Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan killed the primordial giant beast by using the World Seal Dao Mark to drain its Life Origin and claimed its crystalline core. As Seventh Grade Immortal Realm elites of the Insect Race arrived to seize the core, Chen Fan waited calmly and faced their attack.

• Chen Fan exchanged blows with the giant beast, then used his Life-and-Death Domain to withstand its destructive light and recognized the limits of its power.
• Chen Fan pressed the World Seal Dao Mark against the beast and drained its Life Origin until its body turned to dust, leaving behind a gigantic crystalline core.
• Chen Fan sat on the core as dozens of powerful wills approached, then waited with his aura withdrawn.
• More than a dozen Insect Race elites surrounded Chen Fan and demanded that he hand over the core.
• Chen Fan refused, and the mantis-shaped leader ordered the group to kill him.
• The Insect Race launched a coordinated assault, and Chen Fan stayed seated and raised a finger to tap the space before him.

Chen Fan annihilated the Insect Race attackers with his Life-and-Death Dao Principles, then refined the giant beast’s core in seclusion. His power and Dao Mark grew substantially, but he stopped just short of breaking through to the Late Stage of the Seventh Grade Immortal Realm.

• Chen Fan’s gray ripples erased the Insect Race experts’ attacks and drained their Life Origins, turning them to dust.
• The mantis leader fled, but Chen Fan caught it with a gray thread and made it vanish; he collected the attackers’ Life Cores.
• Chen Fan set up a formation to conceal the disturbance and began refining the giant beast’s core with the Life-and-Death Furnace.
• As Chen Fan cultivated, signs of life and annihilation cycled within the formation while the outside remained undisturbed.
• After the core crumbled to ash, Chen Fan opened his eyes with greatly increased power but remained just short of a breakthrough.

After absorbing a native life-form’s origin core, Chen Fan mastered his increased power and tracked another strong presence to a canyon, where a Human Race team was fighting a Void Insect Emperor Offspring. He saved a team member from the creature’s attack, and as the team opened a chance for him to strike, the offspring unleashed a sea of black fire at him.

• Chen Fan harmonized his increased power with his Dao Marks, then sensed another powerful life-form and set out to hunt it.
• Chen Fan found seven Human Race experts in a canyon, struggling to contain a Void Insect Emperor Offspring.
• Captain Wei Tian called on Chen Fan for help, and Chen Fan stepped out of the shadows and calmly assessed the fight.
• When the offspring attacked a weakened team member, Chen Fan dispelled its strike with a casual motion and a ripple of Dao Rhythm.
• Wei Tian’s team shifted formation to bind the offspring and create an opening, but the creature focused on Chen Fan and unleashed a sweeping sea of black fire.

Chen Fan effortlessly destroyed the imperial heir and declined Wei Tian's invitation to travel with the Heavenly Blade Squad. After leaving them, he secluded himself in a cave and began absorbing the Imperial Heir Core to strengthen the World Seal.

• Chen Fan annihilated the imperial heir's black flames and body, leaving its Life Core behind.
• Wei Tian and the Heavenly Blade Squad saluted Chen Fan and thanked him for saving their lives.
• Wei Tian invited Chen Fan to travel with the squad, but Chen Fan declined because he preferred to travel alone.
• Wei Tian rebuked a squad member for accusing Chen Fan of looking down on them, and Chen Fan bid the squad farewell before vanishing.
• Chen Fan settled in a concealed cave and used the Life-and-Death Furnace to absorb the Imperial Heir Core, causing the World Seal's Dao Mark to grow clearer.

Chen Fan broke through to the late stage of the Seventh Grade Immortal Realm, then followed a mysterious golden pillar to a standoff between the Human Race and the Insect Race. He reunited with Wen Yuan, who explained that the pillar concealed World Ruins containing a possible opportunity related to the Eighth Grade Secret, and both armies were waiting for them to stabilize.

• Chen Fan reached the late stage of the Seventh Grade Immortal Realm and concealed his power.
• A golden pillar appeared on the horizon, and Chen Fan's World Dao Mark resonated with it, drawing him toward the source.
• Chen Fan found the Human Race and Insect Race armies facing each other across a plain beneath the pillar.
• Chen Fan silently joined the Human Race ranks and surprised Wen Yuan, who sensed that Chen Fan had reached the late stage.
• Wen Yuan told Chen Fan that the pillar contained World Ruins from an ancient shattered world, and both sides were waiting for the ruins to stabilize before entering.

