Chapter Summaries

Willow God agreed to join forces with the Northern Marsh after the Heavenly River Realm provoked an attack on the Dragon-Tiger Realm. As Willow God and Chen Ning returned to drive off the remaining intruders, Thousand-Faced God infiltrated Unknowing Pavilion to steal the Divine Spark Fruit and ran into Chen Ning.

• Qi Yu told Willow God that outsiders had attacked Unknowing Island and injured Thunder God and Chen Guan.
• The Ancient God of Dusk ordered the Northern Marsh's allies not to target the Dragon-Tiger Realm, and Willow God agreed to join the contest for a seat in the Central Divine Domain.
• The Ancient God of Dusk gave the Hexagram of Reincarnation to Willow God and ordered the Undying Battle Emperor to reject Scholar Tree God, leaving the Undying Battle Emperor resentful.
• Willow God and Chen Ning returned to the Dragon-Tiger Realm and began clearing out the remaining outsiders.
• Thousand-Faced God disguised himself as a defender, incapacitated guards, and entered Unknowing Pavilion to steal valuables and search for the Divine Spark Fruit.
• Chen Ning confronted Thousand-Faced God and claimed he was also there to steal, offering to show him the ropes.

Chen Ning lured the Thousand-Faced God to Qi Yu, where they revealed their plan to refine him as a sacrifice for a more perfect Divine Spark Fruit. Chen Ning suppressed the captive, while Qi Yu prepared to defy the Willow God and pursue their ambitions in the Central Divine Domain.

• Chen Ning claimed the Dragon-Tiger Realm had oppressed him and persuaded the Thousand-Faced God to help capture the Divine Spark Fruit’s creator instead of stealing the fruit.
• Chen Ning led the Thousand-Faced God to Qi Yu’s room in the Unknowing Pavilion, where Qi Yu was tending his crafting furnace.
• Qi Yu and Chen Ning revealed that they intended to refine the Thousand-Faced God, and Chen Ning confirmed that he had set a trap.
• The Thousand-Faced God attacked Chen Ning but was instantly immobilized by Chen Ning’s overwhelming Divine Power.
• Qi Yu prepared to sacrifice the Thousand-Faced God to create a more perfect Divine Spark Fruit and declared that he and Chen Ning would leave the Dragon-Tiger Realm for the Central Divine Domain.

Chen Ning and Willow God exposed Thousand-Faced God as a spy from the Giant Cauldron Realm and used his identity to deter the realm from targeting Dragon-Tiger Realm. After three years of recovery and intense cultivation, Dragon-Tiger Realm prepared for the battle for seats in the Central Divine Domain, with Willow God judging Chen Ning strong enough to protect himself.

• Chen Ning, Qi Yu, and Willow God tricked Thousand-Faced God into revealing that he was a spy from the Giant Cauldron Realm, then decided to send his token as a warning instead of exposing him outright.
• Dragon-Tiger Realm prospered over the next three years, aided by Master Geng and Qi Yu's cultivation resources, and Zhao Xiuxiu was found and reunited with his father.
• Chen Ning and Willow God devoted themselves to cultivation while Chen Ning trained against Thunder God, Chen Guan, and Willow God to prepare for the coming contest.
• At White Bone Mountain, Chen Ning's final sparring session with Willow God ended when both withdrew their Dharma Bodies, marking the end of their three years of training.
• Willow God told Chen Ning that he had forced him to use a True God Dharma Body and was strong enough to protect himself in the battle for seats.

Yao Li joined Chen Ning and the Willow God on their journey to Northern Marsh for the contest for seats in the Central Divine Domain. When the three arrived at Dusk Square, Northern Marsh’s Upper Gods questioned why the Willow God had brought two Middle Gods, and the Undying Battle Emperor refused to protect them.

