Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen killed the One-Star Dou Sheng Nether Old Ghost and consumed his essence, breaking through to Dou Sheng and Great Perfection of the Heaven Realm soul. His transformed energy then resonated with the plane’s crystal wall, leaving him with a glimpse of the Great Thousand World and questions about the Dou Di and Origin Qi.

• Nether Old Ghost arrived at the City of Sin and attacked Lin Chen, who met his Saintly power with the Blood Sea, karma fire, and Yuantu Abi Twin Swords.
• Lin Chen wore Nether Old Ghost down, bound him with blood chains, and annihilated him with the Chaos Sword Wheel.
• Lin Chen devoured Nether Old Ghost’s essence and drained the remaining life and souls across the region to fuel his breakthrough.
• Lin Chen became a Dou Sheng and reached Great Perfection of the Heaven Realm soul, gaining the ability to sense the laws across ten thousand li.
• Lin Chen’s new dark-gold energy resonated with the plane’s crystal wall, and he sensed a higher world that he identified as the Great Thousand World.

After a year of seclusion, Lin Chen transformed his Dou Qi into spiritual energy, reached Emperor Realm Soul, and traveled to East Dragon Island. He interrupted a tense alliance negotiation with North Dragon Island and trapped Bei Mingfeng and his envoys as they tried to leave.

• Lin Chen spent nearly a year transforming his Dou Sheng-level Dou Qi into spiritual energy, strengthening his body, and breaking through to Emperor Realm Soul.
• Lin Chen replied to Xun'er’s message, promised to visit her, and set out for East Dragon Island to check on Medusa, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan.
• At East Dragon Island, Bei Mingfeng urged Elder Qi You to ally with North Dragon Island against South Dragon Island, but Qi You refused to abandon East Dragon Island’s principles.
• Lin Chen arrived in the council hall and overwhelmed Bei Mingfeng and the other North Dragon Island envoys with his presence.
• Bei Mingfeng ordered his party to leave, but Lin Chen sealed the space around them and demanded to know whether he had given them permission to go.

Lin Chen killed Bei Mingfeng, won East Dragon Island’s support for uniting the Ancient Dragon Clan, and learned of the other islands’ alliances. He set out with Medusa for the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python Clan while Zi Yan remained in seclusion.

• Lin Chen restrained Bei Mingfeng and persuaded Qi You and East Dragon Island’s leaders to join his plan to reunite the Ancient Dragon Clan under Zi Yan.
• Bei Mingfeng tried to break free and threaten East Dragon Island, but Lin Chen annihilated him with a strike of spiritual sword intent.
• Qi You told Lin Chen that North Dragon Island had ties to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, South Dragon Island had ties to the Nine Nether Deep Python Clan, and West Dragon Island had other allies.
• Lin Chen ordered Qi You to gather East Dragon Island’s forces, checked on Zi Yan in the Dragon Emperor Secret Realm, and visited Medusa, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Lin Chen took Medusa with him and headed toward the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python Clan’s territory.

Lin Chen destroyed the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python Clan’s leaders, rescued the imprisoned Yao Ming, and forced the clan to submit. He then brought Medusa to the Nine Nether Yellow Spring and prepared to refine a Ninth-grade Pill to help her bloodline breakthrough.

• Lin Chen and Medusa entered the Nine Nether Abyss, where Lin Chen killed the Dou Venerate elders who confronted them.
• Yao Xiaotian and Ming Quan attacked Lin Chen with the Ten Thousand Snake Array, but Lin Chen killed both with the Yuantu Abi Twin Swords and shattered the formation.
• Lin Chen found Yao Ming imprisoned beneath the Nine Nether Yellow Spring, freed him, and placed a soul seal on him in exchange for his allegiance.
• Yao Ming returned with Lin Chen, and the surviving members of the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python Clan submitted after their patriarch and First Elder were killed.
• Lin Chen brought Medusa to the Nine Nether Yellow Spring and began preparing to refine a Ninth-grade Pill to help her awaken her Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python bloodline.

