Chapter Summaries

Ren Ye survived the sixteenfold Red Tide pressure, adapted to it, and completed the Weight of Earth trial, transforming his body and Divine Soul into Super Grade within the Third-Rank Secret Realm. He reunited with Little One at the summit and reflected on the Blood Mark information he had gained, while the chapter left him ready to dominate opponents of his tier.

• Little One spent days fearing Ren Ye would die, then sensed the life green jade reviving him as it merged with his Star Core.
• On the eighth day, Ren Ye took his three hundred and third step using only two-thirds of his Purple Qi, then spent the following weeks training his abilities and treasures under the sixteenfold pressure.
• On No. 2 Route, a scholar and his two companions gave up the trial and left the Emperor's Tomb, eliminating their route from the contest.
• On Route No. 7, seven participants praised Young Master Zhu's strategy as their shared pressure remained manageable.
• Two months into the trial, Ren Ye reached the second Emperor Vista Platform, reunited with Little One, and celebrated their survival together.
• Ren Ye assessed his Blood Mark gambits and the numbers on several routes, then concluded that the trial had raised his body and Divine Soul to Super Grade and that he could crush opponents of his tier.

After the five-day rest, Ren Ye and Little One prepared for the Weight of Heaven trial, whose maximum pressure was the Emperor Extreme Realm. Ren Ye’s baiting strategy succeeded when other routes committed 464 Blood Marks to attack him, and he prepared to use his Great Emperor Talisman as the trial approached.

• Ren Ye trained Little One, beat him in a spar, and agreed to teach him Holy Eyes after Little One spoke of wanting his mother not to grow old.
• The Headless Man announced that the Weight of Heaven would begin after a two-hour planning phase, with fourfold initial pressure and the Emperor Extreme Realm as its maximum.
• Routes No. 15 and No. 8 chose to investigate Number Three, while Young Master Zhu identified Ren Ye as the Ancient Emperor Successor and persuaded Road Seven to attack him with 280 Blood Marks.
• Ren Ye learned that 464 Blood Marks had been committed against Number Three after he declared zero defense.
• Ren Ye held the Great Emperor Talisman, which could upgrade his innate Supernatural Ability once, and faced the coming Emperor Extreme Realm trial without fear.

Ren Ye spent nearly the entire Third Trial unable to enter the Emperor Extreme Realm, but sorrow over Old Liu and insight into Great Emperor Jiuli’s lonely journey led him to condense his true intent at the final moment. He awakened the Emperor Extreme True Intent and broke through the scarlet pressure, though the chapter ended before revealing whether he could reach the summit in time.

• Ren Ye faced the Emperor Extreme Realm’s overwhelming Red Tide Pressure and spent twenty-two days in the Emperor’s Scenery Pavilion, unable to take a step toward the trial.
• Li Renwang and the Big Dipper passed the trial together, while announcements reported that several smaller Secret Routes withdrew or were eliminated.
• As the deadline approached, the Big Dipper speculated that Ren Ye had remained in the pavilion rather than attempting the scarlet path, and Ren Ye continued struggling to grasp the trial’s required state of mind.
• With fewer than four hours left, Ren Ye thought of Old Liu and imagined Great Emperor Jiuli’s lonely path, finally understanding the sorrow and burden behind the warning to bury those who journeyed beside him.
• Ren Ye condensed his true intent, declared that he would bear the Human World and leave no regrets, and pierced the scarlet pressure with the Emperor Extreme True Intent.

Ren Ye passed the Emperor Extreme Realm, established Intent Condensation, and received the Great Emperor's True Intent inheritance. As the successful groups reached the Ascension Platform, the Headless Man announced that only one person from each group route could advance, forcing the travelers to choose who would survive the contest.

• The Headless Man announced that the lone traveler on Number Nine Road had passed the Weight of Heaven trial, while the Little Marquis lay exhausted after surviving the Emperor Extreme Realm.
• The Headless Man revealed that Ren Ye had attained Intent Condensation at Third Grade, comprehended Emperor Ultimate True Intent, and received its inheritance, shocking the Blood Mark Bearers and provoking the Big Dipper to blame Young Master Zhu for their lost Blood Marks.
• Ren Ye reached the Ascension Platform with a sword of intent, received four hundred and sixty-four Blood Marks and the True Intent Power Secret Method, and learned that he and the Fate Bearer could enter the next trial after a twelve-hour wait.
• Little One fed the exhausted Ren Ye saved meat and wine while Ren Ye joked about using his disciple to help him reproduce the state of mind needed for the Secret Method.
• The Headless Man announced that, except for the lone travelers on Routes Three and Nine, only one person from each group route could ascend, provided they had ninety-nine Blood Marks, and gave them twelve hours to decide.
• Young Master Zhu realized that traveling with a group had not guaranteed advancement and protested that he would not have joined strong companions if he had known only one could proceed.

