Chapter Summaries

The Cangwu Small World’s factions gathered over a thousand Grandmasters at the Heavenly Dao Alliance to defend their world, while a Holy Land group secretly planned to use Qin Yan as a shield against the Alliance’s Great Grandmaster. Qin Yan’s six-person squad arrived first, and the chapter left them facing the overwhelming enemy force.

• The native factions united at the Heavenly Dao Alliance, assembling more than five hundred Late-Stage Grandmasters or stronger and preparing for a war to defend their world.
• More than forty Holy Land disciples plotted to let Qin Yan’s squad bear the brunt of the battle, keeping the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s Great Grandmaster secret from him.
• Qin Yan raised his Yin-Yang Essence above one percent, then departed with Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, Su Qingwan, Lu Qingshan, and Yun Qingge.
• Lin Ruoxi, Chu Jinghong, Xiao Yichen, Luo Qingli, and the other Holy Land disciples also set out for the Heavenly Dao Alliance.
• Qin Yan’s squad arrived first and saw over a thousand Grandmasters gathered across the Alliance’s territory, including the Alliance’s Grand Elder atop the golden war chariots.

The Heavenly Dao Alliance rallied more than a thousand Grandmasters against Qin Yan and his companions, displaying the tortured Long Aotian as a warning. Qin Yan sent his companions away to face the oncoming army alone, while Holy Land disciples mistook their retreat for abandonment.

• The Heavenly Dao Alliance's First Elder displayed Long Aotian, pinned in the sky by golden spears, and struck him with golden lightning to rally Cangwu's warriors.
• More than a thousand Grandmasters charged toward Qin Yan and his five companions.
• Qin Yan told Huang Jiuli to retreat, and she transformed into a phoenix and flew away.
• Qin Yan ordered Yin Li, Su Qingwan, Lu Qingshan, and Yun Qingge to leave, and they fled together.
• Holy Land disciples watching from afar mocked Qin Yan, believing his companions had abandoned him because of his greed.

Lin Ruoxi silenced the Holy Land geniuses as Qin Yan faced more than a thousand Grandmasters alone. The Cangwu army formed the Ice Phoenix, World-Purifying White Lotus, and Heavenly Cycle Star Formation, empowering the two phantoms as the battle began.

• Lin Ruoxi used her Imperial Sword Intent to quiet the crowd and considered why Su Qingwan had left Qin Yan.
• A golden eye projected the battlefield into the Mystic Sanctuary for its elders and Peak Masters to watch.
• Qin Yan stood alone against the Cangwu army after Huang Jiuli and the other four departed.
• The Mystic Ice Sect formed the Ice Phoenix Formation while the Pure World Lotus Sect summoned the World-Purifying White Lotus.
• An elder of the Heavenly Dao Alliance activated the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation, strengthening both phantoms with starlight.
• The Ice Phoenix grew to nearly fifteen hundred zhang as its frost aura became more powerful.

Qin Yan faced two Mid-Stage Grandmaster formation phantoms empowered by the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation and summoned his 120-zhang Dark Emperor Golden Body. After merging with it, he increased his mental strength further and drew the Dark Vault Scepter, preparing to fight.

• The Ice Phoenix and World-Purifying White Lotus absorbed the starlight and rose to Mid-Stage Grandmaster power, leaving the watching Holy Land disciples worried about Qin Yan’s chances.
• Yin Li asked Huang Jiuli whether Qin Yan could win, and Huang Jiuli admitted she was uncertain but insisted they had to believe in him.
• Qin Yan acknowledged the formation’s strength and summoned his 120-zhang Dark Emperor Golden Body, stunning the Holy Land experts.
• Qin Yan merged with the Golden Body, boosted his mental strength, and drew the Dark Vault Scepter from its Dark Light Wheel.

