Chapter Summaries

Lu Ren tried to reinforce the seal containing the Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters, but the powerful avatar emerged and threatened him. The Immortal-Smiting Iron held the Dao-Lord back and struck him down with the Blade-Pinning Dao Formation, while Lu Ren continued toward the breach.

• Lu Ren flew toward the breach with the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao-Suppressing Talisman, but the Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters appeared and offered to make him a disciple if he broke the seal.
• The Immortal-Smiting Iron confronted the Dao-Lord, who revealed that Gui Xu had died sealing him, and attacked him in rage.
• Lu Ren unleashed 250 Great Dao True Weapons, but the Dao-Lord knocked them aside and overpowered the Immortal-Smiting Iron.
• The Immortal-Smiting Iron urged Lu Ren to repair the breach and blocked the Dao-Lord as Lu Ren flew toward it.
• After absorbing the Dao-Lord's attacks into the Blade-Pinning Dao Formation, the Immortal-Smiting Iron formed a giant saber that cleaved the Dao-Lord's avatar in two.

Lu Ren fought the Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters' ten avatars as they tried to stop him from reaching the breach in the seal. After the avatars destroyed his Six Paths Reincarnation Dharma Bodies, Lu Ren revealed his void powers and struck down one avatar, leaving the Dao-Lord eager to seize his void-splitting heaven qi.

• The Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters revealed ten early Dao-Proving avatars, which attacked Lu Ren and knocked him away from the breach.
• Lu Ren summoned the Six Paths Reincarnation Dharma Bodies, but the avatars destroyed all six and wounded him with the backlash.
• Lu Ren used Void Afterimage to evade the avatars' Myriad Slaughter Dao Swords, but the Dao-Lord identified his true body.
• The Immortal-Smiting Iron blocked a fused greatsword attack and cracked, giving Lu Ren an opening to kill one avatar with Void Instant-Kill Sword.
• The remaining avatars recognized Lu Ren's void-splitting heaven qi, and the Dao-Lord resolved to obtain it to break the seal.

The Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters merged his nine avatars and overwhelmed Lu Ren, but the Immortal-Smiting Iron intervened with its Innate Divine Ability. Lu Ren and the Immortal-Smiting Iron suppressed and destroyed the avatar, while the dark figure trapped in the formation warned that Lu Ren had not truly won.

• The Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters merged his nine avatars and attacked Lu Ren with a powerful Black-Red Sun.
• Lu Ren's Great Dao True Weapons and lightning sword strike failed to stop the attack, and the Black-Red Sun gravely wounded him.
• The Immortal-Smiting Iron shielded Lu Ren and unleashed its Innate Divine Ability, summoning a Black Tortoise phantom that shattered the Black-Red Sun and weakened the avatar.
• Lu Ren formed a Void Dao Abyss while the Black Tortoise phantom suppressed the avatar, and the abyss tore the Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters' avatar apart.
• The dark figure imprisoned in the Myriad Extremes Ruins-Sealing Heaven Formation roared that Lu Ren had not won.

Lu Ren was struck by the World-Smiting White Tiger Saber before he could repair the Myriad Extremes Ruins-Sealing Heaven Formation, but the Asura Path Heart Seal protected his organs and Great Dao Origin. The saber recognized the imprisoned Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters as its master and attacked the weakened Immortal-Smiting Iron to clear its way to the seal.

• Lu Ren flew toward the breach with the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao-Suppressing Talisman, but a blade light from the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao Lake shattered his sword and badly wounded him.
• The Asura Path Heart Seal shielded Lu Ren from the blade light, which exhausted its power and hurled him into the abyss's floor.
• The broken World-Smiting White Tiger Saber emerged from the lake and recognized the Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters as its master.
• The Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters ordered the World-Smiting White Tiger Saber to break the seal, and the Immortal-Smiting Iron moved to stop it.
• The World-Smiting White Tiger Saber dismissed the depleted Immortal-Smiting Iron's threat and swung at it.

Lu Ren fought to stop the World-Smiting White Tiger Saber from breaking the seal, enduring repeated attacks despite his devastating injuries. The Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters formed a stronger avatar, seized the saber, and unleashed a gigantic white tiger at Lu Ren.

