Chapter Summaries

After defeating Formless, Chen Yi used the Power of the Seven Luminaries to repair the Human World, find hidden threats, and gather information. He destroyed a Dragon Person stronghold and changed the Human World's coordinates so invading planes could no longer locate it.

• Chen Yi restored the floodwaters, stars, mountains, rivers, and vegetation damaged by the battle, then surveyed the Human World and saw the fallen Li Chengqian and Long Yang, the wounded Wu Yue, and Zhenpin protecting survivors.
• Chen Yi found the Sun Moon Tower of Fire at Baisi Mountain and learned from its Artifact Spirit that the Great Demon had protected it and that it had suppressed his remnant soul.
• Chen Yi discovered two Demon Seeds and a hidden Dragon Person stronghold, heard the surviving Dragon Person Race members boast that they would eventually seize the Human World, and destroyed the stronghold and its inhabitants.
• With his lifespan nearly exhausted, Chen Yi used the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array to alter the Human World's identifying flicker frequency, making it vanish from the sight of planes seeking to invade it.

Chen Yi nearly died after the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array consumed his lifespan, but Shen Qingshan helped him claim the array’s power and break through to the Martial Saint Realm. The simulation continued into the postwar years, where Chen Yi and Li Lingyue became the Human World’s only Martial God-level forces and he learned that Dao Protectors could live for three thousand years.

• As Chen Yi fell from the sky near death, Li Lingyue caught him, and Shen Qingshan arrived with a Heart Method from the ancestor.
• Chen Yi entered a mysterious space, where Shen Yang and Li Wentian helped him absorb the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array’s power and reach the Martial Saint Realm.
• The Simulator calculated that Chen Yi had about thirty-three years left after accounting for his Lifespan Loan and its repayment.
• In the eighty-sixth year, Chen Yi drew the trait “Martin's Morning” and equipped “Proficiency” and “Bad News from the Martial Artist Community.”
• After the war, Chen Yi and Li Lingyue became the Human World’s only Martial God-level forces and were worshipped together.
• Chen Yi asked Li Lingyue about Dao Protectors, and she explained that they could live for three thousand years because the world repaid them for safeguarding it.

Chen Yi helped Hu Tiangong lead the remaining Demon Race through a passage to the Demon World, then mourned Wu Yue’s death as the survivors of the Dragon Person war aged. In later simulations, Chen Yi secluded himself to cultivate and study until he ended a run in which he died of old age.

• Hu Tiangong told Chen Yi he wanted to take the remaining Demon Race from the Human World to seek a new homeland, and Chen Yi agreed to help open a passage to the Demon World.
• The Qiankun Mirror opened the passage, and the Four Ancestors, Hongluan, and the other Demon Race members departed; Hongluan bid farewell to Chen Yi.
• Wu Yue died from injuries and soul damage sustained during the Dragon Person war, and Chen Yi sat beside her bedside and mourned her.
• In later simulations, Chen Yi secluded himself to cultivate, improve his skills, and draw traits while receiving offerings that modestly extended his lifespan.
• Chen Yi ended a simulation after dying of old age.

Chen Yi learned that a mysterious force was preventing him from entering the Real Realm, leaving him unable to ascend by any of the known methods. As he investigated Blood Moon and the hidden figure behind it, powerful leaders from across the world arrived at his home to pay their respects.

• Chen Yi drew the Prismatic Myth entry “Infinite White Porridge” and declined to equip it.
• Chen Yi recalled the Great Demon’s belief that someone in the Real Realm had repeatedly blocked his attempts to break into it.
• Chen Yi concluded that Martial Void-Breaking was impossible for now, while the other known paths to the Real Realm offered no immediate hope.
• Chen Yi continued investigating Blood Moon and the elusive Black Hand, whose identity, location, and motives remained unknown to him.
• Chen Yi settled in White Cloud County, adopted orphans, and watched them grow up while offering some of them guidance.
• The Chief Administrators of the rebuilt Three Great Sacred Lands, the Sect Masters of the Eight Pillars, the head of the Star Domain Shen Family, and other powerful figures arrived at Chen Yi’s residence and respectfully asked to be announced.

