Chapter Summaries

Li Chen lost control under the Eldritch God’s influence and killed three of Fan Bing’s teammates, leaving Fan Bing to send her remaining teammates out of the Secret Realm and face the consequences alone. Outside, the spectators watched the killing, while a masked man remarked that the result seemed settled.

• Li Chen killed the ponytailed woman and another teammate as Fan Bing tried to retreat, then struggled against the force controlling him.
• Fan Bing blamed herself for the deaths, sent her three surviving teammates out of the Secret Realm, and remained behind to seek revenge.
• Li Chen confronted the Eldritch God in his mind, realized the masked man had become its slave, and worried that the god might take over his consciousness.
• Spectators watched the aftermath and discussed Li Chen’s strength and the dead students; a man in a black half-mask said the result seemed to be out.

After Li Chen’s group escaped the wolf attack, they shared a meal and discussed the danger of the Imperial Capital team’s rapid progress. Li Chen offered to hold off their opponents while his teammates pursued their goals, and Su Zhe joined them by the fire.

• Su Xian and the others emerged unharmed from the fading barrier, and Mu Hen prepared the Demon Wolves they had killed for food.
• Su Xian realized the wolves had been directed at them and asked Li Chen whether he had encountered another team; Li Chen confirmed he had killed several people.
• Li Chen reflected that Demon Eye and Mutation had triggered a berserk state that frightened him, while Su Xian mistakenly thought he was troubled by killing people.
• Su Xian proposed splitting up to move faster and obtain another map before the Imperial Capital team secured five maps and advanced.
• Li Chen offered to hold off the others so his teammates could pursue their goals, saying he was still their captain for now.
• Su Zhe hurried over to ask Mu Hen for some meat and sat beside Li Chen to hear what they were discussing.

Su Xian’s team split up to collect maps and eliminate rival teams before facing Imperial Capital Academy. Li Chen found and defeated a team hiding among ice pillars, but a sniper’s charged bullet stopped just short of him when he used Infinite Precept-Breaking.

• Su Xian divided the seven team members into groups and sent them in four directions to search for maps and eliminate the other teams.
• Li Chen flew alone and found a team hiding among ice pillars, whose members attacked him with firearms and a rocket launcher.
• Li Chen stopped the attackers’ weapons and smashed the team into an ice wall, then learned that Fan Bing had taken their map.
• The burly man called on Kun Sa to attack Li Chen, and a sniper with gold-rimmed glasses fired a charged bullet at him.
• Li Chen used Infinite Precept-Breaking, halting the bullet a few meters from him as its force struggled against his ability.

Li Chen forced a team to surrender its scorekeeper and continued searching for maps, while Su Xian and Jianping attacked three other teams to seize their points. The chapter left Jianping cutting through the teams as Su Xian supported him, hoping to find the maps before Imperial Capital Academy arrived.

• Li Chen returned the bespectacled man's bullet through his rifle and body, then demanded to know where Fan Bing had gone.
• The burly man explained that Fan Bing had taken the map and fled, and handed Li Chen the scorekeeper in exchange for leaving with his teammates.
• Li Chen ordered the burly man to leave the Secret Realm with his team, then saw that their points were too few to locate the map.
• Li Chen flew onward, reflecting that he represented Canglan and needed to secure two maps before Imperial Capital Academy could claim victory.
• Jianping leaped into a battle between three teams while Su Xian cast a magic array and boosted his speed and strength.
• Jianping knocked down the teams with the blunt side of his Demon Blade as Su Xian hoped they could find the maps before Imperial Capital arrived.

Su Zhe and Mu Hen encountered a sleeping Calamity Realm giant white python whose cold wave had frozen nearby teams, forcing them to retreat. Nearby, the Daoist Family’s holy son recognized Canglan Academy and predicted that the Imperial Capital would lose.

• Su Zhe offered Mu Hen two million per kilometer to use his puppet as a mount, and Mu Hen accepted.
• Ji Mumu urged Ji Shao to pursue Su Xian, and Ji Shao admitted she might try someday before charging at nearby Eerie Monsters.
• Su Zhe and Mu Hen found people frozen solid and were caught in a cold wave from a giant white python sleeping in the snow.
• Mu Hen decided they should retreat and warn the other teams that a Calamity Realm Eerie Monster was nearby.
• The Daoist Family’s holy son watched Su Zhe and Mu Hen, recognized Canglan Academy, and predicted the Imperial Capital would lose.

As the Academy Tournament continued, Kuang Dui launched Operation Dawn and ordered his forces to guard Canghai Pass while withholding fire on cultists unless necessary. Outside Canghai City, the God-Binding Cult struck a three-hour bargain with the Godless Cult, while Elder Gu prepared Yu Qingnian to inherit his responsibility before his final battle for the Human Race.

