Chapter Summaries

Lin Shen killed Wan Gu Liu from afar and challenged the assembled Ascendants to attack him, leaving them too frightened to act. After the battle ended, the rankings placed Human A Tian first among Ascendants, and experts debated the source and extent of his power.

• Lin Shen killed the fleeing Wan Gu Liu with a finger-gun gesture, terrifying the Ascendants around them.
• Lin Shen challenged anyone who still believed he was the Source of Calamity to come kill him, but no one stepped forward.
• The Elimination Round ended, and the Ascendants were teleported away as the cosmic scroll displayed the Ranking Lists.
• Lin Shen took first place on the Ascendant Ranking List after Wu Mian's points were added to his score.
• People on SkyNet argued about Lin Shen's abilities until Mister Jinghua analyzed his skills and identified the War Song's enhancement to the strike that crushed Wu Mian.

After Mister Jinghua assessed Lin Shen as a future Hall-level figure, Lin Shen learned that Fourth Brother was absent from the battlefield and faced challenges from other top-tier Ascendants. As Lin Shen planned to visit Tian Xun, Tian Congyun informed him that Emperor Tian Shu required him to compete in the Ranking List battle and earn a ranking.

• Mister Jinghua judged Lin Shen a top-tier Ascendant whose War Song-enhanced abilities could make him a Hall-level figure, earning him the nickname Hall Destroyer from online commenters.
• Lin Shen discovered that Fourth Brother had entered the Nirvana Realm and that several top-tier Ascendants were challenging him to a showdown in the Ranking Battle.
• Lin Shen explained War Song to Tian Congyun, who assumed its enhancement had a physical limit.
• Lin Shen exchanged messages with Tian Xun and planned to ask Emperor Tian Shu for permission to visit her on Giant Ring Star.
• Tian Congyun told Lin Shen that Emperor Tian Shu required him to enter the upcoming Ranking List battle and obtain a ranking.

Lin Shen learned that Emperor Tian Shu wanted him to rank in the top five or defeat Christine so he could justify giving Lin Shen greater support. After studying Christine’s formidable swordsmanship and testing countermeasures posted online, Lin Shen found an intriguing theory for countering his techniques, while Christine prepared to use the same idea against him.

• Tian Congyun told Lin Shen that Emperor Tian Shu wanted him to place in the top five or, at minimum, defeat Christine, the Di Man Race’s strongest Ascension Level warrior.
• Tian Congyun warned Lin Shen that Christine was a master swordsman nicknamed Sword Demon, then left after explaining the Emperor’s objective.
• Lin Shen studied Christine’s record and learned that he had invented Extinction Echo Swordplay, defeated many swordsmanship experts, and had been pushed into the Race Ranking Battle by his race’s leaders.
• Lin Shen read online theories for countering his abilities and tested several suggestions, finding that some of the unusual methods actually worked.
• Lin Shen noticed Swordsman Who Can't Use a Sword’s Separation Method theory for countering Fingertip Sand and Handgun Remote Killing Technique, and found it promising.
• Christine posted a video about the Separation Method under an online alias, received little attention, and resolved to use it against Lin Shen in the Ranking Battle.

Lin Shen discussed Christine’s swordsmanship with Tian Bu Luo and Tian Qing Yu, then showed them an online video about the Separation Method. The siblings doubted the technique could work, but Lin Shen proposed that it might separate Fingertip Sand itself.

• Tian Bu Luo and Tian Qing Yu told Lin Shen what little they knew about Christine and his perfected Extinction Echo Swordplay.
• Tian Qing Yu asked Lin Shen if he could help her learn the Two Eight Fist, but he said he knew no method to teach it.
• Lin Shen showed the siblings an online video of the Separation Method, which claimed to explain how to break his Fingertip Sand.
• Tian Qing Yu argued that the Separation Method was impractical because Fingertip Sand no longer needed control after it was launched.
• Lin Shen suggested the technique might separate Fingertip Sand itself, leaving Tian Qing Yu and Tian Bu Luo confused.

Lin Shen explained how the Separation Method could split Nirvana Attribute Particles from power particles, making it a natural counter to his Fingertip Sand and Two Eight Fist. After Tian Qing Yu and Tian Bu Luo left, Lin Shen continued investigating the method and recalled the Black-Capped Mushroom's ability to erase Gene Shift Power.

