Chapter Summaries

Chen Qiu entered the Golden Core Realm with a Twelfth-Grade Golden Core, and the Heavenly Dao proclaimed him a Heavenly Dao Saint after a vast auspicious sign healed people across Great Xia and the Hundred Kingdoms. As he prepared to travel to the Capital City for the Prodigy Tournament, news of his achievement spread, while the Heavenward Sect reduced Zhao Yishi’s resources.

• Chen Qiu tested his Golden Core and discovered its immense power and a divine sense range of one hundred and thirty li, while Scholar explained its exceptional advantages.
• Chen Qiu found that the Nine-Heavens Divine Sense Formation protected his Sea of Divine Sense and prepared to learn the Heart-Piercing Thorn spell.
• The Heavenly Dao proclaimed Chen Qiu’s Heavenly Dao Peak Golden Core, granted him doubled fortune, and caused an auspicious sign that healed people across Great Xia, the Hundred Kingdoms, and the surrounding forbidden lands.
• The Heavenly Dao named Chen Qiu a Heavenly Dao Saint and opened the Great Xia Merit Rankings, placing him first with 9.8 billion Merit Value and granting him protection that destroyed the Wraiths he carried.
• Chen Qiu and his companions masked themselves and went to Fat City to stabilize his cultivation before traveling to the Capital City for the Prodigy Tournament.
• News spread that Chen Qiu had formed a Fifth-Grade Golden Core, while the Heavenward Sect Master told Zhao Yishi that the sect would reduce his resources to support other disciples.

After entering the Golden Core Realm, Chen Qiu gained the Prodigy's Son Trait and discovered that his Heavenly Dao-powered lightning spells could devastate a vast area. He and his companions reached the Capital City to enter the Prodigy Rankings, while July Cat was caught in the destruction of her underground home and reborn again.

• The Heavenward Sect Master told Zhao Yishi that the elders had lost hope in him but promised to help him reach the Golden Core Realm.
• Qu Qi raged over Chen Qiu forming a Fifth-Grade Golden Core, while the Qu Family Head explained how difficult higher-grade cores were to forge.
• Chen Qiu stabilized his cultivation, chose the Prodigy's Son Trait, and used its power to enhance a future Heavenly Dao Spirit Treasure.
• Chen Qiu tested his Heavenly Dao Lightning-Channeling Art, blasting a huge crater into the wilderness and accidentally destroying July Cat's underground home.
• Chen Qiu learned that Golden Core cultivation advanced slowly without pills or Spirit Stones, then traveled with Scholar and his group toward the Capital City.
• Chen Qiu and his companions entered the brightly lit Capital City at night to participate in the Prodigy Rankings the next day.

Chen Qiu arrived in the Capital City for the Prodigy Rankings Competition, intending to gather heavenly treasures in the secret realm and forge a Heavenly Dao Spirit Treasure. As the competition was about to begin, he was introduced to the crowd as its first major contender, while a member of the Liu Family vowed to avenge her sister.

• Chen Qiu entered the Capital City with Scholar and Fat Dragon, after arranging for the shopkeeper who could break storage-ring restrictions to wait in his Minor World.
• Qu Qi received heavenly treasures and other resources from his father for the competition, while the Qu Family Supreme Elder considered seeking Chen Qiu's favor by revealing the family's plans.
• Chen Qiu and his companions stayed at an inn, then went to the plaza north of the city, where he took a front-row seat and decided to keep his companions inside his Minor World.
• Chen Qiu returned the Heavenward Sect Master's storage ring of Fierce Baleful Wood, but Zhao Dezhu insisted he keep it, and the two chatted while the plaza filled with spectators.
• A young Liu Family woman confronted Chen Qiu and vowed to avenge her sister, whom Chen Qiu recognized as someone he had killed at Furnace Peak.
• The ceremony began, and the announcer introduced Chen Qiu as the first leading contender, praising his Heavenly Dao Golden Core and his slaughter of more than a hundred thousand members of the Evil Race.

Chen Qiu entered the Prodigy Secret Realm, where the rules changed to a single-elimination contest for one Peerless Prodigy and the strongest Heavenly Dao Spirit Treasure. After easily defeating his first opponent while trying not to kill him, Chen Qiu watched the contest continue as the Warhammer Sect vowed to kill the Liu Family prodigy who had tortured and slain one of its disciples.

