Chapter Summaries

Jiang Bei agreed to join the alliance against the Forbidden Ancient Clans and traveled with Chen Hongtian to Main God City, where the alliance leaders gathered. As the powerful families and clans assembled, Jiang Bei learned that several of their leaders were Ruler Realm experts.

• Chen Hongtian invited Jiang Bei and Tianyang Domain to join an alliance of aristocratic families and secluded ancient clans, and Jiang Bei accepted.
• Chen Hongtian led Jiang Bei and Gold Coin to Main God City, the alliance’s chosen base, and told Jiang Bei about his failed attempt to break through to the Ruler Realm.
• Jiang Bei entered Main God Hall and drew doubtful looks from family leaders who sensed his Earth Sovereign Realm cultivation.
• Xuanyuan Wentian, the Ruler Realm city lord of Main God City, arrived and welcomed the gathered leaders before they waited for the other allies.
• Chen Hongtian explained that the alliance included eight great aristocratic families, four hidden ancient clans, and Main God City, with several of their leaders at the Ruler Realm.

Xuanyuan Wentian and the gathered clans and families established the Divine Ancient Alliance to resist the Forbidden Ancient Clans and chose its leaders and officials. They began selecting twelve Divine Ancient Envoys, with several allies recommended for the posts.

• Xuanyuan Wentian proposed the name Divine Ancient Alliance, and the gathered factions approved it.
• Xuanyuan Wentian nominated Deng Cang as Alliance Leader, and the assembly accepted; Xuanyuan Wentian became Vice Alliance Leader.
• Fen Tianjin, Liang Xuan, and Feng Xian accepted the three Grand Elder positions, while the heads of the Eight Great Families took the eight Elder posts, including Chen Hongtian as Eighth Elder.
• Xuanyuan Wentian proposed twelve Divine Ancient Envoys to carry out alliance missions, and the factions began recommending candidates.
• The Li Family head recommended Zhao Poyue, and Liang Xuan recommended Nangong Xuan; Deng Cang and Xuanyuan Wentian approved both.
• Xiao Ding recommended the unaffiliated cultivator Lei Zhan, citing his record of killing more than a hundred Forbidden Ancient Clan enemies.

The Divine Ancient Alliance appointed Divine Ancient Envoys, but Chen Hongtian’s recommendation of Jiang Bei drew ridicule because Jiang Bei was only an Earth Sovereign. After Chen Hongtian presented evidence of Jiang Bei’s feats and his Myriad Soul Bead, the dispute ended with Jiang Bei agreeing to fight Duan Tianya and demanding Wang Teng apologize if he won.

• Lei Zhan, Yao Chenzi, Yan Lie, and Yue Tingyu were approved as Divine Ancient Envoys for their strength and contributions.
• Wang Teng recommended Duan Tianya for the final envoy seat, and Deng Cang prepared to approve him.
• Chen Hongtian recommended Jiang Bei, prompting Wang Teng and others to mock his Earth Sovereign cultivation.
• Chen Hongtian claimed Jiang Bei had killed powerful Heaven Sovereigns, and Jiang Bei produced a Myriad Soul Bead as evidence.
• Duan Tianya proposed testing Jiang Bei in a fight, and Jiang Bei accepted while demanding Wang Teng apologize, slap himself three times, and kowtow five times if Jiang Bei won.

Jiang Bei defeated Duan Tianya in the contest for the final Divine Ancient Envoy position and was named the Divine Ancient Alliance’s twelfth envoy. He then stopped Wang Teng from leaving and forced him to kneel and begin paying off his wager.

• Duan Tianya attacked Jiang Bei with a powerful saber slash, but Jiang Bei caught the blade barehanded and shattered it.
• Jiang Bei crushed Duan Tianya’s shoulder and repeatedly smashed him into the ground until Deng Cang intervened and declared Jiang Bei the winner.
• Deng Cang appointed Jiang Bei the twelfth Divine Ancient Envoy, while Wang Teng accused him of being a spy and demanded an investigation.
• Jiang Bei reminded Wang Teng that he had promised to kneel and kowtow ten times if Jiang Bei won, and blocked his attempt to leave.
• After other family heads urged Wang Teng to honor the wager, Wang Teng dropped to his knees before Jiang Bei.

