Chapter Summaries

At Heavenly Lake, Mu Tianji explained the power of Chen Ning’s Heart of the Dao of Formations as the Nine Provinces prepared for a possible invasion from the Shattered Star Realm. Chen Ning helped Cang Yue awaken her Phoenix Bloodline, and after it boosted her cultivation, he headed to Jade Cluster Peak for the leaders’ discussion.

• Mu Tianji said he would invite the leaders of the superpowers to discuss the Shattered Star Realm’s threat and explained that Chen Ning’s Heart of the Dao of Formations let him disregard the Nine Provinces’ sect-protecting formations.
• Cang Yue approached Chen Ning in a golden carriage, and they spent the night together.
• Chen Ning gave Cang Yue the Phoenix Essence Blood and helped her awaken her Phoenix Bloodline.
• Cang Yue’s awakening scorched the carriage and their clothes, then raised her cultivation by five minor realms to the Heaven Martial Realm Eighth Layer.
• Chen Ning told Cang Yue to grow accustomed to her new bloodline and went to Jade Cluster Peak for the discussion.

The Heavenly Lake Holy Lord announced a new Nine Provinces Superpowers Heaven Ranking, placing the Dragon-Seeking Sect alongside Heavenly Lake at the top and demoting the Asura Divine Sect to fourth. He then warned the assembled leaders that the Shattered Star Realm might invade, prompting them to demand an explanation of Beyond the Heavens.

• The Heavenly Lake Holy Lord proposed reranking the superpowers based on their gathering points and Heavenly Lake’s assessment, and the assembled leaders accepted without objection.
• Heavenly Lake announced the ranking, placing the Dragon-Seeking Sect second, the Yin-Yang Holy Land third, and the Asura Divine Sect fourth while several former top-ten factions fell.
• Chen Ning accepted the Dragon-Seeking Sect’s standing and received quest rewards, including two legendary rewards, a cultivation boost, and an enhancement opportunity he reserved for the Darkness Divine Mark.
• The Heavenly Lake Holy Lord told the leaders that the Nine Provinces faced a calamity from the Shattered Star Realm, which might invade as its world collapsed.
• Several faction leaders asked the Heavenly Lake Holy Lord to explain how Beyond the Heavens related to the Shattered Star Realm.

Chen Ning diverted the leaders’ demands about Beyond the Heavens, allowing Mu Tianji to explain that the Shattered Star Realm had taken control of the passage to the Nine Provinces. Two days later, armed figures from the Shattered Star Realm descended into Cloud Province.

• Chen Ning claimed he could reveal the secrets of Beyond the Heavens only to one person, then pretended to whisper to the War Academy’s old dean without telling him anything.
• The leaders stopped pressing Mu Tianji, and the various forces agreed to follow Heavenly Lake’s arrangements.
• Mu Tianji revealed that the Heavenly Lake Secret Realm was the passage between the Shattered Star Realm and the Nine Provinces, and that Heavenly Lake had lost control of it.
• Mu Tianji gave the leaders sound transmission stones and urged them to prepare to face the coming calamity together.
• Two days later, armored figures descended into Cloud Province and reacted with excitement to the dense Primordial Qi.

The Carefree Holy Son and Fan Wu led the Holy Alliance’s Faded Ones toward the Heavenly Immortal Sect after learning that the Nine Provinces Realm seemed weaker than expected. Meanwhile, Chen Ning tested his legendary Scatter Beans into Soldiers reward and summoned over a hundred talking soybean warriors, though the technique drained his soul power and True Essence Power.

• The Carefree Holy Son sent Five Poisons Cult scouts to gather information while the Holy Alliance cultivators recovered their strength by absorbing the Nine Provinces Realm’s ambient Qi.
• The scouts reported that the Heavenly Immortal Sect ranked eighth among the realm’s ten superpowers and had no more than ten Celestial Persons stationed there.
• Fan Wu urged the Carefree Holy Son to seize the Heavenly Immortal Sect, and the Holy Son agreed before leading the Holy Alliance cultivators toward it.
• Chen Ning practiced Fleeting Light and Gliding Shadows and used an Enhancement Count on his Darkness Divine Mark.
• Chen Ning scattered soybeans and summoned over a hundred intelligent, talkative soybean warriors, but the technique consumed his soul power and emptied his Qi sea of True Essence Power.

