Chapter Summaries

After the Federation’s besieging Throne Fighters vanished, Chen Chuan confronted Durant while observers realized the Federation operation had gone badly wrong. Durant prepared to fight Chen Chuan as Cassian clung to hope that the battle was not over.

• Cassian recognized Chen Chuan near the airships and ordered an immediate investigation, while observers dispatched teams to the surface to learn what had happened.
• Lily spotted Chen Chuan, and Briggs took her down from their airship to investigate.
• Emperor Kapa withdrew from his duel with Durant, and Durant flew to confront Chen Chuan.
• Durant declared Chen Chuan an enemy of the Federation despite news that the International Investigation Group had authorized Chen Chuan to protect the World Ring.
• Investigators reported that the besieging Throne Fighters had disappeared and the Primitive Sect and New Light Sect airships had crashed, leaving Cassian distraught and observers sending urgent reports around the world.

Briggs investigated the battlefield while the Da Shun Delegation debated Chen Chuan’s actions and whether the state would protect him. At Heavenly Pole Peak, Chen Chuan and Durant prepared to decide the operation’s outcome, and Durant struck first.

• Briggs surveyed the battle traces with Lily and concluded that the evidence supported an astonishing explanation, but chose to wait before voicing it.
• Chu Zhixian condemned Chen Chuan’s actions, while Tu Haisheng and Fan Zhentong argued that Chen Chuan could return safely and that Great Shun had reason to protect him.
• Jiang Hongzhi learned that Mataiola had declared Chen Chuan’s actions authorized by the International Investigation Group, while the Federation offered no rebuttal.
• Chen Chuan and Durant faced each other above Heavenly Pole Peak as observers from many nations gathered to watch their duel.
• Durant manifested a Titan Giant, and Chen Chuan summoned and then fused his spiritual form into his body; both fighters set aside their weapons.
• Durant vanished and appeared before Chen Chuan, launching the first attack.

Chen Chuan fought Durant, whose Exotic Powers made him nearly indestructible and stronger as battle continued. Chen Chuan kept battering him and ended the chapter demanding to know whether this was all Durant could do.

• Chen Chuan blocked Durant's rapid punches, then launched a counterattack that sent him flying without leaving visible injuries.
• Chen Chuan identified Durant's Titan's Body as the source of his durability, while Profound Sky Fire was absorbed by a Level One Lost Object protecting him.
• Chen Chuan drove Durant into a mountain and continued attacking, preventing him from completing his counterattacks.
• Durant's Titan's Heart steadily increased his strength, while Titan's Oath kept him from considering retreat.
• Chen Chuan continued his assault as Durant's growth slowed, seized his head, smashed him into the mountain wall, and asked, "Is this all?"

Chen Chuan overwhelmed Durant in their duel, forcing him to unleash his final Exotic Power, Titan's Power, before defeating him. As Chen Chuan prepared to kill Durant, a powerful protective force appeared, so he let Durant live and flew away.

• Durant used Spiritual Impact and a series of attacks against Chen Chuan, but Chen Chuan repeatedly overpowered him and drove him into the mountain.
• Chen Chuan kept Durant from recovering, and Durant transformed into an enormous Titan Giant by activating Titan's Power.
• Chen Chuan expanded his spiritual form and exchanged blows with Durant until Durant lost his footing, then pinned him down and battered him until his transformation ended.
• Durant returned to his original form with both arms broken and lay barely breathing among the rubble.
• As Chen Chuan prepared to kill Durant, he sensed a powerful protective force, dispersed the light in his hand, and flew away.

Chen Chuan defeated Durant and confronted Ran Ming at the rift after the Federation’s operation began to collapse. Ran Ming transformed into Anshi Jun, and Chen Chuan launched a new attack against the ancient entity.

