Chapter Summaries

Chen Changqing followed the Inheritance Token to a valley, where a powerful immortal beast guarded the other token and attacked him. After Chen Changqing fought back with his Heavenly Thunder Twin Swords, the beast prepared a destructive sphere of light, leaving their battle poised to escalate.

• Chen Changqing followed the Inheritance Token's guidance to a valley where the other token was located.
• An enormous immortal beast sensed Chen Changqing, attacked him with bloody rays, and then sent a whirlwind of stones toward him with its roar.
• Chen Changqing destroyed the stone whirlwind with the Heavenly Emperor Divine Fist and sensed that the beast's strength surpassed a late Tribulation Crossing cultivator.
• Chen Changqing summoned the Heavenly Thunder Twin Swords, and the beast charged at him and struck the Thunderflame Sword aside.
• The Thunderflame Sword's lightning injured the beast, which began condensing a destructive sphere of light in its mouth.
• Chen Changqing merged the twin swords into the Heavenly Thunder Sword and released its Immortal Artifact might.

Chen Changqing killed the immortal beast guarding the valley and claimed the Inheritance Token inside its cave. When it merged with his own token, the Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor appeared before him.

• Chen Changqing injured the immortal beast with the Heavenly Thunder Sword and struck it with lightning Sword Qi.
• Chen Changqing transformed into a streak of light and pierced the immortal beast's skull, killing it.
• Chen Changqing entered the cave and took the Inheritance Token floating above a stone platform.
• Chen Changqing retrieved his own Inheritance Token, and the two tokens fused together.
• The merged tokens caused the Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor to appear before Chen Changqing.

Chen Changqing met the Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor’s phantom in the secret realm and learned that nine other successors were competing with him for the emperor’s true inheritance. After the phantom vanished without explaining how to find them, Chen Changqing decided to rely on the Inheritance Tokens to seek out the other inheritors.

• Chen Changqing recognized the Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor’s phantom, who greeted him as someone fated to meet him.
• The Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor said he had left countless Inheritance Tokens across the Jiuzhou Continent and that other successors had found them.
• The Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor revealed that Chen Changqing had nine rivals and that only the strongest of the ten would receive his true inheritance.
• Chen Changqing asked about the competition’s rules and how to locate his rivals, but the phantom warned him that they were formidable and then disappeared without answering.
• Chen Changqing wondered whether the revelation was true and concluded that he would have to search for other Inheritance Tokens to encounter the other successors.

Chen Changqing fused the Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor's Inheritance Token but received no reward, then went exploring and found True Lord Golden Palace fighting a black-robed True Lord over a mysterious fragment. Their battle left both badly wounded, and the chapter ended with them being thrown apart after exchanging attacks.

• Chen Changqing fused the Inheritance Token and learned that nine other people on the Jiuzhou Continent were competing for the Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor's inheritance.
• Chen Changqing left the cave abode and continued searching for fortuitous treasures.
• Chen Changqing discovered True Lord Golden Palace and an unknown black-robed True Lord fighting over a mysterious fragment on an altar.
• True Lord Golden Palace wounded the black-robed True Lord, but backlash weakened him and let the black-robed True Lord pierce his shoulder.
• True Lord Golden Palace struck the black-robed True Lord with a punch, and both True Lords flew backward in opposite directions.

Chen Changqing tried to seize a black fragment protected by restrictions, then weighed his chances against the two badly wounded True Lords fighting over it. He chose to challenge them, and True Lord Dragon Shadow attacked, only for Chen Changqing to break his sword strike with one punch.

• Chen Changqing rushed toward the black fragment, but its golden and black restrictions shattered his spiritual power and blasted him away.
• True Lord Golden Palace and True Lord Dragon Shadow warned Chen Changqing to leave, while he assessed their injuries and hesitated over whether to fight or retreat.
• Chen Changqing told the two True Lords to abandon the fragment and leave to recover, provoking True Lord Dragon Shadow.
• True Lord Dragon Shadow slashed at Chen Changqing with a black sword light, but Chen Changqing's Heavenly Emperor Fist tore it apart.
• True Lord Dragon Shadow was stunned by Chen Changqing's strength, while True Lord Golden Palace cautioned that the junior was not simple.

Chen Changqing broke the seals True Lord Golden Palace and True Lord Dragon Shadow had placed on a fragment, took it for himself, and stored it in his Heaven Treading Ring. The two wounded True Lords threatened him, but Chen Changqing dismissed them, and True Lord Dragon Shadow vowed to kill him.

