Chapter Summaries

Wang Hao explained why he wanted to recruit the Yin-Yang School’s women as vessels for reborn Heaven and Earth Divine Beasts, while Ying Zheng considered how Donghuang Taiyi’s downfall could benefit Great Qin. In the Qinling Mountains, the gathered factions prepared to pursue Chiyou’s legacy, and Gai Nie questioned his younger self about Jing Tianming and Wang Hao’s connection to Xiao Yu.

• Wang Hao admitted that he coveted the prominent women of the Yin-Yang School and described the requirements for bearing Heaven and Earth Divine Beasts.
• Ying Zheng silently reconsidered Donghuang Taiyi’s fate and saw his death as a chance for Great Qin to absorb the Yin-Yang School.
• Donghuang Taiyi sneezed while cultivating in seclusion, sensed a chill of malice, and decided not to emerge until he reached the Great God realm.
• Wei Zhuang and the two Gai Nies discussed the Tomb of Chiyou, with the younger Gai Nie confirming that Wang Hao and Ying Zheng might attend.
• The middle-aged Gai Nie revealed that Jing Tianming was Jing Ke and Gongsun Liji’s son, and explained why he had taken the boy away from the Qin palace.
• The middle-aged Gai Nie asked his younger self about Wang Hao and Xiao Yu, wondering why Xiao Yu could repeatedly escape the Imperial Preceptor.

Wang Hao showed Ying Zheng and Qin’s other leaders the elaborate fake Tomb of Chiyou he had built to lure the Hundred Schools of Thought and the six states’ royal families into dangerous trials. While they toured its traps and reached a lava cavern, their intended challengers were still struggling to dig through a copper vein.

• Brother Zheng questioned Wang Hao’s massive fortifications, and Wang Hao assured him that the Mohists might tunnel beneath them before leading the group into the tomb.
• Yan Lingji opened a Seven Star Decoy Coffin and instantly burned the powerful knockoff zongzi inside to ash.
• Wang Hao and Zhao Gao staged the deaths of drugged death-row prisoners, then guided Ying Zheng and the others through the tomb’s terrifying traps and creatures.
• Wang Hao led the group to a vast underground lava cavern, where Yan Lingji welcomed the heat while the others struggled with it.
• The Hundred Schools of Thought, unaware of the traps awaiting them, were forced to dig through the copper vein by hand after their tunneling mechanism broke down.

The Hundred Schools' party reached the lava cavern but could not cross its monsters until Wang Hao drew them away to stage a battle. The party then slipped onto a protected island, where Xiao Yu's demonic saber began guiding her toward the summit.

• Tian Guang challenged the Tomb School leader, but Guiguzi ordered Sect Leader Mu to open the next door while the others rested.
• Wang Hao sensed that the Hundred Schools had reached the seventy-ninth trial and prepared a fake battlefield with Zhao Gao, the Corpse-Driving Demon, and the fire elementals.
• The Hundred Schools reached the lava cavern, but the lava monsters drove most of them back and killed several people when they tried to cross.
• Wang Hao gathered the fire elementals nearby, allowing Gai Nie and the others to cross the magma and sneak onto the island they believed held Chiyou's inheritance.
• Xiao Yu's demonic saber trembled and seemed to summon her toward the island's summit, so Xiang Shaoyu suspected it could unlock the inheritance and Jing Tianming urged them to try.

Xiao Yu awakened a colossal statue of Chiyou, and the factions fought over the scattered fragments of Chiyou’s inheritance. Jing Ke tried to assassinate Ying Zheng, but Ying Zheng’s immense defensive cultivation defeated him; Wang Hao then asked to revive Jing Ke, and Ying Zheng agreed.

• Xiao Yu raised the island and revealed Chiyou’s colossal statue, while Wang Hao destroyed most of the inheritance light and the factions seized the remaining fragments.
• Jing Ke appeared behind Ying Zheng and attacked him, but his sword could not pierce Ying Zheng’s body or neck.
• Ying Zheng recognized Jing Ke’s hatred as tied to future events and transformed into a powerful, bronze-skinned form.
• Ying Zheng killed Jing Ke with one punch, then allowed Wang Hao to gather his remains and attempt to revive him.

After Gai Nie blamed Wei Zhuang for arranging Jing Ke’s assassination attempt, the three Ghost Valley disciples went their separate ways. Meanwhile, the resurrected female Jing Ke arrived at Ying Zheng’s side, and Wang Hao secretly began creating a younger sister for her; the chapter ended with him finishing the sister’s body.

