Chapter Summaries

As Chen Yan faced the Ninth Lightning Tribulation, Ji Clan forces and their allies attacked him, while Xi Congyun, Zhang Ting, Little Fate, and Tutor Little Nun fought to protect him. Chen Yan charged into the sea of lightning and struck at the thunderous face in Qiong Heaven.

• Mu Zigui stopped a Sixth Order General Star from self-destructing, while Xi Congyun appeared and fought a Sixth Order peak attacker as Chen Yan endured the Eighth Lightning Tribulation.
• Li Muyun, Yin Youming, Ji Daowu, and Jiang Miaoxuan fought a Seventh Order expert, while Chen Yu, Sanjin, Yu Sixian, and disguised Jiang Yuan joined the battle against the Ji Clan’s forces.
• A Fifth Order General Star detonated bombs hidden in his Origin Space, killing dozens of Fifth Order experts, as fighting spread across the forces above Xiaoyang City.
• The Ninth Lightning Tribulation descended, and two Seventh Order peak experts attacked Chen Yan; Zhang Ting struck the White-robed Old Man, while Little Fate seized the red-armored woman.
• Tutor Little Nun killed the White-robed Old Man, and Chen Yan plunged into the sea of lightning and attacked the thunderous face in Qiong Heaven.

Snow Wife explained Great Xia’s origin, the Ancient Gods, and why Chen Yan’s Will Martial Dao could erase malice, urging him to rely on himself and travel beyond Great Xia. Chen Yan recovered from the Mie Fa Realm Lightning Tribulation and formed his own Dharma Image, while Snow Wife announced that a Divine General had been born.

• Snow Wife revealed that his benevolent thoughts had awakened when Chen Yan faced mortal danger, and explained the history of the Qi and Blood Martial Path and the creation of Great Xia upon the Bai E Ancient God’s body.
• Snow Wife explained that the Five Clans lived upon the Fan Ni Ancient God’s body, so their Heavenly Rules differed from Great Xia’s, and urged Chen Yan to spread his Will Martial Dao beyond its borders.
• Snow Wife warned Chen Yan not to rely on the Xia Imperial Family or accept Lord Xia’s guidance as unquestionable, and told him to rest and live for himself.
• Chen Yan recovered, merged his Body Tempering Divine Body with his physical body, and formed a True Dragon Dharma Image that transformed into his own likeness.
• Snow Wife declared that an Immortal General Star was cultivating in the lightning sphere and would emerge as a Divine General, and pillars of light rose across the Eighteen Prefectures of Great Xia.

Chen Yan learned that the Divine General Lightning Tribulation had trapped him until his strength met its demands, while the world hailed him as a Divine General. As the tribulation descended, he issued a Traitor Elimination Order against the Aristocratic Alliance, inspiring a vast cry to kill its corrupt members.

• The eighteen bells revealed that Chen Yan had undergone a Divine General Lightning Tribulation, and Lord Chen ordered the creation of a research institute to study him.
• Chen Min resolved to grow stronger in the magma, while the Empress of Ji Prefecture ordered an investigation into Bing Yi and Jiang Yuan’s return to the clan.
• Lu Jianxia failed to determine whether Chen Yan was Bing Yi, and Snow Wife explained that he had to meet the Divine General’s strength requirements before leaving the tribulation.
• Chen Yan’s tribulation descended toward a Thunderous Treasure Land as the crowd hailed him as a Divine General, and Chen Sanyuan ordered Jiang Yuan to evacuate Qin Prefecture.
• Chen Yan issued a Traitor Elimination Order against the Aristocratic Alliance, and people across the realm answered with cries to kill its corrupt members.

Chen Yan’s Traitor Elimination Order triggered a bloody purge of the Aristocratic Alliance’s supporters, while his enemies faced the consequences of his rising power. After the Blood Sword Saint killed Chen Sanyuan, Chen Changyuan chose to go to Ji Prefecture and pursue advancement at the Five Clans Competition.

