Chapter Summaries

After Chen Qingmeng awoke, she revealed that she could sense the Great Void Might hidden in the Divine Void Small World and transfer it to Chen Qingyu. He absorbed its vast power and knowledge, emerging as the Lord of the Great Void.

• Chen Qingmeng woke in her bedchamber, surrounded by Chen Qingyu, the Ninth Ancestor, and the family.
• Chen Qingmeng said she could sense something that felt both far away and close, and Chen Qingyu and the Ninth Ancestor realized she could perceive the other half of the Great Void Might.
• Chen Qingmeng transferred the Great Void Might to Chen Qingyu, who endured a torrent of knowledge and mysteries entering his mind.
• After receiving the Great Void Authority for a quarter of an hour, Chen Qingyu opened his eyes with Great Void Might swirling around him.
• The Ninth Ancestor congratulated Chen Qingyu, declaring him the Lord of the Great Void in every sense.

Chen Qingyu explained that he could wield the complete Great Void Might but could not yet control it effortlessly, while Chen Qingmeng recovered and learned she could now cultivate. He then prepared to visit the Saint Yuan Minor Realm to settle Emperor Yuan Palace’s status and claim Emperor Yuan’s inheritance.

• Chen Qingyu told the Ninth Ancestor that he could summon Great Void Might but had to devote his full strength to wielding it.
• Chen Qingmeng woke exhausted, took divine medicine from the Ninth Ancestor, and said she could no longer sense the lights she had transferred to Chen Qingyu.
• Chen Qingyu congratulated Chen Qingmeng on gaining the ability to cultivate, and she said she wanted time to choose her path.
• The Ninth Ancestor urged Chen Qingyu to handle the aftermath concerning Emperor Yuan Palace, and Chen Qingyu agreed to leave for the Saint Yuan Minor Realm.
• Chen Qingyu prepared to enforce the Holy Land Alliance’s decision that Emperor Yuan Palace would join as a semi-independent holy land under supervision for a thousand years, while the alliance hunted down Sage Evolution Palace members.
• Chen Qingyu planned to claim the inheritance Emperor Yuan had left behind.

After the war, Chen Qingyu informed the Emperor Yuan Palace that the Holy Land Alliance would spare its lineage and let it join under temporary supervision. Learning that Emperor Yuan’s remains had been left unattended, Chen Qingyu took control of the palace’s formation and entered the Dragon Gate to lay them to rest.

• Chen Qingyu arrived at the Emperor Yuan Palace and told Si Mobai and the elders that the Holy Land Alliance would not exterminate Emperor Yuan’s lineage.
• Si Mobai and the elders thanked Chen Qingyu after he explained that the palace could join the alliance under temporary supervision.
• Chen Qingyu learned that Emperor Yuan’s remains had not been laid to rest because the Dragon Gate was sealed and its keys were held by the dead Saint King Tianchen and others.
• Chen Qingyu refined the Emperor Yuan Palace’s formation core and took control of the grand formation.
• Chen Qingyu passed through the Dragon Gate to reach Emperor Yuan’s remains.

Chen Qingyu entered Emperor Yuan’s hidden world and found no trace of the emperor, so he used Great Void Might to weaken the world’s rules and reveal the past. He began watching the moment Emperor Yuan died, seeking answers to the mysteries surrounding Emperor Yuan Palace.

• Chen Qingyu examined the hidden world and recognized the profound spatial laws behind its construction.
• Chen Qingyu searched the stream bank and the rest of the world but found neither Emperor Yuan’s body nor any trace of his presence.
• Chen Qingyu tried [Calamity of Shattering the Veil], but Emperor Yuan’s Quasi-Emperor power prevented him from viewing the past.
• Chen Qingyu used Great Void Might to suppress the world’s rules, knowing the strain would destroy the place within hours.
• Chen Qingyu activated [Calamity of Shattering the Veil] again and traced time back to Emperor Yuan’s death three months earlier.

