Chapter Summaries

Key plot points

• The Limitless Ancestor reveals his true power as a Three-Tribulation Loose Immortal, killing both supreme ancestors of the Eastern Extremity Demon Abyss. Demon Venerable Blood Fiend flees in terror.
• With the threat over, the Limitless Dao Palace’s disciples celebrate their survival and their ancestor’s strength. Palace Master Xuan Yin apologizes for forcing him out of seclusion and thanks him for saving the sect.
• The disciples quickly turn their anger toward Chen Xia, blaming him for the sect’s losses and demanding that the ancestor destroy him and Azure Province.
• The Limitless Ancestor silences them and says he has his own plans. He recognizes that Chen Xia’s power is unusual for someone at his cultivation level, but dismisses him as no more than a “slightly larger ant.”

Character developments and interactions

• Limitless Ancestor is shown to be vastly stronger than the sect’s enemies and emotionally detached from the disciples’ celebration and vengeance. Rather than act impulsively, he studies Chen Xia’s extraordinary strength and hints at a deliberate approach.
• Palace Master Xuan Yin is humbled and grateful after the rescue, but remains consumed by hatred for Chen Xia and urges the ancestor to eliminate him.
• The disciples and elders shift from despair to ecstatic devotion, then channel their relief and resentment into calls for revenge.
• Demon Venerable Blood Fiend abandons his threats and escapes once he sees the Ancestor’s overwhelming power.

Significant themes

• Power and reputation: The Ancestor’s victory transforms the Dao Palace’s standing and restores its confidence.
• Relief turning into vengeance: Having survived the attack, the sect redirects its fear and humiliation toward Chen Xia.
• Calm judgment versus mob anger: The Ancestor resists the crowd’s demand for immediate retaliation and considers Chen Xia’s unexplained abilities.
• Underestimation: Despite recognizing Chen Xia’s unusual strength, the Ancestor’s contemptuous dismissal foreshadows a potentially dangerous miscalculation.

Chen Xia learned that the Limitless Ancestor was a Three-Tribulation Loose Immortal who planned to destroy him and the Federation, then cultivated rapidly to prepare for the coming battle. After four months, Chen Xia stood on the verge of Treading Heavens and believed he could use the Ancestor as a trial to grow stronger.

• The Limitless Ancestor ordered the Limitless Dao Palace to seal its gates and prepare for his invasion of Northern Mang once he recovered.
• Chen Xia refined the Demon-Suppressing Diagram and consumed vast resources, breaking through to the perfect Dark Nether realm.
• Chen Xia watched Federation footage of the Limitless Ancestor killing two Loose Immortals and recognized the danger he posed.
• Chen Xia ordered the Federation to monitor the Limitless Dao Palace and resumed cultivating while the Ancestor recuperated.
• After two more months, Chen Xia neared Treading Heavens and mastered Beichenzi's Sixth Divine Ability, True One Transforms into Rain.
• Chen Xia resolved to test his physical divinity against the Limitless Ancestor and use the battle to condense more Demon Pearls.

The Limitless Ancestor led the Limitless Dao Palace army to Azure Province to destroy the Great Xia Dynasty and kill Chen Xia. As the continent’s powers gathered to witness the confrontation, the Limitless Ancestor attacked Chen Xia above the imperial city.

• The Limitless Ancestor emerged from seclusion at the Limitless Dao Palace and ordered its disciples and elders to march on Azure Province.
• Powers from across North Mang and Azure Province rushed toward the Great Xia Imperial City to witness the coming battle.
• Chen Xia reassured Lei Qianren, Ouyang Shuo, Xu Lanxin, and the other Federation leaders that he would face the threat.
• The Limitless Dao Palace army surrounded the imperial city, while Ye Xueqing arrived and silently hoped Chen Xia would survive.
• Chen Xia confronted the Limitless Ancestor, who attacked him with a torrent of destruction.

Chen Xia fought the Limitless Ancestor, but the Three-Tribulation Loose Immortal destroyed his Dao Artifact and struck him with the Immortal-Slaying Finger. The battlefield believed Chen Xia was dead, while a young woman in white asked whether Brother Wang Mu had died.

• Chen Xia used the Limitless Demon-Subduing Diagram to resist the Limitless Ancestor, but the artifact shattered and Chen Xia was grievously wounded.
• Chen Xia healed with his physical divinity and charged again as the Blood Demon Illusion God, but the Limitless Ancestor struck him between the brows with the Immortal-Slaying Finger.
• Chen Xia fell from the sky without signs of life, and the Federation's ranks were overcome with grief.
• The watching elders and sect leaders concluded Chen Xia was dead and began discussing the Limitless Dao Palace's coming dominance.
• A young woman in a white dress asked whether Brother Wang Mu was dead.

As the Limitless Ancestor repeatedly destroyed Chen Xia, Chen Xia’s Nine Spirit True Demon Art revived him and advanced his cultivation. Chen Xia then triggered his Treading Heavens Realm tribulation and dragged the Loose Immortal into its deadly lightning, leaving both trapped in a desperate battle.

• Liu Qingyu realized that the man she had known as Brother Wang Mu was Chen Xia, the Human Sovereign, and feared he would die.
• Chen Xia survived the Limitless Ancestor’s attack by forming a third Demon Pearl, then revived again with a fourth and reached the Nine Spirit True Demon’s fourth revolution.
• The enraged Limitless Ancestor prepared his strongest attack, but Chen Xia unleashed his suppressed Treading Heavens Realm aura and summoned his heavenly tribulation.
• Chen Xia charged the Limitless Ancestor through the tribulation lightning and refused to let him escape.
• The Limitless Ancestor’s presence intensified the tribulation, and Chen Xia regenerated through its lightning while attacking as the Loose Immortal struggled to withstand the combined assault.