Chapter Summaries

The Ancient Heavenly Emperor and Zhao Chen defended Saint Abyss Pass against the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor and his invading forces. Zhao Chen used the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor’s captured avatar to trigger a curse, leaving the enemy emperor severing his own arm.

• The Ancient Heavenly Emperor killed hundreds of millions of Extraterritorial Evil Clan members and three Heavenly Demon Emperors with a single sword strike.
• The Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor appeared and challenged the Ancient Heavenly Emperor, but Zhao Chen arrived and offered to fight him.
• Zhao Chen revealed that he had executed the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor’s son, the Corpse Eye Heavenly Demon Emperor, and had suppressed the emperor’s avatar in his Exquisite Western Wasteland Tower.
• The Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor shattered Saint Abyss Pass’s barrier, but Zhao Chen’s blood-red sword lights wiped out invading forces and restored the defense.
• Zhao Chen attached blood-red curse seals and threads to the captured avatar, then used the Blood Puppet Divine Curse to make the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor sever his own right arm.

Zhao Chen used the Blood Puppet Divine Curse to control the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor’s body and kill him at Saint Abyss Pass. Afterward, Zhao Chen’s cultivation reached the Saint Grade pinnacle.

• Zhao Chen cursed the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor into severing his own right arm, then forced him to grow a weaker replacement.
• Zhao Chen made the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor’s left claw nearly tear open his neck, leaving him badly wounded and panicked.
• Zhao Chen unleashed the Blood Puppet Divine Curse, but the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor fled into the demonic clouds and sent corpse beasts and a Corpse River against Saint Abyss Pass.
• Zhao Chen destroyed the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor’s clone in the Exquisite Western Wasteland Tower, causing the true body to explode and killing the demons around him.
• Zhao Chen’s spiritual energy surged, a green sapling grew behind him, and he stepped into the Saint Grade pinnacle.

After breaking through to Saint Grade, Zhao Chen entrusted Saint Abyss Pass to the Ancient Heavenly Emperor and urged him to claim the Eternal Undying Body to transcend Saint Grade. The Ancient Heavenly Emperor overcame his reservations and resolved to attend the Maha Ancient Clan’s Eternal Gathering to wield it.

• Zhao Chen congratulated the Ancient Heavenly Emperor on Saint Abyss Pass and left the pass in his care.
• The Ancient Heavenly Emperor asked Zhao Chen how he could transcend Saint Grade, since his Imperishable Golden Body had reached its limit.
• Zhao Chen explained that the ownerless Eternal Undying Body, once wielded by Immortal Great Emperor, could give the Ancient Heavenly Emperor a chance to transcend Saint Grade.
• Zhao Chen reminded the Ancient Heavenly Emperor that refusing to take the body could leave the Great Thousand World vulnerable to another invasion by the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.
• The Ancient Heavenly Emperor set aside his reservations and decided to attend the Maha Ancient Clan’s Eternal Gathering to wield the Eternal Undying Body.

Luo Li welcomed Zhao Chen to the Luo God Imperial Palace, where he revealed that he had become a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign and stayed with her for ten days. As they parted, Luo Li made him promise to visit her daily and confronted him about his other romantic interests.

• Luo Li worried about her approaching Heavenly Sovereign Tribulation and the gap between her cultivation and Zhao Chen's while governing the Luo God Continent.
• Zhao Chen arrived unexpectedly, embraced Luo Li, and told her he would stay at the Luo God Imperial Palace for several days.
• Zhao Chen revealed that he had defeated a top-tier Heavenly Demon Emperor and advanced to Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Zhao Chen and Luo Li spent ten days together in the imperial palace.
• Luo Li asked Zhao Chen to visit her at least once each day and warned him not to neglect her for Nine Nether and the others.
• Luo Li brought up Zhao Chen's involvement with Qing Shuang, Xiao Xiao, and Lin Jing, who had shown interest in visiting the Luo God Clan and Nine Nether Sparrow Clan.

Zhao Chen and Luo Li discussed strengthening the Asura Godly Court’s alliances after Qing Shuang became the Floating Pagoda Ancient Clan’s Young Clan Leader. They settled on targeting the Great Spirit Ancient Clan by entering one of their people in its Holy Maiden selection, and Zhao Chen hinted that he already had a candidate in mind.

