Chapter Summaries

Durant, Fantana, and Krosal battered Heavenly Pole Peak with the power of two Level One Lost Objects while the Celestial Mystery Sect’s four True Persons defended the hall. After True Person Ranming secretly withdrew his strength and the defense collapsed, he seized his chance to reach for the Celestial Mystery Fish.

• Durant, Fantana, and Krosal rose above Heavenly Pole Peak as Briggs realized the Federation had joined the battle and Lily photographed the scene.
• Fantana spun a crimson sphere, and Durant and Krosal combined their actions to send it crashing into the True Persons’ defenses, letting the Throne Fighters attack Longxian’s divine aspect.
• The three Federation representatives repeated their assault, while the True Persons drove back the attackers below and struggled to hold the hall’s defenses together.
• Durant, Fantana, and Krosal unleashed the Lost Objects’ remaining power in a final strike, but True Person Ranming withdrew his strength just before the forces collided.
• True Person Chonghua filled the gap in the defense, but the impact shattered the Light Screen and badly damaged the other True Persons’ divine aspects.
• True Person Ranming turned his surviving divine aspect toward the Celestial Mystery Fish and grabbed for it.

True Person Ranming failed to capture the Celestial Mystery Fish, then helped break the Celestial Mystery Disk’s support for Chonghua and the other True Persons. As the fighting spread through the grand hall, Chonghua outmaneuvered Ran Ming with secret techniques, but Iserlo intervened while Ran Ming moved to seize control of the disk.

• True Person Chonghua’s hidden strand of Divine Energy struck Ranming’s hand, allowing the Celestial Mystery Fish to escape.
• Ranming struck the grand hall’s central node and disrupted the Celestial Mystery Disk, forcing Chonghua and the other True Persons’ divine aspects to collapse.
• Igor and Drakholm attacked True Person Longxian while Field of Titan Plant Company and Morton pressed True Person Gao Xu.
• Ranming attacked Chonghua, who used Divine Firmament Rainbow Crossing and then Butterfly Dream Profound Mechanism to evade him.
• Chonghua seized Ranming’s divine aspect with True Self Mirror Image, but Ranming scattered himself and Iserlo struck at Chonghua.
• Ranming reassembled himself and connected his Divine Energy to the Celestial Mystery Disk, seeking control of the ritual.

True Person Chonghua escaped into the Other Side World and used the Pufang Mirror to disrupt Ran Ming’s attempt to seize control of the Celestial Mystery Disk. Though Chonghua defeated Ran Ming again, the enemy’s reinforcements arrived, leaving him to sacrifice Divine Energy and seek a turning point through a secret method.

• Ilosser attacked Chonghua with corrupting light, but Chonghua judged that he would not press the attack and escaped through the rift into the Other Side World.
• Chonghua recovered some strength and drew power from the Pufang Mirror, while Ran Ming took control of the secret ritual and restored the Heavenly Lord’s Aspect of the Gods.
• Gao Xu and Long Xian voluntarily dispersed their Divine Energy under attack, following Chonghua’s message not to resist stubbornly.
• Chonghua used the Pufang Mirror’s power and the Golden Light Secret Ritual to collapse Ran Ming’s restored Aspect of the Gods and return to the hall.
• Chonghua overwhelmed Ran Ming’s incarnations with Spiritual Impacts, but Durant and two others arrived before he could reclaim the Celestial Mystery Disk.
• Chonghua sacrificed part of his Divine Energy to perform the Method of Attaching and Crossing Celestial Mystery, and a glimmer of insight appeared to him.

True Person Chonghua severed the Celestial Mystery Disk from the ritual and transformed himself into a rainbow bridge to keep the rift open. As the Federation sought the bridge’s anchor, Chen Chuan arrived and confronted the Throne Fighters.

• True Person Chonghua separated the Celestial Mystery Disk from the Pufang Mirror and raised the rift, then turned himself into a rainbow bridge that kept it open.
• Ran Ming recovered enough to explain that the bridge had an anchor, identified the Celestial Mystery Fish, and watched it flee as Igor pursued it.
• A masked stranger struck Igor down, and Krosal recognized him as someone from the Da Shun Delegation.
• Chen Chuan arrived beside the Celestial Mystery Fish, while Lily recognized him and Briggs doubted he could change the battle.
• Igor attacked Chen Chuan, but Chen Chuan extinguished the Spiritual Fire on his arm and blasted him apart with a platinum-white flaming fist.

