Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen accepted Flame Emperor’s challenge after gaining the Fate Plundering Body and a chance to earn the Nine Heavens Thunder Dragon. He fused with his Supreme Clone and began attacking Flame Emperor, who was trapped in the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram and already struggling against Lu Chen’s escalating power.

• Flame Emperor crushed Zhang Wuji and Zhang Chongxiao with his pressure, then challenged Lu Chen to fight him while his cultivation was suppressed to the Ancient Ancestor Realm.
• Lu Chen received the Fate Plundering Body for refusing Flame Emperor’s invitation and a Reversal Mission offering the Nine Heavens Thunder Dragon if he defeated him.
• Lu Chen accepted the challenge despite warnings from Lu Family Ancestor, Lu Changkong, and the others, while Azure Emperor urged them to trust him.
• Flame Emperor suppressed his cultivation, and Lu Chen fused with his Supreme Clone before rolling an even number with the Fate Probability Dice to double his attack power.
• Lu Chen trapped Flame Emperor in the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram and struck him with successive Spatial Annihilation Eyes, the second wave carrying four times the power.

Lu Chen defeated the Flame Emperor in their promised contest, earning his respect and friendship, and received the Nine Heavens Thunder Dragon as a mission reward. After the Flame Emperor left, Lu Chen and his companions traveled to the Thunder Prison Peak Secret Realm, where a dangerous thundercloud guarded the entrance.

• Lu Chen unleashed nine successive waves of the Spatial Annihilation Eyes, forcing the Flame Emperor to reveal his Heavenly Monarch power to survive the final strike.
• The Flame Emperor admitted defeat, agreed to call Lu Chen his brother, and joined the Lu Family banquet for three days, publicly placing Lu Chen under his protection.
• Lu Chen received the Nine Heavens Thunder Dragon after completing the Reversal Mission.
• The Flame Emperor departed for the Boundless Sea of Fire, and Lu Chen set out with Sun Wukong, Nezha, Yang Jian, Tang Sanzang, and the others for the Thunder Prison Peak Secret Realm.
• At the secret realm entrance, a Great Emperor who tried to cross the thundercloud was struck dead by divine thunder.

Lu Chen entered the Thunder Prison Apex Secret Realm with the Nine Heavens Thunder Dragon and learned that climbing its Tribulation Heaven Ladder could lead to powerful rewards. He endured the first thousand steps and prepared to continue toward the summit and its Purple Firmament Thunder Crystal.

• Lu Chen summoned the Nine Heavens Thunder Dragon, which devoured the tribulation lightning and carried him safely through the thunderclouds into the Thunder Prison Apex Secret Realm.
• Zhang Jiuxiao charged into the secret realm under the escort of Primordial Sword Tomb powerhouses, who sacrificed three Great Saint Realm cultivators to get him through the thunderclouds.
• Lu Chen heard the rules of the 9,999-step Tribulation Heaven Ladder and decided to climb it with the Nine Heavens Thunder Dragon to claim the Purple Firmament Thunder Crystal.
• Lu Chen endured the ladder’s escalating thunder alone while the Nine Heavens Thunder Dragon absorbed it and began condensing Great Dao Thunder Talismans.
• At the 800th step, Lu Chen merged with his Ancient Ancestor Realm Supreme Clone, then withstood a surge of lightning and reached the 1,000th step using his Chaos Power and Primordial Sacred Body.

Lu Chen climbed the Tribulation Heaven Ladder, repeatedly comprehending the Purple Firmament Thunder Pattern and eventually mastering the Thunder Law with help from the Nine Heavens Thunder Dragon. He reached the eight-thousandth step and continued toward the summit, determined to claim the Purple Firmament Thunder Crystal.

• Lu Chen used the Time-Space Yin Yang Pot and Enlightenment Tea to comprehend the Purple Firmament Thunder Pattern after reaching the thousandth step, strengthening his affinity for thunder.
• Lu Chen climbed to the two-thousandth step and continued upward, using the Dharma Appearance Heaven and Earth ability to withstand the tribulation thunder.
• Lu Chen passed the three-thousandth through six-thousandth steps while the Sky Flame Holy Domain experts below lagged far behind.
• At the seven-thousandth step, Lu Chen and the Nine Heavens Thunder Dragon endured the tribulation thunder together, and Lu Chen used the Purple Firmament Jade Token to comprehend the Thunder Law.
• After mastering the Thunder Law, Lu Chen transformed into the True Form of the Black Tortoise to reach the eight-thousandth step, then kept climbing without another Purple Firmament Jade Token appearing.

