Chapter Summaries

After the trial rankings were announced, Shen Ye emerged from seclusion having comprehended the Profound Truth of Vitality within the Origin Profundity of Fire. He created the Ten Thousand Fires Chaos Tablet in Chaos City, and the Primal Universe’s response marked his breakthrough to Cosmic Venerable.

• Shen Ye announced the trial participants’ rankings and assigned them to secret realms based on their scores.
• Shen Ye told Chaos City Lord that he had not yet gained the Original Universe’s recognition and wanted to record his insights on a Chaos Tablet.
• Shen Ye created the Ten Thousand Fires Chaos Tablet by using flames to inscribe nine profound illustrations.
• Chaos City Lord hailed Shen Ye as Lord of Ten Thousand Fires and celebrated the new path he had established for humanity.
• The laws of the Primal Universe boiled, and an Ocean of Divine Power appeared above Chaos City as Shen Ye broke through to Cosmic Venerable.

Shen Ye became a Cosmic Venerable through Origin Profundity, displaying immense strength and a vast divine body that drew attention across the universe. Humanity’s leaders and rival forces reacted to his breakthrough and the Chaos Tablet he left behind, while the chapter ended with the Machine Race Father God ordering his people to obtain its inheritance.

• Shen Ye absorbed the descending fire-origin Law Ocean and assessed that his strength rivaled a third-stage Universe Master, with the potential to reach the fourth stage.
• Chaos City Lord awakened Original Ancestor and told him Shen Ye had forged a new path and become a Cosmic Venerable in roughly eight hundred years.
• Original Ancestor said Origin Profundity might free someone from the Original Universe’s suppression, but explained that his own path made it far harder for him to comprehend.
• The three Ancestor Gods discussed Shen Ye and considered inviting him to become a Protector God Lord, but decided to wait until they confirmed his strength.
• The Machine Race Father God concluded Shen Ye was nearly impossible to kill in the Original Universe and ordered the Machine Race to obtain the Lord of Ten Thousand Fires Chaos Tablet inheritance.

The geniuses arrived at Chaos City and learned that aliens had gathered to study the Chaos Tablet Shen Ye created. Shen Ye agreed to let Giant Axe decide how to handle requests to view it, then chose to remain in seclusion rather than enter the Cosmic Sea.

• The immortal guard explained Chaos City's three treasures to the arriving geniuses and told them that aliens had come to study Lord Shen Ye's fifty-third Chaos Tablet.
• The guard revealed that Shen Ye had become a venerable and was now one of humanity's greatest beings, leaving the geniuses awestruck.
• Giant Axe asked Shen Ye whether humanity should allow alien Universe Masters to study his Chaos Tablet, given the risk that they might learn Origin Profundity.
• Shen Ye said the aliens could study the tablet, but suggested using access to draw wavering races into the Hong Alliance.
• Shen Ye told Giant Axe that he planned to continue his seclusion and avoid entering the Cosmic Sea, where the three major races might be waiting for him.

A Black Stone Tablet drew armies into a strange space where Chaos Qi condensed into the Spirit of Chaos, which could make a world master immortal. After the tablet was identified as a supreme treasure, Luo Feng planned to visit it and gather the Spirit of Chaos for his family.

• A Black Stone Tablet absorbed three armies on the Fifth Battlefield and transported them to a Chaos Space that blocked perception of most Lower Laws.
• A world master swallowed a drop of Spirit of Chaos and immediately broke through to immortality, prompting the trapped fighters to search for more.
• Chaos City Lord told the human experts that the tablet was an unclaimable treasure that admitted only immortals and those below, and ordered them to investigate how it could acknowledge an owner.
• Luo Feng told Chaos City Lord he wanted to gather the Spirit of Chaos for his parents, wife, and children so they could become immortal.
• Chaos City Lord said the Chaos Tablet was inferior to the Star Tower but remained one of the universe's most precious treasures.

