Chapter Summaries

The Azure Cloud Sword Master appeared as Ye Qiubai’s Sword Spirit and drove Dugu Jue back, declaring that no one could touch Ye Qiubai while he was present. As the altar completed its activation, the bronze gate began to open and the Chaos Divine Dynasty’s ultimate core secret treasury emerged, setting the stage for the real battle.

• The Azure Cloud Sword Master emerged from the Cloud Azure Sword and struck Dugu Jue back, leaving him injured and stunned.
• Xu Youming, the Bitter Zen Devil Buddha, Mo Lin, Xuanyuan Tianzhao, and the other factions recognized the Azure Cloud Sword Master and reacted with shock.
• The Azure Cloud Sword Master declared that he had changed how he walked his path and warned everyone not to attack Ye Qiubai.
• The ninth Heaven-Reaching Stone pillar lit up, and the bronze gate’s ninth hole filled with blood as the gate began to open.
• The Chaos Divine Dynasty’s ultimate core secret treasury released an ancient, dangerous presence, drawing everyone’s attention.
• Ye Qiubai sharpened his gaze as the Azure Cloud Sword Master told him that the real battle was beginning.

The factions entered the God-Forbidden Land, a mist-filled realm of illusions, after Mu Fusheng warned his companions about its dangers and their enemies. As Shi Sheng followed them toward the mist, the Star Chart seized him and pulled him inside.

• The bronze doors opened to reveal the God-Forbidden Land, and Mu Fusheng shared the ruin guardian’s warning about its illusions and the need to keep anything found inside from the Divine Realm.
• Mu Fusheng reminded his companions about the Xu Clan’s projection jade pendants and the Xuanyuan Clan’s sword, while Hong Ying warned them about the black-robed figures.
• The black-robed figures entered first, followed by Xu Youming’s group, the Xuanyuan Clan, Dugu Jue, Bitter Zen Devil Buddha, and the other factions.
• Bitter Zen Devil Buddha threatened Ning Chenxin, who calmly reminded him of his earlier retreat, while Chu Xinghe and Ji Yang urged their allies to stay cautious and regroup.
• Ye Qiubai led his companions into the mist, and Jiu Bailu reassured Mu Fusheng that their bond would endure.
• Shi Sheng stopped beneath the Star Chart, but its Power of the Stars wrapped around him and pulled him into it.

Shi Sheng was pulled into the Dome Star Chart, where he could see the dangers and approaching groups inside the God-Forbidden Land. He tried to leave to help his fellow disciples, but the Star Chart’s guardian restrained him and insisted he accept its inheritance, arguing it would make him better able to help them.

• Shi Sheng was drawn into the Star Chart and saw the core object and the groups navigating the fog within the God-Forbidden Land.
• Shi Sheng spotted ten black-robed figures and the Four Great Beast Clans moving toward the core, while several groups were nearing one another.
• Shi Sheng tried to rush out to help his fellow disciples, but starlight wrapped around him and stopped him.
• An old man offered Shi Sheng a rare inheritance of the Dao of Stars, but Shi Sheng refused to prioritize it over his senior and junior brothers.
• The old man rejected Shi Sheng’s request to leave, struck him with a star, and said the inheritance would help him protect his fellow disciples.

Shi Sheng accepted the old man's inheritance, learning that he had created the Star Chart, the God-Forbidden Land, and the Heaven-Suppressing Pagoda. The inheritance began with a deadly trial that forced immense Power of the Stars into Shi Sheng, while the old man suspected Shi Sheng was connected to the Mortal Realm's surging fortune and the effort to thwart the Divine Realm.

• Shi Sheng chose to begin the inheritance after the old man explained that the Star Chart sustained the tower and could grant him limited control over the God-Forbidden Land.
• The old man revealed that he had designed and cast the Heaven-Suppressing Pagoda, and discussed the Divine Realm's past schemes against the Mortal Realm with Shi Sheng.
• The old man told Shi Sheng he had already passed one trial but faced a final test before receiving the inheritance.
• The old man poured vast Power of the Stars into Shi Sheng's Dantian, rupturing his bones and organs and leaving him drenched in blood as he struggled to stay conscious.
• The old man wondered whether Shi Sheng was connected to the Mortal Realm's rising fortune and said that he and his companions might have to thwart the Divine Realm's scheme.

