Chapter Summaries

Chen Wen overpowered Gu Lingyuan, shattered her inherited Emperor technique, and drove her into a desperate defense. The chapter left him striking her with the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Opening Palm after trapping her in his Heavy Prison Domain.

• Gu Lingyuan struck Chen Wen with the Supreme God Slaying Slash, but his Killing God Domain let him withstand it unharmed.
• Chen Wen unleashed Absolute Combat Power and smashed Gu Lingyuan's slash apart with a blow, sending her flying.
• Chen Wen attacked with the Thirty-Layered Chaos Killing Tribulation, and Gu Lingyuan's Thunder Dragons failed to stop it.
• Gu Lingyuan crushed the weakened Killing Tribulation, but Chen Wen appeared overhead and trapped her with his twenty-layer Heavy Prison Domain.
• Chen Wen struck Gu Lingyuan with the Primordial Chaos Heaven-Opening Palm as she tried to strengthen her Spirit Body.

Chen Wen blasted Gu Lingyuan aside, but she survived and unleashed the Eternal Longevity Realm. He shattered her realm with five Chaos Great Worlds, leaving the battle poised for their next clash.

• Chen Wen struck Gu Lingyuan down, shocking the Grand Arena and delighting Ye Chenyan.
• Chen Wen tried to finish Gu Lingyuan, but she counterattacked with the Eternal Longevity Power of her Eternal Longevity Body.
• Xian Hongshao explained that Gu Lingyuan’s power strengthened her recovery, resilience, and Spiritual Energy, while Chen Wen dismissed the threat.
• Gu Lingyuan rose and formed the Eternal Longevity Realm, confining heaven and earth and grinding its Qi into nothingness.
• Chen Wen released five Sequence Shackles, shattering the Eternal Longevity Realm as five Chaos Great Worlds descended and stunned the spectators.

Gu Lingyuan burned her bloodline and empowered her Eternal Longevity Realm, but Chen Wen’s five Chaos Great Worlds cracked it apart. With defeat imminent, Gu Lingyuan summoned her ancestor’s strength, leaving Chen Wen ready to respond.

• Gu Lingyuan burned her bloodline to strengthen the Eternal Longevity Realm and crush Chen Wen’s five Chaos Great Worlds.
• Chen Wen empowered his worlds with Saint Power, Heavy Thunders, and the Limitless Great World, then met Gu Lingyuan’s attack head-on.
• The collision cracked the bloodline-boosted Eternal Longevity Realm and left Gu Lingyuan enraged and panicking.
• Gu Lingyuan used her blood essence and ancestral mark to summon her ancestor’s strength, alarming Ye Kuang, Ye Chenyan, and Chen Badao.
• Chen Wen recognized the Ancestral Spirit technique and gathered his Force Momentum for the next clash.

Gu Lingyuan summoned the spirit of her ancestor to suppress Chen Wen, but Chen Wen broke through its restraints and matched its attack with the five Chaos Great Worlds. As the clash destroyed the Eternal Longevity Realm, Gu Lingyuan prepared to strike with an Imperial Sword while the ancestor’s spirit kept Chen Wen occupied.

• Gu Lingyuan summoned the spirit of her ancestor, who appeared and chose to oppose Chen Wen after hearing her accusation.
• Chen Wen rejected the ancestor’s demand to explain himself, unleashed the Bone Burning Technique and Chaos Sequence Body, and tore apart the spirit’s law chains.
• Chen Wen crashed the five Chaos Great Worlds into the spirit’s attack, destroying the Eternal Longevity Realm and alarming the assembled factions.
• The ancestor’s spirit felt threatened by Chen Wen and ordered Gu Lingyuan to attack while he held Chen Wen off.
• Gu Lingyuan drew an Imperial Sword, and Ye Chenyan recognized it as Gu Qianying’s natal Imperial Artifact and angrily challenged her for giving it to Gu Lingyuan.

