Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen learned about the Martial Dao realms beyond Human Immortal and devised a cultivation path based on condensing many Martial Dao Divine Spirits. After seventy-two years of cultivation in the Chaos Sea, he reached the Human Immortal Late Stage and discovered an unexpected change on his Attribute Panel.

• Fang Qingxue explained the orthodox Martial Dao stages to Luo Chen and described the Annihilation Realm and the path toward Nirvana.
• Luo Chen realized his Selfless Divine Will would let him condense many Martial Dao Divine Spirits, which would also power his Seven Hundred God Kill technique.
• Luo Chen spent seventy-two years cultivating in the Chaos Sea and condensed seven hundred and twenty Martial Dao Divine Spirits, reaching the Human Immortal Late Stage.
• Luo Chen tested his Seven Hundred God Kill technique with a punch that split the Chaos Sea, then reflected on how the Return to Ruins might have prepared him for Qixia Yuanjun.
• Luo Chen checked his Attribute Panel and saw that Heaven and Earth Inverse Wheel had appeared among his Martial Dao Divine Abilities, while Water Source had reached 9/100.

Luo Chen discovered that the Primal Chaos Cauldron had gathered a complete Water Source and might be developing into a Dao Artifact, but its slow progress could not provide a way out of the Return to Ruins in time. With only two hundred years remaining, he decided to leave Dust-Transcending Island and explore the ruins for another escape route, ending with a wish to inspect the Gate of Annihilation before departing.

• Luo Chen realized that the Primal Chaos Cauldron had absorbed Law Fragments in the Nine Rings of Annihilation and gathered a complete Water Source, feeding some Origin Power back to him.
• Luo Chen suspected that the cauldron had become a Dao Artifact or the embryonic form of one, and he resolved to keep its nature secret.
• Luo Chen observed the cauldron's slow progress for more than twenty years and concluded that its feedback would not help him escape the Return to Ruins before time ran out.
• Luo Chen decided to leave and explore the Ancient God Dojo and other parts of the Return to Ruins, then discussed his plan with Gu Xun and Fang Qingxue at a banquet on Four-Gaze Island.
• Gu Xun and Fang Qingxue accepted that Luo Chen would leave, and Luo Chen promised he could keep the Nine-Layered Immortal Tower running while he was away.
• Luo Chen raised his head and said he wanted to look at the Gate of Annihilation before departing.

Luo Chen inspected the Gate of Annihilation, left a Divine Avatar to guard the Nine-Layered Immortal Tower, and departed the Great Cataclysm Realm after visiting Xiang Fei. At the Sky Pagoda Forest, he encountered a powerful martial artist who attacked him, and Luo Chen prepared to fight back.

• Luo Chen studied the Gate of Annihilation and concluded that its Spatial Vortex was too dangerous to use except as a last resort.
• Luo Chen used the Golden Erosion Formation Diagram to reach the Nine-Layered Immortal Tower’s formation core and left a Divine Avatar there to guard it for two hundred years.
• After the tower reopened a century later, Luo Chen visited Xiang Fei in Moon Village, spoke with her through the night, and left after paying respects at Jing Lan’s grave.
• Luo Chen traveled west toward the Sky Pagoda Forest to learn how people survived near Extreme Heaven and its lightning.
• A martial artist in the Sky Pagoda Forest detected Luo Chen, ordered him to halt, and attacked with a Lightning Arrow and a Gang Qi palm.
• Luo Chen deflected the Lightning Arrow with three finger taps and prepared to fight the attacker.

Luo Chen fought Yuan Qingzang, the master of Sky Pagoda Forest, before the two called off their contest and entered the Azure Vault Tower. There, Luo Chen learned that the tower’s Soul-Shaking Thunder Sound made escape from the Return to Ruins perilous, then asked to try fusing the Chaos Thunder Pool’s power into his Gang Qi.