Qin Yan broke through to the Mid-Stage Eighth Rank and repelled the Ice Phoenix with a single strike. The Heavenly Dao Alliance ordered the Pure World Lotus Sect to support the Phoenix, and Qin Yan activated the power of his imperial crown as their combined attack approached.

• The Dark Vault Scepter helped Qin Yan break through to the Mid-Stage Eighth Rank, and his Dark Emperor Golden Body grew stronger.
• The Ice Phoenix attacked Qin Yan, but he swept the Dark Vault Scepter and sent it flying backward.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance's Grand Elder ordered the Pure World Lotus Sect to join the attack.
• The World-Purifying White Lotus landed on the Ice Phoenix and boosted it with lotus power, raising its strength to the peak of the Mid-Stage Grandmaster realm.
• The Ice Phoenix combined Mystic Ice, starlight, and lotus power into a spiraling ice current and launched it at Qin Yan.
• Qin Yan placed a sphere of Darkness Force into the Nine-Tassel Profound Black Imperial Crown, causing its beads to blaze with black light.

Qin Yan used the Nine-Tassel Profound Black Imperial Crown to strengthen his Darkness Force and nearly destroyed the Ice Phoenix phantom and World-Purifying White Lotus. The Heavenly Cycle Star Formation raised a powerful starlight defense, leaving the battle evenly matched as night fell.

• The Nine-Tassel Profound Black Imperial Crown raised Qin Yan's mental power to 639 hertz, and his dark vortex crushed the Ice Phoenix phantom's tricolored icy stream.
• Qin Yan's Dark Masses broke through the World-Purifying White Lotus's barrier and blasted holes through the Ice Phoenix phantom.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance summoned a wall of starlight from the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation, blocking Qin Yan's Dark Masses.
• Qin Yan and the Ice Phoenix phantom continued exchanging attacks as the starlight wall protected the Ice Phoenix and World-Purifying White Lotus from lethal blows.
• The battle continued into night without either side gaining the advantage.

The Heavenly Dao Alliance empowered the Ice Phoenix and World-Purifying White Lotus with stellar power, while Tian Xuanzi absorbed the disciples’ energy and rose to the pinnacle of Late-Stage Great Grandmaster. The three surrounded Qin Yan, and Tian Xuanzi began gathering golden lightning for an attack.

• The Heavenly Cycle Star Formation gathered starlight, healing the Ice Phoenix and raising it to Late-Stage Great Grandmaster while strengthening the World-Purifying White Lotus.
• Tian Xuanzi emerged from the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s Core Zone and led the disciples in transferring their cultivated energy into him.
• Tian Xuanzi’s cultivation surged to the pinnacle of Late-Stage Great Grandmaster after he absorbed the disciples’ energy, stellar power, and the white lotus’s power.
• The Ice Phoenix, World-Purifying White Lotus, and Tian Xuanzi surrounded Qin Yan, who challenged them to attack together.
• Tian Xuanzi summoned a golden thundercloud above Qin Yan and began concentrating its lightning.

As Tian Xuanzi unleashed a devastating golden lightning strike against Qin Yan, Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, and Su Qingwan rushed to fight beside him. Qin Yan stopped Huang Jiuli from sacrificing herself and placed her behind him as the lightning descended.

• The Holy Land disciples prepared to flee, believing Qin Yan could not survive Tian Xuanzi's attack.
• Huang Jiuli flew toward Qin Yan, and Yin Li and Su Qingwan followed her while Lu Qingshan and Yun Qingge retreated.
• Huang Jiuli told Qin Yan she had come to fight beside him, while Yin Li and Su Qingwan prepared to battle at his sides.
• Tian Xuanzi sent a hundred-zhang golden lightning bolt crashing down toward Qin Yan and the three women.
• Huang Jiuli prepared to block the lightning and risk nirvana rebirth, but Qin Yan used a dark hand to move her behind him.