• Yao Li insisted on joining Chen Ning and the Willow God, and the Willow God agreed to help protect her and Chen Ning.
• The Willow God, Chen Ning, and Yao Li traveled together to Northern Marsh to meet its experts before heading to the battlefield.
• At Dusk Square, the Undying Battle Emperor complained about the Dragon-Tiger Realm’s late arrival as the Northern Marsh Upper Gods waited.
• The Lake God questioned why the Willow God had brought two young Middle Gods to the dangerous contest, and the Willow God said they could fight Upper Gods.
• The Undying Battle Emperor warned that he would not spare strength to protect Chen Ning and Yao Li on the battlefield.

The Willow God, Chen Ning, and Yao Li joined Northern Marsh’s delegation at the Demon Battlefield, where worlds competed for a treasure and the right to enter the Central Divine Domain. After God King Qingxuan announced the rules, the contest began and the group entered the battlefield.

• The Ancient God of Dusk eased tensions and urged everyone to protect one another and fight for a seat before leading the group toward the battlefield.
• Northern Marsh and the Dragon-Tiger Realm arrived at the Demon Battlefield, where other worlds mocked Chen Ning and Yao Li and the Giant Cauldron Realm planned to target the Willow God’s group.
• The Willow God introduced Chen Ning and Yao Li to several powerful rivals, including the Snow God, the Boulder Divine General, and the Heavenly Dragon God.
• God King Qingxuan announced that the world that found the hidden treasure would win the contest, and revealed that another judge had entered the battlefield ahead of them.
• The Wind God, the Undying Battle Emperor, the Yang God, the Lake God, the Willow God, Chen Ning, and Yao Li entered the Demon Battlefield.

Chen Ning and the Northern Marsh group searched the Demon Battlefield for two days before learning that Flower World had found the treasure. They reached the site to find the Peach Blossom God and the Apricot Blossom God surrounded by experts from many realms, while the Eternal Demon Emperor secretly prepared a return.

• The Scholar Tree God allied with the Heavenly River Realm and planned to kill the Willow God, while the Wind God warned that attacking him meant opposing Northern Marsh.
• Yao Li proposed an unconventional plan to Chen Ning, but he chose to travel with the Willow God and the Wind God instead.
• The Eternal Demon Emperor watched the gods and ordered his followers to sacrifice the Upper Gods of the Outer Divine Domain to welcome his return.
• Chen Ning's group traveled through the Demon Battlefield with Northern Marsh's gods clearing attacks, but found no sign of the treasure during their first two days of searching.
• On the third day, news spread that the Peach Blossom God and the Apricot Blossom God of Flower World had found the treasure.
• Experts from many realms surrounded the two Flower World gods, but held back from attacking because the treasure could become a death warrant.

Chen Ning redirected the treasure from the Flower World gods to the Axe God, triggering a deadly scramble among the assembled realms. After the melee ended, Willow God questioned how the Flower World gods had obtained the treasure and realized the story behind it did not add up.

• Chen Ning suggested that the Peach Blossom God and Apricot Blossom God hand the treasure to the Axe God, and they tossed it to him.
• Yao Li moved the Axe God, prompting the gods to attack him and sparking a melee over the treasure.
• The Axe God threw the treasure away, but the four strongest realms prevented the Upper Gods who fought for it from escaping; two Upper Gods died, and Yao Li absorbed their fortune.
• Willow God asked how the Flower World gods had found the treasure, and the Peach Blossom God explained that a Demon God had given it to them.
• Wind God noticed that no other experts had witnessed the handoff, raising the question of how news of the treasure had spread to the assembled gods.

The gods discovered that the supposed treasure was a trap set by a Demon God, which had already cost the Tianya Realm’s guardian god his life. After uncovering the skull, the gods debated whether to pursue the Demon God before continuing their search.