• Luo Chen countered Yuan Qingzang’s thunder attacks with the Great Luo Five Dragons Hand, and Yuan Qingzang retreated toward Sky Pagoda Forest.
• Yuan Qingzang unleashed the Raging Stream Annihilation Realm, but stopped when Luo Chen began charging the Heaven and Earth Inverse Wheel.
• Yuan Qingzang and Luo Chen ended their fight, introduced themselves, and entered Sky Pagoda Forest together.
• Yuan Qingzang explained that he had met the Wuyou Realm Master and feared the Ancient God Dojo, then led Luo Chen to the Azure Vault Tower.
• Luo Chen endured the tower’s thunder and learned that its Soul-Shaking Thunder Sound made escaping the Return to Ruins dangerous.
• Luo Chen asked Yuan Qingzang if he could try fusing the Chaos Thunder Pool’s thunder into his Gang Qi.

Luo Chen absorbed the Thunder Force of the Chaos Thunder Pool, awakening the Primal Chaos Cauldron’s Origin of Thunder and mastering Soul-Shaking Divine Thunder. He and Yuan Qingzang left the Sky Pagoda Forest for the Abyss of Sorrow, where they arrived to find Old Man Biefeng gone and his people guarded by a hostile warrior.

• Luo Chen drew thunder from the Chaos Thunder Pool into his Thunder Bone and Primal Chaos Cauldron, while Yuan Qingzang strengthened the Azure Vault Tower to support his cultivation.
• After a year, Luo Chen emerged having nearly drained the Thunder Pool, condensed the Origin of Thunder in the Primal Chaos Cauldron, and mastered Soul-Shaking Divine Thunder.
• Yuan Qingzang settled the transfer of power in the Sky Pagoda Forest and departed with Luo Chen, who planned to visit the Abyss of Sorrow before traveling through the Corpse Immortal Domain and Sea of Stars.
• Yuan Qingzang told Luo Chen about Old Man Biefeng’s peculiar Primal Magnetic Divine Will, and the two traveled to the Abyss of Sorrow.
• Luo Chen and Yuan Qingzang summoned Old Man Biefeng, but a warrior emerged and said the old ancestor had already traveled afar.

Luo Chen defeated Green Robe and explored the Abyss of Sorrow, where he discovered Earth Vein Yuan Magnetic that could dismantle his Blood Refinement Divine Aura. Realizing his Primal Chaos Cauldron could absorb the power, he awakened his Main Soul and began drawing it in.

• Green Robe empowered himself with the Abyss Dwellers’ Gang Qi, but Luo Chen defeated him with Thunder Aura and left the warriors unconscious.
• Luo Chen and Yuan Qingzang entered the Abyss of Sorrow, and Luo Chen confirmed that he had reproduced Yuan Qingzang’s Raging Stream Annihilation Realm.
• As the strange power deepened, Yuan Qingzang could go no farther and returned to the surface, where Green Robe told him Old Man Biefeng had followed the Wuyou Realm Master to seek another path.
• Luo Chen reached the Earth Vein Yuan Magnetic and found that its power could break apart his Blood Refinement Divine Aura, while the deep abyss offered no exit from the Return to Ruins.
• Luo Chen summoned the Primal Chaos Cauldron, awakened his dormant Main Soul, and began absorbing the surrounding Yuan Magnetic Divine Power.

After leaving the Abyss of Sorrow, Luo Chen admitted that he had absorbed much of its Yuan Magnetic Divine Power and traveled with Yuan Qingzang toward the Corpse Immortal Domain. There, Luo Chen sensed signs of activity that contradicted Yuan Qingzang’s belief that only Corpse lived in the domain.

• Luo Chen emerged from the Abyss of Sorrow after a month, and Green Robe later discovered that most of its Yuan Magnetic Divine Power had been absorbed while the perfect egg remained safe.
• Luo Chen showed Yuan Qingzang the Yuan Magnetic Divine Power he had taken and explained that he had left the ore vein intact.
• Luo Chen and Yuan Qingzang reached the Corpse Immortal Domain, where Yuan Qingzang warned him to avoid provoking Corpse, a power on par with the greatest experts of the Return to Ruins.
• Yuan Qingzang explained that the domain’s bones came from creatures killed by an earlier Mist of Annihilation and that its Space Rifts could not provide an escape from the Return to Ruins.
• After a month of travel, Luo Chen noticed signs of others in the domain, and he and Yuan Qingzang followed a faint chant.

