Chapter Summaries

Hua Xichen used the Great Prophecy Art’s Sage’s Descent to find a way to defeat Chu Xinghe after neither of them could escape the labyrinth. The prophecy’s only path to victory was for Hua Xichen to admit defeat, leaving him stunned.

• Chu Xinghe and Hua Xichen kept circling the labyrinth as Ji Moran and Ming Chenghai grew dizzy and distressed.
• Hua Xichen’s predictions showed that both searching for the exit and trying to outlast Chu Xinghe would end in failure.
• Hua Xichen summoned the Spirit of the Sage at the cost of severe injuries and used the complete Great Prophecy Art to search thousands of possible futures.
• The sage’s prophecy revealed a single path to victory, and Hua Xichen pushed Ming Chenghai aside to uncover it immediately.
• Hua Xichen read the prophecy’s instruction—“Admit defeat”—and was left bewildered about how surrender could bring him victory.

Hua Xichen interpreted Sage's Descent as a command to admit defeat, believing that being sent out of the Labyrinth of the Heavens would count as winning. His surrender sent the Spirit Beast Continent's resources to the Blazing Sun Continent, while everyone else—including Chu Xinghe—misunderstood why it happened.

• Ming Chenghai suggested that admitting defeat might count as escaping the labyrinth, and Hua Xichen decided this was the sure path to victory.
• Hua Xichen and Ming Chenghai each shouted “I admit defeat” three times, were sent out, and triggered the transfer of resources to the Blazing Sun Continent.
• Chu Xinghe and Little Ji emerged expecting to have lost, then learned that Hua Xichen had surrendered and their side had gained the resources.
• Elder He explained that Little Ji's bad luck made every route wrong, causing Hua Xichen's Great Prophecy Art and Sage's Descent to give false guidance.
• The crowd praised Chu Xinghe for outsmarting Hua Xichen, while Chu Xinghe privately insisted that Hua Xichen had actually won and the Great Prophecy Art had been right.

After Hua Xichen’s Great Prophecy Art inexplicably declared victory despite the Spirit Beast Continent’s loss, Empress Ji Ya concluded that Chu Xinghe was a Destined One whom the art could not predict. As the fourth round began, Chu Xinghe’s allies kept him out of the Phantom Rainforest, while Hua Xichen was absent from the Spirit Beast Continent’s entrant list.

• Hua Xichen and Ming Chenghai faced the Spirit Beast Continent’s stunned clans after admitting defeat, and Ming Chenghai showed them the sage’s guidance that had instructed them to lose in order to win.
• Empress Ji Ya explained that Chu Xinghe was likely a Destined One beyond the Great Prophecy Art’s reach, and she warned Hua Xichen not to use the art against him again.
• Empress Ji Ya told the injured Hua Xichen to rest during the fourth round, then explained that teams would collect Phantom Spirits in the Phantom Rainforest.
• Zheng Yu and the others insisted that Chu Xinghe sit out because his powerful Phantom could endanger his teammates, and Chu Xinghe welcomed the chance to avoid the round.
• Chu Xinghe noticed Hua Xichen was missing from the Spirit Beast Continent’s entrant list and hoped the opposing team would still fight hard.

Zheng Yu led the Blazing Sun Continent’s team into the Phantom Rainforest while Ning Jichang rallied the Spirit Beast Continent’s team to prove they could win without Hua Xichen. Zheng Yu became the first to find a phantom and defeated Ning Jichang’s with his rebound power, collecting its Phantom Spirit.

• Chu Xinghe urged Ji Moran to lead the Blazing Sun Continent’s team and assured him he believed in him.
• Zheng Yu led the Blazing Sun Continent’s disciples into the Phantom Rainforest, where they landed opposite the Spirit Beast Continent’s team.
• Ning Jichang rallied his teammates to win and prove they were not dependent on Hua Xichen.
• Zheng Yu instructed his team to prioritize safety, and both sides split up to search the vast rainforest for phantoms.
• On the second night, Zheng Yu found Ning Jichang’s phantom and fought it using his Seven-Colored Glazed Body.
• Zheng Yu used his rebound power to destroy Ning Jichang’s phantom and collected the Phantom Spirit it left behind.

