Chapter Summaries

After repelling the Ancient Demon Star Domain, Lu Chen organized Borderless’s preparations for future threats while the Giant Demon Ancestor and the Mech Spirit Federation made plans of their own. Borderless celebrated its victory and grew stronger, but an unnoticed purple spore hinted at a new danger.

• The Giant Demon Ancestor ordered the Four Great Demon Saints to monitor Borderless, heal their injuries, and seek contact with the Abyss Demon Eye or the White Bone Wasteland.
• Source Zero One reviewed the failed assault and prioritized recruiting the Mechanical Ruler, preparing a high-spec reception and a new signal for three days later.
• Lu Chen assigned Borderless’s resources and defenses, tasked Yang Jian, Wukong, and Nezha with training the army, and told the Mechanical Clone to prioritize self-preservation and infiltration.
• A tiny purple spore attached itself to a meteorite at the edge of Borderless and then disappeared.
• Borderless celebrated for three days as Origin Spiritual Rain accelerated cultivation breakthroughs and news of its victories spread across the District Gui macro-region.

Lu Chen sent his Mechanical Clone to the Mech Spirit Federation, where Yuan One welcomed it as the thirteenth ruler and Source began transferring energy and authority. The clone detected a hidden protocol attempting to alter its logic and bind it to the Federation, and activated its countermeasures.

• Rulers and envoys across District Gui rushed to Wu Jie with lavish gifts after hearing of its victories, and Lu Chen accepted them while asking the Azure Emperor to receive the visitors.
• Lu Chen sent the fully replenished Mechanical Clone through the Federation’s receiving passage, warning it to prioritize infiltration and contact him if it encountered trouble.
• The Mechanical Clone arrived at Source Star and met Source and the twelve Mech Spirit Rulers in the supreme hall.
• Yuan One welcomed the clone and named it Yuan Thirteen, promising it a share of Source’s authority.
• Source infused the clone with energy and data, and the clone detected a hidden assimilation protocol before activating its countermeasure and disguise programs.

Lu Chen’s Mechanical Clone, Yuan Thirteen, fused with the Source’s authority and was crowned as the Mech Spirit Federation’s thirteenth Ruler. After the ceremony stunned the worlds and unsettled rival powers, he went to take command of the Thirteenth Legion.

• The system’s shielding field blocked a hidden attempt to assimilate Lu Chen as Yuan Thirteen fused with the Source’s authority.
• Yuan One and Yuan Two prepared a grand coronation, while Yuan Five objected to its expense; Yuan Thirteen asked what authority and resources he would receive.
• Yuan One granted Yuan Thirteen the Thirteenth Mechanical Legion, three Star-Breaking Fleets, and extensive resource and research access.
• The Federation broadcast Yuan Thirteen’s coronation across the worlds, shocking observers and drawing alarm from rival forces.
• Yuan Thirteen arrived at the Thirteenth Legion’s training ground and unleashed his Ruler-level pressure over its warriors, generals, and fleets.

Yuan Thirteen took command of the Thirteenth Legion and chose ten treasures from the Mech Spirit Treasury, including a mysterious component linked to the Primordial Origin. As he left the treasury, the Primordial Ancient Path secret realm appeared near the Boundless Realm, triggering a race among the worlds to explore it.

• Yuan Thirteen asserted his authority over the Thirteenth Legion, and the mechanical warriors and three Mechanical Generals submitted to his command.
• Yuan Thirteen selected nine valuable Chaos Grade treasures from the Mech Spirit Treasury under the guidance of Lu Chen's main body.
• Yuan Thirteen chose a damaged, dark-gold component suspected to be connected to the Primordial Origin, despite Yuan One's warning that it was unusable.
• The Primordial Ancient Path appeared near the Boundless Realm, and the All Heavens Battlefield announced a mission to explore it and claim control of its core.
• The worlds of District Gui reacted to the announcement by rushing to assemble teams for the secret realm's three-day priority window.

Lu Chen led a million-strong Boundless Realm army toward the newly appeared Primordial Ancient Path after the system tasked him with claiming its core. On Origin Star, Yuan Thirteen kept a mysterious Primordial Supreme Treasure and received a warning that the secret realm had emerged near the Boundless Realm.

