Chapter Summaries

Yang Ling refused to return the captured Grandmasters despite pressure from the Grand Ancestor and the newly appointed Office Lord, and prepared to auction them to the highest bidder. As the assembled factions gathered at the Frozen Wasteland, Yang Ling opened the auction by offering a Bloodline Martial Artist's corpse.

• The Grand Ancestor gave Yang Ling ten Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills, which Yang Ling swallowed and refined, advancing the Heavenly Will True Scripture to Supernatural Skill and gaining 200 Mental Power.
• Yang Ling agreed to hold the auction in twenty-nine days, while the Grand Ancestor and the other powerful figures watched his breakthrough and speculated about his cultivation methods.
• More immortals and martial artists arrived over the following days, including experts from the Qiguan Family, confirming to Yang Ling that an immortal presided over the family.
• The newly appointed Office Lord of the Myriad Manifestations Office and Ye Qingdong urged Yang Ling to hand over the captured Grandmasters, but Yang Ling refused and said he would auction Grandmasters from every faction to the highest bidder.
• With twenty-four hours remaining before the Intermediate Divine Guard Office Instance ended, Yang Ling began the auction by offering a two-headed Bloodline Martial Artist's corpse for at least 100 Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills.

Yang Ling auctioned Sikou Lingyue despite the Sikou Clan’s threats, and the Qiguan Family bought him before selling him back to his clan. Yang Ling consumed the payment to strengthen his White Bone Origin Spirit Method, then began auctioning another captive.

• Yang Ling refused the Sikou Clan’s demand to return Sikou Lingyue and barred the clan from bidding after its Second Rank Human Immortal attacked him.
• Yang Ling threatened to count Sikou Lingyue as unsold, prompting the Sikou Clan’s Second Rank Human Immortal to bid 120 Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills.
• The Qiguan Family bought Sikou Lingyue for 120 pills, then offered to sell him back to the Sikou Clan for 150 pills.
• The Sikou Clan paid for Sikou Lingyue and revived him, but he woke confused and challenged Yang Ling to fight.
• Yang Ling swallowed the 120 pills to raise the White Bone Origin Spirit Method to six million experience points, then started an auction for another Fourth-Rank Grandmaster.

Yang Ling sold captured grandmasters to their factions for Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills, using the pills to advance the White Bone Origin Spirit Method to transcendent saint and gain an escape technique. He then auctioned a mixed group of Great Dream Dynasty and Abyssal Beast Cavern fighters to provoke the factions, and the chapter ended as the Grand Ancestor prepared to bid.

• The four-meter-tall Buddha bought Shi Haixuan’s bald fellow disciple from Yang Ling for ten Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills, and Yang Ling swallowed the pills.
• Yang Ling sold seven more Lower Fourth-Rank Grandmasters to their relatives and sects, then swallowed seventy pills despite the Grand Ancestor’s warning.
• The White Bone Origin Spirit Method reached transcendent saint, granting Yang Ling three hundred free attribute points and the White Bone Origin Spirit Escape Method.
• Yang Ling put the attribute points into agility and auctioned ten bodies, including Great Dream Dynasty and Abyssal Beast Cavern fighters, as a package starting at two hundred pills.
• Yang Ling admitted he meant to drive a wedge between the factions, and Zhao De bid two hundred pills on behalf of the Five Venom Emperor Lord.
• The Grand Ancestor said the Great Dream Dynasty had not yet bid.

Yang Ling provoked the Great Dream Dynasty and insisted that he could survive, despite everyone believing his situation was hopeless. After consuming hundreds of Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills, he advanced Divine Ape Visualization to Transcendent Saint, revealing a foundation that made the powerful figures reconsider his prospects.

• Yang Ling taunted the Great Dream Dynasty’s Grand Ancestor and refused to accept that anyone would spare his life.
• Zhao De exchanged two hundred Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills with Yang Ling, while the powerful figures debated whether Yang Ling was mad or truly believed he could survive.
• Yang Ling consumed the pills and used them to rapidly raise Divine Ape Visualization’s Experience Points.
• The Grand Ancestor and others realized Yang Ling had consumed more pills than Chen Jiu, suggesting he had the foundation to become an immortal.
• Divine Ape Visualization advanced to Transcendent Saint, with fifteen hours remaining before the Intermediate Divine Guard Office Instance ended.