Zheng Yu proved his dominance by defeating Ning Jichang’s phantom, while the contestants searched for the remaining phantoms. After three days, Ji Moran finally defeated his own phantom and earned a Phantom Spirit, but Ning Jichang appeared and accused him of stealing it.

• Zheng Yu defeated Ning Jichang’s phantom with ease and claimed its Phantom Spirit, leaving the Spirit Beast Continent’s young geniuses stunned.
• Guo Qizhen and Ning Jichang each defeated a phantom, and the two sides’ Phantom Spirit counts rose to nine apiece as they searched for the final two phantoms.
• Ji Moran searched the rainforest for three days without finding a phantom and feared that his bad luck would cost his side the contest.
• Ji Moran found and defeated his own phantom with the Soaring Cloud Seal, then claimed a Phantom Spirit and set out to rejoin his companions.
• Ning Jichang emerged behind Ji Moran and accused him of taking a Phantom Spirit that Ning Jichang claimed to have found first.

Ji Moran was killed by Ning Jichang, who stole his Phantom Spirit and opened the Spirit Communication Pagoda’s seal. As the Blazing Sun Continent mourned and confronted the Spirit Beast Continent, Chu Xinghe began preparing a way to bring Ji Moran back to life.

• Ning Jichang ambushed Ji Moran and tortured him, demanding the Phantom Spirit, but Ji Moran refused to surrender it.
• Ning Jichang killed Ji Moran, took his spatial ring, and fled with the Phantom Spirit.
• Ning Jichang obtained the tenth Phantom Spirit, opened the fourth-floor seal, and caused the pagoda to send Ji Moran’s corpse out.
• Xing Yushen grieved, Gu Mingchao threatened the Spirit Beast Continent, and Zheng Yu mourned Ji Moran’s death.
• Chu Xinghe ordered the Great Sage to preserve Ji Moran’s body, gathered rare materials with Feng Fei, and vowed to seize Ji Moran’s life back from heaven.

Chu Xinghe refined the legendary Question Heaven and Seize Life Pill to resurrect Ji Moran, sacrificing part of his soul and life force to give the pill spirit and life. Just as the pill neared completion, thunder rolled across the sky, showing that heavenly destiny would not grant it the luck it needed.

• Chu Xinghe began refining the Question Heaven and Seize Life Pill in the Divine Wood Dragon Cauldron, using the legendary Nine Revolutions Heart Refining Art.
• The grand elder explained that the pill required the refiner's soul, life force, and heavenly fortune, and that Ji Moran's bad luck made success less likely.
• Chu Xinghe produced a golden divine pill that shattered its first lightning tribulation.
• Chu Xinghe sacrificed part of his soul and ignited his life force, giving the pill spirit and life while he spat blood.
• Thunder rolled across the sky before the pill's final step, signaling that heavenly destiny would not permit its completion.

Chu Xinghe seized the completed Question Heaven and Seize Life Pill and used the Misfortune Compass to withstand the heavenly fortune lightning that threatened to destroy it. The pill restored Ji Moran’s scattered soul fragments and began reviving him.

• Heaven’s will rejected Ji Moran’s revival, and Chu Xinghe charged into the sky to seize the divine pill despite warnings from those around him.
• The heavenly fortune lightning struck Chu Xinghe and pressed everyone beneath its might.
• The Misfortune Compass released black power that shattered the lightning and allowed the pill to form.
• Chu Xinghe brought the completed Seize Life Pill to Ji Moran, and it gathered Ji Moran’s scattered soul fragments back into his body.
• Golden light spread over Ji Moran as his body began to recover, and Chu Xinghe brought him back to life.

After Chu Xinghe revived Ji Moran, he vowed to kill Ning Jichang and entered the Vengeful Spirit Forbidden Domain alone. The chapter ended with Chu Xinghe smiling as he prepared to begin the slaughter.

