Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan postponed scouting the God-Burial Abyss and returned to Profound Nether Main City to confront Xuanming Old Monster, who was secretly preparing to trade the Guixu Remnant Map for help breaking his slave seal. Chen Fan crushed Xuanming Old Monster’s attempt to resist and left him at his mercy.

• Chen Fan accepted the Earth Vein Life-Link Talisman from the Giant Spirit City Lord but said he would clean house before setting out for the God-Burial Abyss.
• Xuanming Old Monster retrieved the Guixu Remnant Map and planned to offer it to the Netherworld Heavenly Palace to remove his Life-and-Death Slave Seal.
• Chen Fan smashed through Profound Nether Main City’s protective formation and descended into the secret chamber, pinning the remnant map beneath his foot.
• Chen Fan’s slave seal tormented Xuanming Old Monster as he reached for a Netherworld bone talisman, but Chen Fan sealed the chamber with his Dharma Domain.
• Xuanming Old Monster tried to detonate the earth vein and his Golden Core, but Chen Fan suppressed the baleful energy and forced the Golden Core’s light to go out.

Chen Fan killed Xuanming Old Monster, took the Black Tortoise Fragmentary Map and a Netherworld Bone Talisman, and seized control of Xuanming City. The Netherworld Venerable sent Commander Gu You to retrieve the map, and Chen Fan prepared to meet the approaching threat.

• Chen Fan killed Xuanming Old Monster and claimed the Black Tortoise Fragmentary Map and the Netherworld Bone Talisman, leaving its karmic trace intact to lead him to the Netherworld Heavenly Palace.
• Chen Fan reflected that the Guixu Secret Realm could let his clone break through the Great Wilderness’s limits and help his original body advance.
• Chen Fan ordered Wang Dafu to take control of Xuanming City and distribute the aristocratic families’ and sects’ stored resources to Mine Slaves and ordinary people.
• The Netherworld Venerable discovered Xuanming Old Monster’s death and sent Commander Gu You to investigate and recover the fragmentary map.
• Chen Fan sensed the Netherworld forces approaching Xuanming City and drew the Broken Saber.

Gu You entered Xuanming City’s ruined underground chamber to investigate Xuanming Old Monster’s death and search for the Black Tortoise Fragmentary Map, but found Chen Fan waiting there. Chen Fan revealed overwhelming power and froze Gu You’s attack with his Half-Step Ninth Tier Law Domain.

• Gu You slipped into Xuanming City’s underground earth vein and found Xuanming Old Monster’s remains and the Black Tortoise shell missing.
• Gu You searched the ruins with the Soul-Seizing Blood Shuttle but found no trace of Xuanming Old Monster’s soul.
• Chen Fan appeared in the doorway and taunted Gu You, who demanded to know whether Chen Fan had killed Xuanming and taken the Black Tortoise Fragmentary Map.
• Gu You attacked Chen Fan with the Soul-Seizing Blood Shuttle, but Chen Fan unleashed his Law Domain and halted Gu You and the treasure in midair.

Chen Fan killed Gu You, destroyed the Netherworld Venerable’s Divine Thought, and struck back across tens of thousands of li, leaving the Venerable gravely wounded and unable to divine Chen Fan’s fate. Back in the ruins beneath Xuanming City, Chen Fan absorbed the Soul-Seizing Blood Shuttle’s power as Wang Dafu arrived and found him unharmed.

• Chen Fan killed Gu You with one slash, then destroyed the commander’s body and Divine Soul with the Life-and-Death Millstone’s Dao Fire.
• Chen Fan caught the Soul-Seizing Blood Shuttle and crushed the Netherworld Venerable’s Divine Thought inside it, then sent a karmic strike back to the Venerable.
• The injured Netherworld Venerable failed to divine the Northern Border and resolved to recruit other powerful figures to seize the Black Tortoise Fragmentary Map.
• Chen Fan ground the Soul-Seizing Blood Shuttle and Gu You’s remaining baleful energy into law fragments, strengthening his Divine Kingdom.
• Wang Dafu hurried into the ruins and found Chen Fan safe beside Gu You’s remains.

