Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ye and Ye Shicong turned the tables on six attackers, but Dou Xingguang arrived and threatened to maim them until Shen Qian intervened. Shen Qian learned that a coalition planned to eliminate Jiangzhong Military University’s participants, then chose to retaliate after the Third Heaven Gate opened.

• Xiao Ye and Ye Shicong feigned surrender, then unleashed a coordinated counterattack that killed one attacker and seriously injured the others.
• Dou Xingguang arrived, dislocated Xiao Ye and Ye Shicong’s arms, and demanded that they sacrifice limbs before Shen Qian’s eerie wail incapacitated him and his companions.
• Shen Qian restored Xiao Ye and Ye Shicong’s shoulders, broke the attackers’ arms, and learned that the coalition intended to eliminate Jiangzhong Military University’s participants because of Shen Qian’s Golden Ranking Blessing.
• After the Third Heaven Gate opened, Ye Shicong and Xiao Ye explained how badly Jiangzhong Military University had been targeted and urged Shen Qian to advance and seek greater benefits.
• Ye Shicong and Xiao Ye used their wristbands to leave the battlefield, and Shen Qian collected their Nine Heavens Tokens.
• Shen Qian cut off the arms of Dou Xingguang and the remaining attackers, declaring that he was done with the Nine Heavens Competition.

Jiangzhong Military University’s students were repeatedly ambushed by an alliance of schools, leaving many injured and Wei Huai dead. After Xiao Ye and Ye Shicong revealed that Shen Qian had rescued them and that the attackers were likely pursuing his Golden Ranking Boon, the observers watched Shen Qian’s motionless marker in the Second Heaven without knowing what he planned to do.

• Ning Zhiyuan and Cheng Qingqing learned that Li Jiaqi and two other Jiangzhong Military University students had been ambushed by students from several schools.
• Dozens of students appeared on the plaza, including badly injured Yue Dakuan; Geng Qianqiu accused Sima Xing and Tan Kaifei of attacking him and reported that Wei Huai had died.
• Geng Qianqiu named Zhang Shaofeng as another attacker, while Professor Wang dismissed Ning Zhiyuan’s accusations as part of the competition.
• Xiao Ye and Ye Shicong reported that many schools and high-ranked experts had targeted Jiangzhong Military University, and that Shen Qian had rescued them in the Second Heaven.
• Cheng Qingqing and Ning Zhiyuan suspected the attackers wanted Shen Qian’s Golden Ranking Boon, but his marker and six nearby markers remained motionless as observers speculated about his hesitation.

As Jiangzhong Military University students were eliminated in the Nine Heavens Competition, Shen Qian revealed that he was gathering his enemies together so he could strike back against everyone who had harmed his classmates. He began raiding competitors for their tokens and treasures, leaving the contest on the verge of chaos.

• As Jiangzhong Military University’s eliminated students drew public attention, viewers speculated about Shen Qian’s inactivity and motives.
• Shen Qian questioned Dou Xingguang about the other competitors, then explained that he was waiting for them to climb higher before catching them together.
• Shen Qian crushed Dou Xingguang’s severed arms, collected the group’s Nine Heavens Tokens, and headed for the Second Heaven.
• Shen Qian arrived at a valley where over a hundred martial artists were attacking three Jiangzhong Military University students and forced them to surrender their tokens and treasures.
• Shen Qian told Yin Chongwen to warn other Jiangzhong Military University students to leave or avoid the Third Heaven, then flew away with the spoils.

Lin Sanmo arrived at the Third Heaven Gate with hundreds of Nine Heavens Tokens and a key from a Mountains and Seas demon beast, but the blockade let him pass. Shen Qian then appeared dragging a demon beast packed with tokens and identified the thirty-three Seventh Heaven Ranking powerhouses he had come to find.

• A thousand martial artists and thirty-three Seventh Heaven Ranking powerhouses blocked the Third Heaven Gate while targeting Jiangzhong Military University and other unaffiliated students.
• Lin Sanmo entered the crowd with hundreds of Nine Heavens Tokens and revealed that he had killed a Mountains and Seas demon beast for an ancient key.
• The blockade chose not to fight Lin Sanmo, who collected his tokens and prepared to leave.
• Shen Qian arrived dragging a dead elephant-like demon beast whose hollowed belly was stuffed with Nine Heavens Tokens.
• The thirty-three powerhouses formed a wary formation around Shen Qian as the rest of the crowd closed in.
• Shen Qian checked the powerhouses against a handwritten list, named them one by one, and declared, “I found you.”