Chen Chuan stopped the Federation’s attack on the Celestial Mystery Sect by shattering Igor with one punch, then studied intelligence and teachings sent by the Celestial Mystery Fish. After Great Shun disavowed his intervention as an individual action, Krosal confronted him, and Chen Chuan’s refusal to leave led Krosal to attack.

• Chen Chuan blasted Igor apart, while Igor’s Exotic Power consumed his remaining vitality and appeared unable to restore him.
• Chen Chuan asked the Celestial Mystery Fish to continue transmitting Chonghua’s observations and knowledge about the Throne Fighters and the Celestial Mystery Sect.
• Lily asked Briggs where Igor had gone, and Briggs guessed that Chen Chuan had become a Throne Fighter.
• Jiang Hongzhi informed the Federation that Chen Chuan’s actions were personal and did not represent Great Shun, allowing Durant to proceed without concern about further Great Shun Fighters.
• Durant asked Krosal to make Chen Chuan leave, and Krosal confronted him over entering Federation territory.
• Chen Chuan said he had come to stop the Federation, and Krosal charged at him with a fist wreathed in Spiritual Light Flame.

Chen Chuan fought Krosal and revealed strength that surpassed the Aspect of Man Fighter, forcing Krosal into a desperate defense. The chapter left Krosal badly wounded after Chen Chuan's final kick blew apart nearly half his body.

• Krosal attacked Chen Chuan, but Chen Chuan blocked his punches and drove him back with a counterattack.
• Chen Chuan activated his Purple Qi, caught Krosal's charge with one hand, and dodged his concealed Spiritual Impact.
• Chen Chuan took control of the fight with a barrage of blows, then knocked aside Krosal's spiritual aspect.
• Chen Chuan feinted with a Spiritual Impact technique and struck Krosal's right shoulder with a kick, blowing apart nearly half his body.

Chen Chuan defeated Krosal and used the Profound Sky Fire to burn away his scattered flesh and spirit, revealing a power that alarmed the Aspect of the Gods Fighters. As he faced the hostile observers with the Celestial Mystery Fish on his palm, reports of the battle spread and Cassian learned that Chen Chuan had also intercepted and killed Chan Practitioner Guang Yong.

• Fantana projected his power with the Aspect Casting Technique and seized Chen Chuan's arm, but Chen Chuan pushed through the restraint and struck Krosal as he began merging with his spiritual aspect.
• Chen Chuan's radiant punch tore apart Krosal and shattered his spiritual aspect in a fight that lasted less than ten seconds.
• Chen Chuan unleashed the Profound Sky Fire, which burned Krosal's scattered flesh and spirit, including traces of his Mutated Tissue elsewhere and in the Heavenly Layer.
• The Celestial Mystery Fish circled Chen Chuan and sent him information about the Profound Sky Fire, while the hostile fighters fixed their attention on him and the fish.
• Reporters secretly spread news of Krosal's defeat, and Chen Chuan challenged the people facing him to come take the Celestial Mystery Fish.
• Cassian learned that Chan Practitioner Guang Yong had been intercepted and killed, and suspected that Chen Chuan was responsible.

Chen Chuan faced an encirclement by Morton, Ilosser, Drakholm, and Igor while the Federation planned to seize the Celestial Mystery Fish. Kaliopates I arrived to stop the attack, and a colossal Dan Bird appeared as the confrontation escalated.

• Durant ordered Morton, Ilosser, and Drakholm to kill Chen Chuan and arranged for Field and the others to take the Celestial Mystery Fish during the fight.
• Long Xian wanted to aid Chen Chuan, but Gao Xu persuaded him to remain at the rift and protect the ritual.
• Morton and the other three advanced on Chen Chuan, whose Mutated Tissue stirred under the pressure as he sought to break through his body's restraints.
• Kaliopates I arrived, struck the Federation fighters with a sharp radiance, and challenged Durant's group to leave Chen Chuan's duel undisturbed.
• Durant prepared to fight Kaliopates I, but a colossal six-legged, two-headed Dan Bird descended and its rider asked why no one had brought them along.

