Chapter Summaries

Chen Qingyu obtained the Heavenly Emperor's divine ability Mastery over All Things at the Emperor Yuan Palace and began learning to use it. As prodigies from many holy lands arrived for the Dragon Gate Dharma Assembly, he reunited with old acquaintances and learned that the Spirit Clan Royal Court had come too.

• A woman ordered her disciples to avoid provoking Chen Qingyu and anyone close to him, while Chen Qingyu warned Chen Qinghan and the others to report any challenges to him.
• Chen Qingyu checked in at the Emperor Yuan Palace and obtained the Heavenly Emperor's divine ability Mastery over All Things.
• Chen Qingyu realized he could use Mastery over All Things to seize control of opponents' weapons, artifacts, and abilities, and considered combining it with his Heavenly Calamity.
• Prodigies from many holy lands and races arrived at the Emperor Yuan Palace for the Dragon Gate Dharma Assembly.
• Chen Qingyu reunited with Wu Su'e, Ke Zhenhai, and Wang Pojun, then learned that the Spirit Clan Royal Court's group had arrived.

Chen Qingyu learned that the Spirit Clan Royal Court had arrived at Emperor Yuan Palace and planned to visit his elder sister, while warning Wu Su'e and the others that Emperor Yuan Palace's disciples were defeating the nonhuman prodigies. The chapter ended with Ling Shuangxue's protective barrier shattering as she faced a powerful Emperor Yuan Palace disciple.

• Wu Su'e told Chen Qingyu that the Spirit Clan Royal Court had arrived at Emperor Yuan Palace over two hours earlier.
• Chen Qingyu explained Chang Ziqiu's information and reasoned that Emperor Yuan Palace was unlikely to challenge him or his companions before the Dragon Gate Dharma Assembly, though other holy lands might be targeted.
• Wu Su'e, Ke Zhenhai, and Wang Pojun left after discussing the danger to the other holy lands.
• Chen Qingyu asked a white-robed attendant to guide him to the nonhuman races' lodgings so he could reunite with his elder sister.
• Emperor Yuan Palace's externally taught disciples defeated prodigies from the Crystal Clan, Demon Race, Dragon Race, and other holy lands, leaving Ling Shuangxue as the Spirit Race's last contender.
• A white-robed Emperor Yuan Palace disciple struck Ling Shuangxue's pale green protective barrier with a white wheel of light, shattering it.

Chen Qingyu arrived as Ling Shuangxue was about to be struck down, froze her Emperor Yuan Palace attacker, and helped heal her. After declaring that he would answer for the injury to his older sister, he confronted the Emperor Yuan Palace disciples, and one challenged him to fight.

• Ling Shuangxue's barrier broke, and the white-robed Emperor Yuan Palace disciple sent his white wheel of light at her as she struggled to defend herself.
• Chen Qingyu shouted for the disciple to stop, then froze him and his attack before catching Ling Shuangxue and healing her with Drawing Out Primordial Yang.
• Ling Shuangxue recognized Chen Qingyu, and the watching prodigies were shocked to learn that she was his older sister.
• Chen Qingyu rebuked the frozen disciple for injuring Ling Shuangxue and confronted the Emperor Yuan Palace disciples who protested his insults.
• An Emperor Yuan Palace disciple stepped forward and challenged Chen Qingyu to fight.

Chen Qingyu demanded that Emperor Yuan Palace's disciples apologize to his elder sister, then used the Word Spirit Art to force a powerful disciple to kneel. When Senior Brother Li challenged him, Chen Qingyu attacked first with the Heaven-Collapsing Finger.

• Chen Qingyu rejected the bald, white-robed disciple's challenge and demanded that Emperor Yuan Palace's disciples kneel and apologize to his elder sister or be beaten into doing so.
• The bald, white-robed disciple attacked with his strongest Divine Ability, but Chen Qingyu commanded him to kneel and forced him down despite his resistance.
• The externally taught disciples were stunned and afraid to intervene until Senior Brother Li arrived and identified Chen Qingyu's power as the Word Spirit Art.
• Senior Brother Li challenged Chen Qingyu, confident in his peak Heavenly Impulse Realm cultivation and status as vice president of the Seven Origins Association.
• Chen Qingyu accepted Senior Brother Li's offer to strike first and flicked a finger, unleashing the Heaven-Collapsing Finger.