• The Immortal-Smiting Iron collided with the World-Smiting White Tiger Saber's attack but was knocked into the ground, leaving Lu Ren to block the blade.
• Lu Ren struck the saber light with his fists and continued battling while the Asura Path Heart Seal protected his internal organs and great dao origin.
• The World-Smiting White Tiger Saber repeatedly attacked Lu Ren, while its spirituality dwindled and Lu Ren's injuries worsened.
• The Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters used his blood essence to form a stronger avatar and took the World-Smiting White Tiger Saber into his grasp.
• The Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters swung the saber and sent an enormous white tiger lunging at Lu Ren.

Long Xiaoman arrived just in time to save Lu Ren from the Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters and revealed that he had obtained the Dao-Lord of Return-to-Void’s inheritance. He attacked the Dao-Lord with his newly awakened Return-to-Void power.

• As the white tiger phantom lunged at Lu Ren, Long Xiaoman burst from the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao Lake and shattered it with a punch.
• Long Xiaoman saw Lu Ren’s injuries, then charged the Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters and forced him back with a barrage of punches.
• Long Xiaoman revealed twenty Dao-Proving Marks, and Lu Ren recognized their Return-to-Void aura.
• The Little Broken Tower confirmed that Long Xiaoman had inherited the Dao-Lord of Return-to-Void’s Great Dao, which could not be mastered without inheritance.
• Long Xiaoman told the Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters that his master had sent him to investigate the seal and attacked after the Dao-Lord insulted his master.

Long Xiaoman defeated the Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters' avatar and repaired the breach in the seal. He returned to find Lu Ren unconscious, but discovered that Lu Ren's Great Dao Origin had suffered only minor damage.

• Long Xiaoman overwhelmed the Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters with the Return-to-Void Great Dao, shattered his avatar, and captured the World-Smiting White Tiger Saber.
• Lu Ren gave Long Xiaoman the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao-Suppressing Talisman and urged him to repair the breach in the seal.
• Long Xiaoman placed the talisman on the breach, restoring the Myriad Extremes Ruins-Sealing Heaven Formation and suppressing the Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters again.
• Long Xiaoman returned to Lu Ren and found him unconscious, then was shocked that his Great Dao Origin had sustained only minor damage.

Long Xiaoman rescued Lu Ren and learned that the Asura Path Heart Seal had protected his Great Dao Origin while using its slaughtering battle intent to rebuild his shattered battle marks. The Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao-Devouring Beast explained that if Lu Ren restored all thirteen marks, his battle body could become at least ten times stronger.

• Long Xiaoman took the damaged World-Pacifying Black Tortoise Iron and World-Smiting White Tiger Saber and carried Lu Ren out of the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao Lake.
• Long Xiaoman asked the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao-Devouring Beast to examine Lu Ren, and it found that his Great Dao Origin was unharmed despite his shattered battle body.
• The Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao-Devouring Beast identified the Asura Path Heart Seal as the Primordial Treasure that had shielded Lu Ren from the attacks.
• Long Xiaoman discovered that the Asura Path Heart Seal was infusing Lu Ren's body with slaughtering battle intent and rebuilding his thirteen shattered battle marks.
• The Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao-Devouring Beast said that if Lu Ren reformed all thirteen marks, his battle body's power could increase at least tenfold.

While Lu Ren lay unconscious, the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao-Devouring Beast healed his shattered battle body and helped him reform his battle marks. After Lu Ren finally formed thirteen marks, a fourteenth began to condense, astonishing Long Xiaoman and the beast.

• The Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao-Devouring Beast put Lu Ren in a pit filled with medicinal herbs to repair his battle body, while Long Xiaoman hoped he would reform thirteen marks before his fated battle with Cang Xuanming.
• Over the next year, Lu Ren formed seven dark-red battle marks, though each new mark damaged his recovering flesh and meridians.
• Lu Ren went on to form twelve marks, but the thirteenth stalled because it required his own battle intent rather than the Asura Path Heart Seal’s slaughtering force.
• After another half year, Lu Ren’s battle intent fused with the Asura Path Heart Seal’s power and formed the thirteenth mark.
• As all thirteen marks blazed, the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao-Devouring Beast realized that Lu Ren was beginning to form a fourteenth mark despite still being in the Dao-Unity Realm.

