Chapter Summaries

Li Ze swept through the first six trials of the Ancient God Tomb with perfect evaluations, then met the Ancient God Tomb Spirit in the Seventh Trial. The Spirit warned him that the remaining trials had defeated every past God Emperor-level entrant and revealed that its master had fled a destroyed Source World.

• Li Ze used the Dao Universe Realm to kill the Ghost Fiend System Lifeforms in the first six trials and received perfect evaluations without any rewards.
• After completing the Sixth Trial, Li Ze entered the Seventh Trial and encountered the White-clothed Man, who identified himself as the Ancient God Tomb Spirit.
• The Ancient God Tomb Spirit revealed that Li Ze was the thirteenth ultimate trial-taker and Luo Feng was the fourteenth, currently in the Fifth Trial.
• The Ancient God Tomb Spirit explained that the Seventh through Ninth Trials were the same for Saint Realm and God Emperor entrants, and urged Li Ze to leave because all previous God Emperor-level trial-takers had failed.
• The Ancient God Tomb Spirit told Li Ze that its master had reached the Ancient God realm and came from another Source World.
• The Ancient God Tomb Spirit revealed that a powerful monster destroyed its master's home Source World, forcing him to escape to the Origin Continent using a Secret Treasure.

Li Ze refused to abandon the Ancient God Tomb trials and chose to enter the Blood Demon Source World, where he had to obtain a Saint Blood Fruit within one million years. After he departed, the Green-robed Figure and White-clothed Man discussed Li Ze’s strength and hidden treasure, then turned their attention to another entrant in the Sixth Trial.

• The White-clothed Man explained that his master had fallen after being injured and besieged by Origin Continent God Kings, and that twelve previous candidates had died in the final trials.
• Li Ze rejected the White-clothed Man’s advice to leave, deciding he would regret giving up the chance to pursue the Ancient God inheritance.
• The White-clothed Man presented three channels to different Source Worlds, and Li Ze chose the Blood Demon Source World.
• The White-clothed Man gave Li Ze an Ancient God Token and tasked him with obtaining a Saint Blood Fruit and fusing part of it into the token within one million years.
• Li Ze entered the Blood Demon Source World, while the White-clothed Man and Green-robed Figure discussed his abilities and the dangerous trial ahead.
• The Green-robed Figure told the White-clothed Man that another entrant had reached the Sixth Trial and asked him to check whether that candidate would continue.

Li Ze traveled through a spacetime vortex to the Blood Demon Source World, disguised himself as a powerful Sacred Clan Blood Demon, and began seeking information about the Saint Blood Tree. After arriving on the Blood Origin Continent, he met three Blood Demons from the Yuan Xiong Tribe and agreed to visit their settlement.

• Li Ze spent three years crossing the spacetime channel, then transformed into a Blood Demon before entering the Blood Demon Source World.
• Li Ze examined the world's laws and used his Soul Power and Void Realm to locate a nearby tribe.
• Li Ze encountered Yuan Shang and two Blood Demons hunting in the Qingli Mountain Ranges, and they mistook him for a Sacred Clan Blood Demon.
• Li Ze freed more than a thousand Blood Demon Beasts from the canyon, gave the hunters sixty dead beasts for their mission, and ordered them to lead him to the Yuan Xiong Tribe.

Li Ze learned that his Blood Demon form carried the rare Sacred Clan bloodline and settled into the Yuan Xiong Tribe, where he gathered knowledge about the Blood Demon Source World. As a rival prepared to attack the tribe, Li Ze became convinced that the legendary Blood Demon Progenitor was likely a God Emperor.

• Yuan Shang and his companions explained the Blood Demon bloodline hierarchy, and Li Ze realized his form was mistaken for a Sacred Clan Blood Demon.
• Li Ze arrived at the Yuan Xiong Tribe and learned that the continent's tribes had fallen into widespread warfare; the tribe's leaders welcomed him with great respect.
• A White-robed Woman reported that a surviving son of You Shui Ba was hiding in the Yuan Xiong Tribe, and the ugly black-robed man ordered her to kill him, the chieftain, and one hundred elders.
• After nearly six years in the tribe, Li Ze guided Yuan Ming's sword practice and studied records about the Blood Demon Source World.
• Li Ze learned the legends of the Blood Demon Progenitor and concluded that the being was probably a God Emperor.

