Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan fell asleep inside the Time Barrier after exhausting himself, but his awakened consciousness absorbed medicines and continued cultivating in a dream. Outside, powerful figures learned he had survived Snow Wife’s pursuit and watched his unprecedented lead on the Ranking Board, while Chen Changyuan began to regard him as a potential rival.

• Chen Yan saw the Martial Dao talents and struggles of people across the Martial Dao Meridians before closing his eyes and falling asleep inside the Time Barrier.
• As Life Aura remade his body, Chen Yan recognized his dream as an illusion and used a sliver of awakened consciousness to absorb the medicines beside him.
• In Xiaoyang City, powerful figures waited for Chen Yan to be eliminated, but his name remained first on the Ranking Board with 440 million points.
• After a candidate forfeited from the Slaughter Forest, Zong Heng and other powerful figures learned that Chen Yan had escaped Snow Wife by entering a Wooden House with Jiang Yuan’s help.
• Shen Yiwei felt moved by Chen Yan’s actions, while Chen Changyuan considered him a worthy potential enemy for the first time.
• Zhang Ting wondered whether Chen Yan posed a greater threat than Shen Yiwei and Zong Heng.

Chen Yan recovered and grew dramatically stronger by using Time Seeds and Treasure Medicines, then teamed up with Jiang Yuan to draw Snow Wife away from You Lan. He and Jiang Yuan fought Snow Wife, but Jiang Yuan’s deception and Chen Yan’s final attack left Jiang Yuan facing Snow Wife alone as Chen Yan disappeared into the forest.

• Chen Yan used Time Seeds and Treasure Medicines to heal, cultivate, and raise his Body Tempering and Qi and Blood progress substantially.
• Chen Yan contacted He Youtong and Jiang Yuan, told them he had found You Lan in Snow Wife’s Stone Palace, and arranged for them to help retrieve it.
• At the Stone Palace, He Youtong saw You Lan but learned only Blood Qi Martial Artists could enter, so she waited for Snow Wife to leave.
• After nightfall, Chen Yan and Jiang Yuan fought Snow Wife while He Youtong headed into the Stone Palace for You Lan.
• Jiang Yuan pretended to use his Quitting Token to escape, but it was He Youtong’s stolen token; Chen Yan pursued him while still fighting Snow Wife.
• Chen Yan unleashed [Void Breaker—Boundless Saint Burst] and blasted Snow Wife into the ground, then vanished, leaving Snow Wife to charge Jiang Yuan.

He Youtong tried to claim You Lan, but Shi Ziqin attacked her before Chen Yan arrived and killed Shi Ziqin. After reflecting on Shi Ziqin’s ambitions, Chen Yan killed He Youtong when she tried to command him.

• He Youtong found the Stone Palace and tried to claim You Lan, but Shi Ziqin appeared and attacked her.
• He Youtong’s Quitting Token failed, so she used a secret technique to summon Chen Yan while Shi Ziqin defeated the White Tiger Phantom.
• Chen Yan arrived and overpowered Shi Ziqin, who insisted her plans would let the Chief save the world, then died trying to become a Formation Puppet.
• Chen Yan questioned the cost of ambition and mourned over Shi Ziqin’s body.
• He Youtong tried to order Chen Yan around, but he crushed her with a wave of golden light.

Chen Yan killed He Youtong, uncovered Snow Wife’s true bargain for Youlan, and agreed to find Snow Wife’s flesh and blood. He then confronted Jiang Yuan, who tricked him into drawing Snow Wife away before revealing he had faked his injuries.

• Chen Yan reflected on Shi Ziqin’s selfishness as the dying He Youtong cursed him, then killed He Youtong and stored her and Shi Ziqin’s corpses in his Spatial Ring.
• Chen Yan found Snow Wife’s hidden Youlan book in the Stone Palace and realized the poem’s deeper message asked an examinee to find Snow Wife’s flesh and blood in exchange for the real Youlan.
• Chen Yan accepted Snow Wife’s bargain and waited for Jiang Yuan, who arrived pursued by Snow Wife and asked whether Chen Yan had found Youlan and whether He Youtong had escaped.
• Chen Yan told Jiang Yuan that He Youtong had pressed the Quit Button, then refused to help him hold off Snow Wife and flew away.
• Jiang Yuan used a Formation Disk to send Chen Yan toward Snow Wife, concealed his aura, and revealed that he had faked his injuries while praising Chen Yan’s ability.

