Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan sensed that an Ancient God Beast had awakened and saw Lu Xunyang vow to kill it and break into the Ninth Order. Chen Yan was then trapped in a school illusion, where he discovered that the girl who tried to escape was melting outside the classroom.

• Chen Yan reflected on Lu Xunyang's mastery of Body Tempering and realized that an awakened being had stirred, though the other Eighth Order experts sensed nothing.
• Lu Xunyang struck the void and declared that he would slaughter his enemies and break into the Ninth Order.
• Chen Yan drew his evolving Will Domain into his Self Universe, then realized he had been transported from the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison to a school corridor.
• A schoolgirl confronted the illusion, but a teacher stopped her and ordered her into class; Chen Yan entered the classroom and found that he could no longer sense his Martial Dao Meridians or his classmates' emotions.
• The girl pounded on the classroom window, but the teacher refused to let her back in as her body melted outside.

Chen Yan discovered that the classroom illusion was a rule-based spell created by an awakened Ancient God Beast to drain martial artists’ power. Though his Life and Death Aura revealed the being behind the illusion, it could still trap him, and the chapter ended with the teacher demanding that he continue writing the poem.

• Chen Yan realized martial artists from the Five Clans Competition had been drawn into the classroom illusion, where being forced outside after the bell meant death.
• Chen Yan used his Life and Death Aura to glimpse the black mist and countless eyes behind the illusion, but the being restored the classroom and cut him off from reality.
• After a student was thrown outside and screamed before falling silent, Chen Yan claimed his throat was hoarse to avoid reciting aloud, so the teacher ordered him to write the poem from memory.
• Chen Yan discovered that each character he wrote drained power from his True Martial Path Self Universe, and he understood that the poem was part of the Ancient God Beast’s power-stealing spell.
• Chen Yan tried crossing out and covering the characters, but the drained power did not return; his deskmate wrote [Tier 8?] as the teacher confronted him for not continuing.

Chen Yan discovered that True Martial Power combined with Life and Death Aura could counter the Ancient God Beast’s classroom illusion, while Lu Jianxia helped confirm the approach. Chen Yu was expelled from her classroom but escaped when Chen Yan sent the Heavenly God Armor to shield her from Malice, leaving him behind to study the illusion’s rules.

• Chen Yan watched a Five Clans Creation Realm cultivator reveal his identity and get dragged from the classroom, where he melted into blood as the others failed to save him.
• Lu Jianxia wrote with undying will and Life and Death Aura, and Chen Yan realized that True Martial Power could provide the basic power needed to resist the illusion’s rules.
• Chen Yan crossed out his earlier character, restored the power drained from his Self Universe, and rapidly wrote more characters while sharing Life and Death Aura with Lu Jianxia.
• Chen Yu faced expulsion after her Psionic Power ran low, and a Creation Realm woman tried to protect her with a spare sheet, but the teacher rejected the excuse.
• Chen Yan sent the Heavenly God Armor to Chen Yu, and it blocked the illusion’s Malice, causing her to vanish from the classroom and awaken inside the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison.
• Chen Yan remained trapped in the illusion and continued analyzing the Ancient God Beast’s technique.

Chen Yan studied the Dream Eater’s Malice rules from within a bizarre classroom illusion while the Lord of Body Tempering refused to intervene. He became class monitor by turning in increasingly precise transcriptions, but the teacher assigned him a dangerous copybook before class continued.

• Chen Yu found that the Heavenly God Armor protected her from Malice but could not be removed, and Jine Spear wrote “Malice Crystal” on the floor.
• The Lord of Body Tempering argued that Chen Yan needed to face part of the Dream Eater’s power, while the Lord of Elements worried he might not survive.
• Chen Yan reasoned that unraveling the classroom’s sacrificial contract required understanding the Formation as well as Malice and Life and Death Aura.
• Chen Yan submitted three transcriptions, disguising his attempt to disrupt the rules as flawed handwriting, and the teacher named him class monitor.
• The teacher gave Chen Yan a copybook as an added assignment, and he saw that it contained bizarre characters as the class read aloud.

