Chapter Summaries

Chu Tian freed Heaven Abyss Holy Son and Starry Son by empowering them to break the Taiyi Chessboard, then destroyed it and obtained the Unfettered Key. With all four keys, he opened the ruins’ core gate and found the supposedly fallen Lord of Primordial Chaos inside.

• Chu Tian found Heaven Abyss Holy Son and Starry Son trapped as chess pieces in the Taiyi Chessboard and learned that the guardian’s game was the fourth trial.
• Chu Tian sent Abyss Sword Intent and the Starry Path into Heaven Abyss Holy Son and Starry Son, allowing them to break their chains and disrupt the game from within.
• Chu Tian charged into the chessboard and shattered the throne of the chess player, causing the board to collapse as the guardian accepted its destruction.
• The Unfettered Key appeared, completing Chu Tian’s set of four keys, and they opened the bronze gate at the ruins’ center.
• Chu Tian and his companions entered the hall and found the cracked, meditating Lord of Primordial Chaos, whose aura shared the origin of Chu Tian’s Hongmeng Heavenly Path.

Chu Tian destroyed the Heartless Dao Body and received the Taiyi Source Core from the true remnant will of the Lord of Primordial Chaos. As Chu Tian gained power and prepared to leave the relic, he learned that the Return-to-Silence Key was inside the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor and the Heavenly King Emperor's projection had attacked his home.

• The Heartless Dao Body condemned Chu Tian's bonds and demanded he sever them to receive the Taiyi Source Core.
• Chu Tian exposed the Heartless Dao Body as a fragment cut away by the Lord of Primordial Chaos, then fought it with strength from Chu Yueyao, Hui Mei, Heavenly Abyss, and Stars.
• Chu Tian bound the Heartless Dao Body with seven Hongmeng chains and destroyed it with the eighth form of the Hongmeng Human Emperor Sword.
• The true remnant will of the Lord of Primordial Chaos emerged, gave Chu Tian the Taiyi Source Core, and explained that compassion had once caused his defeat.
• The Taiyi Source Core transformed Chu Tian's inner world and Heavens Ten Directions Pagoda, while raising his cultivation to the middle stage of the Creation Realm.
• The remnant will warned Chu Tian that the Return-to-Silence Key was inside the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor and the Heavenly King Emperor's projection had raided his home.

Chu Tian returned to the Human Ancestral Land and thwarted the Black Emperor Shadow’s attack on the dragon vein while suppressing the Heavenly King Emperor’s projection. The Zero Heaven Gate appeared, and Chu Tian entered it to pursue the Return-to-Silence Key and confront the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor.

• Chu Tian rushed back to the Human Ancestral Land and found Chu Tianwang and Chu Yunshang defending the Ancestral Soul Hall from the Heavenly King Emperor’s projection.
• Chu Yunshang warned Chu Tian that the Black Emperor Shadow had possessed a guard and infiltrated the Ancestral Soul Hall to seize the Taiyi Balance and destroy the dragon vein.
• Chu Tian split his body and soul, sending his true body to suppress the projection while his avatar pursued the Black Emperor Shadow with Hui Mei’s help.
• Chu Tian’s true body trapped the projection in the Hongmeng Heavenly Tower, while his avatar recovered the Taiyi Balance, purified the dragon vein, and captured the Black Emperor Shadow.
• The Black Emperor Shadow detonated its remaining origin power, revealing the Zero Heaven Gate, and the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor challenged Chu Tian to retrieve the Return-to-Silence Key beyond it.
• Chu Tian left the Ancestral Land in Chu Yunshang and Chu Tianwang’s care and entered the Zero Heaven Gate.

Chu Tian broke the Time Maze City’s trial by rejecting the idea that innocents should be sacrificed, then rescued Chu Yueyao from a temporal rift. The maze collapsed and revealed a stone gate that demanded a Human Emperor Bloodline as its sacrifice.

