Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan used Supreme Body Washing Sand to advance into the Origin Realm, discovering that his Origin Space contained ninety-nine Origin Divine Bodies that fused and began to be forged. After emerging from cultivation, he led thousands of liberated Human Race members out of the Dream Abyss Second Layer, while Sanjin remained in the Third Layer and hoped Chen Yan had left safely.

• Chen Yan advanced into the Origin Realm and discovered ninety-nine Origin Divine Bodies filling his expanding Origin Space.
• Chen Yan spent fourteen Time Seeds cultivating, forging the divine body's right hand and raising his Qi and Blood quality to Morning Star Level Class D.
• Yu Changsheng kicked An Yunnan through a window on the eighty-eighth floor of Sun Seeking Tower and continued upward, intent on confronting Lu Xunyang.
• Chen Yan woke in the Dream Abyss Second Layer, found thousands of liberated Human Race members kneeling before him, and urged them to stand and walk.
• Chen Yan led the Human Race members out of the Second Layer, while Sanjin endured the nightmares in the Third Layer and said she was glad he had gone.

The Military Martial Guard waited anxiously for Chen Yan while candidates from the weaker faction defected to the Town Martial Division. The girl’s departure left Shang Yunwu’s side further diminished as the Path Cutting Sacred Fruit neared ripeness.

• Shao Hengyang said Chen Yan had been gone for twenty-one hours, and Shang Yunwu reminded the Military Martial Examinees that Chen Yan had asked them to wait a day and a half.
• Xu Di defended the Military Martial Guard’s chance to compete, but a buzz-cut Heavenly Pride from the Town Martial Division mocked their prospects, and Zhou Tian urged Shang Yunwu to join the Town Martial Division.
• A female Military Martial Examinee explained that she needed a Treasure Medicine to reach the Origin Realm, then left the Military Martial Guard for the Town Martial Division despite Shang Yunwu’s appeal to wait for Chen Yan.
• Jiang Yuan invited the girl to join the Aristocratic Alliance, but she called its members beasts and went to the Town Martial Division instead.
• An Aristocratic Alliance candidate muttered that he was not a beast, prompting the others to stare at him in silence.

After Jiang Yuan revealed that Chen Yan had gone to the location of an SOS, Shang Yunwu led the Military Martial Guard to rescue him. They found Chen Yan safe with several thousand Human Race members from the Dream Abyss Second Layer, and arranged an escort back to Slaughter Village.

• Jiang Yuan told the assembled examinees that he had seen Chen Yan head toward the SOS location in the Dream Abyss.
• Shang Yunwu dismissed Qiu Changji’s refusal to help and led more than a thousand Military Martial Examinees toward the Dream Abyss.
• Jiang Yuan decided not to go after Bai Danshan warned him against helping Chen Yan, who had killed Ma Tianyin and Lu Guiwen.
• Shang Yunwu and several General Stars reached the entrance to the Dream Abyss Second Layer and found Chen Yan with several thousand Human Race members.
• Chen Yan told Shang Yunwu that he had found the people in the Dream Abyss Second Layer, and Shang Yunwu arranged for General Stars and examinees to escort them to Slaughter Village.

As the Path Cutting Sacred Fruit ripened, Chen Yan and Jiang Yuan held back while Qiu Changji led the Town Martial Division in pulling the Sacred Bamboo toward their side. The Town Martial Division then turned on the Military Martial Examinees who had defected to help, leaving them surrounded and in despair.

• Zhang Ting learned that Chen Yan had gained 2.7 billion Path Cutting Points, while his secretary said Qiu Changji planned to collect 1.5 billion points and challenge the tower.
• Chen Yan cultivated inside a Time Barrier for about twenty-one hours, then emerged as the Path Cutting Sacred Fruit matured.
• The Town Martial Division pulled on the Red Threads to bend the Path Cutting Sacred Bamboo, while Jiang Yuan and Chen Yan ordered their respective groups to wait.
• Qiu Changji strengthened the Town Martial Division's pull, bringing the Sacred Bamboo within reach of the Path Cutting Sacred Fruit.
• A Crew Cut Youth punched Zhou Tian and led several hundred Town Martial Division examinees in attacking the Military Martial Examinees who had defected to help.
• Zhou Tian called for Qiu Changji's help, but Qiu Changji ignored him, and the defectors realized they had been betrayed.

