Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Xuan demonstrates that he has reached Astral Force by stopping a barrage of bullets with a Five Elements-infused astral energy barrier. He then redirects the bullets, killing the four remaining Secret Martial Arts warriors.
• Because the train tracks and locomotive are damaged, Chen Xuan and Zhao Tiezhu continue toward Pearl City on foot.
• The Secret Martial Arts Association’s chairman, William Smith, learns that Chen Xuan is an Astral Grandmaster. Rather than send more operatives, he orders the Pearl City branch to handle Chen Xuan, relying on its chairman’s Third-Generation Genetic Serum-enhanced strength.
• Chen Xuan returns to the Chen Family estate in Pearl City just before the Mid-Autumn Festival and reunites with his eldest brother, Chen Zhengyuan.
• During a family clan meeting, Chen Yaozu—Chen Xuan’s half-brother and vice chairman of the Pearl City Secret Martial Arts Association—publicly threatens him. He demands that Chen Xuan join the Association, take Gene Serum, or be captured for a reward.
• Chen Yaozu activates his mutated Flame Arm, but Chen Xuan counters it effortlessly with the Five-Colored Divine Light, destroying the technique and severely injuring Yaozu’s arm.
• Chen Xuan’s victory shocks the family and earns him their respect. He then announces his intention to reopen a martial arts hall and revive the Chen Family’s traditional cultivation.

2. Character Developments

• Chen Xuan is revealed to be far more powerful than previously believed. His Astral Force is exceptionally potent because it incorporates the Five Elements, and he can use advanced divine abilities such as the Five-Colored Divine Light. He returns not merely as a survivor, but as a dominant martial figure determined to restore his family’s legacy.
• Zhao Tiezhu remains loyal and becomes the witness and companion to Chen Xuan’s rise.
• William Smith recognizes Chen Xuan as a serious threat but remains confident in the Secret Martial Arts Association’s technological and genetic advantages.
• Chen Zhengyuan initially welcomes Chen Xuan warmly and later supports his plan to restore traditional martial arts, recognizing that Chen Xuan’s strength may save the family’s declining heritage.
• Chen Yaozu is exposed as ambitious, opportunistic, and willing to betray family ties for Third-Generation Genetic Serum. His confidence collapses after Chen Xuan destroys his strongest technique with one move.
• The wider Chen Family shifts from skepticism and factional division to awe and admiration after witnessing Chen Xuan’s strength.

3. Significant Themes

• Traditional martial arts versus modern genetic enhancement: The conflict between Chen Xuan’s Five Elements cultivation and Chen Yaozu’s Flame Arm represents the larger struggle between old martial traditions and Secret Martial Arts empowered by Gene Serum.
• Restoration of a declining legacy: Chen Xuan seeks to revive the Chen Family’s thousand-year martial heritage after firearms and genetic technology have weakened its influence.
• Power and respect: The family’s attitude changes immediately once Chen Xuan proves himself an Astral Grandmaster, showing that strength determines social standing in this world.
• Family loyalty versus personal ambition: Chen Yaozu’s willingness to sell out his brother contrasts with Chen Zhengyuan’s sense of family duty and Chen Xuan’s determination to protect the lineage.
• Mastery and adaptation: Chen Xuan combines the Five Elements Primordial Qi Method with techniques from another cultivation system, demonstrating that true mastery transcends the limitations of a single world or tradition.

4. Character Interactions

• Chen Xuan and Zhao Tiezhu travel together after defeating the Secret Martial Arts warriors, with Zhao Tiezhu showing awe at his master’s breakthrough.
• William Smith and his spy discuss Chen Xuan’s threat and formulate a plan to have the Pearl City branch confront him.
• Chen Xuan and Chen Zhengyuan reunite respectfully, with Zhengyuan expressing concern for his brother and hope for his return to the family.
• Chen Yaozu taunts and threatens Chen Xuan before attempting to capture him, while Chen Xuan remains calm and repeatedly challenges his confidence.
• Chen Xuan and Chen Yaozu’s confrontation becomes the chapter’s central duel: Yaozu relies on overwhelming heat and genetic mutation, while Chen Xuan defeats him through superior cultivation and elemental counter-technique.
• After the duel, Chen Zhengyuan openly supports Chen Xuan’s plan to reestablish a martial arts hall, marking a major shift in the family’s direction.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Xuan reflects on his progress toward becoming an Innate Martial Saint. The breakthrough requires three stages: blood replacement, comprehension of martial intent, and uniting intent, force, and body to break open the Heaven-and-Earth Gate.
• He begins teaching the Chen family’s younger generation the Five Elements Primordial Chaos Art, taking Chen Wu and several others as his first disciples.
• The Secret Martial Arts Association’s Pearl City branch threatens the Chen family, demanding that Chen Xuan surrender within three days or face economic and military retaliation.
• Chen Xuan calmly accepts the challenge and promises to visit the branch personally.
• Using three more points of Zhaoxi Value, Chen Xuan completes blood replacement and breaks through to the Innate Martial Saint realm in only six days after arriving in the Azure Blue World.
• He travels alone to the Pearl City branch of the Secret Martial Arts Association. Hans, a third-generation genetic warrior, attempts to restrain him but is crippled by a single finger strike.
• Chen Xuan defeats more than a hundred armed secret martial warriors, stopping bullets with true essence and reflecting them back at their attackers.
• Branch president Rex enters his mutated form, reaching power comparable to an Innate Martial Saint, but Chen Xuan defeats him with a single palm strike and later crushes his head.
• The Pearl City branch is effectively destroyed, causing widespread shock. Newspapers announce Chen Xuan’s breakthrough and victory, while reporters gather around the Chen residence.
• Chen Xuan deliberately accepts media attention because he wants to become famous, attract disciples, spread traditional martial arts, and gain the world’s “protagonist” status.
• Secret Martial Arts Association president William Smith orders all third-generation genetic warriors in the Xia Dynasty to surround Chen Xuan and requests unstable fourth-generation genetic warriors from abroad.
• News of Chen Xuan’s rise reaches several reincarnated Half-Saints and Holy Sons from Tianyuan Holy Land:
  • White Cloud True Person, secretly the reincarnation of Half-Saint Qingxuan, decides to meet Chen Xuan.
  • Jin Pojun, inhabating the body of Xiao Hanfeng, views Chen Xuan as an old rival and plans to advance before confronting him.
  • Lie Riyang, inhabiting the body of imperial descendant Ji Xuan, begins planning to restore the Xia Dynasty.
  • Wang Jieyi, inhabiting Long Qingyun’s body, focuses on rebuilding Penglai Immortal Pavilion and consolidating its surviving forces.

Character Developments

• Chen Xuan advances from Huajin to Gang Force and finally to Innate Martial Saint in just six days. His mastery of the Five Elements Dao allows him to comprehend martial intent almost instantly.
• He becomes more assertive and strategic, choosing to confront the Secret Martial Arts Association publicly rather than remain defensive.
• Chen Xuan begins acting as a teacher and potential founder of a revived martial arts tradition.
• Chen Zhengyuan evolves from concern and hesitation to trust after witnessing Chen Xuan’s breakthrough.
• Chen Wu and the younger Chen family members become Chen Xuan’s first disciples, receiving direct access to a nearly lost family inheritance.
• Rex, initially confident in the power of genetic enhancement, is completely outclassed and killed, demonstrating the superiority of Chen Xuan’s newly acquired Innate power.
• William Smith shifts from confidence to rage and alarm, recognizing Chen Xuan as a major threat to the Association’s control of the Xia Dynasty.
• The reincarnated figures from Tianyuan Holy Land begin positioning themselves as rival forces, each pursuing a different path to power.

Significant Themes

• Traditional martial arts versus genetic enhancement: Chen Xuan’s victory over the technologically empowered Secret Martial Arts Association suggests that authentic cultivation can surpass artificial evolution.
• Rapid advancement and hidden advantages: Chen Xuan’s Zhaoxi Value and the reincarnated experts’ past experience allow them to progress far beyond ordinary practitioners.
• The revival of a fallen tradition: By teaching the Five Elements Primordial Chaos Art and seeking fame, Chen Xuan aims to restore traditional martial arts to prominence.
• Power and political control: The Association uses threats, economic pressure, genetic technology, and military force to dominate the Xia Dynasty’s surviving powers.
• Rival claimants to destiny: Chen Xuan, Jin Pojun, Lie Riyang, White Cloud True Person, and Wang Jieyi all possess exceptional backgrounds and believe they can become the central figure in the world’s future.
• Rebirth and inheritance: Many major characters are reincarnated beings using the bodies, legacies, and social positions of people who have died, blurring identity and allowing ancient powers to re-enter the conflict.

Character Interactions

• Zhao Tiezhu continues serving Chen Xuan faithfully and reacts with amazement to Chen Xuan’s rejuvenation and breakthrough.
• Chen Xuan reassures Chen Zhengyuan before leaving to confront the Association, strengthening their bond of trust.
• Chen Xuan establishes a mentor relationship with Chen Wu and the other young disciples.
• Hans attempts to humiliate and restrain Chen Xuan, but Chen Xuan responds with overwhelming force.
• Rex tries to force Chen Xuan to join the Association, surrender Chen family assets, and denounce traditional martial arts. Chen Xuan refuses and defeats him decisively.
• William Smith responds to Chen Xuan’s destruction of the branch by preparing a larger campaign against him.
• The reincarnated Tianyuan Holy Land figures each react to the news according to their ambitions: White Cloud True Person seeks contact, Jin Pojun anticipates rivalry, Lie Riyang pursues political restoration, and Wang Jieyi focuses on rebuilding his sect.

Chapter Summary: Fourth-Generation Secret Martial Artist, Mental Contamination

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Xuan continues cultivating in seclusion at the Chen Family Old Residence after becoming an Early Innate Martial Saint.
• Using Zhaoxi Values, he rapidly advances from the Early Innate Stage to the Mid-Innate Stage over three days.
• The Chen family residence attracts reporters, businessmen, and martial artists seeking protection or allegiance, but Chen Xuan accepts only a few visitors.
• White Cloud True Person arrives unexpectedly. Chen Xuan recognizes that he is actually Qingxuanzi, a Half-Saint and fellow Descender from the Upper Realm.
• Qingxuan explains that White Cloud Holy Land was destroyed by the Secret Martial Arts Association before he could establish himself in this world. He proposes cooperation based on a martial contest.
• Chen Xuan and Qingxuan spar. Qingxuan uses the enduring White Cloud True Intent, while Chen Xuan counters with his Perfect Five-Element True Intent.
• Chen Xuan’s superior Mid-Innate cultivation and perfectly fused Five-Element True Intent overwhelm Qingxuan’s Early-Innate strength. Qingxuan concedes and pledges himself to Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan assigns Qingxuan three tasks:
  1. Consolidate Pearl City’s martial artists under his command.
  2. Investigate the other Descenders.
  3. Establish martial arts academies and divine statues to spread martial arts and gather Incense Faith Power.
• Qingxuan’s allegiance greatly increases Chen Xuan’s reputation, prompting more martial artists to seek refuge with him.
• Chen Xuan continues cultivating and advances to the Late Innate Stage, Innate Peak, and finally the Divine Intent Realm.
• Soon afterward, White Cloud Martial Saint returns severely injured after investigating a disturbance at the docks.
• The attacker is revealed to be “Destroyer,” an unstable Fourth-Generation Gene Serum user created by the Secret Martial Arts Association.
• Destroyer’s mutated body possesses strength comparable to a Divine Intent Martial God, but his loss of reason causes severe mental contamination. Nearby people become insane, unconscious, or corpse-like.
• Chen Xuan travels to the docks, confronts Destroyer, blocks his mental assault, and evades his devastating physical attacks.
• Recognizing that Destroyer’s mind is instinctive and poorly defended, Chen Xuan begins preparing a direct Divine Intent attack against his consciousness.