The seven people on Road Seven learned that only one of them could ascend, and their attempt to settle the matter turned into a six-against-one fight against Li Renwang. On the Human World Secret Path, Chu Jin explained why he needed to win the opportunity, and Bai Sheng gave him his Blood Marks and chose to leave.

• The Headless Man’s rule that only one person per road could ascend left the seven people of Road Seven facing a final contest, and Li Renwang proposed defending the platform against them one at a time.
• Han Ziyu and five others joined Li Renwang on the platform and agreed to challenge him together, while Young Master Zhu stayed below and decided not to risk his life.
• Li Renwang accused Young Master Zhu of betraying the Purple Mansion Successor, then attacked as Han Ziyu ordered the six to fight him.
• On the Human World Secret Path, Chu Jin told Zeng Shaojie, Luo Haichao, and Bai Sheng about the pressure from his sect and his resolve to win the Great Emperor’s opportunity for himself.
• Zeng Shaojie and Luo Haichao offered to withdraw and leave their Blood Marks to Chu Jin, while Bai Sheng reasoned that Chu Jin had deliberately traveled with them to secure enough Blood Marks.
• Bai Sheng gave Chu Jin his Blood Marks and declared that they would go their separate ways.

Ren Ye and Little One entered the Divine Land, only to find the Ominous Being Realm a desolate wasteland. They reunited with several other survivors at the Ominous Being Post Station, where Yin Jiu explained how his companions had helped him advance, and Chu Jin left Ren Ye an unexplained note.

• Chu Jin watched his friends depart through the Secret Realm gate, then remained alone on the Ascension Platform and mourned their separation.
• Ren Ye and Little One ascended from Route No. 3 and arrived in the bleak Ominous Being Realm, where they found the Ominous Being Post Station.
• Little Marquis, Chu Jin, Li Renwang, and Tan Yuan arrived at the post station; Li Renwang carried Han Ziyu’s severed head after killing him during a fight on Route No. 7.
• Yin Jiu arrived as the final survivor, told Ren Ye that his companions on Route No. 12 had chosen him by lot and given him their Blood Marks, and said he would refuse the Great Emperor Inheritance.
• Chu Jin asked the Shop Assistant to deliver a note to Ren Ye, who read it and frowned at its message.

Ren Ye learned the Ominous Being Realm’s history and set out along Number Three Route with Little One, scavenging relics as they traveled. At their first night’s camp, they found traces of a recent military expedition and a Tide Dragon Guards token that suggested Brother Long’s father had sent troops into the wasteland.

• The Headless Man explained that the Ominous Being Realm was a wasteland where the Great Emperor’s followers had perished, and tasked the seven Blood Mark Bearers with finding their Mirrors of the Ominous Being.
• Ren Ye realized the Demoness’s Infinite Goblet and Chu Jin’s pearl were the paired treasures from the Headless Man’s account, and reconsidered Chu Jin’s warning about the Demoness.
• Ren Ye left the relay station with Little One along Number Three Route, while the station and its workers faded away after bidding farewell to the human world.
• After eight days of travel, Ren Ye and Little One made camp and discovered a decayed travel pack, military horse remains, and abandoned supply wagons nearby.
• Ren Ye found a Tide Dragon Guards token dated to the twenty-sixth year of Tianbao and suspected Brother Long’s father had sent the troops into the wasteland, linking the expedition to the treasures and a larger conspiracy.

Ren Ye uncovered Yang Yong’s military records and deduced that Tide Dragon City’s old City Lord may have taken the Infinite Pearl, worsening the calamities in the wasteland. He and Little One reached the Ominous Being Mirror, where the Headless Man revealed that their final trial required them to fight two divine avatars.

• Ren Ye and Little One dug around the ruined carriage and found Centurion Yang Yong’s Records of Ominous Beings.
• Ren Ye learned that the old City Lord had led a secret expedition to Peak Seventy-Two, where world-shining divine light appeared, and that Yang Yong’s unit later vanished amid escalating ominous signs.
• Ren Ye deduced that the old City Lord may have taken the Infinite Pearl, disrupting the balance in the wasteland, and resolved to investigate Tide Dragon City if he escaped the Emperor’s Tomb.
• Ren Ye and Little One traveled southwest for nearly a month and reached the Ominous Being Mirror, a lake of dark water.
• The Headless Man announced that Ren Ye and Little One had reached the final trial and must defeat the divine avatars of the Divine Thought Thief and the Gu Daoist.
• Ren Ye panicked at having to fight two divine avatars, while Little One asked whether he could challenge one and Ren Ye kicked him.

