Chapter Summaries

A prophecy sent Chen Xuan and his companions east, where they rescued Yun Rui and learned that the First Primal Dragon’s daughter had gone to the hidden Valley of No Life. Chen Xuan reached the valley with Xuanyuan Hong Xiu and another woman, intending to find the girl and raise her as his disciple.

• The Great Prophet warned the Pope that an evil existence would descend in the East when Paradise Lost restarted.
• Chen Xuan killed Brother Ba and his five punks after finding them about to assault Yun Rui, then freed her and asked about her jade talisman.
• Yun Rui told Chen Xuan that a mysterious girl who had given her ancestor the jade had left to seek the Valley of No Life.
• Chen Xuan gave Yun Rui’s family a sack of treasure and concluded that the First Primal Dragon’s daughter was likely hidden in the valley.
• Xuanyuan Hong Xiu asked whether her elder sister might be in the valley, and Chen Xuan said it was unlikely before leading the women toward it.

Chen Xuan arrived at the Valley of No Return with his two wives and effortlessly killed the cultivators who challenged him. After entering by opening a path through the ancient array, he saw something inside the valley that made his expression change drastically.

• Murong Qingcheng joined Xiao Feiyang and the gathered martial arts experts at the valley entrance, where they waited for the Spiritual Essence tide.
• Chen Xuan and his two wives descended from the sky, and Chen Xuan drew a boundary that killed a giant snake and Red Snake Old Man when they crossed it.
• Chen Xuan killed nine hostile experts, silencing the crowd, while Xiao Feiyang warned Murong Qingcheng not to provoke him.
• Chen Xuan opened a Dragon-Shaped Rune path through the Primordial Grand Array and led his wives into the valley.
• Chen Xuan glanced at the scene inside the valley and changed his expression drastically.

Chen Xuan rescued Bao'er, a dying girl whose Dragon Pearl Divine Spark fused the First Primal Dragon's bloodline with the Light Main God's power, and awakened her Dragon Soul. After learning that Chen Bairen and the Heavenly Maiden had saved her before leaving, Chen Xuan accepted Bao'er as his disciple and promised to tell her if he learned where they had gone.

• Chen Xuan discovered that the blood lotus sustaining Bao'er carried the same opposing destiny as Chen Bairen's bloodline, and he used the Valley of No Return's dragon qi to restore her strength.
• Chen Xuan found that Bao'er's Dragon Pearl Divine Spark had not been occupied, then used a wisp of Dragon Flame to awaken her Dragon Soul.
• Bao'er awoke and mistook Chen Xuan for her father, so he explained that the First Primal Dragon had died after bringing her to the planet.
• Bao'er recalled that Chen Bairen and the Heavenly Maiden rescued her from a blood pool, called her Chen Bairen's fated wife, and left her in the mountains while fleeing winged pursuers.
• Chen Xuan invited Bao'er to become his disciple and promised to tell her if he learned how to find Chen Bairen and the Heavenly Maiden, and Bao'er accepted.

Chen Xuan named Bao'er Xia Hua and learned that the seven Treasure Gourds were nurturing living beings, including a spirit in the Purple-Gold Gourd. He then agreed to confront the Japanese Nation's cultivation world at a public banquet, hoping the commotion would draw out the God Race and help locate Xuanyuan Xue.

• Chen Xuan accepted Bao'er as his disciple and named her Xia Hua, honoring her father's sacrifice.
• Chen Xuan brought Xia Hua into the Chaos Pool, gave her a Ginseng Fruit and a choice of three Innate Spirit Treasures, and learned that the seven Treasure Gourds contained living beings.
• Chen Xuan agreed with Luo Yong'er and Xuanyuan Hong Xiu that the birdmen who pursued Xia Hua likely belonged to the Bright Divine Race, and vowed to expose them and find Xuanyuan Xue.
• Daoist Tianyang told Chen Xuan that the Japanese Nation's cultivation world and Western experts were stirring, and urged him to confront them publicly at a banquet the next night.
• Chen Xuan accepted the plan for the banquet and said he would create a spectacle, hoping to lure out the God Race.

Chen Xuan reassured Luo Yong'er about Heavenly Maiden and their son before they spent the night together. At Autumn Water Manor, Murong Qingcheng resisted her family’s plan to offer her to Chen Xuan, while Japanese experts gathered for a tense banquet that Chen Xuan hoped would lead him to the Divine Nest.

