Chapter Summaries

Huo Zhuifeng recovered the three-eyed infant’s corpse and records from the research institute, then escaped with Gu Wenqing and the Resistance Organization. He explained his findings to Chen Chuan during their journey and prepared for a difficult return trip.

• Huo Zhuifeng entered the laboratory’s anomalous domain and sealed the infant’s corpse inside a biological membrane bag despite its resistance.
• Huo Zhuifeng collected paper records and Storage Sheaths, then found that the main door would not open until he promised to reveal what had happened.
• Huo Zhuifeng discovered that Cheng Wan’s name had appeared in the notebook and left the institute, where he reunited with Gu Wenqing and Chen Chuan.
• Huo Zhuifeng and Gu Wenqing left with the Resistance Organization, passed local roadblocks, and traveled away from the area.
• Huo Zhuifeng told Chen Chuan that the institute director had used his three-eyed child as a test subject and that the experiment likely created two interlocking anomalies.
• Chen Chuan warned Huo Zhuifeng that their return journey would be difficult, and Huo Zhuifeng said he would get the evidence out safely.

Huo Zhuifeng’s group crossed Chi Luojia Duo after he killed two pursuing Fighters and learned that Chen Chuan had come to keep the anomaly from returning to its deity. Meanwhile, Guo Tongyao convened the Fusion Faction’s council to decide how to handle investigators approaching their abandoned research institute.

• The Three-Eyed Bureau sent two Fighters to attack Huo Zhuifeng’s convoy, and Huo Zhuifeng killed them with his Divine Energy.
• Huo Zhuifeng’s group reached the coast without further obstruction, and Gu Wenqing recognized the ship sent by his Junior Brother and Junior Sister.
• Chen Chuan told Huo Zhuifeng that the anomaly was connected to Chi Luojia Duo’s deity and might return across the border without special arrangements.
• Gu Wenqing thanked the Resistance Organization members and prepared to board the ship with Huo Zhuifeng.
• Guo Tongyao told the Fusion Faction council that Zhongjing investigators were approaching their anomalous research institute, and the council discussed how to deal with the threat.

The council arranged to hire outside forces and deploy Active Consciousness Entities to stop the investigators escaping Chi Luojia Duo. As the ship came under attack, Chen Chuan entered a rift to confront the force within the anomaly, while Huo Zhuifeng defended the vessel from the arriving pursuers.

• Guo Tongyao and the council members decided to recruit Suriya and send two Active Consciousness Entities after the investigators, while leaking information to Chi Luojia Duo's high-ranking officials.
• Huo Zhuifeng brought Gu Wenqing and the evidence aboard a ship, where Chen Chuan trapped the anomaly with a ritual.
• Chen Chuan took the notebook, recording tape, and Storage Sheath, then left Huo Zhuifeng to defend the ship as cannon fire struck the surrounding waters.
• Chen Chuan opened a rift and stepped through to confront the force he suspected belonged to Chi Luojia Duo's Three-Eyed God.
• Shi Xian and other pursuers approached the ship, but Chen Chuan's white mist destroyed two Active Consciousness Entities that flew into it.

Chen Chuan crossed the rift and confronted the Three-Eyed God’s manifestation, discovering that it was an unsupported mental power inhabiting the Other Side World. He shattered its statue and burned its fragments with Profound Sky Fire, but the field remained intact, and an enormous eye still watched him.

• Shi Xian watched two powerful entities vanish in the mist and fled after realizing the unseen force had ignored him.
• Huo Zhuifeng stayed aboard the ship and let the fleeing intruder go while Chen Chuan handled matters beyond the rift.
• Chen Chuan followed a power to the Three-Eyed God’s statue and determined that its manifestation had no reinforcements or continued support.
• Chen Chuan advanced through the god’s poisonous winds and hurricane, using Profound Sky Fire to burn away the obstacles.
• Chen Chuan struck the statue with his mace, shattered it, and set its fragments alight with Profound Sky Fire.
• The field persisted after the statue’s destruction, and Chen Chuan saw a vast eye staring at him.

