Chapter Summaries

After the group returned from the Ancient Treasure Realm, Chen Yu learned that the World Mountain had been left for the woman inside the Sun Flower, whom he had offended. Worried she would soon emerge at an immortal realm, Chen Yu resolved to cultivate harder, and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone promised to send him and the others somewhere to train.

• The group left the Sun God Tree, and the indigenous creatures blamed the Golden Crow Clan’s Venerable for taking it, leading the other Venerables to attack the clan.
• Back in Shi Village, Little Pagoda mourned the lost World Mountain while Chen Yu told Shi Hao and the others what had happened.
• Chen Yu asked the Lord of the Forbidden Zone for part of the World Mountain, but learned that the woman in the Sun Flower had refused to share it because Chen Yu had offended her.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone said the woman might emerge as an immortal with their guidance, prompting Chen Yu to ask for a place to cultivate.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone agreed to send Chen Yu and the others somewhere to train in a few days.

Chen Yu helped Willow Deity evolve his Black Vortex, sparred with Shi Hao and exchanged Ten Fiend Precious Techniques before the Lord of the Forbidden Zone enrolled him at Heavenly Deity Academy. He arranged a teleportation array to a dead starfield so Little Turtle could devour Broken Star Remains, then returned to the academy intending to study its Scripture Library.

• Chen Yu maintained his Black Vortex for Willow Deity in the Void God Realm and sparred with Shi Hao and others over the following days.
• Chen Yu discovered that his Ten Fiend Precious Techniques were incomplete, then exchanged techniques with Shi Hao.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone brought Chen Yu to Heavenly Deity Academy, where the Great Elder gave him an identity token and arranged his residence and teleportation array.
• Chen Yu activated the array and found it led to a dead starfield, where he sent Little Turtle to devour Broken Star Remains.
• Chen Yu left a solid clone with Little Turtle, returned to Heavenly Deity Academy, and planned to study in the Scripture Library.

Chen Yu studied the Natural Dao, copied the Scripture Library’s vast collection, and defeated Li Defa when the young disciple challenged him. After taking Li Defa’s Qiankun Bag as his “fee,” Chen Yu returned to his residence and began cultivating, drawing in a huge surge of heaven and earth essence.

• Chen Yu contemplated the Natural Dao at his residence, deepening his sense of the surrounding mountains and rivers.
• Chen Yu spent half a month copying the Scripture Library’s books with the Record of Ten Thousand Daos.
• Li Defa challenged Chen Yu outside the Scripture Library, and Chen Yu defeated him with Qilin Treads the Heavens.
• Chen Yu took Li Defa’s Qiankun Bag and called it his fee for taking action, while the Great Elder and Second Elder watched.
• Chen Yu cultivated beside a stream, creating a growing vortex that drew in heaven and earth essence, and the elders ordered everyone to keep away.

Chen Yu crossed a Lightning Tribulation at the Heavenly Deity Academy, swallowing lightning and defeating the Primordial Ten Fiends as the elders and students watched. After his breakthrough, his name spread to powerful families and dynasties, but he shut himself away to focus on cultivation.

• The Great Elder and other elders wagered on how long Chen Yu could maintain his unusual cultivation state.
• Two months later, Chen Yu entered a Lightning Tribulation and swallowed its lightning to temper his body and primordial spirit.
• Chen Yu fought the Primordial Ten Fiends, blasted them apart repeatedly, and formed forty-nine lightning cores within his body.
• After the tribulation, Chen Yu collected Tribulation Liquid, returned to his residence, and rested after completing an unexpected breakthrough.
• News of Chen Yu reached major Longevity Families and imperial dynasties, whose envoys sent invitations that he rejected before sealing his courtyard formation.

Chen Yu collected his delayed cultivation resources, then announced a ranking that would require Heavenly Deity Academy students to surrender resources to those ranked above them. His scheme drew objections from Luotuo, Princess Yao Yue, and Wang Xi, while he insisted it would encourage the students to cultivate.

