Chapter Summaries

Xiao Han discovered that Bai Xue'er had betrayed him and lured him into a Divine Court trap to capture him and Su Linglong. Su Linglong awakened the hell form of her Extreme Ice Phoenix Martial Soul, and she and Xiao Han trapped Bai Xue'er in a cage of dark ice before she summoned the Divine Court.

• Xiao Han followed the aura of Su Linglong to a forest altar, where he found her unconscious in an ice-crystal cage.
• Bai Xue'er revealed that she was a Divine Court undercover agent who had staged their relationship and used Su Linglong as bait to trap Xiao Han.
• Bai Xue'er activated the Purification Grand Formation and Divine Punishment Mark, suppressed Xiao Han's cultivation, and attacked him with her Holy Demon Fox.
• Su Linglong awakened the hell form of her Extreme Ice Phoenix Martial Soul, shattered her cage, and froze the formation's light.
• Xiao Han and Su Linglong joined their powers to trap Bai Xue'er in an Eternal Night Ice Seal, and Bai Xue'er crushed a talisman to summon Divine Court members.

Xiao Han escaped the Divine Court with Su Linglong on the Dark Abyss Dragon King, then chose to return to the besieged Imperial Capital Academy despite the danger. He broke through the academy’s sacred barrier, which triggered his tracking mark and weakened his cultivation, and rushed toward a familiar voice in the battle.

• The Dark Abyss Dragon King rescued Xiao Han and Su Linglong from the Divine Court knights, and Su Linglong suspected Instructor Lin Qingxia was a Divine Court spy.
• Su Linglong revealed that the Divine Court had captured her and tried to alter her martial soul into a weapon against Xiao Han.
• The Dark Abyss Dragon King explained that Xiao Han’s Divine Punishment Mark could be removed at the Purification Dragon Spring in the Dark Abyss Deep Valley, but a message reported the academy was under attack and Lin Qingxia was missing.
• After the God-Level Choice offered him a safer path or a dangerous rescue, Xiao Han ordered the Dark Abyss Dragon King to take Su Linglong to the valley and return him to the academy.
• Xiao Han tore through the academy’s barrier, triggered his Divine Punishment Mark, and saw his cultivation fall from Martial Grandmaster Realm Third Layer to Second Layer.
• Xiao Han charged into the ruined academy toward a familiar voice shouting, “Frost for Ten Thousand Miles!”

Xiao Han rescued Lin Qingxia from a Divine Court bishop and discovered that she was an Eternal Night Clan descendant. The Chaos-Devouring Beast broke free beneath the academy and fixed its attention on Xiao Han, leaving him to choose how to face the beast and the bishop.

• Xiao Han shielded Lin Qingxia from the bishop’s Divine Judgment with his Shadow Avatar, then revealed his [Primordial Eternal Night Overlord] Martial Soul.
• Lin Qingxia warned that the bishop’s attack had damaged the seal holding the Chaos-Devouring Beast beneath the academy.
• The Chaos-Devouring Beast emerged and focused its attention on Xiao Han, while the bishop tried to escape.
• The bishop attacked Xiao Han with a Holy Spear, but Lin Qingxia intercepted it with her Eternal Night · Ice Phoenix Sigh.
• Xiao Han activated the God-Level Choice System and received three options for dealing with the beast and the bishop.

Xiao Han used his Chaos Green Lotus Origin Essence Blood to lure the Chaos-Devouring Beast back to the Soul-Suppressing Space, where it revealed that it guarded him as the “key.” The Divine Court bishop was badly injured, then revealed that the Divine Court sought the beast and the fragment of the World Heart it guarded.

• Xiao Han persuaded Lin Qingxia and the Divine Court bishop to follow his plan, then used his essence blood to draw the Chaos-Devouring Beast toward the seal.
• Lin Qingxia and the bishop attacked the beast while Xiao Han fled into the Soul-Suppressing Space, but the beast stopped at the entrance.
• The Chaos-Devouring Beast called Xiao Han the “key,” struck the bishop, and declared that it guarded the key while awaiting the Lord of Return to the Ruins.
• Lin Qingxia recalled that the academy’s founding headmaster had sealed the beast for a deeper purpose, and Xiao Han suspected his Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul made him the key.
• The bishop used a golden badge to shield himself from the beast’s chaos breath and revealed that the Divine Court sought the beast and a fragment of the World Heart it guarded.