Ren Ye entered the Ominous Being Mirror and was repeatedly killed by the Gu Daoist’s curses, Gu insects, and treasures, despite using his human destiny and every available trump card. After eighteen failed attempts, he tried to destroy the mirror to avoid facing the two Divine Avatars, and Headless Man called him a dumbass.

• Ren Ye meditated for two days, then entered Blackwater Lake to challenge the Divine Avatars while Little One waited outside.
• The Gu Daoist killed Ren Ye with a karmic curse that reversed his Reincarnation Aura and aged him to death, then struck him with a pebble.
• Ren Ye returned to the lake, realized the curse exploited the karmic cost of his Reincarnation Finger, and began his second challenge the next day.
• Ren Ye used his human destiny to resist the curse, but the Gu Daoist sacrificed his Divine Gu and unleashed the Myriad Gu Return-to-Origin Cauldron, killing Ren Ye with endless Gu insects and the curse’s backlash.
• Across repeated attempts, Ren Ye exhausted his Supreme Treasures and techniques but continued to die, including after his eighteenth challenge.
• Ren Ye bombarded the Ominous Being Mirror with Supreme Treasures in hopes of destroying it, and Headless Man descended and called him a dumbass.

Ren Ye upgraded the Human Emperor Seal to Fourth Grade and nearly turned the battle against the Gu Daoist around, but Jia Gu stole his divine sense and made his supreme treasures attack him. After dying and waiting ten days for his treasures to return, Ren Ye decided to wait for Li Yan and Qingning to bring him an opportunity to transform, while Master Huang secured funds to build Shangyu’s wonder.

• After eighteen failed challenges, Ren Ye used the talisman to upgrade the Human Emperor Seal to Fourth Grade and used its power to repel the Gu Daoist’s ominous attacks.
• Ren Ye deployed his supreme treasures, burned the Myriad Gu Return-to-Origin Cauldron, and used the Boundary-Space Stone to strike at the Gu Daoist with reincarnation power.
• Jia Gu stole Ren Ye’s divine sense and temporarily turned the Nine-Curve Azure Cloud Bamboo, Phoenix Fire Furnace, and Nine Peaks Divine Swords against him, causing Ren Ye to die.
• Ten days later, Ren Ye’s supreme treasures returned, and he scolded and punished them before deciding to wait for Li Yan and Qingning to bring him a chance to transform.
• Master Huang persuaded wealthy merchants to lend him fifty million star source for Shangyu’s wonder, then ordered the workers to triple their wages and labor through the night.

After waiting in the Ominous Being Mirror for four years and five months, Ren Ye learned that Qingliang Prefecture had completed three Wonders to gather Human Destiny and help him advance. As the people’s wishes surged toward him, his long-awaited opening arrived, though he still faced the Divine Avatar at Blackwater Lake.

• Ren Ye waited with Little One, trained and mastered his abilities, and relied on friends in Qingliang Prefecture to complete the three Wonders.
• Li Renwang failed to defeat the Divine Sense Thief after ninety-nine challenges, left a blessing for the remaining travelers, and departed after receiving the Great Emperor’s Opportunity.
• Ren Ye learned that Tanyuan had also abandoned the final stage after forty-nine challenges against the Gu Daoist, and that only five Blood Mark Bearers remained.
• Master Huang led the people of Qingliang Prefecture in dedicating the three completed Wonders to Ren Ye, while the Chief Artisan Official set the final Dragon Nail.
• The people’s will gathered Human Destiny and sent purple qi surging toward the Wonders, and Ren Ye felt his opening arrive beside Blackwater Lake.

Ren Ye completed the three world wonders, advanced to Fourth Grade, and created a Divine Avatar. After Yin Jiu left him a message urging him to defend their era, Ren Ye defeated the Gu Daoist and Jia Gu with one sword strike and earned entry to the Emperor’s Tomb Inner Manor.

• The people’s united will drew purple fortune as Ren Ye completed the three wonders and advanced to Fourth Grade, Seventh Tier, gaining the Purple Cloud-Divine Avatar and learning the requirements for Fifth Grade.
• Ren Ye completed his advancement and summoned his Divine Avatar, then learned that the Gu Daoist and Jia Gu had also advanced to Fourth Grade.
• Yin Jiu spent four years and seven months challenging the Gu Daoist, lost his final duel, and left Ren Ye a message urging him to preserve their era’s dignity.
• Inspired by Yin Jiu’s words, Ren Ye declared that he could still fight and entered the lake to challenge the Gu Daoist and Jia Gu.
• Ren Ye unleashed Emperor Dao True Intent and a sword strike that destroyed both Divine Avatars and leveled the eastern and western mountains.
• The Headless Man announced that Ren Ye could enter the Emperor’s Tomb Inner Manor, and Ren Ye reinterpreted the Warning the World Stele as a tribute to those who journeyed alongside him.

