Chapter Summaries

Chen Qiye learned about the Nine Realms and the God-Demon Purgatory selection, then encountered a Dark Star Realm bandit during his voyage to the gathering. As Huo Shunchong returned covered in blood, Chen Qiye was still trying to learn about the ancient tree within him.

• Huo Shunchong welcomed Chen Qiye aboard his Voyaging Treasure Ship after learning he came from the Hao Tian Realm.
• A female Fire Demon explained the Nine Realms and the God-Demon Purgatory rankings, including the Hao Tian Realm’s long run in last place.
• The Six-Armed Dark God sealed the space around the ship with the Dark Star Five-Elements Lock and began plundering the gathered gods and demons.
• Chen Qiye dismissed the female Fire Demon and turned his attention to the ancient tree within his body, but the system did not answer his question.
• Huo Shunchong rushed in covered in blood and called out to Lord Chen.

Six Paths Heavenly Emperor received the Chaos Dark God's command and sent Purple King to accompany Chen Qiye in God-Demon Purgatory. In the Great Western Region, Chen Qiye agreed to help Huo Shunchong retrieve a Blood Reincarnation, then confronted the Six-Armed Dark God.

• Six Paths Heavenly Emperor welcomed the Chaos Dark God, accepted his order, and summoned Purple King.
• Six Paths Heavenly Emperor instructed Purple King to find Chen Qiye, accompany him through God-Demon Purgatory, and agree to his requests.
• Huo Shunchong asked Chen Qiye to help recover the Fire Demon Clan's Blood Reincarnation, and Chen Qiye demanded one of the three pills sought by the Six-Armed Dark God.
• Huo Shunchong agreed and asked Chen Qiye to take only the Sacred Fire Demon Clan away; Chen Qiye accepted and left the Voyaging Treasure Ship with him.
• Chen Qiye confronted the Six-Armed Dark God and demanded that he open the sealed space or be crushed along with it.

Chen Qiye killed the Blood Demon by unleashing his immense vitality, then learned from Huo Shunchong that killing was forbidden during the God-Demon Purgatory. The Dark Star Five-Elements Lock shattered as Huo Shunchong began to explain the trouble Chen Qiye had caused.

• The Six-Armed Dark God sent a Blood Demon to test Chen Qiye while the gods and demons feared the human would be defeated.
• The Blood Demon’s bloody shadows entered Chen Qiye and began devouring him, but Chen Qiye unleashed his Life Origin Force and expanded the Blood Demon until he burst apart.
• Chen Qiye used origin power to prevent the Blood Demon from reviving, leaving the gathered gods and demons stunned.
• Huo Shunchong warned Chen Qiye that killing was forbidden during the God-Demon Purgatory, a rule set by the Origin Life God.
• Chen Qiye questioned whether the warning concerned the Six-Armed Dark God, and the Dark Star Five-Elements Lock shattered as Huo Shunchong began to explain.

Chen Qiye faced judgment from the Reincarnation Warden for killing Blood Demon during God-Demon Purgatory. Purple King intervened and paid respects to Chen Qiye as Lord Chen, but he refused her protection and prepared to fight, revealing the Heavenly Sword Intent.

• The Reincarnation Warden appeared after Blood Demon died and declared that Chen Qiye must accept judgment.
• Chen Qiye challenged the Warden over why he had not intervened when Blood Demon attacked him, while the Warden froze him with complete water-element law power.
• Purple King arrived and tried to shield Chen Qiye from the Warden, but was badly injured by the freezing force.
• Purple King bowed to Chen Qiye and addressed him as Lord Chen, shocking the gathered gods and demons.
• The Warden insisted that the Origin Life God's rules required Chen Qiye's capture, but Chen Qiye refused Purple King's help and summoned the Crimson Gold Divine Sword.
• The Reincarnation Warden recognized the Heavenly Sword Intent as Chen Qiye grasped the sword.

Chen Qiye used the Heavenly Sword Intent to withstand Reincarnation Warden’s laws, drawing the Six Paths Heavenly Emperor to intervene. After the Emperor left Chen Qiye in Purple Robe’s care and departed with Reincarnation Warden, the story revealed that Chen Qiye was the one who began the endless cycle of reincarnation.