Lin Chen refined a Ninth-Grade pill for Medusa, then returned to help East Dragon Island confront the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. After killing two elders and badly wounding another, he forced Huang Tian to submit, clearing a major obstacle to uniting the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

• Lin Chen completed the Nine-Turn Nether Phoenix Blood-Tempering Pill, destroyed its tribulation, and gave it to Medusa, who swallowed it and entered the Nine Nether Yellow Spring to refine it.
• Qi You awakened Qingshan and Qingmu, and the three elders of East Dragon Island went to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to demand that it cut ties with North Dragon Island.
• Huang Tian refused to sever the alliance, and Lin Chen arrived with Medusa as the negotiations reached an impasse.
• Lin Chen killed Yinghuang with spatial force, then slew Kunhuang and gravely wounded Fenghuang with the Yuantu Abi Twin Swords.
• Huang Tian judged that fighting Lin Chen could ruin his clan, so he bowed and declared the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan willing to submit.

Lin Chen and the allied clans launched a campaign to unite the Ancient Dragon Clan, but Zi Yan awakened as a Four-Star Dou Sheng and joined the assault on West Dragon Island. After conquering the island and advancing to Three-Star Dou Sheng, Lin Chen learned that North Dragon Island and South Dragon Island had allied against them, setting up the final battle.

• Lin Chen ordered East Dragon Island, the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python Clan, and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan to attack all three rival Dragon Islands.
• Zi Yan emerged from seclusion with awakened Dragon Emperor bloodline and Early-Stage Four-Star Dou Sheng strength, then placed the campaign under Lin Chen’s direction.
• Lin Chen redirected the coalition to strike West Dragon Island first, where Zi Yan and the allied forces broke the island’s protective formation and defeated its defenders.
• Lin Chen killed Zhu Mu and helped bring down Xuan Mo, devouring their energy and breaking through to Early-Stage Three-Star Dou Sheng.
• The West Dragon King surrendered to Zi Yan, who bound him with a Dragon Emperor Mark, and West Dragon Island joined their forces.
• North Dragon Island and South Dragon Island allied and massed troops at the North Dragon Island border for the coming battle.

Lin Chen and Zi Yan defeated the invading North and South Dragon Islands, ending the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s civil war and raising Lin Chen’s cultivation to early Four-Star Dou Sheng. After consolidating the reunited clan, Lin Chen planned to travel with Zi Yan to meet the imprisoned Old Dragon Emperor, Zhu Kun.

• The North Dragon King and South Dragon King led their joint armies to attack West Dragon Island, where Zi Yan, Lin Chen, and their allies assembled to face them.
• Lie Shan charged at Lin Chen, who casually crushed the Two-Star Dou Sheng and erased him before both armies.
• The North Dragon King used the Dragon Transformation Demon Array to drain his soldiers and Half-Saints, then devoured the wounded South Dragon King to reach Late Four-Star Dou Sheng.
• Lin Chen used Yuantu—God Slaughter to destroy the North Dragon King and absorbed the energy left behind, advancing to early Four-Star Dou Sheng.
• With all three enemy leaders dead, the North and South Dragon Island forces surrendered, and the reunited Ancient Void Dragon Clan hailed Zi Yan and Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen planned to stabilize his cultivation and settle the clan’s affairs before traveling with Zi Yan to meet Zhu Kun.

Lin Chen refined pills for the unified Ancient Void Dragon Clan, absorbed nine Heavenly Flames into the Karma Fire Red Lotus, and reunited with Xiao Xun'er. After promising to seek her father’s approval for their marriage, he took Zi Yan toward Jia Nan Academy to reveal her origins and find Zhu Kun.

• Lin Chen spent three months refining high-grade pills, strengthening his allies and stabilizing his four-star Dou Sheng cultivation while Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin also advanced.
• Lin Chen gathered nine Heavenly Flames and fused their essence into the Karma Fire Red Lotus, which gained the ability to create Child Flames; he gave them to Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Xiao Xun'er.
• At their meeting in the Central Plains, Lin Chen intimidated Gu Yuelin and Gu Shan with his Dou Sheng pressure before Xiao Xun'er embraced him and reaffirmed her love.
• Lin Chen promised to ask Xiao Xun'er's father for her hand, gave her a Child Flame, and parted from her when she had to return to the Ancient Realm for a bloodline baptism.
• Lin Chen returned to East Dragon Island, brought Zi Yan with him, and set out for Jia Nan Academy to visit the Magma World, find Zhu Kun, and tell Zi Yan about her origins.

Lin Chen brought Zi Yan to the magma world beneath Jia Nan Academy, where she reunited with her father, Zhu Kun, after ten thousand years apart. After testing the restrictions on Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, Lin Chen told Zhu Kun he might be able to free him, but that it would come at a price.