Chen Qingyu defeated the blood-eyed young man and forced dozens of Emperor Yuan Palace’s externally instructed disciples to kneel, then reunited with Ling Shuangxue. He suspected Emperor Yuan Palace’s factions had targeted his sister to test him, and waited for their elders to answer for the attack.

• Chen Qingyu shattered the blood-eyed young man’s nine blood-colored gates with the Heaven-Collapsing Finger and knocked him unconscious.
• Chen Qingyu used Mastery over All Things to suppress forty or fifty Emperor Yuan Palace disciples and force them to their knees until their elders arrived.
• Chen Qingyu left with Ling Shuangxue, while the watching nonhuman sacred land prodigies dispersed in fear of Emperor Yuan Palace’s response.
• Chen Qingyu and Ling Shuangxue caught up in her palace, where she worried that Emperor Yuan Palace’s higher-ups would retaliate.
• Chen Qingyu told Ling Shuangxue that the disciples’ attack might have been a deliberate test by one faction within Emperor Yuan Palace, which knew she was his sister.

Chen Qingyu reassured Ling Shuangxue that Emperor Yuan Palace’s leaders would apologize and contain the incident, while the Seven Origins Association debated how to respond to Chen Shaojun’s defeat of its disciples. A duty officer from Three Origins Hall arrived to meet Chen Qingyu, leaving the kneeling disciples uncertain about whether the palace would punish him.

• Chen Qingyu told Ling Shuangxue that Emperor Yuan Palace’s leaders had likely allowed the confrontation and would punish the disciples and apologize.
• News of Chen Shaojun’s victory spread through Emperor Yuan Palace, and the Seven Origins Association leaders decided to wait for their superiors rather than challenge him.
• The kneeling disciples hoped Emperor Yuan Palace would rescue them and punish Chen Shaojun.
• A Divine Treasure Realm duty officer from Three Origins Hall arrived and politely asked to see Shaojun of the Chen Clan.
• Chen Qingyu and Ling Shuangxue welcomed the duty officer into the palace, while the kneeling disciples wondered why he had not come to demand an accounting.

Chen Qingyu accepted Emperor Yuan Palace’s apology gift for Ling Shuangxue after she was nearly injured by its externally taught disciples. He then asked about meeting Emperor Yuan and learned that the assembly’s winner might not be granted an audience, though he was allowed to tour most of the palace.

• A white-robed duty officer explained that the three Saint Kings offered Ling Shuangxue an apology gift, and Chen Qingyu accepted the Three Origins Spirit Serenity Pill on her behalf.
• Chen Qingyu gave the pill to Ling Shuangxue, explaining that he had already taken a Thirteen Golden Grain Pill and would gain no benefit from it.
• The duty officer realized Chen Qingyu had taken a Thirteen Golden Grain Pill and privately recognized the value of that intelligence.
• Chen Qingyu asked how he could meet Emperor Yuan, but the duty officer said Emperor Yuan had not received visitors for a hundred years and would not preside over the assembly.
• Chen Qingyu learned that his chance to enter the Dragon Gate and meet Emperor Yuan was uncertain, then secured permission to tour most of Emperor Yuan Palace before the assembly.

After Emperor Yuan Palace compensated Chen Qingyu for the clash with its external disciples, he explained to Ling Shuangxue that the palace’s leaders cared more about studying him than their disciples’ reputations. The next morning, his third check-in at Emperor Yuan Palace granted him the Heavenly Emperor’s authority, [Heaven and Earth, I Alone], leaving him with power over the laws of heaven and earth.