Chen Wen overwhelmed Gu Lingyuan and Colossal Shadow in the Grand Arena, destroying Colossal Shadow and shattering Gu Lingyuan’s Imperial Sword strike. Gu Lingyuan begged for help as the Chen Clan turned away, and Chen Wen moved to finish her.

• Gu Lingyuan charged the Imperial Sword while Colossal Shadow tried to hold Chen Wen back, but Chen Wen’s five Chaos Great Worlds shattered the descending finger.
• Chen Wen unleashed the War Heaven Mad Demon Mark, broke free of Colossal Shadow’s renewed attack, and destroyed him with the five Chaos Great Worlds.
• Gu Lingyuan’s Imperial Sword strike failed to stop Chen Wen’s attack; she was badly injured and cried out for help before the watching Archaic Desolate Realm.
• The Chen Clan’s upper echelons withdrew their support, and Gu Qianying regretted backing Gu Lingyuan as her faction faced disgrace.
• Gu Lingyuan secretly pleaded with her lord for rescue, but received no answer as Chen Wen told her she could die.

Chen Wen defeated Gu Lingyuan and prepared to kill her, rejecting her pleas for forgiveness. Just as she hinted at a hidden danger and Chen Wen sensed a familiar aura, Chen Xinghe's voice suddenly rang out.

• Chen Wen used his five chaotic worlds to defeat Gu Lingyuan, shatter her Spirit Body, and pull her from the crater.
• Gu Lingyuan begged Chen Wen, Chen Badao, Chen Qingyi, and Chen Wudao for help, but they all rejected her.
• Zhou Yunru and the other forces agreed to wait until Chen Wen killed Gu Lingyuan before attacking him.
• Chen Wen declared that Gu Lingyuan could die and began to apply force, while she laughed that he would not survive either.
• Chen Wen sensed a familiar aura from Gu Lingyuan, and Chen Xinghe's voice warned him to worry about himself.

Chen Xinghe returned during Chen Wen’s battle with Gu Lingyuan, revealed his close bond with Chen Wen, and asked him to release Gu Lingyuan. Chen Xinghe then exposed the depth of his knowledge by killing Gu Lingyuan’s hidden allies, leaving her terrified and the truth still undisclosed.

• Chen Xinghe appeared in the Grand Arena, shocking the factions and the Chen Clan, who had believed him dead.
• Chen Xinghe greeted Chen Wen as a descendant of his clan, and Chen Wen respectfully called him Ancestor.
• Chen Xinghe asked Chen Wen to let Gu Lingyuan go, and Chen Wen released her while waiting to see what Chen Xinghe would do.
• Chen Xinghe told Gu Lingyuan that she had pretended for so long that she might no longer know herself, then produced the heads of her hidden comrades and superiors.
• Gu Lingyuan recognized the dead people and feared her identity had been exposed, while Chen Wen waited for Chen Xinghe to reveal more.

Chen Xinghe exposed Gu Lingyuan as a body-seizing infiltrator from the Nine Nether Heavenly Prison Hall who had worked to undermine the Chen Clan and target Chen Wen. Gu Lingyuan recognized that the Chen Clan had uncovered her secret, then accused them of sacrificing their own people to protect Chen Wen.

• Chen Wudao brought several thousand imprisoned Chen Clan members into the Grand Arena, and Chen Xinghe ordered the suspected conspirators seized.
• The captured elders and disciples blamed Gu Lingyuan for turning them against the Chen Clan, and Gu Lingyuan begged Chen Xinghe to spare her.
• Gu Wanli confronted Gu Lingyuan, while Chen Wudao, Chen Badao, Chen Qingyi, and Ye Chenyan joined Chen Xinghe.
• Chen Xinghe revealed that Gu Lingyuan's body had been seized over twenty years earlier by a member of the Nine Nether Heavenly Prison Hall, who had infiltrated the Chen Clan and targeted Chen Wen under orders.
• Chen Wen and the gathered crowd reacted with shock as Gu Lingyuan admitted the secret was real and realized it had been exposed.
• Gu Lingyuan laughed and accused the Chen Clan of setting a trap and letting its members fight and die to protect Chen Wen.

