Chapter Summaries

Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu returned in disguise to the Spirit Rhinoceros Continent to expose the Nine Yang Palace’s deception. With the Palace hunting them and the people reluctant to doubt it, they planned to seek the Spirit Rhinoceros True God through his former teacher.

• Zhao Xiuxiu resolved to expose the Nine Yang Palace, and Chen Ning agreed to help on the condition that he join the Dragon-Seeking Sect.
• Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu returned to the Spirit Rhinoceros Continent in disguise and learned that the Nine Yang Palace had branded them Evil Cultivators and issued a warrant for them.
• Chen Ning challenged locals’ faith in the Nine Yang Palace, but they struggled to accept that the Palace might be lying.
• Chen Ning explained that only the Spirit Rhinoceros True God could expose the Nine Yang Palace, though meeting him would be difficult.
• Chen Ning suggested finding the True God’s revered teacher to ask for help contacting him, and Zhao Xiuxiu praised the idea.

Fang Su met with Yang Yue of the Nine Yang Palace, then heard Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu’s accusations against it. He agreed to contact the Spirit Rhinoceros True God after deciding the Nine Yang Palace’s alleged crimes threatened the continent’s cultivators.

• Fang Su dismissed an attendant who accepted a benefit to bring him the Nine Yang Palace’s visiting card, then agreed to meet Yang Yue.
• Yang Yue asked Fang Su to report Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu if he saw them, claiming they had killed cultivators and disrupted the True God’s selection.
• After Yang Yue left, Fang Su revealed that Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu had overheard the conversation and asked whom he should believe.
• Chen Ning argued that the Nine Yang Palace was harming the Spirit Rhinoceros Continent and could be suppressed by contacting the True God.
• Fang Su said he was no longer pursuing godhood but had long suspected the Nine Yang Palace, and agreed to contact the True God with the pair’s information and the Northern Territory’s location.

Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu stayed at Fang Su’s courtyard after Fang Su went to seek Spirit Rhinoceros True God, but Nine Yang Palace forces ambushed them. Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu killed Yang Song, Yang Tai, and the remaining attackers, while Yang Yue’s absence left his whereabouts unknown.

• Fang Su went to meet Spirit Rhinoceros True God, and Zhao Xiuxiu chose to travel with Chen Ning as he searched for two elders for the Dragon-Seeking Sect.
• Yang Song and Yang Tai led Nine Yang Palace members in an ambush, and Chen Ning realized an attendant Fang Su had driven away had betrayed them.
• Zhao Xiuxiu charged Yang Tai and sent him crashing through several courtyards, while Chen Ning fought Yang Song.
• Chen Ning shattered Yang Song’s Bright Yang Armor and killed him with a lightning-charged finger.
• Zhao Xiuxiu smashed Yang Tai into a meat patty, and Chen Ning killed the rest of the fleeing Nine Yang Palace members with lightning.

Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu arrived too late to save Fang Su, so they followed Huang Jin’s plan to infiltrate the Nine Yang Palace before the Spirit Rhinoceros True God arrived. Huang Jin smuggled them inside in disguise, where Chen Ning learned that the palace used gu and yearly antidotes to control its members.

• Chen Ning spared Huang Jin and gave him a pill to cure the gu after Huang Jin admitted the Nine Yang Palace had forced him to serve them.
• Huang Jin warned Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu that Yang Yue had gone after Fang Su, and offered to lead them into the Nine Yang Palace if their rescue attempt failed.
• Yang Yue’s three younger brothers overwhelmed Fang Su and killed him, while Yang Yue learned that two of his brothers had been killed by Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu.
• Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu hid nearby, realized they had arrived too late, and decided to use Huang Jin’s plan to enter the Nine Yang Palace.
• Three days later, Huang Jin brought disguised Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu into the palace and talked their way past a suspicious member.
• Chen Ning asked Huang Jin about the gu, and Huang Jin explained that Yang Yue controlled palace members by giving them an antidote once a year.