Lu Chen and the Nine Heavens Thunder Dragon endured the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder and reached the summit of the Tribulation Heaven Ladder, where the dragon evolved into the Thunder Marsh Emperor Monarch. They then jumped into the thunder pool to seek thunder cores, while other Trial Takers struggled to survive its power.

• Lu Chen climbed the Tribulation Heaven Ladder with the Nine Heavens Thunder Dragon, and a mysterious lotus healed and strengthened him when he nearly collapsed.
• Lu Chen and the Nine Heavens Thunder Dragon reached the summit and received strikes of pure Purple Firmament Divine Thunder, which formed a Purple Firmament Thunder Crystal before Lu Chen.
• The Nine Heavens Thunder Dragon evolved into the Thunder Marsh Emperor Monarch, transformed into human form, and declared that it controlled thunder tribulation throughout the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds.
• Lu Chen discovered that the thunder pool beneath the ladder held eighty-one thunder cores, including one True Thunder Core, and that Trial Takers had to endure the pool to obtain them.
• Lu Chen and Thunder Marsh jumped into the thunder pool as a Trial Taker was torn apart by its power, then Lu Chen closed his eyes and sensed the Purple Firmament power eroding his body.

Lu Chen meditated in the lightning pool to master the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder while Zhang Chongxiao plotted to kill him. After Ling Tu intervened to stop Zhang Chongxiao’s attack, Lu Chen woke and killed him, leaving the Primordial Sword Tomb heir dead.

• Lu Chen drank Enlightenment Tea and meditated in the lightning pool with the Purple Firmament Thunder Crystal, while Thunder Marsh Emperor Monarch relaxed and fell asleep.
• Zhang Chongxiao approached Lu Chen and unleashed a Primordial Sword Talisman, then shattered three more to send sword strikes at him.
• Thunder Marsh Emperor Monarch attacked the sword strikes, but Ling Tu appeared and used a red coffin to absorb two Primordial Sword Shadows.
• Lu Chen woke, fused with his Supreme Clone, and attacked Zhang Chongxiao with the Hand of the Heavens.
• Lu Chen killed Zhang Chongxiao, who turned into a mist of blood.

After killing Zhang Chongxiao, Lu Chen absorbed his power of destiny and mastered the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder while enduring tribulation lightning. He obtained a True Thunder Core and used it to enter a trial space, where his newly mastered thunder let him claim the Purple Firmament Thunder Talisman.

• Lu Chen absorbed Zhang Chongxiao's power of destiny, provoking tribulation lightning that he endured while cultivating in the Thunder Pool.
• Lu Chen comprehended the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder, though he realized that using it consumed a great deal of his strength.
• Lu Chen and the Thunder Marsh Emperor waited until a True Thunder Core appeared, and the Thunder Marsh Emperor handed it to Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen used his blood to activate the True Thunder Core and entered a special space, where a humanoid gatekeeper challenged him to a fight.
• The gatekeeper recognized Lu Chen's Purple Firmament Divine Thunder and transformed into the Purple Firmament Thunder Talisman, which Lu Chen claimed.

Lu Chen obtained the Purple Firmament Thunder Talisman and received a mission to kill Zhang Wuji, who had laid an ambush with a Forbidden Ultimate Emperor Weapon. As Zhang Wuji’s sword seal broke through his allies’ defenses, Lu Chen’s Tongtian Immortal Willow stopped it, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Lu Chen left the Thunder Prison Peak Secret Realm with Thunder Marsh Emperor Monarch, and Ling Tu warned him that Zhang Wuji might use the Primordial Chaos Sword Seal to avenge his son.
• The Reversal System gave Lu Chen a mission to kill Zhang Wuji and offered Three Thousand Thunder Tribulation Fingers as its reward.
• Lu Chen walked into Zhang Wuji’s ambush, where Zhang Wuji and five Saint Ancestor Realm fighters attacked him with a sword formation.
• Lu Chen summoned Tang Sanzang, Yang Jian, Ao Bing, Nezha, and Sun Wukong to confront the attackers.
• Zhang Wuji empowered the Primordial Chaos Sword Seal with an Ultimate Emperor Weapon, and the seal pierced through the group’s combined defense.
• Lu Chen’s Tongtian Immortal Willow formed from his Laws of Life and Destruction and halted the sword seal.

