Chapter Summaries

Qi Chun explained to Ye Jing that the Heavenly Court’s Gods could not live forever by absorbing source, so they forced their bodies to mutate and break their limits. Ye Jing remained determined to find Qiuyue before investigating the world and finding a way to leave it.

• Ye Jing questioned whether the Heavenly Court’s Gods were truly immortal, and Qi Chun explained that the Dao and the world changed rather than remaining eternal.
• Qi Chun said absorbing source could extend life only up to the limits of the body and Divine Soul, and Ye Jing realized that breakthroughs could increase lifespan by reshaping those limits.
• Ye Jing reasoned that the Gods must have changed their forms to break through their bodily limits, and Qi Chun confirmed that they had used mutation.
• Qi Chun explained that mutation produced strange creatures and that even successful Gods eventually needed more source, turning the world into a breeding ground for the Heavenly Court.
• Ye Jing set aside his questions about the world and resolved to find Qiuyue before working out how to build a particle collider and escape.

Ye Jing learned that the Heavenly Court had turned his world into a reserve for harvesting Source and planned to refine it after the current Heaven and Earth Cataclysm. Sage Scholar explained how he uncovered the Heavenly Court’s corruption and escaped by faking his death.

• Sage Scholar explained that the Heavenly Court had made Ye Jing’s world a steady Source reserve, using Talent Spirit Stones to identify people with unusually high amounts of Source.
• Ye Jing asked whether the current Heaven and Earth Cataclysm would be the last, and Sage Scholar revealed his theory that the Heavenly Court intended to become a new entity through a final, massive harvest.
• Sage Scholar told Ye Jing that the Heavenly Court planned to refine the entire world after the Cataclysm, killing everyone who lived there.
• Sage Scholar recounted how he noticed strange transformations and whispers among the Gods, realized something was wrong, and devised a plan to fake his death when the Heavenly Court prevented him from leaving.

Sage Scholar explained how he faked his death to escape Heaven's Court and later joined the resistance, then Ye Jing agreed to join the Heaven Slaying Society. Sage Scholar began helping Ye Jing adapt to the world by preparing a counterfeit mark that would restore his ability to cultivate and use spells.

• Sage Scholar revealed that he spread rumors of his corruption by evil thoughts, used an inner demon to escape Heaven's Court, and left behind a remnant consciousness to help Ye Jing kill the sealed evil thoughts.
• Sage Scholar recounted how Heaven's Court captured him and tried to turn him into source before local rebels rescued him, after which he joined their fight against Heaven's Court.
• Ye Jing accepted Sage Scholar's invitation to join the Heaven Slaying Society and fight for humanity's future.
• Sage Scholar explained that Heaven's Court's mark restricted Ye Jing's abilities and offered him a counterfeit mark, warning that powerful Heaven's Court experts could detect it.
• Sage Scholar brought Ye Jing to a room with a formation and told him to step inside so he could receive the counterfeit mark.

Ye Jing gained access to his Divine Abilities and learned that the only known escape routes were through the Heavenly Court's Heavenly Gate or by breaking the reinforced world barrier. He agreed to stay with the Heaven Slaying Society for now and was brought to meet its main fighting force.

• Sage Scholar applied a mark that freed Ye Jing's meridians and acupoints, and Ye Jing tested his Divine Abilities with a sword technique.
• Sage Scholar and Qi Chun explained that the Heavenly Gate was hidden, heavily guarded, and sealed, while forcing through the world barrier would require strength beyond the Heavenly Court's.
• Ye Jing questioned the Heaven Slaying Society's fight against the Heavenly Court, and Qi Chun said someone had to take the first step rather than give in to fear.
• Sage Scholar assured Ye Jing that the people of Lower Stone Village were being brought to safety, then led him to the Society's training ground.
• Ye Jing saw the Society's powerful fighters training, and Sage Scholar explained that many had been rescued from the four major districts for their high Source concentration.

Ye Jing learned that exiles were former Heavenly Court officials who sacrificed themselves to save people from being harvested, then met the teammates Sage Scholar assigned him to lead. He defeated Sun Lihuan in a single punch, leaving the team stunned by his strength.

• Sage Scholar explained that the Heavenly Court sent chosen people to cultivate until their Source content peaked, then planned to use them as nourishment.
• Sage Scholar said exiles were officials who helped chosen people escape and were punished by having their cultivation sealed and minds taken.
• Sage Scholar introduced Ye Jing to his new team and named him captain, despite Sun Lihuan expecting to lead.
• Sun Lihuan challenged Ye Jing to a spar, and Ye Jing agreed to let her attack first.
• Ye Jing knocked Sun Lihuan down with one punch and told her she was too weak.