Chen Fan reached the Ninth Tier after the mortal people's gratitude completed the life-and-death cycle within his Divine Kingdom. As Guixu appeared and the Blood Moon darkened the Great Wilderness, the Giant Spirit City Lord feared Chen Fan had been killed or had fled.

• Wang Dafu reported that he had seized the great clans' Spirit Grain and distributed it through congee sheds, while exempting nearby mortals from taxes; Chen Fan rewarded him with a Seventh-Rank Lifespan-Extending Pill and ordered him to guard the earth vein.
• Chen Fan drew the people's gratitude and will to live into his Sea of Consciousness, completing the Life-and-Death Millstone's white side and forming a cycle of life and death.
• After a month of cultivation, Chen Fan broke the Great Wilderness's restraints, expanded his Law Domain, and reached the Ninth Tier at ten years old.
• Guixu appeared beneath a rising Blood Moon as the Giant Spirit City Lord inspected a dim Earth Vein Life-Link Talisman and demanded news of Chen Fan.
• Yue Heng told the Giant Spirit City Lord that a Netherworld Heavenly Palace vessel and a suspected Eighth-Order Peak Punishment Hall Commander had appeared near Xuanming City, and guessed Chen Fan had been killed or had fled.

Chen Fan returned to the Mountain-Viewing Terrace after breaking through to the Ninth Tier, and he joined the Giant Spirit City Lord on the journey to Guixu. They reached the God-Burial Abyss, where the ancient gate was opening and powerful figures from across the Great Wilderness had gathered.

• The Giant Spirit City Lord despaired over facing the heartland's old monsters alone as Guixu neared its opening.
• Chen Fan tore through space and arrived on the Mountain-Viewing Terrace, startling the Giant Spirit City Lord and Yue Heng.
• The Giant Spirit City Lord sensed Chen Fan's true Ninth-Tier Domain and realized their strength had shifted.
• Chen Fan and the Giant Spirit City Lord set out for the Far North, heading toward Guixu.
• At the God-Burial Abyss, they found the ancient Giant Gate opening amid a gathering of Ninth-Tier powerhouses.

Chen Fan accompanied the Giant Spirit City Lord to the God-Burial Abyss, where the Blood Butcher Mad Old Man challenged and attacked them. Chen Fan revealed a flawless Ninth Tier Law Domain and struck back, leaving the surrounding factions stunned.

• The Giant Spirit City Lord and Chen Fan arrived at the God-Burial Abyss as factions gathered around the ancient bronze gate.
• The Blood Butcher Mad Old Man mocked the Giant Spirit City Lord and unleashed a tide of blood baleful energy against him.
• Chen Fan insulted the Blood Butcher Mad Old Man and challenged him to step forward if he wanted to die.
• The Blood Butcher Mad Old Man summoned a massive blood-and-bone claw to crush Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan stopped the claw with his Ninth Tier Black-and-White Law Domain, then struck the Blood Butcher Mad Old Man with his palm.

Chen Fan crippled the Blood Butcher Mad Elder and drove the Netherworld Venerable into retreat, establishing his dominance over the assembled old monsters. As the ancient gate to the secret realm opened, the old monsters joined their map fragments to summon a guiding light.

• Chen Fan smashed the Blood Butcher Mad Elder into the abyss floor, shattering his body and Dao Foundation with one strike.
• The Netherworld Venerable confronted Chen Fan, but Chen Fan used the karmic blood thread to injure his Divine Soul and shattered two of his skulls.
• Chen Fan challenged the Netherworld Venerable to advance three steps, and the Venerable retreated to the Nine Nether Bone Boat.
• A blood moon rose over the Far North, and the ancient bronze gate opened to reveal a surge of pure life force.
• The old monsters activated their map fragments with essence blood, joining more than thirty pieces into an incomplete star map.

