Chapter Summaries

At the Heaven Origin Dao Sect’s celebration, Yan Di and Qixia Yuanjun attacked Grand Lord Tianyuan over old grievances, leaving the sect’s forces struggling to hold them back. Inside the Pill Saint Hall, Luo Chen’s hidden power awakened as he cried out “Demon Phoenix,” while the battle above Yao Mountain turned against the Dao Sect.

• Grand Lord Tianyuan rewarded He Yuan with a Tier 5 Seed Devil Manifestation Pill and praised his potential before the gathered sects.
• Yan Di and Qixia Yuanjun appeared at Yao Mountain, challenged Grand Lord Tianyuan, and began fighting him inside the Square-Round Pot.
• True Lord Azure Dragon ordered cultivators to evacuate and formed the Four Saints Spirit Transformation Array with the other generals as the Pill Saint Hall was left in danger.
• Luo Chen’s Blood Cloth Armor appeared while he breathed Vermilion Bird Divine Fire, and he murmured “Demon Phoenix” as Chu Yan focused on completing the Mind Stabilization Pill.
• Yan Di broke the Square-Round Pot and drove Grand Lord Tianyuan away, while Qixia Yuanjun defeated the Nine Yang Sword Lord’s attack and shattered the Four Saints Spirit Transformation Array.
• Qixia Yuanjun prepared to pursue Grand Lord Tianyuan, but Luo Chen’s furious roar of “Demon Phoenix” rang out across the battlefield.

Luo Chen broke free of his suppressed fury and struck Qixia Yuanjun with a devastating punch, knocking her into Yao Mountain. As his power surged and he faced her again, he vowed that they would fight until one of them died.

• Chu Yan swallowed a Mind Stabilization Pill and began refining it while worrying about Luo Chen and the danger facing Heaven Origin Dao Sect.
• Qixia Yuanjun suppressed the Four Great Generals and prepared to pursue Grand Lord Tianyuan after sending a Golden Flame Phoenix toward True Lord Vermilion Bird.
• Luo Chen charged through Qixia Yuanjun's flames and Great Dao Pressure, then shattered her golden Phoenix and struck her down with one punch.
• The sect cultivators recognized Luo Chen's Star Fire, while Jiang Huang realized he had saved her and her fellow disciples before; Elder Gu Mu and He Yuan led them away from the battlefield.
• Luo Chen transformed into a towering Three Heads Six Arms form as Qixia Yuanjun rose from the ruins, and he challenged her to fight until one of them died.

Luo Chen fought Qixia Yuanjun across the Heaven Origin Dao Sect, using his Martial Dao and fire techniques to withstand her attacks and exploit her weaknesses. He trapped her in Heaven and Earth Inverse Wheel and continued driving it at the cost of his own strength, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Luo Chen used Heavenly Star Yuan Magnetic Divine Thunder and Raging Stream Annihilation Realm to injure Qixia Yuanjun, then seized and nearly tore apart her wings with the Great Luo Five Dragons Hand.
• Qixia Yuanjun pierced Luo Chen's chest with Void Nirvana Divine Light, but he recovered through his Chaos Undying Body and met her in another head-on clash.
• Luo Chen's Chaos Myriad Spirit Fire fought Qixia Yuanjun's Nirvana Sacred Fire as they battled across the Heaven Origin Dao Sect, devastating the land and killing cultivators caught in the fighting.
• Luo Chen used Blood Refinement Divine Aura to manifest two grinding wheels, and Qixia Yuanjun's Void Nirvana Divine Light failed to destroy them.
• When Qixia Yuanjun tried to flee, Luo Chen reversed the grinding wheels and trapped her inside Heaven and Earth Inverse Wheel, continuing to power it as his aura and Formless Bone Wheel weakened.

Yan Di and Grand Lord Tianyuan fought a deadly Primordial Spirit battle while Luo Chen overwhelmed Qixia Yuanjun, who destroyed her body to escape as a Primordial Spirit. Grand Lord Tianyuan died, True Lord Azure Dragon freed Chu Yan and left, and a black hand emerged from beneath the fallen Demon Suppression Tower to seize the Xuan World.

