Chapter Summaries

Chen Qinggu learned that Chen Shaojun had seized first place on the War God Rankings and decided to meet him in a fight. Meanwhile, Chen Qingyu focused on improving his martial skills and prepared to enter the Martial Practice Hall to accelerate his training.

• Chen Qinggu emerged from seclusion and learned that Chen Shaojun had cleared the War God Tower's seventh floor and taken first place on the Divine Capital Changluo War God Rankings.
• Chen Qingju and the other young clan members urged Chen Qinggu to challenge Chen Shaojun, fearing the newcomer would undermine their standing and plans.
• Chen Qinggu rejected their attempt to provoke him but said he was interested in Chen Shaojun and would personally invite him to fight when he appeared in the Supreme Void Dao Realm.
• Chen Qingyu practiced martial skills for four hours and judged his progress too slow to keep pace with older prodigies.
• Chen Qingyu decided to enter the Martial Practice Hall and use its time-accelerating power to improve his martial skill attainment.

Chen Qingyu entered the Martial Practice Hall and used tenfold time acceleration to train his martial techniques with the hall’s corrections and simulated opponents. After several sessions, his mastery of three techniques had improved by leaps and bounds.

• Chen Qingyu escaped the crowd in Divine Capital Changluo by flying on an auspicious cloud to the Martial Practice Hall.
• The Martial Practice Hall explained its technique-correction, sparring, and time-acceleration functions and their Great Void Point costs.
• Chen Qingyu spent Great Void Points to activate tenfold time acceleration and began practicing the Great Radiance Heaven-Suppressing Fist.
• The hall identified errors in Chen Qingyu’s technique and demonstrated a flawless version for him to study.
• Chen Qingyu practiced the Great Radiance Heaven-Suppressing Fist, Great Radiance Body Refining Method, and Celestial Star Attraction Method with simulated opponents, rapidly improving his mastery.

Chen Qingyu mastered three martial techniques, then accepted Chen Qinggu’s challenge to fight at noon the next day. The following morning, he checked in at the Floating Heavenly Palace for the sixth time and obtained the Dragon Subduing and Tiger Taming Technique.

• Chen Qingyu finished training in the [Martial Practice Hall] and decided to divide his future cultivation between the hall and the real world.
• Chen Qinggu waited for Chen Qingyu outside the [Martial Practice Hall] and challenged him to a battle, which Chen Qingyu accepted for noon the next day.
• Chen Qingyu returned home, practiced until he had fully mastered the beginner stages of all three martial techniques, and went to bed.
• Chen Qingyu rode an auspicious cloud to the Floating Heavenly Palace and received the Dragon Subduing and Tiger Taming Technique as his sixth check-in reward.

Chen Qingyu discovered that Subduing Dragons and Taming Tigers greatly strengthened his body and complemented his Great Radiance Body Refining Method. After the Ninth Ancestor warned him that Chen Qinggu would be an even match, Chen Qingyu tested his newfound strength and prepared to challenge him.

• Chen Qingyu examined Subduing Dragons and Taming Tigers and learned it could strengthen his body as his cultivation advanced.
• The Ninth Ancestor told Chen Qingyu that his rise to the top of the War God Rankings had stirred the Divine Capital and asked about his chances against Chen Qinggu.
• The Ninth Ancestor judged the upcoming fight to be evenly matched, praised Chen Qinggu's combat experience, and described Zhou Chenlong as unmatched among this era's Blood Sea Realm prodigies.
• Chen Qingyu vowed to face Zhou Chenlong after clearing the eighth floor of the War God Tower, then promised the Ninth Ancestor he would defeat Chen Qinggu.
• Chen Qingyu tested his strength by crushing a ten-thousand-jin stone weight and realized his body could rival a Golden Bridge Realm grandmaster's.

