Chapter Summaries

Xia Manggan prepared to investigate the Ancient Ruins, learned Fuxi Clan’s Rahula Divine Formation, and set out with his avatars. He entered the Broken Horn World and destroyed it with a single step, leaving the Ancient Ruins expedition underway.

• Patriarch Bodhi left Xia Manggan’s Human True Self on Fangcun Mountain and reported to the faction leaders that Xia Manggan had agreed to scout the Ancient Ruins.
• Fuxi Clan gave Patriarch Bodhi the Rahula Divine Formation, which Xia Manggan learned in three days through his connected avatars.
• Xia Manggan left gifts for Buddha Jueming, including the Nine-Horned Electric Snake Evasion Technique and six bottles of Chaos Spirit Liquid, then departed the Heavenly Realm.
• Xia Manggan reached the Ancient Ruins and used nine Golden Crow Avatars to form the Rahula Fiendgod.
• The Rahula Fiendgod stepped into the Broken Horn World, crushing its inhabitants and three True God sisters before walking onward.

Xia Manggan continued his reconnaissance of the Ancient Ruins, killing Spider Demon Clan scouts and learning that their settlement lay in the Quicksand World. After the Spider Demons sent Xinluo to lure him toward a forbidden region, Xia Manggan captured him and began searching his soul.

• In the Hall of Ten Thousand Clans, Thunder God Heavenly Venerable warned Xia Manggan not to waste Divine Power, while Shennong and Three Pure Ones cautioned him about the dangers deeper in the Ancient Ruins.
• Xia Manggan killed three Spider Demon Clan Celestial Gods but failed to capture one alive because they shattered their own souls; he then headed north toward the Liutong Great World.
• Eighteen powerful Spider Demon Clan elders watched Xia Manggan's attack and sent Xinluo with a group of young spiders to lure him toward the Mirage Sand Domain while their leader sought help from Imperial Sovereign Liutong.
• Lost in distorted Space-Time, Xia Manggan sensed Xinluo's group and killed the young Spider Demons with Mind Sense before seizing Xinluo.
• Xia Manggan trapped Xinluo with the Soul Bewilderment Technique and began searching his soul.

Xia Manggan destroyed the Spider Demon Clan and continued through the Ancient Ruins, while Great Demon God Cixiu learned of his arrival and ordered subordinates to capture him. Xia Manggan was caught in a vast formation and came face-to-face with Elder Yuan, identifying himself as Patriarch Bodhi’s disciple.

• Xia Manggan soul-searched Xinluo, learned about the Spider Demon Clan and its plans, then destroyed the clan’s strongholds and warriors.
• Imperial Sovereign Liutong showed Great Demon God Cixiu a recording of Xia Manggan fighting as a six-armed Fiendgod, and Cixiu ordered Liutong and Red Beard to track and capture him.
• Great Demon God Cixiu sent Dao to meet Huanmu and seek payment from the Wujian Sect for helping deal with Xia Manggan.
• Xia Manggan destroyed seven alien worlds and headed toward the Liutong World, but a vast formation stopped him in Yinzhao World.
• Elder Yuan met Xia Manggan and asked who his master was, and Xia Manggan introduced himself as Patriarch Bodhi’s disciple.

Xia Manggan met Elder Yuan in the Ancient Ruins and spoke with him while Imperial Sovereign Liutong’s forces searched Yinzhao World for him. When the aliens surrounded the island, Xia Manggan and Elder Yuan fought back, and Xia Manggan’s formations began slaughtering the enemy.

• Elder Yuan invited Xia Manggan to his island, where Xia Manggan dismissed most of his avatars and told Elder Yuan about recent events in the Three Realms.
• Elder Yuan discussed the Wujian Sect’s war and hinted that Xia Manggan might persuade him to aid the Nuwa Faction.
• Imperial Sovereign Liutong sent seven teams to search Yinzhao World while Red Beard concealed himself, planning to strike at a critical moment.
• Imperial Sovereign Liutong and his forces surrounded the island, and Elder Yuan and Xia Manggan prepared to fight them together.
• Xia Manggan’s Golden Crow Rahula Fiendgod killed Rongling with one strike, and his Second Primordial Spirit’s Topaz Sword Light cut down six alien True Gods and Dao Ancestors.
• Xia Manggan’s Topaz Sword Light swept through the alien Celestial Gods, filling the sky with blood as Imperial Sovereign Liutong urged Red Beard to intervene.

