Chapter Summaries

During Chen Xuan’s Master Worship Ceremony, Tuoba Tianjue of Joyful Valley appeared and threatened him, boasting that seven Joyful Valley members had descended into the Xuanhuang Immortal Realm. Chen Xuan trapped Tuoba Tianjue with the Iron Blood Battle Flag and struck him with a Dragon Fist, leaving him blown apart.

• An unseen speaker interrupted Chen Xuan’s ceremony, and Little Qilin pursued the intruder but returned injured after losing him.
• Chen Xuan collapsed the surrounding void and exposed a silver-haired, red-eyed man named Tuoba Tianjue, who identified himself as a guardian of Joyful Valley.
• Tuoba Tianjue threatened Chen Xuan and revealed that seven Joyful Valley members had descended, including three Quasi-Immortal Venerable Great Guardians.
• Chen Xuan rejected Tuoba Tianjue’s threats, launched the Iron Blood Battle Flag to pin him in place, and hit him with a powerful Dragon Fist.
• Tuoba Tianjue screamed as Chen Xuan’s punch blew him apart.

Chen Xuan defeated Tuoba Tianjue despite his Dark God's Blessing and captured his Demonic Soul. After extracting Tuoba Tianjue's memories, Chen Xuan learned that a powerful figure in the God Realm had ordered Joyful Valley to kill him, and suspected it was the Fallen Main God.

• Chen Xuan blew Tuoba Tianjue apart, but the Nine Nether Divine Lamp revived him and shielded him as he unleashed the Demon Sun Great Immortal Art.
• Chen Xuan crushed Tuoba Tianjue's Demon Sun and struck again, while the Nine Nether Divine Lamp tore through his void barrier and fled toward the Immortal World.
• Chen Xuan blasted Tuoba Tianjue apart and imprisoned his surviving Demonic Soul despite Tuoba Tianjue's threats about Joyful Valley and its three descended Great Guardians.
• Chen Xuan used the Investiture of the Immortals List as witness, captured Tuoba Tianjue's memories with Great Soul Capture, and annihilated his Demonic Soul.
• Chen Xuan learned that a major figure in the God Realm had assigned Joyful Valley to kill him and concluded that the Fallen Main God was likely behind it.

After defeating Joyful Valley’s experts, Chen Xuan focused on unifying the Lower Realm and strengthening the Xuanhuang Lineage while preparing for threats from the God Realm. After eight hundred years of accelerated study, he deciphered the Joyful Immortal Skill and planned to use it for a major undertaking.

• Chen Xuan considered the threat from the Fallen Main God and Joyful Valley’s three Great Guardians, deciding to speed up the unification of the Xuanhuang Immortal Realm.
• At the Master Worship Ceremony, Chen Xuan accepted the allegiance of the Small Immortal Realm’s faction leaders, rewarded them, and entertained them with rare fruits.
• The ceremony’s news spread across the Lower Realm, drawing believers whose prayers strengthened the Yin-Yang Dao Diagram and newcomers seeking to join the Xuanhuang Lineage.
• Chen Xuan entered seclusion and spent eight hundred years comprehending the Joyful Immortal Skill with the Time Seed’s accelerated time.
• Chen Xuan realized the skill had been altered with hidden control methods, deduced its true form, and decided to use it with his wives for a major undertaking.

After emerging from seclusion, Chen Xuan visited Yun Qianyue and taught her the Grand Joyful Immortal Skill, an orthodox art that deepened the partners’ understanding of each other’s cultivation paths. Confident after practicing it with her, he left to teach the art to his other wives.

• Chen Xuan entered White Cloud Immortal Valley and reunited with Yun Qianyue, whose cultivation had advanced after refining the Dao Xuan Immortal Stone and inheriting Immortal Emperor Qingmeng’s memories.
• Chen Xuan and Yun Qianyue shared an intimate union, during which he transmitted the Grand Joyful Immortal Skill he had created during eight hundred years of seclusion.
• Chen Xuan explained that his art brought the senses and soul-and-body resonance to their limits, unlike the corrupted harvesting-and-replenishing technique from Joyful Valley.
• Chen Xuan and Yun Qianyue practiced the Grand Joyful Immortal Skill together, and he stayed in the valley for a month before she entered deep enlightenment.
• After experimenting with Yun Qianyue, Chen Xuan became confident in the art and began visiting his other wives to teach it to them.

