Chapter Summaries

After surviving the lightning sea, Yang Chen absorbed its energy and strengthened his Great Dao, laws, and body before climbing a hundred gravity-bound steps toward the summit. He reached the mountaintop in a badly injured state and lost consciousness after hearing a middle-aged man sigh.

• Yang Chen emerged from the lightning sea and absorbed its energy, raising his Devouring Great Dao to seventy thousand li and strengthening his laws and physical body.
• Yang Chen began climbing the hundred steps, enduring gravity that grew heavier as he advanced.
• At the ninetieth step, Yang Chen activated the fifth turn of his Nine-Turn Demonic Dragon Body to withstand the pressure.
• Yang Chen used his Devouring Great Dao and the power of thirty strands of laws to push through the final steps.
• At the hundredth step, Yang Chen's body cracked under the crushing gravity, but energy from the Saint-Slaying Sword helped him reach the summit.
• Yang Chen lost consciousness on the mountaintop after hearing a middle-aged man sigh.

Yang Chen awakened in the Gods and Devils Ruins and met a middle-aged man who revealed that he was one of the Gods and Devils. The man explained the Saint-Slaying Sword’s connection to his fallen friend and brought Yang Chen to the River of Laws, the ruins’ most precious place.

• Yang Chen woke in a palace, learned that reaching the summit had strengthened his physical body, and met a powerful middle-aged man.
• The middle-aged man revealed that he was one of the Gods and Devils and asked Yang Chen to show him the Saint-Slaying Sword.
• The man recognized the Saint-Slaying Sword as the weapon of his fallen friend, who had fought against evil demons.
• The middle-aged man explained that the sword had brought Yang Chen to the ruins to obtain True Essence, then said that entering this space was an even greater gain.
• The middle-aged man transported Yang Chen to a place filled with dense power of laws and identified it as the River of Laws.

Yang Chen accepted the middle-aged man's request to repay a favor if he someday commanded the starry sky, then used the River of Laws to advance to the mid-stage Immortal King realm. After ten days, the man sent him back to the palace and reflected that helping someone acknowledged by the Saint-Slaying Sword might pay off.

• Yang Chen agreed to repay the middle-aged man if he reached the power to command the starry sky.
• The middle-aged man revealed the River of Laws and gave Yang Chen ten days to cultivate before he would be sent to the others.
• Yang Chen absorbed new rules from the river, increasing the number within his body to forty-nine.
• Yang Chen absorbed a gray power of law and broke through to the mid-stage Immortal King realm.
• The middle-aged man sent Yang Chen out of the collapsing space and noted that the Saint-Slaying Sword's recognition suggested Yang Chen would become a mighty expert.

Yang Chen fought through a sea of fire to claim the True Source, which he fused into the Saint-Slaying Sword. The chapter ended with Mo Wuhen confronting him over the prize, and Yang Chen refusing to hand it over.

• Yang Chen entered a maze-like space and chose a central passage that led to a sea of fire and a pillar holding the True Source.
• Yang Chen killed the lava giants that attacked him, earning Slaughter Points and converting them into more power of laws.
• Yang Chen reached the pillar and fused the True Source into the Saint-Slaying Sword.
• Mo Wuhen appeared and demanded the True Source, but Yang Chen taunted him and refused.

Yang Chen and his Guardian fought Mo Wuhen, whose Snow Burial Sword froze the sea of flames and whose cultivation rose to the late-stage Immortal Venerable realm. The chapter ended as Mo Wuhen unleashed his Snow Burial Sword against Yang Chen.

• Mo Wuhen summoned a silver longsword and froze the sea of flames as he confronted Yang Chen.
• Yang Chen summoned Pu Yi, the Guardian, whose sixty powers of laws shattered Mo Wuhen's Sword Snow attack.
• Yang Chen and the Guardian prepared to fight with the Azure Dragon Five Tiger Sword and Saint-Slaying Sword.
• Mo Wuhen's snowflake mark appeared, raising his cultivation from mid-stage to late-stage Immortal Venerable.
• Mo Wuhen unleashed the Snow Burial Sword as Yang Chen faced him.

Yang Chen waited out the Saint-Slaying Sword’s absorption of the True Source while Mo Wuhen’s ice sword shadows overwhelmed the Dao Protector. After the sword unleashed its Emperor-level attack, Yang Chen struck Mo Wuhen with Blood Rebuke, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Mo Wuhen’s icy sword shadows broke through the Dao Protector’s attacks and began tearing the puppet apart.
• The Saint-Slaying Sword told Yang Chen that devouring the True Source would let it unleash an attack comparable to an Immortal Emperor’s, but would put its consciousness to sleep afterward.
• Yang Chen withdrew the severely damaged Dao Protector, and Mo Wuhen attacked him with a rain of sword shadows.
• Yang Chen survived the assault with his Divine Turtle Shield skill and Black Tortoise Body, then announced that the Saint-Slaying Sword had finished devouring the True Source.
• Yang Chen unleashed the Saint-Slaying Sword’s Blood Rebuke toward Mo Wuhen.