Jiang Yuan found the hidden [You Lan] in the Stone Palace, while Chen Yan uncovered Slaughter Village’s plan to use an assembled body to retrieve it. After Chen Yan exposed the villagers’ secrets, Yu Changsheng stole the Blue Light Chen Yan had presented and fled, leaving Chen Yan to secretly collect another fifty million Path Cutting Points.

• Jiang Yuan entered the Stone Palace, found the cowhide book containing [You Lan], and destroyed the poem that concealed it.
• Chen Yan searched Slaughter Village’s stone cellars, then agreed to keep Snow Wife occupied so villagers could gather Human Head Fruit in exchange for fifty million Path Cutting Points.
• The village chief brought Chen Yan before a boy whose body had been assembled from other people’s limbs and organs, revealing the villagers’ failed effort to find [You Lan] and their plan to cultivate the Qi and Blood Path.
• Chen Yan collected the fifty million points but refused to hand over Snow Wife or answer the village chief’s demands about the Black Powder until the villagers threatened him.
• Chen Yan showed the villagers a Blue Light orb, and Yu Changsheng burst in, snatched it, and fled as the village chief’s group and Snow Wife pursued him.
• Chen Yan secretly took another fifty million Path Cutting Points and revealed that the Blue Light was a fake made with the [Great Creation Technique] and that he still had not taken the fake [You Lan] from the Stone Palace.

Chen Yan traded fake You Lan for a healing medicine, then heard the Gatekeeper of Slaughter Village tell a grim story about the rabbits’ doomed rebellion against the White Bear. Sun Seeking Tower awakened, and Lu Xunyang called Chen Yan, inviting him to find him in the tower.

• Chen Yan confronted Yu Changsheng and used several fake You Lan to confuse him while secretly passing the real-looking orb to the village chief.
• Yu Changsheng recognized the orb as You Lan through the Invincible Son’s Blood Drop and flew off to fight the village chief, while Chen Yan escaped with a medicine that turned out to be only Azure Sky Level Grade A.
• Chen Yan searched the Gatekeeper’s cellar for the stone wall but found nothing, and the Gatekeeper told him how the rabbits’ armor failed to stop the White Bear from eating them.
• Sun Seeking Tower awakened, stirring powerful figures inside and outside the College Entrance Exam Secret Realm.
• Lu Xunyang spoke directly to Chen Yan, called him a breaker of limits, and told him to find him in Sun Seeking Tower.

Chen Yan uncovered that Slaughter Village had hidden Snow Wife’s wife and daughter’s charred remains in its houses and used them to keep him at bay. As he destroyed the village and fought its chief, Snow Wife arrived and seized the chief.

• Chen Yan returned to Slaughter Village, where the village chief blamed him for ruining the village’s last hope and tried to turn him into a puppet.
• Chen Yan revealed the wooden door he had taken and destroyed it, exposing charred human remains hidden inside.
• Chen Yan deduced that You Lan was hidden among the remains of Snow Wife’s wife and daughter, and began smashing the village houses to uncover them.
• The village chief and villagers attacked Chen Yan, but he continued destroying houses despite being wounded by their assaults.
• Snow Wife arrived and trapped the village chief with a giant hand wrapped in Black Mist.

Snow Wife learned the truth about his family’s deaths and reunited with their fading souls, while Zulian Hen broke down and died. Snow Wife then revealed that You Lan existed only within him and promised Chen Yan three demonstrations before trailing off with the word “Honey.”

• Snow Wife broke free of the village chief’s control, and Zulian Hen explained how fear of Fei Yi had driven the villagers to kill Snow Wife’s wife and daughter and turn their remains into poison.
• Snow Wife tried to touch his family’s bodies, but the poison burned him until the remnant souls of his wife and daughter appeared and embraced him.
• His daughter called Zulian Hen “Grandpa” before she and her mother faded away, and Zulian Hen went mad and blew himself up.
• Snow Wife told Chen Yan that You Lan existed within him and promised to perform it three times so Chen Yan could learn its mysteries.
• Snow Wife began to explain what truly mattered about You Lan, then lost his train of thought and said, “Honey.”

Chen Yan learned Snow Wife’s first You Lan move, destroyed the villagers who had persecuted him, and began cultivating to advance his Qi and Blood Path. He reached the Blood River, where a ferryman tested him with a story about the Rabbit Village Chief, and Chen Yan gave an answer the ferryman accepted.

