Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan thanked Lu Jianxia for saving him and promised to repay her by giving her a future world, then entered Myriad Forms Island’s malice-ridden inner city. There, he met Ji Xiao Mao and crossed weapons with Chen Changyuan before the group was summoned into a room.

• Three geniuses, including Ji Chuxi and Lu Fukun, entered the Will Martial Dao while Chen Yunyou still had not recovered his progress.
• Chen Yan thanked Lu Jianxia, promised to repay her, and asked her to remove the Communication Array Disk she had placed on him.
• Chen Yan reviewed his cultivation gains and traveled into Myriad Forms Island’s inner city, where malice weakened his attacks and a human-headed worm ambushed him.
• Chen Yan hid from Chen Changyuan, then went to an ancient tower seeking Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill and met Ji Xiao Mao.
• Chen Changyuan tested Chen Yan by reaching for his mask, and the two exchanged a brief clash before Ji Xiao Mao led them to a door where a voice invited them inside.

Chen Yan, Ji Xiao Mao, and Chen Changyuan entered a malice-filled room to play a deadly game for fragments of Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill. After three rounds passed without challenges, Chen Changyuan challenged Chen Yan’s claim in the fourth round, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Chen Yan found a thousand-year-old chronicle describing Xia Weimin, Chi Canglan, and the origins of Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill.
• A malicious creature explained a six-round game in which players could challenge claims about hidden orbs and risk swallowing dangerous contents.
• Chen Changyuan, Ji Xiao Mao, and Chen Yan played through the first three rounds without challenging one another.
• In the fourth round, Chen Yan played a Malice Crystal while claiming it was an Explosive Formation Disk.
• Chen Changyuan challenged Chen Yan’s claim.

Chen Yan uncovered the malicious creature’s trick, obtained a fragment of [Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill], and learned more about Myriad Forms Island’s destruction. Ji Xiao Mao died after losing a gamble, while Chen Yan left the tower with Lu Fukun and the promise of further danger ahead.

• Chen Changyuan swallowed a Malice Crystal after Ji Xiao Mao challenged his orb, but resisted its lethal effects and demanded that the game continue.
• Ji Xiao Mao challenged Chen Changyuan’s orb, won Heart Devouring Nethergrass, then was forced to swallow a Malice Crystal and gambled desperately for [Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill].
• Chen Yan realized the malicious creature’s own orb had been treated as a player’s serve, challenged it, and received a fragment of [Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill], which he swallowed.
• Before dying, Ji Xiao Mao asked Chen Yan to tell Ji Prefecture that the Empress’s bid to become emperor wasted the people’s labor and wealth; Chen Changyuan left, and Ji Xiao Mao burned to ashes.
• The malicious creature suggested that Myriad Forms Island had been abandoned after its inhabitants were wiped out and said Chen Yi had died there while protecting something; it then vanished.
• Lu Fukun joined Chen Yan as they left the tower, while outside Ji Haiyi mourned Ji Xiao Mao and Lu Jianxia declared that Bing Yi would surpass Chen Yan.

Chen Yan cultivated Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill in Myriad Forms Island’s inner city while Lu Fukun warned him of approaching rivals. After escaping an ambush and luring Chi Yuexi into a trap, Chen Yan left her gravely injured and returned to confront her.

• Lu Fukun offered to work with Chen Yan and gave him a new Communication Array Disk to warn him of approaching Heavenly Prides.
• Chen Yan examined a photograph of Xia Weimin and Chen Yi, learned more about the Five Clans and the higher realms, and realized he had reached his Worship General Lightning Tribulation.
• Chen Yan studied the Explosive Formation Disk and cultivated Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill until Lu Fukun warned him that Chen Yunyou, Chen Changyuan, and others were coming.
• Chen Yan fled toward the inner city’s dense Malice, continued cultivating, and later encountered Chi Yuexi, who offered to help if she could watch him practice.
• Chen Yan attacked Chi Yuexi with Explosive Formation Disks, leaving her badly wounded as Chen Yunyou and the others chased after the direction she indicated.
• Chen Yan returned after the others left, and Chi Yuexi revealed another Explosive Formation Disk beneath her arm.

Chen Yan survived a deadly five-round orb game in the Divine General Temple by never choosing an orb, while Lu Fuguan and Ji Chuxi were injured or killed. He explained that the game depended on random odds, leaving the others to reconsider how they had approached it.

