Chapter Summaries

Liu Zide’s team tried to make Chen Qiu famous across Pingxi Continent, while Chen Qiu broke through to the Sixth Layer of Void Refinement and chose the Ant Carrying a Hammer Trait. The chapter ended with Chen Qiu considering ways to use the immortal ant for scouting, protection, or delivering messages.

• The Young Chief of the Brown Bears guarded the Celestial Palace as Chen Qiu’s cultivation consumed over fifty thousand Spirit Stones each day.
• Liu Zide rejected the plan to use storytellers to recount Chen Qiu’s achievements and instead had them chant Chen Qiu’s name across Pingxi Continent.
• When the name-chants had little effect, Liu Zide ordered the Dao Sect Master to rob powers across the continent in Chen Qiu’s name and spread stories of his supposed atrocities.
• Chen Qiu broke through to the Sixth Layer of Void Refinement and received three Traits: Ant Carrying a Hammer, Certain Hit, and Bridal Chamber Candles.
• After rerolling Otherworld Flower, Chen Qiu chose Ant Carrying a Hammer because it had no drawbacks and summoned an immortal ant that could ignore restraints and formations.
• Chen Qiu summoned the ant and considered using it as a scout, a shield, or a messenger.

Chen Qiu returned Liu Zide and his group from Pingxi Continent, then broke through to the Seventh Layer of Void Refinement and forged a Twelfth-Grade External Incarnation. The chapter ended as a Heavenly Dao Edict announced Chen Qiu’s name across the Vast Continent.

• Chen Qiu summoned Liu Zide and his group back after they raised his Far-Reaching Fame cultivation bonus by twentyfold through spreading a bad reputation in Pingxi Continent and gathering wealth.
• Liu Zide reported that the group had sent fruit baskets, collected more than four hundred thousand pieces of Manifest Spirit, and might have angered powerful lineages; Chen Qiu sent them to another Lower-Rank Continent to continue their work.
• Chen Qiu ignored news of a nearby cave abode trial and continued cultivating until he reached the Seventh Layer of Void Refinement, then chose the Pink Trait Twelve Volumes of Military Records, Every Volume Bears My Father's Name after rerolling Immortality.
• Chen Qiu reviewed the requirements for External Incarnations and used one million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, Peerless Fortune of Heaven's Chosen, and Heavenly Dao Fortune to forge a Twelfth-Grade External Incarnation.
• A Heavenly Dao Edict resounded across the Vast Continent and announced Chen Qiu’s name.

Chen Qiu forged a Twelfth-Grade External Incarnation, triggering his twelve Milestone Mission statues to raise it to Twenty-Fourth Grade and granting former mission-takers upgrades to their Body Integration Killing Arts. As Xian Yi feared the threat Chen Qiu posed to the throne contest, the Peaceful Prefecture Patriarch received the return of his Fairy’s First Night trait.

• The Heavenly Dao Edict announced that Chen Qiu had forged the first Twelfth-Grade External Incarnation on the Vast Continent, startling cultivators across the provinces.
• Chen Qiu’s twelve Celestial Palace statues shattered and replayed his Milestone Mission achievements, raising his External Incarnation from Twelfth to Twenty-Fourth Grade.
• Xian Yi’s two Milestone Mission statues shattered and raised his Body Integration Killing Art from Ninth to Eleventh Grade, but he feared Chen Qiu’s new power and hoped Chen Qiu would not reach Body Integration before the Sole King battle.
• Former Milestone Mission holders across the provinces realized Chen Qiu’s achievement had triggered their own upgrades and kept the Twenty-Fourth-Grade opportunity secret.
• The Peaceful Prefecture Patriarch watched from Pingxi Province after relinquishing the Pingxi Throne and avoiding the Mocking Heaven Sect’s visit by staying hidden.
• A barefoot fairy visited the Peaceful Prefecture Patriarch, restored his Fairy’s First Night Red Trait, and told him the karmic ties with his lineage were severed.