• Chen Qingyu released the external disciples from his divine ability after accepting Emperor Yuan Palace’s compensation, and the white-robed cultivator dismissed them before departing.
• Chen Qingyu told Ling Shuangxue that Emperor Yuan Palace’s three Saint Kings viewed him as their true opponent and would sacrifice their disciples’ standing to prepare for the Dragon Gate Dharma Assembly.
• Chen Qingyu reassured Ling Shuangxue that he could handle Emperor Yuan Palace’s prodigies, then spent several hours touring the palace with her before they returned to their lodgings.
• News of the confrontation spread through Emperor Yuan Palace and the human holy lands, and their prodigies felt relieved that the external disciples were unlikely to challenge them.
• Chen Qingyu completed his third check-in at Emperor Yuan Palace and received the Heavenly Emperor’s power of authority, [Heaven and Earth, I Alone].
• Chen Qingyu’s consciousness rose above heaven and earth, where he gained the ability to control the laws governing fate, space, time, matter, and all living things.

Chen Qingyu obtained the Heavenly Emperor's authority, Heaven and Earth, I Alone, and learned that his next sign-in location was Zhongliang Kingdom Capital. He tested the power's ability to break and rewrite laws, then recognized its immense cost and the limits imposed by his cultivation.

• The system announced that Emperor Yuan Palace's rewards were exhausted and unlocked the seventh sign-in location, Zhongliang Kingdom Capital.
• Chen Qingyu wondered whether Zhongliang Kingdom lay in the Land of Myriad Kingdoms and decided to investigate after leaving the Saint Yuan Minor Realm.
• Chen Qingyu used Heaven and Earth, I Alone to break the movement-speed law within ten zhang of himself.
• Chen Qingyu changed the law governing flame, making fire flow like water before restoring it to its normal state.
• Chen Qingyu realized that using the authority consumed most of his True Gang and that his absolute domain's size depended on his cultivation.

Chen Qingyu struggled to evolve the Heavenly Emperor’s authority-based divine abilities into calamities before the Divine Ability Realm, while searching the Emperor Yuan Palace for clues about Saint King Chenliu’s remains and the Sage Evolution Palace. With the Dragon Gate Dharma Assembly only two days away, he had found no clues and his cultivation deductions had stalled.

• Chen Qingyu decided that turning the Heavenly Emperor’s powers into calamities could strengthen his innate divine ability, and began deducing how to do it without the Martial Practice Hall’s time acceleration.
• Chen Qingyu cultivated in seclusion and spent four hours each day searching the Emperor Yuan Palace, but after more than ten days he found neither a solution nor any trace of the Sage Evolution Palace or Saint King Chenliu’s remains.
• Externally instructed disciples feasted aboard a pleasure boat and hoped Chen Shaojun would lose face at the Dragon Gate Dharma Assembly.
• When Chen Qingyu arrived at the lake, the externally instructed disciples recognized him and quickly fled.
• Chen Qingyu concluded that the evidence about the stolen remains might be hidden in the residences of direct-line successors or higher-ups, while his deductions remained stalled with the assembly two days away.

Chen Qingyu struggled to evolve the Heavenly Emperor’s power into a calamity until the rigid day-night cycle in the Saint Yuan Minor Realm inspired him to conceive the Calamity of Annihilation. He found a way to reshape Doomsday Heavenly Calamity again and immediately began deducing it.

• Chen Qingyu weighed the conflict between the Heavenly Emperor’s orderly powers and the chaotic power of myriad calamities, rejecting a path that would take too long and force him to abandon Heaven-Collapsing Finger.
• The sun abruptly vanished and night fell across the Saint Yuan Minor Realm, prompting Chen Qingyu to reflect on its rigid rules for day and night.
• Chen Qingyu realized that absolute rigidity in the rules would halt all movement and create a state of deathly stillness, which he identified as the Calamity of Annihilation.
• Chen Qingyu connected the new calamity with Heaven-Collapsing Finger’s opposing heavenly calamity and saw how their contrasting powers could reshape Doomsday Heavenly Calamity.
• Chen Qingyu sat down and began deducing how to reshape Doomsday Heavenly Calamity a second time.

Chen Qingyu reconstructed the Doomsday Heavenly Calamity to encompass nine divine abilities before the Dragon Gate Dharma Assembly began. He and the other prodigies entered the Three Origins Hall, where they discovered that an imposing group had already filled the seats on one side.