• Chen Yan issued the Traitor Elimination Order, and Tutor Little Nun announced rewards for killing Alliance members while warning that harming innocents would be punished.
• The Grand Tutor, Blood Sword Saint, Little Fate, and Zhang Ting fought the attackers in Xiaoyang City, and the Blood Sword Saint killed the Mad Saber King as an Eighth Order fell.
• Chen Changyuan ordered the Luo Chen Clan to evacuate and told Chen Sanyuan to stop waiting for Jiang Yuan, but the Blood Sword Saint found and killed Chen Sanyuan in Yixian City.
• The Blood Sword Saint taunted Chen Changyuan over the Communication Array Disk, and Chen Changyuan reacted to his father’s death by declaring that he had lost his weaknesses.
• Chen Changyuan told Dream that he would go to Ji Prefecture, where Empress Ji had promised to help him reach the Seventh Order during the Five Clans Competition.

Chen Changyuan attempted to kill Chen Yan with a Seventh Order Malice Crystal, but Chen Yan used the attack to temper his Immortal Will and study the Will Path. Shen Yiwei emerged from seclusion during the battle in Xiaoyang, struggled to believe the events were real, and learned that Chen Yan had become a Divine General.

• Chen Changyuan and the Dream Ancient God Beast activated a formation to detonate the Seventh Order Malice Crystal and kill Chen Yan.
• Chen Yan endured the malice in the Lightning Tribulation Space and used it to strengthen his Immortal Will and explore the Will Path.
• Shen Yiwei emerged from seclusion, mistook the battle and the deaths of powerful Experts for a dream, and apologized to Luo Puxin for failing to protect Chen Yan.
• Luo Puxin told Shen Yiwei that Chen Yan had Worshipped General and was alive in seclusion, but Shen Yiwei kept doubting him and struck himself with a Sword Realm.
• Shen Yiwei finally accepted that Chen Yan had become a Divine General and sat stunned outside the Training Room.

Shen Yiwei regained his fighting spirit and awakened the Blood Sword Realm while Chen Yan continued cultivating inside the Lightning Tribulation World and discovered two subsidiary Erhai Divine Lamps. Meanwhile, the Chen Clan’s system estimated Chen Yan’s progress toward becoming a Divine General and concluded there was an eighty-three percent chance that he was Bing Yi.

• Shen Yiwei vowed to go to Ji Prefecture, awakened the Blood Sword Realm, and slaughtered enemies attacking the Heavenly Prides under him.
• Chen Yan absorbed the Seventh Order Malice Crystal, learned that more martial artists had entered the Will Martial Dao, and examined treasures taken from the Lu Family.
• Chen Yan discovered that the two black lamps were subsidiary Erhai Divine Lamps, the Third Divine Artifact Under Heaven, and learned that only members of the Five Clans could claim them as masters.
• Researchers in Chen Prefecture estimated Chen Yan would need ten years, three months, and five days to leave the Thunderous Treasure Land, but five years and four months if all unknown variables favored him.
• The system assessed an eighty-three percent chance that Chen Yan was Bing Yi, prompting Chen Qi to realize Chen Yan had cultivated both Qi and Blood and Horizontal Refinement.

Chen Yan spent more than three months cultivating in the Lightning Tribulation World, while the Five Clans discovered that he had risen to third place in their Second Tier Ranking. After strengthening his techniques and abilities, Chen Yan broke through the stone wall at the edge of the Ice River and emerged from seclusion.

• Chen Qi learned that Bing Yi had appeared, killed Chi Xinyuan, and was identified on the Five Clans Third Tier Ranking as Yu Yi of the Yu Clan.
• Lu Jianxia argued that Chen Yan was Bing Yi, but the Lu Family learned that Bing Yi was Yu Yi and then discovered Chen Yan had reached third place in the Second Tier Ranking.
• Chen Yan learned through the Meridian End that he was on the Five Clans Ranking, then spent three and a half months cultivating while the Guardian General followed him.
• Chen Yu visited the area near her father’s home on New Year’s Eve and decided to go to the Thunderous Treasure Land to show Chen Yan that she had grown stronger.
• Chen Yan advanced his cultivation and techniques, then traveled to the Extreme North and walked across the Ice River toward a stone wall.
• Chen Yan thanked Snow Wife, shattered the stone wall with his body, and emerged from seclusion.