The Peaceful Prefecture ancestor regained the Fairy's First Night trait but chose to avoid contending for the Sole King, while Chen Qiu learned how a powerful Rainbow Trait could upgrade a cultivator’s foundations. After Pingxi Continent vanished and the Heavenly Dao warned that the Vast Continent would collapse within ten thousand years, Chen Qiu and the continent’s inhabitants faced an uncertain future.

• The Peaceful Prefecture ancestor regained the Fairy's First Night trait, realized he could contend for the Sole King again, and decided he would rather stay safe.
• Chen Qiu questioned the Buddhist Sect ancestor about Heavenly Dao Apex and learned that its temporary version only fulfilled the prerequisite for a Ten-Rank Nascent Soul.
• Chen Qiu returned to secluded cultivation, while Young Master Qi and White Crane Daoist remained trapped in spiritless Minor Worlds.
• The Heavenly Dao Edict announced that Pingxi Continent and all its inhabitants had vanished, and warned that the Vast Continent would gradually collapse within ten thousand years.
• A Foundation Establishment cultivator dismissed the threat as distant, while tavern owner Wang Jiu, who possessed the Immortality trait, worried that he would outlive the continent.

Chen Qiu reasoned that the destruction of low-grade continents could bring down the entire stacked world, then reached the Void Refinement Eighth Layer and rerolled one of his new Traits. The chapter left him staring in bafflement at the strange replacement Trait.

• Wang Jiu accepted that his immortality could not help him avert the world's destruction, while Zhang Kui and the Beast Taming Sect's sect master discussed the threat in Cloud City.
• July Cat trusted that Chen Qiu could resolve the crisis because she had watched his rise, even as she continued to hide beneath the table.
• Chen Qiu inferred that low-grade continents supported the higher continents and suspected that people from High-Grade Continents were trying to repair collapsing worlds, but he could not recover the Mystic Heaven Sect Saintess he had exiled.
• A white-haired old man mourned Pingxi Continent's destruction, while Young Master Qi remained trapped in a Minor World and blamed Chen Qiu for his desperate isolation.
• Chen Qiu broke through to the Void Refinement Eighth Layer, rejected Time Freeze and Purple Qi Surging, and prepared to choose Oxen and Horses in Herds.
• Chen Qiu rerolled the third Trait with Fortune Approaches and was left baffled by the strange replacement.

Chen Qiu chose the Oxen and Horses in Herds trait before a continent-wide Heavenly Dao change introduced trait comment sections and warned that Grade 3 continents had begun collapsing. While exploring the comments, he discovered that Dantian Expansion (Unique) was unique across all continents and earned Human Prodigy Fortune for posting first, then found new trait-combination ideas and a lively community of cultivators.

• Chen Qiu rejected Nightly Revelry as unsuitable and selected Oxen and Horses in Herds.
• A Heavenly Dao Edict announced comment sections for Red Traits and below, Series Traits and related realms, new immortal abodes, and the collapse of continents as high as Grade 3.
• Chen Qiu read the Self-Destruct Trait comments and realized that Dantian Expansion (Unique) was unique across all continents.
• Chen Qiu received a wisp of Human Prodigy Fortune for being first to comment on Dantian Expansion (Unique), but found the comment section for Exquisite-Grade Lightning Dharma Physique already full.
• Chen Qiu found comments describing Ant Carrying a Hammer trapping cultivators with Slippery as an Eel and Fearless of Life and Death, as well as using an ant to strike a wooden fish for cultivation progress and Merit Value.
• Chen Qiu considered the ant-based trait combinations and the wooden-fish method, feeling less alone after seeing others with similar traits.

Chen Qiu learned about the Heavenly Dao’s new Series Traits and resumed cultivating, while changes across the Great Xia Kingdom and higher continents revealed growing dangers and new opportunities. The chapter ended with Chen Qiu reaching the Ninth Layer of Void Refinement and preparing to choose his final Void Refinement Trait.

