Chapter Summaries

Ning Chuan overwhelmed Chen Zeyue in a fierce battle, even after Chen Zeyue repaired and deployed the Heaven-Overturning Seal. Chen Zeyue tried to retreat toward the recruitment hall and offered to help Ning Chuan obtain the seal, but Ning Chuan continued attacking.

• Chen Zeyue repaired the Heaven-Overturning Seal and sent it to stop Ning Chuan, who split it apart with Heaven Severing Slash.
• Ning Chuan wounded Chen Zeyue and pressed his advantage in a destructive fight, while Chen Zeyue struggled to defend himself.
• Unable to escape Ning Chuan’s attacks, Chen Zeyue retreated toward the hall, hoping to survive until Liu Cangdong arrived.
• Ning Chuan attacked without pause, leaving Chen Zeyue badly wounded and near death.
• Chen Zeyue admitted defeat and offered to help Ning Chuan obtain the Heaven-Overturning Seal, but Ning Chuan answered with another saber strike.

Ning Chuan killed Chen Zeyue after the Heavenly King sacrificed his incarnation in a failed attempt to escape. Searching Chen Zeyue’s soul, Ning Chuan learned that Liu Cangdong had narrowed down the location of the Nine Steps to the Ends of the World, and decided to go alone to Origin Martial Mountain.

• Chen Zeyue pleaded and threatened Ning Chuan, but Ning Chuan continued his relentless assault.
• Chen Zeyue detonated his incarnation to cover his escape, but Ning Chuan survived the blast and pursued him.
• Ning Chuan caught Chen Zeyue near the great hall, blasted his body apart, and killed him.
• Ning Chuan searched Chen Zeyue’s soul and learned that Liu Cangdong had narrowed the location of the Nine Steps to the Ends of the World to a general area.
• Ning Chuan decided to head alone to Origin Martial Mountain because he might not reach the Storm Plain in time to seek Ye Wuchen’s help.

Ning Chuan decided to travel alone to Origin Martial Mountain, then questioned Momo about the Prison Realm’s failing suppression and learned she was one fragment of its original realm spirit. Momo revealed that an unknown power was corroding the Prison-Suppressing Manor’s supreme inheritance and might be connected to the force that destroyed Martial Star.

• Ning Chuan chose to go alone to Origin Martial Mountain, hoping to reach Nine Steps to the Ends of the World before Liu Cangdong.
• Ning Chuan asked Momo why the Prison Realm’s suppressing waves had disappeared, and Momo explained that the realm was near collapse while protecting the supreme inheritance.
• Momo told Ning Chuan that she was a partial realm spirit created after the original spirit sacrificed itself to resist an unknown power corroding the supreme inheritance.
• Ning Chuan suspected the Myriad Stars Divine Kingdom, but Momo said her memories were incomplete and that the power might instead be connected to the force that destroyed Martial Star.

Ning Chuan learned that the Prison-Suppressing Manor's supreme inheritance was hidden inside the ancient tree shown on his true disciple token, and Momo warned him that the Prison Realm might soon be destroyed. After promising to return and say goodbye to her, he flew toward Origin Martial Mountain to seek the inheritance.

• Ning Chuan comforted Momo as she recounted how the Prison-Suppressing Manor's defenders had died protecting its inheritance and how its treasures had nearly all been taken.
• Momo explained that the final four parts of Heaven-Chaos Force required the Prison-Suppressing Manor's supreme inheritance, which was kept in the ancient tree depicted on Ning Chuan's true disciple token.
• Momo warned Ning Chuan that he would need to pass a test and might have no other chance to claim the inheritance before the Prison Realm was destroyed.
• Momo asked Ning Chuan to return and say goodbye before leaving the Prison Realm, and he promised that he would.
• Ning Chuan flew out of the Giant Wood Forest toward Origin Martial Mountain, determined to find the supreme inheritance before it was destroyed.

Ning Chuan secretly searched Origin Martial Mountain for the Nine Steps to the Ends of the World and discovered that two Heavenly Kings were guarding the mountain entrance. He learned they had been ordered to stop him, but they believed he would never dare approach; Ning Chuan continued toward them undetected.

