Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• After the Golden Immortals withdraw to a separate battlefield, pressure from their overwhelming power lifts, allowing the ordinary armies to fight without risking death from stray blows.
• The conflict follows the long-standing rule that powerful fighters face opponents of comparable strength. Heavenly Immortals, King-level Evil Gods, and civilization elites clash separately while the main armies engage across the America Region.
• Cultivators, War Soldiers, practitioners from the dynasties and Hundred Schools, and present-day Blue Star fighters charge against the Level Seven Civilization forces, Evil Gods, and America Region traitors. Fang Xiu leads a War Formation as its core, with Liu Qing’er, Zhou Haiyan, Ye Zhen, and Wang Xiaoai supporting her.
• The battle becomes a mass slaughter, with enormous casualties on both sides. Gu Chen’s Mortal Body directs the Central Continent forces from the Troop Reviewing Divine Platform, using formations to divide and defeat the enemy piecemeal.
• Gu Chen’s true self has emerged from long seclusion as a perfected Golden Immortal. Together, his power and the Peerless Immortal Array have sealed the America Region, giving Central Continent a decisive strategic advantage.
• As enemy losses mount and the invaders realize they are likely to be wiped out, they prepare a secret plan devised by the Starfall Empire Governor and Emperor-level Evil God Amens. Gu Chen senses imminent danger, revealing that their hidden trump card is likely aimed at him.

Character developments

• Gu Chen shifts from being unable to intervene while his true self was in seclusion to commanding the campaign with the backing of his perfected Golden Immortal self. His resolve to protect Blue Star and punish the invaders is absolute, though he recognizes a serious threat is approaching.
• Fang Xiu takes an active leadership role on the battlefield, using her Nascent Soul strength and Primordial Spirit Power to guide a formation into combat.
• Liu Qing’er, Zhou Haiyan, Ye Zhen, and Wang Xiaoai fight alongside Fang Xiu, fully committing their Golden Core-level strength.
• The invaders move from confident assault to desperation as their casualties outpace Central Continent’s and their defeat appears increasingly certain.

Significant themes

• Hierarchy and rules of war: Elite fighters battle peers, leaving ordinary forces to fight their own battles.
• Unity and coordinated strategy: Central Continent’s organization, formations, and command allow it to turn its forces into a powerful whole.
• Retribution and protection: Gu Chen frames the conflict as defending Blue Star—his Dao Proving Ground—and making the invaders pay for their incursions.
• The cost and uncertainty of victory: Central Continent gains the upper hand, but the enemy’s concealed trump card threatens to overturn the battlefield.

Character interactions

• Central Continent’s armies and allied practitioners coordinate under Gu Chen’s commands, while Fang Xiu and her companions form a close-knit unit within the advancing forces.
• The opposing sides engage across matching levels of power, with elite combatants separated from the main army clashes.
• The Starfall Empire Governor and Amens have prepared a joint contingency, setting up a direct threat to Gu Chen even as his forces dominate the battle.

Key plot points and events

• The battle on the America Continent has become a catastrophic battlefield. The deaths of Cultivators, War Soldiers, Individual Construct Warriors, and Evil Gods create a spreading Calamity Qi that threatens to turn the region into a Deadly Land.
• An Energy Gathering Device—combining Level Seven technology with the power of Emperor Level Evil Gods—fires a massive gray-white blast at Gu Chen on the Troop Reviewing Divine Platform. Gu Chen blocks it with his Star Dharma Form, but the impact wounds him and breaks through the platform’s defenses.
• Using the breach, a King Level Evil God burns his own essence to launch a close-range assassination with the Starfall Empire’s infamous Blade of Death, a weapon capable of penetrating barriers and threatening even a Golden Immortal.
• Wen Zhong and the other Immortals retaliate against the attackers, while Blue Star’s Cultivators react with alarm as the strike targets their commander.
• Gu Chen remains composed, suggesting he anticipated the attack. As the blade closes in, his true self reaches through the Void and extends a Golden Light-covered hand toward it.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen shows confidence under extreme pressure, revealing that his Mortal Body’s danger may have been anticipated—and that his true self can intervene.
• The King Level Evil God assassin is willing to sacrifice his essence for a decisive attack, but becomes uneasy when Gu Chen does not panic.
• Wen Zhong and the allied Immortals respond fiercely, driving back nearby enemies while the assassination unfolds.
• Fang Xiu, her Group Chat companions, and Blue Star’s Cultivators show their concern and anger, underscoring their investment in Gu Chen’s safety and the battle’s stakes.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and calculated violence: The enemy spends immense resources and the assassin burns his own essence to create an opening.
• War’s mounting cost: Death and destruction accumulate until the battlefield itself becomes corrupted and dangerous.
• Preparedness and hidden power: The apparent assassination may be only the latest layer in a contest of concealed moves, as Gu Chen’s true self intervenes at the critical moment.