Xia Manggan and Elder Yuan defeated Imperial Sovereign Liutong’s forces in Yinzhao World, revealing Xia Manggan’s ability to evade attacks by entering another space-time. Great Demon God Cixiu recognized the value of the Time-Space Method and began arranging to capture Xia Manggan and obtain it.

• Red Beard refused to help Imperial Sovereign Liutong and told him to stall Xia Manggan and Elder Yuan until reinforcements arrived.
• Imperial Sovereign Liutong used his Evil Eye to halt Elder Yuan briefly, then escaped while Xia Manggan killed the foreign race Celestial Gods and fought the remaining True Gods.
• The four surviving foreign race True Gods self-destructed, but Xia Manggan avoided the blast by entering another space-time dimension and emerged unharmed.
• Elder Yuan praised Xia Manggan’s Space-Time technique, and the two pursued Imperial Sovereign Liutong toward Liutong World.
• Great Demon God Cixiu recognized Xia Manggan’s technique as a coveted Time-Space Method and ordered his servants to gather allies and devise a way to trap him.
• Cixiu decided to seek Huanmu’s help in Qianshan World and set out to meet Blade Sovereign.

After Xia Manggan’s power stunned the Hall of Ten Thousand Clans, the Nuwa Faction sent a team of twelve elite True Gods and Dao Ancestors to reinforce him and Yuan in the Ancient Ruins. Xia Manggan remained wary of Yuan’s intentions and resolved to separate from him as soon as possible.

• The mighty experts in the Hall of Ten Thousand Clans marveled that Xia Manggan had killed seven alien True Gods and Dao Ancestors despite cultivating for less than a century.
• Suiren Clan, Shennong, Fuxi Clan, Tathagata, and Three Pure Ones agreed that a backup team should depart before Xia Manggan and Yuan were in danger.
• Tathagata and Fuxi Clan led ten elite True Gods and Dao Ancestors through Patriarch Bodhi’s passage toward the Ancient Ruins.
• Buddha Wuchao carried the team in his Portable Immortal Mansion, while Buddha Posuo’s Second Primordial Spirit stayed behind to maintain contact with Xia Manggan.
• Xia Manggan questioned Elder Yuan’s motives and decided to separate from him as soon as possible.

Xia Manggan and Elder Yuan were ambushed by a vast force of Chaos aliens, and Elder Yuan revealed leader-level strength to break Xia Manggan out of their encirclement. With an alien Ancestor God now confronting Elder Yuan, they prepared to hold off the enemy until Tathagata and the Fuxi Clan arrived.

• Xia Manggan and Elder Yuan rested in Golden River World while pursuing Imperial Sovereign Liutong, and Xia Manggan alerted Buddha Posuo to their location.
• More than two thousand alien Celestial Gods and True Immortals attacked, so Xia Manggan drew their force away from Elder Yuan and led them toward the approaching Nuwa Faction powers.
• Five servants of Great Demon God Cixiu and the Four Imperial Sovereigns appeared, sealing Xia Manggan inside the Wujian Boundless Array with the alien army closing in.
• Elder Yuan tore open the array, rescued Xia Manggan, and struck down hundreds of aliens before a golden-armored one-armed Ancestor God severed both his hands.
• Elder Yuan regenerated his hands and learned from Xia Manggan that Tathagata and the Fuxi Clan would arrive in half an hour, while Xia Manggan wondered why Elder Yuan had exposed his strength.

Xia Manggan and Elder Yuan fled into the dangerous Void Sea while pursued by Great Demon God Cixiu, Master Huanmu, and their forces. Elder Yuan secretly tried to control Xia Manggan with Heart Force, but Xia Manggan’s True Spirit defense restored his awareness, and he detonated his remaining avatars as the chapter ended.

