Chapter Summaries

The Five Emperors City Lord revealed the route through the fire passages to the Justice Alliance and the wider universe, hoping to unite more races against the Dark Alliance in the contest for the Sacred Treasure. As the group prepared to move on, members of the Elf Race arrived and thanked him for his help.

• The Five Emperors City Lord and the others discussed how Chu Tiannan had guided them through the fire passages and wondered how Ming Tian Xing's group had found the way.
• The Desolate Heaven Throne urged Chu Tiannan to share the secret, and the Five Emperors City Lord sent the route to the Justice Alliance's pinnacle races and the universe's virtual information channel.
• Many races doubted the information, but the Five Emperors City Lord told them to come if they trusted him and warned that the Dark Alliance was already ahead.
• The Five Emperors City Lord explained to Chu Tiannan that inviting others would help counter the Dark Alliance's four pinnacle races, and Chu Tiannan understood his reasoning.
• Several members of the Elf Race arrived and thanked the Five Emperors City Lord, promising to repay his kindness if the chance arose.

The Five Emperors City Lord credited Chu Tiannan with revealing how to escape the fire passage, earning the Human Race thanks from the other races. After learning the Dark Alliance was ahead, the gathered experts followed Chu Tiannan’s sense of a summons toward the Sacred Treasure.

• The Five Emperors City Lord told the arriving races that Chu Tiannan had discovered the secret of the fire passage, and they thanked Chu Tiannan.
• Desolate Heaven Throne warned the Imperial Elf Throne and Sea Emperor Throne that the Dark Alliance was already ahead of them.
• The Five Emperors City Lord asked Chu Tiannan to identify the route through the branching caves.
• Chu Tiannan sensed the summons more clearly and pointed to the cave entrance leading toward it.
• Desolate Heaven Throne urged Chu Tiannan and the gathered experts to hurry after the Dark Alliance.

Chu Tiannan led hundreds of Cosmic Thrones through the dragon tunnels, following a voice that called him King Yin Lisa and promised the Dragon Clan Supreme Divine Domain. The group emerged before an enormous, closed bronze gate.

• Chu Tiannan followed the calling voice deeper into the maze-like dragon tunnels as hundreds of powerful figures stayed close behind him.
• The voice grew clearer and urged Chu Tiannan to enter the Dragon Clan Supreme Divine Domain, while he rejected being called King Yin Lisa and identified himself as the Demon Dragon Sovereign, Chaos Throne.
• The Five Emperors City Lord asked how much farther they had to go, and Chu Tiannan said they were nearly there.
• Chu Tiannan spotted light ahead and declared it the exit, and the Five Emperors City Lord replenished his power so he could press on.
• Chu Tiannan and the others left the tunnels and found a gigantic bronze gate standing shut before them.

After escaping the Dragon Cave Maze, Chu Tiannan and the others found an imposing bronze gate blocking the way to the Dragon Clan's treasures. Several experts tried to push it open, but the gate would not budge.

• Chu Tiannan and the others emerged from the maze and found a bronze gate covered in Dragon Clan patterns and mysterious symbols.
• Chu Tiannan thought the patterns shifted, but they appeared motionless when he looked again.
• Several experts from other races hurried to open the gate while Chu Tiannan and the others watched.
• A group of armored experts with steel wings used their strength to push against the gate, but they could not move it.

More than a hundred Throne experts failed to move the Dragon Clan's bronze gate, which reacted to their attempt by releasing a devastating force. The Dragon patterns lit up, and the experts were swept away before they could retreat.

• Throne experts from many races gathered to push the bronze gate, but their combined strength could not budge it.
• Desolate Heaven Throne recognized the currents emerging from the gate as the Law of Devour, while the Five Emperors City Lord realized the gate was something from legend.
• The dragon patterns on the bronze gate lit up as a destructive force surged through its gap.
• The force swept away the experts pushing the gate and slammed them into the surrounding rocks.

More than a hundred experts failed to force open the Dragon Clan’s bronze gate, which the Five Emperors City Lord identified as the Sacred Treasure known as the Gate of Despair and Sighs. The gathered races learned its identity and reacted with anger and greed, just as an unknown speaker addressed the Human Race’s delegation.