Key plot points and events

• The Starfall Empire’s Assassin Sacred Artifact, the Blade of Death, clashes with a golden-lit hand reaching across space to stop its attack. The hand belongs to Main Body Gu Chen, revealing that Central Continent has another hidden Golden Immortal.
• The battle’s laws and principles overwhelm most onlookers. Fang Xiu uses her Primordial Spirit Power to shield the Golden Core-level Group Chat members, warning them that only Nascent Soul cultivators or stronger can safely observe the fight.
• The King Level Evil God wielding the Blade of Death burns his Origin Power to intensify the strike. The blade eventually cuts Gu Chen’s palm, drawing golden blood—but cannot penetrate farther.
• Gu Chen is surprised to be injured at all, while the Evil God is shocked that his celebrated weapon has achieved so little. Gu Chen’s strength appears to exceed even that of an Emperor Level Evil God, disrupting the invaders’ plans.

Character developments

• Gu Chen is revealed as a powerful, previously hidden Golden Immortal. Though briefly wounded, he remains in control and recognizes the Blade of Death as an exceptional weapon.
• The King Level Evil God displays desperation and determination by burning his Origin Power, then disbelief when his ultimate attack fails to make meaningful progress.
• Fang Xiu acts protectively and knowledgeably, shielding her allies and explaining the danger of watching a Golden Immortal battle.
• The Group Chat members are awed by the scale of the conflict and gain a clearer sense of the gap between their cultivation and Golden Immortal power.

Significant themes

• Hidden strength and strategic surprise: Central Continent’s concealed reserves overturn the enemy’s expectations.
• The limits of power: Even a fearsome artifact and a wielder willing to sacrifice his strength cannot overcome the gulf between cultivation levels.
• The danger of witnessing greatness: Golden Immortal power affects even observers, showing that extraordinary force can be hazardous simply to behold.

Character interactions

• Gu Chen’s hand directly confronts the Evil God’s blade, turning the invaders’ planned killing blow into a struggle against an unexpected defender.
• Fang Xiu protects the Group Chat members and explains why they must look away; they respond with relief, alarm, and admiration.
• The battlefield’s opposing forces react with astonishment and dread as Gu Chen’s identity and strength become apparent.

Key plot points and events

• Main Body Gu Chen stops the Blade of Death—the Starfall Empire’s assassination artifact—with his bare hand and begins transforming it with Golden Light.
• While the King Level Evil God Aochia struggles to resist, Mortal Body Gu Chen lands a Star Dharma Form punch that shatters most of Aochia’s body. Main Body Gu Chen then finishes him and takes control of the artifact.
• The Central Continent and Blue Star’s allies celebrate Aochia’s death, while the Starfall Empire’s forces and Blue Star’s traitors panic. The shift in momentum leaves the Central Continent with a decisive advantage in top-tier fighters.
• In a separate battle, the Starfall Empire Governor traps Great God Nezha of the Three Altars in a collapsing Imaginary Space. Nezha withstands the Governor’s attacks with the Chaos Tunic and counters with his Universe Ring, shattering the surrounding energy fields and spatial cracks.
• After receiving a message from Main Body Gu Chen, Nezha unleashes Samadhi True Fire and launches a fierce counterattack.

Character developments and interactions

• Main Body Gu Chen displays confidence and overwhelming power, turning the enemy’s signature weapon into his own and coordinating with his allies.
• Mortal Body Gu Chen exploits the opening created by Main Body Gu Chen, delivering the decisive physical blow that leaves Aochia vulnerable.
• Aochia burns his power desperately to hold off Gu Chen, but is overwhelmed and annihilated.
• Nezha remains composed under intense pressure, then shifts from defense to offense once Gu Chen’s message reaches him.
• The Starfall Empire Governor relies on mobility and relentless attacks in the Imaginary Space, but Nezha’s counter threatens to undo that advantage.

Significant themes

• Coordinated strength: Gu Chen’s two forms work together to defeat a powerful enemy.
• The value of adaptability: The Central Continent’s blend of abilities, artifacts, and durable Golden Immortal bodies gives it broader combat strength than opponents who specialize in technology or the Dark Side.
• Turning points and morale: Aochia’s death boosts the allies’ confidence and spreads fear among their enemies.
• Resistance under pressure: Nezha’s calm defense shows that apparent disadvantage can become an opportunity to counterattack.

Key events

• Erlang Yang Jian battles Emperor-Level Evil God Amens inside Amens’s True Realm, where Amens can repeatedly regenerate as long as the realm remains intact.
• Yang Jian resists the realm’s corrupting aura and soul-assailing whispers, then reveals his full strength: his Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique transforms him into a ten-thousand-foot Golden Armored War God.
• With powerful halberd strikes, Yang Jian repeatedly tears Amens apart, locates the True Realm’s core with his divine eye, pins it down, and cleaves open the realm to escape. Breaking the realm seriously injures Amens.
• Nezha also escapes the Starfall Empire Governor’s Imaginary Space. The two invaders discover Gu Chen’s previously hidden Golden Immortal-level power, shifting the battlefield’s balance.
• Gu Chen orders the Central Continent’s allied forces to show no mercy. His main body attacks Amens and the Governor simultaneously, while Yang Jian and Nezha join in, leaving the two invaders surrounded by three Golden Immortals.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Jian moves from calmly enduring Amens’s attacks to unleashing his full power and taking the initiative. His resolve and mastery allow him to overcome a battlefield designed to favor his opponent.
• Amens begins confident that his True Realm makes him effectively immortal, but becomes alarmed when Yang Jian repeatedly overwhelms him and ultimately damages the realm.
• Gu Chen emerges as a decisive, previously concealed force. He shows no interest in a fair contest, prioritizing the swift defeat of the invaders.
• Nezha joins Yang Jian in breaking free of the invaders’ pocket battlefields, then fights alongside him and Gu Chen.
• The three allied Golden Immortals work in concert against Amens and the Starfall Empire Governor, who go from believing the fight is balanced to facing a serious threat.