Chen Qingyu witnessed Emperor Yuan’s corpse revive as a black-robed being and concluded that Emperor Yuan’s dark side had secretly manipulated the Desolate Continent’s turmoil. The mysterious figure had left after Emperor Yuan’s death, and Chen Qingyu departed without learning his true purpose.

• Chen Qingyu watched Emperor Yuan die, then saw a black-robed version of him rise from the corpse and vanish.
• Chen Qingyu inferred that Emperor Yuan’s other will had manipulated Saint King Tianchen, Wu Chenkong, and others, and had helped bring down the Great Void Primal Spirit.
• Chen Qingyu recalled Wu Chenkong’s final words and reasoned that Wu had sensed his unseen manipulator and started the war to resist him.
• Chen Qingyu wondered why the black-robed figure had left without claiming the three supreme treasures, then suspected Saint King Danzhu and Saint King Langgu had taken them away after a warning or secret influence.
• Chen Qingyu accepted that the figure had departed and that the truth might remain unknown, then flew away.

Chen Qingyu returned Emperor Yuan’s legacy to the Ninth Ancestor and explained that Emperor Yuan’s heart demon had manipulated the war before leaving the Desolate Continent. He then moved to hold the nonhuman holy lands accountable for the Divine Capital’s great calamity, leaving a Spirit Race Saint faced with two choices: die or surrender his power.

• Chen Qingyu gave Emperor Yuan’s treasures to the Ninth Ancestor and shared his deductions about Emperor Yuan’s heart demon.
• The Ninth Ancestor warned Chen Qingyu to act against the holy lands’ masterminds before the continent settled, and Chen Qingyu chose the Spirit Race’s ancestor to lead the reckoning.
• The Spirit Race’s ancestor summoned the other two Spirit Race Saints and told them Chen Qingyu intended to pursue responsibility for the Divine Capital’s great calamity.
• The Spirit Race’s ancestor told the hooked-nosed Saint that he could either take his own life or cripple his cultivation and destroy his Divine Treasure.
• The hooked-nosed Saint protested that both choices would force him to die, but the Spirit Race’s ancestor said he had to pay for his past actions.

The Spirit Race and other nonhuman holy lands carried out a sweeping purge of those implicated in the turmoil in the Divine Capital, following Chen Qingyu’s decree. The chapter ended with implicated Extreme Transformation Realm Saints crippling their cultivation or taking their own lives.

• The Spirit Race ancestor told the hook-nosed man that no one could defy Chen Qingyu’s decree, and the man crippled his own cultivation.
• The Spirit Race ancestor revoked the privileges of those implicated in the Divine Capital turmoil, enabling an unprecedented purge across the Spirit Clan Royal Court.
• The Spirit Queen ordered the grand elder’s cultivation crippled and sent her to the Earth Root Prison indefinitely.
• The Spirit Race ancestor relayed Chen Qingyu’s decree to the other holy lands, prompting brutal purges among the Dragon Race, Crystal Clan, and Demon Race.
• Implicated Extreme Transformation Realm Saints across the holy lands crippled their cultivation, and some took their own lives.

During the three-day purge, Chen Qingyu killed three rebellious Saints at Thunder Cliff and compelled the sacred lands to eliminate those implicated in the Divine Capital unrest. The purge ended with the nonhuman races severely weakened, and Chen Qingyu fulfilled his promise years ahead of schedule.

• At Thunder Cliff, Saint Dapeng and two allies tried to leave the Desolate Continent, but two other Saints blocked their way.
• Chen Qingyu appeared and killed Dapeng and the other two Saints with a single thought, then summoned the surviving Saints to the Floating Heavenly Palace.
• The two surviving Saints agreed to purge Thunder Cliff's implicated ranks, despite the damage to its strength and future prospects.
• The three-day purge ended after more than twenty nonhuman Saints died or crippled their cultivation, while many radical lower-ranking members were also eliminated.
• The human sacred lands stayed silent as those involved in the Divine Capital unrest paid in blood, and Chen Qingyu fulfilled his promise before two years had passed.

