Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan and the other masked Creation Realm experts competed for the Myriad Forms Dao Seed, while their bids exposed clues about their identities and motives. As the auction moved on to the Divine Phoenix Marrow, Chen Yan bid 110,000 Spirits of Divinity, and Lu Jianxia realized he was targeting the medicine she needed.

• Chen Yan recognized that will underlay the auction’s pain and the world’s martial paths, while Lu Wuyi watched the impersonator in silence.
• Chen Mi opened the bidding for the Myriad Forms Dao Seed at 70,000 Spirits of Divinity, and Chen Yan, Xia Long, and Lu Wuyi raised the bids as the crowd tried to identify them.
• Chen Mi won the first auction round, then appealed to the crowd to obtain the Myriad Forms Dao Diagram for him.
• Xia Long outbid Chen Changyuan for the Reverse Nine Sword Heart, apparently buying it on Shen Yiwei’s behalf.
• Chen Yan bid 110,000 Spirits of Divinity for the Divine Phoenix Marrow, leading Lu Jianxia to recognize him as Bing Yi and suspect that he was targeting her.

Chen Yan disguised himself as Lu Wuyi and manipulated the auction and the factions’ suspicions to secure immunity while making Chen Changyuan the target of elimination. After Chen Changyuan was expelled, Chen Yan’s plan succeeded, though the others still suspected him of being Lu Wuyi or Chen Mi.

• Lu Wuyi raised the bid on Qi and Blood Medicine to challenge Chen Yan, but Chen Yan redirected attention by promising to buy Chen Mi the Myriad Forms Dao Diagram if Chen Mi was their number one.
• Chen Yan spent 60,000 Spirits of Divinity on the Myriad Forms Dao Diagram, then warned Chen Mi that he would destroy it if Chen Mi was the enemy and called out Chen Changyuan’s remaining 60,000 Spirits of Divinity.
• Chi Xue laughed, claimed he was at the Dark Devouring Mother Nest, and was teleported away as the elimination and immunity votes concluded.
• Light Pillars enveloped Chen Yan and Chen Changyuan; Chen Changyuan was expelled, while Chen Yan remained after receiving the most immunity votes.
• Chen Yan revealed through his reasoning that he had posed as Lu Wuyi to earn the Five Clans’ immunity votes and steer the elimination votes toward Chen Changyuan.

Chen Yan, disguised as Lu Wuyi, won the Five Clans’ auction exemption and learned he could claim already-auctioned treasures as well as future ones. As the auction began selling Reverse Fire Crystals, he considered whether to use the exemption on the Myriad Forms Dao Seed or pursue the Evil Void Black Tide.

• Chen Changyuan lamented that Lu Wuyi had ruined his auction plans, then awakened his second-level Domain, Eclipse Moon Blood Sea, and walked toward its blood moon.
• The Five Clans cultivators realized their exemption votes had gone to the disguised Chen Yan, and the auction announced that he could claim any item, including one already sold.
• The Five Clans cultivators urged Chen Yan to take Chen Mi’s Myriad Forms Dao Seed, but Chen Mi revealed that he was in the Ancient God Forbidden Grounds and vanished after being attacked.
• The real Lu Wuyi realized Chen Yan had fooled the Five Clans and accepted that he could not undo the vote.
• Chen Yan asked how many Myriad Forms Dao Seeds could pair with one Myriad Forms Dao Diagram and considered using his exemption on the Evil Void Black Tide.
• The auction opened bidding on three hundred Reverse Fire Crystals, leaving the Great Xia cultivators worried that Chen Yan could no longer afford them.

Chen Yan revealed his disguise by outbidding the Five Clans for the Reverse Fire Crystals, then faced Lu Jianxia over his failure to free Lu Prefecture's Four Elders. Lu Jianxia vowed to kill him, and Chen Yan told her he would wait for her.

• Chen Yan bid fifty thousand Spirits of Divinity for the Reverse Fire Crystal, then raised his offer to fifty-two thousand and exposed that he was not Lu Wuyi.
• The Five Clans' experts raged at Chen Yan, while Great Xia's experts celebrated; Chen Yan outbid Yu Laiwei and won three hundred Reverse Fire Crystals for fifty-seven thousand Spirits of Divinity.
• Lu Jianxia confronted Chen Yan and accused him of lying about releasing Lu Prefecture's Four Elders.
• Chen Yan could not bring himself to admit what he had done, though he knew Lu Jianxia had helped him and that he had failed to keep his promise.
• Lu Jianxia vowed to kill Chen Yan, and he told her, with a trembling voice, that he would wait for her to do it.

