Chapter Summaries

Chen Changyuan activated the Blood Drawing Formation, draining life across the world as he evolved, while Chen Mi and the Five Clans attacked Chen Yan. Chen Yan killed one Ascender and cut down more than ten Peak Creation Realm experts, but the formation continued expanding and began claiming civilians.

• Chen Changyuan emerged from a mass of black liquid and began using the Blood Drawing Formation to drain the world's life force.
• Black light immobilized Lu Jianxia, Xia Long, and the others while Chen Mi gathered the Five Clans around Chen Yan and ordered them to attack.
• Chen Yan withstood the assault, crushed a blue-clad Ascender, and killed more than ten Peak Creation Realm experts with his Heaven Splitting Style.
• The Blood Drawing Formation spread across the land, killing civilians and drawing their blood toward Chen Changyuan as a boy carrying his dying father froze mid-run.

As the apocalypse devastated the Pure True Yang Realm, Chen Yu pressed toward Fallen Heart Valley while Chen Yan faced Chen Changyuan and the Ascenders. Chen Yan appeared to be killed by their combined attack, but he had deceived them into striking Hong Yu, then killed Chen Mi.

• A woman in the Pure True Yang Realm died before she could reach her child, and Chen Yu continued toward Fallen Heart Valley despite her life force draining away.
• Inside the Purple Ring World Stabilizing Mirror, Zong Huang shared his daughter's chicken legs with Lin Yu and the others, then led them in a pledge to fight for Great Xia.
• At Fallen Heart Valley, Chen Yan fought the crystalized girl and killed several Creation Realm cultivators as Chen Changyuan absorbed their blood-red life force.
• Chen Mi and three other Eighth Order experts attacked Chen Yan together, and his body appeared to explode into a rain of blood.
• Chen Mi mocked Chen Yan's apparent death, then realized that the head on the ground belonged to Hong Yu and that Chen Yan had altered their perceptions.
• Chen Yan crushed Chen Mi's shoulder and then smashed his head, killing him.

Chen Yan killed Chen Mi and shattered Chen Changyuan’s body, but the Dream Eater intervened with seven Ascenders and seven Eighth Order Ancient God Beasts to protect Chen Changyuan. As Chen Changyuan demanded time to defeat Chen Yan himself, the Lord of Will bestowed Immortal Will upon him, shocking everyone.

• Chen Yan revealed that he had disguised Hong Yu as himself, then killed Chen Mi and confronted Chen Changyuan over the souls he had consumed.
• Chen Yan tore through the battlefield and smashed Chen Changyuan apart, breaking the Blood Drawing Formation and freeing the trapped Remnant Souls.
• Chen Yan sensed the Dream Eater’s power, and the Dream Eater summoned seven Ascenders and seven Eighth Order Ancient God Beasts to restrain him and protect Chen Changyuan.
• Chen Changyuan reformed his body and demanded ten minutes to kill Chen Yan himself, while fearing the Lord of Will would judge his reliance on help.
• Golden-red Immortal Will emerged from Chen Changyuan, and everyone realized the Lord of Will had bestowed it upon him.

Chen Yan unleashed the golden domain of will hidden within his Self Universe, rendering the Ascenders’ laws powerless and turning the battle against them. As he fought the six remaining Eighth Order Ancient God Beasts, Yu Laiwei and the others fled, but Chen Yan detonated the traps around them; the clash between Chen Yan and the beasts continued in a violently shattering world.

• Chen Changyuan rejoiced that he believed the Lord of Will had chosen him, while Yu Laiwei and the other Creation Realm experts returned and sided with him.
• Ke Qingxuan and Shen Yiwei urged Chen Yan to escape, while Lu Jianxia accepted her impending death and recited the words that had shaped her life.
• A little girl in a green dress mocked Lu Jianxia, but Chen Yan manifested a vast golden domain of will and seized the girl, melting her despite her attempts to use Life and Death Aura.
• The six remaining Ascenders discovered that their Life and Death Auras could not affect Chen Yan, then ordered Yu Laiwei and the others to approach as test subjects.
• Chen Yan used a Formation in his palm to detonate the traps near Yu Laiwei and the others, killing Yu Laiwei and a fleeing Five Clans cultivator.
• Chen Yan’s willpower surged as the six Eighth Order Ancient God Beasts attacked him, and he began fighting them amid the destruction of the world.

Chen Yan unleashed his Domain of Will and killed one Ascendant, but the Dream Eater turned the five remaining Ascendants into a single monstrous beast. As Chen Yan fought it beneath the ruined earth, Chen Changyuan absorbed the power of the Blood Drawing Formation and wrestled with whether to abandon his Will Power for greater strength.

