Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan prepared to leave Noah’s Ark and head for the secret treasure’s entrance, entrusting his family’s protection to Olivia and Feng Jiu. As he approached the entrance, he learned that alien warriors were waiting in ambush.

• Ye Fan gave Olivia a single-use offensive treasure and charged her with protecting his family while he was away.
• Ye Fan asked Feng Jiu to stay inside Noah’s Ark, and she agreed after giving him several powerful treasures of her own.
• Ye Fan sealed Noah’s Ark and flew toward the secret treasure, while Demigod Long Yi and Demigod Zhendong watched him depart.
• On the way, Ye Fan saw human bases swallowed by the Night Python and killed alien warriors who had infiltrated through Star Realm rifts.
• Ye Fan reviewed the Heaven, Earth, and Human Gates and chose the Heaven Gate as his destination.
• Simbaru and Dobalin prepared an ambush near the secret treasure’s entrance as Ye Fan approached.

Ye Fan reached the secret treasure world's three gates and defeated two Starry Sky Demons lying in wait. After extracting information about the alien warriors who had entered, he killed them and stepped into the Heavenly Gate.

• Ye Fan located the three gates at the bottom of the blood-colored sea and found Simbaru and Dobalin waiting near the Human Gate.
• Simbaru and Dobalin attacked Ye Fan with their Demon Roar and Death Tridents, but he repelled both attacks with his voice and physical strength.
• Ye Fan used Spiritual Fire to force Dobalin to reveal that 103 alien warriors had entered the secret treasure, including one prodigy from Immortal Wind Civilization who had entered the Heavenly Gate.
• Ye Fan burned Simbaru and Dobalin's Sea of Consciousness and entered the Heavenly Gate as they realized he was the renowned human prodigy Ye Fan.

Ye Fan entered the Heavenly Gate and found himself in a strange trial space where grains of sand appeared as worlds. He learned the demanding requirements for three trial tiers, including a chance to become a Sequence Inheritor and receive an inheritance from the Black Dragon Divine Hall.

• Ye Fan was teleported after entering the Heavenly Gate, and a powerful will scanned his aptitude and constitution.
• Ye Fan discovered that the distant lights were grains of sand that seemed to contain entire worlds, while his Psychic Power’s range had shrunk to fifty kilometers.
• The trial announced that Ye Fan qualified as an Elite Trial-taker after opening six Perfect Star Rivers and outlined the requirements for the Core Trial-taker, Inheritance Trial-taker, and Sequence Inheritor tiers.
• Venerable Kailin reacted in shock when he heard that a Sequence Inheritor would receive the commander's token of the Black Dragon Divine Hall's guard unit.
• Ye Fan considered the difficulty of lighting more Perfect Star Rivers and realized the trial could offer a path to extraordinary power and a chance to resolve the crisis facing Blue Star and the Human Race.

At the Piaomiao Sect, the ancestor worried over Piaomiaozi’s shattered survival tablet, while Venerable Kailin explained the power of the Black Dragon Divine Hall Captain Token to Ye Fan. Ye Fan entered One Sand, One World and began fighting its dangerous inhabitants.

• A warrior reported that Piaomiaozi’s survival jade tablet had shattered, and the Piaomiao Sect ancestor considered whether she had died or become unreachable.
• Venerable Kailin described the Black Dragon Divine Hall’s influence and urged Ye Fan to do his best to earn its Captain Token.
• Ye Fan set ten Perfect Star Rivers as his goal and entered One Sand, One World.
• Several Tier 4 strange birds attacked Ye Fan, and he killed them after testing the strength of one bird’s energy blast.
• Ye Fan spotted a group of people and recognized their speech as Cosmic Starry Sky Common Language.

Ye Fan joined Ji Yang’s warship after learning that its crew was heading to Heavenly Mourning Ancient City for Blood Demon Star Fruit, a treasure potentially connected to illuminating the Star River. Ji Yang and Elder Yuan suspected Ye Fan was stronger and more mysterious than he appeared as the group continued toward the city.

