Chapter Summaries

After humiliating Manager Wang in the Professional League qualifier, Chen Yan studied the rules, ate dinner, and cultivated Five Aggregates Fist in the Scroll World, seeking faster ways to temper his spleen and stomach. Meanwhile, Wang Qian endured public mockery and ordered a copy of the replay.

• Chen Yan learned that players needed to complete at least one qualifier match per day, with the top one hundred selected after ten matches.
• After dinner, Chen Yan entered the Scroll Space and used Five Aggregates Fist to draw earth-element energy into his spleen and stomach.
• Chen Yan found the cultivation process too slow and considered searching for more law steles or other treasures containing pure five-element energy.
• Wang Qian read the forum's taunts about his defeat and listened as an instructor reported that three students had canceled their courses.
• Wang Qian ordered another gaming pod and tea set, then asked the instructor to send him the replay.

Chen Yan used the Invisible Needle to kill three cultists who were terrorizing Silver Mountain Village and preparing a blood sacrifice to collapse a nearby A-rank Rift. After saving the villagers, he absorbed the Evil God Authority from the dead men and realized his search had led only to three recently transformed low-level underlings.

• Zeng Yufei and his two companions slaughtered villagers and prepared a blood sacrifice to bring down the A-rank Rift near Silver Mountain Village.
• As Zeng Yufei's companion moved to attack a mother and her child, Chen Yan's Invisible Needle killed all three men in seconds.
• The villagers celebrated their rescue and began gathering the dead and tending to the village.
• Two thousand meters away, Chen Yan absorbed the Evil God Authority from the Invisible Needle and refined it with his Internal Furnace.
• Chen Yan reflected that the black threads revealed by the True Pupil of Myriad Phenomena had led him to only three recently transformed cultist underlings.

The Alliance discovered that the S-rank Rift beneath Imperial Martial University was nearing its breaking point and reaffirmed cooperation with the Heavenly Python Clan. Meanwhile, Chen Yan tracked Evil God Authority to a hidden underwater Rift and entered it despite its rules barring powerful cultivators and allowing no return.

• Alliance officials and experts concluded that the sealed S-rank Rift beneath Imperial Martial University was destabilizing, possibly because of Beast God Cult blood sacrifices.
• The Alliance ordered emergency preparations, including deploying the Third Army Group and accelerating the Professional League.
• Core decision-makers reviewed the East Continent plan and agreed to continue cooperation with the Heavenly Python Clan.
• Chen Yan followed a dense trail of Evil God Authority from Silver Mountain Village to a silent lake and walked beneath its surface.
• Chen Yan uncovered an incomplete Rift beneath the lakebed and sensed that it barred Grandmasters and offered no way back.
• Chen Yan entered the Rift without hesitation.

Chen Yan entered a Rift, resisted its psychic corruption, and explored a crystal palace while remaining hidden from its gemstone guards. He followed a warped aura into a filthy lair and discovered a massive, writhing shadow within.

• Chen Yan used his psychic energy to repel the Rift's mental contamination and surveyed a vast storeroom filled with ordinary stones.
• An alarm sounded in the Spirit Stone Vault, and two Gem People searched the storeroom without noticing Chen Yan because of his [Presence Erasure].
• Chen Yan slipped past the Gem People and entered a palace carved from glowing crystal.
• Chen Yan followed the warped aura through a narrow entrance and found a black, foul-smelling lair containing melted debris and a mountain-sized shadow.

Chen Yan confronted and killed a corrupted Gold-Swallowing Ant Queen inside the Spirit Stone Vault. Outside the nest, Lipo learned that the intruder had appeared inside the vault without detection until the protective formation sounded an alarm.

• Chen Yan identified the giant creature as a corrupted seventh-tier Gold-Swallowing Ant Queen.
• The Ant Queen sent newly hatched Worker Ants and Soldier Ants swarming toward Chen Yan, and he crushed them with his Spleen-Earth Qi.
• Chen Yan pierced the Ant Queen between its mandibles and severed its head with an invisible attack.
• Lipo and the Stone Spirits stayed outside the nest, wary of the sinister aura within.
• A Stone Spirit reported to Lipo that the intruder had appeared out of nowhere inside the Spirit Stone Vault and escaped detection until the protective formation warned them.

Chen Yan killed the Gold-Swallowing Ant Queen and met Lipo, leader of the Stone Spirit Clan, who mistook him for an envoy from the Upper Realm. After learning the clan had long sought contact with that realm, he asked Lipo to take him to her people.

