Chapter Summaries

Chu Xinghe and the other entrants were forcibly assigned to factions in the Ancient Divine Domain, with the Spirit Race sent to the Beast Race and everyone from the other continents sent to the Spirit Race. The Beast God then gave the Beast Race faction both secret arts and resources, leaving Chu Xinghe’s side empty-handed as the supposedly fair contest began.

• Chu Xinghe considered choosing the Beast Race faction so he could learn its secret arts, but the Beast God overrode everyone’s choices and assigned the factions.
• The Spirit Race members were sent to the Beast Race faction, while the people from the Blazing Sun Continent and Demon Star Continent, including Chu Xinghe, were sent to the Spirit Race faction.
• Observers from the three continents debated the strange division, and Elder He called the contest relatively fair despite the Spirit Beast Continent’s confidence in its historical knowledge and Hua Xichen’s Great Prophecy Art.
• The Beast God sent the Beast Race faction a flood of secret arts, then also showered it with resources and secret treasures.
• Chu Xinghe and the observers realized that his faction had received nothing while the opposing side had gained both advantages.

The Beast God rigged the Ancient Divine Domain faction battle by giving the Beast Race abundant starting advantages while the Spirit Race received only a one-use Mountain-Splitting Axe. After the Spirit Locking Formation sealed their equipment, Shu Da’s Shadow Clone revealed another Mountain-Splitting Axe, leaving the Spirit Race with a possible way to respond.

• Elder He and the Great Sage realized that the Beast Race had received maxed-out secret arts, resources, and treasures, while the Spirit Race received only Mountain-Splitting Axe.
• The Beast God celebrated his plan to crush Chu Xinghe, believing the axe’s single strike could not overcome the Beast Race’s advantages.
• The Spirit Race discovered that the Spirit Locking Formation had sealed their spatial rings and secret treasures, but Chu Xinghe’s Haotian Sword Casket escaped the seal.
• Chu Xinghe feared his faction would be defeated before it could gain resources, though he hoped the Spirit Beast Continent could later sell them the secret arts.
• After Zheng Yu and the others found no solution in Mountain-Splitting Axe, Shu Da used Shadow Clone and revealed another Mountain-Splitting Axe in the clone’s hand.

Shu Da discovered that his Shadow Clone could copy Mountain-Splitting Axes, giving the Spirit Race camp a huge advantage despite receiving no resources or secret arts. Hua Xichen tried to keep the opposing camp alive so his side could search the Ancient Divine Domain for the Beast God's treasure vault and lost secret techniques, but his first attack was wiped out by the axes.

• Shu Da activated Shadow Clone and revealed that each clone could copy the Mountain-Splitting Axe, then produced thousands of axe-wielding clones.
• Chu Xinghe abandoned his plan to surrender as the Three Shadow Rat Brothers' formation threatened to overwhelm the Spirit Beast Continent.
• The Beast God regretted choosing the Mountain-Splitting Axe but could not remove it under the Ancient Divine Domain's rules.
• Hua Xichen warned the Spirit Beast Continent's heavenly talents not to eliminate the opposing camp before they searched for the treasure vault and secret techniques.
• Hua Xichen sent people to command the Beast Race around the Spirit Race's camp to attack, but the force was wiped out and the sole survivor warned, "Achen... Give it up... There are Mountain-Splitting Axes everywhere out there..."

Hua Xichen discovered that Shu Er’s Shadow Clones wielded more than ten thousand Mountain-Splitting Axes, letting them destroy Beast Race territory and overwhelm its defenders. Rather than confront the Shadow Rat, Hua Xichen led the Spirit Race members toward the Beast God Treasure Vault, while the Three Shadow Rat Brothers continued their rampage through the Ancient Divine Domain.

• Hua Xichen investigated the cleared territory and found an enormous pit where Beast Race camps had stood.
• Hua Xichen watched Shu Er create more than ten thousand Shadow Clones, each wielding a Mountain-Splitting Axe, and saw them wipe out a Beast Race group.
• Hua Xichen escaped and concluded that fighting the Shadow Rat was pointless, so finding the Beast God Treasure Vault was the better strategy.
• Hua Xichen used the Great Prophecy Art to find the vault’s direction and told his teammates what he had learned.
• Hua Xichen led the Spirit Race members away to search for the vault as the Three Shadow Rat Brothers rampaged through the Ancient Divine Domain.

