Chapter Summaries

Chen Qi invoked the Five Clans Law to make Bing Yi fight a simulated clone of Chen Yan, while the Yu Lord and Great Xia’s Eternal King challenged the ruling. Bing Yi revealed his strength by striking down the clone, then charged toward Chen Qi.

• Chen Qi declared that the Heavenly Pride Killing Formation would punish Bing Yi for killing Chen Youyi, and the Five Clans approved the ruling while the Lord Lu vetoed it.
• The Yu Lord appeared and denied the ruling, but the Empress of Ji Prefecture refused to withdraw her approval; the Eternal King joined the confrontation and rallied Great Xia’s army.
• News spread that the Five Clans had summoned a copy of Great Xia’s Chen Yan to kill Bing Yi, and Xia Hanzhou and Xia Qi feared Bing Yi would die.
• Chen Qi released the simulated Chen Yan clone, and Bing Yi faced it while bearing the Five Clans Law’s mark on his arm.
• Bing Yi pierced the clone with his spear and sent it crashing through a mountain, then charged toward Chen Qi.

Chen Yan fought a Chen Clan counterfeit modeled on his own peak Fourth Order strength, using the battle to expose and correct flaws in his combat skills. He created the Bright Moon Level A technique [Void Breaker—Wan Yan Dragon Kill] and defeated the counterfeit, then collapsed from his wounds as the watching armies and Five Clans reacted in stunned silence.

• The Chen Clan counterfeit used replicated combat techniques and weapons against Chen Yan while observers across the battlefields watched their fight.
• Chen Yan endured the counterfeit’s attacks and used their exchanges to study his own weaknesses, rapidly improving his combat skills.
• After consuming nineteen [Skill] Character Saint Breaking Fruits, Chen Yan created [Void Breaker—Wan Yan Dragon Kill] and struck down the counterfeit.
• Chen Yan collapsed, bloodied and exhausted, while the armies fell silent and Lu Jianxia recognized that he had created his own martial technique.
• The Yu Lord revealed that the counterfeit’s simulation core had been secretly upgraded and acknowledged that his son had earned the core.

Chen Yan defeated the Chen Clan’s imitation of his peak Fourth Order self, then publicly condemned Chen Qi and the Five Clans for targeting him. As the crowd’s support strengthened him, he traded the imitation’s remains for supplies and prepared for the Fifth Order counterfeit expected in ten days.

• Chen Yan used his spear to destroy the self-repairing imitation and collapsed after storing its remains in Origin Space.
• Chen Qi threatened Chen Yan, but Lu Jianxia intervened, and Chen Yan accused Chen Qi of targeting him out of fear and regret.
• Chen Yan denounced the Five Clans before the ranking broadcasts vanished, and public support from across Great Xia and the Five Clans generated Limit-Breaking Energy for him.
• Chi Xun and Lu Jianxia offered medicines for the imitation’s remains, and Chen Yan accepted Lu Jianxia’s fair trade rather than owe the Five Clans.
• Lu Jianxia gave Chen Yan an independent Training Room to shield him from an Eighth Order’s perception and told him she believed he could defeat the next counterfeit.

After Chen Yan killed Chen Youyi and revealed his strength as Bing Yi, Xia Hanzhou negotiated with Yu Lord to conceal his identity and protect him. The deal secured Chen Yan’s safety but also gave Yu Lord concessions, and the chapter ended with Bing Yi proposing marriage to a Lu Family princess.

• Xia Hanzhou learned that the Yu Clan might discover Bing Yi was Chen Yan and contacted Yu Lord to demand that he keep the identity secret.
• Yu Lord threatened Xia Hanzhou, but Xia Hanzhou swore an oath and warned that he would attack the Yu Clan and expose its secrets if Yu Lord betrayed him.
• Yu Lord agreed to conceal Chen Yan’s identity in exchange for a contract, the return of his son, a Will martial artist entering Yu Prefecture, and three Seventh Order prisoners.
• Xia Hanzhou and Yu Lord reached an agreement, and Yu Lord met Little Fate to finalize it.
• A streak of light carried a marriage proposal from Bing Yi, Yu Lord’s son, to a Lu Family princess, shocking the world.

Lord Lu agreed to a political engagement between Lu Jianxia and Bing Yi, drawing Lu Prefecture and Yu Prefecture closer while Chen Yan continued cultivating and learned more about his chances of survival. Chen Yan then summoned a grateful old man to ask about the divine skill Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill; the chapter ended with an author’s personal note about anxiety, writing plans, and requests for help choosing a title.