• Chen Xuan told Luo Yong'er how he had met Heavenly Maiden and explained that she and Bairen had left the universe, prompting Luo Yong'er to warn him about the dangerous fate of fathers and sons who could not remain together.
• Chen Xuan and Luo Yong'er set aside their worries and spent the night together.
• Murong Qingcheng pleaded with Murong Zhi to cancel her arranged match, but he insisted she should become Chen Xuan's concubine or maidservant and dismissed Xiao Feiyang's prospects.
• Murong Qingcheng called Xiao Feiyang and asked him to come to Autumn Water Manor for the banquet.
• Sword Saint Shimajo Yushō and other Japanese experts arrived at Autumn Water Manor as invited guests gathered for tense negotiations.
• Chen Xuan arrived with his two wives, accompanied by Daoist Tianyang, intending to use the Japanese Nation's bait to locate the Divine Nest on Earth.

At Autumn Water Manor, Chen Xuan’s arrival exposed Murong Qingcheng’s mistaken assumptions and left her regretting her rejection. When Japanese Sword Saint Shimajo Yushō confronted Chen Xuan over his son’s death, Chen Xuan effortlessly killed the attackers, leaving the Japanese delegation’s strongest fighters dead.

• Daoist Tianyang and Murong Zhi welcomed Chen Xuan at the manor, while Murong Qingcheng and Yun Feiyang declared their love and demanded that Murong Zhi stay out of their relationship.
• Murong Zhi ordered Murong Qingcheng to kneel and apologize to Chen Xuan, and Luo Yong’er rebuked Daoist Tianyang for trying to find Chen Xuan another woman.
• Xiao Feiyang recognized Chen Xuan as the mysterious man who had broken into the Valley of No Return, and Murong Qingcheng regretted rejecting him.
• Shimajo Yushō confronted Chen Xuan about killing Gangban Richuan and displayed the Great Sun Hundred Slash Blood Banner.
• Matsushita Junichiro charged Chen Xuan and suddenly burst apart, then Araki Minoru and eleven other Japanese experts attacked.
• Chen Xuan set down his wine cup, and the sound triggered the deaths of all twelve attackers, whose bodies exploded into blood mist.

Chen Xuan wiped out the Japanese experts who accompanied Shimajo Yushō, leaving Shimajo to summon the Eight-Headed Serpent’s shadow avatar. Luo Yong’er captured the avatar and tried to draw out its true body, which appeared through a rift in the hall’s ceiling.

• Chen Xuan killed the remaining Japanese experts with a casual sip of wine, leaving Shimajo Yushō as the sole survivor.
• Shimajo Yushō summoned the Eight-Headed Serpent’s shadow avatar from a clay jar.
• Luo Yong’er compressed the serpent’s avatar into a pellet and used a soul-seizing technique to capture it.
• Chen Xuan warned Luo Yong’er to keep the true serpent from destroying itself so they could use it to find a bigger target.
• Shimajo Yushō mocked them when nothing appeared, but an enormous Eight-Headed Serpent emerged from a rift in the hall’s ceiling.

Chen Xuan captured the Eight-Headed Serpent and learned that the Light Main God had been turning beings from the Chaos Universe into members of the God Race. When Amaterasu Omikami appeared, Chen Xuan took her three treasures and forced her to the ground with his pressure.

• Luo Yong'er dragged the Eight-Headed Serpent from a void rift, and Chen Xuan seized and searched its soul while Luo Yong'er fed its body to the Insect Race army.
• Chen Xuan learned that the Light Main God had transformed Chaos Universe beings into the God Race and resolved to find and destroy the Divine Nest by capturing Amaterasu Omikami.
• Amaterasu Omikami arrived in response to the Eight-Headed Serpent's capture, and Chen Xuan nullified her pressure before she could form a Divine Kingdom.
• Amaterasu Omikami attacked Chen Xuan with her three Innate Spirit Treasures, but he seized all three and stored them in the Chaos Pool.
• Chen Xuan shouted for Amaterasu Omikami to kneel, and his pressure forced her to sprawl on the ground.

Chen Xuan defeated Amaterasu, uncovered secrets about the Divine Nest and Earth, and sent Luo Yong'er and Hong Xiu to capture two other wild gods. He left for the Northern Ice Plains, promising to destroy Divine Nest No. 3 and help Huaxia’s people pursue the Immortal Dao.

