Chapter Summaries

After leaving Shrek Academy, Tang San used the Eight Spider Lances to devour a Soul Beast and cultivate, then killed three Soul Masters who tried to take his External Soul Bone. He devoured their bodies as well, determined to grow stronger, regrow his right leg, and return to take revenge on Chen Yu.

• Tang San killed an Azure Flower Leopard, revealed his Eight Spider Lances, and devoured the beast to absorb its energy.
• Three Soul Masters cornered Tang San and demanded that he hand over his External Soul Bone.
• Tang San entered the lean man's poisonous mist and killed him with a Silent Sleeve Dagger.
• Tang San used a Godly Zhuge Crossbow to kill the burly man, then killed the kneeling woman with a hidden weapon.
• Tang San carried all three corpses into the cave and devoured them, resolving not to reveal his External Soul Bone again.

Chen Yu and Xiao Yan left the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well Cave Abode with Ye Fan and returned to Stone Village, where Chen Yu met Little Nannan, Tu Fei, and Li Heishui. After Black Empress Clan tried to recruit Chen Yu as a human pet, it agreed to make Little Turtle its little brother unless Little Turtle eventually surpassed it.

• Chen Yu told the Chat Group members to wait before awakening their Martial Souls and promised to obtain God-Bestowed Spirit Rings for them.
• Ye Fan left seclusion and set out for Stone Village with Chen Yu and Xiao Yan following afterward.
• Ye Fan reunited with Little Nannan and the Big Black Dog at Stone Village, then introduced Chen Yu to Tu Fei and Li Heishui.
• Black Empress Clan offered to make Chen Yu its human pet, but Chen Yu demanded several Emperor Scriptures and refused when it could not provide them.
• Chen Yu summoned Little Turtle and persuaded it to discuss Black Empress Clan's attempt to recruit a pet.
• Little Turtle proposed that Black Empress Clan become its little brother if it surpassed it in strength, and Black Empress Clan accepted the condition.

Chen Yu broke through to the Four Extremes in the Northern Region, where his Black Vortex phenomenon swallowed the lightning tribulation and transformed its energy to refine his body. The thunderclouds then unleashed a vast sea of lightning that descended toward the vortex.

• Chen Yu began his breakthrough while Ye Fan, Black Empress Clan, and the others watched, and Xiao Yan streamed the tribulation to the Chat Group.
• Chen Yu’s Black Vortex appeared and devoured the Source Stone and surrounding mountain as he absorbed their energy.
• Chen Yu’s Immortal King Descends to the Nine Heavens phenomenon appeared with a full moon and golden sun, while Black Empress Clan recognized the vortex as a powerful domain-type phenomenon.
• The Black Vortex swallowed the first lightning bolt and three stronger bolts, turning their energy into nourishment for Chen Yu’s transformation.
• After Chen Yu completed another transformation, the thunderclouds sent down a vast sea of lightning toward the Black Vortex.

Chen Yu endured his Lightning Tribulation by absorbing its lightning to strengthen his body, Divine Sense, and Martial Souls, then survived nine strikes of Chaos Divine Thunder. He broke through into the Four Extremes Realm, while his Bow and Arrow Martial Soul absorbed his Divine Chains and the Little Turtle became an egg.

• Chen Yu jumped into the purple lightning sea, using its lightning to temper his body and strengthen his Divine Sense until his avatar became fully solid.
• Chen Yu charged into the thunderclouds and absorbed the remaining waves of the first stage, then destroyed the Purple Divine Tiger and forty-four divine beasts in the second stage.
• After the thunderclouds dispersed, Chen Yu discovered that nine bolts of Chaos Divine Thunder were gathering, and the Black Empress Clan fled with Little Nannan as the others followed.
• Chen Yu endured all nine bolts of Chaos Divine Thunder, healing himself with the Zhe Secret and refining their chaotic lightning qi.
• Chen Yu's two Martial Souls absorbed the lightning qi; his Bow and Arrow Martial Soul merged with the Divine Chains, while the Little Turtle became an egg.
• Chen Yu successfully broke through into the Four Extremes Realm.