Using the alias Xu Kun, Ye Jing defeated Sun Lihuan and became captain of the team, then tried and failed to break through the world barrier to contact Qiuyue. When the Sage Scholar assigned the team a mission against a vicious envoy from South City, they hurried to stop him and reached a village already stained with blood.

• Ye Jing revealed that he was at Divine Realm Layer Five, defeated Sun Lihuan, and won her acceptance as captain.
• Ye Jing introduced himself as Xu Kun, and the four teammates introduced their abilities before Sun Lihuan interpreted his advice to coordinate as a call for teamwork.
• Ye Jing secretly attempted to build a teleportation formation to break through the reinforced world barrier, but every attempt failed.
• Sun Lihuan told Ye Jing that the Sage Scholar had ordered their team to intercept a murderous envoy from South City, and Ye Jing set out with the team.
• Ye Jing and his teammates headed toward South City while a bloodied village in East City lay in the path of a sinister man holding a blood-red sword.

Eagle Vulture attacked a village on South City’s orders, but Ye Jing arrived in time to kill him and save the villagers. Ye Jing led Sun Lihuan and the others away to report back while a team member escorted the villagers to safety, leaving Ye Jing wondering why the Heavenly Court allowed villagers to be slaughtered.

• Eagle Vulture terrorized the village and threatened to kill a mother and child unless someone came out to save them.
• Sun Lihuan and Ye Jing’s four other team members attacked Eagle Vulture together, but he wounded one of them and broke Sun Lihuan’s formation disc.
• Sun Lihuan charged Eagle Vulture alone, but Ye Jing intervened and killed him with a single sword strike.
• Ye Jing checked on the mother and child, told them help would take them somewhere safe, and confirmed Eagle Vulture had no accomplices.
• Ye Jing led Sun Lihuan and the others away to report in as a team member stayed behind to escort the villagers to safety.
• Ye Jing wondered whether the Heavenly Court really allowed villagers to be slaughtered despite its need to cultivate Source.

Ye Jing discovered that an unknown faction had attacked villages and tried to ambush him, so Sage Scholar investigated the group. With the faction’s identity and intentions still unclear, Ye Jing agreed to act as bait and set out alone to see whether they were targeting him.

• An archer attacked Ye Jing on his way back, but Ye Jing found and struck him down; the man died after biting poison, leaving behind an unfamiliar token.
• Ye Jing reported the encounter to Sage Scholar, who agreed to investigate and told him to keep the matter secret.
• After several days of missions and growing attacks on villages, Sage Scholar told Ye Jing the attacker was not from Heavenly Court and that an unknown faction might be involved.
• Sage Scholar decided to move camp and asked Ye Jing to act as bait; Ye Jing agreed to help determine whether the unknown group was after him.
• Ye Jing set out alone the next day, and soon sensed someone watching him from the shadows.

Ye Jing caught a spy who had been watching him by using a time-stopping formation, then forced him to reveal that he had arrived in this world through a teleportation gate. The spy knew little beyond his surveillance orders, leaving Ye Jing with a lead toward the organization’s superiors.

• Ye Jing secretly set up an Imprisonment Formation using his Time Dao Principle and froze everything around him.
• Ye Jing found the cloaked spy partly hidden inside a tree, knocked the poison pill from his mouth, and sealed his spiritual energy.
• Ye Jing used the Soul Seizing Technique to break the spy’s resistance and make him answer questions.
• The spy admitted that he had come to this world from another world, but said only his superiors knew the teleportation gate’s location.
• The spy revealed that his mission was to watch Ye Jing and report anything unusual to his superiors.

Ye Jing captured a lecherous man who had been watching him, but an organization member attacked before Ye Jing could return to camp. After defeating the attacker and threatening to scar his soul, Ye Jing forced him to reveal what little he knew about the organization, but its leaders and their means of leaving the world remained hidden.

• Ye Jing learned that the lecherous man had no names or locations for the people who directed him, then refused to release him and started back toward camp.
• A tall, feminine-looking man attacked Ye Jing with a blood-red spear and admitted he had come to kill both Ye Jing and the captive.
• Ye Jing defeated the attacker and demanded information, but the man initially refused to betray his organization.
• Ye Jing threatened to leave a permanent scar on the man's Divine Soul, then cut his face with ordinary Sword Qi, frightening him into talking.
• The man said only the leader and a few Elders knew the organization's way in and out of the world, and that they were likely in one of the four cities.
• The man admitted the organization used a special method to communicate but refused to explain it, prompting Ye Jing to threaten him again.

