Chapter Summaries

Su Chen, hidden within the Ruin Light as Taixuan Hong, trapped six Moon Radiance experts with Golden Thread Fire Lines and Azure Light Divine Thunder, then bargained for the remaining Taixuan Family members to be spared. He secured a challenge between himself and the younger generation of the Five Pillars, leaving Yuan Luofan and Luo Cheng to summon them while Huang Pan prepared to inform the Five Pillars.

• Su Chen used azure lightning and golden fire lines to reveal that the Ruin's End was rigged to collapse if the experts attacked, fled, or disturbed the traps.
• Tang Huai persuaded Taixuan Hong to negotiate by warning that detonating the traps could doom the remaining Taixuan Family, and Zhuang Yi pledged to oversee an end to their persecution.
• Taixuan Hong demanded a challenge against the strongest younger fighters of the Five Pillars, and Tang Huai agreed in exchange for the experts' release.
• Su Chen opened a safe passage through the fire lines, allowing Yuan Luofan and Luo Cheng to leave and summon Huang Pan.
• Huang Pan declined to enter the Ruin's End and said he would inform the Five Pillars, while Su Chen reflected that the arrangement might let his main body arrive openly.

Su Chen prepared to join the Five Pillars’ expedition after Taixuan Hong challenged them, while news of the challenge drew the Hidden Star Ranking’s top fighters to the Nether Rift District. As the group gathered, Tong Zhuo explained that Final Ruins would not interfere because of an agreement made after the Mistfall Calamity.

• Su Chen decided to wait until Taixuan Hong’s challenge was over before contacting the Spirit of the Bright Sun, then resumed watching his main body and messaged Chu Lingyuan.
• Tong Zhuo and Qi You discussed Taixuan Hong’s challenge, and Tong Zhuo agreed to go with the team led by the Everdragon Heaven Lord.
• A message reached a young man in the Sea of Extreme Boiling, who changed his mind and rose to face Taixuan Hong after hearing Xu Yingshen might defeat him instead.
• Chu Lingyuan told Su Chen that the top five of the Hidden Star Ranking would go to the Nether Rift District, and Su Chen agreed to join, hoping victory might aid his future Chosen One selection.
• Three days later, Su Chen arrived at the Nether Rift District and greeted the assembled fighters, including Yan Xing, Tong Zhuo, Du Yunfei, and Tan Qingzhu.
• Tong Zhuo told Su Chen that Final Ruins would not intervene because several Bright Suns had reached an agreement with them after the Mistfall Calamity.

Su Chen arrived with Soaring Heavens at the gathering for Taixuan Hong’s challenge to the Five Pillars, where the factions debated how to order the fights and protect their champions. The Moon Radiance experts chose to follow the Hidden Star Ranking, placing Su Chen immediately after Tong Zhuo, and the chapter ended as they prepared to name the first challenger.

• Yan Xing brought Su Chen and the Soaring Heavens group to the platform aboard his Azure Dragon, where Su Chen spoke with Zhong Yue about Taixuan Hong’s challenge.
• Yuan Luofan and Luo Cheng discussed Zhou Lin’s disappearance and watched the Machine Domain and Soaring Heavens factions arrive.
• Xu Yingshen taunted Tong Zhuo and warned Su Chen about his senior brother and the Bronze Church, but Su Chen calmly turned the warning against Xu Yingshen.
• The Moon Radiance experts discussed the risks of Taixuan Hong’s challenge and decided the challengers would fight in Hidden Star Ranking order, from lowest to highest.
• Yan Xing placed Su Chen immediately after Tong Zhuo in the order, and Su Chen returned to the Azure Dragon to rest as the experts asked who would go first.

Kong You challenged Taixuan Hong inside Ruin's End, but Su Chen defeated him almost immediately using his hidden strength and Black Elephant form. The onlookers skipped to the tenth-ranked Du Yunfei for the next fight, while Kong You conceded and Su Chen prepared to face his new opponent.

• Kong You entered the Ruin Light after Taixuan Hong released Zhuang Yi, and offered him an Origin-Restoring Pill from Chang Gexiao.
• Boundless Buddha and the Machine Domain's Moon Radiance projected a blurry view of the fight, but the image cracked when it tried to probe Taixuan Hong and revealed the Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord.
• Su Chen overwhelmed Kong You with flames and a Black Elephant form, and Kong You conceded after his Mingwang Aspect was crushed.
• Yan Xing and Boundless Buddha decided to skip the lower-ranked challengers and summon the tenth-ranked Du Yunfei.
• Kong You withdrew, Su Chen swallowed the Origin-Restoring Pill, and he was surprised that Du Yunfei had entered next.