• Ye Fan heard the warship’s crew mock him and learned they were traveling to Heavenly Mourning Ancient City to seek Blood Demon Star Fruit.
• Ji Yang invited Ye Fan aboard despite Elder Yuan’s warning about trusting a stranger, and Ye Fan accepted.
• Ye Fan concealed his true cultivation, introduced himself as Zhou Liang, and realized that Ji Yang was a woman using an alias.
• Ji Yang arranged for Zhao Si to provide Ye Fan with spirit fruits, while the crew resented her kindness toward him.
• Elder Yuan asked whether Ji Yang had noticed something unusual about Ye Fan, and Ji Yang said he seemed unfathomable.

Ji Yang traveled toward Heavenly Mourning Ancient City under a false identity, while Ye Fan secretly watched the Ji Family and considered helping her. As the group entered a fog bank, a Tide of Blood Crows attacked, released by Protector Jiu to gather sacrifices for the Blood God.

• Ji Yang asked Elder Yuan to help her light up the sixth Star River and gather support for the contest for the Blood Demon Star Fruit, while Ye Fan listened through his divine sense.
• Two martial warriors, Jian Yi and a Beast Taming Path Mind Controller, joined the flying vessel, and Jian Yi noticed Ji Yang treated Zhou differently.
• The Beast Taming Path martial warrior sensed danger as the flying vessel entered dense fog, and Elder Yuan identified the approaching flock as the Tide of Blood Crows.
• The blood crows attacked martial warriors, while Jian Yi promised to protect Ji Yang.
• Protector Jiu revealed that he had released the blood crows to harvest martial warriors' flesh, bones, and souls for the Blood God's breakthrough.

The Ji Family’s flying vessel was attacked by a Tide of Blood Crows after Zhang Jiu tried to escape aboard it and diverted the swarm toward them. As the vessel’s defenses began to fail, Ji Yang asked Ye Fan for help, and Ye Fan agreed to make one move.

• Elder Yuan ordered the flying vessel to fly low and speed toward Heavenly Mourning Ancient City.
• Zhang Jiu tried to enter the vessel to escape the Blood Crows, and Elder Yuan attacked him, but Zhang Jiu dodged and drew the swarm onto them.
• The Ji Family warriors and Jian Yi fought off the Blood Crows, while a Beast Taming Path warrior sent out a Twin-Blade Mantis Beast King that was soon wounded and recalled.
• The Ji Family warriors warned that the growing swarm was slowing the vessel and could break its Defense Barrier within fifteen minutes.
• Ji Yang rebuked warriors who suggested throwing Ye Fan overboard, and Ye Fan agreed to make one move for Ji Yang’s sake.

Ye Fan used his powerful Mental Power to help the Ji Family’s flying vessel break through the Tide of Blood Crows and reach Heavenly Mourning Ancient City. He sensed danger in the city but decided to enter for the Blood Demon Star Fruit, while Protector Jiu planned to capture him and use his soul to aid Lord Blood God’s breakthrough.

• Ye Fan ignored the crowd’s mockery and revealed five hundred Flying Daggers, identifying himself as a powerful Mind Controller.
• Ye Fan’s blade array tore through the Blood Crows, easing the pressure on the flying vessel and allowing it to speed toward Heavenly Mourning Ancient City.
• Zhang Jiu followed the vessel, and Elder Yuan attacked him with Shaking Mountain Fist for sticking close to the Ji Family.
• Ji Yang pointed out Heavenly Mourning Ancient City to Ye Fan, who sensed a grave danger and resolved to enter for the Blood Demon Star Fruit.
• Protector Jiu learned that Ye Fan was a Mind Controller and ordered his subordinate to watch him so he could extract Ye Fan’s soul for Lord Blood God.

Ye Fan confronted Ji Yang about concealing the truth of Heavenly Mourning Ancient City, and she revealed that she was Ji Yue and explained the dangers surrounding the Blood Demon Star Fruit. After Ye Fan agreed to cooperate with her, they entered the city, where he saw the many races gathered there and locked eyes with a Mechanical Race martial artist.

