Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan fought the Eighth Order Ancient God Beast in the black dress, enduring her power-deprivation rules and dealing her grievous wounds. After she appeared to defeat him, his hidden Saint Condensation Primordial exploded, and the sky over the Five Clans Competition turned bloodred as an Eighth Order fell.

• The black-dressed woman used her great drum to suppress Chen Yan’s Qi and Blood power, but he countered with mental attacks, martial techniques, and a concealed strike of willpower that badly burned her.
• Chen Yan pierced the woman’s eye and continued attacking, while she deprived him of his remaining power of will, severed his arm, and restrained it with vines.
• Chen Yan exploited the limits of her deprivation, then exchanged devastating attacks with the woman, leaving both of them grievously wounded as the Blood Battle State neared its end.
• With only seconds remaining, Chen Yan and the woman charged at each other; she stripped away his Heavenly God Armor and cut him down, believing she had won.
• Chen Yan’s concealed Saint Condensation Primordial detonated inside the woman’s chest, and bloodlight filled the sky as the Eighth Order Ancient God Beast fell.

The Dark Devourer Mother Tree and Chi Xue fell in the Five Clans Competition, while Chen Yan and Qi Fan were left near death. Outside the competition, Xia Hanzhou learned the fallen Eighth Order had been born inside the arena and prepared to lead troops toward Qin Prefecture.

• As she died, the Dark Devourer Mother Tree remembered her life as a human and her mother's pleas, questioning whether she had ever truly lived as an Ancient God Beast.
• The fall of an Eighth Order shook the Five Clans Competition, and Xia Hanzhou and Shen Keqing determined that the newly ascended Eighth Order inside the competition had died.
• Shen Keqing reported that Great Xia's evacuation from Qin Prefecture was underway and that more than ten thousand troops had been killed or wounded in an ambush; Xia Hanzhou said he would lead the Military Martial Guard to Qin Prefecture the next day.
• Chen Yan lay gravely wounded on a throne of Jine Spear spikes, struggling against exhaustion and the Malice corroding his body after killing the Dark Devourer Mother Tree.
• Qi Fan killed Chi Xue but, dying from his wounds, regretted that he would not live to see Great Xia's dawn.

Chi Xue revealed that he had divided himself into three bodies and tried to kill the dying Chen Yan, but Qi Fan and the Great Xia cultivators used their corpses to hold him back. Ke Qingxuan gave Chen Yan her unused Immortal Will, and he opened his eyes in the darkness, declaring that he was also the Great Sun.

• Chi Xue appeared and revealed that the Chi Xues Chen Yan had encountered were two fakes while the real Chi Xue had hidden inside the Dark Devouring Mother Nest’s illusion.
• Chi Xue confronted the dying Qi Fan, but Qi Fan died still glaring at him, and Chi Xue lamented that his victory felt unfair because Chen Yan had fought an Eighth Order Ancient God Beast.
• Chi Xue moved to attack Chen Yan, but the dying Divine General used secret words to command the corpses of Great Xia Creation Realm cultivators, which exploded against Chi Xue.
• Ke Qingxuan continued toward Chen Yan despite her fatal injuries, while Qi Fan’s corpse repeatedly restrained Chi Xue and thwarted his Spatial Formation Disk.
• Ke Qingxuan reached Chen Yan and gave him the last of her Immortal Will, and Chen Yan opened his eyes and said, “But I am also the Great Sun.”

Chen Yan returned from the brink of death and awakened an overwhelming Will Path power, revealing a godlike presence that defeated Chi Xue's resolve. His awakening spread the Will Martial Dao among people across the Human World, while Luo Puxin and his squad prepared to fight the Five Clans in Tie Prefecture.

• Ke Qingxuan poured her remaining Immortal Will into Chen Yan, and a new spark of will revived him as Chi Xue realized the Lord of Will had intervened.
• Chen Yan rose again, and Chi Xue approached despite his wounds, only to be overwhelmed by Chen Yan's immense Will Pressure and forced to kneel.
• Chen Yan's Will Path awakened fully, and the Human World felt his power as Ke Qingxuan, Lu Jingqiu, Zhang Chao, and others entered the Will Martial Dao.
• Chen Yu reached the pinnacle of the Yan Realm, while Yin Qingshuang and Will martial artists appeared among people across the Human World.
• At the Tie Prefecture border, Luo Puxin rallied his Military Martial Guard squad to track and attack the Five Clans, then awakened the Will Path himself.

