Chapter Summaries

Lin Jing completed her Dragon Phoenix Pool baptism and gained thirty-two golden phoenix patterns, then joined Lu Chen and Cai Xiao on their way to another pool. Lin Jing revealed that her evolved Flame Dragon Scorpion could carry them at extraordinary speed, and they set off after Cai Xiao.

• The true phoenix phantom consumed the true dragon phantom, and Lin Jing absorbed the resulting golden phoenix patterns at the bottom of the Dragon Phoenix Pool.
• Lin Jing opened her eyes with thirty-two golden phoenix patterns and startled Lu Chen when she realized she had emerged from the pool naked.
• Lin Jing dressed and agreed to follow Cai Xiao to another Dragon Phoenix Pool, saying she had gained enough benefits and would help Lu Chen fight exotic beasts.
• Cai Xiao flew northwest with the Seven-Colored Little Snake, challenging Lu Chen and Lin Jing to keep up.
• Lin Jing showed Lu Chen her Flame Dragon Scorpion, which had evolved to the late Sixth Grade Sovereign stage, then rode it with him as it sped after Cai Xiao.

Lu Chen, Cai Xiao, and Lin Jing reached the Dragon Phoenix Pool, where they discovered a Dragon Phoenix Divine Fruit Tree and a powerful guardian. After Lu Chen killed the guardian, the Nether Prince and a mysterious old man appeared to confront him.

• Lu Chen and Cai Xiao arrived at a remote heavenly pit and found the Dragon Phoenix Pool between the remains of a true dragon and true phoenix.
• Lin Jing spotted a Dragon Phoenix Divine Fruit Tree bearing three fruits, and Lu Chen prepared to claim them.
• A half-dragon armored guard burst from the pool, and Lu Chen killed it with one sword strike.
• Lu Chen sensed someone concealed nearby and attacked, but a withered hand emerged from a spatial crack and dispersed his sword light.
• An old man and the Nether Prince appeared, and the Nether Prince declared that he had come to take Lu Chen's head.
• Lu Chen asked what would happen if he refused and secretly urged Cai Xiao and Lin Jing to escape.

Nether Prince and Human Devil Elder ambushed Lu Chen, but Cai Xiao fought Nether Prince while Lu Chen used his treasures and Heavenly Flame Three Transformations to evade the elder. The chapter ended with Human Devil Elder’s power collapsing again and Lu Chen preparing to challenge him.

• Nether Prince declared that he had come to kill Lu Chen, while Cai Xiao refused to leave the Dragon Phoenix Fruit Tree and confronted him.
• Human Devil Elder attacked Lin Jing, but Lu Chen rescued her and took the blow, then urged her to flee and seek the Region Lord.
• Lu Chen realized Human Devil Elder had crippled his cultivation to enter Dragon Phoenix Heaven and was being suppressed by its rules.
• Lu Chen threw five Scarlet Spiritual Pearls at Human Devil Elder and used their explosion to create distance as Cai Xiao continued attacking Nether Prince.
• Lu Chen activated the Heavenly Flame Three Transformations and reached half-step Sixth Grade Sovereign, but Human Devil Elder emerged unharmed before his cultivation fell back to peak Sixth Grade.
• Lu Chen faced Human Devil Elder and taunted him as his unstable aura weakened again.

Lu Chen revealed that he could command tens of thousands of Spirit Devouring Insects as a Battle Array Master, matching Human Devil Elder’s rise to Rank Seven Sovereign with an overwhelming insect tide. The chapter ended as the insect army’s battle-intent blade collided with Human Devil Elder’s Sky Eagle Claw.

• Human Devil Elder dismissed Lu Chen’s half-step Rank Six strength and threatened to turn him into a Corpse Puppet.
• Human Devil Elder used a secret technique to break through to Rank Seven Sovereign.
• Lu Chen summoned a vast Spirit Devouring Insect army and formed a battle-intent blade with over ten thousand Battle Markings.
• Human Devil Elder realized Lu Chen was a Battle Array Master and questioned whether he could control the insect army.
• Lu Chen transformed the insect tide into a colossal Spirit Devouring Insect and sent its blade crashing into Human Devil Elder’s Sky Eagle Claw.