Zhao Xiuxiu and Chen Ning confronted the Spirit Rhinoceros True God with evidence that Nine Yang Palace murdered cultivators and killed Fang Su, but the True God accepted Yang Yue’s bribe and left without helping them. Yang Yue then trapped the two and revealed that Huang Jin had been killed.

• Zhao Xiuxiu burst into Nine Yang Palace’s hall and accused it of murdering cultivators to steal their innate essence.
• Yang Yue offered the Spirit Rhinoceros True God ten Divine Crystals a year, and the True God told him to investigate Zhao Xiuxiu’s accusation without taking harsh action against the young man.
• Chen Ning revealed that Yang Yue had killed Fang Su while the elder was trying to report Nine Yang Palace’s crimes to the True God.
• Yang Yue offered twenty Divine Crystals annually for Fang Su’s death, and the Spirit Rhinoceros True God accepted the offer and left.
• Yang Yue’s forces blocked Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu, and Huang Jin’s severed head rolled into the hall.

Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu fought Yang Yue and the Nine Yang Palace after Huang Jin helped expose the palace’s plans. Chen Ning entered a state of Dao comprehension during the battle, while Zhao Xiuxiu protected him from Yang Yue’s attacks.

• Huang Jin helped Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu oppose the Nine Yang Palace, and Yang Yue prepared to kill them with his brothers surrounding the hall.
• Yang Yue attacked with the Blazing Yang Fist, while Zhao Xiuxiu took the first blow and Chen Ning struck back with four figures wielding the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning.
• Yang Yue summoned nine blazing suns and overpowered Chen Ning’s lightning assault, forcing the Nine Yang Palace members to flee from the battle’s destructive force.
• As Yang Yue pressed his attack, Chen Ning entered a state of Dao comprehension and considered creating a new move from the first generation’s nameless move.
• Yang Yue tried to interrupt Chen Ning’s comprehension with a giant flaming hand, but Zhao Xiuxiu covered himself in earth-core magma and smashed the hand apart.
• Yang Yue dodged Zhao Xiuxiu’s charge and gathered pure yang power to attack him again.

Chen Ning emerged from enlightenment and killed Yang Yue, then faced Yao Li’s unexpected arrival at Nine Yang Palace. After escaping with Zhao Xiuxiu, Chen Ning recovered in the mountains and learned how Zhao Xiuxiu came to be wrapped in core magma.

• Chen Ning killed Yang Yue with a golden attack before Zhao Xiuxiu could hesitate further, then told him to deal with the remaining Nine Yang Palace members and spare none of Yang Yue’s brothers.
• Zhao Xiuxiu pursued the Yang brothers, while Yao Li’s double-headed blood droplet weapons killed two of them from afar.
• Yao Li confronted the weakened Chen Ning but chose to enter Nine Yang Palace instead of attacking him, and Chen Ning left with Zhao Xiuxiu.
• Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu traveled deep into the mountains, where spirit beast meat helped Chen Ning recover.
• Zhao Xiuxiu told Chen Ning that his mother sent him into a volcano to protect him, and that the magma wrapped around him like clothes.

After destroying the Nine Yang Palace, Chen Ning learned that Zhao Xiuxiu’s mother had sent him west on a carefully planned path, prompting Zhao Xiuxiu to decide to return home. As they traveled toward the Eastern Territory, Chen Ning found Divine Crystals to begin cultivating the Savage Bull Dharma Body and learned about the Heaven Ranking of True God Dharma Bodies.

• Chen Ning asked Zhao Xiuxiu about his origins, and Zhao Xiuxiu explained that his mother had sent him from the Eastern Territory to gain experience in the Western Territory and become a god.
• Chen Ning suggested that Zhao Xiuxiu’s mother had prepared the journey to protect him, so Zhao Xiuxiu set off to return home; Chen Ning agreed to accompany him and hide from the Spirit Rhinoceros True God.
• A masked man searched the ruined Nine Yang Palace for evidence and vowed to discover who had destroyed it.
• On their journey to the Eastern Territory, Chen Ning searched the Nine Yang Palace storage rings and found a dozen or so Divine Crystals in Yang Yue’s ring.
• Chen Ning studied the Savage Bull Dharma Body cultivation method and learned that the God Realm ranked more than a hundred True God Dharma Bodies by rarity on the Heaven Ranking.