The Three Shadow Rat Brothers led a sweeping campaign through the Ancient Divine Domain, defeating Beast Race groups and piling up their resources while Chu Xinghe tried to keep the expedition from turning into a plundering spree. He urged everyone to seek Beast Race secret arts instead, but Ma Liang stepped forward before Chu Xinghe could celebrate.

• Chu Xinghe stayed at the Spirit Race camp while the Three Shadow Rat Brothers split up and swept through Beast Race territories with their Mountain-Splitting Axes.
• The group confirmed that everyone in the Ancient Divine Domain was restricted to Eighth Rank, then gathered resources from defeated Beast Race groups until the camp overflowed.
• Feng Fei ordered the Vast Heaven Sect's civil engineering disciples to build a treasure vault for the collected resources.
• Zheng Yu, Ma Liang, and Tantai Jing described their different fighting methods at a meeting while Chu Xinghe worried that the expedition had become a relentless plundering campaign.
• Chu Xinghe reminded the group that Beast Race secret arts mattered more than resources and urged them to communicate with the Beast Race to learn those arts.
• Ma Liang stepped forward just as Chu Xinghe thought his appeal had succeeded.

Chu Xinghe urged everyone to exchange knowledge and learn the Beast Race’s secret techniques, but Ma Liang, Wei Buhui, and Tantai Jing turned the plan into a campaign to plunder techniques, imprison souls, and raise the dead as zombies. Their new armies helped them sweep the Ancient Divine Domain, while the civil engineering disciples endured even heavier work and the Spirit Beast Continent’s hopes of winning through the Beast God’s treasure vault faltered.

• Chu Xinghe proposed exchanging knowledge with the Beast Race, but Ma Liang suggested forcibly extracting their secret techniques while plundering.
• Wei Buhui offered to imprison Beast Race souls, and Tantai Jing proposed turning their corpses into zombies, leaving Chu Xinghe speechless.
• Wei Buhui discovered that the Ancient Divine Domain let him imprison Beast Race phantoms as souls, while Tantai Jing raised the slain as zombies.
• The group learned Beast Race secret techniques and used its soul and zombie armies to increase their slaughter and plunder across the Ancient Divine Domain.
• Empress Ji Ya watched the Spirit Beast Continent’s strategy of seeking the Beast God’s treasure vault unravel as the other continents gained secret techniques.
• Chu Xinghe saw the civil engineering disciples exhausted by their work and realized their supposed adventure had become overtime labor.

The Scourge Legion and the Three Shadow Rat Brothers plundered the Ancient Divine Domain until resources in the outer regions ran low. When Ma Liang proposed searching for the Beast God Treasure Vault, Chu Xinghe tried to steer the group away, but Ma Liang suggested robbing the Spirit Race camp instead.

• Tantai Jing and Wei Buhui joined their zombie and soul armies into the Scourge Legion, which spread across the domain and grew as it fought.
• The Three Shadow Rat Brothers and the Scourge Legion looted the rich regions, but the resources they found dwindled as they pushed toward the poorer outskirts.
• At a bonfire, Zheng Yu explained that resources were concentrated near the center, and Ma Liang proposed searching for the Beast God Treasure Vault.
• Chu Xinghe argued that the group lacked clues and should keep doing what it did best, leading Ma Liang to suggest robbing the Spirit Race camp.

Chu Xinghe’s allies interpreted his casual remark as a plan to switch sides and rob the Spirit Race for resources, secret arts, and clues to the Beast God Treasure Vault. While Chu Xinghe silently denied intending any of it, the Spirit Beast Continent’s outrage faltered when the Grand Elder asked whether they would pass up the same opportunity.

• Ma Liang and the other geniuses took Chu Xinghe’s words as encouragement to rob the Spirit Race after exhausting the Beast Race’s resources.
• Zheng Yu proposed that targeting the Spirit Race would also let them obtain its secret arts.
• Tantai Jing claimed Chu Xinghe had a third meaning: searching the Spirit Race for information about the Beast God Treasure Vault.
• Chu Xinghe silently protested that he had intended only to make the team earn fewer resources as everyone planned to attack the Spirit Race.
• The Spirit Beast Continent condemned the group for turning on its own faction, but the Grand Elder silenced them by asking whether they would rob the Spirit Race themselves.

