Chapter Summaries

Zhao Chen, Nine Nether, and Cai Xiao arrived at the Dragon Phoenix Platform as the Northern Region’s young geniuses gathered to seek the True Dragon and True Phoenix inheritance. Their presence shocked the competitors, and Zhao Chen claimed he was about their age as they prepared to climb the platform.

• Zhao Chen, Nine Nether, and Cai Xiao appeared in the Dragon Phoenix Region, where Nine Nether identified several prominent Northern Region geniuses, including Ding Xuan, Hong Yu, and Su Biyue.
• Zhao Chen said he intended to suppress the Northern Region’s young geniuses in Dragon Phoenix Heaven and its veteran Earth Supremes beyond it.
• The Dragon Phoenix Platform emerged, and only those able to withstand its golden light could stand on it and begin climbing toward the inheritance.
• Zhao Chen, Nine Nether, and Cai Xiao stepped onto the platform, startling the gathered geniuses, who recognized them as powerful leaders from the Northern Region.
• Zhao Chen calmly told the shocked crowd that he was about the same age as them.

Zhao Chen dominated the Dragon Phoenix Platform’s bloodline test, subdued the Netherworld Prince, and ascended with Nine Nether and Cai Xiao to the Dragon Phoenix Inheritance. As the three began bathing in Dragon Phoenix Essence Blood, Zhao Chen told Nine Nether to use the opportunity to begin her tribulation.

• The Dragon Phoenix Platform tested the contestants’ essence blood, and Zhao Chen and Nine Nether produced immense pillars of light that overwhelmed everyone else’s displays.
• Zhao Chen stopped the Netherworld Prince from fleeing and suppressed him inside the Exquisite Western Wasteland Tower.
• Hong Yu and Su Biyue refused to support the Netherworld Prince, and the other contestants hurried toward the higher platform.
• Zhao Chen, Nine Nether, and Cai Xiao climbed the Dragon Phoenix Ladder and reached the ancient altar at the summit.
• Dark-golden pillars filled the three with Dragon Phoenix Essence Blood, and Zhao Chen urged Nine Nether to begin her tribulation.

Zhao Chen received the Dragon Phoenix True Scripture and shared it with Nine Nether, whose gains could let her evolve into an Ancient Phoenix. After they left Dragon Phoenix Heaven, the Netherworld Palace Master attacked and demanded the release of the Netherworld Prince and Liu Yan.

• Zhao Chen discovered the Dragon Phoenix True Bone's inheritance and recorded the Dragon Phoenix True Scripture for Nine Nether.
• Nine Nether accepted the scripture and discussed her chance to evolve into an Ancient Phoenix super divine beast.
• Cai Xiao congratulated Nine Nether, and Zhao Chen led her and Cai Xiao out of Dragon Phoenix Heaven through a spatial vortex.
• Zhao Chen left a spatial gate behind and emerged above the Dragon Phoenix Mountain Range with Nine Nether and Cai Xiao.
• The Netherworld Palace Master demanded that Zhao Chen release the Netherworld Prince and Liu Yan, then attacked with a massive black Spirit Seal.
• Zhao Chen calmly told the Netherworld Palace Master, “I know you're in a hurry, but don't rush yet.”

Zhao Chen confronted the Netherworld Palace Master and trapped him inside the Taiji Profound Array Diagram while offering him a chance to join Asura Hall. When the Palace Master refused to believe Mandala had reached the Upper Earth Supreme Realm, she appeared and demanded his surrender or death.

• The Netherworld Palace Master appeared to rescue the Netherworld Prince, but Zhao Chen confronted him and revealed he had expected him to come.
• Zhao Chen summoned twelve White Dragon Saint Guards, whose combined strength shattered the Palace Master's spiritual crystal mountains and made him consider retreating.
• Zhao Chen enclosed himself and the Palace Master in the Taiji Profound Array Diagram, preventing him from escaping.
• Zhao Chen offered the Palace Master a chance to join Asura Hall and said Mandala had reached the Upper Earth Supreme Realm, but the Palace Master refused to believe him.
• Mandala appeared inside the array and suppressed the Palace Master with her Upper Earth Supreme might, ordering him to choose surrender or death.