Significant themes

• Resolve against corruption: Yang Jian’s discipline and Dao withstand Amens’s spiritual and physical assaults.
• Power through insight and persistence: Yang Jian wins not merely by force, but by identifying and striking the True Realm’s core.
• Unity and changing fortunes: Gu Chen’s arrival and the allies’ coordinated attacks overturn the battlefield’s near-even balance.
• Retribution and liberation: Gu Chen frames the battle as payback for nearly a century of invasion and declares that the invaders will be driven from Central Province Land.

Plot points and events

• Gu Chen, Yang Jian, and Nezha overwhelm the wounded Starfall Empire Governor and Emperor-level Evil God Amens.
• Gu Chen uses the newly captured Blade of Death—empowered by Golden Immortal strength—to pierce the governor’s defenses and grievously injure him.
• Rather than face capture, the governor destroys most of his body to create an energy-fission blast that breaks the sealing array. His Soul Consciousness Core escapes into the stars, though he is left crippled.
• Amens tries to flee through the breach, but Yang Jian and Nezha repeatedly blast him apart. Facing all three Golden Immortals, he also self-destructs, releasing a corrupting force that threatens to poison the Path-Achievement Land and Blue Star.
• Gu Chen, Yang Jian, and Nezha contain and isolate the corruption. With both enemy leaders defeated and driven off, Central Province’s victory is effectively secured.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen demonstrates the Blade of Death’s formidable power and quickly takes the initiative against the governor. He also prioritizes protecting the land he created, joining forces with Yang Jian and Nezha to contain Amens’s corruptive remains.
• The governor proves ruthlessly pragmatic, sacrificing most of his body to escape, but pays a devastating price.
• Amens shifts from attempted escape to self-destruction when trapped, leaving behind a dangerous threat even in defeat.
• Yang Jian and Nezha work in concert with Gu Chen, first preventing Amens from escaping and then helping contain the resulting corruption.
• Central Province’s fighters and Blue Star’s practitioners celebrate as their confidence and battle spirit surge. The invading forces lose heart and flee toward the breach, while Blue Star’s traitors are left despairing.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and survival: Both enemy leaders destroy much of themselves rather than submit, but escape comes at severe cost.
• Power and decisive victory: The Golden Immortals’ overwhelming strength turns the tide of the war.
• Cooperation and responsibility: Gu Chen’s alliance with Yang Jian and Nezha prevents Amens’s final attack from contaminating Blue Star.
• The consequences of corruption and betrayal: Amens’s lingering evil threatens the world, while the traitors face the collapse of the power they backed.

Key plot points and events

• Central Continent’s forces, energized by their momentum, drive the invading Level Seven Civilization nobles and Evil Gods into retreat.
• Fang Xiu’s War Formation attacks the America Continent traitors, but a desperate high-ranking enemy detonates an Antimatter Annihilation Bomb. Its shockwave tears through the formation and threatens to kill them all.
• Mortal Body Gu Chen intervenes with a Mysterious Light hand, crushing the shockwave and saving Fang Xiu and her allies.
• While Gu Chen’s main body, Yang Jian, and Nezha contain the corrupting remains of the self-destructed Evil God Amens, Mortal Body Gu Chen joins the battle. His Star Dharma Form overwhelms the remaining high-ranking invaders.
• With their leaders defeated, the weaker enemies surrender and are taken prisoner. The America Continent traitors are left with no realistic chance of resistance.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Xiu and her group go from facing certain death to celebrating Gu Chen’s rescue. Their relief and praise reveal their trust in him.
• Mortal Body Gu Chen demonstrates both battlefield strength and concern for his former Group Chat companions. He also prioritizes protecting the world from Amens’s lingering corruption, treating it as important to his future cultivation.
• The invaders shift from aggression to panic and surrender as their leaders fall. One traitor’s desperate bomb attack marks the enemy’s final, futile resistance.
• Gu Chen and his companions are shown working across the battlefield: his main body and allies contain the dangerous aura, while his mortal body protects the formation and helps end the fighting.

Significant themes

• Desperation and reversal: A seemingly decisive enemy weapon is neutralized, turning imminent disaster into another display of Central Continent’s advantage.
• Power and responsibility: Gu Chen uses his strength not only to defeat enemies but also to protect allies and prevent spiritual corruption from spreading.
• Morale and leadership: Gu Chen’s intervention strengthens his allies’ confidence, while the invaders’ loss of leadership quickly undermines their will to fight.