• The Great Elder summoned Chen Yu, gave him two jade bottles of Academy resources, and advised him to make connections with other prodigies.
• Chen Yu went to the plaza, created the Heavenly Deity Ranking with himself in first place, and declared that all Academy students had to join and give resources to those ranked above them.
• Luotuo challenged Chen Yu's plan to force every student onto the ranking, and Chen Yu invited anyone who objected to face him.
• Princess Yao Yue questioned the ranking's compulsory rules, while Wang Xi offered Chen Yu resources from the Wang Family instead.
• Chen Yu said he wanted to motivate the Academy's students and displayed Dream Fantasy Divine Marrow and Divine Source Holy Water.

The elders adopted Chen Yu’s Heavenly Deity Ranking proposal, reshaping it into an academy-run competition with rules for resources and rewards. They excluded Chen Yu because of his superior cultivation but compensated him with divine pills, and he left the prodigies furious after taunting them to cultivate faster.

• The elders agreed to take over Chen Yu’s ranking and established rules for competitions, resource contributions, followers, and rewards for the top ten.
• The Great Elder replaced Chen Yu’s ranking with a jade stele and announced that the academy would run the Heavenly Deity Ranking.
• The Great Elder barred Chen Yu from competing because he was in the Zhanwo Realm, but promised him compensation and invited others to challenge him for his resources.
• Chen Yu demanded compensation and received several divine pills from the Great Elder.
• Chen Yu urged the prodigies to cultivate quickly so he could eventually compete, provoking their anger, then asked the elders to help him with a favor.

Chen Yu asked the elders to look for Formation Source Beads and requested permission to train in the dangerous Boundary Grave. After refining his new beads and testing their formation, he returned to cultivation as the academies competed to improve their rankings.

• Chen Yu showed the elders a blue Formation Source Bead, and the Great Elder and Second Elder gave him nine more.
• Chen Yu asked to enter the Boundary Grave, and the Great Elder agreed to take him when he was ready.
• Chen Yu refined ten Formation Source Beads, bringing his total to twenty-eight, and tested a sword formation on the Star Remains.
• Little Turtle begged to leave its post, but Chen Yu told it to keep working until they went to the Boundary Grave.
• Chen Yu cultivated diligently while Heavenly Deity Academy and the other academies began ranking competitions to spur their students on.

Chen Yu entered the Boundary Grave with the Great Elder and collected ancient trees and Star-Eating Grass as cultivation resources. After defeating the grass, he decided to cultivate among the chaotic laws, leaving the Great Elder stunned.

• Chen Yu asked the Great Elder when the academy would bring students to seek Ancient Seeds, and said he planned to stay in the Boundary Grave for an unknown time.
• Chen Yu tried to collect the Broken Universe Seeds with Little Turtle, but the Great Elder warned that they were too heavy and dangerous to handle without an immortal artifact.
• Chen Yu flew from the warship and stored massive ancient trees in the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Jar.
• The Star-Eating Grass attacked Chen Yu after he took the stars it fed on, and he tore it apart and stored it in the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Jar.
• Chen Yu told the Great Elder he would cultivate in the Boundary Grave for a while, leaving the Great Elder surprised by his choice of such a chaotic place.

Chen Yu settled in the Boundary Grave to cultivate while Little Turtle devoured stars, and he learned that the others had received powerful treasures from their mentors. After a year of consuming Star-Eating Grass, Chen Yu reached the ninth level of the Saint King realm and stood one step from becoming a Great Saint.

• Chen Yu chose to remain in the Boundary Grave, and the Great Elder left him to cultivate there.
• Chen Yu sent Little Turtle to devour the stars while he asked the Chat Group about everyone's progress and explained that the Boundary Grave held shattered worlds and great opportunities.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had fused with the Chaos Dao Fire, while Yan Lingji, Lu Xueqi, and Zhang Sanfeng reported receiving an Immortal Fire, a Thunder Origin, and a strand of Yin-Yang Qi.
• Chen Yu stopped reading the Chat Group and cultivated by devouring Star-Eating Grass.
• A year later, Chen Yu had reached the ninth level of the Saint King realm and looked toward the depths of the Boundary Grave.

