Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen reached the mid-phase of the Fifth Grade Sovereign realm and joined Da Luo Territory’s leaders as they prepared for the Great Hunting War. The armies departed for the Fallen Battlefield, while a surge of spiritual energy crystallization emerged near the Scripture Pavilion, signaling that an Earthly Supreme expert had advanced.

• Lu Chen refined the lightning in Thunder Demon Abyss and reached the mid-phase of the Fifth Grade Sovereign realm before Tang Bing summoned him to Great Ruler Hall.
• Mandala explained that Da Luo Territory’s armies would gather Fallen Source Elixirs and fight Nether Palace’s forces, while she and Sleeping Emperor handled other matters.
• Lu Chen explained the Fallen Battlefield and Spirit God Liquid to Mu Chen, who promised to help Heavenly Flame Hall seize Fallen Source Elixirs.
• Mandala gave the Ten Kings Spirit Rhinoceros Mirrors so they could sense one another and call for help inside the Fallen Battlefield.
• Mandala ordered the gathered forces to depart, and the Various Kings’ armies surged out of Da Luo Heaven toward the battlefield.
• After the armies left, a vast pillar of spiritual energy rose near the Scripture Pavilion and displayed the signature spiritual energy crystallization of an Earthly Supreme expert.

Mandala led the Da Luo Territory army into the Fallen Battlefield, then left to scout for the Earthly Supreme Secret Treasure while the forces split up to search for Fallen Source Elixirs. Sky Vulture Emperor’s force reached a First Class Relic and encountered rival forces, whose leader greeted him as an old friend.

• Mandala entered the Fallen Battlefield with the Da Luo Territory army and departed to scout for the Earthly Supreme Secret Treasure.
• Sky Vulture Emperor and Spirit Eye Emperor divided the Various Kings and their armies into two forces, while a miniature scorpion secretly followed Spirit Eye Emperor.
• Sky Vulture Emperor led Lu Chen and four other Kings toward a First Class Relic in a crimson valley.
• Lu Chen noticed an approaching threat, and Sky Vulture Emperor ordered his force to prepare for battle.
• Several rival forces arrived at the valley, and one of their leaders called out to Sky Vulture Emperor as an old friend.

Lu Chen joined Sky Vulture Emperor’s battle against the Hundred Battles Territory’s three powerful Sovereigns, while Mountain Splitter King confronted Corpse Mountain Old Ghost. Lu Chen’s attack shattered Sword Concealing Old Man’s divine sword and struck him down, leaving his fate unknown.

• Sky Vulture Emperor recognized Demon Compassion Sovereign, Sword Concealing Old Man, and Corpse Mountain Old Ghost as powerful enemies seeking the relic’s Fallen Source Elixirs.
• Mountain Splitter King offered to hold off one of the Rank Seven Sovereigns, and Lu Chen agreed to face Sword Concealing Old Man.
• Sword Concealing Old Man rejected Sky Vulture Emperor’s offer to divide the elixirs and revealed that the Divine Pavilion had promised to recommend the trio for entry if they obtained fifty thousand.
• Lu Chen and Mountain Splitter King joined Sky Vulture Emperor in the sky, with Mountain Splitter King taking on Corpse Mountain Old Ghost and Lu Chen confronting Sword Concealing Old Man.
• Sword Concealing Old Man shattered Lu Chen’s first sword attack, but Lu Chen burst from the giant sword’s wreckage, crushed the Purple Azure Divine Sword with his bare hand, and struck Sword Concealing Old Man with a lightning-wreathed fist.

Lu Chen defeated Sword Concealing Old Man and helped turn the battle against the Hundred Battles Territory, but Corpse Mountain Old Ghost escaped after grievously injuring Mountain Splitter King. Lu Chen spared Sword Concealing Old Man in exchange for his treasures and learned about two pills that might raise his cultivation, leaving him planning to test them in a simulation.

• Lu Chen defeated Sword Concealing Old Man in one exchange, and Sky Vulture Emperor blocked Demon Compassion Sovereign’s attack on him.
• Corpse Mountain Old Ghost detonated his natal corpse puppet, grievously wounded Mountain Splitter King, and fled; Demon Compassion Sovereign then ordered the Hundred Battles Territory army to retreat.
• Lu Chen captured Sword Concealing Old Man and demanded his treasures, accepting his silver ring and information about hidden relics.
• Sword Concealing Old Man revealed that the two Sword Concealing Pills could raise a person below Rank Seven Sovereign by one rank, and Lu Chen planned to test them in a simulation.

