Chapter Summaries

Ji Zining and the others learned that Chen Luanxing came from the Canglan Dao Domain and might know why the Great Emperor experts of the True Martial Dao Domain vanished. After passing the first trial, they entered the reward space and received rewards based on their performances.

• Ji Zining asked Chen Luanxing about the Canglan Dao Domain and the Great Emperor Codex, and he questioned why his inheritance was in the True Martial Dao Domain.
• Chen Luanxing hinted that Great Emperor experts had fallen like rain and told them to pass all four trials before asking for more answers.
• The group entered a white reward space and carved their names onto stone steles.
• Qing Tan received a Saint Rank High Grade divine ability, Qingshuang received Saint Rank Supreme Grade armor, and Lin Shan, Xiao Jing, and Li Chang'an each received a Quasi-Emperor Weapon.
• Ji Zining earned a special-class performance and was awarded three Emperor-Breaking Pills and a set of Quasi-Emperor Weapon battle armor.

Ji Zining and the others received their first-test rewards and chose to continue the inheritance tests. They arrived at the Skeleton Graveyard, where they had to endure the awakened skeletons’ mental pressure for three hours.

• Ji Zining received the Flowing Frost Divine Armor and three high-grade or top-grade Emperor-Breaking Pills as her reward.
• Ji Zining told the others that individual rewards did not need to be shared, and everyone chose to continue the tests.
• The group was transported from the white space to a barren valley scattered with skeletons.
• The test voice announced that the skeletons’ souls would awaken and exert mental pressure, and participants had to endure for three hours to pass.

Ji Zining and the Ziwei Holy Land disciples faced the six-hour Skeleton Graveyard test, enduring soul pressure from circling ghostly forms. The pressure vanished after six hours, and Ji Zining revealed she had fallen asleep through the ordeal.

• The second-stage test began as ghostly forms rose from the valley and surrounded Ji Zining and the others with soul-attacking cries.
• Ji Zining used the Primordial Spirit Refining Art to block the soul pressure, while the others struggled increasingly as the hours passed.
• After four hours, Lin Shan and Qing Tan began to find the pressure difficult to endure but continued holding on.
• At the end of six hours, the ghostly forms vanished and the soul pressure stopped.
• Ji Zining stood up, yawned, and said she had fallen asleep, leaving Lin Shan, Qing Tan, Xiao Jing, and the others astonished.

Ji Zining and her companions received their rewards after passing the second trial, with Ji Zining earning an unprecedented exceptional-class grade. She anticipated that her Quasi-Emperor Divine Soul Pill would greatly advance her divine soul cultivation as they prepared to continue the inheritance trials.

• Ji Zining congratulated Xiao Jing and the others on passing the second trial, and the trial’s voice transported them from the desolate valley back to the white space.
• Qing Tan received a bottle of Saint Rank Spirit Restoration Pills for barely passing, while Lin Shan earned three drops of blood essence from a Quasi-Emperor Yinglong for his third-class performance.
• Xiao Jing, Qingshuang, and Li Chang'an received a Quasi-Emperor Weapon and an Emperor-Breaking Pill each for their first-class performances.
• Ji Zining received three Quasi-Emperor Weapons, five Emperor-Breaking Pills, and a Quasi-Emperor Divine Soul Pill for her exceptional-class performance.
• Ji Zining focused on the Divine Soul Pill and anticipated that it would greatly increase her divine soul cultivation.

Ji Zining and the others chose to face the third trial, the Black Demon Nest, while Qing Tan withdrew rather than risk her life. The trial began with fifty Saint King Realm Black Demons emerging from the nest, and Ji Zining opened the battle with her Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique.

• Ji Zining stored her rewards and heard that the third trial carried a real risk of death.
• Qing Tan chose to withdraw, and Ji Zining encouraged her before a pillar of light carried her away.
• Ji Zining and the others chose to continue, and the trial announced they would face fifty Saint King Realm Black Demons.
• The group arrived on a dark plain beneath a vast Black Demon Nest and prepared their weapons.
• Black Demons flew from the nest, and Ji Zining struck first with her Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique.

Ji Zining and her companions battled the regenerating Black Demons, but their corrosive demonic Qi threatened to overwhelm the group. She gathered everyone’s power and prepared to break the deadlock by stacking the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique.