After inspecting his reborn body and discovering that a head soul-bone skill had become an innate divine ability, Chen Yu left Stone Village for Holy City. He rejected the Black Empress Clan’s attempts to lure him into Purple Mountain and departed while Ye Fan and Xiao Yan remained in seclusion.

• Chen Yu discovered that his soul bones and Thunder Wings had vanished, but his head soul-bone skill had become an innate divine ability, then summoned his Destruction Bow and Destruction Arrow.
• The Black Empress Clan tried to bite Chen Yu, but he kicked it away and escaped while it struggled with Tu Fei.
• Chen Yu considered rescuing Divine King Jiang from Purple Mountain, but decided to wait until Ye Fan could obtain sacred medicine from the Ancient Forbidden Land.
• The Black Empress Clan tried to lure Chen Yu into Purple Mountain, but Chen Yu refused and teased it with the Heaven Swallowing Devil Art before flying back to Stone Village.
• Chen Yu told Tu Fei and Li Heishui that he was going to Holy City and asked them to inform Ye Fan and Xiao Yan when they emerged from seclusion.

Chen Yu visited the Yaochi Stone Workshop in Holy City, used his Source Heaven Divine Eye to uncover valuable medicines and Divine Source, and was summoned by the Yaochi Saintess after his identity was recognized. He teased her with a proposal of marriage and left after she angrily dismissed him.

• Chen Yu entered Holy City and visited the Yaochi Stone Workshop, where he cracked outer-courtyard stones and profited from ordinary Source Stone.
• A young attendant invited Chen Yu into the inner courtyard, where the Yaochi Saintess asked to meet him.
• Chen Yu opened three costly stones first, finding Muscle-Regenerating Grass, Life-Nurturing Grass, and a chunk of Divine Source.
• The Yaochi Saintess identified Chen Yu as a successor of the Source Heaven Master, and Chen Yu admitted it.
• Chen Yu joked that the Saintess should marry him so he could pass the Source Heaven Book to their children, angering her.
• The Yaochi Saintess told Chen Yu to leave, and he hurried out after urging her to reconsider his proposal.

Chen Yu visited the Daoyi Sacred Land's Stone Workshop and uncovered a Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword and an Eight-Leaf Star Grass, drawing the attention of powerful figures from across the Holy City. He kept the sword, but the Medicine King was left surrounded by people eager to claim it.

• The Yaochi Saintess told her protector not to move against Chen Yu until the sacred land found another Source Heaven Master.
• Chen Yu refused to sell his Life-Nurturing Grass and Muscle-Regenerating Grass, then accompanied a crowd of elders to the Daoyi Sacred Land's Heaven-Grade Stone Garden.
• Chen Yu bought the Nine-Orifice Stone Man for ninety thousand jin of Source and released a Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword, which the Daoyi elder suppressed before Chen Yu stored it in the Mall.
• After more sacred-land and aristocratic-family prodigies arrived, Chen Yu bought a millstone-sized stone and let an old man cut it open.
• The stone revealed an Eight-Leaf Star Grass inside Divine Source, and Chen Yu realized he could not take the Medicine King away unnoticed.

Chen Yu auctioned the Eight-Leaf Star Grass and let the gathered factions arrange his lodging while their young prodigies watched him. After Ji Haoyue challenged him to a duel, Chen Yu slipped away through a Light Gate, leaving the watchers outside his room.

• Chen Yu announced that he would auction the Eight-Leaf Star Grass at the Heavenly Demon Treasure Pavilion, and Yao Yuekong offered to host the auction and cover his expenses.
• The Yao Guang Holy Son proposed that the young prodigies accompany Chen Yu, and Chen Yu introduced himself as Rich.
• Chen Yu asked to meet An Miaoyi, then agreed to fight Ji Haoyue after the auction when Ji Haoyue challenged him.
• The Yao Guang Holy Son led Chen Yu to an inn and stationed guards outside his room.
• Chen Yu opened a Light Gate inside the room and escaped without the guards noticing.

Chen Yu returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, shared news of his Eight-Leaf Star Grass with the chat group, and met Ye Fan in Stone Village. Chen Yu and Ye Fan headed toward the Southern Region to meet Ji Ziyue, while Xiao Yan was left to fend off Tu Fei, Li Heishui, and the Black Empress Clan.

