Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen learned that reaching the Immortal Emperor Realm did not require fusing Inner Worlds, then traveled to the River of Destiny to seek a glimpse of his future. He entered the river with the Time White Tiger and heard the Fate Golden Dragon answer its call.

• The Wentian Master explained that fusing Inner Worlds was only the simplest way to transform their power and reach the Immortal Emperor Realm, then departed.
• Yang Jian warned Lu Chen not to trust the Wentian Master completely, and Lu Chen agreed.
• Lu Chen celebrated with the Ice Demon Emperor before leaving the Ice Demon Domain for the Imperial Immortal Region with his companions.
• Lu Chen returned to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and asked Monkey Brother, Second Brother, Nezha, Ao Bing, and Willow God to protect him while he entered the River of Destiny.
• The Time White Tiger joined Lu Chen and said the river’s guardian, the Fate Golden Dragon, was an old acquaintance; Lu Chen opened a golden fate vortex, and a dragon roar sounded from the river.

Lu Chen defeated the Fate Divine Dragon with the Fate Grinding Pan and Fate Samsara Reversal Technique, then asked it to find his destiny in the River of Destiny. The dragon searched for hours but could not find it, confirming Lu Chen’s suspicion that his fate could not be traced.

• The Time White Tiger challenged the Fate Divine Dragon, lost, and hid behind Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen used the Fate Grinding Pan and Fate Samsara Reversal Technique to overpower the Fate Divine Dragon, which conceded and acknowledged him as its boss.
• Lu Chen asked the Fate Divine Dragon to find his destiny in the River of Destiny and gave it a drop of his blood.
• After searching the river for hours, the Fate Divine Dragon returned unable to find Lu Chen’s destiny.

Lu Chen left the River of Destiny with the Fate Divine Dragon and nine Fate Lotus Seeds, then returned to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and studied Wentian Master’s jade pendant. He discovered that the Rebirth Mirror Secret Realm would open in three days, and that it held one of the three parts of the Eternal Prologue.

• The Fate Divine Dragon led Lu Chen to the Fate Golden Lotus, and Lu Chen took its nine Fate Lotus Seeds, which could protect against the backlash from changing destiny.
• The Fate Divine Dragon and the Time Divine Tiger asked Lu Chen to sever their ties to the River of Destiny and the River of Time, and he agreed to help them later.
• Lu Chen returned to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, thanked Monkey Brother and the others, and went to the renamed Mortal World Palace.
• Lu Chen used Wentian Master’s jade pendant to learn about the treasures and opening dates of secret realms across the Three Realms and Nine Regions.
• Lu Chen discovered that the Rebirth Mirror Secret Realm would open in the Saint Spirit Region in three days and contain the Rebirth Mirror, a part of the Eternal Prologue.

Lu Chen used two flat peaches to break through to the second layer of the Immortal Emperor Realm while preparing to obtain the Rebirth Mirror. When the passage between the Three Realms and Nine Regions opened, he gathered his forces and invited them to seek opportunities across the reunited realms.

• Lu Chen learned that the Rebirth Mirror was in the Rebirth Secret Realm and that a Space Key would appear in the mirrored-space secret realm, so he assigned his allies to retrieve the key while he pursued the mirror.
• Lu Chen swallowed a flat peach and broke through to the eighth layer of the Immortal Emperor Realm before its power ran out.
• Lu Chen consumed his final flat peach and, after more than ten days, broke through to the Immortal Emperor Realm and then its second layer.
• Lu Chen emerged from the Time Yin-Yang Pot after three hundred days inside and learned that the passage between the Three Realms and Nine Regions had opened.
• Lu Chen summoned Liu Shen, Yang Jian, Nezha, Sun Wukong, and his other allies, then told them to roam the realms and seek their opportunities.

Lu Chen traveled with Nezha to the Saint Spirit Region to explore the Rebirth Secret Realm, while Monkey Brother, Yang Jian, and Ao Bing left for the Sky Flame Holy Domain to seek a Space Key. The Saint Spirit Emperor welcomed Lu Chen and gave him exclusive access to the secret realm, where Lu Chen headed next.