• Chu Tian entered the Zero Heaven Gate and discovered a city where time passed at a distorted rate and the Taiyi Balance replayed Human Emperors’ agonizing choices.
• Chu Tian rejected the trial’s demand that the few be sacrificed for the many, and the will of all beings shattered the maze’s oppressive illusions.
• The Human Emperors’ remnant consciousnesses revealed that the Return-to-Silence Key was within the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor and could be drawn out with a complete Human Emperor’s Heart as bait.
• The Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor caused the Time Maze City to collapse, and Chu Tian found Chu Yueyao caught in a temporal rift.
• Chu Tian used the Hongmeng Heavenly Tower to rescue Chu Yueyao and absorbed a wisp of Taiyi Temporal Law from the rift.
• The maze collapsed completely, revealing a stone gate that required one Human Emperor Bloodline to be sacrificed to open it.

Chu Tian, Chu Tianwang, and Chu Yunshang opened the sacrificial gate by sharing its memory cost, then fought through the Imperial Heart Hunting Grounds to reach the Human Emperor's True Body. The Human Emperor's True Body told Chu Tian to kill him to obtain the Return-to-Silence Key.

• Chu Tianwang offered to sacrifice his Human Emperor Bloodline, but the Human Emperor's remnant consciousness revealed that the gate demanded precious memories and severed family bonds.
• Chu Yunshang arrived and insisted the family bear the cost together, so Chu Tian used the Coexistence Law to divide the sacrifice between himself and Chu Tianwang.
• Chu Tian and Chu Tianwang gave blood to open the gate and each lost a cherished memory of the other.
• Chu Tian and Chu Tianwang entered the Imperial Heart Hunting Grounds and battled through a million Silent Abyss Hunter Soldiers, with Chu Tian devouring and refining a hundred thousand of them.
• Chu Tian and Chu Tianwang reached the Human Emperor's True Body and saw the Return-to-Silence Key embedded in its chest.
• The Human Emperor's True Body opened its eyes and asked Chu Tian to kill it so he could obtain the key.

Chu Tian refused to kill the Human Emperor’s True Body and fought to break the hunting grounds’ rules instead. After his allies opened a path and he seized control of part of the grounds, the Return-to-Silence Key pierced his chest and bound itself around his heart.

• The Human Emperor’s True Body asked Chu Tian to kill him before the awakened second consciousness turned him into the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor’s weapon, but Chu Tian refused.
• The Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor surrounded Chu Tian and Chu Tianwang with a million Realm-Hunting Army soldiers and declared that Chu Tian could not obtain the key without killing the Human Emperor.
• Chu Yunshang charged into the hunting grounds, destroyed nine sacrificial banners, and broke open the army’s formation.
• Return-to-Silence priests used a hundred thousand civilian souls as a shield, but Bai Meier freed the souls with her illusion art and collapsed from the effort.
• Chu Tian slaughtered three Creation Realm priests and seized part of the hunting grounds, but the Return-to-Silence Key escaped the Human Emperor’s chest and wrapped itself around Chu Tian’s heart.

Chu Tian resisted the Return-to-Silence Key by forging a Taiyi Dao Heart from creation, destruction, coexistence, and the Human Emperor’s power. After freeing the Human Emperor from Heavenly King Emperor’s control, Chu Tian and his companions faced the collapse of the Imperial Heart Hunting Grounds and Heavenly King Emperor’s attempt to drag them into the Silent Abyss Great World.

• Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor’s chains invaded Chu Tian’s heart and Dao foundation, triggering demonic corruption as Chu Yunshang tried to cut them free.
• The Human Emperor’s True Body revealed that the Return-to-Silence Key was the missing Destruction Counterweight, and Chu Tian used it with the Human Emperor’s Heart and Taiyi Source Core to forge a Taiyi Dao Heart.
• Heavenly King Emperor took control of the Human Emperor’s True Body and made him attack Chu Yunshang, but Chu Tian awakened his Taiyi power, froze the Human Emperor, and severed the second consciousness within him.
• The Human Emperor regained his freedom, praised Chu Tian, and sacrificed his remaining Imperial Dao Origin to strengthen Chu Tian’s Taiyi Dao Heart.
• The Imperial Heart Hunting Grounds began collapsing, and Heavenly King Emperor reached in with a hand of nirvana flames to drag Chu Tian, Chu Yunshang, and the wreckage toward the Silent Abyss Great World.