• The Three Realms’ powers discovered that Master Huanmu had allied with the aliens and that a powerful alien Master had shattered Elder Yuan’s treasure and forced Xia Manggan to flee.
• Elder Yuan and Xia Manggan escaped aboard the Green Wood Flying Boat, but the aliens surrounded them near the Void Sea, leaving it as their only route.
• Elder Yuan prepared to hold off Great Demon God Cixiu’s forces while Xia Manggan used the Great Thousand Sword Formation, but the one-armed Ancestor God broke through their defenses.
• Imperial Sovereign Liutong struck Xia Manggan with his secret soul art, scattering his avatars, while Elder Yuan secretly invaded his soul with Heart Force.
• Xia Manggan’s True Spirit defense briefly restored his clarity, so he detonated his remaining avatars and caused cracks in the nearby void.

Xia Manggan escaped Liu Tong’s control by destroying his avatars, but the resulting Void Rift swept him into the deadly Void Sea. After his immortal estate palace shattered, he discovered he could evade the blade-like attacks with his speed, though he remained lost with no clear way out.

• Elder Yuan failed to capture Xia Manggan, whose remaining avatars and treasures were swallowed by a Void Rift.
• Patriarch Bodhi told the great powers that Xia Manggan had freed himself from Liu Tong’s control but had been swept into the Void Sea.
• Tathagata reported that Yuan had lost more than half his soul, while the Nuwa Faction planned to pursue the alien clans and destroy the Ancient Ruins.
• Xia Manggan used his immortal estate palace to withstand the Void Sea’s attacks and replenished his strength while studying the Void Fragments.
• The Void Sea shattered Xia Manggan’s palace, but he survived by using his speed to dodge the blade-like light and continued flying without knowing how to escape.

Xia Manggan survived in the Void Sea by evading its hazards and spent more than half a year exploring, while the Nuwa Faction and Wujian Sect remained locked in a struggle for destiny. After a powerful blow sent his resting Void Fragment tumbling, Xia Manggan recognized a nearby island as Kunyu Palace and wondered whether he had found Lord of Nine Directions’ burial site.

• Xia Manggan told Patriarch Bodhi that his avatars had found a way to evade the Void Sea’s Void Fragments and blade-like rays, though the danger remained.
• Patriarch Bodhi reported that Elder Yuan was recovering and that the Four Ancestors of the Source River had joined the Nuwa Faction.
• Over the next half year, the Gan Emperor Army and the Nuwa Faction’s Ancient Ruins expedition won battles while the Wujian Sect’s campaigns produced limited results.
• Xia Manggan escaped a severe fragment storm, found a distant Void Fragment to rest in, and slept after exhausting himself during months of fruitless exploration.
• A nine-headed beast statue struck Xia Manggan’s Void Fragment, and he recognized the nearby island’s palace and statue as Kunyu Palace and its guardian Puppet Jiuyao.
• Xia Manggan suspected the island was Lord of Nine Directions’ burial site and sent an avatar to investigate while he watched from a distance.

Xia Manggan arrived at Nine Directions Island, where Lord of Nine Directions had left an inheritance and five trials for future cultivators. He entered the first trial in the Myriad Insect Palace and discovered that its canyon also contained guidance for cultivating saber techniques.

• Xia Manggan survived the Jiuyao Puppet’s inspection but lost his soul connection to his true body on the island.
• The White-haired Elder explained Lord of Nine Directions’ inheritance and made Xia Manggan swear to guide ten cultivators to Nine Directions Island if he failed the trials.
• The White-haired Elder sent Xia Manggan into the Myriad Insect Palace’s first trial, where he had to kill every Insect Beast and the guardian Puppet using saber techniques within three hundred years.
• Xia Manggan chose a battle saber and killed thirty-six peak Celestial God-level Green-Armored Insect Beasts with a single strike.
• Xia Manggan found saber techniques carved into the canyon wall and realized Lord of Nine Directions had prepared cultivation guidance for challengers.