• Lipo explained that the ant beasts stole life essence and had proved impossible for her clan to exterminate.
• Lipo and the Stone Spirits entered the nest and found Chen Yan alive beside the decapitated Gold-Swallowing Ant Queen.
• The Stone Spirits knelt and addressed Chen Yan as an Exalted Envoy, and he purified the corruption from the ant's corpse.
• Lipo told Chen Yan she was the clan's only Progenitor and said ancient prophecies described envoys from the Upper Realm.
• Lipo thanked Chen Yan for freeing the clan from the Gold-Eater, but he refused its body and let the Stone Spirits keep it.
• Chen Yan asked Lipo to take him to the Stone Spirit Clan, and she led him into a larger underground space.

Chen Yan gained the Stone Spirit Race’s faith, ancestral Law Steles, cultivation inheritance, and promises of spirit stone samples and records while negotiating with Lipo. Lipo remained uncertain whether he could actually escape the Rift, and Chen Yan still had not explained how he would open a passage.

• Lipo presented Chen Yan to the Stone Spirit Race as an Envoy, and their worship produced a new Power of Faith in his sea of consciousness.
• Chen Yan and Lipo agreed that he could draw on the clan’s faith while he sought a way to open a passage through the Rift and restore the Stone Spirit Race’s alliance with Blue Star.
• Lipo gave Chen Yan three ancestral Law Steles, and she passed the Stone Spirit Race’s cultivation method into his sea of consciousness.
• Chen Yan promised to let the Stone Spirit Race manage spirit stone resources on Blue Star and collected samples of stones of different grades.
• Chen Yan requested the clan’s written records, and Lipo brought him stone tablets and Memory Crystals that could transfer stored memories near the forehead.

Chen Yan collected the treasure vault’s contents and agreed that he had what he needed. Before Lipo could take him to the Rift passage, he vanished without a trace, leaving her alone and bewildered.

• Chen Yan sent the stone slabs, Crystal Cores, and other items into his Scroll World.
• Lipo mistook Chen Yan’s ability to store the items as a divine spatial power and reconsidered her suspicions.
• Lipo asked Chen Yan whether he had any other requests and whether they should return to the Upper Realm.
• Chen Yan agreed, then vanished before Lipo could show him the suspected Rift passage in the Spirit Stone Vault.
• Lipo remained alone in the Treasure Vault, frozen in shock.

After Chen Yan deliberately destroyed his clone, he discovered that his blood had become extraordinarily potent and transformed the Crimson Blood Fruit Tree in the Scroll World into a golden treasure tree. Eating one of its fruits restored his strength and greatly increased his qi and blood, leaving him eager to test what else it could do.

• Chen Yan spat out the blood from his destroyed clone and noticed golden energy in it that corroded the metal trash can.
• Chen Yan moved the trash can and blood into the Scroll World, where the blood and the Great Sun Divine Object transformed the Crimson Blood Fruit Tree into a golden treasure tree.
• Chen Yan ate one of the tree’s golden fruits and restored his qi and blood by nearly fifty points.
• Chen Yan considered the fruit’s potential benefits to other martial artists and decided to investigate its other effects.

Chen Yan told Wang Anguo about an undiscovered Rift inhabited by the Stone Spirit Clan, and Wang Anguo advised him to delay reporting it until he could claim priority development rights. Chen Yan was stunned by his master’s shrewd guidance and wondered whether Wang Anguo had taught him the old-timer’s Burning Art.

• Chen Yan planned to use golden fruits to attract his Grandmaster Class classmates and profit from their cultivation gains.
• Chen Yan called Wang Anguo and reported a hidden Rift in Silver Mountain Village, where the Stone Spirit Clan lived under a Grandmaster leader.
• Chen Yan showed Wang Anguo spirit stones and explained that the Stone Spirits had once been vassals of humanity and wanted to reconnect with Blue Star.
• Wang Anguo scolded Chen Yan for entering the unknown Rift alone, then confirmed that discovering it could earn Alliance merit.
• Wang Anguo advised Chen Yan to wait until he placed in the East Continent Professional League’s top twenty, so he could report the Rift as an elite exploration team captain and gain priority development rights.
• Chen Yan was amazed by Wang Anguo’s advice and reflected on his master’s skill at using Alliance rules to secure advantages.

Wang Anguo agreed to bring Chen Yan along to investigate cult activity at the Platinum Han casino after Chen Yan offered to cleanse any Evil God Power there. As the cultists began preparing to flee, Luo Yan launched an assault before Wang Anguo arrived.