• Ye Fan told Ji Yang he would go his own way unless she revealed the true situation inside Heavenly Mourning Ancient City.
• Ji Yang revealed her identity as Ji Yue, the only daughter of a central Milky Way Martial Way family, and warned that a powerful Demonic Thought and other martial artists threatened anyone seeking the Blood Demon Star Fruit.
• Ye Fan agreed to help Ji Yue within his capabilities while pursuing the Blood Demon Star Fruit for himself.
• The Ji Family vessel entered Heavenly Mourning Ancient City, where Elder Yuan warned the excited martial artists that the real trial had begun.
• Ye Fan observed members of many races in the city and felt killing intent toward a Mechanical Race martial artist, which appeared to mock him.

Ye Fan and Ji Yue faced a threat from a lustful Snake People youth after he noticed Ji Yue’s beauty, while Elder Yuan and Ye Fan vowed to protect her. The Heavenly Mourning Ancient Monument announced that only one thousand martial artists could enter the city’s core to harvest Blood Demon Star Fruits, and the group set out as the Snake People youth pursued them.

• Ji Yue noticed Ye Fan’s hostility toward the Mechanical Race, and Ye Fan explained that they had framed Blue Star and caused deaths among its people.
• The Snake People youth targeted Ji Yue, prompting Elder Yuan to confront him as Snake People martial artists gathered around them.
• Ji Yue considered abandoning the trial, but Elder Yuan insisted on continuing, and Ye Fan promised to protect her.
• The Heavenly Mourning Ancient Monument revealed the routes, opportunities, and rule limiting entry to the core to one thousand martial artists.
• Ye Fan, Ji Yue, and their companions chose a route, while the Snake People youth ordered his followers to pursue them.

Protector Jiu watched the blood prey enter Heavenly Mourning Ancient City as Ye Fan and Ji Yue's group advanced through a Fire Attribute passageway. Snake People Race warriors ambushed the group, and after their young master demanded Ji Yue, her treasures, and Ye Fan's death, Ye Fan stepped in to protect her as more than ten Tier 4 warriors attacked.

• Protector Jiu ordered his warrior to watch the races fight and singled out Ye Fan for his powerful Mental Power.
• Ye Fan sensed dense Fire Attribute energy ahead, and Ji Yue explained that the passageway restrained the Snake People Race.
• Snake People Race warriors ambushed the Ji Family group with Peerless Snake Emperor Venom, killing several warriors.
• Ji Yue offered a Void Divine Artifact, but the Snake People Race young master demanded that she become his concubine, surrender her treasures, and have Ye Fan killed.
• Elder Yuan transformed into a Titan Ape and fought the Snake People Race Demigod while another Demigod overwhelmed Ji Yue's guards.
• Ye Fan stood in front of Ji Yue and warned the Snake People Race to leave, but more than ten Tier 4 warriors charged at him.

Ye Fan killed the Snake People Race warriors who attacked him, including their Demigod guards and Young Master, while Ji Yue and the Ji Family witnessed his overwhelming strength. Ji Yue offered him the Young Master's Space Treasure, which contained two Void Divine Artifacts.

• Ye Fan killed more than a dozen charging Azure Vault Realm Snake People Race warriors with Spiritual Fire Needles, shocking both the Snake People and Ji Family.
• Ye Fan used his Silver Dragon Spear and Spatial Nuclear Explosion to kill the two Demigod guards, then collected their Space Treasures and surviving Emperor Weapons.
• After the Snake People Young Master ordered an attack, Ye Fan used Demonic Charm Art and Soul Scatter to defeat him, while another Demigod fled.
• Ye Fan pursued and killed the fleeing Demigod, returning with the warrior's head as Elder Yuan and the Ji Family watched.
• Ji Yue presented the Young Master's Space Treasure to Ye Fan and said it contained two Void Divine Artifacts.