• Chen Qiu received a secret message from the Qu Family Supreme Elder revealing that Qu Qi's storage ring held materials for forging supreme spell cultivator treasures, and Chen Qiu accepted the chance to take them.
• The Heavenly Dao announced that the Prodigy Secret Realm would select one Peerless Prodigy, and Chen Qiu entered after storing Scholar and the others in his Minor World.
• The secret realm assigned the contestants to 108 arenas and gathered their spirit-treasure materials; Chen Qiu saw that his Rainbow Fishing Rod was among the materials at the central arena.
• Chen Qiu defeated his Foundation Establishment opponent with a weakened Lightning-Channeling Art, nearly killing him despite trying to hold back.
• A Liu Family prodigy tortured and killed a Warhammer Sect disciple, prompting the Warhammer Sect Master to order the sect's elders and disciples to descend on Capital Province and kill her.

Chen Qiu crushed his opponents in the Prodigy Secret Realm, defeating a Golden Core devil cultivator and destroying the arena to overwhelm the Liu Family prodigy and the remaining competitors. He earned the title of Peerless Prodigy, while the Seventh Prince fled before he could use his signature sword strike, and Chen Qiu turned his attention to the reappearing heavenly treasures.

• The Warhammer Sect's sect master announced that he would attack after the contestants left the Capital City, while Chen Qiu's injured opponent stabbed himself until Chen Qiu finished sending him out of the secret realm.
• Chen Qiu erased the Golden Core devil cultivator's wraiths with his Heavenly Dao Saint power, then knocked him out with Heart-Piercing Thorn.
• The Liu Family prodigy sent dozens of clones after Chen Qiu, but Chen Qiu's Thunder Dragons obliterated her and destroyed her arena.
• Chen Qiu summoned tens of thousands of Thunder Dragons to bombard the remaining arenas, forcing most contestants to leave; Great Xia's Seventh Prince survived the attack but fled before Chen Qiu struck again.
• Chen Qiu was proclaimed Peerless Prodigy by the Heavenly Dao Edict, and he noticed the heavenly treasures had reappeared.

Chen Qiu won the Prodigy Secret Realm, forged a powerful umbrella-shaped Heavenly Dao Spirit Treasure, and celebrated in the Capital City while rumors of his strength spread across Great Xia. As the Qu Family plotted against him and an old man recognized his Tenth-grade Golden Core, Chen Qiu prepared to refine his new treasure into his natal dharma treasure.

• Chen Qiu's Rainbow Fishing Rod became the frame of an umbrella-shaped Heavenly Dao Spirit Treasure, and he used the Prodigy's Son trait to raise its grade.
• The secret realm expelled Chen Qiu, and the imperial elders declared the event over and gave him the champion's reward.
• The Seventh Prince vowed to defeat Chen Qiu, who encouraged him before heading to the Capital City with Fat Dragon and Scholar.
• Chen Qiu relaxed at Ten-Mile Spring Breeze Tower as his victory spread through Great Xia and the Hundred Kingdoms, while an old man revealed that Chen Qiu possessed a Tenth-grade Golden Core.
• The Qu Family head demanded that the Supreme Elder kill Chen Qiu, and the Supreme Elder agreed to take him to a secret Minor World first.
• Chen Qiu returned to the inn and prepared to refine the Rainbow Wooden Umbrella into his natal dharma treasure.

Chen Qiu refined the Rainbow Jade Umbrella into the Heaven-Grade Rainbow Heavenly-Mystery Umbrella, then led his companions to attack the Flower-Offering Sect and avenge Fat Dragon. He annihilated nearly the entire sect with a storm of Thunder Dragons, leaving the sect master and grand elder alive but gravely wounded.

