Chapter Summaries

Chen Yi and the Human World forces entered the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm and confronted its defenders over the Ascension Path. As Chen Yi secretly prepared an array, the dispute escalated with the arrival of Yi Chengsheng, one of the realm’s Martial God City Lords.

• Chen Yi led 120,000 Martial Artists into the vast realm and ordered them to spread through its mountains and rivers.
• Chen Yi concealed his cultivation, gathered materials from Shen Yang to set up an array, and asked Hua Wuyan to negotiate for time.
• Hua Wuyan and the Great Demon challenged the golden-armored defenders, demanding access to the Ascension Path while arguing over the secret realm’s claim to it.
• A Martial King mocked the Human World’s Martial Gods and declared that the Desolate Ancient Upper Realm would not yield.
• Yi Chengsheng, one of the Five Great City Lords and a Martial God, flew out of the Floating City as the golden-armored soldiers saluted him.

Li Wentian and Great Demon confronted Yi Chengsheng and the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm's City Lords, while Chen Yi questioned whether they were connected to Blood Moon. Hua Wuyan explained that Blood Moon had long targeted Human Race prodigies and became more active after the Human Emperor Palace collapsed.

• Yi Chengsheng demanded that Li Wentian and his companions leave, and Great Demon attacked him with a Nine-Headed Devil Dragon that devastated the Floating City.
• Yi Chengsheng summoned the four other City Lords, who accused Hua Wuyan's group of provoking them and claimed they were defending themselves.
• Chen Yi revealed his Martial God Realm and asked Yi Chengsheng about his relationship with Blood Moon, linking the organization to the Rune Dao used in the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm.
• Great Demon confirmed that Blood Moon assassins had once tried to kill him using the same power, which Shen Yang identified as Divine Patterns.
• Hua Wuyan explained that Blood Moon targeted Human Race prodigies and grew more active after the Human Emperor Palace collapsed.

Chen Yi and the Dao Protectors exposed the Blood Moon Organization as the Desolate Ancient Remnant People, who had suppressed Human Race geniuses to keep the outside world weak and protect their claim to the Ascension Path. Yi Chengsheng explained their motives and revealed that Blood Moon had also targeted the Great Dao Immortal Artifacts to prevent the Human World from opening paths to other worlds.

• Chen Yi concluded that Blood Moon’s absence of action in the fifth simulation had let Human Race geniuses flourish, and Li Wentian questioned whether Blood Moon had arranged his son’s death.
• Chen Yi released the Ten Thousand Soul Golden Banner’s Demon Souls to search for evidence, but the five Martial God Realm city lords destroyed them, exposing their connection to Blood Moon.
• Yi Chengsheng admitted that the Desolate Ancient Remnant People had killed Human Race geniuses to limit the outside world’s strength and preserve their advantage in the struggle for the Ascension Path.
• Yi Chengsheng explained that they sought knowledge, technology, cultivation methods, and information from descendants in the Real Realm, while using the outside world as a shield against the next World War.
• Yi Chengsheng revealed that Blood Moon had targeted the Great Dao Immortal Artifacts, especially the Qiankun Mirror, to prevent the Five Elements Root Artifacts from opening passages to other worlds.

Dachun explained how the Great Dao Immortal Artifacts were persecuted, and Chen Yi declared the Human World's intent to reclaim the Ascension Path. The Desolate Ancient Remnant People attacked, but Chen Yi activated the Yixiantian Array and turned the battle against them, leaving him fighting Yi Chengsheng while demanding Blood Moon return his wife’s life.

• Dachun told Chen Yi how the Heaven and Earth Sword disappeared, the Mountain River Armor's Artifact Spirit was erased, and the other Great Dao Immortal Artifacts were hunted.
• Chen Yi announced that the Human World would seize the Ascension Path, while Yi Chengsheng summoned Martial Artists from across the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm and ordered them to kill the invaders.
• Chen Yi activated the Yixiantian Array, causing the Divine Patterns to fail and the airborne Desolate Ancient Remnant People to crash to the ground.
• Chen Yi ordered the Human World Martial Artists to attack, and his allies gained the upper hand against the Desolate Ancient forces and their five City Lords.
• Chen Yi transformed into Super Saiyan 1 and attacked Yi Chengsheng while shouting for Blood Moon to return his wife's life.

Chen Yi and the Human World fighters battled the Five Great City Lords, whose Divine Patterns turned the fight against them. Chen Yi discovered that the patterns needed adapting to the Cauldron World and began forcing the enemy into it.