Key plot points and events

• Central Continent wins a decisive battle on America Continent, ending the long invasion by the Extraterrestrial Invaders.
• The invaders lose nearly 70 percent of their forces. The Starfall Empire Governor and the Evil God Amens are driven to self-destruct and flee, likely suffering damage that will prevent them from regaining Golden Immortal-level strength.
• Footage of the battle spreads across Blue Star and the Starry Sky. Alien civilizations are stunned by Central Continent’s victory and wonder whether the defeated powers will seek revenge or peace.
• Central Continent’s Cultivators celebrate and debate the battle online. Many are especially curious about the unidentified Golden Immortal who appeared late in the fighting.
• Gu Chen reviews his rewards and discovers he has gained nearly ninety million Origin Points. He plans to use them to strengthen Central Continent and prepare for his own eventual transcendence to the Other Shore.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen remains focused and cautious despite the victory. He conceals his identity from the public and turns his attention to using his new resources strategically.
• Central Continent’s Cultivators take pride in their triumph, share battlefield accounts, and caution one another that the most powerful beings are far beyond ordinary Cultivators’ ability to withstand.
• The Starfall Empire Governor and Amens are forced to retreat after catastrophic losses, leaving their future response uncertain.
• Alien civilizations reassess Central Continent’s strength and are relieved they did not join the invasion.

Significant themes

• A reversal of expectations: Central Continent defeats powers widely believed to be overwhelmingly superior.
• Victory and its consequences: The triumph brings celebration and influence, but also the danger of retaliation.
• Power, secrecy, and perspective: Gu Chen’s hidden identity fuels speculation, while ordinary Cultivators recognize the gulf between themselves and the highest levels of power.
• Preparation for the future: Gu Chen treats victory not as an endpoint but as an opportunity to strengthen Central Continent for greater threats and his own advancement.

Key plot points and events

• The battle on the America Continent ends with the Extraterrestrial Invaders and Evil Gods driven off, but the battlefield is left littered with the dead and dangerous remnants: powerful spiritual imprints, unstable reactors, and corrupting Evil God energy.
• Gu Chen’s mortal body surveys the destruction and asks his main body what should happen next.
• Main Body Gu Chen, while collecting pollution left by the self-destruction of the Evil God Amens with Yang Jian and Nezha, decides to honor the survivors and make a public show of Central Continent’s strength.
• Inspired by the legendary Investiture of the Gods, he plans to create a similar artifact by using the system and Origin Points to “Refine Falsehood Into Truth.”
• Gu Chen’s mortal body announces that an Investiture of the Gods Ceremony will be held in forty-nine days, with rewards allocated according to each person’s contributions. The announcement sparks excitement and speculation among the surviving forces.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen’s main body turns the victory into an opportunity to reward allies, strengthen Central Continent, and demonstrate its power to the wider Starry Sky.
• Gu Chen’s mortal body accepts responsibility for organizing the ceremony, despite feeling put upon when his main body leaves him to handle it.
• Modern World Cultivators eagerly wonder whether the ceremony could bring them immortality or divine titles, though many doubt their rank and contributions will qualify.
• Ye Zhen boasts that his long friendship with Gu Chen should earn him a grand reward. Liu Qing’er teases him, while the others respond with skepticism.
• Fang Xiu takes a more realistic view, arguing that the greatest rewards should go to the fallen Nascent Soul and Human Immortal powerhouses, whose contributions were greatest. His friends are sobered by the thought.

Significant themes

• Honor and merit: The planned ceremony offers formal recognition for those who fought, with rewards tied to contribution.
• Ambition versus realism: Many dream of becoming gods or immortals, but the characters recognize that rank and sacrifice will shape who is rewarded.
• Victory’s cost: The battlefield’s devastation and deaths temper the celebration, reminding survivors that driving off the invaders came at a heavy price.
• Power as spectacle: Gu Chen intends not only to reward his people but also to use the ceremony to impress the civilizations watching Central Continent.

Plot points and events

• With Blue Star’s continents now enormous, returning from America to Central Continent by ordinary travel could take decades. Gu Chen arranged for Heavenly Immortals to establish destination markers in Central Continent, then organized the army to build four giant teleportation arrays along the American battlefield’s edge.
• After nine days, the arrays were complete. Under their Nascent Soul commanders, hundreds of millions of cultivators and soldiers returned in stages, with a fifteen-minute cooldown between transfers. The evacuation took nearly three days.
• Once the army had departed, Gu Chen’s mortal-body clone handed responsibility back to his main body.
• The main body, True Lord Erlang Yang Jian, and Nezha dealt with the dangerous Evil God Power released when Emperor-level Evil God Amens self-destructed. Each sealed part of it underground in America and left a different long-term suppression method.
• The three then repaired the breach in the Immortal Lockdown Formation caused by the Starfall Empire Governor’s self-destruction.

