Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen revealed that he had reached Quasi-Emperor strength nine months earlier and prepared to leave the Intermediate Hunting Battlefield for the Advanced Hunting Grounds. He challenged the War God Pagoda’s ninth floor, failed to defeat its guardian, the Black-Robed Evil King, but managed to unleash Solar Essence Incineration for the first time.

• Ye Chen confirmed to Xu Xiao and the others that he had attained Quasi-Emperor strength and said the Hunting Battlefield rules would bar him from returning to the Intermediate Hunting Battlefield.
• Ye Chen told Hou Lei that A'Jiu had agreed to join Frost Squad after Ye Chen left.
• The two escaped Yaksha Kings complained about Ye Chen’s strength and hoped he would die in the Advanced Hunting Grounds.
• Ye Chen cleared the eighth floor of the War God Pagoda with Heavenly Thunder, Earthly Fire, then confronted the Black-Robed Evil King on the ninth floor.
• The Black-Robed Evil King countered Ye Chen’s attacks and nearly killed him, but Ye Chen used Solar Essence Incineration to break through the guardian’s sky-covering hand and wound him.
• The Black-Robed Evil King struck Ye Chen with Three Myriad Shocks, ending the challenge; Ye Chen left the pagoda reflecting on the attack and his newly unleashed Solar Essence Incineration.

Ye Chen became a senior member after reaching the ninth floor of both pagodas, then spent time waiting for a senior hunting team while drawing Liu Mei’s interest and politely leaving her. At the Thunderbolt Ball Arena, he accepted the White Tiger King’s challenge and prepared to serve.

• Ye Chen reached the ninth floors of the War God Pagoda and Survival Pagoda, earning enough God Coins to bring his total to one hundred eighty thousand.
• Ye Chen considered saving for a Low-Tier Heavenly King Set but continued to prioritize cultivation, and he waited for a senior team to invite him on a hunt.
• Liu Mei approached Ye Chen over Lava Wine and realized he had become a senior member, but Ye Chen left to avoid encouraging her interest.
• The White Tiger King defeated the Void-Rending King’s Thunderbolt Cutting move, and the Void-Rending King noticed Ye Chen’s dark cyan senior badge.
• The White Tiger King challenged Ye Chen and offered to suppress his cultivation, but Ye Chen refused and took the Thunderbolt Ball to serve first.

Ye Chen defeated White Tiger King in a Thunderbolt Ball match by combining precise technique with layered force, then faced Myriad Arrows King. Their intense match continued as Myriad Arrows King unleashed his Archery Path—Ever-Changing, leaving Ye Chen to confront a ball whose real trajectory even its creator could not immediately identify.

• White Tiger King increased his power and used his White Tiger Killing Ball, but Ye Chen shattered its tiger phantom and sent the ball back with a two-shock strike, winning the match.
• Myriad Arrows King entered the court and welcomed Ye Chen to the Garden of the Gods before asking him to fight at full strength.
• Myriad Arrows King served an Archery Collision Ball that split into four, but Ye Chen struck the real ball and returned a Giant Spin Ball.
• Myriad Arrows King pierced the Giant Spin Ball's outer wall and returned it, prompting Ye Chen to unleash a stronger version of Huang Hengfei's Flickering Meteor Ball.
• Myriad Arrows King countered with Archery Path—Ever-Changing, filling the court with shifting ball shadows and challenging Ye Chen to block the attack.

Ye Chen defeated Myriad Arrows King’s Myriad Transformations Ball and joined the Demon Hunt Team. The team entered the Hunting Star, where they encountered an elite-grade Divine Insect and began their first hunt.

• Ye Chen identified and returned Myriad Arrows King’s Thunderbolt Ball, then overwhelmed him with Raging Storm.
• Myriad Arrows King invited Ye Chen to join the Demon Hunt Team, and Ye Chen accepted despite the squad having no War Emperor.
• Ye Chen met the team’s other members, including Lu Wenjie, who resembled Lu Wenxiu.
• The five advanced squads entered the Hunting Star, where powerful gravity and restricted Soul Force limited their movement and range.
• The Demon Hunt Team encountered an elite-grade Divine Insect, and Myriad Arrows King struck it with a silver arrow that spread frost across its body.

The Demon Hunt Team killed several Divine Insects on Hunting Star and survived an encounter with a commander-class insect. When the Evil Child King’s squad approached, Ye Chen chose to face him, and the two sides met for battle.