Luo Feng found a broken chain in Chaos Space that proved to be comparable to a supreme treasure, while Venerable Bifa spared him and let him gather Spirit of Chaos. After Luo Feng collected a fourth drop and prepared to leave, a mysterious black wild dog swallowed the continent and trapped the Venerables.

• Luo Feng discovered a broken chain that he could not damage even with the Shi Wu Wings.
• Venerable Bifa arrived, revealed that Chaos Space could now accommodate Venerables, and prepared to kill Luo Feng until a Golden Horned Beast claimed him as its slave.
• Venerable Bifa examined the chain, broke a canine tooth on it, and realized its material was comparable to a supreme treasure.
• Twenty years later, Luo Feng collected his fourth drop of Spirit of Chaos and decided to leave as Venerables fought over the chains.
• A terrifying creature swallowed the blood-red continent and revealed itself as a black wild dog that had trapped the Venerables with a space-time setup.

Luo Feng discovered that Shen Ye controlled the Chaos Tablet’s hidden force and planned to use it against Universe Masters to advance human supremacy. Shen Ye marked Luo Feng’s soul to keep the secret and promised to help him once, while privately intending to learn from Luo Feng’s future divine body.

• The black wild dog revealed that the Chaos Tablet was a trap designed to draw Universe Masters into the chaos, and its mind power prevented the captured Venerables from self-destructing.
• Luo Feng recognized the mind power from Shen Ye’s earlier appearance on Earth, declared that he was human, and was taken to meet the black wild dog’s master.
• Luo Feng discovered that Shen Ye was the master of the hidden force and that Shen Ye had instructed his followers to avoid humans.
• Shen Ye explained that he had placed the Chaos Tablet to promote human hegemony and decided to mark Luo Feng’s soul to protect the plan from being exposed.
• Shen Ye promised to help Luo Feng once in return and privately planned to use Luo Feng’s future hundred-thousandfold Gene Level as a model for his own research.

After a thousand years in seclusion, Shen Ye awoke when trouble arose at his anchor point in the Shrouding the Heavens Universe. The Divine Court’s expedition against Purple Star Ancient Planet failed, while Ye Fan learned that the Divine Infant might be Little Nannan; the chapter ended with an author’s personal note about anxiety over a medical checkup and liver health.

• Shen Ye sensed that something had gone wrong with the anchor point he had left in the Shrouding the Heavens Universe.
• Yuhua Tian led the Divine Court’s army to Purple Star Ancient Planet and demanded that the Star Lord hand over the Divine Infant.
• An elderly Quasi-Emperor defended Purple Star Ancient Planet and fought Yuhua Tian with help from Shen Ye’s granted authority over the fortune clouds and the planet’s grand formation.
• Ye Fan heard that the Divine Infant was a human-shaped Immortal Medicine and urgently asked whether she was Little Nannan, but the witnesses did not know her name.
• Purple Star Ancient Planet’s experts routed the Divine Court army, leaving Yuhua Tian’s expedition defeated again.
• The author described being nervous about a physical examination after years of fatty liver diagnoses and a colleague’s death from a malignant liver tumor.

Shen Ye appeared as the Lord of the Divine Court attacked Purple Star Ancient Planet and killed him with a single arrow, then demanded that he surrender his title and apologize. The chapter ended with the factions anticipating a clash between the two imminent Dao achievers; an appended author note complained about an overwhelming workload and endless meetings.

• The Lord of the Divine Court descended and shattered Purple Star Ancient Planet’s protective formation, preparing to destroy the planet.
• Shen Ye emerged from the palace and confronted the Lord after he called Shen Ye a fellow Daoist.
• Shen Ye fired Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow, destroying the Lord’s divine thought and killing Yuhua Tian and the Divine Court army.
• Shen Ye ordered the Lord to strip himself of his title, disband the Divine Court, and come to the Great Han Holy Court to apologize.
• The author described being overburdened with contract work and frustrated by staffing shortages and frequent meetings.