• Lin Shen explained that Nirvana Power came from power particles and attribute particles combining, and that the Separation Method could separate them before they fully fused.
• Tian Bu Luo doubted anyone could perform the Separation Method without a suitable innate ability, while Lin Shen explained how it could disable Fingertip Sand and Two Eight Fist.
• Lin Shen acknowledged that the method could counter Fingertip Sand and said he might study it, though he had no immediate way to defend against it.
• Tian Qing Yu left to study Two Eight Fist, and Tian Bu Luo departed after discussing the Ranking Battle with Lin Shen.
• Lin Shen stayed home to study the Separation Method and remembered that the Black-Capped Mushroom could make Gene Shift Power disappear.

Lin Shen practiced the Separation Method and tried to compress Fingertip Sand, but discovered that firing it in a handgun stance let Gun Kata curve its trajectory. He planned to use the stealthier attacks to counter the Separation Method while continuing his research, as other races prepared ways to deal with him before the Ranking Battle.

• Lin Shen failed to activate his power particles well enough to master the Separation Method, so he tried compressing Fingertip Sand instead.
• Lin Shen discovered that shaping his hand like a handgun activated Gun Kata and let Fingertip Sand curve toward its target.
• Lin Shen focused on controlling Fingertip Sand so it would be harder to detect, and realized surprise attacks could help him counter the Separation Method.
• Lin Shen decided to keep researching particle compression and develop his own Separation Method in case a Nirvana Realm Expert could maintain active particles.
• SkyNet debated Lin Shen's standing without the War Song's enhancement, while Nirvana Level experts and Immortals prepared countermeasures for his handgun technique and weakening skill.

Lin Shen began the Ranking Battle and chose Ill-Omen Star as his Home Planet, using its violent weather to strengthen his advantages and conceal his techniques. He arrived on the storm-wracked planet ready to face opponents who had been studying how to counter him.

• The Heavenly Emperor and Tian Congyun discussed whether Lin Shen could withstand the scrutiny and countermeasures of the entire universe.
• The Light and Shadow Sprite told Lin Shen that his first-place Elimination Round finish gave him first choice of battlefield planet and explained the Ranking Battle rules.
• Lin Shen selected Ill-Omen Star because its harsh environment favored his adaptation and Super Gene Text abilities and masked the fluctuations from Fingertip Sand.
• The Light and Shadow Sprite brought Lin Shen to Ill-Omen Star, where hurricanes, tornadoes, and lightning made flying difficult.

Lin Shen faced a top-ten challenger, Ke Bo Er, who thanked him for helping him during the Elimination Round, promoted his aircraft, and forfeited. Another challenger from the Chaos Race then attacked Lin Shen, who blasted him into a tornado.

• Ke Bo Er challenged Lin Shen and revealed that Lin Shen’s team had helped him preserve his points during the Elimination Round.
• Ke Bo Er enthusiastically promoted his Light Chaser Aircraft, offered Lin Shen one for free, and forfeited the challenge.
• Wu Lian of the Chaos Race challenged Lin Shen and charged at him inside his Chaos Divine Bell Life Foundation.
• Lin Shen struck Wu Lian with Wave Surging Triple Fist, sending him and the bell flying into a tornado, where lightning began to strike.

Wu Lian withdrew from Ill-Omen Star after the planet’s storms shattered his Chaos Divine Bell, and Lin Shen’s demonstrated strength left challengers afraid to face him. Meanwhile, Lin Xiangdong stopped An 99’s Archangel Sword with two fingers but conceded the match out of respect for the Celestial Race and his brother.

• Wu Lian was swept into a tornado and struck by lightning until the Chaos Divine Bell cracked, so he withdrew from the planetary battlefield.
• After returning home, Wu Lian defeated a tenth-turn Ascender despite his injuries and destroyed life base, preserving his ranking.
• Spectators saw Lin Shen’s power and stopped challenging him, while SkyNet users discussed his remote fist force and Surging Wave Strength.
• Lin Xiangdong won a hundred consecutive Nirvana Level battles and used the Cross-Rank Challenge to face An 99.
• Lin Xiangdong caught An 99’s Archangel Sword between two fingers and returned it, then withdrew from the match to show respect for the Celestial Race and his brother.

The Ascenders raced up the rankings as Christine approached Lin Shen, while Zuo Qinglong withdrew after reaching the limits of his strength. Catherine warned that Christine’s Extreme Devil cultivation was letting his Devil Persona threaten his control, and that suppressing it could weaken him before his coming battles.

• Ouyang Yudu and Christine triggered successive Cross-Rank Challenges, while Zuo Qinglong climbed from the top ten thousand but withdrew after facing stronger Ascenders.
• Zuo Qinglong watched Lin Shen’s battles and wondered whether he was the Big Red Bull Knight, then resolved to live up to the movement technique he had received.
• Christine became the first to trigger the Cross-Rank Challenge rule for a third time and continued advancing toward Lin Shen.
• Catherine explained to Tia that Christine’s Extreme Devil technique risked letting his Devil Persona take over, and that activating his Saint Heart Sword could weaken him.