After claiming the Evil Void Black Tide with his auction exemption, Chen Yan fused it with the transforming Jinyi Spear and used his blood and willpower to advance its transformation. The Five Clans reeled from his deception, while Yu Qing agreed to go to the laser cannon turret.

• Chen Yan learned from Xia Long that a Myriad Forms Dao Diagram could combine with only one Myriad Forms Dao Seed, then used his exemption to claim the Evil Void Black Tide.
• The auction ended, and Chen Yan returned to the smithy with the Evil Void Black Tide and Reverse Fire Crystals.
• Chen Yan forged the Evil Void Black Tide into the Jinyi Spear, then added his blood and willpower to drive its transformation further.
• Chi Yuexi told Ji Chuxi and Ji Hun how Chen Yan had fooled the Five Clans, while Ji Chuxi insisted that Chi Xue could defeat him.
• Yu Qing rejected Zhang Chao's urging to stop stalling, then asked him to take her to the laser cannon turret.

Chen Yan learned that Chi Xue had declared a Second-level Domain War against the Dark Devouring Mother Nest and suspected he meant to seize control of it. He prepared to march on the domain, retrieve Qi Fan and the others, and strengthen his forces before the battle, while Chi Xue awaited the fight beneath the Dark Devourer Mother Tree.

• Chen Mi saw the Domain War announcement and was shocked that Chi Xue had challenged the Dark Devouring Mother Nest.
• Chen Yan questioned Chi Yuexi about the Thousand Faces Corridor trial, then ordered his forces to march on the Dark Devouring Mother Nest in four days.
• Chen Yan suspected Chi Xue planned to take control of the domain and began preparing his weapons, troops, and martial arts while planning to retrieve Qi Fan and the others.
• Chen Yan wagered 10,000×6 Spirits of Divinity on Chi Xue, then heard from Zhang Chao that Qi Fan had left a string of secret words neither of them understood.
• Chi Xue waited above the lake beneath the Dark Devourer Mother Tree, eager for the Domain War to begin.

Chi Xue used a Domain Battle to prevent Qi Fan and the Great Xia experts from attacking him, while plotting with the Dark Devouring Mother Nest to kill Chen Yan. Qi Fan led his companions to vow their lives for Great Xia, and Chen Yan prepared to retrieve them from the Dark Devouring Mother Nest.

• Chi Xue arranged for the Dark Devouring Mother Nest to become his subordinate during the Domain Battle, then planned to end their cooperation after Chen Yan's death.
• Qi Fan told the Great Xia Creation Realm experts that they could not attack Chi Xue for eight days and urged them to sacrifice themselves for Great Xia's future.
• The Great Xia experts accepted Qi Fan's call and vowed to die for Great Xia.
• Chen Yan sent Thunderball Creatures and a Reverse Fire Soldier Remains to observe Qi Fan's group and report back.
• Chen Yan stored the Myriad Forms Dao Diagram, reassured Fang Yi and Wang Ming that he would only retrieve Qi Fan and the others, and left them ready to hold a banquet.

Chen Yan exposed Yu Qing’s failed attempt to use the Yu Clan technology to escape and demonstrated that he could dismantle her encrypted control system with ease. Yu Qing was left broken by the encounter, while Zhang Chao reflected on how Chen Yan’s rise had eclipsed the era’s other geniuses.

• Chen Yan left Reverse Fire Castle after telling Chi Yuexi that Chi had helped him during the Tianbang Boxing Tournament.
• Yu Qing secretly modified the Thunder Serpent cannon and prepared a control device, hoping to rescue Chi Yuexi and escape to find Chi Xue.
• Chen Yan arrived at Yu Qing’s workstation and used his Thunder Domain Magnetic Soul to erase her layered hash encryption, leaving her convinced she could not match him.
• Chen Yan ordered Yu Qing to finish the control device and battle armor within five days, and told Zhang Chao to move the equipment into the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.
• Yu Qing collapsed and cried over the loss of her pride, while Zhang Chao considered how Chen Yan had overshadowed Jiang Yuan, Sanjin, and Chen Yu.

Chen Yan named his newly forged divine artifact Jine Spear and discovered how to combine its Evil Void spores with Thunderball Creatures for powerful explosive attacks. Inside the transformed Myriad Forms Dao Diagram, he found a sixtyfold time-flow advantage, set aside his burdens, and began developing a martial art through relaxed movement.

