Chapter Summaries

Shen Qian studied a crude map of the era and learned how many gods were marked across the land, while trying to understand how to reach the Myriad Races Battlefield. As Yue Sun sent him away from the Great Yue Clan on God Worship Day, a hostile god arrived above Python Mountain, and Shen Qian watched it from hiding.

• Shen Qian examined the Great Yue Clan's map, found no marked route to the Myriad Races Battlefield, and realized the map showed countless gods across the region.
• Yue Sun brought Shen Qian medicinal soup that restored much of his Mental Power, then told him the clan chief still wanted him to leave because it was God Worship Day.
• Yue Sun explained that the clan members were imitating the Serpent God's language and tried to persuade the clan chief to let Shen Qian stay, but she remained unwilling.
• As Shen Qian and Yue Sun left the valley, a clansman rushed back with a warning, and dark clouds swept over Python Mountain.
• Yue Sun pulled Shen Qian back into the valley and told him to hide while the Great Yue Clan prepared for the god's arrival.
• Shen Qian peered through the stone house door and saw a pair of enormous, cold eyes within the clouds above the valley.

Shen Qian watched Qi God force the Great Yue Clan to submit and steal their fortune, but a sudden appearance by Serpent God drove Qi away. Afterward, Shen Qian returned and asked Yue Sun to take him to the clan chief, leaving Yue Sun stunned by a possible connection between him and Serpent God.

• Qi God arrived in the Great Yue Clan's territory, destroyed their altars, and demanded their worship, claiming Serpent God was dead.
• Great Yue Clan submitted to Qi God to protect her people, and Shen Qian saw Qi absorb the clan's fortune to strengthen itself.
• Qi demanded worship every seven days and three boys and three girls as food at each visit, then seized five children as his first tribute.
• Serpent God's roar interrupted Qi, who dropped the children and fled when a streak of fire struck the clouds.
• Yue Sun found Shen Qian's room empty, but Shen Qian soon returned and asked Yue Sun to take him to the clan chief.

Shen Qian learned that Great Yue Clan had been waiting for him because of a prophecy, but she refused to join him against Qi God and sent Yue Sun away with him. After Yue Sun woke on the mountain path and tried to return to her clan, Shen Qian asked whether she knew where Serpent God lived.

• Shen Qian revealed that he had sensed Great Yue Clan's immense Mental Power and urged her to help him kill Qi God, but she worried that the Great Yue Clan would be destroyed.
• Great Yue Clan recalled how a White-robed Man had once helped the clan and prophesied that another strange person would come; she believed Shen Qian was that person.
• Great Yue Clan said Qi God would return before dusk the next day and told Shen Qian to leave with Yue Sun the following morning.
• Great Yue Clan sent Yue Sun to sleep, gave Shen Qian a bag and a map, and asked him to take care of her.
• Yue Sun woke as Shen Qian carried her away from Python Mountain, then tried to return to her clan; Shen Qian stopped her and asked whether she knew Serpent God's dwelling.

Shen Qian and Yue Sun traveled through Python Mountain, where Shen Qian gathered rare spiritual herbs, then hurried to the Serpent God's hidden dwelling as the Qi God headed toward the Great Yue Clan. They uncovered the concealed entrance and found a colossal, motionless python staring up at something that left Shen Qian stunned.

• Shen Qian gathered more than a hundred kinds of spiritual herbs while Yue Sun secretly collected the ones he discarded.
• Yue Sun led Shen Qian to the marked trail to the Serpent God's dwelling, and they saw the Qi God moving toward the Great Yue Clan.
• Shen Qian promised to help Yue Sun and carried her along the stream to its dry source.
• Shen Qian uncovered a vast concealment formation that revealed a huge cave entrance, then identified the fang-shaped stone carving as a human formation flag.
• Shen Qian and Yue Sun reached the mountain's interior and discovered a motionless python over a thousand meters long staring at something above it.