Yang Ling gained the Divine Ape Body-Protection Astral Qi skill and learned that the Divine Ape Visualization was linked to the Shura Path’s Third Dao Court, which the Great Dream Dynasty’s immortals feared. He continued auctioning corpses to the Abyssal Beast Cavern, then told the Great Dream Dynasty it could bid fairly only if the person who put him on the purge list knelt and kowtowed.

• Yang Ling gained 200 Mental Power, added 200 Free Attributes to agility, and received Divine Ape Body-Protection Astral Qi.
• The Buddha identified Yang Ling’s cultivation method as the Divine Ape Visualization, a guarded secret of the Shura Path’s Third Dao Court, and Yang Ling inferred that Ji Tianming might be connected to the Shura Path.
• Yang Ling denied cultivating the Divine Ape Visualization when the Grand Ancestor questioned him, and the immortals accepted his answer.
• Yang Ling offered ten corpses for auction; the Grand Ancestor bid 100 Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills, but the Qiguan Family’s Human Immortal won with 110.
• Yang Ling refused the Grand Ancestor’s request for fair competition unless the person who put him on the purge list knelt and kowtowed, leaving the Middle-Aged Man in Blue livid.

Yang Ling forced the Great Dream Dynasty’s Office Lord to retreat, then continued consuming Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills to advance his cultivation. As his potential stunned the gathered experts, Zhao De explained that the realm above Transcendent Saint was called Return to Simplicity.

• Yang Ling confronted the Middle-Aged Man in Blue over being placed on the purge list and demanded that the responsible subordinate be brought to him.
• The Middle-Aged Man in Blue left with Director Du, Ye Qingdong, and the others, and the Grand Ancestor persuaded Yang Ling to make the rest of the auction fairer.
• Yang Ling reviewed his gains and chose to advance Great Grade Azure Dragon Force, consuming another hundred and ten Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills.
• The gathered martial artists realized Yang Ling’s foundations surpassed those of many second-rank immortals, while Shi Haixuan and the Lampbearers reflected on his rare potential and approaching death.
• Yang Ling asked what realm followed Transcendent Saint, and Zhao De explained that Return to Simplicity allowed cultivation methods and martial skills to develop true divine abilities.

Yang Ling continued auctioning grandmaster bodies for Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills, advancing Great Grade Azure Dragon Force to transcendent saint. Wang Hongxi offered to adopt and protect him if he left the White Bone Cave, but Yang Ling refused to pause his auction, and Wang Hongxi challenged him over what he would do if the auction were stopped.

• Yang Ling asked Zhao De about true and false divine abilities and learned that abilities gained before a martial skill reached return to simplicity were only embryos.
• Yang Ling auctioned ten more grandmaster bodies, and Zhao De won them for 120 Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills after outbidding the Grand Ancestor.
• Yang Ling used the pills to advance Great Grade Azure Dragon Force to transcendent saint, gaining attributes, health, and qi and blood before the Martial Way Furnace cleared his pill toxins.
• Wang Hongxi arrived and offered to take Yang Ling as his adopted son and guarantee his safety if he left the White Bone Cave and disclosed which immortal supported him.
• Yang Ling asked to finish his business first and told Wang Hongxi not to interfere with the auction, prompting Wang Hongxi to ask what Yang Ling would do if he refused to let it continue.

Yang Ling continued the auction while secretly advancing the Heavenly Will True Scripture, and Wang Hongxi revealed that Yang Ling’s cultivation method was the legendary Five Organs Temple. The Scripture reached Transcendent Saint, raising Yang Ling’s mental power and unlocking Eye of Illusion.

