Chapter Summaries

After Lin Shen defeated Tian Bei Xing, he challenged the unfamiliar Third Mountain while waiting for Di E Si to appear. Third Mountain forfeited immediately, and Lin Shen’s challenge drew attention to the unknown fighter’s remarkable rise through the rankings.

• Christine killed Tian Bei Xing with one sword strike, and the spectators stopped challenging her and Lin Shen.
• Lin Shen decided to challenge stronger opponents so no one would suspect him of deliberately targeting Christine.
• Lin Shen spotted Third Mountain on the ranking list and challenged him out of curiosity about the Mountain Race.
• Third Mountain recognized Lin Shen and forfeited, sending Lin Shen back to his Home Planet with Third Mountain’s former rank.
• Spectators investigated Third Mountain and discovered that he had risen from beyond rank fifty million and completed the third Cross-Rank Challenge rule.

Third Mountain attracted attention with an overwhelming winning streak after forfeiting to Lin Shen, while Lin Shen waited for Di E Si to become eligible to challenge him. Di E Si finally arrived and declared that Lin Shen would receive the unfinished strike he had once meant for Invincible Heavenly King, then unleashed his move Dust Settles.

• Third Mountain resumed challenging ascenders after his loss to Lin Shen, and recordings of his victories revealed how easily he defeated even powerful opponents from minor races.
• Lin Shen realized his Loser Rule had dropped to a ten-thousand-rank gap, so he stopped challenging others to avoid moving farther from Di E Si.
• After watching Lin Shen's battle with Christine, Di E Si chose to challenge Lin Shen first and planned to fight Christine later, once his injuries had healed.
• Di E Si told Lin Shen that their brothers' earlier battle had been unfinished and that Lin Shen would take Invincible Heavenly King's place to receive his strike.
• Lin Shen activated Super Gene Form, Super Gene Text, and Super Gene Reforging, agreeing to face Di E Si's move on his brother's behalf.
• Di E Si explained that his move was called Dust Settles and flicked his Dust Life Foundation toward Lin Shen.

Lin Shen used a Pseudo Separation Method to counter Di E Si’s settling-dust attack. His Fingertip Sand shattered the energy snowball and blasted Di E Si’s Dust Life Foundation backward, though Lin Shen himself was surprised by the technique’s strength.

• Di E Si’s settling dust absorbed surrounding energy and sharply weakened the World Power reaching Lin Shen.
• Lin Shen chose to face the attack head-on rather than dodge, and fired Fingertip Sand at Di E Si.
• Christine recognized that Lin Shen’s strike resembled the Separation Method and was shocked that Lin Shen could use it.
• Lin Shen combined the Super Gene Text with Fingertip Sand to separate the loose energy gathered by Di E Si’s dust.
• Lin Shen’s Pseudo Separation Method burst the energy snowball and knocked Di E Si’s Dust Life Foundation backward.

Lin Shen traded attacks with Di E Si and learned that his Dust Life Foundation could be any dust in the universe, making him an overwhelming threat. Lin Shen chose not to continue the fan duel as the onlookers recognized Di E Si as nearly invincible among those of his rank.

• Lin Shen fired Fingertip Sand at Di E Si, who countered it with a casual flick that matched its force.
• Lin Shen questioned Di E Si about Dust Settles, and Di E Si explained that any dust in the universe could serve as his Life Foundation.
• Di E Si gathered the dust in the air into a folding fan and proposed that he and Lin Shen fight with fans.
• The Heavenly Emperor, Catherine, Christine, and other onlookers recognized the vast power of Di E Si's Dust Life Foundation and considered him invincible among Ascension-level beings.
• Lin Shen decided not to summon his Inheritance Fan, judging that fighting Di E Si on those terms would be meaningless.

Lin Shen forfeited against Di E Si rather than risk using his full power, but Ouyang Yudu challenged Di E Si to prove Lin Shen had not truly lost. After absorbing Di E Si’s dust attack with his jade umbrella, Ouyang Yudu forfeited too, leaving the spectators stunned and Lin Shen furious.

