Chapter Summaries

After Mao Chunqiu lost Great Peace Prefecture, Chen Ning refused the Qilin True God’s offer of shelter and vowed to help Mao win it back. He borrowed fifty Divine Crystals and entered the wager battles with Zhao Xiuxiu.

• Mao Chunqiu took Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu to the Qilin True God and asked him to protect them in Qilin Prefecture.
• Chen Ning declined the offer to stay and said he would help Mao Chunqiu reclaim Great Peace Prefecture.
• The Qilin True God lent Chen Ning fifty Divine Crystals without requiring extra repayment.
• Chen Ning returned to the peak with Zhao Xiuxiu and Mao Chunqiu as others mocked Mao’s defeat.
• Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu leaped into separate battlefield small worlds to take part in the wager battles.

Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu turned their fifty borrowed Divine Crystals into a chance to win much larger wagers by making challengers raise their stakes. They faced Jueying and Ling Tian as the battles began, with Jueying using a technique to plunge the battlefield into darkness.

• Chen Ning told the challengers that he and Zhao Xiuxiu would accept every challenge, then showed the fifty Divine Crystals he had borrowed from the Qilin True God.
• When dozens of Disciples of Gods competed to challenge them, Chen Ning proposed that challengers raise their own stakes and said he would choose the highest bidders.
• The challengers raised their wagers until each match offered three hundred Divine Crystals against Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu's twenty-five.
• The Red-Haired God learned that Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu had fled to the Eastern Territory while being hunted, and Xue You noted that their opponents were among the strongest Disciples of the Gods.
• Zhao Xiuxiu began her wager against Ling Tian, while Chen Ning faced Jueying, who formed Hand Seals and plunged the battlefield into darkness.

Zhao Xiuxiu fought Ling Tian in a wagered battle, first surprising the Carefree God's disciple with his strength and then breaking free of Ling Tian's control over the small world. Ling Tian surrendered after Zhao Xiuxiu's lava destroyed his Law Treasure and consumed his hand, giving the God of Architecture's side the victory and costing the Carefree God three hundred Divine Crystals.

• Ling Tian offered Zhao Xiuxiu the first three moves, but Zhao Xiuxiu's plain punch sent the Half-God flying and shattered his hand.
• Ling Tian connected with the small world's force to immobilize Zhao Xiuxiu, explaining that the battlefield gave him a great advantage.
• Zhao Xiuxiu erupted in lava and broke free of the suppression, then destroyed Ling Tian's Law Treasure and consumed his right hand.
• Ling Tian surrendered, and the referee declared the God of Architecture's side the winner.
• The Carefree God clenched his fists after losing three hundred Divine Crystals.

Chen Ning fought Jueying, whose shadow legion overwhelmed Chen Ning’s own shadow clones until Chen Ning unleashed six-colored lightning. Jueying survived by merging with his Divine Ability and becoming shadow itself, leaving Chen Ning facing an opponent who could regenerate from any surviving shadow.

• After Zhao Xiuxiu won her battle, the crowd focused on Chen Ning’s fight with Jueying.
• Chen Ning used Steal the Heavens and Swap the Sun to dispel Jueying’s darkness, but Jueying summoned a vast shadow legion that defeated Chen Ning’s Shadows of Chaos.
• Chen Ning fought through the legion toward Jueying, who merged with the shadows and concealed himself among them.
• Chen Ning released six-colored lightning that annihilated the visible shadow legion, but the remaining wisps gathered into a gigantic shadow.
• Jueying revealed that he had become his Divine Ability, able to survive and create more shadows as long as any shadow remained.

Chen Ning narrowly defeated Jueying after both fighters exhausted themselves, then accepted Xue You’s opportunistic challenge. As Xue You entered the battlefield expecting an easy win, Chen Ning revealed that his injuries had been an act and began healing.

• Jueying gathered the power of his shadows into a giant form and fought Chen Ning in a desperate battle of attrition.
• Chen Ning endured Jueying’s attacks until Jueying’s strength ran out, and Jueying conceded before collapsing.
• The referee declared Chen Ning the winner, and Mao Chunqiu gave him spirit medicine while the God of Ghost Sha reacted angrily.
• Xue You challenged the weakened Chen Ning for six hundred and fifty Divine Crystals, and Chen Ning accepted despite Mao Chunqiu’s concern.
• Chen Ning told Xue You that he had been acting to lure him in, then rapidly healed his wounds.

Chen Ning revealed that he had feigned weakness to lure Xue You into a wager, then killed him instantly with six-colored divine lightning and won 650 Divine Crystals. He challenged Five Elements Prefecture for 1,300 Divine Crystals and named Qin Yan as his opponent, leading the crowd to suspect Qin Yan was stronger than Xue You.