• A giant bat disrupted Chen Xuan’s attempt to seize Amaterasu, but Luo Yong'er wounded and captured it while Chen Xuan overcame Amaterasu’s seduction and imprisoned her soul and Godhead.
• Chen Xuan had the World Tree absorb Amaterasu’s Godhead, revealing blood linked to Bao'er, the Human Emperor, and Japan’s national fortune.
• Chen Xuan soul-searched Amaterasu, learned Earth’s secrets, and sealed a divine-light rune in the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda.
• Chen Xuan ordered Luo Yong'er to capture Cain at the Dead Sea and Hong Xiu to capture an Old Flood Dragon in Kunlun Mountain, then directed them to meet him at the Northern Ice Plains.
• Chen Xuan told Daoist Tianyang and the others that he would destroy Divine Nest No. 3 and give his disciple a chance to help Huaxia’s people pursue the Immortal Dao.
• Shimajo Yushō died in despair, while Murong Qingcheng regretted not becoming Chen Xuan’s woman.

After the battle at Autumn Water Manor, Huaxia’s leaders learned from Daoist Tianyang about the threat posed by powerful cultivators and watched footage of a woman capturing a Giant Horned Flood Dragon on Kunlun Mountain. Chen Xuan then attacked the Vatican, killed its silver-winged divine guardian, and prepared to clear out the Third Divine Nest.

• Huaxia’s leaders debated how Earth’s nations could respond to powerful beings emerging from hiding, and the Huaxia leader urged them to wait and hope Heaven Blesses China.
• A major general showed footage of a woman capturing a mountain-sized Giant Horned Flood Dragon on Kunlun Mountain in less than thirteen seconds.
• Daoist Tianyang warned the leaders that nuclear weapons would not stop Chen Xuan and the other powerful cultivators, then answered their questions about the new situation.
• Chen Xuan arrived at the Vatican and found that the believers’ faith was flowing into a monastery where a servant of the Wisdom Main God was hiding.
• Chen Xuan tracked down the silver-winged man, destroyed his divine body, imprisoned his divine soul, and set his sights on the Third Divine Nest.

Chen Xuan gathered the Xuanhuang Lineage’s peak combat strength to prepare for a decisive assault on the Third Divine Nest, whose entrance lay at Earth’s North Pole. After Duanmu Rui warned them about the dangers and the nest’s hidden core, the Pig Emperor awoke and panicked at Chen Xuan’s promise to treat it well.

• Luo Yong'er and Xuanyuan Hong Xiu brought Chen Xuan the divine souls of Cain and the Jiao Ancestor, and he obtained their divine talismans and a Wisdom Divine Key from a Silver-Winged god.
• Chen Xuan explained how the three rogue gods and the Wisdom Divine Key could open the Third Divine Nest’s shifting gate, then teleported to gather the Xuanhuang Lineage’s strongest fighters.
• Chen Xuan brought Bao'er before the assembled fighters and showed them Cain’s and the Jiao Ancestor’s spherical Godheads.
• The Pig Emperor summoned Duanmu Rui, who advised the group to cultivate for a year, withdraw if they met danger, and seek the fragment of the Heart of the Great Universe at the nest’s core.
• Duanmu Rui vanished with a scream, leaving the Pig Emperor in pain; after Chen Xuan revived it with medicinal essence, the Pig Emperor fled from him and protested that it was a boar, not a princess.

Chen Xuan prepared for the perilous Third Divine Nest by leading everyone through eight hundred years of accelerated cultivation beneath the Time Illusion Wings. When the wings collapsed, he traveled to Earth, opened the Void Divine Gate beneath the North Pole, and entered the Third Divine Nest.

• Chen Xuan told Pig Emperor about Duanmu Rui's remnant soul, and Pig Emperor mourned before volunteering to lead the assault on the Third Divine Nest.
• Chen Xuan gave Pig Emperor two Divine Fruits and decided that everyone would cultivate for eight more months before confronting the Third Divine Nest and rescuing Xuanyuan Xue.
• During eight hundred years of accelerated cultivation, Chen Xuan distributed Great Immortal Pills, Xuanyuan Jingxian mastered new uses of the Immeasurable Sword Embryo, and several others advanced their cultivation.
• When the Time Illusion Wings collapsed, Chen Xuan summoned the Ancient Divine Boat, then used Void Singularity to travel to Earth.
• Chen Xuan activated the three wisdom runes beneath Earth's North Pole, opened the Void Divine Gate with the Wisdom Divine Key, and charged into the Third Divine Nest.