Mandala suppressed the Netherworld Palace Master, who then agreed to bring the Netherworld Palace into the Asura Hall. Zhao Chen revealed his plans to absorb the Mystic Heaven Hall as well, leaving the Northern Region on the verge of unification under the Asura Hall.

• Mandala appeared and effortlessly suppressed the Netherworld Palace Master, confirming that she had become an Upper Earth Supreme.
• The Netherworld Palace Master surrendered and agreed to lead his faction into the Asura Hall, and Zhao Chen placed an Asura Curse on him to ensure his loyalty.
• Zhao Chen assigned Mandala and Liu Tiandao to bring the Netherworld Palace and Mystic Heaven Hall under the Asura Hall.
• Zhao Chen revealed that Liu Tiandao had been replaced by a controlled heart demon, and the Netherworld Palace Master abandoned his thoughts of fleeing.
• The Netherworld Palace Master asked about the Netherworld Prince, learned he was alive, and pledged to cooperate with Mandala as the Asura Hall moved to unify the Northern Region.

The Asura Godly Court’s rise shook the Northern Region as it prepared to confront the remaining top powers at the Fallen Battlefield. Meanwhile, Zhao Chen broke through the first stage of the Earth Supreme Realm’s transformation, but still had to face the spiritual tribulation.

• Netherworld Palace and Mystic Heaven Hall merged into the Asura Godly Court, which invited the Northern Region’s remaining four top powers to meet at the Fallen Battlefield in half a month.
• First-rate factions began choosing sides as the Northern Region’s powers anticipated a decisive confrontation at the Asura Godly Court’s banquet.
• Zhao Chen swallowed the Dragon Phoenix Supreme Divine Pill and shattered his Nirvana Bitter Sea, repeatedly destroying and reforming his body until the sea merged throughout him.
• Zhao Chen completed the first stage of his Earth Supreme Realm breakthrough and learned that he still had to endure the spiritual tribulation to transform his Supreme Dharma Body into a Supreme Dharma Image.

Zhao Chen endured and overcame the nine-bolt Earth Supreme spirit tribulation, transforming his Supreme Dharma Bodies and absorbing the thunder essence. He emerged as an Earth Supreme with power to kill a Lower Earth Supreme and contend with an Upper Earth Supreme.

• Zhao Chen summoned the Nine Revolutions Nirvana Golden Body and swallowed the first two bolts of multicolored spirit lightning.
• Zhao Chen charged into the thunderclouds with the Nine Revolutions Nirvana Golden Body and the Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder White Tiger Supreme Dharma Body, fighting through the escalating tribulation.
• Zhao Chen confronted the intelligent Cloud Radiance Thunder Giant Dragon, fused his two Supreme Dharma Bodies, and destroyed and swallowed the dragon.
• Zhao Chen entered the thunder pool, absorbed the Spirit Tribulation Thunder Essence, and drained it dry, further transforming his body and power.
• Zhao Chen watched the thunderclouds disperse and declared that he was now an Earth Supreme.

Zhao Chen completed his breakthrough to Earth Supreme, then guarded Nine Nether as she underwent atavistic evolution into the super divine beast Ancient Phoenix. Nine Nether survived the tribulation and reached Upper Earth Supreme, and Zhao Chen declared that his Asura Godly Court would unite the Northern Region.

• Zhao Chen told Nine Nether that he had broken through to Earth Supreme and urged her to begin her evolution.
• Zhao Chen took Nine Nether to the Primitive Mountain Range, where she began absorbing Phoenix Blood and heavenly treasures inside a volcano.
• Nine Nether resisted the lightning tribulation, then transformed into an Ancient Phoenix and devoured the thunder slurry in the thunderclouds.
• Nine Nether returned to Zhao Chen in human form and revealed that she had reached Upper Earth Supreme.
• Nine Nether credited Zhao Chen for helping her fulfill her clan’s long-held wish, and Zhao Chen declared that his Asura Godly Court would unite the Northern Region.

