Chapter Summaries

Fang Chen and Myna Bird entered the Ninth Layer of the Chaos Pagoda, where Yue Canglan showed them stone sculptures containing Great Emperor inheritances. After learning how the statues’ Dao Principles affected visualization, Fang Chen and Myna Bird set out to find inheritances suited to them.

• Fang Chen considered the Devil Race’s growing threat and resolved to strengthen himself and the Glazed Sword Sect.
• Yue Canglan led Fang Chen and Myna Bird to a plain filled with statues that held Visualization Secret Methods and Great Emperor inheritances.
• Yue Canglan allowed both Fang Chen and Myna Bird to study the statues and explained that stronger Dao Principles made an inheritance easier to grasp through visualization.
• Myna Bird flew toward a statue of a majestic Divine Bird, while Fang Chen approached a damaged statue of a human woman.

Fang Chen entered the statue’s vision and rescued a fishing family from a storm, then discovered that their infant daughter contained an immense amount of unusually pure Source Power of Emperors. The chapter left him holding the child and wondering why such power was inside her.

• Fang Chen touched the statue and found himself in a storm-tossed ocean, where a young couple and their baby were swept from their boat.
• Fang Chen summoned his Chaos Giant Manifestation to break free of the force restraining him, rescued the baby, and pulled the unconscious parents from the sea.
• The couple thanked Fang Chen, and the man explained that a gale had carried them from the Lingcang River to the endless ocean.
• Fang Chen used the Reincarnation Eye Secret Technique and found blue marks inside the parents and a dazzling cluster of light inside their baby daughter.
• Fang Chen examined the baby girl and confirmed that she contained Source Power of Emperors purer than what he had found in the Ninth Secret Realm.

Fang Chen obtained Emperor Lan Yu’s inheritance and the blue Bead containing Source Power of Emperors from the Mystical Space. He then searched the remaining inheritance statues and reached a small cracked Stone that did not repel him.

• Fang Chen carried the couple and their baby girl through the air, but the family vanished, leaving a blue Bead on the boat.
• Fang Chen absorbed the Bead’s information and learned that the statue belonged to Emperor Lan Yu, a successor of the Supreme Holy Land, and that her inheritance taught him to cultivate the Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth.
• Fang Chen discovered the Bead contained the same Source Power of Emperors he had seen inside the baby girl, then put it away and promised to leave Lan Yu’s inheritance with the Glazed Sword Sect.
• Fang Chen saw Huahua meditating atop a divine bird statue and continued searching among the inheritance statues.
• Fang Chen noticed Yue Canglan meditating on a cracked black Lotus Pedestal that gave off unusual Dao Resonance, then flew onward.
• Fang Chen approached a small cracked Stone that did not repel him and stroked its surface.

Fang Chen activated the Stone and was pulled into a starry inheritance space, where his Sun Chasing Giant Manifestation destroyed the seven stars of the Big Dipper. He absorbed the Star Emperor’s inheritance and wondered whether the Star Emperor had founded the Star Sect.

• Fang Chen touched the Stone, and white Runes spread across its surface and his body.
• A force dragged Fang Chen’s consciousness into a starry sky, where the Big Dipper’s Alkaid advanced on him.
• Fang Chen released his Giant Chasing Sun Manifestation, which freed him from the force restraining him and drove Alkaid back.
• The Sun Chasing Giant pursued and crushed all seven stars of the Big Dipper, absorbing their light into its sun.
• Fang Chen returned from the starry sky and absorbed the Star Emperor’s inheritance, then wondered if the Star Emperor had founded the Star Sect.

Fang Chen received the Star Emperor’s inheritance from a stone the Chaos Great Emperor had unknowingly brought from the Star Sect, then revealed he had also inherited from Emperor Lan Yu. Yue Canglan explained that no man had ever approached Lan Yu’s statue before, but he knew nothing about her origins, leaving Fang Chen with a mystery.

• Fang Chen told Yue Canglan that the stone had given him the Star Emperor’s inheritance before shattering.
• Yue Canglan explained that the Chaos Great Emperor had picked up the stone at Red Stone Mountain, believing it was ordinary.
• Fang Chen revealed that he had received inheritances from two Great Emperors, including Emperor Lan Yu through a damaged statue.
• Yue Canglan said only women had previously been able to approach Lan Yu’s statue, and Fang Chen wondered why he had been able to reach it.
• Yue Canglan admitted that neither he nor the Chaos Holy Land knew Emperor Lan Yu’s origins or the statue’s history.

After leaving the Chaos Holy Land, Fang Chen returned to the Glazed Sword Sect with Myna bird and tried to enter the Ninth Secret Realm, but its entrance was gone. He found his nine Clones in the Saint Realm and explained that a Space Rift there led to the Mystical Space connecting the nine Secret Realms; a Golden Light then opened the rift.