Chen Fan used two Great Wilderness map fragments to enter Guixu first with the Giant Spirit City Lord, where they discovered that the realm’s corrosive Void Death Qi was rapidly consuming their protective light. While the Giant Spirit City Lord’s protection would last only six hours, Chen Fan’s stronger twin-layered light could endure for days, and he contacted his distant Martial God true body.

• The Red Rock Fire Spirit Remnant Scroll and Black Tortoise Shell Fragment summoned twin pillars of Guiding Divine Light that armored Chen Fan and let him enter the Ancient Bronze Gate ahead of the other old monsters.
• Chen Fan told the Giant Spirit City Lord to stay close, and the two passed through the spatial storm into Guixu.
• The Giant Spirit City Lord discovered that his lifespan had stopped draining, while Chen Fan explained that Guixu’s laws and time order were broken.
• Gray Void Death Qi corroded the Giant Spirit City Lord’s Ninth-Tier Law Domain, forcing him to sever it and warn that his protective light would last only six hours.
• Chen Fan saw that his own protection was wearing away much more slowly and contacted his distant Martial God true body through his clone.

Chen Fan and the Giant Spirit City Lord traveled across the death-qi wasteland toward an ancient Bronze Divine Hall, but more than thirty Guixu Variants attacked them. Chen Fan answered the assault by tracing a vast formation into the scorched earth, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Chen Fan located a towering ancient Bronze Divine Hall with his Divine Thought and ordered the Giant Spirit City Lord to follow him.
• Chen Fan and the Giant Spirit City Lord crossed the ruins, where Guixu Variants erupted from the ground and blocked their path.
• Three Guixu Variants tore away part of the Giant Spirit City Lord’s weakened golden protection, while the rest surrounded Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan drew his Broken Saber and tapped it nine times without swinging, sending the Water-Fire Totem’s black and white pythons into the earth veins.
• Dao patterns spread across the scorched ground as Chen Fan formed a vast formation diagram in the sky.

Chen Fan used a formation to destroy more than thirty Ninth-Tier Guixu creatures and collected their baleful crystals before continuing with the Giant Spirit City Lord to the Bronze Divine Hall. The hall rang an ancient bell and released immortal light, drawing powerful Ninth-Tier figures toward it as an ancient immortal’s phantom began to appear.

• Chen Fan activated the Life-and-Death Millstone formation and wiped out more than thirty Guixu creatures in three breaths.
• Chen Fan collected the Ninth-Tier Baleful Crystals, while the Giant Spirit City Lord became fearful and followed him deferentially.
• Chen Fan and the Giant Spirit City Lord crossed the ruins and reached the ten-thousand-zhang Bronze Divine Hall.
• An ancient bell rang inside the hall, and a beam of dark golden immortal light burst into the sky as an ancient immortal’s phantom began to form.
• Several Ninth-Tier old monsters raced toward the hall, while a faint spatial ripple appeared nearby.

Thirteen Ninth Tier experts besieged Chen Fan to seize his two Great Wilderness remnant maps, which could protect them from Guixu’s Death Fiend Qi. The Giant Spirit City Lord stepped in front of Chen Fan as the attackers unleashed a massive ranged assault.

• The old monsters arrived at the divine hall with their guiding light failing, then saw that Chen Fan’s Yin-Yang Golden Armor remained intact against the Death Fiend Qi.
• The Netherworld Venerable urged the others to wear down Chen Fan from a distance and take his two remnant maps.
• Thirteen Ninth Tier experts joined forces, while the Giant Spirit City Lord formed a Law Domain to shield Chen Fan and urged him to flee into the hall.
• The Netherworld Venerable, the Red-Haired Ancestor, and the other experts launched a barrage of attacks toward Chen Fan and the Giant Spirit City Lord.

Chen Fan absorbed Guixu’s deathly baleful energy and the power of thirteen Ninth-Tier attacks, breaking through from Mid-Ninth Tier to Late-Ninth Tier. The thirteen old monsters were left badly wounded, while Chen Fan stood unharmed in the temple square.