Chen Xuan and his companions entered the Great Chaotic Black Hole Hell, where Mu Yun used his Great Freedom Extreme Intent Profound Art to help seize control of the Hell Gate. After Han Yue attacked them, Chen Xuan defeated and captured her, and the group began battling the monsters pouring through the tunnels.

• Luo Yong'er explained that the Great Chaotic Black Hole Hell contained endlessly shifting tunnels and a deadly Black Annihilation Storm at its core.
• Mu Yun resonated with the Hell and manifested the Great All-Heavens Revolving Immortal Plate, then rode it into a tunnel to seize control while Chen Xuan protected him.
• Han Yue, a Mid-level God and one of the Third Divine Nest's Five Great Heavenly Domain Envoys, confronted them and attacked with a crescent blade.
• Chen Xuan defeated Han Yue with a punch and imprisoned her divine soul.
• Monsters flooded the tunnels to rescue Han Yue, and Chen Xuan's companions and Luo Yong'er's Insect Race army fought them while Chen Xuan protected Mu Yun and searched Han Yue's soul.

After defeating Han Yue, Chen Xuan learned that the Third Divine Nest had five heavenly domains and led the Xuanhuang Lineage into the second. There, the Immortal Dao Source Dragon Flame revealed a mysterious Fire Egg in the central region, which Chen Xuan thought could help Huang Qianyu.

• Chen Xuan’s soul search of Han Yue triggered a counterattack from her Godhead, but he survived and learned about the five heavenly domains and their Envoys.
• Mu Yun explained the Great Void Passages and began refining the Hell Gate into the Great All-Heavens Revolving Immortal Plate.
• The Xuanhuang Lineage and Insect Race army defeated the monsters after a day and a night of fighting.
• Chen Xuan led the group through the passage to the second heavenly domain while Mu Yun stayed behind to guard the first.
• Chen Xuan sensed a black-and-white Fire Egg in the second domain and considered using it to help Huang Qianyu’s Phoenix Seed.

Chen Xuan and the Xuanhuang Lineage attacked the Three Thousand Fire Domain after he discovered its connection to the God Race’s plans for spherical Godheads and the black-and-white flame egg. After three days of fighting, they reached the Fire Origin Land, where the Nine Fire Brothers ruled.

• Augusta led a thousand three-legged birdmen against Chen Xuan’s group, but Qian Ye Xue destroyed his communication sword talisman.
• Chen Xuan overwhelmed Augusta, devoured his body and Godhead, and searched his soul, but the Wisdom Rune destroyed Augusta’s soul before Chen Xuan could uncover its secrets.
• Little Qilin and the others slaughtered Augusta’s birdmen while Chen Xuan learned through soul searching that the Nine Fire Brothers ruled the Fire Origin Land.
• Chen Xuan ordered the Xuanhuang Lineage to kill the Nine Fire Brothers, seize the Heavenly Domain, and sweep through the Three Thousand Fire Domain.
• Chen Xuan and the Xuanhuang Lineage fought for three days and nights, killed more than a hundred Low Gods, and reached the Fire Origin Land.

Chen Xuan led the Xuanhuang Lineage through the Three Thousand Fire Domain, where Bao'er sensed her father’s trapped remnant soul and Ni Huang recognized an ancestor’s imprisoned Immortal Soul imprint. As the Nine Fire Brothers and thousands of God Race warriors surrounded them, Chen Xuan faced their attack and a great melee began.

• Chen Xuan led the Xuanhuang Lineage through the Fire Domain, giving them chances to fight the God Race and gather treasures as more than seventy Divine Fruits grew on the World Tree.
• Bao'er sensed her father’s trapped remnant soul, and Chen Xuan promised to rescue it and Xuanyuan Xue from the fifth heavenly domain.
• Ni Huang recognized an ancestor’s Immortal Soul imprint in a Nine-Colored Phoenix bound by nine flaming chains and urged Chen Xuan to save it.
• Huo Yi and Huo Er arrived with their forces, followed by Huo San and the other Fire Brothers, until thousands of God Race warriors surrounded Chen Xuan’s group.
• The Nine Fire Brothers joined their power and attacked Chen Xuan, while more than three thousand seven hundred God Race warriors charged and a great melee erupted.