• Lu Chen told Monkey Brother, Yang Jian, and Ao Bing about the Space Key in a mirror-image spatial secret realm, and they hurried to the Sky Flame Holy Domain to find it.
• Sister Willow God stayed behind to guard the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, while Nezha chose to accompany and protect Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen and Nezha traveled through the Gate of Space from the Imperial Immortal Region into the Saint Spirit Region.
• The Saint Spirit Race commander told Lu Chen that the Saint Spirit Emperor had granted him and his subordinates free passage and exclusive entry to the Rebirth Secret Realm.
• Lu Chen thanked the Saint Spirit Emperor and continued with Nezha toward the Rebirth Secret Realm.

Lu Chen entered the Rebirth Secret Realm with Nezha and passed its test by surviving nine lifetimes without forgetting his true identity. He claimed the Rebirth Mirror and merged it with the Three Lives Monument and Future Lamp into the Eternal Prologue, which contained three pages.

• A Saint Spirit Race guard explained that the Rebirth Secret Realm required nine consecutive rebirths without forgetting one's original self, and Lu Chen and Nezha entered it.
• Lu Chen lived through his first five lifetimes, repeatedly recalling that his true name was Lu Chen.
• In his sixth lifetime as Butterfly Saber Lu Xiaoyao, Lu Chen lost his sense of self, but a mysterious white lotus restored his memories.
• Lu Chen remembered his identity through his seventh and eighth lifetimes, then completed his ninth lifetime as a demon killed by Sun Wukong.
• Lu Chen passed the secret realm's test, took the Rebirth Mirror, and merged it with the Three Lives Monument and Future Lamp to form the three-page Eternal Prologue.

Lu Chen learned that he could create a future by leaving traces in the future world, resolving the problem of having no future self to anchor the Eternal Prologue. After he returned to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, Sun Wukong used the Space Key to contact his true body in the Primordial World, where his companions were discussing Tang Sanzang.

• Lu Chen left the Rebirth Secret Realm, found Nezha had been expelled during his eighth life, and visited the Saint Spirit Emperor for help finding his future.
• The Saint Spirit Emperor advised Lu Chen to travel to the future and leave traces there to create his own future, and Lu Chen thanked him before leaving the Saint Spirit Region.
• Lu Chen told the Imperial Immortal Region experts he had fallen asleep in the Space Channel, then returned to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains with Nezha.
• Sun Wukong showed Lu Chen the Space Key and used it to summon a vortex, successfully contacting his true body in the Primordial World.
• Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing, and Ao Lie mocked Tang Sanzang as they ate and drank, and Sun Wukong suddenly shuddered before smiling.

Sun Wukong announced that he was leaving the world, then confronted Buddha Tathagata at Lingshan before vanishing from the Three Realms. His true body arrived in the Imperial Immortal Region and joined with his avatar, where he battled the heavenly tribulation as Yang Jian, Nezha, Ao Bing, and Lu Chen watched.

• Sun Wukong told Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing, and Little White Dragon that he had contacted his External Incarnation and planned to leave the world.
• Sun Wukong interrupted Buddha Tathagata's sermon at Great Thunderclap Temple, rejected the title Victorious Fighting Buddha, and vowed to return and take Tathagata's throne.
• Sun Wukong vanished through a spatial vortex, leaving Buddha Tathagata unable to sense him anywhere in the Three Realms; Tang Sanzang claimed not to know where he had gone.
• Sun Wukong's true body arrived in the Imperial Immortal Region and merged with his avatar, then threatened the world's heavenly dao as blood-red tribulation dragons attacked him.
• Yang Jian said Sun Wukong could break through to the Quasi-Saint Realm, while Nezha explained that he had suppressed his own breakthrough to strengthen his foundation.

Lu Chen chose the Thunder Prison Peak Secret Realm as his next target and entered the River of Time to forge a future of his own. Fifty years ahead, he found the Mortal World Palace in ruins beneath a Devil Race invasion and feared the Three Realms and Nine Races had fallen.