Ye Jing learned that an organization had been tracking him because he was an outsider who emerged from a spatial rift, then tried to erase any traces that might reveal his location. After reaching God Realm Sixth Heaven, he learned Sage Scholar Qi Chun planned to attack the organization and expose their world to the Heavenly Court.

• Ye Jing interrogated two watchers and learned their organization had tracked him after detecting an outsider entering through a tear in space.
• Ye Jing brought the two prisoners to camp and asked Sage Scholar and the others to question them further.
• Ye Jing searched himself for tracking marks, used techniques to erase his aura and counter tracking, then cultivated.
• Ye Jing broke through to God Realm Sixth Heaven.
• Sage Scholar Qi Chun told Ye Jing they would assault the organization, expose their world, and try to stop the Heavenly Court's actions.

Ye Jing joined Sage Scholar’s plan to find the mysterious organization that could help them escape Heaven’s world, then investigated North City. After hearing that a Blazing Fire Sect disciple had gone missing while the Heaven Slaying Society had suspended its city rescues, he suspected the disappearance could lead him to the organization.

• Ye Jing agreed to support Sage Scholar’s plan to locate the organization and expose Heaven.
• Ye Jing met the Heaven Slaying Society’s core members, and they spent a day and night devising a search plan.
• Sage Scholar assigned Ye Jing to investigate North City alone, and Ye Jing set out with instructions to report any discovery rather than act rashly.
• Ye Jing searched North City for several days, found suspicious locations and an old Heaven Slaying Society passage, but no sign of the real entrance.
• Ye Jing overheard inn patrons say that a Blazing Fire Sect disciple had gone missing and realized the Heaven Slaying Society was unlikely to be responsible.

Ye Jing investigated the disappearance of a Blazing Fire Sect disciple and traced a mysterious organization to the City Lord's Mansion. After an ambush in a sealed alley, he faced a Divine Realm Seventh Heaven expert who demanded to know why he had followed their people.

• Ye Jing questioned the Blazing Fire Sect's disciples and Elders, then learned from the Sage Scholar that the Heaven Slaying Society had not recruited anyone from the sect recently.
• Ye Jing entered the missing disciple's room, where a middle-aged man's projection revealed that he knew Ye Jing was searching for the organization's headquarters.
• Ye Jing secretly marked the projection with the Chaos Green Lotus and followed it to a guarded residence in the merchants' quarter.
• Ye Jing discovered the residence was the City Lord's Mansion and crushed a jade token to alert the Sage Scholar.
• A blue-robed Divine Realm Seventh Heaven expert trapped Ye Jing in a sealed alley and attacked him, but Ye Jing broke free of the illusion with the Chaos Green Lotus.
• The blue-robed man questioned Ye Jing about following their people, and Ye Jing claimed he was close friends with the missing Blazing Fire Sect disciple.

Ye Jing defeated a Heavenly Court-connected swordsman and reported his findings to Sage Scholar, who decided to investigate the City Lord's Mansion alone despite suspecting it might be a trap. The chapter ended with the mansion's lord studying reports about Ye Jing's clash and two missing subordinates.

• A man who suspected Ye Jing of belonging to the Heaven Slaying Society attacked him, and Ye Jing wounded him with his sword and Time Divine Domain.
• Ye Jing escaped, changed his appearance several times, and returned to the inn to tell Sage Scholar what he had learned.
• Sage Scholar worried that the City Lord's Mansion might be a trap but chose to investigate it alone, leaving Ye Jing in charge of the Heaven Slaying Society if he failed to return.
• The City Lord reviewed reports about a subordinate's clash with someone from the Heaven Slaying Society and two missing subordinates who had been watching Ye Jing.

Sage Scholar Qi Chun confronted the man in official robes and the White-haired Old Man, demanding to know where their entrance was. After trapping them inside his Mountain and River Painting Scroll and overwhelming the White-haired Old Man, Qi Chun heard the man in official robes offer to reveal the entrance if Qi Chun let the old man go.

• Qi Chun appeared before the man in official robes and demanded to know where their entrance was.
• Qi Chun pulled the White-haired Old Man and the man in official robes into his Mountain and River Painting Scroll and fought the old man.
• The man in official robes tried to escape with a Teleportation Jade Pendant, but Qi Chun stopped him with his Divine Ability.
• Qi Chun restrained the man in official robes and attacked him, but the White-haired Old Man intervened and resumed fighting.
• The man in official robes agreed to reveal the entrance if Qi Chun let the White-haired Old Man go.