Lu Chen fought the Human Devil Elder, using his Spirit Devouring Battle Intent to break through the elder’s defenses and drive him to flee. Lu Chen unleashed a blood-sacrifice strike that killed the Rank Eight enemy, while the Nether Prince and Cai Xiao witnessed his strength.

• Lu Chen’s blood-red heavenly blade devoured the Human Devil Elder’s spiritual energy, shattered his Azure Hawk Giant Claw and Five Elements Peak, and forced his cultivation down to the peak of Sixth Grade Sovereign.
• Lu Chen drew on the Spirit Devouring Insects to raise his Battle Markings to twelve thousand and unleashed the Spirit Devouring Heaven Slaying Blade.
• The Human Devil Elder transformed with his Rank Seven Heavenly Cold Devil Body, but Lu Chen’s strike sent him crashing into a crater and severed part of his left palm.
• The Human Devil Elder admitted defeat and fled, while the Nether Prince and Cai Xiao watched Lu Chen’s display of power.
• Lu Chen used Blood Sacrifice Battle Intent to strengthen his blade, caught the fleeing Human Devil Elder, and killed him with a strike that exploded his head.

Cai Xiao defeated the Nether Prince with her seven-coloured power, and Lu Chen caught her when the technique left her weakened. After they used Soul Nurturing Fluid to strengthen their spiritual power, Cai Xiao revealed that she had long known Lu Chen cultivated the Endless Fire Territory’s Flame Mantra and demanded more of the fluid.

• Cai Xiao used One Finger Swallowing the Heavens to devour the Nether Prince’s flames and draw him into a black hole, but he self-destructed his body to escape as a Divine Soul.
• A nine-coloured lotus captured and destroyed the Nether Prince’s Divine Soul, leaving Soul Nurturing Fluid behind.
• Cai Xiao’s seven-coloured appearance faded, and Lu Chen caught her as she collapsed from exhaustion.
• Lu Chen gave Cai Xiao some Soul Nurturing Fluid, and the remainder raised his spiritual power to the peak of the Sixth Grade Sovereign realm.
• Cai Xiao demanded half of Lu Chen’s remaining Soul Nurturing Fluid and threatened to tell her father that he had secretly cultivated the Endless Fire Territory’s art.
• Cai Xiao explained that Xiao Cai had sensed the Flame Mantra at the Dragon Phoenix Mountain Range and that she had recognized Lu Chen when he met Xiao Lin.

Lu Chen dealt with Cai Xiao’s demand over the Flame Mantra, but Lin Jing accepted a huge debt on his behalf to keep him from joining the Endless Fire Territory. As Lu Chen entered the Strongest Dragon Phoenix Pool, a woman in white appeared with Cai Xiao and demanded to know her true identity.

• Lu Chen admitted that the Soul Nurturing Fluid was gone, and Cai Xiao demanded compensation for his cultivation arts.
• Cai Xiao teased Lu Chen and proposed that he join the Endless Fire Territory, but Lin Jing returned and declared that he would leave with her instead.
• Lin Jing signed an IOU for one hundred million Sovereign Spiritual Liquid, and Cai Xiao accepted it before leaving with one of the Dragon Phoenix Fruits.
• Lu Chen warned Lin Jing not to provoke Cai Xiao, then asked her to stand guard while he entered the Strongest Dragon Phoenix Pool.
• A woman in white appeared holding Cai Xiao and accused her of swindling someone from the Martial Realm, demanding to know who she really was.

Qing Zhu revealed herself as Lin Jing’s mother and took Xiao Xiao’s IOU before leaving. In the Dragon Phoenix Pool, Lu Chen consulted the Martial Ancestor about whether to advance his Great Sun Thunder Body or cultivate a Dragon Phoenix Body, and learned that the latter could restrict his future choices.

• Qing Zhu restrained Xiao Xiao, revealed her identity as the Martial Realm Matriarch and Lin Jing’s mother, and took the IOU in exchange for settling the matter.
• After Qing Zhu left, Xiao Xiao regained control of her spiritual energy and vowed to seek revenge on Lin Jing someday.
• Lu Chen explored the Dragon Phoenix Pool, found its deepest point, and gave one of the two remaining Dragon Phoenix Fruits to Lin Jing while sealing the other in a Jade Box.
• Lu Chen summoned the Martial Ancestor through the purple jade slip and asked whether to use the pool’s essence blood to strengthen his Great Sun Thunder Body or forge a Dragon Phoenix Body.
• The Martial Ancestor explained that the Great Sun Thunder Body would leave Lu Chen free to change cultivation arts, while the domineering Dragon Phoenix physique would likely limit him to True Dragon and True Phoenix arts.