• Yan Di tried to leave the chessboard to save Qixia Yuanjun, but Grand Lord Tianyuan revealed his demonic Primordial Spirit and trapped him in a fierce soul battle.
• Luo Chen used Ten Thousand Year Demon Milk to strengthen the Heaven and Earth Inverse Wheel, forcing Qixia Yuanjun to detonate her body and flee as a Primordial Spirit.
• Luo Chen pursued Qixia Yuanjun, while Yan Di broke free of the barrier and found Grand Lord Tianyuan dead.
• True Lord Azure Dragon took the Holy Devil Essence Liquid from Pill Saint Hall, freed Chu Yan, and departed from the Heaven Origin Dao Sect.
• The surviving Tianyuan Sect members realized True Lord Azure Dragon was missing, while Lin Xixiang watched the Demon Suppression Tower collapse and was struck aside by a giant black hand emerging from beneath it.

Luo Chen pursued Qixia Yuanjun across the Youxuan Continent and into the Sea of Chaos, using Vacuum Divine Escape to keep pace with her fleeing Primordial Spirit. After discovering that Luo Chen had marked her, Qixia plunged into the sea, while Luo Chen was delayed by a Late Void Refinement Stage Silver Squid.

• Luo Chen used Kong Kong Er and Vacuum Divine Escape to catch up to Qixia Yuanjun at Sunset Plain, where she burned her soul to break free of the Primal Chaos Cauldron's restraint and flee in a new direction.
• Luo Chen pursued Qixia through Chaos City, broke its Flight-Ban Formation, and continued after her toward the Sea of Chaos; Layman Wuqiu and the other cultivators realized a clash between Human and Demon Race experts might be underway.
• After a month of pursuit, Qixia discovered Luo Chen had concealed a trace of his will on her Primordial Spirit, then plunged into the sea to remove it and gain time.
• Luo Chen followed Qixia underwater, but a Late Void Refinement Stage Silver Squid attacked him and forced him out of the sea.
• Luo Chen briefly fought the Silver Squid with Thousand Rivers Draw, then sensed the mark on Qixia was fading and unleashed Raging Stream Annihilation Realm to clear his path.

Luo Chen pursued the wounded Qixia Yuanjun toward the Blood Rain Continent, while she realized the Primal Chaos Cauldron was a Dao Artifact and spread word of it to draw rogue cultivators against him. After killing Kutengzi, Luo Chen vowed to continue the hunt despite the danger gathering around him.

• Luo Chen’s lightning attack devastated the Sea Race forces, and the Silver Squid watched him depart in fury and disbelief.
• Luo Chen followed the lingering trace of his Martial Dao Divine Will toward Qixia Yuanjun as she fled across the Blood Rain Continent.
• Qixia Yuanjun recalled the Gray Radiance and concluded that Luo Chen’s Primal Chaos Cauldron had become a Dao Artifact, then used the treasure’s reputation to lure rogue cultivators into stopping him.
• Luo Chen destroyed Kutengzi’s wooden cage and struck him down after Kutengzi demanded his treasures.
• Kutengzi revealed that Qixia Yuanjun had told him a Spirit Transformation cultivator carried a supreme Dao Artifact, and Luo Chen burned Kutengzi with the Nirvana Sacred Fire.
• Luo Chen recognized Qixia Yuanjun’s plan and vowed to pursue her through the Blood Rain Continent despite the approaching Human Tribulation.

Luo Chen fought through the rogue cultivators Qixia Yuanjun sent to delay him, then cornered her in No-Return Valley after five months of pursuit. Qixia sacrificed one-third of her Primordial Spirit to escape, leaving Luo Chen trapped inside a vast barrier with countless cultivators gathering outside.

