Chapter Summaries

Lu Wuyi’s mastery of body technique and devotion to the Martial Dao moved the competitors as he fought his way to the thirtieth step. Shen Yiwei reached the thirty-third step ahead of Chen Mi, leaving Chen Mi in sixth place and furious at the result.

• Lu Wuyi used the figures’ attacks to redirect his momentum, defeated them with precise body movements, and reached the thirtieth step.
• Chen Yan reflected on creating martial arts that suited his own body as Lu Wuyi declared that he was the Martial Dao itself, stirring the competitors’ admiration and memories of their original love for martial arts.
• The competitors debated the conflict between Great Xia and the Five Clans, while Lu Jianxia silently remembered Chen Yan’s declaration and the beliefs others placed in him.
• Chen Mi and Shen Yiwei fought fiercely for fourth place, with Chen Mi driven by pride and Shen Yiwei fighting for Great Xia’s honor.
• Shen Yiwei defeated the last figure and staggered toward the thirty-third step before Chen Mi could recover, leaving Chen Mi in sixth place.

Chen Mi awakened the Will Path but was overtaken at the final step by an unknown Six Paths Genius and eliminated. Chen Yan reached the Cloud Top Palace, rejected an offer of eternal life in exchange for abandoning his emotions, and told the Immortal Skirt Woman that he was already immortal.

• Chen Mi entered the Will Path and fought toward the thirty-third step, believing he could secure a top-five place.
• A Six Paths Genius overtook Chen Mi and reached the thirty-third step before he did, causing Chen Mi to collapse and be eliminated.
• Chen Yan and the other four finalists appeared in the Cloud Top Palace, where the Immortal Skirt Woman served them tea that triggered an illusory trial.
• The tea offered Chen Yan eternal life if he severed his Seven Emotions and Six Desires, but he quickly escaped the illusion.
• The Immortal Skirt Woman explained the trial's reward, and Chen Yan calmly said he had already attained immortality.

Chen Yan and the others passed the Trial of Courage by refusing the Immortal Skirt Woman’s offer to escape suffering through eternal life. The next trial began on the Ice River, where Chen Yan walked through visions of his life while another figure’s fate unfolded before him.

• Chen Yan resisted the Immortal Skirt Woman’s enchantment and insisted that his will could never die, while Lu Jianxia, Jiang Yuan, Shen Yiwei, and Chen Changyuan faced visions testing their resolve.
• Jiang Yuan, Shen Yiwei, and Lu Jianxia woke from their illusions and refused to abandon their emotions, while the Immortal Skirt Woman sent Chen Changyuan away after revealing he had accepted her offer inside the illusion.
• The Immortal Skirt Woman declared that everyone had passed the Trial of Courage and announced that the Ancient Battle Palace held an opportunity that could change their lives.
• Chen Yan found himself on the frozen Ice River, unable to use his Martial Dao strength, and began walking toward its far end.
• As Chen Yan crossed the river, he witnessed visions of his disabled life, his family’s hardships, and his rise to fame as a Great Xia hero.
• Chen Yan watched the young man die in battle when Chen Yunyou self-detonated just as the young man was about to kill him.

Chen Yan faced a trial that tested his resolve by confronting him with the people and dreams he feared losing, then broke through a forbidden Ice Wall with his bare hands. Lu Jianxia passed the Trial of the Dao, while Chen Yan reached the wall’s summit and declared that he would make his own path.

• Chen Yan crossed the Ice River despite apparitions of Xia Hanzhou, Xia Qi, Sanjin, Si Wenyi, his sister, and another version of himself urging him to stop.
• The Immortal Skirt Woman realized that the old man imprisoned in the palace had added an Ice Wall that was not part of the trial.
• Chen Yan punched the Ice Wall and carved a path through it with his bloodied hands, while Jiang Yuan was eliminated and Shen Yiwei later returned exhausted without passing.
• Lu Jianxia crossed the Ice River and passed the Trial of the Dao, which the Immortal Skirt Woman defined as pursuing the path in one’s heart without wavering.
• Chen Yan climbed the Ice Wall as it collapsed beneath him, reached the morning sun, and declared, “There is no path here. I am the path.”