The aging Sword Holder received Human World leaders who begged him to keep living as war threatened other worlds and the Human World remained weakened. When they offered Human Origin Pills made from children, his fury unleashed a killing chill across White Cloud County.

• The Sword Holder tended to his adopted orphans before leaders from several factions arrived to pay their respects.
• He reminded the leaders that he had entrusted the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array to Shen Qingshan and made plans for the Human World to defend itself after his death.
• Shen Yue and the other leaders pleaded with him to remain because wars raged in other worlds and the Human World was still recovering from its battle with the Dragon People.
• Dongfang Yuque offered Human Origin Pills, which the leaders admitted were made using children.
• The Sword Holder erupted in anger, releasing killing intent that froze White Cloud County and brought snow in the sixth month.

The Sword Holder rebuked Shen Yue and the other leaders for considering a pill made from human kin, then urged them to let future generations inherit their achievements. As they prepared to leave, five powerful winged visitors arrived through a spatial passage and demanded to know where the Human World’s Ascension Path was.

• The Sword Holder forced Shen Yue and the faction leaders to admit they had not refined the proposed pills, then condemned their dependence on him and urged them to pass their experience to later generations.
• Dongfang Yuque asked how long the Sword Holder had to live, and the Sword Holder admitted that his death could come at any moment.
• The Sword Holder let Shen Yue and the others leave, saying his adopted children would be enough to see him through his final moments.
• A spatial passage opened above White Cloud County, and five god-tier, white-winged visitors emerged into the Human World.
• The winged visitors used conch-shaped translators to speak with Shen Yue and demanded to know where the Human World’s Ascension Path was.

Chen Yi confronted five Winged People who invaded the Human World seeking its Ascension Path. After they threatened the Dao Protector, he unleashed his full power and drove them to beg for mercy, then demanded that they reveal what they knew.

• The Winged People demanded that Shen Yue and the others disclose the Ascension Path, and Chen Yi arrived and stopped one of them from attacking.
• A Winged Person identified Chen Yi with a Spiritual Artifact and revealed that the Dragon People had placed a bounty on him.
• When a Winged Person threatened the Dao Protector, Chen Yi's killing intent erupted and the five outsiders challenged him.
• Chen Yi wielded the Twelve Scrolls of Entries and four Great Dao Immortal Artifacts, defeating the five Winged People while Shen Yue and the others protected White Cloud County.
• The people of White Cloud County recognized Chen Yi as God Yi, and he demanded that the defeated Winged People tell him where the Ascension Path was.

Chen Yi’s simulated life ended after he defeated five Alien Races and said farewell to his adopted children. After his death, the Human World mourned him, Li Lingyue sought to revive him, and the Human World eventually discovered the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm guarding the Ascension Path.

• You questioned five Alien Races and learned that the Human World had an Ascension Path, though they did not know its location, then copied the Winged Race’s Five Elements Affinity talent.
• You exhausted your remaining lifespan and told your adopted children you had to go, while the children sang to bid farewell to you.
• You died in White Cloud County as the Human World’s first Sword Holder, and the people held a grand funeral in your honor.
• Li Lingyue abdicated to keep vigil for you, later failed in an attempt to revive you, and eventually achieved Martial Void-Breaking before vanishing.
• Shen Qingshan succeeded you as the second-generation Sword Holder, mastered the Seven Luminaries Immortal Array, and prepared the Human World for renewed Alien Race attacks.
• The Human World Allied Forces and the Iron Heart Race discovered the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm, whose inhabitants claimed to guard the Human Ancestor’s Ascension Path.

After inheriting the rewards of his fifth simulation, Chen Yi resolved to reach the Real Realm through the Ascension Path. The simulator offered him an immediate opportunity if he found the path and sent four people through it, and Chen Yi prepared to set out.

