Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan revealed his overwhelming strength, then chose Ke Qingxuan for the Five Clans Competition because she had rejected becoming an Ancient God. A Ji Prefecture ambush struck the fleet, leaving Chen Yan gravely injured and Ke Qingxuan corrupted as Xia Hanzhou prepared to retaliate.

• Chen Yan stopped Zhang Ting's attack with ease, gave Shen Yiwei two Blood Pills, and agreed to answer Shen Xin's questions about the Lord of Will.
• The Director of the Imperial Observatory told Ke Qingxuan that Chen Yan had nominated her for the Five Clans Competition, and Ke Qingxuan asked to speak with him.
• Chen Yan explained that he chose Ke Qingxuan because she had rejected becoming an Ancient God, and she bowed in understanding.
• A Ji Prefecture agent detonated an Eighth Order Malice Crystal aboard Chen Yan's ship; Chen Yan was badly injured, while Ke Qingxuan contained the crystal and was consumed by Malice.
• Xia Hanzhou ordered the survivors taken to Moshan Pass and Ke Qingxuan brought to the hundredth level of the Fire Domain, then cursed Ji Prefecture and summoned a black longsword.

After Ke Qingxuan saved Chen Yan from the Eighth Order Malice Crystal, Xia Hanzhou launched a furious assault on Ji Prefecture, killing Ji Haiyi and threatening the Empress. At the Fire Domain, Chen Yan rejected faith in the Lord of Will and seized the Malice Crystal himself, apparently beginning to corrode it with his willpower.

• Xia Hanzhou destroyed Ji Prefecture's army base at Chuli Pass, killed Ji Haiyi, and pressed Empress Ji over the plot against Chen Yan.
• The leaders of the Five Clans intervened with their Divine-level Grand Formation, but Xia Hanzhou threatened to destroy Ji Prefecture if Chen Yan was harmed.
• As the Malice Crystal consumed Ke Qingxuan, she realized Chen Yan had survived and found meaning in her sacrifice.
• At the Fire Domain, Chen Yan told Shen Xin that he had never believed in the Lord of Will and touched the Malice Crystal despite the Director of the Imperial Observatory trying to stop him.
• Chen Yan's right hand withered as his willpower formed a golden-red hand around the crystal, which began to corrode while he declared that only he deserved his own faith.

Chen Yan survived contact with an Eighth Order Malice Crystal, suppressed its corruption, and restored Ke Qingxuan, while Shen Xin swallowed a Seventh Order crystal to attempt the Will Path. As the Five Clans Competition and contract signing approached, unrest spread through Ji Prefecture and representatives from the other prefectures gathered at Moshan Pass.

• Chen Yan seized the Eighth Order Malice Crystal, endured its visions and corruption, and the Director of the Imperial Observatory suppressed it with his golden Buddha power.
• Chen Yan told the Director of the Imperial Observatory how to enter the Will Path and used his Immortal Will to purge the Malice from Ke Qingxuan, restoring her body.
• Shen Xin swallowed his Seventh Order Malice Crystal, asked that Shen Lianxin take over his position, and flew into the sea of flames as the Director pursued him.
• Ji Prefecture's people protested Great Xia and Xia Hanzhou over the deaths of a hundred thousand warriors, while Ji Chuxi watched and Ji Chuli warned her not to act rashly.
• At Chuli Pass, Lu Jianxia and other prefecture representatives discussed Chen Yan's injuries, the Lord Xia Sword, and the coming contract and competition.
• Representatives from Chi Prefecture and Lu Prefecture arrived at Moshan Pass, where the Military Martial Guards recognized Chi Xue and Lu Wuyi among them.

Chen Yan appeared at the Five Clans Competition despite his grievous injuries and Malice, then stunned the assembled clans by striking down hundreds of gatekeeper puppets with a single punch. His display challenged the competition’s unfair entry test and forced the watching powers to reconsider Great Xia’s position.