• Lin Shen conceded to Di E Si and withdrew from the racial war, judging that victory offered humanity no benefit.
• Ouyang Yudu entered Di E Si’s Home Planet and challenged him, saying he wanted to prove Lin Shen had not lost but simply had not wanted to win.
• Di E Si recreated the dust attack he had used against Lin Shen, sending a river of glittering dust toward Ouyang Yudu.
• Ouyang Yudu closed his jade umbrella and absorbed the entire dust attack, then declared Lin Shen far stronger than himself and therefore unable to have lost.
• Ouyang Yudu forfeited and left, while Di E Si and the spectators stood stunned and Lin Shen reacted with outrage.

Lin Shen watched Ouyang Yudu, Di E Si, and Zuo Qinglong leave the ranking battles for new opportunities, then studied Lin Xiangdong’s rise through the Nirvana rankings. He recognized that Lin Xiangdong’s Petal Torrent could gather energy like Di E Si’s Dust Settles, leaving him curious whether he could learn to create the technique himself.

• Ouyang Yudu withstood Di E Si’s attack, prompting spectators to argue over Lin Shen’s strength, and Emperor Tian Shu ordered Ouyang Yudu transferred to the Celestial Master Academy.
• Di E Si withdrew from the Race Ranking List battle, followed soon after by Lin Shen and Christine.
• The Sword Alliance leader told Zuo Qinglong that the Star Lord had summoned him to join the Azure Guard, and Zuo Qinglong promised to represent the alliance well.
• Lin Shen watched Lin Xiangdong reach the top ten million of the Nirvana Level Ranking List by repeatedly using Petal Torrent.
• Lin Shen noticed that Lin Xiangdong’s Petal Torrent gathered spatial energy like Di E Si’s Dust Settles and wondered whether he could create the genuine technique.
• Lin Shen watched the Immortal and top-ranked Nirvana battles and realized how far their power exceeded that of Ascenders.

Lin Shen received Celestial Star access, Silence Abode, and new appointments for the Celestial Master Academy, then learned that Tian Bu Luo wanted him to accompany him to Luoqie Snow Mountain. The chapter ended with Lin Shen warning Tian Bu Luo that visiting the resting place of the Celestial Race’s ancestors could bring grave consequences.

• Tian Congyun told Lin Shen that Emperor had granted him ten Director Rank positions and presented him with an Access Permit for Celestial Star and Silence Abode.
• Tian Congyun revealed that Ouyang Yudu would lead the Special Task Force, while Kong Chuan would become a Vice Dean without a department to oversee.
• Lin Shen moved to Silence Abode on Celestial Star and found Tian Bu Luo there after he had forfeited the Ranking Battle.
• Tian Bu Luo explained that he wanted to visit Luoqie Snow Mountain, where past Heavenly Emperors rested, hoping to gain insight and break through the Heaven and Divine Human Art.
• Lin Shen hesitated to accompany Tian Bu Luo and warned him that disturbing the Celestial Race’s ancestors could be improper and dangerous.

Lin Shen accompanied Tian Bu Luo to Luoqie Snow Mountain to search for God and Heavenly Emperor's corpse, learning about the deadly Death Tribulation on the way. At the summit, they uncovered a body obscured by thick mosaics, leaving its identity unclear.

• Tian Bu Luo explained that Immortals faced recurring Death Tribulations and that God and Heavenly Emperor was said to have died from one on Luoqie Snow Mountain.
• Lin Shen agreed to travel with Tian Bu Luo, and the two followed the Chaos River through increasingly dense, dangerous mist.
• Tian Bu Luo used the Bright God Lamp to guide them through the solidifying Chaotic Mist to Luoqie Snow Mountain.
• Tian Bu Luo gave Lin Shen an incense stick and hurried him up the mountain, warning that they had to descend before it burned out.
• Lin Shen and Tian Bu Luo searched the summit for God and Heavenly Emperor's corpse, and Tian Bu Luo uncovered a body covered in thick mosaics.