• Chen Yan forced Chi Yuexi to shelter with him in her private Training Room, cultivated [Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill], and left when Malice drove the Heavenly Prides from the inner city.
• Chen Yunyou demanded [Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill] from Chen Yan, who destroyed the inscribed iron plaque and warned the surrounding Heavenly Prides against targeting him.
• At the Divine General Temple, Chen Yan noticed a poem concealing the words “The Great Xia Divine General remains” before the statue began a five-round game involving one hundred glowing orbs and an Explosion Formation Disk.
• Chen Yan avoided taking an orb in the first two rounds, while the explosions grew progressively earlier; in the third round, Lu Fuguan ignored Chen Yan’s warning and died after taking an orb.
• Chen Yan continued to wait through the remaining rounds, while Ji Chuxi was badly injured by an exploding orb in the fifth round.
• After the game ended, Chen Yan told Lu Fukun that the game had a probability pattern and explained that the odds of the hundredth orb exploding were practically impossible.

Chen Yan was chosen to enter a house during the Life and Death Gate’s second trial, where most rooms held deadly Malice creatures instead of treasure. He fought a cracked, tongue-wielding girl spirit but was trapped and began to rot as the chapter ended.

• Chen Yan studied the Divine General Temple’s poem and the first trial before following the surviving Heavenly Prides through the Great Hall to a grid of 125 ruined houses.
• The statue announced that five houses contained Body Tempering Treasure Medicine and that the group would vote three times to choose who entered a house.
• Chen Yunyou won the first vote, entered the first house, and was attacked by a Malice girl whose tongue began corroding his body.
• The Heavenly Prides chose Bing Yi in the second vote, and Chen Yan entered the same house with an Explosion Formation Disk.
• Chen Yan detonated the disk against the girl spirit, but her tongue coiled around him and her Malice began rotting his flesh while the others could not help.

Chen Yan deciphered the Life and Death Gate’s house-selection pattern and claimed a Treasure Medicine from House Number Ten, but the next round’s rules changed and Ji Chuxi was caught by an explosion. Chosen again, Chen Yan entered House Number Eleven and found another Treasure Medicine, leaving the Five Clans Heavenly Prides stunned.

• Lu Jianxia asked Ji Chuxi to help Bing Yi, but Ji Chuxi secretly urged the others to choose Bing Yi; Bing Yi was selected and entered House Number Ten.
• Chen Yan reasoned that the Life and Death Gate reversed the first round’s danger pattern, found a Sunday Level, Grade B Body Tempering Treasure Medicine in House Number Ten, and took it.
• The statue began a new round for Qi and Blood Medicine, and Ji Chuxi was selected; his chosen house exploded, and a Malice girl caught him.
• The crowd debated the changed rules, while Chen Yan warned them not to force him and suggested they choose Chen Yunyou instead.
• The crowd chose Bing Yi again, and he opened House Number Eleven, where he found a Treasure Medicine and no danger.

Chen Yan took the Pre-Heart Treasure Medicine and fought Chen Changyuan, severely injuring him while claiming he could read hidden intentions from facial cues. As the statue announced a third vote for a room opportunity, the gathered Heavenly Prides became wary of Bing Yi’s intelligence and the Yu Clan’s martial research.

• Bing Yi opened Room Eleven and revealed a rare Pre-Heart Treasure Medicine, which Chen Yan stored in his Origin Space.
• Chen Changyuan tried to steal the medicine, but Chen Yan and his shadow blocked him and launched a fierce attack.
• Chen Yan broke Chen Changyuan’s left arm and continued stabbing him despite Ji Chuxi’s calls to stop.
• The statue announced that everyone should write down a person’s name to choose who would receive the next chance to enter a room.
• Chen Yan taunted Chen Changyuan by identifying his intended moves from his facial expressions, convincing the onlookers that Bing Yi could read hidden thoughts.

Chen Yan proved he had deciphered the Divine General Temple’s room pattern by finding another Pre-Heart Treasure Medicine, then discovered records revealing Xia Weimin’s secret research into the Blood Drawing Formation. The chapter left Chen Yan linking that research to Xia Weimin’s massacre of millions on Myriad Forms Island.

