Chapter Summaries

Ning Chuan secured two Realm-Breaking Dao Fruits from Liu Cangdong and humiliated him before the Divine Martial Stele began opening. As the passages activated, Ning Chuan discovered he could control the special passages with his will.

• Xiao Chen and Zhang Tianzhi gave Liu Cangdong two Realm-Breaking Dao Fruits, which Ning Chuan accepted before releasing Xi Fengrou.
• Ning Chuan refused to return Fan Yu's spatial ring and swallowed one of the Realm-Breaking Dao Fruits to prove Liu Cangdong's poison warning was false.
• Ning Chuan mocked Liu Cangdong for borrowing the fruits, drawing laughter from the Federation's Heavenly Kings.
• The Divine Martial Stele began opening its forty-nine special passages and ordinary passage, prompting treasure seekers to plan their entry.
• Ning Chuan sensed his connection to the special passages and found that his will could move them across the Divine Martial Stele's faces.

Ning Chuan discovered he could move special passages on up to three faces of the Divine Martial Stele, giving him a major advantage when it opened. As negotiations between the Federation and the aliens turned hostile, he challenged Luan Teng, but Si Nanbo stopped the fight to preserve the aliens’ plans for an alliance.

• Ning Chuan examined his ability to move special passages and realized he could control up to twenty-one passages across three faces of the Divine Martial Stele.
• Liu Cangdong taunted the Federation’s Heavenly Kings, while Bai Qi called for a second round of negotiations with the aliens.
• Li Huo revealed that the aliens knew about the Federation’s Annihilation Heavenly Thunder plan and demanded half of Martial Star’s places, ten Divine Wave Meditation Method inheritances, and a Realm-Breaking Dao Fruit.
• Qin Lang challenged Luan Teng, and Ning Chuan then offered to fight him to the death; Luan Teng eagerly accepted.
• Si Nanbo stopped Luan Teng, explaining that killing Ning Chuan would derail the alliance they needed, and Luan Teng backed down while threatening Ning Chuan for another time.

Si Nanbo revealed himself as a powerful Law Spirit from Martial Star’s mythical era and declared that the Alien Council would not compromise over the special channels. After the negotiations ended without agreement, Ning Chuan confronted Liu Cangdong, who mocked the Federation’s position and its lack of channels.

• Ning Chuan challenged Luan Teng, but Si Nanbo stopped Luan Teng and revealed a Third-Grade Law and a Heart of Law.
• Si Nanbo identified himself as a being from Martial Star’s mythical era and told the gathered experts to call him a god; Xiao Chen asked about his Law Spirit nature.
• Si Nanbo rejected any concessions and announced that both sides would compete for the special channels in three days before departing with the alien Heavenly Kings.
• Liu Cangdong mocked the Federation and suggested it trade Divine Wave Meditation Method inheritances for channels, while Xu Yuan blamed Ning Chuan for worsening the situation.
• Ning Chuan told Liu Cangdong that the Holy Heaven Alliance could inherit the method if Liu Cangdong died, and Xiao Chen warned that Ning Chuan would face the consequences in three days.

The Federation Heavenly Kings debated how the Alien Council learned about the Annihilation Heavenly Thunder plan and how to secure enough special passageways without exhausting the Federation’s defenses. Ning Chuan concealed his suspicions about the undercover Heavenly King, then revealed that he could control the movement of the special passageways.

• Liu Wan questioned how the Alien Council had learned about the Annihilation Heavenly Thunder plan, and the Heavenly Kings suspected a leak from among those in the North Sea Domain.
• Ning Chuan, Bai Qi, Wei Chen, and Qin Lang privately concluded that an undercover Heavenly King from the Myriad Stars Divine Kingdom had informed the Alien Council.
• Wei Chen claimed responsibility for the leak, saying the Alien Council might have intercepted a message he sent to Qin Lang, calming the Heavenly Kings’ suspicions of one another.
• Liu Wan proposed using another race-defending weapon, but Dong Kaiming and Wei Chen argued that the Federation needed to preserve its weapons for future threats.
• Xu Yuan ordered Ning Chuan to make cooperation with the King-level ferocious beasts a condition of trading them a spiritual power cultivation method.
• Ning Chuan privately warned Bai Qi, Wei Chen, and Qin Lang to hide their reactions, then announced that he could control the movement of the special passageways.

