Chapter Summaries

Yuan Thirteen revealed that he had fully taken control of the Mech Spirit Federation and joined Lu Chen’s side as a Saint, while Lu Pan emerged as another Saint clone. With Lu Chen badly wounded and retreating to the Borderless Barrier for healing, the two clones faced the five powerhouses of the Fallen Dust Alliance.

• Yuan Thirteen emerged from the Origin as the Mech Spirit Federation’s ruler and announced that he would eradicate the Fallen Dust Alliance’s forces.
• Yuan Thirteen blasted the Giant Demon Ancestor, vaporizing his arm and shoulder and interrupting the five powerhouses’ attack on Lu Chen.
• Yuan Thirteen moved to protect Lu Chen, and Lu Pan emerged from Lu Chen’s body as another Saint clone.
• Lu Chen retreated into the Borderless Barrier, where Willow God began healing him.
• The Borderless Barrier’s forces celebrated the arrival of the two Saint clones as Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen stood together against the Fallen Dust Alliance.

Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen held off five enemies in a fragile stalemate while Lu Chen recovered and learned that Tang Sanzang’s Buddha Light Insect Queen could seize the Void Insect Nest’s core and turn the battle. As Lu Chen expected the Fallen Dust Alliance to reveal a trump card, a world-shaking upheaval began outside Borderless.

• Lu Pan charged the Abyss Demon Emperor and Radiant Pope while Yuan Thirteen bombarded the Mother of Elements, Giant Demon Ancestor, and Star Devourer Ancestor, forcing the five enemies into a fragile stalemate.
• Lu Chen recovered in Mortal World Hall as the Willow God healed him, and Mortal World reported that the Mother of Elements could outlast their side by supporting and healing her allies.
• Mortal World deduced that Tang Sanzang’s Buddha Light Insect Queen had infiltrated the Void Insect Nest and could turn the battle by refining the Spirit of the Insect Nest.
• Lu Chen declined to contact the Buddha Light Insect Queen, trusting her mission and predicting that the Fallen Dust Alliance had a hidden trump card.
• A world-shaking upheaval began on the battlefield outside Borderless.

The Void Insect Queen, Hu Lietian, and Gu Aotian sacrificed their forces’ foundations to become Pseudo-Saints and joined the Fallen Dust Alliance’s other overlords against Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen. The eight attackers launched a final siege, leaving Wujie in despair as the battle threatened to destroy Zone J.

• The Abyss Demon Emperor and Radiant Pope urged the Void Insect Queen, Hu Lietian, and Gu Aotian to use their secret arts and risk their forces’ foundations.
• The Void Insect Queen gathered the consciousness of the Void Insect Nest, Hu Lietian invoked the White Tiger Wasteland’s killing intent, and Gu Aotian drew death and grievance energy from the White Bone Wasteland; all three reached the Pseudo-Saint level.
• The three new Pseudo-Saints joined the Radiant Pope, Abyss Demon Emperor, Mother of Elements, two Giant Demon Ancestors, and Star Devourer Ancestor, giving the attackers an eight-to-two advantage over Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen.
• Wujie’s defenders, including Zhu Bajie and Yang Jian, despaired as Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen faced the overwhelming enemy force.
• The eight overlords unleashed their final siege against Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen, while something remained hidden deep within the Void Insect Nest.

The Buddha Light Insect Queen infiltrated the insect nest’s deepest core while Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen fought the Abyss Demon Emperor, the Radiant Pope, and the Mother of Elements. Lu Pan split the Chaos Tide, but its remaining force battered him and destabilized Yuan Thirteen’s shield.

• The Buddha Light Insect Queen sensed the insect nest’s weakened laws and crept toward the Spirit of the Insect Nest.
• Lu Pan met the Abyss Demon Emperor’s Demonic Claw head-on, wounding it with the Pangu Axe Fragment while suffering a bleeding hand.
• The Radiant Pope tried to strike Lu Pan, but Yuan Thirteen intercepted the holy sword with precisely aimed Destruction Storm beams.
• The Mother of Elements unleashed a Chaos Tide, and Lu Pan used the Pangu True Body and Pangu Axe Fragment to split it open.
• The divided Chaos Tide still struck Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen, cracking Lu Pan’s Saint body and making Yuan Thirteen’s Energy Shield flicker.

Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen fought eight powerful enemies, but the Mother of Elements kept healing and supporting their opponents until both clones were badly damaged and nearly out of strength. As they prepared to overclock and prolong the battle, Lu Pan insisted that someone would find a way to save them.

• Hu Lietian, Gu Aotian, the Giant Demon Ancestor, the Star Devourer Ancestor, and their allies launched coordinated attacks that trapped Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen.
• Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen suffered severe injuries, though they counterattacked by damaging Gu Aotian’s skeleton and freezing Hu Lietian’s claw.
• The Mother of Elements replenished the enemies’ strength and healed their injuries, allowing the eight attackers to wear down the two clones.
• Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen assessed their condition, and Yuan Thirteen calculated that they could hold out for at most three years.
• Lu Pan resolved to keep fighting until help arrived, and Yuan Thirteen activated the Final Defense Protocol and began overclocking his damaged systems.

Lu Chen watched his clones Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen struggle against eight enemies and foresaw Borderless’s destruction, leaving him overwhelmed by despair and rage. As his Dao heart began to collapse, Chen Shi urged him to steady himself and pointed toward a corner of the light screen.

• Lu Chen and Chen Shi watched Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen endure the enemy’s assault, while Chen Shi said the Mother of Elements had to be killed instantly to turn the battle.
• Lu Chen foresaw the enemy breaking Borderless’s barrier and killing its defenders, including Luo Li, Xue Linglong, Bing Jingjing, Azure Emperor, and other allies.
• Lu Chen despaired that his main body was injured, his strongest clones were near defeat, and the Buddha Light Insect Queen’s mission remained uncertain.
• Lu Chen’s rage sent berserk Primordial Power surging through the Mortal World Hall as his Dao heart nearly collapsed.
• Chen Shi called on Lu Chen to steady his Dao heart, said they had not reached the end, and looked toward a corner of the light screen.

Lu Chen watched the battle while the Buddha Light Insect Queen tried to seize control of the Void Insect Nest’s Spirit. Despite burning her life force to accelerate the refinement, she realized it would still take decades, far longer than the Boundless Realm could survive.

• Lu Chen suppressed his berserk aura as he worried over the fate of the Boundless Realm and its people.
• The Buddha Light Insect Queen infiltrated the Spirit of the Insect Nest while the Void Insect Queen focused on the battlefield.
• The Buddha Light Insect Queen began refining the Spirit with Buddhist incantations, but the Nest’s will fiercely resisted and attacked her mind.
• She discovered that the refinement would take about a hundred years, while the battle outside might last fewer than three.
• The Buddha Light Insect Queen burned her Buddhist Golden Body and insect-race life force to speed up the process, but only reduced the estimate to eighty or ninety years.

As Borderless faced defeat and Lu Chen nearly lost hope, the Reversal System issued a mission to help Mortal World reach the Saint Realm. Lu Chen bought Mortal World a Red Dust Great Dao Crystal, whose power began to resonate with his Dao.

• The Buddha Light Insect Queen and Lu Chen watched Borderless's defenses and Lu Pan's Saint body deteriorate as the battle turned desperate.
• The Reversal System appeared and tasked Lu Chen with helping Mortal World break through to the Saint Realm, offering 2,000 Great Dao Saint Crystals and a Primordial Supreme Treasure.
• Lu Chen told Mortal World about the mission, but Mortal World warned that he lacked the accumulated power and opportunity for a safe breakthrough.
• Lu Chen opened the System Store and spent 500 Great Dao Saint Crystals in advance to buy a Red Dust Great Dao Crystal.
• Lu Chen gave the crystal to Mortal World, whose Hong Chen Qi surged as the crystal resonated with his Great Dao.