• The bronze gate blasted the experts who tried to push it into the surrounding rocks.
• Chu Tiannan learned from the Desolate Heaven Throne and the Five Emperors City Lord that the gate was the legendary Gate of Despair and Sighs, a Dragon Clan Sacred Treasure.
• The Heavenly Dragon Throne complained that the vanished Dragon Clan had left them an indestructible gate, while the Papal Throne distanced himself from the outburst.
• The Five Emperors City Lord told the gathered experts about the gate, prompting curses and greedy looks from members of other races.
• An unknown speaker chuckled that the Human Race had brought plenty of people from other races to the site.

Ming Tian Xing arrived with a group of followers and confronted Chu Tiannan and the gathered powerhouses. After the Five Emperors City Lord dispelled his covert attack, Ming Tian Xing killed a bull-headed monster who challenged him, leaving the others too afraid to intervene.

• Ming Tian Xing mocked the Human Race for gathering allies and accused Chu Tiannan of becoming a variable for the Underworld Clan.
• Chu Tiannan noticed that a purple-robed figure accompanying Ming Tian Xing did not have a Human Race aura.
• Ming Tian Xing sent hidden law fluctuations toward Chu Tiannan, but the Five Emperors City Lord swept them away.
• A bull-headed monster confronted Ming Tian Xing, who seized its head and revealed that its core was there.
• Ming Tian Xing crushed the bull-headed monster's head and body, and the gathered powerhouses stayed silent.

Ming Tian Xing tried to recruit the gathered experts into cooperating with the Underworld Clan, but the Justice Alliance rejected him and Desolate Heaven Throne demanded to know his terms. Ming Tian Xing then deferred to the mysterious purple-robed figure beside Ming King Throne, leaving the crowd wondering who could command such deference.

• Ming Tian Xing killed the minotaur and insulted the other experts, who stayed quiet rather than risk angering the Underworld Clan.
• Ming Tian Xing proposed cooperation to the Justice Alliance, but the Imperial Elf Throne refused and told Dream Butterfly Throne to watch the Underworld Clan.
• Ming Tian Xing asked the Five Emperors City Lord and Desolate Heaven Throne to cooperate, and Desolate Heaven Throne demanded that he state his terms.
• Ming Tian Xing asked the mysterious purple-robed figure beside Ming King Throne to share information needed to enter the Gate of Sighs.
• Sea Emperor Throne mocked Ming Tian Xing for addressing the purple-robed figure as 'my lord.'

The purple-robed man explained that opening the Gate of Despair and Sighs required defeating the Dragon Clan Imperial Guard and finding the Forbidden Soul within it. The gathered powerhouses questioned his explanation, but Five Emperors City Lord concluded that the Dark Alliance had likely been unable to open the gate on its own.

• Ming Tian Xing and Sea Emperor Throne traded insults over the Sea God Trident.
• The purple-robed man described the gate's absolute defense and said the Dragon Clan Imperial Guard had to be defeated to open it.
• Five Emperors City Lord doubted that living beings could exist inside a Sacred Treasure, and the purple-robed man corrected him, explaining that the Dragon Clan's bloodline was needed to open the gate.
• Five Emperors City Lord's Purple Emperor Clone grew angry, and the purple-robed man mistook his Mingdao power for Underworld Clan affiliation before Ming Tian Xing clarified who he was.
• Desolate Heaven Throne asked whether the explanation was true, and Ming Tian Xing said the Dark Alliance had been unable to move the Imperial Guard.
• Five Emperors City Lord privately told Desolate Heaven Throne that they could partly trust the purple-robed man because the Dark Alliance would have entered already if it could.

Desolate Heaven Throne agreed to join Ming Tian Xing and the purple-robed stranger in luring out and killing the Dragon Clan Imperial Guard to obtain the Forbidden Soul. As Ming Tian Xing warned everyone to commit to the fight or leave, Chu Tiannan and the stranger secretly plotted against each other.

• The purple-robed stranger proposed that everyone kill the Dragon Clan Imperial Guard together, find the Forbidden Soul, and settle their grudges after opening the gate.
• Desolate Heaven Throne agreed to cooperate, while the Five Emperors City Lord reassured himself that Desolate Heaven Throne had noticed something was amiss.
• The Five Emperors City Lord told Chu Tiannan to watch Ming Tian Xing, and Chu Tiannan also grew wary of the purple-robed stranger's power.
• The purple-robed stranger sensed Chu Tiannan's powerful soul and secretly considered taking it, while Chu Tiannan thought about devouring the stranger to learn from his power.
• Ming Tian Xing stepped up to the Gate of Despair and Sighs and warned everyone to join the battle or leave before it began.

