Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan secretly drew Death Fiend Qi from the Divine City’s ancestral spirit vein and confirmed that it was tied to Supreme Cangming’s five decays. The Myriad Phenomena Academy’s Liu Qingfeng and Gu Changge arrived at the Azure Cloud Sword Sect’s courtyard, where Gu Changge identified Chen Fan as the hidden power behind recent incidents and questioned him about his previous life.

• Chen Fan absorbed a wisp of Death Fiend Qi from the spirit vein and turned it into nourishment for the Millstone.
• Liu Qingfeng arrived at the courtyard with a calling card from the Myriad Phenomena Academy and asked to visit the Azure Cloud Sword Sect.
• Chen Fan urged Chen Changqing to open the gate, and Gu Changge stepped into the courtyard with Liu Qingfeng.
• Gu Changge sensed an obscure Dao Rhythm within Chen Fan and concluded that he was behind the palm print and the attack that killed a Nascent Soul Dao body.
• Chen Changqing shielded Chen Fan, but Gu Changge asked why he hid his identity in a mortal body despite his wisdom from a previous life.

Gu Changge challenged Chen Fan to a Divine Soul contest, expecting the young boy to be an easy target. Chen Fan destroyed Gu Changge’s formation with a trace of Life-and-Death Millstone Dao Rhythm, leaving Gu Changge badly injured and Chen Changqing stunned.

• Gu Changge proposed a contest of refinement, and Mo Wendao warned that a Divine Soul match could destroy Chen Fan’s Dao Foundation.
• Chen Changqing rejected the challenge, but Gu Changge activated the Vast Righteous Starry Luo Formation and sent his Divine Thought toward Chen Fan.
• Chen Changqing tried to shield his son, but Chen Fan calmed him with a touch and stepped forward.
• Chen Fan tapped the board with a speck of gray-white Life-and-Death Millstone Dao Rhythm, shattering Gu Changge’s formation and damaging his Primordial Spirit.
• The backlash injured Gu Changge and knocked Liu Qingfeng through the courtyard wall, while Chen Changqing stared at Chen Fan in shock.

Chen Fan defeated Gu Changge, who publicly declared him the Southern Nation’s foremost Prodigy, prompting Chen Changqing and Mo Wendao to fear that rivals would target him. Chen Fan realized Gu Changge meant to use him as a pawn and sent a hidden Dao phantom after him, where it attacked Gu Changge and Liu Qingfeng.

• Chen Fan defeated Gu Changge in a single move, and Gu Changge acknowledged his loss before bowing to him.
• Outside the courtyard, Gu Changge announced that Chen Fan was the Southern Nation’s foremost Prodigy, drawing a shocked crowd and then leaving with Liu Qingfeng.
• Chen Changqing and Mo Wendao feared Gu Changge’s praise would make Chen Fan a target, but Chen Fan calmed his father and went back to his room.
• Chen Fan revealed his anger at Gu Changge’s scheme and sent a chaotic Dao phantom through Divine City to pursue him.
• Gu Changge explained to Liu Qingfeng that he meant to provoke the Golden Crow Immortal Pavilion and Taiyin Demon Sect into attacking Chen Fan.
• A colossal gray-white hand emerged from a void fissure and struck at Gu Changge and Liu Qingfeng, shattering Liu Qingfeng’s bonded wooden sword.

Chen Fan used a projection of his power to cripple Gu Changge and warn the Myriad Phenomena Academy not to target Qingyun again. As the divine city’s sects watched the courtyard, Chen Changqing prepared to defend his son, while his parental care continued to strengthen Chen Fan’s Divine Kingdom.

• Chen Fan’s giant hand shattered Liu Qingfeng’s bones, captured Gu Changge, and hurled him into the Myriad Phenomena Academy’s residence palace.
• Chen Fan’s Dharma Form threatened Han Mo and the Myriad Phenomena Academy, then withdrew after warning them not to use underhanded tricks against Qingyun.
• Chen Changqing offered Chen Fan fruit and promised to shield him if the sects attacked, while Mo Wendao prepared to fight.
• Chen Fan’s Life-and-Death Formation Core dissolved the watching sects’ Divine Thoughts before they could reach the courtyard.
• For three days, rumors about Chen Fan’s defeat of Gu Changge spread as hidden watchers gathered around the courtyard and Chen Changqing continued caring for his son.

