Chapter Summaries

Ye Xingchen defeated and killed the Devil Realm prodigy Di Mie with his Sword Domain, then crossed into the Devil Race’s ancient city and unleashed a devastating attack on its charging prodigies. A terrifying presence descended over the Gods and Devils Ancient City, and an emotionless voice addressed everyone.

• Di Mie attacked Ye Xingchen with a black divine sword, but Ye Xingchen shattered the sword and destroyed Di Mie's arm with one finger.
• Di Mie restored his arm and launched his Devil Dragon Slays Heaven technique, but Ye Xingchen trapped him in his Sword Domain and killed him.
• The battle’s voice declared a Human Race victory and rewarded Ye Xingchen with Black-Yellow Divine Qi, which he collected along with the qi above the arena.
• Ye Xingchen entered the Devil Race’s ancient city despite Lin Susu’s warning, while Luo Qingshan expressed her trust in him.
• The Devil Race prodigies charged at Ye Xingchen, who crushed them with a descending palm and nearly reduced their ancient city to ruins.
• A terrifying presence descended over the Gods and Devils Ancient City, followed by an emotionless voice.

Ye Xingchen fought the Devil Realm’s ruler when her law-formed phantom appeared in the Gods and Devils Ancient City, then returned with the other prodigies to the Ancient God Road. The group reached its end, where powerful beings gathered to recruit Ye Xingchen and Qin Xuan prepared to confront him.

• The Devil Realm’s ruler manifested above the Gods and Devils Ancient City, but Ye Xingchen shattered her chains of order and stood up to her despite her overwhelming pressure.
• The ruler attacked Ye Xingchen with a black spear, and he answered with Heaven-Dominating Sword Art-Heavenly Dao Collapse, forcing her phantom to withdraw before she promised to await his future challenge.
• The ruler awoke in a bamboo grove in the Devil Realm and vowed to remember Ye Xingchen for calling her a little girl.
• The Gods and Devils Ancient City sent Ye Xingchen and the surviving God Realm prodigies onto the Ancient God Road, where Qin Tian worried that the Qin Lineage should avoid Ye Xingchen.
• Ye Xingchen and the other Divine Desolation Continent prodigies reached the Ancient God Road’s end, as powerful beings gathered to recruit Ye Xingchen and Qin Xuan anticipated confronting him.

As the prodigies approached the end of the Ancient God Road, Ye Xingchen told his three wives he would return to the Divine Desolation Continent before coming back to the God Realm by another route. He warned them to avoid the Qin Lineage’s expected interference, then gave them and Gongsun Xuanji treasure boxes before they headed toward the towering peaks.

• Ye Xingchen recalled the unfinished mysteries of the Divine Desolation Continent and decided he needed to return there before entering the God Realm.
• Ye Xingchen told Luo Qingshan, Hua Xueyan, and Xiao Yajun he would return to the Divine Desolation Continent, then reenter the God Realm by another route.
• Ye Xingchen urged his three wives to bring their sects into the God Realm and stay out of any conflict with the Qin Lineage.
• Ye Xingchen gave fortuitous opportunity treasure boxes to his three wives and Gongsun Xuanji, who accepted them after initially refusing.
• Gongsun Xuanji, Ye Xingchen, and the three women set off toward the towering peaks at the end of the Ancient God Road.

The Divine Desolation Continent’s group reached the Reception Platform and learned how the Same-Origin Formations allowed God Realm powerhouses to descend and bring lower-realm sects across. Hua Xueyan and others brought their sects into the God Realm, while Luo Qingshan approached a formation in response to a familiar voice, and Qin Xuan began plotting after being brushed aside.

• Gongsun Xuanji explained the Reception Platform, the Holy Ancestor’s seal, and how Same-Origin Formations enabled Dharma bodies to descend.
• Hua Xueyan accepted Huang Limeng’s offer to become her direct disciple, and Huang Limeng transported the Ten Thousand Flowers Divine Palace to the Reception Platform.
• Hua Xueyan led the Ten Thousand Flowers Divine Palace through the barrier, and Dao Wuya, Wuxin, Xue Qingxi, Lei Lie, and Xiao Yajun brought their own lower-realm sects into the God Realm.
• Ye Jialuo entered the God Realm with Sea God Island, while Ye Xingchen reassured Luo Qingshan as she prepared to cross.
• Qin Xuan was forced to yield the platform’s front position to a mature, alluring figure, then watched Luo Qingshan approach a Same-Origin Formation and formed a sinister scheme.