Yang Chen killed Mo Wuhen with the Saint-Slaying Sword’s overwhelming attack, then used his Slaughter Points to repair himself and gain another law. The Monster Prodigy Rankings announced Mo Wuhen’s disappearance and Yang Chen’s rise from eighteenth to first.

• Yang Chen unleashed a crimson sword beam that overwhelmed Mo Wuhen’s defenses and killed him along with his Divine Soul Power.
• Yang Chen tried to repair the guardian with his Slaughter Points, but the system demanded five thousand because the guardian had reached the Immortal Venerable realm.
• Yang Chen spent five hundred Slaughter Points repairing his own body and exchanged the remaining points for one law, bringing his total to sixty-one.
• The Monster Prodigy Rankings erased Mo Wuhen’s name and placed Yang Chen first, leaving the experts in the War Domain stunned.

After Yang Chen killed Mo Wuhen, the Holy Temple Half-Saint confronted Azure Dragon and threatened the Azure Dragon Army. Their clash nearly escalated into a battle between Half-Saints, but the World Commerce Association intervened to protect those inside the Gods and Devils Ruins.

• Yang Chen killed Mo Wuhen, making the Holy Temple Half-Saint furious and alarming Azure Dragon.
• The Holy Temple Half-Saint accused Azure Dragon of opposing the Holy Temple, and Azure Dragon defiantly challenged the Holy Temple and the Mystic Heaven Sect.
• Azure Dragon and the Holy Temple Half-Saint exchanged attacks, with Azure Dragon neutralizing the Half-Saint's strike.
• The Mystic Heaven Sect Half-Saint emerged and accepted Azure Dragon's challenge, but a World Commerce Association Half-Saint appeared to prevent a fight that could endanger the Gods and Devils Ruins.
• The World Commerce Association Half-Saint warned that the Half-Saints' power could harm those inside the ruins, so the Mystic Heaven Sect Half-Saint and the Holy Temple Half-Saint backed down.

Yang Chen slaughtered the stone men in a palace maze, strengthened his Devouring Great Dao, and obtained a Bloodthirst Pill. He then found Wang Chi and Gongsun Sheng confronting each other over an Emperor-grade bronze spear.

• Yang Chen killed dozens of peak Immortal King stone men and gained 2,600 killing points.
• Yang Chen signed in to obtain four strands of Law Power, then spent 2,500 killing points to gain five more, raising his Law Powers past seventy.
• Yang Chen opened the palace’s treasure chest and used the system to identify its red pill as a Bloodthirst Pill, which he stored in his Space Ring.
• Yang Chen heard Wang Chi and Gongsun Sheng arguing over a bronze spear and entered their chamber.
• Yang Chen greeted Wang Chi as the two men faced off over the Emperor-grade weapon.

Yang Chen tested his improved strength against Gongsun Sheng, then stepped aside and gave Wang Chi a Bloodthirsty Pill so the two rivals could fight fairly over the Emperor-tier weapon. Wang Chi took the pill and prepared to battle Gongsun Sheng.

• Gongsun Sheng refused to surrender the Emperor-tier weapon and challenged Wang Chi and Yang Chen to fight him together.
• Yang Chen attacked Gongsun Sheng with the Saint-Slaying Sword and cut his fist, surprising both Gongsun Sheng and Wang Chi.
• Yang Chen stopped fighting, saying the winner should claim the weapon, and gave Wang Chi a Bloodthirsty Pill to temporarily raise his cultivation by one minor realm.
• Wang Chi swallowed the pill and challenged Gongsun Sheng to a fair battle.

Wang Chi used the Bloodthirst Pill to raise his cultivation and defeat Gongsun Sheng, but Yang Chen killed Gongsun Sheng before he could leave. As Wang Chi rushed to claim the imperial-grade weapon, the pill’s side effects suddenly struck him.

• Wang Chi used the Bloodthirst Pill to reach the late stage of the Immortal Venerable realm and fought Gongsun Sheng with his Soul Devouring Spear.
• Wang Chi wounded Gongsun Sheng, who complained that he would have won without the pill.
• Yang Chen stabbed Gongsun Sheng through the heart and killed him, earning 1,000 Slaughter Points.
• Wang Chi mourned his old rival and dismissed Yang Chen’s claim that he had killed Mo Wuhen.
• Wang Chi hurried toward the imperial-grade bronze spear, then collapsed as the Bloodthirst Pill’s side effects took hold.

