Chapter Summaries

Ye Kuang rebuked Ye Tu for putting Ye Changge above the Ye Clan and disparaging Chen Wen, then the Sacred Stele revealed that only eight disciples had left their names. The chapter ended with the Ancient Sound announcing that two had earned Heavenly Tier opportunities, without revealing who they were.

• Ye Tu claimed Ye Changge could leave his name on the Sacred Stele and dismissed Chen Wen's chances, worrying instead that Chen Wen might not survive the battlefield.
• Ye Kuang reprimanded Ye Tu for putting personal loyalty above the Ye Clan and reminded him that both Ye Changge and Chen Wen were clan disciples.
• A Light Screen showed the Sacred Stele, and the Ancient Sound announced that eight of the hundred participants had left their names.
• Ye Xuan, Ye Kuang, and Ye Tu worried that their disciples had little chance among the eight, while Gu Lingyuan resented the possibility that Chen Wudi and Chen Hongmian had succeeded.
• The Ancient Sound announced that three disciples obtained Human Tier opportunities, three obtained Earth Tier opportunities, and two obtained Heavenly Tier opportunities.

The sacred stele announced the recipients of the Human, Earth, and Heavenly Tier Opportunities, surprising the assembled factions. Chen Wen and Chen Hongmian were revealed as the two Heavenly Tier recipients, leaving Gu Lingyuan furious that Chen Wen had secured the highest opportunity.

• The sacred stele named Dongfang Mingyue, Qin Changshou, and Zhou Qingmeng as Human Tier recipients, disappointing Ye Tu and the Ye Clan.
• The Ancient Sound named Long Tianzi, Chen Wudi, and Xuanyuan Beiqiong as Earth Tier recipients, shocking the factions and enraging Long Qingtian over his son's death.
• Xuanyuan Nantian protested that Xuanyuan Beiqiong should have received a Heavenly Tier Opportunity, but the sacred stele continued without responding.
• Gu Lingyuan hoped Chen Wen would receive nothing, while the sacred stele announced Chen Hongmian and Chen Wen as the Heavenly Tier recipients.

The announcement that Chen Wen and Chen Hongmian had obtained Heavenly Tier Opportunities shocked the gathered powers and sent Gu Lingyuan into a frenzy. Ji Qingying then persuaded Gu Lingyuan to obstruct the Ye Clan while the Four Great Powers investigated whether Chen Wen and his siblings had killed their disciples.

• The crowd erupted in disbelief when Chen Wen and Chen Hongmian were named as recipients of Heavenly Tier Opportunities, and Gu Lingyuan raged over Chen Wen's success.
• The Ye Clan celebrated Chen Wen's achievement, Ye Kuang praised him, and Ye Tu sincerely apologized for doubting him.
• Ji Qingying told Lou Lan Youtian that the Sacred Stele could not have chosen incorrectly and suggested the recipients' power had grown greatly.
• Ji Qingying told Gu Lingyuan that the Four Great Powers' disciples had been wiped out and proposed that Chen Wen and his siblings were responsible.
• Gu Lingyuan agreed to hinder the Ye Clan or muddy the waters while Ji Qingying and the Four Great Powers pursued the investigation.

The Sacred War ended, and the leaders of the Four Great Powers prepared to confront Chen Wen over the deaths of their disciples. Three days later, Chen Wen and the others left the Sacred Ancient Battlefield as a vast crowd gathered to witness his return.

• The Ancient Sound announced that the Sacred War had ended and the battlefield exit would open in three days, while Gu Lingyuan and the other leaders prepared for the return of their juniors.
• Ye Kuang told Ye Xuan and Ye Tu that Chen Wushuang and Chen Honglian had died inside the battlefield, leading them to suspect that Chen Wen was connected to the Four Great Powers' losses.
• Chen Wen spent the final days cultivating and consolidating his strength while news of his and Chen Hongmian's Heavenly Tier Opportunities drew countless people to the Desolate Ruins Secret Realm.
• Ling Qing Palace announced that the exit had opened, and the disciples headed toward the vortex as Chen Wudi and Chen Hongmian warned Chen Wen that trouble awaited them outside.
• Chen Wen accepted that the Four Great Powers might come after him and declared that he would face them.