Luo Qingshan joined Luo Tianfei and secured permission to bring the lower-realm Demon Race and the Black Qilin into the God Realm. Ye Xingchen stayed behind on the reception platform, where the God Realm’s powerful figures prepared to compete for him as a disciple.

• Luo Tianfei appeared and accepted Luo Qingshan as her disciple after Luo Qingshan asked her to bring the Demon Race from the lower realm into the God Realm.
• Luo Qingshan asked whether she could bring the Black Qilin, and Luo Tianfei approved while suppressing the greed of the other faction leaders.
• Luo Tianfei transported the Demon Race members to the reception platform, and Ye Xingchen urged them to cultivate diligently before they followed Luo Qingshan into the God Realm.
• Ye Xingchen gave Xiong Wufa and Xiong Wutian a storage ring and warned them not to neglect their cultivation.
• After the other arrivals entered the God Realm, Ye Xingchen remained alone on the platform as a majestic voice signaled the start of the contest to recruit him.

Ye Xingchen arrived on the God Realm platform and drew offers from its major factions, but Qin Xuan exposed his Black-Yellow Divine Qi and then used a Holy Ancestor’s jade talisman to seal the Ancient God Road and trap him in deadly spacetime storms. As the God Realm began to vanish, Ye Xingchen calmly smiled at Luo Qingshan, Hua Xueyan, and Xiao Yajun before speaking words that stunned the factions.

• The faction leaders recognized Ye Xingchen as a taboo prodigy, while Qin Xuan considered how to keep him from joining a rival faction.
• Lin Aotian, Dugu Pojun, and leaders of other powerful factions offered Ye Xingchen lavish positions and resources; Luo Qingshan and Hua Xueyan’s mentors held back after learning he would not join a faction.
• Qin Xuan revealed that Ye Xingchen had obtained Black-Yellow Divine Qi, and Ye Xingchen mocked him and reminded the factions that he had destroyed the lower-realm Qin Lineage and Qin Xuan’s avatar.
• Qin Xuan activated a Holy Ancestor’s jade talisman, sealing the Ancient God Road and causing the God Realm to disappear as spacetime storms threatened Ye Xingchen.
• As Luo Qingshan, Hua Xueyan, and Xiao Yajun watched anxiously, Ye Xingchen smiled at them and began speaking with chilling calm.

Ye Xingchen escaped the Holy Ancestor’s spacetime storm by using the Realm-Breaking Vajra to enter the Divine Desolation Continent. After collecting abandoned sects into the All Things Realm, he headed toward Archaic Purgatory in search of more of the Heavenly Dao’s will.

• Ye Xingchen used the Realm-Breaking Vajra to open a passage to the Divine Desolation Continent and escaped the storm consuming the Ancient God Road.
• At the All Under Heaven Pavilion, Ye Xingchen learned that people were raiding the empty sects left behind by factions that had ascended to the God Realm.
• Ye Xingchen moved the Ten Thousand Flowers Divine Palace, the Purple Cloud Palace, and the Demon Race into the All Things Realm.
• Ye Xingchen planted the Divine Bodhi Tree in the Chaos Divine Water, prompting the tree and the All Things Realm to undergo profound changes.
• Ye Xingchen chose Archaic Purgatory in Western Buddha Province as his next destination and set out for it.

Ye Xingchen entered Archaic Purgatory and overheard Tian'er and her grandfather explain how Western Buddha Province's calming Buddha Qi gradually drew people into Buddhism, and why cultivators went to Archaic Purgatory to dispel it. As several Great Emperor cultivators surrounded Tian'er and her grandfather, Tian'er reacted with unexpected excitement.

• Ye Xingchen entered Archaic Purgatory, surveyed its ancient bones and desolate landscape, and watched explorers seek opportunities there.
• Tian'er and her Ancient Emperor grandfather discussed why cultivators avoided the Holy Buddha Heavenly Sect despite its treasures and the sect's departure for the God Realm.
• Tian'er's grandfather recounted how Western Buddha Province's peaceful Buddha Qi could change people until they joined the Buddhist faith, warning her to leave within ten days or enter Archaic Purgatory to dispel it.
• Ye Xingchen understood that cultivators entered Archaic Purgatory both to seek opportunities and to rid themselves of Buddha Qi.
• Several Great Emperor cultivators surrounded Tian'er and her grandfather, but Tian'er looked excited as they approached.

