Chapter Summaries

Chen Qingyu faced Yin Zhongsheng, whose Divine Shore Realm past and higher cultivation gave him a decisive advantage. Yin Zhongsheng’s protective divine ability withstood Chen Qingyu’s calamities, then his Essence Severing Dharma Seal cut off Origin Qi before a vast wave of it crashed toward Chen Qingyu.

• The gathered heirs feared Chen Qingyu would lose to Yin Zhongsheng, who had once reached the Divine Shore Realm and now stood at the peak of the Heavenly Impulse Realm.
• Chen Qingyu and Yin Zhongsheng exchanged greetings before Yin Zhongsheng entered the folded space and Saint King Tianchen began the battle.
• Chen Qingyu unleashed Doomsday Heavenly Calamity, but Yin Zhongsheng’s Upholding Rectitude at the Center of Heaven neutralized the attacks as he advanced unharmed.
• Yin Zhongsheng formed the Essence Severing Dharma Seal, causing the surrounding Origin Qi to vanish and reducing the power of Chen Qingyu’s calamity by ninety percent.
• Yin Zhongsheng ended the severance and drew Origin Qi back into the area as a colossal wave that crashed toward Chen Qingyu.

Chen Qingyu survived Yin Zhongsheng’s devastating Essence Severing Dharma Seal and restored most of his calamity powers, leaving Yin convinced that Chen’s defensive method would soon exhaust him. Chen Qingyu then declared that the battle was about to end.

• Yin Zhongsheng unleashed the Essence Severing Dharma Seal, drawing in Origin Qi and engulfing Chen Qingyu in a powerful attack.
• The Origin Qi explosion faded to reveal Chen Qingyu unharmed, to the astonishment of both sides.
• Chen Qingyu replenished the Origin Qi sustaining his calamities from within his body, restoring their power despite Yin Zhongsheng’s technique.
• Yin Zhongsheng investigated Chen Qingyu’s defense, concluded that it consumed enormous energy, and attacked again with the Essence Severing Dharma Seal.
• Chen Qingyu ignored the renewed attack and said he was done prolonging the battle.

Chen Qingyu defeated Yin Zhongsheng by trapping him in the Calamity of Annihilation, which stripped away his cultivation and left him unable to resist. Saint King Tianchen named Chen Qingyu the champion of the Dragon Gate Dharma Assembly and gave him a token to enter the Thearch’s Treasury and Dragon Gate.

• Chen Qingyu revealed that the Doomsday Heavenly Calamity had advanced to its second stage, the Calamity of Annihilation, reducing Yin Zhongsheng to a mortal.
• Chen Qingyu struck the powerless Yin Zhongsheng with a strand of True Gang, and Yin Zhongsheng admitted defeat.
• Saint King Tianchen ordered Chen Qingyu to withdraw his technique, and Yin Zhongsheng recovered from his wounds with white flames.
• Yin Zhongsheng accepted his defeat and promised to seek Chen Qingyu’s instruction again; Saint King Tianchen told him to learn from the loss.
• Saint King Tianchen declared Chen Qingyu the champion, gave him the Dragon Gate Token Talisman, and instructed him to enter the Dragon Gate the next morning to pay respects to the Thearch.

Chen Qingyu won the Dragon Gate Dharma Assembly and received permission to enter Emperor Yuan’s treasury and pay his respects to Emperor Yuan. Afterward, Zhang Yanqing visited him and offered information, including the location of Saint King Chenliu’s remains, in exchange for a treasure from the treasury.

• Saint King Tianchen ended the assembly and gave Chen Qingyu a Dragon Gate Token Talisman, while the Desolate Continent geniuses celebrated his championship.
• Chen Qingyu left Three Origins Hall and reflected on his plans to choose a treasure, visit Emperor Yuan, and complete the Ninth Ancestor’s secret tasks.
• Zhang Yanqing arrived at Chen Qingyu’s palace, and he let her inside despite regarding her as an enemy.
• Zhang Yanqing asked Chen Qingyu to retrieve a treasure from Emperor Yuan’s treasury in exchange for information about Sage Evolution Palace, Saint King Tianchen’s scheme, and Saint King Chenliu’s remains.
• Chen Qingyu questioned whether Zhang Yanqing’s offer was trustworthy, and she said she had her reasons for approaching him.

