Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen returned to the Mortal World after the Insect Queen and Golden Cicada Clone broke through into the Dominator Realm. There, Gabriel offered to help overthrow the King of Angels and turn the Angel Race into Dark Angels, and Lu Chen agreed to cooperate as the Angel army prepared to invade.

• Lu Chen dismissed the Immortal Supreme Realm experts after affirming his faith in the Insect Queen Overlord, then returned to the Mortal World with Sun Wukong, Golden Cicada, Yang Jian, and the others.
• Nezha brought Gabriel, an archangel of the Angel Race, to meet Lu Chen, and Gabriel revealed that the King of Angels was preparing an invasion of the Mortal World.
• Gabriel said he wanted Lu Chen's help to overthrow the King of Angels and lead the Angel Race down a new path as Dark Angels.
• The system issued Lu Chen missions to cooperate with the King of Angels and win the coming war against the Angel Race.
• Gabriel claimed he controlled tens of millions of elite angel soldiers and had two other archangels on his side, then Lu Chen agreed to cooperate with him.

Lu Chen arranged for the Insect Queen Overlord to negotiate with Gabriel, who sought help killing the King of Angels. Gabriel agreed to pay three Dominator Supreme Treasures, and Lu Chen recognized one of them as a Conceptual Supreme Treasure called the Scepter of Death.

• Lu Chen told the Insect Queen Overlord to make Gabriel pay for her cooperation.
• Gabriel asked the Insect Queen Overlord to help the Mechanical Ruler kill the King of Angels and offered a Dominator Supreme Treasure.
• The Insect Queen Overlord bargained Gabriel up to three Dominator Supreme Treasures, which Gabriel handed over before leaving.
• Lu Chen said he would seek at least three treasures from Gabriel at the Mechanical Ruler's location as well.
• Lu Chen examined the treasures and identified a black scepter whose Scepter of Death ability redefined death within a radius of ten thousand miles.

Lu Chen examined Gabriel’s three Dominator Supreme Treasures and gave the Eight-Nine Golden Body to Yang Jian and the Holy Light Great Dao Pill to Golden Cicada. As the group prepared to fight the Angel Race, Gabriel appeared before Lu Cang and discovered he could no longer control himself.

• Lu Chen learned that the Scepter of Death could define death within a range and that the Holy Light Great Dao Pill let its user persist wherever holy light existed.
• Lu Chen discovered that Gabriel’s jade pendant contained the Eight-Nine Golden Body, which Yang Jian explained had been split into the Eight-Foot and Nine-Foot Golden Bodies by Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
• Lu Chen gave the Eight-Nine Golden Body to Yang Jian and the Holy Light Great Dao Pill to Golden Cicada, then kept the Scepter of Death for himself.
• Lu Chen warned his allies about the Angel Race’s resurrection ability and said they would use the coming war to train their troops.
• Gabriel appeared above the Mechanical Empire and requested an audience with the Mechanical Ruler, but Lu Cang’s command left him unable to control himself.

Gabriel negotiated with Lu Cang to secure the Mechanical Ruler’s help in killing the King of Angels, ultimately paying four Dominator Supreme Treasures. After spending seven treasures in total to enlist two Sovereigns, Gabriel vowed to reclaim them once he became the King of Angels and reached the Sovereign Realm.

• Gabriel appeared before Lu Cang and repeated his request for help killing the King of Angels.
• Lu Cang demanded four Dominator Supreme Treasures and refused to bargain, so Gabriel left to gather them.
• Three hours later, Gabriel returned and handed Lu Cang four Dominator Supreme Treasures for their cooperation.
• Gabriel lamented that he had spent seven of his eight treasures to recruit the Insect Queen Overlord and the Mechanical Ruler, then vowed to take them back after becoming a Sovereign.
• Lu Chen, Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and the others appeared before Lu Cang, and Lu Chen remarked that Gabriel had likely given up everything he had.

