Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan, revealed as the presumed-dead Bing Yi transformed into an Ancient God Beast, ambushed Chi Yuexi and forced her to obey him. After Lu Fukun found Chi Yuexi, she and Chen Yan attacked him, and Lu Fukun broadcast Bing Yi’s return across Myriad Forms Island as Chen Yan struck him down.

• Chi Yuexi confronted Chen Yan, who overwhelmed her, destroyed her attempt to call for help, and forced her to follow his orders with an Explosive Formation Disk.
• Chen Yunyou and Lu Fukun investigated two Red Lights, suspected Ji Chuxi and Chi Yuexi of breaking their alliance, and agreed to search separately.
• Chen Yan watched the others through the Martial Dao Meridians, directed Chi Yuexi to another building, and warned her to disable her Communication Array Disk.
• Lu Fukun found the wounded Chi Yuexi, but Chen Yan attacked him from hiding as Chi Yuexi joined the fight.
• Lu Fukun shouted that Bing Yi had become an Ancient God Beast, alerting the people inside and outside Myriad Forms Island, while Chen Yan drove him into the ground with his spear.

Chen Yan revealed his Ancient God Beast transformation and forced Lu Fukun and Chi Yuexi to help him by promising to restore Chi Yuexi’s arm and help them enter the second realm of the Will Path. Chen Yunyou confronted Chen Yan, but Lu Fukun and Chi Yuexi intervened, turning the fight against him.

• Chen Yan stopped Lu Fukun from activating his escape and fire-array traps, then threatened him and Chi Yuexi with an Explosive Formation Disk.
• Chen Yan offered to help Lu Fukun and Chi Yuexi uncover the secrets of the Immortal Body, healed Chi Yuexi’s severed arm with Immortal Aura, and promised to help them advance along the Will Path.
• Chen Yunyou learned that Bing Yi had become an Ancient God Beast and headed to capture him, while Chen Qi arranged to watch through the Chen Clan’s visual relay stations.
• Chen Yunyou blasted a path through the inner city and challenged Chen Yan, promising to finish him in ten seconds.
• Lu Fukun activated the Seven-Star Fire Prison against Chen Yunyou, and Chi Yuexi followed with her Ice Fire—Illusion Lotus Prison attack.

Chen Yan and his two coordinated shadows overwhelmed Chen Yunyou after Lu Fukun and Chi Yuexi’s attacks failed, but Chen Yunyou unleashed the Nine Revolutions Dragon Shattering Pile and fought back. The chapter ended with Chen Yunyou emerging bloodied from the explosion and Bing Yi appearing from the flames, while the observers still questioned whether he was an Ancient God Beast.

• Chen Yunyou crushed Lu Fukun and Chi Yuexi’s attacks, destroying Lu Fukun’s Vermilion Bird formation and blasting Chi Yuexi’s legs into bloody mist.
• Chen Yan and his two shadows coordinated their spear attacks, repeatedly striking Chen Yunyou and driving him into the ground.
• Chen Qi, Chi Xun, and Ji Haiyi watched through shared vision and questioned whether Bing Yi was an Ancient God Beast as Chen Yan continued suppressing Chen Yunyou.
• Chen Yunyou activated the Nine Revolutions Dragon Shattering Pile and struck at Chen Yan as Lu Jianxia arrived and called out to Bing Yi.
• A massive explosion engulfed Chen Yan and Chen Yunyou; Chen Yunyou emerged covered in blood, then Bing Yi shot out of the flames as a dark figure surrounded by Malice.

Bing Yi survived Chen Yunyou’s assault and lured him into Lu Fukun’s Eight Phases of City Burning formation. Chen Yunyou realized too late that Bing Yi had planned the chase, and the confrontation remained unresolved as the formation closed around him.

• Bing Yi’s shadow explosions badly wounded Chen Yunyou, who responded by unleashing the brutal [Abyss Undying] technique.
• Chen Yunyou pursued Bing Yi through the inner city while Lu Jianxia tried to protect him, and Chi Xun urged Bing Yi to flee toward the Myriad Forms Divine Tree.
• Bing Yi avoided Chen Yunyou’s attacks with explosive disks and continued toward Brocade Palace instead of following Lu Jianxia’s advice.
• Chen Yunyou knocked Bing Yi to the ground and drove Lu Jianxia back when she intervened.
• Lu Fukun’s Eight Phases of City Burning formation activated beneath Chen Yunyou, and Bing Yi stood up as Chen Yunyou realized the chase had followed Bing Yi’s plan.