Su Chen, disguised as Taixuan Hong, defeated the Five Pillars’ challengers in Ruin’s End, though he conceded to Su Chen’s own avatar and Changge Ming conceded to him. After the others offered to spare him and protect the Taixuan Family, Taixuan Hong rejected their pity and unleashed the Golden Thread Fire Lines and Azure Light Divine Thunder.

• Taixuan Hong defeated Du Yunfei and several other challengers, including Tong Zhuo and Xuankai, while spectators wondered about his many transformations and overwhelming strength.
• Su Chen entered Ruin’s End as his avatar, conceded to Taixuan Hong, and returned to the Azure Dragon after secretly swapping bracelets to take the spoils.
• Xu Yingshen attacked Taixuan Hong with Great Heaven Nether Shadow, but the Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord’s aura repelled him and forced him to flee.
• Changge Ming conceded, saying Taixuan Hong had earned his victory over the Five Pillars without relying on the Longevity Root.
• Taixuan Hong rejected Zhuang Yi and Tang Huai’s offers to protect the Taixuan Family, declared that he had never been inferior to anyone, and detonated the Golden Thread Fire Lines as Azure Light Divine Thunder erupted.

After Changge Ming conceded, Taixuan Hong triggered the collapse of Ruin's End and died, leaving the Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord's Chosen One position vacant. The Moon Radiance agreed to honor Taixuan Hong's request to spare the Taixuan Family, while Su Chen and the others returned to the real world.

• Changge Ming admitted defeat to Taixuan Hong, and the others debated his choice and their prospects for the Chosen One position.
• Ruin's End began collapsing, forcing Yan Xing and the others to retreat as the Great Realm was swallowed by a black void.
• Zhuang Yi, Tang Huai, and the other Moon Radiance concluded that Taixuan Hong had died and agreed to honor his request to stop persecuting the Taixuan Family.
• Huang Pan proposed confirming Taixuan Hong's death with the Spirit of the Bright Sun, while the others anticipated that the Chosen One selection would reopen.
• Su Chen and the others praised Taixuan Hong's pride, then Tang Huai said the next selection's timing was undecided but likely near.
• Su Chen suspected Zhou Lin had concealed information about the object Taixuan Hong sought, and Yan Xing sent the group back to the real world.

Su Chen returned from the Nether Domain with valuable materials and reported Taixuan Hong’s apparent death to the Bronze Church leaders. Though everyone else believed Taixuan Hong had died after defeating the Five Pillars, the Bronze Ancient King realized Su Chen had impersonated him and wondered who had actually been standing before him.

• Tang Huai and Huang Pan searched the ruins of Ruin's End, but Tang Huai left without confirming whether he had found anything.
• Su Chen returned to Soaring Heavens with Profound Extremity Radiance, materials, a Four-Armed Golden Ape, and the Sovereign’s Relic, then planned to sell some of his gains through a black-market avatar.
• Su Chen told Chu Lingyuan about Taixuan Hong’s apparent victory over the Five Pillars and arranged to return to the Bronze Church.
• Qing Cang brought Su Chen to Ancient King Hall and told him that many Dust Star Sea forces planned to relocate near the church, while the True Martial Ancient King had formed a rival camp.
• Su Chen told Yuan Shuo, Gu Lin, and Pei Song that Taixuan Hong had swept through the Five Pillars before detonating Ruin's End and dying.
• The Bronze Ancient King realized that Su Chen had impersonated Taixuan Hong and worried that the Spirit of the Bright Sun would not choose another Chosen One because the real one already existed.

Su Chen returned to the Bronze Ancient King and explained how he had used methods left by Taixuan Tianyi to impersonate Taixuan Hong and contact the Spirit of the Bright Sun. After reaching the Spirit, Su Chen asked him to ignore Su Chen and recognize another candidate through the normal selection process, leaving the Spirit skeptical but intrigued by Su Chen’s strange aura.