• Chen Qiu instantly refined the Rainbow Jade Umbrella with his Twelfth-Grade Golden Core and learned that it strengthened spells, reduced their spiritual energy cost, blocked powerful attacks, and automatically locked onto enemies within his divine sense.
• In the palace, a hooded man opened a brocade pouch, ordered the Flower-Offering Sect to begin its operation, and called for Ji Taiping to return to the capital in thirty days.
• The Flower-Offering Sect's Sect Master accepted a palace figure's offer of fifty thousand Lower-Grade Spirit Stones, while the First Elder warned that the sect lacked a Golden Core Peak Great Perfection expert.
• After hearing that the Flower-Offering Sect had imprisoned its Walking Celestial Maiden and planned to execute her, Chen Qiu took Fat Dragon and the others to the sect despite Fat Dragon's concern that he might be injured.
• Chen Qiu opened the Heavenly Secrets Umbrella, locked onto the Flower-Offering Sect's people, and unleashed tens of thousands of Thunder Dragons against them.
• The Thunder Dragons destroyed the mountain-protecting formation and killed nearly everyone except the Flower-Offering Sect's sect master and grand elder, whom Chen Qiu confronted as they accused him of hypocrisy.

Chen Qiu destroyed the Flower-Offering Sect, killed its master and Grand Elder, and defeated the Walking Celestial Maiden after she transformed into a powerful demon. A Heavenly Dao Edict announced the Devil Race Saintess’s death and an early Under-Heaven Strife, while Chen Qiu headed toward the coast and began suspecting Old Cao had orchestrated his opportunities.

• Chen Qiu killed the Flower-Offering Sect Master with a divine-sense attack and had Scholar capture the fleeing Golden Core, then killed the Grand Elder and secured his Golden Core as the sect fell into ruins.
• Fat Dragon rejected the Walking Celestial Maiden’s belief that he had loved her, and her grief awakened the Eight-Petal Demonic Lotus, transforming her into a Golden Core Sixth Layer demon.
• Chen Qiu fought the transformed Walking Celestial Maiden, then destroyed her with a full-force Lightning-Channeling Art; he found and stored the Eight-Petal Demonic Lotus in his Minor World.
• The Heavenly Dao Edict declared that the Devil Race Saintess had died, Under-Heaven Strife would arrive half a year early, and the Sea Clan Invasion would begin in three days.
• Chen Qiu and his companions traveled to a coastal county, where he questioned Scholar about the Imperial Preceptor’s plans and began tracing his past discoveries to Old Cao’s divination.

Chen Qiu learned that Old Cao was likely the Imperial Preceptor and accepted that he might be a piece in the Imperial Preceptor’s plan, while using daily Prodigy Rankings blessings to rapidly advance his cultivation. After reaching the Golden Core Second Layer on the morning of the Sea Clan Invasion, he prepared to choose a new trait as the invasion approached.

• Chen Qiu concluded that Old Cao was likely the Imperial Preceptor, whose deception-based cultivation trait explained his past fortune-telling, and decided to accept the opportunities Old Cao provided while guarding his independence.
• At midnight, Chen Qiu received ten Golden Core Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills and raised his cultivation progress to 50.1% after absorbing them through the night.
• The chapter showed Fat City’s lord waiting for the Imperial Preceptor’s recall and Ji Taiping anxiously remaining in the Hundred Kingdoms while worrying about Ji Renjian and White Robe.
• Chen Qiu gave Scholar nearly two thousand Foundation Establishment Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills from the Flower-Offering Sect Master’s storage rings, and promised Fat Dragon injured Sea Clan beasts to cultivate with during the invasion.
• After another day of cultivation, Chen Qiu received ten more pills and reached the Golden Core Second Layer at dawn, then prepared to choose a trait before the Sea Clan Invasion.

After reaching the Golden Core Second Layer, Chen Qiu chose the Raging Wind and Torrential Rain trait and prepared for the Sea Clan Invasion. He coordinated a retreat to draw the Sea Clan’s main force toward Little Fish City, where three Golden Core Sea Demons finally appeared among the swelling horde.

• Chen Qiu chose the Raging Wind and Torrential Rain trait, then advanced his cultivation to 80.2% of the Golden Core Second Layer by consuming Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills.
• As the Sea Clan Invasion began, Chen Qiu used his divine sense to stop two Golden Core cultivators from attacking and proposed luring the Sea Clan’s main force toward their position.
• Chen Qiu and Scholar scouted the coastline, found five Sea Clan landing sites, and Chen Qiu cleared large numbers of Sea Demons with boosted Lightning-Channeling Arts.
• Chen Qiu returned to Little Fish City, told the defenders to hold back, and waited for the Sea Clan’s main force while his dantian capacity expanded to sixty thousand li.
• Tens of thousands of Sea Demons surged ashore, and Chen Qiu ordered the defenders to retreat so he could face the horde.
• Three Golden Core Sea Demons emerged from the sea, revealing that the Sea Clan had chosen Little Fish City as its main assault direction.