Chen Qingyu and Chen Qinggu met at the Combat Victory Platform for their match to determine the Chen Clan’s strongest prodigy in Blood Sea Heaven. They agreed to fight on a vast grassland beneath the stars, had their cultivation balanced at the First Heavenly Layer of the Blood Sea Realm, and began the battle after splitting the spectator fees.

• Chen Qinggu waited at the Combat Victory Platform as a huge crowd gathered, then Chen Qingyu arrived and greeted him.
• Chen Qinggu let Chen Qingyu choose the battlefield, and Chen Qingyu selected a starry grassland rather than a setting that favored his abilities.
• Chen Qinggu enlarged the battlefield to its maximum size, and the platform reduced his cultivation to match Chen Qingyu’s First Heavenly Layer.
• Chen Qingyu and Chen Qinggu agreed to charge spectators and split the one hundred thousand Great Void Points.
• The Combat Victory Platform announced that the battle had begun.

Chen Qingyu and Chen Qinggu fought with opposing magnetic techniques, and Chen Qingyu turned Chen Qinggu’s Earth Star Primal Magnetism against him. After escaping the technique’s range, Chen Qingyu declared the battle had shifted to his advantage.

• Chen Qingyu tried to take to the sky, but Chen Qinggu used Earth Star Primal Magnetism to pin him down with increased gravity.
• Chen Qingyu unleashed [Flying Sand and Moving Stones], then used Celestial Star Primal Magnetism to slip behind Chen Qinggu and set up a counterattack.
• Chen Qinggu reversed gravity into repulsion, disrupted Chen Qingyu’s punch, then switched back to attraction and struck Chen Qingyu’s head.
• Chen Qingyu survived the blow and flew beyond the range of Chen Qinggu’s technique.
• Chen Qingyu summoned an auspicious cloud and told Chen Qinggu that he had learned their magnetic powers could counteract or reverse each other.

Chen Qingyu defeated Chen Qinggu in an aerial battle by enduring his punches and overpowering him with his superior physique. The victory placed Chen Qingyu first on the Divine Capital Changluo Combat Victory Rankings and fifth on the Blood Sea Heaven Overall Combat Victory Rankings.

• Chen Qingyu flew more than a hundred zhang into the air, but Chen Qinggu revealed that he could fly too and chased him down.
• Chen Qingyu and Chen Qinggu clashed in midair, trading blows after neither could use their geomagnetic techniques to gain an advantage.
• Chen Qingyu endured Chen Qinggu’s superior fist techniques and gradually suppressed him with his stronger physique and greater endurance.
• Chen Qingyu struck Chen Qinggu with a powerful punch, sending him crashing into a crater and deciding the fight.
• Chen Qinggu accepted his defeat and invited Chen Qingyu to drink after they left the Combat Victory Platform, then vanished from his injuries.
• Chen Qingyu received fifty thousand Great Void Points from spectator fees and ranked first in the Divine Capital Changluo Combat Victory Rankings and fifth in the Blood Sea Heaven Overall Combat Victory Rankings.

Chen Qingyu defeated Chen Qinggu and took first place in the Divine Capital Changluo rankings and fifth place in the Blood Sea Heaven overall rankings, establishing himself as the Chen Clan’s new young lord. At Mooncatcher Tower, he raised his challenge stake to the maximum, only for Chang Qianjiao and Princess Ao to accept.

• Chen Qingyu learned that defeating Chen Qinggu had earned him Chen Qinggu’s position in the rankings, while spectators and Chen Qingju’s group reacted to the upset.
• Chen Qingyu saw that he ranked first in the regional rankings and fifth overall, with Chen Qinggu falling to sixth.
• Chen Qinggu invited Chen Qingyu to Mooncatcher Tower for a drink, and the two left the Combat Victory Platform together as onlookers made way.
• News of Chen Qingyu’s victory spread through Divine Capital Changluo and across the Desolate Continent, drawing 1,725 challenges.
• Chen Qinggu advised Chen Qingyu to set his challenge stake to 100,000 Great Void Points, which stopped most challengers.
• Chen Qingyu saw that Chang Qianjiao and Princess Ao had accepted his maximum-stake challenge.