• The Peng Mountain Twin Fiends and Old Devil Shan joined forces against Luo Chen after he killed Daoist Qu, but Luo Chen killed the younger twin and the Boss of Pengshan before Old Devil Shan fled.
• Luo Chen killed a palace-robed cultivator who tried to stop him and realized Qixia's weakening Primordial Spirit was close to exhaustion.
• Qixia burned her soul and fled while leading Luo Chen in circles, but after another month he found her hidden in No-Return Valley.
• Qixia told Luo Chen the valley's name and vanished as her Primordial Spirit burned, but Luo Chen sensed that she had split her Primordial Spirit and sacrificed only one-third.
• Luo Chen turned toward the valley's exit and saw countless cultivators outside as a barrier spanning more than ten thousand miles sealed No-Return Valley.

Moxuzi, Dao Wuque, Hua Xizi, and thousands of cultivators gathered outside No-Return Valley to trap Luo Chen and seize his Dao Artifact, lured there by Qixia Yuanjun. When Luo Chen arrived, Moxuzi’s treasure blocked his escape, and Luo Chen revealed that the cauldron was his Natal Magic Treasure before preparing to fight.

• Moxuzi recognized Qixia Yuanjun’s fleeing Primordial Spirit and decided to pursue the Dao Artifact she said Luo Chen possessed.
• Moxuzi met Dao Wuque and Hua Xizi outside No-Return Valley, then used the Yin-Yang Divine Void Bowl to seal the area against escape.
• Qixia Yuanjun’s burning Primordial Spirit drew Luo Chen into No-Return Valley, where the gathered cultivators prepared to attack him.
• Moxuzi demanded Luo Chen hand over his Dao Artifact, but Luo Chen explained that the cauldron was his Natal Magic Treasure and refused.
• As Dao Wuque and Hua Xizi called for Luo Chen’s capture or death, Luo Chen stopped laughing, drew his sword, and challenged the crowd.

Luo Chen unleashed his Chaos Undying Body in No-Return Valley and slaughtered the gathered cultivators, while three Integrated Body Great Venerates struck back with abilities designed to counter him. After Dao Wuque cut him in half, Luo Chen transformed into a sea of blood and began devouring the survivors, growing stronger as the battle continued.

• Luo Chen attacked the cultivators with his sword, then manifested his Chaos Undying Body and killed Spirit Transformation cultivators with sweeping strikes.
• Fairy Lianxing and other Refining Void True Lords summoned their Primordial Spirit Dharma Images, but Luo Chen used Soul-Shaking Divine Thunder to seize and crush Fairy Lianxing.
• Luo Chen revealed Heavenly Star Yuan Magnetic Divine Thunder, killing and scattering cultivators throughout No-Return Valley.
• Hua Xizi struck Luo Chen with Blooming Other Shore Flower, while Dao Wuque cut his body in half with a Golden Small Axe.
• Luo Chen’s body exploded into a sea of blood that damaged Dao Wuque’s axe and swept up the surviving cultivators.
• Luo Chen emerged from the blood sea and drew the survivors into it, devouring them as his power grew.

Luo Chen used his Chaos Undying Body to survive the attacks of three Integrated Body Great Venerates, then unleashed his Primal Chaos Cauldron to kill Moxuzi and shatter the Yin-Yang Divine Void Bowl. As Hua Xizi and Dao Wuque considered seizing the Dao Artifact, a Heavenly Venerable’s Divine Thought appeared and ordered everyone to leave Luo Chen alone.

• Luo Chen turned into a vast sea of blood, regenerated from his wounds, and fought off Hua Xizi, Dao Wuque, and Moxuzi as they tried to refine him with fierce yang power and the Unity Void Flame.
• Luo Chen exploited Moxuzi’s divided attention to attack him with Seven Hundred God Kill, destroying his body and exposing his Primordial Spirit.
• Luo Chen summoned the Primal Chaos Cauldron, which absorbed Moxuzi’s Primordial Spirit and shattered the Yin-Yang Divine Void Bowl before vanishing.
• Hua Xizi and Dao Wuque realized Luo Chen had revealed a Dao Artifact and considered taking it for themselves.
• A late-stage Body Integration newcomer arrived, bowed to a Heavenly Venerable’s Divine Thought, and heard it order everyone to leave Luo Chen alone.

