Chapter Summaries

Chen Zhixing defeated the Snow Demon Kings, inherited the Snow Demon throne and the means to leave the Frozen Soil Plateau, then returned to the Chen Family at Nirvana Eighth Level. As Yu Tianxing confronted him over Yu Peirong and Xiao Shitou, Chen Zhixing fought back with the Ziwei Emperor Lamp and killed two of Yu Tianxing’s clansmen, escalating the feud between their families.

• Chen Zhixing challenged the Snow Demon Kings in succession and used his Ice Flame and mastery of life and death to overcome their remnant imprints.
• The final Snow Demon King gave Chen Zhixing the Diamond Ice Shard, making him king of the Snow Demon Clan and granting him an early experience of Summit Realm time control.
• Chen Zhixing studied the ancestral murals and learned from his grandmother that the ring could take him away, but accepting it meant eventually returning to guard the Frozen Soil Plateau and its coffin.
• The Snow Demon King gave Chen Zhixing the ring and allowed Li Shuang and Snow Demon warriors to accompany Ying Shuangshuang; Chen Zhixing later consumed Jade Snow Divine Essence and advanced to Nirvana Eighth Level.
• Chen Zhixing returned to Purple Gold Mountain, reunited with his parents, and learned Xu Qingqing was carrying his child before turning to matters involving Xiao Shitou and the Shi Clan.
• Yu Tianxing demanded that Chen Zhixing release Yu Peirong and hand over Xiao Shitou, but Chen Zhixing refused and attacked with the Ziwei Emperor Lamp, killing two Yu Family clansmen.

Chen Zhixing defeated Yu Tianxing’s attempt to escape by threatening civilians, and Chen Tianyuan later wounded Yu Tianxing in the Northern Domain. Chen Zhixing married Xu Qingqing, then learned that Great Luo Dao Land agents had infiltrated Jiang Province and began pursuing a path to the Longevity Realm through the Fallen Heart Flame and his disciple Wang Lin.

• Yu Tianxing attacked Linjiang City with the Heavenly Abode Emperor Body, forcing Chen Zhixing to defend the civilians while Chen Tianyuan pursued him; Chen Tianyuan later heavily wounded Yu Tianxing in the Northern Domain.
• Chen Zhixing’s family arranged his wedding to Xu Qingqing, and he married her on his nineteenth birthday before many powerful guests from the Five Domains and beyond.
• Chen Zhixing coached Xiao Shitou to remember the visiting families and avenge him if he died, triggering a system notice that Xiao Shitou had changed his path of fate and increasing Chen Zhixing’s Fortune value.
• Li Shuang reported that Great Luo Dao Land agents had infiltrated Jiang Province, and Chen Zhixing concluded that his family’s rising power was drawing the Holy Land’s attention.
• Chen Zhixing decided to investigate the Fallen Heart Flame as a possible route to longevity, then discovered that Wang Lin had already found it in the Chen Family treasury.
• Chen Zhixing tasked Wang Lin with searching for a secret method or cultivation manual that could help him reach the Longevity Realm.

Chen Zhixing sought Longevity cultivation methods, secured twenty-seven Dao laws from his ancestor, and visited Willow God with Xiao Shitou. He struck a bargain to trade plant essence for demonic beasts fleeing turmoil in the Northern Domain’s icy ocean.

• Chen Zhixing studied several cultivation methods, ordered Elder You to seek exchanges with allied families, and sent Li Shuang to deal with the Yu Family woman in Elder You’s courtyard.
• Chen Zhixing visited Mo Qingyue to ask to read the Heavenly Saint Palace’s Longevity methods, but she refused; he nevertheless concluded that the Palace would not move against the Chen Clan for at least twenty years.
• Chen Daoshan convened a clan meeting to prioritize Chen Zhixing’s cultivation, and Chen Zhixing later persuaded Ancestor Tian Yuan to give him twenty-seven Longevity Dao laws.
• Xiao Shitou told Chen Zhixing that Willow God had called him back, so they traveled to Shi Village, where Willow God fed Xiao Shitou meat from powerful demonic beasts.
• Willow God explained that demonic beasts were fleeing unrest in the icy ocean and offered to exchange them for plant essence; Chen Zhixing accepted the deal.