Li Ze learned that obtaining a Saint Blood Fruit on Ancestor God Mountain would require him to face the Blood Demon Progenitor, but before he could pursue the trial, the Bing Lu Army attacked the Yuan Xiong Tribe over a surviving member of the You Shui Tribe. Chieftain Yuan Kun chose to surrender the youth and sacrifice himself and a hundred elders to spare his tribe.

• Li Ze learned how to obtain a Saint Blood Fruit and worried that meeting the Blood Demon Progenitor could expose him.
• The Bing Lu Army arrived at Yuan Xiong City, and Li Ze recognized its strength as it launched an attack.
• Bing Li demanded that Yuan Kun hand over the You Shui remnant, sacrifice a hundred Blood Soul Realm cultivators, and die, or see the Yuan Xiong Tribe exterminated.
• Yuan Kun accepted the terms, and a hundred elders volunteered to die with him while he ordered the tribe to remain loyal to the Bing Lu Tribe.
• A Yuan Xiong Blood Demon handed the terrified You Shui youth to Bing Li, and Yuan Kun drew his sword after asking her to spare his tribe.

Li Ze annihilated the Bing Lu Army attacking Yuan Xiong City, then learned that its Blood Lord had destroyed the You Shui Tribe to seize You Shui Ba’s Blood Sea Token. The token offered a chance to visit Ancestor God City and climb Ancestor God Mountain, giving Li Ze a possible path forward as the Yuan Xiong Tribe prepared to flee.

• Yuan Ming learned that the youth sent to face the Bing Lu Army was his twin younger brother, and Yuan Fan urged him to keep his identity secret.
• Li Ze revealed that he knew the youth was Yuan Ming’s twin, then intervened when the Bing Lu Army threatened the Yuan Xiong Tribe.
• Li Ze froze the battlefield and killed the White Robe Beautiful Woman and more than three hundred Bing Lu Army Blood Demons with a Soul Attack.
• Yuan Kun ordered the Yuan Xiong Tribe’s elites to flee, then brought Yuan Ming and two elders to meet Li Ze at the palace.
• Yuan Kun explained that the Bing Lu Blood Lord had attacked the You Shui Tribe because You Shui Ba possessed a Blood Sea Token.
• Li Ze learned that the Blood Sea Token could grant access to Ancestor God City and a chance to climb Ancestor God Mountain.

Li Ze learned that the Blood Sea Token could grant him entry to Ancestor God City and a possible path to Ancestor God Mountain, then secured the token from the Yuan Xiong Tribe in exchange for protecting them from the Bing Lu Tribe. After Yuan Kun agreed to send Yuan Ming with him for ten thousand years, Li Ze placed the youth inside the Illusory Hall as the tribe prepared for the coming attack.

• Yuan Kun explained that the Blood Sea Token admitted its holder to Ancestor God City, where passing trials could lead to membership in the Blood Demon Divine Hall and a chance to reach Ancestor God Mountain.
• Li Ze decided to protect the Yuan Xiong Tribe until its danger passed or the Bing Lu Tribe was destroyed, and told Yuan Kun he wanted the Blood Sea Token.
• Yuan Kun accepted Li Ze's terms and asked him to take Yuan Ming away if he could not defeat the Bing Lu Tribe; Yuan Ming then handed Li Ze the token.
• Li Ze offered to let Yuan Ming follow him for ten thousand years, and Yuan Kun accepted the offer while urging his grandson to learn from Li Ze and cultivate diligently.
• Yuan Ming returned to the great hall, and Li Ze placed him inside the Illusory Hall as the Bing Lu Tribe's army approached.

Blood Lord Bing Wu learned that his forces had been wiped out and brought Ying Li and Saint Zhe Ling to confront the killer, Li Ze, at Yuan Xiong City. Li Ze revealed his overwhelming presence and defied the Gu Ying Kingdom, and Saint Zhe Ling launched an attack as the chapter ended.

• Bing Wu told Ying Li that his troops had died while pursuing the You Shui Tribe's survivors and Blood Sea Token, so Ying Li summoned Saint Zhe Ling to investigate.
• Saint Zhe Ling, Ying Li, and Bing Wu arrived at Yuan Xiong City, where their power terrified Chieftain Yuan Kun and the city's elders.
• Li Ze appeared and suppressed the newcomers' aura, then admitted that he had killed Bing Wu's forces simply because he wanted to.
• Li Ze said he traveled alone and called himself Ze, dismissing the Gu Ying Kingdom's laws and claiming the Blood Origin Continent would soon know his name.
• Ying Li urged Saint Zhe Ling to kill Li Ze, and she attacked with countless black streams that tore through space and time.