Protector Jiu ordered the release of his trained creatures to torment the martial artists trapped in Heaven's Sorrow Ancient City. After Ye Fan impressed Ji Yue and the Ji Family by killing demigods, the group encountered a high-level demigod Flame Demon Scorpion blocking their path, and one frightened martial artist was killed while trying to flee.

• Protector Jiu praised Ye Fan's strength and ordered his subordinate to release the creatures he had been raising.
• Old Ape apologized to Ye Fan, and Ji Yue and the Ji Family praised him after learning he was only twenty-one.
• Ye Fan collected the Snake People Young Master's Void Divine Artifacts and asked Ji Yue to call him Big Brother Zhou.
• Ye Fan's group encountered a high-level demigod Flame Demon Scorpion, and Ji Yue realized the Trial Grounds had become a deadly trap.
• Ye Fan warned that every passage likely held a beast of similar strength and that retreat might be impossible.
• A Ji Family martial artist turned back in fear and was killed before he could escape.

Ye Fan used Ji Yue’s Heavenly Thunder Pearl and fought the Flame Scorpion to hone his spear skills. He trapped the scorpion with Spatial Folding and launched the pearl, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Ji Yue gave Ye Fan her one-time Heavenly Thunder Pearl after he asked whether her family had prepared a life-saving treasure.
• Ye Fan told Ji Yue and Elder Yuan to cover his flanks, then charged the Flame Scorpion with Elder Yuan and Ji Yue following.
• Ye Fan exchanged more than a hundred blows with the Flame Scorpion, dodging its pincers and poisonous tail while improving his spear art and Law of the Spear.
• The Flame Scorpion spewed fire-poison smoke, so Ye Fan retreated and trapped it with Spatial Folding.
• Ye Fan flicked the Heavenly Thunder Pearl toward the trapped Flame Scorpion, and Ji Yue wondered if the fight was about to end.

Ye Fan trapped the Flame Scorpion with Spatial Folding and killed it using Ji Yue’s Heavenly Thunder Pearl, but the beast unexpectedly revived and began a secondary evolution. Protector Jiu grew wary of Ye Fan’s space attribute, while the Ji Family group faced a newly empowered threat.

• Ye Fan used Spatial Folding to trap the Flame Scorpion and unleashed the Heavenly Thunder Pearl, apparently killing it.
• Protector Jiu recognized Ye Fan’s space attribute and ordered an investigation into whether a major power had a core disciple named Zhou Liang.
• Ye Fan told Ji Yue she could collect the Flame Scorpion’s shell, but Ji Yue insisted he take the spoils.
• A Ji Family martial artist approached the Flame Scorpion to retrieve its star core, and a spike burst from the beast’s body and pierced him.
• The Flame Scorpion absorbed the martial artist’s vital energy and blood, prompting Ji Yue to realize it was undergoing secondary evolution because of its thin Divine Beast Bloodline.

As the Flame Scorpion evolved behind an Absolute Defense Barrier Cocoon, Ye Fan learned a secret technique for detonating divine artifacts and planned to use Ji Yue’s water-attribute artifact against it. He prepared to attack the scorpion, while Protector Jiu watched from the Fire Attribute Passage.

• Elder Yuan warned that the Flame Scorpion’s divine beast bloodline had let the Heavenly Thunder Pearl trigger its secondary evolution, and the surviving Ji Family guards formed two defense arrays.
• Ye Fan’s Sky Breaking Shuttle Blades failed to penetrate the scorpion’s fire-red barrier, which Elder Yuan said might require Limit Demigod or Void God attacks to break.
• Ye Fan used an Enlightenment Point to learn the basics of the Snake People Race secret technique On the Self-Cultivation of Divine Artifacts, which enabled artifact-spirit coercion and self-detonation.
• Ye Fan asked Ji Yue for a water-attribute weapon, and she handed him her Low-grade Divine Artifact, Vast Sea, Hundred-Zhang Ice.
• Protector Jiu laughed as he watched the evolving scorpion and anticipated its threat to the human martial artist.