Chen Qiu wiped out the Sea Clan invasion with overwhelming lightning attacks, killing hundreds of thousands of Sea Demons and leaving a vast inland sea. After the Heavenly Dao Edict declared victory, the Seventh Prince watched footage of the battle and studied how he might defeat Chen Xiu in their next fight.

• Chen Qiu summoned nearly thirty thousand Thunder Dragons and destroyed the Sea Demons on shore, including three Golden Core Sea Demons, expanding his dantian after killing nearly four hundred thousand foes.
• Nine more Golden Core Sea Demons and a Golden Core Fifth Layer female Sea Demon emerged, while the bald Golden Core dharma cultivator tried to help Chen Qiu before fleeing from the hundreds of thousands of Thunder Dragons overhead.
• Chen Qiu’s lightning strike killed twelve Golden Core Sea Demons and left the female Sea Demon badly wounded; he stored her in his Minor World and waited until the Sea Clan invasion ended.
• The Heavenly Dao Edict announced Great Xia’s total victory, and Chen Qiu left to eat and recover while cultivators recorded and circulated footage of his battle.
• The Seventh Prince watched the footage and devised a plan to evade Chen Qiu’s divine sense lock, charge through the Thunder Dragons, and reach Chen Qiu before they struck.

Chen Qiu’s overwhelming power left the Seventh Prince despairing, while the Heavenward Sect Master wondered if Chen Qiu could break Great Xia’s Nascent Soul shackles. After Chen Qiu reached Golden Core Third Layer, his Heaven’s Chosen Token transported him to a secret realm and registered him for the Prodigy Road’s preliminary screening, which began with a timed climb up the Heaven-Piercing Steps.

• The Seventh Prince watched Chen Qiu annihilate a sea demon force with hundreds of thousands of Thunder Dragons and gave up on ever catching up to him.
• The Heavenward Sect Master watched Chen Qiu’s battle and considered him the only person who might break Great Xia’s Nascent Soul shackles.
• In Flying Fish City, Chen Qiu wrote “Strongest City Lord” for the City Lord, who later recognized the handwriting and hid it as a precious treasure.
• Chen Qiu refused Scholar’s suggestion to explore the dangerous depths of the Boundless Sea, then broke through to Golden Core Third Layer after cultivating with Heavenly Dao Golden Core pills.
• Chen Qiu’s Heaven’s Chosen Token transported him to an Azure Stone Plaza, where a panel registered him for the Prodigy Road and explained that he had to clear the preliminary screening to qualify.
• The first trial began when Heaven-and-Earth Power raised the Heaven-Piercing Steps, requiring Chen Qiu to reach the top using only physical strength and willpower before one incense stick burned down.

Chen Qiu exploited hidden routes to clear the first trial in one breath, then destroyed the second trial’s puppets and used Fierce Baleful Wood to taunt the other Sky Prodigies. He reached the third stage first and left the surviving contestants furious and shaken.

• Chen Qiu turned back through the clouds instead of climbing the seemingly endless Heaven-Piercing Steps, reaching the second trial plaza in forty-eight breaths and taking first place.
• Dao Sword Sect True Disciple Li Shiyi called for a rematch, and Chen Qiu used Shrinking Earth to Inches to reach the second plaza in one breath, again placing first.
• Chen Qiu faced the second trial’s one hundred thousand puppets and killed them all with a storm of Thunder Dragons, clearing the stage in one breath.
• Chen Qiu used hundreds of Fierce Baleful Woods to send taunts to the competing Sky Prodigies, particularly Li Shiyi, disrupting their concentration as they fought.
• Only 438 of the 1,298 first-stage survivors cleared the second trial, while Li Shiyi placed seventeenth; Chen Qiu waited at the third stage as the other contestants seethed at him.

Chen Qiu passed the Prodigy Road screening with the highest evaluation, provoking Li Shiyi and other prodigies to target him, then chose a Trait that disrupted divination. He continued cultivating and managing his plans in Fat City before discovering an ancient ruin beneath the melting ice of the Boundless Ice Wastes.

