Chapter Summaries

Chen Ze learned that the Ancient Divine Artifact lay deep within the ruins, behind riddles, trials, and guardian beasts, but the stone chamber began collapsing before he could investigate further. He defeated and captured a strange monster beast bearing a mysterious rune, then escaped as an ancient power stirred through the ruins.

• The Doppelganger told Chen Ze that the Ancient Divine Artifact was sealed in the ruins' deepest part and guarded by riddles, dangerous trials, and powerful beasts.
• The stone chamber shook and began to collapse, and a huge Fifth-Order Monster Beast emerged from a crack to block the Doppelganger's escape.
• Chen Ze took control of the Doppelganger, summoned the Jade Green Lion, and used it with the Purple Firmament Sword to overwhelm the monster beast.
• Chen Ze noticed a strange rune flickering on the monster beast's abdomen and ordered the Jade Green Lion and Purple Firmament Sword to ease their attacks.
• When an ancient humming sound and mysterious power spread through the ruins, Chen Ze knocked the monster beast unconscious, put it into the Myriad Things Space, and escaped with the Doppelganger.

Chen Ze studied the ancient runes binding a strange monster in the Beast Taming Garden and discovered they restrained its power. After the garden increased the monster’s loyalty and it called Chen Ze Master, he began trying to break its shackles, leaving off just as he recalled using Chaos Energy.

• Chen Ze examined the monster’s living runes, but the Jade Green Lion recognized neither the creature nor the ancient script.
• Chen Ze pushed a thread of spiritual power infused with a Chaos Energy Cluster into the runes, but the monster woke and struggled until Chen Ze knocked it unconscious again.
• Chen Ze continued investigating, and the monster later woke meek and addressed him as Master after the Beast Taming Garden increased its loyalty.
• The monster told Chen Ze the runes had bound it since birth and kept it from fully releasing its power.
• Chen Ze decided to break the runes and began probing for a flaw, but their fierce resistance drained him until he remembered the Chaos Energy-infused spiritual power.

Chen Ze broke the rune suppressing the monster beast, allowing it to reach the sixth order and take human form as a Blood Shadow Wolf named Little Shadow. He returned to the Ancient Ruin, where his Doppelganger heard a terrifying roar from afar.

• Chen Ze used the Chaos Energy Cluster to destroy the rune on the monster beast and trigger its breakthrough.
• The monster beast reached the sixth order, transformed into a human, and thanked Chen Ze for helping it.
• The Blood Shadow Wolf revealed its ancient clan heritage and abilities, and Chen Ze named him Little Shadow.
• Chen Ze introduced Little Shadow to Jade Green Lion and Full Moon Crystal Silver Snake before returning to his Doppelganger in the Ancient Ruin.
• The Doppelganger heard a powerful roar echo through the Ancient Ruin and braced for danger after it faded.

Chen Ze directed Number 859 and several dozen Doppelgangers to capture the powerful rune-enhanced monster beasts in the Ancient Ruin and send them to the Beast Taming Garden. The Doppelgangers subdued a Two-headed Snake and prepared to face a gigantic white tiger.

• Chen Ze learned that Number 859 had encountered powerful monster beasts, including one that looked like a Fifth-Order beast but fought with Sixth-order strength, and suspected mysterious runes had enhanced them.
• Chen Ze summoned several dozen Doppelgangers and ordered them to capture monster beasts while Number 859 stayed alert for people from the Star Moon Sect.
• Number 859 and the other Doppelgangers scattered to lure and subdue beasts, while one Doppelganger encountered a Two-headed Snake and called for help.
• The Doppelgangers overwhelmed the Two-headed Snake with Heaven-rank spells, endured its black mist and venomous bite, and captured it alive; the bitten Doppelganger returned to the Clone Resting Room to recover.
• A gigantic white tiger charged toward the Doppelgangers, who braced themselves for another fight and told one another to avoid serious injuries.

A Doppelganger fought through a deadly passage and defeated a giant spider while black liquid tried to engulf him. After he returned to recover and passed his information about the Ancient Divine Artifact to Chen Ze, Chen Ze took control of a new Doppelganger and continued toward the artifact.

• The Doppelganger followed the Crystal Ball's directions after escaping a collapsing chamber and encountered black liquid that surrounded him.
• A giant spider attacked the Doppelganger with venomous silk while the liquid climbed up his body.
• The Doppelganger drove back the liquid with a beam of light and killed the spider by striking its weakness with the Taihe Sword.
• Exhausted, the Doppelganger told Chen Ze he needed to recover, summoned a replacement, and returned to the Clone Resting Room.
• The recovering Doppelganger organized and transmitted his information about the Ancient Divine Artifact to Chen Ze.
• Chen Ze took control of the new Doppelganger and continued toward the artifact, resolving to remember the one who had fought for him.