• Mao Chunqiu and the spectators realized Chen Ning had hidden his strength after his injuries healed, while Xue You regretted falling for his setup.
• Xue You attacked Chen Ning and tried to drain his strength with his strange Movement Method, but Chen Ning's six-colored lightning left him nowhere to step and annihilated him.
• Chen Ning won the wager and 650 Divine Crystals, joining Zhao Xiuxiu as the last challenger holding an arena; no one else dared face them.
• Chen Ning challenged Five Elements Prefecture for 1,300 Divine Crystals, and the Red-Haired God accepted.
• Chen Ning called on Qin Yan to fight, prompting the crowd to suspect Qin Yan was stronger than Xue You.

Chen Ning defeated Qin Yan in the Wager of the Gods, reclaiming Great Peace Prefecture and earning 1,300 Divine Crystals. With Wen Aotian poised to challenge him, the Qilin True God ordered him not to fight.

• The Red-Haired God wagered on Qin Yan, who entered the battlefield and charged Chen Ning with his Vajra Qi.
• Chen Ning used the Sin Stele's Capital Punishment to surround Qin Yan with lightning and fire, explaining that Mao Chunqiu's way of architecture had helped him combine his techniques.
• Qin Yan broke free with his Vajra Heaven-Shattering Fist and staked everything on a killing blow.
• Chen Ning answered with Immediate Execution by Decapitation, shattering Qin Yan's punch and cutting through him and the battlefield's small world.
• Chen Ning's victory reclaimed Great Peace Prefecture and gave him 1,300 Divine Crystals, while Mao Chunqiu wept with excitement.
• Wen Aotian stepped forward as the apparent next challenger, but the Qilin True God told him not to fight Chen Ning.

Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu left the Wager of the Gods after securing Great Peace Prefecture, and Chen Ning made the Red-Haired God pay part of his debt. As Chen Ning stayed in Qilin Prefecture to cultivate, masked visitors from the Northern Territory offered the Red-Haired God a lead about someone he was searching for.

• Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu withdrew from the wagers, and Mao Chunqiu expelled the disciples who had abandoned him for Qin Yan.
• Chen Ning demanded the Red-Haired God's payment; the Red-Haired God handed over four hundred Divine Crystals and agreed to owe the remaining two hundred and fifty.
• The Qilin True God invited Mao Chunqiu, Chen Ning, and Zhao Xiuxiu to stay in Qilin Prefecture, where Yao Li teased Chen Ning and provoked Wen Aotian's jealousy.
• Chen Ning gave most of his winnings to Mao Chunqiu and kept enough Divine Crystals to begin cultivating the Savage Bull Dharma Body.
• Masked visitors from the Northern Territory met with the Red-Haired God and offered him a lead about someone he had been searching for.

Chen Ning completed the Savage Bull Dharma Body and went with Yao Li and Zhao Xiuxiu to meet Qilin True God. Qilin True God asked them to help explore a mysterious small world that only cultivators below the God Realm could enter.

• Chen Ning used Divine Crystals to fully condense his thirty-thousand-meter Savage Bull Dharma Body.
• Zhao Xiuxiu stopped chasing Yao Li when Chen Ning left seclusion, and Yao Li said Qilin True God wanted to see him.
• Yao Li asked Chen Ning for a share of the Divine Crystals and said she wanted something of his, while Chen Ning warned that giving it to her would cost him his life.
• Chen Ning, Zhao Xiuxiu, and Yao Li met Qilin True God, who explained that Yutian True God had discovered an ancient god's small world containing possible treasures, a godhead, and a method for cultivating a True God Dharma Body.
• Qilin True God said the small world allowed entry only to those below the God Realm.

Chen Ning agreed to help Qilin True God secure Yutian True God’s bounty in the Ancient God World, protecting the Eastern Territory while seeking treasures and a way to restore his life force. After a month of training, the Eastern Territory’s chosen contestants traveled to the Yutian Kingdom, where all ninety-nine entrants gathered and Yutian True God appeared.

• Qilin True God explained that Yutian True God had opened the ancient god’s small world to contestants from all four territories, offering a bounty for the ancient god’s divinity or True God Dharma Body cultivation method.
• Qilin True God asked Chen Ning to join Wen Aotian, Zhao Xiuxiu, and A Li in competing for the bounty and safeguarding the Eastern Territory, and Chen Ning agreed.
• Qilin True God warned the four contestants to cooperate, while Wen Aotian promised to claim the greatest prize and remained resentful of Chen Ning.
• During a month of guidance from Qilin True God, Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu advanced to the Late Stage of Saint Venerable, and each contestant received an ancient calamity-warding jade.
• Qilin True God escorted the Eastern Territory’s contestants to the Yutian Kingdom, where all ninety-nine entrants from the four territories assembled and Yutian True God descended.

