Chapter Summaries

Gao Zhe revealed that the Gao Family had served a hidden mission to await the Lord, whom he identified as Shen Qian, and pledged to follow and protect him. After Shen Qian admitted taking the Hundred Herbs Scripture and Shennong Cauldron, King Yan attacked the Shennong statue to verify the theft and fixed his gaze on Shen Qian.

• Gao Zhe explained that his family had secretly guarded the balance of time and space and that its ancestral precepts commanded him to serve the Lord.
• Gao Zhe identified Shen Qian as the Lord after his Time River Snail reacted to Shen Qian and the ancestral taboo allowed him to speak.
• Shen Qian learned that King Yan, Jiang Zhi, was an impetuous ruler and told Gao Zhe that he had taken the Hundred Herbs Scripture, while withholding details of his clone technique.
• Gao Zhe warned that King Yan would discover the theft through divination and that their conflict had become a matter of life and death.
• King Yan struck the Shennong statue, shattered its protective formation, and turned his icy gaze toward Shen Qian.

Shen Qian witnessed Gao Zhe use the Time River Snail to temporarily reach Wang Hou and fight King Yan Jiang Zhi, whose battle devastated Yan City. As Gao Zhe began to lose ground, Shen Qian rode the Serpent God toward the True God Domain, considering whether they could kill Jiang Zhi and settle the Heart Blood.

• Jiang Zhi attacked Shen Qian, but Gao Zhe shielded him and was pulled before the king.
• Gao Zhe activated the Time River Snail, froze time and space, and temporarily rose from Mountains and Seas to Wang Hou.
• Gao Zhe struck Jiang Zhi and fought him in the True God Domain while their clash destroyed much of Yan City; Shen Qian rescued Yue Sun from the collapsing relay station.
• Wu Ling introduced herself to Shen Qian and said her father had refused to intervene, then offered to force him to save Gao Zhe.
• Shen Qian summoned the Serpent God and rode it toward the True God Domain, hoping they could kill Jiang Zhi and settle the Heart Blood.

The Serpent God and Gao Zhe battled Jiang Zhi until Shen Qian used Emperor Yan’s handwritten decree to install Jiang Ming as the Flame Clan’s new leader. Jiang Zhi fled but was caught and killed, and the Serpent God sent his Heart Blood to Shen Qian.

• The Serpent God intervened in Jiang Zhi and Gao Zhe’s fight, allowing Gao Zhe to recover and join it in suppressing Jiang Zhi.
• Jiang Zhi pulled Jiang Li and Jiang Shen from underground and tried to force them to help by drawing the Flame Clan’s fortune into himself.
• Shen Qian presented Emperor Yan’s handwritten decree, which crowned Jiang Ming and took the Flame Clan scepter and fortune from Jiang Zhi.
• Jiang Zhi fled, but King You blocked his escape, and the Serpent God, Gao Zhe, Jiang Li, and Jiang Shen defeated him.
• Shen Qian ordered the Serpent God and Gao Zhe to kill Jiang Zhi, and the Serpent God sent Jiang Zhi’s Heart Blood to Shen Qian.

After Shen Qian and Gao Zhe killed Jiang Zhi, Shen Qian claimed Jiang Zhi’s heart and Mental Core under Emperor Yan’s orders, then destroyed the core to prevent Jiang Zhi from returning. Gao Zhe explained how the Time River Snail’s Time Sand had advanced his cultivation at the cost of more than a thousand years of life, and Shen Qian prepared to gather allies for the Myriad Races Battlefield; the chapter ended with him finding the Ninth Princess waiting in his room.

• Gao Zhe killed Jiang Zhi, and Shen Qian kept Jiang Zhi’s heart and Mental Core by invoking Emperor Yan’s supposed instructions.
• Jiang Ming accepted Shen Qian’s claim to the remains and invited him to travel together to the Myriad Races Battlefield.
• The Serpent God gave Shen Qian another scale token and left, while Shen Qian examined Jiang Zhi’s heart and found enough Heart Blood for his clone.
• Shen Qian crushed Jiang Zhi’s Mental Core to ashes, ensuring Jiang Zhi could not return to life.
• Gao Zhe explained that Time Sand had accelerated his personal time by a thousand years, granting him future cultivation while consuming his lifespan; Shen Qian decided to seek ways to restore it and summoned the Gao Clan’s other token holders to the battlefield.
• Shen Qian returned to the inn and found the Ninth Princess of the You Clan waiting in his room, prompting him to mutter the name Huo Ling’er.