After Yang Chen helped Wang Chi survive the Bloodthirst Pill’s side effects, the Monster Prodigy Rankings confirmed that Gongsun Sheng had died and Wang Chi had risen to second place. The chapter ended with the Mystic Heaven Sect’s Half-Saint confronting Azure Dragon, who denied responsibility and suggested the Wine Sword Immortal might have killed Gongsun Sheng.

• Wang Chi endured the Bloodthirst Pill’s painful side effects, and Yang Chen told him that he had risen to second on the Monster Prodigy Rankings.
• The Monster Prodigy Rankings changed, showing Yang Chen in first place and Wang Chi in second as Gongsun Sheng’s name disappeared.
• Experts across the Central Continent speculated that Wang Chi or Yang Chen had killed Gongsun Sheng, and Yang Chen’s fame spread widely.
• The Mystic Heaven Sect’s Half-Saint accused Azure Dragon of having the Azure Dragon Army kill Gongsun Sheng and threatened war.
• Azure Dragon denied responsibility and suggested that the Wine Sword Immortal might have killed Gongsun Sheng.

Yang Chen and Wang Chi explored the Gods and Devils Ruins, where Wang Chi claimed the black spear Soul Devourer and they discovered the Gods and Devils Pool. Their approach to the pool was blocked by a powerful tree demon.

• Yang Chen exchanged slaughter points for two strands of the power of laws and advanced again.
• Wang Chi used his blood essence to claim the bronze spear, revealing its black form, and named it Soul Devourer.
• Yang Chen and Wang Chi left the spear chamber and traveled through the maze into a forest containing the Gods and Devils Pool.
• Wang Chi explained that the pool held energy gathered from gods and devils, and he hoped to use it to reach the late Immortal Venerable stage.
• Vines attacked Yang Chen and Wang Chi as they entered the forest, and they saw an ancient tree with a human face and mid-stage Immortal Venerable cultivation.

Yang Chen and Wang Chi fought their way through the tree demons guarding the Gods and Devils Pool. Yang Chen overwhelmed the Immortal King and Immortal Venerable tree demons, then told Wang Chi he really was number one on the Monster Prodigy Rankings.

• Wang Chi explained that the Immortal Venerable tree demon likely had many powerful companions, but said he still wanted to enter the Gods and Devils Pool to break through.
• Yang Chen drew the Saint-Slaying Sword and agreed to fight, while Wang Chi attacked the Immortal Venerable tree demon with Soul Devourer.
• Wang Chi called on Yang Chen to handle the Immortal King tree demons while he fought the Immortal Venerable ones.
• Yang Chen swiftly killed the Immortal King tree demons with his fire-infused sword and gained slaughter points, shocking Wang Chi.
• Yang Chen used his killing points to strengthen himself and killed five or six Immortal Venerable tree demons with Blood Rebuke.
• Yang Chen told Wang Chi that he really was number one on the Monster Prodigy Rankings.

Yang Chen exchanged his Slaughter Points to strengthen his cultivation and body, then joined Wang Chi at the Gods and Devils Pool to cultivate. As the pool’s energy flooded into him, Yang Chen used the Heaven-Devouring Art to improve his Great Dao and law power.

• Yang Chen exchanged six thousand Slaughter Points for cultivation and the remaining two hundred for his physical body, reaching ninety strands of law power.
• Wang Chi watched Yang Chen’s Great Dao expand and marveled at his immense strength, though he still did not believe Yang Chen was first on the Monster Prodigy Rankings.
• Yang Chen and Wang Chi arrived at the Gods and Devils Pool, where the abundant energy caused Yang Chen’s laws to stir.
• Wang Chi leaped into the pool to cultivate, and Yang Chen followed, absorbing its energy through his Devouring Great Dao and Heaven-Devouring Art.

Yang Chen and Wang Chi cultivated in the Gods and Devils Pool, where Wang Chi advanced to the late Immortal Venerable stage and Yang Chen greatly strengthened his powers. The Gods and Devils Ruins collapsed and expelled them, while a middle-aged man inside the ruins realized Yang Chen had absorbed a vast amount of the pool’s energy.