Ning Chuan revealed that he could control special passages in the Divine Martial Stele, giving the Federation a major advantage against the Holy Heaven Alliance. After Xu Yuan accused him of putting personal interests first, Ning Chuan agreed to trade with the King-tier dire beasts, leaving the others unaware that the deal also served his plans for the Divine Martial Stele.

• Ning Chuan told Bai Qi, Wei Chen, and Qin Lang about the stele faces, special passages, and his ability to control them, lifting their spirits about the Federation’s prospects.
• Wei Chen urged the group to keep Ning Chuan’s ability secret until he began controlling the passages, fearing the spy might leak it.
• Xu Yuan accused Ning Chuan of refusing to put the Federation first, and Qin Lang, Wei Chen, and Bai Qi challenged his claims.
• Ning Chuan agreed to trade with the King-tier dire beasts, and Xu Yuan teleported away to summon them.
• Ning Chuan told Wei Chen he had already planned to trade for help obtaining Realm-Breaking Dao Fruits and martial arts, and that the deal could also conceal the Federation’s trump card.

Liu Cangdong discussed obtaining the Nine Steps to the Ends of the World inheritance and reassured his companions that he held two of its three Casket-Breaking Secret Keys. Si Nanbo and Li Huo then intercepted the group, and Si Nanbo proposed an alliance against the Human Federation to claim more special passages.

• Xi Fengrou asked Liu Cangdong what they would do after Ning Chuan obtained Fan Yu's Casket-Breaking Secret Key, and Liu Cangdong said he could still open the sealed casket.
• Xiao Chen and Zhang Tianzhi asked Liu Cangdong for a chance to inherit Nine Steps to the Ends of the World in exchange for their help, and Liu Cangdong agreed.
• Liu Cangdong said he had two of the three Casket-Breaking Secret Keys and believed Ning Chuan would not know enough about the Divine Martial Stele to threaten his claim.
• Si Nanbo and Li Huo appeared before the group, and Si Nanbo proposed tearing up the special-passage allocation plan and joining forces against the Human Federation.
• Si Nanbo warned that native humans were favored by powerful Dao-lineage inheritances, leaving Xiao Chen and the others to consider his proposal.

Si Nanbo secured the Holy Heaven Alliance’s agreement to cooperate with the Council against the Federation in the Divine Martial Stele expedition, while privately revealing a possible link between his Prison Stone Law Spirit and the Prison-Suppressing Dao Lineage. Back in Heaven Suppression City No. 9, Ning Chuan recovered, found an ancient tree token in Fan Yu’s spatial ring, and began planning for the expedition before the ferocious beast leader arrived.

• Si Nanbo proposed that the Council and the Holy Heaven Alliance limit the Federation to fewer than five special passages, and Xiao Chen agreed on behalf of the alliance to the Council’s terms.
• Li Huo worried that the Council could not stand against the Holy Heaven Alliance’s share of the passages, but Si Nanbo privately revealed that he was a Prison Stone Law Spirit and hinted at a connection to the Prison-Suppressing Dao Lineage.
• Ning Chuan returned to the Heavenly River, rested, and searched Fan Yu’s spatial ring, finding a pitch-black token engraved with an ancient tree.
• Ning Chuan studied the Martial Seals in Fan Yu’s ring and began planning how to handle the River Realm king-level ferocious beasts during the Divine Martial Stele expedition.
• Half a day later, the captain of the Heavenly River told Ning Chuan that the ferocious beast leader had arrived.

Ning Chuan took control of negotiations with the king-level fierce beasts over joining the Federation against the alien races. After Xu Yuan offered a mental power cultivation method without authority, Bai Qi put Ning Chuan in charge, leaving the Blazing Flame Lion to bargain with him directly.

• The Blazing Flame Lion claimed the fierce beasts could remain neutral or cooperate with the alien races, while Ning Chuan argued that the Federation was the stronger ally and warned the beasts they could not secure the Divine Martial Stele legacy alone.
• Xu Yuan offered the three River Realm fierce beasts special channels, but the Blazing Flame Lion demanded tangible benefits before risking a fight against the alien races.
• The Blazing Flame Lion asked for a mental power cultivation method, and Xu Yuan agreed immediately, hoping to exhaust the remaining inheritances and frustrate Ning Chuan.
• Ning Chuan interrupted the deal and told the Blazing Flame Lion to collect whatever Xu Yuan had promised from Xu Yuan himself.
• Bai Qi ordered Xu Yuan to sit down and declared that Ning Chuan would lead the negotiations, leaving the Blazing Flame Lion to seek Ning Chuan's consent for a cultivation method.

