Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei arrived at the Tianxuan Sect, where Chang Xiwen invited him to train on Forging Peak and praised his physique. In the Earth Ranking Space, Chen Fei advanced through several ranks as heavenly demons conceded, then learned that Chang Xiwen had a body-tempering art of his own creation that even his top disciple had mastered only sixty percent of.

• Shi Ruifeng escorted Chen Fei to the Tianxuan Sect but left without entering, and Zhuang Zechuan and Chang Xiwen welcomed Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei accepted Chang Xiwen's invitation to train on Forging Peak and explained that he had combined several physique inheritances into his cultivation art.
• After Fen Yu conceded, Chen Fei challenged Earth Ranking opponents, and Bian Hui, Shen Lei, Ban Hao, and Mu Kun conceded before fighting.
• Xing Feng accepted Chen Fei's challenge, setting their death match for three days later, while news of Chen Fei's rapid rise spread across the Tianxuan Domain.
• Chang Xiwen told Chen Fei that the Tianxuan Sect would award him thirty thousand Immortal Profound Crystals for each concession, counting each as a kill.
• Chang Xiwen offered to teach Chen Fei his self-created body-tempering art, which his Direct Disciple had comprehended only sixty percent of after tens of thousands of years.

Chang Xiwen bestowed the Sovereign Realm technique Eternal Calamity Undying on Chen Fei, hoping it could restore his depleted origin and extend his lifespan. After studying and simplifying the inheritance in the Void Return Realm, Chen Fei began testing whether Immortal Profound Crystals could help him cultivate it.

• Chen Fei questioned whether Eternal Calamity Undying could truly be cultivated before the Sovereign Realm, and Chang Xiwen explained that its time-based shortcut was possible but extraordinarily difficult.
• Chang Xiwen revealed that the technique had to be cultivated before reaching the Sovereign Realm and admitted he had failed to cultivate his own creation because he had created it too late.
• Chang Xiwen imparted the technique and gave Chen Fei a complete jade-slip inheritance, warning him not to neglect his Earth Ranking challenge.
• Chen Fei settled into Heart Casting Residence, entered the Void Return Realm, and spent two days and nights comprehending the jade slip.
• Chen Fei fused Eternal Calamity Undying with the Myriad Manifestations Dao Bone True Chapter, then simplified it at a cost of eighty thousand portions of Immortal Profound Crystals.
• Chen Fei found that the Void Return Realm's spiritual mechanisms yielded few insights into the technique, so he ignited one thousand portions of Immortal Profound Crystals to test whether they would help.

Chen Fei used Immortal Profound Crystal to cultivate Eternal Calamity Undying, reaching the first stage before preparing to face Xing Feng in their Earth Ranking death match. When the battle began, Xing Feng summoned a phantom of Annihilation Venerable, the number one on the Heaven Ranking.

• Chen Fei burned a thousand portions of Immortal Profound Crystal and began cultivating Eternal Calamity Undying with the Myriad Manifestations Dao Bone True Chapter.
• Chen Fei burned another forty-seven thousand portions, raising Eternal Calamity Undying to fifty-five percent of the Proficient Realm and anchoring his future effect in the River of Time.
• Chen Fei returned to Heart Casting Residence to rest before his death match with Xing Feng, while cultivators and Sovereigns across the Xuan Yu Realm gathered to watch.
• Chen Fei and Xing Feng appeared at opposite ends of the Earth Ranking Training Ground when the appointed time arrived.
• Xing Feng activated Void Secret Treasure - Time Remnant and summoned a phantom of Annihilation Venerable, shocking the spectators.

Xing Feng unleashed a remnant soul, an Extreme Immortal Realm clone, numerous Void Secret Treasures, and an Annihilation Venerable phantom against Chen Fei. Chen Fei casually destroyed Xing Feng’s Night Demon Array, but Xing Feng and his allies then launched a coordinated attack that left space, time, and direction distorted around him.

• Xing Feng fused with an Extreme Immortal Realm remnant soul and summoned a clone with the same Cultivation Realm as his true body.
• Xing Feng used talismans, Formation Disks, and several Void Secret Treasures to strengthen himself and his clone, protect them with the Night Demon Array, and unleash a vast blood sea.
• Chen Fei summoned the Heaven Opening Hammer and shattered the Night Demon Array with a single casual strike.
• Xing Feng led his true body and clone in an attack on Chen Fei while the Annihilation Venerable phantom distorted space, time, and direction around him.