Chen Zhixing joined the Northern Domain campaign against the Sea Demons, discovered signs of a deeper scheme, and visited Willow God while the Three Great Holy Lands’ leaders became embroiled in a crisis. Back in the Southern Domain, Chen Daoshan led the families in exploiting the coming refugee catastrophe and maneuvering to weaken the northern defenses.

• Chen Zhixing traveled north with Mo Qingyue’s force, and the group found ruined towns and scattered survivors as they fought Sea Demons along the way.
• At Bitter Water Ridge, Elder Hong Qing explained the campaign and its rewards; Chen Zhixing and Li Shuang later hunted demons while Chen Zhixing suspected their numbers were not declining.
• News arrived that the Dragon Turtle had trapped two Longevity True Lords, while the Great Luo Dao Land’s Longevity Dao Lord was implicated in their fate; another Heavenly Saint Palace Dao Lord went north as families considered rebellion.
• Chen Zhixing met Willow God in Shi Village, delivered plant essence, received Summit Realm Flood Dragon hide and a living Nirvana Realm Lobster Soldier, and sent Dugu back with a route map and news.
• Chen Daoshan persuaded the Southern Domain families to seal their borders and prepare to profit from northern refugees, while they discussed allowing the Northern Domain defenses to collapse.
• Chen Daoshan confided to Chen Tianyuan that he felt little guilt over the families’ plans, then returned the next day to steer their alliance toward the Chen Family’s interests.

Chen Zhixing returned to the Southern Domain, killed the leaders and supporters of the families blocking its borders, and stepped down as Chen Family Head. After Chen Tianyuan kept him confined for a month, Immortal Lord Ti Hu arrived to ask him to become a disciple, but Chen Zhixing left before Mo Qingyue could introduce them.

• Chen Zhixing learned that the Chen Family had joined the Jiangnan Eight Great Noble families in sealing the borders, then returned to Ziwei Mountain with Mo Qingyue to confront the situation.
• Chen Tianyuan revealed that the family’s assets had tripled during the border closure, while Chen Zhixing realized his relatives had created a crisis without his knowledge.
• After more than forty corpses were carried from Ziwei Mountain, Chen Zhixing killed five family heads and eliminated those resisting the border arrays’ dismantling, then voluntarily resigned as Chen Family Head.
• A month and a half later, Chen Zhixing and Azure Pheasant destroyed two more aristocratic families before Chen Tianyuan confined him at Ziwei Mountain.
• Immortal Lord Ti Hu arrived at the Chen Family to offer to take Chen Zhixing as his disciple, but Chen Zhixing left Longevity Hall to find food before Mo Qingyue could introduce them.

Chen Zhixing visited the Northern Domain and traded with Willow God, who revealed the location of the Dragon Turtle’s Dragon Palace. After spotting powerful demons there, Chen Zhixing decided to return home and seek the Ancestor’s help before pursuing its treasures.

• Chen Zhixing found that the Snake Consort had hidden in his bed, then threw her through the roof; Xu Qingqing returned and found him sleeping among the rubble.
• Chen Zhixing left for the Northern Domain after telling Chen Tianyuan he was going on business rather than joining the Heavenly Saint Palace.
• In Shi Village, Chen Zhixing received a gigantic clam shell from Willow God and gave it all seventeen bottles of essence of flora.
• Willow God explained that the Dragon Turtle was trapped by its own spell and gave Chen Zhixing a willow leaf that revealed its Dragon Palace beneath the sea.
• Chen Zhixing saw several Summit Realm demons in the Dragon Palace and decided to return home to ask the Ancestor to join his treasure hunt.

After discovering a Summit Realm Clam Spirit and three North Sea Longevity Dragon Palace cultivators inside an Arctic Clam, Chen Zhixing and the Chen Family learned that a Dragon Turtle was trapped in its shell. Chen Tianyuan planned to investigate the Dragon Turtle and revealed that its remains could provide Gold Nature, leaving Chen Zhixing curious about how Gold Nature was cultivated.