The gathered races agreed to cooperate temporarily and let Ming Tian Xing lure the beast from the Dragon Clan’s Gate of Despair and Sighs. Ming Tian Xing unleashed destructive power that began eroding the gate, while Chu Tian noticed the power was unlike the Law of Mingdao.

• The powerful beings from the Justice Alliance, Dark Alliance, Sea Race, and Elf Race agreed to cooperate for now to pursue the Dragon Clan’s treasures.
• Ming Tian Xing approached the Gate of Despair and Sighs and prepared to lure the beast out.
• The Five Emperors City Lord noticed that Ming Tian Xing seemed stronger than before, while Chu Tian sensed an unfamiliar destructive aura in his power.
• Ming Tian Xing hurled a purple-black energy ball at the gate, and it began to erode the gate instead of rebounding.

Ming Tian Xing attacked the Gate of Despair and Sighs with destructive power that seemed to transcend the laws of the Primal Universe, drawing the Dragon Clan’s furious response. Chu Tiannan and the Desolate Heaven Throne suspected the power came from an unknown source as Ming Tian Xing launched another attack.

• Ming Tian Xing struck the Gate of Despair and Sighs with an energy ball filled with destructive power.
• Chu Tiannan noticed that Ming Tian Xing’s attack carried power beyond the laws of the Primal Universe.
• The Gate of Despair and Sighs roared, and a Dragon Clan member inside denounced the humans for challenging its majesty.
• Ming Tian Xing launched another energy ball made of pure destructive power, prompting the Five Emperors City Lord and the Desolate Heaven Throne to question its origin.
• Chu Tiannan warned the Five Emperors City Lord about Ming Tian Xing’s power, and Ming Tian Xing hurled another destructive energy ball at the gate.

Ming Tian Xing attacked the Dragon Clan's Gate of Despair and Sighs with a destructive black sphere, but the Dragon Clan's power overwhelmed it and sent its shock waves rebounding into the gathered Throne experts. The Five Emperors City Lord's Haotian Screen began to corrode, leaving the Justice Alliance and other races struggling to defend themselves.

• Ming Tian Xing hurled a black energy sphere at the Gate of Despair and Sighs, briefly shaking the gate before the Dragon Clan's forbidden power swallowed the attack.
• The mysterious purple-robed man criticized Ming Tian Xing for using his power without knowing how to control it.
• The Dragon Clan's golden power shattered the black sphere, sending destructive shock waves toward the gate and the assembled Throne experts.
• Ming Tian Xing returned to the Dark Alliance and raised a purple barrier, while the Five Emperors City Lord used the Haotian Screen to protect the Justice Alliance.
• The shock waves corroded the Haotian Screen and the other experts' defenses, throwing the gathered forces into chaos.

Chu Tiannan used his immense soul will to shield the powerhouses from Ming Tian Xing’s destructive attack and then devoured it. The purple-robed figure resolved to kill him, while the others watched Chu Tiannan neutralize the danger.

• Ming Tian Xing refused to help as destructive power corroded the defensive barriers of the alien powerhouses.
• The Five Emperors City Lord struggled to protect the Justice Alliance with the Haotian Screen, which was being eroded by the attack.
• Chu Tiannan released a vast soul-will barrier that halted the destructive aftershocks and protected the powerhouses.
• Ming Tian Xing was surprised by Chu Tiannan’s powerful soul will, and the purple-robed figure decided he had to be killed.
• Chu Tiannan engulfed and devoured the destructive power, stunning the Desolate Heaven Throne and the Five Emperors City Lord.

Chu Tiannan impressed the Papal Throne by neutralizing Ming Tian Xing’s destructive attack, but the Gate of Despair and Sighs then summoned the Dragon Clan Imperial Guard. The surviving races prepared to face the golden, two-mouthed dragon as it unleashed its roar.