• Chen Chuan returned to the airships after defeating Durant, while Fantana acknowledged that the Federation’s operation could no longer continue.
• Fantana told Cassian to send a rescue team for Durant and waited to see what Chen Chuan would do about Ran Ming.
• Chen Chuan told Ran Ming and the True Persons that the Federation would make no further move, but Ran Ming began transforming after rejecting the idea that Chen Chuan had won.
• Long Xian and Gao Xu realized that Ran Ming had willingly borrowed Anshi Jun’s form through the Celestial Mystery Disk, and Long Xian warned Chen Chuan about the entity’s power.
• Chen Chuan’s Great Bright Light Style was blocked by a gentle radiance, so he advanced and struck Anshi Jun with the Snow Monarch Blade.

Chen Chuan fought Anshi Jun, whose Mirror Moon Void Severance created countless shifting incarnations. After learning that the incarnations shared a core, Chen Chuan attacked them all with Profound Sky Fire, forcing Anshi Jun to spend its energy dividing until its body could finally react.

• Chen Chuan struck Anshi Jun with Profound Sky Fire and the Snow Monarch Blade, shattering Its apparent body as a true figure appeared in a moonlight wheel.
• Anshi Jun multiplied into light-wheel incarnations, and Gao Xu identified the technique as Mirror Moon Void Severance.
• Gao Xu warned Long Xian that calculating Anshi Jun might let It use their Divine Energy to enter the secret ritual, so they relayed what they knew to Chen Chuan instead.
• Chen Chuan learned that Anshi Jun had a conceptual core and sensed that It was distributed among the incarnations through the Purple Qi left on them.
• Anshi Jun attacked with threads of spiritual light, but Chen Chuan split into dozens of figures and struck every incarnation with Profound Sky Fire.
• Anshi Jun repeatedly divided to evade Chen Chuan's attacks, losing energy until, after nearly one-third was spent, Its body finally managed to react.

Chen Chuan defeated Ran Ming after Anshi Jun transformed into a physical body and sacrificed his Divine Energy to survive. The Federation forces withdrew from the Celestial Mystery Sect, while Chen Chuan considered Gao Xu’s invitation to rest in the sect’s secret ritual.

• Anshi Jun split off distant phantom manifestations, but Chen Chuan used the Heaven and Earth Furnace Breathing Method and Great Azure Void Style to destroy them while maintaining his attacks.
• Anshi Jun used Miraculous Seal Reverse Truth to transform into Ran Ming, but Chen Chuan tracked and wounded him despite his rainbow defenses and concealment.
• Ran Ming sacrificed his Divine Energy to escape immediate annihilation, leaving behind a hollow statue that Chen Chuan crushed.
• Gao Xu thanked Chen Chuan for saving the Celestial Mystery Sect and invited him into its secret ritual, while Chen Chuan explained that he had come seeking a breakthrough.
• Fantana ordered the Federation fleet to withdraw, and Cassian told his assistant to report the operation’s failure to the Governor.

Robes learned that the Federation force had withdrawn from Heavenly Pole Peak and tried to protect his political standing by recasting the operation as a victory. At the Celestial Mystery Sect, Chen Chuan stayed to help Gao Xu and Long Xian confront an Outer Heaven Demon drawn by Ran Ming's remaining Divine Energy.

• Robes discovered that the force had withdrawn without his approval and arranged to persuade Durant to take responsibility for the failed operation.
• Robes told the Governor to present the operation as a strategic victory for the Federation, despite the casualties and the delegations' departure.
• Walqi and Emperor Kapa left Heavenly Pole Peak as the battle ended, while Gao Xu persuaded Chen Chuan to enter the rift and help investigate Ran Ming's remaining Divine Energy.
• Chen Chuan agreed to stay and aid the Celestial Mystery Sect, explaining that he belonged to the Purity Faction and had previously received benefits from the sect.
• A massive eye appeared above the Pufang Mirror, and Gao Xu identified an Outer Heaven Demon attracted by Ran Ming's Divine Energy.
• The secret rite shook as the demon struck from outside, and Gao Xu warned that it had only been probing its defenses.

Chen Chuan and the sect elders faced an Outer Heaven entity until Celestial Master Lu appeared and destroyed it. Celestial Master Lu restored the ritual array, addressed Chonghua’s future, and punished Durant aboard the departing Federation fleet before inviting Chen Chuan to speak.

