Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ping An endured a brutal fight against a Second Level God King in the second Nightmare Trial, then turned the battle around with the Primordial Dao Domain, Primordial Calamity Light, and a final Soul Power strike. He defeated his opponent but collapsed with severe injuries, and the examiner praised his victory.

• The Second Level God King battered Jiang Ping An and prepared a massive golden Sword Qi strike to finish him.
• Jiang Ping An survived the attack, appeared behind the God King, and used the Primordial Dao Domain to disrupt his connection to the Divine Dao Laws.
• Jiang Ping An unleashed Primordial Calamity Light, which disintegrated most of the God King's body before fading from lack of divine power.
• The wounded God King charged at Jiang Ping An with his Broken Sword, but Jiang Ping An destroyed him with a blood sword formed from killing intent and Mental Power.
• Jiang Ping An collapsed after confirming the God King's death, and the examiner praised his will, tactics, and trump cards.

After recovering from his injuries, Jiang Ping An chose to enter the final Nightmare Trial, where he had to master three levels of a Divine Art within a century at the cost of his life essence. He headed for the palace’s most powerful Divine Arts, determined to earn one valuable enough to trade to Azure King for the Lord of Order's blood.

• A healing orb restored Jiang Ping An's body, divinity, and energy after he passed the Second Trial.
• Jiang Ping An rejected the offer to stop and entered the Third Trial through a gate of light.
• In the vast palace, Jiang Ping An saw dozens of divine trees inscribed with supreme Divine Arts and spotted Jun Changge studying the tallest tree.
• The examiner explained that challengers had to master the first three levels of one Divine Art within a hundred years or die, and that abandoning the attempt would permanently damage their life essence and cultivation.
• Jiang Ping An chose to challenge the trial and flew toward the three innermost trees, whose Divine Arts rivaled the Primordial True Martial Scripture.

Jiang Ping An chose to study the Karmic Fire Divine Art, Hell of Illusory Suffering, instead of the spatial or spear arts. Jun Changge recognized the art’s deadly backlash for someone with Jiang Ping An’s heavy karmic burden, but the life-draining trial had already begun.

• Jiang Ping An examined the three Divine Arts and set aside the spatial art and spear art as poor fits for his cultivation path.
• Jiang Ping An chose Hell of Illusory Suffering because his strong foundation in fire rules might help him master it and combine it with his flame arts.
• Jiang Ping An touched the tree and began sacrificing his lifespan while using the World Eye to study its Divine Runes.
• Jun Changge noticed Jiang Ping An’s choice and realized the art could make its sinful practitioner burn in Karmic Fire.
• Jun Changge regretted that Jiang Ping An had chosen a dangerous art, then returned his attention to comprehending the spatial Divine Art.

Jiang Ping An began comprehending Hell of Illusory Interdependence by igniting his own immense karmic burdens, enduring Karmic Fire while using his sins and the World Eye to master the art. As he and Jun Changge continued their trials beneath the giant tree, factions gathered outside the Legacy Ground and anxiously awaited news.

• Jiang Ping An decided to use his own Karmic Fire as a weapon and rely on his Primordial Dao Domain to erase its effects on himself.
• Jiang Ping An ignited his karmic burdens, endured the Karmic Fire Red Lotus, and studied the first two stages of Hell of Illusory Interdependence.
• Jiang Ping An made rapid progress with help from his sins and the World Eye, though the Karmic Fire continued burning him as his remaining lifespan dwindled.
• Jiang Ping An and Jun Changge aged rapidly while cultivating, with only a hundred years left to complete the first three stages of their Divine Arts.
• Powerful figures waited outside the Legacy Ground and learned that the trials had severe failure rates, while some participants had died before they could withdraw.

Thundercrash emerged from the Legacy Ground after passing the Hard Trial, while Jun Changge remained inside attempting the Nightmare Trial. Lan Shi'er rejected the Azure King’s order to return home and stayed to cultivate as Jiang Ping An continued studying the third layer of an unknown Divine Art.