Lin Shen and Tian Bu Luo investigated a corpse on Celestial Star, debating whether it belonged to God and Heavenly Emperor. Tian Bu Luo determined the corpse was a wingless woman who could not have been a Celestial Heavenly Emperor, and began searching her clothes for clues.

• Lin Shen and Tian Bu Luo searched the mountaintop but found only the corpse in the snow.
• Tian Bu Luo explained that the Celestial Race’s long history had suffered many breaks and that Celestial Star preserved old structures and corpses from decay.
• Tian Bu Luo said the corpse might not be God and Heavenly Emperor’s because it lacked the Heaven and Divine Human Art’s aura.
• Tian Bu Luo cleared snow from behind the corpse and noticed she had no wings and a spine unlike a Celestial’s.
• Tian Bu Luo reached into the woman’s clothing to search for clues to her identity.

Lin Shen and Tian Bu Luo found an Identity Jade Talisman and an ancient storage card on the foreign woman’s corpse, then recovered three videos from the card. The first two videos showed the woman practicing strange movements and discussing failed research into the Heaven and Divine Human Art, leaving Tian Bu Luo convinced she had plagiarized the Celestial Race’s art.

• Tian Bu Luo found God and Heavenly Emperor's Identity Jade Talisman on the woman’s corpse and suspected she had been involved in desecrating Luoqie Snow Mountain.
• Tian Bu Luo found a crystalline Identity Card, and Lin Shen and Tian Bu Luo left the mountain before the incense burned out.
• Lin Shen considered telling Emperor Tian Shu about the foreign woman’s corpse so he could claim the Fire Seed.
• At Silence Abode, Tian Bu Luo used his communicator to recover three videos from the card, and the first showed the woman performing bizarre, puppet-like movements resembling the Heaven and Divine Human Art.
• The second video showed the woman discussing her failed research into the Heaven and Divine Human Art, prompting Tian Bu Luo to accuse her of plagiarism.

Lin Shen and Tian Bu Luo watched recordings that revealed a researcher’s advanced work on the Heaven and Divine Human Art and a chained Female Celestial imprisoned in Silence Abode. The chapter left Tian Bu Luo shocked when the captive addressed the woman in the video as the Heavenly Emperor and begged to be spared.

• Lin Shen guessed that the woman researching the Heaven and Divine Human Art had gone to Luoqie Snow Mountain to study God and Heavenly Emperor’s corpse and died there.
• Tian Bu Luo recognized that the woman’s research surpassed his own, while Lin Shen questioned whether the laws she described were controlled by living beings.
• The second recording ended in missing footage, and the third showed a chained, unconscious Female Celestial suspended in a room.
• Lin Shen and Tian Bu Luo recognized the room as Silence Abode and found the chain rings still fixed in a beam.
• The woman in the recording woke the Female Celestial, who begged the woman she called the Heavenly Emperor to spare her.

Lin Shen and Tian Bu Luo watched a recording that appeared to show God and Heavenly Emperor imprisoned and tortured by a mysterious woman, who forced her to claim her identity and undergo the Heaven and Divine Human Art. The video ended with the Female Celestial transformed by a glowing crimson pattern, leaving Lin Shen and Tian Bu Luo shaken and unable to dismiss the technique as fake.

• Lin Shen and Tian Bu Luo heard the woman identify the chained Female Celestial as the Heavenly Emperor, and they initially assumed she was mistaken.
• The woman pressured the Female Celestial to claim the Heavenly Emperor's title by threatening the safety of her family and children.
• The Female Celestial declared herself God and Heavenly Emperor, and the woman began applying the Heaven and Divine Human Art to her.
• A crimson pattern covered the Female Celestial, making her float and move like a marionette as her eyes and wings turned blood-red.
• After the recording ended, Lin Shen and Tian Bu Luo called it a low-budget film, though Lin Shen could sense that the technique shown was real.