• Yang Chen absorbed energy from the Gods and Devils Pool, greatly increasing his Great Dao power and Rule power as Wang Chi moved away to cultivate.
• Wang Chi broke through to the late Immortal Venerable stage and admired Yang Chen’s powerful cultivation and late Immortal King body.
• Yang Chen finished cultivating with an aura close to the Immortal Venerable realm, but cracks spread across the sky and the ruins exploded around him and Wang Chi.
• The Wine Sword Immortal found Yang Chen and Wang Chi outside the ruins and asked whether they had caused its collapse; both denied it.
• A middle-aged man watched the Gods and Devils Pool on a light screen and lamented how much of its energy Yang Chen had absorbed.

Yang Chen and Wang Chi faced retaliation from the Holy Temple and Mystic Heaven Sect after Yang Chen admitted killing Mo Wuhen, but Azure Dragon held off their Half-Saints and sent the two away. The World Commerce Association’s Half-Saint then claimed Wine Sword Immortal had killed Gongsun Sheng, leaving him confused as the conflict continued.

• Wine Sword Immortal left the collapsing Gods and Devils Ruins with Yang Chen and Wang Chi, who said they had killed Gongsun Sheng.
• The Holy Temple and Mystic Heaven Sect Half-Saints confronted the group outside the battlefield and demanded that Yang Chen and Wang Chi stay behind.
• Yang Chen admitted to Wang Chi that he had killed Mo Wuhen as the Holy Temple Half-Saint attacked them.
• Azure Dragon blocked both Half-Saints, revealed greater power, and ordered Dragon One to take Yang Chen and Wang Chi away.
• The World Commerce Association’s Half-Saint told the others that Wine Sword Immortal had killed Gongsun Sheng, leaving him bewildered.

Azure Dragon and the World Commerce Association’s Half-Saint left the Holy Temple and Mystic Heaven Sect Half-Saints arguing, while the two factions secretly coordinated a plan to lure Yang Chen away from the Central Continent and kill him. They prepared to mobilize their Immortal Venerables, determined to eliminate Yang Chen before he could become another Liu Feng.

• The Mystic Heaven Sect Half-Saint refused to help the Holy Temple Half-Saint fight Azure Dragon, and the two factions’ leaders argued.
• The World Commerce Association’s Half-Saint told Azure Dragon she supported him because the Azure Dragon Army was Liu’s legacy, then learned that Yang Chen was Liu’s disciple.
• Azure Dragon and the World Commerce Association’s Half-Saint left after the two opposing Half-Saints stayed silent.
• The Mystic Heaven Sect Half-Saint revealed that his earlier anger had been an act and proposed targeting Yang Chen’s Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect to draw him out of the Central Continent.
• The Holy Temple Half-Saint agreed to the plan, and both factions pledged their Immortal Venerables to kill Yang Chen.

With Yang Chen gone, the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect’s leaders and disciples struggled with grief and trained to grow stronger. The Hidden Dragon Immortal King attacked the sect with Dragon Ancestor Hall, and a Central Continent envoy revealed himself as an Immortal Venerable, leaving the sect in peril.

• Chen Xin and Qi Buhui mourned Yang Chen’s departure, while Chen Xin blamed himself for failing to protect his disciple.
• Zhang Shaotian pushed himself through a month of cultivation in the Great Dao River, and Wei Xiang, Chu Xiong, and Nalan Xue vowed to improve and someday destroy Dragon Ancestor Hall.
• Ye Huatian told Zhang Shaotian to rest, but a terrifying aura struck the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect and its disciples recognized Dragon Ancestor Hall’s arrival.
• The Hidden Dragon Immortal King attacked the sect’s protective formation, and Chen Xin destroyed his flood dragon before ordering the sect disciples to form their ten-peak sword formation.
• The Dragon Ancestor Immortal King summoned a Central Continent envoy, who dispelled the sword formation’s attack and revealed an Immortal Venerable’s power.

Han Shuang and Dragon Ancestor Hall attacked the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect, but the World Commerce Association intervened to protect it. After Han Shuang’s side overwhelmed its representative, the representative raised a barrier and urged Chen Xin to summon Yang Chen.

• Han Shuang revealed himself as an Immortal Venerable and demanded that Chen Xin and the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect surrender or die.
• Zhang Shaotian charged Han Shuang and was killed, then Chen Xin’s sword attack was shattered and Chen Xin was forced to his knees.
• A middle-aged man from the World Commerce Association arrived and invoked Zhan Wushuang’s order to protect the sect.
• The middle-aged man fought Han Shuang but was wounded when another Immortal Venerable appeared beside Han Shuang.
• The middle-aged man raised a barrier around the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect and told Chen Xin to contact Yang Chen.
• Chen Xin used a jade slip to contact Yang Chen.