Chen Yan survived the copybook test by using Malice to write perfectly and earned the Principal’s approval, while he and Lu Jianxia agreed to cooperate and find a way out. At the office, Chen Yan’s success eclipsed Chen Changyuan, whom the Principal dismissed as inferior.

• Chen Yan saw the copybook’s evil contract and faced the classroom’s hostile teacher, students, and fat-faced Principal after his writing was judged ugly.
• Chen Yan used Malice to fill the copybook with flawless characters, winning the teacher’s and Principal’s admiration and avoiding expulsion.
• Chen Yan told Lu Jianxia that his Yu Clan could preserve Malice, and she agreed to trust him and work with him to escape the illusion.
• After class, Chen Yan followed the teacher to the office building, where they encountered Chen Changyuan and his short teacher competing for the student council president position.
• The Principal eagerly summoned Chen Yan and dismissed Chen Changyuan, declaring that no student could be better than Yu Laiwei.

Lu Xunyang tore open the illusion world, restored the Martial Dao practitioners’ stolen power, and secretly helped Chen Yan survive the rules of Malice. Chen Yan was taken to the infirmary, where the treatment unexpectedly fueled the formation of a second Self Universe of the Qi and Blood Path.

• Lu Xunyang ripped open Qiong Heaven and burned the sacrificial contracts, returning the practitioners’ power.
• As the world of Malice resisted him, Lu Xunyang made Chen Yan appear to be a native ally and slipped him a sheet containing a rule technique.
• Chen Yan survived Lu Xunyang’s apparent attack, while the fat-faced Principal carried him to the infirmary and a Five Clans Martial Artist stopped a Great Xia Martial Artist from pursuing him.
• Chen Yan realized Lu Xunyang had acted strategically and given him a powerful ally from outside the illusion.
• The school doctor injected Chen Yan with Malice and Blood Energy, rapidly forming a second Self Universe of the Qi and Blood Path inside him.

Lu Xunyang tore into the Malice illusion world, burned away the sacrificial contracts, and appeared to attack Chen Yan before secretly helping him. Chen Yan reached the infirmary, where a surge of Malice and Blood Energy began forming a second Self Universe of the Qi and Blood Path within him.

• Lu Xunyang tore open Qiong Heaven, exposed the illusion world's inhabitants, and burned the contracts that had stolen the Creation Realm Martial Artists' power.
• As the Dream Eater unleashed a world-shaking shriek, Lu Xunyang reached for Chen Yan, who was bound by the rules and badly wounded before Lu Xunyang vanished.
• Chen Yan realized Lu Xunyang had made the illusion world regard him as an ally and had placed a rule-technique in his pocket.
• The chubby-faced Principal and school doctors rushed Chen Yan to the infirmary while the other Martial Dao practitioners wondered why Malice favored Yu Laiwei.
• The school doctor injected Chen Yan with a torrent of Malice and Blood Energy, rapidly forming a second Self Universe of the Qi and Blood Path inside him.

Chen Yan used Lu Xunyang’s paper to see the Illusory World’s true form and learned that a Dream Eater would discover him within three days. He became the school’s student council president, found a way to keep the teacher from forcing him to leave, and began building another Qi and Blood Self Universe while Lu Jianxia struggled through dictation.

• Chen Yan absorbed the infirmary’s black-red fluid, saw the Illusory World’s hidden horrors through Lu Xunyang’s paper, and learned he had three days before the Dream Eater discovered him.
• Chen Yan concluded that he needed more Life and Death Aura and focused on forming and cycling through additional Self Universes.
• Lu Jianxia received a warning that her deskmate might be Chen Yan, then struggled to preserve her power while the school forced students to write from memory.
• Chen Yan entered class as Yu Laiwei, accepted the role of student council president, and persuaded the teacher to forbid students from leaving school.
• Chen Yan began forming a second Qi and Blood Self Universe as Lu Jianxia weakened, then a powerful wisp of Life and Death Aura surged toward her.

Chen Yan tried to unite the Great Xia and Five Clans cultivators while concealing his identity as Yu Laiwei, but Lu Jianxia and Lu Fukun suspected him of being Chen Yan. He proved his knowledge of Withered Dream Maze City to Lu Fukun, leaving the two Lu cultivators with his identity confirmed.

