Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan consulted the completed Heavenly Mystery Book and confirmed that the Nine-Headed Great Saint’s Phantom Spirit Water was genuine and safe when taken in stages. After taking the first dose, he awakened his second soul and underwent a major increase in spiritual power and physical strength, leaving him poised to continue cultivating.

• Chen Yan reflected on his recent agreement with Zhao Xinyue, who had traded the Fragment of the Heavenly Mystery Book for tribulation energy, and considered making the Dark Prison Demon Baleful Tiger his subordinate.
• Chen Yan asked the Heavenly Mystery Book whether the Phantom Spirit Water was a trap and learned that it was genuine, should be taken in three doses seven days apart, and was safe for his body.
• Chen Yan drank the first dose of Phantom Spirit Water, and its medicinal power entered his soul.
• Chen Yan awakened his second soul, Hidden Arrow, which strengthened his will and more than doubled his domain’s range; he also sensed that the bottleneck to his third soul, Sparrow Yin Soul, had loosened.
• Chen Yan’s sea of consciousness produced vast amounts of spiritual power, which also strengthened his body until he could survive in outer space for at least three months.

After advancing to Two-Soul Martial Saint, Chen Yan discovered that his mental power and domain had grown dramatically through the fusion of his Power of Faith. He tested the scale of his new strength and summoned the Heavenly Mystery Book to investigate his suspicions.

• Chen Yan saw that his sea of consciousness had transformed into a vast river of mental power, with his accumulated Power of Faith beginning to merge into it.
• Chen Yan realized his breakthrough had greatly increased his mental power and harmonized the three Great Dao powers in his domain.
• Chen Yan emerged from the Dao Field and judged that his full strength could devastate a continent, putting him beyond the reach of anyone on Blue Star.
• Chen Yan considered how a Starry Sky Life's higher level of life could compensate for weaker mastery of the Great Dao.
• Chen Yan summoned the Heavenly Mystery Book and began a test to check his guess.

Chen Yan learned that he ranked second among all living beings on Blue Star, behind Xie Xuan, and discussed the War of Godheads with him. Xie Xuan revealed that an outside Starry Sky Life created the Black Tide and that its source lay on planets beyond Blue Star, leaving Chen Yan to suspect that it had enslaved and corrupted other planetary civilizations.

• The Heavenly Mystery Book ranked Chen Yan first among ninth-rank life-forms on Blue Star and second among all living beings, leading him to visit Xie Xuan on Painting Saint Mountain.
• Xie Xuan praised Chen Yan for comprehending three Great Paths and said his strong foundation would help him advance quickly after becoming a Starry Sky Life.
• Xie Xuan explained that the War of Godheads would decide who became Blue Star's Martial God, whose power would be bound to the planet and strengthened by its powerful inhabitants.
• Xie Xuan recalled that the Solar System had once been a prosperous civilization before declining, then said an extremely powerful Starry Sky Life from outside it had created the Black Tide.
• Xie Xuan said the Black Tide came from planets beyond Blue Star, and Chen Yan asked whether that Starry Sky Life had enslaved and corrupted other civilizations' life-forms into Black Tide creatures.

Xie Xuan revealed that the Black Tide was a probe by a Starry Sky Life seeking to devour the Solar System, and said Blue Star’s hope rested with Chen Yan and the Heaven’s Mystery Book. When five Black Tide Rifts opened across Blue Star at once, Chen Yan sent five avatars to destroy them and entered each Rift.

• Xie Xuan explained the cosmic ranks and said an Evil God planned to devour the Solar System’s cores to reach Stellar Rank.
• Xie Xuan told Chen Yan that only Blue Star-born beings could use the Heaven’s Mystery Book, making it Blue Star’s chance to turn the crisis around.
• Chen Yan sensed Black Tide energy appearing in five cities and split off five avatars to respond.
• Chen Yan’s avatars destroyed the creatures emerging from the five Rifts, then entered the Rifts before they closed.
• The Martial Arts Association’s monitoring team detected the brief incursions, and a retired grandmaster suggested that an unknown protector was secretly intervening.