• Chen Fan dispelled the divine light protecting him and told the Ninth-Tier attackers that they could not understand life and death.
• The old monsters unleashed their killing moves as the Giant Spirit City Lord tried to shield Chen Fan, but Chen Fan stopped him and ordered him to watch.
• Chen Fan opened his Divine Kingdom and used the Life-and-Death Millstone to absorb Guixu’s deathly baleful energy and strip the attackers’ powers down to their True Essence Origin Source.
• The combined energy broke the shackles holding Chen Fan at Mid-Ninth Tier, advancing him to Late-Ninth Tier.
• Chen Fan’s power destroyed the Red-Haired Ancestor’s banner and damaged the Netherworld Venerable’s skulls, while all thirteen attackers were thrown back and injured.

Chen Fan used the Broken Saber to annihilate the thirteen Ninth-Tier powerhouses who had tried to flee after their attack failed. The Giant Spirit City Lord watched in terror as Chen Fan collected their spoils and stood revealed as a force beyond human understanding.

• The Red-Haired Ancestor and the other Ninth-Tier powerhouses panicked when Guixu's deathly baleful energy failed to harm Chen Fan and fled from the plaza.
• Chen Fan drew the Broken Saber and killed the Netherworld Venerable with a single strike that also split into saber lights pursuing the other fugitives.
• Chen Fan's saber lights killed the Red-Haired Ancestor, the Ninth-Tier sword cultivator, the sinister old woman, and the remaining fleeing powerhouses before they could escape or self-detonate.
• Chen Fan collected the thirteen Storage Rings and Ninth-Tier Baleful Crystals, then absorbed the power and Law Fragments of the dead into his Divine Kingdom.
• The Giant Spirit City Lord dropped his heavy axe and felt only awe as Chen Fan turned toward him.

Chen Fan opened the Bronze Divine Gate and discovered an Ancient Immortal whose corpse had been pierced by a Broken Immortal Sword that corrupted Guixu. When the sword’s remnant spirit attacked him, Chen Fan summoned the power of his true body from the Divine Kingdom.

• Chen Fan ignored the Giant Spirit City Lord’s warning and opened the Bronze Divine Gate with his Chaos Yin-Yang Qi and Blood.
• The Giant Spirit City Lord was overwhelmed by the Immortal Might as Chen Fan approached the Ancient Immortal’s corpse and identified the Broken Immortal Sword as the source of Guixu’s Death Fiend Qi.
• Chen Fan grasped the sword, awakening its remnant spirit, which attacked him with blood-colored chains and a crushing blow.
• Chen Fan connected to his true body in the Divine Kingdom, whose Martial God’s Will descended into the hall as a Life-and-Death Millstone Phantom.

Chen Fan absorbed the broken sword’s immortal marrow and origin, using it to transform his body and break beyond the Ninth Tier. After he destroyed the Heavenly Dao’s attempt to strike him down, the sword crumbled and its corruption left the immortal corpse.

• Chen Fan crushed the Immortal-Demon Phantom with the Life-and-Death Millstone and devoured the broken sword’s power.
• The sword’s immortal marrow and Death Fiend Qi overwhelmed Chen Fan’s young body, but his millstone refined them into yin-yang chaos qi as his flesh and bones transformed.
• The Great Wilderness’s Heavenly Dao formed a tribulation lightning eye to erase Chen Fan, but his Martial God’s Will shattered it.
• Chen Fan’s miniature Divine Kingdom expanded by a hundred li, taking him beyond the Ninth Tier.
• The broken sword crumbled to powder, its Death Fiend Qi vanished from the immortal corpse, and the Giant Spirit City Lord broke down as Chen Fan approached.

After reaching Beyond the Ninth Tier, Chen Fan secured his mother and the Fire Crow Tribe by making the Giant Spirit City Lord their protector, while ordering Wang Dafu to continue aiding the common people. With his mortal obligations settled, Chen Fan began reversing the miniature Divine Kingdom in his Dantian to leave the Great Wilderness.