• Chen Yan named Jinyi Spear Jine Spear, and it became a Divine Artifact with four attributes and a close bond to him.
• Chen Yan tested combining Jine Spear’s Evil Void spores with a Thunderball Creature and found that its self-destruction spread spores alongside explosive lightning and heat.
• Chen Yan sent Jine Spear to seek Myriad Prison Nether Thunder so it could evolve Thunderball Creatures and Pig Heart Mechanical Bodies.
• Chen Yan merged the Myriad Forms Dao Seed into the Myriad Forms Dao Diagram, entered the resulting world, and discovered that it accelerated time by sixty times by consuming Spirits of Divinity.
• Chen Yan relaxed inside the diagram, wandered its landscape, and began developing a martial art by moving with the river’s flow.

Chen Yan received Qi Fan’s farewell letter from the Dark Devouring Mother Nest and, refusing to abandon his allies, spent four days forging his martial arts and strength. He then led his assembled forces toward the nest, leaving Ji Chuxi and the other Five Clans captives stunned by the scale of his army.

• Chen Yan refined his Horizontal Refinement Breathing Technique in the Myriad Manifestation Diagram and forged his body with True Dragon Flame Marrow and Reverse Fire.
• Ke Qingxuan, Zhang Chao, Fang Yi, Wang Ming, and Chen Yan shared a meal at the main fortress before a Thunderball Creature delivered a letter from Qi Fan.
• Chen Yan read Qi Fan’s memorial urging him to leave Chi Xue and survive, but he rejected the plea and vowed to fight rather than let his people die for his advancement.
• Chen Yan spent four days cultivating, during which the Saint Breaking Tree produced twelve new Saint Breaking Fruits.
• Chen Yan ordered his forces to take Chi Yuexi, Ji Chuxi, and the others toward the Dark Devouring Mother Nest, and the captives saw his formidable army assembled around the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.
• Chen Yan’s army began advancing on the Dark Devouring Mother Nest.

Lu Jianxia waited for Chen Yan in Withered Dream Maze City while struggling with the knowledge that they were enemies, and Chen Yan advanced his martial arts before noticing Chi Xue had entered Will Martial Dao. At the Dark Devouring Mother Nest, Qi Fan’s group discovered Chi Xue had turned ten Five Clans Creation Realm experts into puppets and prepared to fight without expecting Chen Yan to rescue them.

• Lu Wuyi urged Lu Jianxia to prepare for the Eighth Order, but she chose to wait for Chen Yan in Withered Dream Maze City and still hoped the Lord of Will would bring peace.
• Chen Yan used the Myriad Forms Dao Diagram to improve his Qi and Blood methods and reach the peak of the Sixth Order, then noticed that Chi Xue had become a Will martial artist.
• Chi Yuexi warned Yu Qing not to rely on Chi Xue to rescue them, but Ji Hun and another Creation Realm expert accused her of betraying the Five Clans.
• Qi Fan’s group emerged from the Dark Devouring Mother Nest’s trial trees and discovered that Chi Xue had made all ten Five Clans Creation Realm experts into puppets.
• Qi Fan told his group their mission was to wear down or kill Chi Xue, and he explained that Chen Yan would not come because he was not yet at the Creation Realm and had just finished another domain battle.

Chen Yan reached the Dark Devouring Mother Nest and tried to exchange Yu Qing and the others for Qi Fan and the Great Xia cultivators. Chi Xue revealed that the exchange was a trap, killed Ji Chuxi, and sensed a dangerous power in Chen Yan, leaving their standoff unresolved.

• Chen Yan brought Yu Qing and the others to the barrier and demanded an exchange with Chi Xue for Qi Fan and the Great Xia cultivators.
• Qi Fan revealed that the ten Five Clans Creation Realm cultivators were already dead and had been turned into puppets by Chi Xue.
• Chi Xue proposed a game in which the ten puppets had to force him to act before he would agree to an exchange.
• Chi Xue attacked and killed Ji Chuxi while Chen Yan stayed still, unable to strike first under the rules protecting Chi Xue.
• Chen Yan rejected Chi Xue's claim that morality bound him and said the world's impending end was why he had been born.
• Chi Xue sensed a powerful danger in Chen Yan, eyed the black ring on his finger, and left the confrontation hanging.

Chen Yan saw through Chi Xue’s scheme to trick him with a fake double and rejected the hostage exchange. After Chi Xue revealed himself, Chen Yan mocked his supposedly clever plans and challenged his competence.