Chen Ning tested a Divine Ability that turned objects into loyal troops, then reviewed his growing strength and the Destruction Divine Fist. Hua Luo recovered from her battle with Cao Zhang and visited Chen Ning, leaving him determined to help her regain her memories.

• Chen Ning summoned warriors from soybeans, talismans, pills, Chaos Fish, and Origin Stones, discovering their different abilities and that his spiritual power limited how many troops he could control.
• Chen Ning named the Heavenly Martial Realm jiangli warrior Jiangli and placed him in command of the troops, while deciding not to destroy any of his conscious, loyal creations.
• Chen Ning reviewed the five levels of the Destruction Divine Fist, having comprehended the first three, and concluded he could now defeat the Beyond the Heavens envoy without the Immortal-Slaying Grand Formation.
• Hua Luo chased soybean warriors near Chen Ning's courtyard, and they stopped at the gate to face her until Chen Ning told her they were his subordinates.
• Hua Luo sat quietly beside Chen Ning, and he resolved to help her recover her memories.

The White Bone Saint chose to lead the Shattered Star Realm’s Holy Alliance in a war to take control of the Nine Provinces, and the Heavenly Immortal Sect fell to their attack. Chen Ning prepared to return to Spirit Province to defend the Dragon-Seeking Sect and summoned allies in Central Province, including several unfamiliar experts.

• The White Bone Saint learned that the Nine Provinces had only five Saints and declared that the Holy Alliance would make itself the realm’s new master.
• The chapter revealed that the White Bone Saint’s sect and descendants had been sacrificed in the fight against the Rakshasa Race, leaving him with little power of his own within the Holy Alliance.
• The Heavenly Lake Holy Lord told Chen Ning that the Holy Alliance had conquered the Heavenly Immortal Sect and that other powers in Cloud Province were trying to resist.
• Chen Ning agreed to defend Spirit Province and the Dragon-Seeking Sect, where Su Ling'er was the only one present from his side.
• Chen Ning summoned Dragon-Seeking Sect leaders and allies in Central Province, including unfamiliar Martial Venerables and a man who was a Heavenly Martial Realm expert.

Chen Ning returned to Spirit Province as Shattered Star Realm forces surrounded the Dragon-Seeking Sect, whose protective array stopped their first attack. He arrived just as Lin Zhentian challenged him, leaving their confrontation about to begin.

• Chen Ning used the Heaven-Swallowing Bag to bring the Dragon-Seeking Sect members back to Spirit Province, confident Cang Yue and Hua Luo could protect the sect in his absence.
• Lin Zhentian led Shattered Star Realm forces to attack the Dragon-Seeking Sect, but its Divine Abyss Soul-Annihilating Array killed a Nine-Star Martial Venerable who struck the mountain gate.
• Lin Zhentian decided to withdraw and seize other Spirit Province factions, while Su Ling'er opened the gate and tried to provoke him into staying.
• Lin Zhentian threatened Su Ling'er and mocked Chen Ning, but Chen Ning tore open the void and appeared before the sect.
• Lin Zhentian questioned whether Chen Ning would hide behind the formation or challenge him.

Chen Ning and his allies annihilated Lin Zhentian’s Holy Alliance force after Cang Yue killed a Heaven Martial Realm Seventh Layer attacker and Jiangli defeated a Heaven Martial Realm Third Layer expert. Lin Zhentian revealed what he knew about the Holy Alliance and the Shattered Star Realm, but Chen Ning trapped him in a spatial bag instead of releasing him.

• A Heaven Martial Realm Seventh Layer expert attacked Chen Ning, but Cang Yue appeared and killed the attacker with her Phoenix flames.
• Lin Zhentian tried to retreat, while Chen Ning refused to let him go and the soybean, talisman, stone, and fishman warriors surrounded the fleeing Holy Alliance members.
• Jiangli used the Azure Dragon Spear Art to kill a black-robed Heaven Martial Realm Third Layer expert.
• Lin Zhentian offered information in exchange for his life, and Chen Ning questioned him after his force was wiped out.
• Chen Ning promised not to kill Lin Zhentian, then swallowed him into a black spatial bag rather than letting him leave.