After Wang Teng kowtowed ten times, Jiang Bei was summoned to lead a mission to Star Dou Mountain, where he uncovered an ambush by Wang Family elders. Jiang Bei forced all seven disguised attackers to kneel, leaving their fate in his hands.

• Wang Teng kowtowed ten times to Jiang Bei and left the Main God Hall, while Chen Hongtian warned Jiang Bei that Wang Teng would seek revenge.
• After two quiet days, Liang Xuan summoned Jiang Bei and assigned him to investigate reports of Forbidden Ancient Clans at Star Dou Mountain; Xuanyuan Wentian allowed Gold Coin to accompany him.
• Jiang Bei and the team reached Star Dou Mountain, where a man in blue offered him a Breath Tracking Compass that turned into a black snake and tried to attack him.
• Jiang Bei crushed the snake, revealed that the seven men were Wang Family elders disguised as allies, and said he had recognized them earlier.
• The seven Wang Family elders attacked Jiang Bei, but he unleashed his pressure and forced all of them to kneel in the air.

Jiang Bei defeated the Wang Family elders sent to kill him and forced Wang Tao to reveal that Wang Teng was in the Divine Ancient Alliance. He brought the survivors before Wang Teng, then exposed that Wang Teng had recommended Wang Family elders for the Star Dou Mountain mission, leaving the alliance leaders to confront the deception.

• Jiang Bei forced the seven Wang Family elders to kowtow until several died, then made Wang Tao reveal that Wang Teng was in Main God City.
• Wang Teng and Wang Xiuqi discussed the planned killing, unaware Jiang Bei had survived and was approaching the Divine Ancient Alliance with four captured elders.
• Jiang Bei shouted for Wang Teng to come out, and the alliance leaders and gathered onlookers saw the battered Wang Tao and the other captives kneeling before him.
• Wang Teng recognized the captives and tried to attack Jiang Bei, but Wang Xiuqi restrained him while Jiang Bei questioned Liang Xuan about the Star Dou Mountain mission.
• Liang Xuan revealed that Wang Teng had recommended the mission participants, and Jiang Bei accused him of sending core Wang Family elders along on the mission.

Jiang Bei exposed Wang Teng’s assassination plot and rejected Liang Xuan’s lenient punishment, choosing to enforce justice himself. He overwhelmed Wang Teng and killed Wang Xiuqi, then struck down at the wounded Wang Teng.

• Jiang Bei forced Wang Tao to confess that Wang Teng had ordered the elders to disguise themselves and assassinate him during the Star Dou Mountain mission.
• Liang Xuan revoked Wang Teng’s elder position and warned that the Wang Family would be expelled if he offended again, but Jiang Bei demanded Wang Teng’s death.
• Jiang Bei charged at Wang Teng, defeated the Half-Step Sovereign with one punch, and sent him crashing into a deep pit.
• Wang Xiuqi tried to intervene, but Jiang Bei engulfed him in purple-black flames and burned him to death.
• Jiang Bei confronted the wounded Wang Teng in the pit and brought his fist down on him.

Jiang Bei killed Wang Teng after the elder’s plot against him was exposed, then advanced to the Minor Refinement of the Heaven Sovereign Realm and strengthened his Heaven Flame Seal Technique. He joined the Divine Ancient Alliance’s assault on Ancient Ferry City, where the battle against the Nether Ancient Clan and Blood Soul Ancient Clan began.

• Jiang Bei beat Wang Teng to death, and Deng Cang and Xuanyuan Wentian backed Jiang Bei against Liang Xuan’s protest.
• Jiang Bei spent seven days completing missions, then enhanced the Record of Ascending to Godhood and broke through to the Minor Refinement of the Heaven Sovereign Realm.
• Jiang Bei enhanced the Heaven Flame Seal Technique, while Gold Coin’s strength rapidly grew through fighting and killing.
• Deng Cang summoned the alliance’s elders and Divine Ancient Envoys to plan an attack on Ancient Ferry City, where two Minor Refinement Sovereign Realm Elders and five Myriad Soul Beads were reported.
• Xiao Ding and Zhang Ling led the alliance force toward Ancient Ferry City, assigning themselves to fight Mo You and Can Xue while the others sought the Myriad Soul Beads.
• The alliance force reached the City Lord’s Mansion, where Xiao Ding and Zhang Ling led the charge against the gathered Nether Ancient Clan and Blood Soul Ancient Clan experts.