Mu Fusheng contacted his fellow Cottage disciples in the illusion array and learned that rival clans were holding them up. After Fang Qiong found a way to resist the illusion, Mu Fusheng and Jiu Bailu traced the Divine Realm’s forces and moved to intercept them.

• Mu Fusheng used his voice-transmission jade pendant to contact Fang Qiong, who was studying how to break the illusion array.
• Xiao Hei, Xu Yeming, Ning Chenxin, Ye Qiubai, and Fang Qiong reported that the Xu Clan and Xuanyuan Clan were obstructing the disciples in different areas.
• Fang Qiong explained that the disciples could resist the soul-targeting illusion by drawing it into their consciousness and letting their master’s restrictions disperse it.
• Ye Qiubai told Mu Fusheng to go after the Divine Realm while the others dealt with their obstacles, and Jiu Bailu insisted on accompanying him.
• Jiu Bailu used her karmic eye to locate ten black-clad men, and Mu Fusheng prepared a surprise attack as they hurried east.

Mu Fusheng ambushed ten black-clad figures from the Divine Realm with a cage of talismans and a storm of Ancient Divine Lightning. As the attack began to break down, he restrained one attacker and pulled Jiu Bailu back.

• Mu Fusheng prepared hundreds of concealed talismans, planning to weaken the ten Divine Realm figures while they fought a horde of strange beasts.
• When the beasts charged, the black-clad leader killed them with a powerful punch, and Mu Fusheng trapped all ten figures in a talisman cage.
• Mu Fusheng unleashed the Nine-Nine Primordial Chaos Divine Lightning Art inside the cage, while Jiu Bailu offered to use her heavenly eye and he warned her not to reveal her karmic power.
• The black-clad leader and a spear-wielding figure defended themselves, but one attacker tore open the cage and rushed Mu Fusheng.
• Mu Fusheng blocked the attack with a Nine Lightning Lightning Shield Talisman, bound the attacker with lightning chains, and retreated with Jiu Bailu as talismans on the man's back exploded.

Mu Fusheng pretended to accept the Dragon Elephant Chief God's offer to join the Divine Realm so he could trigger the restriction Lu Changsheng had left in his sea of consciousness. The attack severed the Dragon Elephant Chief God's arm, and Mu Fusheng prepared to press his advantage.

• Mu Fusheng identified the black-robed leader as the Dragon Elephant Chief God and declined to join the Divine Realm at first, citing how people from the Lower Five Realms were treated.
• The Dragon Elephant Chief God offered to take Mu Fusheng under his protection, and Mu Fusheng agreed on the condition that Jiu Bailu could come with him.
• Mu Fusheng approached the Dragon Elephant Chief God as if to accept the Divine Realm's soul brand, then triggered Lu Changsheng's restriction when the Chief God sent golden light into his brow.
• Sword Qi erupted from Mu Fusheng's sea of consciousness and severed the Dragon Elephant Chief God's left arm, though the Chief God dodged a fatal strike.
• The Dragon Elephant Chief God demanded to know who had left the restriction in Mu Fusheng's sea of consciousness, while Mu Fusheng prepared to attack again.

Mu Fusheng and Jiu Bailu fought the Divine Realm attackers, with Mu Fusheng pressing his assault on the wounded Dragon Elephant Chief God. The chapter ended when Mu Fusheng's blank talisman absorbed the Chief God's full-powered punch.

• Jiu Bailu used the Divine Talisman of Creation to boost her cultivation and blocked the spear-wielding man in black with her golden silk.
• Mu Fusheng bombarded the one-armed Dragon Elephant Chief God with talismans and charged through the resulting sea of lightning.
• The Dragon Elephant Chief God broke through the lightning and traded a powerful punch with Mu Fusheng, who combined his remaining seven lightning dragons to meet it.
• Mu Fusheng vanished without using spatial movement and reappeared behind the Dragon Elephant Chief God, holding out a blank talisman.
• The Dragon Elephant Chief God's full-powered punch struck the blank talisman, which absorbed all of its force.

Mu Fusheng used the Heaven-Devouring Talisman to absorb the Dragon Elephant Chief God’s power and turn it back against him, then unleashed a lightning attack. The Dragon Elephant Chief God remained inside the clash until an unseen fist force shattered Mu Fusheng’s lightning pillar.