• Chi Xue offered to exchange hostages if Qi Fan and nine other Great Xia cultivators defeated ten puppets, while Chen Yan suspected the offer was a trap.
• Chen Yan proposed a domain battle with Chi Xue or the Dark Devouring Mother Nest, then offered to face Chi Xue himself in exchange for the hostages.
• The apparent Chi Xue proved to be a puppet, and the real Chi Xue emerged from the Dark Devouring Mother Nest after his illusion collapsed.
• Chen Yan explained that Chi Xue had planned to use the fake double and contract to trap Qi Fan’s group and force Chen Yan to return the captives.
• Chen Yan told Chi Xue that he had never fallen for his schemes and called his methods childish, prompting Chi Xue to ask whether Chen Yan was trying to provoke him.

Chen Yan challenged Chi Xue to a Domain battle after refusing to abandon Qi Fan and the Great Xia cultivators, despite the danger. As the battle loomed, Chi Xue prepared to kill him, while Chen Yan resolved to face the consequences rather than live with his own cowardice.

• Chen Yan mocked Chi Xue and offered a contract for a Domain battle, but when Chi Xue refused, Chen Yan ordered his forces to leave and Qi Fan and the others urged him to go.
• Chi Xue called Chen Yan back and accepted a contract; four hours later, the Dark Devouring Mother Nest’s Chi Xue won a Second-level Domain battle and received one hundred thousand Spirit of Divinity.
• The Purple Ring World Stabilizing Mirror announced a new Second-level Domain battle between Chi Xue and Chen Yan, assessing Chen Yan’s side as a Third-level Domain and Chi Xue’s as a Second-level Domain with Eighth Order strength.
• Lu Jianxia learned that Chen Yan was now her enemy and withdrew to her room in tears, while Qi Fan and the others prepared for a fight to the death alongside Chen Yan.
• Chi Xue told Chi Yuexi and the others that he suspected Chen Yan was the Lord of Will’s chosen martial artist and vowed to prepare his funeral.
• Chen Yan admitted he had started the battle because abandoning Qi Fan and the others would leave him unable to forgive himself.

After winning a fortune from Chi Xue’s battle, Chen Yan used the looming fight against Chi Xue and the Dark Devouring Mother Nest to commit himself to breaking the limits of both his Body Tempering and Qi and Blood paths. Meanwhile, Qi Fan, Zhang Chao, and the Great Xia cultivators entered the Ancient Battle Stage, where they gathered amid fresh taunts about Chen Yan’s chances.

• Chen Yan received 178,960 Spirits of Divinity from Chi Xue’s victory, bringing his total to 34323 × 6.
• Chen Yan entered the Reverse Fire Furnace with his remaining Reverse Fire Crystals and True Dragon Flame Marrow, aiming to push his Body Tempering Path toward the Sixth Order limit and unite it with Qi and Blood through a Break Limit.
• Chen Yan admitted to the Saint Breaking Tree that he had chosen to face Chi Xue because he wanted to test himself against a powerful enemy, and he vowed to break his own limits and the world’s limits.
• Qi Fan and Zhang Chao noticed that the Spirits of Divinity shop had opened, bought items, and decided to enter the Ancient Battle Stage to seek insights that might help them advance.
• Jiang Yuan, Xia Long, and the Great Xia Creation Realm cultivators entered the Ancient Battle Stage together and gathered above a lake, where rules forbade sharing information about domains or cultivators.
• The Five Clans’ cultivators taunted Chen Yan, the Great Xia group answered them, and Chi Xue watched the quarrel with a grin.

At the Ancient Battle Stage, Lu Jianxia and the others climbed the water staircase while Chen Yan tempered his body with reverse fire and attempted to unite Horizontal Refinement with Qi and Blood. Chen Yan broke through repeatedly and created a new power, leaving the chapter with him wondering whether it could hurt an Eighth Order.

• A woman explained that the Ancient Battle Stage would teach Heavenly Gang Body Protection, and Lu Jianxia, Jiang Yuan, and the other competitors fought phantoms using only basic punches and kicks.
• The Immortal Skirt Woman identified Jiang Yuan and Lu Jianxia as exceptional candidates for her inheritance, then learned of Chen Yan’s battle against a Second-level Domain and watched him temper his body in reverse fire.
• After a day, Lu Jianxia reached the twentieth step and later advanced to the twenty-third, while the competitors wondered why Chen Yan had not appeared.
• Chen Yan performed a double Break Limit in Horizontal Refinement and Qi and Blood, forcing the two opposed Martial Daos to fuse despite his body breaking apart and the rules resisting him.
• Chen Yan’s repeated breakthroughs gradually formed new rules and a fused power of Internal Force and Qi and Blood, changing the Martial Dao that had remained fixed for ten thousand years.
• Chen Yan gathered the new power in his right hand and wondered whether it could hurt an Eighth Order.

