Chapter Summaries

Lu Changsheng began undermining the Divine Realm’s infiltration plans while the Black Lord and the Ancestral Dragon held the Chief Gods at Hidden Dragon Abyss. Disguised as Zhongsheng, he entered the Xu Clan and began investigating its hidden pawns, while Jiang Yiyu’s reliability remained doubtful.

• Lu Changsheng told the Black Lord and the Ancestral Dragon to hold off the Chief Gods while he dealt with the Divine Realm’s infiltrators.
• Lu Changsheng ordered Jiang Yiyu to identify hidden pawns, then headed alone to the Xu Clan.
• Lu Changsheng arrived at the Xu Clan and was admitted after someone inside recognized him as a guest.
• Xu Qing welcomed Lu Changsheng and began describing the Xu Clan at his request.
• Lu Changsheng asked Jiang Yiyu about her progress at the Xuanyuan Clan, but her reply that she had not made contact conflicted with what his split soul had already sensed.

Lu Changsheng questioned Xu Qing about the Divine Realm’s agents and realized the Divine Realm may have engineered the feud between the Xu Clan and the Xuanyuan Clan. He then caught Jiang Yiyu meeting Xuanyuan Li and imprisoned the hidden agent, warning Jiang Yiyu that he was watching every Divine Realm member in the lower realm.

• Lu Changsheng questioned Xu Qing about agents in the Xu Clan and learned that an unknown Divine Realm member had orchestrated the feud between the Xu Clan and the Xuanyuan Clan.
• Lu Changsheng decided to keep Xu Qing alive and told him to remain on standby for the next stage of the operation.
• Lu Changsheng scolded his disciples through his voice transmission jade pendant before vanishing from the courtyard.
• Xuanyuan Li suddenly attacked Jiang Yiyu, but Lu Changsheng caught and shattered his sword, then trapped him in a Space Cage.
• Lu Changsheng surrounded Jiang Yiyu with formations and warned her that every Divine Realm member in the lower realm, including her, was under his surveillance.

Lu Changsheng tortured Xuanyuan Li into revealing that Xuanyuan Yao had arranged Xu Canghai’s fate, then killed Xuanyuan Li and further bound Jiang Yiyu to keep the Divine Realm’s operation secret. Meanwhile, Mu Fusheng and Jiu Bailu emerged on the altar’s third tier after entering the second tier’s trial.

• Lu Changsheng questioned Xuanyuan Li about Xu Canghai and tortured him until he confessed that another hidden agent, Xuanyuan Yao, was responsible.
• Xuanyuan Li said he did not know where Xuanyuan Yao was because she no longer appeared in the Xuanyuan Clan.
• Lu Changsheng killed Xuanyuan Li, erased the traces of his presence, and strengthened the restriction on Jiang Yiyu’s divine soul.
• After Lu Changsheng vanished, Jiang Yiyu feared that the Divine Realm’s operation had failed and its survival depended on him.
• Mu Fusheng and Jiu Bailu emerged from the second tier’s trial on the third tier, puzzled by how they had arrived there.

Jiu Bailu obtained Heavenly Mandate Emperor Venerable’s inheritance and reached the early Lord Divine Realm, while Mu Fusheng and the others joined Ning Chenxin on the fourth floor. They found Ning Chenxin and the Buddha Son battling Bitter Zen Devil Buddha over Chief Cihang’s corrupted relic, and the Devil Buddha began using nine skulls to trap them and harness the karmic obstruction.

• Jiu Bailu passed the ninth-level lightning tribulation, reached the early Lord Divine Realm, and received the Heavenly Mandate Book.
• Hong Ying, Xiao Shitou, and Chu Yan met Mu Fusheng and Jiu Bailu on the third floor, then went with them to the fourth.
• Hong Ying and Mu Fusheng chose to watch over Ning Chenxin as he and the Buddha Son faced Bitter Zen Devil Buddha.
• The Buddha Son explained that Bitter Zen Devil Buddha wanted to use his relic to claim Chief Cihang’s corrupted relic and absorb the karmic obstruction.
• Bitter Zen Devil Buddha sent nine skulls to trap Ning Chenxin and the Buddha Son, while Ning Chenxin used the Dao Scripture to hold back the black Qi.