• The Demon Hunt Team combined their attacks to kill an elite sandworm, and the Myriad Arrows King explained the strength and territorial nature of commander-class Divine Insects.
• Over three days, the team killed ten ordinary and four elite Divine Insects, then narrowly escaped a commander-class mantis after it nearly killed Yuan Hong.
• Liu Di detected the approaching Evil Light Squad, and Ye Chen persuaded the team to fight by saying he had confidence against the Evil Child King.
• The Myriad Arrows King agreed to battle the Evil Child King, who arrived with six Evil Kings and identified Ye Chen as the Demon Hunt Team’s main reliance.
• Ye Chen stepped forward and declared that he would be the Evil Child King’s opponent.

Ye Chen fought Evil Child King while the Demon Hunt Team battled the Evil Light Squad, and both sides revealed the strength they had gained. After the Evil Light Squad began to flee, Ye Chen and Evil Child King prepared to settle their fight with one final move.

• Evil Child King sent Six-Fingered Evil King to fight Myriad Arrows King as the two teams engaged, while he faced Ye Chen himself.
• Evil Child King’s Evil Spirit Bewitching Art briefly disrupted Ye Chen, but Ye Chen resisted and struck back with a soul attack before launching White Dragon Obliteration.
• Evil Child King deflected Ye Chen’s sword attack and unleashed the Azure Heaven Palm Seal, meeting Ye Chen’s Space Stasis head-on.
• Myriad Arrows King killed Six-Fingered Evil King with Spirit-Detonating Arrows, and Lu Wenjie defeated another member of the Evil Light Squad.
• The remaining members of the Evil Light Squad fled, and Evil Child King told Ye Chen he would finish the fight with his next move.
• Ye Chen agreed to decide the battle in one move and gathered the sunlight of the Advanced Hunting Grounds onto the Dragon Spring Sword.

Ye Chen's Demon Hunt Team escaped Evil Child King after Ye Chen wounded him with Solar Essence Incineration, then continued earning God Coins in the Advanced Hunting Grounds. When War Emperor Moller and the Blood Hammer Squad pursued them, Ye Chen turned back to hold Moller off so his companions could escape.

• Ye Chen's Solar Essence Incineration cut through Evil Child King's Emperor Seal and wounded him, forcing Evil Child King to retreat.
• The Demon Hunt Team's earnings rose to 429,000 God Coins, and Myriad Arrows King later gathered enough to reach 300,000 for a Low-Tier Heavenly King Set.
• Myriad Arrows King recognized the approaching Blood Hammer Squad and led the team in flight from its captain, the War Emperor Moller.
• Moller rapidly closed in on Zhang Yinyin, while Myriad Arrows King used Spirit-Detonating Arrows to slow him temporarily.
• Ye Chen turned back to face Moller and told his companions to flee beyond a thousand li, but Moller's warhammer shattered Ye Chen's White Dragon sword qi.

Ye Chen fought off Moller, a War Emperor, long enough to escape and later shared the Demon Hunt Team’s large haul of God Coins. After leaving the Hunting Pagoda, Ye Chen and Myriad Arrows King exchanged their savings for Low-Tier Heavenly King Sets, and Ye Chen chose the Silver Set.

• Ye Chen endured Moller’s attacks with Fleeting Sword Domain and Solar Essence Incineration, then escaped the surrounding Blood Hammer Squad by using Shadow Clones.
• Moller stopped pursuing Ye Chen after the gap widened, while Ye Chen contacted Myriad Arrows King and the others through their badge imprints.
• On the Demon Hunt Team’s final day, they hunted four advanced Divine Insects and one elite Divine Insect, bringing their total earnings to 528,000 God Coins.
• Seven days later, the team left the Hunting Pagoda, and Myriad Arrows King and Ye Chen went to the Exchange Tower to buy Heavenly King Sets.
• Myriad Arrows King equipped a green set, and Ye Chen selected the silver-white Silver Set.

Ye Chen merged the Silver Set into his body, cleared the ninth floor of the War God Pagoda, and survived encounters with several War Emperors during a hunt. He perfected Solar Essence Incineration in the Martial Arts Pagoda.

• Ye Chen completed the seven-month fusion of the Silver Set, greatly increasing its defense and energy and gaining the Silver Guard skill.
• Ye Chen used the Silver Set to defeat the Gray-Robed Evil King on the War God Pagoda's ninth floor, but the Devil Race Sword King killed him with one strike on the tenth floor.
• Ye Chen earned thirty thousand God Coins for clearing the ninth floor, then failed to advance beyond the ninth floor of the Survival Pagoda.
• During the Demon Hunt Team's second hunt, Ye Chen fled after fighting Blade Demon King and King Duling, and fought King Zack without either of them gaining an advantage.
• Ye Chen trained on the Martial Arts Pagoda's fourth floor and perfected Solar Essence Incineration by destroying one of the suns in his cultivation environment.

