Chapter Summaries

Chen Qingyu disrupted Zhou Qiren’s Void Penetration Realm secret treasure, then pursued him as Zhou fled through the Sea of Thunder. With Zhou’s Divine Treasure might restoring his defenses, Chen Qingyu sent illusory soldiers to slow him down.

• Chen Qingyu used spatial traversal to knock the silver command token from Zhou Qiren’s hand before it exploded, injuring Zhou and disrupting the Sea of Thunder.
• Zhou Qiren attacked Chen Qingyu with his Divine Treasure might, but Chen avoided the punch and resumed his assault from a distance.
• Zhou Qiren fled toward the world’s edge, hoping to escape into another Middle World and return to the Upper World.
• Zhou Qiren’s mountains-and-rivers defenses recovered to full strength, resisting Chen Qingyu’s lightning attacks as he continued fleeing.
• Chen Qingyu used Scatter Beans to Form Soldiers to send illusory figures after Zhou and hinder his escape.

Chen Qingyu used his prepared techniques to overcome and kill Zhou Qiren, a Zhoutian Realm expert, before leaving the Divine Void Small World. Prince Cheng later found Zhou Qiren’s corpse and fainted.

• Zhou Qiren charged through Chen Qingyu’s incarnations, but their coordinated techniques briefly slowed him and gave Chen Qingyu an opening.
• Chen Qingyu used [Flying Body and Tracelessness] to reach Zhou Qiren, then strengthened [Seven Nailhead Arrows] with Zhou Qiren’s Qi signature and blood.
• Chen Qingyu activated the Myriad Calamity Wheel Seal’s Calamity of Annihilation, causing Zhou Qiren’s Divine Treasure power to vanish.
• Chen Qingyu struck Zhou Qiren with the Myriad Star Destruction Fist Seal and killed him, then left the area in a streak of golden light.
• Prince Cheng arrived with his group, saw Zhou Qiren’s corpse among the devastation, and fainted.

Chen Qingyu reflected on how he had defeated Zhou Qiren and decided to strengthen his spatial movement ability. In Qingzhou, Prince Cheng resolved to report the disaster to the Upper Realm, where the World Oversight Hall learned that Zhou Qiren’s soul lamp had gone out.

• Chen Qingyu reviewed the role of his divine abilities in killing Zhou Qiren and identified his inability to command spatial mysteries as his main weakness.
• Chen Qingyu decided to evolve [Flying Body and Tracelessness] after [Standing Upright Without a Shadow] finished evolving into a calamity.
• Prince Cheng awoke in Qingzhou, learned that Chen Qingyu had returned to the imperial capital, and accepted that his own faction could not reclaim the kingdom by itself.
• Prince Cheng ordered his followers to help him up and resolved to ascend the Altar of Heaven to report the events and ask the Upper Realm for help.
• Almighty cultivators in the World Oversight Hall heard the Liyuan Bell and received news that Zhou Qiren’s soul lamp had gone out.

After Zhou Qiren’s death in the Zhongliang Kingdom shook the Taicang Heavenly Capital, the Great Cang Divine Kingdom’s officials struggled to explain how a Zhoutian Realm cultivator could have fallen. The Saint Emperor identified the intruder as Chen Qingyu and revealed that he had come to investigate the Sage Evolution Palace’s origins and secrets.

• The mighty cultivators learned that Zhou Qiren’s soul lamp had gone out and realized he had died in the Zhongliang Kingdom.
• News of Zhou Qiren’s death shocked the Taicang Heavenly Capital and reached the Holy Emperor Palace.
• The World Oversight Hall master told the chancellor that Zhou Qiren had died shortly after descending and had sent no warning or request for aid.
• The chancellor and other officials considered whether outsiders had invaded, but could not explain how anyone in the Middle World could kill a Zhoutian Realm cultivator.
• The Saint Emperor revealed that Chen Qingyu had invaded Divine Void Heaven and Earth and was capable of killing someone in the Zhoutian Realm while below the Divine Treasure Realm.
• The Saint Emperor said Chen Qingyu had come for him to trace the Sage Evolution Palace’s origins and uncover its secrets.