• Ji Zining’s Sword Qi cut through multiple Black Demons, but they regenerated almost instantly.
• Xiao Jing, Li Chang'an, Lin Shan, Qingshuang, and the others fought the Black Demons, whose corrosive demonic Qi began to weaken them.
• Ji Zining realized the Immortal-Slaying Sword could grind away the demonic Qi and called everyone to her side.
• Ji Zining told the others to transfer their power to her so she could face the Black Demons while protecting them from corrosion.
• After receiving their power, Ji Zining drew the Immortal-Slaying Sword three times and unleashed the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique, stacked three times.

Ji Zining and her companions defeated the Black Demons in the third trial, though Ji Zining severely injured her arm by repeatedly using her sword technique. After the trial, they returned to the reward space and learned that Lin Shan, Li Chang'an, Qingshuang, and Xiao Jing had earned a one-minor-realm breakthrough.

• Ji Zining layered the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique three times, destroying the Black Demons’ bodies but reducing her right arm to bone.
• Sword Qi erupted from the black mist and ground it away, killing the Black Demons as Ji Zining recovered her ruined arm.
• Xiao Jing and the others attacked the weakened black mist for nearly half an hour, finishing off the remaining Black Demons.
• The group was transported back to the white space after passing the third trial.
• The voice ranked Lin Shan, Li Chang'an, Qingshuang, and Xiao Jing first class and awarded each a breakthrough by one minor realm.

After Xiao Jing, Li Chang'an, Lin Shan, and Qingshuang passed the trial, each advanced one cultivation level. Ji Zining received a special-grade rating, broke through to the Saint Realm Second Layer, and awaited the jade slip containing her Emperor Rank Upper Grade divine ability.

• Xiao Jing, Li Chang'an, Lin Shan, and Qingshuang received energy that raised each of their cultivations by one level.
• Ji Zining praised the others for their advances, and they thanked her for turning the battle against the Black Demons in their favor.
• The trial voice awarded Ji Zining a special-grade rating, the Emperor Rank Upper Grade divine ability Ten Thousand Swords Pay Homage to the Ancestor, and three cultivation levels.
• Ji Zining absorbed the reward energy and advanced from the Saint Manifestation Realm Eighth Layer through the Saint Realm boundary to the Saint Realm Second Layer.
• Ji Zining realized she could use the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique at greater strength, then watched a jade slip descend, anticipating her new divine ability.

Ji Zining and the others received inheritance empowerments from their jade slips, and Ji Zining learned the second stage of Ten Thousand Swords Pay Homage to the Ancestor. They chose to enter the fourth trial and found themselves isolated in dark spaces facing mirror images surrounded by inner-demon presence.

• Ji Zining discovered that the jade slip containing Ten Thousand Swords Pay Homage to the Ancestor granted an inheritance empowerment and began receiving it.
• Xiao Jing and the others realized their jade slips also held empowerments and received their divine ability inheritances.
• Ji Zining learned the second stage of Ten Thousand Swords Pay Homage to the Ancestor, which could unleash a thousand illusory swords, and learned the jade slip could be used three times.
• The trial voice announced that the fourth trial could affect their state of mind but would not endanger their lives, and Ji Zining and the others chose to continue.
• The white space shattered, leaving Ji Zining and each of her companions alone in a dark space facing an almost identical figure wreathed in the presence of an inner demon.

Ji Zining faced a Mirror Inner Demon in the fourth trial and repeatedly killed the seductive copy with the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique. After the Mirror Inner Demon returned twice, the trial declared Ji Zining qualified to enter the main hall and receive the inheritance.

• Ji Zining summoned the Immortal-Slaying Sword as the Mirror Inner Demon finished forming and challenged her to become one.
• Ji Zining struck first with the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique, killing the Mirror Inner Demon, who realized she could not copy the divine ability.
• The Mirror Inner Demon returned stronger, but Ji Zining immediately cut her down again before she could finish speaking.
• The Mirror Inner Demon reappeared once more and asked why Ji Zining could keep killing her, and Ji Zining defeated her with another sword strike.
• The emotionless voice congratulated Ji Zining for passing the fourth trial and invited her to enter the main hall for the inheritance.

Ji Zining entered the silver-gray hall and met the figure claiming to be Great Emperor Luanxing, Chen Luanxing, but exposed him as an impostor. The impostor revealed he was a spirit imprisoned in the mausoleum who had tried to seize a body, while Ji Zining remained concerned about Xiao Jing and the others.