• Chen Yu withdrew his Divine Sense after accidentally noticing the Blue Silver Emperor bathing, then sent a random-luck red packet to the chat group.
• Chen Yu told the group he had obtained an Eight-Leaf Star Grass and warned Ye Fan that people might mistake him for Chen Yu when his Source Heaven Master identity became known.
• Ye Fan asked Chen Yu to join him for his appointment with Ji Ziyue, and Chen Yu said his cultivation would help keep suspicion away from Ye Fan.
• Tu Fei, Li Heishui, and the Black Empress Clan pressed Xiao Yan to explain why he and Ye Fan had acted strangely, but Xiao Yan stalled them until Chen Yu and Ye Fan returned.
• Chen Yu and Ye Fan stopped the others from interrogating Xiao Yan, then told the Black Empress Clan to set up a teleportation array to the capital of Yan Kingdom.
• Chen Yu offered to carry Little Nannan as the group prepared to leave for the Southern Region.

Ye Fan and his companions arrived at the Demon Emperor Tomb and met Peacock King and Yan Ruyu, who promised the Demon Race would protect Ye Fan during his Four Extremes breakthrough. After leaving, Ye Fan revealed that the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body made the breakthrough a life-or-death trial, while Lu Xueqi waited for his signal to come over.

• Chen Yu and the others crashed near the Demon Emperor Tomb, where Peacock King appeared and learned that Ye Fan planned to break through to Four Extremes.
• Peacock King offered to protect Ye Fan through his tribulation and brought the group to meet Qin Yao and other Demon Race figures.
• Yan Ruyu returned from the Holy City without obtaining the Eight-Leaf Star Grass and promised that the Demon Race would protect Ye Fan when he broke through.
• Ye Fan declined Qin Yao's invitation to stay, and Chen Yu secretly recorded their exchange in the Chat Group.
• After leaving, Ye Fan told Tu Fei and Li Heishui that he had the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body and that reaching Four Extremes was a life-or-death hurdle.
• Lu Xueqi asked Ye Fan in the Chat Group whether she could come over to break through, and he told her to wait for his message.

Chen Yu took Lu Xueqi to a remote forest so she could undergo her Lightning Tribulation, while he guarded her and cultivated nearby. Lu Xueqi survived the tribulation and continued cultivating, as Chen Yu stopped just short of advancing to the second level of the Four Extremes Realm.

• Chen Yu refused to livestream Lu Xueqi's tribulation and took her away from Yan Kingdom's capital, leaving Ye Fan to wait for Ji Ziyue.
• Chen Yu gave Lu Xueqi the Zhe Secret, the Dou Character Secret, and his insights before they cultivated in a secluded primeval forest.
• Lu Xueqi completed her transformation, summoned a vast vision, and faced the Lightning Tribulation as Chen Yu watched from a distance.
• Lu Xueqi endured the lightning bolts, lightning sea, and Lightning Phoenixes, using the Zhe Secret to recover and ultimately pass the tribulation.
• Lu Xueqi continued cultivating in Chen Yu's former grounds, while Chen Yu resumed his own cultivation and stopped before entering the second level of the Four Extremes Realm.

Chen Yu encountered Daoist Duan De, who offered him three treasures in repayment for saving his life and invited him to explore a dangerous site. Lu Xueqi emerged from seclusion and agreed to join them, and the three set out together.

• Chen Yu recognized Duan De and invited him into his temporary Cave Abode to ask why he had come.
• Duan De invited Chen Yu to help break a formation at a site that required three cultivators, and Chen Yu agreed to bring Lu Xueqi after her seclusion.
• Duan De offered Chen Yu treasures as repayment for saving his life, and Chen Yu chose a pitch-black Gourd, silver paper, and a black tripod.
• Lu Xueqi emerged from seclusion, and Chen Yu introduced her to Duan De and explained the expedition.
• Lu Xueqi agreed to join them, and Duan De led Chen Yu and Lu Xueqi toward the site.

Chen Yu and Lu Xueqi entered a hidden residence with Duan De, where they fought the guardian puppets and discovered that Duan De had concealed the danger. After defeating him and taking his treasures, Chen Yu opened the stone door to reveal what lay beyond.