Chen Yan, posing as Bing Yi, tricked Chen Yunyou into fighting two powerful Malice creatures and prevented Ji Chuxi from interfering. He then revealed a trace of Immortal Aura and declared that he would risk his life to redeem Malice and transform from an Ancient God Beast into a living being, leaving the world stunned as news of his vow spread.

• Chen Yan's scheme sent Chen Yunyou into battle against two Malice creatures, which wounded him as his strength began to fade.
• Chen Yan recovered an Explosive Formation Disk, a green iron token, and a Memory Formation Disk from the ruins while Ji Chuxi questioned him.
• Chen Yan warned Ji Chuxi not to help Chen Yunyou, claiming he could read his intentions and that Chi Yuexi and Lu Fukun were under his control.
• Chen Yan told Lu Jianxia that he had glimpsed a secret of the Will Path and showed a trace of Immortal Aura, asking her to help him.
• Chen Yan declared that he would risk everything to redeem Malice and transform from an Ancient God Beast into a living being, and news of his vow spread across the world.

Chen Yan revealed that Malice was consuming his will and chose to risk his life seeking the Dao before everyone, hoping to uncover the mysteries of the Immortal Will. After Lu Jianxia supported him and shared a discovery about Chen Yan’s imitations, he used a Memory Formation Disk and saw Xia Weimin describe disturbing dreams tied to Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill.

• Chen Yunyou continued fighting the two Malice creatures while Chen Yan declared his intention to prove the Dao with his life.
• Lu Fukun and Chi Yuexi gave Chen Yan the Explosive Formation Disks and green iron token, and Chen Yan removed the explosive patterns controlling them.
• Chen Yan told Lu Jianxia that Malice was eroding his will and that he would pursue the Dao even if it killed him; Lu Jianxia arranged for her clan to prepare signal stations.
• Lu Jianxia told Chen Yan that Lu Prefecture had deciphered the control method for Chen Yan’s imitations, and Chen Yan accepted the Secret Script Jade Token.
• Chen Yan activated a Memory Formation Disk and witnessed Xia Weimin explain that he had acquired Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill fragments and repeatedly dreamed of slaughtering everyone on Myriad Forms Island.

Chen Yan pieced together that Chen Yi had framed Xia Weimin, while the world focused on Bing Yi’s attempt to reverse Malice and prove Immortal Will. As Bing Yi began his ordeal before countless viewers, he also unlocked Xia Weimin’s Spear Technique inheritance on the steps of Brocade Palace.

• Chen Yan reviewed the deputy general’s memories and concluded that Chen Yi had framed Xia Weimin, though he questioned whether the memories revealed the whole truth.
• Chen Yunyou fled the inner city as news spread that Bing Yi had survived as an Ancient God Beast and would attempt to transform back into a human using Immortal Will.
• Signal stations and screens carried Bing Yi’s public demonstration across Great Xia, and Chen Yu recognized him as her brother.
• Bing Yi began purging Malice from his body and rose toward the Brocade Palace, while Chi Yuexi, Lu Fukun, Ji Chuxi, and Chen Yunyou watched from the steps.
• A green iron token triggered Xia Weimin’s Blood Domain World Reversal inheritance on the fifth step, and Chen Yan studied it as the [Skill] Character Saint Breaking Fruit grew.

Chen Yan purged the malice from his body while climbing Brocade Palace’s steps and using each encounter with Xia Weimin’s phantom to improve his Blood Domain World Reversal spear technique. He left Ji Chuxi shaken after stopping a devastating spear thrust just short of his face.

• Chen Yan burned away his malice as his vitality weakened, while Ji Chuxi and the others warned that losing all malice would kill an Ancient God Beast.
• At the tenth step, Chen Yan used an iron token to summon Xia Weimin’s phantom and fought it, improving his spear technique despite the danger to his life.
• Chen Yan continued climbing and battling the phantoms, steadily reducing the malice in his body as observers across the world watched in disbelief.
• Ji Chuxi told Chen Yan that the iron tokens had already lost their effect, and Chen Yan declared that he was fighting the world and its rules.
• Chen Yan attacked Ji Chuxi with a powerful spear thrust, stopped it just short of his face, and mocked him for being second in line yet so weak.

