Chapter Summaries

After Ning Yi and Situ Kong were killed in a concealed attack, Yun Che blamed the Eternal Evergreen Stele for failing to enforce its rules and damaged it in a furious attempt to force the hidden powers to reveal themselves. The stele split open, releasing Abyss figures led by a man in a Tom Cat Mask, whose familiar appearance made Yun Che wonder if he had come from Earth.

• The God Ancestors could not explain the spatial rift that had allowed the attack, and Divine Martial admitted it could no longer fully control the damaged world.
• Yun Che resolved to confront those manipulating events after Ning Yi and Situ Kong died, while Yuezheng Xiangling and the Azure Luan God Kingdom disciples demanded action.
• Yun Che charged his Crystal Pressure Cooker with Divine Word Power and hurled it at the Eternal Evergreen Stele, cracking it and dimming its protective light.
• When Yun Che tried to strike the damaged stele, its defensive power blasted him back, then the monument split and revealed a dark purple doorway.
• Tianzhi God Ancestor realized the Abyss had secretly planted an opening in the stele, and a man in a Tom Cat Mask emerged with several strange companions amid spreading Abyss Miasma.
• Yun Che recognized the familiar mask and wondered whether the man had come from Earth.

Yun Che confronted the trench-coated man who tried to stop him from destroying the Eternal Evergreen Stele. Their battle devastated the Arena, and the chapter ended with both fighters preparing to unleash more of their strength.

• Yun Che removed the Tom Cat mask but could not see the trench-coated man's face, then ordered his companions to fight the man's allies.
• Yun Che used Nirvana Finger Flick to incapacitate the trench-coated man and moved to destroy the damaged Eternal Evergreen Stele.
• The trench-coated man attacked Yun Che from behind, but Yun Che blocked his strikes and launched a punch at the stele.
• The trench-coated man intercepted Yun Che, and their fists collided with enough force to damage the venue and injure nearby fighters.
• Tianzhi God Ancestor realized the trench-coated man was stalling until the Eternal Evergreen Stele repaired itself.
• Yun Che suddenly released a much greater aura, and the trench-coated man welcomed the chance to test his full strength.

Yun Che fought the trench-coated Abyssal powerhouse while his allies battled the other Abyssal fighters, and he used the Release secret to remove their undying curse. Qin Yiqing stopped Yun Che from destroying the Eternal Evergreen Stele, the three Origin Extreme Dao Treasures gathered, and the God Ancestors descended, eager to claim host bodies.

• Yun Che and the trench-coated man exchanged a fierce series of blows, while the God Ancestors watched and worried about their strength.
• Yuezheng Xiangling, Ye Qingshuang, Qin Yelan, Feng Chu, Zu Tangtang, and Cao Taichun defeated the other Abyssal Powerhouses, who soon regenerated because of an undying curse.
• Yun Che secretly used the Release secret to remove the curse, allowing Zu Tangtang and the others to defeat the Abyssal fighters for good.
• Yun Che prepared to destroy the Eternal Evergreen Stele, but Qin Yiqing appeared and urged him to preserve it so the God Ancestors could return to the Divine Martial World.
• The Investiture of the Gods List, Creation God Seal, and True Seven Sins Masks gathered, opening a passage through which the God Ancestors appeared.
• Tianyuan God Ancestor announced that the ancient rules had been broken, and Tianrang God Ancestor urged the others to seize host bodies with the Soul-Binding Divine Word Art.

Qin Yiqing used the Three Supreme Treasures to trap the God Ancestors and turn their attempt to possess their descendants into a chance to claim their accumulated Ancestor Realm insights. Yun Che joined her in devouring the trapped souls, and the chapter ended with the remaining God Ancestors still contained in the Arena.

• Qin Yiqing explained that the God Ancestors planned to awaken through their descendants' bloodlines and take over their bodies.
• Qin Yiqing used the Three Supreme Treasures to trap the God Ancestors and dissolve their soul bodies with the Creation God Seal.
• Qin Yiqing declared that she and Yun Che would claim the God Ancestors' accumulated Ancestor Realm insights instead of letting them possess their descendants.
• The God Ancestors burned their soul flames to break open the net, but Qin Yiqing sealed their awakening and stopped Tianzhi God Ancestor from seizing her body.
• Qin Yiqing crushed Tianzhi God Ancestor into Ancestor Realm Soul Energy and absorbed it into the Creation God Seal.
• Yun Che bound two God Ancestors with the Investiture of the Gods List and devoured their souls with the Heaven-Swallowing Hand.

