Chapter Summaries

After learning that the Sage Evolution Palace and Zhongliang Kingdom Capital were likely inside the Divine Void Small World, Chen Qingyu consulted the Ninth Ancestor about the Great Void Primal Spirit’s divided authority. The Ninth Ancestor concluded that Chen Qingyu, as the Supreme Void Young Venerable, might be able to overcome the barrier and determine the struggle’s outcome.

• Wu Chenkong told Chen Qingyu that he did not know how to enter the Divine Void Small World, but advised him to ask the Great Void Primal Spirit to open a passage.
• Chen Qingyu contacted the Great Void Primal Spirit and confirmed that the Zhongliang Kingdom Capital was inside the Divine Void Small World.
• Chen Qingyu visited the Ninth Ancestor and recounted what Wu Chenkong had revealed.
• The Ninth Ancestor deduced that the Divine Void Small World contained a portion of the Great Void Primal Spirit’s authority, separated from the authority held by the four great Saint Kings’ descendants.
• The Ninth Ancestor told Chen Qingyu that the barrier might not block him and that he could be the key to deciding the struggle over Great Void authority.

Chen Qingyu persuaded the Ninth Ancestor to let him enter the Divine Void Small World to investigate the Sage Evolution Palace, arguing that his cultivation and Supreme Void authority made him the best candidate. The Ninth Ancestor agreed, and Chen Qingyu prepared to leave as soon as possible, learning that his father was in seclusion at a critical point in his cultivation.

• Chen Qingyu warned the Ninth Ancestor that entering an upper world could put the Chen Clan’s pillar in danger.
• The Ninth Ancestor proposed sending an avatar, but Chen Qingyu argued that the Divine Void Small World’s rules favored his lower cultivation and that only he could use the Supreme Void authority to enter.
• Chen Qingyu insisted that he had to make the journey himself, and the Ninth Ancestor agreed after cautioning him to put his safety first.
• Chen Qingyu said he would pack and tell his father before leaving, but the Ninth Ancestor said his father was in seclusion and should not be disturbed.
• Chen Qingyu asked whether his father was close to breaking through to the next realm.

Chen Qingyu learned that his father was secluded while attempting to reach the Extreme Transformation Realm, a perilous breakthrough that could make him a Saint. After assessing his new Divine Ability Realm powers, Chen Qingyu entered the Divine Void Small World and set out for the Zhongliang Kingdom.

• The Ninth Ancestor told Chen Qingyu that his father had reached the ninth heaven of the Void Penetration Realm and was attempting to break through to the Extreme Transformation Realm.
• Chen Qingyu worried that his father might still be secluded when Emperor Yuan died, and the Ninth Ancestor assured him the Chen Clan would protect his father if war began.
• Chen Qingyu examined his Divine Ability Realm cultivation, noting his powerful divine sense and the transformation of his spiritual arts into divine abilities.
• Chen Qingyu contacted the Great Void Primal Spirit, selected the middle-layer world containing the Zhongliang Kingdom, and told the Ninth Ancestor he was ready to leave.
• Chen Qingyu confirmed his destination and vanished from his cultivation chamber as the Supreme Void power transported him away.

Chen Qingyu arrived in the Divine Void Small World and learned how the Zhongliang Kingdom fit into its rigid hierarchy of realms and hereditary rule. He decided to provoke the Upper World into intervening and ended the chapter by choosing to kill the emperor.

• Chen Qingyu arrived in a village in the Divine Void Small World and confirmed that his body and powers remained unchanged.
• Chen Qingyu flew to a metropolis and learned that the Zhongliang Kingdom was part of a hierarchy of kingdoms ruled under a system established by the Saint Emperor.
• Chen Qingyu recognized that the order of the realms could be connected to Wu Chenkong and reasoned that its rigid hereditary system protected his rule.
• Chen Qingyu planned to cause enough disorder to draw envoys from the Upper World and force an audience with the Saint Emperor.
• Chen Qingyu decided that his first move would be to kill the emperor.

A mysterious attacker challenged Emperor Mingzong in the Zhongliang Kingdom’s imperial capital, disrupting the emperor’s indulgent routine. After the attacker killed a Heaven and Earth Dragon Guard with lightning, Mingzong called for his remaining forces to seize the challenger.

• Emperor Mingzong spent his time in the palace indulging in debauchery while the capital’s rigid system kept the lower classes trapped in their inherited occupations.
• An unseen challenger thundered across the imperial capital, demanding that Emperor Mingzong come out and meet his death.
• Mingzong ordered a Heaven and Earth Dragon Guard to kill the challenger.
• The Heaven and Earth Dragon Guard flew into the sky, where a bolt of lightning struck him and reduced him to ash.
• Mingzong called the attack a rebellion and demanded that the Imperial Guard and the other Heaven and Earth Dragon Guards seize the challenger.