Chen Qingyu and Chen Zhengxing paid respects to their dead relatives after avenging them, and Chen Qingyu then convened the Saints to set the Desolate Continent’s postwar policies. He outlined punishments and aid for human holy lands before turning to the future of the four nonhuman holy lands.

• Chen Zhengxing offered incense at the ancestral hall, and Chen Qingyu reflected that he had finally avenged their relatives.
• Chen Yuanhe urged Chen Zhengxing to leave the past behind and cherish his reunited family.
• Three days later, Chen Qingyu summoned the Saints to the Floating Heavenly Palace to discuss the Desolate Continent’s development after the war.
• Chen Qingyu stripped the Yama Holy Land and Tianhe Luo Clan of their status and expelled them from Central Heaven Prefecture.
• Chen Qingyu proposed that the human holy lands help the Liangshan Wang Clan rebuild its destroyed ancestral holdings.
• Chen Qingyu began addressing the four nonhuman holy lands, leaving their future standing undecided.

Chen Qingyu set out rules for nonhuman races to enter the Land of the Four Realms and outlined a new order for the Desolate Continent. He proposed an alliance-run academy system, and the Saints began weighing its costs and benefits before a vote.

• Chen Qingyu allowed the holy lands of the nonhuman races to develop in the Land of the Four Realms, provided humans and nonhumans coexisted peacefully.
• When human Saints objected to nonhuman entry, Chen Qingyu said the Desolate Continent would eventually expand overseas, and the human Saints accepted his decision.
• Chen Qingyu established the Saint Alliance as the highest governing institution, gave Extreme Transformation Realm Saints voting rights, and granted himself veto and final-decision powers.
• Chen Qingyu proposed alliance-run academies across Central Heaven Prefecture and the Land of the Four Realms, funded and staffed by the holy lands and supplied with their cultivation methods.
• The Saints considered the benefits and costs of the academy plan as Chen Qingyu called for a vote.

Chen Qingyu secured unanimous support for the Holy Land Alliance’s plans, including tribute that would chiefly strengthen the Chen Clan, and the Alliance unified the Desolate Continent. With the new order taking shape, Chen Qingyu’s workload eased, and his reunited family set off to travel around the continent.

• Chen Qingyu gained the Saints’ votes for his strategic direction and detailed plans for the Holy Land Alliance, including territorial divisions, academies, and regular resource tribute.
• Chen Qingyu told the Ninth Ancestor that he would delay venturing beyond the Desolate Continent until he reached Quasi-Emperor-level might, and planned to travel across the continent with his family.
• The Holy Land Alliance brought every faction in the Four Regions under its authority within half a month, establishing a new order across the Desolate Continent.
• The four nonhuman races entered the Four Regions, while academy construction and new subordinate governing bodies began amid sweeping reforms.
• At Ling Qiuxia’s suggestion, Chen Qingyu and his reunited family set out to journey around the Desolate Continent.

More than nine months after the war, Chen Qingyu and his family traveled across the Desolate Continent while the new academy system and political order took shape. At a flower festival, Chen Qingyu explained why he had refused the Holy Land Alliance’s offer to crown him emperor, then sensed that his cultivation was about to break through.

• Over nine months, reforms and academies spread across the Desolate Continent, and Chen Qingyu and his family spent their leisure traveling.
• At the Eastern Region’s flower festival, Chen Qingyu and Chen Zhengxing discussed the academies’ progress and how the holy lands used the new order to extend their influence.
• Chen Zhengxing asked why Chen Qingyu had refused the Holy Land Alliance’s proposal to crown him emperor, and Chen Qingyu said he was not yet powerful enough.
• Chen Qingyu sensed that his cultivation realm was finally about to break through.

Chen Qingyu left the Cauliflower Festival to break through to the Zhoutian Realm in the void, where his Divine Treasure gained the power to leverage the laws of heaven and earth. He concluded that he already possessed newly ascended Quasi-Emperor strength and had established his Dao Path, then returned to Chen Zhengxing and announced that he would seek the imperial crown.