Lu Heaven-Burning attacked Chen Fan’s courtyard, but the Ascension Nine Heavens Bell interrupted him and announced the start of the Southern Nation’s Ascension Convention. Lu Heaven-Burning withdrew under the Immortal Alliance’s decree and vowed to kill Chen Fan at the Heaven-Reaching Battle Platform, while Chen Fan noticed corrupt Death Fiend Qi in the bell’s lingering vibrations.

• Lu Heaven-Burning arrived above District Bing in a carriage pulled by nine Blazing Golden Crows and insulted Chen Fan before unleashing Sun True Fire at Courtyard Bing Seven.
• Chen Changqing shielded Chen Fan while Mo Wendao tried to form a defensive formation, and Chen Fan prepared to strike back.
• The Ascension Nine Heavens Bell dispersed Lu Heaven-Burning’s attack and forced him and the Golden Crows back.
• The Immortal Alliance announced that the Southern Nation’s Ascension Convention had begun and ordered all participating Prodigies to gather at the Heaven-Reaching Battle Platform.
• Lu Heaven-Burning left for the battle platform after threatening to kill Chen Fan, and Chen Fan noticed Death Fiend Qi in the bell’s lingering vibrations.

After Chen Fan healed Chen Changqing, the Azure Cloud Sword Sect arrived at the Ascension Convention and faced hostility from rival factions. The Immortal Alliance opened the Fallen Immortal Ancient Plain, where the prodigies would fight for Heaven-Reaching Fiend Commands, and Chen Fan sensed a threat against his sect.

• Chen Fan gave Chen Changqing a green fruit containing grand void origin source, healing his injuries and restoring his Nascent Soul.
• Chen Changqing, Chen Fan, and Mo Wendao set out for the Ascension Convention after learning the battle platform had been unsealed.
• At the Heaven-Reaching Divine Mountain, cultivators mocked the Azure Cloud Sword Sect, while Han Mo, Lu Heaven-Burning, You Tong, and the blind Inspector Lu Jiuyuan watched them.
• Inspector Lu Jiuyuan secretly ordered the Iron Armor Guard to slaughter the Azure Cloud Sword Sect in the ancient plain and send Chen Fan's severed limbs to him.
• The Immortal Alliance envoy announced that 3,200 prodigies under thirty had to find one of a thousand Heaven-Reaching Fiend Commands in the Fallen Immortal Ancient Plain within three days.
• The void shattered at the center of the battle platform as the Fallen Immortal Ancient Plain began to open.

Chen Fan entered the Fallen Immortal Ancient Plain despite Chen Changqing’s desperate warnings and discovered that the deadly Death Fiend Qi nourished his Miniature Divine Kingdom instead of harming him. He concealed his strength and used one of his father’s talismans as the plain’s ancient forces began to stir.

• Lu Heaven-Burning led the cultivators into the Fallen Immortal Ancient Plain, followed by sects and clans from across the Southern Nation.
• Chen Changqing gave Chen Fan protective talismans and Earth-Escaping Spirit Jade, urging him to hide until the secret realm closed, but Chen Fan entered the vortex anyway.
• As Chen Fan crossed into the plain, its chaotic Death Fiend Qi froze briefly before an ancient force beneath the Abyss roared awake.
• Chen Fan landed on the scorched plain and watched other cultivators suffer as the Death Fiend Qi corroded their bodies and protections.
• The Death Fiend Qi poured into Chen Fan but was refined by the Life-and-Death Millstone into nether-yin Dao Rhythm, which replenished his Divine Kingdom.
• Chen Fan suppressed the signs of his power and carefully slapped one of Chen Changqing’s Diamond Talismans against his chest.

Chen Fan encountered three Nanhua Sect disciples cornered by two Soul-Devouring Fiend Beasts in the Fallen Immortal Ancient Plain. The beasts attacked him, and he struck one through the throat and skull with a single punch.