• Sun Wukong endured the heavenly thunder, cursed at the heavens, and had his power suppressed to the Emperor Monarch Realm.
• Lu Chen selected the Thunder Prison Peak Secret Realm for its Purple Firmament Thunder Talisman and hidden thunder pond, then told his companions he would travel into the future.
• Yang Jian and the others warned Lu Chen about the backlash of altering the future, while the Time Divine Tiger offered to bear some of it for him.
• The system issued Lu Chen a reversal mission to leave his traces in the future, rewarding him with a Time Divine Fruit that would let him coexist with time.
• Lu Chen and the Time Divine Tiger traveled fifty years into the future and found the Imperial Immortal Region overwhelmed by devil qi, with the Mortal World Palace in ruins.
• Lu Chen concluded that the Devil Race might have conquered the Three Realms and Nine Races, but rejected this future as inevitable.

Lu Chen found Willow God’s final act had preserved his near-dead future self, then fused the Primordial Nirvana Pearl into that body despite the resulting backlash from time. As the Time Divine Tiger and two time-related treasures helped shield him, Lu Chen faced mounting pressure to finish before he became trapped in the future.

• Lu Chen searched the silent Hundred Thousand Great Mountains for his missing companions and discovered a withered Willow God with one living branch.
• Willow God spent her last vitality to reveal Lu Chen’s nearly lifeless future self, then perished completely.
• Lu Chen ignored the Time Divine Tiger’s warning and infused his future self with the Law of Life, but it worsened the fading vitality.
• Lu Chen fused the Primordial Nirvana Pearl into his future self, provoking the Power of Time to attack him.
• The Time Divine Tiger and Lu Chen’s time-related treasures helped resist the backlash as the Time Divine Tiger urged him to hurry.

Lu Chen saved his future self from death with the Primordial Nirvana Pearl, then used his blood to complete the Eternal Prologue’s Reversal Mission and obtain the Time Divine Fruit. With Ao Bing protecting his future self, Lu Chen and the Time Divine Tiger fled through the River of Time, traveling to his childhood to collect blood from his past self, though the journey’s backlash began cracking the Eternal Hourglass.

• The Primordial Nirvana Pearl revived Lu Chen’s future self, and Lu Chen fused his blood with the future page of the Eternal Prologue, completing the Reversal Mission and earning the Time Divine Fruit.
• The Time Divine Tiger warned that they had to leave before becoming trapped in the timeline, while Lu Chen hesitated over his future self’s three-day nirvana.
• Ao Bing arrived, enveloped the nirvana-bound future Lu Chen in blue light, and disappeared with him; Lu Chen entrusted his future self to Ao Bing before leaving with the Time Divine Tiger.
• As they traveled through the River of Time, the Time Divine Tiger warned that Lu Chen had been blacklisted by time, and Lu Chen asked it to take him to his past self.
• The Time Divine Tiger carried Lu Chen to the Great Qian Divine Dynasty four years earlier, where Lu Chen tripped his three-year-old self with a pebble and realized his childhood fall had been caused by his future self.
• Lu Chen collected a drop of blood from his younger self and set off toward the future with the Time Divine Tiger as the time backlash intensified and cracked the Eternal Hourglass.

Lu Chen returned to the primordial timeline, fused with the Eternal Prologue, and learned that Lu Zongqing’s father wanted to take his Supreme Bone and Double Pupils. He prepared to confront Lu Zhongfeng, while a mysterious figure offered the Azure Emperor power in exchange for help.

• The Time Divine Tiger used the Time Divine Fruit to recover, grow temporal wings, and carry Lu Chen back to the primordial timeline.
• Lu Chen placed his past and present blood on the Eternal Prologue, which split into three Great Dao Runes and fused with his past, present, and future selves.
• Lu Chen thanked the transformed Time Divine Tiger and told Lu Zongqing he planned to visit the Sky Flame Holy Domain to seek the Purple Firmament Thunder Talisman.
• Lu Zongqing warned Lu Chen that Lu Zhongfeng had intended to steal his Supreme Bone and Double Pupils, and Lu Chen decided to visit his father.
• In Great Qian, a powerful figure appeared behind the Azure Emperor and offered to raise his cultivation to the Heavenly Monarch Realm if he helped.

Azure Emperor accepted Nether Void’s offer and rapidly rose to the Heavenly Monarch Realm, astonishing Lu Chen. Lu Chen then persuaded his father to visit the Lu family and claim its leadership, and Azure Emperor agreed to protect his son from Lu Zhongfeng.