• Chen Qiu reviewed the Heavenly Dao update, learned that Series Traits could be upgraded, and asked the Sky Axe Sect Master to notify him of any nearby Series-Trait Secret Realm.
• The Fat City Lord and Flying Fish City Lord struggled to contain freezing air spreading from the Boundless Ice Wastes, then learned that Xia Xundao had reached the Nascent Soul Realm and removed Great Xia’s Nascent Soul shackle.
• The Wang Family head used his Weird Buddha to sacrifice a severed cock and obtain a Nascent Soul Body, while the statue grew more ferocious as Fierce Baleful Wood accumulated nearby.
• A mutated youth on Qi Tian Continent learned of Chen Qiu’s cultivation and resolved to challenge him, boasting that he possessed a Fifteenth-Grade Body Integration Killing Move.
• After cultivating for more than a month, Chen Qiu reached the Ninth Layer of Void Refinement and prepared to select his last Trait in that realm.

After reaching the Ninth Layer of Void Refinement, Chen Qiu gained the chance to choose new traits and discovered a path to assemble the Heavenly Dao Trait Set “Grand Nine.” He chose “Nine-Nine-Nine-Nine Trait” and hurried to the Heavenly Hall’s Trait Prize Pool to pursue the set.

• Chen Qiu used “Oxen and Horses in Herds” on Little Ant, which gained “Tenfold Casting”; he discovered the trait made the ant swing its hammer ten times faster.
• Chen Qiu considered “Devour the Starry Sky” but rejected it, rerolled it, and received “Digital Life,” which granted an extra trait selection; he chose nine.
• The new selection offered “Nine Oxen and Two Tigers,” “Nine-Nine-Nine-Nine Trait,” and “Ninefold Casting”; Chen Qiu learned that collecting four-of-a-kind number traits could complete the Heavenly Dao Trait Set “Grand Nine.”
• Chen Qiu used “Fortune Approaches” to reroll “Nine Oxen and Two Tigers,” saw “Strength of Nine Oxen,” and dismissed it.
• Chen Qiu realized “Nine-Nine-Nine-Nine Trait” could help him find the remaining traits through the Trait Prize Pool, chose it, and ordered the Sky Axe Sect Master to gather information about Heavenly Dao Trait Sets.
• Chen Qiu left the Celestial Palace and flew toward the Heavenly Hall to use the Trait Prize Pool.

Chen Qiu began collecting the four-in-a-row Heavenly Dao traits for the Grand Nine set by drawing at Heavenly Hall, while the Sky Axe Sect’s sect master investigated new traits for him. After several days of draws, Chen Qiu prepared to use Human Prodigy Fortune and try the other prize pools.

• Chen Qiu returned to Heavenly Hall, drew the One-One-One-One Trait on his second attempt, and chose not to activate its harmful effect.
• Chen Qiu resumed cultivating at the inn and considered sending Liu Zide across many continents to gather resources and spread the Mocking Heaven Sect’s name.
• The Sky Axe Sect’s sect master obtained the Lightning Encirclement Series Trait and prepared to present it to Chen Qiu.
• Chen Qiu drew the Two-Two-Two-Two Trait on his eighth attempt, gaining an extra trait choice at each major realm breakthrough.
• Chen Qiu drew Four Four Four Four on the third day, bringing his collection to four traits with four identical consecutive numbers.
• On the fourth day, Chen Qiu arrived planning to use Human Prodigy Fortune and draw from the other prize pools.

Chen Qiu completed the Grand Nine Heavenly Dao Trait Set after collecting the Eight-Eight-Eight-Eight Trait, becoming the first cultivator on the Vast Continent to create a Heavenly Dao Trait Set. He received the special Red Trait Ten-Ten-Ten-Ten and learned more about the many trait sets across the continents.

• Chen Qiu used Human Prodigy Fortune to draw six treasures, including the Purple Trait Ninefold Casting, then spent several days buying traits with Spirit Stones.
• Chen Qiu obtained the Eight-Eight-Eight-Eight Trait and combined it with his other eight repeated-digit traits to form Grand Nine.
• The Heavenly Dao announced Chen Qiu's achievement, awarded him a Heavenly Dao Trait Compendium fragment and Heavenly Dao Fortune, and revealed Grand Nine's effects, including the special Red Trait Ten-Ten-Ten-Ten.
• Chen Qiu found that Grand Nine doubled the effects of his first eight traits and raised the grade of his Body Integration Killing Art by one.
• Chen Qiu read the unlocked trait comments and the Compendium fragment, learning about the Thousand-Hand Guanyin and Immortal at the Bottom of the Well sets, as well as the broader rules and rarity of Heavenly Dao Trait Sets.