• Snow Wife possessed Chen Yan briefly and used You Lan’s first move to kill hundreds of Slaughter Village’s villagers, then warned that his next move would target Fei Yi.
• Chen Yan absorbed Snow Wife’s Skill Character Saint Breaking Fruits and began merging Submerged Abyss with You Lan into an incomplete Moon-level cultivation method.
• Chen Yan used a Dao Seed and a Path Cutting Bamboo to gain insights and obtain a Glazed Blood Crystal, then cultivated until his Accumulation and Forging Degree reached ninety-two.
• Chen Yan reached the Blood River, where an old ferryman refused to carry him across because Snow Wife was with him, then offered passage if Chen Yan answered a question about the Rabbit Village Chief.
• Chen Yan explained that the Rabbit Village Chief and five rabbits helped one of two fighting White Bears, then ate their flesh and went mad; the ferryman said the details were slightly off but the overall answer was right.

As Chen Yan crossed the Blood River, he realized Slaughter Village’s history mirrored Great Xia’s martial paths and renewed his resolve to destroy evil. His transformation reached Chen Yu, who awakened a power that erased Malice, becoming the world’s fourth Willbearer.

• Chen Yan recognized Zulian Hen as the Qi and Blood Ancestor and the village chief as the Horizontal Refinement Ancestor, concluding that Slaughter Village’s story foretold Great Xia’s history.
• Chen Yan accepted the darkness behind humanity’s survival and resolved to burn brighter than those who came before him, destroying evil wherever he found it.
• Chen Yan’s will transformed as he crossed the Blood River, illuminating his Martial Dao Meridians and drawing awe from Snow Wife and the old boatman.
• Chen Yu continued fighting an Ancient God Beast despite her deteriorating body, while Ji Yannan urged her to follow her own path.
• A white light surged from Chen Yu and her Formation Disks, grinding away the Beast’s Malice and revealing Chen Yan’s power within her.
• Chen Yu sensed the warm force and called out to her brother as she became the world’s fourth Willbearer.

After Shen Yiwei’s power surged and Chen Yan strengthened the Yan Realm, Chen Yan learned that Sanjin was trapped in a dream on the Dream Abyss’s third layer. He entered the abyss to find Fei Yi and fought through its Ancient Beasts, while a being in the second layer panicked at his approach.

• Zhang Ting burned Ji Feng’s fleshly mass to ash, then learned that Shen Yiwei had unleashed a terrifying, unfamiliar pressure.
• Chen Yan’s Yan Realm advanced, increasing its combat boost and giving him a rough concept for the Establishing Realm; Chen Yu and Shen Yiwei became Willbearers.
• The old boatman told Chen Yan that Yu Changsheng had tricked Sanjin into the Dream Abyss’s third layer, where the Dream Ancient God Beast had trapped her in a dream.
• Chen Yan jumped into the Dream Abyss and began fighting the Ancient Beasts while asking Snow Wife where Fei Yi was.
• Chen Yan combined his fists and Ice Spear in battle to refine his combat power, and a frightened being in the second layer cried out that he had arrived.

Chen Yan trained in Slaughter Forest under Snow Wife’s guidance and faced a Fifth Order Mantis Ancient God Beast, while Yu Changsheng entered Sun Seeking Tower and rapidly climbed the exam rankings. Outside the secret realm, Chen Yan remained first, and Green Mountain Town’s villagers celebrated his standing as a General Star.

• Yu Changsheng arrived at Sun Seeking Tower, suspected Chen Yan had lied to him, and entered the tower while carrying murderous intent.
• Snow Wife taught Chen Yan to understand his reactions and adapt his fighting techniques, helping him recognize why he struggled to combine Qi and Blood with Horizontal Refinement.
• A Fifth Order Mantis Ancient God Beast confronted Chen Yan, and he began fighting it to practice adjusting his movements and attacks.
• Chen Yan remained first on the College Entrance Exam Leaderboard with 560 million points as Yu Changsheng rose to second place with 340 million.
• Villagers in Green Mountain Town celebrated Chen Yan’s ranking, while Hu Zeyuan beat Hu Yuan for speaking carelessly about his relative and regretting the family’s earlier debt collection.

After surviving a day-long battle, Chen Yan strengthened his abilities and discovered a Path Cutting Lock that brought him to the Path Cutting Sacred Bamboo, where examinees prepared to compete for its rewards. As the groups gathered and tensions rose, Chen Yan announced he would leave temporarily, while Jiang Yuan claimed he could match Qiu Changji in strength.