• Chen Yan entered Room Twenty-Two and found a Pre-Heart Treasure Medicine, confirming his solution to the trial’s room pattern.
• Chen Yan deduced that the rewards were hidden according to base conversion, using clues from the characters for “life,” “tempering,” and “qi.”
• Chen Yan examined papers in the room and memorized a map of Myriad Forms Island and several other documents.
• Chen Yan read a record describing Xia Weimin’s dispute with the State Ruler and the discovery that he had secretly studied the Blood Drawing Formation.
• Chen Yan connected Xia Weimin’s return to Myriad Forms Island with the later massacre and the use of the Blood Drawing Formation to refine millions of people’s flesh and blood.

Bing Yi solved the Life and Death Gate’s changing rounds while Chen Changyuan and the Dream Ancient God Beast arranged a trap to kill him. Bing Yi avoided the ambush by entering Room Twenty-Three, where he discovered a hidden Blood Drop Treasure Medicine.

• Bing Yi’s choices helped the Heavenly Prides understand the Life and Death Gate puzzle, and the statue began the third round for Psionic Power Medicine.
• Chen Yunyou and Ji Chuxi won chances to claim medicine, while Chen Changyuan secretly allied with Chen Yunyou to arrange Bing Yi’s death in the secret-arts round.
• Ji Chuxi chose Room Ten and Chen Changyuan chose Room Five; the statue then selected Bing Yi for the final chance.
• Chen Changyuan and the Dream Ancient God Beast prepared to ambush Bing Yi in Rooms Fifteen, Twenty, or Twenty-Five, but Bing Yi feinted toward Room Twenty-Five and entered Room Twenty-Three instead.
• Bing Yi found a scarlet Blood Drop filled with Body Tempering Energy behind the malicious little girl in Room Twenty-Three.

Chen Yan, disguised as Bing Yi, uncovered a way to reach more treasures in the Life and Death Gate, but the closing temple trapped him amid a swarm of Malice. He fought on after Lu Jianxia failed to pull him free, and the chapter left the Five Clans astonished that Bing Yi’s name remained on the ranking hours later.

• Chen Yan tested his theory in room 23, used Explosion Formation Disks against the little girl of Malice, and flew toward Chen Changyuan as the temple announced its closure.
• The Dream Ancient God Beast unleashed a tide of Malice, and Chen Changyuan charged into it before using Ji Chuxi’s divine chain to escape toward the temple doors.
• Chen Yan was dragged back inside by the little girls of Malice, but Lu Jianxia seized his hand and tried to pull him out before the gates closed.
• Chen Yan hurled Lu Jianxia clear, then turned to fight the little girls of Malice and declared that he would never yield as the temple doors slammed shut.
• Lu Jianxia vowed to expose the Five Clans’ plot against Bing Yi, and the Five Clans Ranking still showed his name seven hours later as news of his deeds spread.

Chen Yan endured the five Malice creatures in the Divine General Temple and chose to let Malice transform him so he could uncover the true Life and Death Gate. As Malice threatened to erase his identity, he used Treasure Medicine to attempt a Qi and Blood breakthrough, leaving his escape and transformation unresolved.

• Chen Changyuan wondered why Bing Yi remained alive, while the Dream Ancient God Beast urged him to prepare for the Heaven's Pride Battle Platform.
• Chen Qi dismissed claims that Chen Changyuan had caused Bing Yi's predicament and argued with Lu Jianxia about Bing Yi's identity, Yu Prefecture's technological path, and the value of the Will Path.
• Lu Jianxia recalled Bing Yi letting go of her hand to keep her from being dragged into danger, and defended his character despite Chen Qi's doubts.
• Inside the Divine General Temple, Chen Yan fought the five Malice little girls, discovered that neither side could kill the other, and let them bind and corrode him.
• Chen Yan concluded that the Divine General Temple's doors were the true Life and Death Gate, then stopped resisting Malice and tried to preserve his identity with Will Pressure.
• Chen Yan took out two Pre-Heart Treasure Medicines and a branch of Body Tempering Energy, activated his martial arts, and formed a new True Essence Dharma Image as he advanced his Qi and Blood Path.

As Bing Yi’s name faded on the Five Clans Ranking, those watching believed he was dying, while Lu Jianxia desperately attacked the Divine General Temple. The world then heard a series of Boundary-Breaking chimes, and Lu Jianxia revealed that Bing Yi had spoken the words that carried him through the vengeful souls as the eighth breakthrough rang out.