As Jiangzhong Military University faced elimination, Shen Qian began ambushing competitors across the Second Heaven, eliminating thousands and severing many of their arms. The chapter ended with seven peerless geniuses from the Seventh Heaven Ranking appearing among the wounded, as Cheng Qingqing declared that Shen Qian had attacked them too.

• Earl Pingyang challenged the fairness of Jiangzhong Military University's elimination, and King Zhouyi dismissed the complaint as weakness.
• Shen Qian's first victims appeared in the plaza with severed arms, reporting that he had demanded their Nine Heavens Tokens and attacked them when they did not hand them over immediately.
• Hundreds and then thousands of eliminated martial artists appeared in repeated waves, forcing Ma Gongzuo, Marquis Wu Ding, and others to mobilize large-scale medical aid.
• Ning Zhiyuan defended Shen Qian's actions as competition, while Earl Pingyang repeated King Zhouyi's words to silence those accusing him of cowardice.
• Seven injured geniuses from the Seventh Heaven Ranking appeared, and Cheng Qingqing announced that Shen Qian had attacked peerless geniuses as well as ordinary martial artists.

Shen Qian overwhelmed the Seventh Heaven Ranking geniuses who had ambushed him, killed Wen Zhe, and forced the remaining martial artists to surrender their Nine Heavens Tokens. He confronted Lin Sanmo, who declined to fight for now, then wondered whether his teacher would approve of the path he had chosen.

• Shen Qian severed the arms of Sun Zhen and six other Seventh Heaven Ranking geniuses, then struck the group again and drove them to teleport away.
• Seventeen attackers charged Shen Qian while nine fled, but he crushed the attackers with a slash and cut down the fleeing group before they could escape.
• After the injured survivors forfeited, Wen Zhe taunted Shen Qian about the consequences of challenging the Nine Heavens, and Shen Qian killed him with a saber strike.
• Shen Qian faced Lin Sanmo beneath the Third Heaven Gate, but Lin Sanmo said he would not fight him yet.
• Shen Qian gathered the surrendered Nine Heavens Tokens and treasures, while Lin Sanmo warned that at least twelve Seventh Heaven Ranking members had ties to Wang Hou.
• After Lin Sanmo left through the Third Heaven Gate, Shen Qian wondered whether his teacher would approve of the path he was taking.

Shen Qian reached the Fourth Heaven Gate, where nine Mountain Sea Martial Artists were blocking passage and plotting to seize his Golden Ranking Blessing. He confronted them atop Overlord Elephant’s corpse, and as he drew his blade, a flash of daylight overwhelmed the scene.

• Shen Qian questioned the martial artists who had besieged Jiangzhong Military University, severed the arms of those who admitted it, and learned that Qu Bai had entered the Fourth Heaven while pursued by hundreds.
• Shen Qian took the Nine Heavens Tokens from the injured martial artists, loaded them into Overlord Elephant’s belly, and headed toward the Fourth Heaven Gate.
• Tan Hao urged the other eight Mountain Sea Martial Artists guarding the gate to wait for Shen Qian and seize his Golden Ranking Blessing, but Chu Yiran and a young woman warned him against it.
• Shen Qian appeared behind the nine while sitting on Overlord Elephant’s corpse, startling them with how close he had approached unnoticed.
• Shen Qian offered to spare one of the nine in exchange for the name of one of the three people they had mentioned, then gripped his blade as daylight flashed and a cry rang out.

Shen Qian used a single strike to break the Nine Heavens Battle Array and sever Tan Hao’s arm, then revealed a terrifying dark Buddha form and entered the Forbidden Domain of speed. The chapter left Chu Yiran and Wu Dan shattered by fear as Shen Qian’s blinding attacks killed the fleeing fighters and those at the Fourth Heaven Gate.