Chen Qiu rescued the Seventh Prince from the Chen Family and destroyed the clan after learning they had imprisoned and tortured his disciple out of resentment. He offered to take the Seventh Prince to the Vast Continent, but the prince chose to stay on the Mystic Heaven Continent, so Chen Qiu issued a Heavenly Dao Edict warning others not to harm him.

• Chen Qiu left the Heavenly Hall after learning that a Golden Core cultivator had disappeared inside the Trait Prize Pool.
• The Seventh Prince contacted Chen Qiu from a dungeon, explained that the Chen Family had captured him, and received healing pills from his master.
• Chen Qiu confronted the Chen Family, where Chen Pingde admitted that he had attacked the Seventh Prince out of resentment toward Chen Qiu.
• Chen Qiu killed the Chen Family after they refused to spare his disciple, then asked the Seventh Prince whether he wanted to go to the Vast Continent.
• The Seventh Prince chose to remain on the Mystic Heaven Continent and explained how a Heavenly Dao Phenomenon had helped him escape Great Xia Kingdom.
• Chen Qiu issued a Heavenly Dao Edict warning that anyone who killed his disciple would bring their entire province to ruin.

Chen Qiu finished nearly a year of seclusion, reached Peak Void Refinement, and prepared to leave the Celestial Palace after its Spirit Stones ran out. As he emerged, a massive accumulated Void Refinement tribulation descended, while Ao Tian worried that he could no longer keep pace with him.

• Chen Qiu gave the Seventh Prince a storage ring filled with cultivation resources, then returned to the Vast Continent and resumed cultivating.
• After several more months, Chen Qiu completed his breakthrough to Peak Void Refinement, and the Celestial Palace’s Spirit Stones ran out.
• Fat Dragon gathered the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples’ cultivation progress, while Ao Tian told Chen Qiu he planned to return to the Dragon Race’s main lineage after the Province-Land Shackles disappeared.
• Chen Qiu reassured Ao Tian that he wanted him to stay, but a combined Void Refinement tribulation suddenly gathered above the Celestial Palace.
• Chen Qiu flew away from the Celestial Palace to face the tribulation as the Brown Bears watched from the rear courtyard.

Chen Qiu endured a barrage of accumulated heavenly tribulations, then began breaking through to the Body Integration Realm. His tribulation clouds grew so terrifying that nearby creatures fled, while the observers at the Celestial Palace wondered whether he could survive.

• Chen Qiu weathered lightning, wind, fire, and Heart-Demon Tribulations, strengthening his Lightning-Channeling Art before returning to the Celestial Palace.
• Chen Qiu reviewed his traits and methods, then decided to begin his Body Integration breakthrough as Fat Dragon and the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples watched.
• A vast, overwhelming tribulation gathered over the Celestial Palace, driving nearby creatures—including the Tree-Demon Clan—to flee.
• Chen Qiu ate an Eight Desolations Fruit while the Sky Axe Sect's sect master arrived and realized the earlier tribulations had only been an appetizer.
• Fat Dragon expressed confidence in Chen Qiu, but Ao Tian warned that the tribulation could kill even a Body Integration Late Stage cultivator, prompting the onlookers to step back.

Chen Qiu endured the First-Rank Heaven-Slayer Thunder Tribulation, surviving its nine increasingly powerful strikes before the final bolt left him unconscious and near death. His companions learned that ranked tribulations could accompany a continent advancing in grade, while the Heavenly Dao announced Chen Qiu’s achievement and rewards.