• Kuang Dui ordered the Special Affairs Bureau troops to begin Operation Dawn and stand watch at Canghai Pass and Canghai City, then worried that the pass was destined to fall.
• The God-Binding Cult’s Ninth Seat confronted the Godless Cult, and the Sixth Seat challenged them to send someone to speak.
• The God-Deceiving Angel appeared and agreed to help the God-Binding Cult hold off the Special Affairs Bureau for three hours in exchange for the child of destiny.
• The First Seat ordered the Ninth Seat to watch the Godless Cult and sent the Sixth Seat to check whether Canghai City could be entered.
• A figure in a red cloak silently vowed to live for himself and disappeared into the retreating Godless Cult.
• Elder Gu told Yu Qingnian that an age of chaos had begun, entrusted him with responsibility for the Human Race, and declared that he would fight one last battle.

Li Chen confronted Fan Bing for the map, but the Shi Family Saint Son and the Demon Buddha arrived and challenged him. The three fought in the Extreme Cold Secret Realm while a white-haired woman watched Li Chen with an unsettling familiarity.

• Li Chen found Fan Bing, stopped her escape, and demanded that she hand over the map.
• The Shi Family Saint Son and the Demon Buddha appeared and demanded the map, while the Shi Family Saint Son revealed his grudge over Li Chen nearly crippling Shi Nie.
• The Shi Family Saint Son attacked Li Chen with a blood-red trident, and Li Chen summoned the Demon Blade to meet him.
• The Demon Buddha joined the fight, and Li Chen battled both opponents as the white-haired woman watched and wondered whether he was Li Chen or another Li Chen.
• Li Chen used his Vector Manipulation against their energy-based attacks as the three continued their fierce battle in the snowy sky.

Jianping and Su Xian gathered enough score counters to head toward Li Chen, where a fierce battle with the Shi Family Saint Son was already underway. The Saint Son unleashed his family's forbidden spell and struck Li Chen with overwhelming force, while Li Chen began gathering power for his next attack.

• Jianping defeated several tournament teams without killing them, and he and Su Xian collected enough score counters to activate the map's location function.
• Su Xian realized that Imperial Capital Academy had entered the map and that multiple teams were converging on Li Chen, so he and Jianping accelerated toward the battle.
• Ji Shao and Ji Mumu headed toward Li Chen, while Su Zhe hired Mu Hen to carry them after Jianping and Su Xian flew past.
• The Shi Family Saint Son wounded himself to invoke his family's forbidden spell, forming blood armor and gaining a dramatic increase in strength.
• The Shi Family Saint Son struck Li Chen into a massive crater, but Li Chen rose and gathered his power around the Demon Blade.

As both teams converged on Li Chen, the Imperial Capital’s holy sons and holy maiden blocked their way in separate battles. The fights escalated as Su Zhe and Mu Hen faced Demon Buddha, while Jianping and Su Xian were trapped by the Daoist Family’s holy son and the Fox Family’s holy maiden.

• Su Zhe and Mu Hen arrived near Li Chen and found Demon Buddha waiting behind a barrier, determined to keep them from leaving.
• Su Zhe struck the ground with his sledgehammer to shrink the battlefield, while Mu Hen summoned three Tomb People to fight Demon Buddha.
• Jianping broke the illusion around himself and Su Xian, and Su Xian confronted the Daoist Family’s holy son, who refused to let him pass.
• The Fox Family’s holy maiden caught Jianping’s Demon Blade and claimed him as her opponent, then kicked him through a forest of trees.
• Jianping returned wounded and charged the Fox Family’s holy maiden again, while she spoke of fate’s converging threads.

Su Xian confronted Gu Changkong, the Daoist Family’s holy son, to reach Su Yu, but Gu Changkong trapped him in a black-and-white chess world to keep him away. Su Xian remained imprisoned as the two waited in silence.

• Gu Changkong told Su Xian that the secret realm was about to be sealed and revealed that Su Hong, the Su Family’s ancestor, had informed him about Su Yu.
• Gu Changkong refused to let Su Xian see Su Yu, explaining that Su Yu was a crucial piece in a game meant to save the world.
• Su Xian broke through to the Withered Sea Realm and used three forbidden spells to attack Gu Changkong.
• Gu Changkong completed his chess formation and trapped Su Xian in a black-and-white world, asking him to wait half a day.
• Gu Changkong asked whether Su Xian knew Li Chen, but Su Xian did not respond.

Ji Shao and Ji Yushao fought over the Ji Family’s fate during the Academy Tournament, while a powerful man interrupted them before leaving to confront events elsewhere. Meanwhile, Li Chen fought the Shi Family Saint Son, who burned his remaining blood in a final attack.