• The nine competitors activated the Nine Heavens Battle Array, but Shen Qian’s layered blade light shattered its Black Tortoise defense and severed Tan Hao’s arm.
• After Shen Qian raised his sword again, the young woman and Chu Yiran offered their names while six others fled or rushed toward the Fourth Heaven Gate.
• Shen Qian transformed into a dark, mantra-covered Buddha, and his aura filled the area with terror.
• Shen Qian moved at Forbidden Domain speed, striking across the battlefield and filling the air with bloody mist.
• Chu Yiran and Wu Dan watched helplessly as the slowed world returned to normal, then collapsed into terror at what Shen Qian had become.

Shen Qian unleashed the Calamity Buddha and slaughtered six Mountain Sea martial artists near the Fourth Heaven Gate, including a King’s relative. The deaths sparked a public uproar, and dozens of martial artists demanded that King Zhouyi punish Shen Qian as the Kings and Wu Wei faced pressure to respond.

• Shen Qian regained consciousness after the Calamity Buddha killed six opponents, then demanded the names of Wu Dan and Chu Yiran, who abandoned their attempts to flee.
• In the square, Xie Zhenhua knelt before King Zhouyi and demanded punishment for Shen Qian after Wen Zhe’s death, while Earl Pingyang challenged his appeal.
• After Shen Qian headed toward the Fourth Heaven Gate, six of the ten gathered markers turned gray, and a King cried out in grief for Dong'er.
• Dozens of Mountain Sea martial artists knelt and accused Shen Qian of cruelty, demanding that King Zhouyi strip him of his championship and exile him to the Bitter Sea.

As Shen Qian pursued Qu Bai through the higher layers of the Nine Heavens Battlefield, the Wang Hous argued over his killing of six Mountain Seas, and Marquis Wu Ding backed the battlefield’s judgment that Shen Qian had not broken the rules. Shen Qian entered the Sixth Heaven Gate and discovered that a new realm, the Sixth Layer Profound Heaven, had opened.

• Earl Pingyang defended Shen Qian’s actions, while Earl Aurora accused the Marquis of Jingcheng of possibly influencing the Nine Heavens Battlefield and Marquis Zhaoyuan condemned the deaths of his disciple and the other Mountain Seas.
• Marquis Wu Ding challenged Marquis Zhaoyuan, and Wu Wei assured the gathered experts that no Wang Hou could control the battlefield’s ancient will.
• In the Fifth Heaven, Shen Qian noticed strange multicolored stones, briefly saw an unfamiliar long-haired young man in his reflection, and continued searching for Qu Bai amid signs that the battlefield held hidden opportunities.
• Shen Qian found the Sixth Heaven Gate, told Great Sage to stay in the Fifth Heaven and improve itself, then entered the gate while dragging the Overlord Elephant’s corpse.
• A vast voice announced that ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine tokens had gathered and the Sixth Layer Profound Heaven had opened, leaving Shen Qian stunned above a lake.

Shi Dingyan explained to Ling Xiao that the Nine Heavens Battlefield was an ancient relic with a will powerful enough to prevent most Wang Hou from interfering, though its own dangers might threaten Shen Qian. Their discussion ended when the battlefield shook and the Sixth Layer Profound Heaven opened.

• Shi Dingyan reassured Ling Xiao that King Zhouyi would not personally interfere with Shen Qian on the Nine Heavens Battlefield because its will stood above most Wang Hou.
• Shi Dingyan revealed that some Wang Hou had attained their rank by comprehending fragments like those used to form the battlefield.
• Shi Dingyan warned that Shen Qian's predicted danger might come from the battlefield's ancient trials rather than the other competitors, but said the battlefield seemed mostly dormant.
• The Nine Heavens Battlefield shook, its mist dispersed, and a vast voice announced that the Sixth Layer Profound Heaven had opened.
• Shi Dingyan and Ling Xiao reacted with alarm as the layered world appeared between heaven and earth.

After the Sixth Heaven changed, Shen Qian fled swarms of Three-Colored Giants and discovered that drinking from a Spiritual Energy Spring Eye advanced him two minor realms. He hurried toward the Seventh Heaven Gate, where Qu Bai and the other geniuses were defending a jade platform as the sky began to collapse above them.