• Mu Fusheng used the Heaven-Devouring Talisman to absorb the Dragon Elephant Chief God’s dragon elephant force while inscribing dragon and elephant patterns on it.
• The Dragon Elephant Chief God increased his power, but the talisman continued absorbing it as Mu Fusheng prepared another move.
• Mu Fusheng released the talisman’s stored force, and its dragon and elephant patterns sprang out to engulf the Dragon Elephant Chief God.
• Jiu Bailu bound the spear-wielding man in black with white silk and shattered his lower leg with karmic power.
• Mu Fusheng used the Talisman Gathering Technique to summon hundreds of talismans and nine kinds of ancient divine lightning into a massive lightning pillar.
• An unseen fist force struck Mu Fusheng’s lightning pillar, shattered it, and caught its nine lightning dragons in an invisible hand.

Mu Fusheng revealed a complete Divine Talisman of Creation and used his jade pendant to break through the core area's cultivation suppression, rising to the middle stage of the Realm God Realm. He attacked the Dragon Elephant Chief God, who had unleashed early Creation Realm strength, and the chapter ended with Mu Fusheng landing an uppercut using the Thunderclap Speed Talisman.

• The Dragon Elephant Chief God crushed the nine lightning dragons and revealed that he could wield early Creation Realm strength despite the core area's restrictions.
• Mu Fusheng produced a complete Divine Talisman of Creation and used it to raise his cultivation by a major realm.
• Mu Fusheng pressed his jade pendant to his chest, broke through the core area's suppression, and reached the middle stage of the Realm God Realm.
• The Dragon Elephant Chief God dismissed Mu Fusheng's chances, but Mu Fusheng closed in and struck his elbow before the Chief God could react.
• Mu Fusheng dodged the Dragon Elephant Chief God's full-power punch and landed an uppercut with the Thunderclap Speed Talisman.

Mu Fusheng used talismans and lightning to fight the Dragon Elephant Chief God, whose strength restrictions had been partially lifted. After the Dragon Elephant Chief God shattered Mu Fusheng’s attacks and broke the surrounding illusion, Mu Fusheng surrounded him with four talismans.

• Mu Fusheng used a Thunderclap Speed Talisman to punch the Dragon Elephant Chief God, then attacked again with nine kinds of divine lightning.
• The Dragon Elephant Chief God blocked Mu Fusheng’s attack, broke through his defensive barriers, and sent him flying with a punch.
• Mu Fusheng escaped with a Directional Heavenly Lightning Escape Talisman and launched nine lightning spears at the Dragon Elephant Chief God.
• The Dragon Elephant Chief God shattered or seized the spears, then clashed with Mu Fusheng’s Chaos Divine Lightning spear and dispersed the fog, breaking the illusion.
• Mu Fusheng appeared in the western sky and placed four talismans around the Dragon Elephant Chief God.

Mu Fusheng trapped the Dragon Elephant Chief God inside a talisman array strengthened by the intent of unending life, using four willow leaves to keep it repaired against the Chief God’s attacks. He planned to hold the Creation Realm expert until his senior and junior brothers could help him kill him.

• Mu Fusheng revealed that he had secretly placed four talismans while evading the Dragon Elephant Chief God and connected them with golden threads to form an array.
• Mu Fusheng activated the array, which trapped the Dragon Elephant Chief God behind a barrier of lightning, golden threads, and the intent of unending life.
• The Dragon Elephant Chief God unleashed Dragon Elephant Imprisons Heaven and repeatedly punched the barrier, but the array repaired itself whenever its threads snapped.
• Mu Fusheng relied on a willow leaf attached to each talisman to replenish the array’s power and keep the Dragon Elephant Chief God trapped.
• Mu Fusheng sensed through his jade pendant that Ye Qiubai and the others were in trouble and planned to hold the Chief God until they could help him kill him.

Ye Qiubai faced Xuanyuan Tianzhao and Dugu Jue, who challenged him to test the Azure Cloud Sword Master's strength in a single strike. The Azure Cloud Sword Master joined Ye Qiubai in an ordinary sword strike that shattered both opponents’ attacks, leaving their duel decided in his favor.

