Chapter Summaries

Shen Ye completed a team trial with Xiao Mengyu, who revealed the power of her Earth's Creator name, and earned a Dharma Realm advancement and the right to choose his next opponent. When the next trial began, a powerful monster appeared alongside Chu Manshu, and Shen Ye, Xiao Mengyu, and Xu Xingke defeated it, with Shen Ye's puppet biting off part of its head and uncovering a Five-Colored Gemstone.

• Shen Ye summoned Xiao Mengyu for the team trial, and she defeated Chu Manshu by using Earth's Creator to reduce her strength to Xiao Mengyu's level.
• Shen Ye chose the right to designate his next trial opponent, advanced to the Dharma Realm Eighth Layer, and gained a Heaven-Piercing blessing for his Supreme Immortal Kingdom Dharma Form.
• Shen Ye summoned Xu Xingke during the rest period, slept under his teacher's watch, and then designated the already eliminated Chu Manshu as his opponent.
• A powerful young man appeared unexpectedly with Chu Manshu, and Xiao Mengyu, Shen Ye, and Xu Xingke attacked him together.
• Shen Ye's Dharma Realm Puppet bit into the monster's head, ending the battle and spitting out a Five-Colored Gemstone.

After Shen Ye and his companions shattered the gemstone, they relived memories of Penglai’s destruction and learned that the Mountain Lord had preserved hope through the Heaven-Piercing Art. In a new trial, Shen Ye took over Zhao Xingshi’s body and joined Xiao Mengyu as she confronted the disciples and elder who had unjustly stripped him of his status.

• Shen Ye used the gemstone to experience Su Changfeng’s memories of Penglai’s attack, then learned from Xu Xingke that the gemstone came from Penglai’s Mountain Lord and was tied to the Heaven-Piercing Art.
• Shen Ye deciphered the next gemstone’s message and, with Xu Xingke and Xiao Mengyu, entered a trial set in Penglai Immortal Mountain before its destruction.
• Shen Ye awoke as Zhao Xingshi, absorbed his memories, and gained the Demon Heart Soul-Seed effect by cultivating the Supreme Emotionless Ascension Scripture.
• Xiao Mengyu, serving as a law-enforcement cultivator, used the hall’s recordings to prove that Li Yue’er’s companions had framed Zhao Xingshi and imposed punishment on them.
• Elder Wang tried to dismiss the case and shield Li Yue’er, but Xiao Mengyu refused to yield and warned him that she would kill him if he interfered with enforcement again.

Shen Ye, Xiao Mengyu, and Xu Xingke escaped the doomed Penglai Immortal Mountain, where Xiao Mengyu and Shen Ye fought Elder Wang before Elder Liu intervened. After learning the mountain’s destruction could not be changed, Shen Ye discovered a possible way to investigate the hidden cosmic enemy by purifying the Emperor Species Cosmic Insect blood in his body.

• Shen Ye used his threat against Li Yue'er to create an opening, and Xiao Mengyu weakened Elder Wang with her trait before they attacked him together.
• Elder Liu arrived, subdued Elder Wang, and led Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu to a teleportation array; Xu Xingke joined them as a catastrophic attack struck the hall, and the three escaped.
• On the third trial floor, Xu Xingke explained that Penglai Immortal Mountain had already fallen to corruption, and Shen Ye found a cracked gemstone confirming its destruction could not be changed.
• Xu Xingke and Xiao Mengyu returned to Death Planet, while Shen Ye considered how to uncover the identity of the Immortal Kingdom’s cosmic enemy.
• Shen Ye evaded Chu Manshu’s report by explaining that his trial had been team combat, then asked Chaluchitorik to reveal what had destroyed the Immortal Kingdom.
• Chaluchitorik warned Shen Ye not to view the destruction directly and hinted that the Scripture Pavilion contained an Ancient Bloodline Purification Art; Shen Ye realized he could use it to purify the Emperor Species Cosmic Insect blood in his body.

After completing the trial, Shen Ye gained the Legendary trait Beloved by All and revealed his Emperor Species bloodline to the Saint Venerable. The Saint Venerable decided to involve him in investigating Yun Ni’s death, while Shen Ye’s new trait unexpectedly calmed Chu Manshu and led to a gathering in his cave abode.