Chen Yan, still watched as Bing Yi, climbed the stone steps while confronting Xia Weimin’s phantom and received the Divine General’s memories of his centuries-old struggle and guilt. After asking how he was supposed to live, Chen Yan began eradicating all the Malice within himself, risking complete annihilation.

• Bing Yi’s thrust stunned Ji Chuxi and the spectators, while Chen Yunyou remained unable to enter the Will Path.
• Chen Yan fought Xia Weimin’s phantom on each step, and his Saint Breaking Fruit grew as he deconstructed [Blood Domain World Reversal].
• On the thirty-third step, Chen Yan’s spear clash awakened a memory of Xia Weimin losing control, killing countless people, and splitting his Divine Soul to save others.
• Xia Weimin’s phantom faded, and Chen Yan wondered aloud how he was supposed to live after hearing Xia Weimin’s question about how he could die.
• Chen Yan unleashed the Malice within himself and began eroding it all at once, prompting Chi Yuexi and Lu Jianxia to fear that he would die.

Chen Yan appeared to die after consuming all his Malice, but he awakened Immortal Will and survived, entering the first stage of Blood Domain World Reversal. As he rose away on blood-red spear flowers, Ji Chuxi and the watching world were left stunned.

• Chen Yan consumed all the Malice within himself and seemed to lose his breath, leading observers to believe he had died.
• While Chen Yan's Will Divine Body remained active, he grasped the essence of Blood Domain World Reversal as the golden fruit on the Saint Breaking Tree grew to thirty percent.
• Chen Yunyou received the Chen Clan's research on Blood Domain World Reversal and planned to obtain Xia Weimin's legacy, while Ji Chuxi offered to help in return for a lecture on the Dao.
• Chen Yan suddenly awakened Immortal Will, declaring that Will was also life, and rose from the ground despite appearing dead.
• Chen Yan walked on thirty-three blood-red spear flowers, entering the first stage of Blood Domain World Reversal and leaving Ji Chuxi and the others in disbelief.

Chen Yan's display of Immortal Will and his success against malice transformed how people across the world understood their chances of survival. As Chen Yan reached Chen Yunyou on Myriad Forms Island, he dismissed Chen Yunyou's research and told him to learn by watching him.

• Chen Yan's Will Martial Dao advancement reached the world, convincing people that malice could be overcome.
• Baolin wept as he realized his malice-afflicted family might still have hope, while Xia Qi celebrated the possibility that he could live.
• At the Tie Prefecture border, Xia Hanzhou and Divine General Zhenyue prepared to join a coming battle, and the Yu Lord angrily demanded to know what to do about Chen Yan.
• Chen Qi and Ji Haiyi were shaken by Bing Yi's Immortal Will and reflected on the power of Will Martial Dao.
• Chen Yan arrived at Chen Yunyou's sphere on Myriad Forms Island, broke through its barrier, and told Chen Yunyou to watch and learn from him.

Chen Yan questioned Chen Yunyou before the world about Chen Youyi’s killing of a Malice-tainted Human Race woman, then preached that the Immortal Will required courage, purpose, and resistance to evil. As Chen Yan fought Xia Weimin’s phantom, memories revealed how Xia defied his father’s plans for him and ultimately agreed to become State Ruler so he could change the system.

• Chen Yunyou resisted taking the materials beside him and asked Chen Yan to explain how he had reversed life and death.
• Chen Yan challenged Chen Yunyou over the Chen Clan’s repeated attempts to kill him and condemned Chen Youyi for killing a Human Race woman tainted by Malice.
• Chen Yan asked the world whether people would dare stop or rebuke Chen Youyi, then declared that the cowardly and those with evil thoughts could not enter the Immortal Will.
• Chen Yan preached that will let people pursue their purpose without fear, while Chen Yunyou sat through the public condemnation and the Heavenly Prides reflected on the lesson.
• Chen Yan fought Xia Weimin’s phantom as memories showed Xia rejecting his father’s plans, learning from a White-robed Old Man, and rising to defeat the Five Clans’ prodigies.
• Xia Weimin eventually agreed to become State Ruler and vowed to awaken the Zhou Mings, destroy Malice, and eradicate Imperial Calamity.