• The five prefectures signed the contracts governing the competition and its gatekeeper puppets, while Chen Changyuan endured taunts about serving multiple masters.
• Yu Prefecture tested the gatekeeper puppets and found them far stronger than expected, prompting other Heaven's Prides to complain that many would be unable to enter.
• Ji Chuxi returned injured from her test, while Chen Changyuan worried that Chen Yan would not pass and hoped for a chance to kill him.
• Chen Yan arrived at Moshan Pass severely wounded and still suppressing the Malice left by an Eighth Order Malice Crystal, prompting Xia Hanzhou to threaten the other prefectures.
• Chen Yan asked Xia Hanzhou to calm down, then punched and blasted hundreds of battle puppets away, leaving the assembled powers stunned.

Chen Yan survived the lingering Black Malice, signed the Soul of Fate Chapter contract, and learned that Xia Qi had died after securing the agreement. As Great Xia named Chen Yan its Heavenly Divine General and pleaded with him to protect the realm, the Five Clans prepared to treat him as their greatest threat.

• Chen Yan walked through the fading Black Malice to Xia Hanzhou, and the two agreed to the final contract involving the Soul of Fate Chapter.
• In Jin Prefecture, Xia Qi welcomed Little Fate, learned that the contract had been signed, and died as the world's laws changed.
• The Director of the Imperial Observatory gave Chen Yan Xia Qi's final message and proclaimed him the Heavenly Divine General.
• Soldiers, generals, and people across Great Xia begged Chen Yan to uphold the realm, and he vowed, "Chen Yan of Qingshan will not fail you!"
• Chen Yan recognized the Five Clans' hostility, returned to the Training Room, and sat in silence while the late-stage Creation Realm experts gathered for a meeting.

Chen Yan recovered his strength and reflected on the danger ahead as the Five Clans prepared to keep him out of their competition. At a Great Hall meeting, Chen Qi exposed a traitor and revealed a fortyfold increase in the gatekeeping puppets’ strength against Chen Clan bloodlines, but insisted Chen Yan might still enter.

• Chen Yan absorbed the remaining malice, regrew his right arm, and saw a vision of an infant inside a vast blood sun before contemplating the pressure and enemies awaiting him.
• Lu Jianxia joined Chen Qi, Lu Wuyi, Chi Xun, and the others in the Great Hall, where Chen Qi announced that everyone had to undergo the Wen Xin Stele’s examination.
• Chen Qi exposed Chi Wangxian as a spy for Great Xia, and Chen Mi killed him after he mocked Chen Qi for risking the Five Clans’ future to stop Chen Yan.
• Chen Qi ordered the assembled cultivators to prioritize killing Chen Yan, then revealed that the gatekeeping puppets would become forty times stronger against Chen Clan bloodlines, potentially barring Chen Yan and many Chen Clan cultivators from the competition.
• As the other clans mocked Great Xia and Chi Xun recognized the danger of Chen Yan’s exclusion, Chen Qi argued that the Lord Chen would not make such a costly move unless Chen Yan could still enter.

As the Five Clans Competition began, Chen Yan overcame his doubts and received Spirits of Divinity for five Martial Daos, while Xia Weimin’s legacy restored the Spirit for the Mind Power Path. The selection revealed that someone had obtained six Spirits of Divinity, leaving the gathered leaders unsure who the new Six Paths Genius was.

• Chen Yan criticized Sanjin’s chicken legs, and she left; later, her return and stubborn offer of another batch helped him shed his fear of failure and reaffirm his resolve.
• Lu Jianxia worried that Chen Yan was gravely injured and would face a brutal Five Clans Competition, while she questioned whether the Lord of Will would descend.
• The Five Clans Competition began at Chuli Pass, and Chen Yan entered the Cloud Platform with Great Xia’s contingent as Chi Xue and Ji Yanbing taunted him and Xia Long challenged Ji Yanbing.
• Chen Yan received Spirits of Divinity for five Martial Daos, while Xia Weimin’s legacy caused the Mind Power Spirit to reappear; Chen Yu told him she had kept the Mind Power and Formation Spirits for him.
• A six-colored radiance announced that someone had obtained six Spirits of Divinity, and Chen Qi and the gathered leaders searched the rival forces for the unknown Six Paths Genius.