Shi Tian'er slaughtered a group of Great Emperors in the Archaic Purgatory while Ye Xingchen learned about the Ancient Stone Clan's strength and its vow to enter the God Realm only after someone broke through the barrier between realms. Emperor Shi Potian revealed that Tian'er might be the one to fulfill that vow, and Ye Xingchen chose to keep watching her.

• Shi Tian'er ignored her grandfather's warning and killed the Great Emperor who had provoked her with a single punch, then killed the remaining Great Emperors as they tried to flee.
• Emperor Shi Potian told Tian'er that the Ancient Stone Clan had once been the strongest clan in the myriad worlds and would not enter the God Realm until one of its members broke through the barrier between realms.
• Ye Xingchen realized that the Ancient Stone Clan's powerful ancestors might know the secrets of the Divine Desolation Continent and the shattered Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove.
• Emperor Shi Potian said Tian'er was the clan's greatest hope to prove her Dao through strength, break the God Realm's barrier, and lead the Ancient Stone Clan into the God Realm.
• After Shi Tian'er replied in her adorable voice, Ye Xingchen decided to watch her a little longer.

Ye Xingchen discovered that the nine-colored vortex in Archaic Purgatory came from the remains of an Extraterrestrial Heaven-Devouring Beast, while Shi Tian'er displayed overwhelming strength against its first beast tide. A more terrifying presence emerged as the next tide gathered, shocking even Ye Xingchen.

• Shi Potian told Shi Tian'er that Ye Xingchen was a mysterious, taboo-like variable whose fate even their ancestor could not divine.
• A surge of power drew Shi Potian, Shi Tian'er, and Ye Xingchen to a colossal nine-colored skeleton with a vortex at its center.
• Ye Xingchen learned that the skeleton belonged to an Extraterrestrial Heaven-Devouring Beast and that the vortex released beast tides and treasures.
• Shi Tian'er charged into the first tide and killed every ancient ferocious beast variant with her punches, ignoring the scattered treasures.
• A middle-aged powerhouse warned that the next tides would be stronger, and Heavenly Emperor Realm and Ancient Emperor Realm beasts began pouring out of the vortex.
• A monstrous roar and pressure swept across Archaic Purgatory, leaving the gathered powerhouses pale and startling Ye Xingchen.

The ancient beast emperor emerged in Archaic Purgatory, and Shi Potian and Shi Tian'er slaughtered the lesser beasts before Shi Potian challenged it. Just as the emperor attacked the injured Shi Potian and he tried to protect Shi Tian'er, a soft sigh sounded and the beast emperor screamed in agony, leaving them stunned.

• The ancient beast emperor appeared from the nine-colored vortex and ordered the ancient fierce beasts to attack the cultivators.
• Shi Potian and Shi Tian'er fought through the beasts and killed them, while the emperor watched.
• The beast emperor killed dozens of cultivators, and Shi Tian'er vomited at the sight.
• Shi Potian charged the emperor with a powerful punch, but the clash shattered his right hand and one of the beast's horns.
• The emperor attacked again, and Shi Potian threw Shi Tian'er away and tried to block the strike with his body as she rushed back to him.
• A soft sigh sounded, and the beast emperor screamed in agony, leaving Shi Potian and Shi Tian'er shocked.

Ye Xingchen rescued Shi Potian and Shi Tian'er in the Archaic Purgatory, gave them treasures, and offered Shi Tian'er a chance to become his disciple if she reached the God Realm by breaking through its barrier. After he left, the grandfather and granddaughter discussed the Stone Clan's internal divisions and discovered that his pill was Great Dao Grade.

• Ye Xingchen effortlessly killed the weakened ancient ferocious beast emperor, gave Shi Tian'er the Chaos Divine Grass and Divine Spring of Life, and restored Shi Potian's injured hand.
• Shi Potian recognized Ye Xingchen and thanked him; Ye Xingchen gave Shi Tian'er treasures and warned Shi Potian not to endanger her during his pursuit of battle.
• Ye Xingchen revealed that the Ancient God Road was not the only way to enter the God Realm, prompting Shi Tian'er to ask him to become her master.
• Ye Xingchen agreed to accept Shi Tian'er as his disciple if she broke through the barrier between the Divine Desolation Continent and the God Realm, and gave her a pill to advance her cultivation.
• After Ye Xingchen vanished, Shi Tian'er criticized the grand elder's faction for undermining Shi Potian and misusing clan assets, while Shi Potian lamented the Stone Clan's split.
• Shi Tian'er opened Ye Xingchen's jade bottle, and Shi Potian identified the pill inside as a Great Dao Grade divine pill.