• Chen Fan walked through the ancient battlefield, protected by a cheap Diamond Talisman while the Myriad Realms Red Dust Scripture drew father-son karma into his Divine Kingdom.
• He found three Nanhua Sect disciples trapped by two tier-three Soul-Devouring Fiend Beasts, with their formation broken and their leader badly wounded.
• Chen Fan emerged from behind a ruined wall, and the beasts abandoned the disciples to attack the child whose vitality attracted them.
• As one beast lunged to bite him, Chen Fan punched through its throat and out the back of its skull.

Chen Fan killed two Four-Armed Fiend Beasts with ease and continued into the Ancient Plain, leaving three Nanhua Sect disciples alive. One disciple recognized him as the Azure Cloud Sword Sect’s Holy Son and considered claiming the bounty on his whereabouts.

• Chen Fan destroyed one Four-Armed Fiend Beast with a punch and absorbed its Death Fiend Qi.
• Chen Fan killed the fleeing Four-Armed Fiend Beast by flicking a scrap of broken sword at it, then crushed its Fiend Crystal for its qi.
• Chen Fan ignored the three surviving Nanhua Sect disciples and walked toward the ruins deep in the Ancient Plain.
• Fang Zheng and the young female cultivator thanked Chen Fan for saving them.
• The other male disciple recognized Chen Fan and thought about reporting his whereabouts to claim the Golden Crow Immortal Pavilion’s bounty.

A greedy Nanhua Sect disciple sent Chen Fan’s location to Lu Heaven-Burning, who mobilized the Golden Crow Guards and sealed the Rubble Fiend Abyss with a killing formation. Lu confronted Chen Fan on the Immortal-Fall Broken Bridge and dismissed him as a mere body cultivator.

• A Nanhua Sect disciple secretly shattered a Golden Crow Messenger Feather to send Lu Heaven-Burning Chen Fan’s location and feats.
• Lu Heaven-Burning received the message, ordered thirty-six Golden Crow Guards to surround the Rubble Fiend Abyss, and commanded the Nine Suns Heaven-Burning Ancient Diagram to seal the area.
• Chen Fan crossed the Immortal-Fall Broken Bridge while absorbing the surrounding Death Fiend Qi into his Divine Kingdom.
• The Nine Suns Heaven-Burning Ancient Diagram activated, and a Golden Crow warship arrived with Lu Heaven-Burning and the Golden Crow Guards.
• Lu Heaven-Burning gave the informant a worthless pill, then burned him to ash when he protested.
• Lu Heaven-Burning descended before Chen Fan and mocked him as a peasant who relied only on brute strength.

Chen Fan killed Lu Heaven-Burning with a single strike of Life-and-Death Dao power after Lu Heaven-Burning threatened him and scorched his talisman. Lu Xuanyang learned of his death when Lu Heaven-Burning’s soul tablet shattered, then received the protective decree sent from the Fallen Immortal Ancient Plain.

• Lu Heaven-Burning demanded that Chen Fan kneel and surrender his Qingyun Ancient Tomb opportunities, threatening to destroy Setting Sun Mountain and kill his father.
• Chen Fan noticed that a spark had damaged his Diamond Talisman and told Lu Heaven-Burning that he was noisy and had dirtied it.
• Lu Heaven-Burning attacked Chen Fan with a Golden Crow claw, but Chen Fan summoned a Life-and-Death Millstone that destroyed the attack, crushed Lu Heaven-Burning, and shattered the Nine Suns Heaven-Burning Ancient Diagram.
• A thousand-zhang golden decree flew from the wreckage toward the Immortal Alliance Divine City as the thirty-six Golden Crow Guards fell from the sky.
• The hall-guarding elder watched Lu Heaven-Burning’s life tablet shatter, and Lu Xuanyang rushed into the hall and reacted with grief and rage.
• Lu Xuanyang received the protective decree that had been left within Lu Heaven-Burning’s Divine Soul.

Lu Xuanyang learned that Lu Fentian had died in the Fallen Immortal Ancient Plain, but the Immortal Alliance refused to let him enter before the three-day limit. Inside the Ancient Plain, Chen Fan killed the fleeing Golden Crow deathsworn, devoured their treasures to strengthen himself, and checked that his Diamond Talisman was intact.