Chen Qinggu explained Zhou Chenlong’s overwhelming strength and the challenge of clearing the War God Tower’s eighth floor, leaving Chen Qingyu focused on how to improve enough to challenge him. Chen Qinggu then offered to teach Chen Qingyu how to use primal magnetism to overcome the earth’s repulsive force.

• Chen Qinggu told Chen Qingyu that Chang Qianjiao and Princess Ao wanted to test him, but Chen Qingyu declined to fight them so he could focus on training.
• Chen Qinggu recalled that Zhou Chenlong had defeated him with one punch and later cleared the War God Tower’s eighth floor, becoming impossible to challenge.
• Chen Qinggu described the eighth floor’s two thousand elite opponents and said Zhou Chenlong cleared it after entering the Supreme Void Dao Realm.
• Chen Qingyu recognized that he needed to improve his martial techniques or gain stronger abilities before he could challenge Zhou Chenlong.
• Chen Qingyu asked how Chen Qinggu used primal magnetism to fly and maneuver, and Chen Qinggu offered to teach him the secret.

Chen Qinggu taught Chen Qingyu how to convert starlight into primal magnetism and warned that Zhou Chenlong might soon leave the Blood Sea Realm. After three days of training, Chen Qingyu returned to the Floating Heavenly Palace for his ninth divine ability, worried that its remaining rewards might not help him defeat Zhou Chenlong.

• Chen Qinggu demonstrated how starlight could be converted into primal magnetism and explained the technique to Chen Qingyu.
• Chen Qinggu told Chen Qingyu that Zhou Chenlong had been stuck on the ninth floor of the War God Tower for two years but might soon advance to the Golden Bridge Realm.
• Chen Qingyu and Chen Qinggu parted ways, and Chen Qingyu spent the next three days training his martial techniques.
• Chen Qingyu arrived at the Floating Heavenly Palace for his ninth check-in after obtaining [Seeing Through Walls] and [Summoning Wind and Rain] on the previous two mornings.
• Chen Qingyu worried that the prize pool would run dry before he obtained a powerful offensive divine ability to challenge Zhou Chenlong.

Chen Qingyu exhausted the Floating Heavenly Palace's sign-in rewards and gained the transformation ability Gestation and Transformation, which he used to take on a sixteen-year-old body. After returning home, he learned that reaching the Spirit Origin Realm would require him to travel beyond the clan, and Chen Zhengxing asked whether he wanted to go.

• Chen Qingyu completed his ninth sign-in at the Floating Heavenly Palace, received Gestation and Transformation, and unlocked Heaven-Reaching Sword Gorge as his next sign-in location.
• Chen Qingyu discovered that Gestation and Transformation could change his form and used it to assume the appearance and build of a sixteen-year-old.
• Chen Qingyu returned home, where Chen Zhengxing was shocked to see his apparently grown son and learned that the change came from a newly awakened ability.
• Chen Qingyu told Chen Zhengxing that he had reached the third heaven of the Blood Sea Realm and expected to enter the Golden Bridge Realm within twelve days.
• Chen Zhengxing explained that clan members who reached the Spirit Origin Realm had to travel across the lands until they reached the True Gang Realm, then asked Chen Qingyu whether he wanted to go.

Chen Zhengxing told Chen Qingyu that his mother lived far to the south and that he had a sister sixty years older, while leaving the details of his past mistake for later. As they strolled through the Divine Capital, Chen Qingyu heard people speculate about Chen Shaojun and Zhou Chenlong and hinted that he might challenge Zhou Chenlong sooner than expected.