Character developments and interactions

• Mortal Body Gu Chen shows his organizational skill in arranging the mass return, then drops his formal demeanor once the outsiders are gone and leaves the remaining work to his main body.
• Main Body Gu Chen takes responsibility for containing Amens’s lingering power and devises a gradual method to destroy it.
• Yang Jian and Nezha cooperate with Gu Chen as equally powerful allies, each contributing a distinct means of suppression.
• Fang Xiu and her friends, including Liu Qing’er and Zhou Haiyan, are relieved to be heading home after months of fighting; the ordeal has also helped some cultivators approach breakthroughs.

Significant themes

• Cooperation and organized effort: Experts and weaker cultivators alike contribute to building the arrays and returning the army.
• The cost of immense power: Amens’s self-destruction leaves behind a corrupting force dangerous even after his apparent escape.
• Vigilance and lasting consequences: The heroes take long-term precautions so Amens cannot recover his power, then reinforce the damaged containment formation.
• Relief after hardship: The army’s return offers a pause for rest and recovery after prolonged battles.

Plot points and events

• The war ends with the Extraterrestrial Invaders driven from Blue Star. Gu Chen’s forces return to Central Continent, while the surviving Human Immortals use the Cross-State Teleportation Array.
• Gu Chen’s Mortal Body returns to Chaoge City to deal with surrendered Evil Gods and Starfall Empire prisoners, distribute rewards, and organize the promised Investiture of the Gods. Main Body Gu Chen leaves these administrative burdens to him while preparing to forge the Investiture and establish the Heavenly Court.
• Central Continent’s cultivators and soldiers resume their lives, expecting rewards and the investiture ceremony, unaware that the Investiture has not yet been created.
• The defeated Starfall Empire fleet escapes into the Starry Sky. Baron Jerris orders a search for the governor’s Energy Core, believing it may be their only chance to avoid punishment for the failed invasion.
• The surviving Evil Gods, having suffered heavy losses, turn against their weakened leader, Amens. After he refuses to submit, they fight. Amens escapes by tearing open the Void with the power of his shattered Evil God True Realm and fleeing toward Blue Star.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen’s Mortal Body is left with the practical work of postwar governance, while Main Body Gu Chen focuses on the larger plans for the Investiture and Heavenly Court.
• Jerris shifts from defeat to desperate action, searching for the governor’s core to save himself and his fleet from imperial consequences.
• Amens falls from Emperor Level after self-destructing, losing the authority that kept the other Evil Gods in line. When his former subordinates try to devour him, he fights back and escapes rather than surrender.
• The Evil Gods’ interaction exposes their ruthless hierarchy: once Amens is weakened, former followers immediately challenge his rule and seek to consume him.

Significant themes

• Victory brings burdens: defeating the invaders is followed by difficult political, administrative, and institutional work.
• Power and survival: the Starfall Empire’s survivors fear punishment, while the Evil Gods’ alliances collapse as soon as their leader weakens.
• A new order taking shape: the planned Investiture of the Gods and Heavenly Court point toward a major reorganization of Central Continent’s postwar world.

Key plot points and events

• The Starfall Empire learns that its invasion of the Blue Star Continent failed and that its Governor had to self-destruct to escape. The Governor’s whereabouts—and the virtual quantum core that fled the blast—remain unknown.
• At an emergency Noble Conference, the empire agrees to recall the surviving expeditionary forces, gather their battle records, prepare a new plan, and suppress news of the defeat.
• The nobles split over how to respond to the powerful defender of the Blue Continent. The War Faction demands a full-scale conquest; the Peace Faction urges caution and negotiation. The Great Emperor postpones the decision until he can consult the Imperial Ancestor.
• An elite Starfall fleet departs to locate the expedition’s remnants.
• On the America Continent, Main Body Gu Chen arrives after the recent battle. Finding the battlefield saturated with Calamity, Death, and Baleful Qi—and now forming a hazy consciousness—he decides it is ideal for forging a weapon.
• Gu Chen begins reforging the Starfall Empire’s Blade of Death into his first Spiritual Treasure, using Golden Immortal power and the battlefield’s destructive energies.

Character developments

• The Starfall Great Emperor remains composed amid the crisis, managing the nobles’ rivalry and delaying a decision until he has consulted the Imperial Ancestor.
• Main Body Gu Chen recognizes that, despite his Golden Immortal strength, he lacks Spiritual Treasures. He takes the opportunity to turn an enemy weapon into a more worthy tool.

Significant themes

• Power and uncertainty: The defeat of a prominent Level Seven powerhouse shakes the empire, while the Governor’s fate and the escaped core remain unknown.
• Conflict between aggression and caution: The War and Peace Factions embody competing responses to a newly revealed threat.
• Violence transformed into power: Gu Chen uses the battlefield’s accumulated destructive energies to forge a Spiritual Treasure.