Chen Yan’s plan drew the Town Martial Division and the Aristocratic Alliance into a struggle over the Path Cutting Sacred Fruit, giving the Military Martial Guards a chance to compete. When Qiu Changji attacked the Military Martial Guards, Chen Yan revealed his power and crushed him, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Jiang Yuan finally fired on the Aristocratic Alliance, and its examinees pulled the Path Cutting Sacred Bamboo against the Town Martial Division.
• As Qiu Changji moved to harvest the fruit above the Town Martial Division, Chen Yan ordered the Military Martial Guards to pull it back over the lake.
• Qiu Changji charged the Military Martial Guards alone, while Jiang Yuan flew in to join the fight; Chen Yan ordered his allies not to interfere.
• Chen Yan revealed his Seventh Grade Fist Intent and struck Qiu Changji and Jiang Yuan at the same time, blasting Qiu Changji from the clash.
• Chen Yan pursued Qiu Changji, drove him into the earth, and said he had worried about Qiu’s strength before laughing at his aura.

Chen Yan overwhelmed Qiu Changji, prompting Jiang Yuan to surrender and withdraw from the contest for the Path Cutting Sacred Fruit. When the Aristocratic Alliance joined the Town Martial Division to overpower the Military Martial Guard in the tug-of-war, Chen Yan charged at them alone.

• Chen Yan endured Qiu Changji’s full-force punch and knocked him into the ground, leaving Qiu Changji dazed and humiliated.
• Jiang Yuan admitted he could not beat Chen Yan, surrendered, and left to investigate whether [You Lan] was fake.
• Bai Danshan led the Aristocratic Alliance examinees to join the Town Martial Division, giving them a massive numerical advantage over the Military Martial Guard.
• Chen Yan said the past crisis in the Assessment Space did not obligate the Aristocratic Alliance to yield the Sacred Fruit, while both factions pulled harder on the Red Threads.
• Shao Hengyang and Shang Yunwu urged the Military Martial Guard to charge, but Chen Yan suddenly shot alone toward the opposing side.

Chen Yan single-handedly attacked the alliance of the Town Martial Division and the Aristocratic Alliance, breaking their formation before Military Martial arrived and drove them into a rout. Bai Danshan's attempt to ambush Chen Yan ended with him flying through trees, where he remembered a sunny afternoon with his mother and began to cry.

• Chen Yan charged into more than ten thousand examinees, broke through their sealing techniques, and overwhelmed them with his strength.
• Bai Danshan and the Fourth Order examinees attacked Chen Yan together, injuring him, but he escaped underground and resumed fighting among the crowd.
• Shang Yunwu led the Military Martial Examinees into the battle, and their assault shattered the alliance as examinees fled or forfeited.
• Bai Danshan launched a final surprise attack on Chen Yan, who struck him and sent him crashing through a line of ancient trees.
• Bai Danshan sat dazed among the wreckage, remembered his mother calling him home on a sunny afternoon, and wept.

Chen Yan led the Military Martial Guards to victory at Path Cutting Lake, rejected an attempted appeal from deserters, and claimed the largest Path Cutting Sacred Fruit orb. Jiang Yuan tried to exploit Chen Yan’s pursuit of a stolen orb, but Chen Yan returned before Jiang Yuan could attack, leaving their confrontation poised to begin.

• Chen Yan defeated the Town Martial Division and Aristocratic Alliance forces, leaving only the Military Martial Guards at the lakeshore.
• Zhou Tian brought three hundred Military Martial Guards who had defected and asked Chen Yan to let them rejoin, but Chen Yan knocked Zhou Tian and two others unconscious and ordered the Sacred Bamboo pulled down.
• Chen Yan broke the Path Cutting Sacred Fruit and claimed the orb containing fifteen hundred million Path Cutting Points as the Military Martial Guards gathered the others for distribution.
• An arrow stole an orb holding hundreds of millions of points, and Chen Yan chased it before realizing Jiang Yuan was using the theft as a diversion.
• Jiang Yuan emerged near the Military Martial Guards and began forming a Formation, but Chen Yan returned before he could strike.

Chen Yan confronted Jiang Yuan about You Lan and demanded that he take him to the Dream Abyss Third Layer to rescue Sanjin. After giving Jiang Yuan three hundred million Path Cutting Points and compensating the Military Martial Guards, Chen Yan set off for the third layer.