• Chen Chuan reasoned that Ran Ming had drawn the Outer Heaven entity to strengthen his position, and Gao Xu decided to open a gap in the ritual array so they could fight it inside the world.
• Gao Xu let the entity’s tentacle enter, but it recoiled when Chen Chuan’s Spiritual Fire appeared, and Celestial Master Lu arrived to destroy the entity with his Divine Energy.
• Celestial Master Lu stabilized the ritual array, restored Chonghua’s form, and promised to repair his foundation and teach him the sect’s highest secret teaching.
• Celestial Master Lu sent the Federation fleet out of Weishu Continent, and Durant turned to ashes aboard the airship after a lightning bolt struck him.
• Fantana watched the recording of Durant’s death and decided to leave the airship immediately, while Celestial Master Lu invited Chen Chuan to speak with him.

After the battle in Weishu Continent, Robes tried to shift responsibility to Ethan Walker while media crews prepared reports and shared images of Chen Chuan. News of the Great Shun Fighter’s overwhelming victory reached the Norland Northern Nations Alliance, whose council recognized that Great Shun’s new power could alter the world order.

• Robes found Fantana had already left, then returned to the cabin and sent several telegrams as he considered using Ethan Walker to handle the political fallout.
• Lily showed Briggs photographs capturing scenes involving Chen Chuan, and the two headed toward Ethan Walker’s cabin.
• Observation groups and media crews rewrote their reports as telegrams about the battle spread around the world.
• At the Aranda Assembly Palace, Naps told the Norland Northern Nations Alliance that a Great Shun Fighter had defeated and killed numerous Throne Fighters during the Federation’s failed operation.
• Naps reported that Durant had also died, and Caven Hunter called for a new international security plan to preserve stability and balance.

The Great Shun Delegation learned that the Federation had withdrawn after Head Mataiola threatened to break through to a higher limit, while Chen Chuan’s role in saving the Celestial Mystery Sect raised his standing among the world’s powers. At the Celestial Mystery Grand Hall, Celestial Master Lu explained that Ran Ming had knowingly entered the sect’s calamity, leaving the meaning of his original intentions uncertain.

• Jiang Hongzhi’s assistant delivered a verified report that the Federation had withdrawn, but the delegation had no confirmed information about Chen Chuan’s whereabouts.
• Fan Zhentong explained that Head Mataiola had compelled the Federation to withdraw by threatening to break through to a higher limit within its capital, and said Mataiola had given Chen Chuan an identity.
• The International Fighter Council raised Chen Chuan’s influence rating, placing him among the world’s top five without his knowledge.
• Celestial Master Lu thanked Chen Chuan for helping save the Celestial Mystery Sect, and Chen Chuan accepted the sect’s offer of repayment.
• Celestial Master Lu explained that he had left to seek a way to break the sect’s foretold calamity and that Ran Ming had willingly entered it, though Ran Ming’s motives remained unclear.

Celestial Master Lu judged Ran Ming’s final fate and explained the Celestial Mystery Sect’s duty and Chen Chuan’s cultivation path. Chen Chuan agreed to remain at the sect to study its scriptures, while Celestial Master Lu offered to cleanse Zhao Ming’s gift and provide a Resonance Pill.

• Celestial Master Lu summoned Ran Ming from the Celestial Mystery Disk, stripped him of offerings but allowed him to keep his name, and Ran Ming passed a protective method to Chen Chuan before dissolving.
• True Person Gao Xu asked whether the tribulation could have been avoided, and Celestial Master Lu said his work beyond heaven had bought the world three years.
• Chen Chuan asked about fate and the Golden Talisman Book, and Celestial Master Lu explained that human affairs were not fixed and that Chen Chuan’s verses had arisen through his own choices.
• Celestial Master Lu advised Chen Chuan to question himself and learn the name of his spiritual aspect, then offered him access to the Celestial Mystery Sect’s scripture repository.
• Chen Chuan agreed to stay at the sect and showed Celestial Master Lu the red stone from Ikuss, which Celestial Master Lu offered to cleanse.
• Celestial Master Lu promised Zhao Ming a Resonance Pill, and Long Xian left to fetch it.