• Luo Li acknowledged the political value of Zhao Chen’s connection with Qing Shuang and the Floating Pagoda Ancient Clan.
• Zhao Chen asked Luo Li which Ancient God Clan the Asura Godly Court should try to win over next.
• Luo Li ruled out the Maha and Black Heaven Ancient Clans and considered the Barren Ancient Clan less suitable, identifying the Great Spirit Ancient Clan as the best target.
• Luo Li proposed entering a candidate in the Great Spirit Ancient Clan’s Holy Maiden selection, and Zhao Chen suggested that the ideal candidate was already nearby.

Zhao Chen persuaded Luo Li to compete for the Great Spirit Ancient Clan Holy Maiden position and received a sign-in mission to support her. He then brought her to Crimson Flame Old Immortal, who recognized her as the ideal candidate he had been searching for.

• Zhao Chen named Luo Li as his choice for the Great Spirit Ancient Clan Holy Maiden, and she agreed to try despite worrying about failure.
• Zhao Chen received a system mission to support Luo Li's bid for the Holy Maiden position.
• Crimson Flame Old Immortal searched the islands near the Western Heaven Continent for a suitable candidate while planning to find the Great Spirit Old Ancestor's inheritance.
• Zhao Chen and Luo Li appeared before Crimson Flame Old Immortal, who grew wary of Zhao Chen's power.
• Zhao Chen introduced Luo Li as his recommended candidate, and Crimson Flame Old Immortal recognized her as the promising talent he had sought.

Luo Li agreed to pursue the Great Spirit Ancient Clan’s Holy Maiden position, and Crimson Flame Old Immortal told her that obtaining the lost Great Spirit Sky Piercing Light would secure her candidacy. Zhao Chen and Luo Li revealed how much the Great Thousand World had changed, then Zhao Chen demonstrated that he possessed the divine power; Crimson Flame Old Immortal was left stunned.

• Luo Li introduced herself as the Luo God Clan’s Quasi-Heavenly Sovereign Empress and asked Crimson Flame Old Immortal to recommend her as a Holy Maiden candidate.
• Crimson Flame Old Immortal explained that retrieving the Great Spirit Ancient Clan’s Great Spirit Sky Piercing Light from the Ancient Saint Abyss would guarantee Luo Li broad support.
• Luo Li told Crimson Flame Old Immortal that the Luo God Clan had reclaimed the Western Heaven Continent and that the Western Heaven War Emperor and his Battle Hall had fallen.
• Zhao Chen explained that the Asura Godly Court guarded the Saint Abyss Continent and that the Ancient Saint Abyss was now open for training.
• Zhao Chen revealed that he possessed the Great Spirit Sky Piercing Light and demonstrated it by vaporizing a vast expanse of seawater before restoring it.

Zhao Chen and Luo Li arrived in the Great Spirit Realm, where Crimson Flame Old Immortal presented Luo Li as a candidate for the Great Spirit Ancient Clan Holy Maiden. Great Darkness Old Ancestor recognized Zhao Chen as the God Emperor and faced a difficult choice as Zhao Chen asked whether the clan judged candidates by talent rather than bloodline.

• Zhao Chen displayed Great Spirit Sky Piercing Light, and Luo Li said she had received Great Spirit Old Ancestor's inheritance and was qualified to become Holy Maiden.
• Crimson Flame Old Immortal opened a spatial gate to the Great Spirit Realm and introduced Luo Li to Great Darkness Old Ancestor as a suitable candidate.
• Great Darkness Old Ancestor recognized Luo Li as the Luo God Clan's Empress and realized Zhao Chen was the Asura Godly Court's God Emperor.
• Zhao Chen explained that Luo Li wished to become the Great Spirit Ancient Clan Holy Maiden and asked whether the clan accepted candidates based on talent rather than bloodline.
• Great Darkness Old Ancestor worried that rejecting Luo Li could provoke Zhao Chen, whose strength and record of defeating powerful Demon Emperors intimidated him.

Zhao Chen secured Great Darkness Old Ancestor’s support for Luo Li to become the Great Spirit Ancient Clan’s Holy Maiden by revealing that she had obtained the Great Spirit Sky Piercing Light and Great Spirit Old Ancestor’s inheritance. He left Great Darkness Old Ancestor shocked by promising that he would see the ancient ancestor alive again in a second life.