Chen Shi entered seclusion to pursue the Saint Realm while Lu Chen rallied the Borderless to fight the invading forces and buy him time. The Borderless Army charged into battle alongside Lu Chen and its strongest allies.

• Chen Shi said the Great Dao Crystal gave him a seventy percent chance of reaching the Saint Realm, then disappeared into the depths of the mortal world to begin his breakthrough.
• Lu Chen ordered every able-bodied force in the Borderless to join him in battle and buy Chen Shi time.
• The Borderless Army poured through the Barrier gates into the shattered extraterrestrial starry sky, led by Lu Chen, Luo Li, Xue Linglong, and Bing Jingjing.
• The Azure Emperor, Flame Emperor, Wentian Master, the willow deity, Ancestor Yang Mei, and other powerful allies joined the fight.
• Sun Wukong struck an early-stage quasi-saint demon general with his Golden Cudgel, while Yang Jian and Nezha charged into the enemy ranks.
• Ao Lie and Ao Bing transformed into dragons and fought the Insectoid Army’s Thunder Beast and Brood Lord.

The Boundless army fought the Fallen Dust Alliance’s vastly stronger forces in a desperate battle to protect their homeland and buy time for the mortal world to break through. Lu Chen and his allies continued fighting despite mounting casualties and injuries, leaving the battle raging with no resolution.

• Zhu Bajie, Tang Sanzang, the Four Divine Generals, and warriors from many races charged into battle against the Fallen Dust Alliance.
• Boundless fighters exchanged their lives for enemy casualties as Yang Jian, Sun Wukong, and Nezha fought powerful foes and suffered injuries.
• Ao Bing was gravely wounded in a collision with a Brood Lord, driving Ao Lie to fight with reckless fury.
• Zhu Bajie, Geng Xiangjin, Huang Yu'er, and Zhang Yanxin endured severe wounds while continuing to fight and protect their allies.
• Lu Chen led the battle with the Primordial Saint Slaying Spear as Luo Li, Xue Linglong, and Bing Jingjing guarded him and killed numerous enemies.

As Borderless’s defenders suffered devastating losses holding off the Fallen Dust Alliance, Chen Shi absorbed the power of the Red Dust and began breaking through to sainthood. The eight supreme experts sensed his rising saintly might and realized someone inside Borderless was assaulting the Saint Realm.

• The older-generation experts fought off peak Quasi-Saints while Borderless’s warriors held the line for years, buying Chen Shi time to cultivate.
• Yang Jian, Sun Wukong, Geng Xiangjin, Huang Yu'er, Zhang Yanxin, and Nezha were gravely injured or incapacitated, while Zhu Bajie protected the retreating fighters.
• Chen Shi absorbed the Red Dust Great Dao Crystal and sensed Borderless’s people pouring their thoughts, faith, and emotions into him.
• Chen Shi declared that he would prove the Dao through Borderless and the thoughts of its people, then unleashed a vast saintly aura as he reached the Saint Realm threshold.
• Mother of Elements and the Abyss Demon Emperor sensed the breakthrough within Borderless and reacted with alarm.

The Eight Pseudo-Saints launched a desperate attack on the Borderless Barrier after sensing that Chen Shi’s Hong Chen clone was approaching true sainthood. Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen sacrificed everything to hold them back, and the chapter ended as Lu Pan unleashed World Creation while Yuan Thirteen activated his final defensive protocol.

• The Eight Pseudo-Saints combined their power and struck the Borderless Barrier, while Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen rushed to stop the attack despite their grave injuries.
• The attack swallowed Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen in a blast, but the Eight Pseudo-Saints sensed true saintly power spreading from within the barrier.
• The Radiant Pope, Mother of Elements, and Abyss Demon Emperor urged the Eight Pseudo-Saints to break through the barrier and interrupt the Hong Chen clone’s breakthrough.
• Lu Pan stood before the barrier and burned his remaining strength to unleash the World Creation axe-light against the dark torrent.
• Yuan Thirteen initiated Overclock · Eternal Barrier, overloaded his systems, and diverted all remaining energy to defense.