Lin Shen was summoned by Emperor Tian Shu and took responsibility for entering Luoqie Snow Mountain with Tian Bu Luo. He was ordered to handle the burial of God and Heavenly Emperor, and the Sky Burial Scripture led him to suspect that he was really meant to dispose of the woman’s corpse.

• Tian Bu Luo entered the imperial palace to explain the incident while Lin Shen waited outside, then Tian Congyun summoned Lin Shen to speak with Emperor Tian Shu.
• Lin Shen admitted that he had trespassed into Luoqie Snow Mountain and brought Tian Bu Luo, while insisting that the blame was his alone.
• Emperor Tian Shu assigned Lin Shen the task of burying God and Heavenly Emperor and confined Tian Bu Luo to Misty Rain Tower for three months.
• Tian Bu Luo gave Lin Shen the Sky Burial Scripture, and Emperor Tian Shu ordered Lin Shen not to leave until the task was completed.
• Lin Shen read the scripture at Silence Abode and concluded that Emperor Tian Shu wanted him to dispose of the woman’s corpse, so he began planning how to enter Luoqie Snow Mountain safely.

Lin Shen returned to Luoqie Snow Mountain to deal with the Immortal's corpse, but he could neither bury it properly nor find ground deep enough to conceal it. He hid the corpse in a cave and fell asleep beside it, hoping to preserve its Fire Seed ability.

• Emperor Tian Shu sent Lin Shen the Bright God Lamp spirit base and ten thick sticks of Guiding Incense for his trip to Luoqie Snow Mountain.
• Lin Shen climbed to the summit and dug the snow away from the corpse, then decided to bury it outside the Heavenly Emperor Cemetery.
• Lin Shen searched down the mountain but found only thin soil over unbreakable rock, leaving him unable to dig a grave.
• Lin Shen found a small cave in the ravine, carried the corpse inside, and lay beside it to sleep while keeping watch for beasts or insects.
• Lin Shen wondered whether the corpse was the true God and Heavenly Emperor, then eventually fell asleep.

After the corpse vanished from Luoqie Snow Mountain, Lin Shen searched for it without success and handed the Heavenly Emperor’s items to Tian Congyun without revealing what had happened. Back at the Celestial Master Academy, he reunited with Ouyang Yudu, who offered to recruit strong directors for the Special Task Force, before an old man arrived with an urgent problem.

• Lin Shen woke to find the corpse missing, searched Luoqie Snow Mountain repeatedly, and left when he could not find it.
• Lin Shen reported to Tian Congyun because the Heavenly Emperor was away, handed over the Bright God Lamp, incense, and Sky Burial Scripture, and concealed the corpse’s disappearance.
• Lin Shen learned that hostile forces might target him and contacted Ouyang Yudu, who had arrived at the Celestial Master Academy.
• Ouyang Yudu offered to recruit capable Nirvana Realm Experts to serve as directors and protect Lin Shen.
• An old man rushed up to Lin Shen and said that only the dean could personally handle an urgent matter.

Lin Shen struggled to catch a cabbage-eating Silicon-Based Lifeform until Chi Xin Huo caught it and gave him a grappling manual called Catching Loaches. Chi Xin Huo later revealed that the manual was the complete version of his secret technique, leaving the others to wonder whether Lin Shen could master it.

• Chi Xin Huo brought Lin Shen and Ouyang Yudu to the academy's backyard to catch a cat-like creature that was ruining the vegetables.
• Lin Shen tried to catch the fast Ascension Level creature with Fingertip Sand and Condemned by Thousands but could not touch it.
• Chi Xin Huo easily caught the creature and gave Lin Shen a manual titled Catching Loaches.
• Lin Shen read the manual and recognized its unusual grappling techniques and palm suction ability as a distinctive skill.
• Chi Xin Huo told the other academy officials that he had given Lin Shen the complete version of Catching Loaches, though few people had ever learned it.

