Chapter Summaries

Ning Chuan used his martial arts and Divine Weapons to overcome Luan Teng’s speed and force him into close combat, where Luan Teng relied on his Vine Spirit Armor to withstand repeated blows. The fight took an unexpected turn when Ning Chuan suddenly wounded Luan Teng with a white saber, leaving the watching Heavenly Kings stunned.

• Ning Chuan injured Luan Teng in their clash, and the Heavenly Kings recognized that his Dragon-Slaying Killing Art gave his physical attacks terrifying power.
• Ning Chuan pressed Luan Teng with his war spear, while Luan Teng evaded and counterattacked rather than meeting him head-on.
• Ning Chuan summoned the Divine Treasury of Ten Thousand Weapons, slowing Luan Teng and gradually closing the distance between them.
• Luan Teng formed his Vine Spirit Armor and fought Ning Chuan at close range, but Ning Chuan’s Heavenly Halberd sent him flying into the North Sea.
• Ning Chuan suddenly appeared behind Luan Teng with a white saber, cutting through the Vine Spirit Armor and inflicting a deep wound.

Ning Chuan overwhelmed Luan Teng under the Strength Stele’s suppression, repeatedly wounding him as he tried to escape. During the fight, Ning Chuan sensed that his nine Force Wheels might be fusing into another Force Wheel, and he ended the chapter declaring that he would kill Luan Teng to avoid the danger of fighting him without the suppression.

• Ning Chuan’s Heaven Severing Slash shattered Luan Teng’s vine armor and inflicted a severe wound, surprising the watching Heavenly Kings.
• Luan Teng tried to flee beyond the Strength Stele’s range, but Ning Chuan blocked him with a barrage from the Divine Treasury of Ten Thousand Weapons and pursued him.
• Ning Chuan sensed his nine Force Wheels rising toward one another and wondered whether they could fuse into a larger Force Wheel.
• Ning Chuan continued attacking with his saber, martial arts, and Divine Weapons, while Luan Teng refused to detonate his avatar or concede.
• When Luan Teng warned that Ning Chuan could not defeat him without the Strength Stele, Ning Chuan agreed and said he would kill him just in case.

Ning Chuan overwhelmed Luan Teng in their fight, then continued attacking after Luan Teng surrendered because the match had no agreed rules allowing surrender. As Ning Chuan drove Luan Teng into the North Sea, he discovered that his nine active Force Wheels had begun to merge into a single ring and were already greatly strengthening his Force.

• Ning Chuan trapped Luan Teng with the Divine Treasury of Ten Thousand Weapons and battered him with the Dragon-Slaying Killing Art and Heaven Severing Slash until Luan Teng surrendered.
• Ning Chuan attacked Luan Teng after his surrender, while Bai Qi deterred Li Huo from intervening and Wei Chen argued that the match had no rules permitting surrender.
• Ning Chuan continued to overpower Luan Teng, and his Heaven Severing Slash grew strong enough to tear open rifts in space despite the Strength Stele's suppression.
• Ning Chuan nearly cleaved Luan Teng in two and sent him crashing into the North Sea, then directed his Divine Weapons to surround him.
• Ning Chuan inspected his nine active Force Wheels and found that they had begun to merge into one ring-shaped Force Wheel that substantially enhanced his Force.

Ning Chuan defeated Luan Teng and demanded a Realm-Breaking Dao Fruit in exchange for sparing him. After severing Luan Teng’s hand and taking his spatial ring, Ning Chuan accepted his surrender and ended the fight as the Federation prepared to cooperate with the other race.

• Luan Teng admitted defeat and offered compensation, but Ning Chuan kept attacking while Li Huo appealed to Wei Chen and Bai Qi to spare him for the sake of cooperation.
• Wei Chen told Ning Chuan to spare Luan Teng, and Ning Chuan demanded a Realm-Breaking Dao Fruit for his life.
• When Luan Teng hesitated, Ning Chuan attacked and severed his hand, then broke the spatial ring’s mental imprint and took the ring and its contents.
• Luan Teng agreed to give Ning Chuan the ring, and Ning Chuan dispersed the Divine Treasury of Ten Thousand Weapons.
• A Heavenly King announced Ning Chuan as the winner, and Wei Chen laughed at the familiar disruption Ning Chuan’s challenge matches had caused at Stars University.