Joyful Valley’s monks used their pleasure grounds to gather immortal essence and sell captured beauties, while Monk Baogen learned that Chen Invincible had killed Tuoba Tianjue. Baogen and the other Great Guardians decided to strike the Barren Heaven Dragon Sect and capture Chen Invincible’s women to gain the initiative.

• Monk Jincí offered the five young immortals Princess Shanyin of the Great Asura Race for five billion immortal stones.
• Monk Jincí left the pending sale and joined Monk Baogen, who was using the Six Desires Immortal Essence to heal his injuries.
• Monk Baogen told Jincí, Yinci, and Tongci that the Nine Nether Divine Lamp had returned and Chen Invincible had killed Tuoba Tianjue.
• Two other Quasi-Immortal Venerable Great Guardians arrived and proposed attacking the Barren Heaven Dragon Sect through Chen Invincible’s three women.
• Monk Baogen and the other Great Guardians agreed to put their plan against the Barren Heaven Dragon Sect into motion.

Chen Xuan nurtured a Five Elements Immortal Seed to create intent bodies for the Five Sacred Beasts and form the Ancient Five Sacred Beasts Grand Array. With Yu Fu'er’s help, the seed successfully produced an Azure Dragon intent body, leaving Chen Xuan with the first of its five sacred essences.

• Chen Xuan spent nine days stabilizing the five-colored immortal light of the Five Elements Immortal Seed while the Yu Family Five Beauties watched anxiously.
• Chen Xuan realized the seed’s consciousness was nearly complete but needed an imprint and guidance to manifest the Five Sacred Beasts’ intent bodies.
• Yu Fu'er entered a bamboo lodge and volunteered to help Chen Xuan by circulating the Grand Joyful Immortal Skill with him.
• After a day and a night, an Azure Dragon soul essence emerged from Yu Fu'er's Immortal Soul, and the seed produced a tiny Azure Dragon intent body.

Chen Xuan created the five Sacred Beast intent bodies and learned from Yan Ruyu about the Ancient Five Sacred Beasts Grand Array. Yan Ruyu concealed the beasts’ auras and taught him a more powerful array method, while warning that its growth would require vast resources and attract powerful enemies.

• Chen Xuan formed the little Azure Dragon from the Five Elements Immortal Seed, then created the little White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and Qilin as the seed was exhausted.
• The five little Sacred Beasts circled one another and produced extraordinary Dao phenomena that astonished Chen Xuan.
• Yan Ruyu summoned Chen Xuan to the Grand Xuan Ancient Palace, where she recognized that his perfect brain domain had prematurely transformed and given birth to an immortal will.
• Yan Ruyu concealed the five beasts’ auras, explaining that this would reduce the array’s ability to gather the fallen Sacred Beasts’ remnants and that it could draw powerful enemies after ten thousand years.
• Yan Ruyu imparted an incomplete but greatly strengthened method for deploying the Ancient Five Sacred Beasts Grand Array, which could suppress Absolute Gods and severely injure Main Gods in its complete form.
• Yan Ruyu warned Chen Xuan that the array required immense resources and that its central operator would gain great fortune, then said she would need his help clearing the way for her Dao.

Chen Xuan finished and activated the Ancient Five Sacred Beasts Grand Array after investing vast amounts of immortal stones, with five members of the Xuanhuang Lineage presiding over its primary nodes. The array transformed their powers and began pouring rich immortal qi across the Lower Realm.

• Chen Xuan offered Yan Ruyu a Thirty-Three Heavens Treasure Embryo, but the power from the Grand Xuan Ancient Palace blasted him away; Yan Ruyu later hoped he could shoulder the revival of the Immortal Dao.
• Chen Xuan spent three years building the array, assigning Xuan Yuan Jingxian, Mu Yun, Yu Meiren, Qing Yao, and Mengmeng to its five primary nodes while Little Qilin and Luo Yong'er refused.
• Shang Sheng Yu Jiao warned Chen Xuan that activating the array could bring great fortune and danger, while the Pig Emperor urged him to begin.
• Chen Xuan spent seven days and nights forming the array's runes, then called the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and Qilin into their respective nodes.
• The five presiders' powers surged, Qing Yao's Treasure Embryo transformed into Myriad Tribulations Love Threads, and the fully activated array released rich immortal qi throughout the Lower Realm.