Lin Shen fought Hong Xin, a powerful Heart Ape Clan Ascender, in Ill-Omen Star and used his weakening techniques against him. Hong Xin countered with escalating strength enhancements, then unleashed a hidden talent skill as Lin Shen struck with a more powerful quadruple fist.

• Hong Xin challenged Lin Shen and used his strength to withstand Lin Shen's Wave Surging Triple Fist, but Lin Shen kept him at a distance with repeated long-range attacks.
• Kong Chuan and the Heavenly Consort watched the battle and discussed Lin Shen's strength, his advantages at range, and Hong Xin's aggressive abilities.
• Lin Shen used Sway and Fracture with his Folding Fan to weaken Hong Xin, who countered by enlarging himself and restoring his strength.
• Hong Xin advanced through Lin Shen's attacks while spectators judged that he had spent more of his abilities, and Hong Xin waited for Lin Shen's next move.
• Lin Shen unleashed Surging Wave Quadruple Strike, prompting Hong Xin to reveal his hidden talent skill and enlarge one fist into a warhammer-like blow.

Lin Shen defeated Hong Xin, then surrendered his first-place ranking to Nada Jia and deliberately lost further challenges to drop down the rankings. He hoped Christine would catch up to him sooner, but as his rank plunged toward a thousandth place, the Loser Rule expanded his challenge restriction.

• Lin Shen overpowered Hong Xin, who admitted defeat and left the battle.
• Nada Jia challenged Lin Shen, but he rested for an hour before conceding and giving her first place.
• Lin Shen decided to lower his ranking so Christine could reach him sooner and began abandoning successive battles.
• Lin Shen's ranking plunged past several hundredth place, and his watch announced that the Loser Rule had expanded his challenge restriction to one hundred places.

Lin Shen deliberately plunged down the rankings until Christine could challenge him, then stood to face him. Christine revealed an ability that reflected Lin Shen’s weakening skills back onto him, and the chapter ended as Christine launched a swift sword thrust.

• The Heavenly Emperor learned that Lin Shen was sacrificing his ranking to reach Christine and accepted Tian Congyun’s defense of Lin Shen’s loyalty.
• Lin Shen repeatedly triggered the Loser Rule, allowing more Ascenders to challenge him and dropping his rank until Christine could select him.
• Christine entered Lin Shen’s Home Planet to challenge him, and Lin Shen stood up rather than forfeiting.
• Lin Shen used Sway Style and Fracture Style, but Christine’s Evil Spirit Possession reflected both weakening effects onto Lin Shen.
• Lin Shen summoned a feather-shaped light sword and asked to test Christine’s swordsmanship, so Christine struck at him with a fast thrust.

Lin Shen and Christine began their Ranking Battle by stabbing each other repeatedly, relying on their powerful Self-Healing abilities to survive. Lin Shen eventually shifted to the Folding Fan and light swords, but Christine revealed a long-range blade attack that forced Lin Shen to counter with Surging Wave Triple Strike.

• Lin Shen and Christine pierced each other with their swords, then continued trading wounds without retreating as their Self-Healing abilities repaired their bodies.
• Lin Shen blocked Christine’s sword and trapped it with the Folding Fan, but Christine spun free and knocked the fan from Lin Shen’s hand.
• Lin Shen opened the Folding Fan into a swarm of light swords, which Christine rapidly slashed apart while maintaining the advantage in their exchange.
• Christine sent a black crescent blade radiance toward Lin Shen from dozens of meters away.
• Lin Shen used Surging Wave Triple Strike to break apart Christine’s blade radiance.

Lin Shen fought Christine with a shifting mix of light weapons, evasive techniques, and long-range fists while Christine’s strength kept rising. As Ye Yuzhen and her grandfather Yi Jingren argued over Lin Shen’s stamina, Yi Jingren changed their bet so he would intervene with Ye Yuzhen’s mother only if Lin Shen defeated Christine.

• Christine’s Crescent Blades battered Lin Shen’s Light Feather Fan, but Lin Shen evaded Christine’s attacks with Shrimp Slide and retreated faster than Christine could advance.
• Lin Shen switched from his fan to Surging Wave Fist, hoping to find a chance to strike Christine’s acupoints with Fingertip Sand, while Christine answered with Crescent Blades and forced him to fight at range.
• Ye Yuzhen worried that Lin Shen would exhaust himself, but Yi Jingren dismissed his chances and said Lin Shen’s long-range attacks consumed too much strength.
• Ye Yuzhen revealed Lin Shen’s nickname, Perpetual Motion Machine A Tian, and proposed a bet with Yi Jingren about whose stamina would last longer.
• Yi Jingren revised the bet so he would help persuade Ye Yuzhen’s mother only if Lin Shen defeated Christine, and Ye Yuzhen reluctantly accepted.