• Yue Canglan promised to investigate Emperor Lan Yu and warned Fang Chen that the Chaos Pagoda's dwindling Origin power could not sustain its Ninth-Layer Space for long.
• Fang Chen and Myna bird left the Chaos Holy Land through the Teleportation Array and returned to the Glazed Sword Sect.
• Fang Chen chose to avoid Yunxiang Mountain, confident that the Ye Family would not attack again soon after Ye Chen and Li Changsheng's defeat.
• Fang Chen and Myna bird searched the Rainbow Mountain Range for the Ninth Secret Realm's entrance but could not find it, so Fang Chen decided to enter through Heavenly Dragon Space.
• Fang Chen used the Spirit Sword Talisman to summon his nine Clones in the Saint Realm, where Eldest Brother Fang described the recurring Golden Light and Space Rift.
• Fang Chen explained that the rift led to a Mystical Space connecting the nine Secret Realms, and a beam of Golden Light opened a Space Rift above them.

Fang Chen brought his Nine Clones into the Heavenly Dragon Space and showed them the ancient city and Heavenly Dragon Skeleton. After the Heavenly Dragon Pearl split the Golden Light among the nine Secret Realms, the group speculated about the energy source sustaining them and wondered how the Ancient Heavenly Court had fallen.

• Fang Chen and the Myna bird led Fang Chen's Nine Clones through the Space Rift into the Heavenly Dragon Space, where the Clones felt its Spatial Pressure and rich Source Power of Emperors.
• The Myna bird explained that the Heavenly Dragon Space connected the nine Secret Realms, and Fang Chen brought the Clones to the central city to prepare them to help guard the Glazed Sword Sect and handle its affairs.
• Fang Chen showed the Clones the enormous Heavenly Dragon Skeleton and explained that its strength in life had rivaled a Great Emperor.
• Three hours later, the Heavenly Dragon Pearl appeared above the Ancient City and split the descending Golden Light into nine streams that flowed toward the Secret Realms.
• The Myna bird and Fourth Brother speculated that the Golden Light supplied energy to the Secret Realms from a higher-level source, and Fang Chen and the Clones wondered what had destroyed the Ancient Heavenly Court.

Fang Chen and the Myna bird entered the Ninth Secret Realm and learned that the Realm Master had let them attempt their next trial whenever they wished, despite previously saying they had to wait three years. Fang Chen hesitated because time passed much more slowly inside the realm, and a lengthy trial could cost them centuries outside.

• Fang Chen traveled to the Ninth Secret Realm with the Myna bird and his clones, and they entered when the Golden Light descended.
• Fang Chen and the Myna bird appeared above a mountain range while his clones were separated from them.
• Fang Chen summoned the Realm Master, who said the clones had begun their first trial and gave Fang Chen and the Myna bird White Bones Tokens.
• The Realm Master said they could begin their next trial whenever they wanted, then claimed he must have misspoken about the three-year wait.
• The Myna bird urged Fang Chen to seize the chance, but Fang Chen worried that time spent in the realm could mean centuries passing outside.

Fang Chen and Myna bird began the second-stage trial in the Ninth Secret Realm after learning that time passed there at the same rate as outside. Fang Chen chose a Devil Race Quasi-Emperor to fight, but after entering the trial space, the Floating Immortal Ring began channeling power into him and his opponent had yet to appear.

• The Realm Master told Fang Chen that the Secret Realm did not slow the passage of time and explained the second-stage trial's ten-day limit and ten-chance rule.
• The Realm Master warned Fang Chen that using treasures from outside the trial space would trigger a backlash and count as failure, and Fang Chen chose to test his strength without the Floating Immortal Sword.
• Myna bird chose a great serpent as his opponent and was pulled into a Space Rift.
• Fang Chen chose a Devil Race Man with silver horns and red wings, and the Realm Master sent them into the Inheritance Space.
• The Floating Immortal Ring pulsed and sent powerful energy through Fang Chen, though he had not summoned the Floating Immortal Sword.
• The Realm Master appeared to accompany Fang Chen and said that his opponent had not appeared yet.

Fang Chen learned the rules of the trial battlefield and set out to search for useful resources before his opponent appeared. His first step landed him on a nest of Black Domain Devil Scorpions, whose stingers pierced his body and filled him with venom.

• The Realm Master told Fang Chen that his opponent would appear in one day and explained that outside treasures could not be used, though Fang Chen could prepare with items found in the battlefield.
• Fang Chen learned that only 394 of 103,900 people had passed the trial, and only three had completed all nine stages.
• Fang Chen spread his Spiritual Sense, found powerful creatures nearby, and began exploring the battlefield for useful items.
• Fang Chen stepped onto a hidden nest of Black Domain Devil Scorpions, which pierced his foot and swarmed over him with their venomous stingers.
• The Realm Master recognized the scorpions and realized that Fang Chen had landed on their lair despite their ability to evade even a Quasi-Emperor's Spiritual Sense.