Chen Yan climbed the Brocade Palace steps while comprehending Xia Weimin’s legacy and trying to awaken the vitality in his dead body. When his attempt to turn from death to life triggered the rules of Malice, the controlled Heavenly Prides attacked him, and his Will Divine Body appeared.

• Chen Yan absorbed Xia Weimin’s memories, deepened his mastery of [Blood Domain World Reversal], and reached the 257th step as the [Skill] Character Saint Breaking Fruit continued to grow.
• Chen Yunyou received Lord Chen’s order to retrieve Chen Yi’s body, destroy the Brocade Palace, and kill Bing Yi if possible, then continued climbing behind Chen Yan.
• Chen Yan realized that all the Malice on Myriad Forms Island was converging on him as he tried to awaken the vitality of his body and transform from death to life.
• Malice’s rules seized control of Chen Yunyou, Chi Yuexi, Lu Fukun, and Ji Chuxi, while the approaching creatures flew toward Chen Yan to kill him.
• As Chen Yunyou’s fist came down, Chen Yan’s Will Divine Body emerged in brilliant golden-red light.

Chen Yan manifested the Will Dharma Image and used it to break through Malice’s suppression, then fought the Malice-controlled Chi Yuexi, Ji Chuxi, and Lu Fukun. As he targeted Lu Fukun at close range, a waiting divine chain struck toward him.

• Malice took control of Chi Yuexi, Ji Chuxi, and Lu Fukun and drove them to attack Chen Yan, while Chen Yunyou awakened Will Martial Dao.
• Chen Yan’s Divine Body of Will expanded into a thousand-meter Will Dharma Image that battled the Malice covering Myriad Forms Island.
• Chen Yan summoned seven hundred and one True Essence Dharma Images into a spear and used it to smash apart the cloud of Malice.
• Chen Yan attacked Chi Yuexi, parried her Sword Soul and the incoming divine chains, then unleashed his Spear Realm with Explosive Formation Disks among the assault.
• Chen Yan rushed toward Lu Fukun as Lu Fukun prepared [City Burning Eight Formations Diagram], but a divine chain lashed toward Chen Yan from beneath his feet.

Chen Yan defeated and incapacitated Ji Chuxi and Chi Yuexi while Lu Jianxia brought Lu Fukun under control. With his vitality returning and his will manifestation battling the Malice, Chen Yan flew into the dark clouds to challenge it directly.

• Ji Chuxi bound Chen Yan with divine chains as Chi Yuexi attacked, but Chen Yan wounded her and broke through their combined assault.
• Lu Fukun joined the fight, and Chen Yan used Explosive Formation Disks to blast away his arms and weaken Ji Chuxi’s defenses.
• Chen Yan sent a shadow double rigged with explosive formations into Ji Chuxi’s divine-chain cocoon, then pinned Ji Chuxi to the ground with spears and marked him with an Explosive Formation Pattern.
• Chen Yan broke Chi Yuexi’s sword and marked her with an Explosive Formation Pattern before Lu Jianxia offered to take control of her.
• Chen Yan flew toward the Malice’s clouds, declaring that he would fight the force controlling the world.

Chen Yan entered the Malice clouds to challenge their rules and restore his life, only to lose all sense of his powers in an endless corridor. After realizing that he himself was now only Will, he turned back and recognized Zhou Lu among the dead.

• Chen Yan subdued Ji Chuxi, Chi Yuexi, and Lu Fukun, while Lord Chen ordered Chen Yunyou to be helped toward Brocade Palace.
• Lu Jianxia questioned why Chen Yan needed full resurrection, and Chen Yan admitted he had lied before stepping into the Malice clouds.
• Chen Yan lost contact with his Will, Qi and Blood, and the Saint Breaking Tree as he walked through Malice’s dark corridor.
• Outside, ten days passed, Chen Yunyou climbed to the 267th step, and Lu Jianxia believed Bing Yi was gone.
• Chen Yan encountered the twisted remains of Ancient God Beasts and realized that his body had died and he was now Will itself.
• Chen Yan turned back through the corridor and found Zhou Lu’s corpse, which seemed to thank him.