• The older Gai Nie punched Wei Zhuang for sending Jing Ke to assassinate Ying Zheng, then left with Jing Tianming and the others.
• Wei Zhuang showed off the four Chiyou inheritances he had obtained, while the younger Gai Nie announced he would travel through the states and return in three years; Guiguzi then set out for Ghost Valley.
• Jing Ke, resurrected as a beautiful woman, negotiated her daytime guarding duties with Ying Zheng, and Wang Hao offered the idea of a younger sister who could take shifts with her.
• Wang Hao invented a story about Jing Ke’s long-lost younger half-sister, and Ying Zheng promised to reunite them in Xianyang.
• Ying Zheng ordered Wang Ben to guard the weapons-factory site and returned to Xianyang with Zhao Gao’s Net Trap.
• Wang Hao used the remaining fragments of Jing Ke’s soul and a drop of her blood to create her younger sister, then adjusted the new body’s appearance.

Gongsun Liji entered the Qin palace intending to assassinate Ying Zheng, but King of Glory Jing Ke and Heroic Spirit Jing Ke stopped her and revealed that they were her husband Jing Ke reborn as two women. Stunned by the revelation and Ying Zheng’s family with them, Gongsun Liji tried to leave, but Ying Zheng trapped her inside the hall with a black sword dragon.

• Ying Zheng received Gongsun Liji, who claimed she wanted to speak with him alone while concealing her plan to kill him.
• After the officials left, Wang Hao sensed Gongsun Liji’s murderous intent and peeped into the hall as Ying Zheng confronted her.
• Gongsun Liji attacked Ying Zheng with her thirty years of Sword Qi, but King of Glory Jing Ke and Heroic Spirit Jing Ke blocked her strike.
• King of Glory Jing Ke revealed that she was Jing Ke, and Ying Zheng explained that Wang Hao had revived Jing Ke as her and Heroic Spirit Jing Ke.
• Ying Zheng teased Gongsun Liji about the children he had with the two Jing Kes, leaving her furious and bewildered.
• Gongsun Liji tried to leave, but Ying Zheng summoned a black dragon of swords that coiled around the hall and blocked her way.

Ying Zheng brought Gongsun Liji to Mount Shu to reveal Great Qin’s military strength, explaining that the six states had been kept alive as a training ground while Qin expanded westward. She discovered that even the immense forces she saw were not Qin’s true mighty army, and the chapter ended with her looking toward a vast abyss and a colossal tree above it.

• Ying Zheng revived Gongsun Liji in a young body after she destroyed herself, and she angrily rejected his advances.
• Ying Zheng took Gongsun Liji and the others to Mount Shu, where Wang Li greeted him and commanded more than a hundred million Earth Realm soldiers.
• Ying Zheng explained that the six states had served as training opponents while Qin secretly conquered lands in the west.
• Wang Li said his soldiers were not worthy of being called Great Qin’s mighty army because they had not all reached the Heaven Realm.
• Ying Zheng led Gongsun Liji to a legion of a hundred thousand Heaven Realm soldiers, many of them wounded and disabled.
• Gongsun Liji realized the soldiers were all wounded veterans and stared toward the abyss and the enormous tree towering above it.

Ying Zheng brought Gongsun Liji through the Yu Yuan Seal to the Hell Battlefield to show her Great Qin’s army and its war against the monsters. After meeting Bai Shen and the resurrected Bai Qi, Ying Zheng reassured the general that nothing was wrong at home, only for Bai Qi to angrily send him away for interrupting the battlefront.

• Ying Zheng declared that he would stand with Great Qin’s hundred thousand Heaven Realm soldiers if the Hell Battlefield was threatened, and Gongsun Liji agreed to accompany him into Yu Yuan.
• Ying Zheng carried Gongsun Liji through the sealed passage into hell, where Bai Shen greeted them and revealed that he was Bai Qi’s great-great-grandson.
• Bai Qi sent an avatar to escort Ying Zheng and Gongsun Liji by chariot to the frontline, where Gongsun Liji heard the monsters’ roars and grasped the battlefield’s danger.
• Bai Qi welcomed Ying Zheng into the command tent and asked whether anything had happened in Great Qin.
• Ying Zheng explained that he had brought his new consort to see the army, and Bai Qi scolded him, shoved him from the seat of honor, and returned to directing the battle as Gongsun Liji laughed.

Ying Zheng brought Gongsun Liji to the Hell Battlefield, where she witnessed Great Qin’s immense defenses and his overwhelming power against the monsters. After he destroyed a gigantic Devil Creature with the Greatsword of Justice, she wondered whether he had spread Chiyou’s Inheritance to strengthen the six states as a training ground.

