Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan slaughtered nearly all the Immortal Court soldiers and Demon Realm cultivators inside Equal to Heaven's cave dwelling, leaving the survivors outside in shock and alarm. He continued deeper into the dwelling and found the remaining cultivators kneeling before a mysterious golden-furred figure.

• Chen Fan killed the cultivators inside the cave dwelling, while three Immortal Court soldiers escaped with their lives.
• The escaped soldiers told the Immortal Court elders that Chen Fan had killed more than ninety of their comrades, and the Nine-Tailed Fox realized he was responsible.
• The Immortal Court elders summoned reinforcements, while the Nine-Tailed Fox sent someone to locate the Demon Realm's remaining cultivators.
• Chen Fan found Demon Realm cultivators dead beneath the cave dwelling's restrictions and entered a stone chamber where the survivors knelt before a gigantic chair.
• A golden-furred figure appeared seated on the chair and stared coldly at the kneeling cultivators.

Chen Fan discovered that Equal to Heaven was still alive and received a vast inheritance of True Essence and Dao rhythm from him. As Chen Fan comprehended the inheritance, a joint force of demon realm cultivators and heavenly soldiers arrived and found him before Equal to Heaven.

• Chen Fan realized Equal to Heaven's eyes tracked him and heard the living Battle Sage Monkey command him to bring someone there.
• Chen Fan understood that Equal to Heaven wanted to see Little Golden Monkey, but the sealed realms kept it from coming.
• Equal to Heaven sent golden light into Chen Fan, strengthening his body and filling his dantian with True Essence that he began to comprehend.
• Hundreds of demon realm cultivators and heavenly soldiers joined forces and entered the immortal cave to kill Chen Fan and prevent him from claiming the inheritance.
• The force found Chen Fan standing motionless before Equal to Heaven, and its members panicked when they recognized that Equal to Heaven was alive.

Chen Fan remained immobilized while the Demon Realm cultivators and Heavenly Soldiers debated how to kill him, then regained control just as they unleashed Immortal-Melting Poison. He knocked the shattered poison bottle into the panicked crowd, where its deadly black mist engulfed them.

• The Demon Realm cultivators and Heavenly Soldiers hesitated to attack Chen Fan because they feared Equal to Heaven, while Chen Fan slowly regained control and watched them with Divine Sense.
• A Heavenly Soldier struck Chen Fan from a distance, and the crowd took his inability to move as proof that he was sealed.
• A Demon Realm cultivator brought out Immortal-Melting Poison and hurled its bottle at Chen Fan as the others prepared to kill him.
• Chen Fan regained control at the last moment, causing the crowd to panic and turn on one another as they tried to flee.
• Chen Fan rose and struck the poison bottle into the crowd, shattering it and releasing a deadly black mist.

Chen Fan used the Nether Bone Cold Flame to kill the more than a thousand cultivators trapped in the Immortal Cave, then accepted a Kun Bag from Equal to Heaven and left without refining the rest of the inheritance. Outside Water Curtain Cave, the Immortal Court and demon realm leaders argued over the fate of their forces, while the Fat Daoist calmly implied that Chen Fan had survived.

• Chen Fan froze and killed the cultivators who had entered the Immortal Cave, wiping out the Immortal Court and demon realm forces.
• Equal to Heaven gave Chen Fan a Kun Bag and fell silent after asking him to bring his descendant back.
• Chen Fan bowed to Equal to Heaven, left the remaining inheritance untouched, and decided to return for Little Golden Monkey, Qin Xian'er, and Chen Jingjing.
• The Immortal Court elders and demon realm powerhouses waited outside Water Curtain Cave, and the Fat Daoist returned as they debated whether Chen Fan was dead.
• Ink Dragon said at least twelve hundred cultivators had entered, and the Fat Daoist replied that there was no problem, alarming the Immortal Court and demon realm leaders.

Chen Fan emerged from Water Curtain Cave after receiving a strand of Equal to Heaven’s inheritance, and he misled the Immortal Court and Demon Realm about what had happened to the cultivators inside. After Fat Daoist suspected Little Golden Monkey was part of Equal to Heaven’s plan, he told Chen Fan that his own scheme to kill the Heavenly Emperor would cost only two lives.

• Chen Fan returned from Water Curtain Cave, and the gathered experts realized that the thousand Integration Realm cultivators sent inside were unlikely to come back.
• Chen Fan told the Immortal Court and Demon Realm that Equal to Heaven had given him a strand of inheritance and asked him for help, while keeping the details of the cave to himself.
• Fat Daoist led Chen Fan and Ink Dragon away, and the Nine-Tailed Fox ordered her people to watch Chen Fan and investigate Water Curtain Cave for the remaining inheritance.
• Chen Fan told Fat Daoist and Ink Dragon what he had seen, and Fat Daoist speculated that Little Golden Monkey might be Equal to Heaven’s way of surviving.
• Fat Daoist asked Chen Fan to stand with him against the Heavenly Emperor and revealed that his plan would cost two lives, unlike Equal to Heaven’s scheme, which would kill many living beings.