Shen Qian learned more about the Three Realms and the Myriad Races Battlefield, then received Jiang Ming’s request to help humanity develop its own Enlightenment Method. The chapter left Shen Qian considering whether to join Jiang Ming’s plan as the group traveled toward the battlefield.

• You Ling questioned why Shen Qian felt familiar to her, and he shut her out while deciding to avoid becoming involved with her.
• Yue Sun brought Shen Qian breakfast, and he gave Gao Zhe dozens of medicines that could extend his lifespan by several hundred years.
• Shen Qian, Yue Sun, and Gao Zhe went to the Flame Clan’s royal palace, where Jiang Ming arranged for Shen Qian to travel with him instead of the other groups.
• Aboard the flying ship, Jiang Ming explained that the Myriad Races Battlefield would affect how power was divided among the Three Realms.
• Jiang Ming asked Shen Qian to help humanity study the corpses of powerful geniuses and create its own Enlightenment Method, leaving Shen Qian uncertain whether to accept.

Shen Qian learned that the human race might be exiled to the barren Primal Land when the Three Realms opened, then arrived at the enormous Myriad Races Battlefield. He explored the Forest of Gods and discovered that the human camp had been placed beside a dung pit.

• Jiang Ming told Shen Qian that the Flame Clan had no Sky-Mending Stones and suggested the Jiuli Clan might have some, then left after Shen Qian declined to join his cooperation.
• You Ling urged Shen Qian to join the You Clan in the Netherworld and revealed that top-tier gods planned to exile humanity to the Primal Land, which Shen Qian suspected was the Earth of the future.
• Shen Qian and the others saw that the Myriad Races Battlefield was vastly larger and more imposing than the Nine Heavens Battlefield, and learned that Giant Spirit Clan warriors served as its guards.
• Gao Zhe explained that the Forest of Gods held statues of top-tier gods, while You Ling said the gods’ interest in humanity might stem from its exceptional comprehension.
• Shen Qian and the others disembarked at the human camp, where they found it crowded and located beside a dung pit.

Shen Qian went to the Beast Fighting Arena and discovered that the human camp had been placed beside a cesspit, prompting human geniuses to challenge the Giant Spirit Clan over the insult. After Zha Li chose the secretly powerful Ji Wen for a fight, Ji Wen turned to Shen Qian and suggested him as an opponent instead.

• Shen Qian and Gao Zhe left the human camp to see the commotion at the central plaza, while Yue Sun stayed behind to guard their tent.
• At the Beast Fighting Arena, Shen Qian sensed that many of the gathered young geniuses from other races could threaten him, and he joined Jiang Ming and the other human youths.
• Ji Wen confronted Zha Li over the human camp's placement and proposed a match to decide whether it would be changed.
• Zha Li accepted the challenge but chose Ji Wen, whom the other humans believed was sickly and unskilled, revealing that Ji Wen had concealed his true strength.
• Ji Wen told Zha Li that he knew someone else he would gladly fight, then pointed his attention toward Shen Qian.

Shen Qian baited Zha Li into attacking, exposing Ji Wen’s hidden strength when Ji Wen stopped and hurled back the Giant Spirit’s hammer. Ji Wen’s scheme was revealed to the gathered leaders, and Shen Qian left after rejecting Ji Wen’s offer to join his plans.

• Ji Wen identified Shen Qian as the man who had crippled Zahe and challenged Zha Li to test him.
• Shen Qian dodged Zha Li’s attacks and led him into the human crowd, where Zha Li threw his Purple Gold Great Hammer at Shen Qian.
• The hammer nearly struck Ji Wen, who stopped it with one hand and hurled it back, badly injuring Zha Li.
• The leaders of the Myriad Races Battlefield recognized that Ji Wen had concealed his strength, and Ji Wen suspected Shen Qian had forced him to reveal it.
• Ji Wen stopped Shen Qian and offered him resources to fight for humanity, but Shen Qian refused and left with Gao Zhe.
• Jiang Ming tried to console Ji Wen, who worried that the human race might be in danger on the Myriad Races Battlefield.