Tantai Jing’s group turned from plundering the Beast Race to stripping the Spirit Race of resources, secret arts, and treasure-vault clues, while Hua Xichen hurried to find the Beast God Treasure Vault. Meanwhile, the Vast Heaven Sect’s Civil Engineering Department disciples proved they were formidable fighters as well as tireless builders, and Feng Fei defended their share of the spoils.

• Tantai Jing’s group began taking the Spirit Race’s abundant resources and used Wei Buhui’s soul art after the Spirit Race refused to share secret arts and treasure-vault clues.
• Hua Xichen learned that the group had targeted the Spirit Race and worried they would become unbeatable, but his Great Prophecy Art pointed him toward the Beast God Spirit Temple.
• Feng Fei told the Civil Engineering Department disciples that their excellence was why they had been assigned to build treasure vaults fast enough to keep up with the spoils.
• Civil Engineering Department disciples defeated the Demonic Sect prodigies who mocked them, prompting Feng Fei to stop the fight and ask Tantai Jing to rein in his disciples.
• The other factions recognized the Civil Engineering Department’s combat strength, and Feng Fei defended the disciples’ equal share by praising their specialized work building treasure vaults.

Ning Jisheng devised a surprise attack on the opposing camp after learning that Chu Xinghe and the Civil Engineering Department disciples were left there during the day. Convinced that Chu Xinghe could be held off without his Haotian Sword Casket, he persuaded the Ning Clan prodigies to target the camp and its resources.

• Spirit Beast Continent prodigies repeatedly failed to find a way into the Beast God Treasure Vault using Hua Xichen's Great Prophecy Art.
• Ning Jisheng sent Ning Clan members to observe the opposing camp and learned that most of its fighters left to hunt during the day.
• Ning Jisheng proposed a surprise attack to seize the opposing camp and plunder its resources.
• Some Ning Clan prodigies questioned whether they could overcome Chu Xinghe, but Ning Jisheng argued that his sealed Haotian Sword Casket left him vulnerable to their numbers.
• The Ning Clan prodigies agreed with Ning Jisheng's plan to keep Chu Xinghe occupied and attack the Civil Engineering Department disciples.

Ning Jisheng led the Ning Clan in a raid on Chu Xinghe’s camp, hoping to seize its resources while most of its defenders were away. Chu Xinghe welcomed the attack as a chance to claim compensation for the stolen supplies, while the Civil Engineering Department disciples greeted the Ning Clan as an unexpected bonus.

• Ning Jisheng convinced the Ning Clan to abandon the search for the Beast God Treasure Vault and target Chu Xinghe’s camp instead.
• Ning Jisheng led 345 Ning Clan members to the opposing camp and waited until most of its groups had left to hunt.
• Ning Jisheng sent more than a hundred prodigies to surround Chu Xinghe and led the rest toward the camp’s resources.
• Chu Xinghe and the Ning Clan attackers reached a stalemate, with neither side willing to make the first move.
• Ning Jisheng led more than two hundred Ning Clan prodigies to the resources, where the Civil Engineering Department disciples welcomed their arrival as an unexpected bonus.

More than two hundred Ning Clan prodigies attacked the Civil Engineering Department disciples to seize the Beast God Treasure Vault’s resources, but the supposed support disciples proved overwhelmingly powerful. Ning Jisheng tried to wear them down, unaware that their Rejuvenation Art made them exceptionally difficult to defeat.

• Ning Jisheng led more than two hundred Ning Clan prodigies to raid the treasure vault, while Chu Xinghe’s Civil Engineering Department disciples welcomed the attack as the danger they had been waiting for.
• When Ning Jisheng ordered his disciples to attack, their elemental arts failed to damage the Civil Engineering Department’s earthen wall, and Huang Ritian scolded the juniors for defending themselves instead of experiencing the fight.
• Huang Ritian and dozens of Civil Engineering Department disciples clad themselves in earth armor and smashed through the Ning Clan ranks with enormous earth hammers.
• Ning Jisheng urged his larger force to hold out until the Civil Engineering Department disciples grew tired, but the disciples’ Rejuvenation Art gave them powerful recovery abilities.

The Ning Clan ambushed Chu Xinghe and the Civil Engineering Department, only to be overwhelmed by the department’s armored disciples and trapped inside a reversed Earth Primordial Formation. Chu Xinghe ordered Ning Jisheng and the other survivors kept alive so the Civil Engineering Department could spar with them every day.

