Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan arrived to protect the survivors and joined an Azure Dragon strike in badly wounding the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Emperor. Lin Dong then appeared, reuniting with Xiao Yan as the crowd celebrated the arrival of the Great Thousand Twin Heroes.

• Xiao Yan emerged amid Emperor Flame and forced back the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Emperor’s aura while shielding the survivors.
• An Azure Dragon claw struck the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Emperor, shattering his demonic body and leaving him near death; Lu Heng was erased by the clash.
• Mu Chen recognized the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art, and Lin Jing explained that Lin Dong had perfected the technique.
• Lin Dong arrived and was identified as Martial Ancestor, prompting the survivors to cheer at the arrival of another Saint Grade powerhouse.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong greeted each other as old friends.

Martial Ancestor Lin Dong and the Flame Emperor arrived at the Heavenly Emperor Mausoleum, followed by the resurrected powerhouses of the ancient Heavenly Palace. When Mu Chen revealed that the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Emperor had nine Demon Hearts and one life left, Martial Ancestor seized the demon and ordered Mu Chen to continue.

• Lin Jing and Xiao Xiao reunited with their fathers, Martial Ancestor and the Flame Emperor, who arrived at the mausoleum.
• The Second Hall Master led the revived leaders of the Heavenly Palace lineage to the gathering and greeted Mandala and Mu Chen.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Demon Emperor asked the two Saint Grade titans for their names, and they introduced themselves as Xiao Yan and Lin Dong.
• Mu Chen explained that the demon had nine Demon Hearts and nine lives, with only one remaining after Martial Ancestor destroyed the eighth.
• Martial Ancestor stopped the demon from threatening Mu Chen, crushed his counterattack with the Azure Dragon Seating Heaven Seal, and captured him in his palm.

The Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor revived the Green-Robed Heavenly Emperor, who reunited with Mandala and named Mu Chen his final disciple and true successor. The Heavenly Emperor’s approval gave Mu Chen the title he had once claimed on his own.

• The Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor dismissed the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Emperor’s threats and agreed to summon the Heavenly Emperor before executing him.
• The Martial Ancestor poured life-and-death power into the Green-Robed Heavenly Emperor, restoring him to life.
• The Heavenly Emperor greeted the Heavenly Palace’s leaders and comforted Mandala, though she knew his life was nearly over.
• Mandala introduced Mu Chen, and the Heavenly Emperor declared him his final disciple, true successor, and the future Second Generation Heavenly Emperor.
• Mu Chen bowed to the Heavenly Emperor and accepted him as his master.

Martial Ancestor Lin Dong and the Flame Emperor explained their plan to revive the dying Heavenly Emperor as part of a larger effort to prepare the Great Thousand World for another war with the Evil Clan from Beyond. The Heavenly Emperor agreed to their help, hoping to restore the Daoist Sect and Heavenly Palace and drive out the Outer Realm Demons.

• The Flame Emperor prompted Martial Ancestor Lin Dong to explain why they had come to the Tianluo Continent.
• Martial Ancestor Lin Dong revealed that he and the Flame Emperor were pursuing plans to reach the Dominator Realm and revive fallen ancient experts before the Great Thousand Demon-Subduing Array’s final activation.
• The leaders learned that the Heavenly Emperor was their first target for revival, and Mandala questioned whether his exhausted Origin could be restored.
• The Flame Emperor said he could revive the Heavenly Emperor with spirit medicines and other treasures, while Martial Ancestor Lin Dong could use the Undying Coffin.
• The Heavenly Emperor thanked everyone and said he wanted to restore the Daoist Sect and Heavenly Palace and drive out the Outer Realm Demons.

Mu Chen used the Heavenly Emperor Sword to destroy the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Emperor, while Flame Emperor confined the Tianluo leaders and prepared the Life and Death Coffin to revive the Heavenly Emperor. The Heavenly Emperor entered the coffin, leaving his revival in Martial Ancestor and Flame Emperor’s hands.