Shen Ye found Little Nannan for Ye Fan and agreed to attend Ye Fan and Ziyue’s wedding. News of Shen Ye’s victory over the Divine Court reached the God Race, where Ji Haoyue learned the extent of his power and considered asking him to help with his own situation.

• Shen Ye searched the Purple Star Domain, found Little Nannan, and brought her to Ye Fan while sensing the Ruthless Great Emperor watching from afar.
• Ye Fan asked whether Shen Ye was confident against the Lord of the Divine Court, and Shen Ye dismissed the idea that the Lord would dare resist.
• Ye Fan invited Shen Ye to his upcoming wedding with Ziyue, and Shen Ye agreed to attend.
• At the God Race’s ancient planet, the God Venerable ordered Ji Haoyue to leave and asked whether he knew Shen Ye.
• Ji Haoyue recalled losing to Shen Ye despite being six minor realms stronger, then learned Shen Ye had killed the Lord of the Divine Court’s divine sense, Yuhua Tian, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
• Ji Haoyue considered returning and asking Shen Ye to persuade the God Race to yield.

Shen Ye emerged from seclusion as the Great Han Dynasty advanced, welcoming factions and Quasi-Emperors with a chance to claim gifts from the Fusang Divine Tree. The celebration was interrupted by a woman accusing him of shooting through the Phoenix Nest.

• Three Quasi-Emperors arrived at the Ascension Platform and asked Nirvana whether Shen Ye was present.
• Shen Ye emerged from the Imperial Extreme Hall and received the greetings of the Great Han Dynasty as it advanced.
• Shen Ye invited the visiting factions to take leaves and branches from the Fusang Divine Tree, but the three Quasi-Emperors could not cut off a branch.
• Dozens of pillars of light descended, and a woman accused Shen Ye of shooting through the Phoenix Nest.

The Undying Heavenly Empress and the Eight Great Divine Generals arrived at Purple Star Imperial Planet, where she demanded Ye Fan be handed over for killing the Heavenly Sovereign Son. Shen Ye stopped her, then learned the Lord of the Divine Court had fled instead of apologizing and used a universe-spanning search to locate him.

• Mingde Quasi-Emperor recognized the arriving forces as the Undying Heavenly Empress and the Eight Great Divine Generals from the Phoenix Nest.
• The Undying Heavenly Empress asked Shen Ye to hand over Ye Fan, whom she accused of killing the Heavenly Sovereign Son.
• Ye Fan said he had killed the Heavenly Sovereign Son in a fair duel, and Shen Ye blocked the Empress when she tried to attack him.
• Yin Tiande reported that the Lord of the Divine Court had disbanded the Divine Court and disappeared instead of obeying Shen Ye's order to apologize.
• Shen Ye used the Great Divine Sense Heaven-and-Earth Search Art to find the Lord of the Divine Court and vanished to pursue him.

Shen Ye tracked down and killed the Lord of the Divine Court, shocking the Ancient Emperors who witnessed his power. Back at the Ascension Platform, Ye Fan saw the severed head and remarked that Shen Ye had beheaded an Emperor Lord while the wine was still warm.

• Shen Ye confronted the Lord of the Divine Court on a barren star and crushed him with the Cosmic Stars Array.
• The Lord of the Divine Court detonated himself and his Emperor Pagoda, but Shen Ye survived and took his head.
• Golden Ancient Emperor told Golden Celestial Maiden that Shen Ye might be a Chaos Body and ordered her to invite him to the Primeval Ancient Mine without malicious intent.
• Golden Ancient Emperor and other Supremes witnessed Shen Ye kill the Lord of the Divine Court and recognized his battle strength as equal to an Ancient Emperor.
• Shen Ye returned to the Ascension Platform with the Lord of the Divine Court's head, and Ye Fan exclaimed, "Warming wine, beheading the Emperor Lord!"