• Wang Jian and Meng Ao returned from the front, learned Ying Zheng had come to show off his new consort, and scolded him before going back to battle.
• Ying Zheng took Gongsun Liji to the Great Wall, where she saw its soldiers repel endless waves of powerful monsters.
• Ying Zheng launched his Black Dragon Swords into the monster tide and joined the Corpse-Driving Demon and the Scourge Legion in fighting the monsters.
• When a hundred-thousand-zhang Devil Creature approached, Ying Zheng summoned the Greatsword of Justice and destroyed it with one strike.
• Returning to the Great Wall, Gongsun Liji asked whether Ying Zheng had spread Chiyou’s Inheritance to make the six states stronger and use them as a whetstone.

Ying Zheng brought Gongsun Liji to hell and explained that the destroyed Gate of Reincarnation and the resulting Devil Creatures were draining the world’s origin. There, they met Wang Hao and the pregnant women helping repair the gate, while Donghuang Taiyi revealed his anger over Wang Hao’s role in the Yin-Yang School’s succession crisis.

• Ying Zheng told Gongsun Liji that the six states had failed to grow strong and explained how the destroyed Gate of Reincarnation had caused souls to become Devil Creatures and depleted the world’s origin.
• Ying Zheng took Gongsun Liji to the shattered Gate of Reincarnation, where Yan Lingji explained that the pregnant women were carrying ancient Heaven and Earth Divine Beasts whose power aided their cultivation.
• Wang Hao arrived and teased Ying Zheng about taking a third consort, prompting Yanfei and the other pregnant women to attack him.
• Gongsun Liji recognized Duanmu Rong and mistakenly suspected Wang Hao had violated her, while Duanmu Rong explained that she was still a virgin despite being pregnant.
• Donghuang Taiyi appeared and blamed Wang Hao for making the Yin-Yang School’s beautiful elders pregnant, leaving him to replace them and reorganize the school.

Wang Hao explained how hell’s Devil Creatures were formed and laid out several suspects behind the destruction of the Gate of Reincarnation. The chapter ended with Ying Zheng revealing that the Qi Refinement Technique came from a race that predated humanity.

• Zi Nu confirmed that Wang Hao was a virgin, while she and the other women’s history with him came to light.
• Wang Hao and Ying Zheng discussed the nearly repaired Gate of Reincarnation and the unknown changes in hell.
• Wang Hao separated a Devil Creature into an Eroding Spirit and a body, explaining how fallen souls and Nether clansmen’s bodies could create more Devil Creatures.
• Wang Hao suspected that someone had stolen the energy used in Incantation Techniques and named Tian, Shenyan, the Nether Clan, and the source of the Qi Refinement Technique as possible culprits.
• Ying Zheng told Gongsun Liji that the Qi Refinement Technique originated with a humanlike race that lived outside the main world before humanity appeared.

Wang Hao learned that his past life had betrayed Going Against Heaven, while Ying Zheng revealed Xiao Yu was likely his lost daughter and the reincarnation of Dancing with the Wind. Xiao Yu recovered her past-life memories and set out for Hell to forge a weapon powerful enough to kill Wang Hao.

• Ying Zheng brought Wang Hao an ancient saber recovered by Zhao Gao, and Wang Hao restored it and learned it held memories from his past life as a Nether Clan warrior.
• Wang Hao discovered that his past life had helped Shenyan ambush Going Against Heaven, and that Xiao Yu was Dancing with the Wind's reincarnation.
• Ying Zheng revealed that Xiao Yu was probably the daughter stolen from him and his Great Qin's eldest princess, but Wang Hao refused to tell her the truth.
• Wang Hao and Ying Zheng agreed to leave the matter to Wang Hao, while Wang Hao planned the final battle for thirty years later.
• Xiao Yu refined the Purple Clouds saber and recovered Dancing with the Wind's memories, then headed for a hidden passage into Hell to reforge her weapons and kill Wang Hao.

Han Fei and Wei Zhuang prepared for a final war against Great Qin while worrying about Wang Hao and the forces gathering at Mount Shu. Meanwhile, Donghuang Taiyi summoned Jing Tianming to pursue the Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon, and Gai Nie joined him as the group set out for the East Sea.

