Chapter Summaries

After Chen Yan survived the Five Clans’ ambush, the Creation Realm experts reacted to his victory and debated what it meant for their factions. The Purple Ring World Stabilizing Mirror then announced a Domain Battle between Chen Yan and Thousand Faces Corridor, set to begin in three days.

• Lu Wuyi swore to kill Chen Yan and avenge Lu Cunyang, while Lu Jianxia mourned the young master’s death.
• Chen Mi resolved to suppress his enemies and rebuild the Five Clans, then recognized the altered entrance to the Ancient God Forbidden Land as a chance to become invincible.
• Chen Changyuan welcomed the arrival of a great enemy and carved a thousand-mile gully through the sea of blood with Sword Souls.
• Ji Chuxi told the Creation Realm experts that Chen Yan had survived the attack and slaughtered the Ancient God Beasts in Reverse Fire Castle; Chi Xue suspected Ji Chuxi was a spy, but Ji Chuxi denied it.
• Qi Fan secretly sent Zhang Chao to warn Chen Yan, while Chi Xue restored Ji Chuxi’s head after torturing him and discovering his deduction was wrong.
• The Purple Ring World Stabilizing Mirror announced a Domain Battle between Chen Yan and Thousand Faces Corridor, with the battle scheduled to start in three days.

Chen Yan learned about Domain Battles and, after killing two Ancient God Beasts, accepted Thousand Faces Corridor’s challenge and triggered a battle against it. The match was set for three days later, so Chen Yan decided to attack Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison first.

• Chi Xue sent Chi Yuexi and Chi Xian away with a Formation Disk containing a secret, while Qi Fan stayed behind.
• Chen Yan learned that a domain master could apply to the Purple Ring World Stabilizing Mirror for a Domain Battle and receive Spirit of Divinity.
• Two Ancient God Beasts from Thousand Faces Corridor and Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison fought over Reverse Fire Castle, and Chen Yan killed them both.
• Chen Yan realized Chi Xue had noticed that information had helped him survive and considered attacking him, but held back because of the Eighth Order Dark Devouring Mother Tree.
• Chen Yan accepted Thousand Faces Corridor’s challenge and started a Domain Battle, which the Purple Ring World Stabilizing Mirror scheduled to begin in three days.
• After learning he had to wait, Chen Yan decided to attack Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison first.

Chen Yan advanced toward Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison while Chi Xue sent Chi Yuexi and Ji Chuxi to Thousand Faces Corridor, where Chi Xian refused to join them. At Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison, Ke Qingxuan led several Great Xia fighters to support Chen Yan, while You Chuchu stayed behind, afraid of dying.

• Chen Yan set out for Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison with the Reverse Fire Soldier Remains and sent a maid back to Reverse Fire Castle to test anyone seeking information about him.
• Chi Xue ordered Chi Yuexi, Chi Xian, and Ji Chuxi to go to Thousand Faces Corridor and join the Faceless against Chen Yan.
• Chi Xian refused to fight Chen Yan, leaving Chi Yuexi and Ji Chuxi to seek allies and slow Chen Yan down.
• Thunder Domain Magnetic Soul raged after learning that Chen Yan had chosen to attack Thousand Faces Corridor instead of Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.
• Ke Qingxuan persuaded two Great Xia Creation Realm experts to leave with her and follow Chen Yan, but You Chuchu refused to go until she advanced further.
• You Chuchu panicked after Ke Qingxuan left, then convinced herself that remaining behind would let her serve Great Xia better.

Chen Yan launched an assault on Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison, using Ke Qingxuan and his Ancient God Beasts to attack from inside and out. The battle erupted into a devastating clash, and You Chuchu died as Chen Yan unleashed his final attack.

• Chen Yan redirected his forces to attack Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison and sent Ke Qingxuan, the white-haired elder, and the middle-aged man back inside with the Jinyi Spear.
• Ke Qingxuan challenged You Chuchu to prove her loyalty to Great Xia, but You Chuchu rejected her and later refused a Five Clans expert’s offer to join them.
• Chen Yan attacked Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison, and Ke Qingxuan killed You Chuchu before unleashing Chen Yan’s technique against the Five Clans experts inside.
• Chen Yan’s Ancient God Beasts and Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison’s defenses exchanged heavy losses, while Ke Qingxuan used the Jinyi Spear to damage the prison from within.
• Chen Yan shattered the incoming thunder shuttles and unleashed [Void Breaker—Saint Condensation], killing You Chuchu and filling the battlefield with thunder and flames.