• Chen Yan questioned Jiang Yuan about the real You Lan and accused him of taking it, but Jiang Yuan insisted he had only obtained a fake.
• Chen Yan demanded that Jiang Yuan take him to the Dream Abyss Third Layer, and Jiang Yuan realized Chen Yan already knew the route and wanted to rescue Sanjin.
• Chen Yan gave Jiang Yuan an orb containing three hundred million Path Cutting Points, then offered the Military Martial Guards a Treasure Medicine as compensation.
• Chen Yan announced that he was going to the Dream Abyss Third Layer, and Shen Youning told him to be careful.
• Chen Yan threw the Treasure Medicine to the Military Martial Guards and explained that he gave Jiang Yuan the points because Jiang Yuan had once held Snow Wife back with an arrow.

After Chen Yan’s exam score rose to 4.82 billion, Xia Qi declared him a First Order General Star and ordered all General Stars in Great Xia to gather in Qin Prefecture. Meanwhile, Chen Yan prepared to enter Dream Abyss Third Layer after cultivating with powerful Body Tempering medicines.

• Xia Qi dismissed King Xia Chen’s suspicions about Chen Yan’s score and reprimanded him over his ties to the Aristocratic Alliance, assigning him to obtain resources for Tie Prefecture’s defenses.
• The Green-robed Woman reported that Chen Yan’s score had reached 4.82 billion, and Xia Qi ordered every General Star in Great Xia to go to Qin Prefecture and bow before Chen Yan as a First Order General Star.
• King Xia Chen blamed Chen Changyuan for drawing Xia Qi’s attention, while General Star Tokens flew across Great Xia and stirred speculation about the State Ruler’s plans.
• Jiang Yuan showed Chen Yan the Blood Pool leading to Dream Abyss Third Layer and warned him to use the Quit Button if danger arose.
• Chen Yan stayed behind to cultivate with three Great Sun Golden Crow Molten Crystals, developing his Body Tempering foundation and planning to create a Will Divine Body.

Chen Yan broke through his limits while cultivating, then entered the Dream Abyss Third Layer with Jiang Yuan and discovered that Xia Hanzhou had been helping him through Sanjin. The layer’s illusions tormented Jiang Yuan and conjured horrors for Chen Yan, who revealed that he endured them by making his self-inflicted pain greater.

• Chen Yan used three Great Sun Golden Crow Molten Crystals and repeatedly broke his limits, advancing his Extreme Stripes as his Martial Dao Dharma Image Diagram formed Yunmeng City.
• Yu Changsheng ordered Jiang Yuan to kill Chen Yan, but Jiang Yuan found him badly injured near the entrance to the Dream Abyss Third Layer and gave him a healing Spirit Medicine.
• Chen Yan pretended to enter the Third Layer with Jiang Yuan, then entered separately through the Blood Pool and met him again inside the gray world.
• Chen Yan found Sanjin’s message about the grapes and realized Xia Hanzhou had arranged for Sanjin to help him.
• The Third Layer’s illusions overwhelmed Jiang Yuan with painful memories, while Chen Yan calmly endured increasingly disturbing visions.
• Chen Yan told Jiang Yuan that the way to avoid the pain was to make the pain he inflicted on himself stronger.

Chen Yan and Jiang Yuan searched the Dream Abyss Third Layer for Sanjin and learned she had gone with others to capture Tang Chang, who had taken the Thunder Spirit needed to escape. Chen Yan set out with a team from Cheng Le’s village, where the search ended with the villagers mocking Great Xia and Cheng Zizhen asking to see what it looked like.

• Jiang Yuan used Withered Bone Needles to stay lucid while he accompanied Chen Yan through the malice-filled Third Layer, and told him he had come to find his senior, Tang Chang.
• Chen Yan paid the old fisherman a Time Seed for directions, then reached Cheng Le’s village and learned that Sanjin had recently left to help capture Tang Chang, a corrupted Ancient God Beast who had taken Xun Ting.
• Cheng Le organized a search party for Chen Yan, and Cheng Zizhen and seven villagers volunteered to accompany him.
• Chen Yan checked his cultivation progress while resting, then set out with the team to search for Sanjin.
• During a camp stop, Uncle Li and the others mocked Chen Yan and Great Xia after Chen Yan said he had paid four Moon-level Treasure Medicines for his General Star title, while Cheng Zizhen asked him to show her what Great Xia looked like.