Ning Chenxin and the Buddha Son confronted Bitter Zen Devil Buddha on the fourth floor but were overwhelmed by his power. As Bitter Zen Devil Buddha attacked again, Ning Chenxin combined his Daoist World-Purifying Incantation with the Buddha Son’s Buddhist light, forming a blue lotus that began purifying the wronged souls.

• Ning Chenxin summoned a Divine General with the Nine-Character Mantra, but Bitter Zen Devil Buddha’s nine skulls destroyed it and sent Ning Chenxin and the Buddha Son flying with backlash.
• Xu Youming and Xuanyuan Tianzhao left for the fifth floor, while Hong Ying stayed calm because she believed Ning Chenxin still had a trump card.
• Bitter Zen Devil Buddha formed a vortex of wronged souls and sent it toward Ning Chenxin and the Buddha Son.
• The Buddha Son released the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sarira and stepped forward to block the attack, telling Ning Chenxin to stop Bitter Zen Devil Buddha from obtaining Chief Cihang’s sarira.
• Ning Chenxin asked to borrow the Buddha Son’s Buddhist light and used the World-Purifying Incantation to create a blue lotus that began purifying the vortex’s wronged souls.

Ning Chenxin merged his Dao Rhyme with Buddhist light and fought Bitter Zen Devil Buddha, whose karmic demonic claws were empowered by his relic. His righteous light awakened Chief Cihang’s relic, which rejected Bitter Zen Devil Buddha and recognized Ning Chenxin as its master.

• Ning Chenxin explained that his Dao had no boundaries and blocked Bitter Zen Devil Buddha’s vengeful-soul claws with his merged righteous and Buddhist light.
• Bitter Zen Devil Buddha released the karmic burden in his relic, turning the battle against Ning Chenxin and the Buddha Son.
• Ning Chenxin and the Buddha Son strengthened the blue lotus with their combined power, enveloping Chief Cihang’s golden body.
• The righteous light revealed a golden relic hidden within Chief Cihang’s chest, and Bitter Zen Devil Buddha rushed to claim it.
• The relic blasted Bitter Zen Devil Buddha away and floated before Ning Chenxin, recognizing him as its master.

Ning Chenxin acquired Chief Cihang’s Record of Purified Karma and underwent a lightning tribulation while Bitter Zen Devil Buddha attacked him. After combining the scripture’s power with the World-Purifying Incantation, Ning Chenxin sent the Tur bid World Azure Lotus toward Bitter Zen Devil Buddha, who feared its purifying flames.

• Chief Cihang’s relic entered Ning Chenxin’s palm and gave him the Record of Purified Karma.
• Ning Chenxin comprehended the scripture, triggering a lightning tribulation as Bitter Zen Devil Buddha summoned a manifestation of karmic power and wronged souls.
• The Buddha Son offered to protect Ning Chenxin, but Ning Chenxin refused, saying the karmic power could not affect him.
• Ning Chenxin combined the Record of Purified Karma with the Daoist World-Purifying Incantation, purifying more than half of Bitter Zen Devil Buddha’s attack.
• Bitter Zen Devil Buddha’s manifestation struck the Tur bid World Azure Lotus, injuring Ning Chenxin but failing to break it.
• Ning Chenxin sent the lotus, wreathed in purifying flames, toward Bitter Zen Devil Buddha, who feared he could not withstand it.

Ning Chenxin defeated Bitter Zen Devil Buddha with a fused Buddhist and Dao technique, forcing him to flee toward the fifth floor. Despite severe injuries, Ning Chenxin endured the seventh-, eighth-, and ninth-level lightning tribulations before finally losing consciousness.

