Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen and his companions joined the Ice Demon Clan’s battle against the Fire Demon and Shadow Demon clans, turning the tide. Nezha decided to use the Space Key to summon his true body, while that true body was still drinking with Yang Jian and Sun Wukong in the Primordial World.

• Lu Chen left with Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Nezha, and the others to confront Huomohuang, and Bing Jingjing followed after Bing Mojun gave permission.
• Bing Mojun explained that giving Lu Chen the Ice Demon Clan’s treasured spearhead would benefit the clan more than keeping it, then heard that Jingjing had fallen for Lu Chen, who seemed to treat her like an older sister.
• Lu Chen and his companions descended into the battlefield, where the Ice Demon Clan was being overwhelmed by the Fire Demon and Shadow Demon clans.
• Sun Wukong, Nezha, and Bing Jingjing attacked the enemy forces, and Lu Chen’s group reversed the battle as the demons retreated in terror.
• Nezha asked Lu Chen for the Space Key so he could summon his true body, and Lu Chen warned him about the heavenly tribulation and the risk of being unable to return.
• Nezha began contacting his true body, who was drinking with Yang Jian and Sun Wukong at Guangjiang Pass in the Primordial World.

Nezha learned that he could leave the Primordial World for another world and warned Sun Wukong and Yang Jian that their fates would be bound to a human there. Before departing, he appeared in the Hall of Miraculous Mist and publicly denounced Li Jing and the Jade Emperor, leaving the Heavenly Court in turmoil.

• Nezha reconnected with his incarnation and told Sun Wukong and Yang Jian that an opportunity had arrived to enter another world, where they would be bound to a human for eternity.
• Sun Wukong and Yang Jian agreed to follow, and Nezha said he would fulfill a dream before leaving.
• Nezha appeared in the Hall of Miraculous Mist while the Jade Emperor and Li Jing discussed his absence from court.
• Nezha cursed Li Jing for forcing him to die after he fought the dragon race to protect Chentang Pass, and Li Jing threatened him with the Pagoda of the Six Realms.
• Nezha rebuked the Jade Emperor for neglecting suffering commoners and accepting their incense offerings, angering the ruler of Heaven.

Nezha escaped the Heavenly Court’s control and reunited with his true body in the Ice Demon Domain, where his arrival shook the Three Realms. As he faced the heavenly tribulation, the wounded Wentian Master sensed the heavens’ wrath in the upper realm.

• Nezha denounced the Jade Emperor and escaped Li Jing’s attempt to capture him by diving into a spatial vortex.
• The Jade Emperor sent Clairvoyant and Farsighted to find Nezha, but they could not locate him anywhere in the Three Realms.
• The Jade Emperor discovered that Nezha had left the realm and that his true spirit had vanished from the Investiture of the Gods.
• At the Ice Demon Domain, Nezha’s avatar used the Space Key to summon his true body, which emerged from a void aperture and merged with the avatar.
• Nezha’s pressure forced the Ice Demon Ancestor, Fire Demon Ancestor, and the other demons to prostrate themselves, while Lu Chen realized Nezha would need to seal his power to avoid destroying the world.
• Nezha faced the heavenly tribulation without fear, while the wounded Wentian Master sensed the heavens’ wrath from the Wentian Platform.

Nezha endured Heaven’s lightning tribulation and forced it to stop, but the Space Key that brought his true self into the world vanished. Lu Chen learned that Nezha’s arrival changed the system’s rules, while the group remained stranded and the Fire Demon Emperor received urgent news.

• The Wentian Master sensed a terrifying existence comparable to the Immortal Realm in the Ice Demon Domain and lamented the growing Calamity Qi before a lightning tribulation struck Nezha.
• Nezha endured Heaven’s attempt to seal his power, threatened to pierce the sky, and made the gathered tribulation disperse.
• Nezha and Lu Chen discovered that the Space Key had vanished after one use, leaving the incarnations of Nezha, Yang Jian, and Ao Bing unable to return to the primordial wilderness.
• Lu Chen’s system warned that Dao Protectors would no longer advance alongside him, and the system briefly argued that the change could let them progress faster.
• Lu Chen tried to reassure Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Ao Bing about finding another Space Key, while Sun Wukong resumed slaughtering the Fire Demon Clan.
• The Fire Demon Emperor was refining the Nine-Nine Fire Origin Essence when an urgent messenger arrived.