While Lu Ren repeatedly failed to condense a fourteenth battle mark, Sect Master Xuan Yin led Cang Xuanming and other Great Dao Sect Daoists to assault the Measure Pavilion’s hidden Great Wilderness branch. Cang Xuanming revealed ten Dao-Proving Marks as the Measure Pavilion members attacked, and the battle began.

• Lu Ren’s attempt to condense a fourteenth battle mark repeatedly shattered, damaging his body as Long Xiaoman and the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao-Devouring Beast watched.
• Daoist Guanlan and Cang Xuanming located the Measure Pavilion Independent World, and Sect Master Xuan Yin tore open a rift to reach it.
• Sect Master Xuan Yin led Cang Xuanming, Daoist Guanlan, and the other Daoists into the Measure Pavilion and announced their intent to eradicate it.
• Cang Xuanming accused the Measure Pavilion of using Exquisite Pills and Exquisite Hearts to control prodigies, while its members defended their organization and attacked the intruders.
• Cang Xuanming released ten Dao-Proving Marks, startling the Measure Pavilion members as their attacks converged on him.

Cang Xuanming attacked the Measure Pavilion and overwhelmed its members with his ten Dao-Proving Marks and Six-Leaf Realm soul. He repelled three powerful guardians and revealed a fourteen-marked battle body, leaving the Pavilion’s forces shocked by his strength.

• Cang Xuanming used Soul Suppression Prison to incapacitate most of the Measure Pavilion experts gathered in the plaza.
• Three Measure Pavilion guardians emerged, including a leader with fifteen Dao-Proving Marks, and confronted Cang Xuanming over his attack.
• The three guardians launched a combined assault, but Cang Xuanming used the Dao-Severing Brush to shatter their attacks.
• Cang Xuanming caught the leader’s spear between two fingers, broke its tip, and punched him backward.
• Cang Xuanming revealed fourteen battle marks on his Battle Body, astonishing the Measure Pavilion members.

Cang Xuanming and five Daoists from the Great Dao Sect attacked the Measure Pavilion, with Cang Xuanming defeating its three middle Dao-Proving guardians. Sect Master Xuan Yin then fought the Measure Pavilion master and sent her crashing into the temple, which collapsed.

• Cang Xuanming ordered Daoist Guanlan, the Annihilation Daoist, the Nine Luminaries Daoist, and the other Daoists to join the attack on the Measure Pavilion.
• Cang Xuanming used the Heaven-Sundering Dao Slash to sever the three guardians' connection to their Great Dao Origins, then struck them down.
• Daoist Guanlan, the Annihilation Daoist, and the other Daoists defeated the remaining Measure Pavilion members without killing them.
• Sect Master Xuan Yin confronted the Measure Pavilion master over her use of Exquisite Pills, while she insisted the members had joined willingly.
• Sect Master Xuan Yin struck the Measure Pavilion master with a dark-gold palm imprint, sending her into the Silver Temple and causing it to collapse.

Sect Master Xuan Yin defeated the Pavilion Master of the Measure Pavilion, who escaped while destroying the pavilion’s independent world and revealed that Lu Ren had joined the Measure Pavilion. After rescuing an Exquisite Heart, Xuan Yin returned to the Great Dao Sect and offered it to Cang Xuanming to prepare him for his Fated Covenant with Lu Ren.

• The Pavilion Master of the Measure Pavilion triggered the collapse of the independent world, escaped through a spatial rift, and revealed that Lu Ren had joined the Measure Pavilion and taken an Exquisite Pill.
• Sect Master Xuan Yin held up the collapsing space while everyone escaped, then seized an Exquisite Heart from the temple before the independent world collapsed completely.
• Back at the Great Dao Sect, Cang Xuanming dismissed Lu Ren as a threat, while Sect Master Xuan Yin warned him that his coming battle could cost him everything.
• Sect Master Xuan Yin gave Cang Xuanming the Exquisite Heart, saying he needed it to defeat Lu Ren.