Chen Yan entered a vast Zhenxing Civilization ruin connected to five Rifts and led his clones in slaughtering its Black Tide Giants, absorbing their destructive power as his third-soul breakthrough neared. A colossal ninth-tier giant appeared with a starry-sky-level spear, broke through one clone’s domain, and hurled the weapon at Chen Yan.

• Chen Yan used the Heaven's Mystery Book to learn that the ruins were a Zhenxing Civilization border fortress that fell to the Black Tide forty-three thousand years earlier.
• Chen Yan’s five clones spread their domains across the ruins and destroyed waves of Black Tide Giants, absorbing their destructive aura and accelerating his third-soul breakthrough.
• A gigantic creature emerged from the mist, roaring hard enough to shatter pillars and knock the smaller giants aside.
• The giant swept its spear through one clone’s domain, and Chen Yan suspected the weapon was a starry-sky-level treasure like his Blood-Red Fragment.
• The giant gathered power in a vast pit and hurled the spear toward Chen Yan.

Chen Yan was drawn into an ancient inheritance and became the Third Prince of the Zhenxing Civilization, bearer of the God-Slaying Spear Soul. As the Second Prince and Seventh Prince advanced on his capital, Chen Yan set out to lead a preemptive campaign; meanwhile, soldiers in the Fifth Prince Edmond’s camp discussed the Second Prince’s growing advantage.

• The God-Slaying Spear struck Chen Yan’s clone and transported his consciousness into the past, where he awoke in the body of the Third Prince.
• An attendant reported that the Second Prince and Seventh Prince had allied, that the Second Prince held the Spear Handle and Spear Sheath, and that Chen Yan possessed the Spear Soul.
• Chen Yan recognized the ancient giant body as his identity in an inheritance trial and considered using his surviving powers and the Heavenly Mystery Book to overcome his stronger rivals.
• The attendant reported that the Second Prince’s vanguard had taken the Red Abyss Corridor, and Chen Yan ordered his armor and set out to strike first.
• At Mount Ergon, Gerda and Morgan discussed the war with Talio, who argued that the Second Prince had the best chance of winning because he held three God-Slaying Spear fragments and was allied with the Seventh Prince.

Talio explained that the God-Slaying Spear could resurrect those killed in the succession war, while Gerda and Morgan dismissed the Third Prince as weak and easy to capture. Their confidence in the North Territory’s defenses was shaken when Constantine arrived alone at the pass.

• Talio told Gerda and Morgan that the new king could resurrect everyone who died in the succession war once the God-Slaying Spear was assembled.
• Gerda and Morgan praised the Fifth Prince’s defenses and called the Third Prince weak despite the importance of his Spear Soul.
• A soldier reported that an unidentified giant was approaching the North Territory Pass through the canyon.
• Gerda, Morgan, and Talio saw that the lone approaching figure was ten thousand meters tall and recognized him as Constantine, the Third Prince.
• Constantine called out to Edmond and demanded that the gates be opened to welcome him.

Chen Yan reached the North Territory and confronted Fifth Prince Edmond about Sebastian’s plot to keep him out of the war by poisoning his mother. Chen Yan demonstrated that he could treat her, and Edmond agreed to hear his terms for an alliance.

• Chen Yan arrived at the North Territory and was admitted through its defenses to meet Edmond.
• Chen Yan revealed that Sebastian had poisoned Edmond’s mother and that the promised antidote was fake.
• Edmond’s Secret Guard surrounded Chen Yan, but Chen Yan vanished from the hall and appeared beside Edmond’s mother.
• Chen Yan examined Edmond’s mother and said he could cure her.
• Chen Yan used a dark golden power to clear some of the poison, then offered the treatment as a condition of their negotiations.
• Edmond ordered the Secret Guard to lower their weapons and agreed to hear Chen Yan out.