Character Developments

• Chen Xuan: Becomes increasingly powerful and influential. His cultivation rises to the Divine Intent Realm, while his Perfect Five-Element True Intent proves him to be an extraordinary martial prodigy. He also begins building an organized martial arts force rather than acting alone.
• Qingxuanzi / White Cloud True Person: Shifts from an isolated survivor seeking a foothold to Chen Xuan’s chief subordinate. He admires Chen Xuan’s talent and accepts his leadership after losing the contest.
• White Cloud Martial Saint: Demonstrates his loyalty by investigating threats to Chen Xuan’s forces, though he is nearly incapacitated by Destroyer’s mental contamination.
• Destroyer: Appears as a terrifying but unstable weapon of the Secret Martial Arts Association. His immense physical strength is offset by his lack of reason, technique, and conscious mental defenses.
• Zhao Tiezhu and Chen Xuan’s disciples: Continue serving as Chen Xuan’s support network and witnesses to the expansion of his influence.

Significant Themes

• Rapid cultivation and exceptional talent: Chen Xuan’s extraordinary progress emphasizes the vast gap between natural genius and ordinary martial artists.
• Alliance and power consolidation: Strength alone is no longer enough; Chen Xuan begins forming institutions, recruiting followers, and spreading traditional martial arts.
• Traditional martial arts versus artificial enhancement: Destroyer represents the dangerous, unstable power of Secret Martial Arts and gene experimentation, contrasting with Chen Xuan’s disciplined cultivation.
• Mind versus brute force: Destroyer possesses overwhelming physical power, but Chen Xuan relies on strategy, movement, and Divine Intent to exploit his mental weaknesses.
• Mental contamination and loss of humanity: The Fourth-Generation Gene Serum grants immense power at the cost of reason, identity, and the safety of everyone nearby.
• Cooperation among Descenders: The meeting between Chen Xuan and Qingxuanzi reveals that Descenders share common origins and may form alliances in their struggle over the world’s future.

Important Character Interactions

• Chen Xuan and Qingxuanzi: Their meeting is cautious but direct, with mutual recognition as Descenders. Their spar establishes Chen Xuan’s superiority and leads to a formal alliance.
• Chen Xuan and his followers: Chen Xuan delegates organizational and investigative work to Qingxuan while maintaining authority through cultivation and strategic planning.
• White Cloud Martial Saint and Destroyer: White Cloud investigates Destroyer but is overwhelmed by the latter’s mental contamination, highlighting the threat posed by Fourth-Generation Secret Martial Artists.
• Chen Xuan and Destroyer: Their battle begins with Chen Xuan defending against Destroyer’s mental and physical attacks. Rather than meeting brute strength directly, Chen Xuan uses evasion and prepares to pierce Destroyer’s vulnerable mind with Divine Intent.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Destroyer devastates Pearl City’s dock district with his immense strength, destroying warehouses, cranes, and sections of the shoreline while pursuing Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan identifies the brief weakening of Destroyer’s mental defenses at the point between his brows. He uses the Five Elements Annihilation Divine Blade, formed purely from Divine Intent, to pierce Destroyer’s mental core.
• Destroyer dies instantly before his final punch can land, his genetically modified body crumbling apart. This demonstrates the overwhelming power of a Divine Intent Martial God.
• Qingxuan Half-Saint realizes that Chen Xuan has broken through from the Innate Realm into the legendary Divine Intent Realm—the first such Martial God in thousands of years.
• Chen Xuan announces the creation of the Five Elements Sect, whose mission is to spread martial arts throughout the Xia Dynasty and foreign lands, strengthen the people, defend the nation, and restore martial arts as society’s dominant tradition.
• Qingxuan Half-Saint, Chen Wu, Chen Zhengyuan, and over a hundred supporters formally join the sect and pledge loyalty to Chen Xuan.
• News of Chen Xuan’s breakthrough, Destroyer’s defeat, and the sect’s founding spreads throughout Xia and overseas. The Secret Martial Arts Association regards the Five Elements Sect as a direct challenge.
• William Smith orders a foreign fleet to Pearl City, intending to intimidate Chen Xuan and force his surrender—or bombard the city.
• Seven massive warships surround Pearl City and prepare to fire on its prosperous districts. Chen Xuan personally walks onto the sea to confront them.
• He blocks a simultaneous volley from all seven ships with the Five Elements Canopy Treasure Umbrella, causing the shells to disintegrate harmlessly.
• When the fleet launches a full barrage, Chen Xuan activates the Golden Body Overlord Physique, strengthening his body to an indestructible level.
• He crosses the sea at extreme speed, boards each warship, and destroys them with his fists. All seven ten-thousand-ton vessels sink.
• Chen Xuan spares Admiral Carl von Strauss, ordering him to tell the foreign forces to withdraw from Xia within ten days. He warns that otherwise he will personally visit their country.
• Pearl City’s citizens celebrate Chen Xuan as a true Martial God and enthusiastically proclaim their support for him and the Five Elements Sect.

2. Character Developments

• Chen Xuan completes his transformation from an extraordinarily talented martial artist into a legendary Divine Intent Martial God. His spiritual power allows him to kill Destroyer despite having an inferior physical body.
• Recognizing that his physique is his weakness, Chen Xuan begins cultivating the Golden Body Overlord Physique, quickly gaining the strength and durability necessary to withstand artillery and destroy warships.
• His ambitions expand beyond personal cultivation. He now seeks to gather followers, revive martial arts across the world, and ultimately surpass the Divine Intent Realm and help the world ascend.
• Qingxuan Half-Saint shifts from observer to active supporter, openly joining the Five Elements Sect as an attendant. He is astonished and somewhat humbled by Chen Xuan’s unprecedented speed of advancement.
• Destroyer, previously a terrifying Fourth-Generation Secret Martial Artist, is revealed to be completely outmatched by Chen Xuan’s mastery of Divine Intent.
• William Smith becomes fearful and desperate after learning of Chen Xuan’s breakthrough, responding by escalating the conflict through military force.
• Admiral Carl von Strauss, initially arrogant and confident in the superiority of his fleet, is reduced to terror and helplessness after witnessing Chen Xuan destroy all seven warships.

3. Significant Themes

• Transcendence beyond physical power: Destroyer possesses superior strength and genetic enhancements, but Chen Xuan’s mastery of Divine Intent allows him to bypass physical defenses entirely.
• The rise of a new era: The founding of the Five Elements Sect marks the beginning of a martial-arts revival and the restoration of traditional cultivation as a major force in society.
• National defense and resistance to foreign aggression: Chen Xuan presents martial arts as a means of protecting the Xia Dynasty and resisting imperial domination.
• Individual power versus modern weaponry: The destruction of seven battleships emphasizes that an exceptional cultivator can surpass the destructive power of an entire modern fleet.
• Leadership and mass influence: Chen Xuan understands that advancing alone is insufficient; he needs followers and an organized institution to spread his ideals and affect the entire world.
• Humility before true strength: The foreign fleet’s confidence in artillery collapses when confronted with Chen Xuan’s supernatural abilities, reinforcing the difference between ordinary power and higher cultivation realms.

4. Character Interactions

• Chen Xuan and Destroyer engage in a destructive pursuit, ending when Chen Xuan exploits Destroyer’s mental-core weakness and kills him with a single Divine Intent attack.
• Qingxuan Half-Saint watches Chen Xuan’s breakthrough from afar, recognizing his extraordinary potential and predicting that he may become the final victor among the Descenders.
• Chen Xuan addresses his assembled supporters and defines the Five Elements Sect’s principles, inspiring more than a hundred people to kneel and swear allegiance.
• William Smith and his subordinate discuss the threat Chen Xuan poses, leading to the decision to send warships against Pearl City.
• Admiral Carl dismisses Chen Xuan as a mere native martial artist, but his contempt turns into panic when Chen Xuan blocks the fleet’s shells and destroys the ships one by one.
• Chen Xuan confronts the defeated Carl directly, using him as a messenger to deliver an ultimatum to the foreign powers.
• The people of Pearl City move from fear and despair to overwhelming admiration, celebrating Chen Xuan as their protector and rallying behind the Five Elements Sect.

Chapter Summary: “Ultimate Weapon, the Might of the Nuclear Bomb”

Key Plot Points and Events

• News of Chen Xuan’s destruction of seven Foreign Allied Forces warships shocks the world, especially the powerful Never-Sun Empire.
• The Empire’s Parliament debates how to respond, but Prime Minister refuses negotiation and orders the military research institute to accelerate development of its secret “ultimate weapon.”
• The weapon, revealed to be a nuclear bomb, is tested in the western Gobi Desert. Its explosion produces a massive mushroom cloud, obliterates the test site, creates a crater over a kilometer wide, and demonstrates enough power to destroy an entire city.
• Emboldened by the test, the Prime Minister orders production increased and declares that the next bomb will be used against Pearl City to eliminate Chen Xuan.
• William Smith of the Secret Martial Arts Association learns of the weapon. Although alarmed that technology may challenge the Association’s influence, he plans to let Chen Xuan and the Never-Sun Empire weaken each other before intervening.
• Chen Xuan senses the nuclear detonation from Pearl City through his advanced Divine Intent. Recognizing the danger of nuclear warfare and radiation, he decides to prevent the Empire from using the weapon.
• He informs Qingxuan Half-Saint that he will personally travel to the Never-Sun Empire and destroy its nuclear technology. Qingxuan agrees to oversee the Five Elements Sect in his absence.
• Using Void Escape, Chen Xuan crosses tens of thousands of miles almost instantly and locates the Empire’s underground nuclear base.
• He destroys the completed nuclear bomb with the Five Elements Annihilation God Blade, causing it to detonate inside the base. The explosion kills the Prime Minister, thousands of scientists and soldiers, and destroys all nuclear weapons, equipment, and records.
• The Never-Sun Empire collapses into political chaos. Its Parliament factions struggle for power, the military fragments, and its nuclear program is effectively erased.
• The Secret Martial Arts Association abandons plans to confront Chen Xuan. William Smith orders its facilities in the Xia Dynasty to go underground and forbids provoking Chen Xuan or the Five Elements Sect.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Never-Sun Empire Prime Minister: Begins as fiercely arrogant and dismissive of martial power, believing technology can defeat Chen Xuan. After witnessing the nuclear test, he becomes even more confident, but his ambition leads him directly to his death when Chen Xuan destroys the base.
• Military Research Institute Director: Displays fanatic pride in the nuclear weapon, describing it as a force comparable to divine power. His confidence reflects the Empire’s belief that science can dominate the world.
• William Smith: Initially sees the nuclear weapon as both a threat to the Secret Martial Arts Association and an opportunity to profit from a conflict between Chen Xuan and the Empire. Chen Xuan’s successful attack terrifies him and forces him to adopt a defensive policy.
• Chen Xuan: Demonstrates greater responsibility and strategic awareness. Rather than merely defending himself, he acts to prevent the destruction of Pearl City and to eliminate a danger threatening the entire world’s future. His ability to locate and destroy the nuclear base confirms his overwhelming power.
• Qingxuan Half-Saint: Initially concerned about Chen Xuan confronting nuclear weapons but accepts his decision and agrees to protect the Five Elements Sect.
• Character interactions: Chen Xuan and Qingxuan discuss the threat and responsibilities of leadership; Chen Xuan’s confrontation with the Never-Sun Empire is largely one-sided, showing the Empire’s inability to respond; William Smith and his subordinates react with fear and retreat after witnessing Chen Xuan’s power.

