Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen endured a deadly five-element Heavenly Sovereign Tribulation, using his divine powers and artifacts to survive its escalating attacks. After defeating the final five-colored thunder ring with the Undying Heavenly Wheel, he emerged as an Immortal Grade Heavenly Supreme and challenged the Martial Ancestor to prepare himself.

• Lu Chen blocked the golden blade lightning and black water tribulations with his Pagoda Godly Imprints, Supreme Heart Demon Seal, and Burning Heaven Nine Calamity Hand.
• Lu Chen cut apart the azure vine lightning with his Crystal Longsword, then extinguished the crimson fire tribulation after merging with his two incarnations and advancing to the middle stage of the Immortal Grade Heavenly Supreme.
• Lu Chen discovered that the final attack was a five-colored thunder ring and reinforced his defenses with a crystal mountain and a net of sword light.
• Lu Chen summoned the Undying Heavenly Wheel, which swallowed the five-colored lightning and rebounded its remaining power, dispersing the black clouds.
• Lu Chen survived the tribulation and declared that he had finally succeeded after more than twenty years, then asked the Martial Ancestor if he was prepared.

The Tianluo Alliance learned that the Purple Cloud Sect had joined Golden Eagle Mansion and Thunder Sound Mountain to oppose its bid for dominance in the Northern Region. Mandala accepted Purple Cloud True Lord’s proposal for a three-stage wager battle at the Northern Region Plains, leaving the Alliance to prepare for the decisive contest three days later.

• Mandala told the Alliance leaders that the three overlord forces had formed the Anti-Tianluo Alliance, and warned that a prolonged war would threaten them.
• A white-haired elder entered the hall and unleashed his spiritual energy, but Mandala’s Quasi-Heavenly Supreme pressure stopped him.
• Purple Cloud True Lord appeared through a jade talisman and explained that the Tianluo Alliance’s claim to the Northern Region had crossed the three overlords’ bottom line.
• Purple Cloud True Lord proposed that each side send fighters of three cultivation levels to a best-two-out-of-three wager battle at the Northern Region Plains.
• Mandala accepted the battle, and Purple Cloud True Lord departed with the elder, setting the contest for three days later.

Lu Chen returned to the Tianluo Alliance’s great hall as its leaders discussed candidates for wager battles against three allied overlords. With the first and third battles assigned, Lu Chen summoned Mu Chen to choose for the second, leaving the reason for his selection to be revealed.

• The Xia Emperor and the Ten Thousand Insects Old Ancestor proposed candidates for the wager battles, and Mandala accepted Su Qingyin for the first round.
• Lu Chen appeared in the hall, learned about the wager battles, and praised Su Qingyin and the Ten Thousand Insects Old Ancestor for her progress as a Battle Array Master.
• The Ten Thousand Insects Old Ancestor volunteered to fight in the Great Perfection Earthly Supreme round with his natal spirit insect, and Mandala accepted him as the third-round candidate.
• Lu Chen said he would select the second-round candidate and summoned Mu Chen from the Heavenly Palace.
• Mu Chen told Lu Chen he had already broken through to Lower Earthly Supreme and asked why Lu Chen had called for him.

Lu Chen arranged the Tianluo Alliance’s preparations for the wager, revealed his breakthrough to the Heavenly Supreme realm, and gave Mu Chen a divine power to help with his match. He then sent the Supreme Heart Demon Seal to recover and began refining the Ice Soul Cold Flame to strengthen himself before the wager three days later.

• Lu Chen chose Mu Chen to fight in the second match and promised to support him at the Blood God Clan if he won, then brought him to the Scripture Pavilion to obtain a divine power.
• Lu Chen told Mandala that he had become a Heavenly Supreme and gave her the Azure Green Divine Lightning Armor for Qingyin to refine.
• Mandala explained that Nine Netherbird had returned to her clan for closed-door cultivation and had become an Upper Earth Sovereign while pursuing her bloodline evolution.
• Lu Chen asked Mandala to place his lower plane’s ascension passage outside the Ascension Dragon Gate, then received the first-level True Spirit Empowerment of One Qi Transforms into Three Purities from the Scripture Pavilion.
• Lu Chen sent the Supreme Heart Demon Seal into the Heaven River with five Spirit Accumulation Pearls to restore its strength.
• Lu Chen began refining the Ice Soul Cold Flame in the Heaven River as he prepared for the wager three days later.

