Chapter Summaries

Chen Xuan prepared to deal with Purple Mantis Clan and Demon Master Kunpeng while passing Mu Yun’s Great Freedom Extreme Intent Profound Art to Chen Bairen. After a feast that deepened the Nine Heavens Goddess’s interest in Chen Xuan, he left with Qian Ye Xue to guide her cultivation.

• Chen Xuan roasted Kunpeng wings and told Qian Ye Xue that he planned to stay behind the scenes while Purple Mantis Clan and Demon Master Kunpeng stirred up trouble.
• Chen Xuan passed the Great Freedom Extreme Intent Profound Art to Chen Bairen, who entered an eight-thousandfold time-accelerated formation to study it.
• On the seventh day, Chen Xuan gave most of the cooked Kunpeng wings to Lone Lamp Guest and hosted a feast with medicinal Immortal Fruit wine.
• Qian Ye Xue praised Chen Xuan to the Nine Heavens Goddess and Fairy Chang'e, leaving both women visibly moved by his reputation.
• After the feast, Qian Ye Xue asked Chen Xuan to guide her cultivation, and they went to his bedchamber in the Tree Core Space.

Maitreya and the others fought over the Guiding Light while Ji Wushuang slaughtered their enemies, until Purple Mantis Clan arrived and seized Cosmic Lord Wu Pan’s remnant soul. He opened the Soul Source Land for his followers and began refining the remnant soul to transform his bloodline.

• Maitreya and the other powerful cultivators fought over the twelve beams of Guiding Light as Ji Wushuang slaughtered more than a dozen opponents.
• Demon Master Kunpeng arrived with Purple Mantis Clan, who dragged back fleeing cultivators and used their blood to activate the black altar.
• Purple Mantis Clan split the altar, suppressed Cosmic Lord Wu Pan’s remnant soul, and swallowed it after warning the others that the Guiding Light had been tied to Wu Pan’s resurrection scheme.
• Liu Ruyan and eleven others knelt to Purple Mantis Clan, while Ji Yaoyue asked whether Chen Xuan was dead and heard that he had escaped after being beaten nearly to death.
• Purple Mantis Clan activated the Soul Bridge, opening the Soul Source Land so Demon Master Kunpeng and the other twelve cultivators could pursue the Soul Dao fortune.
• Purple Mantis Clan sat on the Soul Bridge and refined Cosmic Lord Wu Pan’s remnant soul as his bloodline began to transform.

Purple Mantis Clan and the twelve powerful beings were ensnared by an Immortal Cosmic Soul Thought hidden in the Soul Bridge, while Chen Xuan prepared Chen Bairen to seize the opportunity created by the trap. Heavenly Maiden returned after consolidating her Quasi-Saint foundation, and Lone Lamp Guest hailed her as the Mother of the Savior.

• Purple Mantis Clan absorbed Cosmic Lord Wu Pan's remnant soul, but his bloodline and Blood-Origin Wheel began to malfunction as scarlet vines trapped him and the twelve powerful beings.
• An Immortal Cosmic Soul Thought emerged from the Soul Bridge and merged with Purple Mantis Clan, who explained its nature and revealed that it was consuming him.
• Chen Xuan recognized that the big fish had taken the bait and awakened Chen Bairen, who had perfected the Great Freedom Extreme Intent Profound Art and sought Dao fortune to advance it into a heavenly art.
• Qian Ye Xue gave Chen Bairen a Kunpeng Void-Escape Talisman, and Chen Xuan promised to support him in seizing the opportunity.
• Heavenly Maiden returned with her Quasi-Saint Dao Foundation consolidated, and Chen Xuan saw that her origin had undergone an extraordinary metamorphosis.
• Lone Lamp Guest's World-Illuminating Lamp flared with sacred rainbow-colored flame, and he knelt before Heavenly Maiden, greeting her as the honored Mother of the Savior.

The Heavenly Maiden revealed that the Upper Realm was divided among Dao Cultivators, Origin Cultivators, and Devour Cultivators, and warned Chen Xuan that the Kun Clan would send enemies to hunt him. Chen Xuan reassured her of his confidence, and she embraced him as they discussed her punishment.

• Lone Lamp Guest called the Heavenly Maiden the Mother of the Savior, and Chen Bairen swore an oath to protect Chen Xuan and his mother.
• Chen Xuan's runes failed to reach their intended state, forcing him to wait before proceeding.
• The Heavenly Maiden privately explained the three Upper Realm lineages and warned that Chen Xuan's attempt to become a Universe Lord had provoked the Kun Clan.
• She revealed that she and Chen Bairen were Origin Cultivators who might one day become enemies of Chen Xuan, and that stronger forces would come to hunt him.
• Chen Xuan declared that he cultivated the Dao of Great Invincibility and would protect her and Bairen, then playfully agreed to punish her.