Chu Tian risked his life to protect Chu Yunshang from the Heavenly King Emperor, then joined the arriving allied forces to sever the Emperor’s giant hand and escape the collapsing Imperial Heart Hunting Grounds. As the forces retreated, Chu Tian discovered coordinates on a black tablet pointing to the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor’s main body at the Guixu Throne.

• The Heavenly King Emperor sealed the Imperial Heart Hunting Grounds and tried to seize Chu Yunshang’s Hongmeng slaughter sacred bone, so Chu Tian shielded her with the Hongmeng Heavenly Tower and took a devastating blow that cracked his newly formed Taiyi Dao Heart.
• Heaven Abyss Holy Son and Starry Son stood between the wounded Chu Tian and the Emperor’s next attack, while Chu Tianwang led the Myriad Worlds United Fleet and allied armies through a breach in the sealed space.
• Yao Xuan, Starfall God Son, and Withered Wood Ancient Ancestor formed the Counter-Covenant Formation, weakening the Heavenly King Emperor’s giant hand by thirty percent.
• Chu Tian used the Primordial Human Emperor’s Sixth Form, Opening Heaven Beyond, to sever the weakened giant hand at the wrist.
• Chu Tianwang carried the grievously injured Chu Tian out as the allied forces evacuated before the hunting grounds collapsed into a black hole.
• Chu Tian seized a broken black tablet and found coordinates identifying the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor’s main body’s location as the Guixu Throne in the deepest level of the Taiyi Source Sea.

Chu Tian used the Taiyi Balance to make the people of the Twin Realms feel one another’s suffering, then exposed the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor and forged an alliance with rebels in Silent Abyss. The Guixu Council awakened and threatened to erase both worlds, while Chu Tian prepared to seek the Taiyi Human Emperor Seal at the Guixu Throne.

• Chu Tian recovered from his injuries, refined the Return-to-Silence Key, and manifested the Taiyi Balance, joining the laws of the Twin Realms and awakening Sentient Empathy between their people.
• The Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor amplified their pain and tried to turn it into hatred, but Chu Tian showed both worlds evidence of the Emperor’s atrocities and ambition.
• Silent Abyss garrisons and rebels turned against the Divine Court and asked to join the Taiyi Alliance, while Chu Tian granted the ten clans titles, autonomy, and their ancestral lands.
• Seven members of the Guixu Council awakened, condemned the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor, and declared their plan to erase all life in both worlds.
• The Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor revealed his true form and confronted the Seven Elders, while Chu Tian’s Taiyi Balance pointed to the Guixu Throne, where the Taiyi Human Emperor Seal lay.

Chu Tian led the allied armies against the Seven Elders of Guixu after rejecting the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor’s proposed alliance. As the battle raged, Chu Tian discovered the Heavenly Emperor was using the elders to distract him while reaching for the Taiyi Human Emperor Seal, so Chu Tian and Chu Tianwang raced toward the Guixu Throne.

• Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor proposed that he and Chu Tian join forces against the Seven Elders of Guixu, but Chu Tian rejected the offer and ordered the Heavens Alliance and Silent Abyss Rebel Army to attack.
• The First Elder of Guixu shattered space to destroy the allied army’s vanguard, but Chu Yunshang broke through and split half of his body with her sword.
• The Second Elder of Guixu unleashed extinction snow, but Chu Yueyao and the Golden Crow Clan burned it away and destroyed his extinction avatar.
• The Third Elder of Guixu erased the cultivation of a million soldiers, and Hui Mei used the Creation Reincarnation Disk to preserve their cultivation and protect them.
• Chu Tian realized the elders were distracting him while Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor tried to seize the Taiyi Human Emperor Seal, then joined Chu Tianwang in charging toward the Guixu Throne.