Lu Chen led the Tianluo Alliance through the Northern Region Plains, defeating waves of forces sent by the three overlords before confronting their leaders. The first wager match began with Su Qingyin facing Zi Xiao, whose Purple Emperor Star-Picking Celestial Body appeared as the battle was about to begin.

• Lu Chen led the Tianluo Alliance into the Northern Region Plains, where Ten Thousand Insects Old Ancestor routed a Purple Cloud Sect force with his Jade Venom Mosquitoes.
• The Tianluo Alliance fought through nine waves of enemies, with Ten Thousand Insects Old Ancestor and Lu Chen's Thunder Spirit repelling the attackers.
• Lu Chen met Purple Cloud True Lord, Thunder Sound Venerable, and Golden Eagle Emperor in the plains' depths and refused their offer to retreat.
• Purple Cloud True Lord chose Zi Xiao for the first match, and Zi Xiao stepped forward with the strength of a peak Lower Earthly Supreme.
• Lu Chen sent Su Qingyin to face Zi Xiao, and she challenged his contempt by invoking Goddess Luo.
• Zi Xiao formed the Purple Emperor Star-Picking Celestial Body, ranked forty-fifth on the Supreme Dharma Body Ranking.

Su Qingyin defeated Zi Xiao with a battle array hidden within a battle array, and Mu Chen overwhelmed Luo Shan to secure two victories for the Tianluo Alliance. When the three rival overlords moved to attack Lu Chen, three Heavenly Supremes appeared and ordered them to stop.

• Su Qingyin endured Zi Xiao’s attacks, detonated the Black Tortoise Battle Spirit, and revealed an Azure Dragon Battle Spirit that defeated him.
• Thunder Sound Venerable sent Luo Shan to challenge the Tianluo Alliance, and Mu Chen accepted despite the crowd’s doubts.
• Mu Chen absorbed and sealed Luo Shan’s spiritual energy, then used his incarnations, Immortal Golden Body, a Spirit Array, and Holy Buddha Pagoda to knock Luo Shan unconscious.
• Lu Chen declared the Tianluo Alliance’s victory and ordered the three overlords to leave, prompting Purple Cloud True Lord, the Golden Eagle Emperor, and Thunder Sound Venerable to release their auras.
• The Ten Thousand Insects Old Ancestor, Mandala, and the Xia Emperor prepared to respond, but three Heavenly Supremes appeared and commanded everyone to stop.

After the Tianluo Alliance won the wager, three Heavenly Supremes tried to claim Lu Chen and his allies for their factions. Lu Chen revealed his half-step Immortal Grade strength, defeated all three with one sword, and established the Tianluo Alliance’s dominance over the Northern Region.

• Purple Qi True Lord, Dragon Eagle Great Emperor, and Thunder Venerable accepted the Tianluo Alliance’s victory but tried to recruit Lu Chen, Mu Chen, and Su Qingyin into their factions.
• Lu Chen rejected their offers and invited the three Heavenly Supremes to join his sect as nominal disciples, provoking Dragon Eagle Great Emperor.
• Lu Chen released the power of a half-step Immortal Grade Heavenly Supreme and summoned a six-colored sea of flames.
• Lu Chen struck with the Great Lo Heavenly Flame Sword, shattering the three Heavenly Supremes’ defenses and badly wounding them.
• Lu Chen pointed his sword at the defeated trio as the Northern Region recognized him as the Northern Region Heavenly Monarch.