• True Lord Golden Palace and True Lord Dragon Shadow urged Chen Changqing to leave, but he guessed they were gravely injured and refused to be intimidated.
• Chen Changqing unleashed the Heavenly Emperor Divine Fist's Starfall Style and shattered the two True Lords' seals on the fragment with one punch.
• Chen Changqing took the fragment and sensed an ancient, pure will surge into him before withdrawing his Spiritual Sense.
• Chen Changqing stored the fragment in his Heaven Treading Ring despite True Lord Golden Palace demanding it back.
• True Lord Dragon Shadow threatened Chen Changqing in the name of the Netherworld Sect, but Chen Changqing mocked his injuries, prompting Dragon Shadow to vow to kill him.

Chen Changqing faced Lord Golden Palace and Lord Dragon Shadow as the wounded True Lords prepared to kill him, but his Immortal Artifact and identical clones stunned them. The chapter ended as two clones revealed Immortal Artifacts of their own, the Haotian Hammer and Dragon Pattern Sky-Splitting Spear.

• Lord Dragon Shadow urged Lord Golden Palace to join forces and kill Chen Changqing before deciding who would claim the fragment.
• Lord Golden Palace and Lord Dragon Shadow gathered their strength for a desperate attack, and Chen Changqing summoned the Heavenly Thunder Sword.
• The True Lords were shocked to see Chen Changqing wield an Immortal Artifact, then agreed to divide his possessions after killing him.
• Chen Changqing summoned three clones whose auras matched his own, alarming Lord Golden Palace and Lord Dragon Shadow.
• The first clone produced the Immortal Artifact Haotian Hammer, while the second revealed the Dragon Pattern Sky-Splitting Spear.

Chen Changqing and his three clones revealed four Immortal Artifacts and joined forces to defeat True Lord Golden Palace and True Lord Dragon Shadow. After collecting their storage artifacts, Chen Changqing received AFK Points for killing both late-stage True Lord cultivators.

• Chen Changqing's third clone summoned the Immortal Burial Qin, shocking True Lord Golden Palace and True Lord Dragon Shadow with the four Immortal Artifacts.
• True Lord Golden Palace and True Lord Dragon Shadow attacked Chen Changqing, who countered with four moves of the Immortal Slaying Sword Technique while his clones used their hammer, spear, and qin.
• The four attacks shattered the two True Lords' sword techniques, and the Immortal Burial Qin's music wounded their souls.
• Chen Changqing and his clones overwhelmed and killed True Lord Golden Palace and True Lord Dragon Shadow, leaving behind their storage artifacts.
• Chen Changqing collected the storage artifacts, dismissed his clones, and received AFK Points for both kills.

After killing True Lord Golden Palace and True Lord Dragon Shadow, Chen Changqing examined the black fragment they had fought over and learned it was a Fragment of the Creation Jade Disc containing an embryonic space-time law. He spent AFK Points to begin refining it and entered a state where everything around him seemed to slow.

• Chen Changqing fled the battlefield with the storage artifacts, the black fragment, and 480,000 AFK Points.
• He hid in a mountainside fissure, set up restrictions and a formation, and cautiously sent his Spiritual Sense into the fragment.
• The fragment revealed visions of an ancient war, and the system identified it as a Fragment of the Creation Jade Disc that preserved an embryonic space-time law.
• Chen Changqing decided the refinement was worth the cost and ordered the system to begin stage one refinement.
• As the fragment's patterns formed, Chen Changqing felt time slow around him and tried to summon the space-time law.

Chen Changqing gained a rudimentary grasp of time and space laws, then searched the storage artifacts of True Lord Golden Palace and True Lord Dragon Shadow. A fragment of Dragon Shadow’s soul seal escaped and alerted the Netherworld Sect, which sent people to investigate the Immortal Secret Realm.

• Chen Changqing tested a small spacetime ripple that could briefly slow spiritual energy, then learned further refinement required more AFK points.
• Chen Changqing searched True Lord Golden Palace’s storage artifact and found a token marked “Golden Palace” and “Heaven.”
• Chen Changqing opened True Lord Dragon Shadow’s storage artifact, destroyed the soul projection inside the Netherworld Soul Seal Jade Slip, but failed to stop half of its black thread from escaping.
• Chen Changqing suppressed the Netherworld Sect-marked items and left the mountain’s hollow to avoid pursuit.
• A disciple in the Netherworld Sect’s Soul Hall saw Dragon Shadow’s soul lamp go out and reported his death to the Sect Master.
• The Netherworld Sect received a damaged soul imprint showing a hand wielding a thunderbolt longsword, and the Sect Master ordered an investigation for sword-wielding Tribulation Transcendence cultivators at the Immortal Secret Realm.

Chen Changqing reunited with Rujie and Si Youyou, who had each obtained a powerful treasure in the secret realm. They learned that an Immortal Palace ruin containing an alleged elixir of immortality had appeared in the core region, and prepared to head there.