Cang Xuanming’s victory over the Measure Pavilion boosted his reputation, while Lu Ren was condemned for joining it. After awakening with a fourteen-marked battle body, Lu Ren learned what had happened and plunged into the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao Lake to claim the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao Embryo and pursue a breakthrough.

• The Xuan Yin Sect Master gave Cang Xuanming an Exquisite Heart, and Cang Xuanming accepted it despite his reservations.
• News spread that Cang Xuanming had defeated the Measure Pavilion, while many cultivators criticized Lu Ren for joining it.
• While Lu Ren remained unconscious, his battle intent and the Asura Path Heart Seal helped him form a fourteenth battle mark.
• Long Xiaoman left to handle another matter and seek repairs for the damaged world-pacifying black tortoise iron.
• One month later, Lu Ren awoke, learned what had happened, and tested the power of his fourteen-marked battle body.
• The Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao-Devouring Beast agreed to let Lu Ren retrieve the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao Embryo, and Lu Ren plunged into the lake.

Lu Ren took the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao Embryo from the sealed abyss and began refining it in the Reincarnation Ancient Pagoda to reach the Forbidden Extreme Realm. When slow progress threatened his deadline for the Fated Covenant, he swallowed the embryo, and the Asura Path Heart Seal unexpectedly began refining it for him.

• Lu Ren ignored the imprisoned Dao-Lord of Ten Thousand Slaughters, took the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao Embryo, and left the abyss.
• Lu Ren told the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao Beast he would cultivate in seclusion, and the beast agreed to guard him.
• Lu Ren refined the embryo inside the Reincarnation Ancient Pagoda, but after a year he realized the process would take too long to meet the Fated Covenant deadline.
• Lu Ren swallowed the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao Embryo, causing his battle body and chaos great dao origin to crack and shake under its energy.
• The Asura Path Heart Seal suppressed the embryo and began dissolving it, sending its energy into Lu Ren's chaos great dao origin.

Lu Ren refined the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao Embryo and entered the forbidden extreme realm of the ultimate Dao stage. At the secret realm entrance, he learned the Measure Pavilion had been destroyed and lied to visitors from the Myriad Spirits and Crimson Flame Heaven-Melding Clan about who killed Wan Huang and Chi Ming, but their elder demanded his treasures.

• The Asura Path Heart Seal finished refining the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao Embryo, allowing Lu Ren to break through into the forbidden extreme realm.
• Lu Ren left the Reincarnation Ancient Pagoda and learned from the Ten-Thousand Ultimate Dao-Devouring Beast that eight experts from the Myriad Spirits and Crimson Flame Heaven-Melding Clan had entered the secret realm.
• Lu Ren concealed his aura and flew to the entrance, where the eight Dao-Proving experts surrounded him and told him the Great Dao Sect had destroyed the Measure Pavilion.
• Lu Ren falsely claimed that Lei Heng had killed Wan Huang and Chi Ming to seize a supreme treasure, angering the visitors from both clans.
• As Lu Ren tried to leave, a gray-robed elder blocked his way and demanded that he hand over the opportunities he had found in the secret realm.

Lu Ren lured twelve Dao-Proving experts out of the Ancient Secret Realm and revealed strength powerful enough to kill six early Dao-Proving experts and contend with Elder Wan Hui. As Elder Wan Hui and the red-haired man fled, the Measure Pavilion Master arrived and killed them with a single sword strike.

• Lu Ren baited the Myriad Spirits and Crimson Flame Heaven-Melding Clan experts into pursuing him out of the Ancient Secret Realm, then revealed he had lured them away from it.
• Lu Ren used his chaos Great Dao Power to repel Elder Wan Hui, then unleashed more than two hundred and fifty Great Dao true weapons and killed six early Dao-Proving experts.
• The red-haired middle-aged man recognized Lu Ren, and he and Elder Wan Hui tried to escape after attacking Lu Ren with their Superior Great Dao True Treasures.
• A green sword light struck down the fleeing red-haired middle-aged man and Elder Wan Hui, and the Measure Pavilion Master appeared before Lu Ren.