Luo Chen discovered that Corpse had enslaved people from several factions and made them worship him at the White Bone Sacred Hall. After killing the worshipers and clashing with the will inside the hall, Luo Chen reached its entrance while Yuan Qingzang followed at a distance.

• Luo Chen questioned Hong Ye, who revealed that the Red Lotus Department had been destroyed by Corpse and asked him to inform the Red Lotus Old Ancestor and seek revenge.
• Luo Chen detected power flowing from the worshipers’ chants into the White Bone Sacred Hall, then killed a million warriors when they charged at him.
• Yuan Qingzang recognized that Luo Chen had fused three of his martial arts into a single Martial Dao Divine Ability.
• A vast will from the White Bone Sacred Hall formed a gigantic finger and attacked Luo Chen, who countered with Heaven and Earth Inverse Wheel empowered by Yuan Magnetic Divine Power.
• The clash devastated the battlefield, and Yuan Qingzang returned to find Luo Chen standing on the final step of the white bone staircase, approaching the sacred hall’s gate.

Luo Chen destroyed a will split from Corpse at a White Bone Altar and seized its jade rib, discovering that it held vast Empty Bud Crystals. He left the White Bone Sacred Hall with Yuan Qingzang, while Corpse and other powerful martial artists waited for the Ancient God Dojo to open.

• Luo Chen entered the bone passage with Yuan Qingzang and fought through the Puppet Bone Guards to reach the White Bone Altar.
• Luo Chen shattered a skull that impersonated Corpse, identified the trapped presence as Incense Divine Power, and destroyed Corpse’s separated will despite its warnings.
• Luo Chen took a crystalline rib from the altar, which caused Corpse to feel pain while he sat with the Wuyou Realm Master, Xuan Liexiu of the Sea of Stars, and Old Monster Tianku at the Ancient God Dojo.
• Luo Chen removed the rib’s restraints and found a fist-sized Empty Bud Crystal along with oceanic quantities of crystals and a Devil Race Cultivation Method inside it.
• Yuan Qingzang asked Luo Chen how he had merged three moves to cast the Raging Stream Annihilation Realm, and Luo Chen offered to explain before leading him out of the White Bone Sacred Hall.

Luo Chen studied the Pure World Withered Bone Bodhi Method and saw how it might help him create a path from the Human Immortal Realm to the Annihilation Realm. After settling at the Myriad Phenomena Star Sect’s Ziwei Yuan to deduce the next stage of Divine Demon Formless, he opened his eyes sixty years later as a rain of stars began falling.

• Luo Chen read the Pure World Withered Bone Bodhi Method and connected its destruction-and-rebirth principles with the Demonic Aspect Technique and his True Spirit Body.
• Luo Chen and Yuan Qingzang reached the Sea of Stars, where Yuan Qingzang explained that falling stars powered the Myriad Phenomena Star Sect.
• The Star Sect master told Luo Chen that the Old Ancestors and the Human Immortal elders had left, then escorted him to Ziwei Yuan to observe the stars.
• Luo Chen used 200 Achievement Points to begin deducing the next stage of Divine Demon Formless, while Yuan Qingzang left to study Three-Form Unity.
• After sixty years, Luo Chen opened his eyes as the Star Sect master and his disciples witnessed a torrential rain of stars falling from the sky.

Luo Chen endured the falling stars to advance his Divine Demon Formless cultivation and used the Primal Chaos Cauldron to protect the Myriad Phenomena Star Sect. After dawn, he learned about Star Crystals from the sect master and left with Yuan Qingzang.