• The Snow God suggested the Demon God had planted false news to lure the gods into fighting, while the Shabi Divine General accused the Northern Marsh of possibly staging the deception.
• The gods chose the Peach Blossom God and Apricot Blossom God to inspect the treasure, and the Undying Battle Emperor pushed them toward it.
• The Peach Blossom God and Apricot Blossom God removed the sacred radiance and revealed the bloody skull of the Tianya Realm’s guardian god.
• The Peach Blossom God and Apricot Blossom God covered the skull with falling peach blossoms, and the Boulder Divine General prepared to leave.
• The Snow God and Wind God urged the gods to join forces against the Demon God behind the trap, and the Undying Battle Emperor agreed.

The Wind God, Snow God, and several realms joined forces after the Heavenly River Realm and Giant Cauldron Realm departed, while the fox demon and the last troll revealed their plan to rally the demons and kill the isolated Upper Gods. Guided by the God of Leaping, the alliance reached a demon battle formation and attacked, but the formation held as a vast demon tide advanced.

• The Heavenly Dragon God led the Heavenly River Realm away, and the Giant Cauldron Realm and many other worlds followed.
• The Wind God agreed to travel with the Winter Realm, and the Peach Blossom God, Apricot Blossom God, and several other realms joined their alliance.
• The fox-eared youth and the last troll revealed that they planned to gather the demons, kill the Upper Gods, and bring chaos to the Outer Divine Domain.
• The God of Leaping escaped a demon tide and warned the alliance that demons had surrounded isolated Upper Gods in organized battle formations.
• The alliance followed the God of Leaping and found the isolated Upper Gods fighting within a demon formation; the Snow God attacked first, but the formation held as a vast demon tide surged toward them.

Chen Ning spotted the demon formation’s weak point, helping the gods rescue the surrounded Upper Gods. Three days later, the treasure appeared and a chaotic battle erupted, with the Undying Battle Emperor challenging the Boulder Divine General as the Northern Marsh gods moved to support him.

• Chen Ning urged the gods to attack the demon formation’s heavily defended left flank, and the Willow God and Wind God vouched for his plan.
• The gods broke through the left flank, collapsed the formation, and rescued the isolated Upper Gods while the demons withdrew.
• On the seventh day, the treasure appeared in the hands of the Boulder Divine General of the Giant Cauldron Realm, and the realms descended into a free-for-all.
• The Undying Battle Emperor struck down an Upper God and challenged the Boulder Divine General, catching his war hammer with both hands and sending it flying.
• Two Giant Cauldron Realm divine generals rushed to aid the Boulder Divine General, and the Wind God sent the Yang God and Lake God to intercept them.

The Heavenly River Realm seized the treasure as the Upper Gods arrived, while the gathered realms clashed over it. Chen Ning fought the Axe God and the Willow God faced the Scholar Tree God, whose Tree of Decay forced the Willow God to take the battle seriously.

• The Boulder Divine General gave up the treasure under pressure from the Undying Battle Emperor and the Heavenly River Realm, and the Heavenly Dragon God took possession of it.
• The Dark Dragon God blocked the Undying Battle Emperor, while the Scholar Tree God challenged the Willow God and the Axe God moved to kill Chen Ning.
• Chen Ning repelled the Axe God's attack with his palm and, after summoning his Kui Ox Dharma Body, fought back against the Axe God's thousand-zhang Dharma Body.
• The Scholar Tree God summoned his Tree of Decay, which destroyed natural power and spread desolation, forcing the Willow God to stop instructing Chen Ning and defend himself.
• The Willow God warned the Scholar Tree God that using the Tree of Decay consumed his own source and could leave him exhausted.

Scholar Tree God attacked Chen Ning after losing ground to Willow God, but Yao Li blocked his decay power and Willow God killed him. As the remaining factions debated the treasure and Wind God fought Heavenly Dragon God, Chen Ning finally saw the first sect master in person.

• Scholar Tree God used the Tree of Decay against Willow God, but his depleted origin left him unable to sustain the fight.
• Scholar Tree God redirected his attack toward Chen Ning, and Yao Li appeared to dispel the power of decay.
• Willow God destroyed the Tree of Decay and killed Scholar Tree God.
• Heavenly Dragon God urged the gathered forces to attack Northern Marsh and the Dragon-Tiger Realm, while Wind God challenged him and the others held back.
• Seven-colored clouds appeared, and the first sect master Chen Ning had been seeking arrived in the flesh.