• Nether Void entered Azure Emperor’s Sea of Consciousness, and Azure Emperor’s cultivation surged to the Heavenly Monarch Realm.
• Lu Chen met Azure Emperor above the Great Gan Imperial Palace and questioned his sudden breakthrough and Nether Void’s presence.
• Azure Emperor told Lu Chen that the protective jade pendant could summon Lu Changkong, his grandfather.
• Lu Chen urged Azure Emperor to go to the Sky Flame Holy Domain and claim the Lu family head position.
• Lu Chen warned that Lu Zhongfeng wanted to take his Supreme Bone and Double Pupils, and Azure Emperor agreed to visit the Lu family.

The Azure Emperor created an Immortal King avatar to rule Great Qian while he went with Lu Chen to the Sky Flame Holy Domain to become Lu family head. Through the Nether Void, Lu Chen learned how Hóngméng and the three primordial beings began creating worlds, but the Nether Void stopped before explaining why the Mortal World and Carefree Heaven became enemies; meanwhile, Lu Zhongfeng dismissed Lu Zongqing’s warning about Lu Chen.

• The Azure Emperor split off part of his Primordial Spirit and formed an Immortal King avatar to govern Great Qian, leaving his original body free to become Lu family head.
• Lu Chen asked to speak with the Nether Void, and the Azure Emperor summoned it through his body.
• The Nether Void explained that Carefree Heaven, the Mortal World, and the Nether Void emerged from Hóngméng and jointly created Chaos, the Ancestral World, before it refused to reveal what happened next.
• Lu Chen accepted the Nether Void’s silence and prepared to travel with the Azure Emperor to the Sky Flame Holy Domain.
• Lu Zongqing warned Lu Zhongfeng not to target Lu Chen, but Lu Zhongfeng scoffed at the warning and trusted his Sacred Ancestor peak strength.

Lu Zhongshan returned to the Lu Family with Lu Chen and claimed the family head position, which the Lu Family Ancestor awarded him. Lu Chen completed his quests and received Tang Sanzang as a reward as the family prepared to celebrate their return.

• Lu Zhongshan revealed that he had reached the Heavenly Monarch Realm and reunited with his father, Lu Changkong, while Lu Chen stood beside him.
• The Lu Family Ancestor welcomed Lu Zhongshan and Lu Chen and announced a three-day banquet to celebrate their return.
• Lu Zhongshan demanded the position of Lu Family Head, and the Lu Family Ancestor agreed, ordering Lu Zhongfeng to pay respects to his elder brother.
• Lu Zhongfeng handed Lu Zhongshan the family head's jade pendant and its treasures, formally yielding the position.
• Lu Chen received Tang Sanzang as a quest reward, and news of Lu Zhongshan's return and appointment spread across the Sky Flame Holy Domain.

Lu Chen welcomed Tang Sanzang, who revealed that his pious monk persona had been an act and that he was really the Primordial Fierce Beast, the Six-Winged Golden Cicada. As the Lu family hosted experts from across the Sky Flame Holy Domain, a black-clothed man and a white-robed old man planned to seize the Wujian Prison Gate.

• Lu Chen asked Sun Wukong about an old acquaintance, and Tang Sanzang emerged from a Spatial Vortex to meet him.
• Sun Wukong confirmed that there were no Buddhas in this world, so Tang Sanzang discarded his kasaya and Buddha hat and asked for wine and meat.
• Lu Chen, Sun Wukong, Tang Sanzang, Yang Jian, and Nezha gathered around a bonfire, where Tang Sanzang explained that his monkish conduct had been a pretense.
• Sun Wukong revealed that Tang Sanzang was the Six-Winged Golden Cicada, whom Buddha Tathagata had forced to join Vulture Peak.
• In an inn in Tianxing City, a black-clothed man told a white-robed old man that the gathering at the Lu family gave them the best chance to seize the Wujian Prison Gate.

The God of Infinity sent two Saint Ancestor Realm cultivators to seize the Wujian Prison Gate as the Boundless Hell Realm prepared to invade alongside the Seven Sins Demon Realm. Their attack on the Lu Family was disrupted when Tang Sanzang slaughtered the invading spirits and badly wounded one attacker, while Lu Chen received a mission to kill both intruders.