The Heavenly Maiden gave Chen Xuan a Source Pearl formed from thirty percent of her bloodline origin, then entered the Wuyou Ancestral Pool to refine it. Chen Xuan went to the Heavenly Soul Grotto-Heaven, where Purple Mantis and the other trapped experts tried to escape the Immortal Cosmic Soul Thought, and he stopped them to seize control of the situation.

• The Heavenly Maiden gave Chen Xuan the Source Pearl, which could transform his bloodline but carried a fatal backlash if he used it.
• The Heavenly Maiden warned Chen Xuan to defeat his enemies and merge the Seven Realms into the Human Emperor Realm, then entered the Wuyou Ancestral Pool to refine it.
• Chen Xuan sensed that the time had come and headed for the Heavenly Soul Grotto-Heaven with Chen Bairen and the others.
• Purple Mantis convinced the other trapped experts to cooperate in a desperate plan, then shattered the Immortal Cosmic Soul Thought's vines using his Origin Essence Blood and a purple talisman.
• Purple Mantis fled while Demon Master Kunpeng and the others gathered the scattered Dao-essence light, but Chen Xuan appeared and kicked Purple Mantis back into the vines.
• The Immortal Cosmic Soul Thought restrained Purple Mantis and the other experts again as Chen Xuan declared that he would draw in the net.

Chen Xuan used Jianmu and the Three Thousand Dao light to help Chen Bairen seize the fortune left by Cosmos Lord Wu Pan while the Immortal Cosmic Soul Thought attacked. After Chen Xuan wounded it with Primordial Dragon Flame, it fused with Mosquito Daoist, and Chen Xuan faced the transformed creature as Chen Bairen struggled to break through.

• Chen Xuan summoned Jianmu, gathered the Three Thousand Dao light, and warned Chen Bairen that he would have to withstand the Immortal Cosmic Soul Thought to claim Wu Pan’s fortune.
• Chen Bairen merged with the purplish-black sphere while Jianmu supported him, and the Immortal Cosmic Soul Thought consumed several trapped powers, apparently killing Heavenly Consort Umo and four others.
• The Immortal Cosmic Soul Thought attacked Chen Bairen, but Chen Xuan struck it with Primordial Dragon Flame and forced it into the flowing sphere.
• The Immortal Cosmic Soul Thought fused with Mosquito Daoist’s body and emerged as a giant mosquito, while Chen Xuan ordered the others to support Jianmu and Chen Bairen’s breakthrough.
• Mosquito Daoist pierced Chen Xuan’s chest, but Chen Xuan counterattacked with the Human Emperor Sword; the creature healed quickly, and the two prepared to continue fighting.

Chen Xuan fought the transformed Mosquito Daoist and captured the weakened Immortal Cosmic Soul Thought before it could possess Chen Bairen. Chen Xuan forced the soul into his son as Chen Bairen attempted a decisive breakthrough, whose outcome remained uncertain.

• Chen Xuan battled the transformed Mosquito Daoist while Chen Bairen struggled to survive the Dao-rhyme tribulation beneath Jianmu’s protection.
• Chen Xuan swallowed the Black Mist Mosquito Daoist unleashed, weakening the enemy as his Primordial Spirit Little Dragon digested it.
• Mosquito Daoist’s Immortal Cosmic Soul Thought broke free and rushed toward Chen Bairen, but Chen Xuan intercepted and sealed it.
• Chen Xuan drove the sealed soul into Chen Bairen’s Niwan Palace to help him withstand and control the Dao rhymes.
• Chen Bairen roared and compressed his origin into a single point that surged toward the crown of his head, just as an unexpected change erupted.

Chen Bairen struggled to break through while Purple Mantis used the Heaven-Commanding Dao Platform to drain him and the others. After Chen Bairen resisted demonic thoughts urging him to kill his father, Purple Mantis opened his eyes with murderous intent.

• Pangu's tainted blood erupted from Chen Bairen and interrupted his breakthrough, so Purple Mantis summoned the Heaven-Commanding Dao Platform and tried to refine him.
• Chen Xuan and his allies supported Chen Bairen, then Chen Xuan fed Great Black Heaven's severed right arm into the sphere to replenish its power.
• Chen Bairen recovered and tried to break through again, while Purple Mantis drained the others and devoured the arm's demonic energy.
• Chen Bairen's breakthrough failed when the Immortal Cosmic Soul Thought resisted him, and demonic thoughts urged him to merge with it and kill Chen Xuan.
• Chen Bairen rejected the demonic thoughts and swore he would rather die than harm his father, as Purple Mantis opened his eyes with murderous intent.

