Chapter Summaries

Ru Xia used a precious Void Transfer Talisman to escape Prince Duobo, then explained the dangers of the Myriad Realms Cave Heaven and the need to find newly forming or dying Chaos Worlds. The group learned they could use Nie Yun’s stolen Direction Finding Needle to navigate the trial.

• Ru Xia transferred Nie Yun, Ye Tao, and Yun Rou away from Prince Duobo’s group, prompting Duobo to rage at their escape.
• Ye Tao asked where they had arrived, and Ru Xia explained that the Cave Heaven had no reliable directions and was filled with deadly space-time turbulence and divine beasts.
• Ru Xia explained that the trial required observing the formation and destruction of Chaos Worlds to comprehend the Great Dao, rather than entering complete worlds.
• Ru Xia worried that they would have to search blindly for such worlds, but Nie Yun revealed his Direction Finding Needle.
• Nie Yun said he had stolen the needle from Prince Duobo’s Residence, and Ru Xia understood why Duobo wanted to kill him.

Nie Yun learned to use Prince Duobo's Direction Finding Needle and followed it with his companions toward the center of the Burning Heaven Zone. Prince Ru Xia revealed that Mo Yan had learned of a mysterious place with a secret to breaking through the Heavenly Dao and would likely seek it alone.

• Prince Ru Xia explained that the Direction Finding Needle could locate people and other targets within the Myriad Realms Cave Heaven.
• Nie Yun used the needle to find the center of the Burning Heaven Zone, and Prince Ru Xia identified their region and described its colliding Chaos Worlds and burning center.
• Nie Yun and the others boarded Prince Ru Xia's ancient ship and followed the needle's changing directions for three days and three nights.
• Ye Tao and the others wondered whether Prince Duobo would get lost without his needle, and Nie Yun guessed that he would join Prince Liu Mu or Mo Yan.
• Prince Ru Xia said Mo Yan had received information about a mysterious place holding the secret to breaking through the Heavenly Dao and would probably go there alone.

Nie Yun and Prince Ru Xia dismissed rumors of a secret to becoming a Great Emperor and headed toward the center of the Burning Heaven Zone. Meanwhile, Prince Duobo and Prince Liu Mu sent their allies to hunt Nie Yun while they pursued the Heavenly Dao Flower, hoping its power would let them kill him.

• Nie Yun and Prince Ru Xia rejected the claim that Myriad Realms Cave Heaven held a secret to breaking through the Heavenly Dao, then set out to explore the Burning Heaven Zone's center.
• Prince Liu Mu used the Direction Finding Needle to confirm that Nie Yun had entered the Burning Heaven Zone.
• Prince Duobo ordered two groups to search for Nie Yun and gave them a puppet that could guide them through Myriad Realms Cave Heaven.
• Prince Duobo told Prince Liu Mu that the Heavenly Dao Flower could grant temporary power over the Heavenly Dao, though consuming it would prevent them from becoming Emperors and place them under the Heavenly Dao's control.
• Prince Liu Mu accepted the risk, and he and Prince Duobo departed by ancient ship to seek the Heavenly Dao Flower.

Nie Yun studied the Burning Heaven Zone and strengthened his Storage World by observing worlds being born and destroyed. He decided to venture farther inside, then revealed that he already possessed the Myriad Realms Feather Robe, which could protect its wearer in the region’s center.

• Prince Ru Xia warned Nie Yun and the others that entering the Burning Heaven Zone’s center would be fatal, citing Yun Lin’s death there.
• Nie Yun and the others observed the zone from the ancient ship, and Nie Yun used its changing worlds to deepen his understanding of the Storage World.
• After three days, Nie Yun found that the Storage World had advanced from level three to level four, but remained far from forming a Perfect Domain.
• Nie Yun told Prince Ru Xia he planned to go farther into the zone, and Prince Ru Xia explained that the Myriad Realms Feather Robe could protect someone traveling through its center.
• Nie Yun revealed the Myriad Realms Feather Robe on his body, surprising Prince Ru Xia.

Nie Yun entered the Burning Heaven Zone wearing the Myriad Realms Feather Robe and advanced his Storage World to the fifth level, but the robe could not protect him from the force near the core. As he considered how to strengthen his body enough to go deeper, a lightning bolt suddenly shot toward him.

• Prince Ru Xia worried that Nie Yun had stolen the Myriad Realms Feather Robe, but Nie Yun told him Puntian Great Emperor had given it to him.
• Nie Yun wrapped himself in the robe and flew into the Burning Heaven Zone while Prince Ru Xia waited outside.
• Near the zone's center, Nie Yun gained insight from the Great Daos and advanced his Storage World to the fifth level.
• Nie Yun assessed that he needed to strengthen his body to the Perfected Emperor Realm before he could safely enter the core.
• Mournful winds sounded around Nie Yun, and he dodged a streak of lightning before freezing at what he saw.