Chen Yan destroyed the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison and entered its ruined core, where Chi Xue revealed that he had impersonated Chi Xian and engineered the encounter. Chi Xue then accused Chen Yan of falling into his trap and demanded to know how he had learned secrets about the Will martial artists.

• Chen Yan led the Reverse Fire Soldier Remains and his allies in destroying the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison's forces and soldier-breeding chamber.
• Chen Yan uncovered an underground energy body and sent the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder to devour it before entering the main thunderball alone.
• Inside the thunderball, Chen Yan met a white-clothed man who revealed that he was Chi Xue, had killed the real Chi Xian, and had created Chi Xian from his own flesh and blood.
• Chi Xue said he had deceived Chi Yuexi and guessed that Chen Yan was Bing Yi, then broke down as he confronted Chen Yan about knowing the Will martial artists' movements.
• Chi Xue accused Chen Yan of coming to the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison because it was his best option and asked how he had known about the others' plans.

Chen Yan confronted Chi Xue, who revealed his obsession with killing powerful opponents and launched a deadly ambush. After a fierce battle involving lightning, spatial tricks, and the Divine Armor, Chi Xue’s attack appeared to kill Chen Yan, leaving Ke Qingxuan and the others in despair.

• Chen Yan realized Chi Xue had deliberately drawn him out and offered to make him a strategist, but Chi Xue refused and declared that killing Chen Yan excited him more than killing Lord Chen or Chi Lord.
• Chi Xue attacked Chen Yan with the Thunder Domain Magnetic Soul and Primordial Seal Divine Shot, but Chen Yan’s prepared shadow doppelgängers interrupted his strike and the two began fighting through teleportation portals and electrical traps.
• Chi Xue dragged Chen Yan into a lower room filled with spider-like machines, where they exchanged attacks as Chen Yan used his spear and blood techniques while Chi Xue used spatial shifts and multiple afterimages.
• Chi Xue struck Chen Yan from behind with [Yuxiu—Saint Condensation Primordial], triggering an explosion that wounded Chi Xue and left Chen Yan suspended motionless inside the fading lightning sphere.
• Chi Xue chose to take Chen Yan’s spear thrust so he could test Chen Yan’s remaining abilities, then used Desolate Locust—Burst against the Divine Armor; Chen Yan fell from the sky as Ke Qingxuan watched in despair.

Chen Yan concealed himself underground while Chi Xue, Yu Cang, and Thunder Domain Magnetic Soul’s trap closed around his Qi and Blood clone. Yu Cang was destroyed when Chi Xue switched their positions as the distant turrets fired, and Chen Yan emerged to crush Chi Xue’s heart.

• Chen Yan revealed that the Divine Armor’s wearer was a Qi and Blood shadow clone while his true body remained hidden underground, and he separated his Will Divine Body as insurance against death.
• Ke Qingxuan and the two Great Xia fighters believed Chen Yan had died as a Yu Clan warrior named Yu Cang arrived and revealed that he, Chi Xue, and Thunder Domain Magnetic Soul had planned an ambush.
• Yu Cang suspected Chi Xue was lying about Chen Yan’s survival and prepared to fire the fifteen laser turrets, while Chi Xue teleported beside him and pressed his fingers against Yu Cang’s helmet.
• Chi Xue switched positions with Yu Cang as the turrets fired, causing their beams and Chi Xue’s attack to destroy Yu Cang and shatter the barrier around the battlefield.
• Chen Yan appeared and drove his arm into Chi Xue’s chest, then crushed his heart.

Chen Yan survived Chi Xue’s poison formation by using his Will Divine Body, defeated Thunder Domain Magnetic Soul, and collected the battle’s spoils. As he began purging the poison from his body and organizing his new resources, Zhang Chao was assigned to prepare for the coming Domain Battle at Thousand Faces Corridor.

• Chi Xue sacrificed his body to activate a poison formation that nearly killed Chen Yan, but Chen Yan’s Will Divine Body erased Thunder Domain Magnetic Soul’s consciousness while Myriad Prison Nether Thunder devoured it and rose to Grade A Sunday Level.
• Chen Yan returned to Reverse Fire Castle with Ke Qingxuan and the others, then ordered Zhang Chao to inspect Yu Clan monitors, modify fifteen laser turrets, and help build another Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.
• Chen Yan used the Reverse Fire Furnace to destroy the formation’s Secret Script and most of its poison, removed the Eighth Order Malice Crystal, and gave it to the Reverse Fire Soldier Remains.
• Chen Yan assessed the spoils from the battle, including Thunderball Creature embryos, mechanical embryos, Reverse Fire Crystals, and six Spirits of Divinity, totaling fourteen thousand Spirits of Divinity.