Chen Qingyu demanded that Emperor Mingzong surrender the Zhongliang Kingdom’s throne, then crushed the imperial forces sent to stop him with a single palm. The capital’s defenders were left facing a threat powerful enough to defeat over a hundred peak Heavenly Impulse Realm experts at once.

• The imperial capital activated its protective formation, and hundreds of powerful figures gathered above the palace.
• Prince Yong ordered the Grand Commandant to lead over a hundred experts out to confront Chen Qingyu.
• Chen Qingyu declared that the Zhao Clan’s rule was over and demanded that Emperor Mingzong come out to die so he could take the throne.
• The Grand Commandant led his forces beyond the formation and charged Chen Qingyu.
• Chen Qingyu struck with a colossal palm, killing the Grand Commandant and the experts behind him instantly.

Chen Qingyu destroyed Zhongliang Kingdom’s defenses, killed Emperor Mingzong, and declared the kingdom renamed Great Chen, with himself as Emperor Yu. As the capital descended into chaos and its officials fled, Chen Qingyu remained on the throne and prepared to sign in.

• Chen Qingyu killed the capital’s peak Heavenly Impulse Realm experts and shattered its grand formation with a single starlight palm.
• Chen Qingyu killed Emperor Mingzong with a bolt of lightning, leaving the emperor’s court and the capital’s people in shock.
• Chen Qingyu declared that the Zhao Clan had lost Heaven’s mandate, renamed Zhongliang Kingdom Great Chen, and proclaimed himself Emperor Yu.
• Officials, nobles, palace servants, and guards fled as the capital’s common people rioted and looted.
• Chen Qingyu watched the chaos from Qianyuan Hall, then called on his system to sign in.

Chen Qingyu received Golden Light Traversing the Earth, a powerful escape technique, and used his divine sense to end the chaos in Zhongliang Kingdom's capital. He waited in the imperial palace for the kingdom's nobles to summon an Upper Realm emissary and challenge his claim to the throne.

• Chen Qingyu signed in at Zhongliang Kingdom Capital and received Golden Light Traversing the Earth, one of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Transformations.
• Chen Qingyu learned that the technique could carry him sixty thousand li in an instant at his current cultivation.
• Chen Qingyu transmitted a command throughout the imperial capital, bringing the riots to a halt.
• The Divine Capital settled into an uneasy calm as Chen Qingyu remained in the palace and the commoners gradually realized he was not interfering with their lives.
• The escaped imperial descendants, court dignitaries, and powerful nobles reached safe territory and spread news of the capital's fall across Zhongliang Kingdom.

After Emperor Mingzong’s death and the fall of the imperial capital, Zhao clansmen and court officials fled and raised rebellions across Zhongliang Kingdom. In Heng Province, Prince Yu gathered supporters and prepared to summon an envoy from the Upper Realm with a Heaven-Sacrificing Talisman Edict.

• The children of Commandery Prince Lin escaped the imperial capital aboard a cargo flying boat and expected officials across the kingdom to rally against the usurper.
• Fleeing imperial family members and court officials secured their safety, then contacted regional leaders to organize counterattacks.
• News of the mysterious man’s conquest and Emperor Mingzong’s death spread across all ninety-nine provinces, and rival imperial princes raised armies in rebellion.
• Prince Yu met with Heng Province’s officials and declared his intent to overthrow the usurper by summoning an envoy from the Upper Realm.
• Prince Yu revealed that he possessed a Heaven-Sacrificing Talisman Edict, won the gathered officials’ support, and ordered Governor Tao to build an Altar of Heaven before he summoned the envoy the next day.

Prince Yu Zhao Decheng summoned an Upper Realm envoy to intervene in the Zhongliang Kingdom’s crisis, and discovered the envoy was his ancestor, a former emperor of the Zhao clan. The ancestor promised to make Zhao Decheng emperor after defeating the usurper, then took him toward the imperial capital to investigate and confront the rebel.

• Prince Yu Zhao Decheng performed the Heaven-petitioning ritual and summoned an Upper Realm envoy.
• A golden-robed young man descended and revealed that he was Zhao Decheng’s great-granduncle, a former emperor of the Zhongliang Kingdom.
• The ancestor questioned Zhao Decheng about the imperial capital rebellion and doubted that a peak Heavenly Impulse Realm cultivator could have caused the destruction described.
• The ancestor ordered Zhao Decheng to accompany him to the imperial capital and promised him the throne after crushing the usurper.
• The ancestor enveloped Zhao Decheng in golden radiance and flew with him toward the imperial capital.

Chen Qingyu waited for the Upper World envoy after gaining four more Heavenly Gang Transformations, including the power to traverse space. When Zhao Youwei arrived with Prince Yu, Chen Qingyu confronted him and struck as Zhao Youwei tried to flee.