Chen Yan and Ying entered the third trial, where the Lord of Elements forced them into a fight to the death with their Martial Dao sealed. As Ying sought an advantage on shore and Chen Yan waited on the lake, the Founding Lord of Great Xia watched from the palace.

• The Lord of Elements warned Chen Yan and Ying that the third trial carried the danger of death, but both chose to continue for a chance to hear her preach the Dao.
• Chen Yan and Ying accepted the Wen Xin Stele’s contracts and were transported to a lake, where the Lord of Elements declared that one had to survive within three hours or both would die.
• With their Martial Dao sealed and their bodies reduced to ordinary strength, Ying fled toward the far shore while Chen Yan remained seated on the water.
• Ying realized Chen Yan was not pursuing her and continued toward the bank, hoping to use the trees and other surroundings to improve her chances.
• The Lord of Elements revealed that the trial was meant to help Chen Yan overcome Ying, whom she viewed as his greatest obstacle, while the chained Founding Lord of Great Xia questioned her motives and watched Chen Yan.

Lu Jianxia fought Chen Yan in the Ancient Battle Palace trial, but he spared her rather than kill her. She realized he was the Six Paths Genius and her elder brother, and ended the chapter in tears, saying everything she had ever done was wrong.

• Lu Jianxia confronted Chen Yan and fought him across the lake, using her physical skill while both were limited to ordinary mortal bodies.
• Lu Jianxia landed blows that broke Chen Yan's breastbone and damaged his neck, but he outmatched her with faster, more ruthless techniques.
• Chen Yan avoided Lu Jianxia's final desperate kick and spared her, saying the trial should not be settled by killing each other.
• Lu Jianxia asked whether Chen Yan was her elder brother, and he admitted he had never done anything wrong from his own perspective.
• Lu Jianxia remembered her history with Chen Yan and wept, saying everything she had ever done was wrong.

Chen Yan refused to kill Lu Jianxia and rejected the Lord of Elements' demand that he abandon her, realizing the trial required a sacrifice rather than a fight to the death. Lu Jianxia erased her own consciousness to pass the trial, leaving Chen Yan grieving and vowing to bring her back.

• The Lord of Elements urged Chen Yan to kill Lu Jianxia before the trial's time limit expired, while Lu Jianxia condemned the setup as a plot to have her die.
• Chen Yan scolded the Lord of Elements for presuming to teach him and insisted that pain and sacrifice were not worthy goals in themselves.
• Chen Yan concluded that the trial required them to give something up, and Lu Jianxia confessed her love and explained how meeting him had changed her view of her life and mission.
• Lu Jianxia decided to give up herself and asked Chen Yan to find her again; despite Chen Yan telling her to wait, she erased her consciousness and he passed the trial.
• Chen Yan grieved over Lu Jianxia's disappearance and vowed to cross the river of time to bring her back if she died.

Chen Yan entered the hidden room in Cloud Top Palace and spoke with the Lord of Body Tempering, who explained the Creation Realm and the Eighth Order Calamity Light Realm. He taught Chen Yan a new method for repeatedly destroying and rebirthing his Self Universe, leaving Chen Yan poised to develop power capable of suppressing Eighth Order.

• The Immortal Skirt Woman tried to address Chen Yan, but chains restrained her as he followed a chain into a hidden room.
• The Lord of Body Tempering told Chen Yan that Lu Jianxia had destroyed her consciousness and would need him to repair her Will Divine Body.
• The Lord of Body Tempering explained his history with his granddaughter and Great Xia, and Chen Yan said he would preserve his humanity rather than treat kindness as a weakness.
• The Lord of Body Tempering named the Eighth Order the Calamity Light Realm and described how destroying and rebirthing the Self Universe created Life and Death Aura.
• The Lord of Body Tempering proposed that Chen Yan destroy and rebirth each layer of his Self Universe as he developed it, and Chen Yan asked to learn the method.

Chen Yan listened to the Lord of Body Tempering’s Dao lecture and began creating the first layer of his Self Universe, despite the dangers. As the Immortal Skirt Woman sensed the transformation, she tried to warn Chen Yan that the lecture could endanger him, but the chapter left his breakthrough underway.