• Bing Yi’s name flickered and dimmed on the Five Clans Ranking, and observers across the world concluded that he was near death.
• Lu Jianxia suppressed her cultivation, flew to the Divine General Temple, and unleashed a lightning formation against its gates.
• Xia Hanzhou summoned Divine General Zhenyue, the Grand Tutor, and the Director of the Imperial Observatory to Tie Prefecture to form a Divine-level Grand Formation.
• Chen Yunyou and other Heavenly Prides mourned Bing Yi, while Chen Yunyou headed into Brocade Palace to investigate Chen Yi’s death.
• Seven Boundary-Breaking chimes sounded, leading powerful figures to assume Chen Yan was breaking through in Great Xia, though they knew he was inside the Divine General Temple.
• An eighth chime sounded elsewhere, and Lu Jianxia declared that Bing Yi had survived the vengeful souls beneath the Myriad Forms Divine Tree by holding to his aspirations.

As Chen Yan continued breaking through inside the Divine General Temple, Bing Yi astonished the Five Clans and Great Xia by repeatedly breaking through while near death. The Empress of Ji Prefecture called for contact with Yu Prefecture after Bing Yi’s breakthroughs escalated further.

• Lu Jianxia told Chen Qi that Bing Yi had endured tens of millions of vengeful spirits beneath the Myriad Forms Divine Tree, and a Chen Clan Heavenly Pride confirmed the cavern held overwhelming residual resentment.
• Chen Yan reached 338 True Essence Dharma Images as Malice eroded his mind, then instinctively broke through for the thirteenth time.
• At Moshan Pass, Shen Yiwei announced that Bing Yi had broken through thirteen times, stunning Luo Puxin, Ji Daowu, Xi Congyun, and the other General Stars.
• The Eternal King reported Bing Yi’s fourteenth and then fifteenth Breaking Realm breakthroughs, prompting him to condemn the Five Clans for letting their peerless Heavenly Pride die.
• The Empress of Ji Prefecture confronted the Eternal King with her power, then ordered a minister to contact Yu Prefecture when another rule rumble sounded.

Chen Yan resisted the voice questioning his ambition and continued breaking through inside the Divine General Temple. After reaching forty-eight breakthroughs, he let Malice consume his body and Divine Soul, declaring that only his will would endure.

• Chen Yan ended his initial Breaking Realm after sixteen breakthroughs, while Chen Qi, Lu Jianxia, and Chen Changyuan reacted to Bing Yi’s apparent death.
• A mysterious voice challenged Chen Yan to remember his original wish to survive, and Chen Yan vowed that Qingshan Chen Yan would never forget.
• As the world watched Bing Yi cling to life, Chen Yunyou and others sensed a sudden eruption from the Divine General Temple.
• The Yu Lord learned that Chen Yan had broken his limits thirty-two more times, bringing his total to forty-eight.
• Chen Yan met his Will Divine Body, allowed Malice to enter his brain, reached the peak of Establishing Realm, and proclaimed that only his will would stand eternal.

Chen Yan survived the death that was meant to trigger his return from the dead, awakening the consciousnesses of ancient State Rulers instead. As two Zhou Ming recognized his strength, the Five Clans remained unaware that Bing Yi was Chen Yan.

• After Chen Youyi's death, Chen Qi and Ji Haiyi discussed the Divine General Temple's legacy while Lu Jianxia condemned Chen Qi's judgment of people by their strength.
• At the Qiongyu Dragon Abyss Formation, Xia Hanzhou revealed that Bing Yi was Chen Yan, and Qi and Blood erupted into the sky.
• Inside the Divine General Temple, Chen Yan declared that he was not dead, halting the arrival of the Previous State Lord and awakening ancient State Rulers, including Snow Wife and the Founding Lord.
• Xia Qi sensed that Chen Yan's instance of deathlessness had activated but received no response, while Divine General Zhenyue berated Xia Hanzhou for leaving Chen Yan unprotected.
• Xia Qi told Xia Hanzhou and the others that Chen Yan was still alive by an unknown means, so they called off their plan to retrieve him.
• Two Light Pillars appeared over Tie Prefecture and Qin Prefecture, where two Zhou Ming battle boots began to form and acknowledge Chen Yan's strength.

