Chapter Summaries

Zhou Xuan escaped the Unified Divine Prison by awakening the Primordial God and forcing the Divine Lord to give him the Primordial God's Heart. The Divine Lord warned that using the heart to revive Ji Chen might awaken something other than the man Zhou Xuan knew.

• Zhou Xuan used the nothingness mark on the Unity Continent to damage the Divine Prison's seal and awaken the Primordial God.
• The Divine Lord abandoned his attempt to erase Zhou Xuan and struggled to hold the prison gates shut as its ancient power surged outward.
• Zhou Xuan walked free and made the Divine Lord honor their deal by handing over the Primordial God's Heart.
• The Divine Lord warned Zhou Xuan that the heart could awaken what was inside Ji Chen but could not restore his missing Dao Fruit.
• Before vanishing, the Divine Lord told Zhou Xuan to pray that the one who woke up was still Ji Chen.

Zhou Xuan used the Primordial God's Heart to revive Ji Chen, who awakened with Supreme One's will fused into his true spirit. As the two settled their uneasy understanding, the Divine Lord appointed Zhou Xuan Myriad Worlds Inspector and ordered him to leave Unity and patrol the hundred realms.

• Zhou Xuan returned to the underground palace beneath the Unity Continent with the Primordial God's Heart and ordered Emperor Jiang Wu and Old Ancestor Xuanming to guard the formation core.
• Zhou Xuan used the power of nothingness to send the Primordial God's Heart into Ji Chen, merging its power with Supreme One's Heart and repairing Ji Chen's Dao Fruit and body.
• Ji Chen awakened and told Zhou Xuan that Supreme One's will, memories, authority, and mission had fused with his true spirit, though his loyalty to Zhou Xuan remained.
• Zhou Xuan warned Ji Chen to follow his rules, then a platinum beam tore through the Unity Continent's protective formations as the Divine Lord addressed him.
• The Divine Lord named Zhou Xuan Myriad Worlds Inspector, gave him a platinum Command Token, and ordered him to inspect the hundred realms without returning unless summoned.

Zhou Xuan destroyed the Divine Lord’s decree and renamed the Unity Continent the Mystic Court, openly rejecting the Divine Court’s authority. Ji Chen revealed that the lower worlds Zhou Xuan was ordered to civilize contained fragments of Supreme One’s former territory, and proposed they go there to reclaim Supreme One’s weapons.

• Ji Chen explained that the Divine Lord’s inspector decree was a trap intended to strip Zhou Xuan of his stronghold and expose him to enemies across the myriad worlds.
• Zhou Xuan rose before the decree and destroyed it with the power of nothingness, freeing the people of the Unity Continent from its pressure.
• Zhou Xuan declared that the Unity Continent would become the Mystic Court and proclaimed himself its Master, while Emperor Jiang Wu, Old Ancestor Xuanming, and the soldiers swore loyalty to him.
• Ji Chen warned Zhou Xuan that destroying the decree had made their conflict with the Divine Lord open, though the Divine Lord’s current inability to spare much strength limited his response.
• Ji Chen revealed that many broken lower worlds were fragments of Supreme One’s former territory and advised Zhou Xuan to follow the assigned route to reclaim Supreme One’s weapons.

Zhou Xuan stabilized the Mystic Court with a seal before leaving with Ji Chen for the Barbaric Land. They emerged into a blood-stinking realm filled with strange prayers, where Ji Chen’s compass could reveal only a red fog.

• Zhou Xuan told Emperor Jiang Wu, Old Ancestor Xuanming, and Heavenly Derivation that he saw the Divine Lord’s mission to the Barbaric Land as an opportunity.
• Zhou Xuan forged the Mystic Court Seal from four powers and sent it into the earth veins to stabilize the continent and its laws.
• Zhou Xuan assigned Emperor Jiang Wu to command the armies, Dark Nether to manage internal affairs, and Heavenly Derivation to handle divination and coordination.
• Zhou Xuan warned that the seal would destroy the Mystic Court and any invaders if he died, and Emperor Jiang Wu and Old Ancestor Xuanming vowed to defend it.
• Zhou Xuan took Ji Chen through a spatial rift into the Barbaric Land, where they encountered blood-laden winds and incomprehensible prayers.

Zhou Xuan and Ji Chen arrived at a primitive tribe that mistook them for evil demons and attacked with power from its bone totem. After Zhou Xuan destroyed the totem, he approached a badly abused boy and offered him the power to crush it; the boy accepted.