• Ning Chenxin's azure lotus purified Bitter Zen Devil Buddha's evil ghost manifestation, and Bitter Zen Devil Buddha fled toward the fifth floor, vowing to confront him outside.
• Ning Chenxin spat up blood after the sixth-level tribulation, and Chu Yan offered to end the lightning tribulation if Hong Ying would leave with him, but Hong Ying refused.
• The seventh-level lightning tribulation engulfed Ning Chenxin, yet his Vast Righteous Qi endured as the lightning gradually faded.
• Ning Chenxin faced the eighth-level tribulation with Chief Cihang's relic and the Dao Scripture, then safely endured its lightning.
• Ning Chenxin also survived the ninth-level tribulation before losing consciousness, still standing upright with the Dao Scripture in his hand.

Xiao Hei entered the fifth floor’s body-cultivation inheritance trial and fought through an immense army of unusually hard, heavy skeletons. Su Ming, Zhuo Yan, and Lu Jingchuan secretly followed behind him, planning to use his strength to clear the way and kill him when he grew tired.

• Xiao Hei arrived on the fifth floor with Su Ming, Zhuo Yan, and Lu Jingchuan, who proposed that the four contestants avoid interfering with one another during the trial.
• Xiao Hei ignored the three men and followed the densest Blood Qi across the blood-red landscape toward a field of skeletal remains.
• The skeletal remains rose to attack Xiao Hei, and his first full-strength punch only cracked one skeleton’s skull.
• Xiao Hei activated Bloodline Entanglement and shattered a skeleton with a renewed blow as the three men joined the battle.
• Su Ming, Zhuo Yan, and Lu Jingchuan moved behind Xiao Hei, intending to let him clear a path and kill him once his strength ran out.

Xiao Hei fought the endless skeleton army for half a day without tiring, then faced a towering skeletal giant. He unleashed the full power of his Eternal Devil Body and Demon God Bloodline and kept trading punches with the giant despite his severe injuries, leaving Su Ming, Zhuo Yan, and Lu Jingchuan wary of provoking him.

• Xiao Hei rampaged through the skeleton army for half a day while Su Ming, Zhuo Yan, and Lu Jingchuan followed behind him and watched his wounds heal almost instantly.
• The shattered bones gathered into a towering skeletal giant, which swung a massive fist at Xiao Hei.
• Xiao Hei activated his nine patterns, burned his blood, and unleashed his Eternal Devil Body and Demon God Bloodline, manifesting a Devil God phantom behind him.
• Xiao Hei and the skeletal giant collided fists, and the shock waves scattered the surrounding skeletons and drove away the Blood Qi.
• Despite spitting blood from the impacts, Xiao Hei continued punching the skeletal giant, while Su Ming, Zhuo Yan, and Lu Jingchuan realized they could not afford to provoke him.

Xiao Hei fought the skeletal giant and grew stronger through repeated clashes, eventually shattering its hand. When a hexagram blood mark formed on the giant’s chest, it restored its arms with blood and overwhelmed Xiao Hei, leaving Su Ming and the others fearing they could not continue seeking the inheritance.

• Xiao Hei repeatedly fought the skeletal giant, healing from his injuries and growing stronger as Su Ming and the other two watched from a distance.
• Xiao Hei shattered the skeletal giant’s hand, then stopped when a hexagram blood mark appeared and stirred his blood and Holy Demon Qi.
• Xiao Hei charged the giant, but blood-colored threads restored its severed arm with flesh, and its punch drove him deep into the ground.
• The skeletal giant covered its other arm with flesh and hammered the spot where Xiao Hei had fallen, while Su Ming and the others considered retreating.
• Black Devil Qi began spilling out from deep within the ground where Xiao Hei had been buried.

Xiao Hei survived the blood-colored skeletal giant’s assault and unleashed the power of his Holy Devil Bloodline, turning the fight in his favor. After destroying the giant, he triggered a lightning tribulation.

• The rising Devil Qi forced Lu Jingchuan, Su Ming, and Zhuo Yan to their knees as Xiao Hei emerged unharmed from the crater.
• Xiao Hei confronted the blood-colored skeletal giant and ignited his Devil Qi, overwhelming the others with his demonic might.
• Xiao Hei traded blows with the giant, steadily driving it backward and breaking its bloodline-enhanced defenses.
• Xiao Hei summoned the Nine Heavens Devil Halberd and struck the giant’s six-pointed star marking, shattering the skeletal giant.
• Dark clouds gathered and a lightning tribulation descended.

