Chapter Summaries

Chen Changqing learned that the Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor had chosen ten successors to compete for his inheritance, leaving him uncertain how to find the other nine. After the immortal emperor's phantom vanished, Chen Changqing decided to rely on his Inheritance Token to seek them out.

• The Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor's phantom appeared before Chen Changqing and confirmed that the Secret Realm and Inheritance Tokens were his legacy.
• The Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor revealed that nine other successors had obtained Inheritance Tokens and that only one of the ten would receive his true inheritance.
• Chen Changqing asked how the competition worked and how to locate the other successors, but the phantom warned that they were formidable and then vanished without answering.
• Chen Changqing wondered whether the Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor had told the truth and realized he knew nothing about the other successors.
• Chen Changqing concluded that he would use the Inheritance Token to search for more tokens and hope to encounter the other successors.

Chen Changqing fused another Inheritance Token and learned that nine others on the Nine Provinces Continent were competing for the Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor's inheritance, but gained no reward. While searching for other treasures, he found True Lord Jinkue and a Black-Robed True Lord fighting over a mysterious fragment.

• Chen Changqing left the cave dwelling after fusing the Inheritance Token and decided to search for other fortuitous opportunities.
• Chen Changqing sensed a fierce battle and found True Lord Jinkue and a Black-Robed True Lord fighting on a wilderness plain.
• Chen Changqing spotted a black fragment on an altar, concealed his aura, and approached the two True Lords.
• The Black-Robed True Lord offered to give up the fragment, but True Lord Jinkue refused and tried to kill him.
• True Lord Jinkue suffered backlash, and the Black-Robed True Lord pierced his shoulder before Jinkue struck him in the chest, sending both men flying.

Chen Changqing tried to seize a black fragment after True Lord Jinkue and True Lord Long Ying were badly wounded, but its restriction repelled him. He chose to challenge the two True Lords for the fragment, and the chapter ended with Long Ying realizing Chen Changqing’s Heavenly Emperor Fist was unexpectedly powerful.

• Chen Changqing reached for the black fragment, but the golden and black restrictions around it crushed his spiritual power and blasted him back.
• True Lord Jinkue and True Lord Long Ying warned Chen Changqing to leave, and he saw that both were gravely wounded from their battle.
• Chen Changqing considered withdrawing but decided to demand that the two True Lords give him the fragment and leave to recover.
• True Lord Long Ying attacked Chen Changqing with a black sword strike, but Chen Changqing shattered it with his Heavenly Emperor Fist.
• Long Ying was astonished by Chen Changqing’s strength, while Jinkue warned that the young cultivator was not ordinary.

Chen Changqing confronted True Lord Jinkue and True Lord Long Ying over a fragment and broke their seals with a powerful punch. He claimed the fragment for himself, drawing True Lord Long Ying’s threat to kill him.

• True Lord Jinkue and True Lord Long Ying warned Chen Changqing to leave, but he recognized that both were badly injured and refused.
• Chen Changqing unleashed his power and used the Star-Falling Style of the Heavenly Emperor Divine Fist to shatter the seals around the fragment.
• Chen Changqing took the fragment and felt an ancient will surge into his body before storing it in the Heaven-Stepping Ring.
• True Lord Jinkue demanded the fragment back, while Chen Changqing insisted it was his opportunity and mocked True Lord Long Ying’s weakened state.
• True Lord Long Ying threatened to grind Chen Changqing’s bones to ash.

Chen Changqing faced the grievously wounded True Lords Jinkue and Long Ying, who prepared to kill him and divide his possessions. He revealed an Immortal Artifact and summoned three identical clones, leaving the two True Lords stunned as his clones manifested more Immortal Artifacts.

• True Lord Long Ying urged True Lord Jinkue to join forces and kill Chen Changqing before discussing ownership of the fragment.
• True Lord Jinkue and True Lord Long Ying unleashed their remaining strength, and Chen Changqing drew the Immortal Artifact Heavenly Thunder Sword to meet them.
• The two True Lords were shocked by Chen Changqing's Immortal Artifact, then agreed that one would take it and the other the fragment after killing him.
• Chen Changqing mocked their plan and summoned three clones with auras identical to his own, startling both True Lords.
• The first clone manifested the Immortal Artifact Haotian Hammer, while the second brought out the Immortal Artifact Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear.

Chen Changqing and his three clones used four Immortal Artifacts to defeat True Lord Jinkue and True Lord Long Ying. After collecting their storage artifacts, Chen Changqing received a large reward of AFK Points from the system.

