Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen obtained the Azure Heaven Sword Fragment and returned to the Imperial Immortal Region to prepare for the Yin Yang Boundary Tablet Secret Realm. Meanwhile, Yang Jian used the Space Key to join Lu Chen’s world, brought his followers with him, and destroyed the Hall of Miraculous Mist as he departed.

• Lu Chen learned that the Forbidden Ultimate Emperor Weapon could raise a Demon Race member to the Heavenly Monarch Realm without side effects, and the Azure Heaven Sword merged with its sword guard.
• After leaving the Asura Blood Region, Lu Chen returned to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, where the Yin Yang Boundary Tablet Secret Realm was due to open in six days.
• Yang Jian took the Space Key from Lu Chen, allowing his true self to connect with his incarnation and travel to Lu Chen’s world.
• Yang Jian used the Fake River-Mountain Diagram to take the Howling Celestial Dog, the Six Sages of Meishan, and the Grass Head Gods with him, while Ao Bing remained behind.
• As Yang Jian left, a treasure-lit mountain crashed into and shattered the Hall of Miraculous Mist, enraging the Jade Emperor.

Yang Jian left the Primordial World and reunited with his avatar in the Imperial Immortal Region, where he challenged the Heavenly Dao’s lightning tribulation and had his cultivation sealed at the Dao Monarch Realm. He brought Howling Celestial Dog, the Six Sages of Meishan, and the Grass Head Gods to join Lu Chen as an invasion from another world loomed.

• Yang Jian vanished through a Spatial Vortex, prompting the Jade Emperor to seek guidance from the Daoist Ancestor about the disappearances of Nezha, Sun Wukong, and Yang Jian.
• The Daoist Ancestor warned the Jade Emperor that the Great Calamity of the Myriad Worlds was approaching and that even Heaven could not control it.
• Yang Jian’s true body emerged in the Imperial Immortal Region and merged with his avatar, restoring his Immortal Battle Body and drawing a lightning tribulation from the local Heavenly Dao.
• Yang Jian endured the tribulation, declared that his limit was the Dao Monarch Realm, and accepted the Heavenly Dao’s seal on his cultivation.
• Yang Jian brought Howling Celestial Dog, the Six Sages of Meishan, and the Grass Head Gods before Lu Chen, introduced Lu Chen as his brother, and explained their cultivation levels.

Lu Chen used the Ginseng Fruits and Enlightenment Tea to make rapid breakthroughs, reaching the Ancient Ancestor Realm and beginning to fuse his twelve internal worlds into a cosmos. As he attempted the final step toward the Saint Ancestor Realm, his Supreme Clone woke and watched him expectantly.

• Yang Jian told Lu Chen that his peak strength rivaled a Quasi-Saint and warned him that Zhen Yuanzi would fight to reclaim the Ginseng Fruit Tree.
• Lu Chen entered the Time-Space Sun-Moon Pot, ate a Ginseng Fruit, and cultivated with Enlightenment Tea.
• After three days, Lu Chen broke through to the Great Saint Realm, then consumed another Ginseng Fruit and reached the Great Emperor Realm seventy-two days later.
• Lu Chen ate a third Ginseng Fruit and broke through to the Ancient Ancestor Realm after another hundred-plus days.
• Lu Chen ate the last Ginseng Fruit and began merging his twelve internal worlds into a cosmos-level internal great world.
• Lu Chen sensed excitement from his Supreme Clone, which opened its eyes and stared at him as he cultivated.

Lu Chen stopped fusing with the great world inside him after his Supreme Clone interrupted him, and he rushed to the Gui Xu Sea Eye to save Luo Li from demonic possession. A Reversal Mission appeared, directing him to help her become a demon with the God-Slaying Spear in exchange for the Precious Lotus Lantern.

• The Supreme Clone slapped Lu Chen and interrupted his attempt to fuse with the great world, and Lu Chen decided to wait for the Yin Yang Boundary Tablet Secret Realm and the Chaos Stone before breaking through.
• Fire Qilin and Nine-Tailed Immortal Fox told Lu Chen that Luo Li was in danger, trapped in the Gui Xu Sea Eye Secret Realm after falling into demonic possession while comprehending the Profound Nether Demon Suppressing Stele.
• Lu Chen flew through the Realm Passage to the Eastern Cang Region and used the Good-Evil Shuttle to reach Luo Li in the Gui Xu Sea Eye.
• Lu Chen found Luo Li sitting before the stele, covered in demonic patterns, and a Semi-transparent Panel revealed a Reversal Mission to help her transform into a demon with the God-Slaying Spear for the Precious Lotus Lantern.