• Han Fei and Wei Zhuang recalled their long war against Great Qin and discussed the six states’ plan to unite for an extermination campaign.
• Han Fei told Wei Zhuang that Yu Ji had ordered them to lead their troops to Mount Shu and enter hell through Yu Yuan, and that Donghuang Taiyi and the Yin-Yang School had reappeared.
• Donghuang Taiyi threatened the Mohist School at Mechanism City and demanded that Jing Tianming accompany him to pursue the Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon.
• Jing Tianming asked Eastern Lord Yan Fei where Yue'er was, and Yan Fei beat him after telling him her daughter had not yet been born.
• Gai Nie joined the expedition, and Donghuang Taiyi led Yan Fei and the others toward the East Sea.
• Gai Nie warned Jing Tianming that he would hold off their enemies if danger came and urged him to escape.

After Gai Nie and Jing Tianming unlocked the Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon, Wang Hao revealed that the Great Destruction was approaching and explained the hidden history behind Great Qin and the refuge they had entered. The Wanqu Kingdom’s world, sustained by a now-dead World Tree, would temporarily shelter Great Qin’s citizens as they prepared for the coming battle.

• Wang Hao appeared before Gai Nie and Jing Tianming, identified Jing Tianming as Jing Ke’s son, and threatened to keep him away from Yue’er until Yan Fei blasted him aside.
• Wang Hao asked Gai Nie to help manage the refuge where Great Qin’s citizens would soon be relocated, and warned him that the Great Destruction could no longer be delayed.
• Wang Hao explained the War Against the Gods, the Hell Battlefield, and how he and Ying Zheng had used the Tomb of Chiyou’s supposed inheritances to test the six kingdoms and the Hundred Schools of Thought.
• Wang Hao told Gai Nie and Jing Tianming that their current world was the Wanqu Kingdom, a small world born from a World Tree that could serve as shelter from the Great Destruction.

Wang Hao transformed the Gate of Reincarnation into the Gate of Samsara, preparing to lead Great Qin into the sealed God Realm for the decisive battle. When Xiang Yu and the Six Nations Alliance finally arrived, Ying Zheng’s forces surrounded them with overwhelming numbers and strength, and Han Fei stepped forward to demand an explanation.

• Wang Hao restored the World Tree in a small world and left Gai Nie to protect it while Donghuang Taiyi and the others returned to Hell.
• Wang Hao activated the Reincarnation and Rebirth Grand Formation and the All Things Rejuvenation Grand Formation, transforming the Gate of Reincarnation into the Gate of Samsara.
• Wang Hao and Ying Zheng prepared to enter the God Realm, but Xiang Yu and the Six Nations Alliance arrived an hour late after struggling against Wushuang Gui’s Vajra Legion.
• Wushuang Gui withdrew his legion into Yu Yuan and carried away the Fusang Tree, after which Xiang Yu and the other kings led one billion Heaven Realm troops through the passage to Hell.
• Ying Zheng moved the entrance of Yu Yuan to the Gate of Samsara, where ten Great Qin formations surrounded the Six Nations Alliance with forces ten times larger and three cultivation tiers higher on average.
• Han Fei went between the armies and asked Ying Zheng to speak with him so he could learn the truth before the battle.

Han Fei reunited with Honglian and apologized for his past, while Wang Hao effortlessly stopped Xiang Yu’s attack and subdued Xiao Yu. After Han Fei questioned whether Wang Hao had arranged Chiyou’s Inheritance deliberately, Wang Hao ignored him and signaled Brother Zheng to begin.

• Ying Zheng and Han Fei lamented how much each had changed, and Han Fei asked to see Honglian before he died.
• Honglian emerged from the Imperial Chariot, explained her pregnancy, and accepted Han Fei’s apology for what he had done in the past.
• Xiang Yu unleashed a powerful attack backed by the six states’ allied armies, but Wang Hao froze it and reversed time to restore Xiang Yu and the soldiers.
• Xiao Yu tried to assassinate Wang Hao, who restrained her and pinned her in the Devil Qi pool to help her strengthen and advance.
• Honglian warned Wang Hao that Xiao Yu would eventually kill him, and Wang Hao calmly accepted the possibility.
• Han Fei and Wei Zhuang asked whether Wang Hao had deliberately arranged Chiyou’s Inheritance, but Wang Hao ignored the question and signaled Brother Zheng to begin.

Going Against Heaven used Breaking the Limit to open a crack in Shenyan’s barrier after Chaos Heaven and Earth, Six Mighties Venerable, and Black Dragon Tian threatened his captured allies. As the three rushed through toward the Human Realm, a terrifying figure kicked them back out.