• Thundercrash emerged after 53 years, announced that he had passed the Hard Trial, and received a high-level lightning Divine Art.
• Thundercrash learned that Lan Shi'er and several others had passed before him, then wondered whether Jun Changge had chosen the Nightmare Trial and decided to wait for his result.
• A messenger told Lan Shi'er that the Azure King wanted her to return to the imperial city, but she refused and continued cultivating while waiting for Jun Changge.
• More Supremes of the Same Level emerged from the palace as the trials continued.
• Jiang Ping An endured raging Karmic Fire while studying the third layer, Karmic Fire Sin Chain.

Jun Changge emerged from the Legacy Ground after passing the Nightmare Trial, while Jiang Ping An continued enduring the Karmic Fire Sin Chain in the Third Trial. Despite his kingdom’s celebration, Jun Changge stayed behind to wait for Jiang Ping An, whom he believed might defeat him.

• Jun Changge watched Jiang Ping An suffer under the Karmic Fire and doubted he could master the technique because of his heavy karmic slaughter.
• Over the decades, Jun Changge aged as he pursued the trial, while Jiang Ping An was reduced to his Undying Demon Bone with faint Karmic Fire chain phantoms forming around him.
• Lan Shi'er waited anxiously outside the Legacy Ground, uncertain whether Jiang Ping An was alive.
• In the ninety-sixth year, Jun Changge emerged and announced that he had passed the Nightmare Trial, astonishing the gathered experts.
• Jun Changge’s mother and the Heavenly Order Divine Kingdom’s elders celebrated his success, while Thundercrash seethed with jealousy.
• When his mother urged him to go home, Jun Changge stayed to wait for someone he thought most likely to defeat him.

Jiang Ping An emerged from the Nightmare Trial after nearly a year, prompting Jun Changge to challenge him. Jiang was in no mood to fight because he had learned that the divine art he won could not be traded for the Lord of Order’s essence blood.

• Jun Changge waited outside the Inheritance Palace, convinced Jiang Ping An might be able to defeat him, while Thundercrash feared Jiang had also survived the Nightmare Trial.
• About a year after Jun Changge emerged, Jiang Ping An left the Inheritance Palace, and Jun Changge’s battle intent stirred the surrounding laws and drew everyone’s attention.
• Experts recognized Jiang Ping An as the Blue Sea Country cultivator who possessed the Yin Yang Dao Body, practiced the 'Primordial True Martial Scripture,' and wielded Invincible Belief.
• Jun Changge praised Jiang Ping An for surviving and asked to fight him, but Jiang declined because he was in a bad mood.
• Jiang Ping An explained that the Legacy Ground had sealed 'Hell of Illusory Suffering,' preventing him from trading it for the Lord of Order’s essence blood.
• The gathered experts were shocked to learn that Jiang Ping An had obtained 'Hell of Illusory Suffering,' one of the Fifth God Kingdom’s three strongest divine arts.

Thundercrash challenged Jiang Ping An to a Life and Death Battle after Lan Shi'er protected him from its attack. Jiang Ping An unleashed Hell of Illusory Suffering, and the chapter ended with towering Karmic Fire engulfing Thundercrash.

• Thundercrash attacked Jiang Ping An, but Lan Shi'er sealed its divine power, destroyed its life-saving talisman, and vowed to protect Jiang Ping An.
• Thundercrash taunted Jiang Ping An into fighting, and Jiang Ping An accepted a Life and Death Battle.
• The Electric Eel Demon Race expert removed the seal on Thundercrash, allowing the duel to begin before the gathered factions.
• Jiang Ping An used the Karma Fire Rules, but Thundercrash dismissed the few flames as harmless and struck him, breaking both his arms.
• Endless blood-red Karmic Fire erupted from Jiang Ping An and swallowed Thundercrash, blackening and burning its scales.

Jiang Ping An used his own Karmic Fire to bind and nearly defeat Thundercrash, enduring the flames as he drained and battered his opponent. After Thundercrash’s trump-card spear backfired and an Electric Eel Demon Race elder attacked, Blue Sea Country intervened, and Lan Shi'er condemned the race for breaking the duel’s rules.