• Chen Qiu returned to the Celestial Palace entrance, took the Demon-Subduing Pagoda, and drew the tribulation clouds away from the others.
• Chen Qiu used five Fourteenth-Grade Void Refinement Domains, the Lightning-Channeling Art, and cultivators released from the Demon-Subduing Pagoda to withstand the early tribulations.
• Chen Qiu activated the Body-Magic Conversion trait and survived the sixth, seventh, and eighth strikes as the tribulation added Wind and Fire Tribulations.
• The ninth strike overwhelmed Chen Qiu, and the Heavenly Dao announced that he had overcome the First-Rank Heaven-Slayer Thunder Tribulation, granting him fortune and a temporary Rainbow Trait.
• Ao Tian explained that ranked Heavenly Tribulations could occur when a continent advanced in grade, and Fat Dragon and the others found Chen Qiu unconscious in a crater, gravely wounded and clutching his broken Heavenly Secrets Umbrella.

After Chen Qiu survived a devastating Heavenly Tribulation, the Sky Axe Sect Master staged an attack to earn merit and protect his chance to follow Chen Qiu to the Third-Grade Continent. Chen Qiu awoke after ten days and discovered that the tribulation had earned him two Rainbow Traits, leaving him confident about the coming battle for the Sole King.

• Star Dipper stabilized Chen Qiu's injuries, while the Sky Axe Sect Master secretly summoned an attacker to exploit the Mocking Heaven Sect's vulnerable moment.
• Ao Tian stopped Fat Dragon and Star Dipper from risking themselves, but the Sky Axe Sect Master arrived and killed the masked attacker with his Fourth Axe; Fat Dragon and Scholar then exposed that the attack had been staged.
• The Sky Axe Sect Master admitted his plan and explained that his friend had survived by swapping places with a Void Refinement Avatar; Fat Dragon agreed to speak in his favor to Chen Qiu.
• The Sky Axe Sect Master guarded the Celestial Palace for ten days until Star Dipper announced that Chen Qiu had awakened.
• Chen Qiu reviewed the damage from the ninth Thunder Tribulation and learned that Heavenly Dao Trait Sets increased tribulation power.
• Chen Qiu received two wisps of Peerless Fortune of Heaven's Chosen, two wisps of Heavenly Dao Fortune, and two randomly selected one-year Rainbow Traits, and felt confident about the battle for the Sole King.

After recovering enough to inspect his gains from the Heaven-Slayer Thunder Tribulation, Chen Qiu discovered two limited-time Rainbow Traits: Thousandfold Spellcasting and Great Fortune Approaches. He planned to use Great Fortune Approaches to strengthen his Traits and accelerate his cultivation, while considering how to send Liu Zide and the others across continents without his constant supervision.

• Chen Qiu inspected Thousandfold Spellcasting, which made every spell he cast fire one thousand additional times at no cost.
• Chen Qiu discovered Great Fortune Approaches, which granted him 100 chances to reshuffle Traits and shortened his cultivation progress by 50%.
• Chen Qiu realized he needed Spirit Stones and faster cultivation to make the most of the limited-time Trait, and planned to bring Liu Zide and the others back before sending them to another continent.
• Chen Qiu considered finding a secretary and a way for Liu Zide and the others to travel between Lower-Rank Continents on their own.
• Chen Qiu noticed that the Thunder Tribulation had raised Little Ant's cultivation to Foundation Establishment, allowing him to use Oxen and Horses in Herds on it again.

After reaching the First Layer of Body Integration, Chen Qiu chose the Supreme-Grade Rainbow Trait Rise at Every Step, which promised him a regular and Supreme-Grade trait with every minor-realm breakthrough. He appointed the Young Chief of the Brown Bears as his personal steward, named him Xiong Gao, and rested in the Celestial Palace while Xiong Gao celebrated his sudden rise in status.

• After the Little Ant survived a heavenly tribulation and reached Foundation Establishment, Chen Qiu gave it the Thousandfold Spellcasting trait and asked Fat Dragon to capture a Foundation Establishment demonic beast for a test.
• Chen Qiu reviewed his three Body Integration trait choices, rerolled them repeatedly, and at the last moment selected the rainbow-colored Supreme-Grade trait Rise at Every Step instead of Far-Reaching Fame.
• Chen Qiu learned that Rise at Every Step would give him one ordinary trait and one Supreme-Grade trait whenever he advanced by a minor realm, then celebrated his new trait before the twelve miniature statues of his ancestors.
• Chen Qiu summoned the Young Chief of the Brown Bears, offered him a personal steward position, named him Xiong Gao, and instructed Fat Dragon to arrange his clothes and preparations.
• After Chen Qiu dismissed everyone to rest, Xiong Gao returned to his clan and celebrated becoming the Sect Master's steward while his father presented him with a newly made Brown Bear Clan genealogy.

