Chapter Summaries

Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e entered the Chen Clan’s Great Yin Grotto to locate the resting place of Wu Su'e’s great-grandaunt, Wu Ruqin, and her husband, Chen Shangguang. They found the couple’s jade coffin, where Wu Su'e sensed the secret treasure she had come to seek.

• Chen Qingyu showed the aged guardian his green jade thumb ring, and the guardian opened the palace doors for him and Wu Su'e.
• Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e entered the vast Great Yin Grotto, a secret realm filled with generations of Chen Clan coffins.
• Wu Su'e told Chen Qingyu that her great-grandaunt was Wu Ruqin, who had married Chen elder Chen Shangguang.
• Chen Qingyu found Chen Shangguang’s name on the jade wall and used Star True Qi to summon a guiding speck of light.
• Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e followed the light to Chen Shangguang and Wu Ruqin’s jade coffin, where Wu Su'e sensed the secret treasure.

Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e retrieved the Dragon Qi secret treasure from the coffin in the Great Yin Grotto, then discussed the origins and power of the One Star, Nine Luminaries secret art. Wu Su'e explained that its creator was a Chen Clan ancestor with the Dual-Flow Sacred Physique, who eventually died of old age despite his immense power.

• Wu Su'e summoned the Dragon Qi secret treasure, a purple-gold phoenix crown, from the jade coffin and absorbed it into her body.
• Chen Qingyu and Wu Su'e left the Great Yin Grotto, and Chen Qingyu asked her for guidance on cultivating One Star, Nine Luminaries.
• Wu Su'e told Chen Qingyu that a Chen Clan ancestor with nine-star talent and the Dual-Flow Sacred Physique created the secret art.
• Wu Su'e explained that the Dual-Flow Sacred Physique allowed its wielder to cultivate two paths and that One Star, Nine Luminaries could manifest eight incarnations as strong as the original.
• Wu Su'e said the ancestor rivaled the ancient kings but ultimately died of old age.

Wu Su'e taught Chen Qingyu the mysteries of One Star, Nine Luminaries before departing with her companions. Chen Qingyu then found Chen Qingshou at home, where the disgraced clansman was vowing to surpass him, and confronted him.

• Wu Su'e explained how One Star, Nine Luminaries linked the true body with the Dragon Qi Manifestation Body, then told Chen Qingyu she had taught him all she knew.
• Chen Qingyu thanked Wu Su'e, escorted her and her companions to the teleportation array, and watched them leave for Golden Bridge Heaven.
• Chen Qingyu flew over the Divine Capital and located Chen Qingshou, who was nursing his injuries and swearing to catch up with Chen Shaojun.
• Chen Qingyu appeared in Chen Qingshou's courtyard without permission, startling him, and Chen Qingshou demanded to know what he wanted.

Chen Qingyu confronted Chen Qingshou and questioned him about his sudden rise and his knowledge of Wu Su'e’s arrival. After hearing his answers, Chen Qingyu warned him not to misuse his name and left, while Chen Qingshou watched him go with a complicated expression.

• Chen Qingyu threatened to beat Chen Qingshou until he answered honestly, and Chen Qingshou admitted his mother had died and his father was away from the Divine Capital.
• Chen Qingshou said a Lineage ancestor had informed him that Wu Su'e would arrive, and Chen Qingyu suspected the Ninth Ancestor had arranged it.
• Chen Qingshou explained that his father’s service to the Lineage had earned him a drop of Saint King's Blood and permission to cultivate the Taihao Limitless Ascension True Scripture.
• Chen Qingshou said the Saint King's Blood had helped him advance from the Fourth Heavenly Layer of the Blood Sea Realm to the Golden Bridge Realm in half a month.
• Chen Qingyu warned Chen Qingshou not to use his name to deceive people, then flew away as Chen Qingshou watched him leave.

Chen Qingyu asked Chen Zhengxing about Saint King's Blood after hearing that an impostor posing as him had received a drop. Chen Zhengxing explained the medicine’s purpose and rarity, then confirmed that as the Chen Clan’s Dao Son, Chen Qingyu could request a drop.

• Chen Qingyu returned home and told Chen Zhengxing that his meeting with the princess of the Taihuang Wu Clan had been a courtesy visit, though he had obtained the One Star, Nine Luminaries cultivation method.
• Chen Qingyu asked whether the Chen Clan had Saint King's Blood, saying an impostor who posed as him had received a drop and advanced rapidly in cultivation.
• Chen Zhengxing explained that Saint King's Blood could help high-level cultivators change their foundations, purify their bloodline, and improve their talent, but was extremely difficult to obtain.
• Chen Qingyu asked whether he could receive the medicine, and Chen Zhengxing said a supreme elder would refine it for him if he wanted it.

