Chapter Summaries

Chen Yi read the ancient stele at the Emperor Tomb and learned that Heavenly Emperors had suppressed Contamination across the universe. Tomb robber Fu Lai then tried to blast into the mountain, but the stone held firm, leaving the group to wonder what lay beneath.

• Chen Yi, Ji Baiming, and Ji Wuqing left Longevity Wood Village to investigate the Emperor Tomb on the nearby mountain.
• Chen Yi translated the stele's title, "Biography of the Twenty-Four Emperors," and explained that it recorded the lives of twenty-four Heavenly Emperors.
• Chen Yi read that Contamination had been widespread in the Heavenly Emperor Era but was ultimately suppressed by the emperors.
• Fu Lai introduced himself and his companions, whom Chen Yi recognized as powerful tomb robbers, and asked what the stele said about the tomb.
• Fu Lai and his companions blasted at the mountain, shaking the area but barely damaging the surface soil or stone.
• Chen Yi warned Fu Lai to hope the site was only a memorial, while the tomb robbers dismissed the Heavenly Emperors as possibly no more than Qi Transformation cultivators.

You stopped Fu Lai and his tomb raiders from harming the Emperor Tomb, then learned that Longevity Wood Village was secretly Gravekeeper Village. The villagers invited you to witness their once-in-a-century funeral procession, and Ji Wuqing persuaded you and Ji Baiming to stay.

• Fu Lai and his companions failed to open the Emperor Tomb, while Ji Wuqing wanted to stop them and Ji Baiming urged caution.
• Residents of Longevity Wood Village confronted the tomb raiders, and Fu Lai threatened them before you seized his weapon.
• Fu Lai wounded you, but you healed and exposed his thoughts to the crowd before defeating him with Light Speed Fist.
• You took Fu Lai's Spirit Treasure and storage bag, collected the other raiders' belongings, made them apologize to the villagers, and let them go.
• The villagers revealed that their village was secretly called Gravekeeper Village and that they guarded the tomb under their ancestors' instructions.
• The villagers invited you to their upcoming century-old funeral procession, and Ji Wuqing convinced you and Ji Baiming to stay.

Chen Yi saw news of old Human World friends being executed or imprisoned and decided they needed to unite in the Tianhe Star System. At Longevity Wood Village’s centennial Funeral Ceremony, the Ancestor Emperor’s statue released a mysterious light that eradicated all Contamination and forced the Cultivators present to kneel or fall.

• Chen Yi read that Li Wentian had been executed, Shen had been sentenced to life imprisonment on Aoka Star, and the devil had been killed by an Immortal King.
• Chen Yi concluded that the isolated Human World talents needed to gather together and began planning for the next simulation.
• Chen Yi, Ji Wuqing, and Ji Baiming attended Longevity Wood Village’s once-in-a-century Funeral Ceremony, where villagers held a feast and carried empty coffins to the Emperor Tomb.
• At the Emperor Tomb, villagers pleaded with the Ancestor Emperor to protect Humans from oppression by Alien Races, while Ji Wuqing urged the Kindling Society to adopt the ceremony.
• A mysterious radiance erupted from the Ancestor Emperor’s statue, overwhelmed the Cultivators present, and made all Contamination vanish.

The Heavenly Emperor's remaining power erased the Contamination across the Southern Star Realm, though official reports credited the Holy Dragon Society. After the Peace Bureau resumed hunting criminals, Jin Hai captured Chen Yi and brought him to Haosong City, where Chen Yi awaited execution.

• The Emperor Tomb's power erased the Contamination on Vermilion Purple Star, and residents of Longevity Wood Village said the Heavenly Emperor had never truly left.
• Chen Yi, Ji Baiming, and Ji Wuqing paid respects to the cracked statue before leaving the village, and the Emperor Tomb's power later cleared Contamination throughout the Southern Star Realm.
• The Heavenly River Monthly Gazette credited the Holy Dragon Society with eliminating the Contamination, while the Peace Bureau resumed arresting wanted criminals.
• Jin Hai used his Immortal King domain to pursue Chen Yi, Ji Wuqing, and Ji Baiming, then captured Chen Yi despite the Red River Underworld King's phantom and Black Wind's attempt to escape.
• Jin Hai carried Chen Yi to Haosong City, where the Peace Bureau held him bound on an execution platform beneath a guillotine.