The Fat Daoist warned Chen Fan that Equal to Heaven and the Heavenly Emperor could destroy the Dark Void Realm, and that defeating the Heavenly Emperor would require Chen Fan to risk dying alongside him. Troubled by the choice, Chen Fan returned to Heavy Sword Peak, where an ordinary old cultivator noticed him despite his concealment.

• The Fat Daoist explained that Equal to Heaven might return to fight the Heavenly Emperor, a battle that would destroy the Dark Void Realm and kill those below the Integration Realm.
• The Fat Daoist said that he and Chen Fan could defeat the Heavenly Emperor with the Heaven-Burning Art, but both would die, and Chen Fan needed the resolve to sacrifice himself.
• After the Fat Daoist and Ink Dragon left, they caught and killed three concealed Tribulation Transcendence cultivators who had been spying on Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan used the Fat Daoist's tokens to enter the Dark Void Realm and returned to the Great Immortal Cultivation World, reflecting on Qin Xian'er and his other loved ones as he visited places from his past.
• Chen Fan spent the day on Heavy Sword Peak, where an ordinary old man noticed him despite his concealed aura and cultivation.

After an old man helped Chen Fan settle his doubts about pursuing eternal strength, Chen Fan returned to the Great Immortal Cultivation World and learned more about the Heavenly Emperor’s plans. He joined Nine Palaces Elder and the others to find Qin Xian’er’s group and prepare to lead everyone away from the threatened realms.

• An old man advised Chen Fan to cultivate without obsessing over eternal supreme strength, and Chen Fan found peace of mind and thanked him.
• Chen Fan returned to Demon King Valley, then traveled to the Great Immortal Cultivation World and found Nine Palaces Elder in the Peach Blossom Spring Mystic Realm.
• Chen Fan told Nine Palaces Elder, Bald Bird, and Old Yellow Tooth about the Immortal Realm and the Heavenly Emperor’s plan to conquer the realms.
• Nine Palaces Elder agreed that they had to act quickly, and he led the group to the Immortal Cave where Qin Xian’er and the others were training.
• Nine Palaces Elder used his power to retrieve hidden treasures from the Immortal Cave, then the group reached Qin Xian’er’s party, where Little Golden Monkey flew toward Chen Fan.

Chen Fan traveled to the remote Demon Realm to meet Fat Daoist and secluded himself to complete his inheritance, breaking through into the Tribulation Crossing Stage. As he and his allies searched for a way to hasten his cultivation, Nine Palaces Elder suddenly chased a rampaging Little Golden Monkey across the sky.

• Chen Fan brought Nine Palaces Elder through the Dark Void Realm and reunited with Fat Daoist, then sent Chen Yi and the others to a secret realm for their trial.
• Chen Fan sealed himself inside a volcano and used the final half of his inheritance to break through from the Integration Realm into the Tribulation Crossing Stage.
• Chen Fan completed his inheritance and learned that reaching the Immortal Realm would still require him to survive a dangerous heavenly tribulation.
• Chen Fan asked Fat Daoist how he could cultivate faster, but Fat Daoist said the Heavenly Emperor had destroyed the places that might hold great fortunes.
• Ink Dragon recalled the Moon Palace Pavilion, but Fat Daoist explained that the Heavenly Emperor had already razed it.
• Nine Palaces Elder chased Little Golden Monkey across the sky and called for Chen Fan to stop him, saying the monkey had suddenly gone mad.

Little Golden Monkey’s memories of Equal to Heaven awakened, and it returned to Water Curtain Cave, where its golden light began restoring Equal to Heaven’s body. Before the transfer finished, it sent Chen Fan a strand of golden light that began tempering his body with Equal to Heaven’s inheritance.

• Little Golden Monkey broke free from Nine Palaces Elder and raced toward Water Curtain Cave after memories awakened near a volcano.
• Fat Daoist tried to capture Little Golden Monkey, but it escaped using the Eight-Nine Arcane Art and left behind a golden hair.
• Little Golden Monkey reached Water Curtain Cave, and the surging lava shattered the seal as Equal to Heaven began returning.
• Chen Fan entered Water Curtain Cave and saw Little Golden Monkey pour its golden light into Equal to Heaven’s body.
• Little Golden Monkey opened its eyes, looked at Chen Fan, and sent a strand of golden light into his dantian, beginning the transfer of Equal to Heaven’s inheritance.

Chen Fan accepted Equal to Heaven’s inheritance and chose to enter its memories to break through his Sword Dao bottleneck. He relived Equal to Heaven’s arrest in the Immortal Court and survived Yang Jian’s beheading strike, though he did not yet know what awaited him.