Nie Yun fought the Burning Heaven Beasts in the Burning Heaven Zone and discovered that their bodies were extraordinarily resilient. After deciding their blood could strengthen him, he faced the beasts together and found that even his sword struggled against their strength.

• Nie Yun encountered the Burning Heaven Beasts, which threatened to eat him, and Fire Dragon attacked first.
• Nie Yun struck Fire Dragon with a punch and then his Maha Immeasurable palm, but the beast remained unharmed despite being knocked back.
• Nie Yun realized that refining the Burning Heaven Beasts' blood might increase his physical strength, while Fire Dragon called on the others to attack together.
• Nie Yun drew the Moon-Pity Sword and used One Sword Cuts Through against a charging beast, but their repeated collision left his arm numb and forced him back.

Nie Yun used his Fusion Domain to injure Fire Dragon and drive the Burning Heaven Beasts away. He then refined their blood to strengthen his physical body, but wondered how their bodies became so powerful.

• Nie Yun unleashed his Fusion Domain and used its sword attacks to hold off several Burning Heaven Beasts, though he could not initially break their defenses.
• Fire Dragon proposed ending the fight, but Nie Yun focused repeated sword strikes on its hoof-claw and severed it.
• Nie Yun collected Fire Dragon’s hoof-claw and blood, then attacked again, forcing Fire Dragon and the other Burning Heaven Beasts to flee.
• Nie Yun entered his Storage World and refined thirty-five drops of Burning Heaven Beast blood until his body reached its absorption limit.
• Nie Yun felt his physical strength increase but remained puzzled that his body was still far weaker than the Burning Heaven Beasts’.

After absorbing the Burning Heaven Beast's blood, Nie Yun returned to the Burning Heaven Zone and collected rare treasures as he pushed toward its center. His body could not withstand the pressure even with his Fusion Domain, so he considered using a Great Dao to continue.

• Nie Yun returned to the Burning Heaven Zone and found that the Burning Heaven Beast's blood had strengthened him enough to advance deeper.
• Nie Yun collected Nine Profound Divine Iron, Void Dragon Flower, and other treasures being ejected from the zone's center.
• Nie Yun used his Fusion Domain to protect himself as the pressure increased near the center.
• Nie Yun reached his physical limit and realized he could not cover the remaining distance with his current body and strength.
• Nie Yun decided that he might use a Great Dao to find a way into the center.

Nie Yun tested the powerful Fusion Dao inside the Myriad Realms Cave Heaven and discovered that even a fraction of its power could surpass Stealing Heaven Borrowing Life Realm experts. He stopped after learning that using more than one-tenth might provoke the heavenly Dao to strike him down.

• Nie Yun activated the Fusion Dao inside the Myriad Realms Cave Heaven, drawing the attention of the God Realm's heavenly Dao.
• Nie Yun cautiously used one-tenth of the Fusion Dao's power and felt its oppressive presence disappear.
• Nie Yun punched a spatial rift dozens of kilometers long and realized his strength had surpassed that of Stealing Heaven Borrowing Life Realm experts.
• Nie Yun tested using more of the Fusion Dao, then stopped when he sensed the heavenly Dao might break through space-time to punish him.
• Nie Yun concluded that he would need to grow stronger before he could safely control more of the Fusion Dao.

Nie Yun entered the stable core of the Burning Heaven Zone and discovered that its newborn-world aura could greatly advance his cultivation and Storage World. He reached a vast beehive-like mountain range near the core and suspected it was home to millions of Burning Heaven Beasts.

• Nie Yun realized that repeated use of the Fusion Dao would leave traces detectable by the Heavenly Dao, so he estimated he could use it only about ten more times.
• Using the Fusion Dao and the Myriad Realms Feather Robe, Nie Yun endured the spatial pressure and reached the central sphere of the Burning Heaven Zone.
• Nie Yun broke through the sphere's barrier with the Great Evolution Tianji Sword and entered a region with stable space and countless embryonic forms of Dao.
• Nie Yun concluded that absorbing the central zone into his Storage World could rapidly raise its level, and decided to find and refine its core.
• Nie Yun arrived at a vast beehive-like mountain range and suspected the many openings were nests for the Burning Heaven Beasts that had fled to the center.

Nie Yun was attacked by thousands of Burning Heaven Beasts and escaped after their combined strike badly injured him. The Burning Heaven Beast King ordered the beasts to capture him alive, leaving Nie Yun confused and fleeing from a vast pursuit.