Lu Chen chose to refine the Dragon Phoenix Pool’s essence with the Great Sun Thunder Body rather than cultivate the Dragon Phoenix Body. After three days, he mastered the Jade Thunder Body and left the pool with strength comparable to a peak Sixth Grade divine beast’s body.

• Lu Chen weighed Martial Ancestor’s advice against the Dragon Phoenix True Scripture’s requirement, then decided to follow the Great Sun Thunder Body path and seek Martial Ancestor’s technique later.
• Lu Chen absorbed refined Dragon Phoenix Essence Blood while circulating the Great Sun Thunder Body, advancing his Jade Thunder Body to the beginner stage.
• Lu Chen continued cultivating for three days as a golden crystal shell formed around him.
• Lu Chen broke free of the shell and reached mastery of the Jade Thunder Body, gaining a body capable of withstanding attacks from a Middle Grade Divine Artifact.
• Lu Chen judged that his new physical strength could suppress the Human Devil Elder and left the Dragon Phoenix Pool.

After leaving the Dragon Phoenix Pool, Lu Chen reunited with Lin Jing and headed with her to the Dragon Phoenix Platform, where the Dragon Phoenix Inheritance awaited. The platform appeared in Dragon Phoenix Domain, and Lu Chen and the other young geniuses began ascending toward it.

• Lu Chen emerged from the Dragon Phoenix Pool and found Lin Jing waiting; she told him she had forged a True Phoenix Body and reached Fourth Grade Sovereign.
• Lin Jing told Lu Chen that Fang Yi had visited and left word that the Dragon Phoenix Platform was about to open, so Lu Chen and Lin Jing set off for Dragon Phoenix Domain.
• Lu Chen and Lin Jing searched for Xiao Xiao on the way but found no trace of her, then encountered Fang Yi, who asked whether Lu Chen had forged a True Dragon Body.
• Lu Chen explained that he had used the pool's essence blood to advance his body-refining Divine Art, while Fang Yi argued that forging a true-dragon physique would bring greater long-term benefits.
• The Dragon Phoenix Platform emerged from distorted space, and Fang Yi, Lu Chen, Lin Jing, and the other young geniuses flew toward it.

Lu Chen climbed the Dragon Phoenix Ladder, endured its final trial, and received the Dragon Phoenix Blood Bath, advancing his Great Sun Thunder Body to the seventh grade. A phoenix bone entered his glabella and drew him into a vision of a phoenix reborn from flames.

• Lu Chen raced up the Dragon Phoenix Platform, refined its Dragon Phoenix Essence Blood, and reached the summit.
• The Dragon Phoenix Ladder appeared, and Lu Chen climbed to its ninth step as Lin Jing, Fang Yi, and the other prodigies followed.
• Lu Chen stepped onto the tenth step, earning the Heavenly Supremes’ approval and the Dragon Phoenix Blood Bath.
• The baptism advanced Lu Chen’s Great Sun Thunder Body to the seventh grade, and a phoenix bone flew from the altar into his glabella.
• Lu Chen found himself above a sea of fire and watched a phoenix emerge from a shattered golden egg.

Lu Chen received the True Scripture of Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana before Dragon Phoenix Heaven closed, then left with Lin Jing. After Lin Jing pressed him to define their relationship, he called them lovers, but his insult about Cai Xiao was overheard by Xiao Xiao, who paid him a Supreme Breakthrough Pill and departed.

• Lu Chen received the True Scripture of Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana as Dragon Phoenix Heaven began to close.
• Lu Chen carried Lin Jing through the spatial passage and returned to the Dragon Phoenix Mountain Range with her.
• Lin Jing asked Lu Chen to define their relationship, and he called them lovers before saying she was prettier than Cai Xiao.
• Xiao Xiao and Xiao Lin appeared, and Xiao Xiao gave Lu Chen a Supreme Breakthrough Pill as payment for the Dragon Phoenix Fruit before leaving.