Significant Themes

• Technology versus martial power: The chapter contrasts nuclear science with supernatural cultivation, questioning whether technological weapons can overcome an advanced martial practitioner.
• The danger of unchecked ambition: The Never-Sun Empire’s confidence in its ultimate weapon leads it to threaten others, resulting in the destruction of its own leadership and achievements.
• Responsibility and protection: Chen Xuan acts not only for revenge or self-preservation but to protect civilians, prevent mass destruction, and preserve the world’s martial civilization.
• Balance of power: Nuclear weapons threaten to overturn the existing political and martial order, while Chen Xuan’s intervention restores his dominance and destabilizes the Empire.
• Fear and deterrence: Once Chen Xuan proves that even a nuclear base can be destroyed, rival powers recognize that conventional strategies cannot challenge him.
• The fragility of civilization: Decades of research, thousands of lives, and an entire national program are erased in a single moment, emphasizing how destructive power can also destroy its creators.

Chapter Summary: Return, Break Through to the Saint Realm

Key Plot Points and Events

• Over the course of a month, Chen Xuan transforms Azure World after returning from the Never-Sun Empire.
• He travels throughout the Xia Dynasty, locating and dismantling every Secret Martial Arts Association stronghold. He captures William Smith, the Association’s president and a Third-Generation Genetic Serum recipient, sealing his power with a single finger.
• Chen Xuan declares the Secret Martial Arts Association abolished. The people celebrate, and he gains the title “Progenitor of Martial Arts.”
• He then visits the capitals of the Foreign Allied Forces. Without killing anyone or destroying cities, he uses his Divine Intent Realm to overwhelm entire nations, demonstrating his absolute power and forcing the world to acknowledge martial arts.
• The Five Elements Sect establishes martial halls and academies across Azure World. Martial arts cultivation becomes freely available, and people everywhere begin practicing the Five Elements Primordial Qi Method.
• The spread of martial arts nourishes Azure World’s dormant World Will. As countless people strengthen their qi, blood, and spirits, the world begins ascending from a Micro World toward a Minor Thousand World.
• Using the golden token given by Xuanfeng Half-Saint, Chen Xuan successfully captures Azure World’s newly awakened World Will. He leaves behind a strand of divine consciousness to govern the Five Elements Sect while his main consciousness returns to Tianyuan Holy Land.
• Back in Xuan Feng Hall, Chen Xuan begins his breakthrough. He transforms his Supreme Grotto-Heaven into a World Prototype, officially reaching the Half-Saint Realm.
• He then fuses Azure World’s World Will into the World Prototype. The prototype becomes a true world, and Chen Xuan breaks through directly into the Saint Realm.
• His breakthrough releases a saintly aura across Heavenly Sword Peak and Tianyuan Holy Land, alarming countless disciples and Half-Saints. An ancient voice confirms that someone on Heavenly Sword Peak has become a saint.

Character Developments

• Chen Xuan rises from a powerful Divine Intent Realm martial artist to the creator of a new martial era and finally a true Martial Saint.
• He demonstrates increasing authority and restraint: rather than slaughtering the Foreign Allied Forces, he subdues them through overwhelming pressure.
• His connection with Azure World’s World Will deepens because he revived the world’s martial tradition and nourished its awakening. The World Will treats him almost like a parent and willingly submits to him.
• Chen Xuan becomes both a spiritual leader and political force in Azure World, leaving behind a divine-consciousness incarnation as the Five Elements Sect’s sect master.
• Xuanfeng Half-Saint is astonished by Chen Xuan’s unprecedented speed. He becomes deeply proud and emotional upon realizing that his disciple has reached the Saint Realm.
• William Smith is completely defeated and stripped of his genetic power, marking the final collapse of the Secret Martial Arts Association.

Significant Themes

• The revival of martial arts: Martial arts spread from an elite or declining tradition into a universal path accessible to ordinary people.
• The birth of a new era: Chen Xuan’s actions create a world where “every person becomes a dragon,” symbolizing widespread empowerment and social transformation.
• World Will and cultivation: The strength of a world is linked to the collective qi, blood, spirit, and cultivation of its inhabitants.
• Creation and stewardship: Chen Xuan does not merely conquer Azure World; he revitalizes it, helps it ascend, and guides its future development.
• Rapid transcendence: Chen Xuan’s extraordinary talent is emphasized through his nearly obstacle-free advancement from Grotto-Heaven to Half-Saint and then Saint.
• Power with restraint: His dominance over the Foreign Allied Forces is achieved without unnecessary destruction, portraying him as a force capable of control rather than simple violence.
• Mentorship and legacy: Xuanfeng Half-Saint’s guidance enables Chen Xuan’s opportunity, while Chen Xuan’s success brings honor and emotional fulfillment to his teacher.

Important Character Interactions

• Chen Xuan and William Smith: Chen Xuan personally captures and disables Smith, symbolically ending the Secret Martial Arts Association’s rule.
• Chen Xuan and Azure World’s World Will: Chen Xuan commands it to cooperate, and it willingly allows itself to be captured because it regards him as the one who gave it new life.
• Chen Xuan and Xuanfeng Half-Saint: Xuanfeng reacts with disbelief to Chen Xuan’s achievements, while Chen Xuan modestly dismisses his rapid progress as merely gaining “some opportunities.” Their teacher-disciple relationship is strengthened by Chen Xuan’s success.
• Chen Xuan and the people of Azure World: Through the Five Elements Sect, he gives ordinary citizens access to cultivation and inspires them to embrace martial arts.
• Heavenly Sword Peak disciples and the newly awakened saintly aura: The disciples speculate about whether Xuanfeng or Chen Xuan has broken through, while the wider holy land turns its attention toward Heavenly Sword Peak.

Chapter Summary: “Saint Banquet, Cultivating Saint Arts”

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Xuan successfully breaks through to the Saint Realm within Xuan Feng Hall. His Supreme Grotto-Heaven has transformed into a stable Minor Thousand World, complete with a functioning Five-Element system.
• He learns that the Saint Realm has nine levels:
  • Levels one through three form the Saint Body Realm, during which world power gradually tempers and merges with the physical body.
  • Reaching the third level grants an undying body capable of reconstruction as long as the Saint’s world power remains.
• Although Chen Xuan has only reached the first level, his Minor Thousand World gives him a foundation vastly superior to ordinary Saints, whose inner worlds are generally only Micro Worlds.
• The Grand Elder visits and assumes Chen Xuan is the reincarnation of an ancient Saint because of his astonishing cultivation speed. Chen Xuan does not correct this misunderstanding, allowing it to serve as an explanation for his future progress.
• According to holy-land tradition, Chen Xuan must hold a Saint Banquet one month later. The banquet also marks his eligibility to enter the Immortal Realm, a special region accessible only to Saints who have broken through within the previous hundred years.
• The Immortal Realm contains Immortal Crystals, whose Immortal Substance can strengthen a Saint’s body and accelerate the refinement of world power. Chen Xuan plans to use them to advance his cultivation and potentially purchase a world will for Half-Saint Xuan Feng, repaying his former benefactor.
• During the month before the banquet, Chen Xuan uses thirty years of accelerated cultivation through Zhaoxi Value to practice the Five-Element Void-Escape Saint Art, reaching minor accomplishment.
• At the Saint Banquet, major holy lands, aristocratic families, and sects gather to honor him. After three days, the Grand Elder gives Chen Xuan information about the Immortal Realm, including the danger posed by its indigenous Ancient Beasts and Saint Beasts.

2. Character Developments

• Chen Xuan officially enters the Saint Realm and gains a far stronger foundation than ordinary newly advanced Saints. However, he recognizes that becoming a Saint is only the beginning and that he still has a long path toward the higher Saint levels and True Saint Realm.
• He becomes more cautious and strategic, understanding that survival and practical combat ability are essential before entering the dangerous Immortal Realm.
• Chen Xuan begins filling the weakness in his combat abilities: although he possesses immense world power, he initially lacks refined methods for using it. His cultivation of Saint Arts marks his transition from merely possessing power to mastering it.
• His moral principle of repaying kindness remains clear. He intends to reward Half-Saint Xuan Feng either by obtaining or purchasing a world will.
• The Grand Elder develops a strong admiration for Chen Xuan and interprets his rapid progress as evidence of a sealed previous life, unintentionally helping Chen Xuan conceal the truth behind his abilities.

3. Significant Themes

• The beginning rather than the end of power: Becoming a Saint grants Chen Xuan entry into the highest level of the Great Thousand World, but the nine-stage Saint Path shows that true mastery remains distant.
• Foundation determines strength: Chen Xuan’s Minor Thousand World makes him extraordinarily powerful even at the same cultivation level as ordinary Saints with Micro Worlds.
• Longevity and mortality: Saints can live as long as their worlds endure, but they are not truly immortal and can still be killed. Continued cultivation remains necessary.
• Preparation and survival: Chen Xuan prioritizes the Void-Escape Saint Art because surviving the Immortal Realm is more important than immediately maximizing offensive power.
• Reputation and concealment: Others explain Chen Xuan’s impossible growth through the theory that he is a reincarnated Saint. He deliberately allows this misconception to spread, showing his willingness to use others’ assumptions for protection.
• Reciprocity and obligation: Chen Xuan’s plan to repay Xuan Feng emphasizes the importance of loyalty and returning kindness within the cultivation world.

4. Character Interactions

• Chen Xuan and the Grand Elder: The Grand Elder congratulates Chen Xuan, questions whether he is a Saint’s reincarnation, and provides details about the Saint Banquet and Immortal Realm. Chen Xuan gives vague answers and accepts the reincarnation theory without revealing his origins.
• Chen Xuan and the young prodigies: During the banquet, young Venerable Realm cultivators ask him for cultivation guidance. His brief advice is extremely valuable to them because they rarely have access to a genuine Martial Saint.
• Chen Xuan and visiting powers: Representatives from the Void Saint Land, Dark Underworld Saint Land, aristocratic families, and sects toast him and praise his talent. Chen Xuan responds calmly and courteously.
• The holy lands: The Void Saint Land attempts to suggest a marriage between Chen Xuan and a young female Saint, prompting joking resistance from others who accuse them of trying to recruit someone from Tianyuan Holy Land.
• Chen Xuan and Xuan Feng: Though Xuan Feng does not appear directly in the chapter, Chen Xuan’s thoughts show that he remains grateful to him and is actively planning to repay his assistance.