• Chen Qiu ranked first in all three screening trials and received the evaluation Sky Prodigy 100, while Li Shiyi was ranked Sky Prodigy 4 and vowed to kill him.
• Chen Qiu chose the Blue Trait Self-Derivation Forty-Nine, which gave false and chaotic clues to anyone trying to divine him.
• Chen Qiu met Liu Zide in Fat City, accepted supplies of Fierce Baleful Wood, and asked him to keep buying it and find workers to repair a sect.
• Chen Qiu cultivated while Fat Dragon advanced through dual cultivation with the bound demoness, and Chen Qiu's cultivation progress reached Golden Core Third Layer 75.3%.
• Chen Qiu noticed cultivators gathering at the Boundless Ice Wastes and found a human-made passage leading underground that a Golden Core cultivator identified as a possible entrance to ancient ruins.

Chen Qiu explored an underground trial complex and discovered it was the False Heavenly Prodigy Road built by the imprisoned Mocking Heaven Sect. He adopted a Golden Core Fifth Layer wolf pup and returned to the Minor World, while the shopkeeper began investigating a sealed storage ring.

• Chen Qiu descended into the passage with Scholar and Fat Dragon, while many cultivators followed; two men died after lowering their spiritual protection, and Chen Qiu killed a Golden Core cultivator who plotted to collapse the passage behind them.
• Chen Qiu reached a series of Azure Stone Plazas marked as trials and found a skeleton holding a Heaven's Chosen Token resembling his own.
• At the bottom, Chen Qiu read an inscription revealing that the Mocking Heaven Sect had been imprisoned for 8,760 years and had built the False Heavenly Prodigy Road to escape the Land of Heavenly Imprisonment.
• Chen Qiu found a frightened Golden Core Fifth Layer wolf pup, examined its three storage rings, and persuaded it to follow him.
• In the Minor World, the wolf pup bit Fat Dragon when he tried to pet it, then obeyed Chen Qiu and allowed Fat Dragon to pet it; Chen Qiu asked Scholar about a beast-taming contract and suggested naming the pup.
• The shopkeeper began trying to break the restrictions on the wolf pup's storage ring and found them strangely familiar.

Chen Qiu discovered the truth behind Mocking Heaven Sect and Great Xia in a hidden chamber: the kingdom’s people descended from transmigrators, and the sect had built the cage that isolated them. He learned that breaking the formation required defeating four Nascent Soul puppets, then told Fat Dragon while keeping the revelation from Scholar.

• Chen Qiu contracted the Golden Core Fifth Layer wolf pup, named it Little Wolf, and found that his Nightmoon Wolf Demon Trait could strengthen it.
• Chen Qiu discovered a hidden passage by fitting his Mocking Heaven Sect Master Token into a character on the Ancient Ruins wall, then entered a secret chamber with Little Wolf.
• Chen Qiu read the chamber’s records and learned that Mocking Heaven Sect’s transmigrator founders had created the Deceiving-Heaven Grand Formation to hide their descendants, and that killing four Nascent Soul puppets could break it.
• Chen Qiu learned that the White-Clad Sword Cultivator had fought one of the puppets more than a hundred years earlier and left the words “Sword cultivators are not strong enough.”
• Chen Qiu inferred that the Imperial Preceptor planned for him to weaken the puppets and for Scholar to deliver the final blows, but he kept the discovery from Scholar.
• Chen Qiu told Fat Dragon the history of the cage and said he intended to reach Golden Core Peak Great Perfection, confront the Imperial Preceptor, and eventually see the Mystic Heaven Continent.

Chen Qiu chose a memory-altering trait, cultivated toward Golden Core Fifth Layer, and learned that Fierce Baleful Wood suppressed the Wraiths buried beneath Fat Prefecture. After Liu Zide's experiment opened a breach, Chen Qiu led his companions below the ground and found an immense sea of Wraiths.