After Yang Venerable pursued Luo Chen for the Dao Artifact, Luo Chen escaped into the Xuan World's Spatial Turbulence and used his remaining resources to empower Kong Kong Er. The chapter left Luo Chen and Kong Kong Er streaking blindly through the turbulence while Yang Venerable searched outside.

• Yang Venerable's command forced Dao Wuque and Hua Xizi to abandon their pursuit, and Yan Di also gave up after learning Luo Chen had angered a Great Vehicle Heavenly Venerate.
• Yan Di found Qixia Yuanjun badly injured and mentally shattered after Luo Chen had hunted her across continents for six months.
• Yang Venerable caught up with Luo Chen and destroyed his many Blood Transformation Escape Technique doubles, but Luo Chen escaped through the Primal Chaos Cauldron's power and entered the void.
• Yang Venerable pursued Luo Chen's likely exit points while Luo Chen struggled to survive the Spatial Turbulence as his Mana and Kong Kong Er's strength dwindled.
• Luo Chen fed Kong Kong Er a drop of blood infused with his Blood Refinement Divine Aura and Ten Thousand Year Demon Milk, and Kong Kong Er carried him deeper into the Spatial Turbulence.

Min Rou entered the Lost Forest Sea to explore an ancient cultivator ruin, but discovered it was a sealed site created by the Ethereal Spirit Palace to suppress a powerful demon. She and Woody the Cripple reached a Blood Sea filled with terrifying figures, who turned their attention toward them.

• Min Rou drove off the Four Ghosts of Nether Spring with the Star-Seeking Basket and continued toward the newly surfaced ruins.
• At the Nameless Taoist Temple, Min Rou activated the Demon-Suppressing Stone Bars and used their power to enter the sealed site, followed by other cultivators.
• Min Rou recognized the formations as the work of the Ethereal Spirit Palace and found the enormous bones of a scorpion demon.
• Woody the Cripple revealed that the sixth palace lord had sealed the Azure Sky Demon Scorpion there, then flew ahead toward its remains.
• Min Rou followed Woody past a ridge and found a Blood Sea containing hundreds of powerful figures and two battling shadows.
• The figures opened their eyes and stared at Min Rou and Woody, and the woman’s Dao Heart shattered from their gaze.

Min Rou escaped the blood sea after Dao Lord Min Tang’s intervention, while Luo Chen revealed how he had survived a century in the demon-suppressing land and refined his enemies into Blood God Children. After cultivating the Soul Splitting Art and taking the Seed Devil Manifestation Pill, Luo Chen began manifesting his Dharma Form.

• Woody the Cripple tried to flee, but the middle-aged scholar struck him down with the Azure Heaven Blade and the blood sea enslaved him.
• The blood sea swept through the secret realm and White Bone Mountain Forest, killing the intruders while Min Rou endured with her Star-Seeking Basket.
• Dao Lord Min Tang appeared through the Star-Seeking Basket, negotiated Min Rou’s release with the blood sea’s master, and Min Rou escaped to the Lost Forest Sea.
• A distant Taoist wondered how Luo had entered the Demon-Suppressing Temple, while Luo emerged in the blood sea and revealed that he had spent a hundred years suppressing and refining survivors of the battle at No-Return Valley.
• Luo Chen prepared to refine the Seed Devil Manifestation Pill, cultivated the Soul Splitting Art until his Primordial Spirit was whole, and swallowed the pill.
• Luo Chen’s Dao Heart Planting Devil cultivation stirred the laws of heaven and earth as he began manifesting his Dharma Form.