Chen Yan revived Lu Jianxia with Immortal Will and led her through the Malice-filled corridor before confronting a deer-headed monster. The ancient State Rulers of Summer Country arrived to aid him, and their assault shook the dormant clouds of Malice.

• Chen Yan used Immortal Will to revive himself and Lu Jianxia, who awakened and realized she had entered Will Martial Dao.
• Chen Yan led Lu Jianxia to the end of the corridor, protected her from Malice, and forced his way through the contracting fleshy walls.
• Chen Yan emerged before a powerful deer-headed monster and charged it with his spear, but its tentacles surrounded him.
• A man in a golden robe and the ancient State Rulers of Summer Country appeared and attacked the monster, while Snow Wife told Chen Yan the rest was up to him.
• Lord Xia joined the assault, and the State Rulers' attack made the dormant clouds of Malice shudder.

Lu Jianxia fought through Malice to reach Chen Yan, who had defeated its manifested form, and urged him to leave Myriad Forms Island. After uncovering evidence that the Chen Clan may have plotted the massacre, Chen Yan chose to enter Brocade Palace, while Lu Jianxia left furious and heartbroken over his deception.

• Lu Jianxia filled the corridor with Formation Disks and used their lightning to break apart the Malice blocking her path.
• Lu Jianxia found Chen Yan after he defeated the deer-headed manifestation of Malice, and he told her he would not leave Myriad Forms Island.
• Chen Yan explained that he wanted to investigate the light orb Chen Yi held and uncover the truth behind Xia Weimin's massacre; Lu Jianxia read two memory Formation Disks and considered how Chen Yi might have manipulated Xia Weimin.
• Lu Jianxia urged Chen Yan to leave, then confronted him over hiding his identity behind a mask and threatened to make him her enemy.
• As the realm of Malice began to collapse, Chen Yan embraced Lu Jianxia, and she departed after warning that she would watch to see how the Divine General of the Xia Family died.

Bing Yi defeated the rules of Malice, regained his place on the Five Clans Ranking, and was declared a Peerless Genius. As he and Chen Yunyou were summoned to Moshan Pass for the Prodigy Battle Platform, Jiang Yuan, disguised as Chen Yan, learned of the challenge and vowed to crush him.

• Chen Yan received two Sun-Level Grade-B Qi and Blood Medicines from the Erhai Divine Lamp after Bing Yi's return and achievement were recognized.
• Across the Five Clans, people celebrated Bing Yi's survival and victory over Malice, while Lu Jianxia wept as Lord Lu told her the family was arranging her betrothal to Bing Yi.
• Chi Xun reopened the Five Clans Law, and Lu Jianxia declined to accompany him into the Divine Court as Chen Qi warned that Bing Yi remained an enemy of Chen Prefecture.
• The Five Clans rescinded Bing Yi's verdict, ranked him second in the top tier, and named him a Peerless Genius who would go to Moshan Pass with Chen Yunyou.
• Jiang Yuan, disguised as Chen Yan, heard that Bing Yi would face Great Xia's prodigies and publicly vowed to crush him, prompting the assembled soldiers and prodigies to cheer.

Chen Yan analyzed the threats facing him and decided he needed allies before entering Brocade Palace, where the Chen Clan’s secrets and hostility awaited. He brought Lu Jianxia up the palace steps by revealing his Heart-Entering mastery of [Blood Domain World Reversal], leaving her newly impressed by the truth of his strength and the hardship behind it.

• Chen Yan concluded that the Chen Clan wanted him dead because he threatened its plans for Brocade Palace and might uncover evidence of its role in Chen Yi’s plot against Xia Weimin.
• Chen Yan asked Lu Jianxia to help secure the Lu Family Fourth Elder’s release, but she demanded proof that he could be trusted and ended their communication.
• Chi Yuexi taunted Bing Yi about the Erhai Thousand Shadow Kill, and Chen Yan offered to take her into Brocade Palace early, though he paused before explaining how.
• Lu Jianxia arrived, reminded Chen Yan of his promise, and followed him as he used [Blood Domain World Reversal] to create a path up the palace steps.
• At the hundredth step, Chen Yan displayed Heart-Entering [Blood Domain World Reversal], stunning Chi Yuexi, Ji Chuxi, Lu Fukun, and Lu Jianxia as he led the way higher.