Lin Shen entrusted Ouyang Yudu with rebuilding the Special Task Force, then watched the Ranking Battles and saw Third Mountain dominate the Ascender rankings. Dead Powder finished evolving into a Nirvana creature, but its unusual attribute and Lin Shen’s ability to activate it left him with questions as he went to test it.

• Ouyang Yudu proposed recruiting Special Task Force members, training them in the operations team, and finding an assistant for Lin Shen as head of the Celestial Master Academy.
• Lin Shen returned to Silence Abode and watched the Nirvana and Ascension Ranking Battles while studying Catching Loaches.
• Third Mountain climbed to the top of the Ascender Ranking List by reflecting attacks and overpowering challengers.
• Lin Shen saw that the Phoenix Race held the top Nirvana ranking while Lin Xiangdong’s position barely changed.
• Dead Powder finished evolving into a Nirvana creature with top-tier attributes and the Nirvana Attribute True Extreme Demon-Slaying Death Light.
• Lin Shen realized the attribute was Death Light rather than Divine Light and that he could still activate Dead Powder as an Ascender, so he left Silence Abode to test it.

Lin Shen tested Dead Powder’s Nirvana-level power, then used it to overpower the Three-Headed Dragon and tame it. The dragon produced three Pet Keys, and Lin Shen used all three to turn it into a Pet Capsule.

• Lin Shen tested Dead Powder’s True Extreme Demon-Slaying Death Light and found it could cut and pierce with immense force but did not cause explosions like the Divine Light.
• Lin Shen took Dead Powder to Ring Mountain Planet and used Dragon Hunter Kivess to lure out the Three-Headed Dragon.
• The Three-Headed Dragon blocked Dead Powder with a shield formed from its three Life Foundations, but Lin Shen tore through the defense and bound it when it tried to flee.
• The Three-Headed Dragon spat out azure, silver, and gold Pet Keys, one from each head.
• Lin Shen used all three Pet Keys, and the Three-Headed Dragon transformed into a Pet Capsule with three keyholes.

Lin Shen obtained the exceptionally powerful Super Origin Holy Shield Dragon and returned, planning to ask Chi Xin Huo about Catching Loaches. He saw Qiao Ge Li challenge Lin Xiangdong over the Lin Family’s feud with Qiao Ge Li’s race, and Lin Xiangdong attacked him with a flower petal.

• Lin Shen inspected the Super Origin Holy Shield Dragon’s tremendous attributes and stacked defensive abilities, then chose it as his mount.
• Lin Shen rode the Holy Shield Dragon, tested its three-shield barrier, and decided to help it undergo Nirvana after he reached Nirvana himself.
• Lin Shen returned to the planet, prepared to visit Chi Xin Huo, and noticed a Di Man Race challenger enter Lin Xiangdong’s Home Planet.
• Qiao Ge Li accused the Lin Family of offending a noble person of his race and declared that Lin Xiangdong deserved to die.
• Lin Xiangdong welcomed the chance to kill an enemy and flicked a flower petal at Qiao Ge Li.

Lin Xiangdong defeated and killed Qiao Ge Li with a petal tower that trapped and crushed him despite his Heaven Burning Demonic Fire. The spectators recognized the killing as a declaration of enmity with the Di Man Race, while Lin Shen remembered how Fourth Brother had always protected him.

• Lin Xiangdong’s Petal Torrent failed to harm Qiao Ge Li, who burned the petals with his black flames.
• Lin Xiangdong turned the burning petals into a growing tower that suppressed Qiao Ge Li and drained his spirit energy.
• Qiao Ge Li could not break free or reach his forfeit button, and the tower crushed him to death.
• The flower tower burned away, revealing Qiao Ge Li’s body, and Lin Xiangdong warned that anyone who touched his family would be slaughtered.
• The spectators reacted to Qiao Ge Li’s death and discussed the likely feud between Lin Xiangdong and the Di Man Race.
• Lin Shen watched Lin Xiangdong and recalled how Fourth Brother had always stood up for him.