Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan sought help for Chen Yu after her Divine Soul vanished, and Ji Yannan used the Ji Clan's Life Protection Secret Art to stabilize her body. Xia Hanzhou warned Chen Yan that the technique could bring trouble and urged him to go to Lian Prefecture; the next morning, Chen Yuxu faced a crowd at the Prodigy Trial entrance while Xu Di helped keep them away.

• Shen Keqing and Ji Yannan told Chen Yan that Chen Yu's body was dying because her Divine Soul was missing.
• Xia Hanzhou said Ji Yannan was the best person to save Chen Yu, and Ji Yannan used the Life Protection Secret Art despite the danger to Chen Yan.
• Xia Hanzhou privately told Chen Yan about the Wen Xin Stele, documents on the Body Tempering Path's founder, and the importance of going to Lian Prefecture.
• Chen Yan said he would handle the trouble from Ji Yannan's technique himself and reflected on suffering he had witnessed through the Martial Dao Meridians.
• An unknown person opened their eyes and recognized that Ji Yannan was still alive.
• The next morning, Xu Di dispersed people crowding around Chen Yuxu's fried-noodle cart by suggesting that one of them might be connected to the person hunting Chen Yan.

After Chen Yan emerged as the Prodigy Trial’s first-place winner, Hu Zeyuan was punished for trying to exploit his family connection, while Chen Yuxu refused to bend the rules for him. Exhausted, Chen Yan fell asleep on the ride home, and Si Wenyi wondered what he had endured inside the trial.

• Hu Zeyuan tried to set up an unlicensed stall and claimed he was Chen Yan’s uncle to avoid trouble, but the Martial Division officer exposed his deception and ordered his stall confiscated.
• Hu Zeyuan begged Chen Yuxu for help, but Chen Yuxu refused to violate the rules, and Xu Di kicked Hu Zeyuan for cursing Chen Yan.
• Wen Xin emerged from the Prodigy Trial disguised as Shen Keqing and left, while Chen Yan came out and asked Chen Yuxu to make him fried noodles.
• The Trial Deacon announced Chen Yan in first place and Wen Xin in second, as the Martial Division officers took Hu Zeyuan away.
• Si Wenyi drove Chen Yan home, and he fell asleep in the back seat before eating his noodles.

Chen Min returned to the Lao City Chen Clan after his defeat, but refused Chen Changyuan’s demand that he imitate Chen Yan and said he did not know what revenge would mean. Chen Yan recognized that Chen Min’s will had collapsed, while a White-robed Old Man from the Ji Clan arrived at Great Xia’s coast and was driven away by Lord Xia Sword.

• Chen Min returned bloodied to the Lao City Chen Clan, where Chen Changyuan forced him to kneel and demanded that he imitate Chen Yan’s voice.
• Chen Min refused, saying he did not know whether defeating or killing Chen Yan would mean anything, and Chen Changyuan disowned him.
• Chen Yan told Chen Yu that Chen Min’s will had collapsed and that he lacked a stable foundation to enter the Yan Realm.
• A White-robed Old Man arrived at Great Xia’s coast and announced that Ji Yannan’s Divine Soul was in Great Xia.
• Lord Xia Sword attacked the White-robed Old Man and repeatedly ordered the Ji Clan to leave Great Xia, forcing him to retreat.

The Ji Clan offered wealth and a chance at the Creation Realm to anyone who brought them Chen Yu, but Lord Xia Sword wounded the Ji elder and erased the dangerous realm name from weaker listeners’ memories. Xia Hanzhou left Chen Yan to face the crisis while the Xia Family used the upheaval to identify disloyal factions; in Qin Prefecture, Luo Dongli armed the Gong Family with a sword strike meant to help capture Chen Yu.

• The Ji elder announced that anyone who delivered Chen Yu to the Ji Clan would be richly rewarded, but Lord Xia Sword struck him with the Blood Shadow and forced him to flee.
• The Blood Sword caused weaker people who heard the words “Creation Realm” to forget them and recover from their brief frenzy.
• Xia Hanzhou told Xia Qi that Chen Yu was Chen Yan’s younger sister and refused to let the Xia Family intervene, hoping the crisis would expose disloyal figures in Great Xia.
• Luo Dongli convened the Aristocratic Alliance in Qin Prefecture and said the region could handle Chen Yu’s case while keeping ten percent of the benefits.
• Luo Dongli offered Gong Wu a Jade Token containing Chen Changyuan’s sword strike, and he grew eager to act after she said the Chen Family’s steward did not care about Chen Yan.