• Ji Chen explained that the land's laws and spiritual energy were corrupted and that the natives used an unfamiliar power system.
• The tribe's high priest declared Zhou Xuan and Ji Chen evil demons and summoned a skull of resentment power from the tribe's bone totem.
• Zhou Xuan erased the skull and shattered the totem, causing the high priest and tribe members to kneel in fear.
• Zhou Xuan noticed a wounded boy who watched the fallen totem with hatred and delight, then asked whether he wanted the power to crush it.
• The boy nodded, and Zhou Xuan touched the point between his brows with his finger.

Zhou Xuan rescued a boy with an immaculate Dao body, named him A Gu, and discovered that the Supreme One Token resonated with something in the Heavenly Abyss. He reached the abyss with Ji Chen and A Gu, where an ancient will sensed the token.

• Zhou Xuan recognized the tortured boy’s immaculate Dao body and silenced the high priest when he called the boy a bringer of disaster.
• Zhou Xuan healed the boy with the creation origin source, named him A Gu, and accepted his loyalty.
• Zhou Xuan searched A Gu’s memories and found the Heavenly Abyss where a meteor had fallen years earlier.
• The Supreme One Token resonated with something in the abyss, so Zhou Xuan traveled west with Ji Chen and A Gu.
• At the Heavenly Abyss, Zhou Xuan sensed a hidden source of war intent, and an ancient will rose from below and locked onto the Supreme One Token.

Zhou Xuan brought Ji Chen and A Gu into the Heavenly Abyss, where they found the sealed war blade Judgment in the ruins of the Supreme One Divine Temple. After breaking its seal and learning it needed an Immaculate Dao Body to restore its artifact spirit, Zhou Xuan looked toward A Gu as the boy approached the blade.

• Zhou Xuan shielded Ji Chen and A Gu as they descended into the Heavenly Abyss, while Ji Chen’s Heavenly Strategy Compass shattered and A Gu felt a painful resonance in his bones.
• The three found the Supreme One Divine Temple ruins and a war blade sealed on a nine-tiered terrace by the Spirit-Suppressing Divine Seal.
• Zhou Xuan used the power of nothingness to devour the seal and its guardian will without damaging the Wild Continent’s earth veins.
• Zhou Xuan seized the freed blade, learned its name was Judgment, and heard that an Immaculate Dao Body was needed to complete its artifact spirit.
• Zhou Xuan looked at A Gu, whose body resonated with Judgment, and A Gu began climbing the terrace stairs.

Zhou Xuan protected A Gu and used his powers to awaken Judgment without sacrificing him, discovering that the Divine Lord had planned for him to claim the weapon. As the awakened blade shook the Wild Continent, an unknown presence confronted Zhou Xuan and sent figures approaching through spatial rifts.

• A Gu offered his life to help Zhou Xuan draw Judgment, but Zhou Xuan kicked him out of the blade's deadly range and ordered Ji Chen to watch over him.
• Zhou Xuan used his three laws and the power of nothingness to extract and refine a wisp of A Gu's origin essence, then fed it into Judgment.
• Judgment awakened, revealing its true form and releasing blade pressure that shook the Wild Continent and crushed beasts and tribes beneath it.
• Zhou Xuan learned from Judgment that the Divine Lord had sealed the weapon and Supreme One's fragment while waiting for someone like him to claim them.
• A freezing will called Zhou Xuan the Divine Court's lapdog, demanded that he put down the Beacon, and fixed its gaze on him as thirteen spatial rifts opened and synchronized footsteps emerged.

Zhou Xuan destroyed the thirteen Starherd Legion puppets and searched one for clues, but its self-destruction erased the evidence. Before it vanished, he learned that he must find the Divine Tomb and stop the Graveyard Keeper.

• Ji Chen identified the thirteen warriors as Starherd Legion soldiers revived as puppets by the Divine Court, and they trapped Zhou Xuan in the Silver Lockdown Formation.
• Zhou Xuan used Judgment to break the formation and destroy seven warriors, then seized another with the power of nothingness to search its soul.
• A curse mark triggered the warriors' self-destruction, and Zhou Xuan retreated as the six remaining puppets exploded.
• Zhou Xuan caught the dying soldier's message to find the Divine Tomb and stop the Graveyard Keeper.
• Ji Chen told Zhou Xuan that the puppets' self-destruction restrictions had left the trail cold.

Zhou Xuan set out with Ji Chen and A Gu to investigate the Divine Tomb and find the oldest tribes of the Wild Continent. Along the way, he exposed and crushed A Gu’s schemes, leaving him obedient to Zhou Xuan’s orders.