• Lu Jianxia suspected Chen Yan had killed her Young Preceptor, Lu Cunyang, but accepted his Life and Death Aura after he offered to confront the person who had identified him.
• Chen Yan asserted authority as student council president and used a test about Lu Xunyang being a one-man army to confirm that Shen Yiwei recognized him.
• The Principal praised Chen Yan's leadership but refused his request for more IV fluid, warning that he could lose his position if he took too much medicine.
• Lu Jianxia brought Lu Fukun to meet Chen Yan, and Lu Fukun challenged him to describe Withered Dream Maze City.
• Chen Yan drew a detailed map, including the Yu Clan's hidden sniper position, and told Lu Fukun that he knew it because he had set it up himself.

Chen Yan investigated the dream school, faced Chen Changyuan’s bid for the student council presidency, and endured the school’s nighttime horrors. After a student’s defiant execution called out to him, Lu Jianxia’s deskmate finally wrote that he wanted to leave the school.

• Chen Yan exposed the confusion around the two Yu Laiweis to Lu Fukun, who concluded that one of them had to be Chen Yan, while Lu Jianxia questioned why Chen Yan would help her.
• Chen Changyuan used his dream ability to persuade the Principal to consider him for student council president, and Chen Yan returned to the infirmary to study the school and the black bananas’ connection to the outside.
• Chen Yan noticed that the strands clinging to him were turning black again, determined that leaving the school might be his only chance, and grew stronger as his injuries healed.
• Chen Yan survived repeated nighttime visits from a monstrous presence and a blood-red-eyed warning to set a good example as student council president.
• During dictation, a student was dragged away for resisting and cried out against Malice, calling on Chen Yan to change the world; afterward, Chen Yan’s deskmate wrote, “I want to leave the school.”

Chen Yan planned to leave the school to search for Blood Energy and asked Lu Jianxia and Shen Yiwei to help track inspections and patrols. He gave Great Xia experts Malice-written poems and Eighth Order power to help them survive the next transcription, while the chapter revealed why Xia Hanzhou had once used Chen Changyuan and Zhang Ting to lure out the Lord Chen.

• Chen Yan told Lu Jianxia he intended to leave the school, and she agreed to help gather the teachers' inspection routes despite warning him of the danger.
• Chen Yan told Shen Yiwei his plan to slip beyond the school grounds and return within the two-hour gap between dormitory inspections.
• Chen Yan handed Xia Long Malice-written poems and a strand of Eighth Order power, explaining that they could help the Great Xia experts withstand the illusionary world's rules.
• Chen Yan learned that Yu Qing, five Great Xia fighters, and eight members of the Five Clans had died, while many Five Clans members had joined Chen Changyuan.
• Chen Yan recalled that Xia Hanzhou had planned to use Chen Changyuan and Zhang Ting as bait to draw out the Lord Chen, but Chen Yan's rise had disrupted that scheme and fueled Zhang Ting's resentment.

Chen Yan and Shen Yiwei deduced that the Dream Eater sought to keep Creation Realm experts from advancing to the Eighth Order, while Chen Changyuan exploited the illusion to gain allies and target Chen Yan. The next day, as the copying punishment paused, Lu Jianxia gave Chen Yan an incomplete map of the teachers’ dormitory inspection routes.

• Chen Yan and Shen Yiwei concluded that the Dream Eater had awakened to suppress Peak Creation Realm experts and prevent them from reaching the Eighth Order.
• Lu Wuyi told Lu Jianxia that he had bargained with Chen Changyuan for help recovering his contract, while Lu Jianxia said she trusted Yu Laiwei to help them.
• Chen Changyuan agreed to help Chen Mi but demanded that Chen Mi teach him World Instant; Chen Mi refused and left.
• Chen Changyuan recruited a Five Clans expert to keep Chen Yan under close watch, knowing that Chen Yan and Bing Yi were the same person.
• The next day, the teachers stopped requiring the students to recite from memory, and Lu Jianxia gave Chen Yan an incomplete map of the teachers’ dormitory inspection routes.