Chen Qingyu learned that the Chen Clan considered Saint King's Blood useless for him, but he asked the Ninth Ancestor for some anyway. The Ninth Ancestor revealed that the clan had none in reserve, though he knew where another drop was hidden.

• Chen Zhengxing explained that Saint King's Blood could not help Chen Qingyu and urged him to consolidate his rapidly advancing cultivation.
• Chen Qingyu suspected the medicine could purify his bloodline and asked his father whether the clan had any in reserve.
• Chen Zhengxing said he did not manage the underground treasury, so Chen Qingyu went to ask the Ninth Ancestor about the blood and the One Star, Nine Luminaries secret art.
• The Ninth Ancestor said the clan's last drop had been given to the person Chen Qingyu defeated and offered to have ten drops refined, but the process would take at least two or three years.
• The Ninth Ancestor said he knew of a place where another drop of Saint King's Blood was hidden.

Chen Qingyu learned that a drop of Saint King's Blood had been preserved for thirty thousand years in Liyang City, and his father, Chen Zhengxing, took him there through the void. As Chen Zhengxing explained the dangers and wonders hidden in the void, he warned Chen Qingyu to wait until he was much stronger before exploring it.

• The Ninth Ancestor told Chen Qingyu that the only remaining Saint King's Blood was buried in the Chen Clan cemetery in Liyang City and had been untouched for thirty thousand years.
• The Ninth Ancestor told Chen Qingyu to go with Chen Zhengxing, who could protect him outside the Divine Capital, and Chen Qingyu agreed.
• Chen Qingyu returned home and told Chen Zhengxing about the Saint King's Blood, and Chen Zhengxing agreed to take him to Liyang City.
• Chen Zhengxing tore open space and carried Chen Qingyu into the void, where Chen Qingyu saw distant lights and asked what they were.
• Chen Zhengxing described the dangers, treasures, and ruins in the void and told Chen Qingyu to wait until he reached the Void Penetration Realm before exploring it.

Chen Qingyu and Chen Zhengxing traveled to Liyang City and secretly retrieved a bottle of Saint King's Blood from Chen Yumo's tomb. After they left, a hungry little girl found the disturbed paving tile and dug up the dirty handkerchief Chen Qingyu had left behind.

• Chen Zhengxing brought Chen Qingyu through the void to Liyang City and asked him to lead the way to the hidden Saint King's Blood.
• Chen Qingyu and Chen Zhengxing arrived at Chen Yumo's tomb in the Chen Clan cemetery without being noticed by the local clansmen.
• Chen Qingyu dug up a small bronze bottle containing Saint King's Blood, then covered the hole and left with Chen Zhengxing.
• That night, a little girl sneaked into the cemetery to steal offerings and noticed that the paving tile before Chen Yumo's tomb had been disturbed.
• The little girl dug beneath the tile and pulled out Chen Qingyu's dirt-stained white handkerchief, mistaking it for treasure.

Chen Qingyu consumed a drop of Saint King's Blood, which purified his bloodline, raised his cultivation to the Golden Bridge Realm Fifth Heavenly Layer, and doubled his cultivation speed. He left to ask the Ninth Ancestor about One Star, Nine Luminaries, while Chen Zhengxing confronted him in astonishment about the blood’s powerful effect.

• Chen Qingyu swallowed the Saint King's Blood and endured intense pain as it refined his bloodline.
• The Myriad Stars Armillary Heaven Bell chimed faintly, and Chen Qingyu’s golden bridge advanced to the Golden Bridge Realm Fifth Heavenly Layer.
• Chen Qingyu found that his cultivation speed had at least doubled and realized he could reach the Spirit Origin Realm in under twenty days of focused cultivation.
• Chen Qingyu left the quiet chamber to seek the Ninth Ancestor’s cultivation method for One Star, Nine Luminaries.
• Chen Zhengxing sensed the stronger Saint King Bloodline in Chen Qingyu and demanded to know how the Saint King's Blood had affected him so powerfully.

After Chen Qingyu’s bloodline transformed, the Ninth Ancestor revealed that Chen Qingyu was descended from both humans and the Spirit Race and believed his awakened physique could let him surpass Emperor Yuan. The Ninth Ancestor promised to arrange a supply of Saint King's Blood and prepared to teach Chen Qingyu One Star, Nine Luminaries.