• Chen Qingyu gained Size at Will, Spirit Roaming and Qi Control, Flying Body and Tracelessness, and Scatter Beans to Form Soldiers through four consecutive sign-ins.
• Zhao Youwei arrived outside the imperial capital with Prince Yu, Zhao Decheng, and cautiously searched the city for Chen Qingyu.
• Chen Qingyu appeared before Zhao Youwei, and Zhao Decheng identified him as the rebel who had usurped the throne.
• Zhao Youwei declared himself the Upper World envoy and Realm-Overseeing Imperial Inspector, then prepared to fight Chen Qingyu.
• Chen Qingyu traversed space to attack, while Zhao Youwei failed to contact the Upper World and was struck in the chest by Chen Qingyu's star-filled punch.

Chen Qingyu killed the Upper Realm envoy, the Zhao Clan ancestor, and returned to Qianyuan Hall to cultivate. Prince Yu, Zhao Decheng, spread news of the envoy’s death, and terror swept through Zhongliang Kingdom.

• Chen Qingyu used Heaven and Earth, I Alone to block the gold-robed young man’s escape to the Upper World, then killed him with Myriad Star Destruction Fist Seal.
• Chen Qingyu suppressed the death phenomenon and returned to Qianyuan Hall, where he estimated that another power of calamity would evolve in about a month.
• Prince Yu, Zhao Decheng, fled the battlefield and reported the envoy’s death to a member of the imperial clan.
• The imperial-clan member doubted the report but spread it in every direction.
• Within two days, news that the Zhao Clan ancestor had been slain swept through Zhongliang Kingdom, terrifying the land.

At a banquet celebrating Vice Hall Master Zhou's promotion, the World Oversight Hall learned that Zhao Youwei had died while suppressing unrest in the Zhongliang Kingdom. Zhou and his allies examined Zhao's mission report and found an account of an apparently impossible rebel whose strength they could not explain.

• Vice Hall Master Zhou celebrated his promotion with colleagues and asked why Zhao Youwei had not attended; they explained that Zhao had gone to the Zhongliang Kingdom to address unrest.
• A Heavenly Impulse Realm attendant reported that Zhao Youwei's soul lamp had gone out, shocking Zhou and the other cultivators.
• Zhou demanded an explanation for Zhao's death and agreed with his colleagues to retrieve the report Zhao had filed before descending.
• Zhou and the others read that a single attacker had breached the Zhongliang Kingdom's imperial capital, killed hundreds of Peak Heavenly Impulse Realm cultivators, and slain the emperor.
• The cultivators questioned how a Middle World could produce someone powerful enough to accomplish this, since even a Peak Heavenly Impulse Realm cultivator with an ultimate foundation was no match for a Divine Treasure Realm expert.

Vice Hall Master Zhou and the Upper World mighty figures concluded that Zhao Youwei had been trapped and killed by forces in the Zhongliang Kingdom, and Zhou planned to descend personally to avenge him. In Qingzhou, a young Zhao clan prince learned the news and decided to report Zhao Youwei’s death to the Upper World.

• Vice Hall Master Zhou and the mighty figures speculated that Zhongliang Kingdom’s leaders had lured Zhao Youwei into a trap, like the calamity in the Zhongchen Kingdom ten thousand years earlier.
• Vice Hall Master Zhou ordered the Zhongliang and Zhongyuan Kingdoms to build a giant heavenly altar, planning to descend personally and punish whoever had killed Zhao Youwei.
• News of the Upper World envoy’s death spread through the ninety-nine provinces, reaching a young Zhao clan prince in Qingzhou.
• Minister Sha told the prince that Prince Yu had witnessed Zhao Youwei’s death and urged him to report it to the Upper World through the heavenly altar.
• The prince feared the rebel who had killed Zhao Youwei but agreed to ascend the altar and report the matter.

Prince Cheng received the Upper Realm’s decree to unite the imperial clans and secretly build a vast Altar of Heaven, while Chen Qingyu continued strengthening his abilities in the capital. The resistance prepared for a World Oversight Hall deputy hall master to descend, unaware that the Upper Realm considered Emperor Yu the true rebel.

• Prince Cheng learned that the Upper Realm had ordered the imperial clans to build an Altar of Heaven a hundred times larger and promised that a World Oversight Hall deputy hall master would descend when it was complete.
• Minister Sha urged Prince Cheng to use the decree to take command, and Prince Cheng agreed.
• Prince Yu returned to Heng Province and surrendered his authority, allowing Prince Cheng to mobilize resources across the kingdom.
• Prince Cheng united most resistance forces and secretly gathered materials in Qingzhou to build the altar, while the Upper Realm mistook Emperor Yu for a rebel fabricated by the World Oversight Hall.
• Chen Qingyu trained in Qianyuan Hall and reviewed the Carry a Mountain and Cross the Sea and Seven Nailhead Arrows techniques he had obtained before considering the potential of Six Jia and Qimen.

