Chapter Summaries

Gu Xuan and Shen Qitian arrived in Great Han and saw how factories had transformed ordinary labor into prosperity across the former Xuan Kingdom. At court, Fan Yipin explained that Shen Ye was waiting for the right moment to use the factories—and the surrounding dynasties’ opposition to them—as grounds for war.

• Hua Yue led Gu Xuan and Shen Qitian through Luocheng and other thriving cities, astonishing them with the scale of Great Han’s transformation.
• Near Chang'an, Shen Qitian and Gu Xuan saw ordinary people and cultivators working in factories that produced components for the floating palaces.
• Hua Yue explained that the factories let ordinary people realize the value of their labor, while their profits were returned to the people.
• At the palace, Great Han’s generals eagerly offered to attack the Great Cang Imperial Dynasty and other Great Imperial Dynasties with small forces.
• Shen Qitian looked at Shen Ye on the Black Throne and felt its terrifying aura pierce his soul.
• Fan Yipin told the court that Shen Ye was waiting for neighboring dynasties to condemn the factories, giving Great Han a pretext to wage war in defense of the people.

Shen Ye opened a passage to the underworld and sent Shen Qitian to retrieve the Tiger Race’s lost contract document, while Great Han’s court prepared to implement new laws. Shen Qitian was badly defeated by his assigned soldiers, and the chapter ended with Shen Ye warning the nobles to obey the law.

• Hua Yue reported that the Tiger Race had submitted but its contract document was missing, and Shen Qitian said it was likely in the underworld.
• Shen Qitian pledged the Ape Race to Great Han, and Shen Ye ordered him to retrieve the document through a passage he opened with the Prison Race Throne.
• Shen Ye assigned twenty armored soldiers to protect Shen Qitian, who entered the underworld and found himself on an ancient battlefield swarming with skeletons.
• Shen Qitian challenged the soldiers to a spar and was crushed by them, despite being at the seventh level of the Imperial Extreme Realm.
• Shen Ye announced that the latest Great Han Law would take effect the next day and warned the court to restrain their clans.

Great Han launched a punitive war against Great Chu, rescuing oppressed workers and sending an elite force to seize its cities. Ten Machine Race warriors shattered Heavenly Abyss City’s defenses and killed its prefect, then advanced toward their next target.

• Tiger Cavalry soldiers caught a couple fleeing Great Chu and prepared to force them to take Zombie Pills, but a Great Han general crossed the border and announced that the two nations were at war.
• The Great Han general ordered his troops to advance on Yingdu along three hundred routes.
• Bai Yu learned that Great Han had crossed the border and that Zhenyuan Pass had fallen, then rushed to Heavenly Abyss City’s gates as the city came under attack.
• Ten peak Imperial Extreme Realm Machine Race warriors used a weapon to destroy the city-protecting formation and killed Bai Yu when he tried to escape.
• Heavenly Abyss City’s defenders abandoned resistance, the former Great Xuan army took control, and the Machine Race warriors hurried toward the next city.

King of Han attacked the seven Great Imperial Dynasties with more than a thousand peak Imperial Extreme Realm experts, forcing Great Chu to retreat. Hantian went out to confront forty Han soldiers at Yingdu and was killed when they fused into one warrior.

• Hantian learned that King of Han had declared war on Great Chu and six other Great Imperial Dynasties, and sent three generals to seek help from neighboring rulers.
• The Fortune Golden Dragon weakened as Han Court forces captured Great Chu’s border cities, and Han Jue reported that more than a thousand peak Imperial Extreme Realm experts were attacking.
• Hantian ordered Great Chu to evacuate, but forty Han soldiers were still assaulting Yingdu’s walls.
• The forty soldiers fused into one warrior, which killed Hantian with a single slash.

Great Han’s swift conquest of the seven Great Imperial Dynasties drew heroes across the Divine Land, while Gu Zhengyi planned to attract Great Thousand World immortals by strengthening Great Yong. In the underworld, Shen Qitian revealed that his lord could open a passage between the worlds of yin and yang by his own power.