Chen Qingyu agreed to trade three questions for one treasure from Emperor Yuan's treasury and learned that the Sage Evolution Palace and Emperor Yuan Palace were only temporary allies. Zhang Yanqing hesitated when he asked how the Sage Evolution Palace controlled Corpse Demons, and Chen Qingyu threatened to end the deal if she refused to answer.

• Zhang Yanqing used a Great Void Source Power talisman to shield her conversation with Chen Qingyu from the three Saint Kings.
• Chen Qingyu agreed to exchange three questions for one treasure from Emperor Yuan's treasury.
• Zhang Yanqing said only the Sacred Venerable knew how the Sage Evolution Palace obtained Great Void Might and that he merely lent it to others.
• Zhang Yanqing explained that the Sage Evolution Palace and Emperor Yuan Palace were temporary allies, each seeking the other's secrets and support.
• Chen Qingyu asked how the Sage Evolution Palace controlled Corpse Demons, and Zhang Yanqing hesitated.
• Chen Qingyu warned Zhang Yanqing that he would end the transaction if she refused to answer.

Zhang Yanqing explained that Sage Evolution Palace’s methods for controlling Corpse Demons came from Emperor Yuan’s research, though she knew only how to control Corpse Demon Poison. When Chen Qingyu asked where Saint King Chenliu’s remains were, she withheld the answer until he agreed to retrieve a treasure from Emperor Yuan’s treasury, prompting him to ask what Sage Evolution Palace wanted.

• Zhang Yanqing told Chen Qingyu that Emperor Yuan’s research into Corpse Demons had enabled Sage Evolution Palace to develop methods for controlling poison, resurrecting Corpse Demons, and using their power.
• Zhang Yanqing revealed that she had learned only how to control Corpse Demon Poison and lacked the abilities to obtain or prepare it.
• Zhang Yanqing explained that her method required both Corpse Demon Poison and the user to be a Corpse Demon, so Chen Qingyu could not use it.
• Chen Qingyu asked where Saint King Chenliu’s remains were, but Zhang Yanqing demanded that he first retrieve a treasure for Sage Evolution Palace.
• Chen Qingyu agreed to hear her conditions and asked what Sage Evolution Palace wanted from Emperor Yuan’s treasury.

Zhang Yanqing asked Chen Qingyu to retrieve a unique black stone from Emperor Yuan's treasury in exchange for the whereabouts of Saint King Chenliu's remains. Chen Qingyu found a stone strikingly similar to one he had discovered before, leaving him astonished.

• Zhang Yanqing told Chen Qingyu that bringing her the black stone from Emperor Yuan's treasury would complete their transaction.
• Chen Qingyu agreed and asked a white-robed attendant to take him to the treasury.
• The white-robed old man opened the golden treasury with Chen Qingyu's Dragon Gate Token Talisman and waited outside.
• Chen Qingyu browsed Emperor Yuan's many rare treasures and resisted the temptation to take one for the Chen Clan.
• Chen Qingyu found a pitch-black stone in an ebony box and realized it was eighty percent similar to the ore he had found outside Divine Punishment Valley.

Chen Qingyu chose a mysterious, mountain-heavy black stone from Emperor Yuan’s treasury after recognizing that it matched Saint King Chenliu’s command token. After giving the stone to Zhang Yanqing in exchange for information, he learned that Saint King Chenliu’s remains were in Emperor Yuan Palace, reportedly in Saint King Tianchen’s hands.

• Chen Qingyu examined the black stone, found it closely resembled Saint King Chenliu’s command token, and suspected it came from beyond the heavens.
• Chen Qingyu chose the stone from Emperor Yuan’s treasury, and the white-robed elder removed its restrictions before he left with it.
• Chen Qingyu returned to his palace and gave Zhang Yanqing the stone after she said she did not know why the Sage Venerable wanted it.
• Zhang Yanqing told Chen Qingyu that Saint King Chenliu’s remains were in Emperor Yuan Palace, in Saint King Tianchen’s hands.
• Zhang Yanqing explained that Sage Evolution Palace had found the coffin at Seven Springs Mountain empty and that the Sage Venerable had sent an avatar to ask Emperor Yuan Palace about the remains.