Chu Xuanyuan killed Lin Zhentian inside Chen Ning’s spatial bag and revealed his hatred of the Shattered Star Realm. Chen Ning learned that the Holy Alliance vastly outnumbered the Nine Provinces Realm in Heaven Martial experts, while the Dragon-Seeking Sect gained new resources and access to the White Horse Saint Cult’s eye technique.

• Chu Xuanyuan recognized Lin Zhentian as a member of the Five Saint Sects and attacked him inside the spatial bag.
• Lin Zhentian used the Moon-Devouring Evil Eyes, but Chu Xuanyuan blinded him with the mysterious pagoda and refined his flesh and blood.
• Chu Xuanyuan asked Chen Ning to release him so he could help fight the Shattered Star Realm, but Chen Ning chose not to answer yet.
• Chen Ning learned that the Holy Alliance had nearly five hundred Heaven Martial Realm experts and planned to invade the Nine Provinces Realm to gain leverage or rule it.
• The soybean warriors returned with the battlefield’s spatial rings, and Chen Ning made the White Horse Saint Cult’s eye technique available to all Dragon-Seeking Sect disciples.

Xiao Yuan reported that the Holy Alliance had overrun most of the Nine Provinces, leaving only Central Province and Spirit Province unscathed. White Bone Saint decided to seize Spirit Province, and Withered Wood Saint pressured him to act; six Heavenly Gang Stars and a large force set out to attack the Dragon-Seeking Sect.

• Xiao Yuan told Chen Ning that the Holy Alliance had conquered or crippled factions across the Nine Provinces, while Central Province and Spirit Province remained intact.
• White Bone Saint explained that the Holy Alliance needed to take Spirit Province to pressure Central Province, and rejected a proposal to slaughter civilians.
• Withered Wood Saint arrived, criticized the Holy Alliance for failing to force Central Province to reveal its strength, and demanded results.
• White Bone Saint promised that taking Spirit Province would make Central Province show its trump cards.
• Six Heavenly Gang Stars, more than twenty Heaven Martial Realm experts, and over fifty Martial Venerable experts departed to attack Spirit Province.
• A scarred Heavenly Gang Star joked about claiming first pick among the Dragon-Seeking Sect's beautiful women.

Chen Ning led Spirit Province’s defenders against the Holy Alliance’s invasion, and their forces devastated the attackers before twenty Celestial Persons joined the battle. As Spirit Province’s strongest fighters faced the newcomers, Sea Heavenly Venerable challenged Cang Yue while another Heavenly Gang Star called out Chen Ning.

• Yu Xie ordered the Holy Alliance fleet to smash through Spirit Province’s defensive line, but Chen Ning warned them to turn back and then commanded his forces to leave none alive.
• Chen Ning boosted the Dragon-Seeking Sect disciples with Press On in One Burst as Spirit Province’s factions, survivors, demons, and artifact spirits fought back and killed many Holy Alliance Martial Venerables.
• Twenty Celestial Persons entered the battle, and Wine Maniac, Li Changtian, the Monkey King, the Bear King, and Cang Yue engaged them.
• Cang Yue burned a Heaven Martial Realm Seventh Layer expert, then Sea Heavenly Venerable arrived and challenged her to fight for the right to claim her.
• Another Heavenly Gang Star appeared and challenged Chen Ning to a duel.

Cang Yue killed Sea Heavenly Venerable with her Phoenix Divine Fire while Hua Luo confronted Addiction Heavenly Venerable. As the other Heavenly Gang Stars rushed to save him, Chen Ning moved to stop them.

• Addiction Heavenly Venerable challenged Chen Ning, who sent Hua Luo to fight him instead.
• Cang Yue attacked Sea Heavenly Venerable with Phoenix Divine Fire, overcoming his water techniques and killing him with a phoenix-shaped blast.
• Addiction Heavenly Venerable used his emotion-based poison on Hua Luo, but she remained unaffected and walked toward him with her Illusory Annihilation Dark Gold saber raised.
• Yu Xie and the other Heavenly Gang Stars realized Addiction Heavenly Venerable was in danger and flew to rescue him.
• Chen Ning asked whether he had agreed to let them save Addiction Heavenly Venerable.