• Lord Lu’s High Command agreed to Lu Jianxia’s engagement to Bing Yi, using it to affirm Yu Lord’s support and strengthen ties between Lu Prefecture and Yu Prefecture.
• The First Elder announced that Lu Jianxia and Prince Yu Yi would wed in six months, leaving Lu Jianxia shocked and conflicted while Chi Xun and Ji Haiyi offered congratulations.
• Chen Yan learned about the engagement and Xia Qi’s awakening of the Will Martial Dao, then continued cultivating as he anticipated another counterfeit and worried that his identity would soon be exposed.
• Tens of thousands of beings knelt before Chen Yan in gratitude, and a black-marked old man described Yunmeng City as his ancestors’ homeland.
• Chen Yan invited the old man into the Training Room and asked about the martial skill he had used, Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill.

Chen Yan viewed Lin Yi’s memory disk and learned how Xia Weimin destroyed Myriad Forms Island, then pushed himself toward a Thought Break Limit while absorbing the Black Soul Technique, also known as Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill. He continued condensing Skill Character Saint Breaking Fruits, but the chapter ended before he completed the technique.

• Chen Yan activated the old man’s memory disk and witnessed young Lin Yi’s life before Xia Weimin destroyed Myriad Forms Island and killed millions of its inhabitants.
• Chen Yan learned that Xia Weimin had used a Blood Drawing Formation and that the resulting deaths created the island’s deadly malice.
• Lin Yi survived with a few hundred others, learned the Black Soul Technique, and passed his memories and knowledge to his descendants through the disk before dying with hatred for Xia Weimin.
• Chen Yan recognized the technique as Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill and used Lin Yi’s memories to drive himself toward a Thought Break Limit while remaining calm.
• Chen Yan’s aura intensified as he produced more Skill Character Saint Breaking Fruits, reaching sixty while black smoke began to gather around him.

Chen Yan learned of a hidden treasure pool beneath the Myriad Forms Divine Tree and promised to do what he could for the island’s oppressed people, then spent days cultivating for the fight against his counterfeit. He emerged stronger and headed for the Divine Tree, where his unexpected arrival as Bing Yi startled the gathered Heavenly Prides.

• Chen Yunyou crippled two Chi Prefecture prodigies and asserted his dominance near the Myriad Forms Divine Tree while Chen Changyuan watched.
• The Lord Chen ordered a Yu Clan member to kill Chen Yan, accepting that the mission would likely cost the man his life, and learned Bing Yi had only a seven-percent chance of defeating Yunmeng Two.
• Chen Yan mastered the basics of [Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill], and an old man revealed a hidden passage to a treasure pool inside the Myriad Forms Divine Tree before Chen Qi seized him.
• The old man declared that his people deserved to live and then blew himself up; Chen Yan returned to cultivating, while Lu Jianxia set up a formation to help him train faster.
• By the ninth day, Chen Yan had reached twenty-one True Essence Dharma Images and decided to strike the Chen Clan before its counterfeit could attack him.
• Chen Yan flew toward the Divine Tree as the Heavenly Prides gathered for the coming contest, and Chen Changyuan and Chen Yunyou watched his unexpected arrival.

As the battle between Bing Yi and Chen Yan’s Fifth Order counterfeit began, Bing Yi triggered a chaotic struggle over the unripened Myriad Manifestations Divine Fruit. The chapter ended with Chen Yan’s counterfeit killing Ji Chen, who had just received the fruit from Ji Chuxi.

• Chen Yan revealed his genuine [Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill] to Lu Fukun and secured his help in a plan to seize the Myriad Manifestations Divine Fruit.
• As the Five Clans Ranking broadcast the battle, Bing Yi rushed toward the fruit, and Lu Fukun launched Formation Disk bombs that disrupted the gathered Heavenly Prides.
• Chen Yunyou seized the fruit, but Ji Chuxi restrained him and took it while Lu Fukun bombarded him.
• Chen Changyuan ordered Ji Chen to block Bing Yi and keep him in the path of Chen Yan’s counterfeit, which attacked with [Heaven Splitting Style].
• Ji Chuxi passed the fruit to Ji Chen and told him to run, but Chen Yan dodged behind him, and the counterfeit cut Ji Chen in half.

Bing Yi used a counterfeit Myriad Manifestations Divine Fruit to draw the Five Clans’ Heavenly Prides away while Chen Yan fled with the real fruit. Chen Changyuan was left gravely wounded, and the others realized the real fruit was still with Bing Yi as he escaped toward the river of Malice.