• Duan De led Chen Yu and Lu Xueqi through a mountain fissure to a hidden residence and explained that they had one hour to break the array on its stone door.
• The array summoned an azure flood dragon, a white tiger, and a humanoid guardian; Chen Yu discovered the flood dragon was far stronger than Duan De had claimed.
• Chen Yu used his phenomenon and the Immortal King Descends to the Nine Heavens to kill the flood dragon, while Lu Xueqi defeated the white tiger.
• Chen Yu and Lu Xueqi restrained and knocked Duan De unconscious, then looted his treasures and divided them between themselves.
• Chen Yu bound Duan De, sealed his Bitter Sea, and pushed open the stone door to reveal the chamber beyond.

Chen Yu and Lu Xueqi searched the artificer’s palace complex, claiming several surviving treasures before escaping as it collapsed. Afterward, Chen Yu took Duan De’s lid in exchange for a false promise to explain his Black Vortex, then revealed that it was the lid of the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Jar and left with Lu Xueqi.

• Chen Yu used the Source Heaven Divine Eye to find three treasure-filled rooms in the palace complex and recovered a green tripod, a transparent pearl, and a silver spear.
• Chen Yu identified a golden pillar as Dao Tribulation Gold and gave it to Lu Xueqi to store in the Mall.
• Chen Yu took a black cauldron from the forging room, triggering the complex to collapse, and escaped with Lu Xueqi and the unconscious Duan De.
• After waking Duan De in a cave, Chen Yu demanded the lid he carried, and Duan De handed it over in exchange for an explanation of the Black Vortex.
• Chen Yu refused to reveal his trump card, identified the lid as part of the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Jar, and left with Lu Xueqi as Duan De shouted after them.

Chen Yu returned to the capital of Yan Kingdom and found Ji Haoyue challenging him after learning he could resonate with Ji Haoyue’s Divine Body. Ji Haoyue flew out of the city to fight, and Chen Yu followed with the others close behind.

• Chen Yu and Lu Xueqi returned to the capital of Yan Kingdom to meet Ye Fan and watch the conflict with Ji Haoyue.
• Chen Yu reunited with Ye Fan and greeted Little Nannan at the inn.
• Ji Haoyue demanded a spar with Chen Yu because they could resonate through their physiques.
• The Black Empress Clan explained that Ji Haoyue opposed Ye Fan’s feelings for Ji Ziyue, prompting Ye Fan to glare at the dog.
• Chen Yu urged Ji Haoyue to wait until Ye Fan reached the Four Extremes before challenging him.
• Ji Haoyue flew out of the city and challenged Chen Yu to fight in Ye Fan’s place; Chen Yu and the others pursued him.

Chen Yu and Ji Haoyue clashed with their phenomena, but Chen Yu’s Immortal King Descends to the Nine Heavens repeatedly countered Ji Haoyue’s Bright Moon Rises Over the Sea, and the two ended their sparring match without a clear finish. The arrival of Yan Ruyu, Qin Yao, and the Peacock King brought Ji Haoyue’s group onto alert as Chen Yu withdrew to join Ye Fan and the others.

• Ji Haoyue and Chen Yu unleashed Bright Moon Rises Over the Sea and Immortal King Descends to the Nine Heavens, drawing astonished reactions from the spectators.
• Ye Fan told Ji Ziyue, Tu Fei, and Li Heishui that Chen Yu’s phenomenon was related to the scripture he cultivated, while Ji Haoyue’s protectors considered recruiting Chen Yu as a sparring partner.
• Chen Yu’s phenomenon countered Ji Haoyue’s moon and sea attacks, and Chen Yu praised Ji Haoyue’s Void Great Hand Seal when it stopped one of his golden suns.
• Chen Yu asked to end the fight, and Ji Haoyue withdrew his phenomenon before Chen Yu did the same.
• Ye Fan teased Ji Ziyue about marrying into the Ji Family to learn the Void Scripture, and Ji Ziyue mocked his boast that the Ji Family would eventually beg him to become their son-in-law.
• Yan Ruyu, Qin Yao, and the Peacock King arrived, prompting Ji Haoyue’s and Ji Ziyue’s protectors to gather around them as Chen Yu left the battlefield to join Ye Fan and the others.