Chen Yi learned that the authorities targeted him because he was an ascended member of the Human Race, then faced execution as Jin Hai baited Ji Wuqing and the Kindling Society. A flying sword stopped the guillotine, but Chen Yi did not recognize the rescuer.

• Jin Hai explained that he had captured Chen Yi to lure Ji Wuqing and the Kindling Society into a trap, while Chen Yi warned them not to rescue him.
• Jin Hai revealed that Chen Yi’s Human World origins made him a target for powerful factions, which sought to eliminate Human Race ascenders who were not Desolate Ancient Remnant People.
• Chen Yi realized that his identity had placed him in danger since he entered the Real Realm and that other ascenders from the Human World were also being hunted.
• Jin Hai assembled six thousand guards and senior local fighters at Caishikou for Chen Yi’s execution.
• As the guillotine fell, an unfamiliar flying sword struck it aside and swept sword qi across the city.

The Sword Master, Li Lingyue, and Adou arrived at Haosong City to save Chen Yi from execution. Their rescue left Jin Hai watching for the hidden figure he believed had already arrived.

• The Sword Master stormed the execution ground and used Sword Master Floating to turn the soldiers’ weapons against them, but Jin Hai’s Interpersonal Silk Threads let the soldiers pull their weapons back.
• Jin Hai sensed that a Law’s blessing protected Chen Yi and concluded that his intended target had arrived, then ordered the execution to continue while the Sword Master was pushed back.
• As the executioner raised the blade over Chen Yi, Li Lingyue appeared as a Golden Body Colossus and crushed him with her palm.
• The ground split beneath Haosong City, and Adou emerged, unleashed Sun and Moon in the Same Sky, and shattered the execution blade with a punch.
• Adou told Chen Yi to call him Chen Yixun instead of his childhood name.

Chen Yi and his allies fought to escape Haosong City after Jin Hai sealed it with a cage woven from the city's Interpersonal Silk Threads. Sword Master cut a way through, but Jin Hai appeared in his chariot and declared that their struggle was not over.

• Adou freed Chen Yi and revealed that Li Lingyue had saved him, while Jin Hai used his domain to seal Haosong City and suppress everyone inside.
• Chen Yi, Adou, Li Lingyue, and Sword Master fought the execution ground guards as Chen Yi used his Three Heads and Six Arms talent and Pot Heaven treasures.
• Ji Wuqing and Ji Baiming arrived with hundreds of allies, including Kindling Society members, turning the battle in Chen Yi's favor.
• The group reached Jin Hai's steel-cable cage, and Sword Master cut it open with a simultaneous strike from ninety-nine swords.
• Jin Hai arrived in a Pure Gold Chariot pulled by eight White Unicorn Pegasi and announced that the game was over.

Chen Yi and his allies escaped Jin Hai’s grasp when King Zhou intervened, but a disguised Adou suddenly stabbed Chen Yi with an Immortal King’s power and revealed that he had infiltrated the Kindling Society. Chen Yi died, and afterward he concluded that the real Adou must have been replaced at some point.

• Jin Hai trapped Ji Wuqing and her companions in Haosong City and began killing them, while Chen Yi tried unsuccessfully to free them.
• King Zhou appeared, broke Jin Hai’s restraints, and demanded that he let the group go; Jin Hai reluctantly stopped the fight.
• Chen Yi asked Li Lingyue about Adou and their time in the Human World, but a demonic claw burst through Chen Yi’s chest from the person behind him.
• The impostor Adou admitted that Li Lingyue had unknowingly led him to Kindling Society bases, while Jin Hai declared that the trap had succeeded.
• Chen Yi died as Ji Wuqing and the others rushed to fight the enemy, then realized that the real Adou had been replaced and that the circumstances had obscured his Signal Light warnings.