Chen Fan killed a taunting Spider Emperor with a casual finger strike just as the World Ruins opened. With the Insect Race rushing for the entrance, Wen Yuan ordered the Human Race army to enter and warned Chen Fan about the ruins’ unstable space.

• Chen Fan stepped out before the Human Race army and ignored the Spider Emperor’s taunts.
• Chen Fan killed the Seventh Grade Late Stage Spider Emperor with a wisp of gray air, destroying its body and soul.
• The World Ruins opened, and an ancient will commanded the Insect Race to enter and seize them.
• Wen Yuan ordered the Human Race army to enter the ruins in formation and avoid getting caught up in fighting.
• Wen Yuan warned Chen Fan that the ruins could teleport entrants at random, and Chen Fan reassured him.

Chen Fan used his World Dao Mark to find the ruins’ central opportunity and fought his way through Insect Race patrols to reach an ancient altar. He arrived to find Wen Yuan and the other Star River Level Students facing off against another faction, with a powerful force beginning to awaken at the altar.

• Chen Fan and eight other Star River Level Students charged through the gate, but spatial turbulence scattered them across the ruins.
• Chen Fan mapped his surroundings with divine sense and followed the World Dao Mark’s resonance toward the central singularity.
• Chen Fan killed three mid-Seventh Grade insect generals and absorbed their Life Cores and Life Origin.
• Chen Fan continued toward the altar, killing more Insect Race elites and using their Life Origin to strengthen his cultivation.
• Chen Fan reached a ruined ancient altar where an aura nearing the Eighth Grade was taking shape, and found Wen Yuan and the other eight Star River Level Students holding a battle formation against another faction.

Chen Fan returned to the Human Race camp as the Three Great Insect Emperor Heirs waited for a strange treasure to emerge. When the black demonic scythe heir attacked, Chen Fan stepped forward alone and raised his bare hand to meet its strike.

• The Three Great Insect Emperor Heirs faced the Human Race camp while waiting for the strange treasure to form.
• Chen Fan silently rejoined the Human Race formation, and Wen Yuan warned him that the battlefield was too dangerous.
• Chen Fan reassured Wen Yuan that he had only cleared away a few minor nuisances nearby.
• The black demonic scythe heir took offense at Chen Fan's scrutinizing gaze and launched a near-Eighth Grade attack at him and the Human Race formation.
• Wen Yuan and the other Star River Level Students prepared to defend against the strike, but Chen Fan stopped Wen Yuan and faced the attack alone with his bare hand.

Chen Fan effortlessly killed the Black Demon Scythe offspring and claimed its Life Core, then refused his companions’ help and chose to face two enraged Insect Emperor offspring alone. As the Human Race fought off the advancing insect army, Chen Fan turned to confront the pair.

• Chen Fan caught the Black Demon Scythe offspring’s attack barehanded, shattered it with Annihilation Dao Principles, and took its Insect Emperor Core.
• Chen Fan taunted the Dark Gold Spider Emperor offspring and the pitch-black sludge offspring, provoking them to unleash Spatial Law and Poison Law against him.
• The enraged Insect Race army surged toward the Human Race, and Wen Yuan began preparing to protect Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan calmed Wen Yuan, thanked his companions, and said he would fight the two offspring alone while they dealt with the insect army.
• The Human Race met the oncoming insect tide, while Chen Fan turned back toward the two offspring with a ruthless, indifferent gaze.

Chen Fan used his Life-and-Death Dao law domain to defeat the Dark Gold Spider Emperor's offspring and the sludge offspring, then turned his attention to the ancient altar. The armies of the Human Race and the Insect Race stood stunned as he faced the altar's supreme aura.

• The Dark Gold Spider Emperor's offspring and the sludge offspring attacked Chen Fan together with spatial blades and a corrosive poisonous swamp.
• Chen Fan unfolded his Life-and-Death Dao law domain, which destroyed the spatial blades and purified the poisonous swamp.
• Chen Fan sealed the Dark Gold Spider Emperor's offspring in solidified space and crushed it, leaving its Life Core in his palm.
• The sludge offspring split into hundreds of millions of black streams to escape, but Chen Fan drew them all back and swallowed them.
• Chen Fan turned from the silent Human Race and Insect Race armies and fixed his gaze on the ancient altar.

After defeating the Insect Race heirs, Chen Fan reached the trial altar and received the Human Race’s support to claim its ultimate treasure. As he absorbed its Origin Power and neared a breakthrough, the Insect Emperor secretly sent a death curse into the Trial Small World.

