Chapter Summaries

After the divine generals were killed and their Divine Armor Dharma Body methods claimed, Chen Ning and his companions explored a ruined side hall and studied its murals. Yao Li accidentally activated an ancient cauldron, revealing a translucent divine vessel that drew everyone’s attention.

• The Netherworld God King and the other Rogue Cultivator God Kings claimed all five remaining Divine Armor Dharma Body methods, including one taken from a wounded Upper God they killed.
• Chen Ning, First Generation, Yao Li, Shen Qianqian, and Wu Dongqing entered a small ruined side hall while the Lion God King and other powerful cultivators headed for the main halls.
• Chen Ning examined murals depicting the Eternal Demon Emperor and the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor, while he and First Generation agreed to return to the Nine Provinces Realm after their visit.
• Yao Li touched an old cauldron, causing its shell to peel away and reveal a translucent divine cauldron that she seized as its radiance attracted attention.

Wu Dongqing fought off the Netherworld God King and two Rogue Cultivator God Kings while Chen Ning repelled Upper Gods, but more God Kings arrived to contest the divine furnace. As the gathered realms hesitated over its value, the Undying Battle Emperor realized the Eternal Demon Emperor intended to use their slaughter to weaken the God Realm and revive himself.

• The Netherworld God King and two Rogue Cultivator God Kings confronted Wu Dongqing over the divine light, and Wu Dongqing ordered the First Generation to protect Shen Qianqian before fighting them alone.
• Upper Gods attacked Chen Ning’s group, and Chen Ning drove them back with his God Emperor True Intention while the First Generation praised his progress.
• God Kings from the Divine Martial Realm, the Exquisite Realm, and the Eight Desolations Realm gathered to claim the treasure, while allies from the Shenji Realm and Canglan Realm arrived to help.
• The First Generation called the treasure a small sacrificial furnace and refused to reveal it, leaving the gathered God Kings in a tense standoff.
• The Undying Battle Emperor recognized the Eternal Demon Emperor’s scheme to make the God Kings kill one another, drain the God Realm’s providence, and enable the Eternal Demon Emperor’s revival.

The Emperor Realm God Kings postponed fighting over the treasure and continued exploring the Heavenly Palace, while the Lion God King’s demand for Yao Li’s divine furnace caused a rift with First Generation. As Chen Ning’s group leisurely explored the central hall, its murals showed the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor’s rise against the Demon Emperor, leaving Chen Ning eager to see the story continue.

• God King Xia and the Lotus God King persuaded the other Emperor Realm God Kings to explore the Heavenly Palace instead of fighting over the mysterious treasure, though the Heavenly Saint God King planned to return to the matter if other treasures proved less valuable.
• The Lion God King demanded Yao Li hand over the divine furnace, but she refused, and First Generation rejected the Lion God King’s threat to withdraw protection from his group.
• Wu Dongqing offered First Generation the Shenji Realm’s support, and Shen Qianqian invited First Generation and Chen Ning to join the Shenji Realm, but Chen Ning put off deciding.
• Chen Ning’s group explored the Heavenly Palace at a leisurely pace while the other powers gathered Divine Crystals from its halls.
• Chen Ning studied the central hall’s murals depicting the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor’s struggles against the Demon Emperor and hurried to the second floor to see what happened next.

Chen Ning and his companions reached the third floor, where experts were competing for places near the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor’s statue to contemplate his God Emperor True Intention. Shen Qianqian, Chen Ning, and Yao Li headed toward the core area, while the First Generation challenged the assembled God Kings by insisting they all take front-row seats.

• Chen Ning and his companions studied second-floor murals depicting the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor’s war against the Eternal Demon Emperor and the founding of the God Realm.
• On the third floor, Chen Ning saw God Kings gathered around the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor’s statue to contemplate his True Intention, while others fought over the closest positions.
• Wu Dongqing offered to escort Shen Qianqian to a place beside the Lotus God King, and Shen Qianqian agreed after he said the opportunity could help her surpass Chen Ning.
• Shen Qianqian invited Chen Ning to accompany her, and the First Generation pressured him to accept; Chen Ning then insisted Yao Li come with them too.
• Wu Dongqing objected that Yao Li could not join the limited central seats, but the First Generation declared that they would all sit in the front row and fight anyone who objected.