Lin Shen used the Super Gene Text to absorb World Power and fought Christine with increasingly powerful Surging Wave Fist combos. Christine’s Devil Persona lost control and transformed him, leaving Lin Shen badly wounded as the fight turned against him.

• Lin Shen activated the Super Gene Text and used the Surging Wave Four-Hit Combo to break through Christine’s blade radiance.
• Christine revealed his Dual Life Foundation Talent, turning his sword and blade radiance dark gold and forcing Lin Shen to use the Five-Hit Combo.
• Lin Shen and Christine fought at range as Christine grew fatigued while Lin Shen’s World Power supply endured.
• Catherine warned that Christine’s Devil Persona was about to lose control, and pink mist began pouring from his body.
• Christine turned pink and unleashed a surge of speed and strength, slicing through Lin Shen’s defense and cutting him with several wounds.

Lin Shen activated Super Gene Form and gained the upper hand against Christine, but Christine shattered the Saint Heart Sword to unleash his Devil Persona. The two resumed their fierce battle, and Lin Shen’s attack failed to stop Christine, who continued fighting under the devil’s control.

• Lin Shen activated Super Gene Form and overwhelmed Christine with Surging Wave Fist and Wave Treading Step.
• Christine’s Saint Heart Sword mark appeared, signaling that his power was fading, and Lin Shen expected the battle to end.
• Christine stabbed his demon sword into the Saint Heart Sword mark and shattered it, freeing the Devil Persona at the cost of his former self.
• Christine’s pink mist surged as he charged Lin Shen with increasingly powerful and unpredictable sword strikes.
• Lin Shen pierced Christine’s acupoint with Finger Sand, but Christine remained mobile and kept attacking under the Devil Persona’s control.

Lin Shen’s fight with Christine continued until Christine was swept into a lightning tornado, where he completed a dangerous transformation and emerged as his true self. Christine then erased Lin Shen’s attacks with the Separation Method, revealing that he had published it on SkyNet.

• Lin Shen repeatedly failed to immobilize Christine with Fingertip Sand and tried to overwhelm him with a six-hit combo.
• Christine was blasted backward and swept into a lightning tornado, leading the spectators and Lin Shen to believe he had died.
• Christine emerged from the tornado after destroying the Saint Heart Sword, unleashing his Devil Persona, and reforging his sword heart.
• Christine introduced himself as the Sword Saint Disciple of the Di Man Race and invited Lin Shen to begin their real battle.
• Lin Shen launched ten sets of Surging Wave Five-Hit Combos, but Christine erased them with a light sword sweep.
• Lin Shen recognized Christine’s technique as the Separation Method, which Christine had published on SkyNet.

Christine shattered Lin Shen’s ten Surging Wave Fist combos with one sword strike, revealing that he had mastered the Separation Method and convincing spectators that Lin Shen could not match him. Lin Shen accepted Christine’s challenge to use Fingertip Sand and fired it as everyone watched, leaving the strike’s result unknown.

• Christine used one sword strike to break all ten of Lin Shen’s five-hit Surging Wave Fist combos, stunning the spectators.
• Lin Shen recognized Christine’s technique as the Separation Method and understood how it could dismantle Nirvana Power.
• Christine challenged Lin Shen to use his ranged pistol technique, intending to demonstrate that his Separation Method could defeat it.
• Catherine and Ye Yuzhen urged Lin Shen to withdraw, while Ye Yuzhen decided his safety mattered more than winning her bet.
• Lin Shen formed his fingers into a gun and unleashed Fingertip Sand at Christine.

Lin Shen defeated Christine with a remote finger strike and a brutal combo that sent him into the tornado, but Christine survived and returned to his Home Planet. A tenth-turn Celestial Race Ascender named Tian Bei Xing attacked the weakened Christine, who cut him and his shield in half with a single sword strike.

• Lin Shen's Fingertip Sand pierced Christine's ears despite Christine's Separation Method, leaving him in agony.
• Lin Shen struck Christine's pressure point, battered him, and blasted him into the tornado with Wave Treading Six-Hit Combo.
• The spectators thought Christine had died, but he returned to his Home Planet severely injured and burned.
• Tian Bei Xing charged at Christine with the Heaven Strike Divine Shield Technique, hoping to kill his Di Man Race enemy.
• Christine slashed Tian Bei Xing and his shield Life Base in half with a weakened pink blade aura.