• Chen Qingyu visited the Ninth Ancestor, who was shocked by the transformation of his Blood Sea after he took the Saint King's Blood.
• The Ninth Ancestor explained that Chen Qingyu’s mother belonged to the Spirit Race and that her bloodline had been sealed.
• The Ninth Ancestor concluded that Chen Qingyu’s low Saint King Bloodline concentration could allow his cultivation talent to improve further and possibly surpass Emperor Yuan.
• Chen Qingyu asked for more Saint King's Blood, and the Ninth Ancestor promised the clan would refine as much as he wanted within two years.
• The Ninth Ancestor began to honor his promise to teach Chen Qingyu One Star, Nine Luminaries and asked which parts still puzzled him.

Chen Qingyu learned the Chen Clan’s method for cultivating One Star, Nine Luminaries from the Ninth Ancestor and completed the Great Void Primal Spirit’s additional trial. He received immense rewards that perfected three martial techniques and granted him five million great void points.

• Chen Qingyu told the Ninth Ancestor that he understood One Star, Nine Luminaries but did not know how to condense a manifestation of his true self.
• The Ninth Ancestor explained the Chen Clan’s cultivation method and taught Chen Qingyu how to visualize himself and evolve the Great Radiance Star’s true meaning.
• Chen Qingyu mastered the secret art’s foundations, thanked the Ninth Ancestor, and returned to his residence.
• Chen Qingyu meditated and was assessed by the Great Void Primal Spirit, which confirmed that he had comprehended One Star, Nine Luminaries.
• The Great Void Primal Spirit perfected Chen Qingyu’s Great Radiance Heaven-Suppressing Fist, Great Radiance Body Refining Method, and Celestial Star Attraction Method, and awarded him five million great void points.
• Chen Qingyu absorbed the memories and information that raised his mastery of all three techniques, then celebrated his windfall.

Chen Qingyu entered Golden Bridge Heaven and discovered that people there recognized him as a famous prodigy from Blood Sea Heaven. After escaping an excited crowd, he reached the War God Tower and spotted its golden ranking list.

• Chen Qingyu entered Golden Bridge Heaven after perfecting his three supreme martial techniques.
• Chen Qingyu asked a young man for directions to the War God Tower, and the man recognized him as Chen Shaojun.
• The young man announced Chen Qingyu's arrival, drawing a crowd that rushed to surround him.
• Chen Qingyu vanished and flew away, then secretly traveled through Divine Capital Changluo toward the War God Tower.
• Chen Qingyu arrived near the War God Tower and noticed the golden ranking list hanging beside it.

Chen Qingyu examined the Golden Bridge Heaven rankings and learned that Xu Yuanxian, the Martial Dao Emperor, had cleared the War God Tower’s tenth floor, while four other cultivators had cleared the ninth. The chapter left Chen Qingyu eager to challenge Xu Yuanxian and surpass him.

• Chen Qingyu read the Golden Bridge Heaven rankings and was shocked by the number of cultivators who had cleared the ninth floor and Xu Yuanxian’s record on the tenth.
• A black-clad youth asked his sister why Golden Bridge Heaven had so many powerful geniuses compared with Blood Sea Heaven.
• The young woman explained that humanity’s current generation dominated the realm and that Xu Yuanxian was known as the Martial Dao Emperor, with the Four Heavenly Kings ranked beneath him.
• The young woman said Zhou Chenlong had risen to sixth place and might eventually clear the ninth floor, while Chen Shaojun could also contend for the top.
• Chen Qingyu considered the strength of Golden Bridge Heaven’s cultivators and resolved to surpass Xu Yuanxian.

Chen Qingyu entered the Golden Bridge Heaven War God Tower and skipped its first eight floors, then faced the ninth floor’s overwhelming host of martial artists. After their attack failed to harm him, he unleashed Flying Sand and Moving Stones and killed hundreds.

• Chen Qingyu chose to skip the first eight floors of the Golden Bridge Heaven War God Tower, receiving their rewards and beginning on the ninth floor.
• Chen Qingyu saw that the ninth floor was far larger than its Blood Sea Heaven counterpart and prepared for its opponents.
• Over ten thousand martial artists attacked Chen Qingyu together, but their assault left him uninjured.
• Chen Qingyu activated Flying Sand and Moving Stones, and the sandstorm killed hundreds of martial artists.

Chen Qingyu fought thousands of Golden Bridge Realm martial artists on the ninth floor, breaking through their coordinated suppressive techniques and killing hundreds with a single punch. He unleashed [Summoning Wind and Rain] to cover the battlefield, then gathered his Blood Sea and Star True Qi as his next move began.