• Great Han destroyed all seven Great Imperial Dynasties within three hours using thirty thousand peak Imperial Extreme Realm soldiers, and its reputation spread across the Divine Land.
• Gu Zhengyi told Huan Tulong that Great Yong would expand rather than retreat, hoping to draw Great Thousand World immortals to help it open heaven.
• Zhong Shan and Di Xuan Sha discussed Great Han’s origins, and Zhong Shan revealed that his underworld avatar had encountered Shen Qitian and Great Han’s warriors.
• Shen Qitian demanded that Yin Luori return the tiger clan’s contract document, but Yin Luori instead demanded control of the Yellow Springs Road.
• Shen Qitian declared that his lord had opened a passage to the underworld through his own power, astonishing Zhong Shan’s group.

Shen Ye defeated Yin Luori through a consciousness projection, took the tiger race contract, and sent Shen Qitian to investigate a mysterious fallen star. After signing the contract, Shen Ye sensed a connection to the Tiger Ancestor’s immense fortune.

• Yin Luori attacked the fused Machine Race warriors, but one survived and requested Shen Ye’s consciousness takeover.
• Shen Ye trapped Yin Luori with a sword strike, retrieved a scroll from his Spatial Ring, and left through a passage with Shen Qitian.
• Shen Qitian told Shen Ye about a fallen star that vanished in the Biyun Imperial Dynasty’s Great Marsh Ghost Domain, and Shen Ye gave him a seed that could bind ordinary Heaven Extreme Realm cultivators.
• Zhong Shan and his companions emerged from Mud Bodhisattva’s formation, discussed Shen Ye’s power, and decided to investigate the fallen star.
• Shen Ye signed the tiger race contract and sensed his fortune connect to the Tiger Ancestor’s vast fortune.

Shen Qitian drove the cultivators away from the Great Marsh Ghost Domain, where his dangerous vine seed drew the attention of Tian Xiao and awakened a Fire Kylin. The beast emerged carrying what Mud Bodhisattva suspected was the Book of Earth, while immortal Nangong Sheng restrained its flames.

• Shen Qitian killed a Ghost Emperor with one strike and used a vine seed to drain the Azure Cloud Great Emperor to a husk.
• Tian Xiao arrived with the Tian Family and attacked Shen Qitian to seize his seed, but its Star-Devouring Grass devoured his vines and then drew them into the swamp.
• A red pillar of light erupted from the swamp, and a Fire Kylin emerged amid flames that threatened the Great Marsh Ghost Domain.
• Nangong Sheng appeared and restrained the Fire Kylin's flames as Zhong Shan and Mud Bodhisattva watched.
• Mud Bodhisattva said the object in the Fire Kylin's mouth might be the Book of Earth, a heaven-and-earth treasure comparable to a Saint Spirit Treasure.

Shen Ye arrived in the underworld, defeated Nangong Sheng’s Heaven-Gaming Immortal Array by absorbing its lightning tribulation, and claimed the Book of Earth. Mud Bodhisattva warned that the Book of Earth would draw powerful enemies from both the mortal realm and the Great Thousand World.

• Nangong Sheng trapped the injured qilin in an array, but Shen Ye emerged from a passage and shattered it with a finger, sending Nangong Sheng flying.
• Shen Qitian identified Shen Ye as the King of Han, and Mud Bodhisattva explained that Shen Ye was still a mortal whose strength surpassed Nangong Sheng’s.
• Shen Ye took the Book of Earth from the qilin, but Nangong Sheng challenged him with his Heaven-Gaming Immortal Array and its final move, Heavenly Tribulation.
• Shen Ye revealed the Eye of the Heavens and absorbed the lightning bolts, breaking Nangong Sheng’s array and forcing him to retreat.
• Shen Ye took the Book of Earth and returned to the mortal realm with Shen Qitian and the fused Machine Race warrior.
• Mud Bodhisattva warned Zhong Shan that the Three Great Celestial Dynasties and powerful experts from the Great Thousand World might come after the Book of Earth.

Shen Ye unlocked the Book of Earth’s Time Divine Ability and, a month later, led Great Han’s bid to become a Celestial Dynasty. As he transformed into a true dragon, Zhong Shan learned that such emperors could contend for the position of Heavenly Emperor.