Chen Yan survived the Divine General Temple ordeal, advanced his Saint Breaking Tree and Qi and Blood Path, and began claiming the remaining treasures in its rooms. Outside, Lu Jianxia tried to enter the temple, while Chen Yan left the story poised to collect more treasure.

• Xia Hanzhou ordered Zhenyue and Zongbo to establish the Heavenly Pride Battle Arena at Moshan Pass and directed protests against Bing Yi's death.
• On Myriad Forms Island, Lu Jianxia acknowledged Chen Yan's strength and entered the island to retrieve Bing Yi's body.
• Chen Yan checked his progress, found that the Saint Breaking Tree had reached level ten, and examined his 373 True Essence Dharma Images and Rong Wu Realm advancement.
• Chen Yan opened the Divine General Temple's gate, but Lu Jianxia attacked with a Formation and forced him to shut it.
• Chen Yan entered room thirty-three, took its Pre-Heart Treasure Medicine, and the sleeping Malice little girl let him leave with it.

Chen Yan uncovered memories showing that Xia Weimin had used the Blood Drawing Formation to gather Ancient God Beasts’ malice into Blood Pills, then learned that Chen Yi’s attempt to restrain Xia Weimin had ended in Chen Yi’s death and the massacre of Myriad Forms Island. The memory left Chen Yan with evidence that Chen Yi’s secret orb and the Chen Clan were tied to the disaster.

• Chen Yan searched the Divine General Temple, collected Treasure Medicines, and found a Memory Disk showing Xia Weimin using the Blood Drawing Formation to make a Blood Pill from Ancient Beasts and Ancient God Beasts.
• Chen Yan watched another Memory Disk reveal Chen Yi pinning Xia Weimin in the Brocade Palace while holding a glowing orb.
• Deputy Lu attacked Chen Yi to protect Xia Weimin, but Chen Yi overpowered him as Xia Weimin broke free.
• Xia Weimin killed Chen Yi and Deputy Lu, seized the orb, and succumbed to a violent frenzy that began the slaughter on Myriad Forms Island.
• Deputy Lu crawled toward Chen Yi’s corpse, concluded that Chen Yi and the Chen Clan had caused the disaster, and sent out a Formation Disk recording his accusation.

Chen Yan cultivated in seclusion while the Heavenly Prides struggled to climb Brocade Palace’s staircase. Ji Chuxi discovered that seventeen buildings in the inner city likely held clues to the palace, and Chen Yan secretly entered one of them.

• Chen Yan set aside questions about Xia Weimin and Chen Yi, then used Treasure Medicines to strengthen his Qi and Blood and Body Tempering Paths.
• Inside the Myriad Forms Tower, a chained being wondered why Chen Yi had not become a complete Ancient God Beast and cried out for the Divine General as the chains corroded his flesh.
• After twenty days of climbing Brocade Palace’s pressure-laden stairs, Ji Chuxi realized that certain steps aligned with buildings in the inner city and connected the clues to seventeen houses from the Life and Death Gate.
• Ji Chuxi proposed that the group locate seventeen matching buildings and search them for secrets, while Chen Yunyou agreed to cooperate.
• Chi Yuexi thought she saw Bing Yi enter one of the buildings, but dismissed it; Chen Yan was inside that building, amused that he had grasped the clue immediately.

Chen Yan secretly cleared buildings on Myriad Forms Island while Chen Yunyou, Lu Fukun, Chi Yuexi, and Ji Chuxi searched for them and accused one another of breaking their agreement. The chapter left the group gathering around Chen Yunyou’s signal as another building was cleared near Chi Yuexi.

• Chen Yan found a Gatekeeper guarding an Explosive Formation Disk and an iron token, then waited rather than risk a fight near Brocade Palace.
• Ji Chuxi arranged for Chen Yunyou, Lu Fukun, and Chi Yuexi to search for buildings matching the steps while he tracked them through their chains.
• Lu Fukun cleared a building matching the twenty-third step, and its red signal exposed that he had acted ahead of the group.
• Chi Yuexi secretly planned to return and clear buildings later, while Chen Yan entered a building she had left unmarked and defeated its weaker Gatekeeper.
• A red signal from Chen Yan’s building led Chi Yuexi to suspect that Lu Fukun and Chen Yunyou had framed her, and Ji Chuxi proposed that they ally against the two men.
• After another building was cleared near Chi Yuexi, Chen Yunyou summoned everyone with a bright signal, and the group stopped arguing to investigate.