• Chen Yi entered Extreme Rage and battered Yi Chengsheng, but Divine Patterns calmed him and ended his rage.
• The Five Great City Lords used Divine Patterns to blunt the Human World fighters’ attacks, while Yi Chengsheng trapped Chen Yi beneath the falling Floating City.
• Shen Qingshan searched the wreckage for Chen Yi, who emerged unharmed with the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
• Chen Yi realized the enemy’s Divine Patterns needed adjustment to function in the Cauldron World.
• Chen Yi opened the Cauldron World and urged his allies to drive the Five Great City Lords inside.

Li Wentian, the Great Demon, Shen Yang, and Hua Wuyan battled the South, North, East, and West City Lords while Chen Yi used the Nine Provinces Cauldron to capture them. The four City Lords were trapped in the Cauldron World, while the Central City Lord remained unaccounted for.

• Li Wentian struck the South City Lord and kicked him toward the Cauldron World entrance, where Chen Yi caught and sealed him inside.
• The Great Demon trapped the North City Lord in Killing Intent, and Chen Yi captured him when he escaped through the prepared entrance.
• Shen Yang outwitted the East City Lord with a puppet substitute, allowing Chen Yi to collect him in the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
• Hua Wuyan lured the West City Lord into an illusion-and-poison trap, and a great cauldron descended on her when the poison briefly took effect.

Chen Yi and his allies confronted Yi Chengsheng and the other Blood Moon city lords inside the Nine Provinces Cauldron, where the trapped Martial Gods discovered their Divine Patterns did not work as they expected. Hua Wuyan poisoned Yi Chengsheng after her offer of surrender was rejected, and Chen Yi prepared to attack the weakened group.

• Chen Yi and the four Martial Gods entered the Cauldron World after Yi Chengsheng and the other city lords were trapped inside.
• The five city lords mocked the treasures in the Cauldron World and attempted to seize them, prompting the Myriad Souls Banner to attack Yi Chengsheng.
• Chen Yi arrived and promised that none of the city lords would escape, while Hua Wuyan asked to try persuading them to surrender.
• Yi Chengsheng rejected Hua Wuyan's offer and threatened her with a chance to use the Ascension Path if she joined the Desolate Ancient Upper Realm.
• Hua Wuyan used the Witch Dao to beguile the five city lords, approached Yi Chengsheng, and fed him poison.
• Yi Chengsheng tried to activate a Divine Pattern but discovered that the method did not work properly in the Cauldron World, as Chen Yi raised his Qilin Arm to fight.

Chen Yi's group defeated Yi Chengsheng's group and demanded the Ascension Path, but Yi Chengsheng claimed it was not in his hands. Outside the Cauldron World, the Desolate Ancient Remnant People began sacrificing themselves to summon an ancestor, and a colossal blood-red face appeared in the sky.

• The Qiankun Mirror reinforced the Cauldron World, allowing Chen Yi's group to defeat and subdue Yi Chengsheng and the other city lords.
• Yi Chengsheng begged for mercy and accused Shen Yang and Li Wentian of monopolizing power, but Shen Yang defended his family's work and Li Wentian collapsed after exceeding his time limit.
• Chen Yi demanded the Ascension Path, and Yi Chengsheng said it was not in his hands.
• Dachun noticed that the Desolate Ancient Remnant People were killing themselves, so Shen Yang sent Chen Yi and the Great Demon outside to investigate.
• Chen Yi and the Sword Master saw the Remnant People sacrificing themselves with Divine Patterns to summon an ancestor, and a blood-red face formed above the Nine Provinces Cauldron.

Chen Yi confronted the Desolate Soldier, who claimed the Ascension Path for the Desolate Soldiers and attacked him. Chen Yi emerged unharmed and pursued the elusive Desolate Soldier, while the weakened Great Demon slipped underground.

• The Desolate Soldier awakened and revealed that it guarded the Ascension Path for the Human Ancestor.
• The Desolate Soldier blasted the Great Demon, but the Sun Moon Tower preserved the core of his soul.
• Hua Wuyan challenged the Desolate Soldier, which claimed the Ascension Path belonged solely to the Desolate Soldiers because the Human Ancestor had abandoned them.
• Chen Yi rejected the Desolate Soldier's claim to be his ancestor and survived its attack without injury.
• Chen Yi pursued the Desolate Soldier as it moved beyond his reach, while the Great Demon turned into Killing Intent and slipped underground.

Chen Yi fought the Desolate Soldier in the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm and learned that Blood Moon had begun its final retaliation across the Human World. After trapping the Desolate Soldier with the Sun Moon Tower, Chen Yi struck him with the Vehicle Killer, risking the collapse of the realm.