As the Five Clans Competition opened, Chen Yan watched Great Xia and the other clans fight through the guardian puppets while the Chen Clan’s puppets became vastly stronger in response to their bloodline. The chapter ended with the Chen Clan’s Late Creation Realm fighters entering the battle and Great Xia’s army realizing the competition had been rigged against the Chen Clan.

• The competition’s ten tunnels opened, and Creation Realm fighters fought bronze puppets for entry while collecting Martial Dao reward spheres.
• Several fighters, including Shen Yiwei, Zhang Ting, Xia Long, Ke Qingxuan, and Jiang Yuan, entered, while others were injured or eliminated; one failed fighter killed himself after accusing the Chen Clan of raising the difficulty to restrain Chen Yan.
• Lu Wuyi, Chi Xue, Yu Laiwei, Ji Yanbing, and Ji Chuxi demonstrated their powers and entered the competition, while many Chen Clan fighters forfeited.
• Chen Changyuan revealed his Late Creation Realm strength, and Chen Mi helped another Chen Clan fighter enter as the guardians transformed into Blood Fiend Puppets.
• The puppets grew dozens of times stronger when they sensed Chen Clan bloodlines, prompting Great Xia’s army to denounce the Five Clans for sabotaging the Chen Clan’s entry.

The Five Clans declared war on Great Xia, but Xia Hanzhou held them back while Chen Yan entered the Five Clans Competition with Chen Yu. Chen Yan destroyed the guardian beast and emerged as red Light Pillars across Great Xia proclaimed him the Divine General, leaving him raging at the Five Clans.

• Chen Qi, Ji Yanqing, and the leaders of Lu, Yu, and Chi Prefectures declared war on Great Xia as their forces threatened Xia Hanzhou.
• Chen Yan told Xia Hanzhou he wanted to fight outside the competition, but Xia Hanzhou ordered him to enter and face the trials.
• Chen Yan revealed 4,135 True Dragon Dharma Images, while Xia Hanzhou drove back the other prefecture rulers and prevented them from reaching Chen Yan.
• Chen Yan and Chen Yu entered the void tunnel, where Chen Yu boosted his strength with a Formation Disk and Chen Yan fought the colossal guardian beast.
• Chen Yan absorbed the dragon-engraved spheres, shattered the guardian beast with the Heaven Splitting Style, and sent Chen Yu onward despite her injuries.
• Red Light Pillars rose across Great Xia to proclaim Chen Yan as the Divine General, and he roared at Chen Qi as his fury shook heaven and earth.

Chen Yan overwhelmed the Five Clans with his will, then defeated the forty-times-stronger guardian puppet alone and gathered its Martial Dao rewards. After the battle, he sensed a crimson evil from beyond the world approaching, leaving his path toward the Five Clans Competition shadowed by a greater threat.

• Chen Yan used his overwhelming will to force the Ji Prefecture soldiers and Creation Realm fighters at Chuli Pass to kneel and endure their fear.
• Chen Yan entered the void passage alone to face the guardian puppet, while observers watched him challenge the final obstacle to the Five Clans Competition.
• Chen Yan fought the puppet head-on, absorbed its dragon-patterned Martial Dao rewards, and grew his True Dragon Dharma Image to 4,865 scales.
• Chen Yan shattered the puppet with his Falling Mountain Style and Collapsing Jade Style, proving that Lord Chen's creation could not stop him.
• After defeating the puppet, Chen Yan sensed a blood-red evil approaching from beyond the sea and struggled with the whispers of its presence.

