Chapter Summaries

Fang Chen used the Yin Yang Immortal Sword to pin down the Worry-Free Battle Array, then struck the Bai Family’s Golden Light Battle Array with the Falling Star Immortal Sword. The Falling Star Immortal Sword also began devouring its target, and Bai Qi’s attempt to pull it free failed, leaving the array weakened and the sword growing stronger.

• Fang Chen let the Worry-Free Battle Array’s sword pierce his chest while driving the Yin Yang Immortal Sword through the array, causing Chen Tianjiao and the Chen Family Great Emperors to lose energy.
• Qin Guang warned Chen Tianjiao that the Yin Yang Immortal Sword could not be pulled out, so Chen Tianjiao held it in place while Tang Su, Lu Kuang, and Bai Qi attacked Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen evaded Tang Su’s Qinglian Battle Array and sent the Falling Star Immortal Sword into Bai Qi’s Golden Light Battle Array as golden beams shattered his body.
• Fang Chen reassembled himself in the distance while Bai Qi and the Bai Family Great Emperors felt their strength drained by the Falling Star Immortal Sword.
• Bai Qi tried to pull out the Falling Star Immortal Sword but felt it fused to the array; he severed the golden band around its hilt, reducing the drain while the sword continued to grow stronger.

Fang Chen used the Black Stone to destroy the Lu Family’s Void Battle Array and break through the Tang Family’s Qinglian Battle Array’s confinement. He then pinned the Qinglian Battle Array beneath the growing Stone, leaving the Tang Family struggling as its array began to crack.

• Tang Su and Lu Kuang used the Qinglian and Void Battle Arrays to trap Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen sent the Black Stone into the Void Battle Array, causing it to expand and collapse.
• Fang Chen used Soul Devouring Storm to kill most of the Lu Family’s Great Emperors, leaving only ten survivors.
• Fang Chen smashed through Tang Su’s azure Lotus Petals and escaped the Qinglian Battle Array’s seal.
• Fang Chen dropped the Black Stone onto the Qinglian Battle Array, whose Dao Patterns and Lotus Petals began to crack under its weight.

Fang Chen destroyed the Tang Family's Qinglian Battle Array and crushed the Bai Family's Golden Light Battle Array with the Black Stone. After Chen Tianjiao tried and failed to rescue Bai Qi, Fang Chen unleashed a Soul Devouring Storm on the Bai Family's Great Emperors.

• The Black Stone overwhelmed the Qinglian Battle Array, and Fang Chen destroyed it with a Soul Devouring Storm, leaving Tang Su and ten other Tang Family Great Emperors alive.
• Fang Chen repeatedly struck the Golden Light Battle Array with the Black Stone, weakening it and driving it into Immortal Lake.
• Bai Qi asked Chen Tianjiao to save him as the Black Stone deformed the Golden Light Battle Array and cracks spread across it.
• Chen Tianjiao tried to knock away the Black Stone with the Worry-Free Battle Array's immortal sword, but the stone remained unharmed.
• The Golden Light Battle Array burst apart under the Black Stone, and Fang Chen unleashed a Soul Devouring Storm on the Bai Family's Great Emperors.

Fang Chen destroyed the Chen Family's Worry-Free Battle Array, killed Chen Tianjiao and the other surviving Chen Great Emperors, and forced the remaining Four Great Families to flee the Immortal Lake battlefield. As the Immortal Peak Competition neared its end, the watching Great Emperors celebrated his unprecedented victory and gathered to congratulate him.

• Fang Chen used the Falling Star Immortal Sword and the Black Stone to overwhelm the Worry-Free Battle Array until it collapsed.
• Fang Chen unleashed a Soul Devouring Storm, then killed Chen Tianjiao and the fifteen surviving Chen Family Great Emperors with Light Arrows and the Darkness Devouring God Domain.
• The Great Emperors of the other Four Great Families fled through the Barrier at the edge of Immortal Lake, while Fang Chen could not catch them in time.
• The onlookers cheered as Fang Chen's Slaughter Points passed ten billion and praised his defeat of the Five Great Families.
• Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, Ye Kong, Myna bird, Little Crane, the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm, Spiritual Martial Great Emperor, Great Emperor Youhan, and other Great Emperors gathered around Fang Chen to congratulate him.