Fang Chen let Black Domain Devil Scorpions sting him so their venom could strengthen his body and Glazed Battle Runes. As his runes rapidly transformed and his power grew, the furious scorpions gathered energy and began forming a domain around him.

• Fang Chen refused the Realm Master's offer to send him out, despite the danger posed by the scorpions' venom.
• Fang Chen enlarged his body and widened the scorpions' nest entrance so more of them could crawl out and sting him.
• Fang Chen refined the venom with help from the Floating Immortal Ring, strengthening his body, Bloodline, soul, and Soul Perception.
• The Realm Master saw Fang Chen's pustules heal and his Glazed Battle Runes rapidly transform toward gold.
• The Black Domain Devil Scorpions gathered Spiritual Qi, Saint Force, and Emperor Source Power, darkening the sky as spatial pressure intensified around Fang Chen.

Fang Chen was trapped in a Dark Domain formed by the Black Domain Devil Scorpions, whose tentacles drained his power. His Devouring God Imprints shattered and formed a Chaos Devouring God Bee, which devoured the domain’s energy and drove the scorpions back into their cave.

• The Realm Master warned Fang Chen that the Black Domain Devil Scorpions had joined forces to create a powerful domain, but Fang Chen refused to flee and rolled over the scorpions.
• The Black Domain Devil Scorpions formed a Dark Domain that enveloped Fang Chen, and its tentacles began draining his strength.
• Fang Chen burned his Bloodline and Soul Power, then watched as his Devouring God Imprints shattered and gathered into a Chaos Devouring God Bee.
• The Chaos Devouring God Bee devoured the tentacles and energy in the Dark Domain, empowering Fang Chen and breaking the domain’s hold.
• The Black Domain Devil Scorpions fled into their cave as the Chaos Devouring God Bee cried out across the domain.

Fang Chen’s Chaos Devouring God Bee devoured the Black Domain Devil Scorpion colony and its Quasi-Emperor Scorpion Emperor, sending immense energy and Source Power of Emperors into him. After refining that power, Fang Chen completed the Ninth Turn of the Glazed Golden Body Art, leaving his physical strength comparable to a Great Emperor.

• The Chaos Devouring God Bee killed and devoured the Black Domain Devil Scorpions, then collapsed the Dark Domain and burrowed underground to hunt the survivors.
• The Chaos Devouring God Bee dragged out and devoured the Scorpion Emperor, whose Quasi-Emperor Cultivation supplied Fang Chen with Source Power of Emperors.
• Fang Chen refined the energy and received unfamiliar information as his Glazed Battle Runes continued turning gold.
• A day later, Fang Chen’s last Glazed Battle Rune turned gold, and his body completed its Metamorphosis into the Ninth Turn of the Glazed Golden Body Art.
• The Realm Master was stunned by Fang Chen’s overwhelming pressure, which exceeded that of Quasi-Emperor experts.

Fang Chen fused the Devouring God Art with the Dark Domain technique and formed a new domain. As he continued cultivating under the Realm Master's watch, the domain rapidly expanded.

• Fang Chen mastered the Ninth Transformation of the Glazed Golden Body and gained a method for cultivating the Dark Domain.
• Fang Chen discovered that some of his Devouring God Imprints had fused with the Glazed Battle Runes and decided to combine the Devouring God Art with the Dark Domain.
• Fang Chen spent three hours studying the two abilities, then manifested Devouring God Imprints and Darkness Dao Patterns around himself.
• Fang Chen formed a dark-red domain filled with Black Tentacles marked by Devouring God Imprints, astonishing the Realm Master.
• Fang Chen continued cultivating his control of the domain, which expanded from a hundred zhang to a hundred li.

Fang Chen named his ten-thousand-li domain the Darkness Devouring God Domain and used it to overwhelm a Devil Race Man. The domain trapped the fleeing enemy and began devouring his remaining power.

• Fang Chen named his fused domain the Darkness Devouring God Domain after it reached the limit of his current strength.
• The Devil Race Man attacked Fang Chen with a Quasi-Emperor Artifact Demon Saber, but Fang Chen caught the blade and crushed it with his bare hand.
• The Devil Race Man fled, but Fang Chen caught him, pierced his body, tore apart his Soul Origin, and tried to devour his Natal Demon Bead.
• The Devil Race Man escaped Fang Chen's grasp and fled by burning his Bloodline Power and Soul Power, but Fang Chen caught him again with the Hand of the Heavens.
• The Devil Race Man used Heavenly Demon Disintegration to scatter his body, and Fang Chen's Darkness Devouring God Domain trapped the fragments and devoured their energy.