Lu Chen used the God-Slaying Spear to help Luo Li complete her transformation into the demonic path, causing her cultivation to surge to the Heavenly Monarch Realm. After receiving the Precious Lotus Lantern as his mission reward, Lu Chen comforted Luo Li as she vowed to stay by his side and protect him.

• Lu Chen told Luo Li that the God-Slaying Spear could help her enter the demonic path, and she nodded her consent.
• Lu Chen summoned the God-Slaying Spear, which poured its demonic energy into Luo Li as Yang Jian, Sun Wukong, Nezha, and the others arrived to witness her painful transformation.
• After three days, Luo Li's cultivation rose from the Immortal Emperor Realm to the Heavenly Monarch Realm, and the God-Slaying Spear flew into her hand.
• Lu Chen received the Precious Lotus Lantern for completing the Reversal Mission and accepted that the God-Slaying Spear was better suited to Luo Li.
• Luo Li embraced Lu Chen and said she could finally protect him and would never leave his side again.

Lu Chen and his companions entered the Yin-Yang Boundary Tablet Secret Realm to seek the Chaos Stone, which Lu Chen recognized as the Yin-Yang Boundary Tablet. The trials began by plunging them into a formation that scrambled Yin and Yang, and Lu Chen was confronted by a mysterious man in black.

• Lu Chen gave Yang Jian the Precious Lotus Lantern, and Yang Jian explained how it had vanished through a spatial rift after Chenxiang used it against the Heavenly Court.
• The Yin-Yang Boundary Tablet Secret Realm opened, and Lu Chen, Luo Li, Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and the others entered.
• Lu Chen identified the Chaos-rich Yin-Yang Boundary Tablet as the Chaos Stone and heard that challengers had to survive the Yin-Yang Inversion Five Elements Grand Formation before entering the Yin-Yang Lake to comprehend its law.
• The tablet unleashed the first trial, confusing everyone; Nezha mistook Yang Jian for his father Li Jing and attacked him with his Fire-Tipped Spear.
• Lu Chen was plunged into darkness, summoned the Immortal Slaying Sword and Precious Lotus Lantern, and faced a man in black who greeted him as someone he had met in the Mortal World.

Lu Chen endured the Yin-Yang Lake, comprehended the Law of Yin-Yang, and claimed the Chaos Stone before the secret realm collapsed. Meanwhile, the Seven Sins Demon Realm prepared an invasion of the Nine Domains Realm, and Lu Chen and the others returned beneath the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

• Lu Chen accidentally struck Sun Wukong during the chaotic fight in the Yin-Yang Five Elements Inversion Formation, and everyone passed the trial.
• The secret-realm voice announced that whoever first comprehended the Law of Yin-Yang and resisted the lake’s erosion would obtain the Chaos Stone.
• Lu Chen entered the Yin-Yang Lake to comprehend the law, while Tang Sanzang left because he could not endure the pain and Sun Wukong and Yang Jian acknowledged Lu Chen’s potential.
• The Supreme Demon God learned that the Seven Sins Demon Realm had allied with the Boundless Hell Realm and was negotiating with the Starry Demon Realm to attack the Nine Domains Realm in half a month.
• Six days later, Lu Chen mastered the Law of Yin-Yang, drew the Yin-Yang Boundary Tablet into his hand, and claimed the Chaos Stone as the secret realm began collapsing.
• Sun Wukong and the others were caught in the collapse and returned with Lu Chen beneath the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

Lu Chen used Three Lights Divine Water to ripen a Ginseng Fruit, ate it, and began fusing the twelve worlds within his body to break through to the Saint Ancestor Realm. As the worlds merged into one, his Supreme Clone sent the Chaos Stone into the forming grand world, where it unleashed terrifying Chaos Power.