• Lin Chen told Zi Yan that her father, the former Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun, was trapped beneath Jia Nan Academy, and the two traveled to find him.
• Lin Chen and Zi Yan fought through the Flame Lizardmen guarding the magma depths, and Lin Chen advanced to early-stage Five-Star Dou Sheng after devouring their energy.
• Zhu Kun recognized Zi Yan as his daughter and explained that he had been trapped while seeking a way to escape, not abandoning her by choice.
• Zhu Kun gave Zi Yan his life essence blood, and she began refining it as their resentment eased and they spoke as father and daughter.
• Lin Chen sent a Blood God Child clone to test the restrictions on Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, and the clone returned with spiritual power and a fragment of flame-law insight.
• Lin Chen told Zhu Kun he had a possible way to free him, but warned that Zhu Kun would have to pay a price.

Lin Chen negotiated Zhu Kun’s support for a campaign against the ancient clans, then used the Karma Fire Red Lotus and the Yuantu Abi Twin Swords to free him from the Dou Di restriction. They returned to East Dragon Island with Zi Yan, whose cultivation had risen to the early stage of Five-Star Dou Sheng, where the clan discovered that Zhu Kun had returned.

• Lin Chen demanded that Zhu Kun lead the Ancient Void Dragon Clan under his orders and help seize the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade Fragments from five clans; Zhu Kun agreed to join him.
• As Zi Yan refined Zhu Kun’s essence blood, Lin Chen and Zhu Kun attacked the restriction binding Zhu Kun, weakening its chains with the Karma Fire Red Lotus and Zhu Kun’s strength.
• Lin Chen manifested the Yuantu Abi Twin Swords and shattered the weakened chains, freeing Zhu Kun after nearly ten thousand years of imprisonment.
• Lin Chen brought Zhu Kun and Zi Yan out of the Magma World; Zi Yan emerged from her cocoon at the early stage of Five-Star Dou Sheng.
• Lin Chen, Zi Yan, and Zhu Kun arrived at East Dragon Island, where Qi You, the elders, and the gathered clan leaders recognized the returned Old Dragon Emperor and stood in stunned silence.

After Zhu Kun returned, Lin Chen rallied the reunited alliance to seek the Ancient Emperor Jade fragments and destroy the Soul Clan, beginning with negotiations with the Gu, Lei, Yan, and Yao Clans. Following three months of pill-making and training that raised Lin Chen to Six-Star Dou Sheng, he led the alliance into the Yao Realm to meet Clan Chief Yao Dan.

• Zhu Kun returned to East Dragon Island, and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan welcomed him as their Old Dragon Emperor.
• Lin Chen ordered the alliance’s Dou Zun and Dou Sheng experts to assemble and announced plans to ally with the Gu, Lei, Yan, and Yao Clans before concentrating their strength against the Soul Clan.
• Zhu Kun and Lin Chen displayed their overwhelming pressure, winning the alliance’s support; Lin Chen then ordered a three-month rest and directed its medicinal ingredients to Alchemy Hall.
• Lin Chen refined vast quantities of pills during the three months, strengthening the alliance and advancing from early Five-Star to early Six-Star Dou Sheng.
• Lin Chen led Zhu Kun, Zi Yan, twelve Dou Saints, and more than a hundred Dou Venerates through a spatial rift to the Yao Realm and called for Clan Chief Yao Dan to meet him.

Lin Chen led an alliance army into the Medicine Realm to recruit the Yao Clan for a campaign against the Soul Clan and to gather the Tou She Ancient God Jade. After defeating the clan’s leaders and destroying its defenses, he forced the Yao Clan to submit, drawing the attention of the other ancient clans.

• Lin Chen arrived at the Medicine Realm with Zhu Kun, Zi Yan, and allied forces, but Yao Dan and the Yao Clan elders refused his offer of an alliance and activated their protective array.
• Lin Chen used the united Yuantu and Abi Swords to shatter the Myriad Medicine Profound Heaven Array with one strike.
• Elder Wanhuo attacked Lin Chen openly while Yao Wangui launched a sneak attack, and Lin Chen killed both elders with his swords.
• Yao Dan burned his bloodline and attacked Lin Chen with his Emperor Pill Art, but Lin Chen’s sword technique left him near death and unable to fight.
• An elder led the surviving Yao Clan members in surrender, and Lin Chen ordered the clan’s Dou Venerate-level experts and above to join him at the Ancient Clan within three days.
• The leaders of the other ancient clans sensed the upheaval in the Medicine Realm and began investigating Lin Chen and his alliance.