Chen Yan emerged from the Thunderous Treasure Land, arranged to travel to Moshan Pass under the alias Chi Yi, and discovered that Chen Changyuan and Yu Yi had risen in the Five Clans rankings. Meanwhile, Yu Yi agreed to help Ji Kong target Jiang Yuan over suspicions that he was a spy.

• Chen Yan left seclusion after sensing trouble involving Jiang Yuan, and he rejected Xia Qi's offer of a general-investiture ceremony in favor of gaining experience at Moshan Pass.
• Chen Yan and Grand Tutor arranged for Chen Yan to register as Chi Yi using Chi An's blood and the Star Ruler, while Old Chi asked Chen Yan to spare his branch if war came.
• Chen Yan examined the Five Clans rankings, saw Chen Changyuan ranked first in the Second Tier and Yu Yi ranked first in the Third Tier, and prepared to leave for the Frontline.
• In Tie Prefecture, Yu Yi spoke with Ji Kong, who suspected Jiang Yuan of betraying the Ji Clan and proposed they strike at him together if their attempt to capture Chen Yuxu failed.

Yuan Mao Shan betrayed Chen Yuxu to help Ji Chongyun capture him, but Chen Yan intervened, killed Ji Chongyun, and rescued his father. After Chen Yan left to find Jiang Yuan, Ji Kong accused Jiang Yuan of leaking the operation and attacked him, while Xi Congyun and Mu Zigui realized their own plan had failed.

• Xi Congyun used Chen Yuxu as bait to draw out Ji Chongyun and Ji Kong, while Zhang Ting secretly watched Yunmeng City and planned to kill Chen Changyuan.
• Yuan Mao Shan entered Chen Yuxu's home, subdued him, and dragged him through an underground tunnel to hand him over to Ji Chongyun.
• Chen Yan appeared in the tunnel, wounded Yuan Mao Shan, then killed Ji Chongyun with a laser as Ji Chongyun waited outside the city.
• Zi Zhan gave Chen Yan a choice of three powerful energy rewards, and Chen Yan absorbed the Blood Energy before asking Zhang Ting to take Chen Yuxu home.
• After Ji Chongyun vanished from the Ranking Board and Chi Yi appeared, Ji Kong accused Jiang Yuan of betraying the operation and attacked him; Yu Yi agreed to help kill Jiang Yuan.
• Xi Congyun and Mu Zigui found the hole beneath Chen Yuxu's house and realized their plan had failed.

Jiang Yuan fought Ji Kong and Yu Yi after Ji Kong exposed him as a suspected Xia Family spy, and he was mortally wounded while reflecting on how his concern for others had compromised him. Chen Yan arrived just as Jiang Yuan was about to die, killed Ji Kong, and left Yu Yi facing him.

• Zhang Ting stopped Xi Congyun and Mu Zigui from searching farther for Chen Yan's father and said he would report the matter to the State Ruler.
• Ji Kong and Yu Yi cornered Jiang Yuan, who realized that Yu Yi was an impostor impersonating Bing Yi and fought back despite being badly wounded.
• Jiang Yuan recalled how he had repeatedly risked himself to protect others and cursed Chen Yan as Yu Yi's spear pierced his chest.
• Chen Yan arrived wearing a White Mask and using Ink Thunder, while Jiang Yuan's Mind Silk briefly restrained Ji Kong and Yu Yi.
• Chen Yan killed Ji Kong with the Heaven Splitting Style as Jiang Yuan lay near death.

Chen Yan defeated Ji Kong, exposed Yu Yi as a Yu Clan imitation, and escaped the rescue party before Lu Jianxia caught up and forced him to attend the Five Clans conference as Bing Yi. Meanwhile, the Ji Clan ordered its Heavenly Prides to kill Chi Yi, and the Five Clans prepared to discuss creating a Divine General like Chen Yan.