After the Immortal Peak Competition ended, Fang Chen returned to Golden Cicada Ridge and chose to remain there until the Five Great Families’ response became clear. News of his victory and his destruction of their super Battle Arrays spread throughout the Human Race, making him famous and enraging the families.

• Fang Chen and the other Great Emperors said their farewells before the competition ended and the contestants were transported back to their original locations.
• Fang Chen returned to Golden Cicada Ridge and decided to stay there for safety while he waited to learn what the Five Great Families would do.
• The competition results spread through the Human Race, and powerhouses were shocked that Fang Chen had earned over ten billion Slaughter Points, defeated five super Battle Arrays, and killed Chen Tianjiao.
• The Family Heads of the Five Great Families flew into a rage when they learned of Fang Chen’s victory.
• Contestants shared recordings of Fang Chen fighting the super Battle Arrays, and viewers watched him destroy them and slaughter nearly all the Great Emperors who formed them.

Fang Chen’s victories over the Five Great Families’ supreme Battle Arrays convinced the Human Race that he had Immortal King Potential. At Tianyuan Immortal Palace, Chaos Great Immortal praised Fang Chen’s talent and ordered the Barbaric Ancient Region’s people to prepare for retaliation from the Five Great Families.

• Fang Chen defeated all five supreme Battle Arrays, astonishing the spectators and earning praise as a genius with Immortal King Potential.
• Xuanhuang True Immortal received a message and hurried to Tianyuan Immortal Palace, where Chaos Great Immortal and other immortals had gathered.
• Chaos Great Immortal and Xuanhuang True Immortal agreed not to interfere with Fang Chen unless he faced trouble he could not handle.
• Chaos Great Immortal warned that the Five Great Families would retaliate against Fang Chen and ordered the Barbaric Ancient Region’s disciples to seek refuge at Golden Cicada Ridge, with other shelters or the Land of Ending as alternatives.

The ancestors of the Five Great Families agreed that Fang Chen was a threat to their power and ordered his elimination at any cost. Their representatives then went to the Tianyuan Immortal Mountain, where the Chaos Great Immortal received them.

• The Five Family Heads discussed their losses in the Immortal Peak Competition and agreed to wait for their ancestors before deciding how to deal with Fang Chen.
• Penglai Great Immortal, Wuyou Great Immortal, Qinglian Great Immortal, Qingxu Great Immortal, and Jinguang Great Immortal appeared before the Family Heads as wisps of their Primordial Spirits.
• Jinguang Great Immortal called Fang Chen a grave threat, and the other ancestors agreed that the Five Great Families should eliminate him before he grew stronger.
• The Family Heads returned to their families and passed down the order to eliminate Fang Chen at any cost.
• The Five Great Families sent five Great Immortal representatives to the Tianyuan Immortal Mountain, where the Chaos Great Immortal welcomed them.

The Five Great Families’ Great Immortals demanded that the Chaos Great Immortal hand over Fang Chen, but he refused and defended the Barbaric Ancient Region. After destroying his clone, they flattened Tianyuan Immortal Mountain, leaving their revenge against Fang Chen underway.

• The Bloodlight Great Immortal, Purple Vine Great Immortal, and Black River Great Immortal confronted the Chaos Great Immortal and demanded that he bring Fang Chen out of Golden Cicada Ridge.
• The Chaos Great Immortal refused, condemned the Five Great Families, and spat at the Black River Great Immortal twice.
• The Black River Great Immortal destroyed the Chaos Great Immortal’s clone and threatened to kill cultivators from the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• The Great Immortals realized they could not defeat Fang Chen in Golden Cicada Ridge and decided to destroy Tianyuan Immortal Mountain instead.
• The Black River Great Immortal, Bloodlight Great Immortal, Purple Vine Great Immortal, Floating Dust Great Immortal, and Evil Shadow Great Immortal joined forces to level Tianyuan Immortal Mountain.