Chen Xinghe revealed that the Chen Clan had spent decades rooting out infiltrators, then exposed Chen Dongxing as the deeper traitor. Chen Xinghe and Chen Dongxing began a fierce battle in an Exotic Space battlefield.

• Chen Xinghe dismissed Gu Lingyuan’s accusations and explained that the Chen Clan had long known about the Nine Nether Heavenly Prison Hall and had used factional conflict to uncover its infiltrators.
• Gu Lingyuan realized she had been a pawn in the Chen Clan’s long-term plan and gave up resisting.
• Chen Xinghe revealed that Gu Lingyuan had recently contacted an even deeper hidden traitor, then called that person out.
• Chen Dongxing emerged as the hidden traitor, and the clan learned that the respected Ancestor had once defended Chen Wen.
• Chen Xinghe entered an Exotic Space battlefield to fight Chen Dongxing, and their Imperial Dao Laws shook the battlefield as they exchanged powerful blows.

Chen Dongxing lost to Chen Xinghe, then used his fall to launch a surprise attack on Chen Wen. Leng Qingshuang intercepted the strike, and as Chen Xinghe moved to finish Chen Dongxing, he discovered something that stunned him.

• Chen Wen realized the Chen Clan had planned the events to uproot its enemies and protect him, though he still struggled to accept their actions.
• Chen Xinghe defeated Chen Dongxing, but Chen Dongxing used his fall to attack Chen Wen and sent Chen Wudao and the others flying.
• Leng Qingshuang appeared and deflected Chen Dongxing’s claw, allowing Chen Xinghe to punch through his chest.
• Zhou Tianqiong and Chen Qingyi recognized Leng Qingshuang, and Chen Qingyi realized Chen Wen was her nephew.
• Chen Wen confronted Chen Dongxing about waiting until the final moment to attack, while Chen Xinghe examined him and appeared to discover a great secret.

Chen Xinghe confronted the Six Great Powers after exposing the forces that had targeted the Chen and Ye Clans, while Chen Wudao took Gu Lingyuan away for interrogation. As a vast enemy force gathered outside the Chen Clan’s protective formation, Chen Xinghe ordered the formation opened and left everyone stunned.

• Chen Xinghe gave the captured Gu Lingyuan to Chen Wudao, who restrained her and took her away to extract what she knew.
• Chen Xinghe called out the Dragon Clan, Xuanyuan Clan, Ximen Clan, Heavenly Secrets Tower, Earth Spirit Master lineage, and Ancient Loulan Kingdom, and their leaders stepped forward.
• Long Qingtian and the other leaders challenged Chen Xinghe, then their reinforcements arrived with their Ancestors and at least ten thousand fighters.
• Long Tianqi ordered eighteen quasi-Emperor-grade Formation Masters to prepare to break the Chen Clan’s protective formation.
• Long Qingtian offered to withdraw if the Chen Clan handed over Chen Wen, but Chen Xinghe dismissed the threat and ordered his people to open the formation.

The Six Great Powers summoned their full forces and surrounded the Chen Clan, then entered its territory after its Protecting Clan formation opened. Chen Xinghe waited until they were inside before ordering the formation closed, leaving the invaders trapped as he prepared to begin his plan.

• Long Tianqi, Ximen Xuefeng, Xuanyuan Yiyang, and the others ordered their hidden forces to join the attack after the Chen Clan opened its formation.
• Six groups of reinforcements arrived, bringing the Six Great Powers' combined force to at least thirty thousand Dao Proving Realm experts.
• Long Tianqi and the other leaders sent their troops into the Chen Clan's territory, confident they could overwhelm it.
• Chen Xinghe regained his composure after the forces entered and ordered the Formation Master elders to close the Protecting Clan formation.