The Divine Court bishop revealed that Xiao Han was the key to weakening a seal and enabling his lord to claim the World Tree Heart Fragment, then launched a desperate attack that caused Xiao Han's three powers to surge into his Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul. The Xia Emperor appeared from within the Soul-Suppressing Space, stopped the bishop, and began revealing the truth of his thousand-year vigil to Xiao Han.

• The bishop burned his divine soul and rushed at Xiao Han, declaring that killing the key would weaken the seal even if the Chaos-Devouring Beast had disrupted the Divine Court's plans.
• Xiao Han forced the Divine Punishment Mark, Primordial Demon Finger Soul-Splitting Curse Seal, and Eternal Night Emperor Seal into his Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul.
• An ancient golden radiance erased the bishop's attack and knocked him unconscious, while the Chaos-Devouring Beast bowed before the presence within the Soul-Suppressing Space.
• The Xia Emperor emerged, and Lin Qingxia recognized him as the Dragon Nation's first Martial Emperor, believed to have fallen a thousand years earlier.
• The Xia Emperor greeted Xiao Han as the junior who bore chaos and eternal night, then sent him the memories of the extraterritorial battle and his sacrifice to seal the World Heart fragment.

The Xia Emperor revealed that Xiao Han’s Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul could purify the corrupted World Heart fragment, just as three Divine Court Martial Emperors arrived to attack. Xiao Han chose to enter the seal and begin purification, weakening the Xia Emperor as he faced the enemies alone.

• The Xia Emperor explained that he had sealed the corrupted World Heart fragment beneath the Imperial Capital and that the Divine Court wanted to use it to summon their false god.
• Three Divine Court Martial Emperors, led by a Ninth Layer Peak Martial Emperor, descended on the Imperial Capital Academy, and the Xia Emperor confronted them with the power of the ley lines.
• The system offered Xiao Han a choice between helping the Xia Emperor fight or entering the seal to purify the fragment, and Xiao Han bowed to the Xia Emperor before choosing purification.
• The Xia Emperor urged Xiao Han to go, and Xiao Han told Lin Qingxia to guard the entrance before charging toward the corrupted World Heart fragment.
• Xiao Han’s departure cut off the Xia Emperor’s ley-line support, and the Divine Court leader laughed that the Xia Emperor was about to die.

The Xia Emperor sacrificed his remnant soul to attack the Divine Court emperors while Xiao Han tried to purify the demonic heart and its corrupting power. After the Xia Emperor fell and a thorn-crowned Martial Emperor attacked Xiao Han, Xiao Han emerged with creation and demonic forces fused within him, at the peak of the Martial Grandmaster Realm Seventh Layer.

• The Xia Emperor burned the essence of his remnant soul to attack the three Divine Court emperors and buy Xiao Han time.
• Xiao Han reached the seal's core, found the demonic heart, and used his Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul to purify it as his other powers fought the corruption.
• The Xia Emperor's final attack killed one Divine Court Martial Emperor and gravely wounded the thorn-crowned leader and another emperor before the Xia Emperor vanished.
• The thorn-crowned Martial Emperor rushed toward Xiao Han, while Lin Qingxia prepared to sacrifice herself to stop him.
• Xiao Han emerged from the pit and casually nullified the thorn-crowned Martial Emperor's attack, his creation and demonic powers fused in chaos.
• Xiao Han's aura rose to the peak of the Martial Grandmaster Realm Seventh Layer.

Xiao Han killed the Divine Court Martial Emperors but was overwhelmed by the clashing forces within him and tempted by the True Demon sealed inside the Worldheart Fragment. Lin Qingxia’s cry restored a shred of his clarity, and the system presented him with a choice between accepting the demon’s power and sacrificing himself to restore the seal.

• Xiao Han used the forces of creation and Return to the Ruins to destroy the Thorn Crown Martial Emperor and the last surviving Divine Court expert.
• With his enemies gone, Xiao Han collapsed as the opposing powers in his body began tearing him apart.
• A crack opened in the Worldheart Fragment, and an Otherworldly True Demon revealed that the Xia Emperor had sealed only its surface contamination, then offered Xiao Han supreme power.
• The True Demon’s influence nearly overtook Xiao Han until Lin Qingxia called out to him and helped him regain his own will.
• The system activated an ultimate choice: Xiao Han could accept the True Demon’s power or burn his Twin Martial Soul to restore the Worldheart Fragment’s seal at the cost of his cultivation and life.