Chen Yan was swallowed by the Ancient God Beast’s blood sun as Lord Chen’s interference kept Xia Hanzhou from saving him. With his will nearly erased, Chen Yan fought back using the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder, the Jinyi Spear, and explosive Formation Cores, while Xia Qi’s voice called him to his purpose; the blood sun began to crack, and Divine Armor descended through the opening Lord Xia Sword had carved.

• Luo Puxin condemned Chen Qi and the Five Clans for failing to stop Chen Yan, while Empress Ji erupted in anger over him.
• As Chen Yan approached the end of the Five Clans Competition, the laws of the world changed and the Ancient God Beast opened blood-red rifts across the sky.
• The Ancient God Beast’s baby reached for Chen Yan, and Lord Chen delayed Xia Hanzhou long enough for Chen Yan to vanish inside the blood sun.
• Xia Hanzhou attacked in fury, killing Ji Yanqing and severing Chen Qi’s left arm before hurling Lord Xia Sword toward the blood sun.
• With his will suppressed, Chen Yan drew Pitch-Black Thunder from his chest, brought out the Jinyi Spear, and detonated Formation Cores as Xia Qi’s voice urged him onward.
• Chen Yan declared himself the Divine General of all ages, and Lord Xia Sword cracked the blood sun as Divine Armor descended through the passage.

Chen Yan entered the Five Clans Competition after Great Xia’s Divine Armor reached him, but he arrived badly injured and concealed his identity inside Reverse Fire Castle. Chen Yitong recognized him and prepared to attack, leaving Chen Yan facing an imminent threat.

• Chen Yan shattered the blood-red sun, received Great Xia’s Divine Armor, and entered the Five Clans Competition through the closing void tunnel.
• The First Elder of Lu Prefecture urged Lu Jianxia to warn the Five Clans that Chen Yan had overcome the fortyfold gatekeeper puppet, while Lu Jianxia struggled with her anger at their plans against him.
• Chen Changyuan refused to help Xia Long and Shen Yiwei ambush two Five Clans experts, and Xia Long learned that Chen Clan blood made the gatekeeper puppet forty times stronger.
• Chen Yan arrived injured in a Stone House, discovered the Heavenly God Armor’s abilities, and checked the locations of Chen Yu and his allies through the Martial Dao Meridians.
• Chen Yan disguised himself as Lu Fukun when Chen Yitong entered his room, but she recognized him and returned to the door, considering whether to kill him.

Chen Yan tricked Chen Yitong into gathering the Five Clans’ experts, but Yu Shihuan sacrificed himself to create tens of thousands of explosive disks for the hunt. Chen Yan used the Divine General’s armor and a Malice Crystal to escape into a chasm, while a maid later brought a fiery crystal to his door.

• Chen Yan told Chen Yitong that a badly wounded Chen Yan was hiding in a nearby servant’s room and urged her to gather Creation Realm experts to surround him.
• Chen Yitong returned to Ji Chuxi and the others, where Yu Shihuan accused Chen Yan of stalling and sacrificed himself to create tens of thousands of Explosive Formation Disks.
• Ji Chuxi left Reverse Fire Castle to alert the Five Clans, while Chen Yitong and Chi Xuanxun prepared to attack Chen Yan.
• Chen Yan appeared in Zhou Ming’s Divine General armor, fled through a window, and crushed part of a peak Seventh Order Malice Crystal to slow his pursuers.
• Chen Yan plunged into a chasm filled with concentrated malice, and Chen Yitong and Chi Xuanxun pursued him with the explosive disks.
• A maid replaced the broken window, then carried a fiery crystal to Chen Yan’s room and found him deathly pale at the door.

Chen Yan reached the castle lord in Reverse Fire Castle and learned that the castle’s crystals and furnace offered a way to strengthen weapons and purge Malice. He began forging the Jinyi Spear and his own body, finding a new path to recover while the castle’s hidden attack deadline drew nearer.