Shen Qian discovered that the Serpent God’s cave held a frozen Dao Sea and a Heaven-Seizing Array that might revive the dead giant python. He chose a riskier, smaller-scale method and let the system take control, leaving the cave shaking as the array stirred.

• Shen Qian realized the frozen Dao Sea was connected to the Serpent God’s failed attempt to attain the Dao, and Yue Sun identified the giant python as her clan’s Serpent God.
• Shen Qian traced the cave’s light to nearly a thousand Dao Stones arranged in a Heaven-Seizing Array and concluded that the Serpent God might still be saved.
• Shen Qian explained that activating the full array could be too dangerous, then considered using the Gate of Creation to revive the Serpent God.
• Shen Qian submitted an AFK request, and the system took over his consciousness as the cave began to tremble and the frozen sea stirred.

Shen Qian awakened the Serpent God and helped it endure the Dao Sea’s destructive backlash, but both were engulfed in flames as the sea vanished. The Serpent God emerged transformed, and Shen Qian rescued Yue Sun from the collapsing mountain before carrying her back near the Great Yue Clan, where thunderclouds gathered overhead.

• Shen Qian chanted and formed a radiant door from Dao Stones, awakening the Serpent God and drawing the Dao Sea into the cave.
• The Serpent God charged into the Dao Sea, and Shen Qian used the formation to shield it as it absorbed seven-colored light and grew larger.
• When the Dao Sea formed a gigantic hand to crush the Serpent God, Shen Qian entered the sea and calmed it, allowing the Serpent God to continue growing.
• Flames consumed Shen Qian and the Serpent God, then faded to reveal the transformed Serpent God emerging from a towering mound of ash.
• As the mountain collapsed, Shen Qian carried Yue Sun through the falling boulders and brought her near the Great Yue Clan, where dark clouds and thunder gathered.

Qi God attacked the Great Yue Clan, and Yue Lang was gravely injured trying to fight back. Great Yue Clan revealed her regrets about the White-robed Man’s scheme as Shen Qian arrived with the Serpent God’s Nirvana Fire and struck Qi God, who faced him at the Ninth Heaven of Mountains and Seas.

• Qi God’s lightning and dark-cloud monster form devastated the Great Yue Clan, while Yue Lang searched in vain for Great Yue Clan and Yue Sun.
• Yue Lang broke through his limits and charged Qi God, but its cloud claw battered him and nearly destroyed his vitality.
• Great Yue Clan appeared and caught Yue Lang, explaining that preserving the clan mattered most and that the White-robed Man had used a scheme she had mistaken for a path to power.
• A stream of flowing fire brought Yue Sun to a cliff before charging at Qi God, and Yue Lang saw the dark clouds break apart around it.
• Shen Qian, empowered by the Serpent God’s Nirvana Fire, pierced Qi God’s body and forced it to reveal its full strength as a Ninth Heaven Mountains and Seas cultivator.

Shen Qian used Qi God's relentless attacks to temper his body, breaking through into the Forbidden Domain before killing the god with a single punch. After rescuing Yue Sun, he sensed the arrival of Ox God, whose enormous form appeared over the eastern mountains.

• Shen Qian repeatedly charged Qi God and endured brutal blows while Yue Sun watched anxiously.
• Shen Qian revealed that Qi God's attacks had helped him complete his physical transformation and reach the Forbidden Domain.
• Shen Qian broke through Qi God's lightning armor with a punch and shattered its body.
• Shen Qian rescued Yue Sun from a collapsing cliff and checked that she was not seriously injured.
• Shen Qian and Yue Sun saw Ox God emerge over the eastern mountain range.

Shen Qian encountered Ox God, but the newly reborn Serpent God defeated it and forced it to submit. Serpent God extracted Ox God’s ancient bloodline for Shen Qian to eat, and the two shared a hotpot meal before Shen Qian stored some beef for his family and friends.