• The system triggered Lu Chen’s mission to enter the Primordial Ancient Path first, explore over 80% of it, and seize its core, offering a Primordial Supreme Treasure and 100 Great Dao Saint Crystals as rewards.
• Lu Chen ordered Tang Sanzang and the insect-tribe avatar to defend the Boundless Realm and summoned Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Liu Shen, Nezha, Ancestor Yang Mei, Ao Bing, and Zhu Bajie to join him.
• Lu Chen led a million troops through a passage opened by the Primordial Saint Slaying Spear and charged toward the secret realm.
• Yuan Thirteen refused Yuan One’s advice to choose a different treasure and retained the mysterious Primordial Supreme Treasure core.
• Origin Star’s sensors detected an ultra-high-energy spatial phenomenon near the Boundless Realm and identified it as a suspected new high-level secret realm.

The Mech Spirit Federation assigned Yuan Thirteen to lead its intervention in the newly discovered Primordial Ancient Path, while Lu Chen and the Borderlands army entered the secret realm. They arrived in a primordial world rich in spiritual energy but burdened by immense pressure.

• The Mech Spirit Federation’s sovereigns reacted to the high-level secret realm, and Yuan Thirteen claimed command of the mission with Yuan One’s approval.
• Yuan Thirteen mobilized the Thirteenth Legion and ordered its three mechanical generals to prepare for a space jump to the Primordial Ancient Path.
• Lu Chen led the Borderlands army through the enormous chaotic entrance after ordering everyone to follow Ancestor Yang Mei and restrain their auras.
• The army emerged beneath nine blazing Ancient Golden Crow projections in a vast primordial world filled with spiritual energy and ancient landscapes.
• Yang Jian sensed the realm’s clear laws and oppressive conditions, while Sun Wukong welcomed the pressure and Willow Deity sensed life and extinction intertwined.

Lu Chen and the Borderless Army entered the Eastern Emperor's Legacy and encountered a powerful Nine-Tailed Giant Ghoul. Sun Wukong fought the beast while Yang Jian and Nezha helped create an opening, and the battle continued as Wukong prepared another strike.

• The secret realm identified itself as the outskirts of the Primordial Ancient Path in the Eastern Emperor's Legacy and warned of its dangers and resources.
• A Nine-Tailed Giant Ghoul emerged from behind the mountains, and Ancestor Yang Mei recognized it as a fierce beast with Chaos Demon Ape bloodline.
• Lu Chen ordered the army into defensive positions and assigned Yang Jian and Nezha to support Sun Wukong.
• Sun Wukong transformed into a ten-thousand-zhang giant and clashed his Golden Cudgel against one of the beast's tails, wounding it but being forced back.
• Nezha hurled the Universe Ring at the ghoul's eye as Yang Jian struck it with Divine Light, giving Sun Wukong an opening to prepare another attack.

Lu Chen’s forces endured an assault from awakened Primordial beasts while Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Nezha fought the Nine-Tailed Giant Ghoul. As Lu Chen suspected more powerful enemies were hiding nearby, the heroes gained the upper hand and Yang Jian directed Nezha to strike the ghoul’s weakness.

• Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Nezha attacked the Nine-Tailed Giant Ghoul as it unleashed its dragon tails and concentrated bloodlight against them.
• Ancestor Yang Mei sensed that their battle had awakened something, and Shadow Leopards emerged to attack the Borderless Army’s flanks.
• Ao Bing froze some Shadow Leopards, but they escaped through the shadows; Nezha drove them back with the Universe Ring’s crimson light as poisonous vines and fire birds attacked.
• Lu Chen ordered Zhang Yanxin to form the Black Tortoise Battle Formation, then assigned Willow Deity, Yang Mei, and Ao Bing to counter the beasts while directing Yang Jian and Nezha to help Sun Wukong.
• Sun Wukong’s Golden Cudgel battered the ghoul as Yang Jian and Nezha supported him, and Yang Jian told Nezha to attack its lower-jaw weakness with the Fire-Tipped Spear.

