Chapter Summaries

Sima An revealed that Heavy Sword Mountain had conspired with the Sword Sect to murder his parents and seize the Beast Taming Divine Ring, then avenged them by killing Heavy Sword Zi. As Ye Xingchen and the women explored farther into the Ancient Divine Tomb, a sealed race emerged, and its enemy was revealed to be the Holy Ancestor, Xuanyuan Wushuang.

• Sima An accused Heavy Sword Zi of conspiring with the Sword Sect to murder his parents and steal the Beast Taming Divine Ring, revealing that he had overheard their plot while pretending to be unconscious.
• Sima An ordered his Heavenly Emperor Realm black flood dragon to swallow the wounded Heavy Sword Zi, then paid respects to his slain family and ancestors.
• Ye Xingchen and the three women continued deeper into the Ancient Divine Tomb, finding ancient inheritances as other factions pressed toward the depths.
• Ye Xingchen's ominous premonition intensified before the tomb shook and darkness spread from its depths.
• A terrifying voice announced that its race had emerged and challenged Xuanyuan Wushuang, while an indistinct figure warned that the race's return might bring its extermination.
• The factions recognized the name Xuanyuan Wushuang as that of the Holy Ancestor.

Jian Yao’s theft of the Devil-Suppressing Sword freed Xue Sha and the Asura Clan from their ancient seal, triggering a bloody battle with the factions inside the Ancient Divine Tomb. After the Asuras were nearly wiped out at great cost, Xue Sha revealed that the tombs themselves formed a Devil-Suppressing Formation and accused the Human Race of repeating its old greed.

• Xue Sha broke free from the altar’s seal, killed Jian Yao’s elders, and severely wounded Jian Yao with a single punch.
• The factions discovered the altar and learned that Jian Yao had taken the Devil-Suppressing Sword, freeing the Asura Clan; Xue Sha identified himself as lord of the Asura Clan.
• Dao Wuya revealed his Ancient Emperor Realm strength and fought Xue Sha while the Dao Child and the other factions battled the Asuras.
• The factions killed nearly all the Asuras but suffered heavy casualties, while Dao Wuya sustained injuries fighting Xue Sha.
• Xue Sha explained that the ancient tombs were arranged as a Devil-Suppressing Formation and revealed that the Void God Realm expert had hidden the Devil-Suppressing Sword among the tombs.
• The factions turned angrily toward Jian Yao, but Dao Wuya defended him, and Xue Sha mocked the Human Race as hypocritical.

Jian Yao was exposed for drawing the Devil-Suppressing Sword and was killed by Sima An, while Dao Wuya used the sword to confront Xue Sha. Xue Sha revealed that the Devil Sealing Formation had been compromised, then absorbed the essence of hundreds of Devil Race corpses and unleashed a godlike presence.

• Dao Wuya pointed out the warning carved on the fallen statue, and the gathered factions turned against Jian Yao for drawing the sword that had sealed the Devil Race.
• Sima An attacked the gravely wounded Jian Yao, killed him to avenge his parents, and took his storage ring before handing it to Dao Wuya.
• Dao Wuya retrieved the Devil-Suppressing Sword from the ring and used its righteous radiance to drive back the black mist.
• Xue Sha explained that the Devil Sealing Formation could no longer prevent the Devil Race from emerging because several burial chambers had been destroyed.
• Xue Sha crushed hundreds of Devil Race corpses into a bead and swallowed it, while Dao Wuya struck at him with the Devil-Suppressing Sword.
• A black claw met Dao Wuya’s sword strike, and Xue Sha began howling as a terrifying, godlike presence surged from his body.

Xue Sha broke through to the Void God Realm and overwhelmed the gathered factions of Divine Desolation, destroying the Ancient Divine Tomb’s defenses. As he prepared to unleash his demonic power, Ye Xingchen appeared before him.

• Xue Sha transformed, and Dao Wuya and the other factions attacked him with their strongest techniques and treasures, while Lei Lie revealed his Ancient Emperor Realm strength.
• Xue Sha dismissed their combined assault with a wave of black liquid, but the Ancient Divine Tomb’s golden barrier stopped it from reaching the crowd.
• Xue Sha declared that he had broken through to the Void God Realm and shattered the barrier, stone tablet, and burial chambers with a single punch.
• Xue Sha roared in triumph until Ye Xingchen appeared in the void and told him to be quiet.