• Chen Qingyu eagerly agreed to travel after reaching the Spirit Origin Realm, and Chen Zhengxing revealed that his mother lived far to the south and that he had an older sister.
• Chen Zhengxing explained that his past mistake led to his punishment at the Great Yin Grotto and delayed Chen Qingyu's birth by sixty years, but promised to tell him more later.
• Chen Zhengxing and Chen Qingyu strolled through a lively marketplace in the Divine Capital, where no one recognized Chen Qingyu as Chen Shaojun.
• Chen Qingyu overheard clan members saying he had chickened out of challenging Zhou Chenlong, and he told Chen Zhengxing he was building up his strength.
• Chen Qingyu looked toward the Floating Heavenly Palace and suggested he might challenge Zhou Chenlong sooner than ten days.

Chen Qingyu enhanced his [Summoning Wind and Rain] divine ability through a check-in and realized how Zhou Chenlong had cleared the eighth floor of the [War God Tower]. After practicing his plan in the [Martial Practice Hall], he set out for the tower, confident he could pass the trial.

• Chen Qingyu checked in at the [Floating Heavenly Palace], and the reward greatly enhanced his control, comprehension, and application of [Summoning Wind and Rain].
• While flying home, Chen Qingyu realized Zhou Chenlong had likely cleared the eighth floor by attacking the two thousand opponents at once with an immense area-of-effect technique.
• Chen Qingyu returned home, entered the Supreme Void Dao Realm, and spent eighty double-hours practicing his strategy in the [Martial Practice Hall].
• Chen Zhengxing waited beside Chen Qingyu when he found him apparently asleep and learned he had not appeared all day.
• Chen Qingyu emerged from the [Martial Practice Hall] confident he could pass the eighth-floor trial and flew toward the [War God Tower].

Chen Qingyu entered the eighth floor of the War God Tower and faced a coordinated assault from two thousand powerful martial artists. He vanished into the wind and began using [Summoning Wind and Rain] to create a storm, leaving his opponents searching below as snow began to fall.

• Chen Qingyu arrived at the War God Tower, accepted the challenge to its eighth floor, and drew a crowd of more than a hundred thousand spectators.
• Two thousand opponents appeared and attacked Chen Qingyu with a magnetic ring, volleys of arrows, and flying swords.
• Chen Qingyu vanished with his auspicious cloud as the arrows and sword lights struck empty air.
• Chen Qingyu concealed himself in the powerful winds using [Standing Upright Without a Shadow] and traveled through the sky with [Summoning Wind and Rain].
• Chen Qingyu unleashed the full power of [Summoning Wind and Rain], darkening the sky and making snow begin to fall.

Chen Shaojun used a blizzard of freezing winds, hail, ice blades, and fog to exhaust and kill the two thousand elite martial artists on the War God Tower’s eighth floor. After the attacks briefly stopped, his rapid True Qi recovery let him unleash them again, leaving the defenders facing defeat.

• Chen Shaojun engulfed the eighth floor in a blizzard, and the martial artists formed groups while searching for him.
• The falling temperature, giant hailstones, sharp ice blades, and dense fog forced the martial artists to spend their True Qi defending themselves.
• One martial artist died, and the spectators realized the two thousand fighters were being overwhelmed by Chen Shaojun’s attacks.
• The blizzard briefly stopped, leading the martial artists to believe Chen Shaojun had run out of True Qi.
• After ten breaths, Chen Shaojun resumed the blizzard, and spectators declared that he was going to win.

Chen Qingyu’s blizzard annihilated the two thousand martial artists on War God Tower’s eighth floor, earning him first place in the Blood Sea Heaven War God Rankings. After his victory, spectators spread the news, and the Desolate Continent erupted over Chen Shaojun’s rise above Zhou Chenlong.

• Chen Qingyu’s blizzard froze and killed all two thousand martial artists on the eighth floor.
• Chen Qingyu cleared the eighth floor, received his rewards, and rose to first place in the War God Rankings.
• Spectators celebrated Chen Shaojun’s victory and hurried to spread the news.
• News of Chen Shaojun surpassing Zhou Chenlong spread through Divine Capital Changluo and across the Desolate Continent.