Lu Chen examined Gabriel’s Dominator Supreme Treasures and distributed the Dark Great Dao Pill to Nezha and the Chaos Divine Dragon Essence Blood to Ao Lie. Meanwhile, the King of Angels ordered Gabriel and the other archangels to invade the mortal world and subjugate it within a week.

• Lu Chen identified the Dark Great Dao Pill and gave it to Nezha, who accepted it to embrace darkness.
• Lu Chen offered the Chaos Divine Dragon Essence Blood to Ao Bing and Ao Lie, and Ao Bing yielded it to Ao Lie, who gratefully accepted.
• Lu Chen put away the Blood Sacrifice Altar and Fate Copper Coin after considering their abilities.
• The King of Angels declared that the Angel Race would punish those who challenged Holy Light and appointed Gabriel commander of the invasion.
• Gabriel directed the eight other archangels to lead separate armies through nine Angel Gates and conquer the mortal world within a week.

The King of Angels invaded the mortal world with nine archangels and millions of troops, and Lu Chen’s forces met them in battle. As the mortal army fell back, Lu Chen remained calm while his Golden Cicada Clone sent a vast insectoid swarm toward the battlefield.

• The King of Angels stayed behind in the Angel Kingdom while Gabriel led ten million angels through the final angel gate.
• Nine angel gates appeared above the mortal world, and Lu Chen gathered Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Zhang Yanxin, Luo Li, and the mortal armies to face the invading angels.
• The King of Angels demanded that Lu Chen surrender and become a vassal, but Lu Chen mocked the angels before the King ordered the attack.
• The angel and mortal armies clashed, and the King of Angels watched from his throne as the mortal troops were steadily pushed back.
• The Golden Cicada Clone sent hundreds of millions of insectoids, some carrying Purple Firmament Divine Thunder, toward the mortal world while Lu Chen remained confident.

Lu Chen’s Insect Race allies turned the Angel Army’s advance into a retreat, while the Dragon Race attacked the Angel Kingdom and the Black Cloud Demon Court fought back. The King of Angels revealed that he had another ally waiting as dozens of Magic Gates opened above the battlefield.

• Lu Chen summoned hundreds of millions of Insect Race fighters, who attacked the Angel Army with possession, self-destruction, and elemental powers.
• Lu Chen warned that the Angel Rebirth Pool revived fallen angels only after a year and at the cost of a Major Realm of cultivation.
• Lu Cang reached the Angel Kingdom and found the Dragon Race already attacking it, then left without joining the fight.
• The King of Angels sent the Black Cloud Demon Court to battle the Dragon Race in the Angel Kingdom.
• As the Angel Army retreated on the mortal-realm battlefield, the King of Angels opened dozens of Magic Gates and revealed he had another ally.

Lu Chen faced the King of Angels as the human mage lineage joined the battle and the two sides fought to a stalemate. Lu Chen revealed that Gabriel, Lucifer, and Raphael had turned against the King of Angels, tipping the battlefield and leaving Ulafei demanding to know why.

• The human mage lineage appeared through Magic Gates and joined the Insectoid Army and mortal army, helping the Angel Race regain ground.
• Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Nezha, Ao Bing, Ao Lie, Tang Sanzang, Zhu Bajie, and the Willow God fought alongside Lu Chen’s forces as the battle reached a stalemate.
• The King of Angels urged Lu Chen to surrender, but Lu Chen said his side was betting on whose hand held better cards.
• Gabriel, Lucifer, and Raphael summoned their legions and led their tens of millions of angels in an attack on the King of Angels’ forces.
• Black Cloud Immortal demanded an explanation from the King of Angels as the betrayal devastated the Demon Race and angel armies.
• Gabriel told Ulafei that his stagnant leadership was wrong and that the archangels would overthrow him to lead the Angel Race to a new peak.

Gabriel turned the Angel Race against Ulafei as the Immortal Law God and his mages abandoned him. Desperate, Ulafei devoured angels rebirthing in the Angel Rebirth Pool and broke through to the Dominator Realm without a heavenly tribulation, leaving the mortal world facing a new, vengeful Dominator.