Lu Chen simulated a future in which he rose to Heavenly Supreme, challenged the Martial Ancestor, and died fighting the Extraterritorial Evil Clan. He chose the Flame Ancestral Symbol as his reward and reflected on the looming invasion and Lin Jing’s gift.

• Sky Vulture Emperor divided the group’s forces to seize relics after they refined the final batch of Fallen Source Elixirs.
• Lu Chen began a simulation and saw himself advance to Heavenly Supreme, conquer the Blood Evil Clan, and obtain One Qi Transforms into Three Purities.
• Lu Chen challenged the Martial Ancestor but was defeated, then died fighting the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s invasion of the Martial Realm.
• The simulation offered Lu Chen Thunder Marrow, the Flame Ancestral Symbol, or his Insect Control Heart Sutra, and he chose the Flame Ancestral Symbol.
• Lu Chen recalled that the invasion would threaten the Great Thousand World and resolved to avoid the Martial Realm and Endless Fire Territory around that time.

Lu Chen refined the Flame Ancestral Symbol after its spirit recognized him, then consumed the Sword Concealing Pill and broke through to peak mid Sixth Grade Sovereign. He planned to refine the Nether God World-Extinguishing Flame after further strengthening his body.

• Lu Chen chose the Flame Ancestral Symbol and learned that it had been nurtured by the Eight Ancestors Glazed Bowl.
• The Flame Ancestral Symbol pulled Lu Chen into its space, where its fire phoenix spirit recognized him as its master because he carried the aura of its little master.
• Lu Chen returned from the Ancestral Symbol Space and estimated that he had an eighty percent chance of refining the Nether God World-Extinguishing Flame with his current resources and cultivation.
• Lu Chen took the Sword Concealing Pill, which refined his spiritual energy and expanded his Supreme Sea.
• Lu Chen’s cultivation surged from late Fifth Grade Sovereign to peak mid Sixth Grade Sovereign before stabilizing.

Lu Chen and Sky Vulture Emperor followed Divine Pavilion’s invitation to a First Class Relic in the Skeleton Mountain Range, where they learned that many powerful forces had gathered. As the South Pavilion Master prepared to address the assembled forces, the relic remained unopened.

• Lu Chen questioned the bound Sword Concealing Old Man about how news of the relic had spread, and learned that the South Pavilion Master had invited Divine Pavilion’s affiliated forces.
• Lu Chen and Sky Vulture Emperor reasoned that the relic’s owner must have been an extraordinary Ninth Grade Sovereign, then led their army toward the Skeleton Mountain Range.
• Lu Chen arrived to find the mountain range crowded with forces, including Nether Palace led by Lin Ming and Nether Fire Old Man.
• Lu Chen recognized Divine Pavilion’s leaders, including Sky Dragon Master, the South Pavilion Master, and the battle formation prodigy Zhan Tai Liuli.
• Sky Dragon Master asked whether the gathered Rank Eight Sovereigns could open the relic, and the South Pavilion Master thanked the assembled forces for accepting Divine Pavilion’s invitation.

The South Pavilion Master, Nether Fire Old Man, and Sky Vulture Emperor joined forces to break the array protecting Ghost Hand's relic. Mu Chen recognized it as an array for nurturing Saint Items, and Lu Chen decided they had to attack their rivals before the relic opened.

• The South Pavilion Master explained that a spirit array had sealed the Fallen Origin Qi in the Skeleton Mountain Range and proposed that the three factions destroy its remaining nodes together.
• Nether Fire Old Man and Sky Vulture Emperor agreed to cooperate, while Sky Vulture Emperor warned Lu Chen that Sleeping Emperor had reached the Earthly Supreme realm.
• The three leaders attacked the mountain range, revealing a huge spirit array that retaliated with dark spiritual energy pillars.
• As Lu Chen prepared to lead the Jiuyou Guard toward the array, Mu Chen stopped him and identified it as the Three Elements Transforming Spirit Array, which could nurture Saint Items.
• Lu Chen concluded that they needed to strike first and kill Nether Fire Old Man or the South Pavilion Master before either could claim the potential Saint Item.