After the Sacred War ended, Chen Wen emerged at the fourth level of the Venerable Emperor Realm, alarming Gu Lingyuan and Ji Qingying. Long Qingtian and the leaders of the Four Great Powers stopped Chen Wen and his siblings to investigate who had killed their disciples, offering an Emperor Artifact for information.

• Chen Wen, Chen Wudi, and Chen Hongmian emerged from the exit, and the crowd marveled at Chen Wen's cultivation and talent.
• Gu Lingyuan feared Chen Wen's rapid advancement, while Ji Qingying resolved that he had to die.
• Chen Hongmian led Chen Wen and Chen Wudi toward Ye Kuang, but Long Qingtian stopped them and accused them of possibly being responsible for the Four Great Powers' dead disciples.
• Ye Kuang stood beside the siblings as Long Qingtian asked the disciples to identify the killer and promised an Emperor Artifact to anyone who revealed the truth.

Long Qingtian accused Chen Wen and his siblings of killing every disciple from the Four Great Powers, prompting Ye Kuang to prepare to take responsibility for his grandsons. Xuanyuan Beiqiong then claimed Chen Wen alone had committed the killings, leaving the crowd stunned and Long Qingtian furious.

• Long Qingtian revealed that all the Four Great Powers' disciples had died inside the Desolate Ruins Secret Realm, and Ye Tu realized the accusation against Chen Wen and his siblings was far more serious than he had thought.
• Ye Kuang saw his three grandsons' calm expressions and concluded they were responsible, then resolved to shoulder the consequences for them.
• Xuanyuan Beiqiong offered to identify the killer in exchange for a promise from Long Qingtian, then declared that everyone had guessed the wrong number of killers.
• Xuanyuan Beiqiong pointed at Chen Wen and accused him of killing everyone alone, shocking the gathered leaders and disciples.
• Long Qingtian called the accusation impossible and threatened Xuanyuan Beiqiong, who insisted the disciples could confirm it.

After Xuanyuan Beiqiong confirmed that Chen Wen had killed 120 disciples, including Long Tianzi and Qi Taiyi, the Four Great Powers demanded his life. Ye Kuang and the Ye Clan chose to protect Chen Wen, leaving war with the Four Great Powers imminent.

• Xuanyuan Beiqiong confirmed Chen Wen had killed the disciples, and Ye Kuang and the Ye Clan members were shocked by his strength.
• Long Qingtian attacked Chen Wen, but Ye Kuang blocked him and forced him back.
• Long Qingtian threatened the Ye Clan with war unless it surrendered Chen Wen, while Gu Lingyuan taunted the Chen Clan elders.
• Ye Kuang asked the Ye Clan members to choose, and Ye Xuan, Ye Binghuang, and the others declared they would stand by Chen Wen.
• Ye Kuang told Long Qingtian that the Ye Clan would protect Chen Wen and face the Four Great Powers in battle.

The Four Great Powers surrounded Chen Wen and the Ye Clan, prompting the Ye Clan to prepare for a desperate fight. Chen Badao then arrived with four thousand experts, balancing the forces, and rebuffed Gu Lingyuan when she tried to take charge.

• Long Qingtian summoned the Dragon Clan, and Qi Tianlin summoned the Jiang Clan, Loulan Ancient Kingdom, and Earth Spirit Lineage, bringing more than five thousand experts to surround the secret realm.
• Ye Kuang called forth the Ye Clan’s reinforcements, but their nearly two thousand fighters were outnumbered, so both sides declared their readiness to fight to the death.
• Chen Wen decided to step forward and bear responsibility rather than let others die for him.
• Chen Badao arrived with four thousand experts, including more than a hundred Dao Proving Realm experts, making the opposing forces evenly matched.
• Ji Qingying confronted Gu Lingyuan over the arrival of Chen Badao, and Gu Lingyuan tried to order him to step down.
• Chen Badao told Gu Lingyuan to shut her mouth.