• Chen Yan killed Ji Kong, chose his Blood Energy, and wounded Yu Yi before discovering wires and Crystal Cores beneath Yu Yi’s flesh.
• Chen Yan found a locator formation on Yu Yi and sent Jiang Yuan away with him while fleeing in another direction.
• Lu Jianxia caught up with Chen Yan after he pretended to leave the Lu Family, then took him back because he was the Yu Clan’s sole representative at the Five Clans conference.
• A furious Ji Clan warrior ordered the clan’s Heavenly Prides to kill Chi Yi, while Chen Qi praised Chen Yan as the greatest Heavenly Pride of his generation.
• Chi Xun denied knowing Chi Yi and mocked the Five Clans’ plan to create a Divine General like Chen Yan.

Chen Yan reached Lu Prefecture under Lu Jianxia’s watch and secretly reunited with the Xia Family spy Li Honglian, who helped him obtain information from Great Xia. After learning Bing Yi’s identity and cultivating in seclusion, Chen Yan advanced to the Fifth Order Fa Zhen Realm as the Saint Breaking Tree reached Level 9 and revealed the [Store] Character Saint Breaking Fruit.

• Lu Jianxia brought Chen Yan to Lu Prefecture, left him at Bing Yi’s villa, and arranged for an expert to monitor him.
• Li Honglian revealed that she was a Xia Family spy, contacted Great Xia, and relayed plans to send Chen Yan Yu Yi’s Vital Blood and updated Zi Zhan information.
• Jiang Yuan interrogated Yu Yi to extract information Chen Yan needed to maintain his disguise, while Li Honglian began teaching Chen Yan disguising.
• Chen Yan absorbed the stored Qi and Blood energy and advanced to the Fifth Order Fa Zhen Realm, forming a nearly complete True Essence Dharma Image.
• The Saint Breaking Tree advanced to Level 9 and produced a new [Store] Character Saint Breaking Fruit.

Chen Yan used the Saint Breaking Tree’s stored energy to improve his cultivation and joined the Lu Family delegation for the Five Clans’ talks. After revealing his Spear Realm and Will Martial Dao, he sat with the Yu Clan’s representatives, where Ji Haiyi demanded that he remove his mask.

• Chen Yan learned that the [Store] Character Saint Breaking Fruit could absorb and store energy twice as fast as he could, making it especially useful for Blood Sensing and cultivation without Treasure Medicine.
• Lu Jianxia arrived at Chen Yan’s villa with Lu Family Heavenly Prides, and Chen Yan joined her delegation despite their taunts and hostility.
• When Lu Jianxing challenged him, Chen Yan unleashed the Triple Extreme Piercing Spear Realm, forcing Lu Jianxia to suppress it and shocking the assembled Lu Family members.
• Chen Yan revealed his Will Pressure to Lu Mingyuan, establishing himself as the first person among the Five Clans to awaken the Will Martial Dao, and Lu Jianxia ordered everyone to keep it secret.
• At the Five Clans’ talks, Chen Yan sat beside Lu Jianxia as the Yu Clan’s representative and saw Chen Changyuan among the Ji Clan’s delegation.
• Ji Haiyi confronted Chen Yan and demanded that he take off his mask because many people said he was Chen Yan.

At the Five Clans' meeting, Chen Yan concealed his identity as Bing Yi and turned Ji Haiyi's demand to inspect him into a confrontation with Chen Changyuan. The meeting then shifted to Ji Prefecture's war against Great Xia, where the clans argued over their support and Ji Haiyi recognized that a mole had compromised his plans.