• The Heavenly Emperor lent Mu Chen the Heavenly Emperor Sword and entrusted him with killing the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Emperor.
• Mu Chen revealed his Great Completion Immortal Golden Body, and the sword’s awakened Spirit of the Artifact annihilated the demon’s last Demon Heart and remnant soul.
• Flame Emperor swept the Tianluo Continent’s veteran leaders into a pocket space so they would not witness the Heavenly Emperor’s revival.
• Martial Ancestor summoned the Life and Death Coffin and asked the Heavenly Emperor to enter it.
• The Heavenly Emperor stepped into the coffin, whose lid closed as his revival began.

The Heavenly Emperor returned to life after the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor restored his soul, body, and Supreme Sea. He revealed the Canonization List and planned to use the Tianluo Continent’s accumulated origin power to resurrect the Heavenly Palace’s heroes.

• The Martial Ancestor used the Life and Death Ancient Coffin to repair the Heavenly Emperor, who emerged from it and was welcomed by the Heavenly Palace’s heroes, the Flame Emperor, and the Martial Ancestor.
• The Heavenly Emperor produced the Canonization List, which held true spirit traces of roughly a million Heavenly Palace disciples and other powerful figures.
• The Heavenly Emperor and the two visitors discussed the enormous resources needed to resurrect the spirits recorded on the list.
• The three decided to draw on the Tianluo Continent’s origin power, accumulated underground during nearly fifty thousand years of division, to activate the Canonization List.
• The Flame Emperor and the Martial Ancestor offered to contribute their power alongside the Heavenly Emperor.

The Heavenly Emperor, Northern Emperor, and Southern Ancestor awakened a million heroic spirits through the Golden Canonization List and gathered them at the Heavenly Palace in the Western Region. With Tianluo Continent sealed off, foreign factions lost contact with their agents as the Heavenly Palace's returning heroes assembled before the Green-Robed Heavenly Emperor.

• The Heavenly Emperor, Northern Emperor, and Southern Ancestor poured Tianluo Continent's spiritual energy into the Golden Canonization List, awakening its Spirit of the Artifact and summoning a million heroic spirits.
• The heroic spirits recovered their memories and marched toward the Heavenly Palace's Ancestral Court in the Western Region, while senior Heavenly Palace figures across the continent awoke and joined the gathering army.
• The Heavenly Palace activated ancient Spirit Arrays that sealed Tianluo Continent against departures and blocked communication with the outside world.
• The Purple Cloud Sect, Thunder Sound Mountain, and Golden Eagle Prefecture panicked when they could no longer contact their backing High Sects, while foreign Heavenly Sovereigns who later infiltrated the continent were converted by the Heavenly Emperor and joined the Heavenly Palace.
• At the Heavenly Palace headquarters, the million-strong heroic spirit army and leaders from across the Heavenly Palace stood assembled before the Green-Robed Heavenly Emperor.

The Ancient Heavenly Palace lineage publicly returned to Tianluo Continent, and Green-Robed Heavenly Emperor planned to rebuild its forces before launching a campaign to unify the continent. Mu Chen’s new status as the Heavenly Emperor’s heir brought him closer in standing to Lin Jing and Xiao Xiao, who both gathered around him.

• Green-Robed Heavenly Emperor planned to rebuild the Five Halls and Nine Prefectures, restore the million-strong army, and let the lineage recover before conquering Tianluo Continent.
• Green-Robed Heavenly Emperor proclaimed the Ancient Heavenly Palace lineage’s return, and its million Heavenly Soldiers and Generals echoed his announcement.
• The announcement spread across Tianluo Continent and alarmed its sects and outside-backed forces, which faced a sealed continent and the returning former overlord.
• Northern Emperor and Southern Ancestor watched as Lin Jing and Xiao Xiao circled around Mu Chen, the newly appointed heir to the Heavenly Emperor.
• Xiao Xiao considered how Mu Chen’s new status made him her equal in background, while her parents accepted their daughters’ admiration for him.