• Chen Yan used his Domain of Will to overwhelm the Ascendants' attacks and crushed the blood-robed Ascendant's head.
• Chen Yan failed to destroy the restored Blood Drawing Formation, while Chen Changyuan declared that the Dream Eater and the Lord of Will were helping him.
• Chen Yan vowed to turn the world around or atone with his life, drawing the attention of the Dream Eater and the Pure True Yang Realm.
• The Dream Eater merged the five remaining Ascendants into a giant beast, which attacked Chen Yan.
• Chen Yan traded blows with the beast, throwing it into the earth and bombarding it with Void Breaker techniques as the land shattered.
• Chen Changyuan absorbed power and Divine Souls from the Blood Drawing Formation, but hesitated to let Malice erode his Will Power.

The Dream Eater’s schemes were revealed as Chen Changyuan completed his evolution and turned the power of the Lord of True Meaning against him. Shen Yiwei and Lu Jianxia nearly killed Chen Changyuan, but an indescribable evil awakened within him, leaving Chen Yan to face him as the chapter ended.

• The Dream Eater’s black beams struck Chen Yan while he fought the behemoth, and Lu Xunyang realized Chen Yan was distracting the Dream Eater.
• Chen Changyuan completed the Blood Drawing Formation as Wu and Yu revealed that the Dream Eater had kept Chen Yan strong enough to wound him and suppress his Ancient God aura.
• Shen Yiwei and Lu Jianxia attacked Chen Changyuan, while Lu Wuyi’s remnant and the Lord of True Meaning’s Dharma form joined the assault.
• An evil presence awakened inside Chen Changyuan, erased the Immortal Palace, and made Shen Yiwei and Lu Jianxia vanish as Chen Changyuan survived their attacks.
• Xia Long charged Chen Changyuan, but Chen Yan arrived carrying the mangled behemoth and moved Xia Long out of danger.
• Chen Changyuan told Chen Yan that he could not kill him as the awakened aura stirred within him.

Chen Yan confronted Chen Changyuan and deduced that he was Lord Chen's clone, tied to the Fan Ni Ancient God. When Chen Changyuan unleashed the Ancient God's presence, Chen Yan resisted its crushing gaze and seized his face, ending the chapter as he challenged its power.

• Chen Yan questioned Chen Changyuan about being Lord Chen's clone, but Chen Changyuan dismissed the question and claimed the Lord of Will had chosen him.
• Chen Yan explained that Lord Chen had made a plan with the awakened Fan Ni Ancient God and killed the Will martial artist and a million people to protect it.
• Chen Changyuan erupted in rage and released the Ancient God's malice, distorting the world and overwhelming Chen Yan and the witnesses.
• Wu broke down in terror as Yu remained unable to speak, while Lu Xunyang sensed a new malice within the Dream Eater and was blocked by Chi Mi.
• The Ancient God's presence froze Zong Huang in the Eclipse Moon Blood Sea, and the white-haired old man watched Chen Yan face the same terror he had once encountered.
• Chen Yan resisted the Ancient God's gaze, grabbed Chen Changyuan's face, and declared that no single thought of malice could kill him.

Chen Yan devoured Chen Changyuan’s Malice and seized part of his Ancient God Aura, while the Lord of Will and the Dream Eater interfered with their struggle. Chen Yan revealed that the theft was only one part of his plan, and as Wu launched a Judgment strike, Lu Xunyang entered the frozen Pure True Yang Realm.

• Nine days earlier, Chen Yan asked Shen Yiwei and Lu Jianxia to fake their deaths as part of his plan, and Shen Yiwei laughed while Lu Jianxia silently weighed her grief and hope.
• Chen Yan devoured Chen Changyuan’s Malice, forcing the Ancient God Aura out of him as the Lord of Will ordered Chen Changyuan to transfer it to Chen Yan.
• The Dream Eater and the Ancient God Aura resisted Chen Yan, leaving him with only half the aura while the rest returned to Chen Changyuan, who was bound by the Dream Eater’s fleshy tendrils.
• Yu declared that Chen Yan had run out of power, but Chen Yan revealed that devouring the Ancient God Aura had been only one part of his plan as the Lord of Will supplied Chen Changyuan with Will power.
• Chen Changyuan’s body erupted in Chen Yan’s Will and Life and Death Aura, and Wu accused Chen Yan of orchestrating everything before firing a Judgment strike at him.
• The Pure True Yang Realm froze as Lu Xunyang entered through the shattered world, terrifying Wu.

