Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun led the exhausted group into the deadly vortex in the Boiling Oil River and disguised a breakthrough to help them cross. When the vortex changed and killed the last person in line, he began issuing commands to guide the survivors.

• Nie Yun encouraged the group to keep going, and they renewed their resolve despite their exhaustion.
• At the enormous vortex, Nie Yun warned everyone to watch his movements and stepped into the shifting currents.
• Nie Yun staged a breakthrough into the Heaven-Slaying Realm, and Jingxin followed suit, allowing them to advance through the vortex.
• The other geniuses copied Nie Yun and Jingxin's footsteps, but the vortex changed its speed and burned the last person in line to ashes.
• Nie Yun warned the group that blindly imitating his steps was dangerous, then offered to tell them when to lift and set down their feet.

Nie Yun led the group safely through the Boiling Oil River, earning their loyalty, before they faced the third trial, the Sea of Lightning. He concluded that the random lightning tested their ability to sense danger, but the group had yet to begin crossing.

• Nie Yun calculated safe steps through the Boiling Oil River and guided everyone to shore.
• Hou Zhao pledged to follow Nie Yun, and the other survivors showed their willingness to obey him.
• After two hours of recovery, the group entered the Sea of Lightning trial, which required them to cross within one hour without being struck by deadly lightning.
• Hou Zhao suggested finding a pattern in the lightning, but Nie Yun said its strikes were random and the trial tested their sense of danger.

Nie Yun devised a way to use hides and weapons to divert the lightning and open a brief path through the Sea of Lightning, but the group lacked enough materials to cross the vast storm. He asked whether anyone could summon puppets or clones, and one young man admitted he knew a costly technique that would leave him unable to act while using it.

• Nie Yun demonstrated that divine beast hides attracted the lightning and explained that the group could use them to create brief openings.
• The group agreed to risk the crossing and, following Nie Yun's directions, produced their hides and beasts' corpses.
• Nie Yun found they had only a little over three hundred hides, far too few to cross the Sea of Lightning.
• Nie Yun asked everyone to produce weapons and imbue them with their will, but the group had only ten weapons.
• Nie Yun asked whether anyone could summon puppets or clones, and a young man said he knew a technique but warned that it consumed enormous Origin Energy and prevented him from doing anything else.

Nie Yun led Mo Tu and the others into the Sea of Lightning, using pelts to draw away the thunder and agreeing to carry Mo Tu and provide him with Origin Energy when needed. The group pushed several hundred meters into the storm and dodged a massive lightning strike under Nie Yun’s command.

• Mo Tu explained that summoning puppets consumed nearly all his Origin Energy, so Nie Yun promised to take him through the thunder zone and supply him with energy when needed.
• Nie Yun told Mo Tu to stay close, asked everyone to cooperate, and refused the pills and other supplies they offered.
• Nie Yun threw a pelt into the lightning, creating a brief passage, and led Mo Tu, the others, and Jingxin into the storm.
• The group endured the remaining lightning and advanced several hundred meters before a barrage of enormous bolts descended on them.
• Nie Yun ordered everyone to crouch three inches, and pelts blocked the strike while the group rushed forward.

Nie Yun led the group through the Sea of Lightning by using Mo Tu’s puppets and the group’s Chaos Divine Weapons to divert the lightning, then guided everyone through a massive lightning vortex. The group successfully passed the trial and emerged from the Sea of Lightning.

• Nie Yun had Mo Tu summon five puppets, replenished Mo Tu’s depleted power, and took control of the puppets to send them into the lightning.
• Mo Tu kept summoning puppets as Nie Yun used them to disrupt the lightning’s strikes and guide the group forward.
• When the group reached a massive lightning vortex, Nie Yun arranged the Chaos Divine Weapons to divert its lightning and led everyone through at high speed.
• After the weapons shattered, Nie Yun formed Mo Tu’s twenty puppets into a formation that continued drawing the lightning away until the group escaped the vortex.
• Nie Yun warned everyone not to lower their guard near the Sea of Lightning’s edge, and the group continued until they had safely passed the trial.

After passing the three trials, Nie Yun and the other youths recovered and grew stronger before gaining recognition from Azure Sea Profound Heaven through their tokens. They entered the next stage at Senluo Institute, where they would have three months to cultivate before facing another trial.

• After the Thunder Sea vanished, a white light healed everyone and helped them break through to the peak of the Heaven-Slaying Realm.
• The youths engraved names on their tokens and refined them, gaining Azure Sea Profound Heaven’s recognition and protection from its pressure and Formations.
• Nie Yun engraved the name Yun Tong, while Jingxin used the name Nie Yun had given her.
• A manor appeared, and a voice announced that Senluo Institute offered free resources and cultivation for three months before a second round of trials.
• The voice said their bodies would be examined as they entered through a light-screen corridor.