Ye Xingchen used the Primordial Devil-Suppressing Stone to suppress Xue Sha and the cavern, ending the threat in the Ancient Divine Tomb. Then a nine-colored radiance revealed the presence of a Heavenly Dao Fragment, and Dao Wuya led everyone toward it as Ye Xingchen announced the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove had appeared.

• Ye Xingchen sent the Primordial Devil-Suppressing Stone toward Xue Sha, who recognized it and tried to flee.
• The stone bound Xue Sha with golden chains, absorbed his Devil Qi, and weakened him despite his attempt to escape.
• Ye Xingchen pressed the stone down over Xue Sha and the cavern, suppressing them as Xue Sha cried out that only a variable could kill an Asura imperial bloodline member.
• The factions reacted to Xue Sha's defeat, while Dao Wuya resolved not to provoke Ye Xingchen.
• Ye Jialuo sensed a presence of her kind near Central Emperor Province and continued into the darkness of the Devil Abyss Dark Forest.
• The Ancient Divine Tomb shook as nine-colored light revealed a Heavenly Dao Fragment; Dao Wuya and the others rushed toward it, and Ye Xingchen told Xiao Yajun and the other women that the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove had appeared.

Ye Xingchen led the survivors to the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove, where they found a world within a world sealed behind a Heavenly Dao barrier that would take a day to open. As the factions rested and Lei Lie eyed Ye Xingchen’s pavilion with greed, Ye Xingchen remembered his daily system check-in and began it.

• Ye Xingchen wondered whether other Devil Race members and hidden secrets existed on the Divine Desolation Continent, then led the others toward the nine-colored radiance.
• Dao Wuya identified the barrier as a world within a world and said its Heavenly Dao protection would take at least a day to disappear; a Great Emperor Realm rogue cultivator was injured when he attacked it.
• Lei Lie invited Xiao Yajun to join Sea God Island, but she ignored him, and Ye Xingchen’s glance made Lei Lie sense danger.
• Ye Xingchen used the Ancient Divine Vine to raise a pavilion, giving his companions a place to rest while the other factions watched enviously.
• Ye Xingchen began his daily system check-in, while Lei Lie secretly coveted the pavilion and the vine that created it.

Ye Xingchen learned the Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Grand Formation and clashed with Lei Lie after refusing to give him the Ancient Divine Vine. Their feud intensified just as the nine-colored barrier disappeared, revealing what lay beyond.

• Ye Xingchen received the Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Grand Formation from the system and mastered the ability to form it with a single thought.
• Luo Qingshan woke Ye Xingchen, and the two joined Hua Xueyan and Xiao Yajun before the group left the pavilion.
• Lei Lie asked Ye Xingchen to exchange the Ancient Divine Vine for a treasure, but Ye Xingchen mocked him and said he could have it only in exchange for his life.
• Lei Lie attacked Ye Xingchen, but Dao Wuya intervened, and Lei Lie withdrew his punch before threatening Ye Xingchen.
• The nine-colored barrier vanished, leaving everyone frozen in shock at the sight before them.

The factions discovered that the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove lay behind the nine-colored bronze gate inside the Ancient Divine Tomb, but even the strongest cultivators could not open it. Ye Xingchen used a Heaven-Mending Divine Stone key to open the gate, and someone immediately rushed into the vortex first.

• The factions recognized the nine-colored gate as the entrance to the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove, and Dao Wuya sensed Heavenly Dao Fragments inside.
• Dao Wuya, Lei Lie, Taishu Yunlong, and Taishu Changquan tried and failed to push open the gate; several experts also failed to pull it open.
• A Great Emperor discovered a keyhole beneath the gate handle, but the factions could not find a key.
• Ye Xingchen produced the Heaven-Mending Divine Stone key he had obtained from Xiao Yajun, and it opened the gate despite Lei Lie's mockery.
• The gate opened into a nine-colored vortex, and an unidentified figure rushed inside ahead of the others.

Ye Xingchen waited for the nine-colored doors to open fully and discovered a hidden entrance that sent entrants safely to lands of opportunity. While the others gained treasures and advanced in strength, Ye Xingchen entered a realm of darkness and found something that astonished him.