After Chen Yan defeated Chen Changyuan by summoning Lu Xunyang, he learned that another hidden presence had altered his memories. Lu Xunyang tried to take Chen Yan and the others away, but Ming Yan Mao intervened, leaving Lu Xunyang at the brink of collapse and the survivors facing the loss of their world.

• Shen Yong died from his life seal after Chen Changyuan's defeat, and Chen Yan revealed how he had used his will to break the Pure True Yang Realm and summon Lu Xunyang.
• Yu accused Wu of erasing Chen Yan's memories, but Chen Yan sensed that Wu was telling the truth and realized another unknown being was plotting against him.
• Lu Xunyang killed Wu and Yu, broke the Dream Eater's rules, and began severing the survivors' connection to their bodies so he could take them away.
• Lu Xunyang revealed that Chen Changyuan's Blood Drawing Formation had killed ten million people, and Wu Song charged toward the Ancient God's aura in grief before Lu Xunyang stopped him.
• Ming Yan Mao appeared on Lu Xunyang's shoulder and used Malice and the world's rules to bind him, while the survivors urged Lu Xunyang to take Chen Yan away.
• As Lu Xunyang began to crumble, he reached toward Chen Yan and asked whether the world was a heavy burden.

Chen Yan discovered that he had deceived himself by altering his own perception, then found his younger sister Chen Yu alive as a nearly extinguished Remnant Soul. He entered her spatial Formation Disk, which led to the core of the Dream Eater’s rules, leaving the trapped survivors with a possible way to fight back.

• Lu Xunyang fought the Dream Eater and Ming Yan Mao, but they forced him out of the Pure True Yang Realm, leaving Chen Yan and the others trapped behind black walls.
• The Dream Eater began devouring Chen Changyuan’s remaining Ancient God aura and mocked the survivors as they prepared to face death.
• Chen Yan followed a mysterious pull and realized that he himself had schemed against his own perception, while Chen Yu had made a Control Formation Disk for him.
• Chen Yan found Chen Yu’s nearly extinguished Remnant Soul and shielded her from the Malice consuming it.
• Chen Yan revealed that Chen Yu’s spatial Formation Disk led to the core of the Dream Eater’s rules, then stepped inside as the survivors bowed and called, “For the sun!”

Lu Xunyang sacrificed his remaining life to fight the Dream Eater as Chen Yan and his allies escaped through Spatial Formation Disks. Chen Yan organized a dispersal-and-ambush plan, restored Chen Yu’s true body, and prepared to strike at the Dream Eater’s core domain.

• Lu Xunyang spent his vitality and future to unleash a final attack after Chen Yan’s plan to save him failed.
• Chen Yan led his allies through Spatial Formation Disks, escaping the Dream Eater’s pursuit and finding the Pure True Yang Realm’s people dead.
• Wu Song vowed to leave the world and destroy the enemies threatening the Human Race, while Chen Yan continued guiding the survivors through more than thirty Spatial Formation Disks.
• Chen Yan gave Ke Qingxuan reusable Spatial Formation Disks to scatter across the realm and explained that they would use them to evade the Dream Eater while protecting their true bodies.
• Chen Yan restored Chen Yu’s true body with the Heavenly God Armor, then sent the Jine Spear’s avatar to check on Zong Huang and Chen Changyuan.
• Chen Yan returned to the group at the Dream Eater’s core domain, where Wu Song proposed destroying its central forces.

Chen Yan returned to the Small Town, killed its rule-bound Principal and teachers, and injured the Dream Eater by destroying part of its rules. He escaped with Wu Song and the others and their stolen potions, leaving the Dream Eater weakened and howling across the Pure True Yang Realm.

• The Principal and the Human Race warriors mourned the drained corpses, then blamed Chen Yan and demanded that he kneel when he returned to the Small Town.
• Chen Yan used his willpower to melt the Human Race warriors, trapped their souls in an agonizing illusion, and cast them out of the Small Town.
• The Principal and teachers transformed into monsters and attacked Chen Yan, but his will domain and Life and Death Aura shattered them and damaged the Dream Eater's rules.
• The Dream Eater locked onto Chen Yan as the Small Town collapsed, but Wu Song arrived with the stolen potions and Chen Yan led everyone away using a Spatial Formation Disk.
• Chen Yan and the others escaped through another Spatial Formation Disk to a lifeless Human Race city, where Xia Long said repeated raids would weaken the Dream Eater and Wu Song distributed the spoils.

Chen Yan deciphered the Ancient God Aura and learned that Malice was the Ancient God’s innate method of consuming life, linking Chen Changyuan to Lord Chen. With the Dream Eater still pursuing them and the Five Clans pushing Great Xia toward defeat, Chen Yan sought a way to gain strength and restore people’s hope without revealing the Lord of Will.