Chen Qingyu obtained the time-related Heavenly Gang Transformation [Turn Back Heaven and Reverse the Sun], which let him view events from the past. He pushed it to its current limit and wondered whether it could reveal what happened when the Great Void Primal Spirit reincarnated.

• Chen Qingyu used his final sign-in at the [Zhongliang Kingdom Capital] and obtained [Turn Back Heaven and Reverse the Sun].
• Chen Qingyu learned that the divine ability could reveal scenes from the past across the heavens and countless worlds.
• Chen Qingyu viewed an earlier court ceremony in Qianyuan Hall, where Emperor Mingzong and his ministers discussed arrangements.
• Chen Qingyu traced time back over a hundred years, reaching the limit his cultivation could sustain.
• Chen Qingyu considered using the divine ability at the Great Void Primal Spirit's reincarnation site to uncover what had gone wrong.

Chen Qingyu planned to provoke the Upper World into confronting him so he could investigate the Great Void Primal Spirit’s reincarnation, then learned the resistance forces were summoning a Zhoutian Realm expert. After a month, the Altar of Heaven was completed, and Prince Cheng’s ritual brought the expert’s presence into the Middle World.

• Chen Qingyu realized he needed to reach the Upper World to investigate the Great Void Primal Spirit’s reincarnation and learned that the next check-in location was the Ancestral Star Remains.
• Chen Qingyu used his divine sense to discover that Prince Cheng had united the resistance forces and was building an Altar of Heaven to summon a Zhoutian Realm expert.
• Chen Qingyu decided to wait for the summoning, hoping that killing the expert would draw the Upper World’s attention and alert the Saint Emperor.
• Prince Cheng oversaw the completion of the giant Altar of Heaven in Qingzhou after a month of construction.
• Prince Cheng climbed the altar, activated the Heaven-Sacrificing Talisman Edict, and welcomed the descent of the Zhoutian Realm expert.

Zhou Qiren descended into the Zhongliang Kingdom and learned from Prince Cheng how Emperor Yu had seized the capital and thrown the realm into turmoil. He ordered the loyalist armies to gather so he could defeat Emperor Yu publicly and restore the kingdom’s shaken authority.

• Zhou Qiren descended onto the Altar of Heaven and questioned Prince Cheng about the kingdom’s crisis.
• Prince Cheng explained that Emperor Yu had killed the Upper Realm envoy, taken the throne, and occupied the capital.
• Zhou Qiren learned that unrest was spreading because the Zhao imperial clan had failed to stop Emperor Yu for a month.
• Zhou Qiren told Prince Cheng to summon the loyalist armies and march on the imperial capital so he could kill Emperor Yu before all under heaven.

Prince Cheng organized a million-strong allied army to march on the imperial capital while Chen Qingyu, strengthened to the Divine Ability Realm Fifth Heaven, learned that Zhou Qiren had descended to confront him. Chen Qingyu raced to attack Zhou Qiren, whose attempt to contact the Upper World was interrupted by sudden, excruciating pain.

• Prince Cheng accepted Zhou Qiren's order and gathered imperial clansmen, nobles, and ministers to assemble a million troops for the march on the imperial capital.
• Chen Qingyu finished mastering the power he gained from the Thirteen Golden Grain Pill and reached the Divine Ability Realm Fifth Heaven.
• Chen Qingyu used his spiritual sense to learn that Zhou Qiren had descended and was gathering forces, then flew toward him rather than waiting for the confrontation.
• Zhou Qiren sensed Chen Qingyu approaching at astonishing speed and recognized that he was only in the Divine Ability Realm.
• As Zhou Qiren tried to contact the Upper World and prepared to retreat, a violent pain erupted in his mind and he screamed.

Chen Qingyu ambushed Zhou Qiren with a distant curse and blocked his contact with the Upper World before confronting him in the sky. Their battle began with Chen Qingyu overpowering Zhou Qiren’s strongest attack, while Zhou Qiren activated a secret treasure to try to escape.

• Chen Qingyu’s Seven Nailhead Arrows cursed Zhou Qiren from afar, injuring his soul and delaying him.
• Zhou Qiren failed to contact the Upper World, realized the barrier between worlds had been sealed, and flew to meet Chen Qingyu.
• Chen Qingyu revealed that he intended to borrow Zhou Qiren’s head as a stepping stone into the Upper World.
• Zhou Qiren unleashed his Land of Myriad Mountains and Mountains and Rivers Turned Upside Down, but Chen Qingyu’s Myriad Calamity Wheel Seal shattered the attack with lightning.
• Losing the clash, Zhou Qiren activated a silver secret treasure bestowed by a Void Penetration Realm powerhouse, hoping to escape Chen Qingyu’s sealed battlefield.