• Ning Jisheng led more than two hundred Ning Clan disciples to ambush the Civil Engineering Department while Chu Xinghe stayed still, worried the Haotian Sword Casket might attack on its own.
• Huang Ritian and the Civil Engineering Department disciples charged the Ning Clan with giant earth hammers, killing or wounding more than half their opponents.
• Huang Ritian activated the reversed Earth Primordial Formation, trapping the fleeing Ning Clan disciples inside the camp.
• Huang Ritian captured Ning Jisheng, and Chu Xinghe ordered the Ning Clan survivors taken alive, healed, and kept for daily sparring.
• The Civil Engineering Department disciples praised Chu Xinghe’s great wisdom, leaving Ning Jisheng bewildered.

Chu Xinghe kept the Ning Clan geniuses captive after their failed raid, turning their imprisonment into daily sparring and treatment that the Civil Engineering Department called mutual training between the Spirit and Beast Races. When the returning hunting parties saw the captured Ning Clan, Tantai Jing abandoned his hopes of using the raid to embarrass Chu Xinghe, and the Ning Clan’s resistance soon became another excuse for the disciples to beat and heal them.

• Huang Ritian knocked Ning Jisheng unconscious, and the Civil Engineering Department disciples captured the remaining Ning Clan raiders.
• Chu Xinghe decided to keep the Ning Clan captive so the Civil Engineering Department could spar with them and use resources treating their injuries.
• The Civil Engineering Department disciples defended the captivity as a fair arrangement between the Spirit and Beast Races, with room, board, and help comprehending secret arts.
• The hunting parties returned to find the camp intact and the Ning Clan geniuses captured, while Tantai Jing regretted hoping the raid would harm Chu Xinghe’s reputation.
• After waking, the Ning Clan shouted that the Spirit Race would never be enslaved and attacked, but the Civil Engineering Department subdued them and treated their injuries again.
• Huang Ritian corrected Ning Jisheng’s slogan, telling him to proclaim that the Beast Race would never be enslaved.

Hua Xichen used the Great Prophecy Art to find the legendary Beast God Hall, while the Ning Clan endured relentless construction work and sparring under the Civil Engineering Department disciples. Hua Xichen celebrated his discovery, but the prophecy art suddenly showed him the word “Retreat!”

• Hua Xichen learned that the Ning Clan had been captured by the Civil Engineering Department disciples and hurried his search for the Beast God Treasure Vault despite the Great Prophecy Art’s strange guidance.
• The Civil Engineering Department disciples forced the Ning Clan to build treasure vaults and spar with them, and Ning Jisheng repeatedly broke through under the punishing routine.
• Ning Jisheng abandoned his escape plans after learning the Civil Engineering Department disciples had already halved the workload they normally imposed.
• Hua Xichen guided Spirit Beast Continent prodigies through the mist and found the magnificent Beast God Hall.
• Hua Xichen saw the divine character “Retreat!” appear before him as the Great Prophecy Art began operating on its own.

Hua Xichen’s Great Prophecy Art warned him to retreat from the Beast God Hall, but its allure drew the other prodigies under its control. When they threatened to kill him for trying to stop them, Hua Xichen attacked to force them out of the Ancient Divine Domain, only to face the entity controlling them.

• Hua Xichen recalled how the Great Prophecy Art had once saved him and his mother from assassins, and recognized its sudden warning to retreat as a sign of certain danger.
• Hua Xichen warned the gathered prodigies not to enter the Beast God Hall, but they dismissed his warning and followed Ming Chenghai toward it.
• As the group approached, the Great Prophecy Art warned Hua Xichen three times, while the hall’s influence blinded the others and turned their eyes blood-red.
• Ming Chenghai and the Hua Clan disciples threatened Hua Xichen when he tried to lead them away, so Hua Xichen used the Sun and Moon Golden Wheels to kill Ming Chenghai and send him out of the Ancient Divine Domain.
• The deaths began carrying the controlled prodigies out of the Ancient Divine Domain, but the remaining red-eyed crowd turned on Hua Xichen as the controlling entity spoke through them.