Chen Chuan destroyed the Three-Eyed God’s remaining presence and secured evidence linking the research institute to its attempted return. As the ship sailed through a storm, Ling Su killed Suriya, and the travelers continued onward after the skies briefly cleared.

• Chen Chuan burned away the Three-Eyed God’s mental presence, left the rift, and examined the now-ordinary corpse for evidence of the engineered microorganisms.
• Chen Chuan considered how the Conservative Faction might have supported the research and decided he would act against them once his cultivation reached its peak, unless they attacked first.
• Suriya watched the ship from the storm, transformed into the Fire Guardian Snake God, and staged a fierce battle to stop it.
• Chen Chuan ordered Ling Su to attack Suriya, and Ling Su vaporized him before returning to the cabin as a stone.
• Huo Zhuifeng watched the clouds part after the battle, then sensed something and turned toward it.

Gu Wenqing broke through to Fighter while Chen Chuan and Huo Zhuifeng discussed the approaching Great Collision and prepared to return to Zhongjing. Huo Zhuifeng accepted Chen Chuan’s cultivation materials and offered to fight alongside him, and the group departed Luozhijia by airship.

• Gu Wenqing used Chen Chuan’s guidance to cross into the Other Side World, purge alien corruption, and become a Fighter.
• Chen Chuan gave Huo Zhuifeng materials on cultivating the Aspect of the Gods so he could guide Gu Wenqing.
• Chen Chuan told Huo Zhuifeng that the Great Collision was coming very soon and asked him to travel with his group for safety.
• Huo Zhuifeng recalled killing a murderer who had escaped justice and offered to help Chen Chuan deal with enemies when the time came.
• Chen Chuan’s group reached Luozhijia, transferred to an airship, and set off toward Zhongjing.

After the sea battle, Chen Chuan learned that political interference was obstructing his investigation, so he arranged for Ming Chengzi to trace the remains by ritual. He returned in time to watch Chen Xiaojin’s national league match, where his son struggled against a carefully prepared opponent.

• Guo Tongyao learned that Suriya had disappeared and Shi Xian had escaped, then received word that the research institute in Chi Luojia Duo had vanished.
• Chen Chuan found that Han Yang and the Esoteric Ritual Masters were unavailable, so he asked Ming Chengzi to use a Root-Tracing Ritual on the remains and seek help from the Duan Chen Faction.
• Chen Chuan returned to Zhongjing, reviewed incoming messages and reports, and learned that an important Advisory Council meeting would take place next month.
• Chen Chuan’s power incarnation attended Chen Xiaojin’s match at Wu Yi Academy, where Gu Xuanbin sat beside him and questioned his interest in the young fighter.
• Chen Xiaojin struggled against his taller, faster opponent, while Chen Bitong watched from the treatment center and hoped his son would seize a brief opening.

Chen Xiaojin endured his opponent’s attacks and won after the exhausted student conceded, while Chen Chuan rejected Gu Xuanbin’s appeal to preserve stability within the Advisory Council. Chen Chuan then warned Chen Xiaojin that his next opponents would use weapons and began teaching him how to cultivate hard-body force.

• Chen Xiaojin kept rising after repeated blows, wore down his opponent, and won when the student conceded.
• Chen Bitong watched Chen Xiaojin’s victory before turning off the screen for his medical examination.
• Gu Xuanbin urged Chen Chuan to settle the Advisory Council’s internal conflict, but Chen Chuan refused and told him he would see what came next.
• Chen Chuan met Chen Xiaojin in the rest area and warned him that his next opponent would likely use a weapon.
• Chen Chuan explained that Chen Xiaojin’s strengthened Mutated Tissue could support a second type of force and began teaching him hard-body force.