Across Great Xia, a surge of new Will martial artists lifted morale, while Lu Xunyang’s Remnant Soul departed for the Ancient God Forbidden Land and his true self broke free from an abyss. After the Domain Battle, Chen Yan honored the dead and prepared to keep the battle from ending so the Five Clans would not endanger Great Xia’s Creation Realm experts.

• Great Xia reported a rapid rise in Will martial artists, including the Eternal King and Grand Tutor, and Xia Hanzhou suspected Chen Yan had transformed the Will Path.
• Lu Xunyang told Xia Hanzhou he would seek his true self, then used the Lord Xia Sword to open a void tunnel toward the Ancient God Forbidden Land and defeated Lord Lu’s attempt to stop him.
• Lu Xunyang’s true self escaped the abyss, gained Willpower and Immortal Will, and faced five Tier 2 Ancient God Beasts.
• Yin Qingshuang arrived to find Chen Yan and the others mourning Qi Fan and the dead; Chen Yan kept Chi Xue alive while leaving his headless body kneeling before the gravestones.
• Chen Yan and Ke Qingxuan’s group released their power and prepared to continue the Domain Battle so the Five Clans would not learn the truth and threaten Great Xia’s Creation Realm experts.

After Qi Fan’s death, Chen Yan struggled with his guilt as Great Xia’s cultivators bowed to him and pledged to follow him against the Five Clans. Yu Ming then offered to withdraw the Yu Clan from its conflict with Great Xia if Chen Yan could dominate the Five Clans Competition, and Chen Yan returned to the battlefield to restore the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder and oversee cleanup.

• Lu Jingqiu, two Great Xia cultivators, Zhang Chao, and the others thanked Chen Yan and bowed, while Chen Yan’s force kept them from kneeling.
• Chen Yan told the gathered cultivators to follow him into battle and not return to Great Xia until the Five Clans were broken.
• Yu Ming told Chen Yan that the Yu Clan had agreed to join Great Xia if Chen Yan dominated the Five Clans Competition, and offered to withdraw himself and persuade the other Yu Clan cultivators to do the same.
• Chen Yan told Yu Ming to accept the Wen Xin Stele, and Yu Ming said Chi Yuexi and Yu Qing would go with him.
• Chen Yan repaired the Myriad Prison Nether Thunder with his thunderbolt Qi and Blood, ordered it to make more Magnetic Storm Thunder Prisons, and sent Zhang Ting and the others to search the Dark Devouring Mother Nest.

Chen Yan devised a Breaking Realm based on breaking all rules with his will and began evolving his Will Divine Body into a personal Domain while advancing his Qi and Blood Path. Meanwhile, the Five Clans believed Chi Xue would defeat Chen Yan, but Lu Wuyi warned that Chi Xue might become a threat to them all.

• Yin Qingshuang mapped the domains under Withered Dream Maze City, and Chen Yan planned to take Ice Bone Tomb, then Blood Vine Manor, before attacking the city.
• Chen Yan reflected on his battle with the Dark Devourer Mother Tree and realized his ideal was to break the shackles of rules through his will.
• Chen Yan separated his Will Divine Body and began evolving it into his own Breaking Realm Domain, while also working to form a Self Universe for the Qi and Blood Path.
• A day passed inside the Purple Ring World Stabilizing Mirror without the Second-level Domain battle ending, leaving observers and the Five Clans puzzled about Chen Yan's survival.
• Lu Wuyi told the other Five Clans Creation Realm experts that Chi Xue was likely to defeat Chen Yan and warned them that Chi Xue could become more dangerous than Great Xia.

Chen Changyuan realized Bing Yi might still be alive and responsible for killing the Dream Ancient God Beast, while Chen Yan defeated the Dark Devouring Mother Nest and began fusing the Self Universes of the Qi and Blood Path and Body Tempering Path. The fusion threatened to destroy Chen Yan, who declared that the ages could not be suppressed without establishing myriad paths.

• Chen Changyuan connected Bing Yi to the Dream Ancient God Beast’s death and concluded that Bing Yi might still be alive.
• Five Clans martial artists grew uneasy as the Second-level Domain battle continued without a public result, unaware that Chen Yan had already defeated the Dark Devouring Mother Nest.
• Chen Yan began destroying and rebuilding the Self Universe of the Qi and Blood Path, while the white-haired old man watched from the Ancient Battle Palace.
• Chen Yan tried to fuse the reborn Qi and Blood Self Universe with the Body Tempering Self Universe, using True Martial Power to bind them.
• Chen Yan’s body and Self Universes repeatedly collapsed and were repaired by Immortal Will as the white-haired old man watched in fury.
• Chen Yan declared, "If you do not establish ten thousand paths, how can you suppress the ages?!"

