Chapter Summaries

Qin Yan defeated and killed Ming Cang, then collected his spoils after destroying the Nine Netherworld Underworld King Golden Body. Kong Wuhen and Kong Ling'er escaped through spatial power, and Qin Yan reunited with Zhao Ming and Lin Qingyin.

• Qin Yan used the Great Annihilation Spear Shadow to suppress Ming Cang and destroyed his Nine Netherworld Underworld King Golden Body.
• Qin Yan struck Ming Cang down and collected the spoils he left behind.
• Kong Wuhen asked Kong Ling'er to cover him while he opened a spatial maw, and the two escaped through it.
• Zhao Ming and Lin Qingyin reflected on the Spatial Temple pair's formidable spatial techniques.
• Qin Yan thanked Zhao Ming and Lin Qingyin for their help, and they told him there was no need to be polite.

Qin Yan gave Zhao Ming and Lin Qingyin the spatial rings of the Voidless Sword Sect’s Holy Son and Holy Maiden, then silenced the watching prodigies with a challenge before leaving the battlefield. Afterward, Di Xuance admitted he had only even odds against Qin Yan, despite having reached Domain Fusion Return to One himself.

• Qin Yan insisted that Zhao Ming and Lin Qingyin accept the spatial rings as thanks for helping him, and they finally agreed.
• Qin Yan challenged the remaining prodigies to attack him, but no one dared answer, including Di Xuance and Jiang Fengming.
• Qin Yan left the battlefield with Zhao Ming and Lin Qingyin, and the other prodigies discussed the many abilities that had made him so formidable.
• Jiang Yue asked Di Xuance whether he could face Qin Yan, and Di Xuance answered that their chances were fifty-fifty.
• Jiang Yue was shocked because Di Xuance had also reached Domain Fusion Return to One.

Qin Yan, Zhao Ming, and Lin Qingyin reached Emperor Fall Land’s core area and entered the final trial, while Di Xuance and Jiang Fengming also arrived with their groups. Qin Yan recognized the trial as the Heavenly Tribulation Wasteland and realized he had been separated from his senior brother and senior sister.

• Di Xuance estimated that he had a fifty-fifty chance of defeating Qin Yan and led Jiang Yue and the Emperor Palace members toward the core area.
• Jiang Fengming admired Qin Yan’s mastery of Five Elements Chaos Genesis, then led the Holy Court group toward the core area.
• Qin Yan, Zhao Ming, and Lin Qingyin entered the golden pillar of light to begin the final trial of Emperor Fall Land’s second layer.
• Di Xuance and Jiang Fengming arrived at the core area with their groups and entered the pillar after the others.
• Qin Yan found himself in the Heavenly Tribulation Wasteland, where purple-gold lightning destroyed young prodigies, and concluded that Zhao Ming and Lin Qingyin had been sent to different regions.

Qin Yan crossed the Heavenly Lightning Tribulation Zone and entered the Heavenly Fire Tribulation Zone, where he discovered that the Cangwu Small World inside him wanted to devour the heavenly tribulation fire. He left off preparing to use the fire to nourish and strengthen his Small World.

• Qin Yan easily endured the purple-gold heavenly lightning and sped past the struggling prodigies toward the Core Zone.
• Qin Yan traveled through increasingly powerful lightning that injured and expelled other prodigies, but could not reach his skin.
• Qin Yan reached the boundary between the Heavenly Lightning Tribulation Zone and the Heavenly Fire Tribulation Zone, then crossed into the fire zone.
• Qin Yan used the Mo Yuan Spirit Weapon's seven-colored barriers to block the golden flaming meteors.
• Qin Yan sensed the Cangwu Small World trying to devour the heavenly tribulation fire and realized the fire could nourish and strengthen it.

Qin Yan advanced through the Heavenly Tribulation Wasteland and used his Golden Body to withstand and absorb the heavenly winds, feeding their heavenly dao force to the Cangwu Small World. He learned how worlds were classified and continued deeper into the tribulation as his Golden Body slowly grew.

• Qin Yan pushed past the heavenly fire tribulation and entered the more dangerous heavenly wind region.
• Qin Yan activated his Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body and reinforced it with the Cangwu Small World's heavenly dao force and water dao essence.
• Qin Yan absorbed the dark-gold heavenly winds into the Cangwu Small World, slightly increasing its heavenly dao force.
• Qin Yan considered the ranks of small, middle, and greater worlds and the difficulty of advancing the Cangwu Small World.
• Qin Yan continued through the heavenly winds as his Golden Body grew little by little.

Qin Yan entered the Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone and used his dark nether true water, strengthened by water dao essence, to resist and absorb its deadly cold. As Qin Yan, Jiang Fengming, and Di Xuance advanced toward the Core Zone from different directions, the cold began nourishing Qin Yan’s Golden Body and Cangwu Small World.

• Qin Yan left the Heavenly Wind Tribulation Zone with his Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body grown to seven hundred and fourteen zhang.
• Qin Yan tested the Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone, felt its freezing power invade his body, and drove it back with the Southern bright flame.
• Di Xuance used his golden barrier and Heavenly Gang Prison-Suppressing Golden Body to advance through a separate Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone toward the Core Zone.
• Jiang Fengming shielded herself with her Vermilion Bird Golden Body and vermilion bird true flame as she moved through another Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone.
• Qin Yan entered the Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone and summoned the Dark Nether River to block and absorb the heavenly ice.
• Qin Yan refined the absorbed cold into energy that slowly increased the growth of his Golden Body and Cangwu Small World.

Qin Yan reached the Heart-Demon Tribulation Zone and discovered that it combined five kinds of heavenly dao force in devastating black tribulation lightning. After one strike shattered his defenses and damaged his Golden Body, he suppressed the heart-demon attack and used Seven-Colored Divine Light to heal himself and tame the remaining forces.