• Chen Changqing's three clones revealed the Immortal Artifacts Haotian Hammer, Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear, and Immortal-Burying Zither, stunning True Lord Jinkue and True Lord Long Ying.
• True Lord Jinkue and True Lord Long Ying attacked Chen Changqing, who answered with his four Immortal Execution Sword Technique moves as his clones struck with their own techniques.
• Chen Changqing and his clones shattered both True Lords' attacks, then the zither music wounded their souls and left them vulnerable to the sword, spear, and hammer strikes.
• The attacks killed True Lord Jinkue and True Lord Long Ying, leaving their storage artifacts behind for Chen Changqing to collect.
• The system awarded Chen Changqing 250,000 and 230,000 AFK Points for killing the two late-stage True Lord cultivators.

After killing True Lord Jinkue and True Lord Long Ying, Chen Changqing safely examined the black fragment they had fought over and learned it was a Fragment of the Creation Jade Disk containing an embryonic Law of Time and Space. He spent 500,000 AFK Points to begin refining it, and the chapter left him testing his new perception of the law.

• Chen Changqing collected Jinkue and Long Ying’s storage artifacts and the black fragment, then fled the battlefield to avoid other cultivators.
• He hid in a mountain fissure, sealed the area with restrictions and a formation, and examined the fragment.
• The fragment showed Chen Changqing visions of an ancient battle and a shattered disk before the system identified it as a Fragment of the Creation Jade Disk containing an embryonic Law of Time and Space.
• Chen Changqing learned that initial refinement required 500,000 AFK Points and decided the law was worth the cost.
• Chen Changqing activated the first stage of refinement, entered a strange state in which movement seemed slowed, and tried to mobilize the law aura.

Chen Changqing gained an initial glimpse of the Law of Time and Space, then searched the storage artifacts of True Lord Jinkue and True Lord Long Ying. A remnant of Long Ying's Soul Mark escaped and reached the Nether Sect, whose Sect Master ordered an investigation into the sword-wielding cultivator who killed him.

• Chen Changqing tested his new spatial distortion, which could briefly slow spiritual energy, and learned that further refinement required 1,500,000 AFK Points.
• Chen Changqing searched True Lord Jinkue's storage artifact and found a golden token marked "Jinkue" and "Heaven."
• Chen Changqing triggered a Soul Mark hidden in True Lord Long Ying's Jade Slip and cut down most of its message, but a remnant escaped.
• Chen Changqing suppressed the Nether Sect-marked items in Long Ying's storage artifact and left the mountain's belly.
• The Nether Sect discovered Long Ying's soul lamp had gone out and received the incomplete Soul Mark image of a hand holding a lightning-wreathed sword.
• The Nether Sect Master ordered his people to investigate the Immortal Secret Realm for a Tribulation Transcendence sword wielder.

Chen Changqing reunited with Rujie and Si Youyou, who had each gained powerful treasures and increased their strength in the Secret Realm. They learned that an Immortal Palace ruin containing Undying Medicine had appeared in the core region, and the three prepared to head there.

• Chen Changqing followed the Inheritance Token’s resonance toward the core region, then found Rujie breaking through to Mid Tribulation Transcendence at a ruined Ancient Temple.
• Rujie showed Chen Changqing the Great Sun Tathagata Seal, an Ancient Buddha Secret Technique he had discovered after defeating several cultivators.
• Si Youyou arrived with the Soul-Devouring Bell, which she had obtained from a Demonic Old Hall after fighting its remnant souls.
• A passing cultivator told Chen Changqing, Rujie, and Si Youyou that an Immortal Palace ruin containing Undying Medicine had appeared in the core region, drawing powerful figures and cultivators toward it.

Chen Changqing and his companions rushed to save Bai Wuya, who was being attacked by Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch over the Nine-Turn Golden Lotus. Chen Changqing arrived and refused to yield the lotus, then asked Rujie and Si Youyou to hold off Kunyuan as the confrontation began.

• A wounded cultivator told Chen Changqing that Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch had surrounded Bai Wuya, so Chen Changqing, Rujie, and Si Youyou hurried northeast.
• Bai Wuya fought the two veteran Heavenly Monarchs over the Nine-Turn Golden Lotus but was badly injured and driven into a ruined peak.
• Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch prepared to finish off Bai Wuya as the lotus neared maturity.
• Chen Changqing arrived and shattered Taiyin Heavenly Monarch's Cold Spear with the Heavenly Thunder Sword before joining Bai Wuya.
• Chen Changqing asked whether the lotus could help Bai Wuya, refused to give it up, and told Rujie and Si Youyou to hold off Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch.

Chen Changqing and his allies fought Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch while Bai Wuya waited for a chance to claim the Nine-Turn Golden Lotus. Bai Wuya seized the matured lotus and began refining it, leaving the Heavenly Monarchs wary of attacking.