Qing Zhu appeared and revealed that Lin Jing’s father, the Martial Ancestor, would only accept Lu Chen’s marriage to Lin Jing if Lu Chen challenged him at the same realm. After Lin Jing returned to the Martial Realm with Qing Zhu, Lu Chen vowed to grow strong enough to win her father’s approval.

• Lin Jing greeted her mother, Qing Zhu, who revealed that she had secretly followed Lin Jing to protect her and had seen what happened between her and Lu Chen.
• Qing Zhu told Lu Chen that Lin Jing’s father wanted him to reach the Heavenly Supreme Realm and fight him at the same cultivation level for the right to marry Lin Jing.
• Lu Chen accepted the challenge and declared that he would come to the Martial Realm and earn the Martial Ancestor’s approval.
• Qing Zhu took Lin Jing back to the Martial Realm after Lin Jing and Lu Chen promised to reunite and marry.
• Lu Chen resolved to keep challenging the Martial Ancestor until he won, trusting that his simulator would give him endless chances.

After returning to Da Luo, Lu Chen showed Mandala a map fragment depicting the Heaven Wrath Beast, and she explained its link to the Heaven Wrath Thunder Emperor. Mandala suspected the fragment might lead to the Thunder Emperor’s Spiritual Treasury, but warned that it could conceal a trap and the legacy of a powerful Profound Devil Emperor.

• Mandala praised Lu Chen for killing the Nether Prince and offered him a reward, but Lu Chen declined a feast and asked her to identify a map fragment.
• Mandala recognized the beast on the fragment as the Heaven Wrath Beast and described how the Heaven Wrath Thunder Emperor found and named the Thunder Spirit.
• Mandala explained that the Heaven Wrath Beast became the Thunder Emperor’s master after he let it devour his Heavenly Sovereign Tribulation, a choice that damaged his foundation.
• Mandala said the fragment might point to the Thunder Emperor’s Spiritual Treasury, but was incomplete and could be bait or a way to send someone into danger.
• Lu Chen asked whether the Profound Devil Emperor was equivalent to an Immortal Grade Heavenly Supreme, and Mandala confirmed that the Thunder Emperor and Heaven Wrath Beast had ultimately been outmatched by one.

Lu Chen returned to Thunder Demon Mountain to inspect the newly completed Heavenly Flame Hall, only to discover Mu Chen among the Nine Nether Palace’s people. Mu Chen had come seeking help with the Ancient Heavenly Palace and borrowed Sovereign Spiritual Liquid from Jiuyou in exchange for a year of service as an Earth Grade Spirit Array Grandmaster.

• Lu Chen returned to Thunderfire Plains and triggered the Heavenly Flame Hall’s Heaven Grade Spirit Array, then shattered it with a punch while testing its strength.
• Mu Chen called out from inside the hall, and Lu Chen found him holding the Spirit Seal that controlled the array.
• Mu Chen explained that he had graduated from the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and had come to the Northern Domain after hearing about the Ancient Heavenly Palace and its connection to the Primal Celestial Body.
• Lu Chen angrily refused to lend Mu Chen Sovereign Spiritual Liquid when he learned Mu Chen needed two hundred thousand drops.
• Jiuyou revealed that she had already lent Mu Chen the money in exchange for his service as an Earth Grade Spirit Array Grandmaster for one year, surprising Lu Chen.

Lu Chen welcomed Mu Chen into Heavenly Flame Hall as a paid Spirit Array retainer, then reunited with Jiuyou and shared what had happened during his travels. Jiuyou teased Lu Chen about their relationship before revealing that her clan had come to take her back, leaving him shaken by her impending departure.

• Lu Chen agreed to pay Mu Chen two hundred thousand Sovereign Spiritual Liquid for one year of service and warned him to work diligently.
• After Mu Chen left, Lu Chen dismissed the others and caught up with Jiuyou, telling her about Lin Jing, Cai Xiao, and his promise to visit the Martial Realm.
• Jiuyou teased Lu Chen with a kiss and an embrace, then asked what their relationship was.
• Jiuyou told Lu Chen that the Nine Netherbird Clan had come for her and that she had delayed leaving until he returned.
• Lu Chen realized the clan had likely discovered Jiuyou's evolution and was determined to bring her home.