• Chen Qiye formed a Sword Domain that blocked Reincarnation Warden’s three thousand laws, proving he could contend with a Heavenly Emperor Realm expert.
• The Six Paths Heavenly Emperor arrived, dispersed the laws, and answered Chen Qiye’s question about his identity by saying he could not answer.
• The Six-Armed Dark God and many other gods and demons rendered themselves unconscious to avoid hearing forbidden secrets.
• The Six Paths Heavenly Emperor left Purple Robe to compensate Chen Qiye and manage the situation, then departed with Reincarnation Warden.
• Chen Qiye spared the remaining gods and demons and left with Purple Robe for the Six Paths Battlefield and the opening of God-Demon Purgatory.
• The Six Paths Heavenly Emperor ordered Reincarnation Warden to reincarnate and revealed that Chen Qiye had begun the endless cycle of reincarnation.

The Six Paths Heavenly Emperor and Fuxi Hao Tian discussed the tenth Dao God, Heaven, and its plan to unite the Nine Realms before Hao Tian departed. In the Dark Star Realm, the Immortal Bright King wondered about his companions until his student arrived and invited him to the Six Paths Realm.

• The Six Paths Heavenly Emperor recalled the legend of the Sea of Rebirth as Fuxi Hao Tian appeared before him.
• Hao Tian and the Six Paths Heavenly Emperor discussed whether the Primordial Yang God had fallen and why Heaven sought to unite the Nine Realms.
• Hao Tian speculated that the unification might be a way to annihilate someone, then left as Heaven's will pressed down upon the Reincarnation Zone.
• In the Dark Star Realm, the Immortal Bright King wondered how Little Three and the others were doing after spending decades there.
• A graceful figure emerged from the Void and invited Teacher Zhao to go to the Six Paths Realm.

Oscar and Zhao Wuji set out for the Six Paths Realm after Oscar sensed sword intent that might belong to their teacher, while Xiao Yan sent his son Xiao Lin there to gain experience in the God-Demon Purgatory. The chapter ends with Xiao Yan refusing Heaven’s offer of power and Gu Xun’er wanting to follow Xiao Lin.

• Oscar told Zhao Wuji he suspected their teacher was in the Six Paths Realm after sensing sword intent, and Zhao Wuji sent a message to Ning Rongrong before dragging Oscar through the void.
• Xiao Yan ordered Ao Feng to secretly protect Xiao Lin in the Six Paths Realm but forbade him from helping unless Xiao Lin faced a dead end or revealing himself.
• Heaven urged Xiao Yan to become the Azure Heaven Realm’s Heavenly Emperor and pursue the Dao God realm, but Xiao Yan rejected the offer and sealed the rift.
• Gu Xun’er asked to go to the Six Paths Realm because she worried about Xiao Lin, but Xiao Yan told her their status made traveling there too dangerous.

Chen Qiye and Purple King arrived at the Six Paths Realm as God-Demon Purgatory began, and learned that no one had ever survived its seventh night. Just as participants entered the battlefield, an unknown power changed the rules so they would resurrect where they died, leaving Chen Qiye to wonder whether he had caused the change.

• Chen Qiye and Purple King traveled to the Six Paths Realm, where hundreds of thousands of gods and demons gathered for God-Demon Purgatory.
• Purple King explained the competition's seven stages, its age limit, and how even legendary prodigies had never survived the seventh night.
• The Origin Life God's radiance covered the nine realms, and the gate opened as participants were ordered to enter the battlefield beyond the realms.
• Chen Qiye noted that participants who died on the first day would normally resurrect outside the gate, but an unknown will changed the order so they would resurrect where they died.
• Purple King feared the new rule would kill most participants, while Chen Qiye wondered whether the change had happened because of him.

Chen Qiye connected the Grandmaster System and several strange powers within him to the Origin Life God, while Purple King explained legends about the Origin Universe’s first beings and the supreme laws. The Six Paths Heavenly Emperor arrived to preside over the God-Demon Purgatory, and a demonic voice suddenly sounded in Chen Qiye’s consciousness.