Purple Mantis recovered by consuming the deathly demonic qi and became pure-blooded, then attacked Chen Bairen as he tried to break through. Chen Xuan gave Bairen the Skull Cross Sword, allowing him to contain the Immortal Cosmic Soul Thought, regain the advantage, and overcome his obstruction.

• Purple Mantis healed, formed his first Blood Source Wheel, and declared himself pure-blooded.
• Purple Mantis attacked Chen Bairen, shattering his armor and Mad Blade and leaving him badly wounded.
• Chen Xuan gave Chen Bairen the depleted Skull Cross Sword and told him to use its aura.
• Chen Bairen refined the sword and guided the Immortal Cosmic Soul Thought into it, then used it to block and devour Purple Mantis's attack.
• Chen Bairen broke through his demonic obstruction and declared that he had gained an unwavering Dao heart as earth-shattering phenomena appeared around him.

Chen Bairen transformed into a powerful Origin Cultivator after elevating the Great Freedom Extreme Intent Profound Art into a Heavenly Art. He chose to absorb the fortune in the Heavenly Soul Grotto-Heaven to restore the Skull Cross Sword, then struck Purple Mantis, who activated a bloodline Forbidden Technique and the Heaven-Commanding Dao Platform.

• Chen Bairen’s transformation produced twelve towering visions, healed his injuries, and caused the Heavenly Soul Grotto-Heaven to resonate with him.
• Chen Bairen manifested three thousand arcs of light and evolved the Great Freedom Extreme Intent Profound Art into a Heavenly Art, astonishing Qian Ye Xue and the others.
• Chen Bairen thanked Chen Xuan and chose to absorb the grotto-heaven’s fortune so the Skull Cross Sword could recover its original power.
• Chen Bairen wounded Purple Mantis with the Skull Cross Sword, and Purple Mantis devoured the soul-controlled Demon Master Kunpeng.
• Purple Mantis detonated his bloodline Forbidden Technique and activated the Heaven-Commanding Dao Platform to devour his enemy.

Chen Xuan and Chen Bairen fought Purple Mantis as he activated the Heaven-Commanding Dao Platform, but a battle soul summoned from the Realm Sea intervened. Chen Xuan destroyed its claw with the Invincible Method, yet Purple Mantis escaped through a Realm Sea passage after discovering Chen Bairen’s twelve Origin Wheel prototypes.

• Purple Mantis unleashed a Forbidden Technique and activated the Heaven-Commanding Dao Platform, forcing Chen Bairen and Chen Xuan to fight him together while the platform drained Ji Yaoyue and the others.
• A rift opened above Purple Mantis, and a battle soul descended from the Realm Sea after he offered his Blood Origin Wheel’s origin to summon it.
• Purple Mantis asked the battle soul to take Chen Bairen’s Origin Wheel prototype and implant it in him, but Chen Xuan burned his origin to unleash the Invincible Method and dissolve its claw.
• Purple Mantis opened a passage into the Realm Sea with the Heaven-Commanding Dao Platform and escaped after Chen Bairen failed to stop him.
• Purple Mantis declared that he would report Chen Bairen’s twelve Origin Wheel prototypes to the Kun Clan’s main branch in exchange for supreme fortune.

Chen Xuan and Chen Bairen pursued the wounded Purple Mantis into the perilous Realm Sea to stop him from revealing Bairen’s secret to the Upper Realm Kun Clan. While Bairen used a forbidden tracking technique and Jianmu searched the sea, Purple Mantis summoned help with a blood-red token, and the Realm Sea began to tremble.

• Chen Xuan and Chen Bairen entered the Realm Sea through a fading Void Passage, determined to kill Purple Mantis before he could report Bairen’s secret.
• Chen Bairen used a forbidden source-cultivator technique to track Purple Mantis while Chen Xuan sent Jianmu’s roots searching through the dangerous waters.
• Chen Xuan discovered that Jianmu could absorb Realm Sea water and purify it into pure Chaos Qi, though it produced only one strand every ten breaths.
• Purple Mantis, weakened and trapped within a barrier, activated a blood-red command token and summoned someone from his clan to rescue him.
• Purple Mantis planned to inform the Kun Clan ancestors after returning, but the Realm Sea suddenly trembled as a terrifying presence affected its waves.