Shi Tian'er used Ye Xingchen's pill to break through to the peak Void God Realm and prepared to return with Shi Potian to the Stone Clan. Meanwhile, Ye Xingchen investigated rumors of a hidden world at the Holy Buddha Heavenly Sect and discovered a sign that it had appeared.

• Shi Potian recognized the pill Ye Xingchen gave Shi Tian'er as a rare Great Dao Grade divine pill and urged her to take it in seclusion.
• Shi Tian'er swallowed the pill and rapidly advanced to the peak Void God Realm, stunning Shi Potian.
• Shi Tian'er planned to return to the Stone Clan, master her new strength, and eventually bring Shi Potian into the God Realm; Shi Potian secretly vowed to avenge his son's murder by Shi Jingyun.
• Ye Xingchen went to the ruined Holy Buddha Heavenly Sect after hearing rumors that a golden-lit small world appeared in its rear mountain at night.
• Ye Xingchen waited in the forbidden grounds, and at midnight a golden flash appeared as the Heavenly Dao Spirit's bead shook, revealing the place he had been seeking.

Ye Xingchen sealed an otherworldly invasion passage and briefly awakened the Spirit of the Heavenly Dao, which delivered a cryptic message about Divine Desolation's ultimate secret. After mastering the Batian Divine Fist, he chose the Forest of No Return as his next destination while a distant figure pursued a breakthrough above the Heavenly Dao.

• Ye Xingchen used the power of the five elements to open the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove fragment and deployed two Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Grand Formations to block an otherworldly invasion passage, enraging a powerful figure beyond it.
• The Spirit of the Heavenly Dao absorbed the small world's Heavenly Dao's will and laws, briefly awakened, and gave Ye Xingchen a cryptic message linking Divine Desolation, the origin, and the ultimate.
• Ye Xingchen found the small world's treasures drained of divinity but its immortal veins intact, then sealed the world and the otherworldly passage to allow its eventual recovery.
• Ye Xingchen connected the message to outsiders' interest in Divine Desolation and inadvertently released might that terrified Western Buddha Province before departing.
• Ye Xingchen returned to the All Under Heaven Pavilion, received check-in rewards including the Batian Divine Fist, mastered it through the system, and selected the Forest of No Return in Northern Immortal Province to seek more Heavenly Dao's will.
• A hazy figure within endless chaos anticipated breaking through above the Heavenly Dao and claiming the ultimate while dismissing the variable as a future ant.

Ye Xingchen unintentionally released a terrifying presence that pinned people outside the All Under Heaven Pavilion to the ground, then received powerful cultivation rewards from the system. He traveled to the Forest of No Return, where the sight before him stunned him.

• Ye Xingchen's presence pressed people throughout Central Emperor City to the ground until Yuan Long and Qing Feng persuaded him to withdraw it.
• Yuan Long threatened the gathered factions outside the All Under Heaven Pavilion, and they fell silent.
• Ye Xingchen concealed himself in the void and checked in, receiving the Heaven-Battling Divine Art, ten Glazed Void God Pills, and God-Intoxicating Immortal Brew.
• Ye Xingchen tasted the wine, felt his cultivation increase, and put it away before thinking of the girl he intended to make his disciple.
• Ye Xingchen arrived at the Forest of No Return and stared in disbelief at what he saw.

Ye Xingchen explored the City of No Return and entered the Forest of No Return, where he discovered a vast world hidden beneath its lake. He secretly followed two brothers to a concealed cavern filled with treasures and a powerful golden barrier, which deepened his suspicion that Xuanyuan Taiyi had created the hidden place.

• Hong Qingzhu guided Ye Xingchen through the City of No Return and warned him to leave the forest before sunset, when deadly black mist and a great terror appeared.
• Ye Xingchen entered the black bamboo forest, reached the radiant lake, and followed a scar-faced man and his middle-aged brother into the water.
• Beneath the lake, Ye Xingchen found a vast world filled with savage beasts and followed the brothers through a concealed mountain passage.
• Ye Xingchen entered a hidden cavern containing divine herbs and fruits behind a golden barrier, while the brothers headed toward an enormous stone door.
• The middle-aged man punched the golden barrier, and Ye Xingchen recognized its extraordinary defensive formation.