Nie Yun and Jingxin entered Senluo Institute but discovered that leaving would expose them to Ashoka King’s powerful Formation, so Nie Yun sought information through a hidden clone in the Nine Heavens Heavenly Dao. There, he learned from Commander Yan Hui that Ashoka King and other kings were engaged in a desperate battle, leaving Nie Yun to fear that Nie Tong was in grave danger.

• Jingxin secretly neutralized the inspection current as she and Nie Yun entered Senluo Institute, where they learned they were forbidden to leave for three months.
• Mo Tu and the other geniuses asked to live with Nie Yun and receive his cultivation guidance, and he agreed before returning to his room.
• Nie Yun sent his final clone out to explore, but a Formation at the institute’s edge bound him until his token dispelled it; he realized the token would leave a trace wherever he went.
• Unable to leave unnoticed, Nie Yun returned and connected his soul to the clone hidden in the Nine Heavens Heavenly Dao.
• Commander Xuan Ge met Great Commander Yan Hui, who said Ashoka King and several kings were trying to stop an urgent matter and that the situation was unfavorable.
• Nie Yun inferred that Ashoka King and the other kings might be fighting Nie Tong, and he feared Nie Tong was in serious danger.

Nie Yun watched Commander Yan Hui force the Nine Heavens Heavenly Dao into a bizarre corpse, where countless ghost faces attacked their consciousness. Unable to escape the Great Cosmic Seal, Nie Yun realized the Heavenly Dao could absorb the ghost faces’ chaotic thoughts and told him to pass their corrosive power to Nie Yun instead.

• Nie Yun threatened to devour the three Supreme Domains if Ashoka King, Chaos King, and Juesha King harmed Nie Tong, but decided to keep watching them for now.
• Commander Yan Hui led Commander Xuan Ge and Nie Yun’s clone consciousness into a space containing a massive, deathly corpse.
• Commander Yan Hui ordered Commander Xuan Ge to put the Nine Heavens Heavenly Dao into the corpse, whose suction swallowed him and Nie Yun’s consciousness.
• Inside the corpse’s sea of consciousness, ghost faces assaulted the Nine Heavens Heavenly Dao, while Nie Yun found he could not break the Great Cosmic Seal and escape.
• The Nine Heavens Heavenly Dao explained that chaotic thoughts could not harm him because he embodied the consciousness of all living beings, and Nie Yun told him to absorb those thoughts and pass the corrosive power to him.

Nie Yun struggled to understand why Ashoka King’s commanders treated him as their revived Great Commander, then explored the Treasure Pavilion to find materials. He found the Chaos Cold Crystal needed to restore the True Blood Royal Crown and held it in his hand.

• Nie Yun celebrated with the commanders and followed Yan Hui to a luxurious residence, where Yan Hui told him Ashoka King would explain everything later.
• Finding no one monitoring him, Nie Yun asked the guards to take him to the equipment-materials treasury, and they readily led him to the Treasure Pavilion.
• A guard explained that Ashoka King had prepared the pavilion for the commanders and let Nie Yun take whatever he wanted.
• Nie Yun surveyed the pavilion’s vast collection but found most of its treasures useless to him.
• Nie Yun spotted the Chaos Cold Crystal he needed and pulled it into his palm.

Nie Yun obtained the Chaos Cold Crystal and an unfamiliar ancient badge from Ashoka King's treasure vault, then returned to Senluo Institute to plan how to investigate Ashoka King's intentions. He accelerated time in his Storage World to train the rescued geniuses and prepared to study the Space-Time Worm while they cultivated.

• Nie Yun stored the Chaos Cold Crystal and an ancient badge with writing he could not recognize, then left Ashoka King's treasure vault.
• Nie Yun told Jingxin about his findings and discussed how to investigate Ashoka King without drawing attention or being discovered outside Senluo Institute.
• Nie Yun brought the rescued geniuses into his Storage World and gave them Heaven-Opening Creation Pills and a relief of the Three Thousand Great Daos.
• Nie Yun accelerated time around the geniuses by a hundred millionfold so they could cultivate rapidly.
• Nie Yun brought out a piece of the Space-Time Worm to study while the geniuses trained.

Nie Yun studied a fragment of Space-Time Worm flesh and learned how its spatial power enabled teleportation. After a dangerous failed attempt, he matched the Storage World’s spatial fluctuations to the surrounding space and successfully teleported across his room.