Ji Wushuang’s Soul-Imprisoning Battle Armor transformed in the Realm Sea, and he joined Ji Yaoyue, Liu Ruyan, and the Fallen Main God in attacking Young Master Zi Xiao. Zi Xiao escaped with the Heaven-Commanding Dao Platform, but Chen Xuan and Chen Bairen soon cornered him among Jianmu’s roots.

• The Soul-Imprisoning Battle Armor absorbed the Realm Sea’s remnant souls, transformed, and helped Ji Wushuang attack Zi Xiao alongside Ji Yaoyue, Liu Ruyan, and the Fallen Main God.
• Ji Wushuang’s Soul Devouring beams pushed Zi Xiao to the brink, but Zi Xiao activated the Heaven-Commanding Dao Platform and revealed a blurry face whose pressure drove the attackers away.
• Zi Xiao killed the wounded Thunder Sovereign, swallowed him, and fled into the Realm Sea aboard the Heaven-Commanding Dao Platform.
• Ji Wushuang and his allies sheltered behind the transformed armor as it absorbed more remnant souls, and Ji Wushuang anticipated growing stronger in the Realm Sea.
• Chen Xuan and Chen Bairen emerged from the Tree Core Space as Jianmu roots trapped the heavily injured Zi Xiao.

Chen Xuan and Chen Bairen cornered Zi Xiao, but the Purple Mantis Clan’s Thirteenth Elder, Zi Mo, arrived to save him. Chen Xuan swallowed the Source Pearl, killed Zi Xiao, and wounded Zi Mo before fleeing into the Realm Sea as the pearl’s deadly backlash began.

• Chen Xuan and Chen Bairen attacked the badly injured Zi Xiao, who stabbed himself with a golden spear to unleash its power and defend against their strikes.
• Zi Xiao’s defenses failed, but Zi Mo arrived from the Realm Sea and threatened the father and son with a powerful bronze whip.
• Chen Xuan swallowed the Source Pearl, restoring his strength and driving it beyond its former peak despite Chen Bairen’s warning about the backlash.
• Chen Xuan killed Zi Xiao with the Human Emperor Sword and seized the golden spear and Heaven-Commanding Dao Platform.
• Chen Xuan fought and heavily wounded Zi Mo, then grabbed Chen Bairen and fled into the Realm Sea as the Source Pearl’s fatal backlash erupted.

Chen Xuan endured nine escalating waves of backlash after consuming the Heavenly Maiden's Source Pearl, repeatedly losing and re-forming his body until his body and soul reached perfect fusion. Though severely injured and depleted, he learned that Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation with the women could help him recover, and Fairy Chang'e and Nine Heavens Goddess agreed to assist.

• Chen Xuan entered the Tree Core Space and suffered devastating backlash that threatened his Chaos Small Universe, so he used treasures and medicines to heal himself.
• Chen Xuan's body exploded, leaving his Primordial Chaos Dragon Soul to gather his powers and re-form his body as the Heavenly Maiden warned that nine more waves of backlash remained.
• Over the following days, Chen Xuan's body repeatedly exploded and was re-condensed until he had endured all ten waves, leaving him with grave Dao injuries and little remaining power.
• The Heavenly Maiden explained that the backlash had tempered Chen Xuan's body and soul into perfect fusion, but his Dao injuries still needed treatment.
• The Heavenly Maiden proposed Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation to help Chen Xuan recover, and Fairy Chang'e and Nine Heavens Goddess both agreed to offer their aid.

After surviving the backlash from taking the Source Pearl, Chen Xuan discovered twelve nascent Source Wheels in his Dragon Pearl and learned he might be able to cultivate as both a Dao Cultivator and an Origin Cultivator. A year later, he escaped the Realm Sea with Jianmu, only to be approached by a woman who called him the Heaven's Mandate Bearer.

• The Heavenly Maiden helped Chen Xuan recover from the backlash, and he woke with severe Dao-origin wounds.
• Chen Xuan discovered twelve nascent Source Wheels in his Dragon Pearl, which seemed to have formed from the Heavenly Maiden's and Bairen's Source Wheels.
• The Heavenly Maiden told Chen Xuan an ancient legend about a future lord of the Upper Realm who cultivated all three paths, then shared her inherited memories of Origin Cultivation.
• Chen Xuan sensed Zi Mo searching for them and urged Jianmu to flee; over the following days, he evaded Zi Mo and headed toward the Human Emperor Realm.
• After a year, Jianmu burst out of the Realm Sea, and Chen Xuan returned it to his Purple Mansion dantian.
• A woman shining with sacred white light flew toward Chen Xuan and addressed him as the Heaven's Mandate Bearer.