• Ji Chen died instantly to Chen Yan’s replica, and Bing Yi raced away with the Myriad Manifestations Divine Fruit as the replica pursued him.
• Chen Changyuan attacked Bing Yi, but Bing Yi used Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill to evade him, forcing Chen Changyuan to clash with the replica and suffer an injury.
• Chen Yan’s replica wounded Chen Changyuan, while Chen Yan unleashed a lightning sea and used the Great Creation Technique to create a counterfeit fruit that he sent toward Chen Changyuan.
• The attackers turned on Chen Changyuan over the counterfeit fruit, and Chen Yan fled toward the river of Malice while dodging the replica’s attacks.
• Chen Yan struck Chen Changyuan with Void Breaker—Wan Yan Dragon Kill, and Chen Yunyou seized the counterfeit fruit before discovering it was only fruit peel.
• Ji Chuxi declared that Bing Yi still had the real Myriad Manifestations Divine Fruit as the wounded Chen Changyuan collapsed and Bing Yi fled.

Bing Yi’s desperate escape triggered a devastating battle over the supposedly stolen Myriad Manifestations Divine Fruit, leaving the Five Clans’ Heavenly Prides injured and their alliances in disarray. As Chen Yunyou cornered Bing Yi beside the River of Malice, Chen Yan revealed that Bing Yi had never possessed the real fruit.

• Bing Yi’s shadow self-destructed to blast Chen Hong and the pursuing Heavenly Prides away, while Bing Yi and Chen Yan’s imitation were swept onward by the shock wave.
• Bing Yi threw a fake Myriad Manifestations Divine Fruit to Chen Yunyou, provoking Chen Hong, Ji Chuxi, Lu Fukun, and Ji Xiao Mao to fight over it before Chen Yunyou crushed it and exposed the deception.
• Chen Qi blocked Lu Jianxia from intervening as Chen Yunyou and the other Heavenly Prides closed in on Bing Yi near the River of Malice.
• Chen Yan’s imitation conjured and hurled multiple fake fruits, distracting the pursuers, while Pitch-Black Thunder appeared beside Bing Yi and Chen Yan declared that he had never possessed the real fruit.

Bing Yi used the Malice River to escape the Five Clans’ pursuit while Chen Yan absorbed its elemental energy and strengthened his powers. Chen Yunyou awakened the Will Martial Dao but lost it when Chen Yan severed his Meridian End, leaving Bing Yi triumphant as the counterfeit was rescued for auction.

• Lu Fukun caught the real Myriad Manifestations Divine Fruit, and Chen Yunyou abandoned the fruit hunt to pursue Bing Yi into the Malice River.
• Bing Yi, Chen Yunyou, and Chen Yan’s replica entered the river, where Chen Yan refined corrupted lightning and released the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder to devour Thunder Spirits.
• Chen Hong retreated from the river, while Chen Yunyou endured the Malice and continued after Bing Yi; Lu Jianxia secured most of the fruit from Lu Fukun for Bing Yi.
• Chen Yunyou awakened the Will Martial Dao, but Chen Yan extinguished his Meridian End and made the power disappear; Ji Chuxi entered the river to rescue him.
• Chen Yan pulled the corroded replica into Origin Space, and Bing Yi mocked the Five Clans’ Heavenly Prides as the world watched.

After Chen Yan emerged from seclusion and challenged the Five Clans’ Heavenly Prides, their leaders agreed to fight him on the Heavenly Pride Battle Platform in five months. On Myriad Forms Island, Chen Yan secretly improved his strength, entered the River of Malice again, and found the hidden entrance to the Myriad Forms Divine Tree.

• The prefecture lords debated who had attacked Chen Yan, argued over Bing Yi and the Five Clans Law, and agreed to Chen Yan’s challenge after the Yu Lord cast the deciding vote.
• A seawater giant announced that the Heavenly Pride Battle Platform would be built above the North Sea in five months, prompting Ji Daowu, Li Muyun, Shen Yiwei, Zhang Ting, and Chen Min to declare their intentions to take part.
• Chen Qi urged the Five Clans’ Heavenly Prides to prepare, while Chen Changyuan resolved to settle his feud with Chen Yan and Chen Hong slaughtered natives on Myriad Forms Island.
• Chen Yan emerged from the Training Room transformed by the Myriad Forms Fruit, with greatly increased Qi and Blood, Body Tempering, and True Intent strength.
• Chen Yan entered the River of Malice, released half of Myriad Prison Nether Thunder, and returned to shore before Chen Qi and the others could learn what he was doing.
• Chen Yan flew to the Myriad Forms Divine Tree, found a hidden gap in one of its branches, and sat down before entering.