Li Ze killed Saint Zhe Ling and Ying Li after defeating Zhe Ling’s ultimate technique, then enslaved Blood Lord to learn about the Blood Origin Continent. He began searching Blood Lord’s memories for useful knowledge of the Gu Ying Kingdom and its lands.

• Saint Zhe Ling unleashed her ultimate technique, but Li Ze countered it with one sword strike and killed her.
• Li Ze destroyed Ying Li’s escape treasure and killed him despite his threat that Gu Ying Lord and Lady Meng Luo would seek revenge.
• Blood Lord begged Li Ze for his life and offered to serve him in exchange for being spared.
• Li Ze made Blood Lord open his soul, enslaved him, and used Soul Peeking to inspect his memories.
• Li Ze found that Blood Lord’s memories contained extensive information about the Gu Ying Kingdom, though its cultivation methods could not be examined.

After learning of Ying Li’s identity and the danger his death posed to the Yuan Xiong Tribe, Li Ze killed Blood Lord, gathered the tribe, and scattered its people across the Gu Ying Kingdom’s neighboring kingdoms. Li Ze left for Blood God City after disrupting spacetime to hinder any investigation, while Gu Ying Lord and Lady Meng Luo appeared in Gu Ying City, consumed by fury.

• Li Ze learned from Blood Lord’s memories about the Gu Ying Kingdom and discovered that Ying Li had been Gu Ying Lord’s only descendant, while the Blood Sea Token could lead him to Ancestor God City and its trials.
• Li Ze summoned Yuan Ming and Chieftain Yuan Kun, revealed that Blood Lord had destroyed the You Shui Tribe, and killed Blood Lord before giving his treasures to Yuan Kun.
• Li Ze told Yuan Kun that Ying Li’s death put the Yuan Xiong Tribe at risk and ordered its Blood Demons divided into several dozen groups to hide them across other kingdoms.
• Li Ze moved the hundreds of millions of Blood Demons into the Illusory Hall, disrupted the region’s spacetime, and teleported toward Blood God City.
• More than ten days later, Li Ze reached Gu Ying City, where Gu Ying Lord and Lady Meng Luo appeared in Zi Wu Valley in a fury.

After Ying Li, the Blood Lord, and Saint Zhe Ling died near the Yuan Xiong Tribe, Gu Ying Lord and Lady Meng Luo investigated the deserted city but could not trace the battle through spacetime. Gu Ying Lord launched a massive bounty to find the culprit and ordered the Bing Lu Tribe exterminated.

• Lady Meng Luo and Gu Ying Lord learned that Ying Li, the Blood Lord, and Saint Zhe Ling had died after going to the Yuan Xiong Tribe, where an unknown enemy had wiped out the Bing Lu Tribe's forces.
• Gu Ying Lord and Lady Meng Luo arrived at Yuan Xiong City and found it deserted, with signs that Ying Li and Saint Zhe Ling had encountered the enemy there.
• Gu Ying Lord attempted Spacetime Retrospection, but a disturbance prevented him from seeing the battle's past.
• Gu Ying Lord concluded that the culprit had evacuated the Yuan Xiong Tribe's Blood Demons and offered huge rewards for information leading to the enemy.
• Gu Ying Lord ordered the Fourth Elder to exterminate the Bing Lu Tribe.

Li Ze brought the Yuan Xiong Tribe to the Pengwan Domain, equipped Yuan Ming with techniques and treasures, and parted from them before traveling toward Ancestor God City. After nearly a century of flight, he arrived outside the city and sought information on how to enter Ancestor God Mountain.

• Gu Ying Lord and Lady Meng Luo agreed to search for Zhe Ling’s killer for one hundred years before offering the Ghost Cry Stone to the Domain Lord for help.
• Li Ze reached the Pengwan Domain and released Chieftain Yuan Kun and the hundreds of millions of Yuan Xiong Tribe Blood Demons so they could rebuild their tribe there.
• Li Ze gave Yuan Ming more than a thousand Swordplay Secret Techniques and cultivation treasures, warned him never to return to the Gu He Domain before reaching the tenth level of the Chaos Realm, and told Yuan Kun to keep the gifts secret.
• Li Ze left Yuan Kun and Yuan Ming and traveled toward Ancestor God City, discovering that the area around it prevented ordinary Teleportation and imposed much stronger spatial suppression.
• After nearly a hundred years of flight, Li Ze arrived outside Ancestor God City and decided to buy intelligence about its rules and ways to enter Ancestor God Mountain.