Chu Tian and Chu Tianwang reached the Guixu Throne, where Chu Tian learned that Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor was the First Human Emperor’s corrupted desire to save the world. After Chu Tian claimed the Taiyi Human Emperor Seal, the Heavenly King Emperor drew them into the One True Realm Core and forced Chu Tian to face two catastrophic choices; Chu Tian rejected the premise and vowed to choose his own path.

• Chu Tianwang held off three Half-Step Transcendence monsters so Chu Tian could break through Guixu’s barriers and reach the throne.
• Chu Tian saw the First Human Emperor’s past in the Ancient Bronze Mirror and understood how his desire to save everyone had become Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor’s drive to destroy and remake the world.
• The Heavenly King Emperor challenged Chu Tian to choose between saving the Heavens and Myriad Worlds or Silent Abyss, but Chu Tian vowed to save both realms.
• The Heavenly King Emperor used the Taiyi Human Emperor Seal to reject Chu Tian, and Chu Tianwang took the force of the seal’s fusion to give his son time to seize it.
• The Heavenly King Emperor revealed a hidden rune that sent Chu Tian, Chu Tianwang, and himself into the One True Realm Core, where he offered the lethal Fusion and Severance Programs as the only choices.
• Chu Tian rejected the Heavenly King Emperor’s imposed choices and declared that he would make his own path.

Chu Tian opened the Coexistence World Gate and tried to contain the unleashed Gray Tide, drawing strength from beings across the Twin Realms. When the Seven Elders of Guixu attacked, the Heavenly King Emperor shielded Chu Tian and agreed to fight alongside him for three breaths.

• The Human Emperor's True Body sacrificed himself to empower Chu Tian, who shattered the dead-end paths and opened the Coexistence World Gate for all who shared a name with him to choose their fate.
• The Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor awakened the Destructive Instinct, releasing the Gray Tide that threatened to erase the Twin Realms within a thousand years.
• Chu Tian offered to cooperate with the Heavenly King Emperor, but the Emperor refused, so Chu Tian entered the Gray Tide and split it between the Taiyi Balance and Hongmeng Heavenly Tower.
• After Chu Tian's Taiyi Dao Heart cracked, Chu Yunshang, Chu Yueyao, and countless others sent him their strength, allowing him to contain the Gray Tide temporarily.
• The Seven Elders of Guixu fused into the Guixu Heavenly Aspect and attacked Chu Tian, but the Heavenly King Emperor took the blow meant for him and proposed a three-breath alliance.
• Chu Tian agreed to fight alongside the Heavenly King Emperor and declared that two breaths would be enough to defeat the Seven Elders.

Chu Tian and the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor defeated the Seven Elders of Guixu, but the Heavenly Emperor betrayed Chu Tian and stole the Human Emperor Seal. The chapter ended with the Heavenly Emperor implanting the seal in his own chest as Chu Tian lay gravely wounded.

• The Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor sacrificed his ruined body to absorb the Guixu Heavenly Aspect’s Zeroing Law, allowing Chu Tian to break its shield and attack.
• Chu Tian called on Chu Yunshang and billions of allies to proclaim their names, and their united wills resisted the Myriad Realms Zeroing Stele.
• Chu Tian used Myriad Names Undying to destroy the stele and cut the Guixu Heavenly Aspect into seven pieces, then Hui Mei captured the Seven Elders of Guixu in Reincarnation Prison.
• As Chu Tian tried to thank the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor, the Heavenly Emperor stabbed him from behind and tore the Human Emperor Seal from his body.
• The Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor revealed that he had cooperated for only three breaths and drove the Human Emperor Seal into his own chest.

After the Heavenly King Emperor restored himself with the Human Emperor Seal, he forced Chu Tian into a final battle in the Taiyi Endgame Arena, where each side had to stake one million lives. Chu Tian refused to choose others as sacrifices, and the people of the Heavens and Myriad Worlds volunteered until every sphere on his side was filled.