• Chen Qiye suspected that the Origin Life God had created the Grandmaster System and that the powers manifesting around him had once belonged to him.
• Purple King guided Chen Qiye to the Ascension Diagram plaza and described legends about chaos’s first lives and the Origin Life God.
• A million divine demon guards gathered in the west as the Origin Life God’s sword-shaped ancient tree phantom appeared in the east.
• Chen Qiye concluded that his past life had been reflected as the Chaos Dark God and that he had existed before the gods.
• The Six Paths Heavenly Emperor arrived at the plaza, and a demonic chant resounded within Chen Qiye’s consciousness.

Azure King announced the changed rules of God-Demon Purgatory, where millions of cultivators competed for Life Seeds and the Ascension Diagram. Chen Qiye realized his system was a Chaos Supreme Treasure tied to Heaven, then joined Purple King at a feast as the event began.

• Azure King announced that 6,724,218 cultivators were participating and warned that Reincarnation Realm experts could not massacre low-level cultivators on the first day.
• Azure King explained that cultivators could withdraw at night, while Life Seeds gained after the first night could help them pursue the supreme Law of Life and survive the seventh night.
• Chen Qiye realized that the Origin Sword and Ascension Diagram were Chaos Supreme Treasures, and that his Master Teacher System was the third, its will having become Heaven.
• Six Paths Heavenly Emperor ordered a feast after Chen Qiye and Purple King arrived at Heavenly Radiance Hall.
• Six Paths Heavenly Emperor and the gathered experts watched the cultivators through the image of God-Demon Purgatory, while an unfamiliar guest asked Purple King whether Chen Qiye was her Dao companion.

At the Six Paths Realm’s Ascension Diagram gathering, the Lords of Azure Heaven, Vast Heaven, and Yellow Heaven arrived, raising tensions around God-Demon Purgatory. The Six Paths Heavenly Emperor discovered he had lost access to the Ascension Diagram’s power, while Chen Qiye quietly realized that the Six Paths origin connected to it.

• Heavenly Venerable Lingxi tried to toast Chen Qiye, but Chen Qiye ignored him, drawing mockery from Red Demon and other gods and demons.
• The Lords of Azure Heaven, Vast Heaven, and Yellow Heaven arrived and took seats beside the Six Paths Heavenly Emperor, saying they had come because of the changed order of the Origin Life God.
• The Six Paths Heavenly Emperor warned the three visitors to behave themselves for seven days, noting that the Dao God and another powerful lord were watching God-Demon Purgatory.
• The Six Paths Heavenly Emperor lost contact with the Ascension Diagram’s power and worried that Heaven’s arrival threatened the event, where someone was expected to pass the seventh night.
• Chen Qiye realized that the power of the Six Paths origin linked to the Ascension Diagram, and an ancient scroll appeared in his consciousness.

After merging with the Ascension Diagram, Chen Qiye realized it was an array diagram leading to the Chaos Star and judged that the Chaos Dark God was pursuing it and the Origin Sword. At a gathering in the God-Demon Purgatory, Chen Qiye clashed with the Three Heavens’ lords over bloodline and servitude, and a powerful sword intent arrived as someone echoed his words.

• Chen Qiye merged with the Ascension Diagram and recognized it as the Chaos Star’s array diagram, while the Origin Sword was its key.
• Purple King identified the Three Heavens’ realm lords, and Chen Qiye argued that a true prodigy could defeat stronger opponents despite the realm hierarchy.
• Heavenly Venerable Lingxi mocked Chen Qiye and praised the Dragon Emperor for killing two Heavenly Emperor Realm experts while in the Reincarnation Realm.
• The Vast Heaven and Yellow Heaven Realm Lords discussed the Dragon Emperor’s fortune and disparaged his human bloodline, prompting Chen Qiye to call surrendering one’s soul to enslavement truly lowly.
• A terrifying sword intent tore through the sky, and an unseen speaker laughed and repeated Chen Qiye’s words.

Fuxi Hao Tian arrived at Heavenly Radiance Hall and demonstrated his overwhelming sword power against the lords of the Three Heavens. After dismissing their attacks, he turned to Chen Qiye and asked to share his seat, drawing every gaze toward the young human.