God King White Robe defied the other realms to secure places for Chen Ning and Yao Li to comprehend the God Emperor True Intention. When the Divine Martial Realm attacked him, he effortlessly turned their power back on them and repelled six God Kings, prompting the Lotus God King and God King Xia to send their own experts to stop him.

• God King White Robe told Wu Dongqing that he would act alone, while the Lion God King disavowed responsibility for his actions.
• Wu Dongqing hesitated to support God King White Robe, and the First Generation told him to protect Shen Qianqian while he handled Chen Ning and Yao Li.
• Shen Qianqian offered to give up her place, but the First Generation insisted that Chen Ning and Yao Li deserved to comprehend the statue and carried them to the core area.
• The First Generation asked two people to give up their places, and the Heavenly Saint God King ordered two Divine Martial Realm God Kings to attack him.
• The First Generation redirected their attacks and sent the two God Kings flying, then repelled four more God Kings with ease.
• The Heavenly Saint God King urged the Lotus God King and God King Xia to intervene, and they directed their experts to stop the First Generation.

The First Generation fought off more than twenty God King experts to secure places for Chen Ning to comprehend the God Emperor True Intention. When the Heavenly Saint God King, the Lotus God King, and God King Xia joined forces, the First Generation still overpowered them, and two of them agreed to give up their places.

• More than twenty God King experts surrounded the First Generation, who repelled their combined attacks without killing anyone.
• The First Generation approached the Heavenly Saint God King, the Lotus God King, and God King Xia and demanded that they give up their places for Chen Ning.
• The Heavenly Saint God King, the Lotus God King, and God King Xia attacked the First Generation together, but he forced back the Heavenly Saint God King, shattered the Lotus God King's attacks, and kicked God King Xia aside.
• God King Xia called for a retreat, and the Lotus God King and God King Xia agreed to give up their places.
• The Lotus God King praised God King Fisher and God King White Robe for helping God Emperor Canglan, leaving the Lion God King looking furious.

After comprehending the God Emperor True Intention, Chen Ning examined a mural revealing the Eternal Demon Emperor’s return and the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor’s final sacrifice. Just as Chen Ning prepared to leave, a mysterious gate appeared in the statue, and he was pulled into the world beyond it as the others rushed after him.

• God King Xia took the Lion God King's place with the First Generation's permission, forcing the Lion God King into the second circle.
• Chen Ning and Yao Li finished three days of contemplation, with Chen Ning having grasped only a hazy trace of the God Emperor True Intention.
• Chen Ning studied the third-level mural, which showed the worlds’ infighting enabling the Eternal Demon Emperor’s revival and the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor sealing him again at the cost of his divine source.
• As Chen Ning bowed to the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor's statue, a flash of divine radiance opened a gate to an independent world, and Chen Ning plunged inside.
• The First Generation, Yao Li, the great Emperor Realms, and the other experts followed Chen Ning through the gate, hoping to find a supreme opportunity.

The gods discovered that the sinister figure in the Heavenly Palace was the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor’s heart demon, who offered to teach them the lost Nine Heavens Tyrant Body if they freed him. The gods chose instead to join forces to destroy him and claim the Dharma Body.

• God King Xia identified the sinister figure as the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor’s heart demon, and the demon confirmed his identity.
• The heart demon revealed that he had survived the Heavenly Emperor and offered the Nine Heavens Tyrant Body in exchange for help escaping the Heavenly Palace.
• Wu Dongqing warned that releasing the heart demon could bring catastrophe upon the God Realm, while the Netherworld God King argued that the five God Emperors could stop him.
• The Heavenly Saint God King proposed that the gathered gods kill the heart demon and take the Nine Heavens Tyrant Body.
• God King Xia urged the gods to unite against the heart demon, and they agreed to attack him.

The Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor's heart demon proved impervious to the gods' attacks and trapped them behind an unbreakable barrier. It then tempted them with the promise of the Nine Heavens Tyrant Body, triggering a bloody battle that drew in even the seven Rogue Cultivator God Kings.

• God King Xia and the other gods attacked the heart demon, but their physical and divine soul strikes passed through it, and they could not break through the world's barrier.
• Chen Ning reasoned that the demon could not harm them either, while the Lotus God King urged everyone to find a way out.
• The heart demon promised the Nine Heavens Tyrant Body to those who attacked, and a sword-wielding Upper God killed a Middle God before breaking through to the God King Realm.
• The newly advanced God King killed his senior brother under the heart demon's influence, then grieved over the body.
• Many experts below the God King Realm began slaughtering one another to gain power, while the seven Rogue Cultivator God Kings led by the Netherworld God King joined the massacre.

The Heavenly Saint God King urged the Divine Martial Realm to join the deadly battle, hoping to use its power to reach the Emperor Realm, while God King Xia resisted the temptation with Wu Dongqing’s help. As the fight spiraled further out of control, the First Generation offered a risky escape plan that required the Divine Sparks of three God Kings, and they began entrusting them to him.

• The Heavenly Saint God King sent Divine Martial Realm experts into the melee and admitted to God King Xia that he hoped the battle would help him break through to the Emperor Realm.
• Wu Dongqing stopped God King Xia from sending the Eight Desolations Realm into the battle, warning that the heart demon was luring them into slaughter.
• The Lion God King charged into the melee, while the other Canglan Realm God Kings turned to God King White Robe for guidance.
• The First Generation proposed using the Divine Sparks of God King Xia, the Lotus God King, and God King Invincible to break through the world's barrier, claiming a fifty percent chance of success.
• Wu Dongqing, God King Xia, and the Lotus God King offered their Divine Sparks to the First Generation.

The First Generation began combining the power of three Divine Sparks into a formation while the four great imperial realms defended him from demonic attackers. As the fighting spread the demonic influence, God King Xia succumbed to it and tore his Divine Spark’s power from the formation, leaving the formation in danger.

• The First Generation began forming a barrier with the three Divine Sparks, and the experts of the four great imperial realms moved to protect him from the attackers.
• Chen Ning killed a crimson-eyed Upper God who broke through the defenders, while Great God Wugen succumbed to demonic influence and attacked his allies.
• Heavenly Lord Yun killed Great God Wugen after he killed a Middle God, and demonic intent began to appear in Heavenly Lord Yun’s eyes.
• After a junior of God King Xia was killed, the demonic voice provoked God King Xia into madness, and he reclaimed his Divine Spark’s power from the formation.
• The First Generation warned that the formation was failing without God King Xia’s power, as God King Xia defeated the sword-wielding God King and tore his body apart.

God King Xia rampaged through the Eight Desolations Realm after falling to the demonic path, killing many before his disciple Radiant Sun God King and two others briefly trapped him. Chen Ning’s Golden Lion’s Roar Technique restored God King Xia’s clarity for a moment, and he begged the others to kill him before the demonic nature took control again.

• God King Xia killed the sword-wielding God King, then charged at the defensive line of the four great Emperor Realms.
• God King Xia killed two more God Kings as the Eight Desolations Realm’s experts tried to stop him.
• Radiant Sun God King and two other God Kings trapped God King Xia in a six-pointed star array, but he struck Radiant Sun God King when the disciple paused after hearing him speak.
• Chen Ning used the Golden Lion's Roar Technique to restore God King Xia’s clarity, and God King Xia realized he had killed his own people.
• God King Xia begged the others to kill him before he lost control again, and the First Generation urged them to end his suffering.

After God King Xia succumbed to the demonic will and was killed, Chen Ning faced Netherworld God King as the formation struggled to recover. Chen Ning overwhelmed Netherworld God King's spear with the Immeasurable Dharma Body's power, prompting him to summon the Nether Demon Dharma Body.