• Chen Changqing followed the Inheritance Token's faint resonance toward the core region, then recognized Rujie's Buddhist aura and went to find him.
• Rujie emerged from an ancient temple after breaking through to Tribulation Crossing Mid Stage and showed Chen Changqing the Great Sun Tathagata Seal he had obtained.
• Si Youyou arrived with the Soul-Devouring Bell, an ancient demon-path treasure she had taken from an old hall after fighting its remnant souls.
• A passing cultivator told Chen Changqing, Rujie, and Si Youyou that an Immortal Palace ruin had appeared in the core region and reportedly held an elixir of immortality.
• Chen Changqing and his companions heard that powerful cultivators, including Fairy Cold Moon, True Person Xuecang, and the Heavenly Lords Taiyin, Lihuo, and Kunyuan, were rushing to the Immortal Palace.

Chen Changqing rushed to rescue Bai Wuya, who was surrounded by Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kun Yuan Heavenly Monarch while defending the Nine-Revolution Golden Lotus. Chen Changqing and his companions faced the two Heavenly Monarchs, and Rujie prepared to help hold Kun Yuan back.

• A wounded cultivator told Chen Changqing that Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kun Yuan Heavenly Monarch had surrounded Bai Wuya over the Nine-Revolution Golden Lotus.
• Bai Wuya fought both Heavenly Monarchs but was badly injured as they tried to seize the lotus and kill him.
• Chen Changqing arrived in time to shatter Taiyin Heavenly Monarch's frost spear and land beside Bai Wuya.
• Chen Changqing learned the lotus could help Bai Wuya and declared they could not let the enemy take it.
• Chen Changqing asked Rujie and Si Youyou to hold Kun Yuan back, and Rujie summoned a golden Buddhist wheel.

Chen Changqing, his clones, Rujie, and Si Youyou fought Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kun Yuan Heavenly Monarch to secure the Nine-Revolution Golden Lotus. Bai Wuya seized the ripe lotus, and the two Heavenly Lords hesitated to continue fighting as Chen Changqing stood with their group.

• Si Youyou used the Soul-Devouring Bell while Rujie attacked Kun Yuan Heavenly Monarch, and Chen Changqing summoned three clones to join the battle.
• Chen Changqing used a trace of spacetime law to evade Taiyin Heavenly Monarch's attacks and wound him with his sword.
• Chen Changqing's clones, Rujie, and Si Youyou distracted and drove back Kun Yuan Heavenly Monarch.
• The Nine-Revolution Golden Lotus ripened, and Chen Changqing directed his allies to hold off the Heavenly Lords while Bai Wuya seized it.
• Bai Wuya threatened Taiyin Heavenly Monarch with his spear as Chen Changqing and the others regrouped beside him, leaving the Heavenly Lords wary of attacking.

After driving off Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kun Yuan Heavenly Monarch, Chen Changqing and his companions hurried toward the Immortal Palace, where cultivators were battling over the Elixir of Immortality. Their progress stopped at a rocky slope when bandits demanded a toll, and Chen Changqing turned their threat back on them.

• Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kun Yuan Heavenly Monarch retreated after Chen Changqing confronted them, and Bai Wuya scolded Chen Changqing for fighting Heavenly Monarchs head-on.
• A cultivator announced that the Immortal Palace entrance had opened and that Fairy Cold Moon and True Person Xuecang had entered its outer hall, so Bai Wuya urged the group onward.
• Chen Changqing, Bai Wuya, Rujie, and Si Youyou traveled toward the Immortal Palace and witnessed cultivators killing one another over maps and spirit herbs.
• A scar-faced bandit demanded a Quasi-Immortal Artifact or one hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones from each traveler, even after learning Chen Changqing was the Shushan Holy Son.
• Chen Changqing drew the Heavenly Thunder Sword slightly and ordered the bandits to leave their storage artifacts behind and get lost.

Chen Changqing forced a group of cultivators to surrender their valuables, then arrived with his companions at the ruined immortal palace, where Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kun Yuan Heavenly Monarch faced them down. Chen Changqing restrained himself from starting another fight, and Rujie boasted to the gathered cultivators about fighting a Heavenly Monarch.

• Chen Changqing swiftly cut the scar-faced cultivator’s saber and forced his group to hand over their storage rings and Storage Pouches.
• Rujie returned the scar-faced cultivator’s jade pendant after hearing it was a keepsake from his mother, then took his other Storage Pouch.
• Chen Changqing, Rujie, Si Youyou, and Bai Wuya reached the immortal palace, where tens of thousands of cultivators and several powerful figures had gathered.
• Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kun Yuan Heavenly Monarch glared at the group, but Chen Changqing chose not to draw his sword or renew their fight.
• Chen Changqing traded barbs with Taiyin Heavenly Monarch, while Rujie told nearby cultivators that he had fought a Heavenly Monarch alongside Chen Changqing.

Chen Changqing and the others waited as Fairy Cold Moon and True Person Xuecang broke the Immortal Palace’s restrictions, while he concealed the Inheritance Token’s growing resonance. The gates finally opened, releasing a surge of immortal aura as cultivators reacted to the palace within.