Chen Yan used the Reverse Fire Furnace to purge the remaining poison and Malice from his body, cultivate his Qi and Blood, and absorb thunder element from Myriad Prison Nether Thunder. In the Dark Devouring Mother Nest, Chi Xue revealed that Chen Yan was Bing Yi and that Chi Xian was his clone, leaving Qi Fan and the other martial artists stunned.

• Chen Yan used the Reverse Fire Furnace to forge the Jinyi Spear and temper his body, then adjusted his cultivation focus after nearly pushing himself too far.
• Chen Yan expelled the remaining toxins and Malice, cultivated his Qi and Blood in the Reverse Fire, and absorbed thunder element from Myriad Prison Nether Thunder.
• The Dark Devourer Mother Tree disrupted the martial artists' trials, drew a lightning strike from the Purple Ring World Stabilizing Mirror, and promised to restore the illusions.
• Qi Fan suspected Chen Yan had conquered a Domain and worried that he could not leave while Chi Xue was present.
• Chi Xue told Qi Fan and the gathered martial artists that Chi Xian was his clone, Chen Yan had broken through Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison, and Chen Yan was Bing Yi.

Chi Xue revealed that Chen Yan had been poisoned after destroying Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison, using the truth to unsettle Great Xia while Qi Fan tried to dismiss it as a forgery. On the morning of the Domain War, Chen Yan emerged from two days of training vastly stronger and headed for the Thousand Faces Corridor, while Zhang Chao blamed himself for failing to help prepare their forces.

• Chi Xue showed the Five Clans and Great Xia a memory of Chen Yan destroying Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison and being struck by Chi Xian's poison formation, while Qi Fan insisted the recording was fake to steady Great Xia's morale.
• Chi Xue trapped Qi Fan in a withered tree and told the Dark Devourer Mother Tree that the recording was real, while Qi Fan continued to deny it.
• After two days in the forging room, Chen Yan raised his lightning Qi and Blood to Sunday Level A, gained 5,331 True Essence Dharma Images, and prepared the Jinyi Spear to unleash seven Qi and Blood shadows.
• Ke Qingxuan and the others knelt before Chen Yan and apologized for their small force and their failure to understand Yu Clan technology, while Zhang Chao regretted his inability to help.
• Chen Yan told them the failure was his responsibility, joked that he was going to surrender at the Thousand Faces Corridor, and flew out with the Reverse Fire Soldier Remains following him.

Chen Yan prepared for the Domain Battle and the Five Clans’ planned attack, while secretly monitoring the Yu Clan’s technology and sharing Blood Pills with his allies. The Five Clans learned that Chen Yan was Bing Yi and underestimated his warning, though Ji Chuxi suspected he was setting a trap.

• Chen Yan examined a Yu Clan laser turret, detected a surveillance grasshopper, and decided he needed to capture a Yu Clan member to advance the Will Path.
• The Castle Lord and the other Reverse Fire Soldiers reported they were ready, and Chen Yan gave Blood Pills to Ke Qingxuan, Zhang Chao, and the others.
• Chen Yan told his allies to bet on his losing to the Thousand Faces Corridor, then revealed he could handle it and that the Five Clans were the real threat.
• The Five Clans’ Creation Realm experts learned Chen Yan was Bing Yi and discussed his warning, with Ji Chuxi cautioning that Chen Yan might be acting.
• Yu Qing boasted that her armor and satellite cannons would let the Five Clans kill Chen Yan, while Ji Chuxi warned her not to underestimate him.

Yu Ming blocked Yin Qingshuang and Zhang Ting’s group from reaching Chen Yan, while Chen Yan stalled the Thousand Faces Corridor by proposing peace and secretly gained a day to recover. As Yu Qing monitored the battlefield and prepared an ambush for after the Domain Battle, Ke Qingxuan’s group infiltrated her position, and Chen Yan’s unseen ally attacked her.

• Yu Ming confronted Yin Qingshuang and Zhang Ting’s group, warning that he would kill most of them if they tried to pass.
• Chen Yan approached the Thousand Faces Corridor alone and persuaded the Hundred-Faced Man to delay its attack, buying himself a day to recover.
• Yu Ming revealed that Chen Yan was badly wounded and poisoned, while Yu Qing’s forces prepared to ambush him when the Domain Battle ended.
• Ke Qingxuan, Zhang Chao, and the others tracked Yu Qing’s location, and a shadow wearing the Heavenly God Armor secretly approached her.
• The shadow grabbed Yu Qing by the throat and shocked her with a bolt of electricity.