Luo Chen abandoned his unstable attempt to condense a Void Image from multiple Laws and instead formed a Water Technique Void Image, advancing to the Late Spirit Transformation stage. He left seclusion, set out to meet Dao Lord Min, and learned three Water Element Divine Abilities from his enslaved cultivators.

• Luo Chen recognized that combining the Five Elements with the Destruction Great Dao made his Void Image dangerously disordered, so he chose Water as a gentler foundation.
• After ten years of cultivation, Luo Chen condensed a Water Technique Void Image and advanced from the Spirit Transformation Middle Stage to the Late Spirit Transformation stage.
• Luo Chen left the Blood Sea, summoned three enslaved cultivators skilled in Water Element Laws, and asked them to demonstrate their Divine Abilities.
• Old Devil Shan demonstrated Azure Heaven Blade, and two other cultivators taught Luo Chen Water Dragon Chant and Fishing the Moon from Water.
• When Fishing the Moon from Water failed against Old Devil Shan and injured its caster, Luo Chen became interested in the Primordial Spirit-targeting technique.

Luo Chen reached Ethereal Spirit Palace and sought Golden Erosion Script from Dao Lord Min Tang, who explained the origins of Scorpion Island and the Immortal World fragment. Min Tang offered to teach Luo Chen everything he knew and provide Fallen Immortal Buds if Luo Chen helped him with a matter.

• Luo Chen nearly pulled Old Devil Shan’s Primordial Spirit Moon Soul out with Fishing the Moon from Water, then learned that he had escaped to remote Scorpion Continent.
• Luo Chen arrived at Ethereal Spirit Palace, met Palace Master Min Tang, and discovered that his tea, Fallen Immortal Buds, contained Immortal Qi.
• Luo Chen showed Min Tang a Golden Erosion Script character and asked to learn the writing, revealing that he was at Late Spirit Transformation.
• Min Tang explained that Scorpion Continent was a fragment of the shattered Taihao Continent, destroyed during a battle between Nine Tribulations Heavenly Venerate and more than a dozen Demon World Saint Ancestors.
• Min Tang revealed that his Fallen Immortal Buds and Golden Erosion Script came from an Immortal World fragment, and offered them to Luo Chen in exchange for his help with a matter.

Min Tang recruited Luo Chen to help the Ethereal Spirit Palace win the secret-realm duel for the token that opened the Immortal World Fragment, offering Fallen Immortal Buds and instruction in the Golden Erosion Script. After a year of cultivating his Void Image, Luo Chen set out with Min Tang, Wei Wuji, and four Spirit Transformation cultivators aboard the Ethereal Spirit Heavenly Palace, agreeing to spare Flying Star Gate opponents if possible.

• Min Tang explained that the Ethereal Spirit Palace and Flying Star Gate contested a token-key through duels held every thousand years, and he asked Luo Chen to fight for his sect in exchange for rewards.
• Luo Chen studied his newly formed Void Image, learning how it amplified Divine Abilities, let him command more World Vitality, and could improve his control over the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• Min Tang's Spirit Transformation participants accepted Luo Chen as their strongest prospect after witnessing the power of his Void Image, and Min Tang decided to speak with him before the secret-realm battle.
• A year later, Luo Chen left seclusion and gave Min Rou a pill to steady her mind before joining Min Tang, Wei Wuji, and the four duel participants.
• Wei Wuji carried the group aboard the Ethereal Spirit Heavenly Palace, and he and Min Tang explained that the secret realm nourished the token-key and contained rare plants.
• Min Tang asked Luo Chen to avoid killing Flying Star Gate's Spirit Transformation cultivators if possible, and Luo Chen agreed.

Ethereal Spirit Palace and Flying Star Gate met to open a secret realm that nurtured the key to an Immortal World Fragment. Inside, Luo Chen began cultivating with the realm’s Immortal Qi, while Hua Su found that the energy flowed in two directions.