Mu Chen asked Martial Ancestor to upgrade his treasured Demon-Subduing Staff, and Martial Ancestor began reforging it with the Great Sumeru Pillar and Mu Chen’s collected materials. The chapter left the materials melting in Martial Ancestor’s flames as the Sacred Artifact was being made.

• Martial Ancestor asked Mu Chen about his natal Spirit Soldier, and Mu Chen showed him the Demon-Subduing Staff his father had given him.
• Martial Ancestor offered to raise the staff’s grade, and Mu Chen brought out his forging materials, the Great Sumeru Pillar, and a Heavenly Sovereign Hand Bone.
• Martial Ancestor gave Mu Chen the choice of making either the Great Sumeru Pillar or the Demon-Subduing Staff the main weapon.
• Mu Chen chose the Demon-Subduing Staff, and Martial Ancestor began melting the staff and materials together with his spiritual flames.
• Flame Emperor praised Martial Ancestor’s control over flames as the forging began.

Martial Ancestor completed Mu Chen’s Demon-Subduing Battle Staff as a growing Sacred Artifact, and the Flame Emperor offered Mu Chen a Great Bodhi Restoration Pill. Mu Chen chose to give the Emperor Grade Spirit Pill to his father, Mu Feng, who was nearing the barrier to Heavenly Sovereign.

• Martial Ancestor upgraded Mu Chen’s Demon-Subduing Battle Staff into a high-grade growing Sacred Artifact with a true Spirit of the Artifact.
• Xiao’er nudged Xiao Yan to give Mu Chen a gift, and Xiao Yan produced an Emperor Grade Spirit Pill.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Great Bodhi Restoration Pill could improve someone’s chances of reaching Heavenly Sovereign and had originally been meant for Mu Feng.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Mu Feng had advanced to Grand Perfection Earth Sovereign but had stalled before the Heavenly Sovereign Domain.
• Mu Chen accepted the pill for his father, deciding that Mu Feng needed it more than he did.

The Heavenly Palace restored its ancient stronghold and reconquered the Tianluo Continent, while Mu Chen made plans to expand its alliances and reach. The chapter left the Supreme Heavenly Court thriving as its new overlord consolidated power.

• The Heavenly Emperor sent the Five Halls, Nine Prefectures, and heroic spirit army to repair the Heavenly Palace, and Flame Emperor hinted to Mu Chen that they would meet again soon.
• The Heavenly Palace's armies advanced across the Tianluo Continent, whose leaderless forces were swiftly brought back under its rule.
• Mu Chen asked the Heavenly Array Emperor to deliver an Emperor Pill to his father, King of Hundred Spirits, and establish teleportation arrays linking the Hundred Spirits and Northern Heavens Continents.
• Mu Chen planned to recruit former classmates and allies, while the Heavenly Emperor prepared to personally invite the Three Beast Sovereigns to join the Daoist Sect.
• The Heavenly Palace rose above the Central Region as the Supreme Heavenly Court, its restored grounds bustling with activity.

Mu Chen entered the Futu Clan’s ancestral land through his bloodline and drew the attention of its ancestral pagoda. As the pagoda accepted him, Qing Yanjing appeared and assured him that she would protect him.

• Mu Chen cultivated in the Heavenly Palace and used the Great Pagoda Art to reach the Futu Clan’s ancestral land.
• The ancestral pagoda examined Mu Chen’s bloodline and confirmed his identity.
• Mu Chen worried that the pagoda’s excitement would alert the guards and expose his unauthorized entry.
• Qing Yanjing appeared before Mu Chen and told him that no one would dare harm him while she was there.