• Shen Ye opened Elder Wang’s restricted storage pouch with Gate, collected its treasures, and returned to the sect after finishing the trial.
• Chu Manshu confronted Shen Ye about the trial, and he showed her that he had at least five Traits before apologizing for summoning her back into the second trial.
• Shen Ye chose to improve his inner and outer self, gained the trait Beloved by All, and discovered that he could fly through the universe as an Emperor larva.
• The Saint Venerable secretly watched Shen Ye reveal his bloodline and allocate 302 attribute points to comprehension, then recognized that he was an Emperor Species.
• Shen Ye used Beloved by All to calm Chu Manshu, explained that the Heavenly Immortal Pavilion token was an apology gift, and hosted a gathering with handsome male cultivators and female disciples.
• The Saint Venerable told the Grand Supreme Elders to take Shen Ye along with the team investigating Yun Ni’s death in the Unfixed Layer.

Shen Ye searched for a way to take the Nine-Palace Eight-Trigrams Alchemy Furnace to the Unfixed Layer universe, where he hoped to retrieve the inheritance hidden inside it. When the Supreme Binding Fate Soul-Refining Palace forced him to prove his strength, Shen Ye fused his skills into a new sword technique and forged a powerful blade, leaving him ready to fight.

• Shen Ye learned that the mission to the Unfixed Layer universe could earn Sect Points and found that he was already selected to join the expedition.
• Shen Ye recognized the Demon-Subduing and Evil-Exorcising Great Hall as an old Penglai site and realized the Nine-Palace Eight-Trigrams Alchemy Furnace might contain the inheritance he sought.
• Shen Ye accepted an alchemy mission and rented the furnace for a year by paying twelve pieces of Immortal Spirit Jade Marrow.
• The Supreme Binding Fate Soul-Refining Palace manifested a flame figure and challenged Shen Ye to prove he could fight before taking the furnace.
• Shen Ye summoned the Earth Demonic Beast, fused Starflame and Thinking of You into the sword skill Dream-Seizing, and combined four blades into the divine artifact Spring Rain.
• After the flame figure pinned the Earth Demonic Beast, Shen Ye drew Spring Rain and approached it, preparing to attack.

Shen Ye defeated a flaming figure with his Spring Rain Blade, then realized the sect was monitoring him because of the Nine-Palace Eight-Trigrams Alchemy Furnace and its hidden compartment. To clear suspicion, he devoted himself to pill refinement, but after he proved talented, the Sect Leader Saint Venerable requisitioned the furnace and ordered him to choose a cultivation technique himself.

• Shen Ye used the unblockable Spring Rain Blade and his songstress art to destroy the flaming figure, and his strike briefly reached the Central Great Hall, where the Sect Leader Saint Venerable deflected it.
• The flaming figure offered Shen Ye Emperor Species Bone Vein True Blood as a reward for mission and cultivation progress, while the Sect Leader Saint Venerable granted him a Heaven-and-Earth Travel Token for a supply mission.
• Shen Ye discovered that the supposed escorting senior brothers were soul demons, handed them his mission token, and went back to the alchemy room to avoid exposing his interest in the furnace's hidden compartment.
• Shen Ye spent days refining pills, used his free attribute points to improve comprehension, and advanced to making mid-grade Spirit-Calming Elixirs, prompting the elders to recognize his talent.
• The Sect Leader Saint Venerable requisitioned the Nine-Palace Eight-Trigrams Alchemy Furnace and offered Shen Ye one request; Shen Ye asked to choose the sect's strongest cultivation technique.
• The Sect Leader Saint Venerable dismissed the idea of a single strongest technique and told Shen Ye to pick a cultivation technique himself.

Song Yinchen revealed that the enemy commanders were disrupted because they mistook her emperor-species corpse for an ally, while Shen Ye resisted being sent to the front lines and discovered his Heart Demon had transformed into an undetectable second body. The chapter left Shen Ye testing the Supreme Primordial Formless Heavenly Demon as it secretly entered the Council Great Hall and overheard the sect leaders discussing how to accommodate him.