Chen Ze fought through a dangerous ruin, killing a giant centipede and protecting himself from poisonous fog as he searched for the Ancient Divine Artifact. The chapter left him and his Doppelgangers facing a deadly arrow trap.

• Chen Ze killed a giant centipede by striking its abdomen with the Purple Firmament Sword, then stored its corpse in Myriad Things Space after finding no runes on it.
• Chen Ze continued through a narrowing passage and used Kun Yuan Wan Jun to shield himself from poisonous fog.
• Chen Ze summoned three Doppelgangers and wondered how the Star Moon Sect members had survived in the ruin for a month.
• Chen Ze sent his Doppelgangers ahead, and one triggered a hidden mechanism that fired arrows from all around.
• Chen Ze controlled the Spiritual Power Shield to block the incoming arrows.

Chen Ze and his Doppelgangers fought their way through a poisonous, trap-filled passage and encountered a late sixth-rank Blazing Lion. Chen Ze trapped it with formations and led a fierce assault, leaving the battle still raging as the beast weakened but continued to resist.

• Chen Ze warned the Doppelgangers to stay alert after hidden arrows struck their shields, and they pressed on through increasingly toxic mist.
• Chen Ze and the Doppelgangers prepared for a roar and faced a Blazing Lion, which attacked with a torrent of flames.
• The Doppelgangers used water and earth spells while Chen Ze countered with the Ignition Art, but the Blazing Lion shattered their defenses and knocked one Doppelganger aside.
• Chen Ze used Heavenly Eye to identify the Blazing Lion as a late sixth-rank demonic beast, then deployed two Sixth-grade Formations and one Seventh-grade Formation to trap it.
• Chen Ze, the Doppelgangers, and the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation attacked the trapped Blazing Lion, inflicting wounds as its movements slowed.
• Chen Ze pressed the attack with fused Five Elements spiritual power and successive waves of Sword Qi while the Blazing Lion continued to resist.

Chen Ze subdued the sixth-rank Blazing Lion and continued through the ruin with his Doppelgangers. At an enormous stone gate, an invisible enemy attacked them, and Chen Ze’s attempt to expose it failed.

• Chen Ze and his three Doppelgangers suppressed the Blazing Lion until it lost consciousness, then sent it into the Beast Taming Garden.
• Chen Ze summoned a new Doppelganger, removed his formations, and led the group deeper into the passage.
• Chen Ze found an enormous stone gate covered in patterns that held a powerful restriction.
• A sinister sound came from behind the group, and an invisible force severely injured one of Chen Ze’s Doppelgangers.
• The invisible attacker struck Chen Ze, who endured the blow with his Invincible Golden Body and used the Immortal Golden Essence to illuminate the passage, but revealed no enemy.

Chen Ze used his Doppelgangers and the Invincible Golden Body to discover and destroy the source of the mysterious force, opening the enormous stone door. He continued deeper into the ruin with nine Doppelgangers and heard what sounded like a fierce battle ahead, with no way back unless he abandoned the Ancient Divine Artifact.

• Chen Ze noticed the passage lights changed when the mysterious force attacked and charged toward the altered spot while his Doppelgangers shielded him.
• Chen Ze probed the light with spiritual power, found the source of the force, and struck it, ending the attacks and removing the restriction on the stone door.
• Chen Ze sent his four exhausted Doppelgangers to the Myriad Things Space and summoned ten replacements, including the one he controlled.
• Chen Ze led nine Doppelgangers farther into the ruin and heard shouts, clashing metal, and spell explosions coming from the darkness ahead.
• Chen Ze decided to investigate, knowing he could not turn back without abandoning his progress and the mysterious Ancient Divine Artifact.

Chen Ze and his Doppelgangers rescued the Star Moon Sect from Strange Creatures in the ruins, then met its Sect Master, Lu Xinghe. Their conversation revealed that both groups were searching for the Ancient Divine Artifact, leaving their alliance strained by competition.

• Chen Ze saw the Star Moon Sect fighting Strange Creatures and sent his Doppelgangers to help so he could question the sect members.
• The Doppelgangers turned the battle around, and the Strange Creatures retreated into the darkness.
• Lu Xinghe introduced himself as the Star Moon Sect's Sect Master and thanked Chen Ze, who concealed his identity as a group of Rogue Cultivators.
• Chen Ze admitted that he had come to the ruins seeking the Ancient Divine Artifact, and Lu Xinghe realized they were competitors.
• Lu Xinghe grew angry that news of the Ancient Divine Artifact had leaked, while tension settled over the group.