Mu Chen set up a powerful spiritual array to protect Da Luo Territory while Lu Chen prepared to ambush the Nether Fire Old Man during the attempt to break the Skeleton Mountain Range array. When Sky Dragon Master was badly injured and Sky Vulture Emperor urged Lu Chen to act, Lu Chen flew into the sky and announced that he would help break the array.

• Lin Ming and Zhan Tai Liuli used their armies’ Spirits of Battle Intent to attack the spiritual array’s seven nodes while Sky Dragon Master and the others defended them from its counterattacks.
• Lu Chen explained his plan to target Nether Fire Old Man after two array nodes were destroyed, and gave Mu Chen the Dragon Slaying Sword to detonate if Da Luo Territory faced danger.
• Mu Chen activated Ling Xi Jie’s array plate and formed the Demon Lotus Pagoda Array above Da Luo Territory.
• Sky Dragon Master was severely injured, and Sky Vulture Emperor urged Lu Chen to make his move.
• Lu Chen flew into the sky and declared that he had come to help the three seniors break the array.

Lu Chen revealed his true strength and joined Sky Vulture Emperor, South Pavilion Master, and Nether Fire Old Man in attacking the spiritual array. As the array began to crack, Lu Chen betrayed Nether Fire Old Man and struck him, then unleashed the Sky Phoenix Divine Seal against his Great Netherworld Celestial Body.

• Lu Chen raised his aura to the level of a Rank Eight Sovereign, impressing Nether Fire Old Man and South Pavilion Master.
• Lu Chen and the three Rank Eight Sovereigns attacked the spiritual array together, spreading cracks across its surface.
• Lu Chen teleported behind Nether Fire Old Man and struck him with a purple-gold flaming sword.
• Nether Fire Old Man summoned his Great Netherworld Celestial Body and unleashed the Netherworld God-Slaying Halberd.
• Lu Chen summoned the Flame Ancestral Symbol's Sky Phoenix Divine Seal and sent its phoenix toward Nether Fire Old Man.

Lu Chen killed Nether Fire Old Man and absorbed his soul, while the ruins opened and revealed a powerful figure tied to the Extraterritorial Evil Clan. The figure attacked the gathered forces with black rays, leaving the danger unresolved.

• Lu Chen shattered Nether Fire Old Man's Supreme Dharma Body, killed his physical body, and captured his fleeing soul with the Soul Nurturing Lotus, raising his spiritual power to the Seventh Grade.
• The South Pavilion Master panicked at Nether Fire Old Man's death, while the Sky Vulture Emperor celebrated the Da Luo Territory's new advantage.
• The spiritual array over the Skeleton Mountain Range shattered, releasing Fallen Origin Qi as the ruins opened.
• Lu Chen, the Sky Vulture Emperor, and the South Pavilion Master noticed something was wrong; Lu Chen saw that Lin Ming had vanished among the Nether Army's corpses.
• A black vortex absorbed the Fallen Origin Qi and revealed a one-armed figure seated on a stone throne, who mocked the gathered forces and fired countless black rays at them.

A powerful Corpse Demon Clan survivor attacked Lu Chen, the Sky Vulture Emperor, and the South Pavilion Master, forcing Lu Chen to consider destroying the Flame Ancestral Symbol to escape. The demon targeted Mu Chen, but the shattered Nine-Level Buddha Pagoda revealed a woman who declared him her child.

• The Corpse Demon survivor absorbed its victims and demanded that Lu Chen and the others submit, while the fleeing forces scattered.
• The survivor revealed that Senior Ghost Hand had trapped it, then attacked Lu Chen and the others with a giant hand of black qi.
• Lu Chen used the Flame Ancestral Symbol with the Sky Vulture Emperor and the South Pavilion Master to repel the attack, but five demonic snakes overwhelmed them.
• Lu Chen decided to destroy the Flame Ancestral Symbol and secretly told the Sky Vulture Emperor he had a way to deal with the demon as they moved away.
• The demon struck Lu Chen into a crater and caught Mu Chen within a second attack; the Nine-Level Buddha Pagoda shattered as Mu Chen tried to defend himself.
• Light from the shattered pagoda formed a woman, who called the demon a mere Demon General and warned it not to harm her child.