• Chen Qingyu’s yellow sandstorm killed fewer than two thousand martial artists as the others flew, hid, or burrowed to evade it.
• Hundreds of martial artists emerged from underground and layered restraints and weakening techniques on Chen Qingyu while the survivors prepared to wear him down.
• Chen Qingyu broke free of the restraints, ignored the strange arts, and smashed the ground with a punch that killed hundreds more.
• The surviving martial artists retreated, abandoning any attempt to confront Chen Qingyu directly.
• Chen Qingyu summoned a storm of snow, hail, wind, and ice, then channeled his Blood Sea and Star True Qi as the storm’s real purpose became apparent.

Chen Qingyu used his new Formless Sandstorm technique to clear the ninth floor of the War God Tower and claim first place on Divine Capital Changluo’s War God Rankings. He continued his challenge as his name appeared in second place on the overall War God Rankings, drawing a stunned crowd outside the tower.

• Chen Qingyu unleashed Formless Sandstorm, combining invisible sand with a blizzard and ice attacks to slaughter the top-tier Golden Bridge Realm warriors on the ninth floor.
• Chen Qingyu wiped out the remaining opponents and cleared the ninth floor, earning two million Great Void Points and ranking first in Divine Capital Changluo and second in the overall Golden Bridge Heaven rankings.
• Chen Qingyu dismissed the idea that second place was enough and chose to continue challenging the War God Tower.
• The rankings outside the War God Tower blazed with golden light as Chen Qingyu’s name surged to first place locally and second place overall, shocking the onlookers.

Chen Qingyu entered the tenth floor of the War God Tower after his name appeared second on the Golden Bridge Heaven rankings, drawing a crowd that expected him to challenge for the top. He discovered that the floor’s fifty thousand opponents had formed five powerful battle arrays, leaving him facing a far greater threat than before.

• Chen Shaojun’s name appeared second on the rankings, and the crowd gathered to watch his War God Tower challenge, though spectating was disabled.
• After learning Chen Shaojun had cleared the ninth floor and continued, the crowd debated whether he could overcome the tenth floor.
• Chen Qingyu appeared on the tenth floor and noticed its vast battlefield.
• Five pillars of light revealed five formations of ten thousand opponents, each linked into a super array.
• Chen Qingyu recognized that the opponents were super prodigies and that the tenth floor’s difficulty had risen dramatically.

Chen Qingyu faced five battle formations of ten thousand martial artists, whose coordinated techniques created an immense sea of True Qi to flush him out. He discovered the sea was largely an illusion produced by intricate nested formations, but could find no weakness in their design.

• Chen Qingyu judged that only a frontal assault could break the battle formations, but doubted he could survive their combined power.
• The five battle formations failed to locate Chen Qingyu and joined their True Qi into a vast tidal wave.
• Chen Qingyu flew into the sky using [Standing Upright Without a Shadow] as the True Qi flood spread across the space.
• Chen Qingyu used [Seeing Through Walls] and realized most of the rising waves were illusions designed to force him to reveal himself.
• Chen Qingyu saw that each battle formation contained many specialized sections nested together, but he found no flaw to exploit.

Chen Qingyu broke through the ten-thousand-man battle formation with a concentrated physical attack and began slaughtering its members. As the survivors tried to regroup, four more battle formations struck from above with an attack that threatened to destroy everyone below and kill him.

• Chen Qingyu realized he needed to pierce the battle formation at a single point and plunged into it using his physical strength.
• Chen Qingyu broke through the formation’s light barrier, killed the martial artists around him, and began massacring the ten thousand fighters.
• The surviving martial artists sacrificed a group to slow Chen Qingyu while the rest moved away to form a smaller battle formation.
• Chen Qingyu charged through the obstruction to stop them from regrouping, but discovered four battle formations of forty thousand fighters overhead.
• The four formations fired enormous pillars of light downward, and Chen Qingyu realized they were willing to sacrifice the fighters below to kill him.

Chen Qingyu survived the four battle formations’ combined attack and realized their True Qi networks held the key to defeating them. As he secretly infiltrated a strand of Chen Clan Star True Qi, the formations lost track of him, leaving his next move uncertain.

• The four battle formations unleashed a combined strike that destroyed most of the fighters on the ground, but Chen Qingyu survived while badly wounded.
• The formations flooded the space with a rising ocean of True Qi to expose Chen Qingyu, who remained invisible and searched for a way to turn the fight around.
• Chen Qingyu realized that the battle formations depended on their True Qi hubs and channels, and that interfering with them could be the secret to clearing the tenth floor.
• Chen Qingyu used Seeing Through Walls to find a strand of Chen Clan Star True Qi and secretly fed his own True Qi into it.
• The True Qi ocean nearly filled the space, but the four battle formations could no longer find Chen Qingyu and wondered where he had gone.