A massive flock and the arrival of the wanted Throne Fighter Derek Valchi complicated the battle, prompting Durant to avoid confronting Kapa while Chen Chuan faced four attackers. Chen Chuan evaded Igor’s trap and appeared behind Morton, cutting him in two.

• Thousands of birds surrounded the airship fleet, and Derek Valchi descended as a great blue heron to pose for Lily’s camera.
• Durant’s group treated Valchi and Kapa as threats and chose not to fight Kapa, leaving Chen Chuan to deal with the attackers before him.
• Drakholm merged with his spiritual aspect and clashed blades with Chen Chuan while Ilosser’s light weakened Chen Chuan’s Spiritual Fire.
• Chen Chuan dodged Drakholm’s shield charge by leaping through a rift, then avoided Igor’s spiritual mist and appeared behind Morton.
• Chen Chuan slashed Morton in two before Morton could react.

Chen Chuan fought the four coordinated opponents while using rifts to stay on the attack, but Morton’s mark and the worm-like being began to restrict his movements. With the Celestial Mystery Fish’s help, Chen Chuan escaped the ambush and appeared at Morton’s former position.

• Chen Chuan discovered that Morton could transfer injuries to a summoned worm-like being, which reformed while the rift remained open.
• Chen Chuan realized Morton’s Divine Energy had marked him, allowing the four opponents to sense where he would emerge from a rift.
• Chen Chuan used Spiritual Impact as cover and attacked Ilosser, cutting through his light manifestation and wounding his face before Drakholm forced him back into a rift.
• The worm-like being followed Chen Chuan into the rift, slowing his movement and allowing the four opponents to prepare a coordinated attack.
• The Celestial Mystery Fish entered the rift and showed Chen Chuan how to return to a previously visited exit.
• Chen Chuan sent an illusion of himself to slash at Drakholm, then used the Celestial Mystery Fish to appear where he had earlier attacked Morton.

Chen Chuan destroyed the worm-like existence sustaining Morton, then faced the four enemies’ plan to fill the rifts with light and limit his movement. With support from Gao Xu and Long Xian helping him cross the rifts, he launched a surprise attack on Igor.

• Chen Chuan appeared behind Morton through a rift and discovered that Morton's true divine aspect was hidden inside his body while the worm-like existence supported him.
• Chen Chuan cleaved the worm-like existence with the Snow Monarch Blade, causing it to collapse and the mist pouring from the Primitive Sect's rift to disperse.
• Morton restored his body and absorbed more mist as Ilosser spread dazzling light through the sky to contaminate and eventually obstruct the rifts Chen Chuan used.
• Gao Xu and Long Xian activated secret rituals to send energy through the Golden Rainbow and help Chen Chuan cross between rifts.
• Chen Chuan chose Igor as his target and unleashed three rapid slashes from a distance before the others could respond.

Chen Chuan killed Igor with a trap that combined Spiritual Impacts and the Profound Sky Fire, then continued fighting the remaining Throne Fighters with the Celestial Mystery Fish’s help. Meanwhile, Durant learned that Mataiola had arrived and moved to accelerate the operation, sending Field into the rifts after Chen Chuan.

• Chen Chuan lured Igor into position, struck his unguarded back with a powerful Spiritual Impact, and used the Profound Sky Fire to burn away Igor’s consciousness.
• The Celestial Mystery Fish carried Chen Chuan through a rift as Ilosser and the other fighters attacked, while the Celestial Mystery Sect’s True Persons helped him cross the rifts more easily.
• Chen Chuan resumed his assault on the remaining three fighters, who became cautious after Igor’s elimination, while Durant learned that Mataiola had arrived and demanded the operation stop.
• Durant decided to confront Emperor Kapa, assigned Fantana to watch Walqi, and ordered Field to help capture the Celestial Mystery Fish.
• Field transformed into his Nightmare Deer form and pursued Chen Chuan through a rift, which erupted as two figures were thrown out.