Chen Yu left the Boundary Grave, took the True Dragon Undying Divine Medicine from the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest, and entered the hidden Yuhua Ancestral Temple to search its many small worlds for treasures. He reached the thirty-first small world with the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Jar protecting him.

• Chen Yu left the Boundary Grave with Little Turtle and traveled to the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest, where he persuaded the True Dragon Undying Divine Medicine to join him and planted it in his small world.
• Chen Yu decided not to pursue the Divine Phoenix Undying Medicine in Purple Mountain and headed to the ruins of the Yuhua Divine Dynasty.
• Chen Yu used his Source Heaven Divine Eye to locate the hidden Yuhua Ancestral Temple, set up formations, and opened its entrance with the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Jar.
• Chen Yu cleared the early temple worlds of Yin Spirits and vicious beasts, while Little Turtle swallowed the beasts' corpses.
• Chen Yu copied the Dao-resonating runes in the thirteenth world, collected a chest containing God-Slaying Insects, and continued onward to the thirty-first world.

Chen Yu used the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Jar to force his way through the remaining small worlds of the Yuhua Divine Dynasty’s ancestral grounds, defeating its guardians and collecting treasures. After reaching the final world, he looted its temples and uncovered a star map marking Earth, Ziwei Star, Feixian Star, and the Big Dipper.

• Chen Yu swept through the heavenly soldiers and generals in the thirty-first and thirty-second small worlds with the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Jar and entered the thirty-third.
• Chen Yu collected Immortal Tear Green Gold, God-Slaying Insect corpses, and the Divine Spirit Nine-Layer Coffin containing the transforming Divine Silkworm Ancient Emperor.
• Chen Yu shattered the black mountain in the thirty-fourth small world and entered the palace-filled thirty-fifth world.
• Chen Yu killed the Yuhua Great Emperor’s two Daoist attendants with the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Jar and entered the final small world.
• Chen Yu crushed the empty stone embryo and plundered the eighty-one ancient temples, obtaining rare divine materials, Medicine Kings, herbs, Divine Sources, scriptures, and cultivation insights.
• Chen Yu opened a hidden chamber, copied an ancient star map, and collected the four physical stars representing Earth, Ziwei Star, Feixian Star, and the Big Dipper.

Chen Yu cultivated in the Central Plains' Ancestral Dragon Vein for a year, then traveled into the distant starry sky to undergo his Great Saint tribulation. He survived the ordeal, became a Great Saint, and returned with his fame spreading among the Human Race and Primordial Myriad Races.

• Chen Yu absorbed Dragon Qi and studied the scriptures in the Ancestral Dragon Vein for a year.
• Chen Yu flew far from the Big Dipper and began his Great Saint tribulation, whose aftershocks forced factions across the planet to raise their Emperor and Saint Weapons for protection.
• Gai Jiuyou and Saints from the Human Race and Primordial Myriad Races gathered to watch Chen Yu face the tribulation, while some Primordial Clan Saints discussed whether to eliminate him.
• Chen Yu fought nine youthful Great Emperors through repeated near-death battles, tempering his Dao and turning the Destruction Bow and Arrow into a Great Saint weapon.
• Chen Yu survived the tribulation, replenished his energy, and became a Great Saint.
• Chen Yu exchanged greetings with the gathered Saints and prepared to return with Wei Yi, Jiang Taixu, and Gai Jiuyou.

Chen Yu agreed to return the Nine Li Map to the Nine Li Dynasty in exchange for its Emperor Scripture, while planning a visit to Ziwei Star before traveling the Human Ancient Road. He returned to the Big Dipper with Gai Jiuyou and waited at Tianxuan Stone Workshop for the dynasty’s response.

• Chen Yu reassured Wei Yi and Jiang Taixu that he still regarded them as his seniors despite his rapid rise in cultivation.
• Gai Jiuyou asked Chen Yu what the Nine Li Dynasty would need to offer to recover the Nine Li Map, and Chen Yu demanded its Emperor Scripture in exchange.
• Chen Yu told Gai Jiuyou that he wanted to visit Ziwei Star before setting out for the Human Ancient Road, and revealed that he had found the star’s coordinates among the Yuhua Divine Dynasty’s treasures.
• Gai Jiuyou agreed to relay Chen Yu’s demand to the Nine Li Dynasty, and the four returned to the Big Dipper together.
• Chen Yu stayed with Wei Yi at Tianxuan Stone Workshop while awaiting the Nine Li Dynasty’s reply, and realized Wei Yi was a Great Saint whose precise realm he could not discern.