• Si Youyou and Rujie attacked Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch, but he countered with a massive palm strike until Chen Changqing summoned three clones to join the fight.
• Chen Changqing wounded Taiyin Heavenly Monarch with a sword strike by using a faint trace of time-and-space law, while his clones and allies forced Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch back.
• The Nine-Turn Golden Lotus matured, and Chen Changqing ordered Rujie and Si Youyou to hold Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch while he and his clones pressed Taiyin Heavenly Monarch.
• Bai Wuya seized the Nine-Turn Golden Lotus and began refining it as Chen Changqing and the others regrouped beside him.
• Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch hesitated to attack because Bai Wuya had the lotus and Chen Changqing remained a threat.

After driving Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch away, Chen Changqing and his companions headed toward the newly opened Immortal Palace. They encountered a band of cultivators demanding a toll, and Chen Changqing turned their threat back on them.

• Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch retreated, and Bai Wuya scolded Chen Changqing for confronting a Heavenly Monarch before admitting the Nine-Turn Golden Lotus had healed much of his injuries.
• After hearing that the Immortal Palace entrance had opened and that Cold Moon Fairy and Blood Sea True Person had entered the Outer Hall, Bai Wuya urged Chen Changqing, Rujie, and Si Youyou to hurry there.
• The group traveled toward the Secret Realm's core, passing numerous cultivators and witnessing deadly fights sparked by the promise of the Undying Medicine.
• At Scattered Stone Slope, a scar-faced cultivator and his followers demanded a toll from Bai Wuya's group, dismissing Chen Changqing's reputation as Mount Shu's Holy Son.
• Chen Changqing drew the Heavenly Thunder Sword slightly and ordered the bandits to leave behind every storage artifact and get lost.

Chen Changqing forced a group of cultivators to surrender their belongings, then arrived with his companions at the Immortal Palace gates, where he and Bai Wuya faced Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch. The rival Heavenly Monarchs held back from fighting, and the gathered cultivators learned that Chen Changqing had injured Taiyin Heavenly Monarch.

• Chen Changqing swiftly broke the scar-faced cultivator’s blade and made him and his companions hand over their storage rings and Storage Bags.
• Rujie returned the scar-faced cultivator’s mother’s keepsake but took his other Storage Bag.
• Chen Changqing, Rujie, Si Youyou, and Bai Wuya reached the Immortal Palace gates, where tens of thousands of cultivators and powerful figures had gathered.
• Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and Kunyuan Heavenly Monarch turned their killing intent toward the group, but Bai Wuya stood ready with his Silver Spear and the two Heavenly Monarchs held back.
• Chen Changqing exchanged barbs with Taiyin Heavenly Monarch and chose not to draw his sword, while Rujie boasted to nearby cultivators that Chen had injured a Heavenly Monarch.

Chen Changqing prepared for the dangers inside the Immortal Palace while its final restriction was broken. When the gates opened and immortal qi poured out, his Inheritance Token was still resonating intensely.

• Bai Wuya warned Chen Changqing about the dangerous factions and gave him a Shu Mountain Transmission Talisman to help locate him inside the palace.
• Cold Moon Fairy and Blood Sea True Person worked together to break the final restriction as cultivators who rushed onto the Jade Steps were killed.
• For three days, Chen Changqing hid the violently trembling Inheritance Token while watching the restrictions weaken.
• Cold Moon Fairy announced that the formation core was open, and Blood Sea True Person and Cold Moon Fairy retreated as the formation patterns snapped apart.
• The Immortal Palace gates opened, releasing a surge of immortal qi that made cultivators cry out or sit down to absorb it.

Chen Changqing entered the Immortal Palace, was separated from his companions, and followed his Inheritance Token to a Medicine Garden. There he met Jian Chen, another inheritor of the Heaven-Stepping Immortal Emperor, who revealed that only one of ten inheritors could enter the true Heaven-Stepping Relic Mansion.

• Chen Changqing entered the Immortal Palace with Bai Wuya, Rujie, and Si Youyou, but a spatial force scattered them across the palace’s small world.
• Chen Changqing’s Inheritance Token led him southeast, and he hurried past spirit medicines to reach a Medicine Garden.
• Chen Changqing’s token resonated with a more complete token held by a young man in azure robes, who identified himself as Jian Chen.
• The tokens revealed the words Heaven-Stepping, and Jian Chen asked whether Chen Changqing was an inheritor.
• Jian Chen told Chen Changqing that ten tokens would become one, that only one of ten inheritors could enter the true Heaven-Stepping Relic Mansion, and that the tokens and inheritors would be consumed.

Chen Changqing and Jian Chen discussed the Heaven-Stepping inheritors, their tokens, and a Black Gate deep within the Immortal Palace. After Jian Chen left, Chen Changqing decided to head deeper into the palace after preparing himself.