Ning Chuan negotiated with the fierce beasts over an alliance against the alien race and access to the Divine Martial Stele, but rejected their demands after detecting that they were lying about the alien race's offer. The talks remained unresolved as Ning Chuan confronted Xu Yuan over his handling of the negotiations.

• Ning Chuan offered to trade a mental strength cultivation method if the fierce beasts committed troops against the alien race and their three River Realm leaders obeyed his commands while seeking the Realm-Breaking Dao Fruit and martial arts.
• The Blazing Flame Lion accepted the military condition but rejected Ning Chuan's orders, demanding the Divine Wave Meditation Method for all eight king-level fierce beasts instead.
• Ning Chuan used Divine Sense to detect that the Blazing Flame Lion, the Violent Earth Ape, and the Spirit Void Snake were lying about the alien race offering them a mental strength cultivation method.
• The three fierce beasts threatened to leave, then offered two additional Spring Realm Heavenly Kings if Ning Chuan dropped his second condition; Ning Chuan refused to rush the decision.
• Xu Yuan accused Ning Chuan of endangering the Federation by obstructing the negotiations, and Ning Chuan blamed Xu Yuan for exposing the Federation's position and challenged him to explain what he had done since the first talks with the alien race.

Ning Chuan challenged Xu Yuan's appeasement of the dire beasts and exposed their threat to ally with the foreign races as a bluff. The negotiations appeared likely to succeed, but Xu Yuan was left humiliated after his earlier concessions were revealed as needless.

• Ning Chuan confronted Xu Yuan over his willingness to surrender Federation interests and questioned his motives for protecting humanity.
• Xu Yuan threatened to make Ning Chuan's spiritual power cultivation methods public property if he disrupted the negotiations.
• The Blazing Flame Lion implied the dire beasts would join the foreign races unless the Federation met their demands.
• Ning Chuan challenged the dire beasts to accept his conditions and pointed out that the Council was unlikely to give them a spiritual power cultivation method.
• The three River Realm dire beasts briefly froze, exposing their bluff, and the Heavenly Kings surrounded them as the negotiations turned in the Federation's favor.
• Xu Yuan realized Ning Chuan had revealed his incompetence in the earlier negotiations and clenched his fists in humiliation.

Ning Chuan negotiated with the three River Realm fierce beasts while the Federation learned that the Alien Council and Holy Heaven Alliance had joined forces to contest the Divine Martial Stele’s special passages. He offered the beasts the Spirit Forging Meditation Method in exchange for following his arrangements, as a dispute over his demands broke out among the Federation’s Heavenly Kings.

• The Blazing Flame Lion and the Violent Earth Ape claimed they had rejected the aliens’ offer, while the Spirit Void Snake agreed to Ning Chuan’s conditions only if one was suspended when the Divine Martial Stele’s legacy appeared.
• Senior officers announced that the Alien Council and the Holy Heaven Alliance had torn up the previous allocation arrangement and opened the special passages to competition.
• The Blazing Flame Lion proposed that the fierce beasts and Federation form an alliance, but Ning Chuan argued that the beasts now needed the Federation more and offered them the Spirit Forging Meditation Method in exchange for following his arrangements inside the Divine Martial Stele.
• Xu Yuan accused Ning Chuan of pursuing personal gain, and Qin Lang confronted Xu Yuan for demanding that Ning Chuan give up his Divine Wave Meditation Method.
• Dong Kaiming stopped the argument and told Ning Chuan to finish negotiating before they discussed a countermeasure.

Ning Chuan secured Martial Dao Oaths from three River Realm fierce beasts, promising them the Spirit Forging Meditation Method in exchange for fighting for special passages. As the conference failed to find a way to counter the alien and Holy Heaven Alliance, Ye Wuchen proposed sending more Great River Realm Heavenly Kings into the Divine Martial Stele, while Bai Qi and Wei Chen agreed to remain behind to guard the Federation.

• The Blazing Flame Lion, Violent Earth Ape, and Spirit Void Snake agreed to follow Ning Chuan if they secured special passages, and Ning Chuan accepted their terms.
• Ning Chuan used the Stargazing Mystic Truth to strengthen the fierce beasts' Martial Dao Oaths, and the three swore to fight for special passages.
• The fierce beasts asked Ning Chuan to give them the Spirit Forging Meditation Method if they failed to secure any special passages, and he agreed.
• The Heavenly Kings debated how to counter the alliance between the aliens and the Holy Heaven Alliance but could not reach a solution.
• Ye Wuchen proposed sending more Great River Realm Heavenly Kings into the Divine Martial Stele, and no one objected.
• Bai Qi and Wei Chen agreed to stay behind to protect the Federation and the North Sea Domain.