After Ning Chuan defeated Luan Teng, the Heavenly Kings gathered for their meeting while the wounded Lin Fengyang secretly revealed himself as a Myriad Stars Divine Kingdom agent. Lin Fengyang vowed to kill Ning Chuan and used a mysterious silver box that strengthened his Hearts of Law.

• Wei Chen put away the Strength Stele, and Luan Teng threatened Ning Chuan before joining the other Heavenly Kings for the meeting.
• Li Huo announced that the leader of the king-level vicious beasts had arrived and led the Heavenly Kings toward the municipal hall.
• Lin Fengyang declined to attend the meeting, claiming his injuries needed a day or two to heal, then secretly recovered within minutes in his cultivation chamber.
• Lin Fengyang revealed that he was an undercover agent for the Myriad Stars Divine Kingdom and vowed to avenge Lin Xiaoyun and Lin Longxing by killing Ning Chuan.
• Lin Fengyang opened a patterned silver box, reached into its pale mist with his mental power, and watched his two Hearts of Law grow brighter.

Ning Chuan and the Heavenly Kings gathered in Heaven Suppression City No. 9 to discuss the Holy Heaven Alliance’s move to send a powerful force into the Divine Martial Stele. Ning Chuan suspected a mysterious black-robed Heavenly King might be an awakened Law Spirit, but the meeting turned to planning for the incoming threat.

• Ning Chuan noticed that Divine Sense vanished into a newly arrived black-robed Heavenly King, and Li Huo introduced the figure as a solitary expert who wished to remain anonymous.
• Wei Chen told Ning Chuan that he and Bai Qi could not see through the stranger and suspected an awakened Law Spirit, but they decided not to test the figure so the Federation could preserve its alliance with the aliens.
• Ning Chuan considered how a Law Spirit’s strength might be diminished after awakening and wondered whether the black-robed figure could have reached the Sea or River Realm.
• Xu Yuan announced that the Holy Heaven Alliance would send twenty-five Heavenly Kings, including three Great River Realm experts, through the special passage into the Divine Martial Stele.
• The Heavenly Kings discussed whether the Holy Heaven Alliance’s large deployment confirmed the rumored legacy, while Ning Chuan recalled how the Alliance governed the sects of the Heavenly Martial Realm.

Xu Yuan secured agreement for Martial Star’s experts to make a Martial Dao Oath against the Holy Heaven Alliance and proposed cooperation to pursue the Divine Martial Stele’s Dao inheritance. The factions then deadlocked over the allocation of the Stele’s special passages.

• Xu Yuan persuaded the Heavenly Kings to agree that Martial Star’s experts entering the Divine Martial Stele would make a Martial Dao Oath to unite against the Holy Heaven Alliance.
• Xu Yuan proposed that Martial Star’s factions cooperate to seek the Dao inheritance and adopted the ferocious beast leader’s suggested division if it could be passed on multiple times.
• Hu Yun, the ferocious beast leader, and Luan Teng argued over how to divide Martial Star’s twenty-four special passages.
• Luan Teng proposed four passages for the ferocious beasts and ten each for the aliens and Federation, and the ferocious beast leader accepted.
• Hu Yun offered ten passages to the aliens and ferocious beasts, but they opposed the proposal, leaving the meeting at an impasse.

Ning Chuan watched the dispute over places in the Divine Martial Stele turn into a demand that he share his spiritual cultivation methods. He mocked Luan Teng and Li Huo for invoking Martial Star’s welfare, then the black-robed figure challenged whether Ning Chuan had created the methods himself.

• The Federation and other races argued over how many places each faction would receive in the Divine Martial Stele, while Ning Chuan and Wei Chen suspected the other races were exploiting Martial Star’s crisis.
• Luan Teng agreed to the Federation receiving fourteen places if Ning Chuan shared the Divine Wave Meditation Method, claiming it would strengthen Martial Star.
• Ning Chuan asked whether Luan Teng could afford the method, then offered to give the methods to everyone for free if Luan Teng died.
• The vicious beast leader showed interest in Luan Teng’s death, but Ning Chuan said he had been teasing him and challenged the other races to sacrifice themselves for Martial Star.
• Li Huo accused Ning Chuan of acting out of spite, and Ning Chuan retorted that Li Huo and Luan Teng could die fighting the Heavenly Martial Realm.
• The black-robed figure asked Ning Chuan whether he had created the Divine Wave Meditation Method and the Spirit Forging Meditation Method himself.