At the Fallen Battlefield banquet, Zhao Chen welcomed the Ten Thousand Saints Mountain and Demon Sect leaders, who had agreed to join the Asura Godly Court. The God Pavilion and Serpent God Hall remained the targets of the gathering as the Great Hunting War began to loom.

• Zhao Chen, Nine Nether, and Mandala concluded that Ten Thousand Saints Mountain and the Demon Sect could be persuaded, while the God Pavilion and Serpent God Hall remained evasive.
• The Asura Godly Court prepared Fallen Mountain for a banquet intended to bring the God Pavilion and Serpent God Hall into line.
• The Ten Thousand Saints Old Ancestor arrived with Su Biyue and accepted Zhao Chen's invitation to join the Asura Godly Court.
• Su Biyue greeted Zhao Chen and watched Nine Nether sitting beside him, reflecting on the distance between their positions.
• The Demon Emperor arrived with Hong Yu and took his seat after greeting Zhao Chen.
• Hong Yu greeted Zhao Chen, and Su Biyue muttered an insult about her, though the two saintesses felt a faint sense of mutual understanding.

At a banquet attended by the Northern Region’s peak powers, Zhao Chen declared the region unified under the Asura Godly Court, despite the God Pavilion Master and Heavenly Serpent Old Ghost arriving with plans to resist him. Mandala and Nine Nether subdued the two leaders, and the gathered crowds echoed the proclamation.

• Heavenly Serpent Old Ghost arrived at Fallen Mountain with the Serpent God Hall’s elite forces and took a seat opposite the Ten Thousand Saints Old Ancestor and the Demon Emperor.
• The God Pavilion Master arrived with Fang Yi and the pavilion masters, and Zhao Chen answered his veiled challenge by saying Fang Yi still needed to improve his cultivation.
• Zhao Chen received a system mission to unify the Northern Region and announced that the Asura Godly Court’s banquet celebrated the region’s unification.
• When the God Pavilion Master and Heavenly Serpent Old Ghost tried to rise in opposition, Mandala and Nine Nether’s Upper Earth Supreme pressure forced them back.
• Mandala and Nine Nether proclaimed the Asura Godly Court’s victory, and people across the Northern Region joined the chant.

Zhao Chen unified the Northern Region after the God Pavilion Master and the Serpent God Hall Master surrendered to the Asura Godly Court’s overwhelming power. A sign-in reward gave him the Godly Court Luck Art, which let him draw on the Court’s fortune and already raised his strength to rival an Earth Supreme Great Perfection.

• The Great Luo Domain Lord Mandala and the Nine Nether Palace Master revealed themselves as Upper Earth Supreme experts, shocking the Northern Region’s leaders.
• The Ten Thousand Saints Old Ancestor and the Demon Emperor pledged their allegiance to Zhao Chen, and the God Pavilion Master and Heavenly Serpent Old Ghost surrendered with them.
• The Netherworld Palace Master suggested that the new subordinates receive the Asura Curse, and Zhao Chen placed the curse on the four leaders.
• The assembled leaders congratulated Zhao Chen on unifying the Northern Region and establishing the Asura Godly Court as its supreme power.
• Zhao Chen received a sign-in opportunity at Fallen Mountain and obtained the Godly Court Luck Art, which let him draw on the Court’s fortune and rival an Earth Supreme Great Perfection.

After unifying the Northern Region, Zhao Chen used the Asura Godly Court's gathered luck to increase his power and considered the court's long-term expansion. He decided not to move beyond the Northern Region yet and planned to visit the Fallen Battlefield for Spirit God Liquid, treasures, and possible clues about the Ancient Heavenly Palace.

• Zhao Chen gathered the Asura Godly Court's luck into the Dragon Phoenix Luck White Tiger and gained combat strength approaching Earth Supreme Great Perfection.
• Zhao Chen considered the Heavenly Luo Continent's history and the limits imposed on outside superpowers, then concluded that the Northern Region was too small for his ambitions.
• Nine Nether asked whether Zhao Chen planned to expand beyond the Northern Region, and he said the Asura Godly Court first needed time to consolidate and grow.
• Nine Nether noted that Mandala had long been stuck at the threshold of Earth Supreme Great Perfection, and Zhao Chen identified Spirit God Liquid as the most effective aid for her breakthrough.
• Zhao Chen pointed to the Fallen Battlefield as a place to seek Spirit God Liquid, inheritance treasures, and possible clues about the Ancient Heavenly Palace.