• Shen Ye drew down stellar power to reveal the Book of Earth’s ninth divine ability, the Time Divine Ability.
• A month later, Zhong Shan and Mr. Corpse discussed Great Han’s immense destiny and the rumors of a calamity tied to the treasure Shen Ye had obtained.
• Shen Ye performed the ceremony to petition Heaven to elevate Great Han into a Celestial Dynasty.
• The destiny dragon merged with Shen Ye, who transformed into a true dragon and soared toward the violet heavens.
• Mr. Corpse explained to Zhong Shan that an emperor who became a true dragon could contend for the position of Heavenly Emperor.

During the Great Han Dynasty’s advancement to a celestial dynasty, Wu Qi and other Great Thousand World immortals demanded the Book of Earth and attacked Shen Ye’s ceremony. The Great Han generals overwhelmed the invaders, leaving them shocked by the strength of the Small Thousand World.

• Shen Ye completed the Great Han Dynasty’s advancement, and the realm’s people and officials celebrated as their fortune and cultivation improved.
• Envoys from the Great Qin, Great Li, and Grand Sui Celestial Dynasties congratulated Shen Ye before three black-robed immortals appeared and demanded the Book of Earth.
• Shen Ye ignored the intruders, and a Great Han general killed one of them when he tried to attack the sovereign.
• Wu Qi revealed his identity and summoned dozens of immortals to help seize the Book of Earth.
• Nineteen more Great Han generals joined the first, and the twenty generals swiftly killed more than a dozen Profound Immortals, shocking the remaining invaders.

Shen Ye stopped a Great Witch from the Great Thousand World with one palm, stunning the envoys and drawing the attention of powerful figures across several realms. After the wounded Great Witch returned to the Underworld, a heart demon possessed him.

• Wu Qi opened a passage to the Great Thousand World, and Shen Ye struck the Great Witch reaching through it, severely injuring him and forcing the passage shut.
• Shen Ye ordered the two Witch Clan members executed, while envoys from Great Li and Tai Sui reconsidered their allegiance and Gu Zhengyi saw his scheme collapse.
• In the Longevity Realm, Kong Xuan warned Divine Crow Daoist Monarch to tell Lu Guitian to hurry before Shen Ye intervened.
• At the Tomb of the Living Dead, several awakened figures noticed that Shen Ye had driven back a Great Witch, then returned to slumber.
• In the Underworld, a heart demon emerged from the Great Witch's shadow, pierced his body with tentacles, and took possession of him.

Over twenty years, Great Han expanded its territory and its ruler cultivated his Emperor's Heart while governing the realm. Shen Qitian went to the Eastern Sea for a treasure on His Majesty's orders and left with Dragon Race gifts before demanding Ao Sihai's Hereditary Imperial Seal.

• Great Han absorbed more than a dozen neighboring dynasties, while its ruler focused on cultivation and governing diligently.
• Shen Qitian struck the Eastern Sea with his staff to draw out Ao Sihai and announced that he had come on Great Han's orders to request a treasure.
• The Dragon Race members warned Ao Sihai about Great Han's power, and he checked a Memory Crystal before welcoming Shen Qitian to the Crystal Palace.
• Ao Sihai gifted Shen Qitian Lotus Silk Cloud-Stepping Boots, Chainmail Golden Armor, and a Phoenix-Winged Purple Gold Crown.
• The gifts triggered Shen Qitian's memories of being Sun Shen, a disciple of Sun Wukong, but he abandoned thoughts of starting his own faction and demanded Ao Sihai's Hereditary Imperial Seal.

Ao Sihai blamed Zhong Shan and Hao Meili for the Dragon Clan's missing Hereditary Imperial Seal, prompting Shen Qitian to report its suspected whereabouts to Shen Ye. Sent as a Great Han envoy to Great Zheng, Shen Qitian asked Zhong Shan to reveal Hao Meili's location, leaving Zhong Shan wary but impressed by the change in his behavior.