• Jiang Ping An trapped Thundercrash with Karmic Fire Sin Chains inside his Primordial Dao Domain and attacked him with a Bone Blade, despite the Karmic Fire consuming his own body.
• Thundercrash unleashed a powerful spear carrying a King-level Third-Order Thunder Rule, but Jiang Ping An twisted space so the spear reappeared and struck Thundercrash instead.
• An Electric Eel Demon Race member caught the gravely injured Thundercrash, then attacked Jiang Ping An in anger.
• A Blue Sea Country expert blocked the attack and accused the Electric Eel Demon Race of breaking the rules of the life-and-death contest.
• Lan Shi'er rebuked the Electric Eel Demon Race for cheating and attacking Jiang Ping An, leaving its experts unable to respond.

Jiang Ping An defeated Thundercrash in the Life and Death Battle, then agreed to spar with Jun Changge five days later. Jun Changge postponed the fight to care for his injured mother, and Jiang Ping An and Lan Shi'er were confronted by Azure King on their way back.

• The gods watched Jiang Ping An defeat Thundercrash, who survived because of a protective talisman and demanded a rematch, but Lan Shi'er refused for him.
• Jun Changge challenged Jiang Ping An to a fight five days later, while Thundercrash was taken away by the Electric Eel Demon Race after his injuries worsened.
• Madam Rong shattered her Origin Divine Spark to pretend she had been injured, prompting Jun Changge to postpone his spar with Jiang Ping An and leave with her.
• The inheritance continued, but no further gods passed the Nightmare Trial, leaving Jiang Ping An and one other person as the only two who had passed.
• Jiang Ping An asked Lan Shi'er why she had stayed behind, and she said she had wanted to return with him.
• Azure King appeared before Jiang Ping An and Lan Shi'er, and their Blue Sea Country escort immediately knelt to greet him as Lord National Ruler.

Azure King offered Jiang Ping An a drop of the Lord of Order's Essence Blood in exchange for pledging loyalty to Blue Sea Country or earning one hundred million Military Merit. Jiang Ping An had not chosen between the conditions when Lan Shi'er urged him to accept the first and flee if the royal family made dangerous demands.

• Azure King summoned Jiang Ping An and Lan Shi'er to his divine hall and praised Jiang Ping An for passing the Nightmare Trial and mastering the Primordial Calamity Light.
• Azure King asked Jiang Ping An to join Blue Sea Country, and Jiang Ping An requested the Lord of Order's Essence Blood or an Origin Fragment in return.
• Azure King offered Jiang Ping An a drop of Essence Blood if he either pledged lifelong loyalty to Blue Sea Country and surrendered Hell of Illusory Suffering at the sixth God King level, or earned one hundred million Military Merit before the war ended.
• Lan Shi'er objected that earning one hundred million Military Merit was nearly impossible for Jiang Ping An, but Azure King insisted the offer was already generous.
• Azure King said he would not oppose Jiang Ping An becoming Lan Shi'er's consort if he pledged loyalty, embarrassing and angering her.
• Lan Shi'er secretly urged Jiang Ping An to accept the first condition and flee if Blue Sea Country later demanded something excessively dangerous.

Jiang Ping An rejected the Azure King's offer of royal protection and resources, choosing instead to earn one hundred million Contribution Points on the battlefield for a drop of the Lord of Order's blood. The Azure King then used Lan Shi'er's feelings for Jiang Ping An to pressure her into cultivating the Lan Clan Royal Family's Divine Arts, making the blood contingent on her success.

• Jiang Ping An chose the battlefield option despite Lan Shi'er warning that earning one hundred million Contribution Points was impossible.
• The Azure King agreed to give Jiang Ping An a drop of the Lord of Order's blood if he earned the required points before the war ended, then teleported him away.
• The Azure King told Lan Shi'er that Jiang Ping An was not yet worthy of her, and Lan Shi'er defended Jiang Ping An's talent.
• The Azure King ordered Lan Shi'er to cultivate in the Royal Palace instead of going to the front lines, and offered to give Jiang Ping An the blood if she mastered two royal Divine Arts to the Seventh Layer.
• Lan Shi'er asked the Azure King to give Jiang Ping An the blood immediately, but he refused and left her to decide whether to accept his condition.