Lu Chen killed Zhang Wuji and the Primordial Sword Tomb’s five other Saint Ancestor Realm experts after the Willow God blocked the Primordial Chaos Sword Seal. He found Ling Tu with the Azure Heaven Sword Hilt and reunited it with the Azure Heaven Sword, while Lu Zhongfeng and the God of Infinity plotted to turn the fallen experts into puppets.

• The Willow God blocked Zhang Wuji’s Primordial Chaos Sword Seal, and Lu Chen ordered Sun Wukong and the others to kill Zhang Wuji and the five other Primordial Sword Tomb experts.
• Lu Chen announced that the Primordial Sword Tomb would be erased, then received the Three Thousand Thunder Tribulation Fingers for completing the Reversal Mission.
• Following the Azure Heaven Sword’s guidance, Lu Chen broke a formation in a valley and found Ling Tu holding the Azure Heaven Sword Hilt.
• Ling Tu gave Lu Chen the hilt in thanks for destroying the Primordial Sword Tomb, and the sword and hilt released brilliant light as Sword Qi darkened the sky.
• Lu Zhongfeng arrived at the site of the battle with the God of Infinity, who planned to revive and refine the six dead experts into Heavenly Monarch Realm puppets.

God of Infinity resurrected Zhang Wuji and five other Saint Ancestor Realm experts as lifeless Heavenly Monarchs, while Lu Chen traveled to the war-torn Asura Blood Prison. After learning that the Asura Demon Race had invaded the surface, Lu Chen received a mission offering a Space Key and, for exterminating the demons, a Ginseng Fruit Tree.

• God of Infinity used the Power of Infinity to resurrect Zhang Wuji and five others and raise them to the Heavenly Monarch Realm.
• Lu Chen returned to the Lu family, then left the Sky Flame Holy Domain with Sun Wukong, Nezha, Yang Jian, Tang Sanzang, Ao Bing, and the others as the Four Symbols Divine Generals departed to train.
• Lu Zhongfeng watched Lu Chen leave from a pavilion, a strange red light flickering in his eyes.
• Lu Chen arrived in the Asura Blood Prison and found its people fighting the invading Asura Demon Race.
• Blood Venerable sent Xue Linglong to Lu Chen, and she explained that the demons had emerged from the underground world to seize the surface.
• Lu Chen received a Reversal Mission to help the Asura Blood Race, with the reward for exterminating the Asura Demon Race being a Space Key and a Ginseng Fruit Tree.

Lu Chen learned that the Asura Demon Race could be wiped out if he and the Blood Venerable’s forces joined against its awakened demon ancestor. He agreed to the plan but asked everyone to wait while he entered the Immortal Falling Secret Realm to seek the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife.

• Lu Chen urged Xue Linglong to help arrange the annihilation of the Asura Demon Race, and she suggested he discuss it with her father.
• The Blood Venerable revealed that he had reached the Emperor Monarch Realm and warned that the Asura Demon Race’s sleeping demon ancestor could rise to the Dao Monarch Realm if the clan faced destruction.
• Sun Wukong said he had a way to fight the demon ancestor, and the Blood Venerable agreed that their forces could wear the enemy down until it died.
• Lu Chen agreed to join forces with the Blood Venerable to destroy the Asura Demon Race but asked them to wait a few days while he pursued the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife in the secret realm.
• The Blood Venerable explained that the Immortal Falling Secret Realm was about to open, and Lu Chen prepared to enter it.

Lu Chen and his companions entered the Immortal Falling Secret Realm to claim the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife, a weapon capable of striking targets across any distance and possibly annihilating their Primordial Spirits. They reached the altar and began facing the lingering thoughts of fallen immortals and demons, leaving their trial underway.

• Blood Venerable told Lu Chen that nine Sovereign Realm powerhouses had perished in the ancient war and that the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife had formed from their battle's accumulated karma and blood.
• Blood Linglong led Lu Chen and his companions to the sealed entrance, opened it with her blood, and stayed behind to guard it as they entered.
• Lu Chen and his companions appeared in a blood-soaked realm filled with immortal remains, a mountain of bones, and a river of immortal blood and demonic aura.
• Lu Chen recognized the sealed curved blade as the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife, and Yang Jian confirmed it was not the weapon wielded by Daoist Lu Ya during the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
• A voice explained the blade's limits and the trial: Lu Chen had to approach it through the lingering thoughts of immortals and demons and refine it to claim it.
• Lu Chen and his companions stepped onto the altar, where terrifying howls invaded their minds and began to disturb them.