Chen Fei used the Heaven Opening Hammer to overwhelm Annihilation Venerable’s phantom and Xing Feng, destroying Xing Feng’s clone before killing him outright. The battle ended with Xing Feng dead and Chen Fei’s strength shocking the Immortal and Sovereign Realm observers.

• Chen Fei summoned his Past Self, and together they crushed the attacks of Annihilation Venerable’s phantom and Xing Feng, destroying Xing Feng’s clone.
• Chen Fei’s Past Self defeated Annihilation Venerable’s Heaven and Earth Seal and vaporized the phantom.
• Xing Feng sacrificed the blood sea’s origin and attacked Chen Fei with the Blood Prison Demonic Blade, but Chen Fei evaporated the blood sea and shattered the blade.
• Chen Fei smashed Xing Feng’s head and body with the Heaven Opening Hammer, annihilating him despite his burned Immortal Power.

Chen Fei defeated Xing Feng, climbed from thirteenth to sixth on the Earth Ranking as successive Heavenly Demons conceded, and secured a death match with fifth-ranked Xu Hanxing. Back at Tianxuan Sect, Chang Xiwen gave him 390,000 Immortal Profound Crystals and Heavenly Sinking Incense, and Chen Fei began preparing to cultivate in the Void Return Realm.

• Chen Fei killed Xing Feng, harvested his Heavenly Demon Origin and Status Fragment, and replaced him at thirteenth on the Earth Ranking.
• Chang Xiwen praised Chen Fei and promised to forge him a Sovereign Divine Weapon embryo if he reached the Sovereign Realm and trusted him.
• Chen Fei challenged the higher-ranked Heavenly Demons, and Feng Shuang, Yun Qianzai, Xian Duanyue, Feng Xingying, Mo Feiyan, and Lu Juechen conceded in succession.
• Xu Hanxing accepted Chen Fei's challenge, setting their death match for three days later.
• Chen Fei returned to Tianxuan Sect, where Chang Xiwen gave him 390,000 Immortal Profound Crystals and Heavenly Sinking Incense for his cultivation.
• Chen Fei entered the Void Return Realm and began drawing Immortal Profound Crystals from the storage pouch.

Chen Fei fused the Heavenly Dao Fragment into the Heavenly Sinking Incense, then spent hundreds of thousands of Immortal Profound Crystals mastering Eternal Calamity Undying. He reached Great Perfection and could project an Early Stage Sovereign Realm Undying True Body for three breaths, sustained by Immortal Profound Crystals.

• Chen Fei fused the Heavenly Dao Fragment into the Heavenly Sinking Incense, bringing it close to becoming a Fifteenth Order Low-grade Status Spiritual Material.
• Chen Fei used Immortal Profound Crystals to advance Eternal Calamity Undying, enduring the Final Calamities and drawing indestructible matter from his future self to temper his body.
• Chen Fei reached the fourth step, True Body Projection, and briefly summoned the future Eternal Calamity Undying True Body, gaining Early Stage Sovereign Realm physique power for three breaths.
• Chen Fei continued cultivating until Eternal Calamity Undying reached Great Perfection and he could summon the Undying True Body without pain or pressure.
• Chen Fei discovered that Immortal Profound Crystals could sustain his projected Sovereign Realm physique, though he still needed enough resources to maintain it.

Chen Fei completed Eternal Calamity Undying and prepared to face Xu Hanxing in an Earth Ranking deathmatch. Xu Hanxing unleashed a mysterious power that brought his aura close to the sovereign realm, leaving the gathered spectators horrified.

• Chen Fei used the heavenly demon origin bearing Xing Feng’s life imprint to discover the incomplete Blood Prison Samsara Blade and Void Return Blood Eyes techniques.
• The heavenly demons told Xu Hanxing they had a way to kill Chen Fei, and Annihilation Venerable appeared before him.
• Shi Ruifeng gave Le Boyang the heavenly dry wood he had promised Chen Fei for entering the Earth Ranking’s top ten.
• Chen Fei and Xu Hanxing appeared in the Training Ground for their deathmatch, and Xu Hanxing declared that Chen Fei must die.
• At the appointed hour, Xu Hanxing released an annihilating power that drove his strength close to the sovereign realm without an actual breakthrough.

Xu Hanxing unleashed a forbidden art that brought his power close to the Sovereign Realm and struck Chen Fei with an annihilating sword attack. Chen Fei countered with his past and future selves and the Heaven Opening Hammer, then seized Xu Hanxing as his power collapsed.