After improving his martial arts and survival records, Ye Chen joined Liu Di and the Demon Hunt Team on a trip to the Black Tortoise Starfield. He enlisted as an auxiliary lower-rank soldier on Golden Armor Star and prepared to choose a military camp.

• Ye Chen exchanged nine moves with the Devil Race Sword King on the War God Pagoda's tenth floor before being defeated, then passed the Survival Pagoda's ninth floor.
• Liu Di explained the army's rank system and invited Ye Chen to join the team traveling to the Black Tortoise Starfield.
• The seven members of the Demon Hunt Team traveled to Golden Armor Star, where Myriad Arrows King held the rank of Minor General and the others shared their military ranks.
• At Armored Soldier City, Ye Chen chose auxiliary service, registered, and received a lower-rank soldier badge.

Ye Chen and the Demon Hunt Team visited Cloud Arrive Barracks, where they met Snow Void Empress, a general and former Garden of the Gods member. Snow Void Empress invited them to join her planned campaign to the Black Tortoise Ruins in three months.

• Myriad Arrows King explained Cloud Arrive Barracks and its profitable commercial district as he guided Ye Chen and the others through the barracks.
• Yuan Hong suggested going into battle, but Myriad Arrows King said they would wait a few days.
• Snow Void Empress personally welcomed the Garden of the Gods members at the Sun and Moon Tavern and learned that Ye Chen was the strongest Quasi-Emperor.
• Snow Void Empress invited the group to join her in leading fifty thousand soldiers to the Black Tortoise Ruins in three months, and Myriad Arrows King accepted.
• Zhang Yinyin, Sima Fei, and Liu Di discussed the authority generals needed to deploy troops, while Ye Chen learned more about military rules.

Myriad Arrows King led a five-hundred-person unit from Heaven’s Eye Star into the Black Tortoise Ruins, where Ye Chen detected an approaching Devil Race force. The two teams closed in on each other, and both prepared to fight.

• Myriad Arrows King assembled five hundred soldiers and brought them through a teleportation array to Heaven’s Eye Star.
• The unit boarded Myriad Arrows King’s emerald-green warship and traveled toward the Black Tortoise Ruins while discussing military ranks and contribution points.
• After three days, Myriad Arrows King led the team into the ruins and ordered the soldiers to take turns using Soul Force to scout.
• Ye Chen spotted a Devil Race team of more than four hundred people approaching, and Myriad Arrows King ordered his unit to move out.
• The Devil Race Minor General discovered the human team and charged with his soldiers as both forces drew within sight of one another.

Ye Chen and his companions ambushed and destroyed a Devil Race squad, with Ye Chen killing sixty-six enemies and collecting their military marks. As the humans celebrated and divided the spoils, a five-thousand-strong army led by Moller advanced through the ruins.

• Ye Chen realized that military badges absorbed marks from enemies their owners killed, then he and his allies attacked a Devil Race squad and immobilized dozens of its members.
• Ye Chen, Myriad Arrows King, Yuan Hong, Liu Di, Sima Fei, Zhang Yinyin, and Lu Wenjie slaughtered the Devil Race fighters, leaving only five survivors to escape.
• Myriad Arrows King ordered the survivors to divide the battlefield's valuables, while Ye Chen collected sixty-six Storage Spirit Rings and learned that his kills raised his rank to upper-rank soldier.
• Liu Di and Sima Fei praised the group's victory, and Myriad Arrows King credited Ye Chen's perception for helping them find the enemy squad.
• Moller led a massive army of five thousand through the distant ruins.

Moller led the Yaksha Clan into a battle against a human force, then killed the human commander and threw the battlefield into chaos. A seven-man spearhead from a surprise force entered the fight as the chapter ended.

• Moller learned of a thousand human soldiers and sent seven hundred Yaksha Clan soldiers to engage them while his forces moved to encircle the battlefield.
• The elderly man in purple led the human vanguard against the Yaksha force as troops closed in from all sides.
• Moller’s four thousand three hundred Yaksha soldiers surrounded the vanguard, but four thousand human reinforcements arrived and both armies became locked in a five-thousand-against-five-thousand battle.
• Moller killed the silver-robed human commander with his Blood Thunder Hammer, devastating the human soldiers’ morale.
• A surprise force led by a seven-man spearhead charged into the battlefield, cutting through the Yaksha Clan soldiers in its path.

Ye Chen fought Moller on the battlefield and used Solar Essence Incineration to overcome the Yaksha commander’s Heavenly King Set. After killing Moller, Ye Chen earned a commander imprint, while the battle continued.