Gu Ying Lord and Lady Meng Luo enlisted Domain Lord Analuo to uncover who had killed their son, Ying Li. Analuo’s spacetime reversal revealed the murderer was the Blood Robe Figure Ze, a mysterious Chaos Realm powerhouse with Blood Demon King-level strength, and Gu Ying Lord vowed to wait for his rise before seeking revenge.

• Gu Ying Lord summoned Analuo by offering him a Ghost Cry Stone and asking for help identifying Ying Li’s killer.
• Analuo’s first attempt to reverse spacetime at Yuan Xiong City failed because the murderer’s interference surpassed even his own methods.
• Analuo used a spacetime Secret Treasure to replay the battle, revealing that Ze had killed Saint Zhe Ling with one sword strike and left with the Yuan Xiong Tribe.
• Gu Ying Lord recognized Ze as an unfamiliar Blood Demon capable of Blood Demon King-level combat strength and suspected he would soon ascend Ancestor God Mountain.
• Gu Ying Lord decided to use an old favor against Ze after he made a name for himself, and Lady Meng Luo agreed to wait.

Li Ze learned about Ancestor God City’s trial grounds and their rewards, then went to challenge Heart Soul Valley, which tested Soul Will. He reached the valley and met two Chaos Realm Blood Demons who explained its districts and showed him the rankings.

• Li Ze learned from a restaurant attendant that clearing the Twenty-Fifth Layer of the Heaven Ascending Path could qualify him to ascend Ancestor God Mountain and seek Saint Blood Fruit.
• Li Ze bought fifth-level intelligence on all the trial grounds from the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and concluded that Heart Soul Valley and the Heaven Ascending Path would be difficult, while the Heavenly Battle Arena and Death Dao remained alternatives.
• Li Ze chose to try Heart Soul Valley first and traveled to the vast gorge above the Bone-Melting Abyss, where millions of Blood Demons gathered to challenge it.
• Li Ze met Helun and Yan Shui, two Chaos Realm Blood Demons resting after reaching the Seventh District, and learned that Heart Soul Valley had twelve districts and tested Soul Will.
• Helun suggested that Li Ze study the Heart Soul Ranking, whose displayed records showed Blood Demon Kings reaching the Eleventh District and Chaos Realm challengers reaching the Eighth.

Li Ze entered Heart Soul Valley to test his Soul Will and pressed through the eighth zone despite its escalating pressure and illusions. He entered the third stage, causing his name, Ze, to appear on the Chaos Realm Heart Soul Ranking and drawing a crowd at the entrance.

• Helun and Yan Shui explained the Heart Soul and Blood God rankings, warned Li Ze not to overreach, and encouraged him to attempt the trial.
• Li Ze entered Heart Soul Valley and passed through the seventh zone, surprising the Chaos Realm Blood Demons who saw his powerful Soul Will.
• Li Ze entered the eighth zone, endured its pressure, and continued past several Blood Demon Kings into the third stage.
• Li Ze resisted crushing Soul Will pressure and enticing illusions as he advanced deeper into the eighth zone.
• The Chaos Realm Heart Soul Ranking changed and displayed Ze, astonishing the gathered Blood Demons and Helun and Yan Shui.

Li Ze broke through to High God King-level Soul Will under the pressure of Heart Soul Valley and became the first Chaos Realm Blood Demon to enter its ninth region. After drawing the attention of Ancestor God City, he left the valley and heard a familiar voice call out to him.

• Yan Shui and Helun watched Ze's Heart Soul Ranking rise rapidly, and news of his extraordinary Soul Will spread across Ancestor God City.
• After enduring three days at his limit, Li Ze broke through to High God King-level Soul Will and entered the ninth region, shocking the Blood Demon Kings who watched him.
• Li Ze advanced ninety thousand kilometers into the ninth region before retreating to the eighth, where he found dozens of Blood Demon Kings observing him.
• More than a million Blood Demons gathered outside Heart Soul Valley as Li Ze became first on the Chaos Realm Heart Soul Ranking and flew out of the valley.
• As Li Ze prepared to leave, he heard a familiar voice greet him as Brother Ze.