• Song Yinchen disclosed to the gathered leaders that she had used the emperor-species corpse to confuse enemy commanders, then tried to find Shen Ye through the creature's runes.
• At the Supreme Dao Palace, Shen Ye refused a mission to confront an enemy in the Unfixed Layer and threatened to leave the sect, so the Sect Leader Saint Venerable summoned him and ultimately let him return to the Scripture Pavilion.
• Shen Ye and Tu Fusheng used a message talisman to bluff the Saint Venerable into believing Tu Fusheng had powerful backing, and the Saint Venerable postponed challenging him.
• Tu Fusheng warned Shen Ye that the treasures in his Dharma Form were extraordinarily valuable, and Shen Ye wondered how Elder Wang had obtained so many of them.
• Shen Ye discovered that his Heart Demon had become the Supreme Primordial Formless Heavenly Demon, a one-third-strength duplicate that nothing born within the universe could perceive.
• Shen Ye sent the undetectable duplicate into the Council Great Hall, where it overheard the Saint Venerable telling the elders to avoid burdening Shen Ye and let him seek a Dao companion.

Shen Ye secretly used the Formless Heavenly Demon to steal the Formation-Breaking Saint Pestle from the furnace, then investigated Penglai’s ruins and learned Elder Wang Jiangshan had managed the sect’s resources. He sent the Formless Heavenly Demon into the Sacred Relic’s trials, where it defeated Huodou and passed the first trial.

• The Saint Venerable revealed that Yun Ni was a Universe Demon Lord who had stolen the Formation-Breaking Saint Pestle, then left for the Unfixed Layer to search for her and the relic.
• Shen Ye used the Formless Heavenly Demon’s Heaven-Piercing Gate to take the Jade Slip from the furnace’s hidden compartment and returned the demon before the Saint Venerable could catch it.
• The Saint Venerable destroyed the Council Great Hall while searching for an intruder, but Shen Ye stayed with the disciples and avoided suspicion.
• Shen Ye sent the Formless Heavenly Demon to the ruins, where the half-body statue identified Elder Wang Jiangshan as the resource allocator and explained Shen Ye’s abilities.
• The half-body statue led the Formless Heavenly Demon into the Sacred Relic’s first trial, where Shen Ye used Flame Spirit Divine Light and Beloved by All to defeat Huodou.

Shen Ye attended a Dao discussion gathering where Soul Demons sabotaged his attempt to refine elixirs, then sent the Formless Heavenly Demon to investigate the Saint Venerable’s palace. The Heaven-Piercing Art revealed flaws in the palace’s cultivation method, and the Formless Heavenly Demon discovered the imprisoned Penglai Mountain Master.

• Shen Ye collected five mission points and paid Dao Zhengyi to find a bloodline-purification technique, then rested while Soul Demons watched him.
• Chu Manshu gave Shen Ye an invitation to the Moon-Treading Plum-Seeking Dao Discussion Gathering, where he listened to cultivators share their insights.
• Dantai Mingyue offered Shen Ye a secret method for refining high-grade Spirit-Calming Elixirs if he demonstrated that he could refine mid-grade ones, but four Soul Demons extinguished his furnace and ruined the batch.
• Shen Ye sent the Formless Heavenly Demon toward the Supreme Binding Fate Soul-Refining Palace while the Four Kings waited nearby, and the Heaven-Piercing Art revealed the palace’s flaws and condemned its use of imprisoned souls.
• The Formless Heavenly Demon slipped through the palace defenses and found a mural depicting the imprisoned Penglai Mountain Master.

The Saint Venerable confronted Tu Fusheng but abandoned the fight after Tu Fusheng overwhelmed him with expensive magical treasures. Meanwhile, Shen Ye freed the Penglai Mountain Master, received her inheritance and the exclusive Penglai Mountain Master trait, and returned to his cave abode to open the Seal Gate.

• The Saint Venerable visited Tu Fusheng to learn who backed Nangong Wantu, but Tu Fusheng used powerful talismans and divine treasures to deter him until they ended their confrontation amicably.
• Shen Ye directed the Formless Heavenly Demon to replace the mural wall inside the Saint Venerable’s Dharma Form and bring the original wall back to him.
• Shen Ye and the Formless Heavenly Demon freed the Penglai Mountain Master, who recovered her jade slip and imparted the Heaven-Piercing True Method to Shen Ye.
• The Penglai Mountain Master explained that Shen Ye’s Supreme Immortal Kingdom could contain the inheritances of all Three Arts, then entered reincarnation after recognizing him as Penglai Mountain’s successor.
• Shen Ye received the exclusive Penglai Mountain Master trait and sensed everything within the Supreme Dao Palace without using a Dharma Form.
• Shen Ye returned to Mysterious Gate Peak, secured his cave abode, and summoned the Seal Gate.