Xiong Gao celebrated his rise while Old Ancestor Qin, the King of Endless Province, and the contenders for the provincial thrones reacted to Chen Qiu’s formidable killing art. The Bai Family’s young miss mourned her sworn elder sister’s choices, while Bai Yisheng revealed that the Fortune of the Yin Soul might be the key to curing her Immortal Cancer.

• Xiong Gao trimmed his fur and looked forward to his new life as the Brown Bear Clan’s Great Emperor.
• Old Ancestor Qin recalled surviving Pingxi Continent’s destruction and warned the former King of Pingxi that the throne could cost him his life.
• Xian Yi feared the coming Sole King Contest because Chen Qiu’s strength made his own claim to the Endless Throne seem hopeless.
• The Heaven-Rending Province contender revealed that a jade ornament from the Land of Heavenly Destiny had raised her Body Integration Killing Art to the twelfth grade, and she insisted she could match Chen Qiu.
• The Bai Family’s young miss returned to her Minor World and wept to Bai Yisheng because her sworn elder sister had ignored the three treasures she had hoped to receive from the Land of Heavenly Destiny.
• Bai Yisheng told the young miss that the family had found clues to the Fortune of the Yin Soul, which could help cure her Immortal Cancer.

Chen Qiu woke from three days of rest, chose the Body Integration Killing Art Three Thousand Thunders' Wrath, and received a fortune that raised it to the twenty-seventh grade. He tested it outside the Celestial Palace, unleashing a lightning strike more powerful than the First-Rank Heavenly Tribulation and deciding he would make others endure it too.

• The Bai Family elder comforted the young lady, who wanted to go home, then told her a new story about Chen Qiu's exploits on Mystic Heaven Continent.
• After sleeping for three days in the Celestial Palace, Chen Qiu told Xiong Gao to record his tasks, including finding maids and arranging apprentices, and remembered he needed to bring Liu Zide and the others back.
• Chen Qiu selected Three Thousand Thunders' Wrath from the ten Body Integration Killing Arts available to him and instantly mastered it.
• The Heavenly Dao announced that Chen Qiu had learned a Heavenly Dao Apex Body Integration Killing Art and gave him Killing Art Fortune, which Edict Regular doubled and Chen Qiu used to raise the art to the twenty-seventh grade.
• Chen Qiu tested Three Thousand Thunders' Wrath above his old tribulation crater, summoning immense lightning that terrified the Sky Axe Sect Master and Fat Dragon.
• After his attack surpassed the power of all nine bolts of the Heaven-Slayer Thunder Tribulation, Chen Qiu celebrated and resolved to make others experience the same tribulation.

Chen Qiu demonstrated the overwhelming power of his Body Integration Killing Art and went to retrieve Liu Zide and the others. As the Dragon Race and Bai Family planned how to approach him, Chen Qiu arrived at Liu Zide’s restaurant with an idea for spreading his reputation.

• Chen Qiu explained how his Traits and Void Refinement Domain let him unleash a thousand Body Integration Killing Arts, then told Fat Dragon and the others to cultivate while he headed to find Liu Zide.
• The Bai Family’s eldest young miss and her grandfather discussed how to win Chen Qiu’s favor, while the grandfather worried that she had missed an earlier chance to build ties with him.
• The grand ancestor of Peaceful Prefecture enjoyed sensing Chen Qiu’s terrifying aura and looked forward to the Province-Land Shackles being lifted.
• The Dragon Race chief and his subordinates waited outside Mystic Heaven Province, eager to claim its many young dragons, while wondering whether Chen Qiu would interfere.
• Liu Zide and the Dao Sect Master waited anxiously on a Lower-Rank Continent until Chen Qiu appeared in their restaurant and asked whether using a Body Integration Killing Art on open land would spread his reputation.