The Great Cang Divine Kingdom planned a massive operation to kill Chen Qingyu, selecting thirty-five Zhoutian Realm cultivators to attack him in the Zhongliang Kingdom. Prince Cheng concealed the Upper World's silence from his supporters, while the Saint Emperor prepared to intervene personally if the operation failed.

• The Saint Emperor warned the chancellor that Chen Qingyu could overthrow the divine kingdom's rule and said he would handle the matter personally if the chancellor's plan failed.
• The chancellor ordered thirty-five Zhoutian Realm cultivators to descend into the Zhongliang Kingdom and kill Chen Qingyu.
• Prince Cheng received no reply from the Upper World for two hours, then falsely told the Zhao Clan's supporters that help was on its way.
• The chancellor took charge of the World Oversight Hall's assassination plan and ordered its master not to reply to Prince Cheng, to keep Chen Qingyu unaware.
• The master of the World Oversight Hall reported that thirty-five powerful Zhoutian Realm cultivators had been assembled, and the chancellor expressed confidence in the unprecedented operation.

The divine kingdom's chancellor sent thirty-five Zhoutian Realm fighters to the Zhongliang Kingdom to kill Chen Qingyu. As their arrival shook the realm, Chen Qingyu recognized that the Upper World's final assault had begun and prepared to fight.

• The World Oversight Hall reported that all Middle Worlds had completed their heavenly altars, and the divine kingdom's chancellor inspected thirty-five Zhoutian Realm fighters equipped with secret treasures.
• The chancellor ordered the fighters to descend and gather near the Zhongliang Kingdom before breaking through its world barrier to attack Chen Qingyu.
• Uprisings spread throughout the Zhongliang Kingdom while the Zhao imperial family and powerful nobles remained sheltered in Qingzhou, leaving the imperial capital under local gangs' control.
• Chen Qingyu reached the Divine Ability Realm Eighth Heavenly Layer and anticipated that the next medicinal eruption would advance him to the Heavenly Impulse Realm.
• Dozens of powerful figures tore through the Zhongliang Kingdom's borders, and Chen Qingyu recognized their arrival as the final battle and rose to meet them.

Thirty-five Zhoutian Realm cultivators attacked Chen Qingyu above the imperial capital, but he survived their combined assault using his calamity powers. He exploited a gap in their formation and killed one of them with a single punch.

• Thirty-five Zhoutian Realm cultivators arrived from the Upper World and surrounded Chen Qingyu above the imperial capital.
• The cultivators joined their Divine Treasure might and struck Chen Qingyu with thirty-five Void Penetration Realm secret treasures.
• Chen Qingyu emerged alive, explaining that [Calamity of Illusion], [Size at Will], and the Myriad Calamity Wheel Seal had let him evade nearly all the damage.
• Chen Qingyu spotted a gap in the cultivators' combined defenses and used [Flying Body and Tracelessness] to rush one of them.
• Chen Qingyu's punch pierced the cultivator's defenses and destroyed his body, cultivation, and realm.

Chen Qingyu used his newly enhanced calamity powers to overwhelm the Zhoutian Realm mighty ones trapped in the Zhongliang Kingdom. Nineteen died and sixteen escaped to the Upper World, leaving Chen Qingyu to await its response.

• Chen Qingyu emerged from the void vortex after killing one Zhoutian Realm mighty one with a single punch, frightening the survivors into joining their defenses.
• The Zhoutian Realm mighty ones failed to contact the Upper World because Chen Qingyu’s [Heaven and Earth, I Alone] had strengthened the barrier between the two worlds.
• Chen Qingyu unleashed [Calamity of Burning Annihilation] together with [Calamity of Illusion], burning through the enemies’ divine treasures and bodies.
• Chen Qingyu pursued the fleeing Zhoutian Realm mighty ones and killed them until more than half were dead.
• Nineteen Zhoutian Realm mighty ones died, while sixteen escaped to the Upper World; Chen Qingyu wondered how the Upper World would respond.