Xia Manggan spent ten years studying the blade techniques carved in the gorge and reached the second level of Blade Force, the Dazzling Sun Realm. After memorizing every carving and resting, he flew toward the gorge’s deepest point to challenge the final Puppet guarding the first trial.

• Xia Manggan and his twenty-four avatars studied the gorge’s blade carvings, while the White-haired Elder and Jiuyao discussed the trial and hoped Xia Manggan might bring a World Realm expert to Nine Directions City.
• After ten years of absorbed practice, Xia Manggan awakened to Insect Beasts emerging from twenty-four Space-Time vortices and discovered he had reached Dazzling Sun Realm Blade Force.
• Xia Manggan and his avatars slaughtered the Insect Beasts, then resumed memorizing the blade carvings while one avatar stayed alert.
• Xia Manggan and his avatars memorized all the gorge’s blade techniques over three more months, and Xia Manggan rested before the next challenge.
• Xia Manggan flew toward the deepest part of the gorge to challenge the final Puppet guarding the trial.

Xia Manggan entered the first trial’s sealed region and killed its three Gatekeeper Puppets with his mastery of several Powers of Origin. He then entered the second trial, a vast wilderness filled with statues that offered divine abilities.

• Xia Manggan learned that he could retreat from the sealed region and return to challenge its three Gatekeeper Puppets again before the three-hundred-year limit expired.
• Fairy Miao, Qiya Heavenly God, and Tuoci Heavenly God attacked Xia Manggan with binding abilities and blade arts, but he overwhelmed them with his saber techniques and Powers of Origin.
• Xia Manggan killed all three Gatekeeper Puppets and proceeded through the spatial vortex.
• The Green-haired Man and White-haired Elder discussed Xia Manggan’s extraordinary talent and considered him a promising inheritance disciple for Lord of Nine Directions.
• Xia Manggan entered a vast wilderness containing 108 kinds of statues and learned that the second trial centered on divine abilities.

Xia Manggan inspected the divine abilities in the second trial and discovered the Void Dragon Evasion Technique, a rare method that could surpass the Heavenly Dao Ultimate. He decided to test a less difficult ability first and entered the sealing formation around the Kunyu statues.

• Xia Manggan sent 108 Divine Power avatars to inspect the statues and rejected abilities he had already mastered or did not need.
• Xia Manggan discovered the Void Dragon Evasion Technique among 128 divine dragon statues and resolved to obtain it for close-combat movement.
• Xia Manggan decided to test a divine ability guarded by fewer statues before attempting the Void Dragon Evasion Technique.
• Xia Manggan entered the formation surrounding 48 Kunyu statues, and the alien beasts awakened.

Xia Manggan was overwhelmed by the Kunyu Statues and failed three attempts at their trial before deciding to try a different target. The White-haired Elder and the Green-haired Man discussed the trials’ increasing difficulty as Xia Manggan headed toward a simpler test.

• Xia Manggan entered the trial against forty-eight Kunyu Statues, but four statues’ coordinated blows overwhelmed him and forced him out of the sealed area.
• Xia Manggan made two more attempts and was driven out each time, then paused to recover after spending Divine Power.
• The Green-haired Man said Xia Manggan could pass the second trial by finding the right method, while the White-haired Elder warned that choosing only easy trials would leave him unprepared for the third.
• The Green-haired Man and the White-haired Elder discussed the need for Xia Manggan to improve within three thousand years and the importance of obtaining the Void Dragon Evasion Technique.
• Xia Manggan changed targets and went to a trial with twelve statues that tested an auxiliary ear-cultivation art.

After assessing the second trial’s divine abilities, Xia Manggan decided to spend up to five hundred years improving his close-combat movement before moving on, while keeping his overall time in Nine Directions City within the changing conflict’s likely timetable. He began training against the Cloud Mist Phantom Evasion Technique statues, and a hundred years passed as the next Insect Beast Army attack approached.