• Ning Chuan put away his Azure Heaven Thunder Dragon Wings, concealed himself with spatial distortion, and followed the Key-Seeking Compass toward the Nine Steps to the Ends of the World.
• Ning Chuan flew through Origin Martial Mountain and saw treasure seekers entering its caves to search for the Prison-Suppressing Manor's martial arts.
• Ning Chuan sensed two Mid-Stage Spring Realm Heavenly Kings guarding a cave in the direction of the compass's golden arrow and recognized them as a Holy Heaven Alliance director and a Beast Emperor Hall elder.
• Director Hu killed a Knight who tried to enter a small cave, while the Beast Emperor Hall elder explained that they were guarding against Ning Chuan because he had obtained a Casket-Breaking Secret Key.
• Director Hu argued that Ning Chuan would not dare approach, unaware that Ning Chuan was already closing in on them while hidden in the void.

Ning Chuan secretly entered the mountain to reach Nine Steps to the Ends of the World, avoiding the Heavenly Kings guarding the entrance. On the seventh floor, he found Zhang Lin and two other Heavenly Kings struggling to retrieve a martial casket, then sensed that his true disciple token could let him claim it.

• Ning Chuan passed unseen between the two Heavenly Kings guarding the entrance and entered the mountain's ruined structure.
• Ning Chuan used the Key-Seeking Compass to track Liu Cangdong and searched the empty floors as he climbed.
• On the seventh floor, Ning Chuan spotted Zhang Lin and two Spring Realm Heavenly Kings trying to retrieve a martial casket trapped among folded spaces.
• Ning Chuan recognized the casket's value but decided to prioritize finding Nine Steps to the Ends of the World.
• Ning Chuan sensed a connection between his true disciple token and the martial casket, suggesting he could claim it with a thought.

Ning Chuan used his true disciple token to secretly take a martial casket from under Zhang Lin and two other Heavenly Kings’ noses, then opened it on the fifteenth floor. Its Martial Seal taught a Marquis-Bestowing art called Theory of Nuclear Peace for All Things.

• Ning Chuan realized his true disciple token could help him find Nine Steps to the Ends of the World before Liu Cangdong and decided to seize the nearby martial casket first.
• Ning Chuan used the token to draw the martial casket out of the mountainside and send it through a passage to the tenth floor.
• Zhang Lin and the two Heavenly Kings chased the casket but found it gone, and Zhang Lin suspected someone had secretly used a Casket-Breaking Secret Key.
• Ning Chuan hurried up several floors before examining the casket on the fifteenth floor.
• Ning Chuan used his true disciple token to dispel the casket’s luminous mist, opened it, and inherited the Marquis-Bestowing martial art Theory of Nuclear Peace for All Things.

Ning Chuan used the Martial Seal’s hidden insights to raise the Theory of Nuclear Peace for All Things to its second-level peak and gained a powerful new attack. On the eighteenth level of Origin Martial Mountain, he found an intact Suppressing Platform and considered how it could help him face Liu Cangdong, though its small size might not prevent Liu from fleeing.

• Ning Chuan discovered that the Martial Seal contained an expert’s insights, which raised the Theory of Nuclear Peace for All Things to 100% progress at the second level.
• Ning Chuan tested the martial art by forming a golden flame that tore open the surrounding space, and judged its destructive power comparable to the Heaven Severing Slash.
• Ning Chuan passed through the empty sixteenth and seventeenth levels and reached the eighteenth level.
• Ning Chuan found an intact Suppressing Platform and activated it, confirming that it could suppress Force and Laws and had no restrictions against killing.
• Ning Chuan realized the platform might not keep Liu Cangdong from escaping, but found a hidden passage that led out of Origin Martial Mountain.

Ning Chuan climbed through Origin Martial Mountain and approached Liu Cangdong, who was trying to obtain Nine Steps to the Ends of the World with only two Casket-Breaking Secret Keys. After Ning Chuan appeared, Liu Cangdong ordered his allies to capture him, unaware that Ning Chuan had come prepared.