• Crimson Flame Old Immortal and Great Darkness Old Ancestor agreed that Luo Li deserved to become the Great Spirit Ancient Clan’s Holy Maiden after she recovered the Great Spirit Sky Piercing Light.
• Great Darkness Old Ancestor declared that if Luo Li possessed the divine power, no one else could take the Holy Maiden position, since obtaining it proved she had potential to become a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Zhao Chen confirmed that Luo Li had obtained the Great Spirit Sky Piercing Light and Great Spirit Old Ancestor’s inheritance, and had brought back the ancestor’s remaining will.
• Zhao Chen considered how the Great Spirit Ancient Clan’s resources could help him find ingredients for more Life and Death Reincarnation Immortal Pills.
• Great Darkness Old Ancestor asked to meet Great Spirit Old Ancestor, but Zhao Chen said the ancestor was asleep and promised that he would later meet him alive in a second life.

Zhao Chen helped Luo Li become the Holy Maiden of the Great Spirit Ancient Clan and gave Great Darkness Old Ancestor hope of resurrecting Great Spirit Old Ancestor if he found two rare treasures. After Great Darkness returned to the Great Spirit Realm, Zhao Chen signed in and obtained the Great Spirit Myriad Transformations Divine Art.

• Zhao Chen told Great Darkness Old Ancestor that the Life and Death Reincarnation Immortal Pill could revive Great Spirit Old Ancestor if they found the Nine Revolutions Life Spirit Snow Lotus and Immortal Fate Divine Yang Flower.
• Great Darkness Old Ancestor declared Luo Li the Holy Maiden and entrusted the Great Spirit Ancient Chart, the clan’s treasure, to her.
• Zhao Chen gave Great Darkness Old Ancestor a Space Card connecting the Great Spirit Continent and Luo God Continent, then revealed that he had entered the Saint Grade after destroying Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor.
• Great Darkness Old Ancestor returned to the Great Spirit Realm through the spatial gate.
• Zhao Chen used his sign-in opportunity at the Great Spirit Realm and received the Great Spirit Myriad Transformations Divine Art.

Zhao Chen used the Great Spirit Myriad Transformations Divine Art to create an intelligent sword spirit and named her Sword Spirit Immortal. When he discovered Wen Qingxuan and the Wen Family were being pursued by the Killer Dynasty, he went to help them.

• Zhao Chen realized the divine art progressed from transforming things to sensing and ultimately creating them.
• Zhao Chen created a sword spirit, named her Sword Spirit Immortal, and gave her the Sword Spirit Scripture for the Sword Spirit Race.
• Sword Spirit Immortal sensed killing intent as the Wen Family's Spiritual Boat was chased by unmarked vessels.
• A system mission instructed Zhao Chen to rescue Wen Qingxuan and her companions from danger.
• Zhao Chen and Sword Spirit Immortal arrived above the Wen Family's Spiritual Boat as a Quasi-Heavenly Sovereign assassin threatened Wen Qingxuan.

Zhao Chen recognized Tang Meier as Wen Qingxuan and her companions fled pursuit by the Killer Dynasty, backed by the Northern Desert Wu Family. Just as a Quasi-Heavenly Sovereign attacked Wen Qingxuan and Tang Meier, a little girl in a golden-white dress appeared and cut apart his strike.

• Zhao Chen recognized the red-dressed Tang Meier from Myriad Phoenix Spiritual Academy and realized she was Tang Qian'er's older sister.
• Wen Qingxuan and Tang Meier's damaged Spiritual Boat came under attack from a Quasi-Heavenly Sovereign Killer Dynasty assassin while they awaited Granny He's aid.
• Wu Tong arrived and ordered the assassin to spare Wen Qingxuan and Tang Meier for him, while revealing the Northern Desert Wu Family's role in the attack.
• The assassin summoned a crystalline spiritual mountain to crush Wen Qingxuan and Tang Meier as they tried to resist.
• A little girl in a golden-white dress appeared, cleaved the crystalline mountain apart with her sword, and declared that she would send them to hell.

Sword Spirit Immortal appeared to save Wen Qingxuan and Tang Meier, revealing overwhelming power as she destroyed the Killer Dynasty’s assassins and killed Black Kill King. After restraining Wu Tong for the women to take back to the Northern Region Wen Family, she refused their invitation because she had to remain by her Master’s side.