Luo Feng and Li Ze discussed the danger posed by the Blood Demon Progenitor and planned to seek qualifications for Ancestor God Mountain at different trial grounds. Li Ze failed to pass the Heaven Ascending Path’s Twenty-Fifth Layer but emerged ranked first, drawing the attention of Demon Lord Mo Yuan and renewing speculation about his prospects.

• Luo Feng told Li Ze how he had reached Ancestor God City and obtained a Blood Sea Token, and Li Ze explained the God Emperor realm and the danger the Blood Demon Progenitor could pose.
• Li Ze and Luo Feng agreed to pursue separate trials before meeting again at Ancestor God Mountain; Li Ze chose the Heaven Ascending Path, while Luo Feng chose Blade Mountain.
• Demon Lord Mo Yuan searched Ancestor God City for Li Ze and learned that he had passed the Twenty-Third Layer and reached the Twenty-Fourth Layer of the Heaven Ascending Path.
• Li Ze fought the Twenty-Fifth Layer’s Guardian but could not defeat it, so he descended the path and headed for the Heavenly Battle Arena.
• The Heaven Ascending Ranking listed Li Ze first at the Twenty-Fourth Layer, astonishing the gathered Blood Demons and prompting them to reconsider whether the Blood Demon Progenitor might accept him as a disciple.

After Li Ze completed the Heaven Ascending Path, Domain Lord Mo Yuan summoned him and encouraged him to seek qualification for Ancestor God Mountain. Li Ze chose the Heavenly Battle Arena as his next trial, while Mo Yuan planned to win the talented newcomer over as a potential ally.

• Blood Demons gathered to discuss Li Ze's results after he passed the twenty-fourth level of the Heaven Ascending Path.
• Long Xin arrived with the Blue Mountain Army and invited Li Ze to meet Domain Lord Mo Yuan.
• At Blue Mountain Hall, Mo Yuan asked Li Ze about his ambition to ascend Ancestor God Mountain, and Li Ze said he intended to try the Heavenly Battle Arena.
• Mo Yuan offered to support Li Ze and privately hoped to gain him as an ally in the Blood Demon Divine Hall.
• Li Ze reviewed the Heavenly Battle Arena's requirement of ten thousand consecutive victories and decided to pursue it to temper his understanding of the Way of Strength and the Speed Dao.

Li Ze entered the Heavenly Battle Arena to challenge for the title of Heavenly Battler, drawing more than one hundred million spectators. After defeating Lan Lin effortlessly and sparing her life, he called on the strongest Chaos Realm Blood Demons across the Blood Origin Continent to face him.

• Li Ze entered the Heavenly Battle Arena, where the Blue Mountain Domain Lord’s decree let him skip the line, and spectators gathered in hopes of seeing him challenge for the Heavenly Battler title.
• While waiting, Li Ze watched Lan Lin defeat a black-robed Blood Demon and learned that challengers needed ten consecutive wins to preserve their records.
• The referee paired Li Ze with Lan Lin, and the spectators roared as Li Ze entered the arena and faced her without drawing a weapon.
• Li Ze stopped Lan Lin’s assassination strike with a Sword Light vortex, blasted her back, and forced her to concede before his final attack landed.
• After the referee declared Li Ze the winner, Li Ze announced that he sought the Heavenly Battler title and challenged the strongest Chaos Realm Blood Demons to fight him.

Li Ze swept through thousands of battles in the Heavenly Battle Arena and challenged the Blood Demon Clan to send its strongest Chaos Realm Blood Demons against him. As his challenge spread across the Blood Origin Continent and drew powerful contenders toward Ancestor God City, the Black Robe Old Man took direct control of the arena and ordered the Domain Lords to select the strongest fighters.

• Li Ze won ten battles each day, studying his opponents’ techniques and defeating them with his Sword Light vortex, punches, and, against tenth-layer experts, the Heaven Seizing Sword.
• After Li Ze reached 1,380 consecutive victories, a great being ordered the Blood Demon Divine Hall to distribute a recording of his battles throughout the Blood Origin Continent.
• The recording stirred Chaos Realm Blood Demons across the continent, and many began traveling to Ancestor God City to challenge Li Ze or witness his rise.
• The Blood Demon Council watched Li Ze’s recorded battles and judged that he was powerful but not among the era’s very strongest Chaos Realm experts.
• The Black Robe Old Man announced that he would manage the Heavenly Battle Arena and ordered the Domain Lords to select their strongest Chaos Realm Blood Demons to fight Li Ze.