Chapter Summaries

The Mysterious Nether Clan Leader led his allies to confront the Dragon Clan, believing he would draw the opposing God Clans into a trap. Chen Ning revealed that the real plan was to free Li Yuanqing, and the Fate, War, and Death God Clans joined the fight against the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader.

• The Mysterious Nether Clan Leader decided to personally seize the Dragon Pearl after Ren Ziru's death left him short of someone he trusted to activate the formation.
• The Mysterious Nether Clan Leader marched on the Dragon Clan, while the Kunlun, Moon, Light, and other God Clans gathered there to oppose him.
• Chen Ning revealed himself in Qingxuzi's form and told the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader that their real objective was rescuing Li Yuanqing, who was imprisoned in the Profound Nether God Clan.
• The Fate God Clan Leader and War God Clan Leader turned against the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader and called their clans to battle.
• Chen Ning urged the Death God Clan to avenge its former clan leader, and its members joined the six allied God Clans against the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader.

The six God Clans and their allies attacked the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader, but his Demigod strength overwhelmed them. Li Yuanqing arrived with the God-Slaying Bow, and the gathered experts committed to creating an opening for him to strike.

• The War God Clan, Fate God Clan, Dragon Clan, Light God Clan, Moon God Clan, Kunlun God Clan, and Chen Ning joined forces against the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader, but their attack only drove him back a few steps.
• Qingxuzi and Li Yuanqing arrived, renewing the experts’ hopes, and Li Yuanqing confronted the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader.
• The Mysterious Nether Clan Leader overpowered Li Yuanqing’s palm strike, but Li Yuanqing revealed the God-Slaying Bow, a Supreme-Grade Divine Artifact said to be capable of slaying gods.
• Qingxuzi formed killing arrays to restrain the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader, while the Light Clan Leader burned his origin and unleashed ten Sun God Rings.
• The assembled experts attacked with everything they had to create an opening for Li Yuanqing to kill the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader.

The experts joined forces against the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader, but Li Yuanqing killed him with a Supreme-Grade Divine Artifact arrow after Chen Ning forced him to expose an opening. After the victory, the leaders thanked Chen Ning, and the War God Clan Leader revealed Heavenly Venerable Zhu’s betrayal to the Light Clan Leader.

• Chen Ning unleashed the founding sect master's nameless move, forcing the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader to defend himself with all his strength.
• Li Yuanqing fired a Supreme-Grade Divine Artifact arrow through the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader's chest, and the arrow's power destroyed his body.
• The experts celebrated the Demigod's fall, and Li Yuanqing and the other leaders bowed to thank Chen Ning for his role in saving the Vast Land.
• The War God Clan Leader presented Heavenly Venerable Zhu, explaining that he had defected to the Profound Nether God Clan and concealed the former Light Clan prodigy's death.
• The Light Clan Leader sighed as he confronted Heavenly Venerable Zhu over his attack on Chen Ning.

After the Mysterious Nether Clan Leader’s death, the God Clans worked to restore order while Chen Ning broke through to Early Saint Venerable. As Li Yuanqing and Qingxuzi neared control of the formation that could return the Vast Land to its proper place, Li Yuanqing behaved strangely.

• The Light Clan Leader killed Heavenly Venerable Zhu for attacking Chen Ning, and the Light and War God Clans put their conflict behind them.
• The God Clans protected the Vast Land’s living beings and cleared out the Profound Nether God Clan’s remaining lackeys while Kunlun worked to break the formation.
• Chen Ning cultivated beneath a waterfall and broke through three realms to Early Saint Venerable.
• Li Changsheng visited Chen Ning, discussed the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden, and said Li Yuanqing and Qingxuzi were close to breaking the formation.
• Li Yuanqing thanked Qingxuzi for managing the Kunlun God Clan as they stood before the formation’s core, while Qingxuzi remained unaware of Li Yuanqing’s strange demeanor.

Li Yuanqing revealed to Qingxuzi that he had orchestrated the Vast Land’s upheaval to claim its people’s faith and become a god. He then confessed that his true goal was to use the grand formation to resurrect the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden, even if doing so destroyed the Vast Land, and prepared to kill Qingxuzi.

• Li Yuanqing struck Qingxuzi from behind while Qingxuzi worked to unravel the grand formation, shattering his meridians and Qi Sea.
• Li Yuanqing revealed that he had created the formation and used Profound Nether as a pawn to trigger the Vast Land’s upheaval.
• Li Yuanqing explained that the upheaval would redirect the Vast Land’s faith to him so he could reach the God Realm.
• Qingxuzi realized Li Yuanqing had another purpose, and Li Yuanqing confessed that he planned to resurrect the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden by transferring the Vast Land’s fortune and World Origin into his own small world.
• Li Yuanqing declared that it was time for Qingxuzi to die as the grand formation continued to operate.