• Fuxi Hao Tian appeared above Heavenly Radiance Hall, and his sword intent silenced the assembled gods and demons.
• Chen Qiye greeted Hao Tian and spoke of the sword’s purity, prompting Hao Tian to realize the Ascension Diagram had fused on its own.
• Hao Tian rejected the Six Paths Heavenly Emperor’s invitation to sit with the Three Heavens’ lords, provoking the lord of Yellow Heaven Realm.
• The lord of Yellow Heaven Realm attacked with ten thousand skeletal figures, but Hao Tian erased them by twisting space and time.
• Hao Tian’s Sword of Retrospection forced the lords of Azure Heaven Realm and Vast Heaven Realm to combine their powers to withstand it.
• Hao Tian turned to Chen Qiye and asked whether he could share a seat with him.

Chen Qiye welcomed Fuxi Hao Tian and considered the power of the Ascension Diagram and Origin Sword while watching God-Demon Purgatory. Hao Tian questioned the deadly new rules and told Chen Qiye that his nature had changed, leaving Chen Qiye to ask what sort of god he had once been.

• Chen Qiye summoned a seat and table for Fuxi Hao Tian, and the Six Paths Heavenly Emperor realized the Ascension Diagram had acknowledged Chen Qiye as its master.
• Chen Qiye reflected that the Ascension Diagram could protect him and preserve Lu Junchu’s life, though he could not fully awaken the Origin Sword’s power.
• Purple King remarked that one-fifth of the six million cultivators had died in half a day as the contest in God-Demon Purgatory grew increasingly deadly.
• Fuxi Hao Tian questioned whether the changed rules contradicted the Origin Life God’s original purpose, and Chen Qiye argued that the arrangement was fairer to cultivators born into hardship.
• Fuxi Hao Tian told Chen Qiye that the Teacher had changed, and Chen Qiye asked what sort of god he had been before.

Fuxi Hao Tian discussed the catastrophic first-day deaths in God-Demon Purgatory with Chen Qiye and invited him to meet the Huaxu Progenitor after the trial. When Chen Qiye recognized a sword-wielding girl in the purgatory as someone connected to him, Hao Tian wagered his life against the Lord of Azure Heaven’s Yin-Yang Taiji Sword on whether she would survive the first night.

• The Azure King announced that more than 3.36 million cultivators had died on the first day, and Fuxi Hao Tian reflected on how the new rules had made the selection truly lethal.
• Hao Tian told Chen Qiye that the Huaxu Progenitor knew about the Empress Fuxi and the failed Chaos world, and Chen Qiye agreed to visit after God-Demon Purgatory ended.
• The Six Paths Heavenly Emperor noticed a sword-wielding girl surviving battles despite her initial-stage Longevity Realm cultivation, and Chen Qiye said her sword intent was related to him.
• The Lord of Azure Heaven predicted that the girl would die within three quarters of an hour, and Hao Tian challenged him to a wager after mocking his claim to the title of Heavenly Emperor.
• Hao Tian wagered his life against the Lord of Azure Heaven’s Yin-Yang Taiji Sword if the girl survived the first night, and the Lord of Azure Heaven accepted.

Nalan Yanran entered God-Demon Purgatory and prepared to face its first night while the gods and demons watched her as part of a wager. Chen Qiye explained the escalating laws and defended his disciples against their mockery, and Heavenly Venerable Ruoshui revealed that a human sword prodigy in the Dark Star Realm had once attracted a Void Dao God's attention.

• Nalan Yanran hid in the forest with a lotus manifestation as the first night's life-law pressure approached, unaware that three Undying Realm hunters were nearby.
• The gods and demons predicted that Nalan Yanran would be exposed, while Hao Tian asked Chen Qiye whether she could survive the first night.
• Chen Qiye judged that Nalan Yanran could likely endure until the third day and explained that each night tested cultivators against increasingly powerful laws of life.
• Heavenly Venerable Lingxi and the Lord of Yellow Heaven Realm mocked Chen Qiye, but Chen Qiye and Hao Tian rebuked them.
• The Lord of Vast Heaven Realm mentioned a human sword prodigy from the Dark Star Realm, and Heavenly Venerable Ruoshui confirmed that a Void Dao God had noticed them.

At the Heavenly Radiance Main Hall, Fuxi Hao Tian used a Dao imprint of a mortal who could bear supreme laws to entice the gathered Heavenly Emperors into offering treasures for a chance to befriend him. Chen Qiye recognized the mysterious prodigy as an old acquaintance, just as someone called out to the Seventh Master from beyond the realm.