The white-haired old man remembered how he had led five million soldiers against the Ancient Gods, only to be driven mad by a wall made of human corpses and return as a broken man. Watching Chen Yan fight, he recognized the same youthful ambition in him, while the Immortal Skirt Woman realized Chen Yan had combined three Martial Daos and warned that his growing aura of destruction could overwhelm even his Immortal Will.

• The white-haired old man recalled the Broken Stone City massacre and how the Divine Shaman had raised its sole surviving infant as the Human Race's Divine Son.
• The Divine Son led five million soldiers north, but the Ice River and a wall made of human corpses destroyed his army and left him alive and broken.
• After a century in the mountains, the old man's son founded the Qi and Blood Path and reached the Ninth Order, but his father refused to join his expedition.
• Two hundred years later, the old man heard his son vow to destroy the Ancient Gods and suppress the ages, recognizing the same words and resolve in Chen Yan.
• The Immortal Skirt Woman explained that she had developed the Elemental Martial Dao to strengthen the Qi and Blood Path, then warned that Chen Yan's Immortal Will might not save him from his growing aura of destruction.

Chen Yan repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt his colliding Qi and Blood and Body Tempering Self Universes, creating a second wisp of Life and Death Aura while pushing himself toward collapse. Outside, Yin Qingshuang suspected the Five Clans were forcing weak Eighth Order advancements, while Lord of Body Tempering refused Xia Weimin’s plea to protect Chen Yan.

• Chen Yan forced the Qi and Blood Self Universe through destruction and rebirth, creating a second wisp of Life and Death Aura as a brief Eighth Order dawnlight appeared across the world.
• Yin Qingshuang and Great Xia’s Creation Realm experts felt destructive energy from Chen Yan’s room, but left him undisturbed under King Xia Yue’s instruction.
• Yin Qingshuang suspected the Five Clans were deliberately producing weak Eighth Orders, and warned the others not to tell Chen Yu about Chen Yan’s dangerous cultivation.
• The Immortal Skirt Woman questioned Lord of Body Tempering about Chen Yan’s worsening danger, but the old man chose to let him continue in hopes that failure would correct his overconfidence.
• Xia Weimin asked Lord of Body Tempering to protect Chen Yan, but the old man rebuked him and refused to intervene unless Chen Yan failed.

As Chen Yan struggled to fuse the Body Tempering Path with the Qi and Blood Path, Xia Weimin begged the Xia Family ancestor to help him. The Lord of Body Tempering’s memories revealed how he defied the Ancient Gods by forcing them to turn against each other, while his Soul Clone wondered why his true body had not pursued his granddaughter.

• Chen Yan endured his body repeatedly breaking and regenerating, consumed Saint Breaking Fruits, and continued seeking control over his True Martial Power.
• Xia Weimin begged the Xia Family ancestor to intervene, but the white-haired Lord of Body Tempering refused to answer.
• The Lord of Body Tempering recalled how the Ancient God manipulated humanity’s expeditions and how he provoked the Ancient Gods into fighting by threatening to destroy the Human Race himself.
• The Lord of Body Tempering created the Body Tempering Path, established the Five Clans, and ruled humanity through ruthless control, even turning against his son and granddaughter.
• After his Soul Clone was trapped in the Purple Ring World Stabilizing Mirror, the Lord of Body Tempering wondered why his true body had not come to pursue his granddaughter.

Yu Ming revealed to the Yu Clan's Creation Realm cultivators that Chen Yan had killed the Dark Devourer Mother Tree and urged them to ally with Chen Yan, but Yu Laiwei attacked him for betraying the clan. Yu Cheng and four others rescued Yu Ming and fled with Yu Qing and Chi Yuexi as Yu Laiwei ordered the Yu Clan to kill them.

• Yu Ming bound the Yu Clan cultivators with a Wen Xin Stele and told them Chen Yan had defeated the Dark Devourer Mother Nest.
• Yu Ming showed footage of Chen Yan killing the Dark Devourer Mother Tree, convincing the stunned cultivators that Chen Yan could challenge the Five Clans.
• Yu Ming urged the Yu Clan members to withdraw from the conflict and sign a contract with Chen Yan, but Yu Laiwei attacked him and called him a traitor.
• Yu Qing fired fifteen satellite cannons to protect Yu Ming, but Yu Laiwei froze and folded space, scattering Yu Ming's body across distant locations.
• Yu Cheng stabbed Yu Laiwei and rescued Yu Ming, then fled with four Yu Clan cultivators while Yu Laiwei ordered the others to open fire.