After recovering from his injuries, Chen Yan learned that Chen Yu was missing and prepared to face the enemies pursuing her without risking his allies. When seven Origin Realm cultivators attacked, Chen Yan killed two of them and confronted the remaining attackers.

• Steward Hu rejected Shen Yiwei’s plea regarding Chen Yan, then traded an Azure Sky Level Body Tempering Medicine to Old Chi for intelligence about martial artists who had entered the Unity Realm.
• Old Chi sent the medicine to Shen Yiwei for Chen Yan and offered Chen Yan and his sister refuge at the Tianbang Boxing Tournament.
• Chen Yan woke after three days, reassured Chen Yuxu that he knew how to bring Chen Yu back, and received ancient books about the Lord of Body Tempering from Xia Hanzhou.
• Chen Yan thanked the soldiers and friends who had supported him, then revealed Chen Yu’s corpse in an Ice Coffin and explained that enemies were waiting for her location.
• Seven Origin Realm cultivators attacked, but Chen Yan killed the gray-clothed man with a strike to the forehead and then killed another attacker while declaring that his mistake had been letting them live so long.

Chen Yan and the Military Martial Guard fought off eight assassins, but a powerful sword-wielding attacker nearly killed Chen Yan before Shen Yiwei intervened. After the battle, Chen Yan gave the spoils to the soldiers and Shen Yiwei, who accepted them as the guards celebrated.

• Chen Yan killed several Origin Realm attackers while Lu Xunyang, Shen Youning, Liu Hua, the Military Martial Guard, and Shao Hengyang helped trap the survivors.
• Chen Yan caught a woman’s hand, endured her strongest Hand Blade, and killed her with a punch as she cried out to Yu Qinghe.
• A sword-wielding man attacked Chen Yan with Fifth Order Sword Intent, but Shen Yiwei appeared and killed him with a drop of water shaped by his Dripping Water Sword Intent.
• Shen Yiwei praised Chen Yan and explained that the attackers’ resources would be assessed for Martial Merit Points.
• Chen Yan refused the corpses and gave their resources, along with three Spatial Rings belonging to Yu Sixian, Chen Zhihe, and Chen Teng, to Shen Yiwei for the Military Martial Guard.
• Wang Xinqian and the other soldiers cheered for Chen Yan as they welcomed the shared spoils.

Chen Yan moved into a hidden training house, studied Lu Xunyang’s theory about the Echo of the Realm, and recognized the danger of underestimating powerful Origin Realm martial artists. He began using Saint Breaking Fruits and Azure Sky Level Body Tempering Medicine to challenge the limits of his realm.

• Shen Yiwei gave Chen Yan an Azure Sky Level Body Tempering Medicine, warned him that the Xia Family would not save him, and took him to a hidden training house outside Yunmeng City.
• Chen Yan found Lu Xunyang’s research, learned that reaching multiples of seventy-two Extreme Stripes might trigger the Echo of the Realm, and memorized the theory.
• Chen Yan replayed his fight against the Sword-wielding Man and realized that powerful Origin Realm martial artists could kill him, prompting him to confront his own arrogance.
• Chen Yan discovered that Chen Yu could not see or touch him in the Saint Breaking Realm, and he noticed that the Martial Dao Meridians resembled the Saint Breaking Tree.
• Chen Yan used Origin and Skill Character Saint Breaking Fruits to strengthen his Yin Zhe and master Patrolling Heaven Extreme Path, then consumed Body and Strength Character fruits and the Azure Sky Level medicine to challenge the truth of his limits.

Chen Yan pushed his training to new heights, reached 174 Extreme Stripes, and prepared to improve his realm and formations. Meanwhile, the Gong Family withdrew from its conflict with him, and Zhuang Ang’s resolve to rescue the prisoners sparked a change in the Martial Dao Meridians.

• Chen Yan used Azure Sky Level medicine and Saint Breaking Fruits to strengthen himself, reached 174 Extreme Stripes, and found he could narrowly defeat the Sword-Wielding Origin Realm in simulation.
• Chen Yan assessed his progress and focused his future training on advancing his realm and formations rather than increasing his Blood Energy or pursuing True Intent.
• Gong Hengwen told Luo Dongli that the Gong Family was withdrawing from the conflict, and Gong Wu agreed that survival mattered more than the Aristocratic Alliance’s retaliation.
• Gong Hengwen killed Chu Xuansheng in the Gong Family’s prison and ordered masked men to drag him away while Zhuang Ang hid nearby.
• Zhuang Ang accepted food from a little girl, vowed to rescue everyone, and caused a branch of the Martial Dao Meridians to shine as the Lord of Will observed.