Jiang Ping An reunited with Tuanzi and his companions after nearly a century away, then drank Forget Worry Wine with Lan Shi'er and Long Ya. He woke the next morning beside a sleeping woman whose identity was not revealed.

• Tuanzi worried that Jiang Ping An had not returned, then rushed into his arms when he appeared at the courtyard gate.
• Jiang Ping An gave Tuanzi and Little Lion spirit fruits and explained to Lan Shi'er that he had requested the Lord of Order's blood to avoid being bound by Blue Sea Country.
• Jiang Ping An realized Lan Shi'er had been prepared to sacrifice her freedom for him, so he reassured her that the blood was not important.
• Long Ya joined them with Forget Worry Wine, and the group drank together as Jiang Ping An briefly felt his burdens ease and fell asleep.
• Jiang Ping An woke in the morning and found a sleeping woman nestled in the crook of his arm.

After spending several peaceful months with Lan Shi'er, Jiang Ping An left Snowy Mountain City to pursue assassination bounties and earn Contribution Points while concealing his true motives. He reached Tianyuan Camp, where Wildsea Royal Clan cultivators discussed his growing reputation.

• Jiang Ping An and Lan Shi'er woke together after he drank Forget Worry Wine, and they spent the next few months exploring Snowy Mountain City with Tuanzi.
• Jiang Ping An studied bounty notices and planned to assassinate Wildsea Royal Clan and Electric Eel Demon Race targets below the First Level God King.
• Lan Shi'er urged Jiang Ping An not to take the dangerous missions, but he said he needed to appear to be earning Contribution Points to deceive the Azure King.
• Jiang Ping An left Snowy Mountain City with Tuanzi and Little Lion, intending to carry out assassination missions alone.
• At Tianyuan Camp, Wildsea Royal Clan cultivators learned that Jiang Ping An had obtained a Supreme Divine Art and defeated Thundercrash, and they grew apprehensive about his rise.

Zhuo Wu Yuan boasted that he would kill Jiang Ping An, then left a tavern for the Hunting Ground under the protection of a Second Level God King. After explosions distracted his guard, Zhuo Wu Yuan vanished, prompting Tianyuan Camp to launch an emergency search and issue a bounty.

• Zhuo Wu Yuan emerged from a private room and dismissed the tavern patrons’ warnings about Jiang Ping An, claiming he would kill him once he grew stronger.
• A patron suggested Zhuo Wu Yuan visit the Hunting Ground to hunt Lan Alliance captives, and Zhuo Wu Yuan left the tavern with two women while his guard followed.
• Zhuo Wu Yuan ordered his guard to keep his distance, then mocked him while the two women flattered Zhuo Wu Yuan.
• Several explosions rocked nearby shops, and while the guard checked the blasts, Zhuo Wu Yuan and the two women disappeared.
• The guard reported Zhuo Wu Yuan missing, and Tianyuan Camp sounded its highest-level alert and began a sweeping search.
• Tianyuan Camp sent every being an emergency bounty notice offering 30,000 Contribution Points for valid information about Zhuo Wu Yuan.

Jiang Ping An revealed that he had abducted Zhuo Wu Yuan and hidden him inside Little Lion while the Wildsea Royal Clan searched outside Tianyuan Camp. He looted Zhuo Wu Yuan’s belongings and began probing his sealed memories for valuable intelligence, discovering that his divine sense could enter the soul without resistance.

• The Wildsea Royal Clan demons found Zhuo Wu Yuan missing and saw a ransom demand for ten thousand Spirit King Pills, making them question whether the Lan Alliance was responsible.
• Jiang Ping An returned to a room in Tianyuan Camp after hiding within a controlled Wildsea Royal Clan deity and explained how he had used a disturbance to abduct Zhuo Wu Yuan.
• Jiang Ping An entered Little Lion’s stomach, took Zhuo Wu Yuan’s pills, weapons, and other possessions, and promised Little Lion a share of the resources.
• Jiang Ping An sent his divine sense into Zhuo Wu Yuan’s soul to search for camp intelligence and found that the soul’s seal did not block him.