Lu Chen killed the Nine-Tailed Giant Ghoul and found three Solar Dao Fruit trees in its lair. After the Borderless World’s exploration progress reached 5% and earned the Chaos Divine Wood reward, Ancestor Yang Mei pointed toward the Primordial Ancient Path’s dangerous core region.

• Nezha wounded the Nine-Tailed Giant Ghoul, and Sun Wukong struck at its head before Lu Chen killed it with one spear.
• The Borderless Army cheered, and Lu Chen ordered the soldiers to rest, reorganize, and salvage the beast’s body.
• Lu Chen found three Solar Dao Fruit trees behind the mountain range and transplanted them into his inner chaos.
• Heaven and earth announced that exploration progress had reached 5% and awarded the Chaos Divine Wood.
• Ancestor Yang Mei sensed the likely location of the secret realm’s core and warned that a presence there surpassed the Nine-Tailed Giant Ghoul in power.

The Borderless Army advanced toward the core region of the Primordial Ancient Path and was ambushed in a corrosive swamp by Man-Faced Mantises. Lu Chen unleashed Primordial Divine Thunder to destroy the attackers, leaving the army to continue its dangerous journey.

• Lu Chen ordered the Borderless Army to resume its march after a brief rest, and Yang Jian, Sun Wukong, and Nezha warned the others to stay alert.
• The army stepped into the Saint-Trapping Swamp, where its suction and corrosive power trapped and injured dozens of warriors.
• Man-Faced Mantises attacked from the stone forest, cutting through shields and dragging warriors into the shadows as Ao Bing, Zhu Bajie, and Nezha fought back.
• Lu Chen summoned Primordial Divine Thunder, which blasted the Man-Faced Mantises into charred husks and cleared the stone forest.

Lu Chen led the Borderless Army through the Primordial Ancient Path, overcoming dangers and earning a reward as their exploration progress reached 15%. At an ancient palace ruin tied to the Eastern Emperor’s legacy, they faced a powerful Golden Crow battle imprint, and Sun Wukong was struck by its sword beam.

• Lu Chen used Word is Law and Primordial Divine Thunder to clear the Immortal Trapping Swamp, then ordered the army to rescue the trapped and wounded.
• The Borderless Army crossed the swamp and stone forest, defeated further threats, and collected rare materials, herbs, flowers, and Crimson Flame Essence Gold.
• The army’s exploration progress reached 15%, and Lu Chen received a Chaos Jade Marrow reward.
• Lu Chen and the others found an ancient palace ruin filled with deadly sword intent and murals depicting the Eastern Emperor Bell amid a divine battle.
• A Golden Crow battle imprint appeared and attacked the Borderless Army with True Sun Fire, overpowering their combined assault.
• The imprint’s sword beam struck Sun Wukong and sent him flying, leaving a white mark on his Golden Cudgel.

Lu Chen stopped the Golden Crow-robed battle imprint by manifesting a great seal, then collected its remnants and three Chaos Bell fragments. As the Borderless Army rested and Lu Chen recovered, unseen watchers fixed their greedy eyes on the group.

• The battle imprint gathered the ruins' sword intent and summoned Eastern Emperor Taiyi's phantom, preparing a devastating strike against the Borderless Army.
• Lu Chen formed a great seal from Primordial Violet Qi and several treasures, then dispersed the Sun God Sword's attack and Eastern Emperor Taiyi's phantom with a single command.
• The Golden Crow-robed imprint bowed to Lu Chen before vanishing, leaving behind a golden bead and three black fragments.
• The realm announced that Lu Chen had obtained Eastern Emperor's Battle Intent Essence, three Chaos Bell Fragments, and a strand of Primordial Violet Qi as exploration progress reached 30%.
• Lu Chen ordered the army to rest and Liu Shen to treat the wounded, then absorbed Primordial Violet Qi and examined a Chaos Bell Fragment.
• Several unseen watchers observed the resting Borderless Army from a distorted spatial shadow.