• Sword Spirit Immortal introduced herself as a Spirit Race, Sword Spirit Immortal, and blocked Black Kill King’s attack on Wen Qingxuan and Tang Meier.
• Sword Spirit Immortal’s sword qi slaughtered the assassins sent against her, and Black Kill King fled while Wu Tong tried to escape as well.
• Sword Spirit Immortal’s sword strike shredded Black Kill King and tore the sky into a terrifying void filled with sword-qi storms, stopping Wu Tong’s flight.
• Wen Qingxuan and Tang Meier asked Sword Spirit Immortal to restrain Wu Tong so they could take him back to the Northern Region Wen Family, and she bound him while stripping away his spiritual energy.
• Wen Qingxuan and Tang Meier invited Sword Spirit Immortal to return with them, but she refused, saying she had to stay by her Master’s side.

Zhao Chen appeared before Wen Qingxuan and Tang Meier, revealing that the Sword Spirit Immortal was his disciple and rescuing them from the Northern Desert Wu Family’s trap. He invited them to enter the Ancient Saint Abyss with him to seek Spirit Butterfly Pill Immortal’s inheritance and reunite with their friends.

• Wen Qingxuan and Tang Meier learned that Zhao Chen was the Sword Spirit Immortal’s master when he appeared beside them.
• Zhao Chen asked why Wen Qingxuan and Tang Meier were near the relic, and Wen Qingxuan explained that the Northern Desert Wu Family had lured them into a trap.
• Wen Qingxuan told Zhao Chen that her group sought a grand alchemy master’s inheritance but had nearly been killed by the Northern Desert Wu Family.
• Tang Meier suggested that Wen Qingxuan ask Zhao Chen to let them enter the Ancient Saint Abyss, and Wen Qingxuan nervously denied that they were close.
• Zhao Chen invited Wen Qingxuan and Tang Meier to enter the Ancient Saint Abyss with him and visit their friends on the Heavenly Luo Continent.

Zhao Chen explained that he had turned the Ancient Saint Abyss into a protected training realm, then let Wen Qingxuan and Tang Meier explore the Spirit Butterfly Cave on their own. They defeated its Pill Beasts and obtained Saint Spirit Pills, leaving Wen Qingxuan with the pills that could help her reach Earth Supreme Realm Great Perfection.

• Wen Qingxuan asked Zhao Chen why he had not purified the Ancient Saint Abyss, and he explained that he had made it a secret realm for training geniuses.
• Zhao Chen told Wen Qingxuan and Tang Meier to rely on their own abilities to claim Spirit Butterfly Pill Immortal's inheritance, and they entered the Spirit Butterfly Cave.
• Wen Qingxuan recognized the ten awakened stone beasts as Pill Beasts and identified the central Flood Dragon Pill Beast's divine pills as likely Saint Spirit Pills.
• Tang Meier used the Red Phoenix Feather to trap the Flood Dragon Pill Beast with Phoenix Flame Cage, giving Wen Qingxuan a chance to attack.
• Wen Qingxuan destroyed the Flood Dragon Pill Beast with Heavenly Phoenix Shadow, seized its two divine pills, and continued attacking the remaining Pill Beasts.

Wen Qingxuan began breaking through with a Saint Spirit Pill while Zhao Chen used a sign-in reward to gain the Spirit Butterfly Pill Classic, a Dominator Realm alchemy inheritance. The classic revealed how World Power could enable him to refine Life and Death Reincarnation Immortal Pills, but left him questioning whether those reborn through his pills could live only in the world inside his Great Thousand Holy Tree.

• Wen Qingxuan gave Tang Meier the remaining pills, then swallowed a Saint Spirit Pill and began breaking through under Zhao Chen's protection.
• Zhao Chen signed in at Spirit Butterfly Cave and received the Spirit Butterfly Pill Classic.
• Zhao Chen learned that the classic described Dominator Realm alchemy, which used World Power rather than ordinary spiritual energy.
• Zhao Chen realized he might use the Great Thousand Holy Tree's World Power and his Great Spirit Myriad Transformations Divine Art to produce Life and Death Reincarnation Immortal Pills.
• Zhao Chen worried that those revived by pills refined with World Power might be bound to the world nurtured by the Great Thousand Holy Tree.