Xiao Hei confronted the Heavenly Dao by enduring a series of increasingly powerful lightning strikes, surviving a nine-level tribulation that strengthened his body and Holy Devil Bloodline. He entered the Lord Divine Realm, while Su Ming and the other two abandoned their plans to seize his resources.

• After defeating the blood-colored skeletal giant, Xiao Hei charged into the tribulation clouds and endured a bolt with the power of a seventh-level lightning tribulation.
• The tribulation intensified, and successive strikes culminated in a ninth-level lightning waterfall that mangled Xiao Hei's body.
• Su Ming and the other two were hurled a hundred li away and could only watch as black Demonic Qi persisted inside the lightning.
• When the tribulation clouds dispersed, Xiao Hei stood beneath the blood-colored sky and recovered from his injuries.
• Xiao Hei entered the Lord Divine Realm, and Su Ming and the other two lost their greed and gave up on trying to kill him for his possessions.

After defeating the skeletal army, Xiao Hei was drawn into a black hall, where a man of the Devil Race revealed their shared Holy Devil Bloodline and began strengthening Xiao Hei before entrusting him with an old enmity. The man faded as he charged Xiao Hei to take up the bloodline’s feud with the Divine Realm.

• Xiao Hei defeated the skeletal army and made Su Ming, Zhuo Yan, and Lu Jingchuan abandon their claim to the inheritance.
• Xiao Hei found blood-colored hexagram markings on the skeletal giant’s breastbone, and they pulled him into a black hall.
• A handsome man told Xiao Hei that they shared the Holy Devil Bloodline and identified the Demonic Embryo and Blood Bones as areas Xiao Hei still needed to strengthen.
• The man transformed the battlefield’s bones and blood into a torrent that entered Xiao Hei, shattering and reforging his bones while forming hexagram markings in his Dantian.
• As his body turned illusory, the man entrusted Xiao Hei with the enmity against the Divine Realm.

Xiao Hei received the inheritance, survived the agonizing reforging of his bones, and emerged with a Demonic Embryo and greatly increased strength. He rejoined his companions, who learned that the black-robed men were pursuing something in the God-Forbidden Land, and hurried upward to stop them.

• Xiao Hei endured the reconstruction of his shattered bones as the handsome man’s Devil Qi and Holy Devil Bloodline formed a Demonic Embryo in his Dantian, raising him to the late-stage Lord Divine Realm.
• Su Ming, Zhuo Yan, and Lu Jingchuan considered attacking Xiao Hei but held back after sensing his rapidly rising presence.
• Xiao Hei emerged from the inheritance, bowed to the vanished handsome man, and vowed to target the ten black-robed men from the Divine Realm.
• Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Mu Fusheng, Xiao Shitou, and Jiu Bailu reunited with Xiao Hei, then continued upward to find Ye Qiubai.
• On the sixth floor, Mu Wan'er told the group that she had obtained an alchemist’s inheritance and that a leader among the black-robed men had stopped them from seizing it.
• Mu Fusheng warned that the Divine Realm’s people might eliminate everyone after reaching their goal, so the group hurried toward the God-Forbidden Land.

Fang Qiong warned Hong Ying and the others that Xu Yeming’s identity had been exposed, prompting them to rush to help him. Meanwhile, Lu Changsheng wiped out the Divine Realm’s agents and returned to Jiang Yiyu, who nearly attacked him; the chapter ended with Hong Ying’s group finding the seventh floor deserted and learning Xu Yeming and the Xu Clan had entered a portal.

• Fang Qiong told Hong Ying that Xu Chen had exposed Xu Yeming’s identity, and Hong Ying led the group toward the seventh floor to help him.
• Lu Changsheng finished eliminating the Divine Realm’s agents, leaving only those in the Xu Clan and Xuanyuan Clan.
• Lu Changsheng told Jiang Yiyu that he had left none of the agents alive, and she considered killing him but lowered her sword without attacking.
• Hong Ying and her group found the seventh floor in ruins, with Xu Yeming and the Xu Clan members gone.
• Su Yuan told Mu Fusheng that the missing group had entered a dusky-yellow spatial portal, and Jiu Bailu warned Mu Fusheng that Su Yuan carried many threads of karma.