After reaching the peak of the Six-Star Dou Sheng realm, Lin Chen destroyed the Lei Clan’s protective formation and forced the Lei Clan to join his alliance. As the Flame and Stone Clans united against him, the Soul Clan reported the growing threat to its leader, and Hun Tiandi awakened.

• Lin Chen absorbed the Yao Clan’s treasures, advanced to the peak of the Six-Star Dou Sheng realm, and set out for the Thunder Realm with Zhu Kun, Zi Yan, and the Yao Clan’s acting patriarch.
• Lei Ying activated the Nine Profound Golden Thunder Array, while reinforcements from the Flame Clan joined the Lei Clan in defending the Thunder Realm.
• Lin Chen used the Yuantu and Abi Swords to destroy the formation, kill three Flame Clan elders, and grievously wound Lei Ying, who then agreed to join the alliance.
• After learning of the Lei Clan’s defeat, the Flame and Stone Clans set aside their old grudges and allied against Lin Chen, while Gu Yuan considered the upheaval.
• Nihility Devouring Flame ordered Hun Miesheng and the Soul Clan’s elders to summon their clan leader, and Hun Tiandi awoke from seclusion.

Lin Chen advanced to Early-Stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng, sent Qingshan to obtain Xiao Yan’s Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade Fragment, and led his alliance to force the Stone Clan’s surrender. The Ancient Clan and Flame Clan formed an alliance and prepared to meet Lin Chen at the Falling Star Platform as the continent divided into rival camps.

• Lin Chen refined his accumulated power, broke through to Early-Stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng, and ordered Qingshan to take two Ninth-Grade Treasure Pills to Xiao Yan in exchange for his Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade Fragment.
• Lin Chen led the allied army to the Stone Realm, where his power and Zhu Kun’s pressure forced Shi Potian and the Stone Clan to submit without a battle.
• The Stone Clan joined Lin Chen’s alliance, bringing its forces to more than fifteen Dou Sheng experts and over three hundred Dou Venerates.
• After learning of the Stone Clan’s surrender, Gu Yuan ordered the Ancient Clan to ally with the Flame Clan, prepare its defenses, and invite Lin Chen to negotiate at the Falling Star Platform.
• Yan Jin accepted the Ancient Clan’s alliance proposal and sent Flame Clan reinforcements to the Ancient Realm while ordering his forces to watch Lin Chen’s movements.

Lin Chen confronted the Ancient, Flame, and Spirit Clans outside the Ancient Realm and challenged all their Dou Shengs to fight him alone, wagering the clans’ submission. After defeating their combined forces, he secured their surrender and brought nearly every known top force on the continent under his command.

• Lin Chen arrived outside the Ancient Realm with his allied forces and told Gu Yuan he sought an alliance and the mystery of the Ancient Emperor, not the Ancient Clan’s destruction.
• Lin Chen challenged every Dou Sheng of the Resistance Alliance to fight him alone, promising to withdraw if defeated and demanding the three clans submit if he won.
• Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, the Spirit Clan Leader, and twenty-three other Dou Shengs formed an attack against Lin Chen, but he countered their techniques with his karmic fire, soul attacks, and twin swords.
• Lin Chen overwhelmed the twenty-six Dou Shengs, leaving Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, the Spirit Clan Leader, and their fighters defeated and gravely wounded.
• Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and the Spirit Clan Leader submitted to Lin Chen, bringing the Ancient, Flame, and Spirit Clans under his command.

After subduing the Ancient Clan, Lin Chen reunited with Xiao Xun'er and ordered the alliance to invade the Soul Realm and destroy the Soul Clan. The alliance broke through the Soul Realm’s defenses and confronted Hun Tiandi, who was stunned by Lin Chen’s rise.