After the sixth simulation, Chen Yi gained its inheritances and reached the mid-Desperate Realm, then learned that he could skip the ten-year cooldown by protecting the Human World's Five Elements Root Artifacts. He accepted a mission to hide at least three artifacts in separate Void Realm planes, leaving the mission at 0/3.

• The afterlife simulation showed Ji Wuqing dying after attacking the Peace Bureau, Chen Yue reviving Chen Yi as a Ghost Cultivator, and the Underworld launching a war against the Tianhe Star System.
• The simulation later revealed the Formless destroying Vermilion Purple Star, Black Wind attacking Peace Bureau headquarters, and Contamination spreading across the Tianhe Star System.
• Chen Yi received the simulation's inheritances and discovered that he had reached the mid-Desperate Realm.
• Chen Yi checked the cooldown and found a guidance mission that would grant a simulation attempt if he hid three Five Elements Root Artifacts in different Void Realm planes.

Chen Yi decided to hide several Five Elements Root Artifacts and flew toward the Southern Border to find Hua Wuyan and the Mountain River Armor. He left Black Wind behind as a brother rather than a mount, and the chapter ended with him wondering whether Black Hand had hidden the Heaven and Earth Sword in another plane.

• Chen Yi chose to hide the Qiankun Mirror, Nine Provinces Cauldron, Sun Moon Tower, and Mountain River Armor to influence the simulation without disrupting its timeline.
• Chen Yi adjusted his entries, prepared to seek Hua Wuyan in the Southern Border, and set out from Chen Mansion.
• Chen Yi told Black Wind to stay home and said they were brothers, then flew away at a speed that tore open space.
• Shen Family Star Martial Group soldiers spotted Chen Yi's passage and hurried to report what they believed was connected to the Qiankun Mirror.
• Chen Yi sensed the soldiers from far away and realized his Spiritual Sense could cover more than half the Human World.
• Chen Yi found no trace of the Heaven and Earth Sword and wondered whether Black Hand had hidden it in another plane.

Chen Yi told Hua Wuyan that a mysterious Black Hand would destroy the Human World's Five Elements Root Artifacts, and agreed to hide them across other planes. Hua Wuyan asked him to inherit the Human Race's Dao Protector position, and they began the Earth Spirit's inheritance ceremony.

• Chen Yi arrived at Hua Wuyan's dwelling and explained that his cultivation had surpassed the Void Realm's limit, leaving her Witch Dao unable to deduce anything about him.
• Chen Yi warned Hua Wuyan that the Black Hand would destroy the Five Elements Root Artifacts, and she agreed to give him the Mountain River Armor so he could conceal the artifacts in other planes.
• Hua Wuyan asked Chen Yi to become the Human Race's Dao Protector, explaining that her deductions had become unreliable and that the role granted longevity, Earth Spirit abilities, and the nourishment of the race's fortune.
• Chen Yi accepted the responsibility and promised to protect the Human World and the Human Race.
• Hua Wuyan summoned the Earth Spirit to begin the Dao Protector inheritance.

Chen Yi became the Human World's new Dao Protector and learned that other planes' Earth Spirits could help repair the Five Elements Root Artifacts. He then set out to find an Earth Spirit to nurture the Sun Moon Tower and suppress the evil spirit within it, opening a rift between planes.

• Chen Yi learned the Earth Spirit's method immediately and became a Dao Protector, gaining a connection to the thoughts of living beings across the Human World.
• Hua Wuyan explained the Dao Protector's duties and suggested Chen Yi use other planes' Earth Spirits to restore the damaged Five Elements Root Artifacts.
• Hua Wuyan declined to take the Ascension Path, and Chen Yi left to open a rift to another plane.
• Chen Yi told the Sun Moon Tower's Artifact Spirit that the Great Demon had suppressed its demonic nature and that an Earth Spirit could help contain it.
• Chen Yi shattered the World Barrier with a Light Speed Fist and called on an Earth Spirit for help.