Chen Yan prepared to face the danger surrounding Shen Yiwei while allies began moving to support them. In the Martial Dao Realm, Zhuang Ang chose to fight back, awakening as the world’s third Willbearer as Chen Yan opened his eyes.

• Luo Dongli and her father planned to have Luo Ming challenge Shen Yiwei to a life-or-death duel, and Luo Ming arrived in Yunmeng City to set the fight for ten days later.
• Si Wenyi told Chen Yan about the duel, and Chen Yan said he would go to the Tianbang Boxing Tournament in ten days.
• Lu Mingxuan rejected his father Luo Xiliang’s refusal to help, then set out with Song Yinchen and other Heavenly Prides to support Chen Yan.
• Chen Min recognized Chen Yan’s voice in a video, broke out of confinement, and went to see him; Yu Sixian also began preparing a powerful puppet to help Chen Yan.
• On the ninth day, Zhuang Ang watched the Masked Person return the little girl’s body, then chose to attack rather than hide, awakening his Will as the third Willbearer.
• Chen Yan opened his eyes in the Training Room as Zhuang Ang’s Will erupted.

Chen Yan severely injured He Youtong after she challenged him, and she fled when she realized she could not win. As Shen Yiwei and the others watched, Chen Yan weighed his hesitation to kill against Bing Yi’s lack of reservations.

• Shen Youning warned Shen Yiwei that Chen Yan was likely to fight, and Shen Yiwei vowed to act if the Five Great Chen Families made trouble in Yunmeng City.
• Shao Hengyang rushed over to tell Shen Yiwei about Chen Yan as He Youtong struggled to her feet with her jaw shattered.
• Chen Yan told He Youtong that she was in Great Xia and called her ridiculous.
• He Youtong recognized that Chen Yan had reached the Origin realm, calculated that she could not defeat him, and fled into the sky.
• Chen Yan watched He Youtong escape and reflected that he hesitated to kill, unlike Bing Yi.

Chen Yan emerged from seclusion and spoke with Shen Yiwei, while Shao Hengyang resolved to enter seclusion after comparing himself to Chen Yan. Chen Xiyuan rebuked He Youtong for summoning Chen Yan without permission and decided Steward Hu had been wrong not to invest in him.

• Chen Yan met Shen Yiwei, who praised his manners, and then encountered Shao Hengyang and Shen Youning.
• Shao Hengyang asked how much Chen Yan had earned in the Prodigy Trial, then decided to enter seclusion before the College Entrance Exam.
• Shen Youning dismissed Shao Hengyang's strange behavior, and Shen Yiwei asked Chen Yan to walk with him.
• Chen Xiyuan scolded He Youtong for calling Chen Yan to meet her and ordered her to apologize to him when she returned.
• Chen Xiyuan concluded that Chen Yan was worth investing in and declared that Steward Hu had been wrong.

Chen Xiyuan confronted Chen Changyuan over the Luo Chen’s killings and said she would cultivate Chen Yan, while Chen Yan tested a powerful new ultimate move against Shen Yiwei. After Shen Yiwei learned he was being transferred, he resolved to pursue the Gong Family, and his killing intent awakened a sealed realm.

• Chen Changyuan reported that the Luo Chen had killed ninety-seven Origin Realm clan members, and Chen Xiyuan ordered him to stop after one hundred and leave Chen Yan’s branch alone.
• Chen Xiyuan decided to cultivate Chen Yan to build her influence, while Chen Changyuan and an elder discussed killing him and searching for the unknown victor of the Limit Breaking Contest.
• Chen Yan tested Void Breaker—Exploding Saint against Shen Yiwei, whose reaction confirmed the move’s immense power.
• Shen Yiwei told Chen Yan that he still fell short of Gong Wu, then left after learning he was being transferred to Wasteland Market.
• Shen Yiwei told Xia Chiyi he intended to go after the Gong Family and entered the Ancient God Forbidden Land, as his killing intent began to unlock a sealed realm.