Chen Yan fused Internal Force with Qi and Blood to create True Martial power, then asked Ke Qingxuan and Lu Jingqiu to attack him so he could test his strength while Breaking Limit. After overwhelming them and sending Lu Jingqiu to the Ancient Battle Stage, he observed the competition as Jiang Yuan and Lu Jianxia climbed high on the steps.

• Chen Yan fused Internal Force and Qi and Blood, named the resulting power True Martial, and continued Breaking Limit by creating new Martial Dao rules.
• Lu Jingqiu regretted that Chen Yan had risked himself for her, while Ke Qingxuan told her that Chen Yan would not flee from Chi Xue.
• Chen Yan ordered Ke Qingxuan and Lu Jingqiu to try to kill him, then fought them while repeatedly healing their injuries and demonstrated overwhelming strength.
• Chen Yan sent Lu Jingqiu to the Ancient Battle Stage with instructions to keep circulating her cultivation technique, and she began climbing its staircase.
• Shen Yiwei and Xia Long watched the competitors, noting Jiang Yuan's progress and the pressure posed by Lu Jianxia fighting four shadows on the twenty-fourth step.

Chen Yan entered the Ancient Battle Stage and used its trials to study his body, merging Qi and Blood with Internal Force as his physical body continued breaking its limits. The chapter left the competitors stunned when another rumble of the rules announced that Chen Yan had begun breaking through again.

• Chen Yan bought an Ancient Battle Stage ticket, and he and Ke Qingxuan entered the stage while his physical body continued cultivating.
• The competitors recognized Chen Yan as the Six Paths Genius, while Chen Yan fought the stage’s figures and focused on understanding his body rather than learning Heavenly Gang Body Protection.
• Chen Yan concluded that Qi and Blood and Internal Force were both forms of his own power, and the two forces fused within his physical body as he reached the third step.
• Chen Yan continued breaking his limits as the competitors climbed; one Great Xia powerhouse’s consciousness collapsed, and he was eliminated after urging Qi Fan to carry on.
• Chen Yan remained absorbed in his slow ascent, while the other climbers and the woman in the Ten-Colored Immortal Skirt watched his unusual progress.
• After the competitors thought Chen Yan’s breakthroughs had stopped, the rules rumbled again, and the Creation Realm cultivators realized he was breaking through once more.

Chen Yan broke through to the Creation Realm while continuing to climb the Ancient Battle Stage, then chose to stop advancing so he could study its martial arts trials. As Chen Yan prepared for his eventual fight with Chi Xue, Chi Xue revealed how he had secretly tested Chen Yan and set out to uncover his limits.

• Chen Yan fought the six phantoms on the Ancient Battle Stage, climbed to the fourteenth step, and produced a second mature Saint Breaking Fruit.
• Chen Yan completed his thirty-fifth breakthrough, advancing in both Horizontal Refinement and Qi and Blood and fusing them into True Martial Power.
• Chen Yan resisted leaving the stage to test his new strength and continued facing the phantoms to expose flaws in his skills.
• Chi Xue recalled how he had used a cipher book and a staged failure to learn that Chen Yan could observe Will martial artists but was not all-knowing, and he revealed that his cherished niece Chi Yuexi was among the prisoners.
• Chi Xue exited the stage from the twenty-eighth step, while Lu Jianxia reached the thirty-first step and took first place; Shen Yiwei continued climbing as he worried about Chen Yan.

Chen Yan ignored the Ancient Battle Stage’s Heavenly Gang Body Protection and used his own martial arts to fight through the shadows, rapidly climbing the steps after absorbing three Saint Breaking Fruits. As Shen Yiwei raced toward the final places, Lu Wuyi realized Chen Yan was making a bid for the top five.

• Lu Jianxia and Jiang Yuan became the first two martial artists to reach the thirty-third step, while a third Black Mist-wrapped figure arrived and was suspected to be Chen Changyuan.
• The Immortal Skirt Woman urged Chen Yan to cultivate Heavenly Gang Body Protection, but Chen Yan continued testing himself against the shadows and advanced his Saint Breaking Fruit progress.
• Chen Yan absorbed the three Saint Breaking Fruits, recovered his strength, and swiftly defeated the shadows as he climbed from the eighteenth step to the twentieth.
• Shen Yiwei and Chen Mi fought on the thirtieth step for the last two places, while Qi Fan reached his limit on the twenty-fifth step.
• Chen Yan suddenly advanced past Qi Fan, climbed through the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh steps, and reached the twenty-ninth step alongside Lu Wuyi.
• Lu Wuyi saw Shen Yiwei reach the thirty-second step and realized Chen Yan was racing to enter the top five.