Lu Chen declared the Tianluo Alliance the Northern Region’s sole overlord after defeating three Heavenly Supremes. He forced the defeated factions to pay compensation, killed Dragon Eagle Great Emperor, and claimed his wings to refine into a Peerless Sacred Object.

• Lu Chen ordered the Northern Region’s factions to submit to the Tianluo Alliance or leave, while the alliance celebrated his victory.
• Lu Chen confronted Purple Qi True Lord, Dragon Eagle Great Emperor, and Thunder Venerable over compensation for their defeat.
• Lu Chen summoned his two incarnations, forcing the three Heavenly Supremes to recognize his overwhelming strength.
• Lu Chen killed Dragon Eagle Great Emperor and seized his divine blood and Super Divine Beast Body.
• Purple Qi True Lord offered five Quasi Peerless Sacred Objects, and Thunder Venerable offered two Peerless Divine Powers before they fled.
• Lu Chen burned away the Ancient Dragon Eagle remnant and collected its golden wings for refining into a Peerless Sacred Object.

After reaching the Immortal Grade Heavenly Supreme, Lu Chen sent Mu Chen and two hall masters to the Luo God Clan to honor his promise and confront the Blood God Clan. As Luo Tianshen and Luo Li faced defeat, Mu Chen arrived with the Tianluo Alliance’s forces and challenged Xue Lingzi.

• Lu Chen refined the Dragon Eagle Great Emperor’s remains, making a spiritual energy pellet for his breakthrough and a bloodline crystal for Jiuyou, which he sent with Su Qingyin.
• Lu Chen broke through to the Immortal Grade Heavenly Supreme, and the Tianluo Alliance celebrated his advancement.
• Lu Chen ordered Ten Thousand Insects Old Ancestor, Xia Emperor, and Mu Chen to go to the Luo God Clan and demand an explanation from the Blood God Clan.
• Xue Lingzi battered the Luo River Grand Array while Luo Tianshen, Luo Li, and the remaining Luo God Guards struggled to defend their city.
• Mu Chen arrived, struck Xue Lingzi with a golden stream of light, and declared that he had come to collect a debt by order of the Tianluo Alliance Leader.

Mu Chen and the Tianluo Alliance’s allies destroyed the Blood God Clan’s forces and reunited him with Luo Li, but the Western Heaven War Hall then claimed her as its Fifth Saintess. The Tianluo Alliance answered the War Emperor’s demand with a decree placing the Luo God Clan under its protection and threatening war.

• Mu Chen, the Ten Thousand Insects Old Ancestor, and the Xia Emperor defeated Xue Lingzi and the Blood God Clan elders, with the Jade Toad devouring Xue Lingzi’s escaping blood threads.
• Mu Chen told Luo Tianshen that the Tianluo Alliance had come to resolve the Luo God Clan’s crisis, then reunited with Luo Li as the Luo River Grand Array was withdrawn.
• At Luo God Palace, Elder Winter arrived with an edict naming Luo Li the Western Heaven War Hall’s Fifth Saintess, prompting Mu Chen and the others to recognize the threat behind the title.
• The Ten Thousand Insects Old Ancestor and the Xia Emperor denounced the War Emperor’s claim on Luo Li, and the Xia Emperor presented the Alliance Leader’s decree protecting the Luo God Clan and warning the War Emperor against starting a war.

Lu Chen arrived to protect the Luo God Clan and defeated Western Heaven War Emperor in a battle over Tianluo Alliance’s intervention. The War Emperor conceded but vowed to challenge Lu Chen again after reaching Saint Grade, while Lu Chen warned that another loss would cost him the Western Heaven Continent.