Sage Scholar interrogated He Huli about leaving the scroll-world and uncovered his deal with the Evil God, which involved redirecting the Heavenly Gate to the Profound Yellow Great World. He agreed to spare He Huli and the White-haired Old Man on one condition, but the chapter ended before he revealed it.

• He Huli offered to reveal how to leave the world, and Sage Scholar used his Truth character to force him to answer.
• He Huli explained that the Heavenly Gate was the only exit, but he could not reveal how its entry and exit points were changed.
• He Huli began aging rapidly and admitted that he and the White-haired Old Man had absorbed Source; Sage Scholar restrained the Evil influence with his characters.
• He Huli revealed that he had dealt with the Evil God to evade the Heavenly Court and redirect travelers through the Heavenly Gate to the Profound Yellow Great World.
• He Huli warned that the Evil God’s influence grew over time and threatened their bodies and souls, then asked Sage Scholar to spare them.
• Sage Scholar agreed to spare He Huli and the White-haired Old Man if they accepted one condition, which he had not yet stated.

Sage Scholar forced He Huli and the White-haired Old Man to help him pray to the Evil God, then brought them to the City Lord’s study to meet Ye Jing. The Evil God’s power descended and began transforming the two men, leaving Sage Scholar unable to save them with his painting.

• Sage Scholar threatened He Huli and the White-haired Old Man until they agreed to help him pray to the Evil God.
• Qi Chun left his painting with He Huli and the White-haired Old Man and sent Ye Jing a message to come to the City Lord’s study.
• Ye Jing arrived with witnesses who had suffered persecution by the Heavenly Court and recognized the Evil God’s aura on He Huli and the White-haired Old Man.
• Two terrifying auras descended, and black qi engulfed He Huli and the White-haired Old Man as their bodies began to twist.
• Qi Chun tried to pull the two men into his painting, but it had no effect as the Evil God’s power consumed them.

Ye Jing and Qi Chun fought a powerful black tentacle creature formed from Ye Jing and Qi Chun’s disintegrating bodies, then fled when they could not defeat it. The creature broke free and caught up with them, so Qi Chun began using a costly secret technique while Ye Jing prepared formation plates.

• Ye Jing and Qi Chun’s bodies disintegrated and merged into a black tentacle creature with strength comparable to the Sage Scholar’s.
• Qi Chun fought the creature while Ye Jing evacuated the villagers, but the creature regenerated its severed arm and resisted Qi Chun’s attacks.
• Qi Chun immobilized the creature with three characters, and he and Ye Jing fled to avoid attracting the Heavenly Court’s attention.
• The creature broke free, tracked them despite their changing directions, and caught up with them.
• Qi Chun began a costly secret technique to confront the creature, while Ye Jing prepared his formation plates.

Ye Jing and Qi Chun destroyed the black creature, but the battle drew Erlang Shen, who tracked them to a cave and challenged them. After Ye Jing gave Qi Chun his only Super Great Restoration Pill, Qi Chun fought Erlang Shen to a standstill until Erlang Shen unleashed the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts.

• Qi Chun pierced the black creature with his scroll and used Scroll Painting—Mountains and Rivers Cleave to destroy it.
• Ye Jing and Qi Chun fled the area, hid in a cave, and Ye Jing set up a formation to conceal them.
• Erlang Shen broke through the formation and entered the cave, recognizing Ye Jing and confronting him and Qi Chun.
• Ye Jing gave Qi Chun his only Super Great Restoration Pill, restoring Qi Chun's strength.
• Qi Chun fought Erlang Shen to a standstill until Erlang Shen unleashed the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, filling the area with golden light and immense pressure.

Qi Chun used the Sage Scholar’s treasures and a thread of fate to resist Erlang Shen, but Erlang Shen erased the seals across the world, stripping everyone of their cultivation. As Qi Chun and Erlang Shen fell powerless, Ye Jing revealed that he could still wield Sword Qi and attacked Erlang Shen.

• Qi Chun summoned the Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains and the Biography of a Thousand Autumns to trap Erlang Shen beneath a mighty canopy.
• Erlang Shen revealed that he could erase the seals that let people cultivate, and demanded that Qi Chun and Ye Jing surrender or lose their power.
• Qi Chun linked the seal-related parts of his and Erlang Shen’s destinies, warning that erasing Qi Chun’s seal would erase Erlang Shen’s as well.
• Erlang Shen purged the seals across the world, causing Qi Chun, Ye Jing, and Erlang Shen to lose their cultivation and fall from the sky.
• Ye Jing shone with divine light and wielded Sword Qi despite the broken seal, then charged at the stunned Erlang Shen.