Chen Badao tried to lead Chen Clan members to support Chen Wen, but Gu Lingyuan blocked their way until the Chen Clan Ancestor intervened. The Ancestor offered Chen Wen a chance to return to the clan, and Chen Wen agreed only if Gu Lingyuan died.

• Gu Lingyuan blocked Chen Badao and called Chen Wen an outsider, but the Chen Clan members ignored her orders.
• Chen Badao confronted Gu Lingyuan until the Chen Clan Ancestor transmitted his voice and ordered her to stand aside.
• The Chen Clan Ancestor praised Chen Wen's deeds in the Holy War and offered to restore his Imperial Son status and provide top cultivation resources if he returned.
• The Ancestor urged Chen Wen to recognize his mistakes, while Long Qingtian and his allies feared the Chen Clan's support would make Chen Wen harder to kill.
• Chen Wen declared that he had done nothing wrong and demanded Gu Lingyuan's death as the condition for his return.

Chen Wen rejected the Chen Clan Ancestor’s offer to return to the Lineage after explaining how Gu Lingyuan and others had persecuted him and his mother. His refusal left the gathered cultivators stunned and Gu Lingyuan delighted, while his fate remained uncertain.

• The Chen Clan Ancestor offered Chen Wen another chance to return to the Lineage and gave him ten breaths to reconsider.
• Chen Wen asked whether he had been wrong to seek revenge after his second uncle harmed him in the Lower Realm, and the Chen Clan Ancestor could not deny his grievance.
• Chen Wen accused Gu Lingyuan of suppressing him and nearly beating his mother to death, then declared that he had fought back to survive.
• Gu Lingyuan called Chen Wen’s account nonsense, but the Chen Clan Ancestor cut her off and insisted that right and wrong no longer mattered.
• Chen Wen refused to let the matter go and said he could not cross the Chen Clan’s threshold, stunning everyone and delighting Gu Lingyuan.

Chen Wen rejected the Chen Clan Ancestor’s final offer to return to the Lineage, and his parents stood by him. Chen Badao renounced the Chen Clan and revealed that more than four thousand experts would follow his command to protect Chen Wen.

• The Chen Clan Ancestor offered Chen Wen one last chance to return and asked Chen Badao and Ye Chenyan to persuade him, but Ye Chenyan pledged to support her son’s choice.
• Chen Wen refused to rejoin the Chen Clan, so the Chen Clan Ancestor formally struck his name from the rolls.
• Chen Badao declared that he was leaving the Lineage too and slammed his Clan Leader Token into the ground.
• Chen Badao told Gu Lingyuan he had the right to leave and had long been dissatisfied with the clan.
• When the Chen Clan Ancestor ordered everyone to return, more than four thousand experts instead answered Chen Badao’s call to protect Chen Wen.
• The Chen Clan Ancestor condemned Chen Badao as the assembled forces realized his followers remained loyal to him.

Chen Badao and the Ye Clan prepared to fight the Four Great Powers after Gu Qianying withdrew the Chen Clan’s support, while Ye Changsheng defended Chen Wen. As the battle began to loom, Chen Wen stepped forward and stopped everyone.

• Chen Badao defended his private force, and Ye Changsheng appeared to prevent Gu Qianying from attacking him.
• Gu Qianying warned that the Ye Clan would abandon Chen Wen when its own survival was at stake, but Ye Changsheng stood by him.
• Gu Qianying and Ye Changsheng withdrew their auras, leaving Chen Wen without the Chen Clan’s backing.
• Long Qingtian challenged Chen Badao over their unfinished battle from seventeen years earlier, and Chen Badao called his people to fight to the death.
• Ye Kuang led the Ye Clan into battle, and Long Qingtian accepted the fight on behalf of the Four Great Powers.
• Chen Wen stepped forward and stopped everyone just as the fighting was about to begin.