Chen Ning and his allies crushed the Shattered Star Realm’s Heavenly Gang Stars, and Yu Xie fled after witnessing their strength. Chen Ning unleashed six Great Daos at the escaping Yu Xie, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Chen Ning distracted three Heavenly Gang Stars with Sword Qi while Hua Luo severed Addiction Heavenly Venerable’s head, killing him.
• Cang Yue joined the battle, and Chen Ning assigned her one opponent while he prepared to fight two Ninth-Level Heaven Martial Realm Heavenly Gang Stars.
• Chen Ning defeated both opponents with two punches of the Destruction Divine Fist.
• Hua Luo struck Yu Xie and sent him reeling, while Li Changtian finished his battle after killing five Celestial Persons.
• Yu Xie fled, but Chen Ning attacked him from afar with the Great Daos of Sword, Music, Flames, Frost, Earth, and Poison.

After Chen Ning and Cang Yue defeated the Holy Alliance’s invading force in Spirit Province, the Nine Provinces launched counterattacks but remained locked in a stalemate. The White Bone Saint ordered five Saints to attack Central Province and Heavenly Lake, then met them on a secluded mountain the night before the battle.

• Chen Ning killed Yu Xie, and Cang Yue slew the last remaining Heavenly Gang Star, ending the battle in Spirit Province with a decisive victory.
• Wine Maniac and the forces that fought in Spirit Province praised Chen Ning, while news of the Holy Alliance’s losses spread throughout the Nine Provinces.
• At Heavenly Lake, Mu Tianji told Xiao Qian that the Nine Provinces would begin its counterattack, and Central Province’s major powers reclaimed several territories before the fighting stalled.
• The White Bone Saint decided to deploy the five Saints to flatten Central Province and take Heavenly Lake the next day.
• The White Bone Saint met the five leaders of the Great Saint Sects on a secluded mountain, where the Withered Wood Saint hinted that the White Bone Saint could rule the Holy Alliance if they died in battle.

White Bone Saint tried to convince the five Holy Alliance Saints that he was loyal, then self-detonated before Azure Lamp Saint restored him. The next day, he led the Holy Alliance’s forces against Central Province after Heavenly Lake Holy Lord Mu Tianji rejected his demand to surrender the Nine Provinces Realm.

• Withered Wood Saint accused White Bone Saint of secretly wanting the five Saints to die, and White Bone Saint insisted he was devoted to the Holy Alliance.
• White Bone Saint self-detonated to prove his sincerity, but Azure Lamp Saint used the Great Dao of Nature to restore him.
• The five Saints agreed to follow White Bone Saint’s orders in battle and watched Central Province, while debating whether his self-detonation had been genuine.
• White Bone Saint offered Mu Tianji peace in exchange for Heavenly Lake letting the Holy Alliance rule the Nine Provinces Realm, but Mu Tianji refused.
• Lone Wolf urged White Bone Saint to attack, and White Bone Saint ordered the Holy Alliance’s forces to charge Central Province’s defenses.

The Holy Alliance’s Saints overwhelmed Central Province’s defenders, while the Heavenly Lake Holy Lord fought Azure Lamp Saint and Vicious Fire Saint. As Yellow Wind Saint pushed Central Province toward collapse, Butcher confronted him and revealed the blood-red blade concealed inside his cleaver.

• Withered Wood Saint attacked Central Province’s cultivators, and Wangyou Saint moved to fight him while Heavenly Lake Holy Lord confronted Azure Lamp Saint.
• Heavenly Lake Holy Lord tore apart half of Azure Lamp Saint’s body with a golden wheel, but Azure Lamp Saint recovered and Vicious Fire Saint joined the fight against him.
• Yellow Wind Saint entered the battlefield and used yellow sand to devastate Central Province’s forces.
• Butcher intercepted Yellow Wind Saint, then shattered his cleaver to reveal a short blade blazing with blood-red light.