Chen Yan slaughtered the Malice-corrupted examinees who attacked him, then learned that Sanjin was being held captive by Cheng Le and Tang Chang. As Jiang Yuan faced them underground, he asked Sanjin whether he was even human after she admitted she had forgotten he was there.

• Miao Xiashan and the other examinees tried to draw Chen Yan into their trap, but Chen Yan killed them with his Ice Spear and unleashed an icy attack that froze dozens of miles of forest.
• Chen Yan questioned a surviving man about Sanjin, killed him when he lied, and headed toward the others.
• Cheng Le confronted the bound Jiang Yuan and Sanjin in an underground Stone House, while Tang Chang arrived transformed into a monster wreathed in black lightning.
• Jiang Yuan warned Cheng Le that Chen Yan had earned his Third Order General Star rank, but Cheng Le dismissed the warning and prepared to attack him.
• Sanjin explained that she had avoided drawing Chen Yan to the Stone House because Cheng Le and the village might attack him, then apologized to Jiang Yuan for forgetting he was captive beside her.

Jiang Yuan was trapped in Cheng Le’s basement and manipulated Cheng Le with a story that Malice had killed his consciousness, urging him to kill himself to stop the Ancient God Beast from taking his place. Meanwhile, Chen Xiyuan learned that Chen Yan had entered the Dream Abyss Third Layer and hoped he would die there.

• Sanjin reflected on her mission from Xia Hanzhou to protect Chen Yan, while Jiang Yuan questioned why he had entered the Dream Abyss Third Layer.
• Cheng Le called his daughter Cheng Zizhen back to the basement, then descended into a deranged state under Malice as Jiang Yuan watched from a stone pillar.
• The Second Elder told Chen Xiyuan that the First Elder had emerged from seclusion and that the State Ruler Mansion had issued a General Star Token; Chen Xiyuan feared Chen Yan could expose her scheme against him.
• Chen Xiyuan learned that Chen Yan had entered the Dream Abyss Third Layer and secretly hoped he would die there before the First Elder discovered what she had done.
• Jiang Yuan convinced Cheng Le that Malice was erasing his consciousness and that Tang Chang had been replaced by an Ancient God Beast, then told Cheng Le to kill himself to take revenge.

Jiang Yuan tried to make Cheng Le kill himself, but Cheng Le transformed into a monstrous pair of arms and legs after smelling the blood mist from the baby he killed. Just as Cheng Le attacked Jiang Yuan, Chen Yan arrived and struck him with a powerful kick.

• Jiang Yuan used a secret technique to convince Cheng Le that killing himself would make him a hero and destroy the Ancient God Beast threatening him.
• Cheng Zizhen entered the basement carrying a baby, and Cheng Le revealed that the Xun Ting could not lead the villagers out of the Dream Abyss Third Layer.
• Cheng Le threw Cheng Zizhen into a wall, crushing the baby, and he and Tang Chang inhaled the blood mist.
• Cheng Le transformed into two monstrous arms with legs and attacked Jiang Yuan, who called for Chen Yan before being beaten repeatedly.
• Chen Yan arrived, and Cheng Le charged at him, but Chen Yan kicked the base where Cheng Le's arms joined and drove him into the ground.

Chen Yan killed Cheng Le and defeated Tang Chang, revealing his overwhelming power and rescuing Sanjin. After Tang Chang died, Chen Yan warned Jiang Yuan that the body and its Xun Ting were dangerous, leaving everyone at a distance from the lingering Malice.

• Chen Yan killed Cheng Le after discovering the villagers were hostile and that Cheng Le had become an Ancient God Beast.
• Tang Chang attacked Chen Yan with Xun Ting, and Sanjin and Jiang Yuan escaped the basement as the fight erupted outside.
• Chen Yan unleashed his Ice Dragon Waterfall and killed Tang Chang, while Jiang Yuan recognized that Chen Yan was Bing Yi and had taken You Lan.
• The villagers praised Chen Yan, but he ordered them not to kneel and killed the disguised examinees hiding among them.
• Jiang Yuan asked to take Tang Chang's body, but Chen Yan sensed that its Malice remained and told Jiang Yuan and Sanjin to stay back.