Chen Yan secretly entered the Myriad Forms Divine Tree and cultivated in its hidden pool of Myriad Forms Spiritual Liquid, greatly increasing his strength before the battle with his counterfeit. As whispers began guiding him deeper into the tree, he laughed with apparent madness and killing intent, alarming Lu Jianxia.

• Chen Yan pretended to recover near the tree, then slipped through a hidden gap and passed layers of Myriad Ant secretions into the tree’s hollow interior.
• Chen Yan found the pool of Myriad Forms Spiritual Liquid, hid in an empty chamber, and cultivated while absorbing its dense energy.
• Over several days, Chen Yan’s True Essence Dharma Images increased to 165, and his [Store] Character Saint Breaking Fruit condensed 88 fruits.
• As the pool thinned, Chen Yan moved deeper and followed the increasingly clear whispers that had been disturbing his cultivation.
• With three days left before the fight between Bing Yi and Chen Yan, Chen Yan suddenly laughed through Lu Jianxia’s Formation, sounding delirious and full of killing intent.

Chen Yan endured the agony and resentment of the millions of Remnant Souls beneath the Myriad Forms Divine Tree, declaring that he would break the shackles of ancient gods and fight the world's injustice. Lu Jianxia heard his words, rushed into the tree to find him, and stopped in the spirit pool when the whispers grew too dangerous.

• Chen Yan entered the cavern beneath the Myriad Forms Divine Tree and was overwhelmed by the memories and suffering of the vengeful spirits who had died during the destruction of Myriad Forms Island.
• Chen Yan questioned why he had to endure such pain, then declared that he would establish his heart upon myriad daos, break the shackles of ancient gods, and slay the world's injustice.
• Lu Jianxia heard Chen Yan's words through the transmission array disk and reconsidered her understanding of Bing Yi and his past actions.
• Lu Jianxia flew toward the Myriad Forms Divine Tree, while Chen Qi, Chi Xun, and Ji Haiyi discussed her feelings for Bing Yi and his impending punishment under the Five Clans Law.
• Lu Jianxia entered the spirit pool and followed the whispers downward, but stopped when the soul attack became too dangerous, suspecting Bing Yi was confronting them.

Lu Jianxia found Chen Yan enduring the torment of millions of wronged souls, and his unyielding will freed them before she promised to protect him. After a piece of Divine Armor appeared in Yun Prefecture and the world recognized Chen Yan’s growing power, Bing Yi’s third battle against the counterfeit Chen Yan began, but Chen Yan suddenly intervened to challenge him.

• Lu Jianxia found Chen Yan resisting the wronged souls and watched his vow awaken their memories, allowing them to find peace and return their power to the world.
• Lu Jianxia promised to help Chen Yan and not let him die, while a Divine Armor component appeared in Yun Prefecture and drew the world’s attention to him.
• Three days later, the third battle between the Five Clans Ice Universe and the counterfeit Chen Yan began before a huge audience, as Lu Jianxia resolved to rescue Bing Yi if necessary.
• The counterfeit Chen Yan appeared at the middle stage of the Fifth Order and attacked Bing Yi, while Chen Hong taunted him and Lu Jianxia prepared to act.
• Bing Yi manifested all 165 True Essence Dharma Images and surged toward Chen Hong, but Chen Yan suddenly appeared and thrust his spear at the counterfeit, roaring for him to fight.

Bing Yi revealed a dramatic increase in strength and fought the Chen Yan replica, while the Five Clans debated how dangerous Chen Yan could become. As the battle continued, Bing Yi remained on the brink of defeat but concealed much of his power, and Lu Jianxia prepared to save him.

• Bing Yi ambushed Chen Hong, then used the replica's attack to force Chen Hong to defend himself with a vast formation and teleport away.
• The Chen Yan replica struck Bing Yi with overwhelming attacks, while Chen Qi explained that the Chen Clan's calculations allowed for Chen Yan to form as many as four hundred and ten True Dragon Dharma Images.
• The Yu Lord and Yu Yi agreed that Chen Yan was a future threat, while the Yu Lord noted that Chen Yan appeared to be hiding the true quality of his Qi and Blood.
• Lu Jianxia urged Lord Lu to save Bing Yi, and Lord Lu agreed that Bing Yi was too monstrous to let die.
• Bing Yi continued fighting the replica, using his shadows to escape danger while conserving their limited duration and studying the opponent.
• Chen Hong accused Bing Yi of holding back, as observers across the world watched Bing Yi withstand the replica's assault and the Five Clans reconsidered his strength.