• Xia Manggan reviewed the second trial’s 108 divine abilities, classified their difficulty, and concluded that close-combat movement was his greatest weakness.
• Xia Manggan estimated that the struggle between the two factions might last about eight hundred years and decided to spend no more than five hundred years in the second trial.
• Xia Manggan entered the Cloud Mist Phantom Evasion Technique trial and fought the silver-armored statues, studying their footwork and blade techniques while using the trial’s attack pattern to escape and re-enter.
• Xia Manggan sent his Golden Crow Avatars to train at three close-combat movement trials while his Second Primordial Spirits studied blade techniques in the Portable Immortal Mansion.
• Xia Manggan continued training as a hundred years passed, bringing the next hundred-year Insect Beast Army attack.

Xia Manggan perfected his Space-Time Phantom Evasion Technique, then slaughtered the Insect Beast Army in the second trial and received twenty Chaos Crystals as a hidden reward. He headed for the Kunyu Statues to continue learning divine abilities.

• Xia Manggan spared the last silver-armored man, saying he wanted the Void Dragon Evasion Technique, and the man acknowledged his rapid progress before reverting to a statue.
• Xia Manggan used his new Space-Time Phantom Evasion Technique to reach a mountain beyond the desolate forest, where he spotted an approaching Insect Beast Army led by eighteen nearly Half-Step True God beasts.
• Xia Manggan entered the horde alone and used his movement and blade techniques to kill the Insect Beasts, including their leaders, in less than the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• A majestic voice announced that Xia Manggan had earned a special reward, and twenty Chaos Crystals appeared before him.
• Xia Manggan stored the crystals and flew toward the mountain range containing the forty-eight Kunyu Statues.

Xia Manggan defeated all forty-eight Kunyu Statues in the second divine ability trial and received the Kunyu Divine Pattern, which granted him the Kunyu Arm cultivation method. He began cultivating its first level using a Chaos Crystal.

• Xia Manggan entered the sealing formation and killed the first four Kunyu Statues using his blade techniques and movement ability.
• Xia Manggan used the altered flow of time from String Vibration to evade the second wave and continued fighting the Kunyu Statues.
• After a day of battle, Xia Manggan killed all forty-eight Kunyu Statues and received the Kunyu Divine Pattern and the Kunyu Arm cultivation method.
• Xia Manggan examined the Divine Pattern on his arms and began cultivating the first level of Kunyu Arm with a Chaos Crystal.

Xia Manggan mastered Kunyu Arm and used his newfound strength to pass the trial for Wrath of the Sun. With both divine abilities in hand, he set his sights on overcoming the Void Dragon Evasion Technique trial.

• Xia Manggan completed the first stage of Kunyu Arm after consuming nine Chaos Crystals and proved that his arms could withstand a near Ancestor God-level sword attack.
• Xia Manggan fought nearly a hundred Lava Giants while the Green-haired Man and White-haired Elder discussed his rapid progress and determination.
• Xia Manggan slew eighty-one Lava Giants and received the Wrath of the Sun divine ability.
• Xia Manggan learned that Wrath of the Sun let him control Sun Golden Rainbow and unleash the power of True Sun Golden Flame, which his Golden Crow avatar could use without special preparations.
• Xia Manggan decided the flames could counter the Azure Dragon Statues' life-preserving techniques and flew toward the Void Dragon Evasion Technique trial.

Xia Manggan defeated the Azure Dragons in the second-stage trial and received the Void Dragon Evasion Technique. He then learned that the third stage required him to survive in the Myriad Insect Palace’s main world for at least a thousand years, creating a conflict with his plan to leave Nine Directions City within eight hundred years.

• Xia Manggan used True Sun Golden Flame and his blade techniques to kill the 128 Azure Dragons and complete the second-stage trial.
• After four years of studying Wrath of the Sun, Xia Manggan gained control over the Sun Golden Rainbow and received the Void Dragon Evasion Technique.
• Xia Manggan arrived at the third-stage trial site, where he found that both Mind Sense and Heart Force were blocked.
• The White-haired Elder explained that Xia Manggan had to survive in the Treasure World for at least one thousand years and climb the Heaven-Reaching Ladder, with a maximum stay of one hundred thousand years.
• Xia Manggan asked whether he could pass the trial sooner because he had planned to leave Nine Directions City within eight hundred years.