Chen Chuan received Resonance Pills and a cleansed stone from Celestial Master Lu, then gave the stone to Zhao Ming to help it cultivate. While Zhao Ming underwent the transformation, Chen Chuan explored the Celestial Mystery Sect’s scripture repository and searched for methods to advance his own realm.

• Celestial Master Lu gave Chen Chuan a jar of Resonance Pills and removed Ikuss's bloodline influence from the round stone.
• Chen Chuan toured Heavenly Pole Peak, recovered weapons from the battlefield, and returned to find cultivation scriptures prepared for Zhao Ming.
• Chen Chuan had Zhao Ming swallow the cleansed stone, then left it to undergo a transformation that might let it enter the Superlimit Tier.
• Chen Chuan visited the scripture repository and searched its collections of cultivation methods and inheritances.
• Chen Chuan examined several obscure Aspect of Man texts before finding a volume he needed.

Chen Chuan discovered that he could communicate through an ancient volume with a Profound Ancestor from the past, then entered a hidden chamber containing murals of demon-subduing techniques and Ancient Deities. True Person Longxian explained the deities’ histories and their ties to the Convergence Zone and Old Imperial Household, and Chen Chuan prepared to study the memories left in the murals.

• Chen Chuan read bamboo slips left by a past seeker of the Aspect of Man and realized the attached spirit could answer his thoughts.
• Chen Chuan and the ancient writer exchanged ideas through the slips throughout the night, then he stopped to preserve the remaining mental power.
• Chen Chuan entered a hidden scripture chamber that had appeared after his Cinnabar Pearl resonated and studied a Demon Subduing Style aimed at incorporeal demons.
• True Person Longxian explained that the chamber’s murals showed Xuan Sect patriarchs, Ancient Deities, and memories of their past encounters.
• True Person Longxian identified Lord of Seeking Sameness, Jade Dew Lord, and Anshi Jun, and said the Ancient Three Lords likely remained in the Convergence Zone and were worshipped by the Old Imperial Household.
• Chen Chuan decided to examine the memories attached to the deity murals to learn more about potential future enemies.

Chen Chuan studied the ancient deities preserved in the Celestial Mystery Sect’s scripture repository, then received lasting investigative authority from the International Investigation Group. Meanwhile, Ethan accepted Robes’s proposal after returning to the capital, where reporters pressed him to answer for his remarks about challenging Chen Chuan, while a covert agent delivered battle footage to Wan Song Company.

• Chen Chuan examined the mural’s spiritual remnants, noticed Anshi Jun using Profound Sky Fire, and decided to ask Celestial Master Lu about the technique’s origins.
• True Person Longxian introduced the mural’s deities and appeared to recruit Chen Chuan, but Chen Chuan declined sect life and planned to keep studying the repository.
• Chen Chuan informed the Visiting Delegation that he would stay with the Celestial Mystery Sect, received lifelong investigative authority, and politely postponed a visit to Ring Lock Island.
• Robes urged Ethan to accept the Federation’s proposal, and Ethan agreed after considering the restrictions and promises involved.
• Reporters questioned Ethan about the failed operation and his past claims about Chen Chuan; Ethan confirmed his words but struggled to respond when they asked whether he would challenge Chen Chuan.
• A covert agent called Wan Song Company and reported that footage of Chen Chuan fighting the Throne Fighters would be delivered in three days.

Chen Chuan learned about the Profound Sky Fire and the Other Side World while Zhao Ming grew into a Superlimit Creature. After receiving a Jade Tablet from Celestial Master Lu, Chen Chuan left Heavenly Pole Peak with Zhao Ming and flew south.

• Chen Chuan studied the Celestial Mystery Sect’s records and secret rituals while Zhao Ming’s body and spirit grew stronger.
• Zhao Ming entered the Superlimit Tier, and Chen Chuan gave it a Resonance Pill and scrolls to train its Mutated Tissue.
• Chen Chuan read about the Other Side World and decided it was time to leave the Celestial Mystery Sect.
• Chen Chuan asked Celestial Master Lu about the Profound Sky Fire, and Celestial Master Lu explained that it was one of the Five Refinements.
• Celestial Master Lu gave Chen Chuan a Celestial Mystery Jade Tablet, and Chen Chuan departed Heavenly Pole Peak on Zhao Ming.