• Ji Zining passed the fourth trial and hoped Xiao Jing and the others could defeat their Mirror Inner Demons.
• Ji Zining entered a silver-gray hall and questioned the transparent figure seated at its far end, who claimed to be Chen Luanxing.
• Ji Zining noticed the hall’s structure targeted the figure and bluffed until he admitted he was not Chen Luanxing.
• The impostor revealed that Chen Luanxing had trapped him in the mausoleum and that he had tried to seize a body and escape.
• Ji Zining realized she was fortunate to have entered the hall before Xiao Jing and the others.

Ji Zining confronted Mo Yang, the impostor trapped in Chen Luanxing’s tomb, before the real Chen Luanxing appeared and offered her his inheritance. After confirming her companions were safe, Ji Zining asked about the world’s abnormal state, and Chen Luanxing began recounting events from before the ancient era.

• Ji Zining provoked Mo Yang, who withdrew his power rather than challenge the sealing array.
• Mo Yang complained that even Great Emperors were controlled and said he had sought a realm beyond the Great Emperor Realm.
• The real Chen Luanxing appeared, identified himself as the inheritance secret realm’s master, and offered Ji Zining his inheritance before he dissipated.
• Ji Zining asked first about her companions, and Chen Luanxing said they had survived the Mirror Inner Demon test and been sent to the cave residence outside the realm.
• Chen Luanxing agreed to explain the secrets of the era before the ancient era and began by saying he came from the Canglan Dao Domain, where everything changed after something arrived.

Chen Luanxing explained that an enemy from beyond the All Heavens and Myriad Realms had overwhelmed the Great Emperors, while Mo Yang had betrayed their world to join it. He revealed that the Great Emperors ultimately destroyed the enemy by sacrificing themselves, but their deaths left the laws incomplete and made further breakthroughs to the Great Emperor realm impossible.

• Chen Luanxing told Ji Zining that the enemy’s arrival had driven Great Emperors from countless worlds into battle, where it slaughtered them with ease.
• Mo Yang explained that the enemy had called the All Heavens and Myriad Realms a prison and that he had joined its cause before being defeated and suppressed.
• Chen Luanxing recalled that Mo Yang had been his close friend and that he had left the battlefield to suppress him after wounding the enemy.
• Chen Luanxing revealed that countless Great Emperors had self-destructed to kill the enemy in chaos, scattering or destroying their inheritances and ending the age of Great Emperors.
• Chen Luanxing explained that the battle had left the laws of chaos incomplete, preventing anyone from comprehending the complete laws required to reach the Great Emperor realm.

Ji Zining learned that incomplete laws had prevented Great Emperors from appearing since ancient times, but resolved to reach the Emperor Realm despite them. She accepted both Chen Luanxing’s and Mo Yang’s inheritances, while Mo Yang remained in the secret realm to dissipate alongside Chen Luanxing.

• Ji Zining rejected the idea that her world was merely a prison and declared she would crush any obstacle to becoming a Great Emperor.
• Chen Luanxing praised Ji Zining’s Exquisite Immortal Physique and asked her to accept Mo Yang’s inheritance as well as his own.
• Ji Zining agreed to preserve both inheritances, explaining that the person who misused a technique did not make the technique itself wrong.
• Mo Yang passed his life’s knowledge to Ji Zining and asked her not to let the inheritances fall into the hands of someone like him.
• Mo Yang thanked Chen Luanxing for preserving his inheritance, and Chen Luanxing said Mo Yang would remain in the secret realm and dissipate with him.

Ji Zining absorbed Mo Yang’s inheritance, increasing her combat strength, then received Chen Luanxing’s inheritance while refining Spiritual Qi. She advanced to the Saint Realm Sixth Layer and became confident she could match someone at the peak Saint King Realm.

• Ji Zining absorbed Mo Yang’s inheritance and gained powerful divine abilities and a deeper understanding of cultivation, raising her combat strength by at least thirty percent.
• Chen Luanxing began transmitting his inheritance and drew the hall’s Spiritual Qi toward Ji Zining.
• Ji Zining refined the Spiritual Qi while comprehending the inheritance, breaking through to the Saint Realm Third Layer and continuing to absorb it at a startling rate.
• Over the next hour, Ji Zining broke through several more times and reached the Saint Realm Sixth Layer.
• After receiving the final inheritance information, Ji Zining stopped cultivating and judged that her combat strength could match someone at the peak Saint King Realm.

Ji Zining completed the inheritance trials, received the inheritances of Chen Luanxing and Mo Yang, and rose to the Saint Realm Sixth Layer before returning to Xiao Jing and the others. Her companions were shocked to learn she had gained the inheritances of two Great Emperors.