The Great Xia and Shenzhou emperors found the Yuhua Ancestral Temple stripped of its treasures, while the Nine Li Dynasty weighed how to recover the Nine Li Map. At Tianxuan Stone Workshop, Chen Yu traded the Dragon Pearl of the True Dragon Undying Divine Medicine for Gai Jiuyou's inheritance, leaving Gai Jiuyou deeply grateful.

• The Great Xia and Shenzhou emperors searched the Yuhua Ancestral Temple and found only an Ancestral Dragon Vein cave opening and half of a Five-Colored Altar, with the treasures already gone.
• Li Tian and the Nine Li elders agreed that recovering the Nine Li Map and awakening the Emperor Son took priority, while rejecting a marriage alliance with Chen Yu.
• Chen Yu offered Gai Jiuyou the Dragon Pearl of the True Dragon Undying Divine Medicine in exchange for his inheritance.
• Gai Jiuyou gave Chen Yu a ball of light containing his inheritance and promised to help him, even at the cost of his life.
• Chen Yu reminded Gai Jiuyou that he had once given him a protective talisman, and Gai Jiuyou realized that his earlier kindness had brought him a precious Undying Divine Herb.

After reaching Great Saint, Chen Yu visited Yaochi Sacred Land to seek the Western Empress Scripture while the Primordial Myriad Races secretly plotted to kill him and attack humanity. Yaochi's elders had not yet decided whether to admit him, so Chen Yu said he would seek the scripture at the Yaochi Old Site instead.

• After Gai Jiuyou left Tianxuan Stone Workshop, Chen Yu promised Wei Yi he would find another Undying Divine Herb and privately resolved to bring back the Tianxuan Saintess.
• News spread across the Big Dipper that Chen Yu had become a Great Saint, drawing both admiration and envy.
• Great Saint Ganlun and other Primordial Myriad Races plotted to lure Chen Yu onto the Emperor Path, kill him, and attack humanity after he left.
• Chen Yu visited Yaochi Sacred Land and asked to join so he could study the Western Empress Scripture, but the Yaochi Holy Master left to seek instructions.
• Chen Yu told the Yaochi Saintess that he had found the Yuhua Divine Dynasty's treasures, intending for Yaochi disciples to spread the news.
• When the Yaochi Saintess said the elders would not agree to share the scripture, Chen Yu said he would learn it from the Western Empress Mother at the Yaochi Old Site.

Chen Yu left the Yaochi Sacred Land after failing to gain permission to study the Western Empress Scripture, then traveled toward Ziwei Star. On a five-colored planet, he encountered the Sun Holy Emperor’s lingering obsession and agreed to take him to Ziwei Ancient Star.

• The Yaochi Saintess tried to dissuade Chen Yu from visiting the Yaochi Old Site, but the Yaochi Sacred Land refused his request to join them or study the Western Empress Scripture.
• Chen Yu left the Yaochi Sacred Land and used the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Jar to travel from the Big Dipper Star Domain toward the Ziwei Star Domain.
• After three months, Chen Yu reached a poisonous five-colored planet, discovered crystals used to make Five-Colored Altars, and sensed powerful lunar yin and solar yang auras from a mountain.
• Chen Yu climbed the mountain and found an old man in Qingyi stacking five-colored crystals on an altar beside a Stone Coffin.
• The old man in Qingyi revealed his obsession with returning to his homeland, and Chen Yu invited him to travel to Ziwei Star together.
• The old man in Qingyi took the Stone Coffin and joined Chen Yu, who opened a spatial passage toward Ziwei Ancient Star.

Chen Yu reached Ziwei Star after devouring a Purple Gold Warship and its Primordial Ancestor Kings, then witnessed the Sun Holy Emperor return. The Holy Emperor bestowed his inheritance on Chen Yu before returning to the Stone Coffin beneath the sea.