• The Lord of Body Tempering urged Chen Yan to create and destroy his first Self Universe, and Chen Yan agreed to test his understanding through action.
• Qi Fan, Lu Jingqiu, Zhang Chao, and the others realized Chen Yan might have climbed the Ancient Battle Palace’s steps while breaking through, then agreed to plan for his coming battle against Chi Xue.
• Chen Yan began transforming his Horizontal Refinement Origin Space into a Self Universe, using his nine hundred and ninety-nine True Dragon Dharma Images as its foundation.
• The Lord of Body Tempering praised Chen Yan as he rapidly absorbed Dao insight and formed five [Skill] Character Saint Breaking Fruits.
• The Immortal Skirt Woman sensed the lecture’s Dao energy, condemned the Lord of Body Tempering for overwhelming Chen Yan, and then turned her attention to Chen Yan’s true body.

Chen Yan destroyed and rebuilt his first Self Universe under the Lord of Body Tempering’s guidance, using his Immortal Will to survive and gain an Eighth Order life-and-death aura while remaining in the Creation Realm. The brief celestial omen misled observers into thinking an Eighth Order had been born.

• Chen Yan condensed his first Self Universe into thousands of galaxies, reaching the Mid Creation Realm and alarming the Immortal Skirt Woman.
• The Lord of Body Tempering’s plan required Chen Yan to destroy his new Self Universe, and its collapse nearly killed him.
• Chen Yan’s Immortal Will suppressed the destructive force, allowing his body and Self Universe to recover and form anew.
• Chen Yan’s reborn Self Universe gave him the life-and-death aura of the Eighth Order’s Calamity Light Realm, though he remained in the Creation Realm.
• A momentary star-filled omen appeared over the real world, leading Xia Hanzhou, Lord Chen, and others to believe someone had advanced to the Eighth Order.

Chen Yan learned that his newly mastered Life and Death Aura gave him only a slim chance against Chi Xue, while the Lord of Body Tempering and Xia Weimin prepared to let him face the coming battle. After finding Lu Jianxia restored without her recent memories and seeing Chi Xue turn Creation Realm fighters into puppets, Chen Yan bought Reverse Fire Crystals and began reforging the Heavenly God Armor.

• The Lord of Body Tempering warned Chen Yan that his wisp of Life and Death Aura could not match a true Eighth Order, and Chen Yan accepted that comrades might die in the coming fight.
• Xia Weimin promised the Lord of Body Tempering that he would spend his remaining Divine Soul power to protect Chen Yan, while the Immortal Skirt Woman accused the old man of giving Chen Yan only a sliver of hope.
• Chen Yan discovered that Lu Wuyi had revived Lu Jianxia using a prepared Remnant Soul, leaving her without three years of memories, and saw that Chi Xue had made puppets of Ji Hun and other fighters.
• Chi Xue spoke excitedly about facing Chen Yan as the ancient tree urged him to kill Chen Yan as soon as the battle began.
• Chen Yan bought thirty Reverse Fire Crystals, combined them with his seventy-five existing crystals, and placed the crystals and Heavenly God Armor in the Reverse Fire Furnace to strengthen it.

Chen Yan prepared Qi Fan and the others for the coming Second-level Domain battle and convinced them to fight to survive rather than sacrifice themselves. As Chi Xue’s forces arrived at Reverse Fire Castle, the battle between Chi Xue and Chen Yan was about to begin.

• Chen Yan gave Qi Fan and the others his Immortal Will to protect them from Malice, then brought them into the Myriad Forms Dao Diagram to plan and train with its accelerated time.
• Chen Yan struck Qi Fan during a sparring match and revealed that he could wield the Life and Death Aura despite not having reached the Eighth Order.
• Chen Yan urged Qi Fan and the others to value their lives and fight to live; Qi Fan rallied them to rehearse the Ten Thousand Martial Formation.
• Chen Yan sent the castle lord to reassure Chen Yu, who left to watch the battle while resolving to believe in her brother.
• As Great Xia and the Five Clans waited anxiously, Chi Xue’s forces arrived near Reverse Fire Castle, and he called out to Chen Yan as the battle began.

Chen Yan led Great Xia’s forces into battle against Chi Xue and the Dark Devouring Mother Nest, deploying the Mind Devouring Black Tide while commanding from the rear. The armies clashed, and Chen Yan’s preparations helped his allies withstand the Ancient God Beasts as his laser turrets struck the enemy’s rear.