Ning Chuan rejected the black-robed man’s claim that the Moon God Ruins belonged to Ye Qingwu, the Goddess of Night, and refused to surrender the Divine Wave Meditation Method. Negotiations over passage allocations for the Divine Martial Stele nearly erupted into violence, but the vicious beasts’ leader urged everyone to keep talking.

• The black-robed man claimed that the Moon God Ruins belonged to Ye Qingwu, and Ning Chuan challenged him to prove it while mocking the claim.
• Ning Chuan argued that the Federation’s long history gave it stronger ancestral claims to Martial Star, and Federation Heavenly Kings backed him.
• Luan Teng urged Ning Chuan to hand over the Divine Wave Meditation Method, but Ning Chuan threatened to put a bounty on him.
• Li Huo offered the Federation fourteen special passages in exchange for sharing the method, or demanded that the Federation split the remaining passages with the other races.
• Hu Yun rejected Li Huo’s demand, and the Heavenly Kings’ auras shattered the conference room’s furnishings as tensions escalated.
• The leader of the vicious beasts stepped in and offered to give up one special passage so negotiations could continue.

The Federation’s negotiations with the alien race over passageways and the Divine Wave Meditation Method collapsed as the alien race maintained its hard line. After the Heavenly Kings debated the threat of an awakened Law Spirit and the Federation’s options, Bai Qi and Wei Chen told Ning Chuan to focus on cultivation and grow stronger before taking on the Federation’s burdens.

• The alien race and the Federation failed to agree on passageways, and the ferocious beasts ended the meeting before leaving with their deal for Ning Chuan’s mental power cultivation method still open.
• Xu Yuan criticized Ning Chuan’s forceful approach to negotiations, while Ye Wuchen defended him and challenged Xu Yuan’s demand that he bear responsibility for the Federation.
• Wei Chen argued that the alien race had used the meditation method as a pretext and agreed with Ning Chuan that the black-robed figure was likely an awakened Law Spirit.
• The Heavenly Kings rejected letting people from the Heavenly Martial Realm enter Martial Star, and Bai Qi warned that the Federation might use its ultimate weapon if the alien race refused to yield.
• Bai Qi and Wei Chen escorted Ning Chuan out and urged him to concentrate on cultivation rather than attend the next meeting, and Ning Chuan bowed before leaving.

Si Nanbo urged the alien Heavenly Kings to prepare for conflict with the Federation and revealed that he planned to obtain the Dao lineage inside the Divine Martial Stele. He demonstrated his ability to regrow Luan Teng’s severed hand and hinted at the lineage’s overwhelming power.

• Si Nanbo said the aliens should ally with the Federation if it accepted their terms, or seek cooperation with the Holy Heaven Alliance if it refused.
• Si Nanbo argued that the aliens needed to prioritize their own strength and could eventually cooperate with geniuses from factions within the Myriad Stars Divine Kingdom.
• Luan Teng proposed killing Ning Chuan to seize the Divine Wave Meditation Method, but Li Huo and Si Nanbo rejected acting until the aliens were stronger.
• Si Nanbo said the aliens would obtain the Dao lineage in the Divine Martial Stele before killing Ning Chuan, and he called for an intelligence network in Federation territory.
• Si Nanbo poured his blood onto Luan Teng’s severed arm and caused a new left hand to grow, then described the Divine Martial Stele’s Prison-Suppressing Dao Lineage as incomparable to his body-cultivation techniques.

After the Federation’s negotiations ended badly, Ning Chuan focused on strengthening himself and decided to seek treasures at the Divine Martial Stele. He consumed a Realm-Breaking Dao Fruit, gained over a hundred Mystic Truths, and then set out with Elder Nie for the stele.