• Ji Haiyi demanded that Bing Yi remove his mask and hand over Zi Zhan, but Chen Yan accused him of acting at Chen Changyuan's behest and explained that revealing his face would put him in danger.
• Chen Yan challenged Chen Changyuan to attack, prompting Chen Changyuan to unleash his Invincible Sword Soul before Chen Qi suppressed it; Chen Yan then warned that the Yu Clan should avenge him if he died.
• Lu Jianxia concluded that Bing Yi had been pretending to be useless and lecherous to leave the Lu Family, then ordered a prodigy to investigate his housekeeper, Li Honglian.
• The Five Clans argued over aid to Ji Prefecture as Chen Qi and Chi Xun defended their contributions and Lu Jianxia pointed to Lu Ming'an and the Fourth Elder being held captive.
• Chi Xun gave Ji Haiyi a Spatial Ring but made further aid depend on defeating Shen Yiwei, and Ji Haiyi blamed the mole Jiang Yuan for leaking information that had spoiled Chen Changyuan's chance to kill Shen Yiwei.

At the Five Clans meeting, Chen Yan posed as Bing Yi while navigating Ji Haiyi and Lu Jianxia’s interest and the clans’ preparations to awaken the Will Martial Dao on Myriad Forms Island. As the Heavenly Prides entered the dangerous island, Lu Jianxia revealed that Bing Yi had already awakened the Will Martial Dao, making him the first among the Five Clans.

• Ji Haiyi reported that his spies had been eliminated and Chen Yan would need at least seven years to emerge from seclusion, while Chen Yan offered to seek fifty Grade A Sunday Level Treasure Medicines if Ji Haiyi killed Chen Changyuan.
• Lu Jianxia learned that Li Honglian was still a virgin and realized Bing Yi’s lecherous behavior had been an act; Chen Yan then declared aloud that he could surpass Chen Yan.
• Chen Qi explained that the Heavenly Prides would enter Myriad Forms Island to endure Malice and seek opportunities to awaken the Will Martial Dao, and at least thirty chose to withdraw rather than risk absorbing Malice.
• The remaining Heavenly Prides plunged onto Myriad Forms Island, while Lu Jianxia said Chen Yunyou was a leading candidate and then revealed that Bing Yi had already awakened the Will Martial Dao.
• Lu Jianxia declared Bing Yi the first Heavenly Pride among the Five Clans to awaken the Will Martial Dao and said she had finally gained the real Bing Yi.

Chen Yan, disguised as Bing Yi, entered Myriad Forms Island while trying to conceal his identity and avoid a challenge from Ji Mingyao. Chen Manyan secretly tested him and exposed his identity as a Divine General to the watching clan leaders, while Chen Yan remained unaware that they could see him.

• Chen Yan offered ten Grade A Sunday Level Treasure Medicines to anyone who helped kill Chen Changyuan, prompting several First Tier geniuses to pursue Chen Changyuan into Myriad Forms Island.
• Chen Yan and the others landed on the island, where dense Malice and powerful energies filled the area; Chen Yan entered a villa Training Room to cultivate.
• Ji Mingyao challenged Bing Yi, hoping to expose his identity, but Chen Yan refused, and Chen Manyan called out Ji Mingyao's scheme.
• Chen Manyan entered Chen Yan's Training Room and bowed to him as the Divine General, urging him to escape the danger.
• Chen Yan spoke of Great Xia's people being slaughtered or driven from their homes if the Xia Family fell, confirming his identity to Chen Manyan and the clan leaders watching through her Jade Talisman.

Chen Yan killed Chen Manyan, secured Yu Yi’s identity and blood, and defeated Ji Mingyao, rising to twenty-first in the Second Tier of the Five Clans Ranking. As his allies and enemies reacted to his growing strength, Jiang Yuan saw Chen Yan’s new ranking and wondered how he kept benefiting from every crisis.

• Ji Mengli rushed into the villa, where Chen Yan revealed himself as Bing Yi and killed Chen Manyan after she suspected his identity.
• Chen Yan took Yu Yi’s Zi Zhan and blood from Ji Mengli, then used them to assume Yu Yi’s aura.
• Chen Yan challenged and defeated Ji Mingyao, causing Yu Yi to rise from third place in the Third Tier to twenty-first in the Second Tier.
• Chen Yan claimed the ranking reward of Blood Energy and returned to the Training Room to cultivate.
• At Moshan Pass, Shen Yiwei and Luo Puxin discussed using Chen Yan to infiltrate the Five Clans as Yu Yi, while Blood Sword Saint taught Sanjin to roast rabbit.
• In Qin Prefecture, Jiang Yuan checked the Five Clans Ranking Board, saw Chen Yan’s rise, and exclaimed that he always gained something from every situation.