• Chu Tiannan eliminated the attack’s aftershocks with a soul barrier, earning the Papal Throne’s admiration.
• The Gate of Despair and Sighs trembled, and an angry voice declared that the Dragon Clan’s dignity would not be desecrated.
• A golden dragon with two mouths and four eyes appeared and unleashed a roar that shook the rocky world.
• The Desolate Heaven Throne swallowed the dragon’s roar with desolate power and warned that a tough battle was coming.
• The Desolate Heaven Throne, the Purple Emperor Throne clone, Chu Tiannan, and warriors from the other races readied their weapons to fight the Dragon Clan Imperial Guard.

A battle-red Dragon Clan Imperial Guard appeared at the Gate of Despair and Sighs and prepared to unleash its deadly Dragon King's Breath on a group of attacking experts. As its red and golden attacks fired, the other-race experts were left with no way to retreat.

• A colossal Dragon Clan Imperial Guard appeared atop the Gate of Despair and Sighs and entered its berserk state.
• The mysterious purple-robed man warned that the dragon's red Dragon King's Breath could kill everyone present.
• More than a dozen experts from other races charged the dragon to seize Forbidden Soul while the Human Race and Dark Alliance held back.
• The battle-red dragon gathered destructive red and purifying golden shockwaves in its two mouths.
• The dragon fired both waves of light at the advancing experts.

Chu Tiannan and the other experts watched the Dragon Clan Imperial Guard annihilate a group of attackers, revealing the gulf between it and ordinary Nine-Star Thrones. The mysterious purple-robed man claimed he could kill it if they stunned it for one second.

• The Dragon Clan Imperial Guard blasted golden and red shock waves that erased a dozen Throne Level attackers before they could scream.
• Chu Tiannan realized the Imperial Guard had overwhelming power and seemingly no weakness, while the purple-robed man mocked the other-race experts.
• The Desolate Heaven Throne asked the purple-robed man to reveal how they could defeat the guard and pass through the gate.
• The purple-robed man said they only needed to stun the Dragon Clan Imperial Guard for one second, and he would kill it.

The mysterious purple-robed figure claimed he could kill the Dragon Clan Imperial Guard if someone immobilized it for one second, but the assembled powerhouses doubted him. As the dragon recovered and prepared to attack again, a young voice volunteered to hold it in place.

• The mysterious purple-robed figure said he could destroy the Dragon Clan Imperial Guard if it were immobilized for one second.
• The Desolate Heaven Throne and the Five Emperors City Lord questioned his claim and pointed out that none of them could restrain the dragon.
• The purple-robed figure mocked Ming Tian Xing and the others for lacking the strength to stop the beast.
• The Heavenly Dragon Throne accused the purple-robed figure of boasting, but he calmly repeated that he could kill the dragon.
• The Dragon Clan Imperial Guard recovered from its earlier breath attack, and a youthful voice declared, "I'll immobilize it!"

Chu Tiannan stepped forward to hold off the Dragon Clan Imperial Guard for one second so the mysterious figure in purple could try to kill it. He began distracting the dragon with a question, and the guard’s mind grew sluggish as he repeated it.

• Chu Tiannan offered to hold the Dragon Clan Imperial Guard for one second in exchange for the mysterious figure in purple trying to kill it.
• The Five Emperors City Lord worried about Chu Tiannan’s safety, but Desolate Heaven Throne urged him to trust his disciple.
• Chu Tiannan approached the dragon guard and asked if it knew who he was.
• The dragon guard mocked Chu Tiannan and prepared to unleash a breath shockwave, but its mind suddenly became sluggish as Chu Tiannan repeated the question.

Chu Tiannan spoke the Dragon Language to the Dragon Clan Imperial Guard, which recognized him as its future king and offered to take him inside. Meanwhile, a mysterious purple-robed man revealed that he could Teleport inside the temple and became a threat to Chu Tiannan.

• Chu Tiannan asked the Dragon Clan Imperial Guard if it knew who he was, startling it and the other powerhouses by speaking the Dragon Language.
• The mysterious purple-robed man formed a transparent silver blade and Teleported inside the Dragon Clan temple despite its pressure restriction.
• The Desolate Heaven Throne warned the Five Emperors City Lord that the man might not be from the Primal Universe and told him to warn Chu Tiannan.
• The Dragon Clan Imperial Guard recognized Chu Tiannan as its future king, saying the race's three Controllers had waited a full cosmic cycle for him.
• The Dragon Clan Imperial Guard presented Chu Tiannan with Forbidden Soul.