• The Arctic Clam released more than ten thousand pearls, a Summit Realm Clam Spirit, and three unconscious female cultivators, whom Chen Zhixing claimed were maids for his parents.
• The Clam Spirit recognized Chen Zhixing's Azure Pheasant Immortal Sword and claimed she had been sworn sisters with the Sword Immortal, but Chen Tianyuan sealed her with the Zhou Tian Responding Qi Grand Formation.
• Chen Zhixing told Chen Tianyuan that the North Sea Dragon Turtle had sealed itself inside its shell and could not move for three to five years.
• Three days later, Chen Tianyuan and Chen Zhixing went to the Extremely Northern North Ocean to confirm the Dragon Turtle's condition, and Chen Tianyuan proposed killing it to prevent future trouble.
• Chen Tianyuan explained that a dead Longevity True Lord's Gold Nature could help cultivators reach the Longevity Realm and said the Three Great Holy Lands claimed the remains of True Lords through agreements with aristocratic families.
• Chen Zhixing asked how Gold Nature was cultivated, but Chen Tianyuan admitted that even Longevity True Men did not know how it appeared.

Chen Zhixing rejected the female Sword Immortal’s inheritance and fought her to keep Azure Pheasant, revealing that he knew he had been cast as a pawn in others’ plans. Afterward, Chen Tianyuan urged him to flee to the Frozen Soil Plateau, where the coffin could keep his enemies at bay.

• Chen Zhixing refused to follow the female Sword Immortal’s Dao, and she tried to leave with Azure Pheasant.
• Chen Zhixing bound the sword and fought the female Sword Immortal, revealing a powerful sword technique that was not the Chaos Sword.
• Chen Zhixing confronted the female Sword Immortal about treating him as a scripted protagonist and rejected the fate she had planned for him.
• The female Sword Immortal’s phantom faded, Azure Pheasant’s Sword Spirit returned, and Chen Zhixing used his sword intent to open a seam in the clouds for moonlight.
• Chen Tianyuan emerged from the sea, and Chen Zhixing reassured him that he did not blame him for what had happened.
• Chen Tianyuan advised Chen Zhixing to flee to the Frozen Soil Plateau, where the coffin could protect him from his enemies.

Chen Zhixing parted from Chen Tianyuan as his ancestor set off to fight the Dragon Turtle, then visited Willow God and learned it would try to protect Chen Tianyuan. At Ziwei Mountain, Chen Tianchen was handling family affairs when Chen Zhaosheng returned after years away.

• Chen Zhixing questioned Chen Tianyuan about the Dragon Turtle, his plans for the Chen family, and whether a Longevity Realm cultivator could be persuaded to help, then promised to collect his ancestor's body if he did not return.
• Chen Zhixing left Chen Tianyuan on the North Sea coast and traveled with Qingzhi to Shi Village, where he asked Willow God about the strange coffin.
• Willow God would not explain the coffin, but promised to try to protect Chen Tianyuan's life as repayment for their next transaction.
• At Ziwei Mountain, Chen Tianchen approved funds for Chen Tianxiong's marriage to a mortal woman before Chen Zhaosheng appeared in Longevity Hall.
• Chen Zhaosheng told Chen Tianchen he had returned from a faraway place and said he was glad Chen Tianxiong was taking a wife again.

Chen Zhixing learned from the Snow Demon King that cultivation methods and Dao fruits could be flawed when they did not suit the cultivator, and that attaining Longevity required adjusting one’s path to the perfect balance. The chapter left him considering how to perfect his Great Dao Furnace before his rapidly approaching breakthrough to Summit Realm.

• Chen Zhaosheng returned to the Chen Family at Nirvana Realm, while clan elders celebrated his talent and compared him with Chen Zhixing.
• Chen Zhaosheng reflected on how Chen Zhixing had reached Nirvana Eighth Level and wondered how quickly his younger brother would attain Longevity.
• Chen Zhixing reviewed Heavenly Spider records with the Snow Demon King and found the names Lu Xiang and North Suppressing King among figures who might be resurrected.
• Chen Zhixing told the Snow Demon King that he was suppressing his cultivation because he sensed flaws in his Great Dao Furnace and Dao fruit.
• Chen Zhixing asked why Longevity cultivation scriptures seemed flawed, and the Snow Demon King explained that even a complete method had to be adjusted to suit each cultivator.