• Chen Changyuan reflected on his Soul Clone's ambition as Yu Changsheng's leaderboard points surged past 500 million, and he fixed his gaze on Chen Yan's ranking.
• Chen Yan killed a Fifth Order Mantis Ancient God Beast, then consumed Saint Breaking Fruits that advanced his Protective Rune and brought [Patrol Heaven] to Entering Divinity.
• Chen Yan fused the beast's black eyes with an Azure Eye, found a mysterious red chain, and followed it to the Path Cutting Sacred Bamboo and its enormous hoard of points.
• Xu Di and Shen Youning explained that Chen Yan, Jiang Yuan, and Qiu Changji owned the three Path Cutting Locks, and that the owners could compete for a 1.5-billion-point reward when the Sacred Fruits ripened.
• Qiu Changji questioned Chen Yan about Shi Ziqin, while Zhou Tian urged Military Martial examinees to join Jiang Yuan's side and Zhou Yi chose to join Qiu Changji's group.
• Chen Yan told his allies he would be away for a day and a half, and Jiang Yuan claimed that Chen Yan could stand shoulder to shoulder with Qiu Changji.

Chen Yan left the lake to enter the Dream Abyss Second Layer, where he destroyed the Stone Tablet that spread malice and freed a little girl and hundreds of captive humans from an Ancient God Beast’s pens. He left the rescued people following him, and angered, faced the question of whom he should blame as the Heavenly Prides above continued fighting over the Path Cutting Sacred Fruit.

• Jiang Yuan claimed Chen Yan could rival Qiu Changji, but Zhou Yi left the Military Martial Guard to join the Town Martial Division, and Qiu Changji planned to deny the newcomers a share of the points.
• Chen Yan told Shang Yunwu and the others he would be gone for up to a day and a half, then flew deeper into Dream Abyss with Snow Wife’s guidance.
• Chen Yan reached a Stone Tablet in a valley, resisted its malicious influence, tore it open, and killed the old man who worshipped Fei Yi.
• Jiang Yuan arrived outside the Stone Tablet, realized Chen Yan had entered the Second Layer, and returned without following him.
• In the Red Mist, Chen Yan killed a Pig Head Ancient God Beast, freed a little girl, and released hundreds of humans held in pig pens.
• The rescued humans followed Chen Yan, and the little girl pleaded for him not to leave them behind as anger filled him.

Chen Yan led the Human Race through Slaughter Village, refined his fighting style, and confronted the sixth-rank Ancient God Beast Fei Yi. As Snow Wife prepared [Nether Ripple], Chen Yan fought to keep Fei Yi away from her and struck her with a powerful punch.

• Chen Yan killed a Giant Worm and realized that combining Fist Intent with his spear techniques made his combat style more effective.
• Chen Yan reflected on the Human Race’s suffering and resolved to create the Establishing Realm so more people could enter the Will Path.
• Yu Changsheng overtook Chen Yan for first place on the College Entrance Exam Leaderboard, while Chen Xiyuan learned that He Youtong had died and received orders from the Second Elder to contact Yu Changsheng.
• Chen Yan reached the plaza and found Fei Yi beside a fountain of liquid Malice; Snow Wife recognized her and began preparing [Nether Ripple].
• Chen Yan endured Fei Yi’s attacks, protected Snow Wife while she gathered strength, and landed a forceful punch that dented Fei Yi’s armor.

Chen Yan and Snow Wife battled Fei Yi while Snow Wife prepared a decisive attack, and Chen Yan pushed through Fei Yi’s Malice to keep her occupied. After Snow Wife struck Fei Yi with the completed Black Tortoise, Chen Yan comprehended a new Bright Moon Level A method, [Illusory Wave Abyss Domain], by merging Submerged Abyss and You Lan.

• Chen Yan repeatedly intercepted Fei Yi as she tried to stop Snow Wife from completing the Blood Qi Black Tortoise, suffering severe injuries and losing his right arm.
• Fei Yi attacked Chen Yan with overwhelming Malice and tentacles, but he broke through the darkness and battered her while Snow Wife finished gathering [You Lan].
• Snow Wife unleashed the Black Tortoise, hollowing out Fei Yi’s upper body and leaving Chen Yan free to absorb a Dao Seed and comprehend the method.
• Chen Yan used Saint Breaking Fruits to master Illusory Wave Abyss Domain, a Bright Moon Level A method formed by merging Submerged Abyss and You Lan.