Yun Che, Yun Jin, and their companion absorbed the fleeing God Ancestors’ souls, then prepared to confront the trench-coated man. Ji Boda revealed himself as Venerable Jingchen, reclaimed the gathered wish power and postwar merit, and awakened as an apparently omnipotent being, but Yun Che interrupted his attack with a painful blow.

• Yun Jin used the True Seven Sins Masks to absorb Tianrang God Ancestor, who cursed the descendants and warned that other races’ God Ancestors would accept becoming host bodies.
• Yun Che and his companions used their Ultimate Treasures to harvest the remaining God Ancestor souls, while the trench-coated man watched approvingly.
• Yun Che confronted the trench-coated man, who summoned Venerable Jingchen; Yun Che recognized him as Ji Boda, the Void Post Station’s Chief Station Master.
• Ji Boda explained that the Ji Boda Yun Che had met was his clone, then tried to reclaim the all beings’ wish power and postwar merit; Yun Che used the Divine Word Art to sever his connection to Yun Che’s share.
• Ji Boda transformed with seven-colored wings and a Divine Word Crown, declaring himself omnipotent and ordering Yun Che to disappear.
• Yun Che made Ji Boda cry out in pain, disrupting his attack; Ji Boda angrily began another attempt to erase Yun Che.

Yun Che, Qin Yiqing, and Yun Jin fought Ji Boda with their supreme treasures, but his Divine Word Power overwhelmed them. Yun Che seized an opening created by their attacks to use Divine Void Finger on Ji Boda’s Divine Word Crown, destabilizing his power.

• Yun Che used Grip of Truth to destroy Ji Boda’s opening attack, while Qin Yiqing used the Creation God Seal to block the Divine Word Crown’s assault and was injured.
• Yun Che’s Heaven-Swallowing Hand and Yun Jin’s Seven Sins Divine Light both failed to break Ji Boda’s defenses, and Ji Boda counterattacked Yun Jin.
• Yun Che saved Yun Jin by devouring a beam of Divine Word Power, then summoned the Investiture of the Gods List as Ji Boda formed a massive Divine Word Sword.
• Qin Yiqing locked the Divine Word Sword in place with the Creation God Seal, while Yun Jin’s seven divine-light swords pierced breaches in Ji Boda’s shield and forced him to divert his power.
• Yun Che used the Investiture of the Gods List to bind Ji Boda’s Divine Word Crown, then struck it with Divine Void Finger, throwing Ji Boda’s Divine Word Power into disarray.

Yun Che and his companions defeated Ji Boda, exposed him as a pseudo-ancestor, and Yun Che devoured his accumulated Divine Word origin energy without reaching the Ancestor Realm. When Yun Che moved to settle his score with the man in the trench coat, a middle-aged man blocked him, and the trench-coated man warned that the true master of the Eternal Evergreen Stele was coming.

• Qin Yiqing and Yun Jin helped Yun Che disrupt Ji Boda's wings and suppress his Divine Word Power, allowing Yun Che to crush the Divine Word Crown.
• The man in the trench coat revealed that Ji Boda was only a pseudo-ancestor, and Ji Boda tried to destroy everyone by burning his origin energy.
• Yun Che used the Investiture of the Gods List to imprison Ji Boda and devoured his Divine Word origin energy, but still did not reach the Ancestor Realm.
• Yun Che turned on the man in the trench coat, but a middle-aged man blocked his punch with one finger.
• The man in the trench coat entered a purplish-red portal after warning Yun Che that the true stele master was coming.

After defeating Ji Boda and driving Windbreaker Man and Middle-aged Man through the portal, Yun Che met the master of the Eternal Evergreen Stele, who explained that he had gathered Origin Power to repair a world-threatening rift. Yun Che accepted a Dao Rule Jade Token to help reach the Ancestor Realm and was asked to hold off the descending demon God Ancestors while the stele master continued repairing the rift; Yuezheng Xiangling then questioned whether the man's explanation was true.