• Lin Chen entered the Ancient Realm with the alliance’s leaders, and Xiao Xun’er rushed into his arms after emerging from the seal.
• The clan leaders suspected Gu Yuan had conspired with Lin Chen, while Gu Yuan could only accept their accusations in embarrassment.
• Lin Chen convened the alliance and ordered every Dou Sheng-level expert to march on the Soul Realm and wipe out the Soul Clan.
• More than thirty Dou Sheng experts traveled through the void and broke through the Soul Realm’s barrier with a coordinated assault.
• Lin Chen led the alliance into the Soul Realm, where Hun Tiandi and the surviving Soul Clan experts faced them.
• Hun Tiandi readied himself for the confrontation but was shaken by the news that Lin Chen had risen from obscurity in only a few years.

Lin Chen rejected Hun Tiandi’s surrender, stopped him from activating the Eternal Soul Sacrifice Array, and annihilated the Soul Clan. After absorbing their power, Lin Chen reached Peak Eight-Star Dou Saint and began preparing to break through further.

• Hun Tiandi offered to surrender the Soul Clan, but Lin Chen refused and declared that he would wipe the clan from the continent.
• Hun Tiandi tried to activate the Eternal Soul Sacrifice Array, but Lin Chen’s Blood Sea Domain suppressed him and revealed hundreds of Blood God Child clones.
• Hun Tiandi tried to self-destruct, but Lin Chen trapped him in the Karma Fire Red Lotus and erased him with the Chaos Sword.
• Lin Chen and his allies defeated the remaining Soul Clan forces as the Blood Sea Domain devoured the clan and erased every trace of it.
• Lin Chen absorbed the Soul Clan’s power, advanced to Peak Eight-Star Dou Saint, and entered a blood-red cocoon to pursue another breakthrough.

After destroying the Soul Clan, Lin Chen broke through to Nine-Star Dou Sheng and reunited with Medusa after her evolution into a Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python. He assembled the complete Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade and opened the way to the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion, where the stone gate began drawing everything inside.

• Lin Chen broke through to early-stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng and sensed Medusa’s transformation, then traveled with the alliance leaders to the Nine Nether Yellow Spring.
• Medusa completed her evolution into a Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and reunited with Lin Chen, who confirmed that they would open the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion.
• Lin Chen combined the eight fragments of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade and ordered Zhu Kun, Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, Lei Ying, Shi Potian, Zi Yan, and Medusa to accompany him.
• Lin Chen and the others reached the ancient stone gate beneath Jia Nan Academy and placed the complete Ancient Emperor Jade against it.
• The stone gate awakened, its restrictions faded, and a tremendous suction force began pulling in magma, rock, and space.

Lin Chen entered the Tou She Ancient God Cave with the other experts and defeated the Half-Step Dou Di Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill, then claimed the ancient god’s inheritance. After the group found a chamber of Heaven-Rank Dou Techniques and left the cave, Lin Chen planned to devour the inheritance statue to advance to Dou Di.

• Lin Chen and the others entered the cave, where the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill revealed itself as a Half-Step Dou Di.
• Yan Jin, Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Shi Potian, and other experts attacked the Pill Spirit, but it repelled them with one sweep and severely injured them.
• Lin Chen overwhelmed the Pill Spirit with his higher-essence power and sealed the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill for himself.
• Lin Chen claimed the Tou She Ancient God statue and discovered that its legacy required the Flame Mantra, then resolved to devour it to pursue a breakthrough to Dou Di.
• Zhu Kun, Gu Yuan, and the others found a secret chamber containing over a hundred Heaven-Rank Dou Techniques, collected the cave’s treasures, and left.

Lin Chen entered the Void Thunder Pool to break through to Dou Di by devouring the Tou She Ancient God statue, but Tou She Ancient God's remnant will dragged him into a fiery realm to defend its inheritance. Lin Chen defeated and devoured the will, then emerged as a Dou Di and demonstrated his power by tearing open the Void Space.

• Lin Chen announced that he would break through to Dou Di in the Void Thunder Pool, and Zhu Kun, Zi Yan, and Gu Yuan pledged to protect him.
• Lin Chen entered the thunder pool and used the Blood Scripture to devour the Tou She Ancient God statue, but the statue's remnant will trapped his consciousness in a fiery realm.
• Lin Chen fought Tou She Ancient God's will with his Blood Sea Domain, Karma Fire Red Lotus, Yuantu, and Abi, then destroyed and devoured the will.
• Lin Chen absorbed the statue's energy and Origin Qi, broke through to Dou Di, and caused the gathered experts to kneel beneath his pressure.
• Lin Chen opened his eyes and silently tore a million-mile rift through the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's Void Space.