Chen Qingyu learned that Saint King Tianchen had stolen Saint King Chenliu’s remains and planned to enlist the Ninth Ancestor’s help in recovering them. Meanwhile, the Saint Kings of the Emperor Yuan Palace discussed Chen Qingyu and decided not to kill him yet, as the time was not ripe.

• Zhang Yanqing told Chen Qingyu that Saint King Tianchen held Saint King Chenliu’s stolen remains and had considered reviving them as a Corpse Demon.
• Chen Qingyu resolved to signal the Ninth Ancestor and the others before confronting Saint King Tianchen, and planned to meet Emperor Yuan the next day to assess his condition and stance.
• Saint King Tianchen told Saint King Danzhu and Saint King Langgu that Chen Qingyu had taken the mysterious stone from Emperor Yuan’s treasury, and explained that even Emperor Yuan had been unable to damage it.
• Saint King Langgu urged the others to kill Chen Qingyu and seize his secret, but Saint King Tianchen warned that doing so would provoke the Chen Clan and trigger an early war.
• Saint King Langgu agreed to spare Chen Qingyu for now, while Saint King Tianchen said the time was almost here.

Chen Qingyu crossed the Dragon Gate and met Emperor Yuan in his secluded valley, where he learned the passage had strengthened his foundation. Emperor Yuan asked about the outside world, and Chen Qingyu reported that a great war was unavoidable, prompting him to ask whether the emperor could stop it.

• Chen Qingyu followed the white-robed elder to the Dragon Gate and entered with the Dragon Gate Token Talisman.
• Crossing the Dragon Gate improved the connections between Chen Qingyu's constellations and the central Taihao Ziwei Star.
• Chen Qingyu followed a stream through the valley and met Emperor Yuan, recognizing him as the emperor's true body.
• Emperor Yuan welcomed Chen Qingyu and said he might have taken him as his final disciple and heir if they had met centuries earlier.
• Emperor Yuan asked about the situation outside, and Chen Qingyu said a great war was unavoidable.
• Emperor Yuan said he had anticipated his disciples' ambitions, and Chen Qingyu asked if he could stop the coming conflict.

Chen Qingyu questioned Emperor Yuan about his disciples’ actions and the Corpse Demon calamity, learning that the calamity was rooted in flaws in the world itself. Emperor Yuan backed Chen Qingyu’s plan to reclaim his ancestor’s remains and gave him a decree and cultivation insights before Chen Qingyu departed.

• Chen Qingyu told Emperor Yuan that Saint King Tianchen and others had secretly retrieved his research into the Corpse Demon calamity, and Emperor Yuan admitted he had only a year or two to live and could no longer control his disciples.
• Emperor Yuan explained that the Corpse Demon calamity was woven into the flawed foundations of the world and could not be resolved unless the world itself perished.
• Chen Qingyu asked about the unknown black stone in Emperor Yuan’s treasury, and Emperor Yuan said it was an ancestral inheritance whose origin and purpose he did not know.
• Chen Qingyu told Emperor Yuan that he planned to enter the Saint Yuan Minor Realm with the Ninth Ancestor and reclaim his ancestor’s remains, and Emperor Yuan approved the plan.
• Emperor Yuan gave Chen Qingyu a decree to use if the confrontation reached a stalemate, along with a brocade pouch of cultivation insights to open upon reaching the Heavenly Impulse Realm.
• Chen Qingyu accepted the gifts, took his leave, and flew away while Emperor Yuan watched him depart.

After meeting Emperor Yuan, Chen Qingyu used the Supreme Void Origin Talisman as the Desolate Continent prodigies prepared to leave the Saint Yuan Minor Realm. Four powerful ancestors broke through the realm to answer his call, but they found Chen Qingyu unharmed and his reason for summoning them unclear.

• Chen Qingyu met the white-robed old man after passing through the Dragon Gate and said Emperor Yuan had given him cultivation guidance.
• The white-robed old man led Chen Qingyu to the palace entrance, where the purple-robed elder prepared to open the gate between the two realms for the waiting prodigies.
• As the gate began to open, Chen Qingyu activated the Supreme Void Origin Talisman and told the purple-robed elder he wanted to seek justice.
• Someone outside tore open a vast rift in the realm, and the four ancestors of the Chen Clan, Taihuang Wu Clan, Myriad Phenomena Holy Land, and East Flow Holy Land broke through.
• Saint King Tianchen and the other palace Saints confronted the intruders, while the Ninth Ancestor saw that Chen Qingyu was unharmed and wondered why he had called for help.