• Dao Wuya entered the first vortex, prompting Lei Lie and the other factions to follow while Ye Xingchen and his companions stayed behind.
• When the doors opened completely, Ye Xingchen identified the hidden vortex as a safe route to a land of opportunity and guided the other factions and his three companions inside.
• Dao Wuya found a Heavenly Dao Fragment, while Lei Lie discovered and absorbed Lightning Tribulation Liquid before heading toward the treasure trove's central mountain.
• Luo Qingshan, Hua Xueyan, Xiao Yajun, and the other factions gained opportunities, and all three women reached the Heavenly Emperor Realm.
• Ye Xingchen entered a realm of darkness, felt an unfamiliar sorrow, and rushed toward a white radiance that left him astonished.

In the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove, Ye Xingchen met Xuanyuan Taiyi’s lingering spirit and learned that the Heavenly Dao was dead, its current ruler a pretender, and the Devil Race sought the sleeping Spirit of the Heavenly Dao and a secret within Divine Desolation. Xuanyuan Taiyi entrusted him with the Spirit before disappearing, and Ye Xingchen returned to the Treasure Trove with a transformed state of mind, while the continent’s deeper secrets remained unknown.

• Ye Xingchen discovered a tablet identifying the place as the Tomb of the Heavenly Dao and found the corpse of a powerful middle-aged man beside it.
• Xuanyuan Taiyi’s lingering spirit appeared, revealed that the Heavenly Dao had died and that its current ruler was a puppet master, and recounted his war against the Devil Race and his betrayal.
• Xuanyuan Taiyi explained that Ye Xingchen was the variable destined to defeat the Devil Race and gave him the sleeping Spirit of the Heavenly Dao.
• Xuanyuan Taiyi said the Divine Desolation Continent concealed a secret coveted by both its ruler and the Devil Race, then vanished before he could explain it or the origin of the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove.
• Ye Xingchen returned to the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove, understood that the ancient Heavenly Dao had imposed no cultivation limit, and reached a powerful new state of mind.

Ye Xingchen and the major factions gathered at the golden mountain, where a mysterious barrier blocked the endless steps. As accusations over the factions’ different routes through the vortex stirred hostility toward the Heavenly Dao Sect, Dao Wuya and Lei Lie clashed, and three beautiful women arrived to deepen the tension.

• Ye Xingchen spotted the towering golden mountain and vanished toward it, while Luo Qingshan, Hua Xueyan, Xiao Yajun, and others headed there as well.
• An expert was repelled from the mountain’s steps by a golden barrier, and the gathered factions waited as survivors compared the dangers and opportunities they had encountered.
• Daozi challenged the Demon Race over its lack of casualties, but Luo Xuannü and Liu Ruosu revealed that their three factions had entered a hidden vortex and gained opportunities without losses.
• Liu Ruosu’s account turned the gathered factions against the Heavenly Dao Sect, while Daozi dismissed her claims and withdrew from the argument.
• Dao Wuya and Lei Lie collided under their Ancient Emperor Realm pressure, then learned from their allies about the dispute and watched three beautiful figures arrive as the crowd’s attention shifted to the Heavenly Dao Sect.

Luo Qingshan, Hua Xueyan, and Xiao Yajun returned from the nine-colored vortex as Heavenly Emperors, while Ye Xingchen revealed the rules and secrets of the Heaven-Piercing Divine Stairway. Lei Lie challenged Ye Xingchen’s account, and lightning and killing intent suddenly erupted around Heaven-Piercing Peak.

• Luo Qingshan, Hua Xueyan, and Xiao Yajun appeared as Heavenly Emperors, and Dao Wuya told the other factions that they had no one to blame for missing the opportunities.
• Dao Wuya and Lei Lie found a barrier blocking the stairway and sat at its entrance after sensing treasures within it.
• Ye Xingchen rejoined the three women and identified the stairway as the Heaven-Piercing Divine Stairway, with 9,999 steps, three trials, and no use of immortal spirit power permitted.
• Ye Xingchen explained that reaching the final step would reveal Heaven-Piercing Peak and the secrets of the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove, though no one had ever completed the climb.
• Lei Lie accused Ye Xingchen of making up the stairway’s trials, and lightning and terrifying killing intent erupted around Heaven-Piercing Peak.