• Chen Fan absorbed the golden inheritance power, strengthened his cultivation, and reached a bottleneck because his Sword Dao comprehension had not caught up.
• Equal to Heaven offered Chen Fan a chance to relive its past through his Divine Soul, warning that the experience might be too much for him to endure.
• Chen Fan reconsidered his fear of risking his life for the people he cared about, recovered his resolve, and sent his Divine Soul into the golden radiance.
• Chen Fan awoke in Equal to Heaven’s memories as the golden-furred monkey, bound and escorted before the Heavenly Emperor, who ordered it taken away for execution.
• Chen Fan recognized Taibai Jinxing, Yang Jian, and the Eight Immortals among the court, then endured Yang Jian’s blade striking Equal to Heaven’s neck without injury.

Chen Fan endured Equal to Heaven’s trials and began breaking through his bottleneck by experiencing the mysteries of the Immortal Realm through its battles. As the inheritance sealed Water Curtain Cave and Five Finger Mountain began releasing Immortal Qi, the Heavenly Emperor appeared in the Dark Void Realm, declaring his ambition to claim the world and Heavenly Dao.

• Yang Jian declared that Equal to Heaven’s body could not be beheaded and left, while Chen Fan realized his Chaos Green Lotus body might let him avoid an immortal tribulation.
• Chen Fan endured the Immortal Court’s lightning and Lord Taishang’s Samadhi True Fires alongside Equal to Heaven, remaining largely unharmed.
• Equal to Heaven escaped the furnace and fought through the Immortal Court, and Chen Fan sensed its Dao and cultivation, loosening his bottleneck.
• Fat Daoist, Ink Dragon, and Nine Palaces Elder failed to enter Water Curtain Cave because Equal to Heaven’s inheritance barred them, and Fat Daoist urged everyone to leave.
• After months of stillness, Five Finger Mountain cracked open and released Immortal Qi, while Fat Daoist sensed that events were unfolding faster than expected.
• The Heavenly Emperor appeared in the Dark Void Realm and vowed that the world and Heavenly Dao would return to him.

As the Heavenly Emperor’s arrival drew near, the Immortal Court and Demon Realm prepared for a final conflict and sent forces to protect the Great Immortal Cultivation World. Chen Fan relived Equal to Heaven’s battle with the Heavenly Emperor, but was driven from the memories before breaking through his bottleneck.

• Fat Daoist told the gathered immortals and demons that only one year remained and urged them to send Integration Realm cultivators to defend the lower realm.
• Fat Daoist took Chen Yi to seek the final inheritance of the Heavenly Dao, while Ink Dragon sent Nine Palaces Elder to join the defenders at the Immortal Demon Wall.
• Chen Fan witnessed Equal to Heaven discover that the Heavenly Emperor had slaughtered the hidden monkey descendants and attack the Immortal Court in fury.
• Equal to Heaven led the Demon Realm into battle, spared many Immortal Court survivors, and finally confronted the Heavenly Emperor.
• Chen Fan was forced out of Equal to Heaven’s memories with his soul weakened and only a faint sliver remaining before his bottleneck.

The cultivation world and its allies fought the Heavenly Emperor’s forces after the year’s deadline passed, while the Heavenly Emperor entered the shattered realm and clashed with the Fat Daoist. Qin Xian'er and the others joined the battle, but the Fat Daoist told them only to wait, leaving Chen Yi’s fate unresolved.

• After a year of waiting outside Water Curtain Cave, the Immortal Court and Demon Realm learned that the invasion had begun and prepared to fight.
• Integration Realm experts and Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators attacked, while Fei Fengxuan, Cai Teng, a golden Monkey, Jian Tianmo, and Su Jingyun joined the defenders.
• Tribulation Transcendence experts entered the battle, prompting the Immortal Court and Demon Realm to send their own reinforcements as the fighting shattered the sky.
• The Heavenly Emperor emerged from the Dark Void Realm, and the Fat Daoist confronted him with the Heaven-Burning Art.
• Ink Dragon brought Qin Xian'er, Bald Bird, and the others to the battle; the Fat Daoist told them to wait, while Ye Xiaotian, Chen Jingjing, Qin Xian'er, and Mu Yunshui fought the Heavenly Dao Sect, and Ink Dragon joined the clash above.
• Bald Bird and Old Yellow Tooth set killing formations against the Heavenly Dao Sect and looted their treasures.

The Great Immortal Cultivation World suffered catastrophic losses as the Heavenly Emperor overpowered the defenders, until Equal to Heaven and Chen Fan arrived to challenge him. Chen Fan declared that he would fight for his sword and slay Heavenly Dao, setting the stage for the final confrontation.