Chapter Summary: Chen Xuan Enters the Immortal Realm

Key Plot Points and Events

• Before Chen Xuan enters the Immortal Realm, the Tianyuan Holy Land’s Grand Elder explains its dangers and rules:
  • Ancient Beasts possess Beast Cores containing concentrated Immortal Substance.
  • Excessive hunting in one area may awaken powerful Saint Beasts.
  • Immortal Crystal veins are guarded by sleeping Saint Beasts.
  • Outsiders can remain for only one hundred years before being expelled.
  • The Immortal Mountain Range is forbidden because it allegedly conceals a Saint Beast king at the Saint Realm Ninth Layer.
  • Entrants can escape back to the outside world if pursued by a Saint Beast, but residents of the Immortal Realm cannot leave.
  • Humans living there are descendants of former Immortal Palace disciples and are trapped inside by the remnants of the Immortal Palace’s enemy.
• The Grand Elder reveals the history of the Immortal Realm. Its rules were created by an Immortal Sovereign, a being above the Saint Realm Ninth Layer who controlled part of the Great Thousand World Source Great Dao. The Immortal Palace was destroyed tens of millions of years ago after its Sovereign pursued immortality and encountered a powerful enemy.
• Chen Xuan learns that immortals once descended into the Primordial Yellow Great World, but the passage to the Immortal World was later sealed, leaving only one Path to Immortality.
• He is warned to conceal his identity and avoid using world power, since local cultivators would recognize him as an outsider competing for Immortal Crystals.
• Chen Xuan travels from the Central Heaven Continent across vast seas and numerous continents, reaching the Immortal Realm after three days.
• He tests the entrance formation and confirms that he can freely enter and leave during his allotted one hundred years.
• Upon entering fully, he discovers that the realm contains a mysterious Immortal Substance that strengthens the physical body.
• He uses Zhaoxi Value to advance his Five-Element Sacred Physique, but realizes that completing its transformation will take thousands of years without more efficient resources.
• While exploring a primeval forest, Chen Xuan encounters and kills a giant bear-like Ancient Beast using only physical strength. He extracts its Beast Core and confirms that it contains Immortal Substance thousands of times denser than that in the surrounding air.
• Because refining the Beast Core naturally would still take months, Chen Xuan decides to learn a local body-refining technique.
• His Saint consciousness detects a nearby human city, several hunting parties, and a powerful lone body refiner under attack by three Ancient Beasts. Chen Xuan chooses to rescue or approach this cultivator as his first contact with the Immortal Realm’s inhabitants.

Character Development

• Chen Xuan demonstrates caution and adaptability. He carefully follows the Grand Elder’s warnings, especially the prohibition against exposing his world power.
• He becomes more aware of the immense hierarchy beyond the Saint Realm and begins to consider the existence of Sovereigns and immortals.
• His confidence is reinforced when he kills an Ancient Beast effortlessly through pure physical strength, without relying on world power or supernatural attacks.
• At the same time, he recognizes the limitations of his current body-refining progress. The slow absorption of Immortal Substance motivates him to seek local cultivation methods.
• His decision to approach the besieged body refiner shows his willingness to establish contact with local humans and gather knowledge rather than act alone.

Significant Themes

• Power beyond the Saint Realm: The chapter expands the cosmology by introducing Sovereigns, Great World Lords, Immortal Sovereigns, and the possibility of powers surpassing conventional cultivation limits.
• Immortality and its dangers: The Path to Immortality is presented as real but catastrophic, having led to the destruction of the Immortal Palace.
• Rules and confinement: The Immortal Realm is governed by ancient, nearly inviolable laws. Outsiders may enter temporarily, while its inhabitants are permanently imprisoned.
• Resource competition: Immortal Crystals and Beast Cores are vital resources, but obtaining them risks awakening Saint Beasts or provoking local cultivators.
• Concealment and survival: Chen Xuan must hide his origins and suppress his world power, emphasizing the danger of being identified as an outsider.
• Physical cultivation: The Immortal Realm shifts Chen Xuan’s focus toward body refinement, since Immortal Substance can strengthen his body and support his broader cultivation.

Character Interactions

• The Grand Elder acts as Chen Xuan’s guide, explaining the Immortal Realm’s geography, history, inhabitants, cultivation methods, and dangers.
• Chen Xuan questions the Grand Elder about the origin of the realm’s rules and whether beings above the Saint Realm exist, prompting an explanation of Sovereigns and immortals.
• Chen Xuan has his first hostile encounter with an Ancient Beast, defeating it with two purely physical strikes and harvesting its Beast Core.
• Through his Saint consciousness, he observes local body-refining hunting squads and identifies a powerful lone cultivator being surrounded by three Ancient Beasts.
• The chapter ends with Chen Xuan flying toward that cultivator, setting up his first direct interaction with a resident of the Immortal Realm.

Chapter Summary: Desolate Hall

Key Plot Points and Events

• Shi Tie, a powerful but injured Third-Layer Shattering Realm body cultivator, becomes surrounded by three formidable Ancient Beasts: a Ninth-Layer silver ape, a swift black leopard, and a massive python.
• Just as Shi Tie prepares to fight to the death, Chen Xuan appears and effortlessly kills all three beasts within a few breaths:
  • He kills the silver ape with one punch.
  • He breaks the black leopard’s neck with an elbow strike.
  • He seizes and smashes the python into the ground.
• Chen Xuan retrieves the three beasts’ valuable Beast Cores, particularly noting the dense Immortal Substance within the silver ape’s core.
• Shi Tie introduces himself and explains that Giant Deer City lies roughly one hundred thousand li away. Chen Xuan asks him to lead the way so he can replenish his resources.
• During their journey, Chen Xuan questions Shi Tie about the Immortal Realm and learns that:
  • The realm consists of nineteen kingdoms.
  • They are currently in the Xia Kingdom.
  • Xia Kingdom is ruled by King Xia, a Seventh-Layer Immortal Realm expert.
  • Giant Deer City lies in Jiuyuan Dao Province, ruled by Marquis Jiuyuan, a Fourth-Layer Immortal Realm expert.
  • The city lord is only at the First Layer, making the city relatively safe for Chen Xuan while he establishes himself.
• Chen Xuan explains that his goal is to obtain an Immortal Realm body-refinement technique and eventually disguise himself as a native body cultivator. His accelerated cultivation through Zhaoxi Value gives him a realistic chance of advancing despite the Immortal Realm’s one-hundred-year limit.
• After traveling through the Primordial Mountains, Chen Xuan and Shi Tie arrive at the enormous Giant Deer City, whose walls and gates reveal the city’s history of surviving repeated beast tides.
• Shi Tie gives Chen Xuan an overview of the city before leaving to seek treatment for his injuries. He specifically recommends Desolate Hall, an influential organization backed by the powerful Desolate Ancient Kingdom.
• Chen Xuan visits Desolate Hall, a massive seven-story building on the prosperous Desolate Avenue. The chapter ends as he approaches the counter dealing with cultivation techniques and secret manuals.

Character Developments

• Chen Xuan: Demonstrates overwhelming physical strength, instantly killing beasts far above the apparent level of ordinary Shattering Realm experts. He remains calm, practical, and largely uninterested in praise. His main objective is to acquire a suitable body-refinement method so he can integrate into the Immortal Realm and improve his cultivation.
• Shi Tie: Initially appears as a hardened and experienced body cultivator, but his injuries and inability to oppose the three Ancient Beasts highlight the gap between him and Chen Xuan. After being rescued, he becomes respectful and serves as Chen Xuan’s guide. His pride in Giant Deer City and concern for his injuries make him a practical, grounded companion.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming strength and hidden power: Chen Xuan’s seemingly ordinary attacks conceal terrifying physical force, emphasizing the contrast between appearance and true ability.
• Survival in a dangerous world: The Primordial Mountains are filled with powerful beasts, and even experienced cultivators can be caught in lethal situations.
• Adaptation and concealment: Chen Xuan recognizes that openly revealing his origins would be dangerous, so he seeks a local cultivation technique and plans to blend into Immortal Realm society.
• Hierarchy and scale: The detailed ranking system—from Shattering Realm to Immortal Realm, Marquis-Sealing experts, and Kings of Immortality—shows the immense power gap between Chen Xuan’s former world and the Immortal Realm.
• Trapped immortality: Even the Desolate Ancient Kingdom’s Ninth-Layer ruler cannot leave the Immortal Realm because of the lingering power of the Immortal Sovereign’s enemy, illustrating the limits imposed on even the strongest beings.

Character Interactions

• Shi Tie and Chen Xuan’s relationship begins with a rescue: Shi Tie is astonished by Chen Xuan’s effortless victory and addresses him as an “Exalted One.”
• Chen Xuan treats Shi Tie’s gratitude casually and uses the journey to gather information about the Immortal Realm.
• Shi Tie responds with deference but remains helpful, explaining the region, the local power structure, and the importance of Desolate Hall.
• Their paths separate amicably at Giant Deer City, with Shi Tie returning for medical treatment and Chen Xuan entering Desolate Hall to search for body-refinement techniques.

Chapter Summary: Primordial Dharma Body, Hunting Ancient Beasts

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Xuan visits Desolate Hall to purchase an Immortal Realm body-refinement technique. He learns about four options:
  • Dragon-Elephant Great Strength Divine Body: greatest offensive power.
  • Six-Zhang Golden Body: strongest defense.
  • Azure Lotus Divine Body: exceptional recovery and survivability.
  • Primordial Dharma Body: greatest long-term potential, capable of reaching the ninth level of the Immortal Realm in its complete form.
• Because the complete Primordial Dharma Body costs one hundred million Immortal Crystals, Chen Xuan sells three Beast Cores for eleven million and purchases the upper portion for ten million. This portion allows cultivation up to the Immortal Third Stage.
• He rents a secluded courtyard in Giant Deer City and uses Zhaoxi Value to accelerate his cultivation. In a short time, he reaches the ninth level of the Shattering Realm.
• Chen Xuan learns that advancing to the Half-Step Immortal Realm requires not only Immortal Substance but also Law Fragments, which can be obtained by killing Primordial Deities or purchased with Immortal Crystals.
• He masters the Five-Element World-Destroying Saint Art and the Five-Element Void-Escape Saint Art, then travels to the Vast Mountains, a dangerous region filled with ancient beasts.
• Chen Xuan kills a Half-Step Immortal rhinoceros ancient beast with a single attack and escapes before nearby Immortal ancient beasts arrive.
• The beasts, led by a powerful silver-white wolf, identify Chen Xuan as a foreign “Evil God” whose inner world could serve as valuable nourishment. They plan to borrow a sealing divine artifact to trap him.
• Chen Xuan adopts a hit-and-run strategy, attacking isolated Half-Step Immortal beasts, taking their Beast Cores, and fleeing through the earth using his Five-Element Void-Escape Saint Art.
• Over several days, he kills twenty-seven Half-Step Immortal ancient beasts, accumulating Beast Cores worth several billion Immortal Crystals—enough to buy a Law Fragment.
• Just as Chen Xuan prepares to return to the city, a massive barrier suddenly appears and begins enclosing the entire Vast Mountains.

Character Development

• Chen Xuan demonstrates pragmatic decision-making by choosing the Primordial Dharma Body for its purity and limitless potential, despite its enormous cultivation cost.
• He becomes increasingly cautious and tactical. Rather than fighting powerful Immortal beasts directly, he relies on rapid assassinations, precise timing, and escape techniques.
• His confidence grows as he discovers that he can kill Half-Step Immortal beasts instantly, but he also recognizes the danger posed by Immortal-level opponents.
• Chen Xuan realizes that breaking through to the Half-Step Immortal Realm is urgent. Doing so would allow him to kill Half-Step Immortal beasts through physical strength alone, without exposing the detectable power of his world.