• Heavenly Venerable Ruoshui revealed that a Void Dao prodigy had fused the Great Dao of the void with Sword Dao, drawing the gods' attention to Fuxi Hao Tian.
• Hao Tian challenged the other gods' assumptions about who could bear supreme laws, and Ruoshui confirmed that the Void Dao prodigy had done so at the Reincarnation realm after fusing with the law.
• Hao Tian produced a sealed Dao imprint of a mortal prodigy who had borne supreme laws and offered to reveal it in exchange for ten ultimate Dao treasures and one Heavenly Emperor supreme treasure.
• Hao Tian swore that the prodigy had no master and urged the Heavenly Emperors to consider befriending him before he reached the Heavenly Emperor realm.
• Chen Qiye recognized the prodigy Hao Tian described as an old friend, and an excited voice called out to the Seventh Master from a passage across the battlefield beyond the realm.

Zhao Wuji reunited with Chen Qiye in the Heavenly Radiance Main Hall, where his connection to the Sword Emperor and the Void Dao God stunned the assembled powers. As Zhao Wuji named six possible geniuses in Fuxi Hao Tian’s Dao projection, the Vast Heaven and Yellow Heaven Realm Lords paid their promised treasures, and Hao Tian prepared to reveal who was inside.

• Zhao Wuji crossed a void passageway into the Heavenly Radiance Main Hall and reunited emotionally with Chen Qiye.
• Heavenly Venerable Lingxi challenged Zhao Wuji’s arrival, but Heavenly Venerable Ruoshui recognized his complete Void Emperor Great Dao and identified him as the Sword Emperor’s teacher.
• Heavenly Venerable Ruoshui explained the Sword Emperor’s power and connection to the Void Dao God, prompting the assembled gods and demons to treat Zhao Wuji with respect.
• The Yellow Heaven Realm Lord accused Fuxi Hao Tian of hiding the Sword Emperor and manipulating the gathering, but Hao Tian denied being able to contact anyone through the passageway and invited Zhao Wuji to sit beside him.
• Zhao Wuji speculated that the person in Hao Tian’s Dao projection might be one of six familiar figures, alarming the hall with the possibility of more geniuses like the Sword Emperor.
• The Vast Heaven Realm Lord handed Fuxi Hao Tian the Nine-Son Buddha Lotus, and the Yellow Heaven Realm Lord began delivering the remaining treasures as Hao Tian insisted on revealing the person in the projection openly.

Hao Tian activated the Dao Shadow to reveal the unparalleled prodigy, and the gods and demons discovered that the figure carrying supreme laws in a mortal body was Chen Qiye. The revelation left the Heavenly Radiance Main Hall stunned, while the hunt for the sword-wielding girl in God-Demon Purgatory was about to begin.

• Zhao Wuji explained that Oscar had stayed behind after meeting a powerful figure who wanted to test him.
• The gods and demons urged Hao Tian to activate the Dao Shadow after learning that the sword-wielding girl had been exposed and the hunt was starting.
• Hao Tian used his Dao of Time to open the Dao Shadow and let the gathered gods and demons project their divine senses into it.
• The gods and demons saw Chen Qiye carrying Hao Tian's supreme Sword Intent while protecting a world during the collapse of the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• The gods and demons recognized Chen Qiye as the white-clothed figure and learned his name, then fell silent in shock.

Chen Qiye rebuked the gods and demons who had probed him with their divine sense, then demanded compensation for their offense. As a Yellow Heaven Realm god or demon mocked his threat, a sword light descended from the Void passage.

• Chen Qiye shattered the divine senses of several gods and demons who had probed him, shocking those present with his strength.
• Red Demon Heavenly Venerable apologized, but Chen Qiye rejected the excuse and the Lord of Azure Heaven Realm and Lord of Vast Heaven Realm tried to recruit him.
• Chen Qiye ignored the Three Heavens lords and asked Hao Tian whether the Fuxi Clan was poor; Hao Tian said it was, so Chen Qiye demanded one ultimate treasure from each offender as compensation.
• A white-haired god or demon from Yellow Heaven Realm mocked Chen Qiye, claiming God-Demon Purgatory would keep him from killing anyone.
• Chen Qiye threatened to lock the mocker’s soul in the Void and kill him after God-Demon Purgatory ended, as a sword light descended from the Void passage.