Chen Qingyu accused Saint King Tianchen of possessing the remains of their ancestor, Saint King Chenliu, and backed his claim with news of the Emperor Yuan Palace’s alliance with the Sage Evolution Palace. When Tianchen denied the accusation and demanded proof, Chen Qingyu produced a decree from Emperor Yuan, whose voice warned him not to persist in his mistake.

• The Ninth Ancestor asked Chen Qingyu why he had summoned the ancestors, and Chen Qingyu said he had called them to recover Saint King Chenliu’s remains.
• Chen Qingyu accused Saint King Tianchen of holding the remains, prompting the Emperor Yuan Palace’s attendants to call his claim slander.
• The Ninth Ancestor demanded an explanation from Saint King Tianchen, who denied stealing the remains and threatened Chen Qingyu.
• Chen Qingyu said a high-ranking member of the Sage Evolution Palace had told him that its Sacred Venerable had sought the remains from Tianchen and clashed with him.
• When the Ninth Ancestor asked for further evidence, Chen Qingyu admitted he had none but revealed a decree from Emperor Yuan.
• Emperor Yuan’s voice emerged from the glowing talisman and told Little Thirteen not to persist in his mistake.

Saint King Tianchen yielded to Emperor Yuan’s decree and privately returned Saint King Chenliu’s remains to the Chen Clan, accepting a settlement that let both sides avoid an open conflict. Chen Qingyu learned the remains were intact and that Tianchen had paid compensation.

• Emperor Yuan issued a decree that pressured Saint King Tianchen to back down from his confrontation with the Chen Clan.
• Saint King Tianchen proposed settling the dispute privately, and the Ninth Ancestor agreed to discuss it inside Emperor Yuan Palace.
• Chen Qingyu suggested that Sage Evolution Palace had influenced Tianchen, provoking his anger toward them.
• In the Three Origins Hall, Saint King Tianchen offered compensation, and the Ninth Ancestor accepted it as settlement for the misunderstanding.
• The Ninth Ancestor confirmed to Chen Qingyu that Saint King Chenliu’s remains were intact and had been returned.

Chen Qingyu and the Ninth Ancestor left Emperor Yuan Palace after recovering Saint King Chenliu’s remains, while Saint King Tianchen blamed Sage Evolution Palace and vowed revenge against the Chen Clan. Back in the Divine Capital, Chen Qingyu told the Ninth Ancestor he had completed all three secret missions.

• The Ninth Ancestor led Chen Qingyu and the others out of Emperor Yuan Palace after Saint King Tianchen dismissed them.
• Saint King Tianchen blamed Sage Evolution Palace for selling Chen Qingyu secret information and vowed to destroy the Chen Clan and kill Chen Shaojun when war broke out.
• Chen Qingyu and the Ninth Ancestor left the Saint Yuan Minor Realm as the Gate Between Two Realms closed behind the departing prodigies.
• Chen Qingyu said goodbye to Ling Shuangxue, Wang Pojun, and the other prodigies before returning to the Divine Capital with the Ninth Ancestor.
• The Ninth Ancestor praised Chen Qingyu for recovering Saint King Chenliu’s remains, and Chen Qingyu revealed that he had completed all three secret missions.

Chen Qingyu reported his discoveries about Emperor Yuan and Sage Evolution Palace to the Ninth Ancestor, who began considering how to respond. Later, Chen Qingyu tried to locate the Zhongliang Kingdom Capital for his next sign-in and learned it supposedly did not exist, so he resumed cultivating while awaiting greater authority.

• Chen Qingyu told the Ninth Ancestor that Emperor Yuan was near death, and the Ninth Ancestor worried about the consequences of his true body being present.
• Chen Qingyu explained that resurrecting Emperor Yuan as a Corpse Demon would require materials that might be impossible to gather, easing the Ninth Ancestor's concern.
• Chen Qingyu reported that Sage Evolution Palace predated Emperor Yuan Palace and that the two powers were allied but distrustful of each other.
• The Ninth Ancestor told Chen Qingyu to prepare for his imminent breakthrough while he discussed the two powers with the other elders.
• Chen Qingyu asked the Great Void Primal Spirit for the Zhongliang Kingdom Capital's location, but was told it did not exist and that he lacked authority for further details.
• Chen Qingyu concluded that the location concealed a secret and entered secluded cultivation, hoping to gain more authority after reaching the Divine Ability Realm.