Hua Xichen led the Spirit Beast Continent’s prodigies to the Beast God Hall, where they fell under a deadly influence that drove them to enter, so he attacked them to force them out. After his Great Prophecy Art showed only blankness and he was defeated, he sent a spirit butterfly toward Chu Xinghe, hoping he could break the deadlock and save the prodigies still inside.

• Hua Xichen used the Sun and Moon Golden Wheels to slay ensnared companions and send them out of the Ancient Divine Domain.
• Clan Head Hua and the other clan heads accused Hua Xichen of killing his allies, then watched as Hua Clan members were expelled too.
• Hua Xichen fought the thousands of prodigies gathered at the Beast God Hall and used Sage’s Descent, but the Great Prophecy Art showed him nothing.
• Hua Xichen fell beneath the prodigies’ attacks, and his Great Prophecy Art became a spirit butterfly carrying his final message toward Chu Xinghe.
• Hua Xichen explained what had happened to the leaders outside, and the expelled prodigies began to remember why he had attacked them.
• Hua Xichen hoped Chu Xinghe could find a way to rescue the Spirit Beast Continent’s prodigies still inside the Beast God Hall.

Chu Xinghe’s group received Hua Xichen’s route to the Beast God Hall and a plea for help, but the spirit butterfly also carried a bewitching force that Evil Repeller dispelled. Chu Xinghe discovered he could no longer contact the Beast God, who realized the treasure in the hall was the first Beast God’s heart, containing the heart demon that had caused his fall.

• Chu Xinghe told his companions he had a lead on the Beast God Treasure Vault and stalled them while waiting for Hua Xichen to act.
• After two days, Hua Xichen’s spirit butterfly delivered a map to the Beast God Hall and revealed that he was asking for help because most of his companions had been lured inside.
• The butterfly unleashed bewitching power on Chu Xinghe’s camp, but Chu Xinghe summoned Evil Repeller and freed everyone it affected.
• Chu Xinghe tried to contact the Beast God, but found that the Beast God was absent from the Beast God Talisman and their connection had been severed.
• The Beast God recognized the force from the hall as the first Beast God’s heart, which had sealed the heart demon that drove the first Beast God to end his own life.

The Beast God revealed that Hua Xichen had opened the Beast God Hall and exposed the first Beast God’s sealed inner demon, which threatened to escape and consume everyone. Chu Xinghe rushed to the hall with Evil Repeller and fought through the bewitched prodigies, leaving the observers outside the Ancient Divine Domain to witness the terrifying strength he showed at his peak.

• The Beast God explained that the Beast God Heart contained the first Beast God’s inner demon and warned Chu Xinghe that the demon could escape if the seal broke.
• Chu Xinghe ordered Senior Brother Feng Fei to keep everyone in camp, sealed the camp with the Evil Repeller Formation, and hurried toward the Beast God Hall.
• Chu Xinghe dispelled the mist with Evil Repeller and freed a group of bewitched Spirit Beast Continent prodigies, but the demon’s influence soon seized them again.
• Chu Xinghe summoned Flying Locust and the Heaven-Soaring Sword Formation, then fought through the attacking prodigies as his divine swords kept them from coming close.
• Observers outside the Ancient Divine Domain watched Chu Xinghe carve a path toward the hall and realized how powerful he was at his peak.

Chu Xinghe failed to reach the Beast God Hall before it collapsed and released the Beast God Heart Demon, whose blood-red power devoured Spirit Beast Continent prodigies and overwhelmed Chu Xinghe. As the heart demon dragged him into the blood pool, the Beast God Talisman suddenly shone with golden light.

• Chu Xinghe fought through the mind-controlled Spirit Beast Continent prodigies and tried to reach the Beast God Hall, but the Beast God Heart Demon's influence kept turning them against him.
• A blood-red light erupted from the Beast God Hall, which collapsed and gave rise to a lake of blood and the freed Beast God Heart Demon.
• The Beast God Heart Demon's bloody power drove Spirit Beast Continent prodigies into the lake, where their bodies and souls were devoured, and eventually overwhelmed the Evil Repeller Formation protecting Chu Xinghe's camp.
• The heart demon attacked Chu Xinghe with bloody whips and sent him flying, while outside the Ancient Divine Domain Hua Xichen realized his greed had helped release the demon and discovered that his Great Prophecy Art had vanished.
• The Beast God Heart Demon pulled the wounded Chu Xinghe into the blood-red lake, but the Beast God Talisman on his body released a beam of golden light.