Chen Ning spent thirteen Divine Crystals cultivating the Savage Bull Dharma Body, forming its embryonic shape but stopping short of completing the fusion. He and Zhao Xiuxiu reached Zhao Xiuxiu’s home village, where they set out with Elder Wei and Wei Zhong to find Zhao Xiuxiu’s mother as hidden pursuers prepared to capture him.

• Chen Ning used thirteen Divine Crystals to form the Savage Bull Dharma Body’s embryonic shape, but ran out before completing the fusion.
• Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu arrived at Zhao Xiuxiu’s unnamed island village and met Grandpa Wei and Wei Zhong.
• Zhao Xiuxiu learned that his mother had gone into the mountains to gather herbs, and Elder Wei and Wei Zhong joined him and Chen Ning to search for her.
• Zhao Xiuxiu told Wei Zhong that he planned to join the Dragon-Seeking Sect, prompting a subtle reaction from Wei Zhong and Elder Wei.
• Several figures hiding in the woods discussed capturing Zhao Xiuxiu on their lord’s orders.

Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu discovered Elder Wei had deceived them and were ambushed by Zhang Ye’s forces while searching for Zhao Xiuxiu’s mother. After Chen Ning killed the attackers’ companions, he urged Zhao Xiuxiu to eliminate Zhang Ye, Elder Wei, and Wei Zhong so none could threaten his mother or report back.

• Zhao Xiuxiu noticed his mother had left no medicine-gathering marks, and Chen Ning told him Elder Wei was lying about her entering the mountains.
• Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu slipped away from the stream, where Zhang Ye’s Saint Venerable subordinates surrounded them.
• Chen Ning used Capital Punishment, Tearing Apart by Chariots to kill Zhang Ye’s companions, leaving Zhang Ye alive.
• Elder Wei and Wei Zhong arrived, and Zhang Ye revealed that his side had captured Zhao Xiuxiu’s mother.
• Zhao Xiuxiu agreed to surrender if Zhang Ye spared Chen Ning, and Zhang Ye accepted; Chen Ning then pointed out that killing the remaining pursuers would prevent them from threatening his mother or escaping.

Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu defeated Zhang Ye and Elder Wei after Chen Ning mastered Geng Metal Tribulation Lightning and broke through to the Middle Stage of Saint Venerable. They learned Zhao Xiuxiu’s mother was held in the Red-Haired God’s fortress, but Chen Ning decided they were not ready to confront him.

• Zhao Xiuxiu attacked Zhang Ye with full force while Chen Ning fought Elder Wei and sent the Shadow of Chaos after Wei Zhong.
• The Shadow of Chaos killed Wei Zhong, and Chen Ning mastered Geng Metal Tribulation Lightning during a breakthrough to the Middle Stage of Saint Venerable.
• Chen Ning killed Elder Wei with his lightning sword, and Zhao Xiuxiu punched through Zhang Ye’s chest.
• Zhang Ye revealed that Zhao Xiuxiu’s mother was held in the Red-Haired God’s fortress, and Chen Ning killed him as he turned away.
• Chen Ning told Zhao Xiuxiu that they were too weak to confront the Red-Haired God yet and that the god would likely keep her mother alive as leverage.

Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu fled ten Northern Territory pursuers who wanted an object taken from the Nine Yang Palace. A True God in Great Peace Prefecture drove the Demigods away, then told Chen Ning that his help was not free.

• Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu returned to the village and found its residents dead, then fled as ten masked Demigods confronted them for the item from the Nine Yang Palace.
• Chen Ning realized Yao Li might have taken the item and claimed that he and Zhao Xiuxiu had entrusted it to someone else.
• Chen Ning used the Great Dao of Time to escape with Zhao Xiuxiu, but the ten pursuers matched his technique and chased them across several continents.
• The pursuers surrounded Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu and prepared to attack with their Law Treasures.
• An elder at the God Realm arrived in Great Peace Prefecture and ordered the Demigods to leave, refusing their Divine Crystal.
• The masked pursuers withdrew, and the elder told Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu that his help was not free.

Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu agreed to help Mao Chunqiu, the God of Architecture, repair Great Peace Prefecture in exchange for shelter and possible help rescuing Zhao Xiuxiu’s mother. As Mao Chunqiu taught them the Dao of Architecture, his absent disciples’ disrespect became apparent, and Qin Yan arrived to criticize him.

• Mao Chunqiu asked Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu to help repair the damaged buildings of Great Peace Prefecture, and they agreed out of gratitude.
• Chen Ning considered the dangers posed by the masked pursuers and the Red-Haired God’s followers, and decided staying with Mao Chunqiu was safest for now.
• Mao Chunqiu introduced Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu to his disciples, who left without joining the repair work or showing him much respect.
• Mao Chunqiu took Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu to abandoned palaces, explained how architecture reflected history and could serve as a path of cultivation, and taught them to repair the buildings.
• Qin Yan arrived with several other disciples and accused Mao Chunqiu of leading Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu astray.

Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu stayed to help Mao Chunqiu repair Great Peace Prefecture after learning he was a True God who had lost the courage to fight. As the Wager of the Gods approached, the Red-Haired God prepared to rely on his new disciple Xue You to win.

• Qin Yan confronted Mao Chunqiu about bringing in Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu, then left after learning he and Wen Hua would represent Great Peace Prefecture at the Wager of the Gods.
• Qin Yan's followers mocked Mao Chunqiu as a helpless god, but Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu stayed to help repair the palaces and repay his kindness.
• Mao Chunqiu explained that he still had Divine Power but could no longer bring himself to fight anyone, even a mortal.
• The Red-Haired God learned that Zhang Ye and his group had disappeared and that Zhao Xiuxiu's village had been wiped out, then agreed to wait until after the Wager of the Gods to pursue her.
• Xue You told the Red-Haired God that only Wen Aotian could challenge him, and the Red-Haired God declared he would be the Wager's greatest winner.

Chen Ning learned why Mao Chunqiu had stopped fighting before accompanying him, Zhao Xiuxiu, and Qin Yan to Qilin Prefecture for the Wager of the Gods. As the Eastern Territory's gods gathered, the Red-Haired God publicly mocked Mao Chunqiu, hinting that he might target Great Peace Prefecture.

• Chen Ning learned that Mao Chunqiu had encouraged his Lower God friend to confront a Dragon-Tiger Realm giant, leading to the friend's death and Mao's grave injuries.
• Mao Chunqiu, Chen Ning, Zhao Xiuxiu, and Qin Yan traveled to Qilin Prefecture for the Wager of the Gods.
• The Qilin True God arrived to host the gathering, followed by the Flame God, the Immortal Spirit Goddess, and other Eastern Territory gods.
• Chen Ning noticed the Red-Haired God and was relieved that Zhao Xiuxiu's disguise concealed her identity.
• The crowd mocked Mao Chunqiu, and the Red-Haired God publicly called him a useless god, signaling a possible move against Great Peace Prefecture.

The Wager of the Gods began under rules that balanced challenges against the cost of refusing, and the Qilin True God introduced his new disciple, Yao Li. Chen Ning recognized Yao Li as the demoness who had tried to kill his sect leader, and the chapter ended with her glancing toward him as Wen Aotian watched suspiciously.

• The Qilin True God explained that each party could issue five challenges, while refusals required compensation and all five challenges had to be used.
• Chen Ning learned that Mao Chunqiu had often refused challenges to avoid risking Qin Yan and the Great Peace Prefecture party.
• The Qilin True God opened the Wager of the Gods by presenting his new disciple, Yao Li, whose strength he said was nearly equal to Wen Aotian's.
• Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu recognized Yao Li as the demoness who had tried to kill their sect leader.
• Yao Li glanced toward Chen Ning, and Wen Aotian noticed his reaction.