• Ye Chen cut down Yaksha soldiers as Moller charged toward him and attacked with his blood-red warhammer.
• Ye Chen fought Moller with Fleeting Brilliance, then wounded him with the Dragon Spring Sword but failed to break his Copper Demon Set.
• Moller joined forces with more than a dozen Yaksha Kings to attack Ye Chen, who killed the Yaksha Kings and severely wounded Moller with Solar Essence Incineration.
• Moller fled north, but Ye Chen struck his soul and finished him with a second Solar Essence Incineration.
• Moller's death sent a commander imprint into Ye Chen's lower soldier badge.

Ye Chen killed Moller and helped the human forces defeat the Yaksha Clan, then spent a month and a half hunting enemy forces and amassed a fortune. After returning to Golden Armor Star, the group entered Armored Soldier City, where the hall evaluated battle records, most of them as low-tier.

• Ye Chen collected Moller's equipment and wealth after killing him, and the Yaksha Clan soldiers fled as the human forces routed them.
• Myriad Arrows King persuaded Commander Liu and the other Major Generals to combine their forces and continue hunting the enemy.
• Over the next month and a half, the combined force destroyed fifteen enemy forces, while Ye Chen avoided engaging a force of five thousand to limit human casualties.
• The force left the Black Tortoise Ruins, and Ye Chen counted more than five million yuan stones' worth of gains and a kill record of 1,550 enemies.
• After returning to Golden Armor Star, the group went to Armored Soldier City, where the northern hall announced battle-record evaluations, mostly low-tier.

Ye Chen’s team received exceptional combat records, and several members were promoted, including Ye Chen to Major General. At the Arcane Arts Tower, Ye Chen found the Hidden Dragon Art on the fourth floor and became interested in its ability to awaken hidden potential.

• The Myriad Arrows King and several members of Ye Chen’s team earned promotions after their individual combat records were assessed.
• Ye Chen’s record showed 1,550 kills and earned him a Major General badge with 1,687,000 military contribution points.
• The team received an exceptional rating after losing 24 people while killing 4,830 enemies.
• Zhang Yinyin suggested that the group visit the Arcane Arts Tower, where they browsed the higher floors.
• Ye Chen went to the fourth floor and found the Hidden Dragon Art, which required 1,500,000 military contribution points and awakened hidden potential.

Ye Chen exchanged military contribution points for the Hidden Dragon Art and cultivated its first three stances in his courtyard. After learning to awaken his potential and combining the first two stances’ spiritual essences, he reached minor mastery before the army’s expedition to the Black Tortoise Ruins.

• Ye Chen bought the Hidden Dragon Art for 1.5 million military contribution points and moved into an empty Major General’s courtyard at Cloud Arrive Barracks.
• Ye Chen studied Golden Rooster Seeks the Dao for three days, grasped its spiritual essence, and began awakening his body’s hidden potential.
• Ye Chen spent several days discovering that the key to Parting the Clouds and Mist was the word “open,” then cultivated the stance’s pale azure essence.
• Ye Chen began learning Sudden Turn Back on the fifteenth day and realized it combined the spiritual essences of the first two stances.
• Ye Chen fused those essences after another week, achieving minor mastery of the Hidden Dragon Art.

Ye Chen entered the Selfless State before Snow Void Empress led fifty thousand troops into the Black Tortoise Ruins, where they hunted enemy forces. The army investigated immense spatial fluctuations and discovered a vast, sacred complex of divine halls emerging from a black hole.

• Ye Chen broke through to the Selfless State, found that he could not use Three Flowers Borrowing Passage while in it, and continued preparing for battle.
• Snow Void Empress assembled fifty thousand troops and led them from Golden Armor Star to Heaven's Eye Star, where Iron Fist Emperor told her a Devil Race army had entered the Black Tortoise Ruins.
• Snow Void Empress organized the troops into a net-casting formation that destroyed thirty thousand enemies in one week, while Ye Chen fought among the Major Generals.
• Snow Void Empress gathered the army to investigate enormous spatial fluctuations, and after three days of travel they found a gigantic complex of divine halls beneath a black hole.

Ye Chen entered a divine miracle, survived its deadly stone guardians, and found the Snow Void Empress and his companions on a safe plaza. As the others chose to wait there, Ye Chen prepared to venture onward alone.

• The Black Profound King and Myriad Arrows King identified the divine halls as a divine miracle, and the Snow Void Empress urged everyone to prepare.
• Crowds rushed the gates, where two giant stone snakes killed many people before the assembled forces destroyed them and entered.
• Separated from the others inside the hall, Ye Chen killed attacking Alien Race members and defeated a soul-devouring rabbit statue, then proceeded through a door.
• Ye Chen reached a plaza surrounded by dangerous stone statues and reunited with the Myriad Arrows King, Zhang Yinyin, and the Snow Void Empress's group.
• The Myriad Arrows King and the others chose to remain on the safe plaza, while Ye Chen decided to continue onward.