After nearly twenty Zhoutian Realm experts died trying to kill Chen Qingyu, the survivors returned to the Upper World and reported their defeat. The Saint Emperor ordered the divine kingdom to compromise with Chen Qingyu, confident he would leave after getting what he wanted.

• The surviving Zhoutian Realm experts returned to the World Oversight Hall badly burned and reported that Chen Qingyu had defeated their group.
• The prime minister learned Chen Qingyu was only in the Divine Ability Realm and realized the failed attack had cost the kingdom many experts and secret treasures.
• The prime minister went to the Saint Emperor and admitted his plan to kill Chen Qingyu had failed.
• The Saint Emperor said he had expected the failure and told the prime minister the kingdom had to compromise with Chen Qingyu.
• The Saint Emperor said Chen Qingyu sought him and the Sage Evolution Palace, and would leave once he got what he wanted.

The Saint Emperor sent Yin Zhongsheng to negotiate with Chen Qingyu after the Great Cang Divine Kingdom failed to defeat him. Yin Zhongsheng arrived at Zhongliang Kingdom and met Chen Qingyu at the palace gates.

• The Saint Emperor rejected the chancellor’s suggestion to stall, deciding that preserving stability mattered more than withholding information.
• The Saint Emperor summoned Yin Zhongsheng and warned him to advance to the Divine Treasure Realm, but Yin Zhongsheng remained confident in his cultivation path.
• After learning Chen Qingyu had defeated thirty-five Zhoutian Realm cultivators and a Void Penetration Realm secret treasure, Yin Zhongsheng agreed to negotiate with him.
• Chen Qingyu sensed Yin Zhongsheng’s arrival at the Zhongliang imperial palace and went out to meet him.
• Yin Zhongsheng praised Chen Qingyu’s rapid cultivation, and Chen Qingyu welcomed him into the palace.

Chen Qingyu questioned Yin Zhongsheng about his origins, age, and the Great Cang Divine Kingdom, uncovering clues about Wu Chenkong’s longevity and control of accelerated time. Yin Zhongsheng then asked permission to pose a question of his own.

• Chen Qingyu asked Yin Zhongsheng about his origins, and Yin Zhongsheng explained that he was born in the Saint Yuan Minor Realm, trained by Saint King Tianchen, and later became the Great Cang Divine Kingdom’s only prince.
• Chen Qingyu asked whether the Great Cang Divine Kingdom had ever changed Saint Emperors, and Yin Zhongsheng said its throne had remained unchanged for at least a hundred thousand years.
• Chen Qingyu suspected that the Saint Emperor was Wu Chenkong, ancestor of the Taihuang Wu Clan, and asked Yin Zhongsheng how old he was.
• Yin Zhongsheng said he was twenty-five by the outside world’s reckoning but had lived close to a hundred years, explaining that the Saint Emperor could create a region where time flowed much faster.
• Chen Qingyu connected accelerated time to Zhang Yanqing’s rapid advancement and concluded that Wu Chenkong had long controlled the Divine Void Small World’s power.
• Yin Zhongsheng asked Chen Qingyu if he could ask a question, and Chen Qingyu agreed.

Chen Qingyu agreed to meet Wu Chenkong in the Upper World to obtain information, but sent a remotely controlled clone in his place. He arrived with Yin Zhongsheng at World Oversight Hall and headed toward Myriad Emperors Hall, where a hostile expert stopped them.

• Yin Zhongsheng contacted the Upper World, and Wu Chenkong agreed to meet Chen Qingyu on the condition that he leave the Divine Void Small World after their transaction.
• Chen Qingyu created a starlight clone and used Spirit Roaming and Qi Control to control it remotely from Zhongliang Kingdom.
• Yin Zhongsheng and Chen Qingyu's clone traveled to the Ascension Platform in World Oversight Hall in Taicang Heavenly Capital.
• Yin Zhongsheng led Chen Qingyu toward Myriad Emperors Hall to meet Wu Chenkong as World Oversight Hall experts watched and discussed his arrival.
• A mighty expert stepped forward and blocked Yin Zhongsheng and Chen Qingyu's path.