• The white-robed elder departed after Xia Emperor defied the Western Heaven War Emperor, and the Tianluo Alliance Leader sent Luo Li a spiritual flame for protection.
• Several days later, Western Heaven War Emperor arrived above the Luo God Clan with his War Emperor Army and confronted Mu Chen and the others.
• Lu Chen appeared and stopped the War Emperor’s battle spear with his six-flame lotus.
• The War Emperor used the War Spirit Undefeated Cauldron, but Lu Chen unraveled it and created a more powerful fire cauldron that overwhelmed him.
• Western Heaven War Emperor conceded and promised to challenge Lu Chen again after breaking through to Saint Grade.
• Lu Chen warned the War Emperor that another defeat would cost him the Western Heaven Continent, then carved a massive chasm into a distant mountain range.

Lu Chen accepted the Luo God Clan into the Tianluo Alliance and arranged to rebuild its defenses, while planning the alliance’s expansion into Western Heaven Continent. He then ordered a rapid expansion of the alliance’s Space Devouring Insects and devised a way to fund it through controlled distribution of his insect cultivation method, leaving his subordinates to carry out the plan.

• Lu Chen invited the weakened Luo God Clan to formally join the Tianluo Alliance and establish a branch hall on Western Heaven Continent, promising to help repair the Luo River Grand Array and rebuild the clan.
• Lu Chen cured Luo Tianshen’s Blood Demon Poison, then assigned Mu Chen to oversee repairs and Xia Emperor to serve as the branch hall’s temporary master.
• At a meeting in Great Lo Heaven, Lu Chen said he needed a million Space Devouring Insects and nine Upper Earth Sovereign-level Space Devouring Insect Emperors within ten years to become a Ten Million Marks Battle Array Master.
• After Tang Bing estimated the plan would cost nine billion Sovereign Spiritual Liquid, Lu Chen proposed distributing his Insect Control Heart Sutra in exchange for insect contributions and alliance service.
• Lu Chen placed restrictions and loan contracts on the three versions of the heart sutra, and his subordinates agreed to use its spread to cultivate insects and identify spies.
• Lu Chen tasked Mandala with selecting reliable cultivators and Ten Thousand Insects Old Ancestor with continuing insect cultivation, declaring that the Tianluo Alliance would speak with one voice in ten years.

Lu Chen’s simulation showed him finding the Thunder Emperor Celestial Body, reaching the Half-step Dominator Realm, and helping Emperor Yan and the Martial Ancestor defeat the Heavenly Evil God. The simulation ended with Lu Chen choosing one of three rewards from his future life.

• Lu Chen began a simulation and found the fourth Heaven Wrath Thunder Emperor Remnant Map, then slew four Heavenly Demon Emperors at Fallen God Abyss.
• Lu Chen restored the Heavenly Emperor Sword to Saint Grade, found the Thunder Emperor Celestial Body in the Universe Thunder Realm, and used Emperor Yan’s help to subdue it.
• Lu Chen discovered that the Phoenix Clan had stolen Jiuyou’s bloodline, then killed Huang Xuanzhi, the Phoenix King, and Huang King and helped Jiuyou recover.
• Lu Chen reached the Half-step Dominator Realm, joined Emperor Yan and the Martial Ancestor to kill the Heavenly Evil God, and later entered the Dominator Realm himself.
• Lu Chen married Jiuyou, Lin Jing, and Xiao Xiao, and had a daughter named Lu Jue.
• The simulation ended with Lu Chen offered the Thunder Emperor Celestial Body, Heaven Wrath Thunder Flame, or Golden Feather Light-Escape Wings.

Lu Chen refined the Heaven Wrath Thunder Flame into the seventh divine power of his Ten Thousand Flames Celestial Body, then left the Tianluo Alliance for Saint Abyss Continent. He reached Saint Abyss City and asked the Great Thousand Tower about the Four Saint Pagoda and hiring a squad of Demon Subjugators.