Shen Qian concealed his strength while preparing for the Myriad Races Battlefield, then ascended the divine cloud staircase with Yue Sun as the battlefield opened. He discovered that the staircase carried a divine ability and revealed a ranking where Ji Wen stood tenth among the greatest geniuses.

• Shen Qian told Gao Zhe he had exaggerated his behavior at the Beast Fighting Arena to mislead the hidden gods observing him.
• The human camp moved closer to the inner perimeter after Ji Wen defeated Zha Li, while Shen Qian became the target of his fellow humans' scorn.
• Gao Zhe brought Shen Qian a Time River Snail from one of eight Gao Clan envoys, giving Shen Qian another trump card for the battlefield.
• At dawn, radiant cloud staircases appeared above the camps, and a divine voice called the geniuses of every race to ascend and pay homage to the gods.
• Shen Qian and Yue Sun climbed the staircase and discovered it used the divine ability Shrinking the Earth into an Inch.
• Shen Qian saw the Myriad Races Battlefield ranking on a towering stone pillar and found Ji Wen in tenth place, beneath nine Divine Realm Level Nine geniuses.

Shen Qian examined the Myriad Races Battlefield rankings and witnessed the gods gather above the cloud platform. When God Zhale attacked him over Zahe, the Moon God intervened and revealed her interest in Yue Sun’s waist cord, leaving Shen Qian to realize she was an old acquaintance.

• Shen Qian and Yue Sun saw that the battlefield rankings were dominated by young Mountain Sea powerhouses, especially geniuses from the Witch Clan.
• Shen Qian learned from the crowd that the gods had gathered for the battlefield and asked Yue Sun whether she had ever seen the Moon God.
• Shen Qian and Yue Sun reached the cloud platform, where thousands of gods watched over the gathered geniuses.
• God Zhale demanded the human who had injured Zahe and attacked Shen Qian, while the human martial artists backed away.
• King Xuanyuan stepped between them but ultimately withdrew, telling Shen Qian to endure God Zhale’s punishment for the greater picture.
• The Moon God stopped God Zhale with moonlight, then looked at Yue Sun’s waist cord and said she had come to find an old acquaintance.

Shen Qian and Yue Sun were taken to the Moon God Palace after the Moon God protected them from the Giant Spirit Clan. There, the Moon God used Yue Sun’s waist cord to restore one of seven missing parts of her moon phantom, but Yue Sun lost her memories of Shen Qian.

• The Moon God claimed Yue Sun as a disciple and, after Zhale threatened her, cut off his arm with a single sword strike.
• A powerful Giant Spirit Clan god intervened and injured the Moon God, who then transported Shen Qian and Yue Sun to the Moon God Palace.
• Shen Qian and Yue Sun found the Moon God gravely injured in the palace’s main hall, where she asked for Yue Sun’s silver waist cord.
• The cord connected Yue Sun to the Moon God, causing Yue Sun pain while one of the seven missing sections of the Moon God’s full-moon phantom was restored.
• After the connection ended, Yue Sun no longer recognized Shen Qian, and the Moon God explained that her memories of him were gone.

Moon God explained how the White-robed Man transformed her from an osmanthus tree and how she sought Yue Sun’s memories to repair her incomplete Path. Shen Qian tried to escape when Moon God refused to let him leave, but he stopped her by offering an azure crystal tear that he claimed could help her achieve Mental State Perfection.

• Moon God revealed that she had once been an osmanthus tree and that the White-robed Man had transformed her into a god and taught her to control Moon Phase Power.
• Moon God explained that her Path had reached a limit because she lacked human emotions, so she arranged for Yue Sun’s deepest memories and emotions to be transferred to her.
• Shen Qian told Moon God about the Great Yue Clan’s wish for Yue Sun to carry on its legacy, and Moon God agreed to let Yue Sun cultivate in the Moon Palace.
• Moon God refused to let Shen Qian leave because Yue Sun’s attachment to him affected her and he knew her secret; Shen Qian tried to flee but was bound by her curtains.
• Shen Qian offered Moon God an azure crystal tear, saying it could help her achieve Mental State Perfection, and Moon God reacted strongly to seeing it.