Chen Ze and Lu Xinghe agreed to explore the ruin together, each wary of the other as they searched for the Ancient Divine Artifact. Chen Ze learned that the Star Moon Sect had used covert agents to silence people who knew about the ruin, then asked Lu Xinghe why no Body Integration Realm cultivators appeared on the Xuantian Continent.

• Lu Xinghe proposed that Chen Ze's group travel with the Star Moon Sect, and Chen Ze accepted while suspecting Lu Xinghe wanted to keep them under watch.
• After the injured Star Moon Sect members recovered, both groups continued through the ruin, cautiously monitoring one another and their surroundings.
• Li Hengwen told Chen Ze that the captured man in black was a Star Moon Sect covert agent sent to kill people who knew about the Ancient Ruin.
• Chen Ze suspected Lu Xinghe had ordered the covert killings, but concealed his thoughts with flattery and a story about the hardships of rogue cultivation.
• Chen Ze asked Lu Xinghe why no cultivators above the Spirit Severing Realm, in the Body Integration Realm, had ever appeared on the Xuantian Continent.

Chen Ze tested Lu Xinghe about whether the ruin held a treasure that could enable a breakthrough to the Body Integration Realm, then continued deeper with the temporary alliance. After the group defeated one Shadow Figure, a dozen more surrounded them, and Lu Xinghe ordered everyone to form a defensive circle.

• Lu Xinghe explained that the ancient calamity had left Xuantian Continent's Spiritual Energy too thin and chaotic to support Body Integration Realm breakthroughs.
• Chen Ze pressed Lu Xinghe about the possibility of finding a breakthrough treasure, while privately suspecting Lu Xinghe wanted to keep the Ancient Divine Artifact for himself.
• The group encountered a Shadow Figure, and Star Moon Sect elders fought it while Chen Ze used Heavenly Eye to assess it and directed his Doppelgangers to attack.
• The cultivators defeated the sixth-order Shadow Figure, and Lu Xinghe thanked Chen Ze and his companions.
• At least a dozen more Shadow Figures rushed in from all sides, prompting Lu Xinghe to order everyone to form a back-to-back defensive circle and search for their weakness.

Lu Xinghe, Chen Ze, and the Ancient Ruin alliance survived the Shadow Figures and fought through the vines to their source, where they defeated a Poison Vine Beast and destroyed the main vine body. A mysterious crystal appeared, leaving the group stunned.

• Lu Xinghe noticed that the wall light weakened the Shadow Figures, and the group used it to disperse them.
• The alliance found a rune-covered stone gate that would not open, then a tremor unleashed enormous vines from underground.
• Chen Ze spotted that the vines shared a source, and the group fought through the vines to a glowing cave.
• The group entered the cave, defeated the Poison Vine Beast, and destroyed the main vine body with their combined spells.
• A mysterious crystal appeared where the main vine body had been, stunning everyone present.

Lu Xinghe and Chen Ze opened the first stone door with the crystal and entered a chamber that transformed into a maze. After a shadow figure and sinister laughter appeared, the group found another rune-covered door, which opened after an elder was pulled into a wall mechanism, leaving them facing a powerful gust from within.

• The crystal’s patterns reacted to the first stone door, and an elder explained how to channel spiritual energy to open it.
• Lu Xinghe, Chen Ze, and the others entered a treasure-filled chamber, but the floor sank and the room became a maze.
• Chen Ze spotted a Shadow Figure, then found strange markings on a maze wall as sinister laughter threatened the group.
• The group followed the laughter to a second stone door with runes like those on the first, but their attempt to open it failed.
• An elder reached into an indentation beside the door and was pulled inside, making the runes glow as the door slowly opened and a powerful gust burst out.

Chen Ze and Lu Xinghe’s group defeated a monster in the secret chamber and learned the ruins held greater dangers ahead. After escaping the collapsing chamber and crossing a strange fog, they encountered portraits whose figures came to life and attacked.

• A monster burst from the stone coffin and overwhelmed the group until Lu Xinghe recognized runes that guided them into a formation; Chen Ze struck its vital point, and the group defeated it.
• Chen Ze found an ancient book describing the ruins as the Cave Mansion of an ancient great power, filled with treasures, dangers, and mechanisms.
• The secret chamber began to collapse, and everyone escaped into a passageway filled with fog that disrupted spells and seemed to pull at Chen Ze.
• Lu Xinghe led the group through the fog, where they discovered moving figures in portraits that lunged at them.

Chen Ze and Lu Xinghe’s group escaped a collapsing passage through a mysterious Crystal Ball and arrived in a misty valley, where a flute-playing figure commanded attacking Shadow Figures. The group fought toward the source of the melody, and a Star Moon Sect elder charged at the black-robed figure.