Ren Ye recovered from defeating the paired Divine Avatars, then entered the Emperor’s Manor with Little One to claim their unique inheritances. He obtained the Emperor Body Pill, but its warning that anyone without an emperor body would die by touching it left him unsure whether he could safely use it.

• The Heavenly Dao announced that Ren Ye, the Little Marquis, and Chu Jin had each passed an Ominous Being Mirror trial and could enter the Emperor’s Manor.
• Ren Ye speculated that the Little Marquis and Chu Jin had held back during earlier attempts, then recovered beside Blackwater Lake.
• Ren Ye summoned the Headless Man, who transported him and Little One from the Ominous Being Mirror into the Emperor’s Manor Thatched Hall.
• The Headless Man directed Ren Ye to the Emperor’s inheritance and Little One to the inheritance intended for Fate.
• Ren Ye opened the Emperor Character brocade box and discovered the Emperor Body Pill, which the Heavenly Dao warned would kill anyone without an emperor body who touched it.
• Ren Ye questioned how he could obtain an emperor body from a pill that seemed certain to kill him before he could use it.

Ren Ye received the Limitless Cold Garment and learned that the Emperor's Tomb's final trial would take place in the Return-to-Dust Daoist Grounds, where he had to escort the bearer of Fate and face threats from powerful cultivators. As the Unranked Land opened in three days, sect leaders and other elders prepared to enter, and Ren Ye realized the Fifteen Sects might come after him.

• Ren Ye reasoned that the Emperor Body Pill was an incomplete inheritance meant to complement his eventual reward, then led Little One to summon their inheritances.
• The Great Emperor sent the Limitless Cold Garment to Little One, but Ren Ye took it to study, prompting Little One to protest and fight Divine Baby.
• The Headless Man announced that the final trial and the opening of the Unranked Land would come in three days, stirring the elders of the Immortal Wave Five Cities to action.
• The Old Marquis vowed to clear a path for the Little Marquis if he proved to be the chosen one, while Yin Jiu and his master discussed the old man's lifespan and the coming trial.
• Chu Jin resolved to make the coming trial his own moment, even if he had to burn away his last drop of blood.
• Ren Ye learned that only one Blood Mark Bearer could enter the Return-to-Dust Daoist Grounds and feared that high-grade cultivators from the Fifteen Sects would pursue him.

Senior Jiang Yu listened as Innkeeper Hong explained how the Xu Family had trapped him in lifelong debt and exploited his daughter, then watched Hong show mercy to a young beggar. The chapter left Jiang Yu speaking with Li Gou'er, who said that kind people deserved misfortune in a world belonging to bad people.

• Senior Jiang Yu read the tale of Nation Lord Cao Rui while Innkeeper Hong waited on the Xu Family's drunken young nobles and handed Xu Deliang one hundred and twenty thousand Star Source.
• Senior Jiang Yu asked why Innkeeper Hong paid for customers' food, and Hong told him how the Xu Family had used his son's death and his daughter's forced servitude to keep him in debt.
• Innkeeper Hong went to attend to the private room, then ordered his attendants to feed Li Gou'er after they caught the beggar stealing from the kitchen.
• Senior Jiang Yu added his meat to Li Gou'er's meal and asked why he stole only from the Human World Inn.
• Li Gou'er said he returned because Fatty Hong was the only one who would not beat him to death, and claimed kind people deserved bad luck in Nine Li.

Li Gou'er attempted to assassinate Xu Deliang over his father’s murder, but Xu Deliang killed him publicly, prompting Jiang Yu to summon the blood gathered at the scene. Two days later, the Emperor’s Tomb’s final trial began, where the Little Marquis challenged Ren Ye to fight.

• Jiang Yu questioned Li Gou'er about his life, and Li Gou'er explained that hard work could not overcome the injustice of being born poor.
• Li Gou'er stabbed Xu Deliang outside the Human World Inn, but a Xu family guard struck him down before he could kill him.
• Xu Deliang revealed his part in Li Han’s murder, then crushed Li Gou'er's skull with a stone statue and had his corpse dragged through the city.
• Jiang Yu found three newly stolen books beneath Li Gou'er's straw mat and summoned the blood from the place where he had died.
• Two days later, the Emperor’s Tomb’s final trial opened, and the Little Marquis challenged Ren Ye to enter the arena and fight.