Yu Cheng and the Yu Prefecture experts joined Chen Yan’s side but agreed to remain neutral until he breached the Withered Dream Maze City. Chen Yan’s forces attacked the Ice Bone Tomb, and Ji Yanbing faced the end of the Second-level Domain battle as Chen Yan appeared before her.

• Yu Laiwei ordered Yu Hai to warn Ji Yanbing and sent the Yu Prefecture experts to the Withered Dream Maze City after Yu Cheng’s betrayal.
• Yu Cheng and the others signed a contract with Yin Qingshuang, promising not to attack Chen Yan until he breached the Withered Dream Maze City.
• Yu Hai urged Ji Yanbing to leave the Ice Bone Tomb, but she refused and planned to absorb the Ice Emperor and advance to the Eighth Order.
• Ji Yanbing warned her people that Chi Xue was more dangerous than Chen Yan, then ordered them to keep searching for Chen Yu and Ji Yannan.
• Chen Yan’s forces launched a devastating attack on the Ice Bone Tomb, and Ji Yanbing saw Chi Xue’s head explode before Chen Yan appeared.
• The Second-level Domain battle ended.

Chen Yan stabilized his True Martial Power and decided to test it by personally attacking the Ice Bone Tomb. As he arrived before Ji Yanbing and the Five Clans, the Purple Ring World Stabilizing Mirror announced his victory over Chi Xue in the Second-level Domain battle, and Yu Ming’s group’s scanners issued repeated warnings about him.

• Ke Qingxuan and Yin Qingshuang entered Chen Yan’s room and saw him enduring destruction and rebirth while balancing his two Self Universes.
• Chen Yan explained that he was approaching the origin of the Martial Dao and had formed True Martial Power, but any injury could make him collapse.
• Chen Yan decided to take part in the attack on the Ice Bone Tomb despite Yin Qingshuang’s concerns, and Ke Qingxuan accepted his decision.
• Yu Ming and Yu Cheng followed the Great Xia forces to the Ice Bone Tomb as fourteen laser turrets and eight satellite cannons shattered it and killed five Creation Realm experts from Ji Prefecture.
• The Purple Ring World Stabilizing Mirror declared Chen Yan the winner of the Second-level Domain battle after Chi Xue’s head exploded.
• Chen Yan appeared before Ji Yanbing and the Five Clans, while Yu Cheng’s group’s scanners detected an anomalous energy entity and warned them to retreat.

Yu Cheng and the others discovered that Chen Yan was on the brink of death, while Ji Yanbing mocked him and expected him to collapse. Chen Yan revealed overwhelming control of True Martial Power, killed Ji Prefecture fighters, and left Ji Yanbing helpless as he shattered her domain of ice.

• Yu Cheng's detectors flagged Chen Yan as an anomalous energy entity with a life value near zero, and she blamed Yu Ming for bringing them into danger.
• Ji Yanbing and the Ji Prefecture Creation Realm experts mocked Chen Yan after learning he was apparently about to die, but Chen Yan raised a hand to silence Zhang Chao and stepped forward.
• Chen Yan killed a Ji Prefecture Creation Realm expert with the Condensing Brilliance Style, and a single black Light Wheel slew four more.
• Ji Yanbing trapped Chen Yan in her domain of ice and attacked repeatedly, but Chen Yan anticipated every move and suppressed her without striking back.
• Chen Yan shattered Ji Yanbing's ice domain and told her she was so feeble that she made him want to laugh.

Chen Yan effortlessly defeated Ji Yanbing, whose surrender disappointed him, and killed her before the Great Xia cultivators entered the Ice Bone Tomb to search for resources. He rebuked Zhang Ting and then welcomed the Yu Clan, whose Creation Realm experts bowed to him as Great Xia’s Heavenly Divine General and agreed to talk in the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.

• Chen Yan overwhelmed Ji Yanbing, and when she begged for her life, he called the battle boring and killed her with a beam of True Martial Power and Life and Death Aura.
• Ke Qingxuan led the Great Xia Creation Realm cultivators into the Ice Bone Tomb to search for its resources.
• Chen Yan questioned why Ji Yanbing had been so weak, then publicly challenged Acting Chief Zhang Ting, who flew off as the others laughed and accused him of wrongdoing.
• Chen Yan apologized to Yu Cheng and the Yu Clan for not meeting them earlier, and they bowed to him as Great Xia’s Heavenly Divine General.
• Chen Yan invited Yu Cheng and the Yu Clan to the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison to talk, and they agreed as their detector issued warnings about approaching anomalous data and a massive energy entity.