• Ning Chuan returned to the Heavenly River with Lu Zhan and explained that the negotiations had gone poorly, reinforcing his resolve to improve his strength.
• Lu Zhan agreed to remain behind and stabilize his cultivation while Elder Nie offered to accompany Ning Chuan to the Divine Martial Stele.
• Ning Chuan swallowed the Realm-Breaking Dao Fruit he had taken from Luan Teng and gained over a hundred Mystic Truths.
• Ning Chuan judged that the new Mystic Truths added little to his immediate combat power but would help him adapt to opponents and eventually strengthen his Force when they evolved into Laws.
• Ning Chuan calmed himself for an hour, then flew with Elder Nie toward the Divine Martial Stele in the North Sea Domain.

Ning Chuan and Elder Nie reached the Divine Martial Stele, where they discussed its rising aura and the treasures it had begun releasing. A sword shot from the stele, and martial artists across the area rushed to intercept it.

• Ning Chuan and Elder Nie flew toward the Divine Martial Stele as Elder Nie explained that its treasures had improved since Martial Star's revival.
• Ning Chuan sensed the stele's savage aura, and Elder Nie warned that it grew stronger near the structure.
• Ning Chuan and Elder Nie arrived above the exposed seabed, where teams of martial artists searched for treasures around the stele.
• A sword shot from the Divine Martial Stele, piercing a Divine General's Force handprint after the attack slowed it slightly.
• Nearby Knights, Divine Generals, and treasure-hunting teams raced toward the sword's path to claim it.

Ning Chuan sensed a connection between the Ancient Dragon Elephant Scripture and the Divine Martial Stele’s special passages, then used his powerful Divine Sense to probe them despite Elder Nie’s warnings. He discovered that he could examine an entire face of the stele, leaving Elder Nie astonished by the scale of his perception.

• A Seventh-Grade Martial Artist claimed a sword that shot from the Divine Martial Stele, and Elder Nie explained the rule that whoever first secured a treasure could keep it.
• Ning Chuan learned that the Divine Martial Stele had seven special passages on each of its seven faces, along with an unrestricted ordinary passage.
• Ning Chuan sensed a connection between himself and the special passages; using the Ancient Dragon Elephant Scripture together with the Dragon Elephant Mystic Truth intensified it.
• Ning Chuan used the Heavenly Derivation Art to probe the passages, while Elder Nie warned that the stele’s aura could annihilate a probing person’s soul.
• Ning Chuan told Elder Nie that his soul injuries had already healed, then fixed his perception on the stele’s entire seventy-thousand-meter-wide face.

Ning Chuan tested his Divine Sense on the Divine Martial Stele and learned to predict where and how quickly a great treasure would emerge. After a stone box containing a nearly worthless herb was seized by silver birds, Elder Nie identified their mistress as Xi Fengrou, the Beast Emperor Hall's saintess.

• Ning Chuan spread his Divine Sense across one face of the Divine Martial Stele, and Elder Nie realized he could predict where treasures would appear.
• Ning Chuan predicted an ancient stone box's emergence and flight speed, but held back because he could not yet judge its trajectory.
• A Peak Knight tried to stop the stone box and was flung aside with his arm shattered.
• A flock of silver birds sacrificed themselves to sap the box's energy, and one Divine General-level bird carried it to a palace above the sea pit.
• Xi Fengrou found only a nearly worthless sacred herb inside the box and threatened the silver bird with a hundred years in the black dungeon if it failed to find a Realm-Breaking Dao Fruit.
• Elder Nie told Ning Chuan that Xi Fengrou was the Beast Emperor Hall's current saintess and the hall master's lover.

Ning Chuan learned about the Beast Emperor Hall and moved away from holy maiden Xi Fengrou to collect treasures from the Divine Martial Stele. After repeatedly predicting where treasures would emerge and catching them with ease, he reached for a powerful halberd just as a cyan vine attacked him from behind.

• Elder Nie explained that the Beast King Hall was supported by the Beast Emperor Hall to avoid taxes and warned Ning Chuan that Xi Fengrou had many ferocious beasts and was exceptionally skilled at snatching treasures.
• Ning Chuan and Elder Nie moved to another face of the Divine Martial Stele, where Ning Chuan studied the treasures' trajectories and the auras they released.
• Ning Chuan predicted a sword's path, stopped it effortlessly, and gave it to Elder Nie, who called it an excellent weapon.
• Ning Chuan collected more treasures by predicting where they would land, then identified and positioned himself to intercept a halberd with power comparable to a Fourth-Heaven Divine General.
• As Ning Chuan reached to catch the black war halberd, a thick cyan vine flew toward the center of his back.