Bing Yi lured Chen Yan’s counterfeit into the Myriad Forms Divine Tree, where the ants weakened it while he consumed Saint Breaking Fruits and advanced his Spear Realm. When Chen Hong entered the tree to kill him, Bing Yi unleashed a seventh-rank spear attack and killed the Creation Realm expert, rising into the top tier of the Five Clans Ranking.

• Lord Chen refused a plea to spare Bing Yi, declaring that the Five Clans Law could not be withdrawn.
• Bing Yi interrupted the counterfeit’s Collapsing Jade Style with a sixth-rank spear thrust, then drew it into a passage inside the Myriad Forms Divine Tree.
• Bing Yi used the Myriad Forms Ants to swarm the counterfeit and consumed the [Shatter] and [Yi] Character Saint Breaking Fruits as the battle raged.
• Chen Qi ordered Chen Hong to kill Bing Yi, and Chen Hong entered the tree while Chen Qi suppressed Lu Jianxia.
• Bing Yi revealed a seventh-rank Spear Realm attack and killed Chen Hong with a Thunder Ice spear through his forehead.

Chen Yan killed Chen Hong, a Creation Realm expert, and struggled against the Erhai Divine Lamp’s overwhelming pull as the Five Clans reacted to Bing Yi’s strength. With the Lord Lu, the Lord Chen, and the Yu Lord watching, Chen Yan rose despite his injuries, while the Yu Lord questioned him about killing Chen Youyi.

• Chen Yan killed Chen Hong, triggering an unprecedented suction from Zi Zhan that nearly annihilated him.
• Xia Hanzhou ordered two Grade A Sunday Level locator annihilation formations deployed near Myriad Forms Island, then secretly warned Chi Xun to keep Bing Yi alive.
• Chen Qi moved to attack Bing Yi, but the Lord Lu arrived and challenged him, and the Lord Chen appeared to argue that Bing Yi should be killed.
• Xia Hanzhou pressured the Yu Lord to appear, and the Yu Lord crossed the sea in projections to stand beside Chen Qi.
• Despite the Erhai Divine Lamp’s pull and his severe injuries, Chen Yan stood and rose into the air as the Yu Lord asked why he had killed Chen Youyi.

Bing Yi defended Chen Youyi and denounced the Five Clans’ injustice before an assassination attempt nearly killed him, but Chi Xun intervened. Meanwhile, the real Chen Yan exposed a counterfeit with a display of power, and a second piece of Divine Armor began to form above Jin Prefecture.

• Bing Yi described how witnessing Great Xia’s suffering changed his understanding of injustice, while Yu Lord realized Chen Yan knew of his pact with Xia Hanzhou.
• Bing Yi declared that he killed for his own peace of mind, and people across the Five Clans argued over whether Chen Youyi and Bing Yi had acted wrongly.
• Fate Old Woman sent two Formation Disks to kill Bing Yi, but Chi Xun intercepted them and demanded payment from Yu Lord.
• Lord Chen ended the matter of Chen Hong and barred the Chen Clan’s Heavenly Prides from targeting Bing Yi on Myriad Forms Island, but kept the Heavenly Pride killing array in force.
• Chen Yan arrived at Jin Prefecture, exposed the counterfeit, and demonstrated the Collapsing Jade Style with a punch that shook heaven and earth.
• A beam of golden light rose above Jin Prefecture, and the second component of the Divine Armor began to take shape.

While Shen Yiwei reclaimed his former power and Chen Yu resolved to pursue a dangerous legacy, Chen Yan cultivated in seclusion as news of his growing strength and new Divine Armor spread. The chapter left Chen Yan’s rivals alarmed by the possibility that he would soon challenge Chen Yunyou.

• Luo Puxin recalled how he had helped guide Chen Yan, while Shen Yiwei revealed that he was nurturing a Sword Soul to kill Chen Changyuan.
• Xu Di advanced to the Fourth Order, and Shen Yiwei then restored his cultivation to the peak of the Sixth Order before a stunned army.
• Chen Yu left her father and decided to claim the legacy her master had offered, believing she could no longer wait.
• Chen Yan recovered from destroying his counterfeit, assessed his cultivation gains, and began absorbing the Saint Breaking Fruits and Zi Zhan’s reward during a long seclusion.
• Chi Yuexi awakened Will Martial Dao, and a left-arm Divine Armor piece began forming in Tui Prefecture, prompting the Five Clans to fear Chen Yan’s rapid rise.