Chapter Summaries

Qin Hao encountered three Heavensea bandits who intended to capture and sell him, so he attacked their leader, the Bearded Man, before they could strike. The Bearded Man’s defenses blunted Qin Hao’s powerful sword technique, revealing that the Heavensea’s true gods were stronger than the opponents Qin Hao had faced before.

• The Bearded Man and his two companions spotted Qin Hao approaching and planned to capture him alive and sell him in Dragon Marquis City.
• Qin Hao sensed the three bandits through the white mist and learned that they intended to rob and enslave him.
• Qin Hao rushed toward the Bearded Man and attacked him with the Coiling Dragon Diagram and the Heavenly Abyss Sword.
• The Bearded Man struck back with a palm of divine strength, but Qin Hao’s sword light gouged through his attack and weakened it.
• Qin Hao realized the Bearded Man’s defenses exceeded those of the true gods he had encountered before, while the Bearded Man recognized that Qin Hao was no ordinary half-step true god.

Qin Hao fought the bearded man, a True God who had planned to capture and sell him, and proved strong enough to suppress him. When the bearded man fled, Qin Hao pursued him and unleashed the Chaos Sword Art, leaving their battle to continue.

• The bearded man's two Half-Step True God companions watched from the Canyon exit, expecting him to defeat Qin Hao and capture him alive.
• Qin Hao blocked the bearded man's Demon-Subduing Palm and traded blows with him using sword techniques from the Sword Dao Inheritance.
• The bearded man realized Qin Hao's strength made capturing or killing him too costly, so he turned and fled.
• Qin Hao pursued the bearded man with his Primordial Feathered Wings Second Form Wing Art and attacked with the Chaos Sword Art.
• The bearded man angrily turned to strike Qin Hao with his ultimate move, Starfall Soul-Slaying.

Qin Hao unleashed the Chaos Mystic Sword and killed the Bearded Man, a True God powerhouse, with one strike. He collected the Bearded Man’s Storage Star Ring and headed toward two nearby Half-Step True Gods, who had not yet realized their companion was dead.

• Qin Hao accelerated the Chaos Sword Art through all thirteen forms, combining insights from the sword dao inheritances.
• Qin Hao’s Chaos Mystic Sword pierced the Bearded Man’s palm attack and chased him as he fled.
• The Heavenly Abyss Sword cleaved the Bearded Man’s palm of divine strength and then split his body and divine soul, killing him.
• Qin Hao collected the Bearded Man’s Storage Star Ring and went after the two Half-Step True Gods nearby.
• The two Half-Step True Gods remained excited and had not realized that the Bearded Man had been slain.

Qin Hao killed the two half-step True Gods who had served Yan Ming and learned that their victims were sold into slavery in Dragon Marquis City. He traveled there, where the enormous city and the throngs of powerful beings left him awestruck.

• Qin Hao questioned the two half-step True Gods and learned that they sold captives to slave merchants in Dragon Marquis City.
• Qin Hao worried about Yun Chang and the others, then decided to head to Dragon Marquis City in case they went there too.
• Qin Hao killed the two men when they tried to flee, collected their Storage Star Rings, and set off toward the city.
• Qin Hao crossed the canyon without incident and reached a vantage point where he saw Dragon Marquis City and the many figures flying around it.

Qin Hao arrived at Dragon Marquis City, paid the entry fee, and learned about the city’s markets and the Qiankun Sect’s disciple recruitment assembly. He left the streets intending to gather information about Heaven and Earth Mountain at the Everlasting Peace Inn.

• Qin Hao reached Dragon Marquis City and wondered whether the plaque above its gates had been inscribed by an Ancestral God.
• Qin Hao listened to travelers discuss the Qiankun Sect and its disciple recruitment assembly, which was held once every hundred eras.
• Qin Hao paid one Chaos Spirit Crystal to enter the city and estimated that its many gates collected a vast amount in entry fees.
• Qin Hao explored the streets, learned the prices of divine artifacts, and assessed his supply of Chaos Spirit Crystals and Chaos Spirit Liquid.
• Qin Hao headed to the Everlasting Peace Inn to seek information about Heaven and Earth Mountain.

Qin Hao visited the Everlasting Peace Inn in Dragon Marquis City to ask about the Heavensea, ordering an expensive meal while testing whether he could contact Yun Chang and the others. He still could not reach them, and he offered the waiter ten Chaos Spirit Crystals to answer his questions.