Chen Wen offered to end the standoff by letting the Four Great Powers’ younger generation hunt him for a year, insisting that his family stay out of the fight. Long Qingtian questioned why he should accept, and Chen Wen declared that he dared to challenge the younger generation of the world.

• Chen Wen rejected Chen Badao and Ye Kuang’s pleas to return, saying he would take responsibility for the conflict himself.
• Chen Wen proposed that the Four Great Powers call off the battle and send their younger generation to kill him within a year, with the conflict forgiven if he survived.
• Chen Badao angrily refused, but Chen Wen threatened to take his own life unless his father accepted that this was the best way to protect everyone.
• Long Qingtian asked what made Chen Wen think the Four Great Powers would agree to his proposal.
• Chen Wen stepped forward, raised his aura, and declared that he dared to challenge the younger generation of the world.

Chen Wen accepted a year-long challenge against the younger generation of the entire world under the Destiny Suppression Order, seeking to survive and bring the Ye Clan Ancestor’s bones home. The order was summoned, revealing Fate Suppression Mountain and awakening a voice from its dragon-shaped Token.

• Long Qingtian expanded the proposed pursuit from the Four Great Powers' young disciples to all young disciples in the world for one year, and Chen Wen accepted after asking whether the powers would honor the agreement.
• Long Qingtian explained that the Destiny Suppression Order would enforce the rules and recalled how the Ye Clan Ancestor had failed the same challenge and remained nailed to Fate Suppression Mountain.
• Chen Wen asked whether winning would let him retrieve the Ye Clan Ancestor’s bones, then promised the Ye Clan he would bring their ancestor home in a year.
• Chen Badao warned Chen Wen he need not accept to protect his family, but Chen Wen insisted, and his father agreed to trust him.
• Long Qingtian summoned the Destiny Suppression Order, revealing Fate Suppression Mountain and the Ye Clan Ancestor’s bones to everyone under heaven.
• An aged voice spoke from the dragon-shaped Token, asking which clan’s descendants had awakened them.

Long Qingtian invoked the Kill Order against Chen Wen, making him the target of a world-wide hunt by the younger generation for one year in exchange for Fate Momentum. As the hunt was set to begin in three days, Chen Wen remained defiant and vowed to kill Gu Lingyuan within a year.

• Long Qingtian named Chen Wen as the Kill Order's target and established a one-year hunt that barred older-generation intervention and outside assistance.
• The Kill Order announced that the hunter who killed Chen Wen would receive a Fate Momentum reward, drawing the world's attention and awakening cultivators in seclusion.
• Long Qingtian and Ji Qingying threatened Chen Wen as their groups departed, while Xuanyuan Beiqiong left unaware that Chen Wen had marked him as a target.
• Gu Lingyuan mocked Chen Wen, but he insulted her and declared that he would kill her within a year.
• Gu Lingyuan accepted Chen Wen's challenge and said she would wait for him at the Chen Clan one year later.

After making a one-year life-and-death pact with Gu Lingyuan, Chen Wen reassured his family and prepared to leave. His loved ones pledged to wait for his safe return as he set out to face the dangers ahead.

• Gu Lingyuan left with the Chen Clan disciples after warning Chen Wen to survive the coming year.
• Chen Wen comforted his tearful mother, Ye Chenyan, and promised to return safely.
• Chen Wen shared emotional farewells with his grandfather Ye Kuang, grandmother Wen Chenbing, and father Chen Badao.
• Chen Wen exchanged encouragement and a farewell embrace with his brother Chen Wudi and sister Chen Hongmian.
• Chen Wen thanked the Ye Clan elders, nodded to Ye Qingxian, Ye Binghuang, and the other disciples, then left.

As the Four Great Powers assembled elite hunters to kill Chen Wen, Long Qingtian revealed that the Dragon Clan could track him through a Blood Spirit Seal. Chen Wen entered the Myriad Phenomena Ghost Abyss to claim its Mysterious Vein, and began breaking the seal protecting it.