• Luo Chen studied a falling star’s destruction and used the stellar impact to drive his cultivation toward uniting his body, gang qi, and Divine Will.
• As more stars fell, Luo Chen revealed his thousand-zhang giant form and endured the destruction while the Myriad Phenomena Star Sect struggled to protect its disciples with the Myriad Phenomena Instrument.
• Luo Chen summoned the Gray Small Cauldron, which stabilized the sect’s defenses and drew in the falling stars and their remains.
• After dawn, the Star Sect Master thanked Luo Chen for saving the sect, and Luo Chen asked him to explain the Five-Colored Star Crystals.
• The Star Sect Master explained that Star Crystals came from the cores of fallen stars and that Xuan Liexiu had taken the sect’s collected crystals two generations earlier.
• Luo Chen told the Star Sect Master to relocate, then departed with Yuan Qingzang when the sect master chose to rebuild at the site.

After failing to break through beyond Human Immortal Realm Great Perfection, Luo Chen derived a balanced cultivation method and traveled with Yuan Qingzang to the Ancient God Dojo. There, Luo Chen confronted Corpse and exposed his schemes, leaving the gathered martial artists ready to turn against him.

• Luo Chen explained that the falling dying stars had helped him unite his body, Gang Qi, and Martial Dao Divine Will, and he had derived a cultivation method blending god, human, demon, devil, and Buddha body-tempering paths.
• Luo Chen and Yuan Qingzang spent half a year navigating dangerous Space Rifts before finding the Ancient God Dojo's entrance and teleporting inside.
• Corpse attacked Luo Chen upon his arrival, accusing him of destroying the avatar he had left outside, and Luo Chen admitted it and challenged him.
• The Wuyou Realm Master welcomed Luo Chen, while Corpse argued that Luo Chen should not be allowed into the dojo.
• Luo Chen revealed a Red Lotus Mark that returned to the red-robed woman and exposed Corpse's attacks on several factions, prompting their leaders to direct their anger at him.

Luo Chen helped expose Corpse’s scheme, then accepted Wuyou Realm Master’s mediation as the factions agreed to set aside their grudges before entering the Ancient God Dojo. After learning about the Epoch Monsters and Remnant Immortal Xiao Lan, Luo Chen joined the gathering as Xuan Liexiu of the Sea of Stars called everyone to continue.

• Red Lotus Lord and other tribal leaders accused Corpse of slaughtering their tribes and stealing their people, while Xuan Liexiu of the Sea of Stars questioned his plans.
• Wuyou Realm Master urged everyone to abandon their grudges, and Luo Chen agreed to let the matter pass after destroying Corpse’s avatar and taking spoils.
• Xuan Liexiu of the Sea of Stars said Luo Chen could replace Corpse, and Corpse agreed to write off their past grievances.
• Luo Chen joined the gathering, and Mu Bugui explained the four factions and described the ancient Human Immortals known as Epoch Monsters.
• Wuyou Realm Master told Luo Chen that Remnant Immortal Xiao Lan had reached the Cataclysm Realm and left to seek a way out.
• Xuan Liexiu of the Sea of Stars called on everyone to continue after they had recovered.

Luo Chen and the martial artists opened the Ancient God Dojo’s gate, endured the Source of Ci Guang’s baptism of faith, and learned that controlling its thirty-three halls could open a Reverse God Passage out of the Return to Ruins. As the Annihilation Kings assigned the halls, a crack split the sky and a terrifying golden claw appeared.

• Luo Chen and the four Annihilation Kings joined the martial artists in pouring Gang Qi into the Ancient God Dojo’s gate, which opened when the right moment arrived.
• The gate’s milky-white light baptized the martial artists in faith; Luo Chen saw Divine Mother Ci Guang, but chaotic Gray Radiance broke the influence and restored his clarity.
• The martial artists entered the dojo and learned from Corpse Old Devil that they had to control all thirty-three tiers of the Divine Mother Hall together to open a Reverse God Passage using an outside faith anchor.
• Corpse Old Devil explained that the Source of Ci Guang had lost her consciousness to Incense Divine Power, and that anyone attempting to control a hall risked losing themselves to the tide of faith.
• The Wuyou Realm Master claimed the thirty-third tier, Corpse Old Devil the thirty-second, Xuan Liexiu of the Sea of Stars the thirty-first, and Old Monster Tianku the thirtieth.
• As the group hesitated over taking the remaining halls, a crack opened in the sky and a horrifying golden claw appeared.