Lu Chen and his companions captured the Fire Demon Emperor and forced him to reveal where the God-Slaying Spear’s shaft was hidden. After sending Bing Jingjing back with the prisoner, Lu Chen sensed an Azure Heaven Sword Fragment nearby and set out to find it.

• A messenger reported that the Ice Demon Clan was advancing into Fire Demon territory, but he turned to ashes before he could explain further.
• Nezha trapped the Fire Demon Emperor with his Universe Ring as Lu Chen and his companions appeared in the Fire Demon Palace.
• Lu Chen questioned the Fire Demon Emperor about the magic spear’s shaft and burned his soul with Red Lotus Karma Fire when he denied knowing anything.
• Nezha tortured the Fire Demon Emperor until he confessed that the God-Slaying Spear’s shaft was in a secret realm, which could only be opened with the spearhead held by the Ice Demon Clan.
• Lu Chen sealed the Fire Demon Emperor in a Spatial Ring, sent Bing Jingjing to return to the Ice Demon Emperor, and sensed an Azure Heaven Sword Fragment nearby.

Lu Chen entered a hidden space beneath the Fire Emperor Palace and found the Azure Heaven Sword’s sword soul, which had taken his own form. A panel revealed that defeating it would earn him the Eternal Prologue of Future Lamp, and Lu Chen began the fight with his supreme treasures.

• Lu Chen sensed an Azure Heaven Sword Fragment beneath the Fire Emperor Palace, opened a deep crater, and entered the spatial vortex while Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Nezha, and Ao Bing waited above.
• Nezha told Sun Wukong and Yang Jian that the Primordial World’s calamity qi was growing heavier, and Sun Wukong warned that a great calamity might sweep through all the heavens and myriad worlds.
• Lu Chen found a dark figure holding an Azure Heaven Sword and discovered that it was an exact copy of himself.
• A transparent panel identified the figure as the Azure Heaven Sword Soul and offered the Eternal Prologue of Future Lamp as a reward for defeating it.
• Lu Chen charged at the sword soul with the Karma Fire Red Lotus, Immortal Slaying Sword, and Wheel of Destiny, and the sword soul quickly fell behind because it lacked supreme treasures.

Lu Chen defeated the Sword Soul using the Fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation, then reunited it with the Azure Heaven Sword and used the power it released to evolve his twelve Inner World Cave Heavens. As Calamity Qi gathered across the Three Realms and Nine Regions, the Wentian Master survived three tribulations but lost a minor cultivation realm.

• Lu Chen used the Fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation to disperse the Sword Soul’s Temporal Collapse and erode its projection until the Sword Soul admitted defeat.
• The Sword Soul refused to reveal the Azure Heaven Sword’s greatest secret, but said its return would soon bring changes to the Three Realms.
• Lu Chen let the Sword Soul rejoin the Azure Heaven Sword, then directed its power into his twelve Inner World Cave Heavens, which began evolving into small worlds.
• Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Nezha, Ao Bing, and the others saw Calamity Qi gathering in the sky, and Yang Jian warned that it would drive living beings across the Three Realms and Nine Regions into slaughter.
• At Wentian Platform, the Wentian Master lamented that after enduring three tribulations, his cultivation had fallen by a minor realm.

After receiving the Future Lamp, Lu Chen witnessed a vision of Mortal World and Carefree Heaven before deciding to travel into the future to learn who they were. In the River of Time, he discovered that he had no future.