• Ao Sihai told Shen Qitian that he suspected Zhong Shan had the Hereditary Imperial Seal after it vanished following Hao Meili's dispute with the Dragon Clan.
• Shen Qitian interrupted the Great Han court assembly to report the seal's whereabouts, and Shen Ye questioned whether he was Shen Qitian or Sun Shen before ordering him to go to Great Zheng as an envoy.
• Zhong Shan's ministers warned that Shen Qitian's arrival could be hostile, but Zhong Shan instructed them to receive him with proper etiquette.
• Shen Qitian told Zhong Shan that Ao Sihai had blamed Hao Meili and that the seal's aura had last been sensed in Great Zheng; Zhong Shan denied possessing it.
• Shen Qitian accepted Zhong Shan's denial and asked where Hao Meili was, while Zhong Shan wondered whether Shen Ye's imperial methods had restrained him.

Son of Heavenly God emerged from the Tian Family ancestral tomb at Heavenly Peak, killed the underworld Tian Family figures, and used a divine technique to search the Small Thousand World. The Heavenly Token carried Zhong Shan and Tian Ling'er to him, where Shen Qitian confronted the ancient patriarch and called for help as Son of Heavenly God turned his attack to stone.

• Gu Zhengyi enlisted black-robed feng shui masters to help the Great Yong Imperial Dynasty fight at Heavenly Peak, while Huan Tulong warned that they could not be trusted.
• Son of Heavenly God emerged from the Tian Family ancestral tomb, identified himself as the patriarch who had vanished a hundred thousand years earlier, and turned the underworld Tian Family experts into stone.
• Son of Heavenly God absorbed the dead experts' souls and used the Great Divine Sense Heaven-and-Earth Search Technique to search the Small Thousand World, alarming Mud Bodhisattva.
• The golden Heavenly Token carried Tian Ling'er and Zhong Shan away from the Longevity Palace, while Shen Qitian followed them and Ying and Nie Fanchen headed toward Heavenly Peak.
• Son of Heavenly God called Shen Qitian an outsider from beyond the world and attacked him, turning the Star-Devouring Grass vines to stone after Shen Qitian shouted for His Majesty to save him.

Shen Ye negotiated with Son of Heavenly God for the Path of Outer Demons cultivation method, agreeing to help him during a future crisis in exchange. Their battle tested Shen Ye’s strength, while Ying and Nie Fanchen arrived to witness it.

• Shen Ye recognized Son of Heavenly God’s Eye of the Saint and identified his cultivation as the Path of Outer Demons.
• Shen Ye offered to help Zhong Shan clear obstacles to opening heaven in exchange for Son of Heavenly God’s Destiny/Fortune cultivation method, but Zhong Shan refused to rely on another’s help.
• Son of Heavenly God foresaw a calamity that would threaten Zhong Shan and the Tian Family, and Shen Ye agreed to help when it came.
• Son of Heavenly God attacked Shen Ye with the Mount Buzhou Staff, and Shen Ye countered with the Heaven-Opening Axe, sending destructive spatial rifts across the stabilized space.
• Ying arrived and recognized Nie Fanchen as the reincarnated Great Zhou Heavenly Emperor.

Ying and Nie Fanchen revealed terrifying strength in their battle, while Shen Ye gained the Path of Outer Demons from the Son of Heavenly God and proposed exchanging knowledge with Ying and Nie Fanchen. The chapter ended with Shen Ye asking Ying for the World-Suppressing Bronze Coffin’s refining method and the Dreaming into Heavenly Secrets Great Law.

• Ying summoned the World-Suppressing Bronze Coffin and clashed with Nie Fanchen, who wielded the Mountains and Rivers State Chart.
• Lu Guitian arrived, realized how far Ying and Nie Fanchen had concealed their strength, and decided to return to the Longevity Realm for help.
• Shen Ye gained the upper hand against the Son of Heavenly God because the Small Thousand World restricted their power and the Son lacked combat experience.
• The Son of Heavenly God gave Shen Ye the cultivation method of the Path of Outer Demons, then returned to the Tomb of the Living Dead on Tianxia Peak.
• Ying and Nie Fanchen stopped fighting and listened as Shen Ye proposed exchanging knowledge before they left for the Great Thousand World.
• Shen Ye asked Ying for the World-Suppressing Bronze Coffin’s refining method and the Dreaming into Heavenly Secrets Great Law.

Shen Ye, Ying, and Nie Fanchen agreed to join forces against Grand Sui in exchange for knowledge and a Saint’s corpse, and the Three Great Celestial Dynasties declared war. Kong Xuan revealed that he was their true target and prepared to fight despite his injuries.