Chen Yi entered the Wing World to find a powerful Earth Spirit, but his fiery landing devastated part of Alba City and injured its lord, Sotuofeiren. After learning that the Furry God was the world's supreme ruler, Chen Yi asked Sotuofeiren about the Dao Protector he had seen.

• Chen Yi used the Earth Spirit's vision to search the spatial turbulence and chose the Wing World as a powerful plane.
• Chen Yi fell from the sky into Alba City, where Sotuofeiren and the residents mistook him for a meteorite and tried to stop him.
• Chen Yi's landing destroyed half of Alba City and left Sotuofeiren badly injured.
• Chen Yi used the Star River Divine Skill to strip the nearby Winged Race residents of their feathers, then demanded to know who held the highest status.
• Sotuofeiren identified himself as Alba City's lord and told Chen Yi that the Furry God was the Wing World's supreme ruler; he had also once seen a Dao Protector.

Chen Yi dragged Sotuofeiren toward the Furry God but encountered the Five Heroes of Xuanlan, who were preparing to use an Immortal Artifact to reach the Human World. He destroyed their artifact and defeated them, leaving the five brothers unable to escape.

• Chen Yi forced Sotuofeiren to lead him through the Empty Land Barrier toward Sky City.
• Chen Yi sensed five Winged Race Martial Gods on Arsha and flew toward them, despite Sotuofeiren's warning.
• The Five Heroes of Xuanlan tried to repair the Wall Breaker, but Chen Yi smashed it with a flaming palm.
• Chen Yi revealed that he was a Human Race Dao Protector and refused the brothers' demand for compensation.
• The Five Heroes of Xuanlan attacked Chen Yi, who used Sotuofeiren as a meteor hammer to beat them back.
• The brothers' attacks failed to harm Chen Yi, and they tried to flee as he overwhelmed them.

Chen Yi defeated the Five Heroes of Xuanlan and forced them to gather rare materials across the Wing World so he could improve his Immortal Artifacts. He then arrived at Sky City, where the Winged Race’s forces confronted him and demanded an explanation.

• Chen Yi defeated the Five Heroes of Xuanlan, spared them, and ordered them to collect materials across the Wing World by any means necessary.
• The Five Heroes of Xuanlan considered fleeing, but Chen Yi appeared before them, frightened them into obedience, and made them begin gathering materials.
• Chen Yi and Sotuofeiren reached Sky City, where hundreds of thousands of warriors, the Ten Directional Gods, Furry God, and the Winged Race’s Dao Protector awaited them.
• Chen Yi said he had not come to wage war, and Furry God demanded to know who he was and why he had come to the Wing World.

Chen Yi defeated Sky City's Winged Race army without killing its warriors, then told Furry God and the Dao Protector that he wanted to use their Earth Spirit to nurture the Human World's damaged Five Elements Root Artifact. When they refused, Chen Yi revealed power that threatened to shatter the world, and the Dao Protector agreed to his terms.

• Furry God ordered the Winged Race army to attack Chen Yi and commanded them to kill Sotuofeiren first.
• Chen Yi used Sotuofeiren as a meteor hammer to defeat the Winged Race warriors and withstand the Martial God-level experts' attacks without killing anyone.
• Furry God withdrew Sky City's warriors and met Chen Yi with the Dao Protector in the Main God Hall.
• Chen Yi asked to borrow the Wing World's Earth Spirit to nurture the Human World's damaged Five Elements Root Artifact, explaining that he also wanted the Winged Race to protect it.
• Furry God and the Dao Protector refused after Chen Yi warned them of the Earth Spirit's cost.
• Chen Yi's power began cracking space around him, and the Dao Protector agreed to let the Earth Spirit repair the Five Elements Root Artifact.

Chen Yi learned how the World War had shifted from a quest for ascension into a self-sustaining struggle, then pressured the Winged Race into guarding the Human World's Sun Moon Tower. The Winged Race agreed to protect it, and Wing World's Earth Spirit began repairing the damaged artifact.