• The Azure Heaven Sword’s Sword Soul returned, and Lu Chen reached the eighth layer of the Immortal Emperor Realm as the sword transformed his twelve Inner World Cave Heavens into pseudo-worlds.
• Lu Chen completed the Reversal Mission and received the Future Lamp, whose flame showed him Mortal World and Carefree Heaven fighting and Carefree Heaven assimilating Mortal World.
• Shaken by the vision, Lu Chen told Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Nezha, and Ao Bing that he wanted to enter the River of Time and see the future.
• Lu Chen used the Fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation of Space-time to travel into the River of Time, memorized his present time anchor, and walked toward the future.
• After only a few steps, Lu Chen could no longer sense his own aura and realized he had no future.

Lu Chen found no trace of his future in the River of Time and wondered whether he was the Mortal World whose present and future Carefree Heaven had killed. After defeating and subduing Shi, the River’s guardian, Lu Chen learned that someone with no future was already dead in both the present and future, and questioned whether he himself was dead.

• Lu Chen searched the River of Time for his future but found no trace of himself and connected his fate to the Mortal World and Carefree Heaven.
• Shi, the Guardian of the River of Time, demanded Lu Chen hand over the Fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation.
• Lu Chen used the Eternal Sandglass, the Fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation, and the Fate Probability Dice to suppress Shi and pierce him with Spatial Annihilation Eyes.
• Shi surrendered and agreed to follow Lu Chen, who asked what it meant for a person to have no future.
• Shi said such a person was dead in both the present and future, and Lu Chen asked whether that meant he was dead.

Lu Chen learned that his future self had died and decided to investigate the River of Destiny. Back in the Ice Demon Domain, he and the others faced the arrival of a Greed Demon God projection, and a system panel appeared before him.

• Lu Chen searched the River of Time with Spirit of Time and confirmed that his future self had died, then decided to visit the River of Destiny.
• Lu Chen returned to Fire Emperor Palace, where Yang Jian, Sun Wukong, and Nezha questioned him and met Spirit of Time.
• Sixteen Demon Race Ancient Ancestors sacrificed their life essence to summon Lord Greed, while the Ice Demon Emperor and his allies tried to stop them.
• The Greed Demon God projection appeared above the altar, stirring greed in every living creature across the Ice Demon Domain.
• Lu Chen saw a semi-transparent system panel appear and smiled.

Shadow Demon Emperor and the other Demon Emperors summoned the Greed Demon God's projection, turning the Ice Demon Domain into a slaughterhouse. As Nezha, Yang Jian, Sun Wukong, and Ao Bing fought the projection, the Demon Emperors raised their power and targeted Lu Chen and Ice Demon Emperor.

• Lu Chen received a mission to defeat the Greed Demon God's projection, with the Immortal Divine Stone as its reward, and thought of giving it to Yang Jian.
• Ice Demon Emperor warned Lu Chen that summoning the projection could expose their world's coordinates and cause spatial rifts.
• The Greed Demon God's power stirred greed throughout the Ice Demon Domain, driving weaker beings to attack one another.
• Nezha fought the projection while Yang Jian, Sun Wukong, and Ao Bing joined him, turning the battle against the Greed Demon God.
• Shadow Demon Emperor and the other eighteen Demon Emperors burned their Demonic Essence to rise to the Saint Ancestor Realm, and Ice Demon Emperor urged Lu Chen to flee.

Lu Chen’s Tongtian Immortal Willow killed the rebellious Demon Emperors, allowing the Ice Demon Emperor to move against the rebels and reclaim his domain. Greed Demon God absorbed the greed of the Ice Demon Domain’s inhabitants and broke into the Dao Monarch Realm, leaving Nezha and the others facing his devastating attack as the Willow God raised a barrier to protect them.

• Lu Chen summoned the Tongtian Immortal Willow, which bound and destroyed the more than a dozen Demon Emperors who had burned their Demonic Essence to reach the Saint Ancestor Realm.
• Lu Chen urged the Ice Demon Emperor to retake the Ice Demon Domain, and the Ice Demon Emperor led his subordinates away to fight the remaining rebels.
• Greed Demon God drew the essence of greed from the Ice Demon Domain’s inhabitants and absorbed it until he broke through to the Dao Monarch Realm.
• Nezha warned that the heavens would strike down Greed Demon God, whose power had exceeded what the world could bear.
• Greed Demon God attacked Nezha, Sun Wukong, Ao Bing, Yang Jian, and the others with a Dao-infused palm, and the Willow God formed a barrier with the Tongtian Immortal Willow’s branches.