• Chen Qingyu told Chen Zhengxing he was about to break through and went into the void to avoid disturbing his family at the Cauliflower Festival.
• Chen Qingyu completed his breakthrough, transforming his Divine Treasure power into Zhoutian circulation and gaining the ability to seal surrounding space like a domain.
• Chen Qingyu realized his Divine Treasure could leverage the rules of heaven and earth, an authority he attributed to the Myriad Calamity Wheel Seal.
• Chen Qingyu determined he had newly ascended Quasi-Emperor strength and had already established his Dao Path, allowing him to pursue ultimate sublimation without a bottleneck.
• Chen Qingyu returned to Chen Zhengxing and declared they should return to the Divine Capital to convene the alliance elders, because he would be crowned Emperor.

Chen Qingyu announced that he had combat strength rivaling a newly advanced Quasi-Emperor and would claim the imperial title, prompting the Chen Clan and the Holy Land Alliance to prepare his coronation. The Saints of the Desolate Continent gathered at the Divine Capital, where Chen Qingyu insisted on establishing his succession before attempting to refine the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror.

• Chen Qingyu told Chen Zhengxing that he could rival a newly advanced Quasi-Emperor and intended to become emperor, and Chen Zhengxing celebrated the Chen Clan's long-awaited chance to produce an Emperor Lord.
• Chen Qingmeng presented Chen Qingyu with a five-colored flower wreath, and Chen Zhengxing proposed returning to the Divine Capital to end their journey.
• At the Floating Heavenly Palace, Chen Qinghan said she had invited the Alliance's Saint elders to discuss the coronation, while the Ninth Ancestor urged Chen Qingyu to refine the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror first.
• Chen Qingyu explained that refining the mirror could take years and chose to hold his coronation first, so his succession would be established before rivals could scheme.
• Saints from the major holy lands arrived at the Floating Heavenly Palace and discussed the news that Chen Qingyu was about to become an Emperor Lord.

Chen Qingyu arranged a grand coronation and was crowned Emperor Yu, becoming ruler of the Desolate Continent as a new calendar was announced. Afterward, he entered the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror’s hidden space with the Ninth Ancestor and began refining the mirror’s physical form.

• Chen Qingyu released a trace of his power to silence the Saints, then asked them to help plan his coronation.
• The Saints finalized the ceremony, and news of Chen Qingyu’s rise spread across the Desolate Continent while the Alliance concealed his true age.
• Half a month later, the holy lands and major powers gathered in the Divine Capital, where Chen Qingyu was crowned Emperor Yu and the Emperor Yu calendar was announced.
• Chen Qingyu and the Ninth Ancestor entered the Floating Heavenly Palace’s hidden space, where Chen Qingyu summoned the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror in its physical form.
• Chen Qingyu shut down the Supreme Void Dao Realm and began refining the mirror with his full Great Void Might and Quasi-Emperor-level power.

After refining the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror, Chen Qingyu discovered ancient spatial coordinates that might have been left by the Emperor Venerable who once aided his ancestors. He resolved to travel to the Kunyu Continent, though the Ninth Ancestor warned that the Desolate Continent still depended on him.

• Chen Qingyu instantly refined the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror and sensed that the process had been strangely easy.
• When Chen Qingyu investigated the mirror, a hidden message of changing spatial coordinates entered his mind.
• Chen Qingyu and the Ninth Ancestor concluded that the coordinates might be a fallback left by the Emperor Venerable who had bestowed the mirror.
• Chen Qingyu decided to leave the Desolate Continent for the Kunyu Continent to investigate the Emperor Venerable, reach his ninth check-in location, and pursue longevity for his family.
• The Ninth Ancestor accepted Chen Qingyu's resolve but warned that his departure could destabilize the Holy Land Alliance and leave the Desolate Continent vulnerable.