Qin Yan blocked a peak Late-Stage Grandmaster’s attack, protected Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, and Su Qingwan, and summoned his Darkness Altar to battle Tian Xuanzi. As that fight continued, Qin Yan turned his attention to the Ice Phoenix and World-Purifying White Lotus, which began gathering their powers for an attack.

• Qin Yan used the Hand of the Dark Abyss to weaken and block the golden lightning, then shielded Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, and Su Qingwan with a darkness barrier.
• Qin Yan manifested the Darkness Altar at late-stage Rank Eight and sent it to intercept Tian Xuanzi.
• Tian Xuanzi charged the Darkness Altar with golden Heavenly Dao power, and the two fought to a standstill.
• Qin Yan aimed five increasingly powerful Darkness Lasers at the Ice Phoenix and World-Purifying White Lotus.
• The Ice Phoenix formed a colossal ice-crystal pillar as the World-Purifying White Lotus sent lotus phantoms toward it.

Qin Yan used five Dark Lasers to destroy the ice crystal lotus pillar, then decided to target the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation. He drew one percent of the Darkness Dao Essence from Little Black, causing his power to surge and the surrounding forces to tremble.

• The Heavenly Dao Alliance disciple sent the ice crystal lotus pillar at Qin Yan, but his five Dark Lasers shattered it and broke apart its white lotus capital.
• The fifth Dark Laser pierced through the ice pillar, but the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation blocked its remaining power from reaching the Ice Phoenix.
• Qin Yan identified the star formation as the allied army’s greatest threat and decided to destroy it first.
• Qin Yan asked Little Black for one percent of the Darkness Dao Essence and sealed away some of his existing Dao Essence before absorbing it.
• Darkness ripples erupted from Qin Yan, tearing through space and making the Ice Phoenix, World-Purifying White Lotus, phantom stars, Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, and Su Qingwan tremble.

After fusing one percent Darkness Essence, Qin Yan gained far greater control over Darkness Force without increasing his spiritual power realm. He used the Nine-Tassel Profound Black Imperial Crown’s Imperial Crown Verdict to seal the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation beneath a vast black screen, leaving the battle hidden from everyone outside.

• The elders watching through the Golden-Eyed Heavenly Mirror recognized that Qin Yan had fused one percent Darkness Essence and marveled at the rare resource he possessed.
• Qin Yan sensed that his spiritual power remained at 639 hertz, but his control over Darkness Force had transformed and his combat power had reached the Late-Stage Grandmaster threshold.
• Qin Yan activated the Nine-Tassel Profound Black Imperial Crown’s Spirit Weapon Skill, Imperial Crown Verdict, and sent an immense phantom crown above the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation.
• The Heavenly Dao Alliance elder summoned a giant star beast from the 365 phantom stars to resist the descending black light screen.
• The black screen enveloped and sealed the entire formation, hiding whatever was happening inside from the native Martial Artists outside.

Qin Yan used the Dark Emperor Golden Body to overwhelm the Ice Phoenix and World-Purifying White Lotus, while the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation summoned its Astral Phenomena to confront his Dark Judgment Swords. The two forces collided inside the barrier, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Ice Phoenix and World-Purifying White Lotus attacked Qin Yan’s black light barrier, but Darkness Force swallowed both strikes without leaving a mark.
• Qin Yan charged the Ice Phoenix and White Lotus with the Dark Emperor Golden Body, shattering their attacks and overwhelming their defenses.
• The Dark Emperor Golden Body battered the two formation spirit phantoms, whose feathers and petals broke apart as their auras weakened.
• Inside the barrier, the dark imperial crown gathered Darkness Force into tens of thousands of Dark Judgment Swords.
• The Heavenly Cycle Star Formation manifested three hundred and sixty-five Astral Phenomena, which surged upward as the Dark Judgment Swords rained down.
• The Dark Judgment Swords and Astral Phenomena collided in a violent clash of darkness and starlight.