• Qin Hao entered the inn, booked a private room, and ordered several costly dishes, including Flame Dragon Delicacy and Heavenly Spirit Spring.
• Qin Hao tried to contact Yun Chang and the other three with a Message Jade Slip, but it failed to connect.
• Qin Hao ate Flame Dragon Delicacy and used the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art to refine its energy, increasing his physical strength.
• Qin Hao gave the young waiter ten Chaos Spirit Crystals and said he wanted to ask him something.

Qin Hao asked Liu Er about Heaven and Earth Mountain, but learned that it was unknown on the Qiankun Continent. Liu Er explained that Heavensea had once been shattered into three continents, leaving Qin Hao to realize how much the world had changed.

• Qin Hao paid Liu Er ten Chaos Spirit Crystals to ask about Heaven and Earth Mountain, but Liu Er said he had never heard of it.
• Liu Er suggested Heaven and Earth Mountain might be on another continent and identified the Qiankun Continent as their current location.
• Qin Hao explained that he had never ventured outside his lineage and learned from Liu Er that Heavensea was divided into continents.
• Liu Er told Qin Hao that experts who fled the shattered Origin World flooded into Heavensea and threw it into chaos.
• Liu Er said Divine Lord-level experts shattered Heavensea into the Qiankun Continent, the Immortal Thunder Continent, and the Golden Palace Continent.

Liu Er explained Heavensea’s three continents and their supreme factions to Qin Hao, who learned that reaching the other continents required costly teleportation or help from the Qiankun Sect. Liu Er revealed that the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm might contain Heaven and Earth Mountain, giving Qin Hao a possible route toward both its inheritance and his goal of becoming an Ancestral God.

• Liu Er told Qin Hao that Heavensea had stabilized into Qiankun Continent, Immortal Thunder Continent, and Golden Palace Continent after a devastating battle.
• Liu Er explained that crossing between the continents required a Teleportation Array and that the Qiankun Sect could make the journey more affordable.
• Liu Er described the Qiankun Sect, Nine Heavens Tower, and Jin Family as the supreme factions of their respective continents.
• Liu Er told Qin Hao that only Qiankun Sect disciples could enter the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, where entrants had a strong chance of becoming Ancestral Gods.
• Qin Hao sensed that Heaven and Earth Mountain might be inside the secret realm and considered pursuing it to gain power and protect Star Sea Heaven and Earth.

Qin Hao learned that joining the Qiankun Sect could help him grow stronger and might eventually lead him to the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm. With the sect’s recruitment assembly coming to Dragon Marquis City in thirty thousand years, he planned to prepare for its trials.

• Qin Hao suspected Heaven and Earth Mountain might lie within the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm and decided that joining the Qiankun Sect was his best path forward.
• Liu Er explained that the Qiankun Sect held a recruitment assembly every hundred epochs, where only about one in a hundred Half-Step True Gods passed its trials.
• Liu Er told Qin Hao that the next assembly was thirty thousand years away and that the Qiankun Sect would send envoys to Dragon Marquis City to register candidates.
• Qin Hao resolved to strengthen his Chaos Origin and master more of the Unerring Sword Scripture before the trials.
• Qin Hao asked Liu Er to recommend suitable places for cultivation in Dragon Marquis City.

Qin Hao learned that Dragon Marquis City's Colosseum offered combat practice and an Insight Space filled with experts' experiences, making it an ideal place to improve before the Qiankun Sect Disciple Recruitment Assembly. After eating and rewarding Liu Er, he headed with him to the Colosseum.

• Liu Er explained that the Qiankun Sect's recruitment required Half-Step True God cultivation but imposed no age or cultivation-time limit, and that the tests included fighting strength.
• Liu Er described the Colosseum's gladiator and contestant battles, its Insight Space, and its dense chaos origin.
• Qin Hao decided to visit the Colosseum and promised Liu Er another ten Chaos Spirit Crystals if he was satisfied.
• Qin Hao finished a costly meal that strengthened his body, then left with Liu Er for the Colosseum.

Qin Hao and Liu Er visited Dragon Marquis Arena, where Qin Hao learned about the Colosseum’s costly duels and cultivation facilities. Inside, Qin Hao watched two half-step true gods fight and recognized that the heavy-saber wielder had mastered four complete chaos origins while suppressing his cultivation for the Qiankun Sect’s Disciple Recruitment Assembly.