• Lu Chen learned from Sun Wukong and Tang Sanzang that they had one and a half drops of Three Lights Divine Water between them.
• Lu Chen used the water on the Ginseng Fruit Tree, ripening one fruit while another remained only partly grown.
• Lu Chen ate the ripe Ginseng Fruit, drank Enlightenment Tea, and began cultivating to condense his inner grand world.
• Lu Chen carefully connected and fused the twelve worlds within his body as his Supreme Clone watched.
• Lu Chen's Supreme Clone sent the Chaos Stone into the fused grand world, and it erupted with Chaos Power that shrouded the entire world.

Lu Chen fused the world within his body into Chaos, advanced to the Saint Ancestor Realm, and unlocked the System Store. After inspecting its costly treasures and receiving a mission to defeat Nezha, he began choosing two rewards for overfulfilling his quest.

• Lu Chen realized that the Chaos Stone had collapsed his inner world and transformed it into Chaos, which could evolve into a world on its own.
• The Supreme Clone entered the Chaos, and Lu Chen recognized that its resemblance to Pangu meant it might create the world within him.
• Chaos fed power back to Lu Chen, raising him from Ancient Ancestor to Saint Ancestor.
• The system unlocked the System Store and offered Lu Chen two supreme treasures because he had overfulfilled the quest.
• The system assigned Lu Chen a Reversal Mission to defeat Nezha and promised five thousand System Points.
• Lu Chen browsed the store, saw the high prices of physiques and special treasures, and began considering which two treasures to choose.

Lu Chen exchanged for the Diamond Sutra Bracelet and Pigsy's token, then showed the bracelet to Sun Wukong and summoned Zhu Bajie. The reunited companions greeted one another, while Lu Chen watched in surprise.

• Lu Chen decided the Diamond Sutra Bracelet and Pigsy's token suited him, so he summoned both treasures.
• Lu Chen showed the Diamond Sutra Bracelet to Sun Wukong, who recognized Taishang Laojun's missing treasure and celebrated the chance to taunt him.
• Taishang Laojun discovered that his Diamond Sutra Bracelet had vanished and wondered whether its loss was connected to the Ginseng Fruit Tree's disappearance.
• Lu Chen crushed Pigsy's token, opening a Spatial Vortex through which Zhu Bajie arrived and greeted Sun Wukong and Tang Sanzang.
• Zhu Bajie hugged Sun Wukong, who teased him for getting fatter, and then Zhu Bajie rubbed Tang Sanzang's bald head as Lu Chen watched in astonishment.

Lu Chen sparred with Nezha and discovered he could match and then overpower him despite their difference in realms. As they fought, Lu Chen asked why Tang Sanzang had reacted so fiercely to the Queen of the Women's Country, and Nezha said the story had wounded Tang Sanzang deeply.

• Zhu Bajie teased Tang Sanzang about his past attraction to demons, and Lu Chen asked whether Tang Sanzang had fallen for the Queen of the Women's Country.
• Tang Sanzang grew furious, and Sun Wukong promised to help him avenge the Queen and his child by killing the bald monk when they returned to the primordial wilderness.
• Lu Chen dragged Nezha into a spar, and Nezha was shocked that Lu Chen could fight him evenly despite being in a lower realm.
• Nezha used Three Heads and Six Arms, but Lu Chen's Diamond Sutra Bracelet collected his weapons before Lu Chen returned them and continued fighting with his Immortal Slaying Sword and divine abilities.
• Nezha admitted defeat through a voice transmission and asked to stop, while Lu Chen asked why Tang Sanzang was so upset; Nezha said the matter had wounded Golden Cicada deeply.

Lu Chen learned the tragic truth behind Tang Sanzang’s fury at the Queen of the Women’s Country while fighting Nezha, then defeated him and claimed the mission reward. Days later, Lu Chen and his companions gathered at the Grand Void Cloud Palace secret realm, where he spotted Lin Fan among the crowd.