• Gabriel urged Ulafei’s troops to defect, and Uriel led his millions of angels to join Gabriel’s side.
• The Immortal Law God Wei Jing renounced Ulafei and departed with the Magic Human Race.
• Ulafei summoned angels rebirthing in the Angel Rebirth Pool and devoured their source power to strengthen himself.
• Ulafei broke through to the Dominator Realm without triggering a Dominator Heavenly Tribulation.
• Ulafei vowed to kill Gabriel, Lu Chen, the mortal world, and the Zerg, while powerful beings across the Boundless Realm sensed his breakthrough.

The King of Angels devastated the mortal realm before the Insect Queen’s avatar stopped him and fought him in the sky. As the King of Angels raised his power by absorbing angelic origin, Lu Chen sent the Mechanical Ruler Lu Cang to join the battle, leaving the King of Angels terrified and searching for who had summoned it.

• The King of Angels killed countless beings in the mortal realm and attacked Lu Chen, but the Insect Queen’s avatar blocked his strike.
• The King of Angels and the Insect Queen’s avatar fought above the mortal realm while the Insect Race and the mortal realm’s forces defeated the Angel Race’s army.
• Lu Chen learned from Golden Cicada that the Insect Queen’s avatar could only hold the King of Angels off, and that their Purple Firmament Thunder Worms were too few to defeat him.
• The King of Angels fought recklessly and began absorbing angelic origin power to raise his realm beyond the first heavenly layer of the Sovereign Realm.
• Lu Chen sent the Mechanical Ruler Lu Cang into the battle, and the King of Angels panicked before turning his gaze toward Lu Chen.

Lu Chen revealed that he had enlisted the Mechanical Ruler and the Insect Queen to fight the King of Angels, who then learned that Primordial Violet Qi had secured their help. The two Dominators attacked him, and after suffering heavy damage, the King of Angels unleashed his Judgment of the God of Angels.

• The King of Angels tried to flee, but Lu Cang trapped him in a spatial barrier while the Insect Queen's clone and the Mechanical Ruler closed in.
• The Mechanical Ruler revealed that Primordial Violet Qi was the price Lu Chen paid for their help, and the King of Angels realized Lu Chen had deceived the powers of the myriad heavens.
• The Mechanical Ruler fired ninety-nine Antimatter Annihilation Cannons, badly damaging the King of Angels.
• The Insect Queen's clone summoned a Golden Body insectoid created with Buddhist abilities and insect genes, and it bound and tore into the King of Angels.
• The King of Angels unleashed the Judgment of the God of Angels, disintegrating Lu Cang's Mechanical Body as the Mechanical Ruler's cannons blasted through his chest and a Black Hole.

Lu Chen, the Insect Queen Overlord, and the Mechanical Ruler unleashed their strongest powers against the King of Angels in a catastrophic battle. The King of Angels was killed, and Lu Chen received the Reversal Mission reward and 200,000 System Points.

• The King of Angels summoned a reflected self on an Inverted Cross Crucifix and wielded a Time Holy Light Sword forged from his own spine, while Lu Chen's Mechanical Clone and the Insect Queen Overlord's forces attacked him.
• The Insect Queen Overlord merged her Buddhist Golden Body Insect Emperor with her power, and the Mechanical Ruler formed a vast Mechanical Divine Kingdom to prepare the Dimensional Spark Mechanical Cannon.
• The King of Angels revealed his Flesh and Blood Tree of Life and Angel Coronets, then collided with the Insect Queen Overlord and the Mechanical Ruler in a clash of Triple World-Ending Power.
• The King of Angels' incomplete source essence remained after the collision, while the Golden Body Insect Emperor and the Mechanical Ruler shattered and quickly recovered.
• Lu Chen received confirmation that the war against the Angel Race was won and the King of Angels killed, along with 200,000 System Points.