• Chen Yan sent Xia Long to find Old Shen and Lu Jianxia, then urged the others to use their resources to advance while he examined the Ancient God Aura.
• The aura began infecting Chen Yan as he studied it, but his Will Domain suppressed it and he deciphered its secret symbols.
• Chen Yan learned that Malice let the Ancient God devour living beings, recognized the Blood Drawing Formation as an imitation, and concluded that Chen Changyuan was Lord Chen’s Soul Clone.
• Lord Chen contacted Chen Yan through the Ancient God Aura, praised him as a genius, and invited him to join the Chen Clan before ending the connection.
• Chen Yan assessed his ways to grow stronger and considered how to mature the [Shatter] Character Saint Breaking Fruit by gathering faith.
• After considering the suffering of Chen Changyuan and Great Xia’s worsening war, Chen Yan decided to create Will martial arts.

Chen Yan created Saint's Arrival, a martial art that let Will martial artists summon his dharma image and amplify their Will Pressure. On the Yun Prefecture battlefield, Chen Min and Will martial artists across Great Xia used the art as the Lord of Will descended before both armies.

• Chen Yan entered the Myriad Forms Dao Diagram and spent ten days creating Saint's Arrival before returning his consciousness to his true self.
• Chen Min fought on the Yun Prefecture battlefield, refused to retreat, and bit a Creation Realm fighter from the Five Clans to death.
• Saint's Arrival appeared in Chen Min's Consciousness World and bestowed the martial art on him as three more Creation Realm fighters moved to attack.
• Chen Min's Saint's Arrival manifestation erupted, overwhelming the attacking fighters with Will Pressure.
• Will martial artists across Yun Prefecture summoned the Lord of Will's aspects, and the Blood Sword Saint manifested a majestic figure that declared, "I am the Saint of Humanity. Who can defy me? Who dares defy me?"

The Lord of Will taught Will martial artists [Saint's Arrival], turning the tide of the battle in Yun Prefecture and forcing the Five Clans to retreat. As Xia Hanzhou prepared to publicize Great Xia's victory, Chen Yan sensed the growing faith and heard Lord Chen ask about his relationship with the Lord of Will.

• The Lord of Will's manifestation disrupted the Five Clans' forces, allowing Chen Min and other Great Xia fighters to counterattack as the Blood Sword Saint destroyed a Sky-Piercing Mecha.
• The Lu Prefecture elder ordered the Five Clans to retreat, and the Blood Sword Saint stopped his troops from pursuing them after Xia Hanzhou rebuked him.
• Xia Hanzhou and the others realized the Lord of Will had taught [Saint's Arrival] to Great Xia's Will martial artists, and Xia Hanzhou decided to spread news of the victory and another matter to the world.
• Chen Yan sensed that faith in the Saint Breaking Realm had increased and saw that Lu Xunyang was using [Saint's Arrival] to fight Malice.
• Lord Chen spoke from within the Ancient God aura and asked Chen Yan what his relationship was with the Lord of Will.

Chen Yan investigated how the Ancient God's aura connected him to Lord Chen, Chen Changyuan, and the Dream Eater, while the Five Clans' rulers debated the Lord of Will and ordered a crackdown on his followers. Great Xia's State Ruler rallied the people with a broadcast of the Lord of Will's battlefield victory, then Chen Yunyou exposed Lord Chen as an impostor, triggering a surge of Qi and Blood across the Human World.

• Chen Yan used his perception to identify Lord Chen, Chen Changyuan, and the Dream Eater through the Ancient God's aura, then blocked the connection with his Will Domain and began studying [World Instant].
• Lord Chen argued to the Five Clans' rulers that the Lord of Will was no Lord Xia and called for Will martial artists to be imprisoned, their sect leaders executed, and their temples torn down.
• The State Ruler of Great Xia addressed the people, praised the Lord of Will, and showed footage of his Saint's Arrival turning the battle in Yun Prefecture in Great Xia's favor.
• After Xia Yiyi collapsed from the strain of the broadcast, Chen Yunyou appeared on screens across Great Xia and swore that the real Chen Sheng had died on Myriad Forms Island a thousand years earlier.
• Chen Yunyou declared that there had been no Zhou Ming in Chen Prefecture for a thousand years, and a thunderous surge of Qi and Blood rang out across the Human World.

Chen Yunyou revealed that Chen Prefecture had been ruled by Chen Yuan masquerading as Zhou Ming, while Chen Yuan defended his plans to Chen Yan and ordered Chen He to kill him. As the Five Clans suppressed followers of Lord of Will, faith surged elsewhere and Chen Yan’s [Shatter] Character Saint Breaking Fruit ripened.