Ye Xingchen humiliated Sea God Island’s lord Lei Lie after overpowering him, then threatened to kill him when he insulted Luo Qingshan. As the Heaven-Piercing Divine Stairway’s barrier shattered and a black stele appeared, Dao Wuya suspected Ye Xingchen had reached the Void God Realm.

• Ye Xingchen mocked Lei Lie, then repelled his lightning-powered punch with a single finger and injured him.
• Lei Lie insulted Luo Qingshan and threatened the Demon Race, so Ye Xingchen immobilized him with killing intent and nearly killed him.
• Lei Lie begged for his life and offered compensation, but Ye Xingchen spared him and slapped him twice for his disrespect.
• Dao Wuya suspected Ye Xingchen was a true Void God Realm expert, while Lei Lie returned to the stairway entrance and concealed his rage.
• The Heaven-Piercing Divine Stairway shook, its golden barrier shattered, and a black stone stele rose as golden light entered it.

Ye Xingchen and the faction leaders climbed the Heaven-Piercing Divine Stairway, claimed rewards from its first trial, and endured the far harsher second trial. At the second platform, Ye Xingchen received a pillar of power several times greater than those granted to Luo Qingshan and the other women.

• Ye Xingchen explained that climbers should conserve their strength, avoid using immortal spirit power, and treat the Heaven-Piercing Divine Stairway as body training.
• The faction leaders reached the 3,333rd step and claimed individual rewards, while a Strength Clan expert was expelled after trying to steal someone else’s opportunity.
• Ye Xingchen and the others entered the second trial at the 3,334th step, where the pressure increased nearly a hundredfold and tested their willpower.
• Ye Xingchen, Luo Qingshan, and the other two women reached the 6,666th step and found faction leaders recovering on golden seats as pillars of power enhanced them.
• Ye Xingchen and the three women sat on unoccupied seats, and a pillar of power several times larger than the women’s descended into Ye Xingchen.

Ye Xingchen absorbed the power of the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove and perfected his physical body, then led the climb through the third trial of the Heaven-Piercing Divine Stairway. He overcame the terror guarding its highest tier, breaking the ancient record and causing Heaven-Piercing Peak to appear.

• Ye Xingchen refined the vast power pouring into him, attaining the physical-body realm of perfection and breaking free of mortality to become a god.
• Dugu Yidao explained the significance of Ye Xingchen's achievement as Ye Xingchen urged Luo Qingshan, Hua Xueyan, and Xiao Yajun to prioritize safety in the final trial.
• Ye Xingchen tested the third trial's immense pressure, then climbed ahead while the other faction experts followed and the three women eventually stopped at the 9,900th tier.
• The faction leaders and experts reached their limits on the stairway as Ye Xingchen continued toward its final tier.
• Ye Xingchen defied the terror guarding the highest tier and stepped onto it, prompting the announcement that Heaven-Piercing Peak would appear.

Ye Xingchen obtained the key that unlocked the path to Heaven-Piercing Peak, then received an Ancestor God Realm-Breaking Pill from his system. After resting with Luo Qingshan, he promised to explore the Demon Race with her, but a disturbance on the stone bridge interrupted them.

• Ye Xingchen claimed a golden key on the highest level of the Heaven-Piercing Divine Stairway, removing the immense pressure and allowing the faction leaders to arrive.
• The faction leaders found a mysterious force blocking the stone bridge to Heaven-Piercing Peak, so Ye Xingchen summoned a pavilion for everyone to recover.
• Ye Xingchen used his daily system check-in and received an Ancestor God Realm-Breaking Pill, which he could take after reaching the Void God Realm in a higher world.
• Exhausted, Ye Xingchen fell asleep, and Luo Qingshan helped him into bed before falling asleep beside him.
• Ye Xingchen promised Luo Qingshan that they would return to the Demon Race and explore its territory together after the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove ended.
• The pavilion shook violently, and everyone on the stairway's highest level stared in shock at the ancient stone bridge and assumed defensive stances.

Xuanyuan Taiyi's avatar revealed Heaven-Piercing Peak and warned Ye Xingchen to protect his key before vanishing and unleashing the Youming Beasts beneath the bridge. After the beasts devoured the experts who tried to cross, Ye Xingchen identified them and sealed the abyss, but the onlookers were stunned by his next move.