• Lu Xuanyang rushed to the Ancient Plain's entrance after learning of Lu Fentian's death, but the Immortal Alliance commanders blocked him from entering before three days had passed.
• Lu Jiuyuan suspected that Chen Fan had killed Lu Fentian and ordered his hidden guards to withdraw, but the boundary wall prevented his message from getting through.
• At the Immortal-Fall Broken Bridge, Chen Fan killed all thirty-six Golden Crow deathsworn with Life-and-Death Dao Resonance.
• Chen Fan took the rings and treasures from Lu Fentian and the guards, then swallowed their resources and the damaged Nine Suns Heaven-Burning Ancient Diagram to strengthen his body.
• Chen Fan examined his restored Diamond Talisman and resolved to avoid damaging the talismans his stand-in dad had drawn.

Chen Fan discovered that Supreme Cangming was using the Ascension Convention to sacrifice young cultivators and stave off the Heavenly Five Declines. In the depths of the ancient plain, an Immortal Alliance Inspectorate squad confronted him and launched an attack.

• Chen Fan descended into the black-blood chasm and found an altar where dead Prodigies’ life force was being funneled into an ancient bronze cauldron.
• Chen Fan recognized that Supreme Cangming had arranged the convention to consume the Prodigies’ vitality and delay his decline.
• Seven black-armored Immortal Alliance Inspectorate warriors emerged and surrounded Chen Fan at the altar.
• The commander identified Chen Fan as Chen Changqing’s son and ordered his men to cripple him and place him in a Soul-Devouring Urn.
• The six warriors attacked Chen Fan together with seven Nascent-Soul-Breaking Iron Halberds.

Chen Fan reversed Supreme Cangming’s five-decays blood sacrifice formation and annihilated its seven guardians. The bronze cauldron then shattered, unleashing a vast tide of death fiend qi that engulfed the altar while Chen Fan remained protected by the Diamond Talisman.

• Chen Fan stomped the bronze altar, reversing the formation and unleashing the five-decays death fiend qi.
• The death tide destroyed the seven Nascent-Soul-Breaking Iron Halberds and corroded the black-armored commander and six death warriors.
• Chen Fan sealed the commander’s escape and killed all seven warriors with the power of his Divine Kingdom.
• With the formation nodes vacant, the bronze cauldron shattered and released the accumulated death fiend qi across the chasm.
• The unleashed calamity swallowed the altar and damaged the surrounding walls, while Chen Fan stood protected by the Diamond Talisman.

Chen Fan absorbed the Five Declines death tide and formed a Five Declines Dao Seed, while the sealed Ancient Plain’s survivors faced a deadly trap. As the Ancient Plain collapsed into Immortal Alliance Divine City, Supreme Cangming revealed that he planned to sacrifice its people to extend his life.

• Chen Fan used his Divine Kingdom’s Millstone to consume and purify the Five Declines death tide, forming a Five Declines Dao Seed and refining his avatar’s body.
• The other seven bone-burying abysses erupted, killing cultivators across the Fallen Immortal Ancient Plain with their death tides.
• You Tong and the surviving Prodigies discovered that the exit was sealed by a Nine Nether Nine Fiends Life-Devouring Formation and realized they had been made sacrifices.
• Chen Fan sensed the formation and recognized that Supreme Cangming had arranged the Ascension Convention to harvest the life force of Prodigies and millions of others.
• The Ancient Plain collapsed into Immortal Alliance Divine City, where the Protective City Formation sealed the city and Supreme Cangming appeared in a massive Dharma Form.
• Supreme Cangming declared that the Southern Nation must repay him for protecting it and raised a bony finger against the people of the Divine City.

Cangming drained the people of the eastern city to prolong his life, while Chen Changqing risked his life trying to reach Chen Fan in the Fallen Immortal Ancient Plain. Chen Fan emerged from the abyss, stopped Cangming's attack, and saved his father, leaving him to face the Half-Step Void Refinement expert.