• Fire Dragon and the Burning Heaven Beasts attacked Nie Yun with a combined wave of power.
• Nie Yun used the Fusion Dao and Great Evolution Tianji Sword to meet their attack, but the combined blow injured him and sent him flying.
• Nie Yun spread his Phoenix Wings and escaped before the Burning Heaven Beasts could catch him.
• The Burning Heaven Beast King awakened and ordered every Burning Heaven Beast to capture Nie Yun alive.
• Fire Dragon and tens of thousands of Burning Heaven Beasts pursued Nie Yun, who wondered why the King wanted him captured.

Nie Yun struggled to escape the Burning Heaven Beasts and weighed ways to increase his strength without triggering a Heavenly Dao tribulation. He decided to seek the core in their mountain-range nest, but he could not figure out how to reach it past their relentless pursuit.

• Nie Yun killed several Burning Heaven Beasts with the Great Evolution Tianji Sword, collected their corpses, and fled before their roars drew more enemies.
• The Burning Heaven Beasts surrounded Nie Yun in overwhelming numbers, and he escaped badly battered with the Myriad Realms Feather Robe protecting him.
• Nie Yun considered escaping the zone, killing the beasts with the full power of the Fusion Dao, or growing stronger, but rejected the first two options as too risky.
• Nie Yun ruled out advancing to the Emperor Realm or fusing more Daos and concluded that finding the core to advance the Storage World was his only viable path.
• Nie Yun realized the core lay in the beasts’ mountain-range nest, but their senses made stealth and a direct return nearly impossible.

Nie Yun let the Burning Heaven Beasts capture him so they would take him to their Beast King, hoping to steal the core despite the danger. The Beasts brought him to their Sacred Mountain, where he discovered human remains and a pool of blood before the Beast King suddenly struck him.

• Nie Yun decided to surrender to the Burning Heaven Beasts and rely on Yan Huang Hall if the Beast King threatened his life.
• Several thousand Burning Heaven Beasts surrounded Nie Yun, bound him with chains that sealed his power, and prepared to take him to their King.
• Fire Dragon and other Beasts urged their comrades to torture Nie Yun, but Nie Yun threatened to kill himself, so their leader ordered them to escort him unharmed.
• The Beasts brought Nie Yun into a cave on the Sacred Mountain, where he saw human skeletons scattered along the passage.
• Nie Yun entered the Beast King's cavern and saw a pool filled with human blood before the King struck him and sent him flying above it.

Nie Yun faced the Beast King, who revealed its plan to sacrifice trial-takers and consume the Burning Heaven Zone’s core to become an Emperor Beast. The Beast King overwhelmed Nie Yun with its Heavenly Dao Realm strength, and the chapter left Nie Yun badly wounded after it shattered the Exquisite Pearl Pagoda’s barrier.

• The Beast King identified Nie Yun’s newly comprehended Fusion Dao and explained that it planned to use his blood in a sacrifice to weaken the tribulation for refining the Burning Heaven Zone’s core.
• The Beast King revealed that it had been collecting the blood of Great Emperor descendants because it believed their deaths would please the Heavenly Dao.
• Nie Yun escaped his chains with Teleportation and attacked the Beast King with a Fusion Dao sword formation, but the Beast King’s hoof-claw shattered the attack and sent him into a rock wall.
• The Beast King explained that it belonged to the Heavenly Dao Realm, above the Stealing Heaven Borrowing Life Realm and below the Emperor Realm, helping Nie Yun understand the strength of Lu Xi’s blood and the meaning of half-step Emperor Realm.
• Nie Yun summoned the Exquisite Pearl Pagoda to block the Beast King’s next attack, but the Beast King shattered its protective barrier and left Nie Yun vomiting blood.

Nie Yun fought the Beast King and discovered a fruit that seemed to strengthen the Burning Heaven Beast’s body. After taking it, he summoned Yan Huang Hall to survive the Beast King’s full-strength attack, but the Beast King vowed to refine the palace and claim it.

• The Beast King overwhelmed Nie Yun, who realized the gulf between their cultivation realms was too great to overcome by force.
• Nie Yun searched the cave for the world core and found a crimson fruit growing from a tree on the rock wall.
• Using the Shen Nong Hundred Herbs Scripture’s Qi Gazing Method, Nie Yun identified the fruit as one that strengthened the body and suspected it empowered the Beast King.
• When the Beast King let its guard down, Nie Yun teleported to the tree and seized the fruit.
• The Beast King unleashed a spatial attack that trapped Nie Yun, so Nie Yun summoned Yan Huang Hall to block the strike and hide inside.
• The Beast King recognized Yan Huang Hall as an Emperor-grade Divine Weapon and declared that it would refine the palace and claim it.