Chen Chuan fought Field and Drakholm as the rifts became harder for him to use, while Morton and Ilosser prepared to join the battle under Durant’s orders. He exploited a brief return of control over the rifts to reposition himself and unleash the Great Azure Void Style on his opponents.

• Field pursued Chen Chuan through the rifts and attacked him alongside the Nightmare Deer, but Chen Chuan blocked their strikes and resisted their attempts to drain or invade him.
• Drakholm charged Chen Chuan while Field attacked from behind, forcing Chen Chuan to divide his Spiritual Fire between their assaults.
• Morton and Ilosser held back to prepare their abilities after Durant ordered the group to stop holding back and finish the mission quickly.
• Chen Chuan used the Celestial Mystery Fish to enter a rift briefly, then emerged above the group after recognizing the rifts recovered when Field left them.
• Chen Chuan activated the Great Azure Void Style, spreading a force field that suppressed everyone nearby and slowed Drakholm.

Chen Chuan used the Great Azure Void Style to isolate and defeat Field with the Demon Subduing Style, but Ilosser blocked his Profound Sky Fire from burning Field’s remains. As Chen Chuan faced Drakholm, Morton, and Ilosser, Ran Ming completed his takeover of the Celestial Mystery Disk and sent a figure toward him.

• Chen Chuan disrupted Drakholm’s charge, drove him back, and used the Great Azure Void Style to keep the other Fighters from intervening.
• Chen Chuan turned on Field, summoned a Long Jian, and used the Demon Subduing Style to smash apart Field’s Variant Appearance.
• Ilosser sent an entity to block Chen Chuan’s Profound Sky Fire, but Chen Chuan followed with a Spiritual Impact that swept away Field’s flesh and blood.
• Morton completed his transformation, and Ilosser summoned the Messenger as Chen Chuan prepared to face them and Drakholm.
• Ran Ming revealed that his Divine Energy avatar had taken control of the Celestial Mystery Disk, then sent a figure from Heavenly Pole Peak toward Chen Chuan.

Ran Ming used the Celestial Mystery Disk to take control of the ritual array and reverse the fighters’ access to the rifts, putting Chen Chuan under pressure. Warned by Gao Xu and Long Xian, Chen Chuan struck at Ilosser, but Ran Ming intervened, and Chen Chuan was left fighting Morton and Drakholm while Ran Ming prepared another attack.

• Gao Xu and Long Xian sensed Ran Ming activate the ritual array and used the Celestial Mystery Fish to warn Chen Chuan about a dangerous technique.
• Chen Chuan entered the rift and used a false body and disrupted mental messages to confuse Morton and Ilosser before cutting down the Six-winged Emissary and charging at Ilosser.
• Ran Ming used the Celestial Mystery Disk to move Ilosser away and bring Drakholm before Chen Chuan, reversing their access to the rifts.
• Chen Chuan slowed Drakholm with the Great Azure Void Style, but Morton and Drakholm used the rifts to attack him in turns and force him to retreat.
• Ran Ming remained above the fight and sent a stream of clear energy down onto Chen Chuan.

Chen Chuan fought Drakholm, Morton, Ilosser, and the Six-winged Emissary while Ran Ming’s Yin-Yang Qi Lock restricted his movement. The Golden Talisman Book helped him withstand their Spiritual Impacts, but its protection was fading as the pressure of battle began an unprecedented transformation within his body.

• Ran Ming used the Yin-Yang Qi Lock to confine Chen Chuan, allowing Drakholm to drive him into a crater and the other attackers to surround him.
• Chen Chuan used his Spiritual Fire to resist their attacks, then activated the Golden Talisman Book, whose golden talismans blocked the Spiritual Impacts with help from the Celestial Mystery Fish.
• Ran Ming recognized the Golden Talisman Book and ordered the attackers to close in before the Celestial Master returned.
• Chen Chuan used Mystic Void Flame and a Long Jian to counter the Six-winged Emissary, then fought off Drakholm, Morton, and the others in the crater.
• Chen Chuan forced the attackers back with Spiritual Impacts, but his talismans dimmed as he realized that the strain of battle was weakening the force blocking him and beginning a transformation within his body.