• Chen Yan exposed the maid’s hunger and had her lead him to the castle lord, who ate her after she complained about her food.
• Chen Yan asked to stay for several days and learned that Reverse Fire Castle would reward longer stays with more Reverse Fire Crystals, though its inhabitants would attack after four hours.
• The castle lord agreed to let Chen Yan use the Reverse Fire Furnace and led him into the Stone House.
• Chen Yan melted a Reverse Fire Crystal in the furnace and heated the Jinyi Spear, which began shedding impurities and growing stronger.
• Chen Yan discovered that the furnace also treated his body’s Malice as impurities, purging it as his burned palm grew stronger.

Chen Yan tempered the Jinyi Spear with Reverse Fire, drove Malice from his body, and negotiated a room and more Malice for himself at Reverse Fire Castle. Lu Cunyang organized the Five Clans to hunt him, then led the others into the castle after identifying Chen Yan as the guest inside.

• Chen Yan endured the Jinyi Spear’s heat and Reverse Fire, awakening Xia Weimin’s spear soul to the seventh grade before the Reverse Fire Crystal burned out.
• Lu Cunyang learned Chen Yan might be hiding in one of the nearby castles and assigned Chen Yitong, Chi Xuanxun, Yu Ren, and Ji Chuxi roles in the search and planned attack.
• Chen Yan used his knowledge of the castle lord’s emotions and rules to secure a bedroom by making two Malice Crystals appear lost, then revealed he possessed an even purer source of Malice.
• Chen Yan began healing and expelling Malice while Lu Cunyang and Chen Yitong searched the castles outside.
• Lu Cunyang questioned the butler about Chen Yan’s admission to the castle, then ordered the group to charge inside as explosions sounded.

Chen Yan endured Reverse Fire to strengthen his body and forge the Jinyi Spear while Lu Cunyang’s group trapped him in the castle. As the Ancient God Beasts gathered to claim him, Chen Yan revealed that the real Lord Chen was Zhou Ming, imprisoned on Myriad Forms Island.

• Lu Cunyang’s group confirmed Chen Yan was in Reverse Fire Castle, while the castle lord warned Chen Yan that they would soon reach him with Reverse Fire Crystals.
• Chen Yan forged the Jinyi Spear and endured the Reverse Fire, purging malice, gaining a [Shatter] Character Saint Breaking Fruit, and strengthening his body with a [Strength] Character Saint Breaking Fruit.
• Chen Yan repeatedly forced himself into the Reverse Fire with help from his shadow, enduring eight seconds before inflicting severe wounds on himself to reassure the castle lord.
• Lu Cunyang led Chen Yitong, Yu Ren, and Chi Xuanxun to Chen Yan’s room, learned the castle’s rules, and blocked the entrance while waiting for the Ancient God Beasts to attack.
• Chen Yan told Lu Cunyang that the real Lord Chen was not Chen Sheng and that Chen Sheng was imprisoned as Zhou Ming on Myriad Forms Island.
• As the Ancient God Beasts crowded the corridor, Chen Yan opened the door and faced Lu Cunyang and the others.

Chen Yan fought Lu Cunyang and the Five Clans’ leaders after they rejected his warning and chose to kill him. He survived their coordinated attacks, killed Chi Xuanxun, and remained locked in battle with Lu Cunyang while badly wounded.

• Lu Cunyang believed Chen Yan’s warning about Lord Chen but insisted the Five Clans would still stand together and fight Great Xia, while Chen Yitong and the others prepared to kill Chen Yan.
• Chen Yan activated his formation and fought Lu Cunyang as Chi Xuanxun’s Time Condensing Heavy Prison Formation and Yu Ren’s Explosion Formation Disks tried to restrain him.
• When Chen Yitong, Yu Ren, and Chi Xuanxun attacked during the formation’s brief restraint, Chen Yan unleashed Immortal—Saint Condensation Primordial, killed Chi Xuanxun, and injured the surrounding Ancient God Beasts.
• Chen Yan flew toward the castle containing the sealed Heavenly God Armor, but Yu Ren and Chen Yitong hit him with cannon fire, hidden Explosion Formation Disks, and an ice blade through his heart.
• Chen Yan survived by using Falling Mountain Style to push back the explosions, then pierced Lu Cunyang’s fist and suppressed his will as Lu Cunyang charged him.