Nie Yun used the Yan Huang Hall to survive the Beast King's attack, then absorbed a body-tempering fruit and took the world's core into his Storage World. The Beast King discovered the core was gone and sent millions of Burning Heaven Beasts to hunt Nie Yun.

• The Beast King sent the Yan Huang Hall into the vortex around the world's core, expecting its power to exhaust Nie Yun.
• Nie Yun swallowed the fruit and raised his fleshly body to the peak Emperor Realm, just short of the Perfected Emperor Realm.
• Nie Yun recognized the vortex as the world's core and used his Storage World to take it along with the Yan Huang Hall.
• The Beast King realized Nie Yun had stolen the core, roared in fury, and ordered the Burning Heaven Beasts to search for him.

Nie Yun refined the Burning Heaven Zone’s core, raising the Storage World to level eight and greatly increasing his power. After discovering that the center had collapsed and searching for Prince Ru Xia and the others, he found a fragment of Ye Tao’s shattered Sun-locking Golden Armor.

• Nie Yun finished refining the Burning Heaven Zone’s core, advancing the Storage World to level eight and gaining the ability to accelerate time within it.
• Nie Yun realized his understanding of the Three Thousand Great Daos and his combat strength had greatly improved, allowing him to defeat Stealing Heaven Borrowing Life Realm experts without using the Fusion Dao.
• Nie Yun emerged from the Storage World and found the Burning Heaven Zone’s center collapsed after the core’s removal.
• Nie Yun searched for Prince Ru Xia and the others, flying through the Chaos Ocean with the Direction Finding Needle for three days.
• Nie Yun found a fragment of Ye Tao’s Sun-locking Golden Armor and feared something had happened to him.

After discovering signs of a fierce battle, Nie Yun followed the Direction Finding Needle into a powerful Chaos World while searching for Ye Tao and Prince Ru Xia. He found Prince Duobo’s followers there, who were pressuring the local emperor to find people who had disappeared.

• Nie Yun saw Ye Tao’s shattered armor and hurried after the trail, vowing to make Prince Duobo pay if his friends had been harmed.
• After seven days of flight, Nie Yun reached a vast Chaos World when the Direction Finding Needle stopped working.
• Nie Yun sensed the world’s level-seven spatial pressure and used the Storage World’s power to search the entire realm.
• Nie Yun failed to find Ye Tao, Ru Xia, or the others, but spotted Prince Duobo’s followers and Teleported toward them.
• In the Eternal Imperial City, Prince Yan Huo demanded that Emperor Henggu locate the missing people, threatening to destroy him and his palace if he failed.
• Henggu promised to find them within a day while the white-bearded Stealing Heaven Borrowing Life Realm expert stood behind Prince Yan Huo.

Elder Bei Xu and Prince Yan Huo sought Nie Yun and Ru Xia, but Nie Yun appeared in the palace hall before they could find them. Elder Bei Xu attacked Nie Yun after revealing his hatred for the Puntian Great Emperor.

• Elder Bei Xu threatened Henggu with a display of power, and Henggu promised to find the people he sought.
• Prince Yan Huo urged Elder Bei Xu to find Ru Xia and Nie Yun before Prince Zhen Xiang, while Elder Bei Xu promised to capture them.
• Nie Yun appeared in the palace hall, and Prince Yan Huo recognized him and celebrated the chance to kill him.
• Elder Bei Xu demanded that Nie Yun kneel and cripple his cultivation, but Nie Yun refused and invoked his status as Crown Prince.
• Elder Bei Xu revealed that the Puntian Great Emperor had destroyed Bei Huang Island and attacked Nie Yun, filling the hall with overwhelming power.

Nie Yun emerged unharmed from Elder Bei Xu’s lightning attacks and revealed overwhelming strength. After slapping Elder Bei Xu away and seizing him, he left the elder terrified and convinced Nie Yun was a Stealing Heaven Borrowing Life Realm expert.

• Prince Yan Huo rejoiced as Elder Bei Xu attacked Nie Yun, but Nie Yun calmly walked out of the lightning unharmed.
• Elder Bei Xu mistook Nie Yun’s defense for a Heavenly Dao-grade treasure, and Prince Yan Huo grew greedy when he heard the guess.
• Elder Bei Xu attacked Nie Yun’s soul with blue lightning, but Nie Yun remained unharmed and said he would make his move.
• Nie Yun struck Elder Bei Xu with a single slap, sending him crashing into a palace wall.
• Nie Yun appeared beside Elder Bei Xu, lifted him by the hand, and left him terrified by his strength.