Zhao Chen tested how World Power and the Great Spirit Myriad Transformations Divine Art could create and sustain treasures, then reshaped Sword Spirit Immortal’s body and helped her break through to Saint Grade. After sending her to cultivate in the Holy Spirit Realm, he agreed to return to the Northern Spiritual Realm with Tang Meier.

• Zhao Chen created a Nine Revolutions Life Spirit Snow Lotus using World Power and an Immortal Fate Divine Yang Flower using the Holy Spirit Realm’s spiritual energy, then found the latter withered after leaving the Great Thousand Holy Tree.
• Zhao Chen used a trace of World Power to reshape Sword Spirit Immortal’s Sword Spirit Body, and she broke through from peak Immortal Grade to Saint Grade.
• Zhao Chen sent Sword Spirit Immortal back to the Holy Spirit Realm to cultivate toward the peak of Saint Grade and possibly Half-Step Dominator Realm.
• Tang Meier asked Zhao Chen about Tang Qian’er’s cultivation and said she hoped to return to the Northern Spiritual Realm to see the Tang Territory.
• Zhao Chen agreed to return to the Northern Spiritual Realm with Tang Meier.

Wen Qingxuan reached Earth Supreme Realm Great Perfection and joined Zhao Chen and Tang Meier on their journey through Spirit Butterfly Cave. After claiming the Spirit Butterfly Pill Immortal’s inheritance, she discovered a spirit array that could lead to the Profound Dragon War Emperor’s inheritance.

• Wen Qingxuan agreed to travel with Zhao Chen and Tang Meier to the Northern Spiritual Realm, and they continued through Spirit Butterfly Cave’s pill-beast trials.
• Wen Qingxuan and Tang Meier defeated pill beasts across more than ten stone halls and collected numerous divine pills.
• Wen Qingxuan entered the bronze pill furnace and obtained the Spirit Butterfly Pill Immortal’s alchemy inheritance, Spirit Butterfly Pill Furnace, and Spirit Butterfly Azure Flame.
• Tang Meier noticed a spirit array beneath the pill furnace, and Wen Qingxuan realized it was the key to the Profound Dragon War Emperor’s inheritance and possibly his preserved Profound Dragon Army.

Wen Qingxuan and Tang Meier entered the Profound Dragon Space, where Zhao Chen awakened the long-slumbering Profound Dragon Army. After learning that the Extraterritorial Evil Clan still threatened the Great Thousand World, the army renewed its vow to fight and discovered Zhao Chen was the God Emperor of the Asura Godly Court.

• Wen Qingxuan activated the spirit array, and she, Tang Meier, and Zhao Chen entered the Profound Dragon Space.
• Zhao Chen used his power to awaken every soldier of the Profound Dragon Army without anyone dying.
• Wen Qingxuan told the soldiers that the Extraterritorial Evil Clan still threatened the Great Thousand World, and the army swore to fight its ancient enemy again.
• Wen Qingxuan introduced Zhao Chen as the God Emperor and master of the Asura Godly Court.
• The Profound Dragon Army reacted with disbelief when it realized Zhao Chen might be a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign.

Zhao Chen directed the Profound Dragon Army to join the Ancient Heavenly Emperor at Saint Abyss Pass, then destroyed the sealed Demon Emperor corpse and restored the army’s homeland. When the army asked to follow him, he challenged them to kill an Immortal Grade Profound Demon Emperor before returning.

• Zhao Chen told Jiang Long and the Profound Dragon Army to join the Ancient Heavenly Emperor at Saint Abyss Pass to fight the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.
• Zhao Chen opened the ground beneath the Commanding Platform and destroyed the Demon Emperor’s remains with a snap of his fingers.
• Zhao Chen stabilized the Profound Dragon Space and transformed it into a flourishing land connected to the Great Thousand World.
• Jiang Long offered Zhao Chen the Profound Dragon Army’s military talisman, but Zhao Chen suggested Tang Meier or Wen Qingxuan become its new king instead.
• Jiang Long asked Zhao Chen for a mission, and Zhao Chen ordered the Profound Dragon Army to kill an Immortal Grade Profound Demon Emperor before returning.