Lu Chen and his companions reached the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife, overcame the altar’s inner demons, and broke its seal so Lu Chen could begin refining it. Meanwhile, an Asura Blood Race figure worshipped the Demon Ancestor in the depths of the underground world.

• The Immortal-Demon Remnants drove Lu Chen, Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Nezha, and Ao Bing toward madness, but Tang Sanzang used Buddhist chants and golden lotuses to dispel their inner demons.
• Sun Wukong urged Lu Chen to hurry, and the group attacked the Immortal Falling Chain until it broke and released the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife.
• Lu Chen caught the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife, drank Enlightenment Tea, and began refining it while his companions watched.
• Tang Sanzang asked how Sun Wukong and Nezha had escaped the Primordial World Heavenly Dao’s control, and Nezha answered that they had used the Space Key.
• In the Asura Blood Race’s underground world, a rat-headed Demon Race member worshipped the red phantom of the Demon Ancestor atop an altar.

The Asura Emperor launched an attack on the Asura Blood Race after gaining the Asura Ancestor’s apparent blessing and joining forces with an outsider. As Blood Venerable’s hidden forces turned the battle, the Asura Emperor reached the Dao Monarch Realm and attacked him, only for several figures to appear beside Blood Venerable.

• The Asura Emperor received an ordinary red coffin from the sleeping Asura Ancestor and decided it meant he should kill Blood Venerable.
• Ten days later, Blood Venerable saw the Asura Demon Race pour out to attack, while Lu Chen arrived with the refined Immortal Slaying Flying Knife.
• Blood Venerable summoned thirty-six Saint Ancestor Realm Blood Generals and ordered them to kill every Asura Demon Race member in the Asura Blood Region.
• The Asura Emperor confronted Blood Venerable, then fused with a blackish-gray outsider and rose from the Emperor Monarch Realm to the Dao Monarch Realm.
• The Asura Emperor charged Blood Venerable, and several figures suddenly appeared beside him.

Blood Venerable and his allies were overwhelmed when the Demon Ancestor joined the Demon Emperor at Dao Monarch Realm, but Lu Chen arrived with Flame Emperor as reinforcements. Flame Emperor confronted the Demon Ancestor and crushed his attempt to self-detonate, leaving the battle’s outcome poised to turn.

• Blood Venerable, Sun Wukong, Nezha, Yang Jian, Tang Sanzang, Ao Bing, and their allies fought the Demon Emperor while thirty-six Saint Ancestor Realm experts attacked the Asura Demon Race.
• Nezha stabbed the Demon Emperor with his Fire-Tipped Spear, prompting the Demon Emperor to call upon the Great Demon Ancestor for help.
• The Demon Ancestor appeared as a blood-red divine dragon, raised his cultivation to Dao Monarch Realm, and joined the Demon Emperor against Blood Venerable’s group.
• Lu Chen arrived with Flame Emperor on a Nine-Dragon Carriage, and Blood Venerable stopped preparing to burn his blood essence.
• Flame Emperor confronted the Demon Ancestor, who gathered energy to self-detonate, and crushed him with a gigantic flaming palm.

Flame Emperor and Sun Wukong defeated the Demon Ancestor and Demon Emperor, setting the Asura Demon Race’s destruction in motion. Lu Chen entered the Barren God Altar Secret Realm, where he learned that the trial would test whether he could claim Ancestral Witch Essence Blood.

• The Wujiang Spirit Race fled from the Demon Emperor when it sensed Flame Emperor, and Sun Wukong killed the weakened Demon Emperor as the Demon Ancestor’s final words revealed his intent.
• Lu Chen thanked Flame Emperor, then left the Asura Demon Race’s eradication to Blood Venerable, who said it would be destroyed within ten days.
• Blood Venerable told Lu Chen about the Barren God Altar Secret Realm and its rumored essence blood, and Lu Chen entered it the next day with Sun Wukong, Nezha, Yang Jian, and the others.
• Lu Chen and his companions endured crushing pressure in the entrance passage and emerged into a realm with twelve towering pillars and a bronze cauldron of blazing flames.
• A voice explained that trial takers had to choose a pillar and offer their blood; those accepted could undergo the Ancestral Witch trial, while those rejected would have their blood drained.