The Borderless Army crossed a dangerous ancient battlefield where Fierce Spirits and a supernatural horn drove soldiers into a murderous illusion. Lu Chen and his allies traced the horn to a bone altar guarded by powerful Heroic Spirits, where their leader declared them intruders and ordered them to die.

• Eerie whispers watched Lu Chen and the Borderless Army as they resumed their journey through the Eastern Emperor's Ruins.
• Fierce Spirits invaded soldiers' minds, and Lu Chen called for calm while Goddess Nüwa purified the surrounding malefic energy.
• An ancient horn provoked the army into seeing a demon-god battlefield, but Tang Sanzang's Buddhist light dispelled the illusion.
• Sun Wukong's attack failed to reach the horn, so Lu Chen ordered Ancestor Yang Mei to tear open a space channel toward its source.
• The army found a bone altar guarded by Heroic Spirits and a Quasi-Sage mid-stage leader, who threatened the intruders; Yang Jian restrained Sun Wukong from charging.

Lu Chen and the Borderless Army fought back an endless horde of Ancient Heroic Spirits before Lu Chen led a strike against their Imperial Robe leader. After defeating the leader’s four generals, Lu Chen met the Imperial Robe Heroic Spirit’s attack head-on.

• The Imperial Robe Heroic Spirit sounded the Bone Horn, sending the Ancient Heroic Spirit Army charging at the Borderless Army through the spatial rift.
• Lu Chen organized the defense, and he, Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Nezha, and Ao Bing held the gap while the army’s forces supported them.
• Lu Chen ordered Yang Mei to widen and stabilize the passage, then led Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Nezha toward the Bone Altar.
• The Imperial Robe Heroic Spirit summoned four powerful generals to defend the altar, and Zhu Bajie and Ao Bing joined the attack against them.
• Lu Chen and his allies destroyed all four Heroic Spirit Generals, prompting the Imperial Robe Heroic Spirit to enter the battle and strike at Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen met the Imperial Robe Heroic Spirit’s halberd with his Primordial Saint Slaying Spear, and their clash was no longer evenly matched.

Lu Chen and his allies fought the Imperial Robe Heroic Spirit after the Bone Horn summoned a dozen ancient quasi-saint battle souls. Lu Chen suppressed the horn, ending the battle, and the surviving group was left exhausted on the silent Crimson Plain.

• The Bone Horn repaired the Imperial Robe Heroic Spirit and summoned a dozen ancient quasi-saint heroic spirits from beneath the Crimson Plain.
• The Imperial Robe Heroic Spirit ordered the ancient spirits to attack, leaving Lu Chen surrounded by eight while his allies fought the others.
• Lu Chen unleashed the power of the Primordial World and battled the spirits, then called on Ancestor Yang Mei to restrain the Bone Horn.
• Lu Chen grabbed the Bone Horn and used the power of the Chaos World to suppress its imprint.
• The horn's power faded, the heroic spirits vanished, and Lu Chen's group survived the battle.

Lu Chen defeated the Imperial Robe Heroic Spirit, obtained its treasures, and led his army through the Black Vortex into a valley filled with rare treasures. When he attacked the adorable guardian of the Great Dao Infant Spirit Fruit Tree, the baby knocked away his spear and sent him crashing into the valley wall.

• Lu Chen claimed the Ancient War Horn, Human Emperor Battle Intent Crystal, and Tattered Imperial Robe after the Imperial Robe Heroic Spirit dissipated.
• Lu Chen and his army rested, then entered the Black Vortex and discovered Three Lights Divine Water and a tree bearing nine Great Dao Infant Spirit Fruits.
• Lu Chen stopped Nezha from approaching the fruit tree and realized the chubby baby emerging beneath it was an extremely dangerous guardian.
• Lu Chen thrust his Primordial Saint Slaying Spear at the baby, but it tapped the spear with one finger, knocked it away, and sent Lu Chen flying into the valley wall.

Lu Chen and the Boundless Realm were overwhelmed by a Saint-Realm child whose casual attacks shattered their defenses. As the Primordial Ancient Path secret realm opened to all worlds, three hostile forces arrived and found Lu Chen cornered by the child.