The Xuanhuang Lineage turned the battle against the God Race with the help of Luo Yong'er’s insect army and the women’s powerful treasures, while Chen Xuan used the Nine Fire Brothers as sparring partners. The brothers fused into Nine-Colored Divine Fire and tried to reach the Rainbow Phoenix Immortal Soul imprint, but Chen Xuan blocked their path and drew the Primal Dragon Demonic Sword.

• Luo Yong'er unleashed the Primordial Insect Nest, and Xuan Yuan Jingxian, Little Qilin, Mengmeng, and the others fought the God Race across the battlefield.
• The Xuanhuang Lineage’s women held the perimeter and counterattacked, while the World Tree gathered divine corpses and protected their allies from death.
• Chen Xuan refused Ma De’s offer of aid and defended himself against the Nine Fire Brothers to study the God Race’s fighting methods.
• The Nine Fire Brothers realized Chen Xuan was holding back and unleashed their trump card as the God Race’s forces fell and nearby Fire Domain experts joined or fled the battle.
• The Nine Fire Brothers fused into Nine-Colored Divine Fire and shot toward the Rainbow Phoenix Immortal Soul imprint, but Chen Xuan intercepted them and drew the Primal Dragon Demonic Sword.

Chen Xuan fought Jiu Huo, the Nine-Colored Divine Being, and defeated him despite being injured by his strongest attack. Jiu Huo died as the Xuanhuang Lineage counterattacked the fleeing God Race.

• Jiu Huo transformed from the Nine-Colored Divine Fire and offered to let Chen Xuan leave, but Chen Xuan refused and vowed to destroy the Third Divine Nest.
• Jiu Huo attacked Chen Xuan with his weapons, but Chen Xuan’s Unique Cave Heaven blocked the strikes and his sword wounded Jiu Huo.
• Jiu Huo ignited his four wings and injured Chen Xuan, but Chen Xuan recovered his Unique Cave Heaven and struck Jiu Huo down again.
• The Xuanhuang Lineage surrounded the fleeing God Race as Chen Xuan continued attacking Jiu Huo.
• Jiu Huo detonated his nine Mid-level God godheads to transform, but Chen Xuan interrupted him, severed his wings, and pierced his skull, killing him.

Chen Xuan defeated Jiu Huo and led the Xuanhuang Lineage in taking control of the Second Heaven Domain, then accompanied Ni Huang to the formation imprisoning the Nine-Colored Phoenix Ancestor’s Immortal Soul imprint. As Chen Xuan explained that they should break the formation from within by having Ni Huang merge with the imprint, a mysterious white figure elsewhere aimed an arrow at his phantom image.

• After Jiu Huo self-destructed his Divine Sparks, Chen Xuan gathered the fallen treasures and slaughtered the fleeing God Race powerhouses while the Xuanhuang Lineage fought alongside him.
• Chen Xuan ordered the Xuanhuang Lineage to split into eight squads and purge the Three Thousand Fire Domain, while he and Ni Huang went to seek the domain’s greatest fortune.
• Yu Meiren and the Insect Race army killed Huo Shi, and the Xuanhuang Lineage finished purging the God Race before beginning its sweep across the domain.
• A graceful white figure formed a silver bow and aimed an arrow at Chen Xuan’s phantom image, briefly making him sense that he was being targeted.
• Chen Xuan told Ni Huang that breaking the formation from within would be easier and proposed Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation so she could merge with the Nine-Colored Phoenix Ancestor’s Immortal Soul imprint.

Chen Xuan and Ni Huang’s dual cultivation awakened the Three Thousand Fire Domain and enabled Ni Huang to claim its greatest fortune. Ni Huang entered the ancient formation to inherit the Nine-Colored Phoenix Ancestor’s legacy, while Chen Xuan waited outside after breaking the divine pillars guarding it.

• Chen Xuan and Ni Huang practiced Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation, transforming Ni Huang’s Phoenix Flames into faint nine-colored flames.
• The Three Thousand Fire Domain trembled, and three thousand flames from across its regions converged into a furnace around the phantom of a nine-colored phoenix.
• Ni Huang swallowed the furnace, transformed her feathers into nine colors, and flew toward the ancient formation at the Fire Origin Land.
• Chen Xuan blocked and shattered the nine pillars of divine might, allowing Ni Huang to enter the formation and inherit the Nine-Colored Phoenix Ancestor’s remaining power.
• Chen Xuan learned that the Three Thousand Fire Domain had formed from the remnants of the Dao Fire Furnace and stood outside the formation as Ni Huang’s strength continued to rise.