• Lu Chen trapped and sealed the Heaven Wrath Thunder Flame after it tried to escape, then spent half a month refining it.
• The Ten Thousand Flames Celestial Body gained the Burning Heaven Thunder Fire Divine Rune, which amplified Lu Chen’s flames and temporarily strengthened fire- or lightning-attribute artifacts.
• Lu Chen decided to seek the Heaven Wrath Thunder Emperor’s Spiritual Treasury and asked Mandala to oversee the Tianluo Alliance while he was away.
• Lu Chen took Nine Heavens Thunder Crystal and Heaven Fire Thunder Sand from the alliance’s stores, then used the teleportation array to travel to Saint Abyss Continent.
• Lu Chen arrived at Saint Abyss City and went to the Great Thousand Tower to ask about the moving Four Saint Pagoda and hire a squad of Demon Subjugators to explore the Ancient Saint Abyss.

Lu Chen arranged for Dongshan’s squad to search the Ancient Saint Abyss for the Four Saint Pagoda while secretly planning to stop a dangerous Heavenly Demon Emperor from escaping. After the squad entered the Abyss, Lu Chen studied a remnant map and was confronted by Wen Qingxuan, Wen Ziyu, and an elderly Wen Family woman over the Spirit Butterfly Pill Immortal’s Remains.

• The gray-robed old man warned Lu Chen about the Four Saint Pagoda’s dangerous inheritances and gave him information about demon subjugation squads, including Dongshan’s ties to the Desert North Wu Family.
• Lu Chen secretly hired Dongshan’s squad to find the Four Saint Pagoda, gave them a jade talisman containing one of his incarnations, and instructed them to enter the Ancient Saint Abyss.
• Lu Chen used seven-colored heavenly spiritual flames to carry Dongshan’s squad through a weakened spacetime storm into the Ancient Saint Abyss, where they immediately encountered Spirit Dissolving Wind.
• Lu Chen assembled three remnant maps, saw that one fragment was still missing, and decided to seek the Heaven Wrath Thunder Emperor’s Spiritual Treasury map while waiting for the Four Saint Pagoda.
• A gray-robed elder reported that the Wen Family still intended to investigate the Spirit Butterfly Pill Immortal’s Remains, and Wen Qingxuan, Wen Ziyu, and an elderly woman arrived to demand proof of Lu Chen’s warning.

Lu Chen agreed to help Wen Qingxuan and Wen Ziyu enter the Ancient Saint Abyss in exchange for the Azure Flame Miro Fire and the Sublimation Pill. He sent them toward the Spirit Butterfly Pill Immortal's Remains, where they reached the Spirit Butterfly Miasma and saw signs that others had already entered.

• He Po explained that the Wen Clan needed the Spirit Butterfly Pill Immortal's inheritance to complete its alchemy lineage, but Lu Chen initially refused to help.
• Wen Qingxuan offered Lu Chen the Azure Flame Miro Fire and twenty percent of the pills in the remains; Lu Chen accepted in exchange for the fire and the Sublimation Pill.
• Lu Chen gave Wen Qingxuan a powerful black-jade incarnation and sent her and Wen Ziyu into the Ancient Saint Abyss, leaving He Po behind.
• Lu Chen's incarnation learned that the Wu Family was also seeking the remains and carried the Wen siblings deeper into the mountains.
• Lu Chen burned away the Spirit Butterfly Miasma and its poisonous mosquito beasts, then led the Wen siblings toward the remains, sensing that others had already entered.

Lu Chen seized the Spirit Butterfly Pill Immortal's treasures and entered the Mystic Dragon Space, where he awakened the Profound Dragon Army and gained its allegiance. He left commanding the army through the Mystic Dragon Military Token, while Wen Qingxuan and Wen Ziyu remained behind to collect the cave abode's other pills and inheritance.

• Lu Chen subdued the Pill Beasts, defeated the Wu Clan's attack, and crushed the spiritual incarnation of their ancestor before warning the clan to seek him at the Tianluo Alliance if they objected.
• Lu Chen collected the five Sublimation Pills and subdued the Azure Flame Miro Fire, then discovered the Mystic Dragon Space hidden beneath the Spirit Butterfly Pill Furnace.
• Lu Chen entered the Mystic Dragon Space and used Sovereign Spiritual Liquid to awaken the tens of thousands of soldiers in the Profound Dragon Army.
• Jiang Long and the Profound Dragon Army agreed to aid Lu Chen against the Extraterritorial Evil Clan and offered him their Mystic Dragon Military Token.
• Lu Chen accepted the token, formed a bloodline connection with the army, and became its commander.