Chen Yan explained that he had gained Eighth Order power by destroying the first layer of his universe and was forging True Martial Power by fusing Qi and Blood with Body Tempering, despite enduring constant destruction and reconstruction. He called on the Great Xia and Yu Clan experts to unite against the awakening Ancient Gods, and they pledged to obey the Divine General’s command.

• Chen Yan healed Yu Ming with a wisp of Immortal Will, worsening his own condition, and told the Yu Clan experts that he was using Immortal Will to keep his body from exploding.
• At a meeting in the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison, Chen Yan revealed that the Lord of Body Tempering had instructed him and that he had gained Eighth Order power by destroying the first layer of his universe.
• Chen Yan showed the group True Martial Power, said he had created it by fusing the Self Universes of the Qi and Blood and Body Tempering paths, and warned them about the lethal process.
• Ke Qingxuan asked whether the process hurt, and Chen Yan admitted that it was excruciating but said the pain was no reason to stop.
• Chen Yan declared that he sought to forge a new Martial Dao for the Human Race and urged the group to focus on the Ancient Gods rather than their conflict with the Five Clans.
• Ke Qingxuan, Yin Qingshuang, Yu Cheng, and the others bowed and pledged to obey the Divine General’s command.

Chen Yan prepared the Yu Clan for the coming battle and shared a quiet meal with Chen Yu, who worried about his relentless pursuit of Break Limit. The siblings reaffirmed their support for each other, with Chen Yu promising to keep walking beside him even if he could not go on.

• Chen Yan told Yu Cheng to make battle armor and attack turrets for the coming assault on Withered Dream Maze City, and offered the Yu Clan access to the Myriad Forms Dao Diagram.
• Chen Yu gave Chen Yan formation disks she had made, including Barrier Formation Disks capable of restraining a Peak Creation Realm expert for a second.
• After Chen Yu pleaded with him, Chen Yan gave up on testing her strength, and the siblings reminisced over dinner.
• Chen Yan explained that pursuing Break Limit brought him fulfillment and urged Chen Yu to live in the present rather than worry about the future.
• Chen Yan said he would accept becoming a martyr to the Dao if he failed to become a path-opener, and Chen Yu promised to support him and carry him forward if needed.
• Chen Yu said she still wanted to see Chen Yan become a pathfinder, and Chen Yan replied that martyrs were as glorious as pathfinders and formed their foundation.

Chen Yan realized that the Qi and Blood Path had laid the foundation for the Body Tempering Path, and used it to reshape his approach to combining their martial arts. As a new True Martial Power emerged and the old paths began to vanish, the white-haired old man reconsidered his judgment of the Lord of Qi and Blood, while dawn appeared above Qiong Heaven.

• Chen Yan realized that the Qi and Blood Path was the cornerstone of the Body Tempering Path, and called Snow Wife both a sinner and a martyr for the Dao.
• Chen Yan abandoned his attempt to crudely merge the paths, compressed the Body Tempering Self Universe into a golden star, and placed it inside the Qi and Blood Self Universe.
• Chen Yan used True Martial Power to suppress the golden star as Qi and Blood gradually adapted to it, turning their conflict into a fusion that gave birth to a new Martial Dao.
• The Immortal Skirt Woman sensed the power of the newly born True Martial Power and remembered her father, the Lord of Qi and Blood, asking whether history would call him a sinner.
• The white-haired old man watched the paths vanish without speaking, recalled dismissing his failed son's doubts, and laughed as he accepted defeat.
• Endless dawn light appeared above Qiong Heaven.

Chen Yan fused Qi and Blood with Body Tempering to create the True Martial Path, completing a Self Universe cycle and gaining three strands of Life and Death Aura. As he planned his next moves, Lu Xunyang killed a late Eighth Order Ancient God Beast while fighting overwhelming enemies.

• Chen Yan’s Self Universe transformed as he created the True Martial Path, and its first cycle produced three new strands of Life and Death Aura.
• Chen Yan remotely sent the Jine Spear and Heavenly God Armor toward Rotten Sound Old House and Blood Vine Manor to seize the treasure in Blood Vine Manor.
• Chen Yan planned to absorb the Ice Elemental Energy from Ice Bone Tomb before attacking Withered Dream Maze City.
• An intense blood-weeping phenomenon signaled the fall of an Eighth Order being, and Chen Yan turned his attention to the Martial Dao Meridians.
• Lu Xunyang fought five late Eighth Order Ancient God Beasts and killed one, then challenged Ming Yan Mao to face him directly.