Constantine used his power to begin clearing the poison in Edmond’s mother, then made her continued treatment the price of Edmond’s submission. Edmond placed the North Territory under Constantine’s command and began surrendering his Spear Pattern.

• Edmond saw that Constantine had restored a patch of his mother’s skin and eased her pain.
• Constantine said he would need ten treatments over a month to cure her, keeping the rest of her recovery in his hands.
• Constantine demanded Edmond’s people, Spear Pattern, and authority over all North Territory military operations.
• Edmond accepted that he had no other choice and bowed in submission to Constantine.
• Edmond put the soldiers, defenses, and supplies of the North Territory under Constantine’s command, then began removing his Spear Pattern.

Chen Yan joined the Spear Soul with the Spear Pattern, amplifying its protection across the entire North Territory army. As Edmond considered taking the Spear Soul for himself, Chen Yan realized that the blood-red fragment from the ninth-rank Corpse Dragon was part of the God-Slaying Spear.

• Chen Yan caught the Spear Pattern fragment, and it resonated with the Spear Soul in his chest.
• The amplified golden patterns spread across the North Territory Barracks, strengthening and protecting every soldier there.
• Morgan, Gerda, and Talio recognized that the Spear Soul had expanded the Spear Pattern's defensive power to the whole army.
• Edmond tested the Golden Pattern Shield by striking a Secret Guard, and the shield stopped his saber without breaking.
• Edmond considered killing Constantine and taking the Spear Soul, while Chen Yan concluded that the Corpse Dragon's blood-red fragment belonged to the God-Slaying Spear.

Martin struggled to keep Red Abyss City’s defenders loyal while the Second and Seventh Princes’ army threatened the city, until news arrived that the Ninth Prince had disrupted their supplies and the North Territory’s army had forced them to retreat. At the allied command tent, Sebastian and Gregory watched Edmond lead a newly empowered North Territory army into battle, and Sebastian chose to wait until Edmond was tired before attacking.

• Martin tried to rally Red Abyss City’s defenders, but Bolt accused Constantine of abandoning them and urged the soldiers to surrender to the Second Prince.
• Martin drew his saber against Bolt, while Constantine’s personal guards stood by Martin and pledged to wait for their prince.
• A scout reported that the Ninth Prince had burned much of the allied forces’ supplies and the North Territory’s army had forced Sebastian’s troops to retreat, ending the immediate threat to Red Abyss City.
• At the allied command tent, an officer reported that the North Territory’s army was attacking and that the supply shortage left the frontline with only five days of provisions.
• Sebastian and Gregory saw Edmond attacking the allied front with Spear Soul-enhanced power that protected the North Territory soldiers around him.
• Gregory offered to fight Edmond, but Sebastian refused and decided to wait until Edmond was tired before making his move.

Edmond fought Gregory after Gregory intervened to stop his slaughter of the allied forces, and Gregory gained the upper hand with the Spear Blade until Edmond’s Secret Guards helped turn the fight into a five-on-one clash. Meanwhile, Sebastian waited in his tent, then emerged to find his guards dead and Constantine confronting him.

• Gregory ordered the allied forces to retreat and grew to his true form to challenge Edmond, wielding the Spear Blade to break Edmond’s shield and wound him repeatedly.
• Gregory offered to let Edmond leave if he surrendered the Spear Pattern and Spear Soul, but Edmond confronted him over their mother’s poisoning and refused to retreat.
• As Gregory prepared a finishing blow, Edmond’s four Secret Guards ambushed him, allowing Edmond to strike Gregory and join them in surrounding him.
• Sebastian ordered his officers and guards to help Gregory, then reflected on his brotherhood with Gregory and their mother’s wish before falling asleep.
• Sebastian awoke to silence, found his personal guards and adjutant dead, and was knocked off balance by an unseen attacker before recognizing Constantine.