After questioning Snow Demon King, Chen Zhixing concluded that reaching Longevity required a suitable match between a cultivator’s foundation, Dao fruit, and Gold Nature. He warned Chen Zhaosheng and Chen Tianchen that Gold Nature was scarce and might be inherited, leaving the Chen Family’s First Ancestor’s Gold Nature in Heavenly Saint Palace.

• Chen Zhixing asked Snow Demon King about the Black Coffin, but she forbade him from investigating it before reaching Longevity.
• On the journey home, Chen Zhixing realized that Gold Nature depended on meeting specific parameters and that a cultivator might face more than one obstacle when crossing the bridge to Longevity.
• After returning to Ziwei Mountain, Chen Zhixing gathered Chen Zhaosheng and Chen Tianchen to record his theories about the requirements for proving the Dao to Longevity.
• Chen Zhixing explained that foundation and Dao fruit had to suit a cultivator, since a foundation outside the right parameters could not nurture Gold Nature.
• Chen Zhixing stated that identical Gold Natures could not arise in the same era and that a deceased cultivator’s Gold Nature might later pass to someone using the same cultivation method.
• Chen Zhixing inferred that Heavenly Saint Palace still held the First Ancestor’s Gold Nature and might be waiting for another same-origin Chen Family cultivator to reach Longevity so it could take that Gold Nature.

Chen Zhixing withdrew to consider how to perfect his nine-Dao cultivation and bring it into balance with Chaos, while Chen Zhaosheng discovered how far Zhixing’s strength had surpassed his own. On Ziwei Mountain, Chen Zhaosheng confronted Fang Cun over his place in the Chen Family and threatened to kill him.

• Chen Zhaosheng defended the Three Great Holy Lands’ arrangement with the great families, but Chen Zhixing questioned whether the clans truly understood the costs of their cooperation.
• Chen Zhixing tore open the void and left, shocking Chen Zhaosheng, who recognized the feat as a mark of a Longevity True Lord.
• Chen Zhixing returned to his courtyard, announced he was entering seclusion, and wrestled with whether to pursue Chaos or specialize in one of his nine Great Daos.
• Chen Zhaosheng studied the Chen Family Five Elements Qi Gathering Art and reflected on its limits compared with Wu Duolong’s Qian Yuan Golden Soldier Method.
• Fang Cun confronted Chen Zhaosheng about treating the Chen Family as his own and reminded him of his mission involving Chen Zhixing.
• Chen Zhaosheng summoned the Sage King Diagram and threatened to kill Fang Cun as their confrontation turned hostile.

Chen Zhixing captured Fang Cun after Fang Cun attacked Chen Zhaosheng, then learned that Fang Cun was a revived expert from a previous era. Chen Zhixing pinned Fang Cun down with Fallen Heart Flame and prepared to extract something from him for study.

• Chen Zhaosheng fought Fang Cun on Ziwei Mountain, using his Frost Throne Platform and Turtle Spirit to withstand Fang Cun’s attacks until Fang Cun was driven off.
• Chen Zhixing sensed the battle, checked on the injured Chen Zhaosheng, and ordered Li Shuang and two others to capture the attacker.
• Li Shuang and the Snow Demons returned with Fang Cun frozen in an ice block, and Chen Zhixing saw his Longevity Daoist remnant fate.
• Fang Cun admitted that he had attacked because faulty intelligence led him to believe the Chen Clan had no powerful experts, then refused to reveal information about others.
• Chen Zhixing explained that Fang Cun’s old techniques had become obsolete and used Fallen Heart Flame to pin him down and begin extracting something for study.

Chen Zhixing took Fang Cun’s incomplete Longevity Daoist fate and heard Fang Cun warn that Ning Yi’s fate-stealing method might be his own destined path. While Chen Zhixing stayed in seclusion, Wang Lin continued cultivating and Xiao Shitou kept challenging the Dark Guards, as Xue Po worried about the Snow Demon Clan’s prospects.