• Ji Moran returned to life and understood how sincerely Chu Xinghe had risked himself to save him.
• Chu Xinghe told Gu Mingchao and the elders to leave the next round to him, then volunteered despite his damaged life soul.
• Hua Xichen led twenty people from the Spirit Beast Continent into the Vengeful Spirit Forbidden Domain and kept Ning Jichang out after divining that he would die if he entered.
• Chu Xinghe rejected his allies' offers to join him and entered the Vengeful Spirit Forbidden Domain alone.
• Chu Xinghe heard the vengeful spirits wail and declared that the slaughter had begun.

Chu Xinghe entered the Vengeful Spirit Forbidden Domain alone, prompting Hua Xichen to predict certain death for anyone who fought him. Chu Xinghe sealed the domain and protected the Vengeful Spirit King as he prepared to hunt the Spirit Beast Continent group, while Ning Jihong secretly powered himself up to challenge him.

• Hua Xichen used the Great Prophecy Art twice and got certain death as the result of attacking Chu Xinghe, but Ning Jihong and others still wanted to fight him.
• Chu Xinghe summoned Evil Repeller, drove back the vengeful spirits, sealed the forbidden domain, and protected the Vengeful Spirit King.
• Chu Xinghe drew all his divine swords and used the vengeful spirits as eyes while advancing toward the Spirit Beast Continent group.
• Ning Jihong secretly left the group, swallowed a Blood Eye Pill, and forcibly raised his cultivation from the Peak of the Eighth Rank to the Ninth Rank.
• Chu Xinghe emerged from the dark forest with countless divine swords floating behind him as Ning Jihong prepared to challenge him.

Ning Jihong used a Blood Eye Pill and fused with his Rock-Earth Giant Beast to unleash powerful Qimen Dunjia attacks against Chu Xinghe. Chu Xinghe adapted what he had observed into a new Earth Spirit Formation technique, High-Speed Rail, and defeated Ning Jihong with its overwhelming impact.

• Ning Jihong boosted his strength with a Blood Eye Pill, fused with the Rock-Earth Giant Beast, and attacked Chu Xinghe with the Earth Pulse.
• Chu Xinghe used the Earth Spirit Formation to block Ning Jihong’s Earth Pulse and studied his Qimen Dunjia techniques.
• Ning Jihong ignited part of his life force and unleashed the Rock Dragon Chariot, which shattered Chu Xinghe’s formation and charged at him.
• Chu Xinghe formed the Earth Spirit Formation: High-Speed Rail, blasted apart the Rock Dragon Chariot, and ran over Ning Jihong before punching through a distant mountain.
• The Blazing Sun and Spirit Beast Continent experts stared in stunned silence at the tunnel left by Chu Xinghe’s attack.

Chu Xinghe annihilated Ning Jihong and four Ning Clan disciples, revealing overwhelming strength despite his injuries. He then threatened to kill the remaining Spirit Beast Continent group at regular intervals until Ning Jichang was found, and promised to destroy the Ning Clan if he remained alive.

• Elder He, the White Tiger, and others concluded that Chu Xinghe had created a new formation that manifested as a high-speed rail and killed Ning Jihong in one strike.
• Hua Xichen arrived with the Spirit Beast Continent group and watched Chu Xinghe kill a Ning clansman with lightning when he called for an attack.
• Chu Xinghe used his formation and divine swords to kill three more Ning Clan disciples, surviving the last disciple’s self-detonation unharmed.
• Observers on both continents realized Chu Xinghe’s strength exceeded the younger generation’s, even though he was still seriously injured.
• Chu Xinghe told Hua Xichen that the killing would continue until Ning Jichang was found and threatened to exterminate the Ning Clan if Ning Jichang survived.