• Liu Er explained the Colosseum’s Dueling Space, Insight Space, gladiator ranks, and fees to Qin Hao.
• Qin Hao paid the entry fee for himself and Liu Er, and they entered Dragon Marquis Arena.
• Qin Hao surveyed the packed arena and watched a heavily attended duel between two half-step true gods wielding sabers.
• Qin Hao sensed that the heavy-saber wielder had perfected four chaos origins and realized he was suppressing his cultivation for the Qiankun Sect’s Disciple Recruitment Assembly.

Qin Hao watched Fan Dao and Situ Yu fight and measured their strength against his own, recognizing them as formidable rivals for the Qiankun Sect recruitment assembly. Fan Dao unleashed a powerful finishing strike that sent Situ Yu flying.

• Qin Hao assessed Fan Dao and Situ Yu’s abilities and concluded he would struggle to defeat either without revealing the Primordial Feathered Wings.
• Liu Er identified Fan Dao as a celebrated Gold Medal Gladiator and Situ Yu as a leading talent of the Situ Family.
• Qin Hao reflected on the gap between his strength and theirs, then resolved to face Heavensea’s many geniuses rather than give up.
• Fan Dao accelerated his heavy saber strike with a surge of divine strength, leaving Situ Yu no choice but to block it head-on.
• Fan Dao’s strike overwhelmed Situ Yu and sent him flying.

Fan Dao defeated Situ Yu in the Colosseum, while Qin Hao considered the strength and hidden abilities of both fighters. He then recognized the Silver Badge Gladiator Yanyun as Ancestor Yanyu and learned that Yun Chang, Wu Yin, and She Xu had also become Gladiators.

• Fan Dao slashed Situ Yu from the arena and won, drawing cheers from the spectators.
• Qin Hao suspected Situ Yu had withheld his trump card to keep it secret, and learned that defeated contestants could enter the Insight Space.
• Wang Cheng entered the arena for his match as spectators and Liu Er discussed his strength.
• Silver Badge Gladiator Yanyun appeared, and Liu Er described his long career and winning streak.
• Qin Hao recognized Yanyun as Ancestor Yanyu, whose real name was Fu Yanyun, and named Yun Chang, Wu Yin, and She Xu as his fellow Gladiators.

Qin Hao learned that Yun Chang and the others had become Gladiators after being sold as slaves, but had already won enough matches to earn the right to leave the Colosseum. He discovered that Gladiators could earn Chaos Spirit Crystals and enter the Insight Space, then questioned whether the matches were deadly.

• Qin Hao realized he had spent two epochs wandering the Murky Space and had greatly deepened his understanding of the Sword Dao Inheritance.
• Liu Er told Qin Hao that Yan Yun and the other three had won ten thousand matches and could regain their freedom by paying Chaos Spirit Crystals.
• Liu Er explained that silver-badge Gladiators earned a share of match fees and that Yan Yun had accumulated more than three hundred thousand Chaos Spirit Crystals.
• Liu Er described how Gladiators and challengers gained access to the Insight Space through matches, and Qin Hao concluded that the benefits gave Yun Chang and the others reason to stay.
• Qin Hao watched two badly injured fighters in the arena and asked Liu Er whether Colosseum matches were not life-threatening.

Qin Hao learned that the Colosseum’s Dueling Space could resurrect its fighters and realized Yun Chang and the others were safe as Gladiators. After Ancestor Yanyu defeated Wang Cheng, Qin Hao secretly contacted him and arranged for the four to meet.

• Qin Hao discovered that the Colosseum’s Arena was a space between the Illusory Void and reality, and Liu Er explained that its Formation could resurrect fallen Gladiators and challengers.
• Liu Er told Qin Hao that the Qiankun Sect prohibited wanton slaughter in its cities and that challengers had to pay Chaos Spirit Crystals to recover, while Gladiators were resurrected for free.
• Qin Hao concluded that Yun Chang and the others could grow stronger as Gladiators and hoped they would eventually travel with him to the Qiankun Sect.
• Ancestor Yanyu fought Wang Cheng for an hour before defeating him and sending him out of the Arena.
• Qin Hao used his Devouring Doppelganger and self-world to contact Ancestor Yanyu, who agreed to bring Yun Chang and the others to meet him.

Qin Hao reunited with Yun Chang, Ancestor Yanyu, Ancestor Xu, and Wu Yin at the Colosseum after two epochs apart. He explained how he survived Murky Space and returned to Heavensea, then asked how they had become Gladiators.