• Xuanyuan Taiyi praised Ye Xingchen for reaching the highest level of the Heaven-Piercing Divine Stairway, urged him to safeguard his key, and said the secrets awaited beyond the bridge.
• Xuanyuan Taiyi's avatar vanished, revealing Heaven-Piercing Peak and the treasure boxes on its summit as terrifying roars rose from the abyss below.
• Experts from the various factions rushed onto the bridge, but the Youming Beasts dragged them into the abyss and devoured them, including Dugu Yidao.
• Ye Xingchen recognized the creatures as Youming Breakers and used Five Elements Seal the Heavens, Suppress the Strange Abyss to force them back and seal the abyss.
• The watching experts marveled at Ye Xingchen's power, then cried out in shock at what he did next.

Ye Xingchen discovered the secret of the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove and activated the formation that returned everyone to the Divine Desolation Continent. As the treasure trove faded away, a mysterious figure left the fate of the final great era in Ye Xingchen’s hands.

• Ye Xingchen took the stone box from Heaven-Piercing Peak while Lei Lie, Dao Wuya, Taishu Yunlong, and the lord of the Buddha Sect claimed the remaining golden boxes.
• The experts found an inscription declaring, “At the end of the Dao, no road leads out,” and debated how they could escape Heaven-Piercing Peak.
• Ye Xingchen read Xuanyuan Taiyi’s account from a jade talisman and learned that the treasure boxes had to be opened for the exit to appear.
• Ye Xingchen opened his boxes, revealing a Chaos divine stone, and the empty boxes entered the Heaven-Reaching Divine Stele to activate the teleportation formation.
• The factions vanished in a flash of white light, while a mysterious figure warned that the final great era depended on Ye Xingchen.
• The Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove darkened, and a calm voice above the Heavenly Dao Sect said, “Finally back!”

After the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove survivors returned, Jian Xiaotian learned that the Sword Sect had suffered losses and tried to bully the Demon Race into revealing its opportunities. He insulted the Demon Empress, provoking Ye Xingchen’s overwhelming killing intent as blood clouds gathered above the Heavenly Dao Sect.

• Ye Xingchen and the other survivors emerged above the Heavenly Dao Sect, where Dugu Tiandao demanded to know why Dugu Yidao had not returned.
• Jian Xiaotian seized the surviving Rogue Cultivator and questioned him about the Ancient Divine Tomb and the missing Sword Sect disciples.
• The Rogue Cultivator recounted what had happened, and the factions learned about the Heavenly Dao Treasure Trove and the opportunities gained by the survivors.
• Jian Xiaotian tried to rob the Demon Race of its opportunities, but the other factions refused to support him and warned Ye Xingchen that they would settle their own scores later.
• Ye Xingchen confronted Jian Xiaotian, who insulted the Demon Empress and invited her to the Sword Sect; Ye Xingchen’s killing intent erupted as blood clouds covered the sky.

Ye Xingchen pursued Jian Xiaotian to the Sword Sect after Jian Xiaotian fled, killing the Sword Sect experts who had accompanied him. Jian Xiaotian activated the Two-Yin-Yang Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, but after it withstood Ye Xingchen’s strike, he revealed that he had lured Ye Xingchen there to bring out the Demon Race’s empress; a shocking presence then emerged from the depths of the Sword Sect.

• Ye Xingchen’s killing intent overwhelmed Jian Xiaotian, who fled toward the Sword Sect and abandoned his fellow experts; Ye Xingchen passed them, and they crumbled into dust.
• Jian Xiaotian rang the Divine Sword Bell and summoned the Sword Sect’s disciples to the central plaza, then ordered them to activate the Two-Yin-Yang Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Ye Xingchen arrived above the Sword Sect and demanded that Jian Xiaotian come out and die, threatening to erase the sect if he refused.
• The Sword Sect’s disciples insulted Ye Xingchen and the Demon Race, so Ye Xingchen struck the formation with a deathly finger attack; it held, though the elders controlling it suffered grave injuries.
• Jian Xiaotian revealed that he had staged his fear to lure Ye Xingchen to the Sword Sect and draw out the Demon Race’s empress, then threatened to destroy the Demon Race.
• A shocking presence stirred in the depths of the Sword Sect, and Ye Xingchen smiled at Luo Qingshan and the other women as they began to move toward him.