Chen Yan defeated and killed Sebastian despite the Spear Sheath’s mental attack, then claimed the Spear Sheath and Spear Handle. Their activation drew Gregory’s attention as he stood facing Edmond, and Chen Yan approached them through the battlefield ruins.

• Sebastian attacked Chen Yan with the Spear Sheath’s mental shock wave, but Chen Yan’s mind remained unaffected while nearby soldiers collapsed.
• Sebastian reached for the Spear Handle, but Chen Yan punched through his chest and killed him before he could use it.
• Chen Yan picked up the Spear Sheath and Spear Handle, causing the Spear Soul in his chest to flare.
• Gregory sensed Sebastian’s death during his fight with Edmond and turned toward the central command tent, while Edmond did not pursue him.
• Chen Yan walked through the smoke and ruins toward Gregory and Edmond.

Chen Yan killed Sebastian, took the Spear Blade, and secured the surrender of the allied army after Gregory laid down his weapon and asked him to spare the ordinary soldiers. After sending Edmond to kill Ninth Elder and retrieve the Spear Point, Chen Yan recruited Gregory to kill Sixth Prince Frederick and take the Spear Tip.

• Gregory watched Sebastian’s body shrink after Chen Yan killed him, and the allied army fled the battlefield.
• Gregory discarded the Spear Blade and asked Chen Yan to spare the soldiers who had been forced to fight; Chen Yan agreed and took the blade.
• Chen Yan’s Spear Soul resonated with the Spear Blade, bringing the number of God-Slaying Spear fragments in his possession to five.
• Chen Yan told Edmond that Ninth Elder would be alone in a western valley and sent him with the Spear Sheath and Secret Guards to kill Ninth Elder and retrieve the Spear Point.
• Chen Yan told Gregory to kill Sixth Prince Frederick at Hayward Heights in three days and bring back the Spear Tip, and Gregory agreed.

Chen Yan used the Heavenly Mystery Book to gather the God-Slaying Spear fragments, defeat the remaining opposition, and reassemble the weapon in the Ancestral Temple. As the God-Slaying Spear awakened, Constantine’s body began advancing to Planetary Rank, and Chen Yan experienced the transformation through his consciousness.

• Edmond led the Secret Guard into a Beast’s lair and killed Ignatius with the Spear Sheath’s psychic shockwave, recovering the Spear Point.
• Chen Yan found Dominic hiding in an ice cavern, defeated him, and took the Spear Tail; Henry agreed to surrender the Spear Ridge in exchange for his life.
• After Edmond returned, Chen Yan brought the assembled fragments to the Ancestral Temple, where the fragments joined the Spear Soul to reform the God-Slaying Spear.
• Chen Yan grasped the God-Slaying Spear as Constantine’s body began evolving from Apprentice Ninth Rank to Planetary Rank, letting Chen Yan experience the transformation firsthand.

Chen Yan experienced Constantine’s Planetary Rank body before witnessing the Evil God emerge in space and destroy him. He learned that the creature had devoured Constantine and was targeting Zhenxing’s exposed core, revealing the cause of the civilization’s destruction.

• Chen Yan took in Constantine’s immense strength and precise perception of Zhenxing before a force stripped him of control.
• Chen Yan’s viewpoint rose into space, where an eerie creature revealed itself as the source of the Eternal Life cultists’ aura.
• The Evil God pulled Constantine into space and endured the God-Slaying Spear by sacrificing a substitute body.
• Constantine attacked the Evil God repeatedly, but it overwhelmed him and began devouring his body and life force.
• Zhenxing cracked apart as Constantine died, and the Evil God turned its gaze greedily toward the exposed core.

Chen Yan witnessed the Evil God destroy the Zhenxing Giant and learned that its spores created the Black Tide, while the God-Slaying Spear resonated with his Blood-Red Fragment and reformed in his sea of consciousness. Back on Blue Star, he reunited with Du Qionghua and Yu Qingmeng, whose Void Dao Pupils marked her as a rare prodigy, and she challenged him to train with her flying swords.