Shen Ye’s allies confronted the Saint Venerable, but he escaped after learning that the Supreme Dao Palace had found the Formation-Breaking Saint Pestle. Shen Ye traveled tens of thousands of years into Penglai Mountain’s past to prepare a hidden cache, where he discovered that Elder Wang Jiangshan’s pouch held more treasures than expected.

• Sword Maiden and Xu Xingke confronted the Saint Venerable on Death Planet, while the Formless Heavenly Demon destroyed his Dharma Form and exposed the humiliating mural hidden within it.
• The real Saint Venerable appeared, killed his heart demon, and left after hearing that the Supreme Dao Palace had found the Formation-Breaking Saint Pestle.
• Xu Xingke combined Song Yinchen’s, the Nangong Family head’s, and his own abilities into The Fool, allowing Xiao Mengyu to track the Saint Venerable and prepare to pull him back, but he escaped before she could act.
• Shen Ye used Fate’s Tool Person to pass through a sealed gem and travel back tens of thousands of years to Penglai Mountain, where he assumed the identity of Zhou Shanhui.
• Shen Ye ordered Yao Chengjie to hide a box beneath the Council Great Hall after Penglai Mountain’s destruction, then summoned Wang Jiangshan and seized the pouch he offered as embezzled treasure.
• Shen Ye realized Wang Jiangshan’s pouch contained even more treasures than he had expected.

Shen Ye retrieved the bloodline cultivation technique from Penglai Mountain’s past, then used the Earth Demonic Beast’s blood to awaken his Emperor Species inheritance and apply to join the strongest swarm consciousness. Meanwhile, the Saint Venerable returned to the Supreme Dao Palace, discovered the Jade Slip was missing, and demanded an account of the sect’s recent events.

• In Nightmare World, Big Skeleton demonstrated that his enhanced Undead Resurrection let him resurrect himself, then set out to aid Shen Ye with the Four Races’ power.
• Shen Ye borrowed the Supreme Blood Demon Void Saint-Creation Refining Method from Penglai Mountain’s Scripture Pavilion and returned to the present with another demonization gem.
• The Saint Venerable found the Array-Breaking Sacred Pestle but discovered the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams Furnace’s hidden compartment was empty, then crushed the elder responsible for guarding the Council Great Hall.
• Shen Ye used the Earth Demonic Beast’s blood to purify his Emperor Species bloodline, chose Swarm Seeking, and located the strongest Emperor Species collective consciousness in the Dharma Realm.
• Shen Ye presented his abilities and Traits in a job-interview-style assessment, and the collective consciousness voted unanimously to accept him.

Shen Ye joined the Emperor Species collective consciousness, named it the Heart of the Swarm, and received the powerful Fate’s Thorn skill. After the Saint Venerable discovered his identity and questioned him about Dao Zhengyi, Shen Ye’s new affiliation persuaded the Saint Venerable to let him stay and give him a drop of Bone Vein True Blood; the chapter ended as Shen Ye prepared to refine it.

• Shen Ye filled an insect egg with Elder Wang’s treasures, reached level 1 in the Dharma Realm, and proposed naming the Emperor Species collective consciousness the Heart of the Swarm.
• The Emperor Species voted unanimously for Shen Ye’s name, and the Heart of the Swarm rewarded him with the innate skill Fate’s Thorn.
• The Saint Venerable confronted Shen Ye while holding Dao Zhengyi’s severed head, but accepted Shen Ye’s claim that he belonged to the Heart of the Swarm and was studying human cultivation to understand Gate Abilities.
• Dantai Mingyue and other cultivators scolded Shen Ye over his failed pill furnace and missed gathering, and Shen Ye sent them away with a misquoted human saying.
• The Saint Venerable apologized for his Heart Demon’s actions, gave Shen Ye a drop of Bone Vein True Blood, and allowed him to remain at the Supreme Dao Palace.
• Shen Ye activated concealment and defensive arrays, then used Fate’s Tool Person as he prepared to refine the Bone Vein True Blood.