Chen Yan left the Military Martial Guard to confront Shen Yiwei’s departure, while Zhuang Ang endured the death of the little girl imprisoned with him. Chen Yan then unleashed an Ice Dragon over the Gong Family estate and declared that the Gong Family would be no more in Great Xia.

• Gong Hengwen killed Chu Xuansheng in the Gong Family’s underground prison and ordered masked men to drag him away.
• Chen Yan asked Si Wenyi about the people in his portraits, reassured her, and vanished when Shen Youning asked him to persuade Shen Yiwei to stay.
• Zhuang Ang watched the little girl be taken away and found her dead, then heard a mysterious voice tell him to stand up.
• Shen Yiwei ignored Xia Chiyi, Old Chi, and Lu Xinyuan’s efforts to stop him from leaving the Town Martial Division.
• Chen Yan appeared as Ice Flame on the lake, froze and shattered the water, then rode an Ice Dragon toward the Gong Family estate.
• Chen Yan threatened the Gong Family from atop the Ice Dragon, declaring that it would be no more in Great Xia.

After Zhuang Ang lost his last hope, a mysterious pressure began awakening within him. Meanwhile, Chen Yan descended on the Gong Family estate as Bing Yi, froze its forces, and fought its Origin Realm defenders while Gong Hengwen urged Gong Wu to join the attack.

• Zhuang Ang stood up despite his despair, and a faint pressure spilled from him as the Masked Person tried to punish him.
• Chen Yan arrived atop an Ice Dragon and declared that the Gong Family would cease to exist in Great Xia.
• Gong Wu ordered the Gong Family Army Guards to kill Chen Yan and offered them an Azure Sky Level Treasure Medicine.
• Chen Yan’s icy domain froze the charging guards, and he struck down the short-ponytailed man who had hoped to claim the reward.
• The bald Origin Realm expert fought Chen Yan while the woman in Sunglasses considered attacking from the shadows.
• Gong Hengwen urged Gong Wu to attack Chen Yan together.

Gong Wu tried to save his family by recruiting He Youtong, but Bing Yi killed two Origin Realm attackers and began slaughtering the Gong Family. He Youtong and Chen Xiyuan suspected Bing Yi was a First-Rank Prodigy, while Shen Yiwei recognized a technique and struggled to contain his reaction.

• Gong Wu ordered Gong Hengwen to use the Underground Passage to kill the blood offerings and death guards, then begged He Youtong to defend the Gong Family in exchange for two Azure Sky Level treasure medicines.
• The Sunglasses-wearing woman unleashed her Thirty-Six Petal World-Destroying Flower at Chen Yan, but Bing Yi appeared beside her holding the bald man's head and killed her with [Netherworld Loss].
• He Youtong fled and showed Chen Xiyuan the battle; they connected Bing Yi's Azure Sky Level Cold Ice Element to Chen Min's former talent and considered whether Bing Yi was a First-Rank Prodigy.
• Bing Yi continued through the Gong Family grounds, killing people and leaving bodies frozen into ice crystals as Chen Xiyuan watched through He Youtong's phone.
• Shen Yiwei recognized that Bing Yi seemed to have used [Submerged Abyss], while Xia Chiyi and Lu Xinyuan arrived and wondered what to do.

Chen Yan, as Bing Yi, rescued Zhuang Ang and uncovered the Gong Family’s atrocities, while Zhuang Ang became a Willbearer. After torturing Gong Wu for information about the missing Ancient God Beast, Chen Yan killed him; Gong Wu claimed the Xia Imperial Family and Great Xia’s decline were behind the beasts, then died insisting it had all been a dream.

• Chen Yan killed Gong Hengwen, discovered that Zhuang Ang had become a Willbearer, and hid Gong Hengwen’s corpse in his Spatial Ring.
• Shen Yiwei and Lu Xinyuan found the captives and human remains, and Shen Yiwei blamed Lu Xinyuan for stopping him from acting sooner.
• Bing Yi comforted the grieving Zhuang Ang, telling him to thank himself for refusing to give up; Zhuang Ang broke down over his dead friend.
• Chen Yan confronted Gong Wu about the missing Ancient God Beast and tortured him, but Gong Wu claimed he did not know what it was.
• Shen Keqing warned Xia Chiyi not to interfere with Bing Yi and ordered Wen Xin Stele examinations for everyone on Shen Yiwei’s side who knew Bing Yi’s identity.
• Gong Wu blamed the Xia Imperial Family and Great Xia’s decline for the Ancient God Beasts before Chen Yan killed him; his final words were that everything had been a dream.