After the King of Angels died, the heavens mourned, and the Mechanical Ruler seized his Dominator origin before he could reincarnate. The King of Angels revealed the location and power of the Eternal Gui Xu Seal, but warned that reaching it meant facing a terrifying secret realm.

• Blood clouds and rain spread across Borderless after the King of Angels fell, and its inhabitants mourned the death of a Dominator Realm expert.
• The King of Angels' body became holy light, and his Dominator origin flew toward the Angel Rebirth Pool before the Mechanical Ruler imprisoned space-time and seized it.
• The King of Angels pleaded for reincarnation and offered information about a Genesis-grade supreme treasure; Lu Cang became interested, and the Mechanical Ruler demanded the secret first.
• The King of Angels told the Mechanical Ruler that the Eternal Gui Xu Seal lay in the Land of the End of All Realms, a void realm formed when the Primal Ancient God's attempt to attain eternity triggered an Origin Storm.
• The King of Angels explained that the seal could erase any being from every timeline, but broken spatial lines in the secret realm could trap travelers and erase them from their original timelines.

Lu Chen obtained the Key of the End and entered the Land of the End, where he found distorted time and space and the dangerous Karma Snow. Meanwhile, Gabriel claimed the Angel Kingdom by transforming into a dark Sovereign, while Lu Chen left his allies behind to watch the growing threat.

• The Mechanical Ruler found the key beneath the King of Angels’ throne and released the King, but the Insect Queen’s clone intercepted and killed him before he could reincarnate.
• Gabriel summoned dark power, reached the Sovereign Realm, and forced the Dragon Race to withdraw from the Angel Kingdom.
• Lu Chen told his allies to monitor the Dark Angel Race and left his clones behind while he traveled to the Land of the End.
• Lu Chen used the Key of the End to activate a formation and entered a strange realm of inverted time, distorted space, and gray-white Karma Snow.

Lu Chen entered the Land of the End and began the First Tribulation, completing the Mirror Abyss Reflecting the Soul trial by rejecting three illusory past lives. He returned to the Bronze Ancient Mirror and was sent into the next trial, Karma Fire Forging the Soul.

• Lu Chen learned the First Tribulation's stages and climbed ninety-nine steps to reach the Bronze Ancient Mirror.
• The mirror drew Lu Chen into an illusion as an emperor, but he rejected imperial power and destroyed his counterpart.
• Lu Chen faced an illusion of himself as a wealthy benefactor and killed the beggar asking him for food, declaring that charity could not save everyone.
• Lu Chen confronted a Nine-Headed Flood Dragon bearing his Immortal Slaying Sword and killed it, judging that ferocity was not the Dao.
• The Heavenly Sound announced that Lu Chen had passed Mirror Abyss Reflecting the Soul and entered Karma Fire Forging the Soul.

Lu Chen passed the three stages of the First Tribulation, Severing Past Karma, and began the Second Tribulation, Defying Destiny. He started completing the damaged Eternal Gui Xu Seal on the Heavenly Mechanism Jade Wall with his blood, sacrificing years of lifespan for each character.

• Lu Chen rejected the illusion that he had to sacrifice his bones to reforge the Immortal Slaying Sword, endured being pierced by countless swords, and returned to the secret realm.
• Lu Chen sealed his Dantian and endured nine days in the Law Devouring Black Tide before seizing a fragment of the Eternal Gui Xu Seal and discovering the stage was an illusion.
• The voice from the Land of the End announced that Lu Chen had passed the First Tribulation and described the three stages of Defying Destiny.
• Lu Chen entered the Blood Inscribed Heavenly Edict stage and began restoring the damaged scroll on the Heavenly Mechanism Jade Wall with his essence blood, accepting the lifespan cost of each character.

Lu Chen passed the first two stages of the Second Tribulation, gaining two fragments of the Eternal Gui Xu Seal in addition to the one from his heart-questioning trial. He began the Karma Tribulation Chains stage by confirming the chains were illusory and preparing to sever them.