• Ying traded the World-Suppressing Bronze Coffin and Dreaming into Heavenly Secrets Great Law refinement methods for Shen Ye’s metallic sphere and a future favor.
• Nie Fanchen proposed attacking Grand Sui and offered access to Zhunti’s corpse, prompting Ying and Shen Ye to agree to help.
• Five days later, the Three Great Celestial Dynasties declared war on Grand Sui, and civilians fled as prices shifted and the dynasty faced likely defeat.
• Lu Guitian and the Longevity Realm experts debated abandoning Grand Sui until Kong Xuan disclosed that someone was divining his whereabouts.
• Kong Xuan said he could manage one move, and Divine Crow Daoist Monarch ordered forces and affiliated sects to gather for the coming battle.

The Three Great Celestial Dynasties attacked the Grand Sui Celestial Dynasty, but Kong Xuan confronted Nie Fanchen, Ying, and Shen Ye in a battle that shook the Small Thousand World. In the Great Thousand World, factions gathered at the Wind Tomb Territory border as the sky began to tremble, while the author’s note discussed plans for the upcoming plot.

• A giant peacock emerged over the Grand Sui capital and opened a passage to the underworld, sending Underworld Soldiers and ghost generals into the battlefield.
• Great Han and Great Qin revealed armies of thirty thousand Imperial Extreme Realm experts each, and Nie Fanchen ordered the three armies to advance on the Grand Sui capital.
• Kong Xuan swallowed the advancing Great Han and Great Qin forces, then faced Nie Fanchen, Ying, and Shen Ye.
• Shen Ye and Ying attacked Kong Xuan’s Golden Dharma Idol as Kong Xuan fought back with his true form and Five-Colored Divine Light.
• In the Great Thousand World’s Wind Tomb Territory, the sky at the border began to tremble, alarming the factions gathered there.

More than a hundred Great Thousand World immortals entered the Small Thousand World to investigate its instability and were caught in a battle between Kong Xuan and three powerful opponents. Kong Xuan withdrew to the Great Thousand World, where he devoured many faction members, leaving the survivors terrified of the Small Thousand World.

• Over a hundred Heaven Extreme Realm experts and immortals entered the Small Thousand World through the open passage, seeking the one opening the heavens.
• Zhong Shan warned the visitors that powerful figures had arrived, and the ensuing battle’s temporal currents killed more than half the immortals.
• The newcomers recognized Kong Xuan as the Peacock Great Bright King and panicked at the scale of the battle around him.
• Kong Xuan agreed to leave Tongtian's corpse with Nie Fanchen, Shen Ye, and Ying for the time being, then tore through the Small Thousand World’s barrier.
• Nie Fanchen realized someone had touched the coffin containing the Tongtian Saint, as bloody rain and mournful cries filled heaven and earth.
• Kong Xuan emerged into the Wind Tomb Territory and swallowed more than half the factions stationed there, while the surviving leaders fled and abandoned their pursuit of Heaven-Opening Destiny.

Shen Ye, Ying, and Nie Fanchen watched the transformed Saint’s corpse enter the Great Thousand World and threatened to join forces against Taiyi. The Three Great Celestial Dynasties then ascended, with Great Han establishing a Holy Court in the Underworld Southern Continent.

• Revered Human greeted Shen Ye, Ying, and Nie Fanchen in the Longevity Realm and offered to return the Saint’s corpse, but it flew into the Great Thousand World before they could stop it.
• Nie Fanchen attacked Revered Human, but Taiyi intervened through a spatial rift and took him away; the three rulers agreed to meet again in the Great Thousand World.
• Taiyi learned that the Saint’s corpse had transformed and that three powerful experts intended to join forces against him.
• The Three Great Celestial Dynasties announced their imminent ascension, leaving factions in the Small Thousand World confused about their plans for Creation of Heaven and Earth.
• Ying and Nie Fanchen defeated Great Thousand World cultivators who tried to seize them as they arrived through a spatial passage.
• Great Han ascended to the Underworld Southern Continent and joined with a Witch Clan branch to establish a new Holy Court.