Ye Wuchen organized the Federation’s plans for the Divine Martial Stele and assured Ning Chuan that he could still enter, while Ning Chuan kept his passage-controlling ability secret. Back in the Heavenly River, Ning Chuan consumed his final Realm-Breaking Dao Fruit and made major gains in his Mystic Truths and Heaven Severing Slash.

• Ye Wuchen arranged for himself, Dong Kaiming, and Xu Yuan to use special passages, and advised Dong Kaiming and Xu Yuan to send incarnations while protecting their Hearts of Law.
• Ye Wuchen instructed the Heavenly Kings to prioritize helping River Realm experts seize special passages before entering the Divine Martial Stele through ordinary passages.
• Ye Wuchen apologized to Ning Chuan for prioritizing the River Realm and Great River Realm experts, then offered to help him search for what he needed inside the stele.
• Ning Chuan concealed his ability to control special passages and told Ye Wuchen he would rely on luck to obtain one; Ye Wuchen asked him to meet up after entering.
• Ning Chuan returned to the Heavenly River and swallowed his last Realm-Breaking Dao Fruit, greatly advancing his foundational Flash Kill Mystic Truths, their fusion, and the Heaven Severing Slash.

Ning Chuan rejected Xu Yuan’s plan to trade his mental power cultivation methods to the Holy Heaven Alliance and refused to rely on the Federation’s protection in the coming battle. He revealed a spatial attack powerful enough to astonish Lu Zhan, leaving the battle’s outcome unsettled.

• Ning Chuan met Lu Zhan after he emerged from seclusion at the peak of the Third Heaven, and told him about the recent events and his ability to control the movement of special passages.
• Ning Chuan initially refused to meet Xu Yuan, but allowed him aboard the Heavenly River after learning he had brought several Heavenly Kings and claimed to have official business about the special passages.
• Xu Yuan proposed trading Ning Chuan’s two mental power cultivation methods to Holy Heaven Alliance Heavenly Kings in exchange for concessions in the battle, but Lu Zhan objected to strengthening the enemy.
• Ning Chuan rejected Xu Yuan’s plan and ordered him to leave; Xu Yuan warned that Luan Teng would likely target Ning Chuan during the battle and that Federation Heavenly Kings might be unable to protect him.
• Lu Zhan offered to face Luan Teng, but Ning Chuan refused and opened a dark spatial fissure whose force shook the observation deck and left Lu Zhan astonished.

On February 25, the Heavenly Kings gathered at the Divine Martial Stele and argued over the Federation’s lack of special passages. After Luan Teng challenged Ning Chuan, Ning Chuan accepted and flew out to face him.

• The Federation and ferocious-beast Heavenly Kings faced the larger forces of the Alien Council and Holy Heaven Alliance above the Divine Martial Stele.
• Luan Teng mocked the Federation, and Liu Wan, Liu Cangdong, and others traded accusations over the aliens’ alliance with the Holy Heaven Alliance.
• Luan Teng taunted Ning Chuan for lacking a special passage, and Ning Chuan said he could kill him outside the stele.
• Liu Cangdong ordered Zhang Yunwang to find Ning Chuan inside the Divine Martial Stele, seize Fan Yu’s Casket-Breaking Secret Key, and keep him away from Origin Martial Mountain.
• Luan Teng challenged Ning Chuan to fight, and Ning Chuan accepted before charging at him through the sky.
• Luan Teng and Ning Chuan surged toward each other, one wreathed in azure light and the other in golden radiance.

Ning Chuan confronted Luan Teng before the main battle and killed him with three swift strikes. The onlookers were left stunned as Luan Teng’s body fell toward the North Sea.

• Federation Heavenly Kings worried that Ning Chuan had gone to face Luan Teng alone, while Xu Yuan criticized his decision and Wei Chen challenged Xu Yuan’s motives.
• Luan Teng taunted Ning Chuan and attacked him with a massive green vine as they raced toward each other.
• Ning Chuan summoned Heaven Severing and donned the Earth Flood Dragon Armor before using his purple thunder wings to close the distance at incredible speed.
• Ning Chuan cut through Luan Teng’s defensive incarnation in two strikes, destroying it and badly damaging Luan Teng’s soul.
• Ning Chuan struck again and killed Luan Teng, leaving the watching crowd in stunned silence.