Chen Qingyu used the Thirteen Golden Grain Pill’s second burst of power to break through to the Divine Ability Realm and manifest his innate divine ability, the Myriad Calamity Wheel Seal. After discovering its powers, he prepared to test it in the Supreme Void Dao Realm’s Divine Ability World.

• The Thirteen Golden Grain Pill’s medicinal power propelled Chen Qingyu from the Seventh Heaven of the True Gang Realm to the peak of the Ninth Heaven and broke through his barrier to the Divine Ability Realm.
• Chen Qingyu’s accumulated techniques, divine abilities, and foundations converged around the Doomsday Heavenly Calamity to form a super celestial body, which received Great Void Source Power.
• The super celestial body manifested Chen Qingyu’s innate divine ability, a wheel-and-seal-shaped object that he named the Myriad Calamity Wheel Seal.
• Chen Qingyu realized the seal could freely combine and switch calamity powers, evolve new calamity powers from other methods, enhance all calamities, and grant resistance or immunity to powers he mastered.
• Chen Qingyu decided to enter the Supreme Void Dao Realm’s Divine Ability World to test his new divine ability.

Chen Qingyu entered the Divine Ability World and challenged the War God Tower’s supposedly impossible twelfth floor. He erased its million-strong formation with his lightning tribulation, leaving the tower floor empty.

• Chen Qingyu found that the Divine Ability World had become a vast, continuous expanse after he advanced to the Divine Ability Realm.
• Chen Qingyu entered the War God Tower and used his authority to go straight to the twelfth floor.
• The Great Void Primal Spirit summoned a million Divine Ability Realm opponents with supreme foundations, arranged in a battle formation powerful enough to challenge a Divine Treasure Realm expert.
• Chen Qingyu unleashed his Myriad Calamity Wheel Seal and drowned the formation in lightning tribulation.
• Chen Qingyu destroyed all million opponents in a single breath.

Chen Qingyu conquered the twelfth floor of the War God Tower and confronted Wu Chenkong, who revealed that the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror contained an independent realm called the Divine Void Small World. Chen Qingyu realized it could explain Wu Chenkong’s disappearance and the Sage Evolution Palace’s hidden existence, and suspected Wu Chenkong was deeply connected to the organization.

• Chen Qingyu cleared the War God Tower’s twelfth floor, reached first place in both War God rankings, and left the tower.
• Chen Qingyu advanced through the Immortal Altar and reached Wu Chenkong, who admitted he could no longer challenge him.
• Wu Chenkong agreed to answer Chen Qingyu’s questions and revealed that the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror contained the Divine Void Small World.
• Wu Chenkong explained that he had entered the Divine Void Small World after encountering a manifested body of the Great Void Primal Spirit while fleeing the Taihuang Wu Clan.
• Chen Qingyu connected the hidden world to Wu Chenkong’s disappearance and the Sage Evolution Palace’s concealment, and suspected Wu Chenkong was closely tied to the palace.

Chen Qingyu questioned Wu Chenkong about the Divine Void Small World and learned how it was structured and how Wu had risen to power there. Suspecting that one of his sign-in locations lay within it, Chen Qingyu asked how to enter.

• Wu Chenkong conjectured that the Great Void Primal Spirit had created the Divine Void Small World to prepare for reincarnation, though Chen Qingyu questioned why it had ultimately reincarnated on the Desolate Continent.
• Wu Chenkong explained that the Great Void Primal Spirit had helped him become emperor in the Divine Void Small World, and that Chen Qingyu could check whether Wu's original self lived by asking who held the title of Divine Void Sacred Emperor.
• Wu Chenkong described the Divine Void Small World as seven hundred and twenty Lower Worlds, thirty-six Middle Worlds, and one Upper World, each with different cultivation limits.
• Chen Qingyu suspected that Zhongliang Kingdom Capital, one of his sign-in locations, was in a Middle World and decided he needed to visit the Divine Void Small World.
• Chen Qingyu asked Wu Chenkong how to enter the Divine Void Small World.