Chen Ning exposed Li Yuanqing as the mastermind behind the Vast Land’s relocation and gathered the land’s strongest forces to stop him from sacrificing it to revive the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden. Li Yuanqing revealed his overwhelming Demigod power and began crushing the gathered fighters.

• Chen Ning rescued the gravely wounded Qingxuzi as Li Yuanqing tried to kill him, then explained how clues about the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden led him to suspect Li Yuanqing.
• Chen Ning summoned the Light Clan Leader, the War God Clan Leader, the Fate God Clan Leader, the Dragon Kings, and thousands of other experts to confront Li Yuanqing.
• Li Yuanqing admitted he intended to sacrifice the Vast Land to revive the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden and argued that the survivors could flee to other small worlds.
• The War God Clan Leader charged Li Yuanqing, who sent him flying with a single flick of his finger and shattered his bones.
• The gathered experts attacked together, but Li Yuanqing stomped on the Golden Dragon King and burst his golden scales, filling the sky with dragon blood.

Li Yuanqing overwhelmed the Vast Land's defenders as they failed to destroy the grand array, and the Fate God Clan Leader sacrificed himself to save Chen Ning. Just as hope seemed lost, Little Black Dragon arrived after reaching the Half-God Realm, ready to confront Li Yuanqing.

• Li Yuanqing defeated the four Kunlun God Clan Dao Protectors and routed the allied forces as they attacked him and the grand array.
• Chen Ning used his nameless move to hold Li Yuanqing off while the others attacked the array, but their efforts failed to damage it.
• Li Yuanqing sealed Chen Ning's power and struck at him, but the Fate God Clan Leader used his clan's art to take Chen Ning's place and died in the blow.
• The Fate God Clan Leader sent Chen Ning a message asking him to spare the Fate God Clan and left him a Jade Slip containing some of Hua Luo's missing memories.
• Little Black Dragon arrived after consuming the Demonic Slurry and reaching the Half-God Realm, giving the Vast Land a champion with power comparable to Li Yuanqing.

Chen Ning, Little Black Dragon, and the other experts defeated Li Yuanqing, but the completed formation let Li Yuanqing begin absorbing power to become a god and resurrect the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden.

• Chen Ning received the fourth-stage quest to kill Li Yuanqing as Little Black Dragon arrived and challenged him.
• Li Yuanqing fired 108,000 arrows from the God-Slaying Bow, and Chen Ning and Yellow Dragon used the Great Dao of Time and Universe in the Sleeve to neutralize most of them.
• Little Black Dragon struck Li Yuanqing with a torrent of destruction, defeating him and bringing relief to the surviving experts.
• Chen Ning warned that the formation was nearly complete, but Little Black Dragon could not destroy it in time.
• Li Yuanqing connected to the completed formation and began absorbing its accumulated power and the Vast Land's Power of Faith to become a god.

Li Yuanqing became a god and activated his formation to resurrect the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden, sacrificing the Vast Land's fortune in the process. After learning what he had done, the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden vowed to stop him from destroying the land she had once protected.

• Li Yuanqing completed his transformation into a god and began activating the formation despite the experts' pleas.
• Li Changsheng appealed to Li Yuanqing's compassion, but Li Yuanqing said he could not wait any longer to resurrect the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden.
• The formation summoned the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden as a remnant divine soul, and Li Yuanqing offered to take her to a recreated world from her era.
• The Holy Radiance Divine Maiden learned from Chen Ning that Li Yuanqing had drained the Vast Land's fortune to create that world.
• The Holy Radiance Divine Maiden refused to let Li Yuanqing destroy the Vast Land, while Li Yuanqing insisted he would take her to his recreated world.

Li Yuanqing attacked the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden but was defeated and killed, leaving the Vast Land’s destruction seemingly unavoidable. The Holy Radiance Divine Maiden tried to reverse the formation with her remaining power, and Chen Ning began a dangerous attempt to bring her strength from a million years in the past.

• The Holy Radiance Divine Maiden fought Li Yuanqing, who feigned surrender before launching a surprise attack, but she overpowered him.
• The Holy Radiance Divine Maiden demanded that Li Yuanqing reverse the formation, and he said it could not be done, so she killed him.
• The Light Clan Leader and the others realized that Li Yuanqing’s death had not stopped the Vast Land from perishing, and the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden plunged into the formation to try to save it.
• Chen Ning asked Yellow Dragon to help him bring the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden’s power from a million years ago across time, and she agreed to let him try.
• Chen Ning and Yellow Dragon used the Great Dao of Time, but Chen Ning’s body and divine soul came under immense pressure, and he spat blood.