• The Bronze Ancient King dismissed Qing Cang and asked Su Chen how he had fooled the Moon Radiances as Taixuan Hong.
• Su Chen told the Bronze Ancient King that Taixuan Tianyi had left him useful methods, and said he intended to follow the normal process to become the Spirit of the Bright Sun’s Chosen One.
• The Bronze Ancient King warned Su Chen not to seek direct recognition and agreed to ask the Soaring Heavens Dao Lord about Azure God Fetal Metamorphosis.
• Su Chen returned to his Nether Tower and used the Remnant Spirit origin and five hundred Faith Spirits to reach the Spirit of the Bright Sun.
• Su Chen asked the Spirit of the Bright Sun to pretend Su Chen did not exist and recognize a talented candidate normally, but vanished before answering the Spirit’s questions about his aura.
• Su Chen returned to the Nether Tower and found that the ritual had consumed all five hundred Faith Spirits and dimmed the Remnant Spirit origin.

Su Chen reunited with Little Pigeon and learned how Taixuan Hong’s death had changed the Abyssless Domain, while the Pillar leaders began arranging a new Chosen One selection. After advancing his cultivation arts, Su Chen heard that the preliminary selection was about to begin.

• Su Chen met Little Pigeon at the harbor, and she brought him to reunite with familiar people who had arrived from Southwind City.
• Little Pigeon told Su Chen that Taixuan Hong had defeated the Five Pillars’ younger generation before dying in Ruin's End Great Realm.
• The Five Pillars announced that they would shelter the Taixuan Lineage, prompting factions across the Abyssless Domain to destroy purchased blood and other resources connected to it.
• Great Heaven informed the Pillar leaders that Taixuan Hong had died and the Bright Sun Spirit had recognized a new candidate, so they agreed to begin selecting a Chosen One.
• Su Chen advanced his body-tempering and meditation arts to Master level, reaching thirty percent progress toward his transformation into the Azure God.
• Chu Lingyuan told Su Chen that the preliminary selection for the Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord's Chosen One was about to begin.

Su Chen traveled to Heaven Gate with Soaring Heavens candidates to seek recognition as the Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord's Chosen One, while the selection's true purpose was tied to rebuilding Abyssless. In the Nether Domain, Boundless Buddha voluntarily fell with Old Gou's help and became Eternity, who learned that the Five Pillars had found the Abyss Pillar and were awaiting the Chosen One's birth.

• Chu Lingyuan told Su Chen that all six Pillars were needed to rebuild Abyssless and that candidates would gather at Heaven Gate for recognition.
• Su Chen arrived at Heaven Gate, spoke with Zhong Yue, and met Qin Guanyu as Eighth Ranks and Morning Stars gathered under Tang Huai's lead.
• Tang Huai led the Soaring Heavens group through the glowing Heaven Gate after noting that fewer candidates had come than expected.
• Boundless Buddha asked Old Gou to help him fall, and Old Gou used Moon Radiance Essence and the Attachment-Breaking Vajra Buddha to transform him into Eternity.
• Old Gou and Eternity discussed rebuilding Abyssless, and Eternity revealed that the Five Pillars had found the Abyss Pillar and were waiting for the Chosen One.
• Old Gou instructed Eternity to harvest the Source Fire.

Su Chen and the other candidates underwent recognition by the Spirit of the Bright Sun at the Tower of Spirituality, where its unusual interest in Su Chen drew attention to his potential. After the preliminary selection, the candidates were allowed to compete freely, and Qin Guanyu entered a trial palace and invited challenges.

• Tang Huai led the Soaring Heavens group to the Tower of Spirituality, where participants from the Five Pillars gathered beneath their leaders’ projections.
• Mingxin, Qin Guanyu, and the other Morning Stars received either Three-Dragon Recognition or lesser recognition from the Spirit of the Bright Sun.
• Su Chen received Three-Dragon Recognition, and the Spirit of the Bright Sun sniffed him before acknowledging him, prompting others to remark on his youth and potential.
• The Soaring Heavens Dao Lord announced that recognized candidates could come and go and compete freely, while Morning Stars could not strike downward.
• Qin Guanyu entered a palace on the eighth floor, emerged unchallenged by its trial, and announced that he would accept challenges, delighting the Spirit of the Bright Sun.

Su Chen stayed out of the contest for the Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord’s Chosen One and focused on selling his Profound Extremity Radiance for Divine Blood. After listing it in the High Top Hat black market under his avatar’s identity as Lu Xu, he was summoned by the market’s owner.