• Chen Zhixing extracted Fang Cun’s incomplete Longevity Daoist fate with the Fallen Heart Flame and stored it for possible use later.
• Fang Cun accused Chen Zhixing of being a demon after learning that he had stolen his fate, then warned that Ning Yi’s method might not have been imposed on him by the Three Great Holy Lands.
• Chen Zhixing returned to the Third Peak and told Li Shuang to claim that he remained in seclusion if his mother came looking for him.
• Wang Lin returned to cultivation inside the Mysterious Stone Pearl after failing to find Chen Zhixing, while Xiao Shitou continued pestering the Dark Guards to spar.
• Chen Chou'er sparred with Xiao Shitou and carried him off toward the Back Mountain to eat Azure Scale Dragon Carp.
• Xue Po watched Li Shuang arrive and worried that only she and he among their Snow Demon Clan generation might reach the Summit Realm.

One year later, Chen Zhixing broke through to the ninth level of Nirvana, while Chen Family members criticized his slower progress and doubted his prospects. He showed Chen Zhaosheng a strand of imperfect Chaos Qi and explained his plan to use Chaos to unite the Nine Great Daos before entering the Summit Realm, leaving his long-term cultivation path unresolved.

• Chen Zhixing broke through to the ninth level of Nirvana after two years, prompting gossip and resentment among Chen Family members on Ziwei Mountain.
• Chen Zhaosheng and Chen Zhixing's family welcomed him after the breakthrough, and Chen Zhixing said he had about three years to delay reaching the Summit Realm.
• Chen Zhixing told Chen Zhaosheng that refining the Chaos Dao Fruit remained difficult and revealed the strand of Chaos Qi he had condensed in his Dao cauldron.
• Chen Zhixing explained that his Chaos Qi was still far from true Chaos, but he planned to use it to unite his Nine Great Daos and later fill in other Daos within the cauldron.

After realizing that his thorough Nirvana had made him effectively immortal but unable to have children with an ordinary woman, Chen Zhixing angrily beat Chen Zhaosheng through Ziwei Mountain. Their fight revealed Chen Zhixing’s astonishing power and led them to discover an ancient serpent beneath the earth, which claimed to have a pact with the human race.

• Chen Zhixing reflected on how Nirvana had transformed his body and learned from Chen Zhaosheng that he could no longer father children with a normal woman.
• Chen Zhixing blamed Chen Zhaosheng for failing to warn him and beat him through Ziwei Mountain despite Chen Zhaosheng’s claims that he knew a solution.
• Chen Zhixing’s fight with Chen Zhaosheng shook the mountain and carried them down to a magma cavern, where Chen Zhixing used a giant lava hand to seize a three-headed Black Serpent.
• The Black Serpent said it had a pact with the human race and regulated the earth veins for the Imperial Court in exchange for territory.
• Chen Zhaosheng recalled the Imperial Court’s dealings with underground monsters and suggested the serpent’s Gu surname might connect it to the Southern Frontier’s Ancient Clan.

Chen Zhixing and Chen Zhaosheng discovered a vast lake of Fire Essence Lotuses deep underground and befriended the Earth Core Profound Serpent guarding it. As they returned to the Chen Family with a huge store of lotus seeds, Chen Zhaosheng explained the Heavenly Xuan Realm’s many forbidden grounds and the powerful beings that dwelled within them.

• The Earth Core Profound Serpent carried Chen Zhixing and Chen Zhaosheng to its Lotus Fire Lake and explained its old agreement with the Ancient Clan.
• Chen Zhaosheng recognized the Fire Essence Lotus Seeds’ value and urged Chen Zhixing to gather them, but Chen Zhixing asked the serpent’s permission.
• The Earth Core Profound Serpent agreed to let them take the seeds and revealed that it had stored tens of thousands more in a jade chest.
• Chen Zhaosheng spent four hours collecting lotus seeds before he and Chen Zhixing accepted the serpent’s gifts and departed.
• On the way back, Chen Zhaosheng described the geocentric world and recounted the Heavenly Xuan Realm’s forbidden grounds and ancient dangers.