• Chen Fan pocketed the second Insect Emperor Core and walked toward the altar while the surviving Insect Race forces cowered before him.
• The Insect Emperor tried to attack the Trial Small World, but the Martial God erased his Destruction Law and warned him that the Betting Agreement was still in effect.
• Chen Fan climbed the altar’s steps and found a mass of liquid light containing the trial’s ultimate opportunity.
• Chen Fan asked Wen Yuan and the other Human Race Prodigies for permission to take the treasure, and they agreed that he deserved it.
• Chen Fan absorbed the treasure’s Origin Power, strengthening his Life-and-Death Dao Blood as he approached the Eighth Grade Realm.
• The Insect Emperor concealed a wisp of origin as a death curse and sent it silently toward the Trial Small World.

Chen Fan abandoned his chance to complete his breakthrough and used his Dao Fruit to shield the Human Race Prodigies from the Insect Emperor’s death curse, leaving himself gravely injured. He then drove the Insect Race forces into a panicked retreat with a single command.

• The Human Race Martial God erased almost all of the Insect Emperor’s strike, but a wisp of gray aura slipped through into the ruins.
• As the aura suppressed the people below, Chen Fan severed his connection to the Origin light and gave up his chance to perfect his Dao Fruit.
• Chen Fan manifested an illusory world with his World Dao Mark and used it to intercept the emperor’s aura, which destroyed the world and injured him.
• Wen Yuan rushed to Chen Fan with divine pills, but Chen Fan refused the medicine and told him he had done what he should.
• Chen Fan spotted Insect Race generals testing his weakness and ordered them to scram, sending their forces fleeing in a deadly stampede.

Chen Fan absorbed the Origin light and broke through to the eighth-grade realm while tens of thousands of Human Race Prodigies guarded him. After the trial ended, he led them out of the ruins, where instructors waited anxiously at the Azure Dragon Star Gate as a Human Race Martial God faced an Insect Race Emperor.

• Wen Yuan and the Human Race Prodigies formed a defensive formation around Chen Fan so he could continue his breakthrough.
• Chen Fan absorbed the Origin light, completed his World Dao Mark, and reached the eighth-grade realm.
• Wen Yuan and the Prodigies congratulated Chen Fan, and Zhao Xiaotian and Wei Tian thanked him for saving them.
• Chen Fan announced that the trial was over, assembled the Prodigies, and led them toward the guiding light to return home.
• At the Azure Dragon Star Gate, Lin Xuanqing and Old Freak Wang waited for the group to emerge while a Human Race Martial God faced an Insect Race Emperor.

Chen Fan returned safely from the ruins after reaching the eighth tier, but Wen Yuan revealed that the Insect Emperor had nearly killed him with an emperor’s death curse. Lin Xuanqing struck back and wounded the Insect Emperor with the Martial God’s support, leaving Chen Fan more determined to grow stronger.

• Chen Fan and Wen Yuan emerged from the Star Gate with the Human Race Prodigies, and Chen Fan told Lin Xuanqing he had safely reached the eighth tier.
• Wen Yuan reported that the Insect Emperor had broken the Betting Agreement and that Chen Fan had used his Dao Fruit to withstand an emperor’s death curse.
• Lin Xuanqing learned Chen Fan had nearly died and unleashed a peak Annihilation Divine Light attack at the Insect Emperor.
• The Martial God empowered and concealed Lin Xuanqing’s attack, which struck a crack into the Insect Emperor’s carapace and drew imperial blood.
• The Martial God shielded Lin Xuanqing from the Insect Emperor’s killing intent and declared that the strike was payment for breaking the rules.
• Chen Fan watched his master and the Martial God protect him, and his desire for power grew stronger.

As the Void Insect Race launched an all-out assault on the Human Race, Chen Fan killed a mid-eighth-tier insect that threatened the Prodigies' flank. His feat rallied the Human forces, while Lin Xuanqing continued battling a Ninth Grade offspring of the Insect Emperor.

• The Insect Emperor issued the Blood Tide decree, triggering a massive Void Insect invasion at the Azure Dragon Star Gate.
• Old Freak Wang organized the Human Race's Prodigies into a defensive formation as instructors engaged the invading high-tier insects.
• A Void Shadow Scythe bypassed the main battlefield and attacked Wen Yuan's group, but Chen Fan stepped in to protect them.
• Chen Fan controlled the surrounding space, crushed the eighth-tier insect, and took its Life Core.
• Old Freak Wang announced Chen Fan's victory, inspiring the Human forces to fight back more fiercely.
• Lin Xuanqing learned of Chen Fan's feat while battling a Ninth Grade insect on the main battlefield.