Chen Xuan’s Ancient Five Sacred Beasts Grand Array and the World Tree connected the Lower Realm to a source of immortal liquid, transforming the realm and giving it a lasting supply of immortal qi. He resolved to restore the Immortal Dao’s foundations and lead the Xuanhuang Lineage to the Immortal World within a hundred years, then entered seclusion to gain full control of the Lower Realm.

• The World Tree broke through a barrier in the void and drew immortal liquid into the Lower Realm, which the Ancient Five Sacred Beasts Grand Array spread throughout the realm.
• Chen Xuan realized the Lower Realm had intercepted part of the immortal liquid that supplied the Xuanhuang Immortal Realm, and he planned to unite the realms and refine the Great Xuanhuang World.
• Mengmeng asked whether the Lower Realm could become an Immortal World, while the Xuanhuang Lineage Members sensed the realm’s transformation and grew excited.
• Chen Xuan explained the deficiencies in the existing immortal paths and resolved to recreate Ascension Tribulation Lightning and Six Paths Reincarnation after gaining control of the Great Xuanhuang World.
• Chen Xuan announced that he would lead everyone to ascend to the Immortal World within a hundred years, then entered seclusion within the World Tree as traces of the Five Sacred Beasts’ wills gathered in the array.

After three years of seclusion, Chen Xuan returned to find the Lower Realm transformed by Immortal Qi and protected by the Ancient Five Sacred Beasts Grand Array. He prepared to ascend to the Xuanhuang Immortal Realm, leaving Qing Yao and Yu Meiren to guard the array and vowing to settle old scores there.

• Chen Xuan emerged from seclusion with an enhanced Invincible Method capable of killing an Immortal Venerable, though using it depleted much of his origin.
• Chen Xuan surveyed the Lower Realm and found its Immortal Qi, laws, creatures, and defenses greatly strengthened under the World Tree and the Ancient Five Sacred Beasts Grand Array.
• Chen Xuan visited Qing Yao, saw that she had refined the Thirty-Three Heavens Treasure Embryos into Myriad Tribulations Love Threads, and asked her to continue protecting the Lower Realm before spending seven days with her.
• Chen Xuan then visited Yu Meiren and spent seven days with her before departing for Immortal Sealing Valley.
• At the Ancient Divine Boat, Chen Xuan reassured Shang Sheng Yu Jiao that he would unify the Xuanhuang Immortal Realm, kill the Red Lotus Immortal King and other enemies, and search for the Daughter of Heaven's Dao.

Chen Xuan ascended to the Xuanhuang Immortal Realm with Luo Yong'er and Little Qilin, leaving Mengmeng to protect the Lower Realm. They emerged above the Heavenly River as immortals gathered around the legendary Ascension Stage.

• Chen Xuan reassured Mengmeng and gathered the others who planned to ascend inside the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda.
• Luo Yong'er and Little Qilin joined Chen Xuan, and the three departed while Dong Yufei watched and prayed for his safe return.
• Chen Xuan punched through the Immortal World's World Barrier, and the trio crossed into the Xuanhuang Immortal Realm.
• In Diyan Demon Abyss, Baogen learned that his disciples had surrounded the Barren Heaven Dragon Sect and set out to break its divine formation.
• Immortals gathered at the Heavenly River's Ascension Stage, but none could reach it before Chen Xuan, Luo Yong'er, and Little Qilin burst through a spatial rift above them.

Chen Xuan returned to the Xuanhuang Immortal Realm and discovered an ancient Ascension Stage that resonated with his Dao Source and the Investiture of the Immortals List. As the assembled immortals failed to leave their names on its pillar, Little Qilin stepped forward to try.

• Chen Xuan, Little Qilin, and Luo Yong’er approached the Ascension Stage but agreed to wait after a group of immortals warned them to take their turn.
• Chen Xuan secretly contacted Hong Rou, who recognized him as Lord Primal Dragon and told him the Dragon Race still had hope.
• Mu Xiu failed to leave his name on the pillar, and an old woman explained that only the first thousand names could claim the Ascension Stage’s Great Immortal Opportunity.
• Situ Flying and several other immortals also tried and failed to change the pillar’s names.
• Little Qilin finally darted onto the Ascension Stage to attempt to leave his name.