Lu Chen returned to the Four Saint Pagoda as its seals failed and the Heavenly Demon Emperors began to escape. After his incarnation destroyed the Frost Heaven Demon Emperor’s remnant soul and sacrificed itself to injure two invaders, Lu Chen’s true body arrived and killed the Ten Thousand Poisons and Burning Heaven Heavenly Demon Emperors, leaving one enemy on the third floor.

• Lu Chen returned to the Spirit Butterfly Cave Abode with the Profound Dragon Ring and learned that his incarnation at the Four Saint Pagoda was about to fail, so he rushed to Saint Abyss City.
• At the Four Saint Pagoda, Lu Chen used the World Piercing Saint Spear to destroy the Frost Heaven Demon Emperor’s remnant soul, and the spear shattered as the Spear Ancestor’s remnant will appeared briefly.
• The first-floor seal broke, and Lu Chen’s incarnation shielded Dong Shan and the others from the Burning Heaven Demon Emperor’s flames before self-destructing to injure Burning Heaven and the Ten Thousand Poisons Heavenly Demon Emperor and send the group to the third floor.
• Lu Chen’s true body appeared and killed the Ten Thousand Poisons Heavenly Demon Emperor with a flaming strike, then burned the Burning Heaven Heavenly Demon Emperor to ashes.
• Lu Chen looked toward the third floor and said that one enemy remained.

Lu Chen defeated Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor, received Buddha Old Ancestor’s Eight Division Pagoda inheritance, and returned to Saint Abyss City to refine the Azure Flame Miro Fire. The refinement pushed his spiritual energy to Immortal Grade Completion, drawing shocked attention across the city.

• Buddha Old Ancestor’s Demon-Sealing Diagram Scroll failed to stop Blood Zombie Heavenly Demon Emperor until Lu Chen arrived and destroyed the demon with his seven-colored spiritual fire.
• Lu Chen revealed that he was a spiritual energy incarnation who had inherited the Heavenly Emperor’s arts, and Buddha Old Ancestor chose him to receive the Eight Division Pagoda inheritance.
• Xuan Luo and Mo Xin objected, but Buddha Old Ancestor gave Lu Chen the eight Buddha Pearls and sent the incomplete Demon Sealing Mirror back with Xuan Luo before fading away.
• Lu Chen left the Ancient Buddha Clan and returned to Saint Abyss City with the inheritance and forty thousand Demon Subjugation Points.
• Lu Chen refined the Azure Flame Miro Fire, breaking through to Immortal Grade Completion as experts across Saint Abyss City sensed his aura.

Lu Chen completed the Wrath of Heavens Remnant Map in the Far West Land and refused the Ancient Buddha Clan’s offer to buy back the Eight Division Pagoda. Fu Tu Xuan confronted him outside Saint Abyss City, and Lu Chen revealed his Quasi-Saint strength as their battle began.

• Lu Chen asked the Great Thousand Palace to repair the Heavenly Emperor Sword, while the Ancient Buddha Clan elders identified him as the man holding the Eight Division Pagoda.
• Lu Chen rewarded his gathered informants with jade talismans and followed the remnant maps toward the Far West Land.
• Lu Chen entered the lightning-wreathed abyss, rejected Blacklight and Mo Yin’s offer to buy back the Eight Division Pagoda, and obtained the complete Wrath of Heavens Remnant Map.
• Fu Tu Xuan confronted Lu Chen outside Saint Abyss City and demanded the Eight Division Pagoda’s return.
• Lu Chen refused, merged with his black and white avatars to reach Quasi-Saint strength, and summoned the eight demonic statues as the two prepared to fight.