• Ox God charged at Shen Qian, whose presence had attracted it, and tried to seize him.
• Serpent God appeared between them and wounded Ox God so badly that it could not resist, then forced it to kneel.
• Serpent God invited Shen Qian onto Ox God’s neck and opened a wound to draw out its pale golden flesh and blood.
• Serpent God urged Shen Qian to eat Ox God’s flesh for its ancient bloodline, and Shen Qian cooked it into hotpot with instant-noodle seasoning.
• Shen Qian and Serpent God shared the meal, and Shen Qian sealed several hundred jin of beef in his spatial ring to share with his family and friends.

After learning that the White-robed Man had arranged for the Great Yue Clan to protect him and give him a true identity, Shen Qian found the clan nearly wiped out and heard Great Yue’s final requests. Great Yue gave him a Moon White Battle Robe and transferred her accumulated Mental Power to him, leaving him to decide what to do about Yue Sun and the clan’s lineage.

• Shen Qian learned from Serpent God that the White-robed Man had once persuaded it to pursue Dao enlightenment in exchange for protecting the Great Yue Clan until someone arrived to help it through the Nirvana Tribulation.
• Shen Qian found Yue Sun grieving beside the dead Yue Lang and discovered that Great Yue had transformed into a young woman.
• Great Yue asked Shen Qian to take Yue Sun to the Myriad Races Battlefield and find the Moon God, preserve the Great Yue Clan’s lineage by giving Yue Sun a child, and take out the package she had given him.
• Great Yue revealed that the White-robed Man had intended Shen Qian to assume Yue Lang’s identity, and Shen Qian realized the surviving clan and its history provided him a cover in this world.
• Great Yue gave Shen Qian the Moon White Battle Robe she had spent five hundred years sewing, then kissed him and transferred all her accumulated Mental Power to him.

Shen Qian received the Great Yue Clan chief’s Mental Power and prepared to travel with Yue Sun to the Myriad Races Battlefield. While consolidating his gains, he discovered that Calamity Buddha’s fourth level gave him a second pair of arms, leaving him eager to explore their combat potential.

• The Great Yue Clan chief gave Shen Qian her Mental Power and vanished, leaving Yue Sun grieving for the last members of her clan.
• Shen Qian found a Flame Clan token in Yue Lang’s bundle and learned it could help him reach the Myriad Races Battlefield; he and Yue Sun planned to travel to a nearby market after resting.
• Shen Qian reviewed how his origin power, Mental Core, and body had grown stronger, and concluded that his body had become his greatest foundation.
• Shen Qian discovered that Calamity Buddha had reached its fourth level and caused him to grow two additional arms.
• Shen Qian tested his four arms in a forest, smashing trees and realizing they greatly increased his offensive potential and ability to combine martial skills.

After leaving Python Mountain, Shen Qian and Yue Sun reached Clear Water Town, where Flame Clan envoy Gao Zhe introduced them to the local contact point for the Myriad Races Battlefield. Shen Qian then followed Gao Zhe toward a crowd gathered around someone selling manuals connected to the Strength Clan.

• Shen Qian and Yue Sun left Python Mountain on a horned horse, and Shen Qian burned the valley where the Great Yue Clan had lived.
• At Clear Water Town, two Giant Spirits took food from a human stall without paying, and Gao Zhe defeated them and compensated the stall owners.
• Gao Zhe recognized Shen Qian's guidance token and offered to take him and Yue Sun to the contact point before the Myriad Races Battlefield opened.
• As they entered town, Shen Qian asked Gao Zhe about the Giant Spirit and human populations, and Gao Zhe explained the Giant Spirits' strength and the humans' greater numbers.
• A stallholder shouted that he was selling an Eagle Mountain body-tempering manual and a Strength Clan primordial god guide, drawing a crowd and prompting Gao Zhe to hurry over.