Chu Xinghe trapped the Spirit Beast Continent’s prodigies in the Vengeful Spirit Forbidden Domain and began killing one every quarter hour, demanding Ning Jichang’s death. When his threat expanded to include ten more Ning Clan members for each interval, the Spirit Beast Continent’s clan heads turned on Clan Head Ning.

• Chu Xinghe killed a lightning-wielding prodigy who attacked him, then intimidated the Spirit Beast Continent’s group into surrendering.
• Chu Xinghe used Evil Repeller to shatter the teleportation light, trapping the prodigies and forcing Hua Xichen to order them to flee.
• At the next quarter-hour mark, Chu Xinghe used Flying Locust’s formations to reach and kill a fleeing prodigy.
• Chu Xinghe killed another fleeing prodigy at the following interval and demanded Ning Jichang’s death, threatening to add ten Ning Clan victims every quarter hour.
• Clan Head Cui blamed Clan Head Ning for the deaths, while Clan Head Hua and other clan heads argued that Ning Jichang had to pay before more prodigies were killed.

Chu Xinghe forced the Spirit Beast Continent to kill Ning Jichang and twenty young members of the Ning Clan before sparing Hua Xichen and the other prodigies. After the Spirit Beast Continent’s prodigies were teleported away, Chu Xinghe opened the fifth floor of the Spirit Communication Pagoda, but the resulting rewards wiped out his Misfortune Compass.

• Chu Xinghe killed another Ming Clan prodigy and chose Hua Xichen as his next target, prompting the Hua, Cui, and Ming families to turn against Ning Jichang.
• Empress Ji Ya intervened, then executed Ning Jichang with her golden wheel to save Hua Xichen.
• Chu Xinghe continued his countdown and demanded more lives, so Ji Ya killed twenty young members of the Ning Clan before the deadline.
• Chu Xinghe spared Hua Xichen and the other Spirit Beast Continent prodigies, who were teleported away after Hua vowed to defeat him someday.
• Chu Xinghe killed the King of Vengeful Spirits, opened the fifth floor, and watched resources pour into the Blazing Sun Continent as his Misfortune Compass was wiped out.

After Chu Xinghe returned from the fifth floor, the two continents reacted to his overwhelming victory and the Spirit Beast Continent’s humiliation. With the sixth floor open, neither side entered immediately because Chu Xinghe feared the Misfortune Compass’s backlash and knew he had to lose decisively.

• Chu Xinghe returned to the Blazing Sun Continent and reassured the badly injured Ji Moran that she should focus on recovering.
• Zheng Yu and the witnesses recognized that Chu Xinghe had forced Hua Xichen and the Spirit Beast Continent’s older generation into a desperate position, while spectators across the continents discussed his strength.
• Hua Xichen realized that the Great Prophecy Art had foretold his defeat and that he had no chance to recover from a single mistake against Chu Xinghe.
• The Spirit Beast Continent’s experts stayed silent because Chu Xinghe had defeated his opponents openly after Ning Jichang attacked Ji Moran, and Chu Xinghe had ultimately spared Hua Xichen.
• After the sixth floor opened, both sides hesitated to enter: the Spirit Beast Continent feared another massacre, while Chu Xinghe realized the Misfortune Compass was spinning backward and resolved to lose decisively to avert its backlash.

Chu Xinghe struggled to choose someone for the sixth level’s comprehension trial, fearing that any of his gifted companions might win and trigger another misfortune backlash. He summoned Shu Da, whose clan was notorious for poor comprehension, and declared that he would send him in, leaving everyone stunned.

• The Grand Elder explained that the sixth level was a contest to comprehend the seal’s opening method from the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele, and each side could send one person.
• Zheng Yu and the younger generation urged Chu Xinghe to enter, while Chu Xinghe worried that his fortune might make him comprehend something despite trying to slack off.
• Chu Xinghe considered his gifted companions and ruled out Little Ji, who was still too weak to compete.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Ma Liang to bring Shu Da from the Vast Heaven Sect, surprising everyone who knew the Shadow Rat Clan had terrible comprehension.
• Chu Xinghe confirmed that Shu Da would enter the trial and vowed to eat the entire Extreme Realm Heaven Stele if Shu Da won through comprehension.