• Chen Yi received Martial Saint Mid-Stage cultivation, numerous memories and entries, and powerful techniques and crafting inheritances from his fifth simulation.
• Chen Yi concluded that reaching the Real Realm through the Ascension Path could let him overcome threats in the Void Realm by drawing power from a higher-order world.
• The simulator offered a guidance mission to find the Ascension Path at the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm beyond the North Sea and send four people through it in exchange for a simulation and other rewards.
• Chen Yi considered Xiaoyao God, Hua Wuyan, Ancestor Shen, the Great Demon, Li Wentian, and the Sword Master as possible candidates to ascend.
• Chen Yi adjusted his entries, checked his status, and prepared to launch an assault on the Real Realm.

Chen Yi visited Third Sister and learned that Shen Qingshan had been injured on duty before flying to the Star Domain to demand an audience with the Shen Family Ancestor. He reached Mingguang Star and confronted the Shen Family, leaving the Elders to recognize him as a Martial God while he sought their support for the journey to the Ascension Path.

• Chen Yi visited Third Sister’s home, reassured her that he was safe, and told Shen Qingshan that he would soon bring him an enormous opportunity.
• Chen Yi reflected on his Martial God strength and decided to travel to the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm to obtain the Ascension Path, first seeking investment from the Star Domain.
• Chen Yi flew through the Empty Land Barrier toward Mingguang Star, where the Star Guard Division was mobilizing to find him.
• Chen Yi announced that he had taken the Qiankun Mirror and Star Source and demanded that the Shen Family open the Star Power Mysterious Realm and bring out their Ancestor.
• The Star Guard Division tried to arrest Chen Yi, but the Elders intervened and recognized him as a Martial God; Chen Yi spotted Shen Wanquan but held back to avoid disrupting his plans with the Shen Family.

Chen Yi visited Shen Yang and offered the Shen Family a share in the Ascension Path in exchange for their help and materials. Shen Yang agreed to gather the Shen Family Army at Golden Sand Beach, while Chen Yi hinted he could stabilize Shen Yang’s failing body and offered another piece of information.

• Chen Yi frightened Shen Wanquan by hinting that the Shen Family had been raising ghosts, then asked to meet Shen Yang with a stroke of fortune to offer.
• Shen Yue arrived, suppressed the Martial Kings who accused Chen Yi of stealing the Star Source, and arranged for Chen Yi to meet Shen Yang.
• Chen Yi told Shen Yang about the Ascension Path and proposed that the Shen Family help confront its guards in exchange for an equal share.
• Shen Yang agreed to gather the Shen Family Army at Golden Sand Beach, though he warned that his failing body limited his ability to fight.
• Chen Yi offered to help with Shen Yang’s unstable cultivation and asked the Shen Family for Immortal Artifact refining materials, then offered another piece of information as an exchange.

Chen Yi reforged the Myriad Souls Banner into a Super Immortal Artifact, then entered Xiaoyao Holy Land and demonstrated his mastery of formations. After being offered Jiugong Island’s leadership, he told Chief Administrator Dongfang Shuo that he wanted to meet the Xiaoyao God, whose unusual nature Dongfang began to explain.

• Chen Yi used materials from the Shen Family to forge the Myriad Souls Banner into a Super Immortal Artifact, while the Demon Refining Pot asked whether it could be upgraded too.
• Chen Yi secretly entered Xiaoyao Holy Land and arrived at Jiugong Island while Xie Guihong was teaching new disciples about formations.
• Chen Yi shared his Formation Dao insights, and Xie Guihong and the island’s Formation Masters recognized his skill as that of an Immortal Grade Formation Master.
• Chen Yi set up the Yixiantian Array, impressing Jiugong Island’s Formation Masters, who urged him to accept them as disciples and take the Island Master’s token.
• Dongfang Shuo arrived, and Chen Yi revealed that he had come to meet the Xiaoyao God; Dongfang began explaining that the Xiaoyao God was unusual.