Lu Chen used the forbidden skill Myriad Laws Reversal to burn his life and laws for temporary pseudo-saint power, stepping in to protect the Borderless while the Hong Chen Clone approached the Saint Realm. He deflected Gu Aotian’s death-spears, but his life and Dao foundation were being consumed.

• Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen were nearly destroyed when their attack collided with the Eight Pseudo-Saints’ torrent, leaving their survival unknown.
• The Abyss Demon Emperor and Hu Lietian pressed their assault on the cracked Borderless Barrier as its defenders despaired.
• Lu Chen emerged from the Borderless and activated Myriad Laws Reversal, sacrificing his Life Origin and Supreme Laws for temporary pseudo-saint strength.
• Gu Aotian attacked Lu Chen with a barrage of death bone spears, but Lu Chen’s spear warped space and destiny to deflect them and disrupt Gu Aotian’s movements.

Lu Chen used a devastating spear strike to cripple Gu Aotian and buy time for the Hong Chen Clone’s breakthrough, then faced the other seven pseudo-saints alone. As Lu Chen’s body and life rapidly deteriorated from burning the laws, he continued fighting to protect the Borderless and give Hong Chen more time.

• Lu Chen pierced Gu Aotian’s soul core with the Primordial Saint Slaying Spear, shattering his bone demon body and knocking him out of the pseudo-saint tier.
• Star Devourer Ancestor, Mother of Elements, and Hu Lietian recognized the cost of Lu Chen’s taboo strike, while Lu Chen challenged the remaining pseudo-saints and held them back.
• Abyss Demon Emperor, Radiant Pope, and Void Insect Queen rallied the other pseudo-saints and launched a renewed assault on Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen used time, space, fate, life, and destruction laws to evade and counter the seven attackers, but each use worsened his injuries and the backlash.
• Lu Chen’s hair turned white and his body aged as he continued fighting, determined to protect the Borderless while the Hong Chen Clone attempted to break through to the saint realm.

Lu Chen and the Borderless forces endured three years of devastating war against the Fallen Dust Alliance, but the seven pseudo-sages finally overwhelmed him. His power collapsed as his allies watched from afar, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Lu Chen fought Hu Lietian and the other pseudo-sages while the Fallen Dust Alliance pressed its assault on Borderless.
• Yang Jian, Sun Wukong, and other Borderless fighters were badly wounded or forced to withdraw, while countless cultivators sacrificed themselves in battle.
• After three years of war, Lu Chen's strength and Borderless's defenses had nearly run out.
• The Abyss Demon Emperor, the Radiant Pope, the Mother of Elements, the Star Devourer Ancestor, the Void Insect Queen, and Hu Lietian struck Lu Chen together.
• Lu Chen's law flames went out, his power collapsed, and he began to die as his allies cried out from behind enemy lines.

Lu Chen was about to be killed by the Abyss Demon Emperor when a vast Hong Chen phenomenon erupted across Zone J, announcing the birth of a Saint. The chapter ended with Lu Chen revived by the new Saintly might as the Abyss Demon Emperor and the Mother of Elements realized the Hong Chen Great Dao had succeeded.

• The Abyss Demon Emperor prepared to destroy Lu Chen's Saint Soul while Lu Chen and the Borderless Warriors faced the end in despair.
• A sigh sounded throughout existence, and a vast will spread from the Borderless across Zone J.
• Rosy light, golden lotuses, sacred rain, and a Hong Chen Sacred Hymn filled the worlds as a unique sign of sainthood appeared.
• The Hong Chen Saintly might reignited Lu Chen's Spark of Life and pulled his consciousness from the brink of darkness.
• The Abyss Demon Emperor's lethal claw froze in midair, and the Mother of Elements recognized that someone had attained the Hong Chen Great Dao.