Chen Ning drew forth the Holy Radiance Divine Maiden’s power from a million years ago, restoring the Vast Land’s Essence Power and saving its people. But he had burned his life to do it, and the Divine Maiden could only give him one year to find a way to replenish his lost life force.

• Chen Ning rallied his will, summoned the Divine Maiden’s power from a million years ago, and collapsed into the Little Black Dragon’s arms.
• The Holy Radiance Divine Maiden took back her sacred power and used it to restore the Vast Land, whose people celebrated their salvation.
• The Light Clan Leader noticed Chen Ning was dying, and his allies and friends gathered around him in grief.
• Chen Ning asked Emperor Yu to help integrate Hua Luo’s lost memories and said farewell to those around him.
• The Holy Radiance Divine Maiden said she could not save Chen Ning, but preserved his life for one year while he searched for a way to regain his lost vitality.

After Holy Radiance Divine Maiden restored Chen Ning enough to give him one more year, the Vast Land recovered from the catastrophe and Chen Ning established the Dragon-Seeking Sect. The system then rewarded him with a passage to the God Realm and a True God Dharma Body, while he still needed to replenish his lost vitality within a year.

• Holy Radiance Divine Maiden infused Chen Ning with Divine Power, restoring a little strength and extending his life by one year.
• Chen Ning urged Emperor Yu to stop avoiding the Moon God Clan Leader, and Emperor Yu confessed his feelings and seized her hand.
• Chen Ning and Holy Radiance Divine Maiden ended Li Yuanqing's scheme, peace returned to the Vast Land, and Chen Ning established the Dragon-Seeking Sect with Emperor Yu as acting sect master.
• Holy Radiance Divine Maiden became the Vast Land's guardian deity, and the people redirected the Power of the World Origin to help her rebuild her body.
• At the Worry-Free Sea, Chen Ning received a system reward allowing him to enter the God Realm without becoming a god, along with the cultivation method for the True God Dharma Body: Savage Bull.

Chen Ning recovered Hua Luo’s missing memories and said farewell to his companions before opening a passage to the God Realm. As he entered alone, A Li revealed a terrifying presence and followed him into the vortex.

• Chen Ning merged Hua Luo’s original memories with her current soul, and she remembered her painful past.
• Chen Ning bid farewell to the Little Black Dragon and his companions, then learned that the first leader’s most despised member of So Close Yet Worlds Apart remained unknown to them.
• Chen Ning told Hua Luo she could not accompany him to the God Realm and encouraged A Li to pursue her freedom.
• Chen Ning opened a passage to the God Realm and stepped inside after saying goodbye to everyone.
• A Li suddenly followed Chen Ning into the vortex, and Sui Qingshan and the others realized she had been hiding her terrifying strength.

Chen Ning entered the God Realm through the passage he opened, with A Li following him and revealing she was the founding master’s last subordinate, Yao Li. After arriving in the God Realm, Yao Li said she would not kill him, but secretly planned to lower his guard and steal his fortune.

• A Li followed Chen Ning into the void vortex, and the others realized she had Saint Venerable Realm cultivation and worried for their leader.
• In the passage to the God Realm, Chen Ning learned that A Li had disguised herself and planned to kill him and steal his fortune.
• A Li explained that she had traded revenge for the fortune of the girl who truly possessed the Misfortune Physique.
• Chen Ning and A Li arrived in the God Realm, a vast galaxy of star domains and planets.
• A Li told Chen Ning her real name was Yao Li and said she would not kill him, then secretly followed him toward the planet he chose, intending to lower his guard and take his fortune.

Chen Ning arrived at the Nine Yang Palace and agreed to join its group of candidates seeking to become Disciples of a God. He planned to travel to the Northern Territory with them to meet a true god and learn more about the God Realm.

• Zhao Xiuxiu arrived at the Nine Yang Palace seeking a paid position with meals, and Huang Jin learned he was a Saint Venerable from the Blazing Yang Mountain Range.
• Huang Jin reported recruiting eighty candidates to a red-robed man and discreetly gave him a piece of immortal marrow in exchange for a promise of medicine.
• Chen Ning accidentally crashed through the roof, apologized, and learned that the red-robed man was a Late Stage Saint Venerable while Huang Jin was a Saint King.
• The red-robed man invited Chen Ning to become a Disciple of a God, and Zhao Xiuxiu explained the opportunity when Chen Ning prompted him.
• Chen Ning accepted the invitation, and the red-robed man said he would recommend Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu to a true god in the Northern Territory the next day.

Chen Ning learned about the Dragon-Tiger Realm and its hierarchy of gods while traveling with the Nine Yang Palace’s selected candidates. The group arrived at a secret gathering where multiple powerful God Realm figures would consider taking disciples, and the candidates surrendered their communication treasures and took memory-erasing pills.