After Fang Chen returned to Floating Immortal City, Little Golden Cicada explained the rewards and expanded permissions he had gained by winning the Immortal Peak Competition. Ye Qingci arrived with news that the Five Great Families had destroyed Tianyuan Immortal Mountain and ordered the slaughter of Barbaric Ancient Region Cultivators, leaving Fang Chen facing their threat alone.

• The Five Great Families issued a kill order against Barbaric Ancient Region Cultivators and anyone who helped them, after destroying Tianyuan Immortal Mountain.
• The Chaos Great Immortal and the Xuanhuang True Immortal led the Barbaric Ancient Region Cultivators out of the Outer Heavens toward the Land of Ending, leaving Fang Chen to fend for himself.
• Little Golden Cicada told Fang Chen that his first-place finish unlocked access to several Secret Realms, the Time Secret Realm, Contribution Points, and upgraded permissions.
• A Great Emperor brought Ye Qingci to see Fang Chen, and she told him that Ye Kong had left for the Land of Ending with the Xuanhuang Ancestor.
• Ye Qingci warned Fang Chen that the Five Great Families had targeted him and were killing Barbaric Ancient Region Cultivators on sight, stirring his killing intent.

After learning that the Five Great Families had attacked cultivators in the Barbaric Ancient Region, Fang Chen resolved to grow stronger in Golden Cicada Ridge before confronting them. He began gathering resources for himself and his companions while waiting for his remaining rewards and another chance to cultivate.

• Ye Qingci told Fang Chen that the Five Great Families had targeted cultivators in the Barbaric Ancient Region, enraging him and his companions.
• Great Emperor Huo Li urged Fang Chen to stay calm and explained that reaching the Nine-Revolutions Great Immortal level could let him face the Five Great Families’ ancestors.
• Fang Chen agreed to remain in Golden Cicada Ridge, where the Five Great Families’ stronger cultivators could not enter, and build up his strength.
• Great Emperor Huo Li proposed sorting Wushuang City's accumulated resources and the competition's spoils to strengthen Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen told Little Crane to sort the treasures with Huahua and set aside corpses for Little Star and Chi You to consume.
• Fang Chen recalled that Little Golden Cicada would deliver his remaining rewards in three days, but his time in the Secret Realm had left him with just over a thousand years of lifespan.

Fang Chen sought an Elixir of Immortality after losing most of his Lifespan by cultivating for 7,500 years in a Time Secret Realm, where he gained the Spirit Sword Art. His competition reward then arrived, giving him five billion Contribution Points, three Time Secret Realm opportunities, and the Human Race's highest access level in the Heavenly River Diagram.

• Fang Chen asked Huahua to check whether the Golden Cicada Palace had Elixirs of Immortality, and he explained his depleted Lifespan to Ye Qingci and Great Emperor Huo Li.
• Fang Chen told Ye Qingci and Great Emperor Huo Li that he had cultivated for 7,500 years in the Spirit Sword Immortal's Time Secret Realm and offered to teach Great Emperor Huo Li the Spirit Sword Art.
• Huahua reported that the Golden Cicada Palace sold Elixirs of Immortality for fifty million Contribution Points each and explained that Outer Heavens spirit medicines could extend a Great Emperor's Lifespan by ten thousand years.
• Three days later, Fang Chen received five billion Contribution Points, three marks for Time Secret Realm cultivation, and the Human Race's highest access level within the Heavenly River Diagram.

After receiving five billion Contribution Points for his record-breaking Slaughter Points, Fang Chen bought Nine Revolutions Longevity Pills and gained 60,000 years of Lifespan. He then prepared to study Cultivation Techniques and cultivate, first passing the Spirit Sword Art inheritance to Great Emperor Huo Li.

• Ye Qingci, Ye Kong, Great Emperor Huo Li, the Myna bird, and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm received their Contribution Points rewards, while Fang Chen's five billion points stunned the Human Cultivators.
• Human Cultivators praised Fang Chen's record and celebrated his defeat of the Five Great Families, while the families feared he would grow stronger.
• Cultivators began moving to Golden Cicada Ridge after hearing Floating Immortal City would let them keep half the harvest from mining and farming.
• Fang Chen spent 500 million Contribution Points on five Nine Revolutions Longevity Pills and took one, which increased his Lifespan to over 60,000 years.
• Fang Chen told Great Emperor Huo Li he planned to study in the Heavenly Mechanism Tower and cultivate in the Time Secret Realm, then formed a golden Sword Seal carrying the Spirit Sword Art inheritance.