• Nie Yun disintegrated a fragment of Space-Time Worm flesh and discovered that each cell contained its own space and spatial power.
• Nie Yun observed the fragment teleport after he supplied it with energy and deduced how its spatial fluctuations matched the surrounding space.
• Nie Yun returned to his room at Senluo Institute, sealed the area, and tried to use the Storage World’s power to teleport.
• Nie Yun’s first attempt caused spatial resonance that shattered the space around him and injured him, but Wood Life Qi healed him.
• Nie Yun used his Heavenly Eye to study the surrounding spatial fluctuations, adjusted the Storage World’s power, and teleported from his bed to the center of the room.

Nie Yun tested his new Teleportation technique, then brought the geniuses he had trained in the Storage World back to Senluo Institute, where they revealed their astonishing gains in strength. Commander Lu Zhan took them to Asura Courtyard to study the Asura Heaven-Mending Formation, which he said could multiply their combat strength several hundred times.

• Nie Yun discovered he could Teleport several dozen meters and resolved to improve his range as he grew more familiar with spatial fluctuations.
• Nie Yun removed the time-acceleration barrier and found that the geniuses had reached the Sect Master Realm or Half-step Ruler Realm after more than a million years of cultivation.
• Nie Yun instructed the group to release their strength and draw attention as they left Senluo Institute, prompting Yan Hui and the other commanders to confront them.
• Yan Hui ordered Lu Zhan to take the group to Asura Courtyard, where 137 other geniuses were staying.
• Lu Zhan revealed that the newcomers would join the other geniuses in studying the Asura Heaven-Mending Formation, a formation requiring 36 people that could increase combat strength several hundred times.

Nie Yun and his companions joined Meng Xin’s team to train for the Asura Heaven-Mending Formation, but Meng Xin immediately demanded that they kneel as a lesson in obedience. When Meng Xin attacked Shang Qun for refusing, an unseen person grabbed his wrist and stopped him.

• Commander Lu Zhan brought Nie Yun and his companions to the Asura Courtyard and assigned them to Meng Xin’s short-handed team, ordering them to form the Formation within ten days.
• Meng Xin introduced himself as a genius from Xuanwu World and warned the newcomers to obey his orders.
• Meng Xin ordered Nie Yun and his companions to kneel for an hour, and Mo Tu objected that the demand was insulting.
• Shang Qun cursed Meng Xin, who crushed Shang Qun’s attack and forced him to his knees.
• Meng Xin prepared to strike the kneeling Shang Qun, but an unidentified person seized his wrist and told him not to go too far.

Nie Yun stopped Meng Xin from bullying the newcomers and forced him to focus on learning the Formation. At the training grounds, Meng Xin showed the group the Asura Heaven-Mending Formation and the Asuras it controlled, which Nie Yun recognized as a Ruler's corpse from the Asura World.

• Nie Yun caught Meng Xin's arm with two fingers and overpowered him when he tried to make the newcomers kneel.
• Nie Yun released Meng Xin and warned him to learn the Formation before Commander Lu Zhan returned in ten days.
• Meng Xin realized Nie Yun had placed a soul seal on him and ordered his subordinates to stop threatening the newcomers.
• Meng Xin led Nie Yun and the others to a stone stele and explained the Asura Heaven-Mending Formation.
• Nie Yun saw the Asuras and recognized one as a Ruler's corpse of the Asura World.

Nie Yun discovered that Ashoka King had turned an Asura ruler’s corpse into the core of the Asura Heaven-Mending Formation, a weapon designed to fight the Asura King. After learning that the Asura King himself created the seemingly flawless Formation, Nie Yun asked Jingxin whether it could be destroyed.

• Nie Yun recognized the hidden corpse as that of an Asura World ruler and found that it had been refined into a powerful Formation artifact.
• Nie Yun realized Ashoka King had gathered geniuses to operate the corpse and build an army capable of confronting Nie Tong and the Asura King.
• Worried about Nie Tong’s safety, Nie Yun examined the stele to find a way to counter the Formation.
• Nie Yun learned that the Asura King had created the Formation and that its operators could only be reached by destroying the corpse or overcoming their combined defenses.
• Unable to find a weakness, Nie Yun asked Jingxin whether it could destroy the Formation.

Nie Yun mastered the Asura Heaven-Mending Formation and led thirty-six people in a corpse that fought Commander Lu Zhan to a draw. As the commanders prepared to aid Ashoka King, the Azure Sea Profound Heaven shook and its sun fell from the sky, signaling that Ashoka King was in danger.