• Ji Shao accused Ji Yushao of endangering the Ji Family and attacked her with flames, while Ji Yushao defended herself with water weapons.
• Ji Mumu helped Ji Shao weaken Ji Yushao’s water ability by evaporating the surrounding water, but a man in a white windbreaker knocked Ji Mumu from the sky and dismissed the Ji Family as too insignificant to interfere.
• The man sensed that Gu Changkong and the Daoist Family had made their move, then vanished, leaving Ji Shao and Ji Yushao to resume their fight.
• The Shi Family Saint Son fought Li Chen, who resisted the Eldritch God’s temptation to use Mutation again.
• The Shi Family Saint Son fused his remaining blood into his trident and launched a final attack at Li Chen, burning his blood to the utmost.

Li Chen overwhelmed the Shi Family Saint Son in the Academy Tournament, while Wei Laoda learned that the Eerie Tide was approaching Canghai City and chose to stay to protect the spectators. Elsewhere, Gu Xingyun decided to go despite having only half a day of life left.

• Li Chen enveloped himself in Forbidden Substance, crushed the Shi Family Saint Son's trident, and beat him into the snow, declaring him the first.
• Cang Lao defended Li Chen's treatment of the Saint Son as Wei Laoda watched the tournament.
• Gu Cheng warned Wei Laoda that Canghai City was about to be sealed and urged him to evacuate the people from Ruined City.
• Wei Laoda refused to abandon the spectators and demanded to know what was coming.
• At Ruined Pass, Gu Cheng revealed that the Eerie Tide was approaching as Calamity Realm eerie creatures gathered in the black mist.
• Sword Elder asked whether Gu Xingyun was really going, and Gu Xingyun said he would go despite having only half a day left to live.

Li Chen encountered Cang Yue after defeating the Shi Family's Holy Son, while Jianping questioned the Fox Family's Holy Maiden about the Imperial Capital's plans. Gu Changkong emerged from the collapsing Black-and-White Chess Formation and told Jianping that they were all chess pieces, but that everything was about to change.

• Cang Yue told Li Chen she had only come to look at him, then left after wondering whether his father had fully fallen into the strange path.
• The Fox Family's Holy Maiden proposed a truce with Jianping and hinted that the Academy Tournament was about to end.
• Jianping asked the Fox Family's Holy Maiden what the Imperial Capital intended, having noticed its participants seemed to be waiting for something rather than fighting.
• As the Black-and-White Chess Formation weakened, Su Xian broke through its barrier and flew out to reach Xiao Yuzi.
• Gu Changkong emerged from the collapsing formation, brought Jianping and the Fox Family's Holy Maiden into a mirrored space, and revealed that they had given up on winning the tournament.
• Gu Changkong told Jianping that they were all chess pieces, but that everything was going to change.

Ji Yushao and Ji Shao fought over the Ji Family and the Academy Tournament while Ji Mumu recovered and joined the battle. Their clash ended in a draw, leaving Ji Mumu to tend to the exhausted Ji Shao.

• Ji Yushao confronted Ji Shao and declared that she intended to destroy the corrupt Ji Family.
• Ji Yushao summoned dark clouds and threatened to defeat Ji Shao with rain, so Ji Shao attacked with her Wheel of Flourishing Flame.
• Ji Mumu woke after being knocked unconscious, then used Great Sun to disperse the clouds and help Ji Shao.
• Ji Yushao and Ji Shao traded final sword strikes, exhausted each other, and fell in a draw.
• Ji Mumu floated down and tossed a flame onto Ji Shao, complaining that she had gotten hurt despite their fight not being a life-or-death grudge.

The Su Family Saint Son revealed that he knew Li Chen was the Child of Destiny, then took the map through the passage to the level above with Li Chen following him. The remaining contestants waited below as the finals came down to their confrontation, while Ji Shao kept the unconscious Ji Yuzhao alive until she could decide what to do after the tournament.

• The Su Family Saint Son recognized Li Chen as the Child of Destiny and entered the passage to the level above with him following.
• Demon Buddha, Su Zhe, Mo Hen, Jianping, the Daoist Family Saint Son, the Fox Family Saintess, and Ji Shao gathered below; Jianping returned to his friends after the opposing group released him.
• Su Zhe tried to buy Demon Buddha's vajra, but Demon Buddha refused and left with his weapon.
• Jianping explained that the Su Family Saint Son had taken the map and that the others would not join the fight because it would trigger an all-out war.
• Ji Shao asked the others for help while carrying the unconscious Ji Yuzhao and Ji Mumu, then explained she would decide Ji Yuzhao's fate after returning to the Ji Family.