• Xu Hanxing drew on a forbidden art to raise his strength close to the Sovereign Realm, alarming the spectators and Sovereign Realm experts.
• Xu Hanxing slashed at Chen Fei with the Cold Star Sword, unleashing a strike that swallowed the Training Ground in dark, destructive sword light.
• Chen Fei summoned his past and future selves, used the Primordial Chaos Bell and undying true intent, and blunted the attack before destroying its remainder with the Heaven Opening Hammer.
• Xu Hanxing's power fell rapidly, his Cold Star Sword lost its luster, and Chen Fei caught him in a giant purple-gold hand.
• Chen Fei told Xu Hanxing that one strike was all he could manage.

Chen Fei defeated and killed Xu Hanxing, earning the cultivators and primal demons a major victory on the Earth Ranking. He then challenged Qu Yanfeng for the next day, while the Heavenly Demons debated forcing Qu Yanfeng to bear more destruction power to fight him.

• Chen Fei crushed Xu Hanxing's demonic body and divine soul after surviving his near-Sovereign sword strike, and cultivators and primal demons celebrated his victory.
• Chang Xiwen recognized that Chen Fei had condensed undying true intent from Eternal Calamity Undying, and Shi Ruifeng praised his talent and the technique's potential to help him overcome his lifespan limit.
• Chen Fei reclaimed his Fortune Canopy, absorbed Xu Hanxing's heavenly demon origin, and rose to fifth on the Earth Ranking.
• Chen Fei challenged third-ranked Qu Yanfeng to a death match for the following day, and Qu Yanfeng accepted.
• Qu Yanfeng warned the Sovereign Realm Heavenly Demons that Chen Fei was invincible on the Earth Ranking, but they urged him to bear more destruction power and suggested he might condense destruction true intent.

Qu Yanfeng refused the Heavenly Demon Sovereigns’ demand to fight Chen Fei and conceded his Earth Ranking position, leaving Duan Tianying as Chen Fei’s remaining target. Le Boyang urged Chen Fei to avoid a death match with Duan Tianying, but Chen Fei argued that refining the heavenly dry wood would strengthen his Eternal Calamity Undying and prepared to continue.

• Qu Yanfeng rejected the Heavenly Demon Sovereigns’ offer of destruction true intent, and Meng Xinluo refused to force his disciple into a potentially fatal fight.
• Duan Tianying appeared and declared he would suppress Chen Fei, while Qu Yanfeng’s concession removed him from the Earth Ranking for one thousand years.
• Chen Fei sensed Qu Yanfeng’s departure and rose to third on the Earth Ranking, but Le Boyang and Chang Xiwen arrived at his courtyard before he could challenge Duan Tianying.
• Chang Xiwen departed, and Le Boyang questioned Chen Fei about his lifespan and gave him the heavenly dry wood entrusted by Shi Ruifeng.
• Le Boyang warned Chen Fei that Duan Tianying might unleash Sovereign Realm power and urged him to abandon the death match.
• Chen Fei explained that refining the heavenly dry wood would advance his Eternal Calamity Undying, and considered the danger of fighting Duan Tianying necessary to improve the Xuan Yu Realm’s situation.

Chen Fei combined heavenly dry wood with heavenly sinking incense in the Space Grid, successfully creating fifteenth order low-grade status spiritual material. After a day of cultivation, he demonstrated power approaching the early stage sovereign realm through Eternal Calamity Undying, leaving Le Boyang and Chang Xiwen astonished.

• Chen Fei ignored Le Boyang's advice to focus on heavenly dry wood and instead forced it into the Space Grid compartment containing heavenly sinking incense.
• The two treasures merged, and Chen Fei successfully condensed fifteenth order low-grade status spiritual material.
• As Chen Fei delayed challenging Duan Tianying, cultivators speculated that the Annihilation Venerable might grant Duan sovereign realm power.
• Chen Fei increased his lifespan to roughly three thousand years and returned to Le Boyang's courtyard.
• Chen Fei displayed Eternal Calamity Undying power approaching the early stage sovereign realm, shocking Le Boyang.
• Le Boyang brought Chang Xiwen to witness Chen Fei's power, and Chang Xiwen stared at him in disbelief.

After seeing Chen Fei advance Eternal Calamity Undying to the brink of its fourth step, Chang Xiwen brought the Tianxuan Sect’s Sovereign Realm experts together to discuss supporting his cultivation so he could challenge Duan Tianying. They agreed to provide Chen Fei with a Lightning Domain Stone first and would consider offering more treasures after seeing the results.