• Qin Hao watched several Colosseum duels and learned that cultivators paid Chaos Spirit Crystals to enter its Insight Space.
• Yun Chang, Ancestor Yanyu, Ancestor Xu, and Wu Yin reunited with Qin Hao, and the five went to the Everlasting Peace Inn.
• Qin Hao told them that he escaped Commander Kun Yun's attack, wandered Murky Space, and found a Fogbound Prison that supplied him with resources.
• Yun Chang explained that the four had issued a Bounty Order in Dragon Marquis City to search for Qin Hao, but no one accepted it.
• Qin Hao described finding Heavensea's spatial barrier and returning through a partly intact spacetime passage, then asked how the four had become Gladiators.

Qin Hao reunited with Yun Chang and the others in Heavensea, where they explained how they had become Gladiators at Dragon Marquis City's Colosseum. The five resolved to prepare for the Qiankun Sect’s Disciple Recruitment Assembly, which was thirty thousand years away, though their chances of passing remained slim.

• Yun Chang recounted how bandits captured the four companions and sold them to Dragon Marquis City, where the Colosseum selected them as Gladiators; he had later killed the remaining bandits who captured them.
• Ancestor Yanyu explained that the Qiankun Sect established the Colosseums and that the five were on the Qiankun Continent, where the sect was the largest power.
• Ancestor Xu said the Qiankun Sect’s Disciple Recruitment Assembly would take place in thirty thousand years and that joining the sect could provide the resources they needed.
• Yun Chang and Ancestor Yanyu explained that passing the assembly required strength comparable to defeating a Gold Medal Gladiator, while even Fan Dao would have only a fifty- or sixty-percent chance.
• Ancestor Xu and Yun Chang urged Qin Hao to train at the Colosseum, offering Chaos Spirit Crystals and noting that strong performances might earn him extra points or direct admission.

Qin Hao decided to train at the Colosseum during the next thirty thousand years so he and his companions could prepare for the Qiankun Sect's Disciple Recruitment Assembly. His first Gladiator Token match paired him with Yun Chang, who eagerly welcomed the chance to fight him.

• Qin Hao and the four companions agreed to pursue the Qiankun Sect together and attend its recruitment assembly in thirty thousand years.
• Qin Hao planned to cultivate the light, darkness, and earth chaos origins while strengthening his Sword Dao arts, especially the Unerring Sword Scripture.
• Qin Hao returned to the Colosseum, paid one thousand Chaos Spirit Crystals, and received a silver Gladiator Token.
• Qin Hao poured chaos origin into the token, which named Yun Chang as his first opponent.
• Yun Chang reacted with excitement and looked forward to fighting Qin Hao.

Qin Hao entered the Colosseum to practice the Unerring Sword Scripture in a spar with Yun Chang. The fight began with Yun Chang’s Spatial Overlap surrounding Qin Hao as Qin Hao prepared his first sword move.

• Ancestor Yanyu and the others discussed the matchup, and Qin Hao cautioned that without his doppelgangers he might not be stronger than Yun Chang.
• Ancestor Yanyu reminded Yun Chang to spar for practice rather than fight only to win, and Yun Chang agreed.
• Qin Hao and Yun Chang entered the arena, where spectators doubted Qin Hao could match Yun Chang’s record and strength.
• Yun Chang spread his rule chaos origin and trapped Qin Hao within his Spatial Overlap, which Qin Hao recognized as a powerful technique.
• Qin Hao drew the Heavenly Abyss Sword to begin using the Unerring Sword Scripture, and Yun Chang sensed its mysterious presence.

Qin Hao tested the Unerring Sword Scripture against Yun Chang’s Spatial Overlap but could not break even its first layer. After executing all sixty-four forms, he realized he had copied their movements without incorporating the No-Sword Realm, and asked Yun Chang to attack him without holding back.

• Qin Hao began practicing the Unerring Sword Scripture against Yun Chang, whose layered space withstood every strike.
• Spectators mocked Qin Hao for failing to break through, while Yun Chang suspected he was practicing the Middle-Tier Peerless Art.
• Qin Hao continued through all sixty-four forms while observing his attacks and searching for what was wrong.
• Qin Hao realized his sword moves had cadence but lacked spirit because he had not incorporated the No-Sword Realm.
• Qin Hao told Yun Chang he had found the problem and asked him to attack without holding back.