Significant Themes

• Power versus resources: Great techniques require enormous amounts of Immortal Crystals and rare cultivation materials, making wealth and hunting ability essential to advancement.
• Different cultivation paths: Saint cultivation nourishes the body through an internal world, while Immortal body cultivation directly absorbs Immortal Substance and the source power of the Great Dao.
• Risk and efficiency: Chen Xuan must balance the high rewards of hunting powerful beasts with the danger of attracting Immortal-level predators.
• Predator and prey: Although Chen Xuan hunts the ancient beasts, his use of world power marks him as prey to stronger creatures that seek to devour his inner world.
• The limits of concealment: His attacks reveal him because world power is highly conspicuous, forcing him to depend on speed and escape rather than prolonged combat.

Character Interactions

• Chen Xuan interacts with the Desolate Hall attendant, who explains the available Divine Body techniques, their requirements, and their prices.
• The silver-white wolf and its subordinate ancient beasts discuss Chen Xuan after discovering the rhinoceros beast’s corpse. They identify him as a foreign Evil God and plot to capture him using a sealing divine artifact.
• The subordinate beasts advise patience and surveillance, while the wolf agrees that Chen Xuan’s unusual escape technique makes him difficult to pursue.
• Chen Xuan has no direct confrontation with the Immortal ancient beasts yet, but their pursuit establishes an escalating conflict that culminates in the barrier sealing the Vast Mountains.

Chapter Summary: “Breakthrough to the Immortal Realm”

Key Plot Points and Events

• A powerful sealing divine artifact descends over the Vast Mountains, enclosing the entire mountain range—including the underground earth—and preventing Chen Xuan from escaping.
• The silver-white wolf and giant eagle, both peak Immortal Third Stage Ancient Beasts, organize a search for Chen Xuan. They plan to wait a hundred years for the Immortal Realm’s rules to forcibly expel him if he cannot be found.
• Chen Xuan hides within a deep underground crevice using the Five-Element Void-Escape Saint Art, completely merging his aura with the surrounding earth.
• Rather than attempting to break the seal, he uses his accelerated cultivation time and twenty-eight Half-Step Immortal Beast Cores to strengthen himself.
• Chen Xuan discovers that the world power within his Minor Thousand World can substitute for Law Fragments, allowing him to advance toward the Immortal Realm without relying on external Law Fragments.
• After forty-five years of accelerated cultivation—only about a month and a half passing outside—he refines the Beast Cores and successfully breaks through to the Immortal Realm.
• His Primordial Dharma Body reaches completion. Immortal Substance and world power transform his body into a true Divine Body, while also stabilizing and strengthening his inner world.
• The completed Divine Body dramatically accelerates the growth of his Five-Element Sacred Physique. His Divine Body and Saint Body begin reinforcing each other in a powerful cultivation cycle.
• Needing more Immortal Substance, Chen Xuan emerges from hiding and begins assassinating isolated Half-Step Immortal Ancient Beasts. He kills them instantly, takes their Beast Cores, and escapes into the earth before the others can react.
• After killing more than a dozen Ancient Beasts, he causes panic among the search parties. The two leading Ancient Beasts realize that allowing him to continue will make him increasingly powerful.

Character Developments

• Chen Xuan: Becomes much more strategic and patient, choosing cultivation over directly confronting the enemy. He advances from the Half-Step Immortal Realm to the Immortal Realm and completes his Primordial Dharma Body. His combat power increases more than tenfold, and he gains rapid regeneration and overwhelming physical strength.
• Silver-white giant wolf and giant eagle: Initially confident that the seal and hundred-year limit guarantee Chen Xuan’s death, they gradually recognize that his cultivation is advancing rapidly. Their confidence begins shifting toward concern.
• Immortal Ancient Beasts: Their initial relaxed attitude turns to frustration and alarm as Chen Xuan repeatedly eliminates their weaker members without being detected.

Significant Themes

• Patience and endurance: Chen Xuan turns the enemy’s hundred-year sealing strategy against them, using the time to cultivate rather than panic.
• Adaptation and discovery: His realization that internal world power can replace Law Fragments opens a new cultivation path and removes a major limitation.
• Balance between body and inner world: The chapter emphasizes the mutual reinforcement of the Divine Body, Saint Body, Immortal Substance, and Minor Thousand World.
• Predator versus hunted: Once trapped and pursued, Chen Xuan reverses the situation, becoming an invisible predator who hunts the Ancient Beasts.
• Confidence versus complacency: The Ancient Beasts underestimate Chen Xuan because of the hundred-year deadline, failing to account for his unique cultivation speed and abilities.

Character Interactions

• The wolf and eagle discuss their sealing plan and agree that Chen Xuan cannot escape unless he reaches the Immortal Fourth Stage.
• The other Ancient Beasts reassure one another that Chen Xuan will eventually be expelled and killed, dismissing the danger of his hiding.
• Chen Xuan silently overhears their conversations but refuses to react, remaining focused on cultivation.
• After his breakthrough, Chen Xuan directly clashes with the Ancient Beasts through rapid ambushes rather than open battles.
• The Ancient Beasts repeatedly arrive too late to save their comrades, and their discussions reveal growing fear that Chen Xuan’s access to Beast Cores will allow his strength to increase even further.

Chapter Summary: “Refining Mountains, Burning Earth, One Year of Lying Low”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The silver-white giant wolf and giant eagle Ancient Beasts gather all the half-step Immortal Ancient Beasts into a valley, believing they can force Chen Xuan—the “Evil God”—to reveal himself.
• Chen Xuan turns their trap to his advantage. After secretly cultivating the Five-Element Prison-Suppressing Saint Art for ten days, he emerges above the valley and immobilizes every beast within it.
• He follows with the Five-Element World-Destroying Saint Art, annihilating dozens of half-step Immortal Ancient Beasts and collecting their Beast Cores.
• The giant wolf and giant eagle arrive too late. Chen Xuan escapes by merging into the earth through his five-element escape arts.
• The two Ancient Beasts realize that Chen Xuan has already broken through into the Immortal Realm and may become even stronger after refining the Beast Cores.
• To flush him out, the giant eagle invites the Red Flame Ancient Beast, a peak Immortal Third Stage expert who controls the laws of flame. The three agree to refine the entire Vast Mountains and the earth beneath them.
• The Red Flame Ancient Beast begins covering the mountain range in crimson-gold flames, melting forests, rocks, rivers, and underground layers. The process is expected to take roughly three years.
• Chen Xuan remains hidden tens of thousands of zhang underground. Protected by his Primordial Dharma Body, he uses the long refining period to cultivate continuously.
• One year later, although only one year has passed outside, Chen Xuan has effectively cultivated for 365 years. His Primordial Dharma Body reaches the Divine Body Third Stage, and his Five-Element Sacred Physique reaches the Saint Body Third Stage.
• His two constitutions merge perfectly, and his physical strength becomes sufficient to contend with an Immortal Fourth Stage Marquis-Sealing expert even without using world power.
• Since the flames are still two years away from reaching him and he has grown powerful enough, Chen Xuan decides to stop hiding. He rises silently through the molten earth and appears above the sea of fire.
• The silver-white giant wolf senses his arrival, ending the chapter with the Ancient Beasts finally confronting the strengthened Chen Xuan.

Character Developments

• Chen Xuan: Demonstrates greater tactical intelligence by exploiting the Ancient Beasts’ trap rather than avoiding it. His breakthrough into the Immortal Realm is confirmed, and prolonged cultivation dramatically strengthens both his body and combat power. He becomes confident enough to abandon concealment and face his enemies directly.
• Silver-White Giant Wolf: Initially confident in the plan to trap Chen Xuan, it becomes increasingly wary after witnessing his escape and the destruction of the valley. It recognizes that Chen Xuan’s power is advancing rapidly.
• Giant Eagle Ancient Beast: Shares the wolf’s anger and fear but responds aggressively, proposing the extreme measure of refining the entire mountain range.
• Red Flame Ancient Beast: Motivated primarily by greed, it agrees to participate after hearing that Chen Xuan’s world origin could help all three Ancient Beasts break through to the Immortal Fourth-Stage Marquis Realm.

Significant Themes

• Cunning versus brute force: The Ancient Beasts rely on overwhelming strength and elaborate containment, while Chen Xuan survives through deception, timing, concealment, and precise attacks.
• Patience and long-term cultivation: Chen Xuan turns a three-year siege into an opportunity for centuries of effective training.
• Overconfidence and miscalculation: The Ancient Beasts believe they are controlling the situation, but their strategies repeatedly benefit Chen Xuan or underestimate his abilities.
• Escalation of power: Chen Xuan’s advancement from a newly ascended Immortal expert toward strength comparable to a Marquis-Sealing expert raises the conflict to a far more dangerous level.
• Nature and destruction: The refinement of the Vast Mountains transforms the landscape into a furnace, emphasizing the extreme destructive scale of the battle between the Ancient Beasts and Chen Xuan.

Character Interactions

• The giant wolf and giant eagle cooperate in planning and guarding the valley, but their confidence gives way to alarm after Chen Xuan’s ambush.
• The two seek outside assistance from the Red Flame Ancient Beast, appealing to his greed by promising a share of Chen Xuan’s world origin.
• Chen Xuan does not directly confront the Ancient Beasts during most of the chapter; instead, he silently observes them underground and uses their actions to aid his cultivation.
• The chapter ends with the first direct reappearance of Chen Xuan before all three powerful Ancient Beasts, setting up an imminent confrontation.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• After hiding for a year, Chen Xuan emerges from his concealment in the Vast Mountains, where the Ancient Beasts immediately surround him.
• Three peak Immortal Third Stage Ancient Beasts—the silver-white giant wolf, Giant Eagle, and Red Flame Ancient Beast—lead the attack, supported by numerous lower-level Immortal Ancient Beasts.
• Chen Xuan confidently declares that he intends to kill them all rather than escape.
• Using the Five-Element World-Destroying Saint Art, Chen Xuan annihilates the silver-white giant wolf with a single attack, reducing its entire body and Divine Soul to nothing but an intact Beast Core.
• He then uses the Five-Element Prison-Suppressing Saint Art to immobilize every surrounding Ancient Beast. The Red Flame Ancient Beast realizes that Chen Xuan possesses Marquis-Sealing-level strength, far beyond what a newly descended Evil God should have.
• Chen Xuan kills the Red Flame Ancient Beast with a second Five-Element strike and crushes the Giant Eagle Ancient Beast after rejecting its plea for submission.
• The imprisoned Immortal First and Second Stage Ancient Beasts are also crushed, leaving Chen Xuan with a large collection of Beast Cores, which he stores in his Minor Thousand World.
• He destroys the silver sealing barrier around the Vast Mountains with a single punch empowered by his perfected Primordial Dharma Body and Five-Element Sacred Physique.
• The destruction of the sealing divine artifact exposes Chen Xuan’s aura and triggers a massive Heavenly Tribulation. Observers in Giant Deer City mistakenly speculate that an Ancient Beast is undergoing a breakthrough.
• Chen Xuan remains in the Vast Mountains and accepts the tribulation directly. He withstands the first nine bolts of World-Annihilating Divine Thunder without moving, refining their destructive power through his Primordial Dharma Body.
• The tribulation then progresses to the Immortal Second Stage, manifesting as a terrifying pillar of Karmic Fire mixed with lightning.