• The Sixth Heaven opened after ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine tokens were gathered, and Shen Qian fought a Three-Colored Giant before fleeing the many that emerged around him.
• Shen Qian escaped the pursuing giants and awakened trees, then found a Spiritual Energy Spring Eye and drank enough liquefied spiritual energy to reach the third stage of the Advanced Martial Artist realm.
• Shen Qian saw golden light near the Seventh Heaven Gate and headed toward it while carrying Overlord Elephant's corpse.
• Qu Bai, the other Nine Heavens Ranking geniuses, and more than two hundred martial artists defended a jade platform against endless Three-Colored Giants as the Seventh Heaven Gate appeared.
• Bai Fei warned the others to prepare as the sky collapsed toward the valley like a pendulum.

The Nine Heavens Ranking contenders held back the collapsing sky while Jiangzhong Military University endured Ning Zhaoyi’s abuse in the southern passage. Shen Qian arrived just as Ning Zhaoyi threatened Zhao Keyi, and he charged toward her with a dazzling blade strike.

• Lin Sanmo, Wu Yi, Cao Yi, Bai Fei, and the other ranking contenders joined forces to hold up the collapsing sky until it returned to place.
• Ning Zhaoyi whipped the Jiangzhong Military University fighters as they fought off Three-Colored Giants, while Qu Bai held back to protect them from her threats.
• Zhao Keyi used his Innate Sacred Body to shield Ding Yi and the others, but Ning Zhaoyi’s whip left him weakened and a Three-Colored Giant raised its fist to strike him.
• Shen Qian appeared at the cliff with a smoking Sniper Rifle, then vanished as Ning Zhaoyi crushed her Black Pearl Necklace in fear.
• Shen Qian blasted through the Three-Colored Giants in the southern passage and reached Ning Zhaoyi with a dazzling blade radiance.

Shen Qian survived Ning Zhaoyi’s time-stopping attack and defeated her seven Mountain Sea Corpse Puppets, then killed her despite her warning that Duke Tianning would retaliate. He revealed that Ning Zhaoyi was only one of three people on a list he had obtained below.

• Shen Qian charged through the Three-Colored Giants and unleashed a blade strike at Ning Zhaoyi, who used a necklace to slow time and stab him with a dagger.
• A black lotus mark stopped the dagger from piercing Shen Qian, and he advanced on Ning Zhaoyi as she sent seven Mountain Sea Corpse Puppets to attack him.
• Shen Qian destroyed three corpse puppets with one slash and survived the self-destruction of the remaining four.
• Shen Qian broke Ning Zhaoyi’s barriers and attacks, took her escape wristband, and killed her after she invoked Duke Tianning.
• Shen Qian told the nine people atop the stone pillar that Ning Zhaoyi was only one of three names he had obtained below.

Shen Qian named Wu Yi and Qin Xiaoke as the other masterminds behind the scheme against Jiangzhong Military University, then attacked them before the next Heaven Collapse. He left the battlefield in a direct confrontation with both Nine Heavens Ranking geniuses, with only three minutes to decide the outcome.

• Shen Qian identified Wu Yi as the second name behind the purge, and Wu Yi defended the scheme by citing the competition and the fight for opportunity.
• Shen Qian named Qin Xiaoke as the third mastermind, and she admitted her role in plotting against Jiangzhong Military University.
• Wu Yi and Qin Xiaoke focused their auras on Shen Qian, but Shen Qian refused Qu Bai's offer to intervene and told the pair to come at him.
• Sha Bi warned that fighting could leave too few people to withstand the next Heaven Collapse, and Qu Bai said it would arrive within three minutes.
• Shen Qian drew his blade and forced Wu Yi and Qin Xiaoke to leap from their stone pillars, beginning a fight he intended to finish before the Heaven Collapse.

Shen Qian fought Wu Yi and Qin Xiaoke together, using his Mental Power technique to overwhelm them and force them to reveal their hidden strength. The two summoned their Dao Projections and renewed their assault as Shen Qian faced them in the sky.

• Shen Qian exchanged attacks with Wu Yi and Qin Xiaoke, whose coordinated assault wounded him.
• Shen Qian used Hundred Ghosts Night Parade to trap Wu Yi and Qin Xiaoke in terror, then struck them both and injured Wu Yi's contracted beast, Crimson Eye.
• Wu Yi survived by using Spirit Fusion, while Qin Xiaoke used a formation-pattern defense to stop Shen Qian's blade.
• Shen Qian took pride in forcing the two geniuses to use their trump cards, and his Dao Projection solidified further.
• Wu Yi and Qin Xiaoke summoned their own Dao Projections and attacked Shen Qian again.