Chen Yu arranged for Qin Yao to accompany Ye Fan, and the group headed to the Taixuan Sect so Ye Fan could seek the Jie Secret at Zhuo Peak. The battle with Ji Haoyue drew attention from the Yao Guang Holy Son, while Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue joined the sect’s entrance examination line.

• The Peacock King drove Ji Haoyue and the Ji Family away, then praised Chen Yu and discussed Ye Fan’s planned breakthrough with Yan Ruyu.
• Chen Yu suggested that Qin Yao accompany Ye Fan, and the Peacock King backed the proposal; Yan Ruyu agreed to lend Qin Yao to Ye Fan until he reached the Four Extremes.
• Ye Fan, Qin Yao, Chen Yu, Xiao Yan, and their companions set off for the Taixuan Sect, while news of Chen Yu’s fight with Ji Haoyue spread among the great powers.
• The Yao Guang Holy Son ordered a disciple to investigate Chen Yu’s origins and current whereabouts.
• At the Taixuan Sect, Ye Fan waited to take the entrance examination, and Chen Yu was surprised to see Ji Ziyue standing in line with him.

Chen Yu and his companions joined Ye Fan on Zhuo Peak, where Chen Yu gained the Natural Dao inheritance by comprehending the peak’s lingering Dao resonance. He traded the Zhe Secret to Li Ruoyu for the Jie Secret, then learned that Hua Yunfei had invited them to Star Peak and decided to go.

• Ye Fan explained his reason for joining Zhuo Peak to Li Ruoyu, who allowed him to bring Chen Yu and the others.
• Chen Yu comprehended Zhuo Peak’s Dao resonance and unexpectedly gained its Natural Dao inheritance as the peak’s inheritance opened.
• Chen Yu learned that his companions were cultivating safely, then visited Li Ruoyu and traded the Zhe Secret for the Jie Secret.
• Li Ruoyu told Chen Yu that Hua Yunfei had invited him and his friends to Star Peak.
• Chen Yu suspected Hua Yunfei wanted to probe his background and chose to accept the invitation.

Chen Yu blood-sacrificed the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid and gained control of the Emperor Weapon, then discussed plans for Ye Fan’s tribulation and the group’s next move. The chapter ended with a Star Peak disciple inviting them to Hua Yunfei’s banquet.

• Chen Yu used Little Nannan’s presence as protection while marking the Devouring Heaven Demon Lid with his blood, Divine Power, and Divine Sense.
• The Demon Lid unleashed immense pressure, and Chen Yu glimpsed a masked woman in white before the weapon settled into his Bitter Sea beneath the mysterious rune.
• Chen Yu asked Black Empress Clan how to recover the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Jar from Tu Fei’s grandfather, but the dog warned him that Tu Tian would not hand it over easily.
• After Ye Fan and the others emerged from seclusion, Chen Yu proposed drawing attention at Hua Yunfei’s banquet while Ye Fan underwent his tribulation outside the Ancient Forbidden Land.
• A Star Peak disciple arrived and invited Chen Yu and the others to Hua Yunfei’s banquet to discuss the Dao with the young geniuses.

Chen Yu attended Hua Yunfei’s gathering on Star Peak and used a caged bird to provoke him. After Chen Yu exposed Hua Yunfei as an inheritor of the Ruthless Empress and warned the guests to leave, the confrontation began with Chen Yu hovering over the assembled prodigies.

• Chen Yu brought a bird in an iron cage to Star Peak, where he spoke with the Yaoguang Saintess and declined her offer to join the Yao Guang Sacred Land.
• Hua Yunfei asked why Ye Fan had not attended and questioned Chen Yu about the bird; Chen Yu’s remarks about the trapped bird unsettled Hua Yunfei.
• The Yaoguang Saintess asked Chen Yu whether something was wrong with Hua Yunfei, but Chen Yu refused to explain.
• Hua Yunfei asked Chen Yu to reveal his physique, and Chen Yu accused him of being an inheritor of the Ruthless Empress.
• Chen Yu warned the uninvolved guests to leave, rose into the air, and faced the remaining prodigies as the Yaoguang Saintess departed.