Yutian True God sent ninety-nine cultivators into the Ancient God World to seek a Divine Spark or a True God Dharma Body cultivation method. Inside, Chen Ning befriended Qi Yu and asked about replenishing vitality, and Qi Yu said Unknowing Island had a divine herb that might help him.

• Yutian True God opened the Ancient God World and sent the ninety-nine cultivators inside while he and the four Middle Gods waited outside.
• Chen Ning and the others arrived together in a beautiful, Essence-rich area and surveyed the powerful cultivators from the other territories.
• Qi Yu introduced himself, offered Enhanced Origin Stones, and explained that he had entered mainly to find customers for his improved cultivation resources.
• Chen Ning accepted Qi Yu's Origin Stones, introduced himself and Zhao Xiuxiu, and asked Qi Yu about restoring vitality.
• Qi Yu said a divine herb on Unknowing Island might solve Chen Ning's vitality problem.

Chen Ning protected Qi Yu from Yao Li, who wanted to kill him to stop him from trying to save Chen Ning. Tensions among the four territories rose in the Ancient God World before its ancient god announced that his divinity awaited them.

• Yao Li attacked Qi Yu with the Double-Headed Blood Dipper, but Chen Ning used the Great Dao of Time to save him.
• Qi Yu agreed to travel with Chen Ning for protection, while Yao Li admitted she was not confident she could kill Chen Ning herself.
• Jiang Shu challenged Qi Yu for associating with the Eastern Territory, and Qi Yu chose to stay with Chen Ning.
• Bai Ruyu mocked Jiang Shu and Wen Aotian, prompting the three territories' leaders to face off as Zhan Kuang watched.
• The Ancient God of the Ancient God World announced that many had come seeking his divinity, and Bai Ruyu greeted him on behalf of the Western Territory.

The God of Games divided the entrants into four teams and began a deadly trial in which each team had to choose between gates leading to life or death. Chen Ning’s team looked to him for guidance, while Jiang Shu forced Northern Territory cultivators to test the gates, prompting one to attack him in desperation.

• The God of Games announced three life-or-death games, and everyone agreed to participate in his trials.
• The first game separated the entrants into four teams, each facing two gates and twelve choices while magma advanced behind them.
• Chen Ning’s team turned to him for leadership, but Zhan Kuang suggested using one person to test each gate.
• Jiang Shu ordered a Northern Territory cultivator to open a gate, and magma burst out and vaporized him.
• Jiang Shu forced another cultivator to open the surviving gate, then ordered him to keep testing the next choices.
• The frightened cultivator decided he would rather fight than keep risking his life and charged at Jiang Shu.

Jiang Shu, Bai Ruyu, and Wen Aotian each forced their groups to choose people to test the doors, using intimidation, persuasion, or violence. After Wen Aotian killed ten Western Territory cultivators and used Yao Li’s power to make the dead push doors, the remaining groups backed down, and attention turned to Zhan Kuang’s group.

• Jiang Shu killed a Northern Territory cultivator in one strike, leaving the group to gamble on which doors to test.
• Bai Ruyu persuaded the Southern Territory cultivators that someone had to choose the doors, and they began selecting people among themselves.
• Wen Aotian unleashed Asura's Wrath on the Western Territory cultivators while Yao Li assisted him.
• Yao Li kept Wen Aotian’s victims barely alive and controlled them to push the doors, prompting the Western Territory cultivators to stop resisting.
• Bai Ruyu threatened Wen Aotian over the ten deaths, but Wen Aotian answered without fear.
• Zhan Kuang watched the other groups’ methods and prepared to assert control over his own group.

Chen Ning challenged Zhan Kuang’s claim that the weakest cultivators should test the doors and volunteered Zhao Xiuxiu in Qi Yu’s place. Zhao Xiuxiu survived the magma and cleared a wrong door, leaving Chen Ning demanding that Zhan Kuang’s people take their turn while they argued that Zhao Xiuxiu could keep testing instead.

• Zhan Kuang chose Qi Yu, the weakest cultivator present, to test a door, while his Northern Territory followers urged Qi Yu to hurry.
• Chen Ning and Zhao Xiuxiu stopped Qi Yu, and Chen Ning argued that the weaker Northern Territory cultivators should also be made to test doors.
• Chen Ning volunteered Zhao Xiuxiu to test a door in Qi Yu’s place, and Zhao Xiuxiu opened it without hesitation.
• Earth-core magma engulfed Zhao Xiuxiu, but he emerged unharmed and cleared the wrong door for the group.
• After the group passed through the life door, Chen Ning told Zhan Kuang that it was his people’s turn, but Zhan Kuang and his followers insisted Zhao Xiuxiu should keep testing the remaining death doors.