Ren Ye and the Little Marquis faced one another in the Return-to-Dust Arena, but agreed to settle their rivalry with their strongest intents rather than follow the arena’s rules. After Ren Ye spent twenty-eight days nurturing his intent, he unleashed a sword strike that overwhelmed the Little Marquis’s God-Slaying Spear, and the Little Marquis revealed why he had sought this contest.

• The Headless Man announced the arena’s rules, including the inheritance prizes and the three contestants’ right to choose their first opponents.
• The Little Marquis asked Ren Ye about his intent and proposed that Ren Ye strike once with his strongest intent, promising to concede if the blow forced him from the arena.
• Ren Ye meditated for twenty-eight days while the Little Marquis waited, and then declared that his intent had arrived.
• The Little Marquis summoned the Nine Skies God-Slaying Spear at full power as Ren Ye gathered his Return Intent into a sword strike.
• Ren Ye’s sword radiance dispersed the baleful aura and drove the God-Slaying Spear down, making the Little Marquis cough blood.
• The Little Marquis explained that he regretted giving up on the Emperor Extreme Realm and said he had restrained himself afterward to condense his own intent.

Ren Ye and the Little Marquis unleashed their strongest Intent Condensation Divine Methods, and the Little Marquis’s undying intent let him withstand the sword until Ren Ye’s final strike knocked him out of the arena. Ren Ye won under their agreed rules, while Chu Jin prepared to face him next in a battle he said would decide who lived and who died.

• The Little Marquis awakened the Nine Skies God-Slaying Spear through his undying and unyielding intent, then met Ren Ye’s Emperor Extreme sword radiance head-on.
• The Little Marquis repeatedly renewed his strength by entering the Immortality Extreme Realm, while Ren Ye pressed his sword attack to its limit.
• Ren Ye used Imperial Dao Return to Ruins to knock the Little Marquis outside the arena, then dispersed his sword intent before it could kill him.
• The Little Marquis accepted his defeat and gave up his opportunity to enter the Return-to-Dust Daoist Grounds, while the Old Marquis took comfort in his son’s growth.
• Ren Ye gave the injured Little Marquis water of life, then Chu Jin said he would wait for Ren Ye to recover and declared their coming fight would decide who lived and who died.

Chu Jin confronted Ren Ye in the Emperor’s Tomb, declaring that only one of them could leave alive and unleashing the full force of his cultivation. After revealing his Human Yang Body and eight rays of immortal radiance, Chu Jin swallowed the Heaven-reaching Fruit to break beyond his grade’s limits.

• Ren Ye recovered from the Spirit-Restoring Pill and challenged Chu Jin to the final showdown after six hours.
• Ren Ye offered to spare Chu Jin and sever the fate imposed on him, but Chu Jin said their ties had ended and insisted that one of them must die.
• Chu Jin recalled the sacrifices and schemes he had made to reach the Emperor’s Tomb, then resolved to kill Ren Ye and claim the Great Emperor’s inheritance.
• Chu Jin summoned the Nine Li Prime Minister’s Bell and manifested eight rays of immortal radiance, revealing his Human Yang Body.
• Chu Jin declared that he would open a ninth meridian as a fourth-grade cultivator and swallowed the entire Heaven-reaching Fruit despite its warning.

Chu Jin swallowed the Heaven-reaching Fruit, reached peak Fifth Grade by opening all nine meridians of immortal radiance, and challenged Ren Ye in the Return-to-Dust Arena. As Chu Jin’s Supreme Treasures and painful memories drove him to unleash his strongest strike, Ren Ye’s treasures failed to stop the descending radiance, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Chu Jin swallowed the Heaven-reaching Fruit, greatly increased his divine soul power, and broke through to peak Fifth Grade with nine meridians of immortal radiance open.
• Ren Ye accepted Chu Jin’s challenge and attacked with the Human Emperor Sword, but Chu Jin used the Infinite Pearl to empower his immortal radiance and halt Ren Ye’s advance.
• Chu Jin’s Prime Minister’s Bell subdued Ren Ye’s fighting spirit while stirring memories of his childhood abuse, the sect’s harsh treatment, and his suspicion that Wuchen had nurtured him as a future sacrifice.
• Driven by a desire for freedom, Chu Jin burned his Human Yang and unleashed a World-Destroying Strike with all nine streams of immortal radiance.
• Ren Ye summoned his Supreme Treasures and resisted, but one stream of Chu Jin’s radiance bent the Nine-Curve Azure Cloud Bamboo’s phantom and left observers fearing Ren Ye’s defeat.