Bai Qi triggered a peerless heavenly phenomenon on the Ascension Stage, earned nineteenth place, and received a Great Immortal Opportunity. As hostile immortals eyed him, Qiao Tianhe arrived and demanded that Bai Qi become his slave.

• Bai Qi activated the Ascension Stage, causing heavenly flowers and celestial music to appear as his name surged to nineteenth place.
• Bai Qi left his name on the immortal pillar and absorbed radiant immortal light that strengthened his foundation.
• Mu Xiu and other immortals resented Bai Qi's ranking, while Chen Xuan watched calmly and planned to claim the Ascension Stage.
• Qiao Tianhe arrived with the Purple Burning Valley Qiao Family and learned of Bai Qi's talent and ranking.
• Qiao Tianhe ordered Bai Qi to offer his Life-Bound Immortal Soul and acknowledge him as master, promising to make him his First Battle Slave.

Luo Yong'er killed Qiao Tianhe and devoured his nine Golden Immortal guards and the other immortals aboard his ship, revealing overwhelming strength. After Little Qilin finished refining the Ascension Stage's immortal light, Chen Xuan prepared to test his rank.

• Qiao Tianhe propositioned Luo Yong'er, but she destroyed him with one finger and collected his treasures.
• Qiao Tianhe's nine Golden Immortal guards attacked Luo Yong'er, and she swallowed them and the other immortals aboard the ship with her Sky Swallowing Bag.
• The surrounding immortals realized Luo Yong'er might be an Immortal King, while Little Qilin said he would handle any Immortal King from Purple Burn Valley.
• Little Qilin finished refining the Ascension Stage's immortal light and urged Chen Xuan and Luo Yong'er to test their rankings.
• Luo Yong'er declined, and Chen Xuan said everyone in the top thousand would bow if he left his name there.

Chen Xuan stepped onto the Ascension Stage, awakened its ancient power, and claimed the top rank under the name Chen Invincible. After revealing his identity as the New Primal Dragon, he refined the stage and subdued the Ancient River Beasts, then realized something about its origins.

• Chen Xuan stepped onto the Ascension Stage, whose immortal light and golden lotuses manifested the phantoms of those whose names were inscribed on its pillar.
• Chen Xuan resonated with the stage, wrote Chen Invincible at the top of the rankings, and caused the ancient phantoms to bow before him.
• Hong Rou revealed to Qi Ming that Chen Xuan was the New Primal Dragon and declared she would leave the exploration party to follow him.
• The Ancient River Beasts emerged as the stage trembled, but Chen Xuan told Luo Yong'er and Little Qilin that the beasts guarded the stage and would serve him.
• Chen Xuan absorbed three thousand immortal-light runes, refined the Ascension Stage, and made the Ancient River Beasts submit before realizing its origins and mysteries.

Chen Xuan began fusing the Dao Observation Mirror with the Ascension Stage to awaken the inheritance treasure, while Wu Qingyan and the other Qiao Family Immortal Kings attacked. After Wu Qingyan used the Golden Crow Ancestral Pearl to break through to the Immortal Emperor Realm, Chen Xuan stopped her Supreme Immortal Artifact’s strike between two fingers.

• Chen Xuan drove the Dao Observation Mirror into the Ascension Stage and sat down to help complete their fusion.
• Wu Qingyan arrived to avenge Qiao Tianhe and attacked Chen Xuan, but Luo Yong'er blocked her while Little Qilin fought the two other Qiao Family Immortal Kings.
• Hong Rou transformed into a red dragon and flew to protect Lord Primal Dragon as the battle spread around the Ascension Stage.
• Wu Qingyan swallowed the Golden Crow Ancestral Pearl, broke through to the Immortal Emperor Realm, and unleashed the full power of the Golden Crow Immortal Sword.
• Chen Xuan clamped the Golden Crow Immortal Sword between two fingers, leaving Wu Qingyan stunned by his strength.

Chen Xuan defeated Wu Qingyan, subdued the Qiao Family elders, and captured the Ancient River Beasts while restoring much of the Ascension Stage’s power. He then learned that Joyful Valley and other Immortal World forces had attacked the Barren Heaven Dragon Sect, leaving him enraged.