• Qin Guanyu occupied a palace to establish an advantage, while Su Chen and the other candidates left the Heaven Gate without challenging him.
• Su Chen concealed his ambition, returned to Bronze Heaven, and decided to avoid attention while seeking to trade his Profound Extremity Radiance for Divine Blood.
• Su Chen studied new body-forging and meditation methods, then used an avatar made from Nether Domain Creatures to enter the Nether Rift and reach the High Top Hat black market.
• Su Chen found no Profound Extremity Radiance listed for sale and offered his own at 3,500 portions of Faith Spirit.
• After buying and rejecting several worthless rumors about the Abyssless Sovereign, Su Chen was approached by two men who said High Top Hat wanted to see him.

Su Chen sold Profound Extremity Radiance and other Ruin's End materials to Ding Mo, the owner of the High Top Hat black market, and received Faith Spirit, Strange God's Blood, and information about the Abyssless Sovereign. After learning more about the Formless Heaven Gate, Su Chen realized the remaining Origin Power of Tai Xu might let him activate it.

• Su Chen met Ding Mo and sold him Profound Extremity Radiance and Ruin's End materials for Faith Spirit.
• Su Chen traded 2,500 portions of Faith Spirit for 500 drops of Strange God's Blood, and Ding Mo gave him information about the Abyssless Sovereign and the Formless Heaven Gate.
• Ding Mo declined to follow Su Chen after he left the black market, deciding their business relationship was worth preserving.
• Su Chen entered the Nether Domain and confirmed that nobody had followed him before returning his consciousness to his main body.
• Su Chen wondered how to activate the Formless Heaven Gate without Bright Sun power, then remembered he still had some of Tai Xu's Origin Power.

Su Chen recovered Ming Guang’s memories of the Seven-Treasure Refinement Method and used them to make his own Holy Professions compatible, gaining the freedom to configure their interactions. He left the method ready to temper Morning Flame but still needed to advance to Morning Star, and its configurations required time to switch.

• Su Chen traveled under a fake identity to the Nether Domain, where he met his clone and used gathered Divine Blood to extract memories.
• Su Chen witnessed the World Honored One teach Ming Guang the Seven-Treasure Refinement Method and guide him through attempts to make it compatible.
• After returning to his body, Su Chen found that the Seven-Treasure Refinement Method was at beginner level and discovered his Holy Professions had already become compatible.
• Su Chen linked his professions in new combinations, creating configurations for offense, speed, clones, and recovery.
• Su Chen realized the method could temper Morning Flame but injured his body before he dispersed its manifestation, and he learned that configurations could not be switched instantly.

Su Chen extracted intelligence about the Bright Suns’ plan to rebuild Abyssless, then used the Remnant Flame to open the damaged Formless Heaven Gate. His avatar passed through and appeared in Zezhou City in Abyssless during the Thirty-Second Era, leaving him unsure whether he had reached the past or was still in the Nether Domain.

• Su Chen spent Faith Spirits trying to grow the Mystic Tree, then used Divine Blood to extract intelligence showing the five Bright Suns entering the Ruins Origin Realm to find the Abyss Pillar and rebuild Abyssless.
• Su Chen learned that Old Gou and the other Final Ruins agreed to let the Bright Suns enter the Ruins Origin Realm in exchange for access to the Source Fire and a chance for Nether Domain Creatures to incarnate the Five Pillars’ descendants.
• Su Chen pressed the Remnant Flame against the Formless Heaven Gate, causing black matter to emerge and the gate to open.
• Su Chen sent his avatar through the gate and arrived in a futuristic city, where a middle-aged man identified the place as Zezhou City on Purple Cloud Star in the Immortal-Gazing Star Sector.
• Su Chen learned that it was the seventh day of the ninth month, year 36,432 of the Thirty-Second Era, and realized his consciousness was still in his avatar, likely within the Nether Domain.

Su Chen investigated the Formless Heaven Gate and discovered it led to a lifelike world that might be the Ruins Origin Realm, before entering its Absolute Domain. There, he fought a short-bearded man who mistook him for a weak True Brilliance, and the chapter ended with Su Chen amazed that the man had survived three blows.

• Su Chen explored a realistic planet through the Formless Heaven Gate until the twenty-four-hour limit expelled his clone from the Absolute Domain.
• Su Chen infused the Formless Heaven Gate with elemental power, causing it to enter his body and become summonable at will.
• Su Chen entered the gate with his main body and, after twenty-four hours, was assessed as an Eighth Rank professional with eight Holy Professions and True Radiance Talent.
• A short-bearded man appeared, called Su Chen a True Brilliance, and attacked him without listening to his explanation.
• Su Chen dodged the man's attacks, activated all his Heavenly Marks, and struck him three times, leaving him badly injured but alive.