Shichen emerged from a three-year breakthrough as the first Saint to prove the Dao through the Hong Chen Great Dao, turning the battle for Unbounded around. He restored Lu Chen, Lu Pan, and Yuan Thirteen to full strength, leaving the Fallen Dust Alliance’s Pseudo-Saints terrified as Unbounded celebrated.

• Shichen stepped out of his breakthrough as a true Saint who had achieved Sainthood through the Crimson Dust Sacred Dao.
• Shichen thanked Lu Chen and used his Sacred Power to heal Lu Chen, Lu Pan, and Yuan Thirteen, restoring them stronger than before.
• The Fallen Dust Alliance’s Pseudo-Saints recoiled in shock as they realized their nearly defeated enemies had been revived.
• Unbounded’s cultivators rejoiced when they saw Lu Chen, Lu Pan, and Yuan Thirteen alive and learned that Shichen had become their Saint.
• Lu Chen felt his restored strength and saw a mission-completion notification appear before him.

Hong Chen returned the Hong Chen Jade Pendant to Hong Chen and prepared to settle accounts with the eight Pseudo-Saints, who burned their origins and rallied for a final battle. Yuan Thirteen assigned roles to Lu Pan and Hong Chen, and Lu Pan charged at the Abyss Demon Emperor and Hu Lietian as the fight began.

• Lu Chen gave Hong Chen the Hong Chen Jade Pendant, and Hong Chen said his new Saint Realm cultivation felt better than ever.
• Hong Chen declared it was time to settle accounts with the eight Pseudo-Saints.
• The Abyss Demon Emperor urged the eight Pseudo-Saints to fight, and they burned their origins, essence blood, divine souls, and faith to strengthen themselves.
• Lu Pan prepared to charge the enemies, but Yuan Thirteen proposed a battle plan assigning Lu Pan to restrain the Abyss Demon Emperor and Hu Lietian, Hong Chen to suppress the battlefield, and Yuan Thirteen to provide fire support and defenses.
• Lu Pan agreed to the plan and attacked the Abyss Demon Emperor and Hu Lietian with a punch that collapsed the starry sky.

Lu Pan and Yuan Thirteen battled multiple pseudo-saints while the mortal world used the Crimson Dust Sacred Rule to disrupt Mother of Elements and the Radiant Pope. The chapter left Gu Aotian still facing the mortal world as the three opponents’ powers were being undermined.

• Lu Pan met the Abyss Demon Emperor and Hu Lietian head-on, overpowering them with a relentless barrage of punches.
• Yuan Thirteen activated Infinite Firepower Mode and pinned the Void Insect Queen, Star Devourer Ancestor, and Giant Demon Ancestor under a sustained barrage.
• The mortal world spread the Crimson Dust Sacred Rule across the battlefield and contaminated the elemental river Mother of Elements had drawn upon.
• The mortal world’s rule exposed the impure thoughts behind the Radiant Pope’s faith, weakening his sacred light and causing it to scorch him.

The Saint war in Zone J raged for more than a century, leaving Lu Pan, Yuan Thirteen, and the Mortal World increasingly powerful while the Eight Pseudo-Saints of the Fallen Dust Alliance were driven to exhaustion. As the enemy reached the end of their strength, Lu Chen spotted an opening from the edge of the battlefield.

• The Mortal World suppressed Mother of Elements, the Radiant Pope, and Gu Aotian with the Law of Red Dust, but they adapted and held him in a brutal deadlock.
• The battle lasted more than a century, devastating the starfields and causing disasters across distant worlds.
• Lu Pan's battle intent and understanding of the Great Dao of Strength grew through the fighting.
• Yuan Thirteen repeatedly repaired and upgraded his mechanical body, refining his combat system and mastery of the Law of Destruction.
• The Mortal World's Crimson Dust Sacred Rule grew stronger by drawing on the emotions of beings throughout Zone J.
• The Eight Pseudo-Saints of the Fallen Dust Alliance were left badly weakened, and Lu Chen spotted an opening as he watched from the battlefield's edge.