• Ji Zining reached the Saint Realm Sixth Layer after absorbing the inheritances of Chen Luanxing and Mo Yang.
• Ji Zining thanked the two former Great Emperors, who told her the inheritance was complete and sent her out of the secret realm.
• Chen Luanxing and Mo Yang remained in the inheritance realm, where they expected to fade away within a thousand years.
• Xiao Jing, Lin Shan, Li Chang'an, Qingshuang, and Qing Tan waited in the cave abode and reflected on their gains from the trials.
• Ji Zining emerged through the portal and told Xiao Jing and the others she had received the inheritances of two Great Emperors.
• Xiao Jing and the others noticed Ji Zining's cultivation had reached the Saint Realm Sixth Layer and wondered who the second Great Emperor was.

Ji Zining told Xiao Jing and the others about the ancient war and explained why she accepted Mo Yang’s inheritance despite his betrayal. After earning their admiration and Li Chang'an’s respect, she revealed that the cave abode’s exit was right before them.

• Ji Zining described how Great Emperors had sacrificed themselves to defeat an unknown enemy and save the All Heavens and Myriad Realms.
• Xiao Jing questioned Ji Zining about accepting Mo Yang’s inheritance, and she argued that power itself was not at fault if used for good.
• Xiao Jing and the others accepted Ji Zining’s reasoning, while Li Chang'an found himself admiring her and considering joining a faction.
• Ji Zining asked whether they had collected everything in the cave abode, and Xiao Jing and the others admitted they could not find an exit.
• Ji Zining pointed toward the rock wall and said the exit was right before them.

Ji Zining and the others escaped the cave dwelling with the jade key and returned to the Holy Spirit Sea. Her Saint Realm breakthrough triggered a powerful Heaven-Jealousy Tribulation, which she faced to strengthen her physical cultivation.

• Ji Zining used the jade key to reveal the exit vortex and led Xiao Jing, Li Chang'an, and the others out of the cave dwelling.
• Ji Zining and her companions emerged above the Holy Spirit Sea, where waiting cultivators recognized the Ziwei Holy Land's top heavenly prides.
• Black tribulation clouds gathered over the Martial Emperor Secret Realm, and Ji Zining explained that her breakthrough to the Saint Realm had delayed the heavenly tribulation.
• Ji Zining flew toward the clouds, intending to use the Heaven-Jealousy Tribulation to advance her physical cultivation.
• The tribulation clouds spread across more than half the secret realm, and onlookers feared that even a Peak Saint King might not survive their power.

Ji Zining underwent a Heaven-Jealousy Tribulation at the Holy Spirit Sea and absorbed its lightning to raise her physical cultivation. After reaching Peak Saint Realm, she considered using her remaining sign-in opportunity or checking the Heavenly Pride Ranking to gauge her strength.

• Ji Zining sat beneath the tribulation clouds as heavenly prides gathered to watch her tribulation.
• Six bolts of black tribulation lightning struck, then transformed into pure lightning energy and surged into Ji Zining.
• Ji Zining refined the lightning energy, breaking through from Saint Manifestation Realm Peak to Saint Realm and continuing to advance her physical cultivation.
• Heavenly prides arriving at the Holy Spirit Sea were stunned to see Ji Zining’s cultivation and unusual way of undergoing the tribulation.
• The tribulation clouds dispersed, and Ji Zining finished refining the lightning energy with her physical cultivation at Peak Saint Realm.
• Ji Zining felt her new power and wondered whether to use her remaining sign-in opportunity or check the Heavenly Pride Ranking.

After completing her tribulation, Ji Zining led her companions toward the Ancient Chaos Stone Stele to test her strength and seek enlightenment. She arrived before the towering stele determined to see whether she could reach its unreachable summit.

• Ji Zining finished tempering her body in the Heaven-Jealousy Tribulation, leaving the gathered prodigies astonished by her abilities.
• Ji Zining asked her companions to choose a dangerous place, and they recalled the Ancient Chaos Stone Stele and Ancient Chaos Graveyard.
• Ji Zining chose to visit the Ancient Chaos Stone Stele first, then travel to the Ancient Chaos Graveyard.
• Ji Zining and her companions crossed the void and arrived before the colossal Ancient Chaos Stone Stele.
• Xiao Jing explained that climbers faced increasing pressure as they ascended, and that no one had ever reached the top.
• Ji Zining resolved to find out whether she could reach the summit.