Ye Fan confronted the Flame Scorpion after it evolved into a Peak Demigod and threatened to shatter the Ji Family's defensive barrier. He trapped it in Spatial Folding and detonated two divine artifacts and three Demigod star cores, leaving Protector Jiu furious at the explosion.

• The Flame Scorpion completed its evolution, became a Peak Demigod, and cracked the Ji Family's Defense Barrier with its venomous stingers.
• Elder Yuan prepared to sacrifice himself to protect Ji Yue, but Ye Fan ordered the barrier opened and stepped out to fight.
• Ye Fan dodged the Flame Scorpion's attack and trapped it in Spatial Folding, estimating it would take less than three minutes to escape.
• Ye Fan inscribed sonic-blast runes on two divine artifacts and three Demigod star cores, then used mental techniques to control the artifacts' spirits.
• Ye Fan sent the weapons and star cores into Spatial Folding and detonated them, making Protector Jiu leap up and roar in anger.

Ye Fan used self-destructing divine artifacts and Star Cores to kill the mutated Flame Scorpion in the Fire Attribute passage. The scorpion left behind a Divine Beast Crystal Bone, and Elder Yuan explained its value as Ye Fan claimed the rare treasure.

• Protector Jiu learned that Zhou Liang was not known as a disciple of any major power and vowed to torture and kill him for injuring the Flame Scorpion.
• The Snake People Race’s poisoned curved blade and Ji Yue’s water-attribute divine artifact self-destructed, poisoning and freezing the Flame Scorpion.
• Three Snake People Race Demigods’ Star Cores exploded, and the resulting spatial turbulence killed martial artists who tried to sneak past Ye Fan and the battle.
• The energy subsided, and the Ji Family martial artists cheered when they saw the Flame Scorpion was dead.
• Ji Yue spotted a fiery-red crystal bone left by the Flame Scorpion, and Elder Yuan identified it as a Divine Beast Crystal Bone and congratulated Ye Fan on obtaining it.

Ye Fan refined the Flame Scorpion’s Divine Beast Crystal Bone, raising his Fire Attribute Spiritual Aptitude to Forbidden grade and awakening the nascent Fire Domain. As his domain flared, an intruder named Zhang Lie charged in after the treasure and was burned to ash.

• Ye Fan gave Ji Yue the Flame Scorpion’s poisonous stingers and surviving pincer, keeping the Divine Beast Crystal Bone for himself.
• Ji Yue and Elder Yuan promised to protect Ye Fan while he refined the bone inside his Dragon Scale Armor.
• Ye Fan absorbed the crystal bone and used Enlightenment Points to study its fire laws, raising his Fire Attribute Spiritual Aptitude to 100%.
• Ye Fan advanced his Fire Attribute Spiritual Aptitude from SSS-Rank to Forbidden grade and awakened the nascent Fire Domain.
• Zhang Lie rushed through the flames to seize the treasure, but the Fire Domain burned him to ash.

Ye Fan completed his Fire Domain inside the metal cocoon and led the Ji Family group onward through the Fire Attribute passage. When the passage trials ended, Ye Fan and Ji Yue emerged, but the Snake People Race's Young Master and his companions were still missing.

• Ye Fan comprehended the complete Fire Domain, astonishing Elder Yuan, Ji Yue, and Venerable Kailin.
• Ye Fan left the metal cocoon and continued toward the core of Heavenly Mourning Ancient City with the Ji Family group to seek the Blood Demon Star Fruit.
• The group fought through Fire Attribute exotic beasts, while the Ji Family martial artists came to rely on Zhou Liang (Ye Fan) as their strongest fighter.
• Martial artists from the other attribute passages emerged and speculated that the Fire Attribute passage had wiped out its participants.
• Ye Fan, Ji Yue, and Elder Yuan emerged from the Fire Attribute passage, but the Snake People Race's Young Master and his companions did not appear.