• Nezha told Lu Chen that Tang Sanzang had loved the Queen of the Women’s Country, but returned to find her, her unborn child, and the entire country massacred.
• Nezha explained that Kasyapa had arranged the massacre at Buddha Tathagata’s command to keep Tang Sanzang’s journey and Buddhism’s rise free of uncertainty.
• Lu Chen attacked Nezha with the Immortal Slaying Sword, forcing Nezha to surrender, and received 5,000 Mission Points for completing the Reversal Mission.
• Days later, Lu Chen arrived with Luo Li, Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Tang Sanzang, and others at the gate to the Grand Void Cloud Palace secret realm, which held the Heaven-Ascending Ladder.
• Lu Zongqing, Huang Yu’er, Zhang Yanxin, and Geng Xiangjin joined Lu Chen, who invited them to enter the secret realm together.
• Lu Chen spotted Lin Fan, the Imperial Immortal Region’s Child of Destiny, and recalled taking his Vast Fortune Heaven-Encompassing Gu and using it to absorb Lin Fan’s fortune.

Lu Chen waited for the Grand Void Cloud Palace mystic realm to open, then entered with his companions and learned that its Ascension Ladder could raise a climber by a major realm. As the trial began and many people chose to leave, Lu Chen received a sudden reversal mission.

• Lu Chen spotted Lin Fan hiding in the crowd and considered using him to fulfill his Fate Plundering Body.
• Xue Linglong, Bing Jingjing, Ling Kezhi, Ling Tu, and other powerful cultivators gathered as people from across the Three Realms and Nine Regions arrived at the mystic realm.
• The nine-colored gate opened, and Lu Chen entered with Sun Wukong, Xue Linglong, and the others before the rest of the crowd followed.
• A heavenly voice explained that the Ascension Ladder lay beyond the Karma Fire Corridor and Starfall Bridge trials, and that the Red Lotus Karma Fire would punish those with heavy karma.
• After spatial vortexes appeared, many trial takers left, while Lu Chen received a reversal mission and smiled at its arrival.

Lu Chen used the Karma Fire Red Lotus to protect his companions as they entered the Grand Void Cloud Palace secret realm’s Karma Fire Corridor. The flames could not harm his group, but they killed many other Trial Takers, and the remaining participants discovered they could no longer leave the realm.

• Sun Wukong warned Lu Chen that he and the others could not survive the Red Lotus Karma Fire because of their heavy karmic sin.
• Lu Chen revealed the Karma Fire Red Lotus and assured Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Nezha, and the others that he could protect them.
• The Trial Takers were transported to the Karma Fire Corridor, where Lu Chen told Luo Li, Xue Linglong, Ling Kezhi, Zhang Yanxin, Huang Yu'er, and the others to stay close.
• Lu Chen led his group into the corridor, and the Karma Fire Red Lotus shielded them as the flames retreated.
• Several hundred Trial Takers entered the corridor, where the Red Lotus Karma Fire burned many of their souls and killed dozens within seconds.
• The surviving Trial Takers tried to leave the secret realm but found that no Spatial Vortex appeared.

Lu Chen and his group passed through the Karma Fire Corridor, reducing their karma, then stepped onto the Starfall Bridge to face their Three Corpses. Lu Chen defeated his Good Corpse and continued toward the remaining trials.

• Lu Chen and his group passed through the Karma Fire Corridor, and they discovered that their karma had decreased, but a gate blocked them from returning.
• Lu Chen explained that they had to defeat their Three Corpses to cross the Starfall Bridge and reach the Heavenly Palace Guard Trial.
• Sun Wukong stepped onto the bridge and began fighting his Three Corpses, defeating his first one after an incense stick's time.
• Lu Chen and the others entered the bridge, where Lu Chen faced three incarnations of himself in a gray space.
• Lu Chen realized that each corpse lacked part of his complete nature and defeated his Good Corpse by exploiting its flaws.

Lu Chen defeated his Three Corpses on the Starfall Bridge and learned that their embryonic forms had appeared in his Sea of Consciousness, giving him a foundation for severing them in the future. He entered the Heavenly Palace Guard Trial, gained the recognition of all thirty-six Golden Armored Immortal Puppets, and was left alone in the secret realm after the other Trial Takers were expelled.

• Lu Chen defeated the Evil Corpse and the Self Corpse, completing the Three Corpses Trial and crossing the Starfall Bridge.
• Sun Wukong told Lu Chen that the Three Corpses’ embryonic forms were in his Sea of Consciousness and that the people around him benefited from his True Dragon Luck.
• Zhang Yanxin, Geng Xiangjin, Luo Li, Xue Linglong, Ling Kezhi, and Lu Chen’s Four Symbols Divine Generals defeated their Three Corpses and joined him.
• Lu Chen entered the Heavenly Palace Guard Trial and received the recognition of the first thirty-five Golden Armored Immortal Puppets.
• Lu Chen touched the final Golden Armored Immortal Puppet, which vanished as every other Trial Taker was expelled from the secret realm.