Nezha, Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Ao Bing joined forces to destroy the Greed Demon God's projection, though they suffered severe injuries. Lu Chen used the Immortal Divine Stone to heal Yang Jian and produced a Ren Water Flat Peach as he searched for a way to save Nezha.

• Nezha weakened the demonic palm while the Tongtian Immortal Willow's barrier collapsed, then fell back after holding off the attack.
• Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Ao Bing combined their powers to disperse the weakened palm, and the tribulation lightning shattered the Greed Demon God's projection.
• The Willow God began healing the injured group and told Lu Chen that Yang Jian's body had collapsed while Nezha's origin had been damaged.
• Lu Chen summoned the Immortal Divine Stone, which merged into Yang Jian and cocooned him in immortal power.
• After Sun Wukong mentioned golden pills and peaches, Lu Chen summoned a Ren Water Flat Peach, and Sun Wukong's eyes lit up.

Lu Chen entered the Yin-Yang Demonic Pool to seek the God-Slaying Spear’s body, while his companions learned that Willow God had once fought Hongjun for three thousand years. Willow God revealed that Hongjun defeated her and left her gravely wounded.

• Nezha revived after Lu Chen gave him a peach and explained how the Heavenly Monarch Realm compared to the Primordial World’s realms.
• Lu Chen collected Yang Jian into the Time Yin-Yang Pot and set out with the others to find the God-Slaying Spear’s body.
• Lu Chen and his companions found the secret cave, broke through its Demon Formation, and used the spear tip to open a vortex in the Yin-Yang Demonic Pool.
• Lu Chen jumped into the pool, while Nezha, Sun Wukong, and Ao Bing discussed following him as the protagonist of the coming tribulation.
• Willow God revealed that she had battled Hongjun for three thousand years after he barred her from entering the Primordial World, but she was ultimately defeated and forced to flee gravely wounded.

Lu Chen entered the Yin-Yang Chessboard to claim the God-Slaying Spear Shaft and faced its Life-and-Death Chess Souls. After seeing that Lu Chen controlled the Law of Life and Death, the guardian ended the trial and revealed that he had been waiting for Lu Chen on Mortal World's orders.

• Nezha asked Willow God about her origins, and she said she had been born in the void outside all worlds as a willow tree.
• Lu Chen entered the secret realm, saw the God-Slaying Spear Shaft, and was drawn into the Yin-Yang Chessboard.
• The guardian told Lu Chen that he had to defeat the Life-and-Death Chess Souls to obtain the spear shaft, with failure meaning death.
• Lu Chen used the Law of Life and Death to fight the two Chess Souls, and the guardian realized he was the one foretold by Mortal World.
• The guardian made the Chess Souls vanish, ending the trial.

Lu Chen claimed the shaft of the God-Slaying Spear, reunited it with the spearhead, and awakened the complete weapon. Its demonic energy opened a growing passage to the Seven Sins Demon Realm, drawing the attention of the Supreme Demon God and his seven Demon Gods.

• The white-haired elder gave Lu Chen the God-Slaying Spear's shaft and left to seek the opportunity Mortal World had promised him.
• Lu Chen left the secret realm with Sun Wukong and the others, then brought Yang Jian out of the Time-Space Yin Yang Pot.
• Yang Jian revealed that he had awakened the Immortal Divine Body and believed it could break through his bottleneck.
• Lu Chen joined the spear's shaft and head, restoring the complete God-Slaying Spear and releasing demonic energy across the Three Realms.
• The demonic energy enlarged a spatial tear in the Ice Demon Domain and reached the Seven Sins Demon Realm.
• The Supreme Demon God summoned seven figures, and the Greed Demon God identified the opened passage as the route to the world he had previously entered.