Zhao Chen, Nine Nether, and Mandala entered the Fallen Battlefield, where Zhao Chen opened the Earth Supreme hidden treasury by controlling its protective runes. Inside, he collected treasures and found a fragment that revealed the dark pyramid was the Ancient Heavenly Palace sacred relic, the Star Saint Demon Tower.

• Mandala explained that opening the hidden treasury and obtaining Spirit God Liquid normally required Fallen Source Pellets and divine treasures, but Zhao Chen opened its rune barrier directly.
• Zhao Chen led Nine Nether and Mandala through the rune gate into the dark pyramid ruin, where they found floating stone islands filled with treasures.
• Zhao Chen found a Phoenix Transformation Divine Pill and stored it for Qian Er, then continued gathering treasures for the Asura Godly Court and Asura Heavenly Army.
• Zhao Chen cleared a stone island and drew a triangular piece of dark iron from a hidden spatial rift.
• Zhao Chen recognized the iron piece as a clue to the Star Saint Demon Tower and declared that the sacred relic was nearly in hand.

Zhao Chen, Nine Nether, and Mandala entered the Fourth Hall Master's secret treasure ruins, where Zhao Chen claimed the Ten Ferocious Beasts as spirit puppets for the Godly Court. Beyond the bronze gates, they witnessed the Extraterritorial Evil Clan invading the Northern Region and the Great Thousand World warriors fighting them without surrender.

• Zhao Chen chose not to activate the Spirit Tower Seal, avoiding the risk of freeing the Extraterritorial Evil Clan beneath the Star Saint Demon Tower.
• Zhao Chen opened the Fourth Hall Master's bronze gates, bypassing the Ten Ferocious Formation.
• Zhao Chen awakened the ten beast statues, shrank them into portable statues, and planned to refine them into spirit puppets for Nine Nether to command.
• Zhao Chen, Nine Nether, and Mandala passed through the gates into a vast plain filled with spatial rifts and invading Extraterritorial Evil Clan forces.
• Zhao Chen watched visions of Great Thousand World warriors fighting the invasion and rejecting retreat or surrender.

Zhao Chen, Nine Nether, and Mandala reached the Fourth Hall Master's stone island in the Supreme Sea and overcame its defenses. Mandala found the Emerald Lake of treasures and began using a black clay jar to condense the Spirit God Liquid.

• Zhao Chen vowed to settle the blood debt against the Extraterritorial Evil Clan as he and Nine Nether and Mandala crossed the Supreme Sea.
• The trio shattered the barrier around the stone island, and Zhao Chen subdued the Fourth Hall Master's spirit puppet and gave it to Nine Nether.
• Mandala sensed the Spirit God Liquid's location and led Zhao Chen and Nine Nether to an Emerald Lake filled with treasures.
• Mandala claimed a black clay jar and aimed it at the lake, calling out, "Spirit God Liquid, condense!"

Mandala used perfect-grade Spirit God Liquid to begin breaking through to Earth Supreme Great Perfection while Zhao Chen purified the Heaven Devouring Evil Emperor’s lingering power beneath the Dark Cyan Ocean. After refining that power into a spirit pill and absorbing it, Zhao Chen attempted to break through to the Upper Earth Supreme Realm.

• Mandala swallowed the perfect-grade Spirit God Liquid as Zhao Chen and Nine Nether stood guard.
• Zhao Chen found a crack in the seal beneath the Dark Cyan Ocean and discovered that the Heaven Devouring Evil Emperor’s evil power still remained.
• Zhao Chen used Nirvana Heavenly Flame, Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder, and the Taiji Profound Array Diagram to destroy and refine the lingering evil power into pure energy.
• Zhao Chen refined the pure energy with medicinal ingredients and divine beast blood essence to make a spirit pill, then swallowed it.
• Zhao Chen activated the Asura Blood Sutra and called for a breakthrough to the Upper Earth Supreme Realm.