• Chen Yan watched the Evil God consume the Zhenxing Giant, spread spores that transformed its survivors into Black Tide Creatures, and vanish through a Rift after the God-Slaying Spear shattered against it.
• The Blood-Red Fragment resonated with the God-Slaying Spear, reconstructing the complete weapon in Chen Yan's sea of consciousness.
• Chen Yan returned to Blue Star and discovered that only an hour had passed, despite spending twenty days in the historical vision.
• Chen Yan arrived at the Zhenyue Group building and reunited with Du Qionghua and Yu Qingmeng, who had reached Martial Arts Grandmaster at nearly fourteen.
• Chen Yan learned from the Heavenly Mystery Book that Yu Qingmeng possessed Void Dao Pupils, then stopped her eighteen flying swords with his Time Authority.
• Yu Qingmeng put away her swords and asked Chen Yan to make up for their time apart by serving as a target for her flying swords.

Chen Yan became the strongest ninth-tier being on Blue Star after awakening three more souls, but he remained wary of the Evil God threatening the Solar System. As humanity and the Monster Beast Race gained strength amid the Black Tide, a colossal Rift beast appeared at an American war base and swallowed the ninth-tier Gene Warrior Cohen.

• Chen Yan absorbed the Phantom Spirit Water, awakened Sparrow Yin, Thief Swallower, and Non-Poison, and learned from the Heavenly Mystery Book that no Apprentice Rank life-form on Blue Star was stronger than him.
• Chen Yan reflected that the Evil God was a planet-core-devouring Beast seeking to consume all nine planets and then the Sun, and continued cultivating to protect Blue Star and his family.
• The Black Tide drove many factions to explore ancient ruins, and Blue Star's publicly known number of ninth-tier human powerhouses rose to eighty-eight as new Martial Saints and demon saints emerged.
• At an American war base near New Metropolis, soldiers spotted a colossal creature emerging through a Rift, triggering the alarm and mobilizing the base.
• Cohen, a ninth-tier Gene Warrior, flew out to attack the creature, but it absorbed his punch and swallowed him whole.

A giant beast overwhelmed the Tier 9 Gene Warriors with corrosive black mist, turning two of them into monsters and driving Gray back to the base. The beast released spores that infected the base, while John watched Jackson transform and approach him as the spores drifted toward New Metropolis.

• The giant beast killed Cohen, and the legion commander ordered the three remaining Tier 9 Gene Warriors to attack.
• The beast’s black mist dissolved the warriors’ energy shields and infected Joseph and another warrior, while Gray escaped.
• Joseph and the other infected warrior detonated themselves to avoid becoming monsters, leaving Gray as the only survivor.
• The giant beast released countless spores that drifted into the base and toward New Metropolis, infecting soldiers despite the commander’s orders.
• In the bunker, Jackson developed gray-green markings, transformed into a monster, and approached John.

Powerful Black Tide Creatures invaded every continent, and three ninth-rank monsters threatened Lianyun Base City. As residents fled to shelters and warriors tried to hold the line, Xu Guangzong, Qin Ningshuang, and Zhao Wuji engaged the monsters, leaving the battle still underway.

• Black Tide Creatures emerged from Rifts across the world, overwhelming emergency channels with calls for help.
• Three ninth-rank Black Tide Creatures approached Lianyun Base City, and Qin Ningshuang identified the largest as a late-ninth-rank threat.
• Lianyun City's alarm sent residents into shelters, while professional-rank warriors joined the defense before retreating when another ninth-rank creature appeared in the central plaza.
• Xu Guangzong unleashed his Sword Domain and slaughtered most of a charging horde of Black Tide Creatures.
• Qin Ningshuang raised an ice domain to isolate the largest creature with herself and Xu Guangzong, while Zhao Wuji charged the two remaining monsters.