Character Developments

• Chen Xuan displays overwhelming confidence and composure. He has advanced rapidly to the Immortal Third Stage and now possesses combat power at the Marquis-Sealing level.
• His mastery of the Five-Element techniques has grown significantly: he can simultaneously destroy peak Immortal opponents, suppress entire groups, and break a powerful divine seal.
• Chen Xuan’s body cultivation proves exceptionally powerful. Rather than avoiding the Heavenly Tribulation, he treats it as a means of tempering and strengthening his physique.
• The Ancient Beasts’ attitudes shift from greed and contempt to shock, terror, and desperation. The Giant Eagle begs for mercy, while the Red Flame Beast recognizes the impossible scale of Chen Xuan’s strength.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and rapid advancement: Chen Xuan’s swift rise makes him vastly stronger than opponents who believe his realm should limit him.
• Confidence versus arrogance: The Ancient Beasts underestimate Chen Xuan, while his calm certainty is validated by his effortless victories.
• Body cultivation and endurance: The chapter emphasizes that true physical strength comes from surviving and refining destructive forces rather than avoiding them.
• Breaking free from confinement: Destroying the sealing artifact symbolizes Chen Xuan’s liberation from the Ancient Beasts’ control and the end of his hidden period.
• Heavenly law and consequence: Once Chen Xuan’s aura is no longer concealed, Heaven immediately responds with tribulation, showing that extraordinary power inevitably attracts trial and danger.

Character Interactions

• The silver-white giant wolf questions Chen Xuan’s intentions and orders the coordinated assault, acting as the group’s leader.
• Chen Xuan responds to the beasts’ encirclement with a direct declaration of slaughter, establishing his dominance.
• The Red Flame Ancient Beast voices disbelief at Chen Xuan’s Marquis-Sealing strength and attempts to understand how such power could appear in a newly descended Evil God.
• The Giant Eagle, after being restrained, abandons its pride and begs Chen Xuan to spare it, but Chen Xuan offers no mercy.
• Chen Xuan’s confrontation with the Heavenly Tribulation is solitary and defiant: he faces Heaven itself without retreating, waiting calmly for the next and more dangerous stage of the trial.

Chapter Summary: Ten Years of Silence, Breaking Through to the Fourth Level of the Saint Realm

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Xuan faces the second and third stages of his Heavenly Tribulation after reaching the third level of Immortality.
• During the Fire Tribulation, he directly inhales and devours a massive pillar of Karmic Fire. His internal Minor Thousand World and Five Elements Cycle refine the destructive flames into pure law power, strengthening his body.
• During the Wind Tribulation, Chen Xuan avoids countless invisible wind blades using the Five-Element Void-Escape Saint Art. He eventually raises a five-colored light curtain that blocks and repairs itself against the relentless attacks.
• He passes both tribulations without injury, demonstrating that his completed Primordial Dharma Body, Five-Element Sacred Physique, and internal world make him vastly stronger than ordinary cultivators at the same realm.
• Immediately after the tribulation ends, Chen Xuan flees the Vast Mountains to avoid attracting powerful enemies.
• Marquis Jiuyuan, a fourth-level Immortality powerhouse and lord of Jiuyuan Dao Province, arrives at the ruined tribulation site. He identifies Chen Xuan as an outsider Evil God based on the residual world power and recognizes that Chen Xuan is unusually difficult to track.
• Although Marquis Jiuyuan cannot locate Chen Xuan, he warns that he has remembered Chen Xuan’s aura and will be able to find him if Chen Xuan uses world power again.
• Chen Xuan hides in a remote cave and reflects on the danger posed by the Immortal Realm’s human kingdoms. These forces hunt outsider Saints, or “Evil Gods,” to obtain their World Will and world power.
• He decides to avoid conflict, accumulate Zhaoxi Value, and use it to improve the Five-Element Furnace World-Refining Sacred Art.
• Ten years pass. Through the equivalent of 3,650 years of accelerated cultivation, Chen Xuan gradually fuses his internal world with his physical body.
• He ultimately breaks through to the fourth level of the Saint Realm—the World Realm.

Character Development

• Chen Xuan displays overwhelming control over the Heavenly Tribulation. Rather than merely surviving it, he absorbs and refines the Fire Tribulation and effortlessly withstands the Wind Tribulation.
• His confidence is balanced by growing caution. After sensing Marquis Jiuyuan’s divine sense, he recognizes that his current strength is insufficient to recklessly challenge fourth-level Immortality experts.
• Chen Xuan becomes more strategic and patient. Instead of seeking immediate battles or opportunities, he chooses to hide, cultivate, and strengthen his foundation.
• His Primordial Dharma Body continues to evolve by absorbing different types of law power. This reinforces its long-term potential to command and integrate countless laws and divine bodies.
• After ten years of cultivation, Chen Xuan’s body undergoes a fundamental transformation. Every cell contains a miniature spatial world, and his physical body becomes inseparable from his internal world.

Significant Themes

• Power through refinement: Heavenly Tribulation is not only an obstacle but also a source of law power that Chen Xuan can absorb and convert into strength.
• Caution amid overwhelming power: Even after easily overcoming the tribulation, Chen Xuan understands that stronger beings—especially Marquis Jiuyuan and possible Immortal Kings—pose serious threats.
• The outsider versus the native world: The Immortal Realm views outside Saints as “Evil Gods” and hunts them for their World Will, creating constant danger for Chen Xuan.
• Patience and long-term cultivation: Rather than relying solely on combat, Chen Xuan uses time, Zhaoxi Value, and careful concealment to build an unshakable foundation.
• Unity of body and world: The World Realm represents the fusion of physical existence and inner world. Chen Xuan’s body becomes a living world, making him extraordinarily difficult to kill as long as his world origin survives.
• Scarcity and control of resources: Immortal Substance and access to the Immortal Realm are presented as critical advantages for Saints seeking to advance, but these resources are limited and politically controlled by higher powers.

Character Interactions

• Chen Xuan and the Heavenly Tribulation: Chen Xuan treats the Fire and Wind Tribulations as opportunities to test and strengthen himself, devouring the flames and countering the wind blades with his Five Elements techniques.
• Chen Xuan and Marquis Jiuyuan: They do not directly confront one another, but their brief indirect encounter establishes a future threat. Marquis Jiuyuan identifies Chen Xuan as a powerful outsider and vows to track him if he exposes his world power again.
• Chen Xuan and the Grand Elder’s teachings: Chen Xuan recalls the Grand Elder’s warnings about the Immortal Realm’s human kingdoms, using that information to interpret Marquis Jiuyuan’s hostility and plan his next steps.
• Chen Xuan and the Immortal Realm’s power structure: The chapter explains that native Immortals and descendants of Immortal Palace disciples hunt outsider Saints to acquire the World Will needed to break through into the true Saint Realm.

Ending

After ten years of secluded cultivation, Chen Xuan emerges with a completely transformed body. His flesh contains countless miniature spaces linked to his Minor Thousand World, allowing his body and world to function as one. With this breakthrough, he reaches the fourth level of the Saint Realm, the World Realm.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Xuan travels to Lihuo City in Scarlet Flame Dao Province to avoid Marquis Jiuyuan’s influence and conceal his true strength.
• At the local Desolate Hall, he sells numerous Immortal Beast Cores for 117 billion Immortal Crystals, including three third-layer Immortal Beast Cores.
• He purchases:
  • The fourth through sixth layers of the

Primordial Dharma Body

• The

Dragon-Elephant Great Strength Divine Body

• The

Six-Zhang Golden Body

• The

Azure Lotus Divine Body

• The

Lightning Divine Body

• Five corresponding Law Fragments
• Chen Xuan reflects on the nature of the Divine Godhead and decides that, rather than entrusting it to the Immortal Realm, he will eventually attempt to merge it with the laws of the Primordial Yellow Great World, granting him near-immortality.
• He begins secluded cultivation, using Law Fragments and Zhaoxi Value to rapidly advance and fuse multiple Divine Bodies.
• To obtain more cultivation arts and Law Fragments, Chen Xuan becomes a highly efficient hunter of Ancient Beasts. He kills them through ambushes, speed, and escape techniques, avoiding prolonged conflict with marquis-ranked beasts.
• Over ten years, he expands his collection of Divine Bodies from four to one hundred, reaching the recorded limit of the Primordial Dharma Body.
• The perfected Primordial Dharma Body resonates with his Five-Element Sacred Physique, which has developed into a World Body.
• The two constitutions completely merge, producing a new constitution called the Chaos Body.

2. Character Development

• Chen Xuan becomes increasingly strategic and cautious, deliberately changing his appearance and moving between nations to avoid detection.
• His cultivation evolves from relying on a few powerful physiques to mastering and integrating one hundred Divine Bodies and their laws.
• His combat abilities improve dramatically:
  • Dragon-Elephant Divine Body enhances strength.
  • Six-Zhang Golden Body strengthens defense.
  • Azure Lotus Divine Body provides powerful recovery and near-immortality.
  • Lightning Divine Body greatly increases speed.
• By combining the Primordial Dharma Body with his World Body, Chen Xuan transcends the distinction between Sacred Physiques and Divine Bodies.
• His ambitions also expand: he aims not merely to become powerful within the Immortal Realm, but to establish an indestructible existence connected to the laws of a true great thousand world.

3. Significant Themes

• Fusion and transformation: Strength comes from combining different systems rather than relying on a single technique.
• Pursuit of immortality: Chen Xuan seeks a form of existence that cannot be destroyed except by erasing him from the fundamental laws of reality.
• Strategic cultivation: His progress depends on planning, concealment, resource gathering, and choosing battles carefully.
• Limits and transcendence: The Primordial Dharma Body’s one-hundred-Divine-Body limit becomes the foundation for surpassing previous boundaries.
• Chaos as ultimate origin: The new Chaos Body represents the primordial state before heaven, earth, and the Great Dao divided. It can contain, nurture, devour, and transform all forms of power.