Golden Punishment Venerate invaded the Ancient God Dojo and attacked the Thirty-Three-Tiered Divine Mother Hall, prompting the Guixu Martial Artists to seize the chance to capture him and escape. The battle escalated into a desperate assault, and Luo Chen joined in with Seven Hundred God Kill as Golden Punishment Venerate unleashed Golden Punishment Great Cleave.

• Golden Punishment Venerate tore through a rift and struck at the Thirty-Three-Tiered Divine Mother Hall, whose Divine Mother image blocked him before collapsing.
• Wuyou Realm Master identified Golden Punishment Venerate as a True Spirit with complete Law Power, and the four Annihilation Kings attacked to drag him into the Ancient God Dojo.
• Over a hundred martial artists joined the assault, but Golden Punishment Venerate emerged in his ten-thousand-zhang form and swept many fighters from the sky.
• Wuyou Realm Master called on Luo Chen, who agreed to give one move and struck Golden Punishment Venerate with Seven Hundred God Kill.
• As the battle continued, Golden Punishment Venerate shed his golden scales and unleashed Golden Punishment Great Cleave.

Luo Chen escaped the Ancient God Dojo with a portion of Golden Punishment Venerate’s body, then spent ten years crossing the increasingly dangerous Return to Ruins and returned to Wuyou City. He opened the Nine-Layered Immortal Tower and entered, where the surviving martial artists sensed his return.

• Wuyou Realm Master, Corpse Old Devil, Old Monster Tianku, Xuan Liexiu, and Luo Chen attacked Golden Punishment Venerate together, severing his body, but his Primordial Spirit escaped through a Space Rift.
• Luo Chen took nearly one-third of Golden Punishment Venerate’s True Spirit Body and retreated, while Wuyou Realm Master stopped Corpse Old Devil from pursuing him.
• Luo Chen stored the enormous body in the Primal Chaos Cauldron and realized its complete Law Power could break the Return to Ruins’ restraints.
• Luo Chen crossed the Return to Ruins over ten years as its disasters worsened, then reached Wuyou City and saw the outer cities abandoned and the inner cities overwhelmed by chaos.
• Luo Chen used his Martial Dao Divine Will and the Golden Erosion Formation Diagram to open the Nine-Layered Immortal Tower and enter it.
• The surviving martial artists within the Nine Rings of Annihilation sensed Luo Chen’s familiar will and realized he had returned.

Luo Chen met Gu Xun and Fang Qingxue on Dust-Transcending Island and learned how the Nine Rings of Annihilation had deteriorated. He spent years using the Primal Chaos Cauldron to remove Golden Punishment Venerate’s mark, then sensed a strange technique called Golden Punishment Great Cleave as the threat vanished.

• Luo Chen told Gu Xun and Fang Qingxue about the battle at the Ancient God Dojo and his injury from Golden Punishment Venerate.
• Fang Qingxue described the worsening conditions in the Nine Rings, and Luo Chen found that Ice Heavenly Child, Savage Martial Ancestor, and Xiao Lin were nearing the Human Immortal Realm.
• Luo Chen used the Primal Chaos Cauldron to slowly devour the golden Metal Origin embedded in his body.
• After another hundred years, Xiao Lin advanced to Martial Dao Human Immortal while Luo Chen continued removing the golden light.
• Luo Chen expelled the last of Golden Punishment Venerate’s mark and defeated its hidden soul attack with his Main Soul.
• Luo Chen’s Main Soul recognized the strange sensation as Golden Punishment Great Cleave.