• Chen Yan approached Reverse Fire Castle with Qi Fan and the Great Xia cultivators, then summoned the Mind Devouring Black Tide with the Jine Spear as Qi Fan led the assault.
• Chi Xue unleashed the Dark Devouring Mother Nest’s vines and more than ten thousand Ancient God Beasts, and the two forces collided across the plain.
• Qi Fan, Ke Qingxuan, Lu Jingqiu, and the others fought the beasts; Lu Jingqiu was struck by Malice but recovered using the power of will Chen Yan had given her.
• Chen Yan coordinated the battle from his thunder throne while his allies held their ground with their practiced countermeasures and support from the Thunderball Creatures.
• Chen Yan activated fourteen laser turrets, whose beams blasted through the enemy’s rear and provoked the furious Dark Devourer Mother Tree.

Chen Yan’s forces gained the advantage against Chi Xue and the Dark Devouring Mother Nest, but Chi Xue then used a shared illusion to try to make Chen Yan waste his last defenses. Chen Yu alone saw through the deception, unknowingly becoming the decisive safeguard in the battle.

• Chen Yan secretly supplied the laser turrets with energy, allowing them to recharge faster, while eight satellite cannons devastated the Dark Devouring Mother Nest’s vines.
• Chen Yan’s forces pressed their attack, and Yu Qing, Chi Yuexi, and the observers watched as the battle seemed to turn against Chi Xue.
• The Dark Devourer Mother Tree appeared to erupt beneath Chen Yan and swallow him, prompting Qi Fan and the others to rush back to his aid.
• Chen Yan recognized that the attack was an illusion and told his allies to keep fighting, avoiding the use of his once-a-day defensive abilities.
• Chi Xue’s illusion had deceived the fighters and the observers through Yu Ming’s tampered projection, but Chen Yu saw no attack through her Meridian End.

Chi Xue’s illusions and ambushes distracted Great Xia’s forces while the Dark Devourer Mother Tree appeared beside Chen Yan and transformed him into a gigantic black tree. Onlookers mourned Chen Yan’s apparent death, and Yu Ming lamented that the tide of the age could not be reversed.

• Chi Xue advanced on Qi Fan’s forces, repeatedly using illusions of vines attacking Chen Yan to unsettle them.
• Chi Xue used a hidden Spatial Formation to teleport a Great Xia Creation Realm expert before him and shot the man dead, provoking Qi Fan and the others to charge.
• The Dark Devourer Mother Tree appeared beside Chen Yan and pressed her finger to his chest, unleashing malicious creatures that engulfed and transformed him into a towering black tree.
• Qi Fan, Ke Qingxuan, Chi Yuexi, and the others froze in disbelief as Chen Yan disappeared inside the tree, while Great Xia’s observers mourned his apparent death.
• Yu Ming reflected on his secret cooperation with Chen Yan and his hope for the Human Race, then declared that the tide of the age could not be reversed.

Chen Yan revealed that his Will Divine Body had secretly prepared an ambush, unleashing the Yu Clan weapons and sacrificing machines to gravely wound the Dark Devourer Mother Tree. He rejoined the battlefield and rallied the Human Race as the fight against Chi Xue and the traitors began.

• Yu Ming prepared to kill Yin Qingshuang and the others after Chen Yan's apparent death, while Chi Xue realized Chen Yan had not activated his Heavenly God Armor.
• Chen Yan's Will Divine Body remotely fired the charged laser turrets, and Thunderball Creatures, spider-shaped machines, and satellite cannons battered the Dark Devourer Mother Tree.
• The explosions shattered the tree holding Chen Yan's body, and Chen Yan emerged unharmed as his Will Divine Body merged with his original body.
• Chen Yan called on everyone to slay the traitors, and Qi Fan, Zhang Chao, and the others charged into battle.
• Qi Fan attacked Chi Xue with the Ten Thousand Year Longevity Cauldron, but Chi Xue countered with Divine Shot before Qi Fan struck him with an axe kick.

Chen Yan survived the Dark Devourer Mother Tree’s Life and Death Aura by using his own Life and Death Aura to rebuild his Self Universe, then fought back with the Jine Spear’s stored attacks. The Mother Tree remained engaged by Chen Yan’s shadows as Chi Xue and Qi Fan’s battle continued.