• The factions advanced toward the core area as battles broke out across the region, while the whereabouts of the Hetu Clan and Su Immortal Sect remained unknown.
• Xuanyuan Tianzhao and Dugu Jue challenged Ye Qiubai to a one-strike test, and Ye Qiubai accepted without drawing the Azure Cloud Sword.
• Ye Qiubai explained that the Azure Cloud Sword Master could not control the Azure Cloud Sword, prompting the Sword Spirit to angrily defend his dignity.
• Xuanyuan Tianzhao and Dugu Jue unleashed full-power sword strikes, and the Azure Cloud Sword Master joined Ye Qiubai in answering with one ordinary strike.
• The Azure Cloud Sword Master's strike overwhelmed their Sword Dao and shattered both Sword-Rays, leaving Xuanyuan Tianzhao and Dugu Jue speechless.

The Azure Cloud Sword Master’s overwhelming strength ended the contest for his inheritance, and Xuanyuan Tianzhao and Dugu Jue offered Ye Qiubai treasured sword legacies as goodwill. Ye Qiubai’s group then regrouped at Mu Fusheng’s location, where Xu Canghai’s past conflict with the Xu Clan led to a new battle.

• The Azure Cloud Sword Master outmatched Xuanyuan Tianzhao and Dugu Jue, so they abandoned their claim to his inheritance.
• Xuanyuan Tianzhao lent Ye Qiubai the Xuanyuan Sword’s scabbard, while Dugu Jue gave him a fragmentary sword manual; Xuanyuan Tianzhao said he wanted to befriend Ye Qiubai for the Xuanyuan Clan’s future.
• Ning Chenxin and the Buddhist disciple severely wounded the Bitter Zen Devil Buddha again, forcing him to retreat and ending his bid to compete.
• Xu Cangyuan accused Xu Canghai of causing the Xu Clan’s losses, while Xu Youming dismissed the dispute as irrelevant to the clan’s interests and attacked Xu Canghai.
• Xiao Shitou warped space to swallow Xu Youming’s claw strike, then Xu Youming ordered the others to attack as Mo Yu summoned puppets, Xu Yeming opened the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and Xiao Hei prepared to fight.

Xu Youming began fighting Xiao Hei, Xiao Shitou, and Mo Yu while Xu Canghai confronted Xu Cangyuan. The battle continued with Mo Yu revealing his ability to control a hundred complex puppets at once.

• Xu Canghai intercepted Xu Cangyuan’s attack on Xiao Hei, then the two patriarchs vanished to fight nearby.
• Xiao Hei chose to face Xu Youming first, while Xiao Shitou and Mo Yu prepared to join the battle.
• Xu Youming used Yin Qi to seize Xiao Hei and slam him into the ground.
• Xiao Shitou twisted space around Xu Youming, but had to evade Xu Youming’s counterattack and let the spatial distortion fade.
• Xiao Hei broke free as Mo Yu sent a hundred puppets against Xu Youming, with dozens firing shells made of Divine Qi.
• Xu Youming was shocked by Mo Yu’s precise control, which came from the Heavenly Pivot Soul-Control Technique and Hundred-Mechanism Manipulation Technique.

Mo Yu, Xiao Hei, and Xiao Shitou fought Xu Youming while Xu Yeming confronted Xu Chen and unleashed sandworms against Xu Cangyuan. Xu Youming began preparing a vast yin-moon attack as the others charged him head-on.

• Mo Yu attacked Xu Youming with a hundred durable puppets while Xiao Hei struck him with the Devil God’s power and Xiao Shitou distorted space around him.
• Xu Youming unleashed surging Yin Qi that forced Xiao Hei, Xiao Shitou, and Mo Yu back, while Xu Canghai and Xu Cangyuan watched the fight.
• Xu Yeming confronted Xu Chen, shattered both his arms with a punch, and pressed him for answers about his objective.
• Xu Yeming summoned more than a dozen Domain Divine Realm sandworms to attack Xu Cangyuan, preventing him from rescuing Xu Chen.
• Xu Youming expanded the yin moon overhead and prepared a devastating attack, so Xiao Hei and Xiao Shitou charged him directly.