• Yang Ling refused Wang Hongxi’s offer to become his adopted son, and Wang Hongxi joined the Grand Ancestor’s group as the auction resumed.
• Yang Ling sold more Grandmasters for 170 Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills and decided to use his gains to advance the Heavenly Will True Scripture.
• Yang Ling consumed 200 pills, while Wang Hongxi identified his method as the Five Organs Temple, which could refine resources and even devour immortals.
• Wang Hongxi urged the immortals to subject Yang Ling to the Bone-Burning Inheritance and feed him more resources, hoping to obtain multiple Five Organs Temple manuals.
• The Heavenly Will True Scripture reached Transcendent Saint, raising Yang Ling’s mental power to 2,760 and replacing Absolute Focus with Eye of Illusion, which could create an illusory feast by contaminating an enemy’s spiritual core.

Yang Ling traded Fourth-Rank Beast Kings for Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills while deliberately keeping the Great Dream Dynasty and Abyssal Beast Cavern in conflict. After eating the pills and gaining more experience, he advanced the Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual to Transcendent Saint and gained Heavenly Will Body.

• Yang Ling inspected Third-Rank Grandmasters' attributes, noting that their mental power varied widely and that lower Third Rank seemed to begin around five thousand strength and agility.
• Yang Ling sold ten Fourth-Rank Beast Kings to the Grand Ancestor for two hundred Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills, frustrating the Abyssal Beast Cavern's bidders.
• Yang Ling ate all two hundred pills despite the Grand Ancestor's warning, and his aura rose as the Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual gained experience.
• After an hour, the Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual reached Transcendent Saint and granted Yang Ling Heavenly Will Body, with 50% evasion.

Yang Ling continued strengthening himself during the auction and insisted that he could escape despite the immortals surrounding him. He demanded a first-rate martial skill for ten Fourth-Rank Beast Kings, provoking Xu Jianyi by asking why he was unworthy of the Demon-Quelling Saber.

• Yang Ling discovered that reaching Transcendent Saint with the Heavenly Will Hundred Battles Manual gave him 50% evasion, then spent 300 free attribute points on agility.
• Yang Ling calculated that his strength cap had reached 4,613 and his agility cap 3,999, while his mental power had also greatly improved.
• The Grand Ancestor challenged Yang Ling’s belief that he could leave alive, but Yang Ling insisted that none of the immortals could stop him from making a stylish escape.
• Yang Ling resumed the auction with ten Fourth-Rank Beast Kings and demanded a first-class internal skill instead of Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills.
• When neither side offered an internal skill, Yang Ling asked for Jiang Xun’s Demon-Quelling Saber technique, and Xu Jianyi angrily declared him unworthy of it.
• Yang Ling reminded Xu Jianyi that he had once been the Divine Guard Commander of Human Division Group Three in the Divine Guard Office’s Beheading Hall.

Yang Ling traded ten Fourth Rank Beast Kings for the Divine Guard Office’s Demon-Quelling Saber and cultivated it by inheriting his Dragon Catching Saber Technique proficiency. He then offered more Beast Kings in exchange for goods that could improve his martial skill attainment, while the gathered experts continued to wonder how he expected to survive.

• The Grand Ancestor pressured Xu Jianyi into handing over the Divine Guard Office’s Demon-Quelling Saber manual, which he traded to Yang Ling.
• Yang Ling met the saber’s prerequisite, cultivated the Demon-Quelling Saber at supernatural skill, and gained the ability to directly damage minds in place of Dragon Slaying.
• Yang Ling brought out ten more Fourth Rank Beast Kings and said he wanted pills or rare flowers and herbs that improved martial skill attainment.
• The Grand Ancestor and Wang Hongxi speculated that Yang Ling might have a cultivation method better than the Five Organs Temple.
• A Human Immortal from the Qiguan Family offered rare flowers and herbs, but Yang Ling insisted they should be worth about as much as Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills.

Yang Ling traded ten Fourth Rank Beast Kings to the Red Flame Emperor for rare herbs and used them to raise the Great Flying Sword Technique and Heavenly Will Divine Saber to Supernatural Skill. With nine hours left in the instance, he considered pushing Wind God Vajra Leg to Transcendent Saint.