• Chen Yu comprehended and devoured another Black Hole, then passed a tribulation and advanced to the second level of Great Saint.
• Chen Yu swallowed a Purple Gold Warship carrying more than forty Primordial Ancestor Kings, killed them, and collected and smelted their Saint Weapons.
• Ziwei Star fell into an uncanny silence as the Fusang Divine Tree emerged from the North Sea and called out to the Human Emperor.
• Chen Yu and the old man in green emerged from a Black Hole, and the old man hurried to the Fusang Divine Tree, where the Sun Holy Emperor awakened.
• The Sun Holy Emperor summoned Chen Yu, bestowed the Sun Scripture and his cultivation insights, then entered the Stone Coffin and sank beneath the sea.

Chen Yu urged the Holy Emperor Pagoda to protect the Sun Holy Emperor’s descendants, but it refused to leave Tang Valley and sent the Fusang Divine Tree with him instead. After Chen Yu left, greedy cultivators confronted him in the North Sea, demanding the Holy Emperor inheritance and the divine herb.

• Chen Yu prompted the Holy Emperor Pagoda and the Fusang Divine Tree to investigate the Sun Holy Emperor’s descendants, and the Holy Emperor Pagoda destroyed the Golden Crow Clan.
• Chen Yu revealed the Lunar Holy Emperor’s descendants had been exterminated and argued that the Holy Emperor Pagoda should protect the Sun Divine Sect against future threats.
• The Holy Emperor Pagoda refused to leave the Holy Emperor but sent the Fusang Divine Tree with Chen Yu to protect the Sun Holy Emperor’s descendants.
• Chen Yu declined the responsibility because he planned to leave Ziwei Star, then departed Tang Valley; the Fusang Divine Tree followed him as Tang Valley vanished.
• A Dao-Severing King realm Fire Crow demanded that Chen Yu hand over the Holy Emperor inheritance and the Fusang Divine Tree.

Chen Yu killed Fire Crow King and forced the surviving experts to accept a deadly task tied to Black Vortex marks. After sending them away to hunt Lunar Divine Sect cultivators, he planned to pit them against the Duanmu Clan and sent the Fusang Divine Tree to protect the Sun Holy Emperor’s descendants.

• Chen Yu crushed Fire Crow King to death and rejected the other experts’ pleas for mercy.
• Chen Yu killed those who tried to flee and seized six Saint-level experts, stopping the remaining group from resisting.
• Chen Yu placed Black Vortex marks on the survivors and ordered each to kill two Lunar Divine Sect cultivators of the same major realm within a year.
• Chen Yu warned that the marks held a dangerous surprise, then let the marked experts leave to seek a way to remove them.
• Chen Yu told the Fusang Divine Tree that he wanted the marked experts and the Duanmu Clan to fight, and said he would cause trouble if anyone broke the marks.
• Chen Yu sent the Fusang Divine Tree to the Sun Divine Palace to protect the Sun Holy Emperor’s descendants.

After becoming a Great Saint Third Heaven, Chen Yu returned to the Sun Divine Sect with the Sun Holy Emperor’s inheritance and the Fusang Divine Tree, restoring the lost Sun Scripture and strengthening the sect’s defenses. The sect’s elders offered to make Chen Yu their sect master.

• Chen Yu reached Great Saint Third Heaven, then arrived at the Sun Divine Sect and silently eliminated the suspicious watchers around it.
• Chen Yu introduced himself to the sect master and elders, revealed the Fusang Divine Tree, and promised to return the Sun Scripture and build a new protective formation.
• Chen Yu transmitted the Sun Scripture to the Sun Divine Sect, dismantled its old formation, and built a Great Saint-level grand formation.
• The Fusang Divine Tree paid Chen Yu with a section of its trunk and gave him the Golden Crow Bird Nest before he could leave.
• The Sun Divine Sect’s three elderly Dao-Severing Kings received the Fusang Divine Tree’s power, regained vitality, and offered to honor Chen Yu as their sect master.