Lin Xuanqing killed a ninth-tier Insect Race offspring, helping turn the battle into a Human Race victory. As the Insect Race fled, its emperor branded Chen Fan with a curse that would draw the emperor’s pursuit if Chen Fan ever left Federation territory.

• Lin Xuanqing used the Annihilation Law to kill the ninth-tier centipede offspring, then shouted that he had slain a ninth-tier enemy.
• Old Freak Wang mocked Lin Xuanqing for stealing the limelight from Chen Fan, while the Life School disciples celebrated their master’s victory.
• After the high-tier Insect Race leaders fell, the remaining leaders ordered a retreat, and Human Race forces routed the army into the wormhole.
• Just before the wormhole closed, the Insect Emperor sent a black thread that pierced Chen Fan’s brow and branded his Divine Soul.
• The Martial God identified the mark as the Emperor’s Blood Curse, which could not activate within Human Federation territory but would let the emperor hunt Chen Fan beyond it.

After the Insect Emperor’s blood curse threatened Chen Fan’s Dao Foundation, the White Emperor appeared, erased the curse, and injured the Insect Emperor with a single word. He then chose Chen Fan to take the vacant post at the Thirteenth Garrison Node, taking him away to the Human Race’s first line of defense.

• The Martial God warned that removing the Insect Emperor’s curse could damage Chen Fan’s Divine Soul and Dao Foundation, enraging Lin Xuanqing.
• The White Emperor froze the starry sky and used a finger flick to erase the curse bound to Chen Fan’s Divine Soul.
• The White Emperor called the Insect Emperor noisy, inflicting a grave injury on it across the distant void.
• The White Emperor praised Chen Fan’s Dao and told him to test it in a true Life-and-Death Cycle at the Human Race’s first line of defense.
• After learning the Thirteenth Garrison Node’s defender had fallen, Chen Fan accepted the post, and the White Emperor took him away.

Chen Fan arrived at the ruined Thirteenth Garrison Node and was appointed its garrison commander by the White Emperor, disappointing Wei Changkong, who had expected the position. As Wei questioned Chen Fan’s readiness and explained the commander’s duties, an alarm announced an invasion by skeletal creatures.

• Chen Fan appeared at the Thirteenth Garrison Node with the White Emperor, who appointed him garrison commander.
• Wei Changkong and ten veterans reacted with doubt and scrutiny to the young commander’s appointment.
• Chen Fan greeted the veterans respectfully and asked Wei Changkong to explain his duties.
• Wei Changkong described the duties and emphasized that a commander should request aid when facing an overwhelming threat.
• An alarm sounded as a rift opened in the void and skeletal creatures with blue soul flames poured through.

Chen Fan faced a force of 3,742 Skeleton Marauders and their mid-stage eighth-tier Skeleton Lord alone, while Wei Changkong and the veterans prepared to clear the foot soldiers. Chen Fan annihilated the leading marauders and shattered the Skeleton Lord’s scythe, then covered the lord in his power of Annihilation.

• The system warned Wei Changkong and the others that 3,742 Skeleton Marauders, led by a mid-stage eighth-tier Skeleton Lord, had invaded.
• Chen Fan ordered the veterans to clear the foot soldiers and went alone into the void to face the enemy army.
• Wei Changkong called Chen Fan a lunatic, formed the veterans into a defensive assault unit, and ordered them to rescue Chen Fan if he faltered.
• Chen Fan spread a ring of Annihilation ripples that crumbled hundreds of Skeleton Marauders and extinguished their soul fires.
• The Skeleton Lord attacked Chen Fan with its Bone Scythe, but Chen Fan stopped the blow with one hand and shattered the scythe with his power of Annihilation.
• Chen Fan’s Annihilation spread over the Skeleton Lord’s body.

Chen Fan annihilated a mid-eighth-tier Alien Race lord and wiped out three thousand Skeleton Marauders with his Annihilation Domain. After Wei Changkong and the veterans saluted him as their guardian, Wei led him to the Command Center and warned that more dangerous enemies threatened Node Thirteen.

• Chen Fan killed the Skeleton Marauders' lord and caught its eighth-tier core as the surviving troops fled toward the spatial rift.
• Chen Fan blocked the Skeleton Marauders' retreat and destroyed all three thousand with his Annihilation Domain.
• Wei Changkong and the ten veterans witnessed the massacre and saluted Chen Fan as their new guardian.
• Chen Fan returned the salute, thanked the veterans, and followed Wei Changkong to the Command Center.
• Wei Changkong warned Chen Fan that the Skeleton Marauders were a minor threat compared with the wolves entrenched in the Star Domain.