• Chen Yan’s Thunderball Creatures and spider-shaped machines bombarded the Dark Devourer Mother Tree, leaving her seemingly charred and defeated.
• The Dark Devourer Mother Tree revived, trapped Chen Yan in a Black Cocoon with Life and Death Aura, and declared his death.
• The Jine Spear unleashed seven Qi and Blood shadows that attacked the Mother Tree while Chen Yan’s Self Universe reformed around his Life and Death Aura.
• Chen Yan broke through the cocoon as the Mother Tree fought the shadows, and she recognized that his Qi and Blood path had reached the Creation Realm.
• Chi Xue reacted to Chen Yan’s survival, but Qi Fan punched him and sent him flying; Chi Xue laughed as the fight continued.

Chen Yan escaped the Black Cocoon and fought the Eighth-Order Ancient God Beast in the black dress, whose rules made predicted injuries come true. After his right leg exploded, he continued fighting, but her next rule shattered his neck and annihilated his left arm.

• Chen Yan was reborn inside the Black Cocoon, broke free, and attacked the woman in the black dress with his spear.
• Chen Yan sensed her invisible vine attacks and fought back with lightning and spear strikes, revealing that his Body Tempering Path had also reached the Creation Realm.
• The woman summoned the Myriad Life Wheel, whose images imposed rules that caused Chen Yan's predicted injuries to happen.
• Chen Yan activated Blood Battle State and clashed with the woman, but his right leg exploded and the Heavenly God Armor broke apart from within.
• Chen Yan attacked with Exploding Saint Light Orbs, Evil Void spores, and martial techniques as the woman continued using the Myriad Life Wheel.
• The woman's next rule tore open Chen Yan's neck and annihilated his left arm, scattering the armor scales that had protected them.

Chen Yan discovered that the discs used Life and Death Aura to show attacks that would strike three seconds later, and he turned the rule against the Dark Devourer Mother Tree by wounding himself and counterattacking. As Chen Yan advanced through the Reverse Fire to face her, Great Xia’s fighters risked their lives against Chi Xue and the Five Clans’ forces.

• The Dark Devourer Mother Tree used the discs to predict and inflict devastating injuries on Chen Yan, but he escaped her killing blow with the help of his Qi and Blood shadows and Myriad Prison Nether Thunder.
• Chen Yan realized that the discs showed injuries he had to inflict on himself to avoid additional harm, so he pierced his chest and used the opening to strike the Dark Devourer Mother Tree with Jine Spear.
• The Dark Devourer Mother Tree engulfed Chen Yan in Reverse Fire and showed an image of him stabbing himself through the heart, while he endured the flames and began advancing toward her.
• Ke Qingxuan and Lu Jingqiu were gravely injured as Chi Xue fought Great Xia’s fighters, and Qi Fan urged them to ignore Chen Yan’s plight and keep fighting.
• Wang Ming and another Great Xia Creation Realm expert sacrificed themselves against the Five Clans’ forces, while Qi Fan attacked Chi Xue with a massive bronze cauldron.
• Chen Yan pressed forward through the Reverse Fire, declaring that the battle to slay a god had begun.

Chen Yan fought the Dark Devourer Mother Tree through the magma and emerged badly wounded, with only one minute of his Blood Battle State remaining. He attacked her again before she could complete a new set of discs, ending the chapter with a spear thrust aimed at her forehead.

• Chen Yan used Jine Spear, Evil Void Resonance, and a self-impaling strike to wound the black-dressed woman before they plunged into the magma.
• Chi Yuexi, Yu Ming, Yin Qingshuang, and the other Great Xia experts watched the volcanic battle as the land around the magma lake erupted.
• Qi Fan exposed Chi Xue's Spatial Formation trick while the remaining fighters on both sides continued their deadly battle.
• Chen Yan burst from a vast fissure and struck the black-dressed woman with Void Breaker - Saint Condensation, leaving her badly injured.
• Chen Yan learned he had only one minute of Blood Battle State left and attacked the woman before four new discs could form.
• The woman pierced Chen Yan's abdomen, but he countered with Blood Domain World Reversal and Evil Void Resonance, thrusting Jine Spear at her forehead.