Character interactions

• The Starfall nobles argue fiercely before the Great Emperor, who ultimately silences them and adjourns the conference.
• The War Faction clashes with the Peace Faction over whether to conquer the Blue Continent or seek a peaceful resolution.
• Gu Chen’s main body works alone, channeling the battlefield’s Qi into the Blade of Death.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Chen begins reforging the Starfall Empire’s Blade of Death, a weapon made from a powerful Star Beast’s fang. Its exceptional toughness, penetration, and ability to injure souls make it valuable but difficult to melt.
• Since Golden Immortal power alone cannot soften it, Gu Chen summons Great God Nezha. Nezha uses his Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover and Samadhi True Fire, while Gu Chen restrains the weapon when it resists.
• Together, they spend eighteen days stripping away the Empire’s forging marks and restoring the blade to its original fang. The process reveals the beast’s lingering resentment and confirms it had been at least half-step Golden Immortal in strength.
• Gu Chen adds rare materials, balances Yin, Yang, the Five Elements, and chaos power, and draws Calamity, Death, and Baleful Qi from the battlefield into the weapon.
• After eighty-one days of work, Gu Chen completes a slender, three-foot black saber. He names it Thousand Tribulations, binds it with his blood essence and primordial-spirit imprint, and sees it slice through the Void and damage the battlefield’s sealing array. Its birth immediately summons a Heavenly Tribulation.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen recognizes the limits of his own artifact-refining expertise and wisely enlists Nezha. He applies his Golden Immortal strength and knowledge of laws to reshape the blade into a weapon suited to himself, preserving the qualities he values most: piercing force and hidden attacks on soul and consciousness.
• Nezha responds quickly to Gu Chen’s summons and contributes the Samadhi True Fire needed to refine the Star Beast material. Their cooperation is essential: Nezha supplies the refining technique while Gu Chen controls and transforms the weapon.
• Thousand Tribulations displays a will of its own during forging, resisting the fire and attacking Nezha, then demonstrates immense power upon completion.

Significant themes

• Different approaches to craftsmanship: The Empire’s technological forging extracts power at a cost to the wielder, while cultivation-based refining uses Dao, laws, and elemental principles to reveal and enhance a material’s innate qualities.
• Cooperation and specialization: Even a Golden Immortal expert benefits from another’s distinct skills; the weapon can be completed only through Gu Chen and Nezha’s combined efforts.
• Transformation and ownership: Gu Chen strips away the blade’s former identity and remakes it into a treasure aligned with his own power and Dao.
• Power brings trials: The saber’s extraordinary birth immediately attracts a Heavenly Tribulation, foreshadowing a dangerous test.

Key plot points and events

• A vast crimson lightning tribulation spreads across more than a million miles, covering the America Continent battlefield. Its pressure is so immense that even the region’s Calamity, Death, and Baleful Qi seem to recoil.
• The chapter explains that powerful beings must endure heavenly calamities as a consequence of cultivation—and that even a Golden Immortal-level Spiritual Treasure cannot escape its own tribulation.
• The extraordinary energy draws attention from across the star systems. A Starfall Empire fleet considers disguising itself among ships from a lower-level civilization to enter the Blue Star Continent without attracting notice.
• Other visiting civilizations warn their crews to behave cautiously, fearing that provoking the Blue Star Continent’s powerful cultivators could endanger their worlds.
• Amens, an Emperor Level Evil God traveling aboard a humble ship, senses the tribulation and vows revenge against the Blue Star Continent’s Golden Immortals and the Evil God Subordinates who humiliated him.
• Cultivators and Alien observers investigate from afar. Nascent Soul experts speculate that the event is either a top Heavenly Immortal’s breakthrough or a Golden Immortal refining a treasure. News and images spread through the Cultivation Express, sparking widespread debate.

Character developments and interactions

• The Starfall Empire viscount responds cautiously to the danger, accepting his strategist’s proposal to enter under disguise rather than risk a direct approach.
• Amens’s fear and wariness coexist with resentment: despite his escape, he remains committed to settling scores.
• Ordinary cultivators, visitors, and fleet crews react with awe and anxiety. Some choose to investigate, while others conclude that the event is beyond their ability to influence and focus on their own cultivation.
• The chapter does not identify the source of the tribulation, leaving observers to interpret it from a distance.

Significant themes

• The cost of cultivation: Power comes with heavenly trials; even extraordinary treasures must face calamity.
• The limits of ordinary beings: Most observers can only speculate or watch when confronted with power on this scale.
• Power reshapes conduct: The Blue Star Continent’s reputation deters outsiders from acting carelessly.
• Mystery and uncertainty: The tribulation’s cause remains unknown, fueling rumors, headlines, and fear.

Plot points and events

• Gu Chen and Nezha’s newly forged weapon, Thousand Tribulations, draws vast tribulation clouds as it emerges.
• The treasure meets successive waves of red and then purple lightning. It resists the assault while absorbing the battlefield’s Calamity, Death, and Baleful Qi, growing stronger as it is tempered.
• After nine days and nights, the tribulation gathers its power for a final strike: a pillar of purple lightning comparable to a Golden Immortal’s full-powered attack.
• Thousand Tribulations cleaves through the pillar and splits the clouds, completing its tribulation and becoming a Golden Immortal Spiritual Treasure.