• Yang Ling established that a two-thousand-year-old Black Thunder Tortoise-Shell Lingzhi was worth five Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills and set the price for ten Fourth Rank Beast Kings at twenty equivalent herbs.
• Ji Tianming offered rare herbs from the Red Flame Emperor’s collection, and Yang Ling inspected them before handing over the Beast Kings.
• Yang Ling used the herbs to advance the Great Flying Sword Technique and Heavenly Will Divine Saber to Supernatural Skill.
• Yang Ling decided Wind God Vajra Leg was his best candidate for advancement to Transcendent Saint, with nine hours remaining in the Intermediate Divine Guard Office Instance.

Yang Ling reached Transcendent Saint with Wind God Vajra Leg, then escaped the sealed Intermediate Divine Guard Office Instance by releasing everyone in his Green Dragon Ring just before the countdown ended. He earned an SS rating, but his rewards were delayed until a version update, and he returned to Fire Flood Dragon Island to find at least a third of the players missing.

• Yang Ling advanced Wind God Vajra Leg to Transcendent Saint, raising his strength and agility by 150 and gaining a no-cost fourfold critical hit.
• The old Daoist sealed the area with golden talismans, preventing Yang Ling from activating the White Bone Origin Spirit Escape Method.
• With the countdown ending, Yang Ling threw Min Luo, Jiang Xun, Shopkeeper You, Zhu Qing, and the other captives from the Green Dragon Ring before he and the players vanished from the instance.
• Yang Ling received an SS quest rating, but the system delayed his rewards until the imminent version update.
• Yang Ling returned to Fire Flood Dragon Island at midnight and saw that at least a third of the players were missing.

After completing the Intermediate Divine Guard Office Instance, Yang Ling and the other players received a global reward announcement and waited for Divine Domain Version 2.5 to finish updating. Yang Ling’s rewards and Exclusive Instance remained locked, and a nightmare described by the Divine Ape Spirit Body left him sweating and alarmed.

• The players emerged from the six-month instance with major gains, then learned that Yang Ling had reached level 200 and every player would receive 5 Free Attribute Points.
• The players discussed what features Divine Domain Version 2.5 might add while Yang Ling found his rewards and Tun Tian Dao Palace inaccessible until the update ended.
• As the update progress slowed near 90%, Yang Ling went several miles away and found the Divine Ape Spirit Body waiting for him.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body described dreaming that Yang Ling had insulted immortals and gods and sold the physical bodies of Great Dream Dynasty Grandmasters.
• When the Divine Ape Spirit Body asked why he looked pale and sweaty, Yang Ling blamed the heat and asked him to continue describing the dream.

Yang Ling learned that the Divine Ape Spirit Body had dreamed about events from Yang Ling’s instance experiences and worried that surviving immortals might recognize him. The Divine Ape Spirit Body reassured him, revealed that Zhao De might still be hiding in the Abyssal Beast Cavern, and urged him to leave Fire Flood Dragon Island for Zhao State.

• The Divine Ape Spirit Body recounted a dream that matched Yang Ling’s experiences, and Yang Ling realized that his dream memories might have reached others.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body tested Yang Ling’s strength and confirmed that he had reached the Transcendent Saint realm.
• Yang Ling asked to hide beside the Divine Ape Spirit Body, but his sworn brother told him he would need to venture into the world to advance further.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body said Zhao De and the White Bone Divine Lord might also have dreamed about Yang Ling, and revealed that Zhao De might be hiding in the Abyssal Beast Cavern.
• The Divine Ape Spirit Body warned Yang Ling that Fire Flood Dragon Island was too dangerous and urged him to return to Zhao State, prompting Yang Ling to suspect his sworn brother wanted him gone.

Yang Ling feared retaliation from several immortals and resolved to reach the First Rank before they could threaten him. Divine Domain 2.5 launched with battle space and a grandmaster network, while the Intermediate Divine Guard Office Instance was suspended.