Xiao Han fused the holy and demonic powers within him into chaos, sealing the World Heart fragment at the cost of his body and cultivation. As a godlike force descended to destroy the sealed crystal, the Chaos-Devouring Beast sent chaos origin qi into Xiao Han, awakening his Human Dao Merit Golden Wheel.

• Xiao Han chose to sacrifice his powers and transformed them into chaos, suppressing the True Demon Split Soul and sealing the World Heart fragment as a gray crystal.
• Xiao Han's body and cultivation collapsed, and Lin Qingxia caught him as he fell.
• Su Linglong and the Dark Abyss Dragon King arrived, and the Dragon King warned that a false god behind the Divine Court had noticed the True Demon's aura.
• A golden pillar of divine light descended toward the crystal, while Su Linglong and Lin Qingxia burned their essences to raise barriers that quickly shattered.
• The Chaos-Devouring Beast sent chaos origin qi into Xiao Han, causing his Human Dao Merit Golden Wheel to flare and project visions of human ancestors and heroes.

Xiao Han survived the false god’s assault as the Humanity Barrier turned its power into a source for his recovery, while the Chaos-Devouring Beast revealed that the Divine Court cultivated worlds for harvest. With a tracking mark placed on Xiao Han, Little Chaos urged Lin Qingxia and Su Linglong to flee through an ancient array to the Shattered Star Sea.

• The True Demon Origin Imprint altered the World Heart fragment, confusing the false god and allowing the Humanity Barrier to funnel its golden power into Xiao Han.
• The Human Dao Merit Golden Wheel and the Chaos Green Lotus rebuilt Xiao Han’s body through cycles of agony, restoring his cultivation to the first level of the Martial Grandmaster Realm.
• The Otherworldly True Demon’s soul fragment severed the false god’s connection to the golden pillar, but the god branded Xiao Han with a Divine Oracle Tracking Mark before the rift closed.
• Lin Qingxia caught the unconscious Xiao Han as the Chaos-Devouring Beast shrank into a catlike form and warned that the god had seen them.
• Little Chaos revealed that their world was a Divine Court nursery and opened an ancient escape array whose destination was the Shattered Star Sea.
• Lin Qingxia carried Xiao Han into the array, and Su Linglong joined her in preparing to flee.

After the teleportation passage collapsed, Xiao Han landed in the Shattered Star Sea with Lin Qingxia, while Su Linglong, the Dark Abyss Dragon King, and Little Chaos disappeared. A ghostly Martial Emperor attacked them, but Xiao Han’s newly awakened Humanity’s Fortune weakened the blow and left him alive.

• The Dark Abyss Dragon King sacrificed himself to shield the teleportation passage from the Spear of Divine Punishment, but the passage collapsed and scattered Lin Qingxia, Su Linglong, and Little Chaos.
• Xiao Han regained consciousness in the Shattered Star Sea and discovered that Lin Qingxia was unconscious beside him while the others were missing.
• The system announced that Xiao Han had unlocked Humanity’s Fortune after performing an act of salvation.
• A ghostly captain aboard a bone-built starship found Xiao Han and Lin Qingxia and attacked them, hoping to use them as souls for his Blood Soul Banner.
• Xiao Han shielded Lin Qingxia and survived the captain’s blood-colored palm strike after Humanity’s Fortune weakened its power.

Xiao Han and Lin Qingxia fought to survive Bone Demon Gulsa’s assault, damaging his starship before escaping into the sea of stars. As Gulsa pursued them, a fleet from Heavenly Secrets Pavilion appeared and unleashed a barrage that engulfed everyone, leaving Xiao Han and Lin Qingxia caught between two deadly forces.

• Xiao Han endured Gulsa’s Martial Emperor attacks while Lin Qingxia awakened and helped him evade and block them.
• Gulsa used Soul-Seizing Demon Sound, but Xiao Han’s Overlord’s Gaze struck back and made Gulsa falter.
• Xiao Han struck the Skeleton King’s heart with Annihilation Divine Fist, disrupting the starship’s energy core.
• Xiao Han grabbed Lin Qingxia and fled, suppressing the True Demon Origin Imprint’s offer to lend him power.
• Gulsa stabilized the Skeleton King and pursued Xiao Han and Lin Qingxia until a Heavenly Secrets Pavilion fleet arrived and fired its cannons at the entire area.