Shen Qian learned that humanity lacked a widely usable cultivation method and hoped the Flame Clan’s Hundred Herbs Scripture could help him advance in alchemy. At the human outpost, Zahe challenged the gathered youths and appeared to defeat Xiang Tu, but an unseen intervention turned Xiang Tu into a counterattack that left Zahe buried in ruins.

• Gao Zhe explained to Shen Qian that humanity’s cultivation methods came from other races and that the human race needed a widely accessible enlightenment method.
• Shen Qian learned that the Flame Clan guarded part of the Hundred Herbs Scripture and considered finding a way to study it, hoping it could help him become a Great Alchemist.
• At the Flame Clan outpost, Xiang Tu confronted Shen Qian over Yue Sun, then later rushed to fight Zahe when the Giant Spirit youth challenged humanity’s gathered geniuses.
• Zahe struck Xiang Tu down with a single blow, leaving Gao Zhe preparing to rescue him.
• An unseen force sent Xiang Tu flying back at Zahe, whose arm was shredded on impact before he crashed into a building and lay unable to rise.

Shen Qian reached the Flame Clan’s capital, Yan City, and sought an audience with its leader to pursue the Hundred Herbs Scripture. After waiting all day, he learned that an emergency had ended the leader’s visits, leaving his plan at risk.

• Shen Qian defeated Giant Spirit Zahe, and Gao Zhe warned him that the Giant Spirit Clan would target him in the Myriad Races Battlefield.
• Shen Qian learned from Xiang Tu that Gao Zhe belonged to the Dao Protector lineage, whose members served across the human clans and were highly respected.
• Shen Qian and the others arrived in Yan City, where he saw Emperor Yan Shennong’s statue and realized the system could not locate the Hundred Herbs Scripture.
• Gao Zhe took Shen Qian to the Flame Clan leader’s residence, where Shen Qian sensed a super-tier expert and waited with him for an audience.
• Guards brought an urgent military report into the hall, and the chief guard announced that the leader would receive no more visitors that day.

Shen Qian entered the Flame Clan’s royal hall and claimed he could save the Ninth Princess of the You Clan, whom its greatest alchemists could not cure. After demonstrating his unusual control of ten flames, he began treating her with a precisely prepared medicine.

• Gao Zhe explained that the You Clan was the human race’s foremost clan in fighting the Witch Clan, so the Ninth Princess’s condition threatened relations between the clans.
• The Flame Clan summoned its Divine Realm Alchemists, but they could not cure the Ninth Princess, and a black-clad youth angrily demanded to return to the You Clan.
• Shen Qian rushed into the stone hall, defeated a guard captain, and withstood a blast from the Flame Clan leader before declaring he could save the princess.
• Shen Qian displayed ten different flames, won permission to treat the princess, and recognized her with shock when he saw her face.
• Shen Qian forced some black blood from the princess, then rapidly prepared medicine from over a hundred ingredients and poured it into her mouth.

Shen Qian cured the Ninth Princess of the You Clan and secured the Flame Clan leader’s agreement to let him read the Hundred Herbs Scripture. King Yan took Shen Qian to the statue of Shennong, where the Scripture revealed itself and pulled him inside.

• Shen Qian’s medicine dispelled the Ninth Princess’s poison, astonishing the Flame Clan alchemists, but she remained unconscious.
• Shen Qian asked to borrow the Hundred Herbs Scripture, and the Flame Clan leader agreed after Gao Zhe intervened.
• Shen Qian cleared the princess’s airway, waking her, then identified himself as Shen Qian of the Great Yue Clan of Python Mountain.
• King Yan visited Shen Qian at the inn and asked if he was certain he wanted to read the Scripture.
• King Yan brought Shen Qian to Shennong’s statue, where the Hundred Herbs Scripture appeared and sucked Shen Qian into a vortex.

King You confronted Jiang Zhi over the Hundred Herbs Scripture, learning that the Flame Clan had sacrificed gifted alchemists to restore it and that it was growing whole again. Shen Qian, swallowed by the Scripture, found himself inside its strange world among more than a hundred figures, including a seemingly lifeless Great Alchemist.