Shen Ye evolved his Emperor Species bloodline, then joined the campaign after the Saint Venerable pressed him to help expose Dao Zhengyi’s accomplices. While his real self kept up an alibi aboard the Flying Ship, his Formless Heavenly Demon and Big Skeleton explored the Seal Gate and discovered a powerful being sealed beyond it; the chapter ended as Dantai Mingyue found Shen Ye on the Observation Deck.

• Shen Ye refined the Bone Vein True Blood, evolved his bloodline, and gained stronger Emperor Species powers and new Path to Heaven requirements.
• The Saint Venerable ordered Shen Ye to join the Unfixed Layer campaign so he could help catch Dao Zhengyi’s accomplices, and gave him the Heartbreak saber and a location-sharing Bone Bracelet.
• Shen Ye registered for the campaign and secured a prime room aboard the Flying Ship, then used his Formless Heavenly Demon and Big Skeleton to open the Seal Gate while his real self stayed in public.
• The Formless Heavenly Demon followed a hidden path through the Seal Gate and found spider-like monsters guarding a cave whose occupant’s breathing unleashed overwhelming force.
• Shen Ye maintained his alibi at the Flying Ship’s Observation Deck, where the Saint Venerable briefly visited before Dantai Mingyue and several cultivators arrived.

Shen Ye interpreted a mysterious black box for the Lord of Crimson, gained the Swarm’s support, and learned that the Saint Venerable wanted him to join a secret campaign against the Immortal Kingdom. After refining pills for Dantai Mingyue, he discovered her Jade Slip contained a hidden mechanism and that she believed he was human; Dantai then opened a Gate, leaving her next move uncertain.

• Dantai Mingyue asked Shen Ye to refine Spirit-Calming Elixirs, and Shen Ye accepted her ingredients, furnace, and payment.
• A level-19 Emperor Species asked Shen Ye to interpret a black box, and his Fate's Tool Person Trait revealed a cryptic message that earned him the title Interpreter of Fate and a promotion to level 2.
• Shen Ye strengthened Fate's Thorn, restored the use of Vampire Kiddo, and heard the Saint Venerable explain the universe-wide effort to destroy the Immortal Kingdom and find the Heaven-Piercing Art's successor.
• Shen Ye consulted the Heart of the Swarm, which told him to avoid the Saint Venerable's offer and gave him a Swarm Mark while promising to protect him.
• Shen Ye refined pills for Dantai Mingyue and received the High-Grade Tranquility Pills recipe; his Trait revealed that the Jade Slip contained a hidden mechanism intended for a human soul.
• Dantai Mingyue told companions that Shen Ye was human and opened a Gate aboard the Flying Ship.

Shen Ye fused Spring Rain with Heartbreak, gained a mythical swordsmanship trait, and was forced to duel the Saint Venerable before escaping death through his tricks. Dantai Mingyue revealed Iron Man’s whereabouts and prepared to take Shen Ye to him, while Iron Man began rebuilding his life at the zoo.

• Shen Ye used Spring Rain’s trait to develop the swordsmanship move Dream Parting, then accidentally cut open the Star-Gazing Platform’s roof while testing the blade’s wind-and-thunder power.
• Spring Rain demanded that Shen Ye either fight the Saint Venerable or kill himself, so Shen Ye challenged the Saint Venerable and used Beloved by All during their fight in the Dharma Realm.
• Shen Ye faked his death with Shadow-Shining Sting, then fled to his room while the Saint Venerable wondered about his abilities and motives.
• Dantai Mingyue contracted with the Saint Venerable’s Heart Demon and sent it to lure him away, then urged Shen Ye to escape with her.
• Dantai Mingyue showed Shen Ye footage proving Iron Man was alive and explained that the panda’s Gate Ability could counter the Saint Venerable’s teleportation.
• Iron Man, now living at Yujing City Zoo, remembered his cultivation technique but chose to approach the female pandas instead.

Shen Ye secretly coordinated with the Heart of the Swarm to escape the Supreme Dao Palace, while Dantai Mingyue erased her escape preparations and signed a contract with him. After Shen Ye refined a superior-grade Spirit-Calming Elixir and misled the Saint Venerable, a temporary deployment order teleported him away to the Starry Sky Graveyard, leaving Dantai Mingyue to stall the Saint Venerable.