• Yun Che struck Windbreaker Man and Middle-aged Man with a Nirvana Finger Flick as they entered the portal, and they escaped while warning that they would meet again.
• The Man in Green Robes emerged from the Eternal Evergreen Stele and explained that he had collected Origin Power to repair a rift in the world's rules, while Ji Boda had stolen a Dao Fruit and caused trouble.
• The Man in Green Robes warned that demon God Ancestors could descend through torn rules and asked Yun Che to hold off their first wave for a hundred years.
• Qin Yiqing suspected a trap, but Yun Che accepted the Dao Rule Jade Token from the Man in Green Robes.
• The Man in Green Robes returned to the stele, the Demon Race and Dark God Kingdom withdrew to prepare for the God Ancestors, and Yuezheng Xiangling asked Yun Che whether he believed the stele master's account.

Yun Che remained unconscious for three years while trying to comprehend the Dao Ancestor Insight Jade Tablet, as the Demon Race and Dark God Kingdom neared their revival. With time running short, Lu Niaoniao revealed her second-stage Fusion Divine Word Art and began its final human trial with four volunteers.

• Yun Che and the others suspected the Lord of the Evergreen Stele had his own motives, and Yun Che offered to help them advance with Divine Word Seals if he reached the Ancestor Realm.
• The group returned to the Azure Luan God Kingdom, where Yun Che entered seclusion and failed to awaken for three years.
• Ye Qingshuang and the others discussed Yun Che's lack of progress as reports warned that the Demon Race and Dark God Kingdom's God Ancestors were nearing revival.
• Feng Chu said Lu Niaoniao had developed a second-stage fusion method, and Lu Niaoniao presented her research using separate Divine Soul circuits bound by Soul-Locking Thread.
• Feng Chu, Lin Duo, Yuezheng Xiangling, and Ye Qingshuang performed their first fusion, becoming Feng Duo and Le Shuang, then began their second fusion.
• Lu Niaoniao monitored the fusion as golden-red lightning erupted and the Divine Soul circuits remained stable while their power climbed to the peak of the Transcendent · Extreme Realm.

Qin Yelan and the others completed a stable four-person Fusion, but a projection of Earth appeared over the Azure Luan God Kingdom, and Windbreaker Man revealed that the worlds were nearing an inevitable connection tied to Yun Che and the World Origin. As people on Earth and the Divine Martial World reacted to the projection, a young man in a Capital hospital showed signs of waking.

• Qin Yelan and the others completed a stable Fusion whose power had reached the threshold of the Pseudo-Ancestor Realm.
• A projection of Earth appeared over the Azure Luan God Kingdom, and Luo Ran and Zhang Yuan recognized it as their home world.
• Windbreaker Man said the barrier between the worlds was at its limit and claimed the Lord of the Evergreen Stele intended to reclaim the World Origin on Earth.
• Windbreaker Man revealed that Yun Che was waiting in his Soul Sea and that his breakthrough to the Ancestor Realm would fully merge the two worlds.
• Yuezheng Xiangling urged the group to deal with the Demon Race and Dark God Kingdom first, while Earth’s authorities mobilized and tried to control the public response.
• A young man receiving treatment at Capital First People's Hospital moved, and his mother called for a doctor.

Yun Che awakened on Earth in the body of Gu Chen, a disgraced heir whose actions had gravely harmed his sisters, and resolved to sever ties with his corrupt friends. He discovered that his cultivation was gone but his divine soul powers and Domain Space remained, and Gu Yan arrived with a divorce agreement and an ultimatum.

• The doctor told Liu He that Gu Chen had recovered from his coma, and Yun Che realized he had awakened in the Gu family heir’s body on Earth.
• Yun Che recalled how the original Gu Chen had harmed Gu Yan and Gu Yao to win Zhao Qianqian’s favor.
• Liu He warned Yun Che that Gu Nancheng had frozen his bank cards and would disown him if he kept associating with Zhao Qianqian and Yan Jie.
• Yun Che promised Liu He that he would cut ties with them, then found that although his cultivation was gone, his divine soul power, talents, and Domain Space remained.
• Gu Yan entered the room and offered Yun Che a divorce agreement, saying the Gu family would bear the Jiang Family’s wrath if he signed and stopped contacting Zhao Qianqian.

After signing Jiang Mo’s divorce agreement, Yun Che rejected Zhao Qianqian’s usual manipulation and went to meet her and Yan Jie about a project he suspected was a trap. He saw an image of the Azure Luan God Kingdom in the sky and hoped a passage home would form, then confronted the pair as they tried to deceive him.