Ye Xingchen reached the enormous stone gate and encountered Xuanyuan Taiyi’s phantom, who said he could not open it until the Spirit of the Heavenly Dao awakened. After receiving Xuanyuan Taiyi’s jade talisman, Ye Xingchen learned information that appeared to resolve some of his doubts and prepared to return later.

• The middle-aged man failed to break the golden barrier, and Ye Xingchen followed him and the young man deeper into the cavern.
• The two brothers attacked Ye Xingchen at the stone gate, but he froze them with his power and destroyed them with the Sword Domain.
• Ye Xingchen’s golden key entered the stone gate, summoning Xuanyuan Taiyi’s phantom.
• Xuanyuan Taiyi told Ye Xingchen that the gate could not be opened until the Spirit of the Heavenly Dao awakened and gave him a jade talisman.
• Ye Xingchen read the information in the jade talisman and said that he understood.

Ye Xingchen gathered rare divine herbs and fruits in a hidden cavern, then hurried to the Stone Clan after Shi Tian'er activated his talisman. Shi Tian'er saved Shi Potian with a life-restoring liquid and summoned Ye Xingchen as the clan turned against her.

• Ye Xingchen moved the cavern's divine fruits and herbs into the All Things Realm and sealed the entrance with the Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Grand Formation.
• After sensing Shi Tian'er's Heaven-Reaching Divine Talisman, Ye Xingchen abandoned his plans to investigate the Forest of No Return's center and rushed to her aid.
• Shi Potian confronted Shi Yan and Shi Jingyun as they demanded Shi Tian'er's opportunities from Archaic Purgatory, while Shi Xinghe threatened and humiliated him.
• Shi Tian'er tried to self-detonate, but an Ancient God Realm ancestor suppressed her; she then used life-restoring liquid to stabilize Shi Potian.
• Shi Tian'er activated a divine talisman, and Ye Xingchen appeared from the void before the Stone Clan.

Ye Xingchen arrived at the Ancient Stone Clan after Shi Tian'er called for help, protected her and Shi Potian, and accepted her formal ceremony as his disciple. When a Stone Clan ancestor attacked him, everyone was stunned by what happened next.

• Shi Yan recognized Ye Xingchen as the Demon Race Emperor Lord, while Shi Xinghe dismissed him as no match for the Stone Clan's three Ancient God Realm ancestors.
• Shi Tian'er asked Ye Xingchen to save her grandfather, and Ye Xingchen assured her that Shi Potian would recover after another ordeal.
• Shi Xinghe mocked Ye Xingchen, who sealed his cultivation and forced him to kneel before Shi Potian.
• Ye Xingchen invited Shi Tian'er to explain her grievances, and she formally kowtowed three times to take him as her master.
• A gloomy-faced Stone Clan ancestor unleashed his Ancient God Realm pressure and attacked Ye Xingchen, leaving the clan stunned by the result.

Ye Xingchen’s clone killed a Stone Clan ancestor while Shi Tian'er recounted how greed had turned her clan against her and Shi Potian. Ye Xingchen healed Shi Potian and revived the bodies of those who had died protecting Shi Tian'er, but the Stone Clan’s greed persisted, ending in a sudden scream that left everyone stunned.

• Ye Xingchen’s clone killed a Stone Clan ancestor, then Shi Tian'er told him how Shi Xinghe and the grand elder had stirred the clan against her and Shi Potian over their supposed fortuitous opportunity.
• Ye Xingchen’s true body arrived from the Forest of No Return, condemned the Stone Clan’s greed, and told them they had jeopardized Shi Tian'er’s future and their own chance to enter the God Realm.
• Ye Xingchen broke Shi Potian’s partially healed body apart and fed him a Nine-Turn Golden Pill, restoring him completely.
• Ye Xingchen used Purple Qi Soul-Restoring Grass on the Stone Clan members who had died protecting Shi Tian'er, promising they would return to life within a year.
• Shi Tian'er and Shi Potian saw greed in Shi Yan and the remaining ancestor, and a sudden scream silenced the Stone Clan as Ye Xingchen remarked that someone had been toyed with all their life.