After discovering the Hunting Ground’s captive Alliance members, Jiang Ping An considered rescuing them for Contribution Points but judged the plan too dangerous. A month after Zhuo Wu Yuan’s kidnapping, the camp gathered outside Zhuo Tianyuan’s residence to witness the ransom collection.

• Jiang Ping An found Zhuo Wu Yuan’s memories of the Wildsea Royal Clan hunting captured Alliance members and decided to investigate rescuing them for Contribution Points.
• Jiang Ping An sent a controlled Wildsea Royal Clan god to gather information while Tianyuan Camp’s leaders strengthened their defenses and Zhuo Tianyuan agreed to wait a month for the ransom.
• Jiang Ping An learned that rescuing the Hunting Ground’s captives could earn over four hundred thousand Contribution Points, but the guards and risk of attracting stronger gods made him consider abandoning the plan.
• One month after Zhuo Wu Yuan was kidnapped, camp residents gathered outside Zhuo Tianyuan’s residence to watch the kidnapper collect the ransom.

Jiang Ping An entered the Wildsea Royal Clan’s Tianyuan Camp with Zhuo Wu Yuan as his hostage and unleashed the Fifth Main God’s Divine Art, Hell of Illusory Suffering. The Karmic Fire devastated the camp, while Zhuo Tianyuan tried to preserve his son by killing him before the fire could damage his Origin Divine Spark.

• Zhuo Tianyuan warned his commanders to guard the camp and avoid acting rashly when the expected visitor arrived.
• Jiang Ping An appeared carrying Zhuo Wu Yuan by the neck, and the demons recognized him as the Lan Alliance fighter on their wanted list.
• Jiang Ping An said he had planned to take Spirit King Pills but instead would show the Wildsea Royal Clan his newly acquired Divine Art inheritance.
• Zhuo Tianyuan rushed to attack Jiang Ping An and cut down both Jiang Ping An and Zhuo Wu Yuan, hoping to spare his son’s Origin Divine Spark from the Karmic Fire.
• Karmic Fire Red Lotuses rose from the bodies of tens of thousands of Wildsea Royal Clan members, who screamed as they burned to ash.

After Jiang Ping An’s death, his Karmic Fire devastated the Wildsea Royal Clan and prompted Zhuo Tianyuan to reinforce Tianyuan Camp’s key locations. Jiang Ping An then used the resulting withdrawal of guards to enter the Hunting Ground, where he found three humans in danger, leaving their rescue unresolved.

• Jiang Ping An’s Karmic Fire killed thousands of King of the Desolate Sea Demons, while Zhuo Tianyuan’s forces saved only a small number of survivors.
• Zhuo Tianyuan checked the camp’s important locations, found no attacks, and ordered stronger defenses as he suspected Jiang Ping An had another objective.
• Jiang Ping An, hidden inside a disguised King of the Desolate Sea Demon, entered the Hunting Ground after guards were transferred elsewhere.
• Jiang Ping An passed into the barrier space for God Tribulation Realm deities and flew deeper while avoiding surveillance.
• Jiang Ping An found two injured men and a woman facing a King of the Desolate Sea Demon, which pulled the woman toward it as the men tried and failed to stop it.

Jiang Ping An rescued prisoners from the Hunting Ground by bringing them into the Devouring Space, but the Array Supervisors discovered the mass disappearances. At the final barrier, six God Kings surrounded him before he could escape.

• Jiang Ping An swallowed the King of the Desolate Sea Demon and rescued three captives, who remained wary until he left its corpse and pills behind.
• Jiang Ping An gathered the captives’ trust and rescued the God Tribulation Realm deities from their barrier.
• Jiang Ping An used Tuanzi’s Formless Illusionary God Body and numerous clones to enter other barriers and evacuate Alliance members.
• The Array Supervisors noticed prisoner counts falling to zero, confirmed the barriers were empty, and reported the incident to their superiors.
• Jiang Ping An reached the final barrier for Immortal Lord Realm prisoners, found it empty, and tried to leave before six God Kings surrounded him.