Great Emperor Huo Li studied the Spirit Sword Art and decided to go into seclusion to reflect on it. Fang Chen entered the Time Secret Realm to refine his Swordsmanship, but learned he could not bring anyone out of the Swallowing Heaven Tower or leave the realm for a thousand years of its time.

• Great Emperor Huo Li studied the Sword Seal for a month, recovered his Soul Power, and finished comprehending the Spirit Sword Art half a year later.
• Great Emperor Huo Li praised the Spirit Sword Art and told Fang Chen he would enter seclusion to reflect on it.
• Fang Chen distributed Floating Immortal City's resources, activated the Mark, and entered the Spacetime Secret Realm, where time flowed a hundred times faster than outside.
• Fang Chen learned from Little Golden Cicada that the Time Acceleration Law prevented him from entering the Swallowing Heaven Tower's inner space or releasing the Chaos Demonic Star Vine.
• Fang Chen learned he had to wait ten outside years before leaving the realm, then began refining his Swordsmanship and studying his Secret Methods.

Fang Chen spent a thousand years in the Time Acceleration Secret Realm studying Immortal Technique-level sword arts while using the Floating Immortal Sword’s feedback to strengthen himself. He returned to Floating Immortal City and gathered Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, and the others to test whether Little Crane could bring them into the Secret Realm.

• Fang Chen used four billion Contribution Points on Immortal Technique-level sword arts and a Nine Revolutions Longevity Pill, then began studying the sword arts with the Floating Immortal Sword.
• Unable to sustain his deductions with the sword’s usual feedback, Fang Chen flew toward the Secret Realm’s edge, where the growing resistance strengthened the energy flowing from the sword.
• After a thousand years in the Secret Realm, Fang Chen stopped at the wooden cabin and noted that only ten years had passed outside.
• Fang Chen left the Secret Realm and summoned Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm, and Myna bird to his residence.
• Fang Chen explained that he wanted to take them into the Time Acceleration Secret Realm and recalled how Little Crane had carried Fellow Daoist Lingwu and Fellow Daoist Youhan into another Time Acceleration Secret Realm.

Fang Chen brought his companions into the Time Acceleration Secret Realm through Little Crane, and none of them suffered a backlash. The Heavenly River Diagram Artifact Spirit discovered their method but chose not to intervene.

• Fang Chen summoned the Chaos Demonic Star Vine and had Little Crane carry everyone into the Time Acceleration Secret Realm.
• Fang Chen tested Myna bird first, then let Ye Qingci, Great Emperor Huo Li, the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm, and the Chaos Demonic Star Vine out after Myna bird reported no backlash.
• Fang Chen and his companions began cultivating in the secret realm despite worrying that the Heavenly River Diagram Artifact Spirit might notice.
• The White-Robed Woman revealed herself as the Heavenly River Diagram Artifact Spirit and watched how Fang Chen and Little Crane brought everyone inside.
• The Heavenly River Diagram Artifact Spirit realized the group’s presence would rapidly consume the Time Origin, but she let them continue.

Fang Chen weighed whether to strengthen his swordsmanship through stacking techniques or by fusing more Origins, while refusing to break through to the True Immortal Realm because leaving Golden Cicada Ridge would expose him to the Five Great Families. A sudden disturbance shook the Time Acceleration Secret Realm, and Myna bird advised him to toss a coin to decide.

• The Heavenly River Diagram's Artifact Spirit watched Fang Chen train and hoped he would become an Immortal King.
• Fang Chen considered pursuing an eleventh turn or fusing more Origins to increase his power, but rejected breaking through to the True Immortal Realm because he would be forced out of Golden Cicada Ridge.
• Dark clouds, fierce Wind Origin, and twisting space interrupted the cultivators in the Time Acceleration Secret Realm before the disturbance suddenly ended.
• Ye Qingci and Great Emperor Huo Li questioned Fang Chen, who explained his dilemma between stacking sword techniques and fusing Origins.
• Great Emperor Huo Li recognized that Fang Chen could pursue either path because of his special physique, while Myna bird suggested tossing a coin.