Chen Chuan trained Chen Xiaojin for his upcoming match, then attended an Advisory Council meeting about the growing demon threat and Great Shun’s plans to aid neighboring regions. Jia Duanxing revealed that Li Fuyuan had helped orchestrate the attack on the World Ring, leaving the advisers to confront the danger posed by their former colleague.

• Chen Chuan taught Chen Xiaojin a method for combining two kinds of force, corrected his combat habits, and promised to provide him with Gauntlets before his next match.
• Chen Chuan left after telling Chen Xiaojin to win his mid-month match and apply the new techniques.
• Dai Xuming told the Advisory Council that a Grand Parliament member had died in the attack on the Linax Federation and that the Fu Luo Peninsula, Sherni Peninsula, and Western Frontier Khanates had requested aid.
• The advisers assigned Chen Chuan to assist in defending the Fu Luo Peninsula if needed.
• Dai Xuming introduced Jia Duanxing, who told the advisers that Li Fuyuan had joined the great demons and helped plan the attack on the World Ring.
• Dai Xuming reported that intelligence from Jia Duanxing had helped the Sangma Woga Prefecture Council defeat an invading demon force.

At an Advisory Council meeting, Mr. Jia won acceptance as a source of intelligence on the Outer Heaven Demons and warned that their worlds might begin colliding within two to seven months. Afterward, Chen Chuan met Yin Zhenzi and Ming Chengzi, who used a secret ritual on the three-eyed infant’s remains to uncover clues.

• Dai Xuming introduced Mr. Jia, and the advisors questioned him about the Outer Heaven Demons and the coming collision between the worlds.
• Mr. Jia estimated that outer heavenly tendrils would reach their world around the fifth to seventh months, leaving the advisors concerned about how little time remained.
• The Advisory Council tacitly accepted Mr. Jia, though Tie Yinyang warned him that he would be watched.
• Chen Chuan asked Han Yang to investigate the origins of the technology, but Han Yang requested a few more days to finish a major project.
• Ming Chengzi brought Yin Zhenzi to Chen Chuan, and Yin Zhenzi identified the infant’s remains as bearing the Power of Heretical Demon God.
• Yin Zhenzi and Ming Chengzi activated a secret ritual around the remains, producing fragmented scenes that Chen Chuan planned to have Kaiyang sort out.

Chen Chuan gathered further evidence about the Conservative Faction, then focused on cultivation and joined the Advisory Council to discuss a possible Outer Heaven Demons attack on the Khanate of Rur. He volunteered to go alone and arrived in Wanpoli, where the demons were expected to strike.

• Yin Zhenzi and Ming Chengzi repeated the ritual, allowing Kaiyang to record clearer traces, and Ming Chengzi agreed to investigate the locations Chen Chuan identified.
• Chen Chuan cultivated at the rift, alternating between training in the Lesser True Marvelous Realm and fighting demons beyond heaven.
• Dai Xuming told the Advisory Council that Li Fuyuan's forces might attack the Khanate of Rur, and the consultants debated whether to reinforce it or strike first.
• Chen Chuan volunteered to travel alone to the Khanate of Rur, and the Advisory Council approved his plan.
• After selecting Lost Objects for the mission, Chen Chuan traveled by airship for two days and arrived in Wanpoli.

Chen Chuan arrived in the Khanate of Rur, learned that demons might target its World Ring, and took up a position in the Other Side World. He left Ling Su outside to guard and cultivate while he began training in the Lesser True Marvelous Realm.

• Chen Chuan met Song Nong and learned that Rur's Fighters and a Chieftain-class Jade Monkey were guarding the rift.
• Chen Chuan ordered Song Nong to take him directly to Rur's World Ring defensive node instead of resting at the Snow Mountain Manor.
• Chen Chuan informed Rur's two Fighters that demons might attack their country, then told them to secure the rear while Song Nong held the line.
• Chen Chuan reduced his presence and carefully crossed the unstable rift into the Other Side World, where he found fields of star-like forms and streams of mental power.
• Chen Chuan released the Lesser True Marvelous Realm, left Ling Su outside to absorb energy and handle any enemies, and began cultivating.