• The Hundred Herbs Scripture swallowed Shen Qian, and King You arrived to confront Jiang Zhi about his daughter Ling’s near-death poisoning and the Flame Clan’s role in the crisis.
• King You revealed that he knew Emperor Yan had become the statue suppressing the Scripture and accused Jiang Zhi of secretly sacrificing talented alchemists to it.
• Jiang Zhi admitted the Scripture had grown thicker by consuming alchemists and said he believed he could control it and restore the Flame Clan’s power.
• King You left to see Ling, while Jiang Zhi watched the Scripture and hoped Shen Qian would bring an unexpected change.
• Shen Qian found himself in the Scripture’s desolate inner world among more than a hundred people and recognized the emblem of a Great Alchemist on a lifeless figure.

Shen Qian discovered that the Hundred Herbs Scripture was consuming Flame Clan alchemists to restore itself, then entered its memories of Emperor Yan’s life and learned from the origin of alchemy. As the Scripture began devouring him, Shen Qian used the system to seize control, with Emperor Yan shielding him long enough for the scroll to submit.

• Shen Qian found the Hundred Herbs Scripture absorbing the Flame Clan alchemists around him and realized it was using them to restore itself.
• The Scripture pulled Shen Qian into memories of Emperor Yan developing alchemy, where Shen Qian gained knowledge while the world slowly eroded his body.
• Shen Qian used the system to accelerate his learning and attempt to take control of the incomplete Scripture before it consumed him.
• As the Scripture attacked, Emperor Yan became solid and blocked the scroll, protecting Shen Qian.
• Shen Qian grasped the scroll with his will, and the Hundred Herbs Scripture shrank and flew toward his hand.

Shen Qian met Shennong in the collapsing space and learned how the Hundred Herbs Scripture gained self-awareness and was torn apart to prevent its dangerous alchemical path from spreading. Shennong entrusted Shen Qian with the scripture, a letter for Jiang Ming, and a way to pursue alchemy without abandoning martial arts, offering him the Shennong Cauldron.

• Shennong explained that his search for alchemy’s ultimate secret caused the Hundred Herbs Scripture to develop self-awareness and pursue a dangerous path.
• Shennong revealed that he and Empress Houtu tore apart the scripture at the backward-flowing Yellow Springs, after which he became a statue to suppress what remained.
• Shennong gave Shen Qian the Hundred Herbs Scripture and entrusted him with a letter for Jiang Ming, whom he wanted to succeed Jiang Zhi if circumstances changed.
• Shennong warned Shen Qian to erase the scripture’s remaining self-awareness and explained that alchemy would otherwise prevent him from pursuing another Dao.
• Shennong described a unique avatar that could carry the Dao of a Destined Great Alchemist and offered Shen Qian the Shennong Cauldron to help forge it.

Shen Qian learned the three rare materials needed to forge a Wang Hou avatar, received the Shennong Cauldron, and escaped the collapsing ancient space. Back in Yan City, Gao Zhe revealed the Gao Clan's ancestral mission to Shen Qian.

• Shennong told Shen Qian that the avatar required nine drops of a true god's Heart Blood, nine Sky-Mending Stones, and a Destiny Bone, which might survive in a true god's remains.
• Shennong gave Shen Qian the Shennong Cauldron and advised him to use a grand formation to refine the materials.
• Shen Qian returned to Yan City with the Hundred Herbs Scripture, while Shennong's statue's book disappeared and Jiang Zhi demanded to know what had happened.
• Jiang Zhi chased the Shennong Cauldron as it flew away, unaware that Shen Qian held its miniature form and hid it in his storage ring.
• Gao Zhe arrived, took Shen Qian back to the inn, and revealed that the Gao Clan's ancestral precept was to quell the space-time calamity in the name of balance.