Chu Xinghe brought Shu Da in to comprehend the sixth floor’s Extreme Realm Heaven Stele, but Shu Da protested that the Shadow Rat Clan had no comprehension. Ma Liang defended the plan with a bizarre mathematical argument that Shu Da’s comprehension exceeded Zheng Yu’s, leaving everyone confused.

• Shu Da arrived at Chu Xinghe’s summons and offered to defeat enemies by sending thousands of clones to self-detonate.
• Chu Xinghe explained that Shu Da was being sent to comprehend the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele, and Shu Da and the others objected that the Shadow Rat Clan lacked comprehension.
• The grand elder asked Chu Xinghe to explain his reasoning because the sixth-floor resources involved the Vast Heaven Sect and both continents.
• Ma Liang stepped forward and claimed mathematics proved Shu Da’s comprehension was greater than Zheng Yu’s, despite assigning Zheng Yu a score of one hundred and Shu Da a score of one.
• Ma Liang had Shu Da produce hundreds of clones, argued that their combined comprehension surpassed Zheng Yu’s, then declared that one was greater than a hundred after the clones merged back into one.

Ma Liang convinced the Blazing Sun Continent that Shu Da’s Shadow Rat comprehension made him the ideal fighter for the sixth level, while Cui Wuming quickly obtained the Key of the Mind. Shu Da remained unable to understand the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele, but split into tens of thousands of clones, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Ma Liang used bizarre arithmetic to argue that Shu Da’s many clones were effectively one Shu Da and that Chu Xinghe’s choice of fighter guaranteed victory.
• Shu Da and Cui Wuming entered the sixth level, where Cui Wuming began studying the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele and Shu Da stared at it in confusion.
• Cui Wuming entered sudden enlightenment, obtained the Key of the Mind, and drew cheers from the Spirit Beast Continent.
• The Blazing Sun Continent’s onlookers questioned Ma Liang’s claims as Shu Da struggled to comprehend the stele.
• Shu Da wondered if he needed to split into clones and produced tens of thousands of bewildered copies beneath the stele.

Cui Wuming comprehended the Great Dao from the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele, broke through, and won the sixth-floor resources for the Spirit Beast Continent while Shu Da remained bewildered. Chu Xinghe celebrated as the Misfortune Compass stopped its backward turn, but it offered him no improvement, leaving him worried that another strange event was coming.

• Cui Wuming entered a state of enlightenment while Shu Da split into countless clones and failed to comprehend the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele.
• Ma Liang insisted the outcome was undecided as Cui Wuming manifested a flower of enlightenment and broke through to a new cultivation level.
• Shu Da crowded the stele with his clones, remained unable to comprehend it, and threatened Cui Wuming after being mocked.
• Cui Wuming sent the Key of the Mind to the peak of the sixth floor, unlocking the stele and sending its spiritual patterns and resources to the three continents and the Spirit Beast Continent.
• Chu Xinghe saw the Misfortune Compass stop turning backward, then watched it halt without improving his fortune and feared another strange event.

Shu Da appeared to lose the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele contest, but revealed that he and his clones had memorized and recreated about two-thirds of the stele. Chu Xinghe and the gathered cultivators realized Shu Da had brought back a lasting source of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, making the outcome far more valuable than the resources they lost.

• Shu Da emerged from the Spirit Communication Pagoda in tears, and Chu Xinghe apologized for sending him into the contest.
• Shu Da said he had not come away empty-handed, then used his clones to cover a rock with points of spiritual light.
• The crowd recognized that Shu Da had recreated the Extreme Realm Heaven Stele and learned that his version contained about two-thirds of the original.
• Ma Liang declared the outcome settled, claiming Shu Da's achievement surpassed Cui Wuming's comprehension.
• The gathered cultivators judged Shu Da's recreated stele more valuable than the resources lost to the Spirit Beast Continent.