• Yang Ling identified Grand Ancestor, the Old Daoist, and Wang Hongyi as potential enemies and decided that reaching the First Rank was his only way to overcome his fear.
• Divine Domain 2.5 finished updating and announced fixes, the temporary suspension of the Intermediate Divine Guard Office Instance, cross-region connectivity, ranked battles, and the grandmaster network.
• Yang Ling discovered that he could no longer message Li Fengxian and concluded that the update had removed Luo Kai's duplicate account.
• Players examined battle space and learned that one-on-one ranked matches allowed practice without risk of death and offered seasonal rewards.
• A player found that the grandmaster network was inaccessible, prompting Lin Caiyi and the others to look toward Yang Ling.

Yang Ling discovered that the Grandmaster Network connected Fourth-Rank Grandmasters from various games, and its 726,989,751 online users suggested those games had existed far longer than Divine Domain. He planned to enter the network to investigate and received rewards that included 500 trading points, leaving him wondering what they could buy.

• Yang Ling examined the Grandmaster Network and saw that it required Fourth-Rank Grandmaster status and had over 726 million users online.
• Yang Ling told Zhang Wei, Zhang Shendao, and the other players that the network connected Grandmasters from various games and suggested Divine Domain was comparatively new.
• The players worried that Divine Domain might have to compete against older games, while Yang Ling suspected the games and their company were linked to alien technology.
• Yang Ling agreed to enter the Grandmaster Network to investigate its users, the company, and whether the network could help his cultivation.
• Yang Ling received 500 Free Attribute points, a Silver Grade Martial Skill Exchange Voucher, and 500 Grandmaster Network Trading Points, then wondered what the points could buy.

Yang Ling spent the night investing his rewards in agility and advancing the Demon-Quelling Saber to transcendent saint, gaining protection against evil influences. After a failed attempt to enter the Grandmaster Network, he headed to the Blood Essence Ore mine when mining began the next day.

• Yang Ling put all 500 free attribute points into agility and considered which martial skill to improve.
• Yang Ling used his martial skill exchange voucher on the Demon-Quelling Saber, which advanced to transcendent saint and gained immunity to evil influences.
• After the other players left, Yang Ling considered finding a strong sparring partner and tried to enter the Grandmaster Network, but the connection estimate was 480 hours.
• The next day, Yang Ling heard a commotion at the Blood Essence Ore mine and hurried there as mining began.

Yang Ling arrived at the Blood Essence Ore mine, where the gathered experts noticed his improved aura but could not gauge how far he had advanced. He entered the mine to help excavate the ore and planned to use the work to gain experience before deciding whether to visit the Abyssal Beast Cavern.

• Yang Ling greeted the gathered experts and realized that most of the grandmasters around him were much weaker than he was, while Xie Jinjia and the Middle-aged Lay Buddhist were at least middle third rank.
• Xie Jinjia and the Middle-aged Lay Buddhist sensed that Yang Ling had made progress in the martial way, and Yang Ling concealed the extent of his advancement by changing the subject to mining.
• Yang Ling jumped into the mine tunnel and asked the Mine Gang's veteran miners about the excavation and Blood Essence Ore's illusions.
• Yang Ling sharpened his Giant Hundred Refined Qilin Crane-Mouth Hoe and began mining, hoping to gain experience from the ore before considering his three visits to the Abyssal Beast Cavern.

Yang Ling joined the Mine Gang's excavation, but a large blood essence ore deposit unleashed a lethal illusion that killed many miners. After Xie Jinjia dispelled the illusion, Yang Ling revealed that he could see the ore, while the others could not.

• Yang Ling sharpened his self-repairing Giant Hundred Refined Qilin Crane-Mouth Hoe and joined the miners, greatly speeding up the excavation.
• Xie Jinjia considered transferring Yang Ling to the Mine Gang, but the middle-aged layman objected because he had other plans for him.
• A large blood essence ore deposit triggered an illusion of flames that killed miners in the shaft, and Xie Jinjia dispelled the illusion.
• Yang Ling found charred corpses near the blood-red ore and realized Evil Suppression had protected him from the deadly illusion.
• Yang Ling explained what had happened, and Xie Jinjia and the middle-aged layman learned that he could see the blood essence ore while they could not.