Character developments

• Gu Chen remains confident in his own strength, but grows anxious when the final strike threatens the weapon he spent eighty-one days helping forge. His relief and pride at its survival show how much the creation matters to him.
• Nezha recognizes the danger of the tribulation and watches the test unfold.
• Thousand Tribulations is revealed as defiant and increasingly formidable: rather than merely enduring the lightning, it uses the ordeal to strengthen and attune itself.

Character interactions

• Gu Chen and Nezha share the achievement of forging the treasure, then observe its trial together.
• Gu Chen restrains himself from intervening, trusting Thousand Tribulations to withstand the tribulation.
• The treasure’s clashes with the lightning become a contest of wills, culminating in its decisive strike through the final pillar.

Significant themes

• Trial and transformation: the lightning both threatens to destroy the treasure and tempers it into something greater.
• Craftsmanship and investment: Gu Chen’s concern reflects the effort and resources behind the weapon.
• Defiance against overwhelming power: Thousand Tribulations earns its status by confronting and overcoming a force that could endanger even powerful immortals.

Key plot points and events

• Thousand Tribulations awakens as a Golden Immortal-level spiritual treasure, releasing an immense killing aura that forces a huge opening in the continent-covering Purple Tribulation Clouds.
• The blade unleashes a Black Evil Dragon and a blade aura millions of miles long, cutting through space and the thunderclouds and extinguishing much of their purple lightning.
• Modern cultivators and several groups of alien observers witness the display. They mistake or compare the weapon to powerful artifacts of advanced civilizations, and the Starfall Empire’s fleet records its power.
• Amens, a weakened Emperor-level Evil God, recognizes the danger. He abandons his plan to infiltrate Central Continent for revenge and hides his aura to avoid detection.

Character developments

• Thousand Tribulations is revealed as a weapon of extraordinary destructive power, capable of challenging even immense supernatural forces.
• Amens shifts from pursuing revenge to cautious self-preservation. His past self-destruction and loss of strength have left him vulnerable, and he fears the Golden Immortals’ weapon could threaten him.

Significant themes

• Power inspires awe and fear: The blade’s display overwhelms cultivators and advanced alien civilizations alike.
• The unknown invites speculation: Observers struggle to explain the weapon, interpreting it through the limits of their own knowledge.
• Strength shapes choices: Amens’s diminished power forces him to abandon revenge and avoid attracting attention.

Character interactions

• The cultivators and alien observers react collectively with astonishment, comparing Thousand Tribulations to legendary divine weapons and debating its origin.
• Amens’s encounter is indirect: seeing the blade’s power changes his plans and deepens his wariness toward the Central Continent Golden Immortals.
• The Starfall Empire fleet treats the event as valuable intelligence, ordering its crew to preserve the observations.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Chen’s Golden Immortal-level Spiritual Treasure, Thousand Tribulations, completes its lightning tribulation. After tearing through the Purple Tribulation Clouds, it answers Gu Chen’s call, shows its attachment to him, and is drawn into his body to be nurtured.
• The weapon’s annihilating power can damage not only bodies but souls and consciousness, giving Gu Chen confidence that he can fight more devastatingly.
• Mortal Body Gu Chen urges him to finish the Investiture of the Gods, since cultivators are awaiting their promised rewards and the legendary artifact.
• Gu Chen has deliberately simplified the Investiture’s functions and built in hidden safeguards, ensuring that only he can control its permissions.
• He spends twenty million Origin Points to manifest it. The entire Blue Star Continent trembles as spectacular auspicious visions fill the sky, prompting cultivators to speculate about the arrival of a supreme treasure.
• An ancient scroll appears before Gu Chen, seemingly connected to the continent’s destiny. He confirms that its hidden safeguards let him decide whose name is added to or removed from the list—and that anyone else who tries to use it will face backlash.

Character developments and interactions

• Main Body Gu Chen is pleased with his newly forged weapon and confident in his ability to control both it and the Investiture. His careful planning shows that he values power but is wary of creating something that could threaten him.
• Spiritual Treasure Thousand Tribulations is portrayed as fiercely destructive toward its tribulation but affectionate and eager to please its master.
• Mortal Body Gu Chen acts as a practical counterpart, pressing for the Investiture’s completion because others are waiting.
• The cultivators observing the visions respond with awe, but also caution one another that only the strongest beings should pursue a treasure of such apparent significance.

Significant themes

• Power and preparation: New weapons and artifacts increase Gu Chen’s strength, but they require time, cultivation, and careful planning.
• Control and self-protection: Gu Chen’s hidden safeguards reflect his determination to prevent others from turning his own creation against him.
• Fate versus agency: The Investiture is linked to destiny and can bind even powerful immortals, yet Gu Chen’s exclusive control over its permissions gives him an exceptional measure of agency.
• Knowing one’s limits: The cultivators’ restraint emphasizes that ambition without sufficient strength can be fatal.