Qing Yanjing’s spiritual energy incarnation saved Mu Chen and destroyed the Extraterritorial Evil Clan attacker, then reunited with her son. Mu Chen vowed to grow strong enough to rescue her from the Ancient Buddha Clan, while Lu Chen denied teaching him a saying that Mu Chen attributed to him.

• Qing Yanjing appeared to protect Mu Chen and destroyed the demonic figure with her glazed pagoda.
• Sky Vulture Emperor and South Pavilion Master recognized the strength of Qing Yanjing’s incarnation and questioned Lu Chen about Mu Chen’s connection to her.
• Qing Yanjing and Mu Chen reunited, embraced, and shared their longing for each other.
• Mu Chen promised to rescue Qing Yanjing from the Ancient Buddha Clan after becoming strong enough, and she urged him not to act impulsively.
• Sky Vulture Emperor and South Pavilion Master looked to Lu Chen after Mu Chen quoted a saying attributed to him, and Lu Chen denied having taught it.

Qing Yanjing reassured Mu Chen that she was working to reunite with him and warned him not to visit the Ancient Buddha Clan. Before her spiritual energy avatar vanished, she gave Lu Chen a sealed Heavenly Supreme-grade subsidiary Buddha Flame in thanks for protecting Mu Chen, and Mu Chen vowed to rescue her.

• Qing Yanjing told Mu Chen that her cultivation was about as high as the heavens and urged him to wait while she tried to persuade the Ancient Buddha Clan's elders.
• Qing Yanjing warned Mu Chen not to go to the Ancient Buddha Clan, and Mu Chen promised to cultivate until he could help reunite their family.
• Qing Yanjing thanked Lu Chen for protecting Mu Chen and offered him a subsidiary Buddha Flame sealed in a Gazed Light Treasure Pagoda.
• Lu Chen accepted the Buddha Flame and promised to help Mu Chen if he faced danger, while making clear he would not recklessly risk his own life.
• Qing Yanjing's spiritual energy avatar vanished, and Mu Chen vowed to rescue her.

After the Extraterritorial Evil Clan was driven back, Lu Chen secured the ruins for the Da Luo Territory and entered them with Sky Vulture Emperor. They discovered three Quasi-Saint Items, which Lu Chen assigned between himself, Sky Vulture Emperor, and Mu Chen.

• Lu Chen ordered Qin Tian Gang to collect the fallen enemies’ Storage Divine Artifacts and keep Mu Chen’s identity secret.
• Sky Vulture Emperor demanded most of the ruins’ spoils from South Pavilion Master, and Lu Chen forced the Divine Pavilion to surrender its Fallen Source Elixirs before it departed.
• Lu Chen admitted privately that he had been bluffing because he had little spiritual energy left, then entered the ruins with Sky Vulture Emperor.
• Lu Chen and Sky Vulture Emperor found three Quasi-Saint Items: a furnace, a fan, and a stone sword.
• Lu Chen took the furnace and stone sword for himself and Mu Chen, while Sky Vulture Emperor claimed the Blood Fan.

Sky Vulture Emperor led most of the Da Luo Territory army toward a powerful Earthly Supreme Secret Treasure while Lu Chen stayed behind with Jiuyou and Mu Chen to refine the Buddha Flame. Lu Chen began the dangerous refinement in a secluded cave, and the chapter ended as the flame surged through his body.

• Sky Vulture Emperor announced that Mandala had found a vast Earthly Supreme Secret Treasure, likely the ruin of the Ancient Heavenly Palace's Fourth Hall Master, and urged the army to head there.
• Lu Chen said he could not join them because he could not conceal or store the Glass Pagoda containing the Buddha Flame, and he chose to refine the flame instead.
• Sky Vulture Emperor assigned Jiuyou and Mu Chen to protect Lu Chen while he led the rest of the Da Luo Territory army away.
• Lu Chen explained that his cultivation had reached the peak of Sixth Grade Sovereign and took Jiuyou and Mu Chen to a secluded mountain cave.
• Lu Chen swallowed an Earth Spirit Pill and drank Ice God Liquid, then released the Buddha Flame from the Glass Pagoda and began refining it with the Flame Mantra.

Mandala and the Da Luo forces arrived at the Fallen Battlefield with the newly advanced Earthly Supreme, Sleeping Emperor, and joined the other major factions at the Fourth Hall Master's secret treasure. After the six Earthly Supremes opened the Dark Golden Pyramid, the Divine Pavilion Master and the other factions entered, leaving the Da Luo forces poised to follow.