Hong Ying and the others entered the seventh floor, discovered its four regions were inhabited by real ancient beasts, and tracked Xu Yeming to a battle in the Gobi desert. As Xu Cangyuan and Xu Chen attacked the wounded Xu Yeming, he unleashed the Classic of Mountains and Seas and stirred the sand around them.

• Hong Ying and the others entered the seventh floor and found forests, desert, snowfields, and volcanoes filled with living exotic beasts.
• Xiao Shitou sensed spatial fluctuations and located Xu Yeming in the Gobi desert.
• Hong Ying and the others raced toward Xu Yeming and found him fighting Xu Cangyuan and Xu Chen.
• Xu Cangyuan accused Xu Yeming of infiltrating the Xu Clan and moved to kill him for the Classic of Mountains and Seas and his knowledge.
• Xu Cangyuan and Xu Chen attacked together, while Xu Yeming swept his paintbrush across the Classic of Mountains and Seas, releasing ancient Blood Qi and stirring the yellow sand.

Xu Yeming used the Classic of Mountains and Seas to summon and subdue the Domain Divine Realm sandworms, while Xu Canghai appeared to stop Xu Cangyuan. The chapter ended with Xu Yeming commanding the sandworms to turn against Xu Chen.

• Xu Yeming rapidly painted in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, drawing more than a dozen Domain Divine Realm sandworms out of the sand.
• Mu Fusheng stopped Xiao Hei from intervening, and Xu Canghai appeared to block Xu Cangyuan and Xu Chen’s attacks.
• Xu Canghai confronted Xu Cangyuan, and the two began fighting beneath their competing moons.
• Xu Yeming revealed the Classic of Mountains and Seas’ beast-taming power and used its supreme bloodlines to subdue the sandworms.
• Xu Yeming ordered the sandworms to submit, and they turned their heads toward Xu Chen.

Xu Yeming used the Classic of Mountains and Seas to control a dozen Domain God Level sandworms, forcing Xu Chen to flee while Xu Canghai fought Xu Cangyuan. Xu Cangyuan escaped with Xu Chen, and Xu Yeming revealed he could have stopped them only by paying the price of fully unleashing the Classic's power.

• Xu Yeming revealed his control over the sandworms, while Xu Canghai used Xu Cangyuan’s distraction to renew their fight.
• Mu Fusheng reassured the others that Xu Yeming had prepared before acting, then nervously deflected their teasing.
• Xu Yeming questioned Xu Chen’s allegiance and suggested he served the Divine Realm, but Xu Chen denied it.
• Xu Yeming invoked the Great Wilderness Beast Heart through the Classic of Mountains and Seas, summoning its bloodline power and sending the sandworms after Xu Chen.
• Xu Chen fled rather than fight the sandworms, and Xu Cangyuan broke off his battle with Xu Canghai to take him away.
• Xu Yeming wanted to pursue them, but Xu Canghai warned that the Xu Clan’s foundations were too strong; Xu Yeming admitted he could have stopped them by using the Classic at full strength.

Xu Yeming and the others secured the inheritance on the seventh floor, strengthening his beast-taming abilities, before moving up to the eighth floor, where Mo Yu obtained an inheritance in puppetry. They headed onward toward Eldest Senior Brother, who was just above them.

• Xu Canghai thanked Hong Ying and the others for looking after Xu Yeming, then went ahead to scout the way.
• Jiu Bailu suggested that the four zones’ core points might unlock the inheritance, and the group split up to find them.
• With help from Hong Ying, Xiao Hei, and Xu Yeming’s beast-taming abilities, the group broke through the ancient beasts guarding the four core points.
• Xu Yeming received the inheritance, broke through to the lord divine realm, and gained stronger beast-taming abilities and bloodline power.
• On the eighth floor, Mo Yu obtained a High Antiquity puppet inheritance and broke through to the eighth-level lightning tribulation.
• Mo Yu and the others set off for the next floor, where Eldest Senior Brother was waiting above.