Xiao Hei, Xiao Shitou, and Mo Yu broke through Xu Youming’s Lunar Eclipse Nether Record and joined forces to attack him. Just as their attacks threatened to overwhelm him, a fiery-red fire phoenix appeared behind Xu Youming.

• Xu Youming unleashed the Lunar Eclipse Nether Record, freezing nearby beasts and attacking Xiao Hei with a pillar of moonlight.
• Xiao Hei used Bloodline Boiling to shatter the pillar, while Xiao Shitou swallowed another attack into space and Mo Yu’s puppets battered the bright moon.
• Xiao Hei and Xiao Shitou struck the moon together, cracking it until it shattered.
• Xiao Hei, Xiao Shitou, and Mo Yu launched a combined assault on Xu Youming with a punch, crushing space, and a hundred cannon blasts.
• A fire phoenix phantom spread its wings behind Xu Youming and enveloped him.

Su Tianqing and Su Yuan intervened to end the battle against the Xu Clan, while Mu Fusheng kept the Dragon Elephant Chief God trapped in his talisman formation. Mu Fusheng’s companions gathered around him, and he claimed they had only recently met, leaving the Dragon Elephant Chief God and his own sectmates unconvinced.

• Su Tianqing and Su Yuan arrived and drove the Xu Clan to withdraw, then left without explaining why they had intervened.
• Xiao Hei, Xiao Shitou, Mo Yu, Xu Yeming, and Xu Canghai decided to avoid fighting the Su Immortal Sect and headed toward Mu Fusheng.
• Mu Fusheng kept the Dragon Elephant Chief God trapped in a lightning-and-willow-leaf talisman formation that continually repaired itself.
• Ning Chenxin arrived with a Buddhist disciple, followed by Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, Fang Qiong, and Mu Wan'er.
• Xu Yeming, Xiao Hei, Xiao Shitou, and Mo Yu joined the group, and Xiao Hei demanded a chance to fight the trapped Dragon Elephant Chief God.
• Mu Fusheng denied that the group belonged to the same sect, claiming they had only met recently, and the others reacted with disbelief.

Ye Qiubai and his companions prepared to kill the Dragon Elephant Chief God before the Divine Realm could obtain the core object. As they revealed their powers and surrounded him with an array, the Dragon Elephant Chief God recognized the danger but remained trapped.

• Mu Fusheng agreed with Ye Qiubai and Hong Ying that they had to go all out and prevent the Divine Realm from obtaining the core object.
• Ye Qiubai and the others used Divine Talismans of Creation to raise their cultivation realms, while Ye Qiubai drew on the Azure Cloud Sword Master's power and Hong Ying revealed her Imperial Intent and Intent of Samsara.
• Xiao Hei displayed his Holy Devil Bloodline, Ning Chenxin brought out the Heavenly Dao Chessboard, and Mu Fusheng gathered hundreds of talismans, including Qianyuan World-Ending Lightning Talismans.
• Xiao Shitou prepared the Empty Realm Pearl and his space-powered folding fan, while Mu Wan'er supplied pills and medicinal powder to restore the group's strength.
• Fang Qiong deployed a Primordial Array that stripped away the Dragon Elephant Chief God's Power of Rules, and Ye Qiubai's companions followed with the Lesser God-Slaying Sword Array, puppets, and Xu Yeming's summoned divine beasts.

The Chaos Realm factions recognized the Divine Realm’s invasion and hurried to join the fight around the core. As Mu Fusheng and the others unleashed a coordinated assault on Dragon Elephant Chief God, their attacks made the powerful enemy feel threatened.

• Xuanyuan Tianzhao and Dugu Jue turned back to confront the Divine Realm, while the Four Great Beast Clans set out to help Xu Yeming and the others.
• Xu Youming chose to fight the Divine Realm before pursuing the object at the core, and the Seven Treasures Holy Sect, Star Hall, and Hetu Clan also headed toward the battle.
• Mu Fusheng unleashed a massive lightning attack, while Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, Xiao Hei, Ning Chenxin, Xiao Shitou, Fang Qiong, and Mo Yu attacked Dragon Elephant Chief God in coordination.
• Xu Yeming summoned the Divine Phoenix, Torch Dragon, and Golden-Winged Peng to join the assault, and Dragon Elephant Chief God sensed danger from the combined attacks.