• Going Against Heaven recovered from his petrification disease, and he and Zi Yu realized the barrier’s time distortion might let Shenyan pursue a secret in the Human Realm.
• Chaos Heaven and Earth, Six Mighties Venerable, and Black Dragon Tian captured Unrivaled Iron Blood, the Hidden God Tribe, Cabbage, and other allies, then demanded Going Against Heaven open the barrier.
• Going Against Heaven negotiated their release, shared his breakthrough insights with Unrivaled Iron Blood, Zi Yu, and Wu Geng, and prepared to use Breaking the Limit.
• Going Against Heaven channeled his soul power into Eternal Night and carved a ten-zhang-long crack in the barrier.
• Chaos Heaven and Earth, Six Mighties Venerable, and Black Dragon Tian rushed into the crack, but a terrifying figure kicked them back out.

Han Fei and the Six Nations Allied Army entered the God Realm through a rift and met Going Against Heaven, Zi Yu, and their allies. As the exhausted vanguard explained the Human Realm’s revival, Ying Zheng’s ten-billion-strong Great Qin Invincible Legion arrived, ending the chapter with its soldiers confronting someone they called a traitor.

• A million-zhang battle formation carrying Han Fei and the Six Nations Allied Army forced its way through a rift into the God Realm, then collapsed as its soldiers ran out of strength.
• Han Fei recognized Zi Yu and the Nether Clan leaders, identified himself as a descendant of Ji Fa, and explained how Wang Hao had led the Human Clan’s revival.
• Going Against Heaven and Zi Yu feared the exhausted humans would be attacked, but Han Fei revealed that his force was only a vanguard and the main army was following.
• A million-zhang black Shenron and Ying Zheng’s Imperial Chariot burst through the rift, followed by Great Qin’s ten-billion-strong Invincible Legion.
• A figure stepped out of the Imperial Chariot, and Wu Geng, Unrivaled Iron Blood, and the others shouted that the newcomer was a traitor.

Wang Hao reunited with Going Against Heaven, sent Brother Zheng and the Great Qin Legion into battle, and ordered the God Realm sealed while they searched for Shenyan. He restored Zi Shou, Heart Moon Fox, and Ming Yue from their remaining true spirits, then considered the threats still ahead and the hope he placed in Xiao Yu.

• Wang Hao recognized Going Against Heaven’s weakened state, and the two greeted each other with a fist bump despite the hatred Unrivaled Iron Blood and the others held toward him.
• Wang Hao asked Brother Zheng to handle the enemy commanders, and Brother Zheng, Yanfei, Net Trap, and Corpse-Driving Demon led their forces into battle against Black Dragon Tian, Chaos Heaven and Earth, Six Mighties Venerable, and their armies.
• Wang Hao asked whether anyone had found Shenyan, and Going Against Heaven guessed that Shenyan might be hiding in the God Realm.
• Wang Hao ordered Brother Zheng to activate Epang Palace and seal the God Realm, and Brother Zheng sent the Imperial Chariot back to begin the formation while continuing his fight with Black Dragon Tian.
• Wang Hao found true spirits within Shi Xing and Wu Geng, then created new bodies for Zi Shou, Heart Moon Fox, and Ming Yue; Zi Yu and Shi Xing thanked him as they held their loved ones.
• Wang Hao worried about Shenyan, the Heavenly Mandate, and his dwindling Tear of True Love, then reflected with Going Against Heaven on their past and his former incarnation’s betrayal.

Wang Hao told Going Against Heaven and Deathly Gaze that Dancing with the Wind had likely died of petrification disease, then reflected on how he would have to confront the Heavenly Mandate directly. Meanwhile, Ying Zheng suppressed Black Dragon Tian, and Wang Hao sent Great Swordsman Zi Yu and Wu Geng to fight Six Mighties Venerable as Going Against Heaven was urged to deal with Chaos Heaven and Earth.

• Wang Hao explained that Shenyan had infected Dancing with the Wind with petrification disease and that his previous self had joined the army to obtain a cure for himself, provoking Deathly Gaze's anger.
• Wang Hao concluded that his earlier plans to restrict the Heavenly Mandate carried too much risk and that he would eventually have to face it directly.
• Ying Zheng used the Great Qin Legion's power and the Nine Provinces Cauldrons to bind Black Dragon Tian, then struck him with Great Qin Justice's Peerless Great Treasure Sword.
• Wang Hao asked Great Swordsman Zi Yu to help defeat Six Mighties Venerable, and Zi Yu charged into battle with Wu Geng.
• Wang Hao urged Going Against Heaven to deal with Chaos Heaven and Earth.