Chen Yi recruited Dongfang Shuo and the Sword Sect for the struggle over the Ascension Path, explaining the Real Realm and offering each faction a chance to join his expedition. The Sword Master agreed to come to Golden Sand Beach with the Sword Sect after verifying Chen Yi’s claims through the Shen Family.

• Chen Yi asked Dongfang Shuo to join the expedition to the North Sea and lend him Xiaoyao Orders, and Dongfang Shuo agreed to lend him five after Xie Guihong pressed the matter.
• Chen Yi advised Zhao Hanzhou not to neglect his cultivation, then left for the Wuji Sword Sect using Old Shen’s Immortal Shuttle.
• Chen Yi told the Sword Master about the Real Realm, Divine Abilities, and the Ascension Path, and invited him to bring the Sword Sect’s elite to Golden Sand Beach.
• The Sword Master agreed to verify Chen Yi’s claims with the Shen Family and accepted the Sword Heart Immortal Peach as the price for the opportunity.
• The Sword Master asked whether other factions could join, and Chen Yi said they could contribute but warned him not to bring too many people.

Chen Yi found Hua Wuyan and recruited her and the Great Demon to help reclaim the Ascension Path from the Desolate Ancient Remnant People. He obtained three Unstained Flowers from Hua Wuyan, but learned that she was unlikely to leave the Human World, then asked the Great Demon for a reward and was refused.

• Chen Yi found Hua Wuyan in a remote cave and told her he had discovered the Ascension Path, persuading her to help restore it.
• Hua Wuyan gave Chen Yi three Unstained Flowers and accompanied him to find the Great Demon at Baisi Mountain.
• Chen Yi told the Great Demon that the Ascension Path had been found but was occupied, and the Great Demon agreed to fight for it.
• Hua Wuyan urged the Great Demon to pursue his ambition in the Real Realm, and Chen Yi realized that she had found the Ascension Path for him in an earlier simulation.
• Chen Yi asked the Great Demon for a reward for finding the Ascension Path, but the Great Demon refused.

Chen Yi negotiated with the Great Demon to seek the Ascension Path, then stopped in White Cloud County to save Shen Qingshan from a grave injury. He explained that Shen Qingshan could join with Ancestor Shen through his Dual Soul Saint Body, leaving Shen Qingshan to weigh that choice against his family.

• Chen Yi offered the Great Demon the Sun Moon Tower after the Ascension Path was secured, and the Great Demon agreed to travel to Golden Sand Beach with him and Hua Wuyan.
• As they flew over White Cloud County, Chen Yi paused after sensing Shen Qingshan pursuing a bandit with the Demon-Catching Team.
• Shen Qingshan captured the bandit but fell from his horse after suffering a severe abdominal wound, and Chen Yi healed him with a pill and True Qi.
• On their way back to town, Chen Yi told Shen Qingshan about the Shen Family's plans, Ancestor Shen, and Shen Qingshan's compatibility with him through the Dual Soul Saint Body.
• Shen Qingshan said he would have accepted becoming the Shen Family's ancestor if he were alone, but he could not bear to leave Third Sister and Shen Jia.

Chen Yi recruited the Li Clan to join the campaign for the Ascension Path and insisted that they bring Li Wentian’s Martial God-level power. The clan agreed to awaken Li Wentian during the battle, a dangerous process that could cost the emperor his life.

• Chen Yi took Shen Qingshan’s family into the Cauldron World and continued toward Golden Sand Beach with the Great Demon and Hua Wuyan.
• Chen Yi stopped at Dagan’s capital and persuaded the Li Clan to join the Ascension Path campaign, despite the Great Demon’s impatience.
• The Li Clan agreed to provide Imperial Mausoleum Underworld Soil and awaken Li Wentian after Chen Yi exposed their excuse about the livestock sacrifice.
• Chen Yi told the Li Clan to persuade the emperor to travel with them and bring Li Wentian’s flesh and blood, since awakening Li Wentian could kill the emperor and would only keep him active briefly.