• Sect Master Hua and Min Tang reunited, and Min Tang demonstrated his mastery of the Formation Dao to open the secret realm’s entrance.
• Ten Spirit Transformation cultivators, including Luo Chen and Hua Su, entered the secret realm as the sect leaders discussed their plans for the Immortal Mansion.
• Luo Chen discovered that the secret realm’s Immortal Qi could transform Primordial Spirits and mana, and he began absorbing it through the Chaos Undying Scripture.
• Hua Su resisted the temptation to transform his Primordial Spirit and followed the Immortal Qi to find the key.
• Hua Su sensed two separate directions in which the Immortal Qi flowed and was stunned.

Luo Chen absorbed Immortal Qi in the secret realm, captured the Gold Essence Immortal Fungus, and hurried to defend Shen Muzhao as the Flying Star Gate broke the God-Trapping Array. The chapter ended with Luo Chen gathering water vapor from the secret realm and the surrounding sea to unleash Thousand Rivers Draw against the five attackers.

• Luo Chen stopped absorbing Immortal Qi to avoid collapsing the secret realm and discovered his Chaos Undying Scripture refined it with exceptional efficiency.
• Hua Su found Luo Chen but warned him not to absorb more Immortal Qi before leaving, and Luo Chen searched the realm for spirit herbs.
• Luo Chen used his Blood-colored Aura to locate and reunite the Gold Essence Immortal Fungus's spiritual qi avatar with its main body.
• Luo Chen sensed the key had appeared and reached Shen Muzhao, whose command token was being refined while three Ethereal Spirit Palace cultivators held the Flying Star Gate inside a God-Trapping Array.
• Hua Su and the other Flying Star Gate cultivators broke the array and prepared to seize the token, but Luo Chen stepped in to protect Shen Muzhao.
• Luo Chen began gathering water vapor from the secret realm and the surrounding sea as he prepared to unleash Thousand Rivers Draw.

Luo Chen defeated the Flying Star Gate cultivators in the secret realm, then helped Ethereal Spirit Palace secure the token to an Immortal Mansion. After returning, Min Tang revealed his hopes of finding the Nine Tribulations Immortal Venerable’s inheritance and prepared to teach Luo Chen the Golden Erosion Script.

• Luo Chen used the divine ability Fishing the Moon from Water to suppress Hua Su and the other Flying Star Gate cultivators, then let them retreat unharmed.
• Shen Muzhao activated the token, allowing Luo Chen and the others to leave the secret realm; Min Tang confirmed that the mission had succeeded.
• Sect Master Hua accepted Min Tang’s claim that Luo Chen was an Ethereal Spirit Palace Guest Elder and warned that the unstable site might allow only one more exploration.
• Min Tang told Wei Wuji that he suspected the Nine Tribulations Immortal Venerable’s corpse and Magic Treasures lay within the Immortal Mansion.
• Luo Chen requested an audience, and Min Tang went to teach him the Golden Erosion Script as promised.

Min Tang taught Luo Chen Golden Erosion Script and showed him how to wield it in battle before making him a Guest Elder of Ethereal Spirit Palace. Afterward, Luo Chen discovered that the Primal Chaos Cauldron had helped him decipher the script, and he began secluded cultivation to put his understanding into practice.

• Min Tang explained that Golden Erosion Script corresponded to Great Dao Laws and taught Luo Chen how to infer its characters using laws he had comprehended.
• Ethereal Spirit Palace returned to Tail Tooth Mountain, and Min Tang spent months teaching Luo Chen Golden Erosion Script while Luo Chen's knowledge of formations rapidly improved.
• Min Tang used a brush inscribed with Golden Erosion Script to unleash a powerful God-Trapping Array, then explained that the script could also be used in battle.
• Min Tang made Luo Chen a Guest Elder of Ethereal Spirit Palace and gave him a token allowing him to travel freely throughout the sect.
• Luo Chen returned to Zixia Palace and discovered Golden Erosion Script engraved on the Primal Chaos Cauldron, which had helped him grasp the characters' meanings.
• Luo Chen entered secluded cultivation, intending to apply his understanding of the script and Great Dao Laws.