• Lu Chen endured the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, tore a second fragment of the Eternal Gui Xu Seal from the thunderclouds, and began the Heavenly Dao Heart Questioning Trial.
• A memory showed Lu Chen as an orphan whose master, Xuanhuangzi, died taking his final tribulation for him, and an illusion challenged him to kill his master to become immortal.
• Lu Chen raised the Immortal Slaying Sword to Xuanhuangzi's throat, recognized the illusion's vermilion mole, and shattered it, revealing a third fragment of the Eternal Gui Xu Seal.
• Lu Chen entered the Karma Tribulation Chains stage and learned that severing the chains could make him lose his bonds with loved ones.
• Lu Chen used his divine abilities to see that the Karma Tribulation Chains were illusory, then drove the Immortal Slaying Sword into his chest and let his heart's blood make the marks solidify.

Lu Chen assembled the four fragments of the Eternal Gui Xu Seal into a Chaos Supreme Treasure, then encountered the Mortal World inside a bronze coffin bearing his name. The Mortal World revealed that he had arranged the seal and pointed Lu Chen toward the Nether Void for another treasure, while saying Carefree Heaven was in the Primordial Wilderness.

• Lu Chen combined the four fragments of the Eternal Gui Xu Seal and learned that it could erase beings and their causal connections from the timeline.
• As the secret realm collapsed, Lu Chen attacked a bronze coffin bearing his name and found the Mortal World, another version of himself, inside it.
• The Mortal World admitted he had prepared the Eternal Gui Xu Seal and made Lu Chen undergo trials to earn it.
• The Mortal World told Lu Chen to seek the Nether Void, who knew about another Chaos Supreme Treasure, and said Carefree Heaven was in the Primordial Wilderness.
• The Mortal World vanished before Lu Chen could ask more, leaving Lu Chen to curse at his abrupt departure.

After leaving the collapsing secret realm, Lu Chen returned to the Borderless Mortal World with the Eternal Gui Xu Seal and learned that another Chaos Supreme Treasure lay in the Nether Void and Carefree Heaven was in the Primordial World. He joined Sun Wukong and the others for a drink, then heard why Tang Sanzang’s powerful clone still could not easily challenge Tathagata.

• The secret realm collapsed after the Mortal World vanished, and Lu Chen returned to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains holding the Eternal Gui Xu Seal.
• Lu Chen recalled that the Nether Void contained another Chaos Supreme Treasure and learned that Carefree Heaven was in the Primordial World.
• Sun Wukong invited Lu Chen to drink with him, Yang Jian, Nezha, Ao Bing, Tang Sanzang, Zhu Bajie, and other great figures beneath the Tongtian Immortal Willow.
• Lu Chen urged Tang Sanzang to take his Dominator-strength Insect Queen clone to the Primordial World and beat Tathagata, but Tang Sanzang admitted it would be difficult.
• Sun Wukong explained that Quasi-Saints differed greatly in combat strength and ranked Tathagata above Ksitigarbha and Maitreya.

Lu Chen asked his companions about Carefree Heaven and learned that they suspected Lu Xiao, an apparent outsider whose cultivation had advanced at an astonishing pace. Nezha recounted Lu Xiao’s rise from an ordinary mortal to a Daluo Golden Immortal, leaving Lu Chen stunned by the connection.

• Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie warned Lu Chen that confronting Buddha Tathagata would risk a united counterattack from Maitreya and Ksitigarbha.
• Lu Chen accepted that they should wait until they grew stronger, then asked whether anyone knew of Carefree Heaven.
• Yang Jian and the others said they had never heard of Carefree Heaven, so Lu Chen asked about unusual figures who seemed like outsiders.
• Nezha named Lu Xiao, and Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Tang Sanzang, and Ao Bing agreed that Lu Xiao had seemed strange and lacked a traceable Root Foundation.
• Nezha described how Lu Xiao advanced from an ordinary mortal to a Daluo Golden Immortal in only a few centuries, while Yang Jian recalled that the Heavenly Court had failed to investigate his origins.