Chen Yan’s forces captured Yu Qing and moved to counter the Five Clans’ ambush, but the Purple Ring World Stabilizing Mirror forbade him from using the newly generated Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison during the Domain War. As the Five Clans attacked, Chen Yan’s allies surrounded their Creation Realm experts and Yu Qing’s own weapons turned against them.

• Shadow captured Yu Qing, disabled her armor, and tried to make her reveal how to control the Five Clans’ armor, but she resisted and bit through her tongue rather than betray her teammates.
• Chen Yan abandoned the attempt to interrogate Yu Qing and ordered Zhang Chao to scout Ji Chuxi and the others’ locations.
• Yu Ming told Yin Qingshuang and the others that Chen Yan was Bing Yi and explained the danger posed by Chi Xue, then declared that he had given them enough leeway.
• The Purple Ring World Stabilizing Mirror forbade Chen Yan from using the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison during the Domain War, while Ji Hun and the Five Clans prepared to attack him once the battle ended.
• Zhang Chao and the Reverse Fire Soldier Remains ambushed Ji Hun, while Chen Yan’s forces surrounded the other Five Clans Creation Realm experts at six locations.
• Two spider-shaped mechanical units and dozens of Thunderball Creatures attacked Ji Hun instead of Zhang Chao, while the Five Clans demanded that Yu Qing fire their cannons.

Chen Yan revealed that he had captured Yu Qing, then unleashed his full power against the Thousand Faces Corridor while the Five Clans were still fighting his forces. He summoned three shadows and overwhelmed the enemy, declaring himself the Heavenly Divine General as Ji Chuxi collapsed and Yu Qing watched in terror.

• Chen Yan displayed the wounded Yu Qing to Yu Ming, making clear that her life depended on him.
• The Thousand Faces Corridor attacked Chen Yan with thousands of Hundred-Faced Men and a giant Malice-filled ghost face.
• Chen Yan summoned a black spear and unleashed a Blood River and golden-red Will that burned away the Malice.
• Chen Yan summoned three Qi and Blood shadows and led a devastating assault that shattered the faces and crushed the battlefield.
• Chen Yan proclaimed himself the Heavenly Divine General, while Yu Qing wept and Ji Chuxi fell, overwhelmed by defeat.

Chen Yan destroyed the Thousand Faces Corridor and won the Level Three Domain Battle, while Lu Jianxia reached the Establishing Realm amid her conflict over the Five Clans and Chen Yan. The chapter ended with Great Xia and the others learning that Chen Yan had won and earned 10,000 Spirits of Divinity.

• Chen Yan unleashed his power and annihilated the Thousand Faces Corridor, while Yu Qing, Zhang Ting, and the Great Xia experts watched in shock.
• Yin Qingshuang ordered the Great Xia experts to retreat and regroup against Yu Ming after recognizing that Chen Yan was safe but their own side remained in danger.
• Chen Yu, disguised as Chi Yuexi, prepared to leave for Reverse Fire Castle to find her brother, while Lu Wuyi told Lu Jianxia that Chen Yan had been mortally wounded by Chi Xian.
• Lu Jianxia questioned whether a peaceful world without malice could exist and became the world's third Will martial artist to reach the Establishing Realm.
• Qiong Heaven announced the battle's result, and Lu Wuyi and the others learned that Chen Yan had defeated the Thousand Faces Corridor and won 10,000 Spirits of Divinity.

Chen Yan defeated the Thousand Faces Corridor, captured the Five Clans experts, and used Yu Qing as leverage against Yu Ming. When Yu Ming pursued Yin Qingshuang’s group, a Great Xia Creation Realm expert offered to self-destruct to stop him, and Chen Yan warned Yu Ming that his people would fight to the death.

• Lu Wuyi reflected that the Five Clans had failed to claim Lu Xunyang and Chen Yan as their opportunities, while the spectators celebrated Chen Yan’s victory.
• Chen Yan collected the Reverse Fire Crystals and a map from the last face of the Thousand-Faced Man, which pointed toward the Ancient God Forbidden Land where Lu Xunyang was.
• Chen Yan captured Ji Chuxi, Chi Yuexi, Ji Hun, and the other Five Clans experts, forced them to kneel with his willpower, and kept the mortally wounded Yu Qing alive.
• Yu Ming threatened Chen Yan through a fake image showing Chen Mi, but Chen Yan saw through the deception, and Yu Ming’s real image appeared.
• Yu Ming refused to release his threat and chased Yin Qingshuang’s group; a Great Xia Creation Realm expert charged at him, ready to self-destruct, as Chen Yan warned that his side would destroy Yu Ming if he destroyed them.