Zhao Chen subdued the Star Saint Demon Tower as Mandala broke through to Earth Supreme Great Perfection, securing the Asura Godly Court’s strength. Nine Nether planned to visit her clan and seek an Ancient Phoenix inheritance, and Zhao Chen agreed to accompany her.

• Zhao Chen used the Spirit Tower Seal to collect the Star Saint Demon Tower, while Mandala survived her tribulation and reached Earth Supreme Great Perfection.
• Mandala congratulated Nine Nether and encouraged her to seek the Ancient Phoenix inheritance among the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan and the Godly Beast Origin.
• Nine Nether told Zhao Chen she planned to return to her clan, and Mandala gave her blessing while noting the Godly Court could remain secure in her absence.
• Zhao Chen handed the Star Saint Demon Tower to Mandala, who urged him to accompany Nine Nether for safety and to gather resources.
• Nine Nether revealed that her father, Tian Huang, led the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan and welcomed Zhao Chen’s company, and Zhao Chen agreed to go.

Nine Nether returned to the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan after evolving into an Ancient Phoenix and reaching the Upper Earth Supreme Realm, introducing Zhao Chen as the one who helped her achieve it. Tian Huang welcomed Zhao Chen and pledged the clan’s lasting support for the Asura Godly Court.

• Tian Huang waited for Nine Nether to return and was startled when a spatial vortex appeared above the clan’s sacred mountain plaza.
• Nine Nether emerged and revealed that she had become an Ancient Phoenix and reached the Upper Earth Supreme Realm, leaving Tian Huang stunned.
• Nine Nether introduced Zhao Chen as the God Emperor of the Asura Godly Court and credited him for her transformation.
• Tian Huang recognized Zhao Chen’s strength and potential, warmly thanked him, and pledged that the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan would remain an eternal supporter and partner of the Asura Godly Court.

Zhao Chen and Nine Nether met with the Tian Huang Clan Leader, who learned how much Nine Nether and the Asura Godly Court had achieved. After hearing of Zhao Chen’s power and sincerity, he approved of Zhao Chen marrying Nine Nether and promised them a grand wedding.

• The Tian Huang Clan Leader thanked Zhao Chen for helping Nine Nether evolve into an Ancient Phoenix and pledged the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan’s support.
• Nine Nether told her father that the Great Luo Heavenly Domain belonged to the Asura Godly Court and that she had become its Nine Nether Palace Lord.
• The Tian Huang Clan Leader welcomed Zhao Chen and Nine Nether to the Nine Nether Great Hall and learned about the Asura Godly Court’s rise in the Northern Region.
• The Tian Huang Clan Leader was shocked to learn that the Great Luo Domain Lord had advanced to Earth Supreme Great Perfection.
• The Tian Huang Clan Leader approved of Zhao Chen marrying Nine Nether and promised to bless them with a perfect, unforgettable wedding.

Zhao Chen and Nine Nether became engaged with the Tian Huang Clan Leader’s blessing, sealing their bond with the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan’s sacred relic, the Undying Feather. The relic gave them a means to reach each other in danger and a chance at revival, while their wedding remained for them to arrange later.

• Nine Nether reacted with shock when the Tian Huang Clan Leader proposed that she and Zhao Chen marry, while he assumed she already loved Zhao Chen.
• Zhao Chen suggested that they get engaged to avert trouble from Spirit Beast Races seeking Nine Nether after her evolution into an Ancient Phoenix.
• The Tian Huang Clan Leader enthusiastically agreed to the engagement, and Zhao Chen called him Father-in-law after explaining he had no family.
• The Tian Huang Clan Leader gave Zhao Chen and Nine Nether the Love Tokens left by Nine Nether’s mother, and they each dripped blood onto one.
• The tokens revealed themselves as the sacred relic Undying Feather, which could transport either of them to the other in danger and offered a chance at revival.