Fang Chen and his companions tried to use coin flips to choose between the stacking route and the Fusion route, but every coin repeatedly landed with its back facing up. Each time, Fang Chen sensed a mysterious force as space warped above the coin, leaving the group puzzled.

• Myna bird suggested that Fang Chen flip a Copper Coin, and Fang Chen agreed to let the result decide between the two routes.
• Fang Chen flipped Myna bird's coin, which landed with its back facing up as space warped and Fang Chen felt a sensation like the one he had felt when the Wind Origin appeared.
• Fang Chen, Ye Qingci, Myna bird, Great Emperor Huo Li, and the others flipped the coin repeatedly, and it always landed with its back facing up.
• Fang Chen broke Myna bird's coin and confirmed it was ordinary bronze, then tested coins from Ye Qingci and Great Emperor Huo Li.
• The other Copper Coins also repeatedly landed with their backs up while space warped, leaving everyone stunned.

Fang Chen chose the Fusion Route and spent millennia trying to fuse a third Origin, settling on Earth Origin after previously fusing metal and fire. He and his companions continued cultivating through two Time Acceleration Secret Realms, returning to Floating Immortal City after ten thousand years with most of them stronger, while Myna bird remained stuck at a bottleneck.

• Fang Chen chose the Fusion Route after the Copper Coins repeatedly landed tails up, then began experimenting with fusing a third Origin while drawing energy from the Floating Immortal Sword.
• After nine thousand years, Fang Chen and his companions returned to Golden Cicada Ridge, where he said he had chosen Earth Origin and had two more chances to enter a hundredfold Time Acceleration Secret Realm.
• Little Crane brought the group into Spirit Crane Space, and Fang Chen activated the mark to enter a second Time Acceleration Secret Realm.
• Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword to absorb energy from the realm's Formation Rune Barrier while continuing to attempt the fusion of three kinds of Source Power.
• After another ten thousand years, Fang Chen and the others returned to Floating Immortal City; Great Emperor Huo Li and Ye Qingci reported progress, while Myna bird said its Seal had become difficult to break.

Fang Chen fused three Origins and broke through, releasing an aura that Great Emperor Huo Li judged to be at the Great Immortal Level and approaching that of a First-Turn Great Immortal. He chose to spend the remaining time in the Time Acceleration Secret Realm mastering his new power before considering an attack on Mantis Mountain.

• After nine thousand years of cultivation, Fang Chen successfully fused three Origins and underwent a tremendous increase in strength.
• Ye Qingci and the others praised Fang Chen, and Great Emperor Huo Li said his aura had reached the Great Immortal Level.
• Fang Chen activated the Boundary Breaking Stele in the Heavenly Mechanism Tower and sensed auras up to the Nine-Revolutions Great Immortal Realm.
• The Myna bird and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm urged Fang Chen to attack Mantis Mountain, but Fang Chen decided to use the remaining thousand years to master his new strength.
• Fang Chen and the others resumed cultivating in the Time Acceleration Secret Realm.

After cultivating for thirty thousand years, Fang Chen returned to Floating Immortal City with strength comparable to a First-Turn Great Immortal and decided to enter Mantis Mountain. He left Great Emperor Yunxin and Great Emperor Panshi in charge of Golden Cicada Ridge, then traveled through the Spatial Passage with his companions.

• Fang Chen returned to Floating Immortal City after thirty thousand years of cultivation, having advanced from the True Immortal Level to the Great Immortal Level.
• Ye Qingci and Great Emperor Huo Li praised Fang Chen's strength, and Fang Chen decided he was ready to face the Five Great Families in Mantis Mountain.
• Fang Chen told Great Emperor Yunxin and Great Emperor Panshi to manage Golden Cicada Ridge while he went to Mantis Mountain, and they warned him about the danger.
• Fang Chen and his companions flew to the central Teleportation Passage and entered the Space Vortex leading to Mantis Mountain.
• Fang Chen arrived in Mantis Mountain's Core Region, where five High Towers stood around another enormous Space Vortex.