• After Chen Wen left, Ye Kuang and Chen Badao discussed his uncertain chances of surviving a year-long hunt.
• Disciples across the Archaic Desolate Realm set out to hunt Chen Wen, though news of his slaughter of the Four Great Powers' disciples frightened weaker pursuers.
• Long Qingtian proposed a hunting party led by Long Haoyu, and Qi Tianlin, Jiang Chengshan, and Lou Lan Youtian each pledged ten fighters led by Qi Longcang, Jiang Ziyue, and Lou Lan Wanyue.
• Long Qingtian assured the others that the Dragon Clan could locate Chen Wen by sensing the Blood Spirit Seal left on anyone who killed a Dragon Clan disciple.
• Chen Wen entered the Myriad Phenomena Ghost Abyss through the Broken Sword and reached the ruined site of the Nine Dragon Earth Veins.
• Chen Wen used the Earth Spirit Seal to strike the center of the Earth Veins, causing the natural seal over the Mysterious Vein to begin collapsing.

Chen Wen entered a top-grade mysterious vein and worked with Xian Hongshao to subdue its mysterious qi for the Heaven Concealing Qiankun Array. After recovering, he prepared to leave and kill Xuanyuan Beiqiong.

• Chen Wen used Jiang Jiu's emperor-grade Earth Spirit Seal to withstand the natural momentum, triggering Jiang Jiu's divine sense and witnessing her suppress it effortlessly.
• Chen Wen entered the revealed mysterious vein, confirmed it was top-grade with Xian Hongshao, and began searching underground for its mysterious qi.
• Chen Wen found and sealed the mysterious qi, then used three layers of the Chaos Great World to defend himself while Xian Hongshao subdued it.
• Xian Hongshao finished subduing the mysterious qi and said she needed time to merge it into the Heaven Concealing Qiankun Array, while Chen Wen recovered.
• A day later, Chen Wen decided to leave and kill Xuanyuan Beiqiong.

Chen Wen learned that Xuanyuan Beiqiong was at Imperial Palace Mountain and set out alone to confront him and his eleven companions. Meanwhile, Long Haoyu left seclusion to hunt Chen Wen for a promised strand of Fate Momentum, and the hunt began as Chen Wen reached the Vermilion Bird Heavenly Domain.

• Chen Hongmian told Chen Wen that Xuanyuan Beiqiong was at Imperial Palace Mountain with eleven Earth-level Disciples, and Chen Wen declared he would kill them and headed there.
• Chen Wudi warned Chen Hongmian not to intervene, and Chen Hongmian asked Su Youyu to watch over the situation without interfering in Chen Wen's battle.
• Long Haoyu emerged from seclusion, and Long Qingtian told him that killing Chen Wen could earn him Fate Momentum and help him approach the Supreme Realm.
• Long Haoyu gathered Dragon Clan disciples and joined the disciples of the Three Great Powers to hunt Chen Wen.
• Two days later, the hunt began across the Nine Heavenly Domains, and Chen Wen arrived in the Vermilion Bird Heavenly Domain.

Chen Wen disguised himself and traveled with Su Long toward Imperial Palace Mountain, where he planned to confront Xuanyuan Beiqiong. Su Long defended Xuanyuan Beiqiong’s reputation until Chen Wen challenged his reasoning, and Su Long’s sister then warned him about Xuanyuan Beiqiong and said she would meet them there.

• Chen Wen asked Su Long for directions to Imperial Palace Mountain, and Su Long agreed to take him there despite the teaching forum being fully booked.
• Chen Wen traveled with Su Long on his rented flying spirit beast, while Su Long promised he could secure Chen Wen a place on the mountain next year.
• Su Long called Xuanyuan Beiqiong a true hero and dismissed Chen Wen’s challenge, but Chen Wen questioned why only Xuanyuan Beiqiong deserved that praise.
• Su Long admitted Chen Wen was impressive but still refused to call him a true hero, then went to his room.
• Su Long’s sister contacted him, warned him that Xuanyuan Beiqiong was using him, and told him to wait outside Imperial Palace Mountain for her.