• Chen Yunyou announced that Chen Prefecture had had no Zhou Ming for a thousand years and exposed Lord Chen as Chen Yuan; Chen Qi denied the claim but admitted he had never seen Chen Yunyou die.
• Chen Yuan concluded that Chen Yan had saved Chen Yunyou and tried to persuade Chen Yan to join his plan, but Chen Yan rejected his justification and questioned his connection to Fan Ni Ancient God.
• Chen Yuan summoned Chen He and ordered him to take two Eighth Orders to the Ancient God Forbidden Land and kill Chen Yan, allowing Chen He to take over Chen Yan’s body if he wished.
• Lord of Will’s intervention in Yun Prefecture encouraged Great Xia, while fear and suspicion spread through the Five Clans; their leaders demolished his temples and violently purged his worshippers.
• The Five Clans’ suppression strengthened the faith of Lord of Will’s remaining followers, and Chen Yan watched the [Shatter] Character Saint Breaking Fruit reach one hundred percent and ripen.

Chen Yan realized Lord Chen had used a Rule Martial Art tied to the Ancient God Aura to trap him, and he sought a way to build more Life and Death Aura before the trap closed. He began studying the Dream Eater’s Blood Drawing Formation, accepting the danger that it could corrupt him, and left the Myriad Forms Dao Diagram as a [Formation] Character Saint Breaking Fruit ripened.

• Chen Yan realized Lord Chen had influenced him and Chen Yu with a Rule Martial Art connected to the Ancient God Aura, and that the Dream Eater would fall into the same trap when it drained Chen Changyuan.
• Chen Yan rejected using the [Shatter] Character Saint Breaking Fruit on the [Blood] Character Saint Breaking Fruit because it would produce too little Life and Death Aura.
• Chen Yan studied the Ancient Gods’ Blood Drawing Formation inside the Myriad Forms Dao Diagram, allowing its Malice to twist his simulated body and corrupt the surrounding landscape.
• A [Formation] Character Saint Breaking Fruit ripened as Chen Yan’s study deepened, and he left the Myriad Forms Dao Diagram.
• Chen Yan went above the sea of blood, touched the Saint Breaking Tree, and asked whether it was worried about the dangerous step he was about to take.

Chen Yan swallowed the [Formation] Character Saint Breaking Fruit and relived Zhou Lu’s ancient struggle against the Malice that transformed him into an Ancient God Beast. After resisting the urge to devour the Human Race and purging the evil from the Blood Drawing Formation, Chen Yan named its transformed Divine Level Formation Eternal Calamity Reverse Blood.

• Chen Yan swallowed the [Shatter] Character Saint Breaking Fruit and a hundred [Formation] Character Saint Breaking Fruits, receiving Zhou Lu’s memories of mastering the Blood Drawing Formation.
• Zhou Lu transformed into an Ancient God Beast whose spreading Malice consumed the land, so he fled north to keep the Human Race safe from his hunger.
• Zhou Lu remembered his human identity and his younger sister Zhou Jiayi, then climbed the Ice Wall and left the world while resisting the voices urging him to eat a human.
• Alone in the universe, Zhou Lu stopped feeding on life and spent countless years purging the evil from the Blood Drawing Formation until it became a Human Race Formation.
• Zhou Lu died believing he had remained human to the end, and Chen Yan awoke above the sea of blood and named the Formation Eternal Calamity Reverse Blood.

Chen Yan used the memories from a [Shatter] Character Saint Breaking Fruit to master Divine-level formation knowledge and secretly constructed the Eternal Calamity Reverse Blood formation. As Lord Xia and the Immortal Skirt Woman argued over whether to help him, Chen Yan began drawing energy from the Pure True Yang Realm’s core—and Lord Xia was stunned by the formation.

• Chen Yan gained the knowledge and skills of a Formation God Venerate, then kept his new ability secret.
• Chen Yan built the Eternal Calamity Reverse Blood formation in a mountain cave while Ke Qingxuan kept watch over his body.
• The Immortal Skirt Woman confronted Lord Xia for refusing to help Chen Yan, and accused him of treating Chen Yan as a test subject like her father.
• Lord Xia defended his past actions and declared that weakness made a person’s ambitions wrong, then sensed Chen Yan’s formation and reacted in shock.
• Chen Yan sent the formation’s blood-red veins into the Pure True Yang Realm’s core and began absorbing its energy to rapidly strengthen himself, unnoticed by the Dream Eater.