Ning Chuan killed Luan Teng in an instant, stunning the Heavenly Kings and boosting the Federation’s morale. As Li Huo attacked him, Bai Qi intervened and ordered the Federation’s Heavenly Kings to follow Ning Chuan’s commands.

• Ning Chuan killed Luan Teng with three saber strikes, cutting down the High-Stage Spring Realm Heavenly King in a single blow.
• The Heavenly Kings recognized that Ning Chuan’s close-combat power had reached the River Realm, while Zhang Yunwang regretted considering an attempt to capture him.
• Ye Wuchen urged the Federation’s Spring Realm Heavenly Kings to help Ning Chuan secure a special passage, and they agreed; Xu Yuan regretted his earlier mockery.
• Li Huo attacked Ning Chuan with a vast sea of flames, but Bai Qi’s incarnation tore through the fire and protected him.
• Bai Qi ordered the Federation’s Heavenly Kings to attack and privately commanded them to obey Ning Chuan, citing the authority he and Wei Chen had jointly granted.

Ning Chuan used his Divine Sense and hit-and-run attacks to support the Federation Heavenly Kings as the battle around the Divine Martial Stele began. Liu Cangdong ordered Chen Zeyue and Zhang Yunwang to target Ning Chuan, while Bai Qi continued to keep Liu Cangdong occupied.

• Bai Qi stopped Liu Cangdong from pursuing Ning Chuan, then faced Liu Cangdong and Li Huo while Wei Chen fought Si Nanbo and other Federation Heavenly Kings engaged their opponents.
• Ning Chuan halted his retreat when the enemy Great River Realm Heavenly Kings were tied down, and the Spring Realm and River Realm Heavenly Kings began fighting.
• Ning Chuan used the Divine Treasury of Ten Thousand Weapons and Heaven Severing to disrupt enemy attacks and help nearby Federation Heavenly Kings regain ground.
• Liu Cangdong tried to send Zhang Yunwang after Ning Chuan, but Zhang Yunwang admitted he could not stop him, and Bai Qi mocked Liu Cangdong for the order.
• Liu Cangdong ordered Chen Zeyue to join Zhang Yunwang and secretly told Chen Zeyue to use the Key-Seeking Compass to locate and capture Ning Chuan inside the Divine Martial Stele if they failed outside.

Ning Chuan evaded Chen Zeyue’s pursuit with help from the Blazing Flame Lion, then fought off several peak Spring Realm Heavenly Kings while waiting for the Divine Martial Stele to open. When its passages finally activated, the battle intensified as fighters rushed to claim them.

• Chen Zeyue pursued Ning Chuan with the Heaven-Overturning Seal, scattering his Divine Weapons and nearly catching him.
• The Blazing Flame Lion struck Chen Zeyue and delayed him, but Chen Zeyue wounded it and sent it flying.
• Ning Chuan helped steady the Blazing Flame Lion, then escaped while it held Chen Zeyue back.
• Three peak Spring Realm Heavenly Kings, including Zhang Yunwang, surrounded Ning Chuan, who fought them until they called in a fourth opponent.
• The Divine Martial Stele opened its ordinary passage and all forty-nine special passages, prompting fighters to rush toward them as the Heavenly Kings’ battles grew fiercer.

Ning Chuan secretly controlled the Divine Martial Stele’s special passages, helping alien Heavenly Kings enter them while disguising his ability as Si Nanbo’s. After Ning Chuan publicly accused Si Nanbo, another passage moved toward an alien Heavenly King, leaving Si Nanbo unable to explain the repeated events.

• Liu Wan and Wei Chen tried to help Ning Chuan, but Si Nanbo overpowered Wei Chen and moved toward Ning Chuan.
• Ning Chuan decided to disrupt the Alien Council and Holy Heaven Alliance’s cooperation instead of entering a passage himself.
• Ning Chuan sent an alien Heavenly King flying toward the stele and moved a special passage to let him enter.
• Ning Chuan sent Lu Zhan a message, and another passage moved to let a second alien Heavenly King enter.
• Ning Chuan told everyone Si Nanbo could control the passages, prompting Liu Cangdong to demand an explanation from Si Nanbo.
• Si Nanbo denied controlling the passages, but a third one moved toward an alien Heavenly King, leaving him speechless.