• Zhou Xuan told Ji Chen about another tomb that might have changed the course of an epoch and said they would seek answers from the oldest tribes.
• A red light kindled in a fissure beneath the Heavenly Abyss, where a ruined gateway and a broken Command Token silently locked onto Zhou Xuan.
• Zhou Xuan isolated A Gu in a domain and revealed that he had seen through A Gu’s attempt to earn trust by risking his life on the altar.
• Zhou Xuan explained that something buried in the earth veins was remaking the wilderness natives, then strangled A Gu with the power of nothingness to enforce his rules.
• A Gu knelt and promised absolute obedience, and Zhou Xuan warned him not to question or dwell on what he had witnessed on the altar.

Zhou Xuan and Ji Chen traveled west with A Gu to find the Immortals and learn about the divine tomb. Zhou Xuan cut a road through the Temporal Dust Domain with Judgment, and the three emerged before a vast forest of stone giants.

• A Gu told Zhou Xuan that the Immortals lived in the far-western Dead Marsh and that the High Priest had gained totem power from a bone fragment found there.
• Ji Chen warned that the Immortals might be connected to forbidden power and the seal beneath the Heavenly Abyss, but Zhou Xuan led the group west regardless.
• Ji Chen found that living things in the region had become unnaturally fixed, and Zhou Xuan said the Heavenly Dao there had rotted.
• A Gu identified the gray desert as the Temporal Dust Domain, while Ji Chen failed to divine its laws or affect it with the power of creation.
• Zhou Xuan drew Judgment and opened a safe road through the Temporal Dust Domain, then led Ji Chen and A Gu across it.
• The three emerged from the gray haze and found a vast forest of ten-thousand-foot stone giants, all frozen in place.

Zhou Xuan and his companions entered the stone forest where the immortals supposedly dwelled, only to be caught in the natives’ causal curse against anyone seeking the Divine Tomb. He overcame the curse by erasing his curiosity and declaring that he had come to claim the wilds, leaving the tribespeople facing his assertion of dominion.

• A Gu led Zhou Xuan and Ji Chen to a settlement beneath petrified giants, where an old man accused them of being grave robbers.
• The old man invoked the ancestors’ blood oath and the Graveyard Keeper’s curse, causing the tribespeople’s ritual to drain the visitors’ divine souls and vitality.
• Ji Chen failed to shield them from the curse, while A Gu began to petrify as thoughts of the Divine Tomb triggered the judgment.
• Zhou Xuan realized the curse targeted intent rather than strength, suppressed every thought of exploring the tomb, and stepped forward.
• Zhou Xuan unleashed his sovereign aura and told the old man that he had come to take the wilds as their lord.

Zhou Xuan broke the Undying Tribe’s ancestral curse by abandoning the search for a god’s tomb and forcing the tribe to submit. The old man led Zhou Xuan, Ji Chen, and A Gu underground, where murals revealed that the site was the Godfall Land, as a Graveyard Keeper learned of the curse’s collapse.

• Zhou Xuan changed his purpose from searching for a god’s tomb to conquering the Undying Tribe, causing the curse’s logic to collapse and the guardian statues to go dormant.
• Zhou Xuan overwhelmed the tribespeople and forced the old man to kneel, then marked him with the Mystic Court Seal and demanded answers.
• The old man warned that the Graveyard Keeper knew the rules had been broken and would wake, so Zhou Xuan used pain to make him explain himself.
• The old man led Zhou Xuan, Ji Chen, and A Gu through a fissure into an underground cavern covered in murals.
• The old man explained that the murals depicted the Godfall Land, not a god’s tomb.

An old man revealed that his tribe were Supreme One Remnants cursed to guard the Epoch Artifact, and warned that the Graveyard Keeper was a living Divine General. The Graveyard Keeper, Black Raven, confronted Zhou Xuan and demanded he take the artifact and pledge allegiance to the Divine Lord, but Zhou Xuan drew Judgment and challenged him.

• The old man explained that the Epoch Artifact was sealed beneath the Wilds and that his tribe had been cursed to guard it as living formation cores.
• The old man warned that the Graveyard Keeper was one of the Divine Lord’s seven great Divine Generals, and the cavern shook as the Keeper descended.
• Black Raven entered the cavern and identified Zhou Xuan, saying the Divine Lord had been waiting for him.
• Black Raven ordered Zhou Xuan to take the Epoch Artifact and bring it to the Mystic Court as a pledge of allegiance.
• Zhou Xuan drew Judgment and accused Black Raven of being one of the Divine Lord’s dogs who would never share the spoils.

Zhou Xuan uncovered Black Raven’s plan to steal the Epoch Artifact and learned the Divine Lord was draining Divine Generals to survive. Black Raven demanded that A Gu be sacrificed to break the artifact’s core seal, and Zhou Xuan walked toward A Gu, leaving his choice unresolved.