Chen Ning reunited with his former mentor, God King White Robe, who revealed that the contest for seats had been manipulated to prevent the gods from fighting. White Robe warned that the Eternal Demon Emperor’s eyeball was sealed in the Demon Prison and that the gods’ deaths could provide enough dark power to revive him.

• God King White Robe arrived as the contest’s second judge and greeted Chen Ning, praising his progress while criticizing his current fighting techniques.
• White Robe told the gods that demons had manipulated them, then explained that the treasure was real and that he had hidden it in the Demon Abyss to prevent them from fighting over it.
• White Robe revealed that the Eternal Demon Emperor was the greatest threat imprisoned in the Demon Prison, beyond the danger posed by the Giant Demon God and the Demon God of Trickery.
• White Robe explained that five God Emperors had torn apart and sealed the Eternal Demon Emperor’s body, leaving one of his eyeballs in the realm for White Robe to monitor.
• White Robe warned that if the gods fought and died over the treasure, the resulting dark power could break the seal and revive the Eternal Demon Emperor.

The First Generation revealed that the Eye of the Demon Emperor had infiltrated the gathered gods and was falsifying what God King Qingxuan could see, leaving only three days to find it before it escaped. The gods failed to identify a suspect, while the First Generation privately told Chen Ning that he had a few leads and kept everyone calm with tea and jokes.

• The First Generation explained that the Eternal Demon Emperor's Eye was hiding among the gods and had disrupted communications with God King Qingxuan.
• He warned that the Demon Battlefield would teleport everyone away in three days, allowing the Eye to escape if it remained undiscovered.
• Heavenly Dragon God and Boulder Divine General accused each other’s realms, but Snow God stopped their argument.
• The First Generation privately told Chen Ning that he had a few suspects and asked him to brew Dao Comprehension Tea.
• The gods admitted they had no reliable way to identify the Eye, while the First Generation drank tea and joked with Chen Ning.

The First Generation used a bronze mirror to expose the Dark Dragon God as the Eternal Demon Emperor, though the mirror’s marks appeared on every other god as well. The demon tide attacked, and the First Generation went to face the Demon Emperor while the gods prepared to fight the demons.

• The First Generation took the Heavenly Dragon God’s treasure and revealed it as a mirror he claimed could identify the Demon Emperor’s parasite.
• Chen Ning checked all 110 Upper Gods with the mirror, and the First Generation isolated them until the marks appeared.
• The gods discovered that every Upper God except the Dark Dragon God bore a demonic flame mark, revealing him as the Eternal Demon Emperor.
• The First Generation explained that he had put the marks on everyone and that only the Eternal Demon Emperor could remove his own mark.
• The Demon Emperor summoned a demon tide led by the Demon God of Trickery and the Giant Demon God, then ordered them to kill the gods.
• The First Generation told the gods to handle the demons and went to confront the Eternal Demon Emperor himself.

The Eye of the Demon Emperor revealed the weaknesses of the Outer Divine Domain’s gods, turning the battle in the demonic horde’s favor. The First Generation confronted the Eye of the Demon Emperor but was pulled into the world within its eyes, leaving the gods in dire straits.

• The Wind God, Snow God, Boulder Divine General, Heavenly Dragon God, and other powerhouses overwhelmed the demonic horde, while the Undying Battle Emperor fought the Giant Demon God and the Willow God battled the Demon God of Trickery.
• The Eye of the Demon Emperor exposed the gods’ weaknesses, allowing demons to kill and wound several Upper Gods.
• The First Generation resisted the Eye of the Demon Emperor’s eye technique and tried to stab the Dark Dragon God’s eyes, but the Demon Emperor unleashed his ultimate technique.
• The Eye of the Demon Emperor dragged the First Generation and the Dark Dragon God’s body into the world within his eyes.
• The Demon God of Trickery urged the demonic horde to kill the remaining gods as the Outer Divine Domain’s forces suffered mounting casualties.