• Wang Anguo told Chen Yan that martial artists had to seize opportunities and admitted he had never questioned how Chen Yan entered or escaped the Rift.
• Luo Yan reported suspected cult activity at Platinum Han, where at least two Grandmasters were detected, and Wang Anguo agreed to respond.
• Chen Yan persuaded Wang Anguo to take him along because he might be able to cleanse Evil God Power, and the two flew toward West District 3.
• Luo Yan briefed the Special Investigation Team as members surrounded Platinum Han and prepared to raid the casino.
• Underground, Protector Zhang and four black-robed cultists packed Euphoria Pills and prepared to flee after sensing danger.
• When his team detected the cultists destroying data and preparing to escape, Luo Yan ordered the assault and charged through the casino entrance with his broadsword.

Luo Yan led the Special Investigation Team's assault on a casino and fought Protector Zhang, a drug-enhanced false grandmaster who tried to hold him back while another powerful cultist escaped with a crucial item. After receiving an encrypted message, Luo Yan killed Protector Zhang with a devastating golden blade technique, and the team toasted their captain.

• Luo Yan stormed the casino with the Special Investigation Team, while its members subdued gamblers and cultists and snipers covered the raid.
• Luo Yan sensed one grandmaster-level energy source fleeing toward the rear as Protector Zhang attacked him with a Mountain-Splitting Blade.
• Protector Zhang's brute strength pinned Luo Yan down and bought time for the other grandmaster to escape, until an encrypted message reached Luo Yan.
• Luo Yan revealed his full martial intent, broke Protector Zhang's blade, and bisected him with a golden crescent of blade-light.
• Luo Yan's second strike turned into a torrent of starlight that annihilated Protector Zhang's body and its writhing black tendrils.
• The Special Investigation Team members rushed to Luo Yan and shouted toasts to their captain and the grandmaster.

Protector Fu and his subordinates fled the Platinum Han Casino through a hidden passage, only to emerge into an ambush by the Special Investigation Team. Chen Yan confronted the cultists’ attacks, while Wang Anguo stood ready beside him.

• Protector Fu’s group heard Protector Zhang’s agonized scream and hurried toward their escape route.
• Protector Fu led the cultists through a concealed passage to an abandoned subway station’s utility tunnel.
• The Special Investigation Team opened fire as the cultists emerged, but their armor-piercing bullets failed to kill them.
• The mustached cultist launched bone spikes at Chen Yan, while another spat a ball of demonic flames at him.
• Chen Yan knocked the bone spikes aside with Spleen-Earth Qi and pressed his left hand down toward the incoming flames.

Chen Yan killed Protector Fu and fought the Beast God Cult’s Five-Clawed Black Crow after it formed from the cultists’ remains. He destroyed and absorbed the demon, while Wang Anguo and the Special Investigation Team watched in shock; reinforcements then approached through the tunnel.

• Chen Yan extinguished the cultists’ demonic flames, killed one attacker, and then used Heart Fire to burn Protector Fu to ashes.
• The ashes and nearby cultists’ remains formed the Five-Clawed Black Crow, and Chen Yan ordered the Special Investigation Team to cease firing when their bullets failed to harm it.
• Chen Yan blocked the Crow Demon’s attacks, injured it with a kick, and destroyed its body with a five-element attack.
• Chen Yan incinerated the Crow Demon’s remaining smoke and absorbed its energy as Wang Anguo and the team looked on.
• Wang Anguo wondered whether he could have survived Chen Yan’s attack, and hurried footsteps sounded from farther down the tunnel.

After the operation, Luo Yan discovered that Chen Yan—not Wang Anguo—had defeated the Pseudo-Grandmaster and secured the samples. He acknowledged Chen Yan’s achievement and promised to report the credit in his name.

• Luo Yan arrived at the scene, saw the cultists’ bodies and recovered samples, and announced that the operation was over.
• Luo Yan praised Wang Anguo and spoke to Chen Yan, but noticed the Special Investigation Team members acting awkwardly.
• A team member told Luo Yan that Wang Anguo had not fought and Chen Yan had defeated the enemy.
• Luo Yan overcame his shock, ordered his team to clear the scene and secure the samples, and offered Chen Yan the operation’s credit.
• Luo Yan introduced himself to Chen Yan and thanked him, while Chen Yan calmly replied that it was nothing.

After the operation, Chen Yan treated three Special Investigation Team members who had been severely corrupted by Evil God Power, purging the corruption and healing their bodies with Life Law energy. As Luo Yan drove Chen Yan and Wang Anguo back to Imperial Martial, he wondered how far the child’s abilities would take him.