Chen Yan escaped the school and crossed a hospital ward filled with sleeping Eighth Order Ancient God Beasts, using Li Li’s sleep-talking to avoid being discovered. He opened the metal door at the end of the ward and found crates of medicine that appeared to be the source of the world’s energy.

• Chen Yan studied the patrol schedules, waited for an opening, and slipped through the school gate into the night.
• Chen Yan followed the energy vein through the town and into a hospital whose true form was a monstrous cave.
• Chen Yan discovered ten Eighth Order Ancient God Beasts being nurtured in the ward and crept between their beds toward a metal door.
• Li Li’s sleep-talking distracted the nurses and concealed Chen Yan as they entered the ward, while Chen Changyuan and the Principal later took medicine through the same door.
• Chen Yan emerged from a hollow in the cavern, opened the metal door, and found several crates of medicine labeled with names and batch numbers.

Lu Xunyang fought the awakened Dream Eater and resolved to reach the Ninth Order through his own strength, while Chen Changyuan pursued cultivation opportunities in the illusion world and waited for Chen Yan to resist. The chapter ended with Yu Laiwei missing from school, prompting the Principal to order a search.

• Lu Xunyang failed to break through the Dream Eater’s rules to reach Chen Yan and decided to defeat the creature and enter the Ninth Order himself.
• Two nurses at the hospital noticed that the number of patients seemed wrong, then spoke with the Deputy Envoy of the Town Mayor, who denied stealing anything.
• Chen Changyuan returned to school with medicine from the hospital and planned to advance his Body Tempering Path and Qi and Blood Path to the Eighth Order.
• Chen Changyuan and the Principal reached the school as the dorm supervisors began inspections, and Chen Changyuan wondered why Chen Yan had not acted against him.
• A scream announced that Yu Laiwei was missing, and the fat-faced Principal kicked the security guard before ordering the teachers to search the school.

Chen Yan escaped the school and town while carrying five bottles of medicine, then used one to temper his body inside the Dream Eater. As a new Body Tempering Self Universe began to form, the Lord of Body Tempering agreed to pass Xia Weimin a secret technique.

• Lu Jianxia and the others heard the school searching for Chen Yan and realized he had escaped.
• Chen Yan left the town by a dark country road, killed a tumor-covered Human Race man who exposed him, and hid from Chen Changyuan and the Principal.
• Chen Yan crossed thornbushes through the night and reached a cave at dawn with the five bottles of medicine.
• Chen Yan swallowed a bottle, sending Body Tempering Energy to his true body in the Magnetic Storm Thunder Prison, while Chen Yu laid down Formations to accelerate his cultivation.
• A new Body Tempering Self Universe began taking shape, and the Lord of Body Tempering told Xia Weimin he would pass on a secret technique.

Chen Yan cultivated as the Lord of Body Tempering revealed profound truths about the Body Tempering and Qi and Blood Paths, while a group of desperate strangers approached him for help. At school, the principal announced Yu Laiwei’s escape and replaced him as student council president with Chen Changyuan, placing the Creation Realm experts under a new threat.

• Chen Yan listened to the Lord of Body Tempering’s teachings, formed a Body Tempering Self Universe, and began merging it with his Qi and Blood Self Universe.
• The Lord of Body Tempering revealed deeper truths about both paths, including a perfected version of the Qi and Blood Path he had never shared with the world, and Chen Yan recognized flaws in his own True Martial Path.
• Chen Yu ignored the Red-dressed Woman’s urging to sense the Dao essence and continued making Formation Disks beside Chen Yan.
• A bespectacled man led more than a dozen people into Chen Yan’s cave and said Chen Yan’s arrival gave them their only chance in ten thousand years.
• The principal told the students that Yu Laiwei had escaped and offered to tear up a handwritten poem for anyone who reported the culprit.
• The principal announced that Chen Changyuan would replace Yu Laiwei as student council president, and Chen Changyuan surveyed the Creation Realm experts whose lives were in his hands.