Chen Yan stole the eyeball containing Xun Ting from Tang Chang, but three Fei Yi emerged from his corpse and pursued him and Jiang Yuan. As Chen Yan tried to refine Xun Ting while fleeing, Jiang Yuan revealed his true identity and explained his conflict over his fading personality.

• Chen Yan pulled the eyeball containing Xun Ting from Tang Chang, but three Fei Yi formed from worms inside Tang Chang's body and attacked.
• Chen Yan fled with Sanjin while Jiang Yuan followed, and Sanjin admitted she had crushed the Quitting Token.
• With a Fei Yi closing in, Chen Yan crushed the eyeball and began refining Xun Ting to gain greater speed, even as the thunder slowed and hurt him.
• Jiang Yuan told Chen Yan that Yu Changsheng had left the Dream Abyss Third Layer and confessed that he had once wanted to kill Chen Yan, then explained that using his true strength caused his current personality to die away.
• Jiang Yuan stopped fleeing, revealed his identity as Yu Siyuan, the leading Second Order General Star under State Ruler Xia Qi, and unleashed his flame ability.

Jiang Yuan held off three Fei Yi while Chen Yan fled with Sanjin, refined Xun Ting into a second Blood Energy talent, and raced to the Blood Pool. At the bottom, Chen Yan found the two Fei Yi waiting for him with mocking expressions.

• Jiang Yuan unleashed his Fourth Order strength to hold back three Sixth Order Fei Yi, giving Chen Yan time to escape with Sanjin.
• Chen Yan carried Sanjin through the Dream Abyss Third Layer while refining Xun Ting and urging her to stop seeing herself as a burden.
• Chen Yan used Dao Seeds and Saint Breaking Fruits to refine Xun Ting into his second Blood Energy talent, greatly increasing his speed.
• Chen Yan and Sanjin passed through the Stone Tablet and saw two Fei Yi emerge from a Black Cocoon and head toward the Blood Pool.
• Chen Yan struck the Blood Pool with an Ice Thunder Spear, then plunged into it with Sanjin and found the two Fei Yi waiting at its bottom.

Chen Yan searched the Dream Abyss Third Layer for a way to save Sanjin while Jiang Yuan fought five Fei Yi to protect them. Realizing Snow Wife’s poem revealed the way out, Chen Yan threw away his Quitting Token and headed for the Ice River, leaving Sanjin and Jiang Yuan stunned.

• Chen Yan fled the Blood Pool with Sanjin, then asked the old fisherman to board his boat, but the old man refused and said Chen Yan already had a way to leave.
• Jiang Yuan fought three Fei Yi in the burning forest until Chen Yan arrived with two more pursuing him, bringing their number to five.
• Jiang Yuan agreed to hold off the Fei Yi while Chen Yan searched the village and the rest of the Dream Abyss Third Layer for an escape route, but found none.
• Chen Yan quoted Zhou Lu and Snow Wife, pressed his Quitting Token, then threw it away to draw the Fei Yi off and prevent himself from leaving.
• Chen Yan realized Snow Wife’s poem pointed to the Ice River as the way to shatter the dream, and he flew toward it while urging Jiang Yuan to quit and escape.

Chen Yan led Sanjin and the villagers onto the Ice River, where they had to endure its Malicious Cold and fear while a terrifying presence watched from beneath the water. As they pressed onward toward a summons, Chen Yan discovered that the river’s darkness was the sclera of an unimaginably vast eye, which was turning to look at them.

• Jiang Yuan used his Quitting Token to leave the Dream Abyss Third Layer while five Fei Yi pursued Chen Yan.
• Cheng Zizhen found an Ice Spear bearing a warning about a path with nine deaths for every life, then led the villagers toward the Ice River.
• Chen Yan crossed onto the river with Sanjin and realized its pull had weakened; the Fei Yi left as if they could no longer sense those on the water.
• A villager was dragged beneath the river after fear overcame him, and Chen Yan warned the others that panic would make them kill themselves.
• As the group River-Treaded after a faint summons, another villager took his own life and fell into the water.
• Chen Yan saw that the apparent black river was the sclera of an immense being beneath them, which began turning its eye toward the group.