Chen Yan finished cultivating on Myriad Forms Island, joined Chen Youyi on the journey north, and descended to help islanders threatened by an Ancient God Beast. Seeing their suffering and the contempt of the Five Clans, he realized how deeply he despised the outside world as fury and killing intent rose within him.

• Chen Changyuan fled Lu Mingyuan until Chen Yunyou stopped the attack, tore through Lu Mingyuan's neck, and declared that he and Chen Changyuan were even.
• Chen Yunyou refused to help the islanders pleading for rescue, while the Five Clans' Heavenly Prides looked down on them; Lu Jianxia revealed that Lu Mingyuan's damaged Origin Space would take decades to repair.
• After five days of absorbing Blood Energy, Chen Yan had tripled his Qi and Blood strength, then flew north as the [Store] Character Saint Breaking Fruit continued to grow.
• Chen Youyi approached Chen Yan, offered to help protect him from Chen Changyuan, and accompanied him toward the northern part of the island.
• When islanders begged for help against an Ancient God Beast, Chen Yan stopped Chen Youyi from driving them away and flew toward the village where the beast was said to be.
• Chen Yan saw the slaughtered villagers and realized that powerful outsiders were watching without caring; he felt fury and killing intent toward them.

Chen Yan rescued imprisoned humans by slaughtering the Ancient God Beasts and awakened a powerful Extreme Pierce Spear Realm, but Chen Youyi murdered a grieving child for energy. Chen Yan killed her in retaliation, prompting Chen Qi to attack him as a Divine General awakened far to the north.

• Chen Yan attacked a village where Ancient God Beasts kept humans imprisoned, and he fought off more than two hundred beasts while absorbing their energy and Malice.
• Chen Yan's killing intent awakened True Intent, and he condensed his Spear Realm into a single piercing strike that killed five Sixth Order Ancient God Beasts and advanced his Spear Realm to Fourth Grade.
• Chen Yan erased a strand of Malice, while the children he had freed ran from their pen and mourned their mothers.
• Chen Youyi killed a crying child to absorb its energy, so Chen Yan struck her down with Extreme Pierce Spear Intent.
• Chen Qi unleashed a massive palm strike at Chen Yan, and a Divine General awakened in a distant tower as Lu Jianxia rushed to warn Chen Yan to flee.
• Chen Yan faced Chen Qi without fear, thrusting his spear toward the Eighth Order expert as his Extreme Pierce Spear Realm advanced to Fifth Grade.

Chen Yan resisted Chen Qi’s attack and Zi Zhan’s Malice as Chen Qi invoked the Five Clans Law to judge Bing Yi. After a Myriad Forms Island elder absorbed and dispersed the Malice with a Qi and Blood clone, Chen Yan recognized the technique as a form of the divine skill [Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill], revealing a secret about the island.

• Chen Yan advanced his Spear Realm while Chen Qi brought down a flaming giant palm to kill Bing Yi, but Chi Xun shattered the attack and urged Chen Qi to stop.
• Chen Qi invoked the Five Clans Law, summoning the Five Clans’ leaders to judge Bing Yi, while Xia Hanzhou discovered Yu Yi had risen to fourteenth place in the second tier and flew toward the State Ruler Mansion.
• Chen Yan resisted Zi Zhan’s Malice and told Lu Jianxia he was devouring it, then condemned the Five Clans for allowing Myriad Forms Island’s people to suffer.
• An old man from Myriad Forms Island used a shadow clone to absorb Chen Yan’s Malice and carry it away from the village, collapsing from the effort.
• Chen Yan recognized the old man’s technique as resembling [Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill], while Chi Xun and Lu Jianxia dismissed it as an ordinary Qi and Blood clone.