• Ning Chuan planned to use the Suppressing Platform to hinder Liu Cangdong and seize his spatial ring, then continued upward through the mountain.
• A red-haired girl in the void sensed that a new true disciple had entered Origin Martial Mountain and decided to meet them.
• Ning Chuan detected that Liu Cangdong and the two Casket-Breaking Secret Keys were nearby, then passed through the nineteenth and twentieth floors.
• On the twenty-first floor, Liu Cangdong used his two keys to guide the martial casket containing Nine Steps to the Ends of the World through folded space while his Heavenly Kings patrolled.
• Ning Chuan's true disciple token produced a fluctuation as he competed for the martial casket, revealing his presence to Liu Cangdong.
• Liu Cangdong ordered the Ice Lightning Tiger and the other Heavenly Kings to capture Ning Chuan while continuing to guard the martial casket.

Ning Chuan seized the martial casket containing Nine Steps to the Ends of the World, but could not open it. He killed an early-stage River Realm Heavenly King in three moves and raced toward the next level’s passage to reach the Suppressing Platform before the Holy Heaven Alliance surrounded him.

• Ning Chuan used his true disciple identity token to pull the martial casket away from Liu Cangdong, who was shocked that his two Casket-Breaking Secret Keys had failed.
• Ning Chuan tried to open the martial casket but could not make its luminous mist dissipate, so he put it away and prepared to fight.
• An early-stage River Realm Heavenly King attacked Ning Chuan to hold him in place, but Ning Chuan’s slash cut through the Heavenly King’s swords and badly wounded him.
• Ning Chuan trapped the Heavenly King in a Nuclear Flame Wind Tornado and killed him with Heaven Severing Slash, terrifying the Holy Heaven Alliance’s Heavenly Kings.
• Ning Chuan flew toward the passage to the next level, intending to reach the Suppressing Platform before the Holy Heaven Alliance could surround him.

Ning Chuan fled with Nine Steps to the Ends of the World while Liu Cangdong and the Holy Heaven Alliance Heavenly Kings pursued him. After learning from a captive Heavenly King’s memories about the Heaven-Trapping Net and Liu Cangdong’s ambush, Ning Chuan abandoned a risky plan to trap and kill his pursuers and continued toward the Suppressing Platform, with Liu Cangdong closing in.

• Ning Chuan seized the soul of an initial-stage River Realm Heavenly King before entering the passage, and Liu Cangdong led the Holy Heaven Alliance Heavenly Kings after him.
• Liu Cangdong cleared Ning Chuan’s Blazing Nuclear Thorns with Heaven-Overturning Seal, then pursued him as Ning Chuan reached the nineteenth floor.
• Ning Chuan searched the captive Heavenly King’s memories and learned that Liu Cangdong had borrowed the Heaven-Trapping Net from Zhang Tianzhi to ambush him, while Zhang Lin controlled the weapon.
• Ning Chuan realized the Heaven-Trapping Net might trap Liu Cangdong on the Suppressing Platform, but rejected the plan because he could not kill Zhang Lin instantly and activate the platform safely.
• Liu Cangdong caught up as Ning Chuan neared the passage to the eighteenth floor and taunted him for coming alone to seize Nine Steps to the Ends of the World.

Ning Chuan lured Liu Cangdong to the eighteenth level and activated the Suppressing Platform, whose patterns forced Liu Cangdong to retreat. As the platform’s power emerged, a red-haired girl appeared and greeted Ning Chuan.

• Liu Cangdong attacked Ning Chuan with the Heaven-Overturning Seal, but Ning Chuan countered with the Nuclear-Flame Heavenly Phoenix and escaped into the passage to the eighteenth level.
• Ning Chuan tricked Liu Cangdong into retreating by calling for Ye Wuchen and Dong Kaiming, then raced toward the Suppressing Platform.
• Ning Chuan and Liu Cangdong exchanged attacks as they moved into the platform’s central area.
• Ning Chuan activated the Suppressing Platform, and its powerful patterns descended on Liu Cangdong, forcing him to retreat.
• A red-haired girl stepped through rippling space, smiled at Ning Chuan, and greeted him as the newly promoted true disciple.

Ning Chuan fought Liu Cangdong alongside Le Yu, the realm spirit managing Origin Martial Mountain, while learning why his identity token could not open the martial case for Nine Steps to the Ends of the World. He continued attacking to stall Liu Cangdong until Zhang Lin arrived.