Yao Li challenged the True Flame Continent to a wagered duel and killed the Flame God's strongest Disciple, Fang Nu, with a savage flying guillotine. She returned to the Qilin True God's side as Chen Ning noticed that she had absorbed Fang Nu's fortune.

• Wen Aotian grew jealous when he saw Yao Li glance at Chen Ning, suspecting she already liked him.
• Yao Li wagered fifty Divine Crystals against the True Flame Continent, and Fang Nu entered the battlefield to fight her.
• Fang Nu attacked Yao Li with five flames, then launched the Flame of Devouring and the Purgatory Fire as a killing move.
• Yao Li summoned a flying guillotine that severed Fang Nu's head, ending the duel in an instant.
• Yao Li returned to the Qilin True God's side, while Chen Ning saw Fang Nu's fortune flow into her.

At the Wager of the Gods, Great Peace Prefecture repeatedly refused challenges until Qin Yan persuaded Mao Chunqiu to let him fight. Young Master Sword challenged them for half their territory, and Qin Yan accepted while staking his life, setting up a clash between two hidden trump cards.

• Yao Li's victory opened the Wager of the Gods, and disciples from the Eastern Territory began challenging rival factions.
• Mao Chunqiu repeatedly refused challenges to protect Great Peace Prefecture, frustrating Qin Yan and costing the prefecture Divine Crystals.
• Qin Yan urged Mao Chunqiu to let him fight, arguing that continued refusals would make Great Peace Prefecture seem weak; Mao Chunqiu finally agreed.
• Young Master Sword challenged Great Peace Prefecture for half its territory, and Qin Yan accepted while raising the stake to Young Master Sword's life.
• Young Master Sword revealed that he had been trying to draw Qin Yan out, and the Tusu Sword God watched, determined to claim Great Peace Prefecture's fertile land.
• Young Master Sword matched Qin Yan's raised stake by wagering his own life.

Qin Yan defeated Young Master Sword in a wagered battle, winning territory from the Sword Qi Continent for Great Peace Prefecture. He then challenged the Red-Haired God’s Five Elements Prefecture to a much larger wager, intending to pressure him into accepting or paying Divine Crystals.

• Young Master Sword attacked Qin Yan with a sword net, but Qin Yan used his mastered union of hardness and softness to tear it apart.
• Qin Yan struck Young Master Sword with Vajra Palm, and Young Master Sword burned his sword heart for a final attack before Qin Yan’s Vajra Body Protection shielded him and Young Master Sword died.
• Qin Yan left the small world, and the Tusu Sword God faced losing territory after Young Master Sword’s defeat.
• Qin Yan confronted the Red-Haired God over his remarks and challenged Five Elements Prefecture, adding the territory he had just won from the Sword Qi Continent to the wager.
• Qin Yan privately assured Mao Chunqiu that he believed Great Peace Prefecture would win and was using the challenge to force the Red-Haired God to accept or pay Divine Crystals.

Qin Yan deliberately lost to Xue You, whose bizarre movement method absorbed Qin Yan’s power, costing Mao Chunqiu Great Peace Prefecture. Qin Yan then revealed he had betrayed his master to join the Red-Haired God, leaving Mao Chunqiu with no disciples.

• Mao Chunqiu encouraged Qin Yan to fight Xue You, while the Red-Haired God sent Xue You into the battlefield.
• Xue You evaded Qin Yan’s attacks with a movement method that formed a pattern and absorbed Qin Yan’s power.
• Xue You unleashed the power he had gathered, shattered Qin Yan’s golden-bell defense, and forced him to admit defeat.
• The spectators believed Mao Chunqiu had lost Great Peace Prefecture, while Chen Ning suspected the battle had been rigged.
• Qin Yan privately told Mao Chunqiu that he had lost on purpose and was leaving to serve the Red-Haired God, taking Mao Chunqiu’s remaining disciples with him.