• Jingxin told Nie Yun that the formation was too thorough for her to break, so they trained to master it and learn the corpse’s strength.
• Meng Xin appointed Nie Yun as the formation’s leader, and the group followed his commands as the corpse unleashed powerful martial arts.
• Commander Lu Zhan tested the formation, and Nie Yun’s corpse fought him evenly until Lu Zhan conceded that the tireless corpse would eventually prevail.
• The battle drew the Asura Courtyard’s commanders, who discussed going to help Ashoka King as the Great Commander arrived.
• The Azure Sea Profound Heaven shook, the sky shattered, and its sun plunged downward, prompting Yan Hui to warn that something had happened to Ashoka King.

Azure Sea Profound Heaven collapsed after Ashoka King's will no longer supported it, and Nie Yun escaped while saving Ji Ling and her attendant. As the Slanting Moon Supreme Domain began collapsing too, Nie Yun urgently asked Yan Hui for the Space-Time Worm's corpse.

• Commander Yan Hui warned everyone that Azure Sea Profound Heaven was collapsing, and the commanders and Asura Courtyard members fled.
• Nie Yun rescued Ji Ling and her elderly attendant into his Storage World, while Chen Song was killed by a fragment of shattered space.
• Azure Sea Profound Heaven shattered completely, killing countless people and leaving the commanders grieving and fearing for Ashoka King.
• Nie Yun suspected Nie Tong might have killed Ashoka King and worried that the other Kings would retaliate against him.
• The Slanting Moon Supreme Domain began collapsing, and Nie Yun asked Yan Hui for the corpse of the Space-Time Worm.

Nie Yun used the Space-Time Worm to retrieve the Four Directions Cauldron from the Nine Heavens World and stabilize the collapsing Slanting Moon Supreme Domain. He revealed his identity to Yan Hui and the commanders, then gave Jingxin the Chaos Cold Crystal to repair the Ayyena Crown.

• Nie Yun persuaded Yan Hui to hand over the Space-Time Worm by warning that Ashoka King's soul would scatter if the Slanting Moon Supreme Domain collapsed.
• Nie Yun entered the Nine Heavens World through the Space-Time Worm, returned its Heavenly Dao, and brought back the Four Directions Cauldron.
• Nie Yun's avatar placed the Four Directions Cauldron at the world's four directions, stopping the Slanting Moon Supreme Domain's collapse.
• Nie Yun dismissed the Asura Heaven-Mending Formation and revealed himself to Yan Hui and the other commanders, who recognized his name.
• Nie Yun gave Jingxin the Chaos Cold Crystal, restoring her strength and revealing that she wielded the Ayyena Crown.
• Nie Yun confirmed to Yan Hui that he had killed the former Great Commander and seized his body to make his avatar.

Nie Yun learned from Yan Hui that Ashoka King had never truly intended to kill him and agreed to join Yan Hui’s commanders in rescuing Ashoka King. As they traveled, Yan Hui revealed the four King-Sealing Experts had jointly cultivated their force and that the Asura King had helped create the Asura Heaven-Mending Formation, then brought Nie Yun to the Three Realms Battlefield.

• Yan Hui told Nie Yun that Ashoka King could have killed him long ago but had allowed him to live, and said Nie Yun should ask the Asura King about the reason.
• Nie Yun agreed to go with Yan Hui and his commanders to rescue Ashoka King, while Jingxin asked whether they might be leading him into a trap.
• Yan Hui summoned an ancient ship, and Nie Yun and Jingxin joined the commanders as they set out through chaotic space.
• Yan Hui told Nie Yun that the four King-Sealing Experts had jointly cultivated their force and that the Asura King had provided treasures and created the Asura Heaven-Mending Formation.
• Yan Hui brought the group to the Three Realms Battlefield, where Nie Yun realized Ashoka King and the others were nearby.

Nie Yun and his companions entered the Three Realms Battlefield, where they discovered a vast Corpse Qi fog and rushed toward a battle at the ancient fissure. They found Nie Tong, Chaos King, and Juesha King struggling to reinforce a seal, while Ashoka King was nowhere to be seen.

• Commander Yan Hui revealed that the Three Realms Battlefield was an ancient Corpse Sealing Ground.
• Nie Yun and the others entered the battlefield and encountered a deadly fog of ancient Corpse Qi.
• Nie Yun formed the Asura Heaven-Mending Formation with the others, while Jingxin used her power to clear a path through the fog.
• Nie Yun led the group toward the battle near the fissure at the heart of the battlefield.
• The group saw Nie Tong, Chaos King, and Juesha King pouring power into a failing seal, and Yan Hui asked where Ashoka King was.