Key plot points and events

• As the Purple Tribulation Clouds disperse, an even grander phenomenon spreads across the Blue Star Continent: purple energy, rosy light, auspicious creatures, and a resonance with the Great Dao.
• Alien fleets, the Starfall Empire’s viscount, and the hidden Evil God Amens all interpret the spectacle as evidence of the continent’s overwhelming power. Their leaders order caution and avoid provoking its inhabitants.
• Nascent Soul cultivators recognize that the newly appeared Investiture of the Gods is the likely cause. They conclude that its significance is beyond their understanding and resolve to focus on cultivation.
• In Chaoge Royal City, Gu Chen’s Mortal Body learns that his true self has completed the Investiture of the Gods. He prepares to announce its appearance and begin rewarding merit, a step toward establishing Central Continent’s Primordial Heavenly Court.

Character developments and interactions

• The alien commanders become more wary, instructing their crews to keep a low profile and pursue business rather than conflict.
• The Starfall viscount, a member of the peace-seeking Dove Faction, decides to report the events and oppose rushing into war.
• Amens grows more anxious and commits to hiding from the continent’s Golden Immortals.
• Nascent Soul cultivators respond with humility, accepting that greater truths lie beyond their current realm.
• Gu Chen moves from waiting for the treasure’s completion to taking action on the next stage of his plan.

Significant themes

• Power and the unknown: Repeated supernatural signs deepen outsiders’ fear and reveal how little they understand about Blue Star.
• Humility before higher realms: Cultivators recognize the limits of their knowledge and emphasize personal cultivation.
• Caution and restraint: Powerful factions choose diplomacy and concealment over reckless confrontation.
• A turning point: The Investiture of the Gods’ appearance foreshadows major changes in Central Continent and the creation of a new heavenly order.

Plot points and events

• Chaoge Royal City announces two events: rewards in three days for those who fought the extraterrestrial invaders, and a ceremony to enter the fallen’s True Spirits into the Investiture of the Gods, transforming them into Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.
• The announcement sparks excitement and debate among Blue Star cultivators. Some see the Investiture as a route to immortality; others fear it would cost them freedom and halt their cultivation.
• Main Body Gu Chen arrives at the palace, hands the scroll to Mortal Body Gu Chen, and leaves him to manage both the rewards and the ceremony.
• Over the next three days, visitors flock to Chaoge—including Blue Star cultivators, extraterrestrial factions, a Starfall Empire reconnaissance team, and the concealed Evil God Amens. Mortal Body Gu Chen activates the city’s formations and organizes security.
• At the ceremony’s opening, the Dao Bell rings, the dynasty’s fortune manifests, and an Investiture Platform appears above the city. A Rainbow Bridge extends from Qianling Hall as officials announce the proceedings.

Character developments and interactions

• Mortal Body Gu Chen is left with the administrative burden by his main body. He grumbles at the handoff but takes charge, arranging the city’s defenses and the ceremony.
• Main Body Gu Chen treats the task casually, delegating it before returning to his own work.
• Blue Star cultivators reveal differing ambitions: some envy the possibility of posthumous service and immortality, while others prize personal cultivation and independence.
• Extraterrestrial visitors watch the spectacle with curiosity; some arrive as observers, while others—such as Amens and the reconnaissance team—have strategic motives.

Significant themes

• Immortality versus freedom: The Investiture offers survival beyond death, but potentially at the cost of autonomy and further cultivation.
• Duty and recognition: The ceremony promises rewards and honors those who died in the war.
• Public spectacle and political power: The dynasty’s fortune, ceremony, and gathering crowds turn the announcement into a major event watched by rival forces.

Key plot points and events

• Mortal Body Gu Chen holds a grand rewards ceremony on the Investiture Platform for Central Continent’s forces, who fought the Starfall Empire and the Evil Gods.
• Using battle records stored in specially made tokens, he distributes rewards according to merit and cultivation level. The first recipients are Shang Tang’s officials and generals, followed by Immortal-level experts from other factions.
• Gu Chen spent ten million Origin Points to prepare a vast supply of treasures, including Immortal Artifacts, techniques, pills, and rare materials.
• He then rewards Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, including several Modern World cultivators from Blue Star and other continents, tailoring each reward to the recipient’s needs.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen is composed before the crowd but takes quiet pride in the ceremony’s impact: the lavish display is intended to demonstrate Central Continent’s strength and resources.
• The Blue Star cultivators react with awe and excitement. Some covet the treasures, while others note that powerful artifacts may be useless—or dangerous—without sufficient cultivation.
• Alien visitors are astonished by the scale of the wealth, comparing it favorably even with the resources of powerful civilizations and trade groups.
• Fang Xiu, Gu Chen’s former Group Chat friend, receives a slightly better reward than the other Nascent Soul cultivators. They exchange a discreet, playful look, unnoticed by the crowd.

Significant themes

• Power and abundance: The rewards display the extraordinary resources available through Gu Chen’s Origin Points.
• Merit and recognition: Recorded contributions determine who is rewarded, with the gifts also matched to recipients’ cultivation and needs.
• Cultivation and responsibility: Impressive treasures alone do not guarantee strength; practitioners must be capable of using them.
• Personal bonds amid public duty: Gu Chen follows a formal system of rewards but makes a small exception for an old friend.