• Shen Ye persuaded Dantai Mingyue to erase her summoning contracts and pretend they had been making elixirs together while he contacted the Heart of the Swarm for help.
• The authoritative voice arranged a Temporary War Zone Transfer Authorization for Shen Ye, whose mythical-grade combat trait convinced the swarm to deploy its forces.
• Shen Ye refined a superior-grade Spirit-Calming Elixir, and Dantai Mingyue signed his summoning contract after he warned her it was her only chance to survive.
• The Saint Venerable found Shen Ye and Dantai Mingyue, mistook Shen Ye's gift of elixirs and evasive hints for agreement to become his subordinate, then waited outside while they were alone.
• Shen Ye received orders to teleport to the Starry Sky Graveyard on level 170 and told Dantai Mingyue to stall the Saint Venerable, who returned to find Shen Ye gone.

Shen Ye used his traits to aid Myriad Gods in battle on the 170th Layer, then fled an Ancient Demonic Creature by hiding inside a series of sealed lands. He survived its attacks behind a sealed mummy and received the title "Hard to Kill" after his companions killed the creature.

• Dantai Mingyue discovered she was standing on an emperor species’ antenna in the Tomb of Nothingness and began recording Universe Behemoth inheritance runes.
• Shen Ye learned that Myriad Gods had brought him to the 170th Layer and used a Remote Talking-Fish Attacker to activate his traits against their enemy.
• When the enemy detected his attacks, Shen Ye hid inside the Formless Heavenly Demon and moved through gates into successive sealed lands, while rescuing Dantai Mingyue from the abyss.
• A destructive pillar of light struck the sealed land, and Shen Ye used Netherworld Intimidation to survive while the Sealing Spell Spirits pursued the attacker.
• Shen Ye hid behind a sealed mummy as it blocked another pillar of light, and the Dharma Realm awarded him the title "Hard to Kill" after his companions killed the Ancient Demonic Creature.

Shen Ye fused three compatible traits into the dark gold Scandalous Protagonist, then used an egg stolen from the monster to evolve his Emperor Species bloodline. At a multiverse tribunal, his new trait distorted the Saint Venerable’s evidence, allowing Myriad Gods to secure Shen Ye’s transfer and freeing him from the Dao Palace; Shen Ye then declared his intent to kill the Saint Venerable, with Myriad Gods backing him.

• Shen Ye fused Hard to Kill, Boy Who Survived, and Bane into Scandalous Protagonist, then returned to Dantai Mingyue after leaving the Supreme Dao Palace.
• Dantai Mingyue departed for the Human Race Resistance Army Alliance, while Shen Ye’s Dharma Realm Puppet returned a stolen egg that he consumed, purifying his Emperor Species bloodline and granting him a humanoid transformation with greatly increased attributes.
• Myriad Gods summoned Shen Ye to a tribunal where the leaders approved his transfer, but the Saint Venerable objected and presented a recording that Scandalous Protagonist distorted into a conversation about breakfast.
• Shen Ye told the Saint Venerable he wanted to leave the Dao Palace, and Myriad Gods warned the Saint Venerable not to interfere before he departed.
• Shen Ye told Myriad Gods he intended to kill the Saint Venerable, and Myriad Gods promised him every possible assistance.

Dantai Mingyue was interrogated by the Resistance Army and forced to reveal information about Nangong Wantu, but Shen Ye’s Contract brought her captors into a trap at the Universe Council. Shen Ye rescued her and let the universe monsters deal with the captured Resistance officers, while his reputation gained the potential to evolve again.

• Dantai Mingyue refused to reveal her informant’s identity, resigned from the Resistance Army, and was subdued and compelled to name Nangong Wantu and disclose what she knew.
• Shen Ye noticed that Dantai Mingyue’s Contract was being deciphered and summoned her and the man restraining her into the Universe Council’s safe room.
• Myriad Gods and the Three-Eyed Tentacle Monster controlled the first captor and used Shen Ye’s Contract to lure other Resistance officers into the room.
• Shen Ye asked the monsters to examine the captives’ memories, confirmed that Dantai Mingyue had not betrayed him, and left carrying her.
• The monsters decided to kill the captured officers and give Shen Ye his share of the credit, while Shen Ye’s Vampire Kiddo reputation gained the potential to evolve.