Lu Chen completed the Grand Void Cloud Palace trial and received the Ascension Ladder, then climbed its steps as mysterious runes appeared in his Sea of Consciousness. At the summit, he discovered the palace was the Mortal World Palace, a revelation that connected it to his origins.

• Lu Chen received 5,000 System Points for completing the previous Reversal Mission and was tasked with reaching the Ascension Ladder’s summit for 10,000 more points.
• Lu Chen began climbing the 9,999-step Ascension Ladder, where mounting pressure accompanied his ascent.
• At each thousandth step, Lu Chen gained another profound rune in his Sea of Consciousness, and the palace plaque gradually became clearer.
• At the nine-thousandth step, Lu Chen read the plaque as “Mortal World Palace” and connected the name to the Mortal World, Carefree Heaven, and the entity in Azure Emperor’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Lu Chen climbed the remaining steps and reached the summit, where he saw the Mortal World Palace’s Great Gate covered in Great Dao Runes.

Lu Chen entered the Mortal World Palace and met Mortal World, who revealed that he had guided Lu Chen in the past. Mortal World explained their connection but refused to identify Carefree Heaven, then dismissed Nether Domain as a freeloader.

• Lu Chen opened the Mortal World Palace’s Great Gate and felt its overwhelming power respond gently to him.
• Lu Chen sat in the palace’s wooden chair, where Mortal World appeared and greeted him as someone they had met before.
• Mortal World revealed that he had once told Lu Chen the limit of his Inner World Cave Heaven was twelve, not nine.
• Lu Chen questioned whether he was Mortal World’s past, and Mortal World said Lu Chen was both him and Non-Self.
• Lu Chen asked where Carefree Heaven was, but Mortal World refused to tell him and said neither could find or kill the other.
• Lu Chen asked about Nether Domain, and Mortal World called him a freeloader after learning he was inside Lu Chen’s father.

The Mortal World explained its strength and the Reversal System to Lu Chen, then revealed the origins of itself, Carefree Heaven, and the Nether Void. The chapter ended with the Mortal World explaining why it and Carefree Heaven had joined forces against the Nether Void.

• The Mortal World said it and Carefree Heaven had hunted the Nether Void for hundreds of thousands of years without killing it, and urged Lu Chen to subdue it.
• The Mortal World claimed it could open an Epoch with a thought and reshape the Myriad Realms with a breath, and said Pangu was no match for it.
• The Mortal World told Lu Chen that it lacked the Reversal System but that Lu Chen possessed it, and said the system and its help would let him surpass its present self.
• Lu Chen asked about the origins and relationship of the Mortal World, Carefree Heaven, and the Nether Void.
• The Mortal World said it had been born from a Thread of Red Dust and become the Anchor of the Mortal World, while Carefree Heaven had arisen from Primordial Chaos Qi and rejected the Heavenly Dao.
• The Mortal World explained that the Nether Void was Cursed Scripture wrapped around the Eternal Silent Black Coffin, had devoured the Nine Underworlds, and drove Epoch collapses, prompting it and Carefree Heaven to oppose it.

Lu Chen received the Mortal World's inheritance but worried that adopting it would make him follow the Mortal World's Dao, so he decided to let a clone inherit it instead. He collected the treasures and Mortal World Palace, completed the Reversal Mission, and returned to the Imperial Immortal Region, where Sun Wukong and the others awaited him.

• The Mortal World appeared in the Azure Emperor's Sea of Consciousness and spoke with the Nether Void about the coming Calamity, Lu Chen's progress, and their search for Carefree Heaven.
• Lu Chen found five supreme treasures left by the Mortal World and decided to let a clone follow the Mortal World's Dao rather than make it his own.
• Lu Chen collected the five treasures and absorbed the Mortal World Palace into his Sea of Consciousness.
• Lu Chen completed the Reversal Mission, received 10,000 System Points, and put away the Ascension Ladder.
• Lu Chen left the Grand Void Cloud Palace secret realm and returned to the Imperial Immortal Region, where Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and the others greeted him.