Chen Changyuan demanded that the Creation Realm experts sign Life Seals, while Chen Yan completed a second True Martial cycle and advanced to the Eighth Order. As Lu Xunyang struggled to hold the Dream Eater in place, Chen Yan emerged stronger and proposed destroying the world.

• Chen Changyuan demanded that everyone sign a Life Seal within three days, then used Malice to punish Luo Xu and force Ji Falin to his knees.
• Chen Changyuan praised Jiang Yuan's talent, rejected the chance to kill him, and left the gathered experts to consider submission.
• On the third morning, the Dawn of Heaven and Earth signaled an Eighth Order advance, and Lu Xunyang realized Chen Yan was advancing again inside the Dream Eater.
• Lu Xunyang used the Life and Death Aura to chain the Dream Eater in place, changing his plan to keep its consciousness from returning to its body.
• Chen Yan completed his second True Martial cycle, gained ten more strands of Life and Death Aura, and emerged with increased strength.
• Chen Yan proposed destroying the world, and the bespectacled man and the dozen people behind him bowed in response.

Chen Yan learned how the Dream Eater had trapped humanity in the Pure True Yang Realm and was hailed as the people’s hope because he possessed Life and Death Aura. He convinced Wu Song and the others to help him free the Creation Realm cultivators at the school, while Lu Jianxia prepared to escape that night.

• Wu Song told Chen Yan that the Dream Eater had shaped the Pure True Yang Realm’s history, pitting Blood Town’s Qi and Blood martial artists against Henggu Town’s Horizontal Refinement practitioners and making humanity its livestock.
• Wu Song explained that Chi Mi had brought the people hope by revealing that Ancient God Beasts could be defeated, and he asked Chen Yan to become their Divine Son.
• Chen Yan rejected Wu Song’s plan to hide and cultivate, insisting that they first save the Creation Realm cultivators at the school and use his Life and Death Aura to undo their restraints.
• Wu Song agreed to help Chen Yan, and he and the others rallied with the words, “For the sun.”
• Lu Jianxia told Lu Wuyi she planned to escape the school that night rather than sign a soul-binding contract with Chen Changyuan.

Lu Jianxia resolved to face the danger in Small Town while Chen Yan arranged a decoy to draw out the school’s leaders. After healing the decoy from Malice, Chen Yan was spotted outside the school, and his return left the wavering Xia Xin terrified.

• Lu Jianxia calmly accepted Chen Yan’s past deception, while Lu Wuyi worried that she was walking to her death.
• Chen Yan healed the woman chosen to impersonate him, revealing that the power of Will could devour Malice, and she entered Small Town as the decoy.
• Xia Xin urged the Creation Realm cultivators to sign Life Seals with Chen Changyuan, but Xia Long and the others rejected him.
• The Principal ordered the school to capture Yu Laiwei, and Chen Changyuan spotted Chen Yan fleeing through the streets.
• Xia Xin mocked Chen Yan’s apparent defeat until Chen Yan appeared, whereupon Xia Xin fell to his knees and called him the Heavenly Divine General.

Chen Yan returned to the school, rallied Great Xia and Five Clans cultivators to join him, and began using his increased Life and Death Aura to counter the Dream Eater’s rules. After he destroyed the security guard’s attack and exposed the guard’s wolf form, Chen Yan led his followers toward the gate, while Xia Xin was engulfed by the guard’s Malice.

• Chen Yan arrived at the Sports Field, ordered Shen Yiwei, Xia Long, and Zhang Chao to retrieve the copied contracts, and called on the cultivators to follow him.
• Lu Jingqiu, Yin Qingshuang, Zhang Yuan, Yu Ming, Yu Cheng, and Lu Jianxia pledged to follow Chen Yan, while Lu Wuyi watched his sister choose to leave.
• The security guard broke free of Chen Yan’s suppression and charged at him with a spiked club, but Chen Yan shattered the weapon and transformed the guard into a giant wolf.
• Chen Yan took the copied papers from Xia Long and led the cultivators toward the school gate as the guard began to collapse under the force of Chen Yan’s Life and Death Aura.
• Black slime and Malice burst from the wolf and engulfed Xia Xin, corroding his body as he screamed in agony.