Luo Chen prepared for the Great Annihilation by sealing the Nine-Layered Immortal Tower, redirecting Chaos Energy, and arranging several resources for his cultivation. After warning and expelling most of the tower’s martial artists, he began cultivating the Chaos Undying Scripture with Golden Punishment Venerate’s flesh, leaving his power to grow as time accelerated.

• Luo Chen suppressed the information about Golden Punishment Great Cleave when his Main Soul drew a chaotic thunderstorm, then found that the lingering power of the attack no longer hindered him.
• Luo Chen told Xiao Lin and the other Human Immortals that Epoch Rotation and the Great Annihilation Era would arrive in a hundred years, then expelled the Nine-Layered Immortal Tower’s martial artists except Ice Heavenly Child and Savage Martial Ancestor.
• Luo Chen sealed the tower and redirected the Chaos Energy below the Fourth Ring into the Second Ring to support his cultivation.
• Luo Chen combined the Primal Chaos Cauldron’s starlight, thunder, and Yuan Magnetic Divine Power into a new supernatural ability called Heavenly Star Yuan Magnetic Divine Thunder.
• Luo Chen discovered that the Vacuum Gu could devour a Star Crystal, sealed the mysterious white bone, and prepared Golden Punishment Venerate’s flesh as nourishment for his breakthrough.
• Luo Chen began cultivating the Chaos Undying Scripture while consuming the True Spirit flesh, and his aura grew stronger as time passed ever faster.

Luo Chen completed the Vacuum Divine Gu’s transformation and discovered it could let him fuse with space, escape across great distances, and vastly strengthen his Great Luo Heavenly Sleeve. As the Return to Ruins collapsed, he used the Gate of Annihilation’s first shockwave to forge his Chaos Undying Body, then led his companions into the gate.

• Luo Chen watched the Vacuum Divine Gu transform into a Divine Gu, feed on Empty Bud Crystals, and reveal its spatial abilities.
• Luo Chen used the Vacuum Divine Gu to perform Void-Breaking Divine Escape and strengthen his Great Luo Heavenly Sleeve, but abandoned an attempt to use Sub-Space Sever when it injured his hand.
• Luo Chen returned to Fang Qingxue, Gu Xun, Xiao Lin, and Ice Heavenly Child, explained how they would enter the Gate of Annihilation, and said the first shockwave would be an opportunity for him.
• The Mist of Annihilation spread across the Return to Ruins, destroying its lands and inhabitants as the Gate of Annihilation expanded.
• Luo Chen let the Gate of Annihilation’s first shockwave destroy his body, then used the Primal Chaos Cauldron and Chaos Undying Scripture to forge his Chaos Undying Body and reach the Martial Dao Annihilation Realm.
• Luo Chen returned to the Nine-Layered Immortal Tower and led his companions into the Gate of Annihilation.

Qing Shuang’s breakthrough collapsed when she sensed Luo Chen’s apparent death, while Luo Chen and his companions struggled through the Gate of Annihilation as their defenses and numbers dwindled. Luo Chen continued toward a faintly perceived destination alone, and the Vacuum Gu carried him onward as the storms began to weaken.

• Qing Shuang failed to break through after the destruction of her connection to Luo Chen left her injured, and she believed he had died.
• Luo Chen warned Fang Qingxue, Gu Xun, Xiao Lin, and Ice Heavenly Child to protect themselves as the Nine-Layered Immortal Tower shattered inside the Gate of Annihilation.
• Luo Chen led the group through the destructive space, but Ice Heavenly Child and Xiao Lin were swept away, followed by Gu Xun.
• Luo Chen used the Burial Bone Umbrella and then the Primal Chaos Cauldron to withstand the storms, pulling Fang Qingxue into its protection when she fell behind.
• Fang Qingxue left the cauldron’s protection and vanished in a storm, while Luo Chen survived seven consecutive storms that cracked the cauldron.
• Luo Chen continued alone with his Chaos Undying Body and Vacuum Gu, sensing his destination grow nearer as the storms weakened.