Qin Yan’s Darkness Force overwhelmed the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation, destroying its star phantoms and causing severe backlash among the Cangwu Small World’s Grandmasters. With the formation’s enhancement gone, Qin Yan seized the chance to attack the weakened Ice Phoenix and white lotus phantoms.

• Qin Yan’s Darkness Altar suppressed Tian Xuanzi with Darkness Chains as Tian Xuanzi struggled against it.
• The Heavenly Cycle Star Formation’s battle against the Judgment Swords ended, and its Grandmaster controllers suffered backlash, spitting blood and losing power.
• The pitch-black curtain faded, revealing the shattered Heavenly Cycle Star Map and the vanishing imperial crown phantom.
• The formation’s power dissipated, weakening Tian Xuanzi, the Ice Phoenix, and the white lotus phantoms.
• Qin Yan sent Darkness Chains toward the Ice Phoenix and white lotus, which formed an ice barrier and closed their petals to defend themselves.

Qin Yan annihilated the Cangwu Small World’s three peak formation spirits, but the battle left him mentally exhausted. After recovering with a pill, he turned his attention to Tian Xuanzi and the surviving allied army.

• Qin Yan used Darkness Chains to break through the Ice Phoenix and World-Purifying White Lotus’s defenses, then corrupted and destroyed both spirits.
• The three Cangwu peak Combat Powers—the Ice Phoenix formation spirit, the World-Purifying White Lotus, and the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation—were annihilated by Qin Yan.
• Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, Su Qingwan, and the distant Holy Land prodigies reacted to Qin Yan’s victory, while Su Qingwan was glad she had chosen his side.
• Qin Yan dismissed his Dark Emperor Golden Body and returned the one percent Darkness Essence to Little Black through the Blood Demon Nest.
• Qin Yan swallowed a mental-energy recovery pill and looked toward Tian Xuanzi, who remained suppressed by the Darkness Altar, and the surviving Cangwu allied army.

Qin Yan unleashed the Abyss Fire Lotus against Tian Xuanzi, who used a forbidden ritual to summon the Heavenly Dao’s power into his body. Tian Xuanzi’s eyes turned gold as his aura surged to a terrifying level.

• After the three great formations broke, their Grandmaster presiders were weakened, and Tian Xuanzi realized the Cangwu Alliance could not stop Qin Yan.
• Qin Yan appeared beside the Darkness Altar and sent its fully condensed Abyss Fire Lotus toward Tian Xuanzi.
• Facing the attack, Tian Xuanzi performed an ancient sacrifice and called for the Heavenly Dao to descend upon him.
• Golden eyes appeared in the sky and struck Tian Xuanzi with twin beams of light.
• Tian Xuanzi’s body cracked and filled with golden light as his pupils turned entirely gold and his aura surged.

The Heavenly Dao of the Cangwu Small World took over Tian Xuanzi’s body and effortlessly destroyed Qin Yan’s Abyss Fire Lotus, though the vessel was breaking apart under the strain. As the Heavenly Dao prepared a final attack against Qin Yan’s group, it summoned immense lightning from the earth and sky.

• The Heavenly Dao destroyed Qin Yan’s Abyss Fire Lotus by eroding it with golden Runes and crushing it, worsening the cracks spreading across Tian Xuanzi’s body.
• The Heavenly Dao revealed that Tian Xuanzi’s soul had been annihilated when he summoned the Heavenly Dao’s descent.
• Qin Yan realized he was facing the Cangwu Small World’s Heavenly Dao and judged that Tian Xuanzi’s body could not endure its power for much longer.
• The Heavenly Dao resolved to kill Qin Yan’s group before its vessel collapsed and summoned golden lightning from beneath the earth and from the sky.
• The Heavenly Dao caught the two bolts of lightning in its hands and brought its palms together before its chest.