Mu Chen reunited with Qing Yanjing in person and learned how she had turned the tables on Futu Xuan, the Great Elder who had forced them apart. Qing Yanjing was quietly gathering support to take control of the Buddha Ancient Clan, and she offered to bring Mu Chen to the Qing Branch.

• Mu Chen kowtowed to Qing Yanjing, and she tearfully welcomed her son as they shared their first face-to-face reunion.
• Qing Yanjing revealed Futu Xuan imprisoned beneath the Ancestral Pagoda and explained that she had suppressed him after he returned and demanded to know where Mu Chen was.
• Qing Yanjing recounted how she had returned to the Buddha Ancient Clan, reached Saint Grade, and been imprisoned in the Ancestral Pagoda amid the clan's political struggle.
• Qing Yanjing explained that she was secretly gathering the Qing Branch's supporters while keeping Futu Xuan subdued rather than killing him.
• Qing Yanjing invited Mu Chen to visit the Qing Branch, where its members could meet their future young lord.

Qing Yanjing explained the Qing Branch’s precarious position and its alliance with her as Mu Chen absorbed Ancestral Qi to advance his Futu Pagoda. As the Ancestral Pagoda suppressed Great Elder Futu Xuan, Qing Yanjing confronted him and declared that its choice of her had shown whose path was right.

• Qing Yanjing described how the Xuan and Mo Branches planned to strip the Qing Branch of another seat at the next Inter-Branch Martial Tournament, while the Qing Branch secretly allied with her.
• Mu Chen postponed visiting the Qing Branch, and Qing Yanjing introduced its elders before guiding him to absorb Ancestral Qi.
• Mu Chen circulated the Great Pagoda Art, and Ancestral Qi transformed his Futu Pagoda into a crystal-clear form with a sacred aura.
• Qing Yanjing drew more Ancestral Qi from the Ancestral Pagoda for Mu Chen, prompting the imprisoned Great Elder Futu Xuan to unleash his power before the artifact suppressed it.
• Qing Yanjing faced Futu Xuan and said that the Ancestral Pagoda’s choice of her should have made clear whose path was right.

Mu Chen’s Ancestral Qi baptism transformed his Futu Pagoda into a Saint Futu, astonishing Great Elder Futu Xuan and revealing his exceptional bloodline. After reuniting with Qing Yanjing and recounting his journey, Mu Chen returned to Tianluo Continent as his mother arranged for a trusted Earth Sovereign attendant to join him.

• Great Elder Futu Xuan recognized the Saint Futu Pagoda above Mu Chen and questioned whether Qing Yanjing had borne him with an outsider.
• Qing Yanjing introduced Mu Chen as her son, and Futu Xuan broke free of his restraints before she sealed him beneath the Ancestral Pagoda again.
• Mu Chen’s baptism ended with his Futu Pagoda becoming a mid-grade Sacred Artifact and transforming into a Saint Futu, while Ancestral Qi tempered his distant physical body.
• Mu Chen told Qing Yanjing about his journey, the return of the Heavenly Palace, and the awakening of the Daoist Sect’s Sovereigns, and he comforted her when she blamed herself for his hardships.
• Qing Yanjing promised to send a trusted Earth Sovereign attendant to Mu Chen, then opened a passage that returned him to his body on the banks of the Heavenly River.

Protector Long Xiang attacked Gu Shihuang on Green Spirit Island and revealed that he had reached Grand Perfection Earth Sovereign. After killing Gu Shihuang, Long Xiang set out to join the young master.

• Gu Shihuang meditated at the Futu Clan's Green Spirit Island estate while watching over Long Xiang, who had been exiled there after Qing Yanjing fled.
• Long Xiang arrived and told Gu Shihuang he had come to punch him to death, then attacked with his Dragon-Elephant Subduing God Art.
• Gu Shihuang realized Long Xiang had reached Grand Perfection Earth Sovereign and summoned his Heavenly Lion Dharma Body to fight back.
• The two fought for half an hour, and Long Xiang killed Gu Shihuang, leaving his headless corpse beneath the ruined pavilion.
• Long Xiang said he would soon join the young master and vanished into the sea of clouds.