Chen Yan fought Lu Cunyang, Yu Ren, and Chen Yitong while the Ancient God Beasts waited for their chance to attack. After a devastating clash, Lu Cunyang revealed that he had anticipated Chen Yan’s plan, but Chen Yan’s hidden Qi and Blood shadow unleashed an explosion beside the Divine Armor, leaving the fight’s outcome uncertain.

• The Castle Lord and the Ancient God Beasts waited for their countdown to end while Chen Yitong and Lu Cunyang urged Chen Yan to join the Chen Clan, and Chen Yan drove Lu Cunyang back with punches.
• Chen Yan fought Yu Ren and Chen Yitong, then rushed into the castle toward the sealed Heavenly God Armor; Yu Ren and Chen Yitong teleported ahead to stop him.
• Chen Yan used his hidden Qi and Blood shadows to strike Chen Yitong, Yu Ren, and Lu Cunyang with the Jinyi Spear, destroying Yu Ren and badly injuring the others before he escaped outside.
• Lu Cunyang said he would stop Chen Yan for his family and faith, then fought him to buy time for Chen Yitong and the hidden Explosion Formation Disks.
• Lu Cunyang revealed that he had anticipated Chen Yan’s scheme, but Chen Yan was flung out of the room as his Qi and Blood shadow entered and thrust the Jinyi Spear, setting off a massive explosion.

Chen Yan defeated Lu Cunyang, donned the Heavenly God Armor, and slaughtered the Ancient God Beasts of Reverse Fire Castle. After the battle, he discovered that killing them had greatly increased the Spirits of Divinity he had earned.

• Shadow detonated thousands of Explosive Formation Disks, freeing the Divine Armor’s suppression and helping Chen Yan defeat Lu Cunyang.
• The castle lord attacked Chen Yan, but the Heavenly God Armor assembled around him and activated its Blood Battle State.
• Chen Yan cut down the castle lord and the Ancient God Beasts throughout Reverse Fire Castle while their attacks failed to pierce his armor.
• Chen Yan killed the castle lord just as Blood Battle State expired, then found Lu Cunyang dead beside him.
• Chen Yan learned that his six Spirits of Divinity had multiplied his rewards sixfold and counted the Ancient God Beasts he had slain.

After defeating the Creation Realm hunters at Reverse Fire Castle, Chen Yan forged the Jinyi Spear with Reverse Fire Crystals and prepared for further battles. The first-day rankings revealed his overwhelming victory, while Lu Jianxia learned that Chen Yan had entered the competition.

• Chen Yan recovered at Reverse Fire Castle, gained sixty Reverse Fire Soldier Remains as his servants, and used the castle’s Reverse Fire Furnace to strengthen the Heavenly God Armor and transform the Jinyi Spear.
• Chen Yan loaded the Jinyi Spear with three uses of [Withered Repelling—Saint Condensation Primordial] and considered attacking Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison for its Thunder Domain Magnetic Soul.
• The auction ranking appeared, listing treasures including the Myriad Forms Dao Seed, the Myriad Forms Dao Diagram, and three hundred Reverse Fire Crystals.
• Lu Wuyi urged Lu Jianxia to help the Five Clans if Chen Yan entered the competition, while Lu Jianxia questioned whether Great Xia had to be destroyed and remained conflicted about Bing Yi.
• The Spirit of Divinity Ranking Board named Chen Yan first with 8,085 points, recording that he killed five Creation Realm hunters and destroyed sixty Rule Ancient God Beasts at Reverse Fire Castle.