• Luo Yan received the casualty report: the operation had captured 215 Evil Pill traders and 38 cultists, while three of his injured team members were contaminated by Evil God Power.
• At his deputy’s request, Luo Yan asked Chen Yan to treat the three severely wounded members, and Chen Yan agreed.
• Chen Yan absorbed the Evil God Power from each wounded man and used Life Law energy to heal their damaged bodies.
• The three men recovered, and Zhang Ruoting knelt to thank Chen Yan; Chen Yan also offered treatment to the five members with minor injuries, but they declined.
• Luo Yan drove Chen Yan and Wang Anguo back to Imperial Martial, while Wang Anguo praised Chen Yan and warned him not to fight recklessly.
• Luo Yan watched Chen Yan in the rearview mirror and thought the child might become a legendary figure in the East Continent Alliance or all of humanity.

Chen Yan studied Lipo’s Stone Spirit cultivation method and formed his first energy core, while Chen Kefa began cultivating the Divine Firmament Tribulation Sword to attempt a breakthrough. The chapter ended with Chen Kefa drawing a tribulation cloud inside his sealed cultivation chamber and preparing to face its lightning.

• Chen Yan completed his Scroll World training and learned that several of his skills were nearing breakthroughs.
• Chen Yan studied the Hundred Aperture Crystal Condensation Method and condensed his first energy core at the Laogong acupoint in his right palm.
• At the Black Wind Valley Forward Base, Zhang Meng and Li Muwan discussed the danger of Chen Kefa’s planned breakthrough and guarded his chamber.
• Chen Kefa prepared his twelve vials of medicine and began circulating the Divine Firmament Tribulation Sword technique.
• A tribulation cloud formed above Chen Kefa, who steadied himself and prepared to draw its lightning into his body.

Chen Kefa endured the tribulation lightning and broke through the Heavenly Pass, becoming a Martial Arts Grandmaster. His breakthrough summoned thunderclouds over the Forward Base, where the soldiers recognized and congratulated him.

• Chen Kefa provoked the tribulation clouds and endured successive lightning strikes while using medicine to replenish his True Essence.
• As the lightning forged his body and transformed his True Essence into Divine Firmament True Essence, Chen Kefa saw the Heavenly Pass begin to crack.
• Chen Kefa swallowed his last three vials of medicine and drew on the tribulation clouds' power, combining the forces to shatter the Heavenly Pass.
• A dark-purple sword formed in Chen Kefa's dantian, and his transformed power spread pressure across the Forward Base as he completed his breakthrough.
• Thunderclouds gathered above the base, and soldiers realized Chen Kefa had become a Grandmaster before cheering their congratulations.

After becoming a grandmaster, Chen Kefa demanded leave to visit his family, but Commander Lou Ming offered to approve it only if he killed the Lava Demon Lizard King and brought back its Crystal Core. Chen Kefa accepted the dangerous mission and raced toward Red Flame Ridge.

• Chen Kefa emerged from his breakthrough and hurried to headquarters, where Commander Lou Ming introduced him to Grandmaster Han Zhenshan of Zero Rift.
• Chen Kefa asked for his month-long leave to visit his wife and son, but Lou Ming refused to let him go while the front line was under pressure.
• Lou Ming offered to approve Chen Kefa's leave if he killed the Lava Demon Lizard King at Red Flame Ridge and brought back its Crystal Core.
• Chen Kefa bargained for half the beast's hide for his son, and Lou Ming agreed he could keep the entire carcass.
• Chen Kefa immediately set off for Red Flame Ridge, saying that killing was the best way to stabilize his new realm.

Chen Kefa handed command of the Law-Breaking Squad to Li Muwan, then killed the peak seventh-tier Lava Demon Lizard King at Red Flame Ridge. After presenting its Crystal Core to Lou Ming and securing leave, he boarded a helicopter bound for the Imperial Capital to reunite with Qionghua and Xiao Yan.

• Chen Kefa appointed Li Muwan captain of the Law-Breaking Squad and left to carry out Lou Ming's mission alone.
• At Red Flame Ridge, Chen Kefa fought the Lava Demon Lizard King and used Divine Firmament: Heavenly Punishment to strike through its defenses.
• Chen Kefa pierced the Demon Lizard King's heart and killed it, then collected its Crystal Core and the smaller lizards' Beast Cores.
• Chen Kefa brought the Crystal Core to Lou Ming, who approved his leave and arranged a flight to the Imperial Capital.
• Chen Kefa asked Lou Ming to send half the lizard's hide to his home, then boarded a helicopter to return to Qionghua and Xiao Yan.