• Yun Che signed the divorce agreement, and Gu Yan warned him not to violate its terms or return to the Gu Family home.
• Zhao Qianqian called Yun Che to ask for money for a project, and he agreed to meet her while planning to expose the pair’s scheme.
• Yun Che reassured Liu He that he would cut ties cleanly, then spoke with Gu Yao, who warned him against Zhao Qianqian and Yan Jie and supported his divorce from Jiang Mo.
• Yun Che saw the Azure Luan God Kingdom’s phantom in the sky and hoped it meant a passage back to his world would appear.
• At Tianhou Restaurant, Yun Che found Zhao Qianqian and Yan Jie together, heard them discuss using him to fund a disastrous project, and calmly insisted they talk about it.

Yun Che refused to fund Yan Jie and Zhao Qianqian’s proposed project, then persuaded Yan Jie to invest thirty million in a holiday resort development that concealed ancient tombs. After Yan Jie accepted the deal, Yun Che wondered whether the Divine Martial World merging with Earth would bring disaster and set his sights on finding clues to the Ancestor Realm.

• Yan Jie and Zhao Qianqian presented Yun Che with a cultural industry park proposal, but Yun Che refused to provide funding and reminded them of Yan Jie’s previous failed project.
• Yun Che urged Yan Jie to invest in a project himself, pointing out that Yan could sell the Yan Family’s newly tradable restricted shares.
• Yun Che claimed he needed to prove himself to his father to receive three hundred million in startup capital, prompting Yan Jie to agree to fund Yun Che’s resort project with thirty million.
• Yan Jie checked the project plan and contract, then arranged the fund transfer and registration, unaware that ancient tombs beneath the land would bring the development to a halt and bad luck to him and Zhao Qianqian.
• After Yun Che left, Yan Jie voiced suspicion about his changed behavior, but Zhao Qianqian dismissed his concerns and Yan Jie proceeded with the investment.
• Yun Che considered the danger of the Divine Martial World merging with Earth and decided to search for clues to advance his Divine Soul to the Ancestor Realm.

Yun Che told the Gu family that Yan Jie had willingly invested in a resort project built over ancient tombs, but his family doubted that he had truly changed. Late that night, Yun Che sensed an Acquired Realm cultivator nearby and went out to investigate.

• At the Gu family home, Liu He, Gu Yan, and Gu Yao worried that Gu Chen had gone to see Zhao Qianqian again and lamented his treatment of Jiang Mo.
• Yun Che admitted he had met Zhao Qianqian and Yan Jie, then told his family that Yan Jie had invested his own money in the project without using Gu family funds.
• Yun Che explained that the resort land had been properly auctioned but concealed ancient tombs, and that Yan Jie had chosen to invest after Yun Che disclosed the project.
• Gu Yao and Gu Yan remained skeptical, while Liu He worried that Yan Jie might retaliate against the family.
• Late at night, Yun Che sensed an Acquired Realm cultivator and slipped out through a window to find them.

Yun Che rescued Jiang Cha from three cultivators pursuing her for a briefcase of illicit genetic-agent samples, then asked her about the Martial Arts Association and Earth's cultivators. Jiang Cha explained that Grandmaster was the highest publicly known realm, while Yun Che's origins remained a mystery to her.

• Yun Che followed a cultivator's aura to an abandoned factory and found Jiang Cha cornered by three men seeking her briefcase.
• Jiang Cha accused the men of conducting forbidden research into Devil Muscle Man and fought them despite her injured shoulder.
• Yun Che appeared and defeated the three men in an instant, then gave Jiang Cha a pill that rapidly eased her injuries.
• Jiang Cha thanked Yun Che and explained that the briefcase held genetic-agent samples she needed to deliver to the Martial Arts Association headquarters.
• Jiang Cha told Yun Che that the Martial Arts Association's strongest publicly known combatants were Grandmasters, that no more than five Grandmasters were known in Huaxia, and that other official organizations handled different fields.
• Jiang Cha asked whether Yun Che belonged to a hidden sect after he questioned her about the highest known realm among Earth's cultivators.

Yun Che accompanied Jiang Cha to the Martial Arts Association, where Qin Hong explained that Sky City's appearance had brought denser spiritual energy and revealed Ancient God Ruins. The visit was interrupted when three grandmasters arrived to destroy the association.