• Le Yu introduced herself as Origin Martial Mountain's realm spirit and used its damaged array to help Ning Chuan suppress Liu Cangdong.
• Le Yu warned Ning Chuan that the array could hold Liu Cangdong for less than a quarter of an hour, but Ning Chuan chose to fight rather than flee.
• Ning Chuan asked Le Yu about Nine Steps to the Ends of the World, and she explained that true disciples had to wait three months between inheriting Marquis-Bestowing martial arts.
• Ning Chuan unleashed the Theory of Nuclear Peace for All Things against Liu Cangdong, whose Heaven-Overturning Seal tore apart the flame beasts; Le Yu's runes blocked his counterattack.
• Ning Chuan kept attacking Liu Cangdong to buy time, expecting Zhang Lin to arrive soon.

Ning Chuan lured Zhang Lin and the other Heavenly Kings inside the Heaven-Trapping Net, intending to activate the Suppressing Platform and turn the tables on Liu Cangdong and his allies. The chapter ended with the trapped opponents arguing over the spoils of capturing Ning Chuan, unaware of his plan.

• Ning Chuan asked Le Yu to open weapon caskets, but she explained that the required Casket-Breaking Secret Keys had all been lost.
• Zhang Lin and two companions arrived, and Liu Cangdong urged Zhang Lin to use the Heaven-Trapping Net to prevent Ning Chuan from escaping.
• Zhang Lin activated the Heaven-Trapping Net, sealing Ning Chuan, Le Yu, and Liu Cangdong inside its dome.
• Le Yu failed to break the net and worried she could not stop Liu Cangdong, but Ning Chuan revealed his strength and mastery of Heaven-Chaos Force.
• Zhang Lin and the other Heavenly Kings entered the sealed area, while Ning Chuan instructed Le Yu to keep Liu Cangdong and the others occupied as he prepared to activate the Suppressing Platform.
• Zhang Lin, the Ice Lightning Tiger, and the Holy Heaven Alliance's Heavenly Kings argued over who would claim the weapon-casket-seizing ability and the rewards for capturing Ning Chuan.

Ning Chuan activated the Suppressing Platform to weaken the Heavenly Kings trapped inside the Heaven-Trapping Net, then killed Zhang Lin despite the others’ attempts to protect him. He left the remaining enemies facing him in the sealed arena, warning that the rewards would grow as long as they survived.

• Liu Cangdong ordered the Heavenly Kings to stop arguing and attack Ning Chuan, while Zhang Lin demanded that they agree on how to divide the spoils.
• Ning Chuan told Le Yu to hold Liu Cangdong back, then joined her in attacking the Heavenly Kings as Zhang Lin charged him with a greatsword.
• Ning Chuan activated the Suppressing Platform, weakening the attacks of everyone inside the Heaven-Trapping Net, and endured the Ice Lightning Tiger’s strike as he closed in on Zhang Lin.
• Ning Chuan shattered Zhang Lin’s greatsword and incarnation with one slash, wounded him, then used three Nuclear Flame Wind Tornadoes to block his escape.
• Liu Cangdong ordered Zhang Lin to open the Heaven-Trapping Net, but Ning Chuan reached him first and cut him in half; the net remained sealed.
• Ning Chuan taunted the surviving Heavenly Kings, saying their share of the benefits would keep growing if they survived.

Ning Chuan slaughtered and wounded the Holy Heaven Alliance’s River Realm Heavenly Kings inside the Heaven-Trapping Net before Liu Cangdong broke free. Ning Chuan then overpowered Liu Cangdong’s Heaven-Overturning Seal and sent him flying, leaving their battle ongoing.

• The Ice Lightning Tiger ordered the River Realm Heavenly Kings to gather and protect one another, but Ning Chuan charged in and killed one with a punch.
• Ning Chuan broke through the Heavenly Kings’ attacks with Nuclear-Flame Heavenly Phoenix and severed the Ice Lightning Tiger’s wing, grievously wounding him.
• Liu Cangdong broke free after Le Yu ran out of energy, and she told Ning Chuan she could no longer hold him back.
• Liu Cangdong attacked Ning Chuan with the Heaven-Overturning Seal, but Ning Chuan’s ten suns cracked the seal and struck Liu Cangdong with Heaven-Chaos Force, sending him flying and making him cough up blood.

Ning Chuan fought Liu Cangdong and the Holy Heaven Alliance’s River Realm Heavenly Kings inside the Heaven-Trapping Net, relying on his strength and healing to outlast their coordinated assault. He seized an opening to kill the Ice Lightning Tiger, leaving Liu Cangdong’s side frightened as their fragile balance collapsed.