Chen Ning challenged Zhan Kuang’s attempt to force the Northern Territory cultivators to scout, then defeated him in a fierce battle using the Ruyi Jingu Bang and his Myriad Hell technique. The Northern Territory cultivators knelt and begged Chen Ning for mercy after their strongest warrior was killed.

• Chen Ning refused Zhan Kuang’s demand and called him the weakest person present.
• A Late Stage Saint Venerable from the Northern Territory attacked Chen Ning and was killed instantly by a lightning strike from one finger.
• Chen Ning fought Zhan Kuang with the Ruyi Jingu Bang, overpowering his Supreme-Grade Divine Artifact in their first exchange.
• Zhan Kuang burned his Qi and Blood and unleashed Heaven-Piercing Hammer, but Chen Ning countered with eight demonic hands and Wu Earth Nether Lightning in a move he named Myriad Hell.
• Chen Ning’s demonic lightning trapped and annihilated Zhan Kuang, shocking the gathered cultivators.
• The Northern Territory cultivators knelt before Chen Ning and begged him for mercy.

Chen Ning and the other cultivators began the Dark Forest game after the first round killed all of Zhan Kuang’s Northern Territory companions and thirty-nine participants overall. With Qi seas and divine weapons sealed, Chen Ning searched for Zhao Xiuxiu and Qi Yu as the number of vengeful ghosts rapidly increased.

• Chen Ning let the Northern Territory cultivators choose doors, but all of Zhan Kuang’s companions died in the first game.
• The God of Games announced ghost tag in the Dark Forest, where survivors had to outlast the game and vengeful ghosts had to catch three people; Essence Power and divine weapons were sealed.
• Chen Ning, assigned as a survivor, explored the forest to find Zhao Xiuxiu and Qi Yu while worrying that contestants might kill beyond the stated rules.
• The God of Games announced that the forest had two vengeful ghosts and fifty-eight survivors, then reported eight ghosts and fifty survivors only a few breaths later.

Chen Ning tried to gather allies and help Qi Yu, but Yao Li secretly turned him into a vicious ghost. With Chen Ning, Zhao Xiuxiu, and Qi Yu now needing to catch nine survivors between them, the group faced a difficult hunt in the dark forest.

• Chen Ning avoided Yao Li, then met Zhao Xiuxiu and learned that Bai Ruyu had turned him into a vicious ghost.
• Chen Ning urged Zhao Xiuxiu to hunt survivors so he could survive and save his mother.
• Chen Ning stopped Wen Aotian from killing Qi Yu, explaining that he had promised to keep him alive.
• Yao Li sneaked up on Chen Ning and turned him into a vicious ghost while he faced Wen Aotian.
• Wen Aotian and Yao Li left, and Chen Ning realized that he, Zhao Xiuxiu, and Qi Yu needed to catch nine survivors.

Chen Ning used Qi Yu’s tracking disc to help Zhao Xiuxiu and Qi Yu complete their objectives, then raced to intercept the final survivor. Just as the three surrounded the Divine Movement Gentleman, Bai Ruyu arrived and rang bells to draw fierce ghosts to them.

• Qi Yu revealed that the Enhanced Origin Stones could track their holders, and Chen Ning agreed to use the disc to hunt survivors.
• Chen Ning led Zhao Xiuxiu and Qi Yu through the Dark Forest, defeating survivors and driving off vengeful ghosts who attacked them.
• Zhao Xiuxiu and Qi Yu completed their objectives, while Chen Ning needed one more survivor to advance.
• After the God of Games announced that only one survivor remained, Chen Ning identified the target and blocked his path with Zhao Xiuxiu and Qi Yu.
• Bai Ruyu appeared and rang bells to summon fierce ghosts toward the group.

With only one survivor left to capture, the vicious ghosts converged on the Dark Forest and a chaotic battle erupted. Chen Ning and Jiang Shu overwhelmed the others, leaving the exhausted survivor trapped and the two powerful men poised for a final showdown before time ran out.

• Bai Ruyu drew the vicious ghosts toward the last survivor, who used Lost Tracks Steps to flee as Chen Ning pursued him.
• Jiang Shu intercepted Chen Ning and revealed that Bai Ruyu had tricked him into becoming a vicious ghost, leaving him one capture short of advancing.
• Vicious ghosts rushed into the forest and fought over the survivor while Bai Ruyu watched from a distance and completed cultivators kept clear.
• Chen Ning and Jiang Shu joined the melee and killed or drove back the other fighters, while Zhao Xiuxiu and Qi Yu stopped the exhausted survivor from escaping.
• Jiang Shu challenged Chen Ning to a body-only fight, arguing that his Explosive Flame Physique surpassed Chen Ning’s eight demonic hands in attack power.