• Chen Changqing questioned Jian Chen about the other inheritors, and Jian Chen revealed he had killed one and driven another away.
• Jian Chen told Chen Changqing about the Heaven-Stepping Relic Mansion and revealed that he held four tokens while describing the formidable remaining inheritors.
• Jian Chen explained that a Black Gate beyond three suspended mountains bore the words Heaven-Stepping, but he could not enter without more tokens.
• Jian Chen took one azure herb and left the Medicine Garden after saying that a sword that kills could save a life.
• Chen Changqing drove off two Rogue Cultivators without killing them, then headed toward the center of the Medicine Garden to prepare before going deeper.

Chen Changqing harvested a Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma and used it to strengthen his Primordial Spirit and stabilize his nascent spatial ability. Meanwhile, Nether Sect cultivators captured Rujie and demanded to know where Chen Changqing had gone, and Rujie told them he had gone to their family graveyard.

• Chen Changqing harvested the Jade Marrow Golden Ganoderma from the Medicine Garden and left without plundering further.
• Chen Changqing secluded himself in a stone chamber, consumed the ganoderma, and steadied his Primordial Spirit and ability to shift space.
• Chen Changqing overheard Nether Sect cultivators say they were hunting Rujie over True Lord Long Ying's death, but stayed hidden to finish refining the ganoderma.
• Rujie took a golden finger bone in a Broken Bowl from an abandoned Buddhist hall, where five Nether Sect cultivators confronted him.
• The black-robed elder suppressed Rujie's Buddhist power and demanded the Buddha Bone and Chen Changqing's whereabouts.
• Rujie told the Nether Sect cultivators that Chen Changqing had gone to their family graveyard.

Si Youyou rescued Rujie from the black-robed elder, but the pair were overwhelmed while trying to escape with the Buddha Bone. Chen Changqing arrived in time to save them, and as Nether Sect reinforcements were summoned, he prepared to fight with three incarnations.

• Si Youyou entered the Buddhist hall and helped Rujie break free from the black threads with the Soul-Devouring Bell.
• Si Youyou and Rujie smashed through the hall’s side wall and fought the black-robed elder on the mountain path.
• The black-robed elder suppressed Si Youyou and strangled Rujie, then reached for the Buddha Bone as demonic cultivators cornered Si Youyou.
• Chen Changqing arrived, cut the threads with the Heavenly Thunder Sword, and returned the Buddha Bone and Broken Bowl to Rujie.
• The black-robed elder sent a message summoning Nether Sect disciples, and Chen Changqing split the talisman plaque but could not stop the message.
• Chen Changqing faced five attacking demonic cultivators and summoned three incarnations bearing the Immortal-Burying Zither, Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear, and Haotian hammer.

Chen Changqing and his companions defeated a Nether Sect group and learned that Ming Jiuyou and Blood Sea True Person were seeking him. Bai Wuya arrived after recovering his strength and revealed that he had come to Chen Changqing for the same matter involving the Silver-Patterned Ghost Mask Talisman.

• Chen Changqing, Si Youyou, and Rujie killed the Nether Sect’s middle-aged leader and several disciples, then learned that Ming Jiuyou had gone to the Creation Heavenly Palace and Blood Sea True Person wanted Chen Changqing’s Immortal Artifact.
• Chen Changqing killed a surviving disciple who offered to guide them, collected Nether Sect tokens and a Silver-Patterned Ghost Mask Talisman, and gave Rujie storage rings and Si Youyou healing pills.
• Bai Wuya contacted Chen Changqing and soon arrived with his Heavenly Monarch aura fully restored.
• Bai Wuya confirmed that Ming Jiuyou had entered the Immortal Palace, examined the ghost mask talisman, and said he had come to find Chen Changqing for the same matter.

Bai Wuya led Chen Changqing, Rujie, and Si Youyou to Creation Heavenly Palace, where powerful factions gathered and waited for its restrictions to weaken. Chen Changqing faced a direct threat from Nether Sect leader Ming Jiuyou as the group arrived at the palace.

• Bai Wuya explained that Creation Heavenly Palace lay in the Immortal Palace’s core, held treasures, and remained sealed behind three restrictions that were slowly loosening.
• Chen Changqing’s Inheritance Token reacted strangely to the palace, and Bai Wuya warned him to stay close because the Nether Sect was after him.
• Bai Wuya led Chen Changqing, Rujie, and Si Youyou across a suspended bridge and drove off cultivators who followed them.
• The group reached Creation Heavenly Palace and found Cold Moon Fairy, Blood Sea True Person, and the Taiyin, Kunyuan, and Separation Fire Heavenly Monarchs gathered outside.
• Chen Changqing saw Ming Jiuyou, who had killed a Half-Step Heavenly Monarch, and Ming Jiuyou silently threatened him by drawing a hand across his neck.