Chen Yan negotiated a contract with Yu Ming, then revealed the truth he had uncovered about Myriad Forms Island and the Lord Chen. After returning to Reverse Fire Castle with the captives, Chen Yan began restoring Yu Qing and testing her resolve while forging the Jinyi Spear.

• Chen Yan agreed that Yin Qingshuang and her allies would also stay out of the Dark Devouring Mother Nest's domain, and Zhang Ting signed a contract with Yu Ming.
• Chen Yan told the others that Chen Yi had been a woman, that Xia Weimin and Chen Yi had a child, and that the prisoner in Myriad Forms Tower was Chen Sheng rather than Xia Weimin.
• When a Five Clans Creation Realm expert mocked his account, Chen Yan struck him with lightning and warned the captives that he had offered them a chance to learn the truth and live.
• Chen Yan and his army returned to Reverse Fire Castle with the prisoners and the eight satellite cannon platforms, and Zhang Chao sealed the captives' combat strength.
• Chen Yan restored Yu Qing's severed leg and tongue, but she refused to betray her teammates despite learning that Chen Yan had four Qi and Blood shadows.
• Chen Yan began drawing golden Secret Script from the Reverse Fire while forging the Jinyi Spear, then used electricity to force Yu Qing's finger toward the flames.

Chen Yan cultivated in the Reverse Fire Furnace while tempering the Jinyi Spear, forcing Yu Qing to endure the fire’s lingering agony until she agreed to help him. He challenged her beliefs about the Five Clans and Great Xia, then took the newly forged Divine Level Jinyi Spear from the furnace.

• Chen Yan made Yu Qing touch the Reverse Fire, and its unbearable pain left her repeatedly trying to kill herself while he kept her alive.
• Chen Yan used Reverse Fire Crystals to cultivate and temper the Jinyi Spear, eventually growing his True Essence Dharma Images to 7,596.
• After nearly a day of cultivation, Chen Yan pushed Yu Qing toward the furnace again, and she agreed to help him.
• Chen Yan argued that the Five Clans and their allies were endangering the Human Race, leaving Yu Qing questioning her cause and begging him not to be lying.
• Chen Yan removed the Jinyi Spear from the Reverse Fire Furnace after it reached Divine Level.

As the auction began, Chen Yan and the other competitors were transported to a sealed white space where they could not use their strength or share forbidden information. A warrior who tried to reveal something about Chen Yan was punished and sent back in agony, leaving the auction underway under strict rules.

• Chen Yan ordered Yu Qing to modify weapons and armor, then continued cultivating while waiting for the auction.
• Red-haired Chen Mi estimated that Chen Yan had less Spirit of Divinity than he did and focused on obtaining the Myriad Forms Dao Seed.
• Chen Mingyan urged the Five Clans cultivators to prevent Chen Yan from obtaining the Myriad Forms Dao Seed, while Chen Changyuan named the Reverse Nine Sword Heart as his target.
• Chi Xue celebrated Chen Yan's success in breaking through the Thousand Faces Corridor and revealed that he held a Rule Card.
• The auction began, and its organizers transported the competitors into a white space and forbade them from sharing information about the domains or clan warriors.
• A warrior tried to shout information about Chen Yan, was struck by countless blades, and was sent back to Reverse Fire Castle, where Ji Hun screamed in pain and the castle lord's group beat him.

Chen Yan ranked first in the Spirit of Divinity standings, and Xia Long used a rule card to give everyone an auction-exemption vote that could help Chen Yan claim an item. Chi Xue countered with elimination votes, but amid the resulting chaos Chen Yan realized he could endure the punishment for breaking the rules and began a risky plan to secure the Myriad Forms Dao Seed.

• The auction and Spirit of Divinity rankings appeared, with Chen Yan in first place at 43,997 and Chen Mi in second at 32,475.
• Xia Long used a rule card to grant everyone an auction-exemption vote, effective after the seventh round.
• Chi Xue established an elimination-vote rule that overrode exemption votes when both targeted the same person, and Great Xia and the Five Clans struggled to coordinate their votes.
• Qi Fan endured the blades long enough to urge Great Xia to help Chen Yan obtain the Reverse Fire Crystal before he was expelled.
• Chen Yan endured the punishment for claiming to be Lu Wuyi and declaring that the Myriad Forms Dao Seed mattered most, then called for a nullification card; Lu Wuyi was left stunned.