Chapter Summaries

The narrator activated Fate Demon Dice to secure the Primordial Chaos Fragment behind the Gate of Eternal Life and battled the Great Heavenly Venerable of Eternal Life. The Great Heavenly Venerable yielded the treasure after recognizing the narrator as an Otherworldly Demon, leaving the narrator to wonder whether the dice had influenced his surrender.

• The narrator rolled a fifteen with Fate Demon Dice, blessing the attempt to seize the Primordial Chaos origin source from the Great Heavenly Venerable of Eternal Life.
• The narrator revealed knowledge of the Primordial Chaos Fragment behind the Gate of Eternal Life, then used Primordial Cause and True-False Supreme Truth to kill the Great Heavenly Venerable, who revived through the treasure.
• The narrator repeatedly struck down the Great Heavenly Venerable with White Edge and Heaven-and-Earth Sword, while the Great Heavenly Venerable used the Eternal Life Realm to attack.
• The narrator used Yin Concealment to contest control of the Eternal Life Realm, prompting the Great Heavenly Venerable to suspect the narrator was an Otherworldly Demon and offer to surrender the Gate and its fragment.
• The narrator accepted the Gate of Eternal Life and discovered a narrow crack through which the Primordial Chaos Fragment's power had leaked; the Great Heavenly Venerable explained how he had widened it.

After failing to open the Gate of Eternal Life, you summoned the primordial chaos origin source to draw out the Primordial Chaos Fragment within it. The fragment rapidly raised your Qi Refining Limit-Breaking to 49,999 layers, and you stopped before reaching 50,000, wary of advancing without preparation.

• You examined the Gate of Eternal Life and learned that it was a Chaos Supreme Treasure containing a Primordial Chaos Fragment and had created the Eternal Life Realm.
• You decided to use Golden Talent: Investment on the Gate of Eternal Life, hoping to obtain a Primordial Chaos Grade treasure in return.
• You failed to open the Gate of Eternal Life and summoned the primordial chaos origin source, Domain Cosmos, to pull out the fragment.
• You touched the tiny Primordial Chaos Fragment and felt its power raise your cultivation at a frenzied pace.
• You stopped your Qi Refining Limit-Breaking at 49,999 layers, fearing the consequences of reaching 50,000 without preparation.

Chen Fan prepared for the tribulation of fifty thousand layers of Qi Refining limit-breaking with Big Shot and Zero’s help, then confronted Heavenly Will in the depths of Heaven and Earth. Heavenly Will revealed it had only been testing him and would claim Heaven’s Mandate if he died before reaching the threshold.

• Chen Fan arranged for Big Shot and Zero to support his breakthrough, left an other self guarding the Eternal Life Realm, and returned to the Supreme True Realm.
• Big Shot prepared potions while Zero stood ready to intervene, and Chen Fan began the tribulation by absorbing the Primordial Chaos Fragment.
• Heaven and Earth assimilated Chen Fan and drew his consciousness before Big Shot’s Purification Potion cleared the effect.
• Chen Fan resisted Heavenly Will by seizing Heaven-and-Earth authority and inscribing favorable rules, bringing their fight to a standstill.
• Heavenly Will admitted it had been testing Chen Fan and said it would take Heaven’s Mandate if he died before reaching fifty thousand layers of Qi Refining.

Eternal Radiance Immortal Venerable encountered the Immortal Venerable of Eternal Bliss in the depths of Heaven and Earth, where the latter warned him that he could not defeat the Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable. The revelation suggested that the Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable had escaped Eternal Bliss’s control and outplayed Heaven by half a move, but Eternal Radiance remained suspicious of Eternal Bliss’s intentions.

• Eternal Radiance Immortal Venerable met the Immortal Venerable of Eternal Bliss, who introduced himself as a figure from the erased Second Era.
• The Immortal Venerable of Eternal Bliss removed the pressure of Heaven and Earth and advised Eternal Radiance not to proceed farther.
• Eternal Bliss warned that the Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable would crush Eternal Radiance if they fought.
• Eternal Bliss called himself a Chess Player who had lost and described the Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable as someone who had outplayed Heaven by half a move.
• Eternal Radiance suspected that the Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable was the Second Era Otherworldly Demon who created the Qi Refining Limit-Breaking Path, while questioning whether Eternal Bliss had told the full truth.

Changming learned that Immortal Venerable of Eternal Bliss was a fallen Otherworldly Demon who wanted Changming to survive and Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable to die. The venerable explained why resurrection on the Qi Refining Limit-Breaking Dao put him at risk, then Changming asked why he had been warned not to advance further.

• Changming asked whether Immortal Venerable of Eternal Bliss was an Otherworldly Demon, and the venerable admitted it but said he had fallen long ago.
• Immortal Venerable of Eternal Bliss said his aim was for Changming to live and Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable to die.
• The venerable revealed that his Golden Finger allowed resurrection, but each return would put him back on the Qi Refining Limit-Breaking Dao and draw Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable's attention.
• Immortal Venerable of Eternal Bliss said he had been waiting for someone to surpass those before them or bring down Mortal Transcendence Immortal Venerable, and that Changming was the only one to reach fifty thousand layers.
• Changming asked what the venerable had meant by telling him not to go any farther.