• The Giant Spirit City Lord offered Chen Fan his life-bound Divine Soul, and Chen Fan accepted him as a servant because he had stood firm during the attack by thirteen Ninth Tier experts.
• Chen Fan ordered the Giant Spirit City Lord to take Giant Spirit City's elites to Blackstone Mountain and protect Chen Fan's mother and the Fire Crow Tribe, threatening to destroy the city if they were harmed.
• Chen Fan gave the Giant Spirit City Lord a wisp of energy that cracked his Ninth Tier ceiling and extended his lifespan by eight hundred years.
• Chen Fan ordered the Giant Spirit City Lord to guard Blackstone Mountain with three hundred thousand soldiers and kill anyone who threatened Fire Crow Old Stronghold.
• Chen Fan told Wang Dafu to keep opening granaries, distributing porridge, and exempting commoners from taxes; Wang Dafu vowed to obey.
• After the people's vitality stabilized the Divine Kingdom's anchor, Chen Fan sat on the bronze altar and began reversing the miniature Divine Kingdom in his Dantian.

Chen Fan forged the Mortal World Life-and-Death Dao Fruit from the Great Wilderness and summoned it, along with his mortal-world avatars, back to his true body. After consuming it, he broke through to peak Middle Martial God and reconnected with his dormant talent system, which rated him Cosmic Myth.

• Chen Fan’s Martial God Divine Thought condensed the Great Wilderness’s mortal vitality, immortal marrow, Guixu Death Fiend Qi, and Life-and-Death Millstone into the Mortal World Life-and-Death Dao Fruit and sent it across the Dimensions.
• Avatars scattered across the lower realms united their experiences and spiritual power, then returned toward Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan summoned the Dao Fruit and the returning avatars through his Divine Kingdom in the Palm and swallowed the Origin Dao Fruit.
• The Dao Fruit expanded Chen Fan’s Divine Kingdom and shattered the barrier to Middle Martial God, raising him to peak Middle Martial God.
• Chen Fan noted that sixteen years had passed and reconnected with his dormant talent system, which displayed 167 million empowerment points and a Cosmic Myth talent rating.

After Chen Fan broke through to the Middle Martial God realm, the White Emperor arrived and told him the Human Federation was losing territory while the Alien Races hunted its Martial Gods. With the White Emperor’s true body trapped and Heaven-Slaying gravely wounded, Chen Fan refused seclusion and asked for the enemy’s coordinates.

• Chen Fan sensed that the laws of the universe had become clear to him, then met the White Emperor, who praised his breakthrough.
• The White Emperor showed Chen Fan a star map revealing that the Federation had lost nearly two-thirds of its territory despite a surge in awakened talent.
• The White Emperor explained that the God, Demon, and Immortal races had trapped his true body in the Boundary Sea and that Heaven-Slaying was gravely wounded after saving the Third Migration Fleet.
• The White Emperor revealed the God-Hunting Ranking, which offered rewards for killing Human Race Martial Gods.
• Chen Fan refused to enter seclusion and asked the White Emperor for the Alien Races’ coordinates.

The White Emperor gave Chen Fan the God-Slaying Token and sent him to defend Zhenyue Star Fortress against the Ten Thousand Races coalition. As the fortress faced destruction, Chen Fan arrived and challenged the attackers.

• The White Emperor identified Zhenyue Star Fortress as the Federation’s vital gateway and described its siege by four Lesser Martial Gods, Venerable Lingming, and a three-million-strong army.
• The White Emperor gave Chen Fan the God-Slaying Token and authorized him to kill the invaders without regard for their protests.
• Chen Fan stepped through the void toward the Heavenly Abyss Star Domain, declaring that the enemy Martial Gods would become an altar for his saber.
• At Zhenyue Star Fortress, a one-eyed veteran general rallied the remaining Human Race warriors as Alien Race ships battered the collapsing defenses.
• Four Lesser Martial Gods arrived and attacked the ruined command center while Venerable Lingming watched from his spirit vessel.
• As the veteran general prepared to detonate the planetary core reactor, Chen Fan appeared beneath the enemy’s giant palm and asked who had said human bones were brittle.