The Divine Ancient Alliance fought the Nether Ancient Clan and Blood Soul Ancient Clan in Ancient Ferry City and found six Myriad Soul Beads. As Wen Tailai fled with them, Liang Xuan abducted Chen Hongtian and lured Jiang Bei into the forest, where he revealed that he had arranged Wang Teng’s attempt to kill Jiang Bei.

• Jiang Bei, Chen Hongtian, Gold Coin, and the Divine Ancient Alliance attacked the City Lord's Mansion, where Xiao Ding and Zhang Ling battled Mo You and Can Xue.
• Wen Tailai found six Myriad Soul Beads, and the Divine Ancient Alliance fought to cover his escape from Ancient Ferry City.
• A black shadow seized Chen Hongtian, and Jiang Bei and Gold Coin pursued them into a mountain forest.
• The shadow revealed himself as Liang Xuan, one of the Divine Ancient Alliance's three great elders, and struck Chen Hongtian aside.
• Liang Xuan admitted he had arranged Wang Teng's secret attempt to kill Jiang Bei because Wang Teng belonged to him and Jiang Bei had humiliated him.

Jiang Bei confronted Liang Xuan, who attacked him in revenge for Wang Teng’s death, but Jiang Bei and Gold Coin both revealed Sovereign Realm strength. As Liang Xuan transformed into his Xuangui True Form, Jiang Bei’s Seven Karmas Divine Flame fire lotuses struck, leaving the battle amid a massive explosion.

• Liang Xuan accused Jiang Bei of humiliating him and killing Wang Teng, then attacked with a golden fist imprint.
• Jiang Bei revealed Minor Refinement Heaven Sovereign Realm strength and shattered Liang Xuan’s attacks with the Seven Karmas Divine Flame.
• Gold Coin joined the fight and wounded Liang Xuan with the Dragon Emperor Sword, revealing that he also had Sovereign Realm strength.
• Liang Xuan summoned his Xuangui True Form, while Gold Coin’s sword strikes exposed its shell to Jiang Bei’s fire lotuses.
• Jiang Bei’s Seven Karmas Divine Flame fire lotuses struck the Xuangui in a series of massive explosions.

Jiang Bei killed Liang Xuan and rejoined the Divine Ancient Alliance group as they tried to withdraw with the Myriad Soul Beads. Their retreat was interrupted by Fifth Elder Lei Yuan of the Thunder Ancient Clan, who singled out Jiang Bei for death.

• Jiang Bei shattered Liang Xuan’s Xuangui True Form, killed him, and burned away his body.
• Jiang Bei, Chen Hongtian, and Gold Coin headed toward the Divine Ancient Alliance forces and learned that Wen Tailai and the others had escaped.
• Xiao Ding and Zhang Ling arrived with Mo You and Can Xue, and the four Sovereign Realm experts began fighting while Jiang Bei and Chen Hongtian prepared to help.
• Lei Yuan descended from a black vortex and was identified as the Fifth Elder of the Thunder Ancient Clan, an old enemy Jiang Bei had encountered before.
• Lei Yuan focused his killing intent on Jiang Bei as Xiao Ding and Zhang Ling faced the danger of fighting him alongside Mo You and Can Xue.

Jiang Bei intercepted Lei Yuan as he attacked Xiao Ding and Zhang Ling, then proved he could match the stronger Sovereign Realm fighter in a head-on clash. As Jiang Bei and Lei Yuan fought in the sky, Mo You and Can Xue moved to kill the wounded allies, but someone stepped in to face them.

• Lei Yuan attacked Xiao Ding and Zhang Ling, badly injuring both before Jiang Bei intervened.
• Jiang Bei pushed Xiao Ding and Zhang Ling out of danger and met Lei Yuan's palm strike, forcing Lei Yuan backward and shocking everyone.
• Jiang Bei and Lei Yuan began a fierce battle, with Jiang Bei unleashing the Seven Karmas Divine Flame.
• Mo You and Can Xue charged toward the wounded Xiao Ding and Zhang Ling while Jiang Bei fought Lei Yuan.
• A figure blocked Mo You and Can Xue and declared that they would be their opponents.