Shen Ye spared Kun Tian after killing the Lord of the Divine Court, then promised Yan Ruyu he would revive the Azure Emperor and took her toward Big Dipper. At Ye Fan’s wedding gathering, envoys from two restricted zones arrived and Shen Ming challenged Ye Fan.

• Shen Ye restored Kun Tian’s severed arm with Time Reversal, and the Undying Heavenly Empress withdrew her threat against Ye Fan for the time being.
• Shen Ye reflected that the Great Han Holy Court needed more fortune and anticipated the coming Dark Turmoil.
• Shen Ye promised Yan Ruyu that he would revive the Azure Emperor and invited her to accompany him to Big Dipper.
• Factions gathered at the Ji Family to celebrate Ye Fan’s wedding, while Pang Bo and the others recalled their past grievances and newfound standing.
• An Pu of Immortal Mountain and Shen Ming of the Immortal Mausoleum arrived, and Shen Ming insulted the Holy Imperial Prince before turning his challenge toward Ye Fan.

Shen Ye arrived at Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue’s wedding, stopping Ye Fan’s confrontation with Shen Ming and An Pu. He gave Ye Fan a core from the Fusang Divine Tree as a wedding gift, then asked him to help with something.

• Ye Fan and Shen Ming prepared to fight until a Dragon Carriage arrived with Shen Ye and more than a hundred Saint guards.
• Ye Fan welcomed Shen Ye, and Shen Ming and An Pu respectfully greeted him as the Holy King, prompting the ancient myriad races to realize his power.
• The Ji Family Holy Lord learned from Ji Ziyue that Shen Ye could casually kill ninth-level Quasi-Emperors and might be as powerful as a Great Emperor.
• Shen Ye gave Ye Fan a Fusang Divine Tree core, explaining that it could help Ji Ziyue live longer after Ye Fan’s Sacred Body reached completion.
• Ye Fan accepted the gift and promised to find Shen Ye an Immortal Medicine, but Shen Ye asked him to help with something immediately.

Shen Ye traded Ye Fan a damaged Emperor Pagoda for the Chaos Green Lotus, then used it to find and revive Azure Emperor in the Desolate Pagoda. As Azure Emperor awoke, the Path to Immortality began to open across Big Dipper.

• Ye Fan gave Shen Ye the Chaos Green Lotus, and Shen Ye offered him the damaged Emperor Pagoda as compensation.
• Black Emperor bit Ye Fan when he tried to keep the Emperor Pagoda for himself, so Ye Fan put it away.
• The day after the wedding, Shen Ye used the Chaos Green Lotus to locate the hidden Desolate Pagoda and enter its divine realm.
• Shen Ye placed the Chaos Green Lotus in Azure Emperor's body, awakening him after ten thousand years of self-imprisonment.
• The Life Restricted Zone supremes sensed Azure Emperor's weak return, while Azure Emperor learned that Shen Ye had not attained the Dao.
• A tremendous upheaval shook Big Dipper, and people cried that the immortal path had collapsed and the Path to Immortality was about to open.

As the Path to Immortality opened and Supremes fought beyond the Immortal Gate, Shen Ye watched from the Desolate Pagoda with Azure Emperor rather than joining the struggle. He recognized Great Emperor Hengyu’s face as identical to a statue of Shennong, leaving him startled by the connection.

• The major powers sought refuge on Purple Star Ancient Planet, but Yan Ruyu refused their requests while Shen Ye was away.
• Yan Ruyu told Ye Fan that Shen Ye had gone to revive Azure Emperor, and Ye Fan agreed to bring his people to Purple Star and join the Great Han Holy Court.
• Shen Ye told Azure Emperor that he would not contend for the Path to Immortality, since he believed immortality depended on oneself.
• The Big Dipper Star Domain erupted as the Path to Immortality opened, and Supremes from six Life Restricted Zones battled on the immortal path.
• Shen Ye saw Great Emperor Hengyu’s phantom and realized that his face matched the statue of Shennong he had seen in City of Flowing Moon.