• Chang Xiwen discovered that Chen Fei had used Heavenly Sinking Incense and Heavenly Dry Wood to reach the brink of True Body Projection in just one day.
• Le Boyang warned Chang Xiwen that Duan Tianying might reveal genuine Sovereign Realm Power in a life-and-death battle, and proposed helping Chen Fei cultivate Eternal Calamity Undying to its fourth step.
• Chang Xiwen agreed to seek the sect’s support, then summoned more than a dozen Sovereign Realm experts to Heart Casting Residence.
• Chang Xiwen urged the experts to provide supreme treasures to help Chen Fei gain Sovereign Realm Power and defeat Duan Tianying; after seeing Chen Fei’s progress, they agreed to support a trial.
• The sect sent Chen Fei a Lightning Domain Stone, and Chang Xiwen explained that the experts would wait to see the results before offering more treasures.

Chen Fei stored the Lightning Domain Stone and used it to strengthen Eternal Calamity Undying, prompting the Tianxuan Sect to entrust him with three more precious treasures. After three days of growing controversy over his silence, the Earth Ranking announced his death match with Duan Tianying for the next day.

• Chen Fei hid the Lightning Domain Stone and his lifespan origin in separate drawers of a wooden chest inside his Space Grid, then waited in the Void Return Realm.
• As Chen Fei stayed away, cultivators and primal demons argued over his failure to challenge Duan Tianying, with some primal demons mocking him.
• Chen Fei absorbed lifespan origin, extending his maximum lifespan to five thousand years, then returned to Chang Xiwen and Le Boyang.
• Chen Fei demonstrated that the Lightning Domain Stone had more than doubled his undying true intent, bringing his power close to the early-stage Sovereign Realm threshold without breaking through.
• The Tianxuan Sect gave Chen Fei the blazing sky flame crystal, nine nether profound ice marrow, and Jianmu spiritual root so he could advance Eternal Calamity Undying and challenge Duan Tianying.
• Three days later, the Earth Ranking Sky Curtain announced Chen Fei and Duan Tianying's death match for the following day, and Duan Tianying greeted the news with a savage smile.

Chen Fei faced Duan Tianying in the battle for Earth Ranking First, where Duan Tianying revealed genuine Early Stage Sovereign Realm power. Chen Fei’s future self then appeared with matching power and blocked Duan Tianying’s annihilating attack, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Duan Tianying dismissed his subordinate’s attempt to belittle Chen Fei and said the cultivators and primordial demons expected Chen Fei to defeat him.
• Venerable Tianxuan and the Annihilation Venerable arrived with hundreds of Sovereign Realm experts to watch the final Earth Ranking battle.
• Chen Fei and Duan Tianying exchanged taunts before the contest began, and Duan Tianying revealed his Eye of Destruction and Early Stage Sovereign Realm power.
• Chen Fei raised his aura to just below the Sovereign Realm, but Duan Tianying attacked him with a ray of annihilation.
• Chen Fei’s future self appeared with Early Stage Sovereign Realm power and struck Duan Tianying’s demonic ray, triggering a devastating explosion.

Chen Fei revealed that he could fuse his past and future selves with his Void Secret Treasures and Eternal Calamity Undying to sustain Early Stage Sovereign Realm power, surpassing Duan Tianying. After shattering Duan Tianying’s demonic shield and striking him down, Chen Fei summoned the power of the Heaven Opening Hammer and prepared to finish the fight.

• Duan Tianying used his Eye of Destruction to dissolve the future Chen Fei’s purple-gold palm strike and explained that his sovereign power would not run out while its source remained.
• Chen Fei merged his past and future selves with his Void Secret Treasures, using See God Unending and Eternal Calamity Undying to attain stable Early Stage Sovereign Realm power.
• Venerable Tianxuan recognized that Chen Fei had forcibly fused his treasures and their extended characteristics, an unprecedented feat in the Xuan Yu Realm.
• Chen Fei kicked through Duan Tianying’s destruction shield and sent him hurtling backward, badly wounded.
• Chen Fei manifested the Heaven Opening Hammer, and Chang Xiwen released the true Sovereign Divine Weapon to resonate with it.
• Chen Fei raised the nearly complete power of the Heaven Opening Hammer toward the still-flying Duan Tianying.