Xiao Han used Gulsa’s Skeleton King as a shield against the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s erasing attack, but conflicting powers inside him tore open a wormhole. He and the unconscious Lin Qingxia emerged in the Star Sea Graveyard, where a rusted warship’s electronic eye locked onto them.

• Xiao Han shielded himself and Lin Qingxia behind the Skeleton King as the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s data torrent destroyed Gulsa’s ship and grievously wounded him.
• The data stream invaded Xiao Han, and his True Demon Origin Imprint clashed with the order of the attack and the powers within him.
• Xiao Han’s conflicting energies tore open a temporary wormhole, and he carried Lin Qingxia through it while Gulsa’s remnant soul watched.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion classified Xiao Han as a world-ending threat and sent a tracking probe after the wormhole.
• Xiao Han and Lin Qingxia landed among the wreckage of the Star Sea Graveyard, where a scarlet electronic eye scanned and locked onto them.

Xiao Han learned that the Logical Paradox Chip on his arm was an unremovable tracker, then agreed to help Iron Crow retrieve a Defector Core in exchange for temporary protection. As he reached her base, a powerful inquisitor descended and trapped him between the Divine Court, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, and the Star-Devouring Worm.

• Xiao Han discovered that the Logical Paradox Chip continuously broadcast his location and gave Lin Qingxia his last healing pill.
• Iron Crow identified the chip as a Heavenly Secrets Pavilion tracking device and offered to lead Xiao Han to a place that could block its signal.
• Iron Crow asked Xiao Han to retrieve a Defector Core from the Star-Devouring Worm’s lair in exchange for help suppressing the chip.
• Xiao Han accepted Iron Crow’s offer and followed her toward the warship base with the unconscious Lin Qingxia.
• The Divine Oracle Tracking Mark burned, and a Martial Emperor Eighth Layer inquisitor descended, identifying Xiao Han as a blasphemer and demanding his purification.

Xiao Han used the True Demon Imprint and Logical Paradox Chip to create a bomb that drove the Star-Devouring Worm into battle with the Seventh Adjudicator, allowing him and Iron Crow to enter the wrecked ark. There, Qiyuan offered to remove the imprint’s tracking coordinates in exchange for Xiao Han’s help, but the True Demon threatened to detonate it if he agreed.

• Xiao Han asked Iron Crow to buy him three breaths, and she and her scavengers fired on the Seventh Adjudicator.
• Xiao Han fused the True Demon energy with the Logical Paradox Chip and hurled the resulting Demon-Stained Logic Bomb into the Star-Devouring Worm.
• The bomb burned out the Worm’s control systems, causing it to attack the Seventh Adjudicator and giving Xiao Han and Iron Crow a chance to enter the ark.
• Xiao Han and Iron Crow found the Defector Core and awakened Qiyuan, the ark’s navigator AI, who revealed that the True Demon Imprint could track Xiao Han and offered to remove its coordinates.
• The True Demon threatened to detonate the imprint and destroy Xiao Han and the world if he accepted Qiyuan’s deal.

The Seventh Inquisitor entered the ark after slaying the Star-Devouring Worm and revealed that he wanted to use Xiao Han as a vessel for his lord. Xiao Han forced a deal with the True Demon Will and joined Iron Crow and Qiyuan AI in attacking the Inquisitor, but the fight ended with him invoking a deadly link through the Divine Oracle Tracking Mark.

• The Seventh Inquisitor found Xiao Han in the ark and declared that he would preserve him as a vessel for his lord.
• Xiao Han ordered the True Demon Will to execute their deal and extract the coordinates, then used the Human Dao Merit Golden Wheel to suppress its attempt at self-destruction.
• Iron Crow disrupted the Inquisitor’s protective divine light while Qiyuan AI deployed its Genesis Source-Light Cannons.
• Xiao Han, Iron Crow, and Qiyuan AI struck the Inquisitor’s holy sword together, but he destroyed it in a Divine Storm.
• The Seventh Inquisitor raised his hands to unleash divine punishment, and the Divine Oracle Tracking Mark on Xiao Han’s hand began to burn as it resonated with him.