• Chen Qiu reached Fourth Level of the Golden Core Realm, selected Fate of the Death Remonstrance, and discovered it required physical contact to alter memories.
• After several days of cultivation, Chen Qiu found the shopkeeper weakened from trying to break the restrictions on a storage ring, which the shopkeeper expected would take years to open.
• Liu Zide called Chen Qiu for help after clearing away Fierce Baleful Wood exposed a hole filled with Wraiths, and Chen Qiu used Thunder Dragons to contain them.
• Liu Zide explained that Fierce Baleful Wood suppressed the Wraiths beneath Fat Prefecture, and he and Chen Qiu's companions spread thousands of pieces around the opening to keep the Wraiths underground.
• Chen Qiu led Scholar and the others down the passage and discovered an enormous underground space filled with countless Wraiths.

Chen Qiu spent three days and nights clearing the Wraiths beneath Fat Prefecture, then found and took the Eight-Petal Grudge Lotus. As he returned to Fat City to sleep, the chapter shifted to the Mocking Heaven Sect’s residents and the young Brown Bear’s plan to avoid war by trading with humans.

• Chen Qiu and his companions fought through the endless Wraiths underground until Chen Qiu had destroyed them all, while Scholar explored the cavern beneath the Boundless Ice Wastes.
• Chen Qiu found the Eight-Petal Grudge Lotus inside a pillar containing the Mocking Heaven Sect’s Ancient Ruins passage and stored it in his portable Minor World beside the Eight-Petal Demonic Lotus.
• Chen Qiu told Liu Zide and the Wang Family patriarch that the Wraiths beneath Fat Prefecture were gone, advised them to buy up Fierce Baleful Wood, then returned to Fat City and collapsed into sleep.
• Fat Dragon complained that the Mocking Heaven Sect had become bleak and eerie, while Scholar and Fat Dragon argued about going to a brothel.
• The middle-aged shopkeeper realized he could reverse-engineer the restriction on a storage ring by thinking like the person who created it.
• The young Brown Bear rejected his father’s plan to invade Xuzhou and proposed trading virgin Brown Bear urine for food with the peaceful Star-Dipper Sect instead.

Chen Qiu advanced to the Golden Core Fifth Layer, chose the Myriad Arts Unified trait, and rushed to Pingzhou for the Heavenly Dao’s year-end Nian Beast trials. He killed the first two beasts and gained valuable rewards, then attacked the third as it descended.

• Chen Qiu consumed cultivation pills, broke through to the Golden Core Fifth Layer, and chose the Myriad Arts Unified trait.
• After the Heavenly Dao announced that the first Nian Beast would appear in Pingzhou, Chen Qiu hurried there with Scholar and the others.
• Chen Qiu killed the first Nian Beast with a compressed Thunderball and earned two Upper-Grade Heavenly Dao Retrospection Talismans, using one to reclaim Umbrella Over All Under Heaven.
• Chen Qiu bypassed the second Nian Beast’s reflective shell and killed it, earning a Heavenly Dao Escape Talisman and a Heavenly Dao Spirit-Communing Ring.
• A Golden Core Sixth Layer third Nian Beast descended, and Chen Qiu launched a Thunderball at it as the surrounding cultivators also attacked.

Chen Qiu killed the Nian Beasts, gained Merit Tokens and a new spell, then hurried to the Boundless Snow Mountains after the Heavenly Dao announced a Snow Clan Invasion. There he found the falling snow turning into Snow People and began testing his spells against them as dark clouds gathered overhead.

• Chen Qiu killed the Golden Core Sixth Layer Nian Beast and received Merit Defense and Merit Attack Tokens, then struck a hidden Golden Core Seventh Layer Nian Beast as it appeared.
• A Hundred Kingdoms cultivator charged toward the dying hidden Nian Beast, but Scholar killed him after Chen Qiu's warning kept the others back.
• Chen Qiu received the Snowfall Across the Heavens spell, an Enlightenment Stone, and Heavenly Dao Gentlewind Boots, then learned the spell to Great Perfection.
• After the Heavenly Dao announced the Snow Clan Invasion, Chen Qiu ate with Fat Dragon and Scholar before traveling to the Boundless Snow Mountains.
• An enormous avalanche began, but its snow transformed into Snow People, so Chen Qiu stopped retreating and cast Snowfall Across the Heavens across several hundred miles.
• Chen Qiu found that his snowfall barely affected the Snow People, then gathered dark clouds over the battlefield as he prepared his next attack.