Lu Chen completed the Reversal Mission and gained the Three Thousand Demon Gods, then summoned Pangu and sent him to help the Ice Demon Emperor pacify the Ice Demon Domain. The Four Symbols Divine Generals awakened and joined Lu Chen on the battlefield, where Bing Jingjing saw him again.

• The Supreme Demon God ordered the Devil Race to widen the passage to another world and retrieve its supreme treasure so he could escape his chains.
• Lu Chen received the Three Thousand Demon Gods as a mission reward and summoned Pangu, ordering him to lead the three hundred demon gods in the Ice Demon Domain and help the Ice Demon Emperor pacify it.
• The Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise awakened as Zhang Yanxin, Geng Xiangjin, Huang Yu'er, and Lu Zongqing, each having reached the Great Saint Realm.
• Lu Chen brought the four Divine Generals to the battlefield, where they annihilated countless fleeing rebel demons alongside Bing Jingjing's army.
• Bing Jingjing looked up, saw Lu Chen, and smiled.

Lu Chen and his allies wiped out the rebellious devils in the Ice Demon Domain, earning the Infinite Arena, while Heaven warned the Wentian Master that the Seven Sins Demon Realm was preparing to invade and that Lu Chen was central to the catastrophe. The Wentian Master agreed to break the seals, and the chapter ended with strange thunder shaking Lu Chen’s heart and spirit.

• Lu Chen and the three hundred demon gods from the Ice Demon Domain defeated the rebellious devils and cleared the domain in one day.
• The Saint Spirit Emperor sensed the invasion and the Great Tribulation of the Three Realms, then learned through divination that Lu Chen was involved.
• Heaven informed the Wentian Master that the Seven Sins Demon Realm was about to invade and that the chance to overcome the catastrophe lay with Lu Chen.
• The Wentian Master asked Heaven to open the passages and sealed mystic realms, then received a sign and resolved to break the seals.
• Lu Chen completed the Reversal Mission and received the Infinite Arena, a treasure that could impose one of three rules on an opponent in a life-and-death match.
• Thunder boomed over the Ice Demon Domain, and Lu Chen felt his heart and spirit tremble.

A heavenly announcement warned that a great disaster was approaching, and that passages and secret realms would open across the Three Realms in three days. The Wentian Master visited Lu Chen to offer him an opportunity and handed him a mysterious jade pendant.

• A heavenly voice announced the coming calamity, the opening of the passages and secret realms in three days, and a ban on upper-realm beings slaughtering those in the lower realms.
• Lu Chen concluded that the disaster might come from outside the Three Realms and wondered whether the heavenly voice belonged to Heaven.
• The Wentian Master appeared before Lu Chen, startling Liu Shen and Nezha when they realized he had arrived unnoticed.
• The Wentian Master introduced himself and offered Lu Chen an opportunity, hoping he would help the Three Realms during the coming disaster.
• The Wentian Master created a formation-bound small world, invited Lu Chen and his companions to sit, and gave Lu Chen a jade pendant.

Wentian Master gave Lu Chen a jade pendant listing the locations, opening times, and opportunities of secret realms, then explained the coming invasion by the Seven Sins Demon Realm and the ranks of cultivation. He also described the grades of inner worlds; Lu Chen realized his twelve inner worlds could form a Universe-tier great world, and the Reversal System issued him a Main Quest with the method.

• Wentian Master gave Lu Chen a jade pendant containing information about secret realms across the Three Realms and Nine Regions.
• Wentian Master explained that the Greed Demon God's projections had exposed their realm's coordinates, allowing the Seven Sins Demon Realm to prepare an invasion.
• Wentian Master outlined the realms beyond Saint Ancestor and taught Lu Chen the grades and requirements for fusing inner worlds.
• Lu Chen realized his twelve inner worlds could let him form a Universe-tier great world, beyond the limits known to others.
• The Reversal System issued Lu Chen a Main Quest that revealed the method for condensing a Universe-tier inner great world.