Chen Ning offered to disrupt the demons’ ability to read the gods’ weaknesses in exchange for seats in the Central Divine Domain for the Northern Marsh and Dragon-Tiger Realm. After the Heavenly Dragon God was killed and casualties mounted, the other realms agreed to his terms, and Chen Ning cast the spell at the cost of his own strength.

• Chen Ning told the gods he could scramble the marks revealing their weaknesses, but demanded Central Divine Domain seats for the Northern Marsh and Dragon-Tiger Realm.
• Chen Ning demonstrated that the spell protected him from a demon’s counterattack, while the other realms hesitated to accept his demand.
• Giant Demon God killed Heavenly Dragon God, and the surviving Upper Gods continued to suffer heavy losses.
• Snow God urged the gods to value survival over the seats, and the Winter Realm, Thousand Autumns Realm, Divine Sea Realm, and others agreed to support Chen Ning’s terms.
• Chen Ning cast a sacred spell over the assembled gods and weakened as Willow God formed a lotus to support him.

The gods of the Outer Divine Domain turned the battle against the demonic tide after Chen Ning used the Dao of Deception to make them believe their weaknesses had been changed. The tide was stopped, but the fate of the gods still depended on the battle between the Demon Emperor and God King White Robe.

• The gods fought back against the demonic tide, while the Boulder Divine General battled the Giant Demon God until the Giant Demon God revealed his true body and killed him.
• The Undying Battle Emperor repeatedly resurrected and attacked the Giant Demon God, eventually killing him after restoring himself for the fifth time.
• The Willow God captured the Demon God of Trickery and forced him to sever his control over the demonic tide.
• Chen Ning admitted to the Willow God that he had used the Dao of Deception to convince the gods their weaknesses had changed, with Yao Li's help sustaining the deception.
• The gods turned their attention to the motionless Demon Emperor and God King White Robe, whose battle remained unresolved.

The First Generation fought the Eye of the Demon Emperor inside its world of ancient devils, then used its own power to destroy that world and break the stalemate. He emerged victorious on the Demon Battlefield and suppressed the exhausted demon eye, delaying its revival for at least eight hundred to a thousand years.

• The Eye of the Demon Emperor trapped the First Generation in its world and sent an ancient devil army to overwhelm him.
• The First Generation revealed that he could wield power he saw, then broke down and recombined the world's Devil Qi into a new technique.
• The First Generation swept away the devil army, causing the world within the eye to collapse.
• Dark Dragon God's body fell to its knees on the Demon Battlefield, and the First Generation drew the demon eye from its socket.
• The First Generation suppressed the exhausted Eye of the Demon Emperor, and the gods of the Outer Divine Domain finally relaxed.

After the Demon Emperor's attempted revival was stopped, the Outer Divine Domain awarded the Central Divine Domain seats to the Northern Marsh and the Dragon-Tiger Realm. The First Generation reunited with Chen Ning and began recounting his journey from the Nine Provinces Realm toward the God Realm.

• The gods returned from the Demon Battlefield, and God King Qingxuan learned from the First Generation that the Demon Emperor's revival attempt had been dealt with.
• The Snow God proposed giving the Central Divine Domain seats to the Northern Marsh and the Dragon-Tiger Realm, and God King Qingxuan announced that they would receive them.
• The First Generation confronted Yao Li about sparing Chen Ning, then told her she could beat him as long as she did not kill him.
• The Ancient God of Dusk and the Willow God departed, leaving the First Generation, Chen Ning, and Yao Li together as the First-Generation Sect Master took charge of guiding the realms' relocation.
• The First Generation told Chen Ning how he had left the Nine Provinces Realm, founded So Close Yet Worlds Apart in the Vast Land, and continued his pursuit of a higher realm.