4. Character Interactions

• Chen Xuan negotiates with a Desolate Hall scholar, who evaluates his Beast Cores, sells him cultivation arts and Law Fragments, and invites him to join the Desolate Ancient Kingdom.
• Chen Xuan declines to commit to joining the kingdom, choosing to remain independent while continuing his cultivation.
• His main “interactions” afterward are with Ancient Beasts: he hunts them through sudden attacks, kills them before marquis-ranked guardians can respond, and retreats immediately.
• The chapter concludes with Chen Xuan recognizing and naming the unprecedented constitution born from the fusion of his Primordial Dharma Body and Five-Element World Body: the Chaos Body.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Xuan completes the transformation of his original World Power and Divine Body laws into Chaos Power, while his inner Minor Thousand World becomes a Chaos World. Though the world’s contents vanish, his strength increases dramatically.
• Testing his new power, he casually slices open a spatial fissure that takes hours to heal, confirming that his Chaos Body far surpasses ordinary Saint Realm physiques.
• Determined to forge a Divine Godhead, Chen Xuan leaves the Immortal Realm and travels to a desolate mountain range near the Primordial Yellow Great World. He chooses this location so he can either advance into the Great Thousand World or retreat to the Immortal Realm if necessary.
• He successfully condenses a Chaos Divine Godhead within his brow. Because of his powerful Chaos Body, the forging process is unexpectedly smooth.
• Chen Xuan sends the Divine Godhead into the Primordial Yellow Great World’s Origin Sea but chooses to entrust it specifically to the Five Elements Great Dao, rather than risk being assimilated by the entire Origin Sea.
• The Great Thousand World’s will responds by summoning an immense Heavenly Tribulation. Nine increasingly powerful tribulation lightnings descend, but Chen Xuan swallows and refines every one with his Chaos Body, absorbing their destructive power and Great Dao fragments.
• The Divine Godhead successfully merges with the Five Elements Great Dao origin. Chen Xuan gains a form of immortality: as long as the Primordial Yellow Great World survives, he cannot truly die. A projected Virtual Divine Spark appears within him, allowing him to draw upon the power of the true Divine Godhead.
• Immediately afterward, Chen Xuan senses a terrifying presence from beyond the world barrier. The awakening will identifies him as the successor of the Immortal Sovereign and declares that he cannot be allowed to survive.
• A black sword-like manifestation, carrying Sovereign-level power, descends and completely suppresses Chen Xuan, leaving him unable to move or escape.
• At the critical moment, a phantom of the Immortal Palace emerges from the Immortal Realm and blocks the attack. It pulls Chen Xuan back inside the Immortal Realm.
• The enemy’s will then transforms into a tide of Black Water and begins eroding the Immortal Realm’s protective Great Dao laws, threatening to refine and destroy the realm.

Character Development

• Chen Xuan reaches a major power milestone by completing his transformation into a Chaos Body and gaining Chaos Power. His casual attack demonstrates that he has advanced far beyond ordinary fourth-layer Saint Realm experts.
• His confidence and ambition grow: rather than entrusting himself to the safer Immortal Realm, he dares to bind his Divine Godhead to the much more demanding Great Thousand World origin.
• Chen Xuan displays strategic caution despite his immense strength. He chooses the Five Elements Great Dao because it suits him best and remains close enough to the Immortal Realm to retreat if the process fails.
• His ability to endure and consume the Great Thousand World’s tribulation demonstrates not only physical strength but also the extraordinary adaptability of his Chaos Body.
• After successfully gaining Great Thousand World protection, Chen Xuan immediately confronts the consequences of being linked to the Immortal Sovereign. His status as successor makes him a target for the Sovereign’s ancient enemy.

Significant Themes

• Transformation and transcendence: Chen Xuan’s fusion into the Chaos Body represents a progression beyond conventional cultivation systems and Saint Realm limitations.
• Power versus danger: Every increase in strength brings greater risks. His successful Divine Godhead forging grants near-immortality but awakens a terrifying enemy.
• Inheritance and succession: Chen Xuan’s connection to the Immortal Sovereign carries both power and responsibility, making him the continuation of an ancient conflict.
• Immortality through reliance on greater powers: By entrusting his Divine Godhead to the Five Elements Great Dao, Chen Xuan gains protection through the Great Thousand World but also becomes tied to its survival.
• Ancient conflicts resurfacing: The Immortal Sovereign’s enemy, dormant for a million years, is reawakened by Chen Xuan’s actions and resumes its attack on the Immortal Realm.
• Sacrifice and resistance: The Immortal Palace, already reduced to a remnant, intervenes to save Chen Xuan, showing that the Immortal Realm’s surviving forces are still resisting destruction.

Character Interactions

• Chen Xuan has no direct human character interactions in the chapter, but he interacts significantly with:
  • The Primordial Yellow Great World’s Great Dao origin, which tests him through the nine tribulation lightnings before accepting his Divine Godhead.
  • The Immortal Sovereign’s ancient enemy, whose consciousness recognizes Chen Xuan as the Sovereign’s successor and attempts to kill him.
  • The Immortal Palace remnant, which protects Chen Xuan by blocking the black sword and dragging him back into the Immortal Realm.
• The chapter ends with the enemy attacking the Immortal Realm directly, setting up a larger confrontation between the Black Water-like Sovereign remnant and the surviving Immortal forces.

Chapter Summary: The Sovereign’s Threat of Death, Entering the Starry Sky

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Xuan is transported from the wilderness into the Immortal Palace, a mysterious golden-crystal palace floating in the void.
• He witnesses a black sword shadow transformed into a vast dark tide that is slowly eroding the defensive rules surrounding the Immortal Realm.
• The Immortal Palace Spirit reveals that the tide belongs to the Immortal Sovereign’s ancient enemy, a terrifying existence from the Path to Immortality. This enemy has grown stronger and will completely destroy the Immortal Realm’s protective power within one hundred years.
• Once the protection disappears, everyone in the Immortal Realm—including Chen Xuan, humans, and Ancient Beasts—will be annihilated by the enemy’s power.
• The Immortal Palace Spirit explains two possible solutions:
  1. Persuade a Sovereign of the Primordial Yellow Great World to intervene.
  2. Have Chen Xuan become a Sovereign within a century.
• Since neither option is realistically attainable through ordinary means, the Spirit proposes sending Chen Xuan into the starry sky to seek the protection of the Ascension Sovereign.
• The Ascension Sovereign once exchanged Dao insights with the Immortal Sovereign and promised to accept the bearer of a certain token as a Personal Disciple. However, because the Sovereign has not appeared for over one hundred thousand years, Chen Xuan must first enter the Ascension Star Palace and win first place in its disciple selection.
• The Immortal Palace Spirit gives Chen Xuan a star map and a concealment talisman, then uses the palace’s remaining power to teleport him beyond the Primordial Yellow Great World.
• In the starry sky, Chen Xuan is overwhelmed by the immense scale and pressure of the Primordial Yellow Great World. He realizes how insignificant his own Chaos Minor World is compared with a Major Thousand World and gains a clearer understanding of the realms above the Saint Realm.
• He begins following the star map toward the Ascension Star Palace. His first destination is a distant starry waystation where he can replenish supplies and use long-distance teleportation.
• During his journey, he encounters an unfamiliar black shuttle-shaped spacecraft equipped with energy circuits and a cannon, hinting at a technologically different civilization or group within the starry sky.

Character Development

• Chen Xuan shifts from confidence in his strength as a fourth-level Saint to a humbler and broader awareness of the universe’s scale. Seeing the Primordial Yellow Great World from outside makes him recognize that even his completed Chaos Body and internal world are insignificant before a Major Thousand World.
• He accepts that relying on external rescue is unlikely and takes responsibility for securing his own survival and the future of the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Xuan becomes firmly determined to improve his cultivation and win the Ascension Sovereign’s personal protection, despite the severe difficulty of the task.
• The Immortal Palace Spirit is revealed as a powerful but weakened remnant of the Immortal Sovereign’s palace. Its awakening is directly connected to Chen Xuan’s cultivation of the Chaos Body and Chaos Divine Spark. Though exhausted and unable to solve the crisis itself, it acts as Chen Xuan’s guide and uses its remaining strength to give him a chance at survival.

Significant Themes

• The insignificance of individual power: Chen Xuan’s strength, once considered extraordinary within the Immortal Realm, appears tiny when compared with the Primordial Yellow Great World and the power of Sovereigns.
• A looming deadline and existential survival: The one-hundred-year limit creates urgency and establishes the Immortal Realm’s destruction as an unavoidable threat unless Chen Xuan succeeds.
• Inheritance and responsibility: Chen Xuan’s Chaos Body links him to the Immortal Sovereign’s legacy, making him both a target of the ancient enemy and the potential bearer of the Immortal Sovereign’s hopes.
• Growth through expanded perspective: Leaving the Immortal Realm forces Chen Xuan to confront a larger cosmos and recognize that reaching the next level of cultivation will require new opportunities, resources, and challenges.
• Protection versus independence: Chen Xuan must seek the protection of another Sovereign, yet ultimately must rely on his own talent and effort to earn that protection by winning the Ascension Star Palace’s selection.

Important Character Interactions

• Chen Xuan respectfully questions the Immortal Palace Spirit about the black tide, the ancient enemy, and the Immortal Realm’s remaining time.
• The Immortal Palace Spirit honestly explains the danger rather than offering false reassurance, emphasizing that even Sovereigns separated by the Path to Immortality are beyond the Saint Realm’s ability to resist.
• Chen Xuan doubts that he can become a Sovereign within a hundred years, while the Spirit insists that his unprecedented cultivation speed and Chaos Body make him uniquely capable of accomplishing a miracle.
• The Spirit warns Chen Xuan that merely becoming an ordinary disciple of the Ascension Star Palace will not be enough; only becoming the Ascension Sovereign’s Personal Disciple will guarantee protection.
• Chen Xuan accepts the mission and promises to exhaust every effort to improve his cultivation and obtain the Ascension Sovereign’s protection.

Chapter Summary: Black Dragon Star Region

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Xuan leaves the Primordial Yellow Great World for the first time and enters the unfamiliar starry expanse.
• He encounters a spacecraft carrying two enormous, dark-blue-skinned Half-Saints from the Black Dragon Sacred Dynasty: Black Stone and Iron Rock.
• The brothers initially treat Chen Xuan as a potential threat and charge their energy cannon, but Chen Xuan deliberately approaches calmly to avoid provoking them.
• Black Stone informs him that this area is a patrol route and that unregistered travelers may be classified as starry-sky bandits. Chen Xuan cooperates with an Optical Brain scan and receives official citizen identification for the Black Dragon Sacred Dynasty.
• Chen Xuan asks for transportation to the nearby Void Station. The brothers request one Supreme Star Crystal as payment, introducing him to the starry sky’s universal currency.
• Since Chen Xuan possesses no Star Crystals, he offers an Ancient Beast Core containing Immortal Substance. Black Stone is shocked by its value, estimating it to be worth at least ten thousand Supreme Star Crystals, and agrees to take Chen Xuan to the station so he can exchange it.
• During the journey, Black Stone explains the structure of the surrounding region. The Black Dragon Star Region belongs to the Black Dragon Sacred Dynasty, one of seventy-two Sacred Dynasties under the Ascension Star Palace.
• Chen Xuan learns that the Ascension Star Palace is ruled by the powerful Ascension Sovereign, one of only eight Sovereigns connected to the Primordial Yellow Great World. The Sovereigns seek to transcend the Great Thousand World Source and pursue the Path to Immortality.
• Chen Xuan also learns about the Ascension Star Palace’s disciple selection. Applicants must be under three hundred years old, possess at least Grotto-Heaven Realm cultivation, and pass trials testing the body, Divine Soul, and comprehension. More than a million prodigies compete for only 360 formal disciple positions.
• Chen Xuan reveals his interest in meeting the Ascension Sovereign, realizing that even ordinary, Inner, or True Disciples would not qualify. Only the foremost Star Disciple might have such an opportunity.
• The spacecraft reaches the Void Station, a heavily constructed mechanical world filled with docking ports, buildings, trade, and ships. Black Stone advises Chen Xuan to seek information brokers there regarding the Ascension Star Palace.