Moon God absorbed the emotions in Shen Qian’s tear and let him leave, while Shen Qian forced his way into the Myriad Races Battlefield despite Giant Spirit God’s attack. After arriving, Shen Qian found a Giant Spirit Clan genius among fighters in a canyon and moved to attack.

• Moon God absorbed the blue teardrop, experienced genuine heartache, and watched Shen Qian escape without stopping him.
• Shen Qian raced to the closing gate of the Myriad Races Battlefield and broke through Giant Spirit God’s palm attack to enter.
• The immortals and gods marveled at Shen Qian’s strength, while Giant Spirit God was forbidden from warning his clan and vowed to suppress Shen Qian after the Contest of Myriad Races.
• Shen Qian crossed into the battlefield, discovered a Myriad Races Token fused into his arm, and realized that claiming another token meant killing its owner.
• Shen Qian spotted a Giant Spirit Clan genius among fighters in a canyon, drew the Mountain River Saber, and appeared above them with killing intent.

Shen Qian entered the Myriad Races Battlefield, killed several Giant Spirit Clan geniuses, and discovered that kills earned Myriad Races Tokens. Joined by You Ling through a Karma Rope, he set out to find the Jiuli Clan and collect Sky-Mending Stones, while planning to hunt more enemies to reach the Third Heaven.

• Shen Qian killed Zha Heng and two other fighters in a single strike, earning three Myriad Races Tokens, then took a Longevity Flower from the valley.
• You Ling revealed that her Karma Rope had bound her to Shen Qian and explained that it let her find him despite the battlefield’s random landing points.
• Shen Qian agreed to travel with You Ling after learning she had a map of the battlefield’s secret realms and treasures.
• Shen Qian killed more Giant Spirit Clan geniuses, bringing his token count to seven, including Zha Hong, a Divine Realm Fifth Stage warrior.
• You Ling showed Shen Qian that the Jiuli Clan would likely visit Myriad Peaks Mountain in the Third Heaven, and Shen Qian decided to head there after collecting enough tokens.

Ji Wen gathered humanity’s leading geniuses in Red Leaf Forest to discuss their mission to develop a cultivation method for humans and the growing deaths caused by the Giant Spirit Clan. After they found the corpse of the Giant Spirit Clan’s top genius Zha Hong, the Giant Spirit God issued a battlefield-wide order to kill Shen Qian, but the Witch God intervened and drove him away.

• Ji Wen met Jiang Ming, Xia Hongyu, Ying Li, and other human leaders in Red Leaf Forest, where they discussed humanity’s losses and their search for an Enlightenment Method.
• A bald young man led the group to Zha Hong’s corpse, and Jiang Ming determined that a single blade strike had shattered Zha Hong’s Mental Core.
• Ji Wen and the others recognized the intact corpse as valuable for studying the Giant Spirit Clan’s cultivation, while Jiang Ming noticed its killer had used a human weapon.
• The Giant Spirit God appeared in the sky and offered rewards to anyone who helped kill Shen Qian, promising the killer the body-tempering method of Lesser Boundless Heaven.
• The Witch God confronted the Giant Spirit God and forced him to withdraw, leaving the human geniuses stunned and wondering what Shen Qian had done.

Shen Qian reached Myriad Peaks Mountain and struck a deal with Chi You to clear out the Three-Colored Giants in exchange for Sky-Mending Stones. He destroyed nearly three hundred Giants in moments and demanded his reward, but Chi You hesitated.

• Ji Wen decided that his group would head to Myriad Peaks Mountain, while Jiang Ming recalled that Shen Qian seemed to carry a saber.
• Shen Qian and You Ling reached Myriad Peaks Mountain, where Shen Qian made secret preparations before approaching the Jiuli Clan.
• You Ling introduced Shen Qian to Chi You, and Shen Qian asked for Sky-Mending Stones in exchange for any condition Chi You named.
• Chi You offered the Sky-Mending Stones if Shen Qian cleared out the Three-Colored Giants, and Shen Qian immediately accepted and charged at them.
• Shen Qian used his four arms to smash nearly three hundred Three-Colored Giants into fragments and returned to demand the Sky-Mending Stones.
• Chi You hesitated to hand over the stones, and Shen Qian narrowed his eyes and asked whether Chi You was trying to cheat him.