Chen Xuan met the Prophet, a mysterious visitor from the Upper Realm who offered him a supreme-grade Saint Pill in exchange for helping her conceive a child. After he refused, she explained why she had sought him out and revealed that every other Heaven's Mandate Bearer had fallen.

• The Prophet recognized Chen Xuan and the Heavenly Maiden as Origin Cultivators and warned them to enter the Upper Realm separately because their King-Never-Meets-King Destiny could bring calamity.
• Chen Xuan invited the Prophet into Jianmu's Tree Core Secret Realm, where she offered to heal his Dao wound with a supreme-grade Saint Pill if he helped her have a child.
• The Prophet said her people needed a child who would become the next great All-Knowing One, but Chen Xuan refused her request to conceive through ten thousand encounters.
• Chen Xuan stopped the Prophet from leaving and asked about Heaven's Mandate Bearers, her people, and the Upper Realm.
• The Prophet explained that Heaven's Mandate Bearers could become sovereign of the Upper Realm and revealed that all the previous ones had fallen.

The Prophet warned Chen Xuan that Heaven's Mandate Bearers were hunted by the three great streams and that he needed Supreme Ancestor's Blood to awaken his Twelve-Origin Wheel. After returning to the Human Emperor Realm, Chen Xuan learned that the Kun Clan's seven young lords had invaded the Seven Realms and prepared to face the coming battle.

• The Prophet told Chen Xuan that nine previous Heaven's Mandate Bearers had died through the three factions' involvement and warned him to enter the Upper Realm only after becoming a Cosmic Lord.
• The Prophet gave Chen Xuan a token and explained that Supreme Ancestor's Blood, pursued with Dao Ancestor Hongjun's power, could awaken his Twelve-Origin Wheel.
• After leaving the Realm Sea, Chen Xuan returned to the Human Emperor Realm and learned that Qilin King had self-detonated to help Xiao Keqi and the others escape the Kun Clan's seven young lords.
• The Taotie King reported that the Kun Clan's young lords had occupied the Seven Realms, the Ancestor of Ancient Gods had submitted, and Ma De and Ghost Princess were hiding in the Heart Demon Realm.
• Chen Xuan set up an eight-thousand-fold time-acceleration array at Jade Pool and summoned his wives to help him cultivate through dual cultivation.

After three thousand years of recovery and cultivation, Chen Xuan’s wounds had healed by more than half, and his treasures had absorbed the refined origin of Zi Xiao’s golden spear. As the Heavenly Maiden and Chen Bairen prepared to leave for the Upper Realm, she revealed that seven Kun Clan prodigies each held sealed power capable of killing Saints.

• Chen Xuan spent three thousand years with his wives, restoring his Dao wounds and replenishing the Three Thousand Great Dao Fruits while Qing Yao and Xuanyuan Xue reached the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Chen Xuan refined Zi Xiao’s golden spear and used its origin to strengthen the Human Emperor Robe, Crown, and Sword, then gave the remainder to the Primordial Spirit Little Dragon.
• Chen Bairen offered Chen Xuan his Source Pearl and explained that he and the Heavenly Maiden planned to seek the Hetu Luoshu and a path to the Upper Realm.
• Chen Bairen secretly intended to draw the Kun Clan’s attention and find a way to eliminate them so Chen Xuan and Xia Hua would be safer in the Lower Realm.
• The Heavenly Maiden gave Chen Xuan tears condensed from her seven emotions, asking him to use them to awaken her if source cultivation made her heartless.
• The Heavenly Maiden told Chen Xuan that each of the seven Kun Clan prodigies contained sealed power capable of killing Saints.

Chen Xuan planned to strengthen his cultivation and defenses against the seven Kun Clan prodigies, then tried and failed to refine the Hetu Luoshu. A century later, Fairy Chang'e invited him to drink Immortal Osmanthus Drunk, and he eagerly accepted.

• The Heavenly Maiden advised Chen Xuan to take on the seven Kun Clan prodigies one realm at a time, and he resolved to fuse the Three Great Heavenly Arts through the Invincible Method.
• Ten years later, Chen Bairen returned with Lone Lamp Guest and offered Chen Xuan the Hetu Luoshu, but Chen Xuan could not refine them because his three Human Emperor Origin Supreme Treasures resisted.
• The Heavenly Maiden departed, and Chen Bairen left with Lone Lamp Guest to search the Realm Sea for a path to the Upper Realm.
• A hundred years later, Fairy Chang'e invited Chen Xuan to her residence to drink her unsealed Immortal Osmanthus Drunk, and he took her hand and agreed.