In Heart Lake, Li Chen met a personality controlling the Su Family Saint Son, who warned that the passes were failing and revealed the Strange Pavilion’s interest in him. The others arrived and the Daoist Family Saint Son halted the Academy Tournament because a crisis had begun outside the sealed Secret Realm.

• The Su Family Saint Son told Li Chen that the outside world was in chaos, the passes were close to falling, and enemies had already infiltrated them.
• He said he was not the Su Family Saint Son’s real body, disclosed that three personalities were fighting for control, and identified himself with the Strange Pavilion, which was betting on Li Chen and awaiting him at Dawn Pass.
• Another personality seized control and threatened the Strange Pavilion before the Su Family Saint Son regained awareness.
• A rift opened, and Jianping, Su Zhe, and others joined Li Chen; Jianping said Su Xian had disappeared after fighting the Daoist Family Saint Son.
• The Daoist Family Saint Son announced that the Secret Realm had been sealed and ended the Academy Tournament for the day because something had gone wrong outside.

Li Chen realized the Secret Realm might be deliberately sealed while the Eerie Tide struck all Four Great Passes at once, leaving Canghai City and the border in crisis. As people fled and Sequence Users rallied to defend the passes, Wei Laoda summoned Slaughterers to fight in Canghai City.

• The Daoist Family's holy son revealed that the Secret Realm was sealed and urged everyone to wait for rescue, while Li Chen suspected their families might know what was happening.
• Dark clouds and swarms of Eerie Monsters gathered at Canghai Pass as defenders learned that all Four Great Passes were under attack and no support was available.
• Kuang Dui ordered the Special Affairs Bureau to evacuate Canghai City as panic spread and heavy rain began.
• Sequence Users across the Xia Kingdom set out for the border, including a man who vowed to his mother that he would become a hero.
• Wei Laoda watched Eerie Monsters fall into Canghai City and summoned Slaughterers to join the battle.

As the Eerie Tide devastated Canghai Pass, the Godless Cult attacked the Bird’s Nest to enter the Secret Realm and capture the Child of Destiny. The Darkest Angel reached the realm’s center and crushed a sphere of light, triggering flashes across the Bird’s Nest.

• Eerie Monsters overwhelmed Canghai Pass, and Wei Laoda confronted the Seventh Seat after the cult announced it intended to destroy the pass.
• The God-Deceiving Angel led the Godless Cult into the Bird’s Nest to open the array and capture the Child of Destiny.
• Cang Lao and an old swordsman confronted the cult, and the swordsman attacked while Cang Lao trapped the God-Deceiving Angel in an illusion.
• The God-Deceiving Angel revealed that another of the Four Angels had come, and the Darkest Angel descended into the Bird’s Nest.
• The Darkest Angel crushed a dim sphere of light to destroy the Secret Realm, setting off streaks of light throughout the Bird’s Nest.

Li Chen opened the Life Door in the Throne Space and met a conscious memory of his former self, who revealed the truth about reincarnation, Authority Powers, and the forbidden. The memory explained that Li Chen’s safest path was to become a god born from the forbidden, leaving Li Chen to face the most dangerous route to power.

• Li Chen opened the emerald-green Life Door and found its shattered steps releasing a powerful breath of life.
• A ball of white light entered Li Chen and transported him to an old house, where he met another man named Li Chen.
• The other Li Chen explained that they had originally been one and that reincarnation had reset their shared universe.
• The other Li Chen revealed that Li Chen carried six damaged Authority Powers and that the forbidden came from the Elder Gods, who had destroyed the world.
• The other Li Chen said he had fused the forbidden into Li Chen to help him grow stronger, but using it steadily eroded his reason.
• The other Li Chen urged Li Chen to become a god born from the forbidden, since no god had ever mastered the Forbidden Authority.

Li Chen learned from a fading fragment of his former self that the Black Mist threatened Earth and that he had to claim the forbidden authority to become the Lord of Taboo. He chose to pursue that path, then emerged from the Life Door as the Secret Realm began to break apart.

• Li Chen’s former self revealed that he had tried to control the forbidden authority, become an Eerie Monster, and ended up sealed inside the final Door.
• Li Chen’s former self urged him to keep advancing and seize the power needed to protect Earth from the Black Mist and dangers beyond the universe.
• Li Chen chose to become the god of the world and the Lord of Taboo, and his former self faded away as the old room collapsed.
• Back at the Heart Lake, cracks spread across the Secret Realm’s sky as forbidden substance from Li Chen blackened the water.
• Li Chen stood with a black umbrella, declared it was time to leave, and appeared in the broken sky, realizing that taboo power could corrode even gods.