Chen Qingyu told Chen Zhengxing that he had cleared the eighth floor of the War God Tower, then looked forward to battling Zhou Chenlong. News of Chen Qingyu’s feat reached the Dragon Palace and Chen Qinggu, leaving both the dragon girl and Chen Qinggu stunned.

• Chen Qingyu told Chen Zhengxing he had cleared the eighth floor of the War God Tower, and his father stopped scolding him and let him decide how long to stay in the Supreme Void Dao Realm.
• Chen Qingyu looked forward to fighting Zhou Chenlong to prove who was the strongest Blood Sea Realm cultivator under heaven.
• The dragon girl complained that Chen Shaojun had refused her challenge, but the Dragon King told her Chen Qingyu had cleared the eighth floor and was beyond her strength.
• Chen Qingju woke Chen Qinggu and told him Chen Qingyu had cleared the eighth floor of the War God Tower and stood shoulder to shoulder with Zhou Chenlong.

After Chen Shaojun cleared the eighth floor of the War God Tower, Chen Qinggu realized how he and Zhou Chenlong had defeated the two thousand opponents and refused to help Chen Qingju uncover Chen Shaojun’s identity. The next morning, Chen Qingyu checked in at the Floating Heavenly Palace and enhanced his Seeing Through Walls ability as he awaited his coming battle with Zhou Chenlong.

• Chen Qingju told Chen Qinggu that Chen Shaojun had cleared the eighth floor with a celestial-phenomenon attack, and Chen Qinggu recognized it as the method Zhou Chenlong had used two years earlier.
• Chen Qingju and the others asked Chen Qinggu to have his grandfather, Chen Yuande, investigate Chen Shaojun’s identity, but Chen Qinggu refused and sent them away.
• Chen Qingyu checked in at the Floating Heavenly Palace and received an enhancement to his Seeing Through Walls ability.
• Chen Qingyu discovered that the enhanced ability could see through more obstructions and observe the circulation of an opponent’s True Qi, then left the palace thinking of Zhou Chenlong.

Chen Qingyu went to the Combat Victory Platform expecting Zhou Chenlong to challenge him, but found no request and decided to wait briefly. Zhou Chenlong then arrived in Divine Capital Changluo, drawing a crowd eager to witness their imminent clash.

• Chen Qingyu checked his notifications at the War God Tower and found that Chang Qianjiao and Princess Ao had withdrawn their challenges, while Zhou Chenlong had sent none.
• Chen Qingyu decided to wait half an hour at the Combat Victory Platform for Zhou Chenlong before heading to the Martial Practice Hall.
• Zhou Chenlong arrived in Divine Capital Changluo through the Great Void Teleportation Array and flew toward the Combat Victory Platform using his True Qi.
• Martial artists recognized Zhou Chenlong and rushed toward the Combat Victory Platform, expecting his fight with Chen Qingyu to begin.

Chen Qingyu waited at the Combat Victory Platform for Zhou Chenlong, who arrived in person and joined him inside to begin their long-awaited battle. Martial artists across Blood Sea Heaven flocked to watch, and Zhou Chenlong invited Chen Qingyu to choose the battle setting.

• Ten young people from Cinnabar Yang Divine Island learned Zhou Chenlong had gone to fight Chen Shaojun and hurried toward the Combat Victory Platform.
• Chen Qingyu arrived at the platform and told the crowd he would wait half an hour for Zhou Chenlong to challenge him.
• Zhou Chenlong streaked through the sky to Divine Capital Changluo, and Chen Qingyu recognized his immense True Qi.
• Chen Qingyu and Zhou Chenlong greeted each other, praised one another as worthy opponents, and entered the Combat Victory Platform together.
• Over a hundred million Blood Sea Realm martial artists gathered in the spectator space to watch as Zhou Chenlong asked Chen Qingyu to choose the battle setting.