Chen Qingyu traveled with Yin Zhongsheng to the Holy Emperor Palace to meet the Saint Emperor, whom he recognized as Wu Chenkong. The Saint Emperor revealed that he had lured Chen Qingyu into the Divine Void Small World to capture his presence, then destroyed his clone and made the world reject him.

• Deputy Hall Master Li tried to stop Chen Qingyu, but Yin Zhongsheng warned him that Chen Qingyu was not there in his true body, and Li backed down.
• Yin Zhongsheng escorted Chen Qingyu through the Taicang Heavenly Capital to the Myriad Emperors Hall.
• Chen Qingyu recognized the masked Saint Emperor as Wu Chenkong, and the revelation startled Yin Zhongsheng.
• The Saint Emperor accused Chen Qingyu of arrogance, suppressed his clone with Human Dao Dragon Qi, and blasted it apart with a streak of golden light.
• The Saint Emperor explained that he had lured Chen Qingyu into the Divine Void Small World to capture his presence and make the world expel him.
• Yin Zhongsheng understood the Saint Emperor's scheme, received permission to pursue the Ten Thousand Yuan Realm without interference, and left the hall.

Chen Qingyu realized Wu Chenkong had made the Divine Void Small World reject him, giving him only a limited time before he was expelled. After delaying the rejection by transforming into a rock, he decided his best chance was to use an evolved calamity to enter the Upper World and uncover the truth about the past and the Sage Evolution Palace.

• Chen Qingyu recognized that Wu Chenkong had anticipated his arrival and caused the Divine Void Small World to reject him.
• Chen Qingyu ruled out crossing into another Middle World, attacking Zhongliang Kingdom, and using other divine abilities to overcome the rejection.
• Chen Qingyu used [Gestation and Transformation] to become a rock, reducing the rejection enough to survive for seven or eight days.
• Chen Qingyu concluded that [Flying Body and Tracelessness] must evolve into a calamity to let him tear through the barrier and secretly enter the Upper World.
• Chen Qingyu expected [Flying Body and Tracelessness] to finish evolving in about three days and hoped its new calamity would give him a way forward.

Chen Qingyu evolved the Calamity of Space Severance and used it to smuggle a clone into the Upper World. After finding his location on a map, he set off for Taicang Heavenly Capital, where Wu Chenkong and powerful Void Penetration Realm experts posed a threat.

• Chen Qingyu completed the evolution of his eleventh calamity, gaining the Calamity of Space Severance.
• Chen Qingyu tore open a rift between worlds and sent a starlight clone through it into the Upper World.
• Chen Qingyu's clone landed in the mountains, concealed itself as a speck of dust, and traveled to a nearby city.
• Chen Qingyu found a map and learned he was a little over three hundred million li from Taicang Heavenly Capital.
• Chen Qingyu began traveling through space toward Taicang Heavenly Capital while avoiding attention.

Chen Qingyu infiltrated the Holy Emperor Palace but struggled to find its secrets before his time ran out. He seized an opportunity to attach himself to Zhang Yanqing, a core member of the Sage Evolution Palace, and hoped she would lead him to critical information.

• Chen Qingyu continued searching the Holy Emperor Palace while avoiding powerful figures and formations, knowing he had only one day left.
• A purple-robed chief steward ordered a palace attendant to deliver cultivation offerings to an important person secluded deep within the palace.
• Chen Qingyu followed the attendant through guarded checkpoints into the palace depths, where he sensed numerous secret-realm spaces.
• The attendant delivered the offerings to Zhang Yanqing, and Chen Qingyu recognized her voice as she accepted them.
• Chen Qingyu left the attendant and attached himself to Zhang Yanqing, believing she could bring him closer to the secrets he sought.

Chen Qingyu used Turn Back Heaven and Reverse the Sun to uncover a past conflict between Wu Chenkong and Zhang Yanqing, then contacted her in secret to propose another deal. Zhang Yanqing questioned what he could offer and warned that neither threats nor killing her would work.