Tian Xuanzi unleashed the Heaven-Earth Thunder Marsh before his body collapsed, and Qin Yan shielded Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, and Su Qingwan with the Five Elements Yin-Yang Mystic Yellow Bell. After the bell withstood the attack without damage, Qin Yan stood unharmed, leaving the Cangwu Small World’s Grandmasters terrified.

• Tian Xuanzi formed the thousand-zhang Heaven-Earth Thunder Marsh and sent it toward Qin Yan and the others as his body broke apart and the Heavenly Dao dissipated.
• Qin Yan appeared before Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, and Su Qingwan and summoned the Five Elements Yin-Yang Mystic Yellow Bell with the Mo Yuan Spirit Weapon.
• The Heaven-Earth Thunder Marsh struck the bell, but its seven-colored radiance remained unmoved as it absorbed the attack.
• Yin Li recognized that Qin Yan’s Spirit Weapon Skill had grown stronger, while Qin Yan judged that the bell could now withstand attacks at the Venerable level.
• Qin Yan dismissed the bell and appeared unharmed, terrifying the Cangwu Small World’s Grandmasters.

Qin Yan used his Demon Word Heavenly Constitution to kill more than a thousand wounded Cangwu Small World Grandmasters, then gathered their Dao Essence and blood aura. The Holy Land disciples watched in awe as the Blood-Devouring Mosquito fed on the battlefield, unaware that Qin Yan's Dark Enslavement Rune was steadily eroding its will.

• Qin Yan declared that the Cangwu Small World Grandmasters would die, and they all exploded from within because their earlier injuries had left them near exhaustion.
• Qin Yan drew the scattered Dao Essence fragments into his body and used the Undying Blood Demon Scripture to absorb the battlefield's blood aura into the Blood Demon Nest.
• Qin Yan sent the Blood-Devouring Mosquito into the Blood River to devour the blood aura, while the Dark Enslavement Rune continued to erode its will.
• The Holy Land disciples watched Qin Yan's feats in stunned silence, and a South Academy challenger said his strength surpassed their understanding.

After Qin Yan defeated the Heavenly Dao Alliance, he claimed the battlefield’s resources and spent the turn of the year refining the immense blood energy left by more than a thousand dead Grandmasters. By January 3rd, the battlefield had cleared, and the Blood-Devouring Mosquito had fallen into a deep slumber as its power grew.

• Qin Yan told Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, and Su Qingwan to collect resources, and they flew out to search the battlefield.
• A Holy Land prodigy tried to take resources without permission, but Qin Yan blasted him away and ordered him to get lost.
• The remaining Holy Land disciples withdrew while Qin Yan and the Blood-Devouring Mosquito absorbed the battlefield’s blood energy and Dao Essence.
• The other Holy Land prodigies conquered the surviving sects across the Cangwu Small World as the old year ended and the new year began.
• On January 3rd, Qin Yan and the Blood-Devouring Mosquito finished consuming the battlefield’s blood energy, and the mosquito returned to the Blood Demon Nest to sleep.

After the battle, Qin Yan assessed his Dao Essence gains and discovered the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation’s secrets among the spoils. He seized the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s resources and entered the Heavenly Dao Tower, climbing toward its upper levels.

• Qin Yan reviewed the Dao Essences he had gained and planned to refine his Five Elements Essence and Spear Dao Essence.
• Huang Jiuli gave Qin Yan the Storage Ring containing the fallen Grandmaster experts’ resources, including a complete record of the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation.
• Qin Yan learned the formation was a powerful eighth-grade Formation and decided to master it after advancing his Array Mage attainments.
• Qin Yan, Huang Jiuli, Yin Li, and Su Qingwan flew to the Heavenly Dao Alliance, where Qin Yan made a disciple lead them to its treasury.
• Qin Yan took the Alliance’s treasury and searched its scripture repository, Martial Arena, pill chamber, and spiritual material storehouse for valuables.
• Qin Yan’s group settled in the Heavenly Dao Tower, and Qin Yan passed the lower three levels as he climbed upward.