Su Chen passed the first trial in the Formless Heaven Gate and gained Source Fire and Buddhaheart Liquid, then returned a month later for a second trial against the bearded man, whose strength overwhelmed him. Back in reality, Su Chen discovered Five Pillars had added secret rankings tracking the Path of Selection and candidates’ chances of being chosen.

• Su Chen defeated the middle-aged trial opponent, earned a wisp of Source Fire and Buddhaheart Liquid, and learned the trial extended his existence for a month.
• Su Chen gave the Source Fire to Sunfire Tribulation-Transmuting Heavenly Venerable and used the Buddhaheart Liquid to make the Seven-Profession Wonder Tree grow.
• Su Chen returned to the Formless Heaven Gate after a month and began the second trial as Participant No. 6, learning that three failures would permanently expel him.
• The bearded man from the first trial appeared with three Morning Flames and struck Su Chen with an enormous palm, forcing him out of the trial.
• Su Chen returned to reality and found a new Selection Ranking, which listed Qin Guanyu first in Selection Probability and gave Su Chen a five-percent chance.

Su Chen returned from Five Pillars City, learned that the Abyssless Hidden Star Ranking would begin in twenty-three days, and received the Azure God Fetal Metamorphosis Method from the Bronze Ancient King. The method’s complexity did not deter him, and his panel revealed a possible path to becoming an Azure God if he found five rare materials.

• Su Chen reviewed the Path of Selection rankings, inferred that people were being recruited to complete the path quickly, and checked the countdown for the Abyssless Hidden Star Ranking.
• Su Chen replied to Chu Lingyuan’s messages, and Chu Lingyuan visited to check on him and deliver information left by the Bronze Ancient King.
• Chu Lingyuan told Su Chen that the sect’s gifts had been processed, discussed Wei Zhenghong and Shen Yi'an’s progress, and warned Su Chen not to risk participating in the ranking.
• Su Chen received the Bronze Ancient King’s explanation of the Azure God Fetal Metamorphosis Method and learned that it required a long, continuous process with several rare materials.
• Su Chen’s panel identified Undecaying Bone, Spirit-Nurturing Marrow, Nine-Aperture Flesh Fungus Heart, Profound Mother Soul Core, and Mysterious-Feminine Spirit Embryo as materials that could let the Flawless One assist his transformation into an Azure God.

Su Chen collected information about the costly materials needed to become an Azure God and went to the Abyssless Hidden Star Ranking reshuffle, where his arrival caused many competitors to withdraw. He entered Void Cycle and began his first match, with opponents initially selected from the top ten.

• Su Chen compared the Azure God Fetal Metamorphosis method with the Flawless One's improved method, then searched Soaring Heavens and Abyssless for the rare, expensive materials he needed.
• Su Chen's avatar found only the Spirit-Nurturing Marrow among the two materials still missing, and he repeatedly hinted at the needed materials through dispatch.
• Su Chen reviewed the Hidden Star and Selection rankings, then went to the Martial Proving Hall for the reshuffle.
• When Su Chen arrived, competitors discussed his strength and the possible benefits to Bronze Heaven; Tan Qingzhu and several others left rather than risk facing him.
• Qi You welcomed Su Chen, and Su Chen entered Void Cycle when the reshuffle began.
• The system used Su Chen's Soaring Heavens ranking as reference, skipped his initial placement, and began matching him against opponents from the top ten.

Su Chen waited through most of the first-round screening before opponents finally matched with him, and his opponents surrendered or lost quickly. He finished the round temporarily ranked first and entered the second-round ranking determination, while Tong Zhuo refused to challenge him.

• Su Chen learned that an unmatched participant would be considered first place, then spent days waiting in the Martial Proving Hall.
• Tong Zhuo complained that other factions demanded payment to help him, and Qi You urged him to consider challenging Su Chen, but Tong Zhuo refused.
• Xuankai heard Su Chen had joined the reshuffle but chose to continue preparing to advance to Morning Star instead of fighting him.
• Su Chen matched with Zhu Feng, who surrendered immediately, and later defeated another opponent from the Machine Domain.
• Su Chen finished the initial screening temporarily ranked first, with Xia Yun in second place, and prepared for the second round.
• After the first-round results appeared, participants outside the top hundred lamented their rankings while others noticed Su Chen at the top.