Fang Chen killed a Quasi-Emperor in the trial, claimed its reward, and was told to wait three years before attempting the next stage. After leaving the Secret Realm, he learned only half a year had passed outside and heard from Uncle-Master Black Flame that something serious had happened in the Buddhist Land.

• The Devil Race Man detonated his Natal Demon Bead, shattering Fang Chen's Soul Origin, but the Floating Immortal Ring restored it.
• Fang Chen confirmed he had cleared the trial and received a Bead containing Source Power of Emperors.
• The Realm Master told Fang Chen to wait three years before attempting the next trial, prompting Fang Chen to question why he had heard the same rule before.
• Fang Chen left through a Space Vortex and found himself above the Rainbow Mountain Range, where he discovered only half a year had passed outside.
• Fang Chen contacted Uncle-Master Black Flame, who said the Glazed Sword Sect was safe but something serious had happened in the Buddhist Land.

Fang Chen learned that a mysterious light had fallen into the Buddhist Land and that six Quasi-Emperors had emerged there in just over two months. He rejected Yue Canglan’s offer to mediate with the Buddhist Land, insisting that peace required its destruction.

• Black Flame Saint told Fang Chen that a streak of light had landed in the Buddhist Land and that five Quasi-Emperors had emerged since.
• Fang Chen summoned Yue Canglan, who described the sky-shaking event and said the Buddhist Land now had six Quasi-Emperors, counting the Great Sun Buddha Emperor.
• A surge of energy came from the Buddhist Land as red clouds filled the sky, signaling the emergence of another Quasi-Emperor.
• Yue Canglan asked whether the Glazed Sword Sect and the Buddhist Land could reconcile, and Fang Chen demanded the death of Great Sun Baldy and the destruction of Buddhist temples and scriptures.
• Fang Chen argued that Buddhist teachings threatened humanity’s future and condemned the Buddhist Land for preaching compassion while attacking the Glazed Sword Sect.

Fang Chen learned that the Buddhist Kingdom had gained a seventh Quasi-Emperor and reassured the worried Glazed Sword Sect. He planned to enter the Buddhist Land to investigate the Falling Radiance behind the sudden rise in its power.

• Fang Chen learned from Yue Canglan that he knew nothing about the Falling Radiance, then decided to investigate it himself.
• Fang Chen sent Little Crane to Yunxiang Mountain to bring Chi You and Little Star back.
• Fang Chen arrived at the Glazed Palace, where the sect's leaders worried about the Buddhist Kingdom's growing numbers of Quasi-Emperors.
• Fang Chen told the Glazed Sword Sect that the Buddhist Land had seven Quasi-Emperors and said he would enter its territory to discover what the Falling Radiance was.

Fang Chen prepared to enter the Buddhist Land and stopped at Dog Head Ridge to visit his old friends, where he discovered that they and even Xiao Liu and Little Donkey had reached the Quasi-Saint Realm. Elder Yun began explaining that a strange thunderbolt had struck Dog Head Ridge ten years earlier, but he fell asleep before revealing more.

• Fang Chen reassured the Glazed Sword Sect’s elders that he would be careful in the Buddhist Land and learned that Little Star was undergoing its seventh Saint Tribulation.
• Fang Chen traveled to Dog Head Ridge to visit Elder Yun, Li Yanshan, and Wu Qingfeng, who told him they had all reached the Quasi-Saint Realm.
• Fang Chen discovered that Xiao Liu and Little Donkey had also become Quasi-Saints.
• Elder Yun said a bolt of thunder had struck Dog Head Ridge ten years earlier and left people prone to sudden sleep, then fell asleep as Spiritual Qi gathered around him.

Fang Chen learned that the people on Dog Head Ridge had gained strength and Soul Power after being struck by mysterious lightning, though they often fell asleep and dreamed. After discussing other strange events across the Barbaric Continent, Fang Chen heard from Huahua, who asked where he was.

• Elder Yun, Li Yanshan, and Donkey fell asleep, and Spiritual Qi and Saint Force gathered around them as they slept.
• Wu Qingfeng explained that the lightning-struck residents of Dog Head Ridge entered strange dreams and grew stronger while asleep.
• Fang Chen learned that even Saint Gu Yu had been unable to discover anything unusual about the residents after investigating them.
• Fang Chen considered the lightning alongside other strange events appearing since the Spiritual Qi Revival, including changes at Yunxiang Mountain and the Buddhist Land.
• Fang Chen ate with Wu Qingfeng and Chef Wang while Elder Yun and Li Yanshan slept, then Huahua contacted him and asked where he was.