Shen Qian accepted a Sky-Opening Stone from Chi You, then faced a gathering of nearly thirty Divine Realm experts from multiple clans who had come to hunt him. As he drew the Mountain River Saber, hidden human observers watched from a Great Xia Clan Mountain River Diagram, uncertain whether they could intervene.

• Chi You gave Shen Qian the Jiuli Clan’s last Sky-Opening Stone, and Shen Qian learned it could greatly enhance the Mountain River Saber.
• The Nether Iron Clan arrived to claim Myriad Peaks Mountain, but Shen Qian recognized their forces had come for him alongside the Heavenly Clan and Tafa of the Vajra Clan.
• Tafa announced he intended to capture Shen Qian for the Giant Spirit God, and nearly thirty Divine Realm experts from several clans gathered around Shen Qian.
• Shen Qian dismissed Zha Xu as an inadequate opponent, hinted at a plan he had set in motion, and drew the Mountain River Saber.
• Hidden in the Great Xia Clan’s Mountain River Diagram, Ji Wen and the other human geniuses debated whether to intervene, but Ji Wen concluded they were powerless.

Shen Qian fought the gathered Divine Realm geniuses after the Giant Spirit Clan attacked him, revealing the power of his Calamity Buddha form. He killed all seven Giant Spirit Clan members and then turned toward the remaining races, showing that the battle was not over.

• Chi You offered to hold back two enemies, but Shen Qian refused and told You Ling to seek the entrance to the Fourth Heaven.
• The seven Giant Spirit Clan members trapped Shen Qian in a Seven-Star Formation and struck together, but Shen Qian survived with only minor injuries and expanded into a towering form.
• Shen Qian defeated Zha Xu in a clash of strength, then killed three more Giant Spirit Clan members with his fists.
• The remaining three Giant Spirit Clan members fled, but Shen Qian caught and killed them with his forbidden speed.
• Shen Qian beheaded the gravely wounded Zha Xu with the Mountain River Saber, then advanced toward the other races’ geniuses.

Shen Qian attacked the gathered race geniuses, killing or injuring several before activating an ancient array disk that trapped them in a fog-shrouded enclosure. As the surviving geniuses joined forces under the Qianwu Clan youth, Shen Qian welcomed their gathering from within the mist.

• Shen Qian killed the seven Giant Spirit Clan members, then attacked the Heavenly Clan and tore off Spirit Feather’s wing.
• Shen Qian killed one Heavenly Clan youth and wounded the other, while the sky’s disturbance briefly stirred and then subsided.
• Shen Qian attacked the Qianwu Clan youth, who escaped his assault in black mist, then turned toward the Strength Clan geniuses as the other races fled.
• After confirming that You Ling and the Jiuli Clan members had left, Shen Qian activated an ancient array disk and enclosed the area in fog and towering cliffs.
• Ji Wen and the others realized the array had trapped everyone, while the surviving race geniuses gathered around the Qianwu Clan youth, who promised to lead them out.
• Shen Qian chuckled from the fog after the surviving geniuses assembled, saying their gathering had saved him trouble.

Shen Qian broke free from a coordinated attack by fifteen Divine Realm geniuses and killed them, provoking several gods to invade the battlefield and place enormous bounties on his life. As the gods withdrew, Shen Qian confronted Tafa, who claimed to know where a Sky-Mending Stone could be found.

• The Qianwu Clan youth bound Shen Qian with a life-burning secret technique, allowing fourteen geniuses to unleash their strongest attacks.
• Shen Qian revealed a second pair of arms, shattered the Nether Iron Clan’s blade phantom, broke the bindings, and killed the Strength Clan youth before slaughtering the other attackers.
• Seven gods forced their faces into the battlefield, condemned Shen Qian, and announced bounties for his death, including a half Divine Bone from the Qianwu Clan.
• Shen Qian killed the remaining Divine Realm powerhouses and found Tafa hiding underground.
• Tafa admitted Shen Qian was too strong to challenge and claimed he knew where to find a Sky-Mending Stone.