Chen Chuan returned from the Linax Federation to Great Shun and visited the He Brothers and Sisters on Red Crown Island. He told them he had settled the matter involving his parents and promised to help resolve their trouble with Chi Luojia Duo.

• Chen Chuan observed Blood Staff and the other seed, finding that the latter had taken over Koimoi and attracted a village of First People.
• Chen Chuan crossed out of Federation territory and traveled through Great Shun, noticing how the Skyline had strengthened control over the outer seas.
• Chen Chuan diverted to Red Crown Island and found that He Ruihai and He Zhilan’s training hall had grown into a thriving center for Fighters.
• Chen Chuan reunited with the He Brothers and Sisters and explained that he had investigated his parents’ case at Origin Company.
• Chen Chuan told them that Gao Xinwen, Origin Company’s vice president and head of overseas operations, had been removed, then promised to arrange a solution to their trouble with Chi Luojia Duo.

Chen Chuan returned to the Visiting Delegation after visiting the He family on Red Crown Island, revealing himself as a Profound Cave Observation Fighter and stirring political maneuvering in Great Shun. As the delegation reached home, Principal Yao told him that Chief Administrator Qi had gone to the capital and that the Old Imperial Household had sent envoys there.

• Chen Chuan reassured the He Brothers and Sisters that his parents had been caught up in the Gao Family's internal struggle, then left Red Crown Island on Zhao Ming.
• Chen Chuan rejoined the Visiting Delegation, where Jiang Hongzhi, Head Xie, Fan Zhentong, Gui Zihan, Wang Tongshan, and Bian Zhijie recognized his extraordinary strength; Chu Zhixian secretly reported his return.
• Two special envoys at the Crisis Affairs Center discussed Chen Chuan's return and the upper ranks' debate over promoting or restraining him.
• The Visiting Delegation reached Great Shun's coastline, and Chen Chuan accepted a call from Principal Yao, confirming that he had achieved Profound Cave Observation.
• Yao Zhiyi told Chen Chuan that Chief Administrator Qi had gone to the capital, Acting Chief Administrator Peng had taken over temporarily, and the Old Imperial Household had sent envoys to the capital.

Chen Chuan returned to Jibei Province after the Visiting Delegation’s trip and discussed political pressure on the Skyline with Yao Zhiyi. Back home, he reunited with Yu Wan and opened a package from Origin Company containing photographs of his parents.

• Chen Chuan and Yao Zhiyi discussed the Old Imperial Household’s request for negotiations and opposition to the Skyline.
• Chen Chuan checked on the Security Department, then granted his Guard Members three months of paid leave as the Visiting Delegation disbanded.
• Chen Chuan returned to Golden Maple Villa, where Yu Wan welcomed him and prepared to call the family home for dinner.
• Yu Wan told Chen Chuan that a package from abroad had arrived for him, and he found it in the storage room.
• Chen Chuan opened the package from Origin Company and examined photographs of his parents from their time in a laboratory and earlier.

Chen Chuan returned from the Federation and reunited with his family, sharing gifts and stories before settling in at home. Meanwhile, Mister Zhuan and Masked Mister were urgently summoned to Purity Faction headquarters, where a stern-faced man awaited them.

• Chen Chuan put away photos of Yu Zhen and Chen Qiyang, then watched Nian Lu and Nian Mo play with Zhao Ming and felt his tension ease.
• Chen Chuan arranged his collected weapons in a ritual-enhanced collection room and greeted Nian Lu and Nian Mo.
• Nian Fuli and Yu Wan welcomed Chen Chuan home, and he gave the family gifts from the Federation.
• Chen Chuan showed his family footage from his travels and heard that Lu Fang and the others had been helping the City Patrol.
• Mister Zhuan and Masked Mister arrived at Purity Faction headquarters after being urgently recalled from a mission.
• Mister Zhuan noticed a stern-faced man waiting for him in the passage.