Lu Chen convinced Nine Netherworld Sparrow to let him accompany her back to the Nine Netherbird Clan, then simulated the journey and its consequences. The simulation ended with him failing to refine the Nether God World-Extinguishing Flame as the Da Luo Territory fell.

• Lu Chen offered a Dragon Phoenix Fruit as a gift and persuaded Nine Netherworld Sparrow to bring him to her clan, despite the danger posed by its elders.
• In the simulation, Lu Chen defeated the Nine Netherbird Clan's young geniuses and won the elders' acceptance by presenting the True Scripture of Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana.
• Nine Netherworld Sparrow cultivated the scripture, purified her bloodline, and advanced to Rank Seven Sovereign.
• The Divine Pavilion and Nether Palace attacked the Da Luo Territory, and Mandala gave Lu Chen the Nether God World-Extinguishing Flame to help defend it.
• Lu Chen raised his physical cultivation to Rank Eight Sovereign but died while trying to refine the flame, and the Da Luo Territory fell.

Lu Chen offered Mandala a Top Grade Supreme Breakthrough Pill in exchange for the Nether Palace Master's Nether God World-Extinguishing Flame and spirit essence. Mandala accepted the deal and took the pill to help Xiao Meng break through before the Great Hunting War.

• Lu Chen decided to give the Supreme Breakthrough Pill to the Sleeping Emperor and sought Mandala's help against the Nether Palace Master.
• Lu Chen asked Mandala to obtain the Nether Palace Master's spiritual flame and spirit essence in exchange for the pill.
• Mandala warned that killing an Earthly Supreme and capturing their spirit essence would be difficult, but agreed to try.
• Lu Chen revealed that the pill was a Top Grade Supreme Breakthrough Pill, giving Xiao Meng nearly a one hundred percent chance of breaking through.
• Mandala promised Lu Chen ten million Sovereign Spiritual Liquid and Ice God Liquid, then left to deliver the pill to Xiao Meng.

The Heavenly Sparrow Elder and Liu Qing came to the Heavenly Flame Hall to take Jiuyou back and address the impurity in her bloodline. After Lu Chen presented a rare cultivation art, the Elder accepted his generosity and left expecting him to propose marriage to Jiuyou, who admitted she had claimed they were pledged to each other.

• The Heavenly Sparrow Elder pressured Lu Chen and the others, while Liu Qing demanded that Jiuyou return and have her Bloodline Link severed.
• Jiuyou defended Lu Chen as her benefactor, but the Heavenly Sparrow Elder insisted that her bloodline contamination had to be resolved for the clan’s future.
• Lu Chen handed the Heavenly Sparrow Elder a cultivation art from Dragon Phoenix Heaven, and the Elder was shocked by its value.
• Jiuyou explained that Lu Chen had reached the tenth step of the Dragon Phoenix Ladder and that she had told the clan they were pledged to each other.
• The Heavenly Sparrow Elder accepted the proposed marriage, told Lu Chen to prepare to propose to the clan, and departed with Liu Qing.
• Lu Chen and Jiuyou exchanged embarrassed glances after the Elder left.

Lu Chen reviewed the Jiuyou Guard’s training and learned that its resource costs were unsustainable, so he ordered the force streamlined. Mandala delivered Ice God Liquid, Sovereign Spiritual Liquid, and intelligence about the Nether Palace Master before Lu Chen began secluded cultivation for the coming Fallen Battlefield.

• Lu Chen praised the Jiuyou Guard’s progress as Qin Tian Gang warned that their cultivation consumed too much Sovereign Spiritual Liquid.
• Tang Bing reported the army’s monthly expenses, and Lu Chen ordered it reduced to members at the Supreme Realm and Three Minor Tribulations of the Sovereign.
• Lu Chen considered relying on Spirit Devouring Insects as a more resource-efficient army.
• Mandala gave Lu Chen Ice God Liquid, ten million drops of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid, and information about the recovered Nether Palace Master, whom they planned to hunt in the Fallen Battlefield.
• Lu Chen assigned Qin Tian Gang and Tang Bing their duties, gave them Fourth Grade Spirit Flame Marrow, and entered secluded cultivation.