• Chen Qingyu incorporated the Heavenly Emperor's power and Heaven-Collapsing Finger into the Doomsday Heavenly Calamity, completing its second reconstruction with nine great calamities.
• After returning to his palace, Chen Qingyu told Chen Qinghan and the others that they would have to respond to the Dragon Gate Dharma Assembly's unknown rules as events unfolded.
• The Dragon Gate Dharma Assembly began in the Three Origins Hall, presided over by three Saint Kings and attended by numerous Extreme Transformation Realm cultivators.
• Chen Qingyu and the other human and nonhuman prodigies entered the hall and noticed that the seats behind the tables on the right were already occupied by an imposing group.

At the Dragon Gate Dharma Assembly, Chen Qingyu and the Desolate Continent’s prodigies learned that Emperor Yuan Palace had invited Sage Evolution Palace to participate. Chen Qingyu recognized Zhang Yanqing among its representatives, and she greeted him as they met again.

• The Desolate Continent’s prodigies took their seats alongside Emperor Yuan Palace’s successors, with Chen Qingyu seated closest to the Saint Kings.
• The white-robed elder introduced Saint King Tianchen as the presiding host, along with Saint King Danzhu, Saint King Langgu, and other Emperor Yuan Palace elders.
• The elder announced that guests with special status would join the assembly, prompting the prodigies to wonder who they were.
• The elder welcomed the Sage Evolution Palace’s prodigies, shocking the Desolate Continent’s representatives.
• Chen Qingyu recognized Zhang Yanqing among the Sage Evolution Palace group, and she greeted him.

Chen Qingyu used the Azure Command Talisman to challenge Emperor Yuan Palace over inviting Sage Evolution Palace to the Dragon Gate Dharma Assembly. Saint King Tianchen defended the invitation and rejected Chen Qingyu’s claim that Sage Evolution Palace’s members were Corpse Demons, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Chen Qingyu recognized that Zhang Yanqing had advanced from the Divine Ability Realm to the Heavenly Impulse Realm in just a few months.
• Chen Qingyu rose to publicly demand that Emperor Yuan Palace explain its ties to Sage Evolution Palace, despite the white-robed elder’s rebuke.
• Chen Qingyu displayed the Azure Command Talisman and invoked his authority as the human race’s sacred envoy to condemn Sage Evolution Palace and question the three Saint Kings.
• Saint King Tianchen defended Emperor Yuan Palace’s invitation, arguing that Sage Evolution Palace’s returned members were living beings who retained their faculties.
• Chen Qingyu insisted that Zhang Yanqing and other core members were Corpse Demons, shocking the gathered prodigies.

Chen Qingyu recognized that Emperor Yuan Palace was openly supporting Sage Evolution Palace, then learned that the Dragon Gate Dharma Assembly’s new rules could force him to defend the Desolate Continent’s honor. With the Desolate Continent side hesitant to challenge anyone, Chen Qingyu sent Chen Qinghan forward, who selected a black-clad young man as his opponent.

• Saint King Tianchen defended Sage Evolution Palace, and Chen Qingyu asked him to send letters explaining Emperor Yuan Palace’s position to the various holy lands after the assembly.
• The white-robed elder announced rules allowing battles between opponents whose cultivation differed by no more than two major realms, a change that put pressure on Chen Qingyu.
• The Desolate Continent prodigies realized Chen Qingyu had become a symbol of their side and fell silent when given the right to issue the first challenge.
• Chen Qingyu told Chen Qinghan to go forward, and Chen Qinghan challenged an ugly young man in black.
• The white-robed elder reacted with surprise and asked Chen Qinghan whether he was certain about his choice.

Chen Qinghan tried to sacrifice his chances to wear down Emperor Yuan Palace’s fighters and clear a path for Chen Qingyu, but Tao Qinian defeated him with a single attack. Chen Qingyu rejected the strategy, and Tao Qinian immediately challenged another Desolate Continent prodigy.

• Chen Qinghan chose to fight Tao Qinian, a Divine Ability Realm disciple, intending to trade his chances for Chen Qingyu’s benefit.
• Saint King Tianchen ordered the assembly to continue, and the white-robed elder began the battle in a folded space.
• Tao Qinian knocked Chen Qinghan unconscious with one attack, leaving him unable to fight again.
• Chen Qingyu told the Desolate Continent prodigies to fight as they normally would instead of making sacrifices for him.
• Tao Qinian accepted another challenge and pointed to a Desolate Continent prodigy, ordering him to fight.