Mu Chen reunited with Xiao Qingyun before meeting the Heavenly Emperor, who welcomed returning ancient forces to the Heavenly Palace and taught Mu Chen his signature art, One Qi Transforms into Three Purities. The chapter ended with Mu Chen asking how many Peerless Divine Abilities the Hall of Divine Abilities contained.

• Xiao Qingyun arrived at the Heavenly Pool, reunited with Mu Chen, and escorted him to meet the Heavenly Emperor.
• The Heavenly Emperor told Mu Chen that the Three Beast Sovereigns and their powerful followers had returned to the Tianluo Continent and joined the Heavenly Palace.
• Mu Chen described what he had witnessed in the Ancestral Land, and the Heavenly Emperor praised Mu Chen's mother and her Spirit Array talent.
• The Heavenly Emperor brought Mu Chen beneath an ancient starry sky and taught him One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, including his cultivation insights.
• Mu Chen asked how many of the Great Thousand's Thirty-Six Peerless Divine Abilities were stored in the Hall of Divine Abilities.

Mu Chen mastered the Three-Part Realm of One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, creating two powerful incarnations. After receiving news of trouble in the Western Heaven Continent, he set out for the Luo God Clan, while the Heavenly Emperor recalled the ancient Luo God and suspected her river held a mystery.

• The Heavenly Emperor taught Mu Chen the stages of One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, and Mu Chen studied the ability for a month with the Daoist Sect Supreme’s guidance.
• Mu Chen used the Blade of Self-Severing to create white- and black-clad incarnations, reaching the Three-Part Realm alongside his original blue-robed self.
• The Heavenly Emperor advised Mu Chen to strengthen the incarnations in the Heavenly Pool and received news that Lesser Western Heaven Realm was unsettled.
• Mu Chen asked to go to the Luo God Clan, and the Heavenly Emperor sent him to the Western Heaven Continent with his protection and blessing.
• After Mu Chen departed, the Heavenly Emperor recalled the Luo God’s legacy and wondered whether the Luo River connected to her survival.

The Luo God Clan prepared for Luo Li’s Luo God Festival as signs of renewed danger gathered around the declining clan. Luo Tianshen promised to protect the ceremony, which would formally pass the clan’s power to his granddaughter.

• The chapter recounted the Luo God Clan’s decline, its losses in a Blood God Clan attack, and its gradual recovery under Luo Li’s leadership.
• The Three Great God Clans showed signs of joining forces again, threatening to plunge the Lesser Western Heaven Realm into war.
• Luo Li stood above Luo God City and told Luo Tianshen she was thinking about the next day’s Luo God Festival.
• Luo Tianshen promised that the ceremony would proceed safely and said he had recalled the Four Great Legions and placed Luo Xiu, Luo Qingya, and other elites on standby.

Luo Li prepared for the Luo God Festival as her grandfather, Luo Tianshen, welcomed word that Mu Chen would attend. The ceremony opened with Luo Li acclaimed as Empress, and she began the sacred rite by shedding a drop of heart blood into the Luo River.

• Luo Li recalled how the Flame Emperor owed Luo Tianshen a debt and how his family had visited the Luo God Clan, then told her grandfather that Mu Chen would attend the festival.
• Luo Tianshen eagerly welcomed Mu Chen, while Luo Li withheld her concern about the dangerous situation on the Tianluo Continent.
• The Luo God Clan gathered its Four Great Legions and assembled millions of people for the festival as clan leaders and elders emerged from the palace.
• Luo Li stood on the White Jade Platform and was hailed as Empress by the gathered clanspeople, while rival branch elders watched with dark expressions.
• Luo Li began the festival rite by cutting her skin and dropping her heart blood into the Luo River, where dark-red flames spread around her.