• The Heavenly Emperor wounded Fat Daoist and unleashed devastation across the lower realm, killing cultivators and countless living beings.
• Equal to Heaven appeared and faced the Heavenly Emperor, while Fat Daoist warned him not to attack with people below caught in the battle.
• Holy Son Cai Teng sacrificed himself to kill dozens of Heavenly Dao Sect members, and Fei Fengxuan died soon after; Jian Tianmo continued protecting Su Jingyun.
• Equal to Heaven revealed that he had given part of his inheritance to Chen Fan, who arrived in the Immortal Realm and stood beside Fat Daoist.
• The Heavenly Emperor doubted Chen Fan would die to save all living beings, but Chen Fan said he fought for his sword and would slay Heavenly Dao.

Chen Fan and Fat Daoist fought the Heavenly Emperor, whose Supreme Restriction had begun to succumb to their Heaven-Burning Arts. After the Heavenly Emperor absorbed a hidden Heavenly Dao inheritance and overwhelmed them, Chen Fan tried to use reincarnation to turn the battle around, but it failed.

• Equal to Heaven left the Dark Void Realm to slaughter the Heavenly Emperor's forces while Chen Fan and Fat Daoist confronted the Heavenly Emperor.
• Chen Fan and Fat Daoist wounded the Heavenly Emperor, but he seized and swallowed a stretch of sky containing one of the Heavenly Dao's hidden inheritances, restoring and greatly increasing his Supreme Restriction.
• Fat Daoist took the Heavenly Emperor's attack head-on to protect Chen Fan and the world, suffering grievous injuries as Equal to Heaven prepared to intervene if they fell.
• Chen Fan refused to retreat and unleashed the Dao Rhythm of Reincarnation, but the vault of heaven did not respond.

Chen Fan sacrificed himself to destroy the Heavenly Emperor, but a fragment of his soul survived and was preserved in a spirit-locking formation. A thousand years later, a green lotus revived him, while Qin Xian'er and Mu Yunshui waited for him to awaken.

• The Fat Daoist sacrificed his life to weaken the Heavenly Emperor, and Chen Fan struck him with Sword Sweeps Eight Wastelands but only severed one arm.
• Chen Fan used Reincarnation to restore his strength, then spent his life unleashing the Life and Death Dao charm and destroying the Heavenly Emperor.
• The Taiji Diagram scattered six rays of light, and Equal to Heaven caught one that held a wisp of Chen Fan's soul; Bald Bird realized Chen Fan might still live.
• Equal to Heaven kept Chen Fan's fading soul in a spirit-locking formation while Qin Xian'er and Mu Yunshui waited for him in the secret realm.
• A thousand years later, a green lotus grew within Chen Fan's soul, enveloped it, and Chen Fan opened his eyes.

Xu Que killed a Tiger-Bull Beast while saving Xiao Rou, reached the Foundation Establishment Realm, and gained new system rewards and abilities. After returning to Xiao Rou’s home, he heard an argument at the village entrance and ran to investigate, with Xiao Rou following.

• Xiao Rou left to help villagers confront a beast, and Xu Que hurried after her despite his injuries.
• Xu Que protected Xiao Rou from the Tiger-Bull Beast, then beat it to death and gained enough experience to reach Level 1 Foundation Establishment Realm.
• The villagers celebrated Xu Que’s victory, while Xiao Rou realized he had tied her embroidered bellyband around his waist.
• Xu Que bought Dragon Soars Nine Transformations with Acting Tough Points and opened his Growth Gift Pack, gaining a Recycling Function, a Disguise Puppet, and a Basic Divine Travel Escape Talisman.
• Xu Que returned to Xiao Rou’s home, but when he heard angry commotion from the village entrance, he ran over to investigate as Xiao Rou followed.

Xu Que killed Pang Bao and the Heavenly Martial Sect cultivators who attacked Winding Mountain Village, then resolved to protect the village from further threats. He chose the Eight Desolations Four Symbols Formation and prepared to strengthen the villagers’ defenses.

• Xu Que killed Pang Bao with the first transformation of Dragon Soars Nine Transformations, and the villagers mistook him for an immortal before Xiao Rou explained their fear of the Heavenly Martial Sect.
• Xu Que recycled stolen techniques into Cultivation Art Essence, mastered Dragon Soars Nine Transformations, and learned that the Heavenly Martial Sect had issued a warrant for him.
• Xu Que refused to flee when cultivators attacked Winding Mountain Village, shielded the villagers from their spells, and killed the attacking cultivators with Dragon Soars Nine Transformations and Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Xu Que mourned the villagers killed in the attack, vowed to protect Winding Mountain Village, and considered ways to help it withstand future threats.
• Xu Que examined formations in the system shop and exchanged for the Eight Desolations Four Symbols Formation to defend Winding Mountain Village.