Chen Qingyu watched the Desolate Continent prodigies lose most of their battles at the Dragon Gate Dharma Assembly before accepting a challenge from Liang De, a direct-line successor of Emperor Yuan Palace. Their fight began with Liang De unleashing a vast prison of chains formed from countless runes and spiritual patterns.

• Tao Qinian defeated a prodigy from the Zhou Clan of Chenyang and then crushed a Crystal Clan prodigy from the Mystic Crystal Ancestral Court.
• A pureblood golden lion from Qilin Valley lost to a Spirit Origin Realm prodigy of Emperor Yuan Palace, while the Desolate Continent prodigies suffered many further defeats over two days and nights.
• After the last Desolate Continent prodigy used his third chance and lost, Liang De challenged Chen Qingyu in front of the assembly.
• Chen Qingyu accepted Liang De's challenge and entered the sealed battlefield within the folded space.
• Liang De began the fight by summoning a vast white-light prison made from chains of runes and spiritual patterns.

Chen Qingyu defeated Liang De by using [Mastery over All Things] to seize control of his regenerating Nine-Turn Heaven-Establishing Lock and bind him. After Emperor Yuan Palace conceded the round, Chen Qingyu invited any of its disciples who wished to challenge him to step forward.

• Liang De unleashed his powerful Nine-Turn Heaven-Establishing Lock, whose broken chains continually regenerated and resisted Chen Qingyu's [Heaven-Collapsing Finger].
• Chen Qingyu recognized that Liang De was trying to draw him into an attrition battle and dispersed [Heaven-Collapsing Finger].
• Chen Qingyu used [Mastery over All Things] to take control of Liang De's innate divine ability and turn its chains against him.
• Liang De was bound and defeated, and the white-robed elder conceded the round on behalf of Emperor Yuan Palace.
• Chen Qingyu declined to choose a specific opponent and invited anyone among Emperor Yuan's disciples to challenge him.

Chen Qingyu let Emperor Yuan Palace choose his next opponent, then revealed his overwhelming Doomsday Heavenly Calamity technique against Chen Changchun. He left the hall undefeated, while Emperor Yuan Palace’s disciples wondered if anyone below the Divine Treasure Realm could defeat him.

• Chen Qingyu gave Emperor Yuan Palace the right to choose his opponent, and Chen Changchun volunteered to fight him.
• Chen Qingyu recognized Chen Changchun’s distant connection to the Chen Clan, but Chen Changchun said he did not consider himself part of the clan.
• Chen Changchun opened with his five-colored armor, and Chen Qingyu unleashed Doomsday Heavenly Calamity.
• The calamities shattered Chen Changchun’s armor and left him unconscious and gravely injured after a single breath.
• Chen Qingyu withdrew his technique and called for the next opponent as the hall fell silent and Emperor Yuan Palace’s disciples feared no one below the Divine Treasure Realm could defeat him.

Chen Qingyu defeated Chen Changchun, leaving the Desolate Continent prodigies confident he would win the Dragon Gate Dharma Assembly, but Saint King Tianchen revealed his final disciple, Yin Zhongsheng. Chen Qingyu recognized that Yin Zhongsheng had reached the Divine Shore Realm, and the assembly faced an uncertain final match.

• Chen Changchun was carried away for treatment after Chen Shaojun defeated him, and the Desolate Continent prodigies celebrated the victory.
• Saint King Tianchen announced that Chen Shaojun had one match left before claiming the championship and summoned his final disciple, Yin Zhongsheng.
• Yin Zhongsheng entered the Three Origins Hall, appearing to be an ordinary peak Heavenly Impulse Realm cultivator.
• Chen Qingyu sensed that Yin Zhongsheng had attained the Divine Shore Realm, shocking everyone present.
• The Desolate Continent prodigies worried that Yin Zhongsheng's higher cultivation might end Chen Shaojun's undefeated run.