Shen Qian faced Wu Yi and Qin Xiaoke as they unleashed their powerful Great Dao abilities, then revealed a speed and aura that stunned the onlookers. He overwhelmed Wu Yi with a single strike, leaving the battle unresolved as he drew his blade.

• Wu Yi summoned thirteen beast spirits through his Hundred Beasts Dao, while Qin Xiaoke revealed a Heaven's Dao connected to space.
• Mu Ziyan bet that Shen Qian would lose within five moves, while Lin Sanmo wagered three hundred million that Shen Qian would not lose.
• Wu Yi and Qin Xiaoke struck Shen Qian, whose aura abruptly vanished and reappeared behind Qin Xiaoke without taking the chance to attack her.
• Bai Fei recognized from Shen Qian's gaze that Shen Qian had not been serious before, and Shen Qian moved with speed that surpassed the others' perception.
• Wu Yi fled at full power, but Shen Qian appeared in his path and stopped him with a palm to the head, breaking his beast phantoms and bones.
• Shen Qian drew his long blade while Wu Yi stared at him in horror.

Shen Qian defeated Wu Yi and forced Qin Xiaoke to concede, then led the remaining fighters in stopping Heaven Collapse by attacking it in midair. The trial ended with the Seventh Heaven Gate opening.

• Wu Yi escaped after his bonded demon beast, Crimson Eye, sacrificed itself to block Shen Qian's fatal strike.
• Qin Xiaoke conceded, gave Shen Qian the Secret Key, and agreed to donate one billion in martial arts resources to Jiangzhong Military University.
• Shen Qian and the other fighters took their places on the stone pillars as Heaven Collapse approached again.
• Shen Qian flew up and struck the falling heavens, prompting Lin Sanmo and the other fighters to join him until they stopped and reversed its descent.
• The final Heaven Collapse ended, the valley's entrances sealed, and the Seventh Heaven Gate fully opened.

After the Seventh Heaven Gate demanded 999 Nine Heavens Tokens, Shen Qian and the others collected the remaining tokens and decided who would continue onward. Qu Bai explained his hidden past and renewed his promise to fight Shen Qian, while Jiangzhong Military University’s students chose to remain behind; other martial artists then asked Shen Qian to trade tokens with them.

• The Seventh Heaven Gate required 999 Nine Heavens Tokens, trapping the martial artists in the rift until they killed the remaining Three-Colored Giants and gathered tokens.
• Qu Bai told Shen Qian that he had reached Mountains and Seas before turning seventeen, explained why he had kept his strength hidden, and agreed to fight Shen Qian when the time was right.
• Zhao Keyi and the others collected nearly three thousand Nine Heavens Tokens and brought them to Shen Qian, who gave more than five hundred to Ding Yi.
• Zhao Keyi and the Jiangzhong Military University students chose to stay in the Sixth Heaven rather than enter the more dangerous Seventh Heaven, and Shen Qian said he had enough tokens without theirs.
• Other martial artists asked Shen Qian if they could trade with him for Nine Heavens Tokens.

Shen Qian sold Nine Heavens Tokens to the martial artists stranded in the rift, charging different prices and revealing that he had an enormous stock hidden inside Overlord Elephant's corpse. After selling thousands of tokens, he demanded the key Mu Ziyan carried in exchange for hers, leaving their deal unresolved.

• Cai Dongli bought 2,132 Nine Heavens Tokens for Suke Martial University at ten thousand each, with Bai Fei's name backing their IOU.
• Shang Chengzhi and the other Eighth Heaven Ranking geniuses bought tokens from Shen Qian at sharply higher prices and signed IOUs promising they would be worse than pigs and dogs if they defaulted.
• Shen Qian brought down Overlord Elephant's corpse, revealing it was stuffed with Nine Heavens Tokens, and sold several thousand more to ordinary martial artists at an average of thirty thousand each.
• Mu Ziyan asked to buy 187 tokens, and Shen Qian first quoted one million per token before changing his price to the key she carried.
• Mu Ziyan's expression changed when Shen Qian demanded her key.