Chen Chuan fought Drakholm and the others until his body neared collapse, but his Mutated Tissue and Purple Qi transformed during the battle. He broke through a major barrier, survived a Spiritual Impact unharmed, and revealed a new Divine Art as the battle turned in his favor.

• Drakholm and the others repeatedly attacked Chen Chuan, while Cassian told the airship command room they expected victory within three minutes.
• Chen Chuan’s body showed signs of exhaustion, but his Mutated Tissue rapidly regenerated and drew energy from the Purple Qi above the Heavenly Layer.
• Ran Ming sensed Chen Chuan’s changing aura and shouted for the others to stop him, but Chen Chuan rose and blocked Drakholm’s Spiritual Impact with one palm.
• Chen Chuan broke through an obstruction and gained a new perception of the world, then stood unharmed when another Spiritual Impact struck him.
• The Golden Talisman Book opened before Chen Chuan, who read aloud the Divine Art’s name: “Firmament Spirit Receives Purple Flame, Celestial Mystery borrows qi to transform calamity into mystery, Azure Sky Bright Light Refining Dharma Form, Demon Subduing Monster Fighting Human Immortal!”

Chen Chuan broke through to Profound Cave Observation, revealing immense strength and a colossal Spiritual Appearance. After Field returned and hid in the rift, Chen Chuan’s Spiritual Appearance dragged him out and destroyed his Nightmare Deer form.

• Chen Chuan attained Profound Cave Observation and effortlessly destroyed the Six-winged Emissary, whose Spiritual Fire returned to him.
• Chen Chuan broke free of the golden chains and manifested a Spiritual Appearance more than a hundred meters tall, astonishing Gao Xu, Long Xian, Ran Ming, and the others.
• Field returned after recovering, saw Chen Chuan’s Spiritual Appearance, and slipped back into the rift.
• Chen Chuan’s Spiritual Appearance struck the rift and blasted Field out of it.
• Chen Chuan’s Spiritual Appearance seized Field’s Nightmare Deer form, tore it in half, and burned the remains to ash with its flames.

Chen Chuan used the Profound Sky Fire to defeat Drakholm and pursue the fleeing Profound Cave Observation Fighters. Morton fused with the being worshipped by the Primitive Sect, but Chen Chuan struck him with the Demon Subduing Style and chased another fleeing enemy through the rift.

• Drakholm attacked Chen Chuan while Ilosser and Morton fled in opposite directions.
• Chen Chuan trapped Drakholm, gathered his scattered remains, and burned them with the Profound Sky Fire.
• Chen Chuan hit Ilosser and Morton with a Spiritual Impact, then caught Morton and smashed him into the ground.
• Morton used a forbidden secret technique to fuse with the Primitive Sect's being and became a massive monster.
• Chen Chuan struck the monster with the Demon Subduing Style, and the Profound Sky Fire burned its scattered fragments before Chen Chuan entered the rift and emerged after a fleeing streak of light.

Chen Chuan defeated Ilosser and destroyed the New Light Sect and Primitive Sect forces and their rifts, then dispersed Ran Ming’s avatar. As he flew toward the battle near Heavenly Pole Peak, observers aboard the Sky Leviathan spotted him emerging through the smoke.

• Ilosser charged Chen Chuan and was cut apart, but a Lost Object wrapped Chen Chuan in radiance as Ilosser’s Divine Energy converged to seize his body.
• Chen Chuan used Fan Zhentong’s Lost Object to resist the effect, cut apart the attacking Divine Energy, and let Profound Sky Fire consume Ilosser and the New Light Sect followers linked to him.
• Chen Chuan appeared beside the Primitive Sect rift, killed the followers there, and sealed the rift with the Snow Monarch Blade as their airships crashed.
• Chen Chuan sealed another New Light Sect rift and watched Ran Ming’s avatar allow itself to be destroyed by his blade.
• Chen Chuan saw that Durant and His Majesty the Emperor were fighting near Heavenly Pole Peak and flew toward them.
• Cassian failed to reach Chen Chuan’s group by radio, then spotted Chen Chuan floating through the smoke from the Sky Leviathan.