• Chen Yi tore open the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm while the Desolate Soldier repaired it with Divine Patterns.
• Yi Chengsheng revealed Blood Moon’s dormant agents would sow chaos if the Desolate Soldier awakened, and Shen Yang warned Chen Yi and Hua Wuyan.
• Chen Yi transformed into Super Saiyan 2 and used the Great Demon and the Sun Moon Tower to trap the Desolate Soldier and block his spatial displacement.
• Hua Wuyan and Shen Yang escorted the Sword Master and the other surviving Martial Artists out while Chen Yi prepared to attack the Desolate Soldier.
• The Desolate Soldier warned that killing him would destroy the Desolate Ancient World, but Chen Yi released the Vehicle Killer and struck him.

Chen Yi destroyed the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm by using Vehicle Killer on the Desolate Soldier, then found the revealed Ascension Path. The Great Demon crossed the Human World half of the path and vanished into the Void as Chen Yi prepared to simulate what happened next.

• Chen Yi watched the Desolate Soldier accelerate the collapse of the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm, then escaped as the realm and its inhabitants were annihilated.
• Chen Yi learned that the Ascension Path had survived the collapse and revealed itself after the Desolate Soldier's restrictions disappeared.
• Chen Yi released Yi Chengsheng and four others from the Nine Provinces Cauldron, and Yi Chengsheng pointed out the Ascension Path.
• The Great Demon charged onto the Ascension Path and struggled step by step until he crossed its visible half and disappeared.
• Chen Yi saw the simulation mission progress reach 1/4.

Chen Yi killed the Five Great City Lords despite their offer of intelligence about an approaching World War, then dismissed the threat and arranged for the Ascension Path to be shared. He left the Sword Master intending to try the path next year and promised to guard it.

• Yi Chengsheng and the East and West City Lords explained that the Ascension Path reappeared yearly and that only exceptionally powerful cultivators could cross it.
• Yi Chengsheng offered intelligence about an Alien Race invasion and World War in exchange for the five City Lords' lives, but Chen Yi killed them and sealed their souls in the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Chen Yi revealed that he already knew about the Dragon Person Race and ordered Old Wan to silence Yi Chengsheng when he warned that the Human World would be destroyed.
• Chen Yi asked Hua Wuyan to take the group back to the continent and requested her help returning to the Ascension Path in future years.
• Chen Yi told the Sword Master he could attempt the Ascension Path next year and declared that qualified cultivators could use it, with the original shareholders receiving priority.
• Chen Yi promised to guard the Ascension Path against anyone trying to use its yearly slot secretly.

After the Ascension Path’s first appearance, Chen Yi returned to a quiet life while investigating three mysteries unrelated to Blood Moon. A year later, he and Hua Wuyan met the Sword Master and Shen Yang at the path as the Sword Master prepared to enter the Real Realm.

• Hua Wuyan took the survivors back to the continent, and news of the Ascension Path drew Martial Artists toward the North Sea.
• Chen Yi resumed his studies and training while monitoring investigations into Blood Moon’s hidden agents, then considered who had helped the Dragon Person Race, where Hua Wuyan’s Seven Luminaries Immortal Array came from, and where the Heaven and Earth Sword had gone.
• A year later, Chen Yi, Hua Wuyan, and the Sword Master arrived at the Ascension Path, where Shen Yang had been researching its Divine Patterns.
• Shen Yang suggested Divine Patterns might have originated with the Human Ancestor, while the Sword Master explained that Chen Yi had told him he would not reach Martial God within eighty years.

The Sword Master struggled up the Ascension Path and entered the Real Realm, leaving Chen Yi and the others behind. Months later, Shen Qingshan prepared to ascend as Chen Yun and Shen Jia saw him off, though they did not know whether he could return.

• The Sword Master defied the Ascension Path’s resistance, spent months climbing it, and vanished into the Real Realm.
• Chen Yi learned that Hua Wuyan would stay in the Human World, then returned to White Cloud County with her.
• Chen Yun told Chen Yi she supported Shen Qingshan going to the Real Realm, even if she and Shen Jia might never see him again.
• Several months later, Chen Yun and Shen Jia waved farewell to Shen Qingshan at the end of the North Sea as he stood in the air.

Shen Qingshan and Shen Yang completed the Human World portion of the Ascension Path, while Chen Yi searched for someone to take the next available place. After failing to persuade Martial Saints, Chen Yi arranged to send two spirit monkeys from the Real Realm on the path, though their low cultivation left their chances uncertain.

• Shen Qingshan asked Shen Yang to put him to sleep so he would not regret leaving Chen Yun and Shen Jia behind.
• Shen Qingshan and Shen Yang entered the latter half of the Ascension Path after completing its Human World portion.
• Chen Yi tried to persuade Li Liushui, other Martial Saints, and major sect leaders to walk the Ascension Path, but none agreed.
• Chen Yi visited Zhuge Zhujin at the Divine Weapon Pavilion and gained permission to send the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey and Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey to the Real Realm.
• Chen Yi found the two monkeys in the Spirit Sea Realm and wondered whether their origins gave them a special advantage on the Ascension Path.