• Radiant Sun God King asked Chen Ning to awaken God King Xia again, but Chen Ning said Xia was too exhausted for the technique to work.
• God King Xia begged the others to kill him before the demonic will took control, and experts from the Exquisite Realm, Canglan Realm, and Shenji Realm destroyed his body.
• The four great imperial realms faced dwindling forces and a weakened formation because God King Xia's Divine Spark was missing.
• Netherworld God King attacked Chen Ning to seize his treasures, but Chen Ning neutralized his netherworld power with his God Emperor True Intention.
• Chen Ning's divine lightning lost ground to Netherworld God King's spear until the Immeasurable Dharma Body greatly amplified his power and destroyed the spear light.
• Netherworld God King summoned his thousand-zhang Nether Demon Dharma Body to confront Chen Ning's blazing attack.

Chen Ning fought the Netherworld God King as the battle across the four Imperial Realms turned against the defenders. The Undying Battle Emperor killed Heavenly Lord Yun and then used a Death Curse to kill the Lion God King, leaving Wu Dongqing alarmed by the appearance of the Demon Emperor’s technique.

• Chen Ning’s Immeasurable Dharma Body and God Emperor True Intention forced the Netherworld God King to reveal his fourteenth-ranked Nether Demon Dharma Body.
• The Undying Battle Emperor attacked the exhausted Heavenly Lord Yun, defeated his ultimate move, and killed him by draining his vitality.
• The Lion God King struck the Undying Battle Emperor down, but the Undying Battle Emperor resurrected and challenged him to fight.
• The Lion God King killed the Undying Battle Emperor again with the Golden Lion’s Roar Technique, but the Undying Battle Emperor resurrected with his power waning.
• The Undying Battle Emperor cast the Death Curse he had obtained from the Eternal Demon Emperor, draining the Lion God King’s vitality until he died.
• Wu Dongqing recognized the forbidden technique as the Demon Emperor’s method and demanded to know where the Undying Battle Emperor had learned it.

The Netherworld God King used Netherworld Purgatory to drag Chen Ning away, while Yao Li struggled to hold back the Undying Battle Emperor. The Heavenly Saint God King turned against the inner demon and sacrificed himself to help the array open a luminous portal.

• Yao Li summoned seven True God Dharma Bodies to block the Undying Battle Emperor as he advanced toward the array.
• Chen Ning shattered the Nether Demon Dharma Body’s defenses, prompting the Netherworld God King to burn his divine soul and unleash Netherworld Purgatory.
• The Netherworld God King dragged Chen Ning into purgatory, leaving the battlefield believing Chen Ning had died.
• The Heavenly Saint God King attacked the Undying Battle Emperor instead of the array, then declared that he would not let the inner demon destroy the God Realm.
• The Undying Battle Emperor resurrected and attacked the Heavenly Saint God King, who detonated his body and divine soul, killing him again and sending his Divine Spark into the array.
• The First Generation used the Heavenly Saint God King’s Divine Spark to complete the array and open a luminous portal.

Chen Ning mastered the Nine Heavens God Emperor True Intention, escaped Netherworld Purgatory, and killed the Undying Battle Emperor. As the teleportation gate closed with Chen Ning and the others still trapped, the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor revealed that his heart demon had been a test.

• Chen Ning arrived bearing the Nine Heavens God Emperor True Intention, and the Netherworld God King died from shock at his return.
• Chen Ning destroyed the Undying Battle Emperor’s Death Curse with the Golden Lion’s Roar Technique and killed him with a divine fist.
• The teleportation array collapsed after the survivors passed through the gate, leaving Chen Ning, the First Generation, Wu Dongqing, and the Lotus God King behind.
• The Undying Battle Emperor revived in a weakened state and taunted them that the Demon Emperor would avenge him.
• The Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor’s Heart Demon shed its evil form, revealing that the apparent heart demon had been a lesson, and reflected on the survivors’ sacrifices.

The Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor and the First Generation revealed that the God Realm’s apparent deaths had been staged to teach its factions unity and explain the five God Emperors’ plan to destroy the Demon Emperor. The Heaven and Earth Devil-Slaying Grand Formation required six God Emperors and might kill everyone who formed it, leaving Chen Ning worried about his Grandmaster.

• The Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor brought Wu Dongqing, the Lotus God King, the Undying Battle Emperor, and the others to the High Antiquity Heavenly Palace, where the supposedly dead gods stood unharmed.
• The First Generation explained that the five God Emperors had devised the Heaven and Earth Devil-Slaying Grand Formation to destroy the Demon Emperor and prevent the God Realm from repeating the tragedy of High Antiquity.
• The Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor revealed that the formation needed the combined power of six God Emperors, and that inheriting God Emperor True Intention could prevent someone from forging their own path to the Emperor Realm.
• The Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor said the formation might kill its six participants or strip survivors of their cultivation, and explained that the gods’ apparent deaths had been staged to teach them unity.
• Chen Ning asked his Grandmaster, the First Generation, whether he would face the formation’s deadly risk as one of its participants.

The First Generation became an emperor with the five God Emperors’ help, seized the Undying Battle Emperor, stripped away his Undying Dharma Body, and killed him. The Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor offered Chen Ning the Nine Heavens Tyrant Body, and Chen Ning accepted, insisting he could still forge his own path.

• Chen Ning realized the First Generation had acted to help him inherit the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor’s True Intention, while the First Generation brushed off the sentiment.
• The First Generation captured the fleeing Undying Battle Emperor, took his Undying Dharma Body, and killed him, revealing that he had become an emperor.
• The gods congratulated the First Generation, who explained that the five God Emperors had lent him their power so he could break through.
• The Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor told Chen Ning that he alone could inherit the Nine Heavens Tyrant Body because he had mastered the Heavenly Emperor’s True Intention.
• Chen Ning accepted the inheritance, saying he would preserve the Heavenly Emperor’s legacy and could still forge a path of his own.

The Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor entrusted Chen Ning with divine radiance before his remnant consciousness faded, and the gods learned that the Demon Emperor’s lackeys had released his sealed body parts across the five Emperor Realms. As the gods raced to defend their realms, the five God Emperors failed to stop the Demon Emperor from reassembling his body and reviving.

• Chen Ning declared that he would forge his own path, and the Nine Heavens Heavenly Emperor gave him divine radiance before sending the gods out of the Heavenly Palace.
• The Willow God reported that God King Qingxuan had killed God King Fisher and released the Demon Emperor’s remnant body in the Canglan Realm.
• The First Generation ordered the gods to return to their realms and fight the Demon Emperor’s lackeys, then left to join the other God Emperors.
• Chen Ning and Yao Li headed for the Canglan Realm while the five God Emperors sensed that the Demon Emperor’s body parts had been released across the five Emperor Realms.
• The Demon Emperor’s remnant body parts gathered in the Devil-Sealing Land, broke free of the God Emperors’ suppression, and reunited as the Eternal Demon Emperor revived.

The five God Emperors fought the awakened Eternal Demon Emperor, but his chaotic devil body absorbed their attacks and left them unable to harm him. The First Generation arrived in time to save the Divine Martial Emperor, allowing all six God Emperors to prepare the Heaven and Earth Devil-Slaying Grand Formation.

• God Emperor Canglan led the five God Emperors in an attempt to seal the Eternal Demon Emperor, but he shattered their restraints and grew stronger from their attacks.
• The Eternal Demon Emperor overpowered the Divine Martial Emperor and wounded Emperor Huang, while God Emperor Canglan repaired Emperor Huang's body.
• The Divine Martial Emperor charged the Demon Emperor to buy time, but the Demon Emperor seized him by the throat and sent the Exquisite Empress and Great Emperor Shenji flying.
• The First Generation interfered with the Demon Emperor's chaotic devil Qi and saved the Divine Martial Emperor.
• The six God Emperors gathered their imperial might and began preparing to set up the Heaven and Earth Devil-Slaying Grand Formation.