• Chen Qingyu examined Zhang Yanqing’s hall and used Turn Back Heaven and Reverse the Sun to trace its history.
• He discovered Wu Chenkong had threatened Zhang Yanqing three years and five months earlier, saying he could find a replacement for her.
• Chen Qingyu inferred that Wu Chenkong’s relationship with Zhang Yanqing concealed an important secret and continued searching the past.
• Chen Qingyu contacted Zhang Yanqing through spiritual sense and told her he had infiltrated the Holy Emperor Palace.
• He proposed making another deal, but Zhang Yanqing challenged his bargaining power and said she could summon Extreme Transformation Realm Saints or rely on her immortality in Divine Void Heaven and Earth.

Chen Qingyu persuaded Zhang Yanqing to gamble on his promise of future freedom in exchange for her confidential information. She revealed that she was Wu Chenkong’s successor—not as ruler of the Great Cang Divine Kingdom, but as the Great Void Primal Spirit’s replacement.

• Chen Qingyu told Zhang Yanqing that helping him was her chance to escape Wu Chenkong’s control, and urged her to risk her future on a deal.
• Zhang Yanqing initially refused, believing no one could save her, but changed her mind and agreed after Chen Qingyu argued that she had nothing left to lose.
• Zhang Yanqing offered to share the information she knew, and Chen Qingyu asked about her relationship with Wu Chenkong.
• Zhang Yanqing revealed that she was Wu Chenkong’s successor to the Great Void Primal Spirit, not to the throne of the Great Cang Divine Kingdom.
• Zhang Yanqing explained that the Great Void Primal Spirit had made Wu Chenkong its replacement so it could reincarnate without losing its power, and planned to erase his awareness and use him as a puppet.

Chen Qingyu learned that Wu Chenkong had betrayed the Great Void Primal Spirit’s reincarnation scheme and made Zhang Yanqing his own successor and scapegoat. Zhang Yanqing agreed to reveal everything she knew about Wu Chenkong, the Great Cang Divine Kingdom, and Sage Evolution Palace, beginning with the palace’s history.

• Chen Qingyu asked why the Great Void Primal Spirit had waited a hundred thousand years to reincarnate, and Zhang Yanqing said it likely needed a suitable body.
• Zhang Yanqing explained that Wu Chenkong had apparently turned the reincarnation against the Great Void Primal Spirit and seized control of the Divine Void Small World’s fundamental authority.
• Zhang Yanqing said Wu Chenkong had chosen her as his successor and scapegoat because he could resurrect past beings and find one whose soul resembled his.
• Chen Qingyu and Zhang Yanqing considered that the Great Void Primal Spirit had either died or escaped to reincarnate somewhere on the Desolate Continent.
• Zhang Yanqing revealed that ten years of Primal Spirit Transformation had made her neither a pure living being nor a Corpse Demon, binding her to Wu Chenkong while granting her control over some supreme void power.
• Zhang Yanqing agreed to tell Chen Qingyu what she knew about Wu Chenkong, the Great Cang Divine Kingdom, and Sage Evolution Palace, and began with the palace’s history.

Zhang Yanqing revealed that the Sage Evolution Palace and Emperor Yuan Palace had secretly joined forces and amassed overwhelming strength, leaving the Desolate Continent in grave danger. Chen Qingyu learned that the Divine Void Small World’s exit limits could restrain the Sage Evolution Palace, but Zhang Yanqing warned that this restriction would soon change.

• Zhang Yanqing told Chen Qingyu that the Great Void Primal Spirit had reincarnated over a century earlier, after Wu Chenkong betrayed him, and that the Sage Evolution Palace later allied with the Emperor Yuan Palace.
• Zhang Yanqing explained that the Sage Evolution Palace had revived fallen powerhouses as Corpse Demons and now possessed over a hundred Extreme Transformation Realm Saints.
• Chen Qingyu realized the allied palaces could rival the entire Desolate Continent and that Emperor Yuan’s survival was the main reason war had not begun.
• Zhang Yanqing explained that natives of the Divine Void Small World needed the Supreme Void’s mighty power to leave and that only three or four Extreme Transformation Realm Saints could be outside at once.
• Chen Qingyu welcomed the restriction, but Zhang Yanqing warned him that the situation would soon change.