• Zhou Xuan exposed Black Raven as an unauthorized avatar, and Black Raven removed his helmet and admitted he had come to the Wilds without permission.
• Black Raven said the Divine Lord had drained Fifth’s Dao Fruit and planned to drain him next, so he sought the Epoch Artifact to fight back.
• Black Raven gave Zhou Xuan a bone shard that opened the Godfall Land’s outer seal, and Zhou Xuan accepted it after checking it for hidden tricks.
• Black Raven led Zhou Xuan to a mural concealing the Epoch Artifact and explained that A Gu’s immaculate Dao body and life could break the core seal.
• Black Raven urged Zhou Xuan to sacrifice A Gu, and Zhou Xuan walked toward the boy as A Gu closed his eyes and awaited his fate.

Zhou Xuan rejected Black Raven’s attempt to make A Gu a sacrifice, defeated the Divine General’s avatar, and used purified Immaculate Origin to open the way to Godfall Land. He led Ji Chen and A Gu toward the newly formed teleportation gate despite Black Raven’s warning of danger.

• A Gu knelt before Zhou Xuan and offered his life for the Mystic Court, but Zhou Xuan kicked him away and rejected Black Raven’s demands.
• Black Raven attacked Zhou Xuan with Death Qi and the power of order, but Zhou Xuan’s domain of Nothingness erased the assault and overwhelmed the avatar.
• Zhou Xuan drew a wisp of Immaculate Origin from A Gu, purified it, and infused it into the Black Bone Fragment to break the Supreme One Foundation’s formation.
• The ancient Petrified Giant opened its eyes and created a vast teleportation array gate leading into Godfall Land.
• Black Raven warned that Godfall Land was Supreme One’s final graveyard, but Zhou Xuan headed for the gate, followed by Ji Chen carrying A Gu.

Zhou Xuan exposed the Supreme One Divine Court hall as a trap built from the corpses and remnant souls of fallen warriors, then confronted the Divine Lord's Dao manifestation. The manifestation demanded A Gu as a key in exchange for authority over the Epoch Artifact, and Zhou Xuan's first strike nearly broke its defensive wall.

• Ji Chen recognized the hall as a shrine to Supreme One's fallen warriors, while A Gu retched and called the place filthy.
• Zhou Xuan struck a statue and discovered that the warriors were corpses controlled by divine chains of order.
• Zhou Xuan's domain of nothingness shattered the hall's sacred illusion, revealing the tortured remains and their demonic shadows.
• The Divine Lord's Dao manifestation appeared, subdued the shadows, and demanded A Gu in exchange for half the Epoch Artifact's authority.
• Zhou Xuan slashed at the manifestation, but its dark-gold wall of order absorbed the attack before it could shatter.

The Divine Lord revealed that the supposed Divine Temple was an Order Furnace designed to extract A Gu’s immaculate origin and prepare a vessel for his true body. As Zhou Xuan struggled against the furnace’s laws and tried to save A Gu, the Divine Lord began igniting the Epoch Artifact’s fire to refine them both.

• The Divine Lord explained that Black Raven had been his pawn and unveiled the Order Furnace hidden beneath the Divine Temple.
• The Divine Lord activated the formation, using the Wild Continent’s earth veins and Divine Court origin source to bind Zhou Xuan and his companions.
• The Divine Lord broke Ji Chen’s Creation Barrier and began extracting A Gu’s immaculate origin.
• Zhou Xuan pulled A Gu from the air and used creation origin source and the power of nothingness to try to protect him, but the extraction continued.
• Zhou Xuan mocked the Divine Lord for relying on formations instead of descending in his true body, and the Divine Lord declared that the furnace would refine them both.
• The Divine Lord activated the furnace’s fire, causing the Abyss beneath them to erupt into turmoil.

Zhou Xuan let the Epoch Artifact’s chains pierce him and used their power to refine the Divine Lord’s order law and seize control of the artifact’s authority. He left the Divine Lord’s Dao incarnation shocked as Zhou Xuan laughed while hanging from the chains.

• Zhou Xuan withdrew his protection from A Gu and exposed his three origin sources, drawing the Epoch Artifact’s chains away from A Gu and onto himself.
• Ji Chen tried to rush to Zhou Xuan, but the formation’s barrier hurled him back.
• Zhou Xuan opened his dao fruit’s defenses and used his destruction, creation, and slaughter powers to refine the order law flowing through the chains.
• Zhou Xuan devoured fragments of the Divine Lord’s order law and reached through a crack in the formation to seize a thread of authority over the Epoch Artifact.
• The Divine Lord’s Dao incarnation lost access to the artifact’s core, demanded to know what Zhou Xuan had done, and watched him laugh from the chains.