Chen Zhaosheng brought Fire Essence Lotus Seeds to Heavenly Saint Palace, where most of the resulting pills were claimed, then returned to Ziwei Mountain and made the remaining Qingjing Warm Spirit Pills available to qualified clan members regardless of surname. Chen Zhixing defended the policy and explained that the Chen clansmen’s hostility toward outsiders stemmed from their confidence in bloodline privilege, leaving Chen Zhaosheng newly unsettled by his cousin’s insight.

• Chen Zhixing explained to Chen Zhaosheng that divinities and the Three Great Holy Lands represented competing powers, and that the Chen Clan might use ancient divinities as leverage if the Holy Lands pressed aristocratic families too hard.
• Chen Zhaosheng took 218 Fire Essence Lotus Seeds to Heavenly Saint Palace, which refined sixteen furnaces of pills and kept fourteen, leaving him with nineteen pills from two furnaces.
• Chen Zhixing directed that future seeds be sent to Heavenly Saint Palace and that the Qingjing Warm Spirit Pills first go to Li Shuang and Xue Po, the clan members suited to take them.
• Chen Zhaosheng placed the remaining fifteen pills and other resources in the public treasury for qualified contributors of any surname to exchange for, provoking furious protests from Chen clansmen.
• Chen Zhaosheng defended the policy as a foundation of the Chen Clan, and Chen Zhixing later told him that bloodline privilege fueled the clansmen’s hostility toward experts of other surnames.

Chen Zhixing and Chen Zhaosheng confronted the Chen Clan’s uncertain future, then learned that Chen Tianyuan and six other Summit Realm experts had vanished into a void rift with the Dragon Turtle. As Chen Zhixing prepared to break through, Chen Zhaosheng chose to enter seclusion too, while Heavenly Saint Palace discussed recovering the missing experts and their weapons.

• Chen Zhixing and Chen Zhaosheng discussed how Old Ancestor Tian Yuan had dispersed the Chen Clan’s strongest members and worried that the clan might be destroyed if they died before attaining immortality.
• Chen Zhaosheng urged Chen Zhixing to leave for a holy land, but Chen Zhixing refused and announced that he would break through to the Summit Realm.
• Chen Zhaosheng told Chen Tianchen to suppress clan gossip while Chen Zhixing entered seclusion, then learned that Chen Tianyuan and six other peak Summit Realm experts had disappeared in a North Sea void rift with the Dragon Turtle.
• Chen Tianchen tried to remain hopeful about Chen Tianyuan’s return, and Chen Zhaosheng said he would enter seclusion and strive to reach the Summit Realm within ten years.
• At Heavenly Saint Palace, Daoist Ti Hu and two senior brothers discussed the missing experts and agreed that the sect needed to recover their Longevity Weapons and other treasures.

Chen Zhixing completed his breakthrough from the Nirvana Realm to the Summit Realm after more than a year in seclusion, surviving the transformation of his body, mastering eighteenfold self-acceleration, and enduring a vast heavenly tribulation. After receiving the tribulation’s Law Force, he reunited with the Chen Family and asked Xu Qingqing whether the child in her arms was his.

• Chen Zhixing dissolved and reshaped his body with Chaos Qi, completing the first pass of his Summit breakthrough and purging his hidden injuries and pill toxins.
• Chen Zhixing absorbed the Snow Demon King Power and completed the second pass, gaining the ability to accelerate himself up to eighteen times for eight minutes.
• Chen Zhixing fused 3,346 Great Dao fragments from Ziwei Mountain over seven months, completing the third pass and emerging from seclusion.
• Chen Zhixing split the enormous tribulation clouds with Azure Pheasant, then used the Profound Heaven Mirror and Ziwei Mountain’s divine restriction to withstand the heavenly tribulation.
• Chen Zhixing absorbed the Law Force granted after the tribulation, strengthened his Great Dao paths, and realized his body had become Chaos Qi with human consciousness.
• Chen Zhixing appeared before Chen Tianliang, Ying Shuangshuang, Xu Qingqing, and the others, then asked Xu Qingqing if the child in her arms was his.