• Chen Yi and the Winged Race Dao Protector discussed the old golden age and the origins and changing purpose of World War.
• Furry God described how war had become a source of military merit and power, while he could not explain the ancient account's warning about resisting something.
• Chen Yi asked the Winged Race to protect the Sun Moon Tower from anyone who might destroy it, but Furry God refused to risk his people.
• Chen Yi unleashed his Desolate Realm aura, forcing the Winged Race Dao Protector to promise an elite unit of ten late-stage Qi Condensation cultivators would guard the Earth Spirit.
• Chen Yi and the Winged Race Dao Protector placed the Sun Moon Tower in Wing World's Earth Spirit, which willingly began repairing it.

While waiting for the Five Heroes of Xuanlan to gather materials, Chen Yi traveled through the Wing World and comprehended the Divine Ability Fragmentation. He rescued the Five Heroes from their pursuers by breaking through the World Barrier, then sent Chen Liu to investigate an unusual plane.

• Chen Yi toured the Wing World with his Immortal Artifacts and the Five Domains Sacred Pill while waiting for the Five Heroes of Xuanlan.
• Chen Yi comprehended Fragmentation, tested it by removing a tyrannical Winged Person’s wings, and demonstrated that he could detach and reattach his own head.
• The Five Heroes of Xuanlan returned with Chen Yi’s materials while thousands of Qi Transformation Realm Cultivators pursued them for their crimes.
• Chen Yi used a Light Speed Fist to shatter space and breach the World Barrier, then bound Sotuofeiren and the Five Heroes with the Immortal Binding Lock and took them through.
• The Winged Race’s Dao Protector and the Furry God suspected that Chen Yi had come from the Real Realm after witnessing his effortless breach of the World Barrier.
• Chen Yi sent Chen Liu into an unusual plane to investigate and kill himself afterward.

Chen Liu found himself in a decayed realm covered by Contamination, while Chen Yi brought his companions to the Holy Dragon Race’s plane and began plotting under a Dragon Person disguise. The chapter left Chen Yi intending to identify and kill the Holy Dragon Race’s heir to provoke its powerful members.

• Chen Liu recognized the black fog as Contamination and realized he would need to die so Chen Yi could summon him again.
• Chen Yi arrived with his companions in the Holy Dragon Race’s plane and learned about the race’s Dragon Transformation and strong World War record.
• Chen Yi transformed into a Dragon Person, then used his Six-Eared Macaque Term to make Sotuofeiren and the others look like him.
• Chen Yi assigned the Five Heroes of Xuanlan to gather materials under the Dragon Person Race’s name while Sotuofeiren stayed with him.
• Chen Yi asked Sotuofeiren who held the most important position in the Holy Dragon Race and decided to find and kill its heir.

Chen Yi and Sotuofeiren sought the Holy Dragon Realm’s World Master, learning that the Western Earth Kingdom was a vassal of the Central Fire Empire. Chen Liu reported that another plane was completely overrun by Contamination and inhabited by a hunting creature made of it, leaving Chen Yi wondering how many worlds had been lost to Contamination.

• Chen Yi captured seven Holy Dragon People, and Sotuofeiren interrogated them until their Crown Prince revealed he ruled no more than the Western Earth Kingdom.
• Sotuofeiren forced the Crown Prince to lead them to the kingdom, where the Holy Dragon People attacked and the king arrived to protect his son.
• The Western Earth King said he had never met the World Master but directed Chen Yi and Sotuofeiren to the Central Fire Emperor, who might know where to find him.
• As Chen Yi and Sotuofeiren traveled toward the Central Fire Empire, Chen Yi summoned Chen Liu to ask about the plane he had investigated.
• Chen Liu said Contamination had consumed the plane and that a creature made entirely of it had hunted and killed him.
• Chen Yi wondered how many planes, including the Void Realm, were filled with Contamination.