• Qin Yan left the Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone after a day, during which his Golden Body grew and the Cangwu Small World absorbed more heavenly dao force.
• Qin Yan saw the Heart-Demon Tribulation Zone, where heavenly thunder, heavenly fire, heavenly wind, heavenly ice, and heart-demon force churned together.
• Qin Yan entered the zone, but black tribulation lightning broke through his seven-colored barrier and dark nether river before hurling his Golden Body into the ground.
• Qin Yan used the Yin-Yang Fish Dao Diagram and his Solar and Lunar Spear Intents to dispel the invading heart-demon images.
• Qin Yan infused his Golden Body with Seven-Colored Divine Light, healing its wounds and calming the heavenly thunder, fire, wind, and ice forces.

Qin Yan discovered that carefully controlling the Seven-Colored Divine Light let black tribulation lightning temper and grow his Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body. Little Black offered to help temper his Eternal Blood Demon Golden Body as well, and faced the next bolt of lightning.

• Qin Yan used Mo Yuan to block a bolt of black tribulation lightning and absorbed the lingering Heavenly Dao force into the Cangwu Small World.
• Qin Yan summoned his Eternal Blood Demon Golden Body and adjusted the Seven-Colored Divine Light so enough lightning struck his Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body to make it grow one zhang.
• Qin Yan memorized the effective balance between blocking and enduring the lightning so he could repeat the tempering process.
• Little Black emerged from the Blood Demon Nest and offered to help temper Qin Yan's Eternal Blood Demon Golden Body.
• Little Black gathered darkness essence runes and wove darkness force into a vortex as a bolt carrying five kinds of Heavenly Dao force descended.

Qin Yan and Little Black endured the black tribulation lightning, using it to strengthen their Golden Bodies and the Cangwu Small World. Over ten days, other prodigies were expelled from the Heavenly Tribulation Wasteland, leaving Qin Yan alone in the Heart-Demon Tribulation Zone while Shen Xinglan became the only one to pass the Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone.

• Little Black's Darkness Vortex shattered under the first black tribulation bolt, but Little Black healed and then used its Golden Body to block the lightning.
• Qin Yan moved away from Little Black, causing separate bolts to strike them; Little Black channeled lightning into the Eternal Blood Demon Golden Body, while Qin Yan's Golden Bodies and Cangwu Small World absorbed the remaining forces.
• Di Xuance's Heavenly Gang Prison-Suppressing Golden Body shattered, and the lightning expelled him from the Emperor Fall Land.
• Jiang Fengming's Vermilion Bird Golden Body broke under the tribulation, and she was also expelled from the Heavenly Tribulation Wasteland.
• Ten days passed as most arriving prodigies failed to reach the Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone, leaving Qin Yan as the sole prodigy in the Heart-Demon Tribulation Zone.
• Shen Xinglan used her formation mastery to withstand the heavenly ice and became the only prodigy to pass the Heavenly Ice Tribulation Zone.

Qin Yan tempered his Golden Body in the Heart-Demon Tribulation Zone, reached the final palace, and was identified as a member of the Nine Nether Soul-Devouring Demon Tree race. The palace asked whether he wanted to begin the assessment.

• Shen Xinglan was struck by tribulation lightning, leaving Qin Yan as the last person in the Heart-Demon Tribulation Zone.
• Qin Yan grew his Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body to nine hundred and thirty-five zhang and easily shattered the lightning with Mo Yuan.
• Qin Yan found Little Black's Eternal Blood Demon Golden Body had reached nine hundred and thirty zhang, then let Little Black rest inside his body.
• Qin Yan crossed the Heart-Demon Tribulation Zone and reached the palace guarded by rows of Peak-Stage Grandmaster puppets.
• A light transported Qin Yan into the palace, where a nearly thousand-zhang puppet announced that his race qualified him for the assessment and asked if he wished to begin.

Qin Yan accepted the final inheritance trial and defeated its enormous puppet with ease. After he passed, a projection revealed itself as Gu Yuan, the Ancient Abyss Demon God, who congratulated Qin Yan on his victory.

• The puppet identified Qin Yan as a member of the supreme Demon Race and set the trial to low difficulty, raising its strength to that of an ordinary mid Venerable.
• Qin Yan met the puppet's attack with his Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body and Seven-Colored Divine Light.
• Qin Yan suppressed the puppet with his Great Annihilation Spear Intent and severed its head with a strike of Spear Light.
• The puppet reassembled itself, declared Qin Yan had passed the trial, and summoned a phantom from dark-red demon qi.
• The phantom identified himself as Gu Yuan, the Ancient Abyss Demon God, and congratulated Qin Yan on passing his trial.

Qin Yan learned how the Demon Race’s reserves and Emperor Fall Land came to be before receiving the reward for clearing the second layer. He began exploring the reward, whose contents had not yet been revealed.

• The Ancient Abyss Demon God told Qin Yan that the Ten Thousand Races attacked the weakened Demon Race with four Great Emperors, and Long Yuanming and the Demon Emperor sacrificed themselves to wound their Peak Great Emperor.
• The Ancient Abyss Demon God explained that he used the Heavenly Craftsman Great Emperor’s body to create a secret realm and conceal the Demon Race’s reserves, giving rise to Emperor Fall Land.
• Qin Yan asked whether the final trial’s opportunity was a Demon Race inheritance, and the Ancient Abyss Demon God clarified that most opportunities came from the Heavenly Craftsman Great Emperor’s body or other Demon Dao factions.
• The Ancient Abyss Demon God transported Qin Yan to Emperor Fall Land’s core region and presented him with the reward for passing the second layer.
• Qin Yan suppressed his excitement and immersed his spiritual power in the mass of light.