Butcher used Beheading to enter the Saint Realm and nearly killed Yellow Wind Saint before Mount Tai Saint intervened. Chen Ning challenged Mount Tai Saint’s claim that the two sides should show mercy, and the confrontation continued.

• Butcher wielded Beheading to fight Yellow Wind Saint, then entered the Saint Realm and gained the power to threaten him.
• Butcher mocked Yellow Wind Saint’s cowardice and attacked with the Slaughter God Saber Technique, but Mount Tai Saint stopped the strike with one palm.
• Yellow Wind Saint thanked Mount Tai Saint, whom Butcher recognized as the Holy Alliance’s strongest fighter and a Late-Stage Saint.
• Mount Tai Saint urged Butcher to spare Yellow Wind Saint, then struck Butcher and sank his legs into the ground.
• Chen Ning leaped in with a giant hammer, was knocked back by Mount Tai Saint, and accused him of hypocrisy for demanding mercy while attacking a Nine Provinces Saint.

Chen Ning and Hua Luo joined the battle against the Holy Alliance, where Mount Tai Saint emerged as their most dangerous opponent. Hua Luo faced him alone while Chen Ning fought across the battlefield, until Lone Wolf challenged him.

• Hua Luo swept away Yellow Wind Saint’s sandstorm with the Illusory Annihilation Dark Gold, and Mount Tai Saint sensed that she threatened the Holy Alliance.
• Mount Tai Saint burned his remaining lifespan, locked down space, and stopped Chen Ning from escaping with Hua Luo.
• Hua Luo pushed Chen Ning beyond the space lock and prepared to fight Mount Tai Saint alone.
• Chen Ning charged through the battlefield, defeating Holy Alliance cultivators as Butcher kept Yellow Wind Saint occupied.
• Lone Wolf, marked as a slave and foremost among the Heavenly Gang Stars, leaped toward Chen Ning and challenged him.

Chen Ning killed Lone Wolf and overwhelmed the Holy Alliance’s forces, while his Darkness Divine Mark raised his cultivation and helped him condense a Spirit Void Seed. White Bone Saint refused to intervene, broke a Heavenly Gang Star’s spear, and watched Mount Tai Saint fight Hua Luo as he waited for the battle to exhaust Mount Tai Saint.

• Chen Ning revealed he had reached the Heaven Martial Realm Sixth Layer and fought Lone Wolf, whose Rakshasa bloodline power unleashed waves of Sha Qi.
• Chen Ning used the fourth level of the Destruction Divine Fist to destroy Lone Wolf’s soul and kill him.
• The Darkness Divine Mark absorbed Lone Wolf’s power, stabilizing Chen Ning’s cultivation and helping him condense a Spirit Void Seed before he returned to slaughter Holy Alliance cultivators.
• A wounded Heavenly Gang Star demanded that White Bone Saint kill Chen Ning and threatened to report him to Withered Wood Saint.
• White Bone Saint snapped the Heavenly Gang Star’s Turbid Dragon Spear and said the Nine Provinces Realm needed to vent its anger over the Holy Alliance’s killings.
• White Bone Saint watched Mount Tai Saint battle Hua Luo, expecting the fight to leave Mount Tai Saint near death whether he won or lost.

Butcher killed Yellow Wind Saint, and Hua Luo defeated Mount Tai Saint after awakening overwhelming power. Hua Luo collapsed unconscious in Chen Ning’s arms, while the battlefield fell silent at the fall of a Late-Stage Saint.

• Butcher severed Yellow Wind Saint’s head, and White Bone Saint’s betrayal became clear to the Holy Alliance Saints.
• Butcher went to aid Hua Luo against Mount Tai Saint, but Mount Tai Saint knocked him through a mountain.
• Mount Tai Saint unleashed Mount Tai Descent, and Hua Luo caught the divine mountain with one hand before shattering it.
• Hua Luo struck Mount Tai Saint repeatedly with Big Hammer Eighty until his defenses broke and his Blood Qi dispersed.
• Hua Luo lost consciousness, and Chen Ning caught her as the gathered fighters stared in shock at Mount Tai Saint’s defeat.