• The Heavenly King Emperor used the Human Emperor Seal to restore his ruined body and transformed the One True Realm Core into the Taiyi Endgame Arena.
• The Heavenly King Emperor announced that he and Chu Tian would each stake one million living beings, with the loser's realm and chosen people erased.
• Chu Tian refused to select anyone and declared that he would bear the karmic burden himself.
• Chu Yunshang, Chu Tianwang, and Chu Tian's other allies offered to share the burden, but Chu Tian barred them from interfering.
• A Rogue Cultivator volunteered to become one of Chu Tian's chips, inspiring people and clans across the Heavens and Myriad Worlds to join him.
• Volunteers filled all one million spheres on Chu Tian's side, while more continued to arrive.

Chu Tian and the people who shared their names defeated the Heavenly King Emperor’s first wager in the Taiyi Endgame Arena and claimed a tenth of the Twin Realms’ origin. The Emperor then targeted Chu Yunshang, leaving her bound by blackflame chains as his next wager.

• The people of both worlds rejected the Heavenly King Emperor and sent their names to Chu Tian, prompting the Emperor to reveal his Evil Thought True Form and threaten to detonate the arena.
• Chu Tian and the Heavenly King Emperor took the Creation and Destruction Thrones, sealing the arena and beginning a wager that would cost the losing side a tenth of the Twin Realms’ origin.
• The Emperor’s annihilating pressure and visions of slaughter drove some of Chu Tian’s million people toward despair, but Chu Tian let them share their reasons for standing with him.
• Zhang San and the others rallied around their shared courage, then confronted and destroyed the million Evil Thought Mirror Images without Chu Tian intervening.
• Chu Tian won the first wager and drew a tenth of the Twin Realms’ origin from the Emperor, stabilizing his Late-Stage Creation Realm cultivation.
• The Emperor placed a Destruction Chess Piece and revealed Chu Yunshang bound above a black altar by chains of Jiemie Blackflame.

Chu Tian overcame the Heavenly Emperor’s second wager by sharing Chu Yunshang’s suffering through their name-linked network and accepting responsibility for innocents killed in past battles. The Heavenly Emperor then revealed Future Chu Tian, a far more terrifying enemy who appeared to have killed Chu Tian’s loved ones.

• The Heavenly Emperor threatened Chu Yunshang to force Chu Tian to sever his ties to the million people sharing his name, but Chu Yunshang burned her Sacred Bone to cut their bloodline connection herself.
• Chu Tian used the Coexistence Law to spread Chu Yunshang’s bone-stripping pain among the million people, whose shared resolve forged her Myriad-Name Slaughter Bone and destroyed the Heavenly Emperor’s chains.
• The Heavenly Emperor began his second wager by reversing time and gathering Chu Tian’s former enemies and the souls of civilians killed in past battles to condemn his Dao Heart.
• Chu Tian acknowledged his share of the civilians’ deaths and promised them reincarnation; they forgave him and entered his inner world as its first true spirits of reincarnation.
• Chu Tian used Bearing Ten Thousand Calamities to bind his former enemies into his reincarnation cycle, defeating the second wager and taking another tenth of the source from the Destruction Throne.
• The Heavenly Emperor revealed Future Chu Tian, who appeared on a bone throne holding the Hongmeng Heavenly Tower, with the corpses of Chu Tian’s loved ones beneath him.

Chu Tian broke the inner demon round by exposing the Future Demon Emperor as an obsession rather than his true future, then opened the Eighth Gate with the willing support of all beings. The Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor began the fourth round by activating the Master Chain to drain Silent Abyss, leaving Chu Tian to face the crisis without abandoning its people.

• Future Chu Tian showed the allied army a vision of Chu Tian devouring the survivors of both worlds, but Chu Tian recognized him as his own obsession with protection.
• Chu Tian entered the inner demon battlefield and endured attacks from corrupted projections of his family until he saw through them and destroyed them.
• The Future Demon Emperor transformed into Black-Heaven Chu Emperor, but Chu Tian dragged his consciousness into his Dao Heart and revealed the hidden Eighth Gate.
• All beings willingly lent their true names as keys, opening the Eighth Gate and destroying Black-Heaven Chu Emperor; Chu Tian then shared Taiyi power with the willing fighters.
• The Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor began the fourth round by activating the Master Chain and draining the life origins of Silent Abyss's inhabitants.
• Chu Tian rejected a command to abandon Silent Abyss and prepared to act, knowing the Heavenly King Emperor could not be killed while the Master Chain remained intact.