Ning Chuan fought off Luan Teng’s attacks while both men tried to claim a black war halberd, which a Divine General ultimately seized. After Luan Teng taunted him and Elder Nie urged him to withdraw, Ning Chuan decided to stay and face him.

• Luan Teng ambushed Ning Chuan with a cyan vine, but Ning Chuan destroyed it and was pushed back only a few hundred meters.
• Luan Teng launched two more vines, and Ning Chuan used his Divine Treasury of Ten Thousand Weapons and blazing sun to destroy them while a Divine General claimed the black war halberd.
• The blasts injured nearby Divine Generals and Knights, while Luan Teng revealed he had come seeking treasure after Si Nanbo healed his severed hand and Ning Chuan had taken his spatial ring.
• Elder Nie confronted Luan Teng over his attack, but Luan Teng mocked him and insisted he was fighting for the weapon.
• Ning Chuan stopped Elder Nie from arguing and refused to leave, judging that he could take on Luan Teng despite the Heavenly King’s strength.

Ning Chuan repeatedly claimed treasures from the Divine Martial Stele before Luan Teng could interfere, leaving Luan Teng humiliated and ready to leave. Ning Chuan then followed him and offered to share his good luck.

• Luan Teng announced that he would follow Ning Chuan to the Divine Martial Steles and try to take treasures, while Ning Chuan said his luck could not be stolen.
• Ning Chuan teleported close to the Divine Martial Stele and caught a stone medicine box as it emerged; Luan Teng canceled his vine attack rather than risk breaking the treasure-contest rules.
• Ning Chuan predicted another treasure's appearance, seized it before Luan Teng's attack could reach him, and continued claiming five or six more treasures in the same way.
• Luan Teng, frustrated by his failed attempts and the onlookers' whispered mockery, gave up following Ning Chuan and turned to leave.
• Ning Chuan changed direction, followed Luan Teng, and asked whether he wanted Ning Chuan to share some of his good luck.

Ning Chuan taunted Luan Teng while competing for treasures at the Divine Martial Stele, forcing the alien Heavenly King to leave without fighting. Meanwhile, Xi Fengrou recognized Ning Chuan and revealed that the Beast Emperor Hall had plans to target him for his spiritual power cultivation method.

• Ning Chuan repeatedly teleported ahead of Luan Teng to seize treasures and mocked him about losing his wealth.
• Luan Teng threatened Ning Chuan but left the Divine Martial Stele when Ning Chuan challenged him to attack.
• Treasure seekers were stunned that Ning Chuan had driven away the High-Stage Spring Realm Heavenly King without a fight.
• Xi Fengrou learned that Ning Chuan was the World Walker who had killed Beast King Hall geniuses in Donglin.
• Xi Fengrou dismissed Ning Chuan's status, noted the value of his spiritual power cultivation method, and said Hall Master Cangdong and other Great River Realm Heavenly Kings had made preparations.

Xi Fengrou warned that Ning Chuan’s strength made him dangerous, while Ning Chuan continued gathering treasures from the Divine Martial Stele. A Realm-Breaking Dao Fruit appeared, but it had rotted into ash inside its damaged box, and Xi Fengrou’s Silver Lightning Falcons then launched a suicide attack against Ning Chuan.

• Xi Fengrou slapped her attendant for suggesting she feared Ning Chuan, though she recognized that his strength rivaled a Heavenly King.
• Ning Chuan kept collecting treasures from the Divine Martial Stele, planning to trade away the weapons and medicines he could not use.
• Ning Chuan sensed unusual ripples and rushed toward them as treasure seekers identified the disturbance as the appearance of a Realm-Breaking Dao Fruit.
• Ning Chuan detected that the fruit inside the cracked jade medicine box had decayed into ash and slowed down rather than competing for it.
• Xi Fengrou’s Silver Lightning Falcons blocked Ning Chuan’s path and exploded in a coordinated suicide attack that sent lightning sweeping toward him.