offered to use it with Chu Kuangren's Secret Realm to forge a divine weapon.
• Myriad Laws Dao Lord visited and asked how Chu Kuangren had slain White King, and Chu Kuangren gave him a brief account.
• Chu Kuangren asked Myriad Laws Dao Lord about Immortal Art Civilizations and learned that Firmament Star's ancient immortal art had been divided into nine Emperor Techniques, while its original stone wall was lost.
• Myriad Laws Dao Lord and Chu Kuangren discussed the Dao for three days and nights as profound Dao Patterns enveloped Crimson Sun Small Planet.

The Myriad Laws Dao Lord urged Chu Kuangren to become an Immortal and lead Firmament Star’s civilization, while the Blood Tribe opened the Blood Abyss and unleashed its mist against the Eighty-One Fortresses. As the Dao Lords gathered to respond, the Blood Tribe’s frontline forces launched a major attack.

• The Myriad Laws Dao Lord praised Chu Kuangren’s Dao comprehension and said that becoming an Immortal could secure Firmament Star’s future.
• The Ming King and the other eleven Blood Kings used blood source crystals to open the Blood Abyss at Blood God Mountain.
• The Blood Kings found that Firmament Star’s formation blocked the Blood Abyss, so they deployed it outside the formation and targeted the Eighty-One Fortresses.
• Chu Kuangren, the Myriad Laws Dao Lord, and the other Dao Lords detected a vast blood-red rift whose mist overwhelmed soldiers and began eating away at the fortresses’ defenses.
• The twenty-four Dao Lords assembled to discuss countermeasures, but the Blood Tribe’s frontline forces launched a massive offensive while remaining unaffected by the mist.

The Blood Tribe opened the Blood Abyss, spreading blood mist that suppressed Firmament Star’s cultivators and threatened its fortresses. Twenty-four Dao Lords confronted twelve Blood Kings at the abyss, but the mist weakened the Dao Lords, and they began to lose ground while Chu Kuangren remained absent.

• The Blood Tribe’s expanding blood mist engulfed the Eighty-One Fortresses and stained Firmament Star’s sky red, terrifying its inhabitants.
• Myriad Laws Dao Lord tried to contain the Blood Abyss with his Minor World, but the blood mist corroded it and forced him to call for the other Dao Lords’ help.
• Twelve Blood Kings arrived and explained that the Blood Abyss empowered them while suppressing the twenty-four Dao Lords; Myriad Laws Dao Lord said Chu Kuangren had gone to prepare.
• Myriad Laws Dao Lord attacked Ming King, but Ming King’s strength under the Blood Abyss’s influence drove him back, and the Dao Lords and Blood Kings began a deadly battle.
• Ming King wounded Bull Demon Dao Lord, while the suppressed Dao Lords suffered further injuries and feared Firmament Star would lose after resisting for twelve Epochs.

The eight Heavenly Punishers joined Firmament Star’s Dao Lords against the twelve Blood Kings, but the Blood Tribe gained strength by absorbing the blood mist and breached one of the Eighty-First Fortresses. Chu Kuangren arrived commanding billions of swords and repelled the Blood Kings’ combined attack, then sent most of his swords toward the Blood Abyss.

• Eight Heavenly Punishers arrived to help the Dao Lords, and San Xing attacked a Blood King as they fought to hold off the twelve Blood Kings.
• The Blood Tribe breached a fortress formation and slaughtered Firmament cultivators while the Blood Kings absorbed blood mist to strengthen themselves.
• Chu Kuangren appeared with billions of swords from the Eighty-First Fortresses and used them to withstand the twelve Blood Kings’ combined attack.
• The Ming King identified that most of Chu Kuangren’s swords were aimed at the Blood Abyss.

Chu Kuangren resisted the Blood Abyss’s suppression, absorbed Blood Darkness Power, and gained the Heavenly Severing Sword so he could destroy the abyss’s source. He entered the Blood Abyss as the others faced the grim news that nearly twenty Blood Tribe Dao Lords guarded its source on Blood Origin Star.

• Chu Kuangren’s Sealing Sword Formation shrank the Blood Abyss to a hundred kilometers before its resistance made the formation falter.
• Chu Kuangren decided to destroy the Blood Abyss’s source and fought off Blood Tribe Heavenly Venerables who tried to stop him.
• Chu Kuangren absorbed the blood mist with Blood Darkness Power, then used Nine Dragons Divine Transformation to raise his cultivation to the Dao Lord Realm.
• The Sword Dao Master sent the Heavenly Severing Sword to aid Chu Kuangren, who grasped it and flew into the Blood Abyss.
• Ming King revealed that nearly twenty Blood Tribe Dao Lords guarded the Blood Abyss’s source on Blood Origin Star, leaving the Myriad Laws Dao Lord and the others to rely on Chu Kuangren.

Chu Kuangren reached Blood Origin Star through the Blood Abyss and discovered that a gigantic orb on Blood God Mountain powered the rift. He tried to destroy it, but seventeen Blood Tribe Dao Lords confronted him, and he fought his way toward the orb before cutting at his own shoulder to escape a chain's restraint.

• Chu Kuangren absorbed Blood Source Power as he crossed the Blood Abyss and arrived on Blood Origin Star.
• Chu Kuangren learned that the orb atop Blood God Mountain created the Blood Abyss and that destroying it could unleash catastrophic energy.
• Chu Kuangren attacked the orb, but seventeen Blood Tribe Dao Lords emerged and blocked his strike.
• Chu Kuangren charged through the Dao Lords' attacks and wounded one while pressing toward the orb.
• A Blood Tribe Dao Lord bound Chu Kuangren's left hand with a chain, and Chu Kuangren swung his sword down at his own left shoulder.

Chu Kuangren fought through the Blood Tribe Dao Lords on Blood God Mountain and used Time Stop to destroy the sphere of light. The sphere’s released energy destroyed Blood God Mountain and began fracturing Blood Origin Star, while the Blood Kings on Firmament Star sensed the mountain’s destruction.

• Chu Kuangren cut off his chained arm, regenerated it with his Undying Body, and used Sword Qi Clones to confuse the Blood Tribe Dao Lords as he rushed toward the sphere of light.
• Chu Kuangren endured a Dao Lord’s punch to propel himself closer, then used Phantom Nether Seven Emotions Melody to slip past two more Dao Lords.
• Two Dao Lords attacked and shielded the sphere, but Chu Kuangren stopped time within a hundred zhang, freezing them and their attacks.
• Chu Kuangren combined the Heavenly Severing Sword, Ultimate Mystery, Ultimate Emperor Essence, and Firmament Star’s Heavenly Dao to shatter the sphere of light.
• The sphere’s energy engulfed Blood God Mountain, vaporized the seventeen Dao Lords, destroyed Chu Kuangren’s body, and spread across Blood Origin Star.
• The Blood Abyss vanished from the battlefield at Firmament Star, and the Blood Kings sensed that Blood God Mountain had been destroyed.