Chen Yan fought to survive Fei Yi’s pursuit, slaughtering Ancient God Beasts to gather enough Path Cutting Points to reach Half-step Origin. With Snow Wife holding Fei Yi in place, Chen Yan and Snow Wife launched their final attacks, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Chen Yan used [Illusory Wave Abyss Domain] to absorb Blood Energy and improve his Qi and Blood while Xueqi’s attack left Fei Yi gravely wounded but alive.
• Fei Yi crushed Shi Ziqin’s Quitting Token, forcing Chen Yan to flee as Xueqi entered his body.
• Chen Yan killed Ancient God Beasts to gather Path Cutting Points, then used a Morning Star Level Class B Qi and Blood Medicine from the Path Cutting Bamboo to summon Snow Wife again.
• Snow Wife restrained Fei Yi while Chen Yan used Time Seeds to escape and buy time to reach Half-step Origin.
• Snow Wife prepared her final move, Extinguish Self-Evil, as Chen Yan gathered his strength and thrust his spear at Fei Yi.

Sanjin struggled through the Dream Abyss Third Layer, where illusions forced her to relive her painful childhood and her father Zong Huang’s rejection. As she neared collapse, a young man crossed her path, while memories showed Zong Huang leaving for the Ancient God Forbidden Land without acknowledging her.

• Sanjin’s Quitting Token was destroyed by the Dream Abyss, leaving her trapped in the Third Layer.
• Sanjin relived the memory of hiding with dumplings as Zong Huang returned and called her a little bastard, then remembered him apologizing and accepting her as his daughter.
• Sanjin discovered that Xia Hanzhou had deceived her by pretending to be General Zong to give her the happiness of meeting her father.
• A young man in a General Star uniform passed through Sanjin and entered a Hair Salon, where a girl was tied up beside a pig-headed divine beast.
• Sanjin remembered Zong Huang setting out from Jin Prefecture to bring Chief Director Lu back from the Ancient God Forbidden Land.
• Zong Huang looked toward Sanjin with an indifferent, disgusted gaze before leaving, and Sanjin continued wandering through the gray world.

Trapped on the Dream Abyss’s third layer, Sanjin watched Chen Yan defeat Fei Yi but refused the tempting offer to pull him across the barrier and save herself. She accepted the nightmare’s assault, holding to Xia Hanzhou’s belief in Chen Yan and concluding that he was stronger than Lu Xunyang.

• Sanjin remembered Xia Qi telling her that Zong Huang despised himself, and urging her to seek the Great Sun in her own heart and live her own life.
• Sanjin saw Chen Yan badly wounded and hunted by Fei Yi on the Dream Abyss’s second layer, while she remained unable to reach him from the third.
• Chen Yan unleashed a devastating attack that killed Fei Yi and the surrounding Ancient God Beasts, remaking the world as a Path Cutting Bamboo grew beside him.
• A tempting voice urged Sanjin to break through the barrier and pull Chen Yan over to save her, but she withdrew her hand and turned away.
• Sanjin recalled Xia Hanzhou ordering her to protect Chen Yan and insisting that he was the future of the Human Race, then said Chen Yan was stronger than Lu Xunyang and accepted the nightmare.

Chen Yan killed Fei Yi in the Dream Abyss, gained 2.7 billion Path Cutting Points, and rose to first place on the College Entrance Exam Leaderboard. As he healed the wounded and chose a treasure medicine for his coming advancement into the Origin Realm, the story left him recovering amid the ruins of Slaughter Forest.

• Yu Changsheng surpassed Chen Yan on the leaderboard, but Chen Yan’s points then surged to 3.32 billion and stunned observers across Xiaoyang City.
• After Fei Yi died, the Ancient God Beasts perished and poured their Path Cutting Points into Chen Yan’s Path Cutting Bamboo, which grew its fifth and sixth sections.
• Chen Yan used a Life Immortal Pill to heal himself and sent its medicinal power as silver rain to heal hundreds of injured humans.
• Chen Changyuan and Luo Dongli saw Chen Yan’s first-place score of 3.32 billion and questioned how he had gained 2.7 billion points so quickly.
• Chen Xiyuan woke, saw Chen Yan’s score, and panicked when she realized only one day had passed.
• Chen Yan reflected on Snow Wife’s disappearance and Slaughter Forest’s end, then chose a bottle of golden sand weighing a ton as he prepared to enter the Origin Realm.