Chen Yan left the ruined Gong Family estate with Gong Wu’s corpse, then sensed a powerful hostile presence while considering how to grow stronger. Back home, he tried to train with Chen Yu, but she returned to her room in tears after the session.

• Chen Yan stored Gong Wu’s corpse, left the survivors for the authorities, and raced east across the Cloudland Aristocratic Family’s territory.
• Two Aristocratic Alliance members considered attacking Bing Yi for her treasures, but Shen Keqing killed them before they could act.
• Chen Yan sensed hostility through the Will Path and resolved to strengthen his Qi and Blood Path and create a Morning Star Level ultimate move.
• Chen Yu waited for Chen Yan to return, then insisted on training with him despite Chen Yan and Chen Yuxu trying to dissuade her.
• Chen Yan agreed to train Chen Yu, who soon left the Training Room in tears and said she would never talk to her big brother again.

Chen Yan learned that the Gong Family had been wiped out and received books from Shen Yiwei that helped him study martial advancement and open Origin Spaces. He found a vast hoard of Coiled Dragon Jade in Gong Hengwen and Gong Wu’s Origin Spaces, while Luo Chen remained his next target.

• Chen Yu complained about Chen Yan knocking her down during sparring, then proudly realized her brother had grown stronger.
• Si Wenyi told Chen Yan that the Gong Family had been destroyed and Shen Yiwei would likely avoid being sent to the Wasteland Market; she delivered a package from him before leaving.
• Chen Yan reflected on his unresolved feelings for Si Wenyi and resolved to grow stronger so he could kill Luo Chen.
• Chen Yan read Lu Xunyang’s Unity Journal and learned of the theory that reaching multiples of 72 Extreme Stripes could trigger an echo of the Realm.
• Using Shen Yiwei’s book, Chen Yan opened Gong Hengwen’s Origin Space and found 100 kilograms of Coiled Dragon Jade, then discovered another 500 kilograms in Gong Wu’s Origin Space.

Chen Yan used Coiled Dragon Jade and Saint Breaking Fruits to force his Extreme Stripe Patterns beyond the limits of Unity, setting his will against the rules of the Body Tempering Path. He reached Unity while continuing to form new patterns, and the chapter ended with his 172nd Extreme Stripe appearing.

• Chen Yan consumed Coiled Dragon Jade in a cave on Qingshan and began strengthening his body as his Extreme Stripe Patterns approached Unity.
• Chen Yan swallowed Saint Breaking Fruits, then declared that he would not reach Unity and ordered his patterns to keep condensing.
• Shen Keqing, Lu Xinyuan, Shen Yiwei, Old Chi, and Steward Hu sensed the unusually powerful change in Truth from different locations.
• Chen Yan’s will collided with Martial Dao, and an ink painting of a small village began forming behind him as his patterns continued to grow.
• Chen Yan reached Unity, but his Extreme Stripe Patterns kept increasing; he ate more Coiled Dragon Jade, and the 172nd pattern appeared on his chest.

After reaching the Unity Realm and condensing 181 Extreme Stripes, Chen Yan began testing his new strength while Yunmeng City celebrated Bing Yi for destroying the Gong Family. In Xiaoyang City, Zhang Ting confronted Luo Dongli over the massacre and faced pressure to join a plot against Qin Prefecture, while he quietly focused on Bing Yi.

• Chen Yan reached the Unity Realm, condensed his 181st Extreme Stripe, and discovered that his strength could shake space and let him fly through the air.
• Chen Yan decided to continue cultivating the Formation Disk and sensed Zhuang Ang's will on the Martial Dao Meridians.
• News spread that Bing Yi had destroyed the Gong Family, and a crippled man denounced the family and praised Bing Yi as a hero.
• People across Qin Prefecture learned of the Gong Family's crimes and celebrated Bing Yi, while a Chaos-colored Fruit in the Saint Breaking Realm grew rapidly.
• Zhang Ting demanded an explanation from Luo Dongli and forced the Aristocratic Alliance Steward to promise three Bright Moon Level A Treasure Medicines.
• A chilling voice urged Zhang Ting to join its plan and accused him of coveting the Divine Artifact, but Zhang Ting insisted he was protecting Qin Prefecture and wrote Bing Yi's name on a document.