• Chen Ze helped the group destroy the portrait monsters, while Lu Xinghe noticed his powerful sword and suspected the group were not ordinary Rogue Cultivators.
• The passage began collapsing, and the group fled into a hall, where a glowing Crystal Ball transported them to an unfamiliar valley.
• Lu Xinghe led the group through the valley, where a flute melody summoned Shadow Figures that attacked them.
• As the Shadow Figures overwhelmed the group, Lu Xinghe directed everyone toward the source of the flute melody.
• The group spotted a black-robed figure playing a flute atop a boulder, and a Star Moon Sect elder charged at him.

Chen Ze and the others battled the Shadow Figure, who escaped after their attacks weakened him, then continued through the valley and found an ancient temple. A colossal beast emerged beneath the statue and attacked, while Chen Ze noticed the Star Moon Sect elders holding back.

• The Shadow Figure resisted the group’s attacks with the aid of black mist and frenzied shadows, but vanished as black smoke when their combined assault began to overpower him.
• Chen Ze urged the others to keep moving, and Lu Xinghe led them deeper into the valley after a strange roar faded into silence.
• The group entered an ancient temple, where the statue lit up and mysterious patterns appeared on the walls; Lu Xinghe recognized something he had been seeking.
• A colossal beast burst from beneath the statue and blocked Chen Ze’s sword attack with black light.
• The Doppelgangers attacked the beast together, while Chen Ze noticed the Star Moon Sect elders lagging behind them.

Chen Ze and the others fought a powerful monster in the temple while Chen Ze secretly used his Doppelgangers to deceive Lu Xinghe, who examined one of them. After Chen Ze killed the monster with the group’s help, he and Lu Xinghe turned to searching for the Ancient Divine Artifact.

• Chen Ze learned from the wall patterns that the ruin’s master had left behind an Ancient Divine Artifact after ascending, then ordered his Doppelgangers to stage a distraction.
• A Doppelganger pretended to be gravely injured, and Lu Xinghe examined its body while Chen Ze and the others fought the monster.
• Chen Ze and the group trapped the monster in a formation and attacked, but it broke free and sent Chen Ze flying.
• Lu Xinghe used a magical treasure to weaken the monster, and Chen Ze led everyone in a final assault.
• Chen Ze struck the monster in two with the Taihe Sword, then asked Lu Xinghe where they could find the Ancient Divine Artifact.

Chen Ze and his Doppelgangers fought the Star Moon Sect after Lu Xinghe tried to seize the Ancient Divine Artifact, but a mysterious guardian interrupted them and revealed the artifact’s origins. The group learned it had been forged by powerful humans during the ancient war against the Devil Race to protect peace and righteousness.

• Lu Xinghe ordered the Star Moon Sect to attack Chen Ze and his Doppelgangers and claim the Ancient Divine Artifact.
• Chen Ze and his Doppelgangers fought back, but their depleted strength left them outmatched by Lu Xinghe and the sect members.
• A bell sounded, ancient runes formed a vortex, and a light shield from Chen Ze briefly protected everyone from its pull.
• The Mysterious Person emerged from the vortex, and Chen Ze determined that it was a remnant consciousness left by the ruin’s guardian.
• The Mysterious Person showed everyone visions of the ancient Human Race–Devil Race war and explained that humans had forged the divine artifact to safeguard peace and righteousness.

Chen Ze and Lu Xinghe were given separate trials to prove themselves worthy of the Ancient Divine Artifact, with Lu Xinghe entering the Frozen Abyss and Chen Ze entering Flame Mountain. Chen Ze found a mysterious cave guarded by a Fire Beast King and used an exhausted doppelganger to attack it, leaving that doppelganger poised to be killed.

• Lu Xinghe and Chen Ze each claimed they deserved the Ancient Divine Artifact, and the Mysterious Person announced that everyone would have one chance to undergo a trial.
• Two entrances appeared, leading to Flame Mountain and the Frozen Abyss; Lu Xinghe led the Star Moon Sect into the Frozen Abyss, while Chen Ze entered Flame Mountain with four doppelgangers.
• Chen Ze and his doppelgangers fought fire beasts as Lu Xinghe and the Star Moon Sect struggled against frost beasts in the Frozen Abyss.
• Chen Ze discovered a mysterious cave, but a powerful Fire Beast King appeared to block his way.
• Chen Ze gave the Taihe Sword to a doppelganger, who unleashed a powerful strike that weakened the Fire Beast King but did not defeat it.
• After the doppelganger exhausted his spiritual power, he stepped forward again and offered to face the Fire Beast King.