Lu Chen gained the recognition of all twelve Ancestral Witch totem pillars and endured the brutal trials on the Ancestral Witch Platform. He received the hidden reward of the Ancestral Witch Physique as another force began transforming his body.

• Lu Chen decided to seek recognition from all twelve totem pillars despite Sun Wukong's warning.
• Lu Chen gained the recognition of each pillar, including the final Weather Ancestral Witch pillar, and received twelve runes on his arm.
• The Ancestral Witch Platform appeared, and Lu Chen was drawn inside as Sun Wukong and the others watched.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches' battle intents attacked Lu Chen while the Flame of Succession burned him, and a mysterious lotus repeatedly forced him awake.
• After the trials ended, a red force merged into Lu Chen, and the Heavenly Sound announced that he had earned the Ancestral Witch Physique.

Lu Chen gained the Ancestral Witch Physique, then absorbed the twelve drops of Ancestral Witch Essence Blood after they fused into Pangu's Essence Blood. His body and power transformed dramatically, and the chapter ended with Sun Wukong knocking him flying in their first test of strength.

• Lu Chen sensed the Ancestral Witch Physique transforming his blood and watched the Ancestral Witch Platform disappear, revealing twelve drops of Ancestral Witch Essence Blood in the bronze cauldron.
• The twelve drops of Ancestral Witch Essence Blood merged into one golden-red drop, which flew into Lu Chen's glabella and began fusing with him.
• Lu Chen endured intense agony as his bones, meridians, and blood transformed, and a Pangu dharma image appeared behind him.
• Yang Jian recognized the drop as Pangu's Essence Blood and said the fusion gave Lu Chen boundless potential.
• Lu Chen discovered that his physical strength had greatly increased, he cultivated constantly, and he could merge with the Pangu dharma image.
• Lu Chen challenged Sun Wukong to a fight, but Sun Wukong punched him in the chest and sent him flying.

Lu Chen's Pangu Dharma Image fused with his Supreme Clone, transforming it into an independent cultivator with the Law of Strength. After completing his mission, Lu Chen summoned the Ginseng Fruit Tree reward, leaving Zhen Yuanzi distraught when he discovered the tree had vanished.

• Lu Chen fought Nezha for hundreds of rounds before Nezha defeated him, and Lu Chen considered how much stronger he could become by combining with his Supreme Clone.
• When Lu Chen summoned his Supreme Clone, the Pangu Dharma Image left his true body and fused with the clone, giving it the Law of Strength and the ability to cultivate independently.
• The Supreme Clone entered the Time-Space Sun-Moon Pot to cultivate, while Lu Chen rejoined Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and the others and celebrated acquiring Pangu's Essence Blood.
• Lu Chen received the Space Key and Ginseng Fruit Tree as rewards for completing the reversal mission, then summoned the tree before his companions.
• Sun Wukong and Tang Sanzang recognized the Ginseng Fruit Tree, while Zhen Yuanzi discovered its absence at Wuzhuang Temple and cried out across the Three Realms.

Lu Chen took Zhen Yuanzi’s Ginseng Fruit Tree and learned that its fruits could help him reach the Saint Ancestor Realm and complete his Main Quest. After leaving the Asura Blood Region’s secret realm, he rewarded Xue Linglong with a Divine Demon Inheritance, then found an Azure Heaven Sword fragment and a Forbidden Ultimate Emperor Weapon underground.

• Lu Chen stored the Ginseng Fruit Tree in the Time-Space Yin Yang Pot after Sun Wukong warned him that Zhen Yuanzi might punish him for taking it.
• Xue Linglong told Lu Chen that the Asura Demon Race had been exterminated, and he left her the Blood Sea Sword Tomb inheritance before she began secluded cultivation.
• Lu Chen went to the underground world beneath the Asura Blood Region to search for the scattered fragments of the Azure Heaven Sword.
• Lu Chen shattered an altar and uncovered the Azure Heaven Sword’s sword guard and a cracked dragon horn.
• Lu Chen recognized the dragon horn as a Forbidden Ultimate Emperor Weapon.