Chen Xinghe revealed that the Chen Clan had prepared for the Six Great Powers’ attack and called on the Ye Clan, the Gu Clan, and numerous invited factions to join the battle. The forces opposing Long Tianqi’s alliance swelled to nearly twice its size, leaving him and his allies shocked as Chen Xinghe framed the ambush as revenge for Chen Wen and justice for cultivators.

• Chen Xinghe reinforced the Chen Clan’s defenses and summoned its nine Ancestors and other powerful elders to face Long Tianqi’s thirty thousand fighters.
• Ye Changsheng arrived with several thousand Ye Clan cultivators, followed by Gu Wanli and several thousand Gu Clan reinforcements.
• Chen Xinghe revealed that dozens of factions among the audience had brought thirty or forty thousand fighters to support the Chen Clan, raising its side’s numbers to roughly fifty or sixty thousand.
• Long Tianqi realized the battle had been planned and angrily accused Chen Xinghe of luring the allied powers into a trap.
• Chen Xinghe said the plan repaid the Dragon Clan for what it had done to Chen Wen eighteen years earlier and declared that they were restoring justice for cultivators.

Chen Xinghe exposed the Artificial Destiny Plan before the gathered forces, accusing the Dragon Clan and its allies of stealing Life Souls from Sons of Destiny, then ordered a battle when Long Tianqi tried to attack. Chen Wen entered the fight and faced Long Qingtian and five other opponents alone.

• Chen Xinghe revealed that the Artificial Destiny Plan involved killing Sons of Destiny and extracting their Life Souls to graft onto people without them.
• Long Tianqi denied knowing whether the accusations were true, but Chen Xinghe claimed to have concrete evidence and produced an Image-Recording Stone.
• Long Tianqi ordered everyone to attack Chen Xinghe and his allies before the evidence could be shown, and Chen Xinghe commanded his forces to kill everyone present.
• Chen Wen joined the battle, sent the Chen and Ye Clans to help the others, and confronted Long Qingtian, Xuanyuan Dihuang, Ximen Longting, Lou Lan Youtian, Zhou Yunru, and Qi Tianlin alone.

Chen Wen confronted Long Qingtian and five other leaders, then overwhelmed their combined attacks and left them on the verge of death. The battle elsewhere continued, with Long Tianqi fearing Chen Wen’s survival would doom their powers.

• Long Qingtian and the other five leaders unleashed their full strength and attacked Chen Wen together.
• Chen Wen activated Absolute Combat Power, Bone Burning Technique, and sacred markings, then halted and shattered their six attacks with Heaven Shaking Triple Strike.
• Chen Wen struck the six leaders again, breaking their Spirit Body Shields and burying them in a devastating blast.
• The smoke cleared to reveal Long Qingtian and the others barely alive, while Long Tianqi’s forces lost morale and Chen Xinghe pressed his attack.

Chen Wen killed Long Qingtian and five other leaders of the Six Great Powers, then called out five hidden Tenth Level Dao Proving Realm cultivators from the Xuantian Small World. The five confronted him, and Feng Dongliu remarked that Chen Wen had come to offer up his life.

• Long Qingtian regretted not killing Chen Wen, but Chen Wen stomped his head apart and claimed a drop of Silver Destiny Nirvana Liquid.
• Chen Wen killed Xuanyuan Dihuang and four other leaders, gaining five drops of Destiny Nirvana Liquid.
• Chen Xinghe continued overwhelming Long Tianqi as the Six Great Powers fell into a losing battle.
• Chen Wen sensed hidden enemies and ordered them to come down and die.
• Five young Tenth Level Dao Proving Realm cultivators from the Xuantian Small World emerged, and Feng Dongliu confronted Chen Wen.

Chen Wen unleashed his full combat power against Feng Dongliu and four other Tenth Level Dao Proving Realm experts, overwhelming them after they had briefly gained the advantage. He launched a Thirty-Layered Chaos Killing Tribulation against their combined ultimate techniques, and the chapter ended as the six attacks collided and the sky began to collapse.