• The God of Infinity appeared to two cultivators, promised support, and ordered them to act as the Boundless Hell Realm's representatives in the Three Realms and Nine Regions.
• The two cultivators attacked the Lu Family by enclosing it in a black barrier and unleashing spirits that possessed clansmen and caused chaos.
• Azure Emperor and the Lu Family's experts discovered that physical attacks could not stop the spirits, while the Lu Family Ancestor suspected they had come from beyond the domain.
• Tang Sanzang used his Boundless Buddhist Law to destroy the spirits, then fought a black-clad Saint Ancestor Realm attacker and gravely wounded him with three slashes.
• Lu Chen received a mission to kill the two controlled Saint Ancestor Realm experts and learned that its reward was the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram.

Lu Chen and the Lu Family confronted two men who tried to seize the Wujian Prison Gate, while the God of Infinity empowered them to the peak of the Heavenly Monarch Realm. Once its power was cut off by the Heavenly Dao, Lu Chen ordered Sun Wukong and Nezha to kill the weakened attackers.

• The black-clothed man fused with a black existence and rose to the peak of the Heavenly Monarch Realm, but Tang Sanzang fled as Sun Wukong and the Azure Emperor fought him.
• Lu Chen warned the Lu Family Ancestor that another enemy was searching for the Wujian Prison Gate, and they rushed to the lake where it was hidden.
• The white-clothed old man was found channeling power into the stone gate, then fused with a black-gray existence and rose to the peak of the Heavenly Monarch Realm.
• Nezha and the Lu Family Ancestor fought the white-clothed old man while Sun Wukong and the Azure Emperor fought the black-clothed man, leaving both attackers outnumbered.
• The God of Infinity tried to empower the two men further, but red thunder gathered and the Heavenly Dao forced the strange existence to disappear.
• Lu Chen ordered Sun Wukong and Nezha to kill the two men as their demonic and Chaos Demon Ape powers erupted.

Lu Chen received the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram after Nezha and Sun Wukong killed the two Clan of Endless Prison-controlled elders, then used it to slay an invading Ancient Ancestor Realm powerhouse. With the Lu family’s turmoil resolved, the family hosted a banquet in Tianxing City, where a vast sea of fire suddenly appeared overhead.

• Nezha and Sun Wukong killed the white-robed elder and the black-robed man, completing Lu Chen’s Reversal Mission and earning him the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram.
• Ancient Ancestor Realm and Saint Ancestor Realm powerhouses invaded the Lu family forbidden ground and treasury, and Lu Chen sent Tang Sanzang to join the fight.
• The Lu family ancestor told Lu Chen that the Wujian Prison Gate connected to another world and could not be stored away; Lu Chen’s attempts to move it also failed.
• Lu Chen trapped and killed an Ancient Ancestor Realm attacker with the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram, shocking the gathered powerhouses.
• The Lu family resolved the attacks, and the Lu family ancestor announced a banquet for the next day; during the banquet, a vast sea of fire appeared above Tianxing City.

The Flame Emperor emerged from the Endless Sea of Fire and offered to make Lu Chen his sole disciple, but Lu Chen refused after the Reversal System tasked him with rejecting the offer. The Flame Emperor remained silent as the fire above Tianxing City churned, and Zhang Wuji then presented his son Zhang Chongxiao as a possible disciple.

• The Lu Family Ancestor explained to Lu Chen that the Flame Emperor was rumored to be in the Dao Monarch Realm and had emerged from seclusion for the first time in centuries.
• The Flame Emperor arrived above the Lu Family in a carriage pulled by nine fire dragons, and Sun Wukong identified his realm as Dao Monarch.
• The Flame Emperor asked for Lu Chen and offered to accept him as his sole disciple, while Lu Chen’s companions moved to protect him.
• The Reversal System gave Lu Chen a mission to reject the Flame Emperor’s offer, with the Fate Plundering Body as its reward.
• Lu Chen declined the offer, prompting the Flame Emperor’s fire-filled sky to churn as Zhang Wuji introduced his son Zhang Chongxiao and asked whether he could become the Flame Emperor’s disciple.