Character Developments

• Chen Xuan demonstrates composure, caution, and diplomatic awareness when approaching the armed patrol ship. He understands that sudden movement could be mistaken for hostility and intentionally shows that he is alone and unthreatening.
• He adapts quickly to the starry sky’s unfamiliar laws, technology, currency, and political structure.
• His Beast Core reveals the exceptional resources he carries from the Immortal Realm, giving him unexpected financial leverage.
• Chen Xuan’s interest in the Ascension Star Palace shows that his ambitions extend beyond simple travel or survival. He is already considering how to reach the highest levels of the starry sky and meet its supreme ruler.
• Black Stone changes from suspicion to cautious friendliness after Chen Xuan passes the scan and offers the valuable Beast Core. He becomes a guide and source of information.
• Iron Rock remains mostly silent and focused on piloting, but his careful navigation reinforces the brothers’ disciplined, professional nature.

Significant Themes

• Caution and diplomacy in an unfamiliar world: Chen Xuan avoids conflict not through weakness but through calculated restraint.
• Civilization and regulation: The starry sky is governed by formal jurisdictions, identity systems, patrols, and citizenship requirements, contrasting with Chen Xuan’s more isolated origins.
• The value of resources and knowledge: Star Crystals function as currency, energy, and cultivation material, while information about powerful organizations must also be purchased.
• Hierarchy and ambition: The chapter establishes a vast power structure, from patrol inspectors and Sacred Dynasties to Sovereigns who stand beyond the Saint Realm.
• Competition and exceptional talent: The Ascension Star Palace’s selection process emphasizes the brutality of advancement and the rarity required to reach the top.
• Cultural and technological expansion: Chen Xuan enters a broader universe featuring advanced spacecraft, Optical Brains, artificial stations, multiple races, and unfamiliar forms of energy.

Character Interactions

• Chen Xuan and the patrol brothers begin in a tense standoff, with the brothers’ cannon charged and Chen Xuan maintaining a nonthreatening approach.
• Their interaction becomes cooperative after Chen Xuan submits to the identity scan and explains his origins.
• Chen Xuan negotiates transportation by offering an Ancient Beast Core when he cannot pay in Star Crystals.
• During the voyage, Black Stone acts as Chen Xuan’s informal guide, explaining the Black Dragon Sacred Dynasty, the Ascension Star Palace, the Sovereigns, and the disciple-selection system.
• Chen Xuan listens carefully and asks targeted questions, especially about the possibility of meeting the Ascension Sovereign and the requirements for joining the Ascension Star Palace.
• The chapter ends with Chen Xuan arriving at the Void Station, poised to exchange his Beast Core and gather information for his next steps.

Chapter Summary: Star Pirates

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Xuan arrives at the Void Station with Black Stone and Iron Rock and is taken to the Black Dragon Star Bank, an official exchange operated by the Black Dragon Sacred Dynasty.
• He sells five partially decayed Half-Step Immortal Beast Cores containing Immortal Substance, receiving 50,000 Supreme Star Crystals. He deposits most of the money into a bank account and keeps 10,000 on hand.
• After paying Black Stone and Iron Rock their reward, Chen Xuan purchases information about the Ascension Star Palace’s disciple recruitment.
• Three days later, he boards a massive passenger starship traveling toward the Ascension Star Palace. The journey is expected to take three years and includes many young prodigies, guards, servants, and elders.
• During the voyage, Chen Xuan studies the information he bought and continues strengthening his Chaos Body with Zhaoxi Value, which increases once every twenty-four hours.
• In the fourth month, the ship enters the disputed Three-No-Man’s Land, a region between the Black Dragon Sacred Dynasty and the Crimson Qilin Saint Dynasty that is dominated by powerful star pirates.
• Three pirate warships ambush the passenger ship. Their leader is a Fourth-Layer Saint Realm expert, while the other two pirate leaders are Third-Layer Saint Realm cultivators.
• The pirates demand that the passengers surrender all valuables within twenty breaths. The starship is badly damaged, and panic spreads among the passengers.
• Qin Yuan, an Attendant Elder of the Black Dragon Sacred Dynasty and another Fourth-Layer Saint Realm cultivator, announces that he can fight the pirate leader but needs someone capable of disabling the three warships.
• Chen Xuan volunteers. He swiftly destroys all three pirate warships using his Chaos Power, suppresses the pirates aboard the third vessel, and prevents the attackers from escaping.
• The pirate chief confronts Chen Xuan directly, invoking the Law of Destruction and attacking with overwhelming force. Chen Xuan calmly meets the blow with his open palm, beginning a battle between two Fourth-Layer Saint Realm experts.

Character Developments

• Chen Xuan demonstrates increasing confidence and independence. He smoothly handles financial matters, gathers intelligence for his journey, and continues his disciplined cultivation during the long voyage.
• His power is revealed to be far greater than ordinary cultivators of the same realm. He destroys three armed warships almost instantly and immobilizes an entire group of pirates without killing them immediately.
• Chen Xuan’s calm response to the ambush contrasts sharply with the panic of the other passengers, establishing him as a decisive protector rather than a passive traveler.
• Black Stone and Iron Rock complete their role as Chen Xuan’s guides and escorts after receiving their payment.
• Qin Yuan emerges as a responsible and pragmatic elder. Although powerful enough to fight the pirate chief, he prioritizes protecting the passengers and recognizes the need for coordinated action.
• The pirate chief is portrayed as arrogant and ruthless. He initially offers to spare the passengers for their valuables, but after Chen Xuan destroys his ships, he becomes personally enraged and seeks compensation through force.

Significant Themes

• Power and hidden strength: Chen Xuan appears to be merely another traveler, but his overwhelming combat ability allows him to reverse an otherwise desperate situation.
• Civilization versus lawlessness: The Black Dragon Star Bank represents an orderly, regulated system, while the Three-No-Man’s Land is controlled by pirates and disputed political authority.
• Fear under pressure: The passengers’ panic reveals how quickly confidence collapses when confronted by genuine Saint Realm experts.
• Responsibility and protection: Qin Yuan and Chen Xuan both act to protect weaker passengers, though Chen Xuan’s abilities make him the decisive force.
• Preparation and foresight: Chen Xuan’s purchase of information, continued cultivation, and cautious management of his wealth show the importance of preparation before entering the wider starry world.
• Confrontation between equals: The chapter builds toward Chen Xuan’s first direct battle against an opponent of the same cultivation level, testing whether his extraordinary strength can overcome the pirate chief’s Law of Destruction.

Character Interactions

• Black Stone advises Chen Xuan to use the official Black Dragon Star Bank rather than private buyers, emphasizing safety and reliability.
• Chen Xuan and the bank attendant interact formally during the sale of his Beast Cores, introducing the station’s interstellar financial system.
• Chen Xuan separates amicably from Black Stone and Iron Rock after paying them their reward.
• On the passenger ship, young applicants discuss the dangers of the Three-No-Man’s Land, revealing their differing levels of confidence and fear.
• Qin Yuan addresses all passengers during the crisis, asking whether anyone can disable the pirate warships.
• Chen Xuan steps forward and offers his aid. Qin Yuan initially assesses his cultivation, then accepts his support and forms a cooperative plan.
• After Chen Xuan destroys the warships, the pirate chief confronts him directly, turning the larger raid into a personal duel that remains unresolved at the chapter’s end.

Chapter Summary: Arrival at Starfall City and the Ascension Star Palace Selection

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Xuan defeats a powerful star pirate leader at the Fourth Layer of the Saint Realm with a single attack using Chaos Power. His chaotic energy overwhelms the pirate leader’s Law of Destruction, crushes his inner world, and extracts a dark-red energy core.
• Qin Yuan kills the other two Saint Realm pirate leaders, while Chen Xuan easily eliminates the remaining weaker pirates. The passengers aboard the starship become deeply awed by Chen Xuan’s strength.
• Chen Xuan refuses to name his attack, calling it merely a “casual palm strike,” leaving Qin Yuan skeptical but impressed.
• After two years of travel, the starship reaches the region of the Ascension Star Palace and docks at Starfall City, a massive floating metropolis filled with cultivators and races from across the starfields.
• Chen Xuan learns that the Ascension Star Palace disciple selection will begin in one year. Applicants must register at the Star Palace Branch Hall and pass a preliminary review.
• During his year in the city, Chen Xuan meditates, improves his control over the Chaos Body, and nearly completes the refinement of the World Crystal obtained from the slain pirate.
• The chapter explains that World Crystals can rapidly improve Saint Realm cultivation, but those who kill cultivators solely to obtain them become known as Tribulation Cultivators and are rejected by major powers. Chen Xuan avoids this stigma because his targets were star pirates.
• One year later, Chen Xuan arrives at Starfall Square, where millions of cultivators gather for the selection. He observes numerous Saint Realm experts and two particularly powerful cultivators who are close to the Fifth Layer.
• The Ascension Star Palace activates the Eclosion Stele and announces the beginning of the selection. The first trial is the Trial of the Body: participants must endure a month of body tempering under Heavenly Stellar Baleful Force, with longer endurance earning higher scores.

2. Character Developments

• Chen Xuan: Demonstrates overwhelming combat power, killing a Fourth-Layer Saint with ease. His battle experience deepens his understanding and control of the Chaos Body. He remains calm, reserved, and uninterested in fame, even when surrounded by millions of powerful competitors.
• Qin Yuan: Gains greater respect for Chen Xuan after witnessing his effortless victory, though he remains astonished by the unexplained nature of Chen Xuan’s technique.
• The passengers: Their initial fear and helplessness toward the pirates transforms into awe and reverence for Chen Xuan.
• Liu Qing: Introduced as a friendly young cultivator from the Jade Balance Sacred Dynasty. Although he appears to be only at the Grotto-Heaven Realm, he conceals formidable sword intent, suggesting that he is a powerful and talented contender.

3. Significant Themes

• The overwhelming nature of Chaos Power: Chen Xuan’s Chaos Power is portrayed as nearly invincible against opponents of the same realm because it combines numerous law foundations with the origin power of the Primordial Yellow Great World.
• Strength beyond appearances: Several characters conceal their true abilities, including Liu Qing and the two near-Fifth-Layer experts. The selection is not simply about cultivation level.
• Merit versus stigma: The chapter distinguishes Chen Xuan’s legitimate hunting of star pirates from the predatory behavior of Tribulation Cultivators, emphasizing how motive and reputation affect one’s standing in the cultivation world.
• Testing innate potential: The Ascension Star Palace’s trials focus on the body, Divine Soul, and comprehension rather than cultivation realm alone. A weaker Saint can fail, while an exceptional cultivator at a lower realm may succeed.
• Humility and restraint: Chen Xuan’s casual attitude toward his extraordinary strength contrasts with the astonishment of those around him.
• A vast, interconnected cultivation world: Starfall City serves as a meeting point for countless races, sacred dynasties, starfields, and cultivation systems.

4. Character Interactions

• Chen Xuan confronts and kills the star pirate leader after dismissing the superiority of his Destruction Law.
• Qin Yuan fights the other two Saint Realm leaders and later questions Chen Xuan about his devastating palm technique. Chen Xuan’s brief, matter-of-fact answer highlights the difference between their perceptions of power.
• Chen Xuan interacts minimally with the passengers, who watch him with fear, admiration, and excitement after the battle.
• In Starfall Square, Liu Qing introduces himself to Chen Xuan and praises the Primordial Yellow Great World. Chen Xuan responds politely but remains distant and quiet.
• The chapter ends as all contestants are subjected to the descending Astral Baleful Force, beginning the first major test of the Ascension Star Palace selection.