• Chen Xuan sealed Wu Qingyan’s Golden Crow Immortal Sword and demanded that she submit or die.
• Wu Qingyan burned her origin and attacked Chen Xuan, but he absorbed her flames and killed her, annihilating her Immortal Soul.
• Qiao Qi and Qiao Sanniang surrendered, and Chen Xuan used Grand Soul Control to take command of them.
• Chen Xuan gathered the seven Ancient River Beast Kings and more than a hundred thousand other beasts into the Ascension Stage.
• Chen Xuan used the revived Ascension Stage to strengthen Hong Rou’s Dao of Water and learned it had recovered seventy or eighty percent of its power.
• Qiao Qi told Chen Xuan that Joyful Valley and other major forces had besieged the Barren Heaven Dragon Sect, and Chen Xuan flew into a rage.

Chen Xuan learned that Joyful Valley was besieging the Barren Heaven Dragon Sect and rushed to save his people, discovering that Qian Ye Xue was gravely poisoned. The sect’s Immortal Slaying Divine Array was close to falling under Monk Baogen’s attack, leaving its defenders in desperate danger.

• Chen Xuan left after learning that Joyful Valley had attacked the Barren Heaven Dragon Sect, and the news of his return spread across the Immortal World.
• Chen Xuan sensed that Qian Ye Xue was critically ill with a poisonous Dao resonance and identified Monk Baogen as the one blocking his connection to her.
• Chen Xuan burned three drops of Origin Essence Blood to speed his journey toward the sect, while Little Qilin reassured him that Brother Dao had a Low Grade Godhead.
• A Dragon Race brother and his sister learned that the Barren Heaven Dragon Sect was close to defeat and feared for the Dragon Race’s future.
• Monk Baogen battered the weakened Immortal Slaying Divine Array, while Bai Qian, Ni Huang, and the other defenders struggled to maintain it.
• Monk Baogen revealed that his power had infiltrated the array’s core, leaving Brother Dao unable to stop him from seizing control.

The forces surrounding the Immortal Slaying Divine Array prepared to plunder the Barren Heaven Dragon Sect, while Peng Jie revealed that he had tricked Qian Ye Xue into suffering Ancient Dao Poison. As Bai Qian, Ni Huang, and the others prepared to fight to the death, they sensed the Yin-Yang Dao Diagram and wondered if Chen Xuan had returned.

• Brother Dao vanished as Monk Baogen ordered the surrounding forces to block every direction and prepare to seize the spoils.
• Peng Jie displayed his Sky-Splitting Halberd and warned his companions that Joyful Valley had sent more than Monk Baogen.
• Peng Jie admitted that he had lured Qian Ye Xue from the Emperor Burial Secret Realm and poisoned her with Ancient Dao Poison.
• Bai Qian and Ni Huang refused to abandon their allies, and the Barren Heaven Dragon Sect's core members prepared to fight to the death.
• Qian Ye Xue apologized for being unable to preside over the main formation eye after Peng Jie's poison weakened her.
• Bai Qian, Ni Huang, and Qian Ye Xue sensed the Yin-Yang Dao Diagram and wondered whether Chen Xuan had returned.

Chen Xuan arrived to rescue the Barren Heaven Dragon Sect, but Monk Baogen trapped him, Little Qilin, and Luo Yong'er in a powerful demigod array. After Chen Xuan saw through the array, Peng Jie and three other Immortal King leaders attacked him, and he prepared to strike back.

• Ni Huang sensed Chen Xuan approaching, and Bai Qian and the others projected their souls to watch the battle outside.
• Chen Xuan, Little Qilin, and Luo Yong'er burst through the void, but Jin Ci, Yinci, and Tongci trapped them in the Nine Twists and Eighteen Illusions Void Demigod Array.
• Monk Baogen ordered his disciples to strengthen the array while he attacked the Immortal Slaying Divine Array, and Ni Huang worried as the Barren Heaven Dragon Sect struggled to defend itself.
• Chen Xuan discerned the array's mysteries as Peng Jie, Zhu Jiushan, Ouyang Wuhen, and Immortal King Qi Ye arrived with their forces and attacked him.
• Chen Xuan froze the shifting void and punched at the attacking immortals, calling them a pack of chickens and dogs.