• Cangming's formation turned into blood fiend tendrils that drained the people of the eastern market district, and he shattered the attacks of Han Mo, the gray-robed old woman, and the other patriarchs with a single finger.
• Chen Changqing refused to flee and burned his Nascent Soul's essence blood to charge toward the Ancient Plain's abyss, sending a current of Parental Love Karma into Chen Fan's Divine Kingdom.
• Chen Fan's Life Formation Core absorbed the karmic light, expanded his Divine Kingdom, and awakened his fury when he sensed Chen Changqing's sacrifice.
• Cangming sent a Death Fiend Qi Wind Blade at Chen Changqing, but Chen Fan emerged from the abyss and cleaved the blade and sky apart with his Broken Saber.
• Chen Fan caught Chen Changqing's wrist and used life force to stabilize his father's depleted Nascent Soul and reconnect his severed main meridians.

Chen Fan absorbed Supreme Cangming’s Heavenly Five Declines death qi and struck down his enormous Dharma Form with a single saber slash. Supreme Cangming’s true body emerged from the collapsing apparition, leaving him face-to-face with Chen Fan.

• Chen Fan appeared alive and told Chen Changqing to watch him cut down Supreme Cangming.
• Supreme Cangming attacked Chen Fan with a death-qi palm, but Chen Fan’s scabbard ripple absorbed its power and fed the Five Declines Dao Seed.
• Supreme Cangming demanded to know who Chen Fan was, and Chen Fan answered that a dead man did not need to know.
• Chen Fan unleashed a saber slash that tore through the Nine Netherworlds Life-Swallowing Great Formation and split Supreme Cangming’s Dharma Form.
• Supreme Cangming’s Dharma Form collapsed, revealing his battered true body amid the ruins.

Chen Fan broke twelve of the restrictions sealing his mortal body, reaching peak Deity Transformation and destroying Supreme Cangming’s Nether Spring Deathbound Cauldron with the Broken Saber. Supreme Cangming fled through a Spatial Rift, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Supreme Cangming unleashed the Nether Spring Deathbound Cauldron’s black water at Chen Fan and the Divine City, while Chen Changqing stood to defend the people and urged Chen Fan to go.
• Chen Fan drew on the bond with Chen Changqing and shattered twelve of the thirty-six restrictions sealing his body.
• Chen Fan’s aura surged to peak Deity Transformation, halting the black water in midair and terrifying Supreme Cangming.
• Chen Fan drew the Broken Saber and cleaved through the black water, then shattered the Nether Spring Deathbound Cauldron.
• Supreme Cangming suffered the backlash from the destroyed treasure and escaped into a Spatial Rift with his remaining primordial spirit.

Chen Fan killed Supreme Cangming and ended the siege of Immortal Alliance Divine City, where the survivors hailed him as Supreme Wuji. He then reunited with his wounded father, Chen Changqing, and convinced him that he was still his own son.

• Chen Fan stopped Supreme Cangming from escaping and destroyed his body and nascent soul with the Broken Saber.
• The Ten-Thousand-Year Nine Netherworlds Formation collapsed, and Han Mo and the surviving cultivators bowed to Chen Fan as their new sovereign.
• Chen Fan crossed the ruins and found Chen Changqing wounded and terrified that an immortal had taken over his son's body.
• Chen Fan healed Chen Changqing and proved his identity by recalling the scorched Diamond Talisman and his father's deer-bone soup.
• Chen Changqing embraced Chen Fan and wept, while Supreme Elder Mo Wendao began to offer Chen Fan a sovereign's salute.

Chen Changqing accepted the supreme seal and became the Southern Nation’s ruler, while the resulting fortune strengthened Chen Fan. Chen Fan learned that Prince Pingnan had doomed the Southern Nation to destruction, and he welcomed the approaching threat as prey.

• Han Mo offered the supreme seal and authority over the Southern Nation to Chen Changqing, who accepted it on Chen Fan’s advice.
• The Southern Nation’s fortune surged into Chen Fan, pushing back the chaotic mist in his Miniature Divine Kingdom and loosening the avatar’s twenty-fourth restriction.
• Han Mo and the Taiyin Demon Sect’s gray-robed old woman told Chen Fan that Cangming had attempted a desperate breakthrough because the Southern Nation faced a three-hundred-year strength assessment.
• Han Mo explained that Prince Pingnan had severed the Southern Nation’s ancestral spirit-vein roots and planned to turn its people into mine slaves.
• Han Mo reported that Prince Pingnan’s warship would arrive within a month to assess and destroy the Southern Nation, and Chen Fan regarded the approaching force as prey.