Chen Fei defeated Duan Tianying in their Earth Ranking life-and-death battle, overcoming his desperate Destruction attacks with the Heaven Opening Hammer. He killed Duan Tianying despite Annihilation Venerable's order to spare his remnant soul, leaving the Venerable facing him in the Earth Ranking Space.

• Chen Fei summoned the Heaven Opening Hammer and brought its overwhelming power down on Duan Tianying.
• Duan Tianying gouged out his eyes and fed them into his Eye of Destruction, then unleashed a death ray and countless parasitic eyeballs to resist Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei closed in and crushed Duan Tianying's spreading eyeball attack with the Heaven Opening Hammer, then annihilated the remnants with a shock wave.
• Annihilation Venerable appeared and ordered Chen Fei to leave Duan Tianying a remnant soul, threatening to kill him if he refused.
• Chen Fei crushed Duan Tianying's final remnant eyeball, destroying him in both body and soul.

Chen Fei became Earth Ranking First after annihilating Duan Tianying’s remnant soul, drawing Annihilation Venerable’s lasting enmity and earning Venerable Tianxuan’s support. After revealing that he had mastered the fifth step of Eternal Calamity Undying, Chen Fei announced that he would leave the Tianxuan Sect to obtain a Fifteenth Order Low-grade Status Spiritual Material from the Fire Spirit Secret Realm.

• Chen Fei destroyed Duan Tianying’s remnant soul, and Annihilation Venerable silently departed while leaving behind a deadly threat.
• The Earth Ranking’s rules recognized Chen Fei as its new First, and Venerable Tianxuan praised him and promised him access to anything he needed from the Tianxuan Sect.
• Chen Fei returned to Heart Casting Residence, where Le Boyang and Chang Xiwen urged him to remain in the sect and cultivate safely.
• Chen Fei revealed that he had completely mastered the fifth step of Eternal Calamity Undying, astonishing Le Boyang and Chang Xiwen.
• Chen Fei told Le Boyang and Chang Xiwen that he planned to leave for the Fire Spirit Secret Realm and seize its Fifteenth Order Low-grade Status Spiritual Material when it completed its transformation.

Chen Fei persuaded the Tianxuan Sect to let him enter the transforming Fire Spirit Secret Realm in disguise, seeking the Fifteenth Order Low-grade Status Spiritual Material needed to reach the Sovereign Realm. Venerable Tianxuan approved the plan and promised to receive him when he emerged, and Chen Fei arrived at the Secret Realm disguised as Wei Zhanru.

• Chen Fei proposed using Mirroring All Beings to disguise himself as a Tianxuan Sect disciple and enter the Fire Spirit Secret Realm alongside Sovereign elders.
• Le Boyang supported Chen Fei's plan, and Chang Xiwen sought Venerable Tianxuan's decision.
• Venerable Tianxuan approved the mission and promised to receive Chen Fei outside the Secret Realm; Chang Xiwen also gave him three hundred thousand Immortal Profound Crystals.
• Chen Fei departed with three Tianxuan Sect Sovereign elders, disguised as Peak Immortal Realm disciple Wei Zhanru, and studied the Illusionary Gate's Sovereign cultivation methods during the journey.
• At the Fire Spirit Secret Realm, Chen Fei agreed to enter and appeared near its entrance, where he saw that the realm had changed drastically.

Chen Fei entered the Fire Spirit Secret Realm and studied three Sovereign Realm cultivation methods while waiting for the realm’s transformation to reach its final stage. He used a Fifteenth Order Low-grade Status Spiritual Material to accelerate that transformation, then defeated a near-Sovereign Rule Lifeform and made the Secret Realm Heavenly Dao retreat as he prepared to break through.

• Chen Fei entered the violently transformed Fire Spirit Secret Realm, where its destructive Chaos Energy could not harm his body.
• Chen Fei spent nearly a month studying the Cosmic Great Dream Heart Sutra, Myriad Phenomena All-Encompassing Heaven, and Boundless Heart Universe.
• Chen Fei brought out the Chaos Primordial Embryo, a Fifteenth Order Low-grade Status Spiritual Material, to draw the Secret Realm Heavenly Dao’s power and accelerate the realm’s transformation.
• A Rule Lifeform near the Early Stage Sovereign Realm attacked the Chaos Primordial Embryo, and Chen Fei kicked it apart and destroyed it.
• The Secret Realm Heavenly Dao sensed Chen Fei’s superior power, withdrew its aggression, and watched cautiously as Chen Fei waited for his breakthrough opportunity.