Chu Tian broke the Return-to-Silence Master Chain by freeing the child at its core and rallying Silent Abyss's people, but the Eighth Elder of Guixu appeared and began erasing lives and memories. As the Human Emperors lent Chu Tian their authority to oppose him, the Eighth Elder revealed a page naming Chu Tian the Ninth Human Emperor Corpse.

• Chu Tian sent Xing Zhui, Yao Xuan, Sheng Qi, and their forces through a spatial passage while Silent Abyss civilians rose up to destroy the three false master chain nodes.
• The Heavenly King Emperor revealed that the true chain was bound to the rescued child, so Chu Tian reached the child's mother and helped him overcome his fear as Silent Abyss's people shouted their names and shattered the chain.
• The chain's destruction wounded the Heavenly King Emperor and let Xing Zhui's army capture seventy-two Divine Court strongholds, but the Heavenly King Emperor warned that the Seven Elders of Guixu had survived.
• The Eighth Elder appeared, declared Chu Tian and the Heavenly King Emperor targets for return to zero, and began erasing an important name from Chu Tian's memories.
• The Eighth Elder revealed himself as the First Human Emperor's Absolute Rational Corpse and summoned the Taiyi Corpse Scripture, causing the Finale Arena and Co-Namer light spheres to collapse.
• Chu Tian summoned the Human Emperors' lingering thoughts, who gave him their authority, while the Eighth Elder turned to a page naming Chu Tian the Ninth Human Emperor Corpse.

Chu Tian rejected the Human Emperors’ plan to sacrifice his will and distributed their gathered destiny among the people of the Heavens and Silent Abyss. Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor stole Chu Tian’s Taiyi Heartblood and ascended to Transcendence, but Chu Tian struck back and smashed half his face.

• Chu Tian broke the Human Emperors’ attempt to assimilate him and used All Beings Share a Name to distribute their destiny across the Heavens and Myriad Worlds and the Silent Abyss.
• Chu Yunshang, Yao Xuan, Starfall God Son, and Sheng Qi combined their powers with the destiny to form the Myriad Races Human Emperor Formation and destroy Eighth Elder’s corpse-aura hand.
• Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor stole Chu Tian’s spilled Taiyi Heartblood and used it to reach Transcendence, transforming into a towering Heavenly Emperor True Form.
• The Heavenly King Emperor cracked the million spheres of light and wounded the defenders, prompting Chu Tian to charge him directly.
• Chu Tian endured the Heavenly King Emperor’s punches, then used the recoil of a fourth blow to smash half the Emperor’s face, as the Emperor’s remaining eye flashed with a sinister calculation.

The Heavenly King Emperor and the awakened Hongmeng Will fought to take control of Chu Tian’s body, leaving his true consciousness trapped between them. Chu Yunshang used the Hongmeng Human Emperor Sword to sever the Hongmeng Will’s connection to Chu Tian, giving him a chance to reclaim control.

• The Heavenly King Emperor used his black blood to invade Chu Tian’s heart and seize his Taiyi Dao Heart, destabilizing the All Beings Share a Name network.
• Chu Tian gave the Hongmeng Human Emperor Sword to Chu Yunshang and told her to kill him if he became the Heavenly King Emperor’s puppet.
• The Hongmeng Will awakened within Chu Tian, revealed its plan to create a motionless universe, and demanded full control of his body.
• Chu Tian rejected the Hongmeng Will, but it seized the left half of his body while the Heavenly King Emperor’s black blood controlled the right.
• Chu Tian sent Chu Yunshang a divine thought asking her to stab his heart and sever the Hongmeng Will’s control link.
• Chu Yunshang pierced Chu Tian’s heart with the Hongmeng Human Emperor Sword, severing the Hongmeng Will from his body as Chu Tian’s true consciousness seized its exposed light.