• Liu Cangdong recovered from Ning Chuan’s opening blow and rallied the River Realm Heavenly Kings to attack together while secretly urging them to stall until the Heaven-Trapping Net weakened.
• Ning Chuan traded attacks with Liu Cangdong’s group, assessed his strength, and continued pressing them as Heaven-Chaos Force made their wounds difficult to heal.
• Liu Cangdong’s group briefly maintained a stalemate, but their coordination faltered when the Ice Lightning Tiger failed to retreat in time.
• Ning Chuan severed the Ice Lightning Tiger’s remaining wing and parried Liu Cangdong’s unusually fast spear attack.
• Ning Chuan struck down the injured Ice Lightning Tiger, severing its head and breaking the balance of the battle.

Ning Chuan slaughtered the Holy Heaven Alliance’s Heavenly Kings and drove Liu Cangdong into a desperate fight inside the Heaven-Trapping Net. As Ning Chuan pressed his attack, Liu Cangdong threatened to detonate a Great River Realm Law Bomb.

• Ning Chuan killed the Ice Lightning Tiger and overwhelmed Liu Cangdong and the other Heavenly Kings, killing several of them in succession.
• A surviving Heavenly King and Liu Cangdong offered Ning Chuan a chance to inherit the Heaven-Overturning Seal in exchange for a ceasefire, but Ning Chuan refused and attacked.
• Ning Chuan killed another Heavenly King and then annihilated the last one’s true body and avatar with Heaven-Chaos Force.
• Ning Chuan forced Liu Cangdong toward the center of the sealed space and wounded him repeatedly, preventing him from reaching the Heaven-Trapping Net.
• Liu Cangdong raised a Great River Realm Law Bomb and threatened to take Ning Chuan down with him if he did not stop fighting.

Ning Chuan overwhelmed Liu Cangdong on the Suppressing Platform, while Liu Cangdong spent two Law Bombs trying to escape and failed to disable the platform’s suppression. After Ning Chuan gravely wounded him, Le Yu seized Liu Cangdong’s spatial ring, leaving the Casket-Breaking Secret Key and the Prison-Suppressing Dao Lineage in play.

• Ning Chuan attacked Liu Cangdong despite the Law Bomb, and Liu Cangdong chose not to detonate it at first because he feared wasting the Holy Heaven Alliance’s bombs and injuring himself.
• Ning Chuan battered Liu Cangdong until his right arm was shattered, forcing Liu Cangdong to detonate a Law Bomb against the barrier.
• When the barrier remained intact, Liu Cangdong detonated a second Law Bomb, exhausting the Heaven-Trapping Net’s energy but leaving the Suppressing Platform’s laws and Force suppression in effect.
• Ning Chuan caught up with the badly injured Liu Cangdong and continued attacking as Liu Cangdong struggled toward the platform’s edge.
• Ning Chuan blasted away much of Liu Cangdong’s left side but spared his spatial ring, suspecting it might contain the Casket-Breaking Secret Key.
• Le Yu returned and caught Liu Cangdong’s spatial ring before Liu Cangdong could retrieve it.

Ning Chuan and Le Yu pursued the wounded Liu Cangdong through the building inside the mountain after discovering that his spatial ring lacked the Casket-Breaking Secret Key for Nine Steps to the Ends of the World. Ning Chuan caught up with him and drove him toward the exit, where Liu Cangdong passed a key to a Beast Emperor Hall elder before fleeing.

• Le Yu found no Casket-Breaking Secret Key for Nine Steps to the Ends of the World in Liu Cangdong's spatial ring and urged Ning Chuan to pursue him.
• Ning Chuan attacked Liu Cangdong as he fled the Suppressing Platform, but Liu Cangdong fought off his attacks and escaped into a passage.
• Le Yu led Ning Chuan through a shortcut, and they intercepted Liu Cangdong on the third level of the building inside the mountain.
• Ning Chuan fought Liu Cangdong from the third level down to the first, keeping him from escaping until they reached the passage guards.
• Liu Cangdong handed a Casket-Breaking Secret Key to a Beast Emperor Hall elder and fled, while Ning Chuan killed the two Spring Realm Heavenly Kings guarding the passage.