Jiang Bei and Gold Coin battled Lei Yuan, Mo You, and Can Xue, with Jiang Bei severely injuring Lei Yuan before facing his Nine Heavens Thunder Demon. The chapter ended as Jiang Bei's Samsara Seal collided with the Thunder Demon's punch in a devastating explosion.

• Gold Coin fought Mo You and Can Xue at once, matching their Sovereign Realm attacks and beginning to overpower them.
• Jiang Bei exchanged dozens of attacks with Lei Yuan, then struck him in the chest with a flame-wreathed punch and sent him flying.
• Lei Yuan summoned the Nine Heavens Thunder Demon and attacked Jiang Bei with a fist whose power reached Major Refinement in the Sovereign Realm.
• Jiang Bei formed the Samsara Seal from the Seven Karmas Divine Flame and met the Thunder Demon's punch, unleashing a massive clash of lightning and fire.

Jiang Bei defeated Lei Yuan, but Lei Jieyun, a peak Dominator Realm elder of the Thunder Ancient Clan, emerged and attacked him. After Jiang Bei killed Lei Yuan in front of him, Lei Jieyun unleashed a storm of lightning that left everyone unable to move.

• Jiang Bei shattered Lei Yuan’s thunder demonic idol, caught the wounded Lei Yuan, and prepared to finish him.
• Lei Jieyun emerged from a black vortex, and Xiao Ding identified him as a peak Dominator Realm expert.
• Jiang Bei threw Lei Yuan toward Lei Jieyun, then detonated him in midair with power he had secretly planted in his body.
• Enraged, Lei Jieyun attacked Jiang Bei with three bolts of thunder, and Jiang Bei’s counterattack failed to stop them from badly injuring him.
• Lei Jieyun summoned hundreds of lightning bolts and locked everyone within a thousand zhang in place as the storm descended on Jiang Bei.

Xuanyuan Wentian arrived in time to save Jiang Bei from Lei Jieyun’s attack and fought him to a standstill. Lei Jieyun escaped, Mo You and Can Xue were killed, and Jiang Bei was left aware of how much stronger he still needed to become.

• Xuanyuan Wentian destroyed Lei Jieyun’s lightning attack before it could hit Jiang Bei and challenged him to battle.
• Xuanyuan Wentian and Lei Jieyun exchanged powerful attacks, but neither could defeat the other.
• Lei Jieyun retreated through a void rift after threatening Jiang Bei, abandoning Mo You and Can Xue.
• Xuanyuan Wentian trapped Mo You and Can Xue, and Gold Coin killed them with the Dragon Emperor Sword.
• Xuanyuan Wentian checked on Jiang Bei and praised him for defeating Lei Yuan, while Jiang Bei admitted he was still far weaker than Lei Jieyun.

After Jiang Bei killed Lei Yuan and saved Xiao Ding and Zhang Ling, the Divine Ancient Alliance learned that the Forbidden Ancient Clans were growing stronger and had planted a traitor among its Elders. Deng Cang promoted Jiang Bei to the alliance’s eighth Elder, but the chapter ended with everyone wondering why Liang Xuan had not returned.

• Xuanyuan Wentian warned that Lei Jieyun had escaped the Forbidden Land and revealed that an Elder-level traitor had informed Lei Yuan about the alliance’s movements.
• Xuanyuan Wentian and the others returned to the Divine Ancient Alliance, where he reported Lei Jieyun’s threat and the danger posed by the Forbidden Ancient Clans.
• Xuanyuan Wentian announced that Jiang Bei had Sovereign Realm combat strength and had killed Lei Yuan while saving Xiao Ding and Zhang Ling.
• Deng Cang promoted Jiang Bei to the Divine Ancient Alliance’s eighth Elder and gave him an Elder token.
• Deng Cang asked where Liang Xuan was, and Fen Tianjin said he should have returned already, making Jiang Bei, Chen Hongtian, and Gold Coin uneasy.