• Bai Wuya warned Chen Changqing about the hostile cultivators and gave him a Shushan Communication Talisman to help them find each other inside the Immortal Palace.
• Fairy Cold Moon and True Person Xuecang worked to break the gate’s restrictions, while cultivators who rushed up the steps were killed by the array.
• Over three days, the Inheritance Token shook more violently whenever the restrictions weakened, and Chen Changqing suppressed its resonance to keep it hidden.
• Fairy Cold Moon opened the formation core, and True Person Xuecang struck the stone gate as the two retreated from it.
• The Immortal Palace gates opened and released immortal aura, causing some cultivators to sit and absorb it while others cried out in alarm.

Chen Changqing entered the Immortal Palace, where its small-world interior scattered him from his companions. Following the resonance of his Inheritance Token, he met Jian Chen, another inheritor of the Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor, who revealed that only one of ten inheritors could reach the true relic estate.

• Chen Changqing entered the Immortal Palace with Bai Wuya, Rujie, and Si Youyou, but a spatial force scattered them across its small-world interior.
• Chen Changqing followed his Inheritance Token's signal through a woodland and into a medicinal garden, ignoring spirit herbs along the way.
• Chen Changqing's token resonated with a more complete token held by an azure-robed sword cultivator, who introduced himself as Jian Chen.
• The tokens revealed the words Heaven-Treading, confirming that Chen Changqing and Jian Chen were both inheritors of the Heaven-Treading Immortal Emperor.
• Chen Changqing held back from fighting Jian Chen, who explained that ten tokens would become one and that the tokens were keys and sacrifices, with only one inheritor able to enter the true Heaven-Treading Relic Estate.

Chen Changqing confronted Jian Chen in the herb garden and learned that a black door deep within the Immortal Palace led to the Heaven-Treading Relic Estate. After Jian Chen left, Chen Changqing decided to venture deeper and prepare himself first.

• Chen Changqing asked Jian Chen about the other inheritors and learned that Jian Chen had killed one, while another had escaped.
• Jian Chen revealed that all inheritors would seek the Heaven-Treading Relic Estate and showed Chen Changqing a token bearing four shares.
• Jian Chen described the other inheritors as powerful figures from the Nine Provinces and pointed out a black door beyond three floating mountains that required more tokens to open.
• Jian Chen left the herb garden after taking one blade of azure grass, warning that only a sword that kills could save a life.
• Chen Changqing drove off two Rogue Cultivators without killing them, then headed toward the garden's center to prepare before going deeper into the Immortal Palace.

Chen Changqing refined the Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma in a hidden chamber to strengthen his Primordial Spirit, then heard that the Netherworld Sect was hunting him and Rujie over True Lord Dragon Shadow's death. Meanwhile, Rujie was cornered by Netherworld cultivators demanding a Buddha bone and Chen Changqing's whereabouts, and he told them Chen Changqing had gone to their ancestors' graves.

• Chen Changqing harvested Spirit Herbs, including a Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma, from the herb garden before leaving without taking more.
• Chen Changqing hid in an empty stone chamber and refined pieces of the ganoderma, stabilizing his Primordial Spirit and slightly improving his control over space.
• Chen Changqing overheard Netherworld Sect cultivators searching for people connected to True Lord Dragon Shadow's death and stayed hidden to finish refining the ganoderma.
• Rujie took a golden finger bone from a Buddhist hall and was confronted by five Netherworld cultivators who demanded the Buddha bone and Chen Changqing's location.
• The Black-robed elder restrained Rujie and threatened him, so Rujie claimed Chen Changqing had gone to the Netherworld Sect's ancestors' graves.

Si Youyou rescued Rujie from the black-robed elder, but the two were overwhelmed while defending the ancient Buddha bone. Chen Changqing arrived and cut them free, then the Netherworld Sect alerted its forces to his presence as he summoned three incarnations to face the attackers.

• Si Youyou entered the Buddhist hall and helped Rujie break free, then they blasted through its side wall and fled with the Buddha bone as the black-robed elder and five Demon Cultivators pursued them.
• On the mountain path, the black-robed elder suppressed Si Youyou and bound Rujie with black threads, then moved to seize the Buddha bone.
• Chen Changqing arrived, cut Rujie free with the Heavenly Thunder Sword, and returned the Buddha bone and broken bowl to him.
• The black-robed elder sent a message identifying Chen Changqing and summoning Netherworld Sect disciples, but Chen Changqing cut the talisman token apart after its message had been sent.
• When five Demon Cultivators attacked, Chen Changqing struck the Heaven Treading Ring and summoned three incarnations armed with the Immortal Burial Qin, Dragon Pattern Sky-Splitting Spear, and Haotian hammer.