Emperor Yongcheng agreed to send Dagan’s forces to compete for the Ascension Path, while Chen Yi gathered the final ingredients for the Five Domains Sacred Pill. He offered Chen Jing a chance to return home after revealing that Luoding Village had been slaughtered, but Chen Jing chose to pursue his own rise in the Northern Territory.

• Emperor Yongcheng committed Dagan’s elite forces to the expedition for the Ascension Path.
• Chen Yi, the Great Demon, and Hua Wuyan obtained Longevity Herb from the Northern Territory Tribal Alliance, completing the ingredients needed for the Five Domains Sacred Pill.
• Chen Yi visited Chen Jing, who was competing to become the Great Khan’s adopted son and had been badly wounded by a trap.
• Chen Yi told Chen Jing that Luoding Village had been slaughtered and offered to take him home or become his master.
• Chen Jing refused to leave, declaring that he wanted to carve out his own path and eventually rule the Northern Territory.
• Chen Yi discovered that Chen Jing had prepared traps that killed more than a dozen of his competitors.

Chen Yi gathered the Shen Family at Golden Sand Beach and arranged for Shen Yang to merge with Shen Qingshan’s Dual Soul Saint Body for the campaign ahead. While they waited for Sword Master and the Li Clan, Chen Yi refined the Five Domains Sacred Pill, whose radiance drew the attention of the Shen Family.

• Chen Yi gave Chen Jing a Xiaoyao Order and promised to rescue him if he called for help.
• Shen Yang arrived at Golden Sand Beach with tens of thousands of Shen Family fighters and supplies, and Chen Yi told him to wait for Sword Master and the Li Clan.
• Chen Yi confirmed with Hua Wuyan that Shen Yang could separate from Shen Qingshan after merging with the Dual Soul Saint Body.
• Shen Qingshan agreed to merge with Shen Yang for the campaign to take the Ascension Path, and Shen Yang began familiarizing himself with him.
• Chen Yi refined the Five Domains Sacred Pill in a secluded cave, and Shen Yang kept the Shen Family from rushing to investigate its extraordinary display.

Chen Yi gathered a vast Human Race force and used Hua Wuyan’s power to teleport them to a remote sea where he believed the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm lay. The chapter ended with Shen Yang’s formation finding no spatial anomaly, leaving Chen Yi to search for another way to locate the secret realm.

• Chen Yi’s Five Domains Sacred Pill awakened intelligence, and he named it Xiao Wu before sending it into the Cauldron World.
• The Shen Family, Li Clan, and eight great sects assembled 120,000 elite fighters for the journey to the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm.
• Chen Yi had Hua Wuyan teleport them to three barren islands in the North Sea, then released the force from the Cauldron World.
• Chen Yi identified the sea as the place where his fragmented afterlife memories showed the allied forces discovering the secret realm.
• Shen Yang set up a Kanyu Miaotian Formation, but it detected no spatial difference, so Chen Yi asked him for the formation materials.

Chen Yi’s enhanced formation revealed the hidden entrance to the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm, and the Great Demon opened it with three punches. As a massive force entered to reclaim the Ascension Path, Li Wentian explained its history and rushed into the realm to cleanse the house.

• Chen Yi recreated Shen Yang’s formation as an Immortal Grade Kanyu Miaotian Formation and detected an obstruction in the sky about fifty li away.
• The Great Demon struck the hidden boundary three times, opened a spatial passage, and left Shen Yang stunned.
• Doraemon Shen raised a jade stairway, and one hundred and twenty thousand Martial Artists charged into the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm to reclaim the Ascension Path.
• Emperor Yongcheng used his blood to transform a lump of flesh into Li Wentian, who recognized the Ascension Path and recounted how the Desolate Soldiers had betrayed the Human Race and hidden it.
• Li Wentian declared that he would stand in for the Human Ancestor and cleanse the house, then vanished into the secret realm entrance.