After defeating several enemies, Jiang Bei used his merit points to break through to the Great Refinement of Heaven Sovereign Realm and watched Gold Coin’s strength rise again. Two days later, Deng Cang announced Liang Xuan’s death and revealed the alliance’s plan to take the soul-filled Myriad Soul Beads to the Reincarnation Pool.

• Jiang Bei reflected on the threat from the Forbidden Ancient Clans and the traitor within the Divine Ancient Alliance, then checked his merit points and martial arts panel.
• Jiang Bei improved the Record of Ascending to Godhood and broke through to the Great Refinement of Heaven Sovereign Realm.
• Jiang Bei saw Gold Coin cultivate in golden light and sensed that Gold Coin’s strength had risen into the Major Refinement of the Dominator Realm.
• Two days later, Deng Cang told the assembled alliance members that Liang Xuan had died on a mission and warned that the Forbidden Ancient Clans might attack the alliance.
• Deng Cang revealed that the alliance held Myriad Soul Beads containing hundreds of millions of souls and announced that he would lead a group to the Reincarnation Pool the next day to release them.

Jiang Bei joined Deng Cang and the Divine Ancient Alliance on an expedition to the Reincarnation Pool to free the souls trapped in the Myriad Soul Beads. At the pool, Jiang Bei warned that the beads were fake and shattered his own, revealing it held no souls.

• Deng Cang collected the Myriad Soul Beads and ordered the alliance to gather for the next day's operation, while Jiang Bei sensed something troubling during the night.
• Deng Cang brought the Elders and Divine Ancient Envoys to the Reincarnation Pool, explaining that they had to use their soul power to guide the beads' contents into the water.
• Jiang Bei warned that the beads would consume the operators instead of releasing innocent souls, and declared that the beads were fake.
• Jiang Bei crushed the bead before him, and its shattered fragments revealed no trace of soul aura, shocking everyone.

Jiang Bei exposed Deng Cang as the Divine Ancient Alliance’s traitor after revealing that the Myriad Soul Beads were fake, and Deng Cang admitted he had been helping the Forbidden Ancient Clans weaken the alliance. Deng Cang and the clans’ forces surrounded the alliance members, leaving them facing overwhelming odds as he explained why he had not attacked sooner.

• Jiang Bei revealed that the real Myriad Soul Beads had been given to Deng Cang and that the beads now in the alliance members’ hands were fake.
• Deng Cang admitted he had arranged the fake beads and sent alliance members on missions to drain their strength for the Forbidden Ancient Clans.
• Deng Cang summoned over a hundred Forbidden Ancient Clan members, including three Dominator Realm experts, to surround the alliance.
• Deng Cang urged the alliance members to submit, arguing that joining the Forbidden Ancient Clans was their best chance to survive and preserve their factions.
• Jiang Bei asked why Deng Cang had not directly destroyed the Divine Ancient Alliance, and Deng Cang explained that Xuanyuan Wentian and his brother Xuanyuan Chen were both peak Dominator Realm experts.

Jiang Bei exposed Deng Cang as a traitor who had exchanged the real Myriad Soul Beads for fakes, and Xuanyuan Wentian, Fen Tianjin, and Feng Xian arrived to confront him. The two sides clashed in the valley, leaving the battle raging with no winner yet.

• Deng Cang revealed that Xuanyuan Wentian, Fen Tianjin, and Feng Xian had been kept at the Divine Ancient Alliance while he and Qin Shang prepared to kill Jiang Bei and the others.
• Xuanyuan Wentian, Fen Tianjin, and Feng Xian arrived, and Xuanyuan Wentian accused Deng Cang of treason and the murder of Liang Xuan.
• Jiang Bei explained that he had used a fake Myriad Soul Bead to discover Deng Cang had secretly taken the real beads out of the alliance and swapped them with fakes.
• Deng Cang ordered Qin Shang and two other Dominator Realm experts to attack Jiang Bei, Fen Tianjin, and Feng Xian, while he challenged Xuanyuan Wentian.
• Xiao Ding, Zhang Ling, Gold Coin, and Chen Hongtian joined the fight against the Beiye Ancient Clan as Deng Cang and Xuanyuan Wentian began their duel.
• Fen Tianjin and Feng Xian fought two Beiye Ancient Clan experts, with both battles remaining evenly matched.