As the Supremes failed to break through the Immortal Path, they began a Dark Turmoil, forcing Shen Ye to confront them while Ye Fan considered joining the fight. The chapter left Shen Ye facing the Supremes as they demanded he sacrifice himself.

• Shen Ye speculated that Venerable God Shennong had once owned the Destiny Orb and might have used it to fuse worlds.
• Eleven ancient Supremes entered the Immortal Path, failed twice to become immortals, and lost five of their number to the Dao.
• The remaining Six Great Supremes divided up star domains and began slaughtering living beings to gather life essence.
• The Great Accomplishment Sacred Body confronted Longevity Heavenly Venerate, while Ye Fan resolved that he did not want to remain a coward during the Dark Turmoil.
• Ye Fan saw Lord of Reincarnation blocked on Earth by the Yellow Emperor, Li Er, and Sakyamuni, and Shen Ye stepped out to confront the Supremes.
• Light-Dark Supreme, Lord of Divine Ruins, and Stone Emperor warned Shen Ye to retreat or sacrifice himself.

Shen Ye fought off four ancient Supremes and forced the Light-Dark Supreme to undergo ultimate sublimation, while Gai Jiuyou chose not to join the battle. The chapter ended with the Light-Dark Supreme restored to imperial power and demanding the largest share of Shen Ye’s flesh and blood; an author’s note then clarified speculation about Shennong and Great Emperor Hengyu.

• Shen Ye defeated the Light-Dark Supreme’s attack with a Great Sun Divine Sword and challenged him to undergo ultimate sublimation.
• The Light-Dark Supreme urged the other Supremes to join forces against Shen Ye, and three more Supremes entered the fight.
• Gai Jiuyou prepared to aid Shen Ye, but Xia Jiuyou pointed out that four Supremes were already being driven back by him.
• The Light-Dark Supreme underwent ultimate sublimation and demanded the largest share of Shen Ye’s flesh and blood.
• The author’s note explained that Shennong was not Great Emperor Hengyu and that the protagonist’s speculation about them might be deliberately misleading.

Shen Ye fought the restored Light-Dark Supreme while three other Supremes joined the battle, but an attack by the Undying Heavenly Sovereign destroyed his projection. Shen Ye revealed that the projection had served its purpose, drawing out the Undying Heavenly Sovereign’s blade so his true body could cross worlds without immediate danger.

• The Light-Dark Supreme returned to his peak and battled Shen Ye, whose Universe in Hand technique shook the surrounding starfields.
• The Stone Emperor and two other Supremes attacked Shen Ye alongside the Light-Dark Supreme, but Shen Ye escaped their Great Dao Cage and wounded the Stone Emperor with the Sword of Divine Soul.
• The Supremes blasted Shen Ye to ashes, but he returned through Projection Undying.
• The Undying Heavenly Sovereign appeared and struck Shen Ye with a fatal blade that destroyed his projection.
• Shen Ye concluded that the projection had completed its mission and prepared to cross worlds while his true body faced no immediate danger.

Shen Ye revealed that the figure who fought the Supremes was only his avatar, then faced six Ancient Emperors after they underwent ultimate sublimation. He transported them into another universe filled with ancestral gods and ghost gods, welcoming them to his world.

• Shen Ye returned after the Immortal Heavenly Blade struck his avatar, revealing that his true body remained unharmed.
• The Light-Dark Supreme attacked Shen Ye with his strongest strike, but Shen Ye emerged from the blast without injury and mocked his strength.
• The Stone Emperor rallied the Light-Dark Supreme, and four more Supremes unleashed their auras as all six prepared to fight Shen Ye.
• The Six Great Supremes encircled Shen Ye, who spread dark mist and transported them into another universe.
• Shen Ye welcomed the bewildered Six Great Supremes to his world, where ancestral gods and ghost gods surrounded them.