• Chen Ning pieced together that the Dragon-Tiger Realm contained four regions and that God Emperors ruled vast star regions above the ranks of True Gods.
• Chen Ning focused on finding a True God who might restore his dwindling life force, since he had less than a year remaining.
• Huang Jin led Chen Ning and the selected candidates across the Sea of Wuya on Ruyi Turtles to their destination in the northern region.
• Yang Heng told the candidates to surrender their voice-transmission spirit treasures and take pills that would make them forget the gathering if no god chose them.
• Yang Heng revealed that multiple God Realm experts from across the Dragon-Tiger Realm would be present, and the candidates willingly handed over their treasures and took the pills.

Chen Ning prepared to leave the Nine Yang Palace’s suspicious gathering, but the system gave him a quest to recruit three founding elders for the Dragon-Seeking Sect and a Talent Catcher to identify their potential. After discovering Zhao Xiuxiu was the Dragon-Tiger Realm’s sole tier-eight talent, Chen Ning changed his mind, took the pill, and followed Yang Heng into a Nine Yang Palace branch.

• Most of the travelers took the pills, and Yang Heng told the white-haired elder to leave if he refused; the elder swallowed his pill.
• Chen Ning pretended to be afraid and prepared to leave, while Huang Jin quietly encouraged him to turn back.
• The system gave Chen Ning the Peerless Sect Leader quest, requiring him to recruit three founding elders, and awarded him the Talent Catcher.
• Chen Ning used the Talent Catcher and learned that Zhao Xiuxiu had tier-eight potential, the only such talent in the Dragon-Tiger Realm.
• Chen Ning took a pill from the stunned Huang Jin and followed Yang Heng with the others to a branch of the Nine Yang Palace.

Chen Ning discovered that the Nine Yang Palace had drugged the group with a Gu and planned to steal their innate foundations while they slept. Just as Chen Ning prepared to fight back, Zhao Xiuxiu woke after being cut, throwing the operation into chaos.

• Yang Heng left Chen Ning and the other eighty people in a room, where burning sandalwood activated the Gu concealed in their pills and made them fall asleep.
• Huang Jin and the other Nine Yang Palace members entered and began cutting into the unconscious cultivators to steal their kidneys, which they called their foundations of the innate.
• Chen Ning realized the sandalwood had activated the Gu, but he had already used an antidote and prepared to attack the Nine Yang Palace members.
• A Nine Yang Palace member cut Zhao Xiuxiu, who abruptly woke and howled before his foundation of the innate could be removed.
• Zhao Xiuxiu's awakening stunned the Nine Yang Palace members and disrupted their operation.

Zhao Xiuxiu escaped the Nine Yang Palace members who had tried to take his innate essence, then crushed Yang Heng in a fight. Yang Yue punished his subordinates and apologized, but activated the Gu inside Zhao Xiuxiu as he lowered his guard.

• The Nine Yang Palace members tried to capture Zhao Xiuxiu, but he fled by smashing through walls made of Vajra Holy Stone.
• Yang Heng confronted Zhao Xiuxiu and struck him with a powerful punch, but Zhao Xiuxiu caught and hurled the fist radiance back, gravely injuring Yang Heng.
• Huang Jin and the other Nine Yang Palace members watched in shock as Zhao Xiuxiu defeated Yang Heng.
• Yang Yue arrived, ordered Yang Heng and the others arrested for execution, and apologized to Zhao Xiuxiu.
• Yang Yue offered to escort Zhao Xiuxiu and the others back to the Spirit Rhinoceros Continent, then activated the Gu inside Zhao Xiuxiu when he lowered his guard.

Yang Yue tried to capture Zhao Xiuxiu and negotiate with a masked buyer, but Zhao vanished from the secret chamber. After Chen Ning rescued Zhao and cured the gu, Zhao asked him to help expose the Nine Yang Palace and promised to join the Dragon-Seeking Sect.

• Yang Yue activated the gu that sealed Zhao Xiuxiu's Qi sea and meridians, then ordered his men to take Zhao away.
• A minor leader told Yang Yue that another captive had awakened and escaped, so Yang Yue ordered a search while he met with a masked buyer to negotiate a higher price for the captives' innate essence.
• Yang Yue and the masked buyer found Zhao Xiuxiu missing from his chamber, and Yang Yue ordered the Nine Yang Palace to search the Northern Territory and the Spirit Rhinoceros Continent for the escapees.
• Chen Ning rescued Zhao Xiuxiu, neutralized the gu in his body, and invited him to join the Dragon-Seeking Sect.
• Zhao Xiuxiu asked Chen Ning to accompany him back to the Spirit Rhinoceros Continent so he could expose the Nine Yang Palace, promising to join the sect if Chen helped him.