While Chen Chuan cultivated in the Other Side World, Mulcadian led an army of demons against the rift, but Chen Chuan repeatedly destroyed them and thwarted their advance. Mulcadian withdrew from Chen Chuan’s field and hurled the Hera Spear, which Chen Chuan caught and burned to ash.

• Ling Su warned Chen Chuan when spiritual demons appeared, and Song Nong’s group confirmed the threat and prepared to defend the second line.
• Chen Chuan sent Ling Su to destroy the first wave of demons while he continued cultivating.
• Mulcadian charged the rift in his Golden Chariot, but Chen Chuan appeared and destroyed Mulcadian and his army with a power avatar.
• Mulcadian and the demons reappeared through their shared contract, but Chen Chuan shattered them again with a Long Jian, forcing Mulcadian to retreat from his field.
• Mulcadian threw the Hera Spear at Chen Chuan, who caught it and destroyed it with Profound Sky Fire.

Chen Chuan discovered the source sustaining Mulcadian and destroyed it, erasing Mulcadian and its demons. A group of powerful demons then attacked him, but Ling Su and a red-veiled woman intervened as Chen Chuan spotted them through the domain connection.

• Chen Chuan used the spear’s domain to locate Mulcadian and repeatedly shattered its reborn body.
• Chen Chuan destroyed the demons and Mulcadian simultaneously, amplifying the faint reaction that revealed their shared source.
• Chen Chuan found a flickering black ball of light and cut it with the Snow Monarch Blade, causing Mulcadian and the demons to vanish.
• A crystalline beam shot toward Chen Chuan, and Ling Su intercepted it, losing most of her body.
• A red-veiled woman shattered the beam’s remaining force, and Chen Chuan saw the group of demons behind the attack.

Chen Chuan confronted Ge Zhongyi and a coalition of old deities at the rift, refusing Ge’s invitation to join him and preparing to fight. After learning that the other Great Shun advisors remained at their posts, Ge ordered an attack, while Chen gathered power for a strike against the gods’ protective domain.

• Chen Chuan recognized the danger posed by the old deities and approached them before they could advance on the rift.
• Ge Zhongyi recognized Chen Chuan and invited him to join his search for eternity, but Chen rejected him and recounted Ge’s betrayal at Jigu Pass.
• Chen Chuan summoned his Aspect of Man and used Profound Sky Fire to destroy two fiends trying to pass through the rift.
• A bird-headed deity reported that the Great Shun advisors remained at their original posts, so Ge ordered the coalition to capture Chen and summoned more fiends to wear him down.
• Chen’s Purple Qi phantom failed to penetrate the gods’ protective domain, so he gathered power into his blade as Ge urged the others to stop him.

Chen Chuan used Lost Objects, Spiritual Impact, and Purple Qi incarnations to break the Old Gods’ formation and focus his assault on Ge Zhongyi. Ge Zhongyi survived several deadly blows through his Sky Bird lives and power-consuming ability, but Chen Chuan struck him again while he was off balance.

• Chen Chuan activated the Lost Object No Contest, then unleashed a Spiritual Impact that pursued the Old Gods whenever they tried to escape it.
• The Spiritual Impact overwhelmed the Old Gods’ defenses, and Chen Chuan’s Purple Qi incarnations attacked while they were scattered; one incarnation destroyed the Old God who had shifted them.
• Chen Chuan targeted Ge Zhongyi, whose Exotic Power let him observe attacks and whose transformed Sky Bird form survived a divine general’s strike.
• Ge Zhongyi used his Power Consumption ability to block Chen Chuan’s attacks, but Spiritual Fire struck him from behind and left him vulnerable to the Long Jian.
• Chen Chuan’s Long Jian smashed Ge Zhongyi apart again, scattering his Spiritual Fire and flesh.