• Feng Dongliu decided that he and the others would attack Chen Wen together, and Chen Wen released a terrifying Force Momentum that revealed he had not fought Gu Lingyuan at full strength.
• Feng Dongliu, Zhao Ziyue, Yao Tianfeng, and the other two joined forces at the Tenth Level Dao Proving Realm and gradually pushed Chen Wen's power back.
• Chen Wen activated his Killing God Domain, Four Great Realms, sacred marks, Bone Burning Technique, Absolute Combat Power, and War God Mad Demon Mark, blasting the five opponents backward.
• Chen Wen formed a Thirty-Layered Chaos Killing Tribulation as Feng Dongliu and the others gathered their ultimate techniques.
• Chen Wen's Thirty-Layered Chaos Killing Tribulation collided with the five attacks, unleashing an explosion that shattered the sky section by section.

Chen Wen overwhelmed Feng Dongliu and the others, destroying their law spirits and Magic Artifacts despite their desperate counterattack. He left Feng Dongliu barely alive and ordered him to send a voice transmission to Feng Wutian about what had happened.

• Feng Dongliu and the others barely blocked Chen Wen's Chaos Killing Tribulation with their Magic Artifacts, but Chen Wen gathered power for another attack.
• Feng Dongliu and the others activated their Spirit Bodies, burned their bloodlines, and summoned five law spirits through their Magic Artifacts.
• Feng Dongliu and the others attacked Chen Wen with the law spirits, but Chen Wen shattered their five fist attacks with the Heaven Shaking Triple Strike.
• Chen Wen used the Blade of Slaughter to destroy the five law spirits and shatter Feng Dongliu and the others' Magic Artifacts, leaving them near death.
• Chen Wen asked Feng Dongliu if he was from the Heavenly Phoenix Clan and told him to send a voice transmission to Feng Wutian.

Chen Wen killed Feng Dongliu, Zhao Ziyue, and the other attackers, while Chen Xinghe announced that the Six Great Powers must answer for Artificial Destiny and that he would judge Gu Qianying. Gu Qianying realized Chen Xinghe was coming for her as the chapter ended.

• Chen Wen crushed Feng Dongliu's limbs, used his Sound Transmission Token to taunt Feng Wutian, and killed Feng Dongliu despite Feng Wutian's threats.
• Chen Wen killed Zhao Ziyue and three others, earning Golden and Silver Nirvana Liquid through refinement.
• Long Tianqi collapsed near death after his forces were slain, and Chen Xinghe stomped him to death.
• Chen Xinghe praised Chen Wen, then went to the high platform to announce that the Six Great Powers must explain Artificial Destiny and that he would deliver judgment on his Clan Mother's family faction.
• Gu Qianying realized Chen Xinghe was targeting her and regretted backing a fake Son of Destiny.

Chen Xinghe sentenced Gu Qianying to lose her status and rights, spend ten years in the Cave of Rebirth, and apologize publicly to Chen Wen. After Gu Qianying was taken away, two powerful elders from the Heavenly Ruins arrived, and Jiang Cangyang suspected they had come over Xiao Ye’s death, leaving Chen Wen in danger.

• Chen Xinghe stripped Gu Qianying of her Ancestor status, ordered her to spend ten years in the Cave of Rebirth, and demanded that she apologize to Chen Wen or face execution.
• Gu Qianying apologized publicly, but Chen Wen refused to accept it and dismissed her with, “Who are you?”
• Ye Shan and two female elders escorted Gu Qianying away after she spat blood from humiliation.
• A man and a veiled woman appeared overhead, and Jiang Cangyang identified them as the Heavenly Ruins’ White-robed Killing God and White-robed Fairy, siblings who oversaw its laws.
• Jiang Cangyang and Jiang Xingwan feared the elders had come because of Xiao Ye’s death and that Chen Wen would be in trouble.
• Chen Xinghe greeted the two visitors in the Grand Arena and asked their names and origins.