• Yun Che asked Jiang Cha about the Black Divine Bones, gave her his name, and agreed to visit the Martial Arts Association.
• Jiang Cha brought Yun Che to the association headquarters in Yanjing and introduced him to Elder Liu and President Qin Hong.
• Yun Che revealed his grandmaster-level aura, and Qin Hong explained Earth's martial arts factions and the emergence of Ancient God Ruins after Sky City appeared.
• Yun Che sensed three grandmasters approaching, and Wang Zhang, Zhao Qingzhuo, and Jin Cheng smashed through the training hall's roof and declared their intent to wipe out the association.

Yun Che defeated the Black Divine Bones members who attacked the Martial Arts Association, then joined its expedition to an Ancient God Ruins in the Qilian Mountains. Inside, he identified the blood-red patterns on a sealed stone door as locking patterns containing a fierce god.

• Yun Che broke the Black Divine Bones' combined attack, killed Wang Zhang, and left the other two attackers to Qin Hong.
• Qin Hong told Yun Che about an intact Ancient God Ruins entrance in the western Qilian Mountains, and Yun Che agreed to join the expedition.
• At the ruins, Yun Che killed the Black Divine Bones leaders who demanded his head, frightening the other factions into following him inside.
• Yun Che and the gathered factions reached an underground plaza and found a sealed black stone door.
• Yun Che touched the door's blood-red patterns and told Qin Hong they were sealing a fierce god inside, not unlocking an Inheritance.

Yun Che opened the sealed Fiend God Hall, defeated its Emperor Realm remnant soul, and learned the location of the Water God Ruins. After he set out for the ruins, Bone King warned Blade God Hall about him, prompting Sword Master to go confront him.

• A woman in a flowing purple dress attacked the sealed stone door, but its blood-colored patterns overwhelmed her until Yun Che severed their connection and opened the hall.
• The Fiend God remnant soul unleashed black mist that killed several people, but Yun Che dispersed the mist and shattered its bones with a single slap.
• Yun Che burned the remnant soul with Xihe Divine Flame and forced it to reveal that the Water God Ruins lay three hundred li west and that the Xihe Divine Domain had fallen during the War of the Gods.
• Yun Che killed the remnant soul, gave the Fiend God Hall’s treasures to Qin Hong to nurture cultivators, and headed toward the Water God Ruins alone.
• Bone King told Sword Master that Yun Che had killed an Emperor Realm Fiend God, and Sword Master ordered Bone King to wait while he went to meet Yun Che.

Yun Che found the Water God Origin in the Water God Ruins and defeated Hao Ren, the Sword Master of Blade God Hall, who had come to claim it. After learning Blade God Hall was conspiring with forces from another universe, Yun Che faced the awakened will of the Ancient Water God, but refused its request and walked away from the origin.

• The Sword Master decided to go to the Water God Ruins himself to kill Yun Che and claim the Water God Origin.
• Yun Che found the ruins behind a waterfall and approached the Water God Origin in its central hall.
• Hao Ren confronted Yun Che and attacked him, but Yun Che caught and broke his sword before overpowering him.
• Yun Che sealed Hao Ren's power and extracted his memories, learning that Blade God Hall had allied with forces from another universe and had three Supremes.
• The Ancient Water God appeared through the Water God Origin and offered it to Yun Che in exchange for a task, but Yun Che refused.

Yun Che agreed to help the Water God's phantom retrieve its sealed true spirit in exchange for information, then obtained a map to an ancient cultivation sanctuary with methods for entering the Ancestral Path. He left for the city after learning that Gu Yao was near death from a knife attack and arrived at the hospital as her family waited outside the emergency room.

• Yun Che initially refused the Water God's request but agreed to help retrieve its true spirit after hearing what it knew about the Ancestor Realm and Blade God Hall.
• The Water God's phantom revealed that Li Ren was an advance pawn from another universe and described inscriptions about breaking through to the Ancestor Realm.
• The Water God's phantom gave Yun Che a Primordial Ancestor Bone, which he extracted to obtain a map to the Heavenly Dao Grounds of Strange Tales Mountain.
• Yun Che learned that the sanctuary contained Enlightenment Steles with methods for entering the Ancestral Path, and he set out to find it.
• Liu He called Yun Che and told him that Gu Yao had been stabbed by a man whose eyesight she had treated.
• Yun Che rushed to the hospital and found Liu He and Gu Nancheng waiting outside the emergency room.