• The chubby child sent Lu Chen flying with one finger, and the Willow God and others realized it had Saint-Realm strength.
• The child broke through the Boundless Realm's defensive formations with a light press, gravely injuring Zhang Yanxin and leaving Lu Chen's army unable to move.
• The secret realm announced that its three-day restriction had ended, and powerful armies from across District Gui poured inside.
• The Thirteenth Legion of the Mech Spirit Federation, the Abyss Demon Eye Great World, and the Ancient Demon Star Domain arrived near Lu Chen's mountain valley.
• The Golden Peng Demon Saint, the Green-faced Ancient Ape, the Nine-headed Poisonous Python, and the Devil Master spotted the battered Boundless Realm and prepared to attack.

Lu Chen and Yuan Thirteen staged a betrayal to redirect the Fat Baby in Red Underwear against the Ancient Demon and Abyss armies. The infant’s attacks triggered a battle between those forces and the Mech Spirit Federation, while the Boundless Realm watched from the sidelines.

• Lu Chen accused Yuan Thirteen of conspiring with the Abyss and Ancient Demon, and Yuan Thirteen played along by declaring that he would seize the secret realm’s core and the Xiantian Elf.
• Yuan Thirteen ordered the Mech Spirit Fleet to fire, directing most of its shots toward the Fat Baby in Red Underwear and the Ancient Demon and Abyss armies.
• Lu Chen urged the Fat Baby to attack the forces firing at it, and it erased more than a tenth of the Ancient Demon and Abyss armies with a single finger tap.
• Golden Peng Demon Saint and the Abyss Demon Lord blamed Yuan Thirteen and led their surviving forces in an assault on the Mech Spirit Fleet.
• The Fat Baby continued randomly erasing fighters from all three forces as Yuan Thirteen staged a dangerous retreat, while the Boundless Realm watched the battle in disbelief.

Lu Chen and the Boundless Realm weakened the Fat Baby in Red Underwear with a coordinated strike, then Yuan Thirteen fired the Mech Spirit Federation’s Forbidden Weapon while the baby was exposed. The baby’s shield shattered and he was swallowed by the resulting explosion, leaving only a gigantic crater.

• Lu Chen ordered the Boundless Realm to form the Myriad Immortals Formation and combine their strongest attacks against the Fat Baby in Red Underwear just after his next strike.
• Lu Chen, Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Nezha, Willow God, and Yang Mei hit the baby during the brief gap between his attacks, dimming his red light and injuring his hand.
• The Fat Baby in Red Underwear became furious and began unleashing his full power.
• Yuan Thirteen revealed the Mech Spirit Federation’s Star Annihilation Protocol and fired its Forbidden Weapon at the baby.
• Lu Chen led the Boundless Realm in a second attack while the baby resisted the weapon, and Yuan Thirteen ordered the flagship to overload its systems.
• The baby’s Crimson Light Shield shattered, and the combined attacks engulfed him in an explosion that left a gigantic crater.

Lu Chen killed the Innate Saint Spirit and claimed its Heart and three strands of Primordial Violet Qi, provoking the Ancient Demon and Abyss forces to attack. Yuan Thirteen covertly aided the Borderless Army, and the chapter ended with Lu Chen and his allies fighting back against their enemies.

• Lu Chen used the Primordial Saint Slaying Spear to kill the weakened Innate Saint Spirit and obtained its Heart, three strands of Primordial Violet Qi, and five fragments of the Jade Disc of Creation.
• Golden Peng Demon Saint and the Abyss Demon Lord ordered their forces to attack the Borderless Army and seize Lu Chen's spoils.
• Yuan Thirteen pretended to fire on the Borderless Army but instead bombarded the advancing enemy forces and split the Ancient Demon and Abyss armies.
• Lu Chen thanked Yuan Thirteen, rallied the Borderless Army, and charged the disorganized Ancient Demon forces.
• Yang Jian and Nezha intercepted the Green-faced Ancient Ape, Sun Wukong fought the Nine-headed Poisonous Python, and Lu Chen confronted Golden Peng Demon Saint.
• Lu Chen gained the upper hand against Golden Peng Demon Saint while Sun Wukong suppressed the Nine-headed Poisonous Python.