Chen Chuan fought Ge Zhongyi beyond the rift, using his Human Aspect, Lost Objects, and Simulacrum Body to kill him repeatedly while the Advisory Council sent reinforcements. As Ge Zhongyi reappeared for what might be his final life, Chen Chuan merged with his divine general and struck while hidden from Ge Zhongyi’s Golden Eyes.

• Song Nong received Chen Chuan’s warning through the telegram contact, and the Advisory Council sent two groups of advisors toward the battlefield with another group as backup.
• Chen Chuan used Profound Sky Fire and his Human Aspect to destroy Ge Zhongyi’s body three times, while Ge Zhongyi learned that Chen Chuan’s Lost Object was nearing its limit.
• Ge Zhongyi tried to escape by severing their fields, but Chen Chuan tracked him down and used his Simulacrum Body to kill him again.
• Chen Chuan judged that Ge Zhongyi might have two lives remaining and prepared for his return as the Lost Object’s effect ended.
• Chen Chuan merged with his divine general and Human Aspect, then struck as Ge Zhongyi reappeared; Ge Zhongyi could not see him with Golden Eyes and felt his head fly from his body.

Chen Chuan killed Ge Zhongyi, then slaughtered the remaining Old Gods who attacked him. After burning their dispersed Divine Energy, he sensed an unprecedented invasion beginning to dissolve the void.

• Chen Chuan killed Ge Zhongyi with a strike too fast for his defenses to activate.
• The Old Gods arrived, confirmed Ge Zhongyi's death, and agreed to attack Chen Chuan.
• Chen Chuan used his fused aspects and extraordinary speed to tear through the Old Gods as they unleashed their divine abilities.
• Chen Chuan crushed the last Old God after the enemy's defensive Lost Object wore off, then burned all the Old Gods' scattered Divine Energy with Profound Sky Fire.
• Chen Chuan sensed the void ahead dissolving under an unprecedented invasion.

Chen Chuan defeated Ge Zhongyi and the Old Gods, then returned from the rift after meeting the arriving Advisory Council teams. On the journey home, he reflected on the limits of the Aspect of Man and considered how to find a higher, more complete path of breakthrough.

• A great demon’s gaze pierced the void and briefly suppressed Chen Chuan before vanishing.
• Chen Chuan gathered the Old Gods’ remaining Lost Objects and waited for the Advisory Council teams to arrive.
• Liu Changlin, Fang Yanxing, Tan Xubo, Gao Geliang, Tie Yinyang, and Geng Bocheng learned that Chen Chuan had slain Ge Zhongyi and the Old Gods alone.
• Chen Chuan told Song Nong that the enemies had been dealt with, then boarded an airship and departed the Khanate of Rur.
• Chen Chuan reviewed his battle and considered the ranks of the Divine Aspect, concluding that he had to sense and discover his own path to breakthrough.

Chen Chuan resolved to fuse with his Second Self before pursuing a breakthrough, despite the added difficulty, and discovered that his field could form an Immortal Abode through his own power. As he examined his battle spoils on the way home, Liu Changlin, Fang Yanxing, and Tan Xubo discussed his role and possible political choices.

• Chen Chuan rejected the idea of breaking through before his Second Self caught up and decided to fuse with it before attempting the final realm.
• Chen Chuan used his field to create a brief independent spatial field, realizing he could form his own Immortal Abode and had gained new perceptive abilities.
• Chen Chuan examined Ge Zhongyi's golden whips and the Lost Objects he had collected from the battle.
• Liu Changlin and Fang Yanxing explored the cleared void and considered whether Mr. Jia had deliberately sent demons to earn their trust.
• Tan Xubo asked Fang Yanxing whether Chen Chuan planned to join the Five-Person Group, and Fang Yanxing and Liu Changlin suspected Tan had his own intentions.