Chen Qingyu found Taihao Divine Iron in Divine Punishment Valley and used it to reforge the Myriad Stars Armillary Heaven Bell. The Chen Clan of Changluo gained its own Quasi-Emperor-grade supreme treasure.

• Chen Qingyu told the Ninth Ancestor he would leave the Supreme Void Eternal World Mirror behind, and they agreed he could reforge the Myriad Stars Armillary Heaven Bell instead.
• Chen Qingyu sensed a huge piece of Taihao Divine Iron buried deep beneath Divine Punishment Valley and pulled it to the surface.
• Chen Qingyu returned to the Divine Capital and spent seven days refining the Taihao Divine Iron.
• Chen Qingyu spent two months reforging the Myriad Stars Armillary Heaven Bell, raising it to Quasi-Emperor grade.

The Yinshan Liu Clan arrived at the Desolate Continent after drifting through the Sea of Chaos for over a dozen years, and their ancestor chose to settle there. After learning the continent was Quasi-Emperor Shengyuan’s former hiding place, the ancestor panicked and ordered the clan to leave, but Tongyuan revealed Shengyuan had died and Emperor Yu now ruled.

• The Yinshan Liu Clan’s enormous flying vessel crashed onto an uninhabited island at the edge of the East Sea, and its people celebrated escaping the Sea of Chaos.
• The golden-crowned ancestor decided the clan should settle on the small continent and ordered Tongyuan to investigate before taking action against local factions.
• Tongyuan’s scouts reported that the continent was known as Quasi-Emperor Shengyuan’s hiding place, alarming the ancestor.
• The ancestor ordered Tongyuan to return the clansmen to the small realm and leave immediately.
• Tongyuan told the ancestor that Quasi-Emperor Shengyuan had died in meditation over a year earlier and that Emperor Yu now ruled the Desolate Continent.

The Yinshan Liu Clan learned that Emperor Yu ruled the Desolate Continent and decided to approach him peacefully, while Chen Qingyu detected their Quasi-Emperor and revealed his overwhelming power. The gold-crowned elder halted in fear after sensing Chen Qingyu’s peak Quasi-Emperor-level might.

• The middle-aged man told the gold-crowned elder that Quasi-Emperor Shengyuan had died and described Emperor Yu’s rise to Quasi-Emperor at a remarkably young age.
• The gold-crowned elder ordered lavish gifts prepared so he could visit Emperor Yu and establish friendly relations.
• In the Floating Heavenly Palace, the Ninth Ancestor praised Chen Qingyu for reforging the Myriad Stars Armillary Heaven Bell into a Quasi-Emperor supreme treasure.
• Chen Qingyu sensed an unfamiliar Quasi-Emperor entering Central Heaven Prefecture and identified the outsiders’ ship near the East Sea.
• The gold-crowned elder traveled openly toward the Divine Capital, but stopped in terror when Chen Qingyu’s Great Void Might revealed peak Quasi-Emperor-level power.

Chen Qingyu welcomed Quasi-Emperor Canliu and four Yinshan Liu Clan members, who had fled the Kunyu Continent and sought refuge in the Desolate Continent. After accepting their lavish gift, Chen Qingyu revealed that his ancestors and the humans of the Desolate Continent had also fled the Kunyu Continent, and Canliu recognized them as fellow countrymen.

• Quasi-Emperor Canliu told Chen Qingyu that he and the Yinshan Liu Clan had fled the Kunyu Continent and hoped to settle temporarily in the Desolate Continent.
• Chen Qingyu invited Canliu to the Divine Capital and opened a spatial passage to the Floating Heavenly Palace.
• Canliu and four clansmen met Chen Qingyu and the Ninth Ancestor, and Canliu presented Chen Qingyu with a valuable gift list and treasures.
• Chen Qingyu told Canliu that his ancestors and the humans of the Desolate Continent had fled the Kunyu Continent over a hundred thousand years earlier.
• Canliu called them fellow countrymen after hearing Chen Qingyu's revelation.