• Mandala learned that Blood Eagle King had died during a battle for a First Class Relic and ordered the forces to proceed to the secret treasure.
• Sky Vulture Emperor and Spirit Eye Emperor saw that Sleeping Emperor had broken through to Earthly Supreme.
• The Divine Pavilion Master and the leaders of Ten Thousand Saint Mountain, Demon Gate, and Serpent God Hall arrived, assembling all six Earthly Supremes.
• The Divine Pavilion Master accused Mandala of hiding ambitions of domination, but Mandala rejected his attempt to turn the factions against Da Luo Territory.
• The Divine Pavilion Master and the other faction leaders poured Fallen Source Elixirs onto the Dark Golden Pyramid until five entrances opened.
• The Divine Pavilion Master led his forces into the secret treasure, followed by the leaders of the other major factions.

Lu Chen refined crystal-like flames to strengthen his Heavenly Flame Celestial Body while Mandala's forces reached the heart of the Earthly Supreme Secret Treasure. The gathered powers struck a barrier protecting a stone island, where the Fourth Hall Master appeared as an Upper Earth Sovereign.

• Lu Chen endured the pain of refining crystal-like flames in his Supreme Sea, and his Heavenly Flame Celestial Body began transforming as it absorbed them.
• Mandala led Da Luo Territory's forces across an ocean formed from the Fourth Hall Master's Supreme Sea and identified a distant stone island as the place holding his Spirit God Liquid.
• The other factions arrived, and their leaders agreed to attack the island's protective barrier together.
• The six leaders' combined attack failed to break the crystal barrier, and a white-browed figure in green robes appeared above it.
• The figure opened his eyes and released the pressure of an Upper Earth Sovereign, leaving the gathered leaders facing the Fourth Hall Master.

The peak factions entered the stone island and fought over Spirit God Liquid, while the Divine Pavilion’s four masters cornered Sky Vulture Emperor and Spirit Eye Emperor. The Divine Pavilion revealed that it planned to eliminate Da Luo Territory’s leaders as well, and Sky Vulture Emperor prepared to resist with a Quasi-Saint Item.

• Mandala and the other experts joined forces to attack the Fourth Hall Master’s Spirit Puppet, opening cracks in the island’s barrier so the factions could enter.
• The factions’ experts reached the lake at the island’s center, where Spirit God Liquid burst from whirlpools and triggered a fierce scramble.
• West Pavilion Master, North Pavilion Master, and South Pavilion Master surrounded Sky Vulture Emperor, while East Pavilion Master pursued Spirit Eye Emperor.
• Sky Vulture Emperor learned the Divine Pavilion had targeted Da Luo Territory because its growing strength threatened the Northern Region’s balance.
• West Pavilion Master claimed that the Divine Pavilion’s allies would prevent the Great Lo Territory Lord and Lord Sleeping Emperor from leaving alive.
• Sky Vulture Emperor summoned a crimson Blood Fan, which East Pavilion Master recognized as a Quasi-Saint Item.

Mandala and the Sleeping Emperor fought alongside four faction leaders to destroy the Fourth Hall Master's Spirit Puppet, but the Divine Pavilion Master and the others then turned on them. As the attackers prepared to kill Mandala and the Sleeping Emperor over a Sacred Artifact, an unseen speaker challenged the Divine Pavilion Master to take it himself.

• The Divine Pavilion Master, Mandala, the Sleeping Emperor, Ten Thousand Saints Old Ancestor, Sky Serpent Old Ghost, and the other faction leaders unleashed Minor Divine Abilities that damaged and destroyed the Fourth Hall Master's Spirit Puppet.
• The Divine Pavilion Master attacked Mandala, then joined Ten Thousand Saints Old Ancestor and two others in striking her down while the Sleeping Emperor intercepted another attack.
• Mandala confronted the four leaders, who said they feared Da Luo Territory's strength and demanded the Sacred Artifact in exchange for sparing part of its legacy.
• The Divine Pavilion Master declared that Mandala and the Sleeping Emperor had to die, and the faction leaders prepared to attack them.
• An unseen speaker laughed and challenged the Divine Pavilion Master to take the Sacred Artifact himself.