Chen Yi sent the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey up the Ascension Path, completing his guidance mission and earning a sixth simulation. Before beginning it, he drew the Golden Legend Entry Dragon Race Bane and started his sixth life.

• Chen Yi chose the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey to ascend first, while keeping the Fire-Eyed Golden Monkey in the Human World in hopes of connecting with Ji Wuqing.
• Chen Yi and Hua Wuyan brought the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey to the Ascension Path, where it climbed without resistance and vanished toward the Real Realm.
• Chen Yi completed the guidance mission, received his reward, and returned to the Five Domains with Hua Wuyan.
• Chen Yi inspected his rewards, including Heaven Grade Spiritual Artifacts and the Immortal Grade martial art Divine Weapon Apocalypse.
• Chen Yi drew the Golden Legend Entry Dragon Race Bane, adjusted his Entries, and began his sixth simulation.

Chen Yi began his sixth simulation with the Prismatic Myth entry “Simulated Clone,” which let him summon versions of himself from the ends of his previous lives. He summoned all five, but found them confused and in varying states of age and injury, and prepared to explain what was happening.

• Chen Yi received the “Simulated Clone” entry and realized it could summon his five past selves, though they were old, injured, or near death.
• Chen Yi replaced “Hulk” with “Simulated Clone” and summoned all five versions of himself in the Chen Mansion courtyard.
• Chen One appeared frail and confused, while Chen Two and Chen Three wondered how they had returned after dying.
• Chen Four arrived attacking imaginary Dragon Person enemies, and Chen Five appeared in midair, puzzled by the other versions of himself.
• Chen Yi addressed the noisy clones and asked them to listen quietly.

Chen Yi chose Chen Four to remain in the Human World as his stand-in before departing for the Ascension Path, leaving him two treasures and saying farewell to his family and companions. Before leaving, Chen Yi warned the Li Imperial Clan about Li Lingyue’s hidden Dao Fruit and directed them to send her to Hua Wuyan when she came of age.

• Chen Yi selected Chen Four to stay in the Chen Mansion and explained his plans to Third Sister and Chen Yun.
• Chen Yi left the Nine Provinces Cauldron and Qiankun Mirror with Chen Four, said goodbye to Dachun, and told Black Wind to meet him in the Real Realm after ascending.
• Chen Yi departed White Cloud County and declined Li Yang’s invitation to a feast in the Dagan capital.
• Chen Yi told the Li Imperial Clan that Li Lingyue had a Dao Fruit and could cultivate despite her apparent lack of aptitude.
• Chen Yi instructed the Li Clan to send Li Lingyue to the Southern Border to find Hua Wuyan when she reached adulthood, then watched her briefly before leaving.

Before ascending from the Human World, Chen Yi visited old friends and allies, collected resources, and reminded the Demon Race not to threaten humanity. He left Xiaoyao Holy Land after visiting Jiugong Island and seeing Wu Yue, without disturbing her.

• Chen Yi watched Chen Jing fighting in the Northern Territory without revealing himself, then found Zhenpin in Western Liang and took the Spiritual Grass he had stolen.
• Chen Yi told Zhenpin that his Ascetic Spirit Body required hardship, took all his resources, and asked the Grand Abbot of Vajra Temple to arrange safe opportunities and cultivation methods for him.
• Chen Yi visited powers across the Five Domains and borrowed several Immortal Artifacts before sparring with the Four Ancestors of the Demon Race to warn them against provoking the Human Race.
• Chen Yi met Dongfang Shuo at Xiaoyao Holy Land, discussed the Ascension Path and Xiaoyao God, then visited Jiugong Island and accepted gifts, including the Nine Crows Divine Bow.
• Chen Yi saw Wu Yue cultivating, chose not to disturb her, and left.

Chen Yi gathered supplies and crystal stones for his journey, then reached the Ascension Path at the North Sea and set off while keeping his departure secret. He left Shen Yue responsible for White Cloud County and began ascending with Hua Wuyan’s help.

• Chen Yi intervened in Wang Mingbai and Wang Yanbing’s argument, encouraged Wang Mingbai to enter the Holy Son selection, and accepted the Wang Family’s gift of top-grade crystal stones.
• Chen Yi contacted Hua Wuyan with the Xiaoyao Order, and she teleported him to the North Sea after giving Chen Three pills for his Dragon Person Poison.
• At age twenty-six, Chen Yi gained the green trait “Running Playlist” and chose not to adjust it.
• Chen Yi reached the Ascension Path, told Shen Yue to keep his departure secret and protect White Cloud County, then rose into the air with his supplies, resources, and artifacts.
• Chen Yi stepped onto the Ascension Path.