Xiao Han combined demonic, ordered, and devouring powers into a beacon and used the Creation Ark to exile the transformed Seventh Judge through a dimensional jump. After the crisis, Xiao Han and Lin Qingxia absorbed the inheritance’s life energy, but Qiyuan AI warned that their jump had awakened the Star Sea Graveyard’s keeper.

• Xiao Han ordered Qiyuan AI to use the Seventh Judge’s divine power as fuel for a dimensional jump.
• Xiao Han combined the True Demon will, the Logical Paradox Chip’s power, and the Chaos-Devouring Beast’s aura into a Chaos True Demon Beacon and hurled it at the Creation Throne.
• Qiyuan AI activated the Dimensional Exile Protocol, and the singularity dragged the beacon and the transformed Seventh Judge away as Xiao Han collapsed.
• Qiyuan AI activated the inheritance protocol, and the Creation Throne’s life origin healed Xiao Han and Lin Qingxia.
• Xiao Han advanced to the Martial Grandmaster Realm Third Layer peak, while Lin Qingxia’s Extreme Ice Phoenix Martial Soul gained emerald life patterns.
• Qiyuan AI warned that the unauthorized jump had disrupted the Star Sea Graveyard’s energy balance and awakened its keeper.

The Graveyard Administrator awakened and assembled a mechanical legion to attack the Creation Ark, while Xiao Han learned the truth about the Creators and their Genesis Divine Art. With Lin Qingxia and Iron Crow creating an opening, Xiao Han began a risky plan to turn the Administrator’s army against it.

• Qiyuan AI warned that the Graveyard Administrator had awakened, and wrecked warships across the Star Sea Graveyard assembled into a steel legion.
• Iron Crow explained that the Administrator was a mechanical Martial Venerable programmed to recycle outsiders and abnormal energy sources.
• Xiao Han received Qiyuan AI’s inheritance, learning that the Creators spread life and that Ode to Life was the Genesis Divine Art; the data also revealed coordinates for a safe zone called Cradle World.
• Lin Qingxia discovered that her emerald life-ice could disrupt mechanical units, while Iron Crow revealed a Defector Core that could briefly paralyze the Administrator if she reached its main body.
• Xiao Han proposed turning the mechanical legion against the Administrator, and Lin Qingxia and Iron Crow agreed to help him.
• Lin Qingxia used Life Ice Prison to slow the puppets as Iron Crow charged the mechanical titan, while Xiao Han used his spiritual power to connect with a Slaughterer Puppet.

Xiao Han used the Genesis Divine Art to turn the slaughterer puppets against the Mechanical Titan and learned that a centuries-old Data Plague had corrupted its core. With Su Linglong's distant connection faltering, the Titan asked Xiao Han to enter its deadly Logic Abyss and purge the plague.

• Xiao Han rewrote a slaughterer puppet's directives to make it guard the creator's legacy, and it sacrificed itself to convert the surrounding puppets.
• The Mechanical Titan halted its attack and confronted Xiao Han, demanding that he prove his authority or be formatted.
• Xiao Han showed the Titan a higher-level blueprint for reshaping its order, causing its core logic to falter.
• The Mechanical Titan revealed that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's Data Plague had corrupted its directives and asked Xiao Han to enter its data core in exchange for its service.
• Iron Crow warned Xiao Han that the Logic Abyss would assimilate any consciousness that entered, while Su Linglong's connection carried a desperate plea for help.

Xiao Han agreed to purify the mechanical titan’s core in exchange for it taking them to the Cradle World, where Su Linglong was being drained by a giant heart. Aboard the newly formed Genesis, the Creator qualification trial began, and Xiao Han prepared to face the Logic Parasites as they attacked the bridge.

• Xiao Han sent the Cradle World coordinates to the mechanical titan and agreed to purify its core during the voyage.
• The titan remade itself into the warship Genesis and began its warp journey with the Creation Ark aboard.
• The administrator started the Creator qualification trial and sent Logic Parasites crawling out of the bridge walls.
• Lin Qingxia froze the first parasite with Life Ice Prison while Iron Crow used the Defector Core to erect a failing data barrier.
• Xiao Han opened his eyes and began using the Genesis Divine Art to perceive the parasites’ underlying code.