Chapter Summaries

Chen Changqing entered the Creation Heavenly Palace with Rujie, but the group was separated inside. Following Bai Wuya’s Jade Talisman toward the right-hand passage, they found corpses marked by Nether Sect techniques.

• Chen Changqing searched for Jian Chen outside the palace and concluded that he had already entered when the Inheritance Token reacted at the gates.
• Cold Moon Fairy’s Formation Disk weakened the restrictions, and the Heavenly Monarchs and cultivators rushed through the opening palace gates.
• Chen Changqing, Bai Wuya, Rujie, and Si Youyou entered the Creation Heavenly Palace, where the golden light separated Chen Changqing and Rujie from Bai Wuya and Si Youyou.
• Chen Changqing used Bai Wuya’s Jade Talisman to choose the right-hand stone path instead of heading toward the towering gate marked Creation.
• Chen Changqing and Rujie found corpses with blackened wounds along the path, and Chen Changqing discovered half a Nether Mark inside one corpse’s sleeve.

Chen Changqing and Rujie were cornered by Ming Jiuyou and the Nether Sect, who had enlisted True Lord Li to kill Chen Changqing. As True Lord Li launched his attack, Chen Changqing prepared to fight while Rujie tried to hold off the enemy.

• Ming Jiuyou confronted Chen Changqing over True Lord Long Ying's death, while True Lord Li stood with the Nether Sect as its honored guest.
• Ming Jiuyou promised True Lord Li resources and help to pursue the Heavenly Monarch realm in exchange for killing Chen Changqing.
• Ming Jiuyou's disciples formed the Nether Soul-Locking Array, and Rujie said he could stall it for three breaths.
• Chen Changqing used a clone and the Immortal-Burying Zither to disrupt the array, while Rujie attacked a Formation Flag with the Great Sun Tathagata Seal.
• Chen Changqing dodged True Lord Li's Cyan Iron Ring and struck Ming Jiuyou's Gray-White Jade Seal, forcing it back.
• True Lord Li unleashed the Cyan Iron Ring, and Chen Changqing told Rujie to hold out for three breaths; Rujie vowed to last four.

Chen Changqing revealed three incarnations wielding Immortal Artifacts and used them to drive True Lord Li back, while Rujie disrupted the Nether Sect’s array. The battle continued with True Lord Li pressured and one Formation Flag trapped beneath Rujie’s Broken Bowl.

• True Lord Li pressed Chen Changqing down with the Cyan-Splitting Ring as Ming Jiuyou and the Nether Sect disciples attacked Rujie with the Nether Soul-Locking Array.
• Chen Changqing summoned three incarnations carrying the Immortal-Burying Zither, Haotian Hammer, and Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear, then split the Heavenly Thunder Sword into two blades.
• Rujie used his Broken Bowl and Buddha light to resist the array, while Ming Jiuyou attacked him with the Nether Ghost Seal and a black blade.
• Chen Changqing and his incarnations countered True Lord Li’s Cyan-Splitting Ring and forced him back three steps into a broken pillar.
• Rujie trapped one Nether Sect disciple’s Formation Flag beneath his Broken Bowl as the disciple demanded that he let go.

Chen Changqing and Rujie fought True Lord Li and Ming Jiuyou in the Creation Heavenly Palace until a bell disrupted True Lord Li’s power and Bai Wuya and Si Youyou arrived. True Lord Li recognized Bai Wuya as a Heavenly Monarch and retreated.

• Ming Jiuyou suppressed Rujie with the Nether Ghost Seal while True Lord Li used the power of heaven and earth to pressure Chen Changqing and his incarnations.
• Chen Changqing’s Thunder Sword protected Rujie, who had his Buddha Shadow seize and crack two Formation Flags, breaking a corner of the Nether Soul-Locking Array.
• Chen Changqing and True Lord Li clashed with their weapons until a bell from deep within the Creation Heavenly Palace cut off True Lord Li’s borrowed power and forced him back.
• Bai Wuya and Si Youyou arrived, and Rujie called out to them for help.
• True Lord Li recognized Bai Wuya as a Heavenly Monarch and withdrew with the Cyan-Splitting Ring.

Chen Changqing and Rujie survived True Lord Li’s ambush after Bai Wuya and Si Youyou arrived to help. Chen Changqing killed True Lord Li, claimed his Cyan-Splitting Ring and gained 300,000 AFK Points, while Ming Jiuyou and the Nether Sect disciples remained nearby.

• Bai Wuya subdued True Lord Li and pinned him to the bronze floor after Li attacked Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing rejected True Lord Li’s offers of compensation and killed him with the Heavenly Thunder Sword while Bai Wuya restrained him.
• Chen Changqing received 300,000 AFK Points for slaying the True Lord and took the Cyan-Splitting Ring.
• Rujie recited a prayer over True Lord Li’s corpse and began inspecting his belongings, prompting Si Youyou to tease him.

Chen Changqing killed True Lord Li and refused Ming Jiuyou’s threats, choosing to settle the conflict with the Nether Sect by force. After defeating Ming Jiuyou’s disciples and breaking his ghostly attacks, Chen Changqing killed him and claimed the Nether Ghost Seal.

• Chen Changqing took True Lord Li’s storage ring and gave Rujie a bottle of healing pills.
• Ming Jiuyou threatened Chen Changqing with a war between the Nether Sect and Mount Shu, but Chen Changqing declared that the Nether Sect could come for him.
• Ming Jiuyou tried to use the Nether Ghost Seal, but Bai Wuya suppressed it and blocked his escape.
• Chen Changqing, Rujie, and Si Youyou fought the Nether Sect disciples as Chen Changqing destroyed their formation and killed all five.
• Chen Changqing shattered Ming Jiuyou’s ghostly shadow, pinned him against the wall, and killed him with the Heavenly Thunder Sword.
• Chen Changqing collected the Nether Ghost Seal after it slipped from Ming Jiuyou’s hand.

Chen Changqing and his companions reached the Creation Heavenly Palace’s inheritance grounds and found the Undying Medicine guarded by two battling Tribulation Immortals. As the group stayed back from the fight, Chen Changqing realized Jian Chen was missing and suspected someone might be concealed behind the Pill Furnace.

• Chen Changqing collected 790,000 AFK Points from the Nether Sect disciples and followed the scorching Inheritance Token deeper into the stone passage.
• The group emerged onto a broken expanse of void, where a Pill Furnace held the legendary Undying Medicine.
• Blood Sea True Person and Cold Moon Fairy fought over the medicine while injured Heavenly Monarchs watched from the battlefield’s edge.
• Bai Wuya warned the group not to approach, and Chen Changqing noticed Jian Chen was nowhere in sight.
• Chen Changqing sensed something behind the Pill Furnace and told Si Youyou he was looking for someone.

Chen Changqing persuaded Bai Wuya to suppress the wounded Heavenly Monarchs so he could kill them while the Tribulation Immortals fought over the Undying Medicine. With Bai Wuya holding the others down, Chen Changqing killed the black-robed woman and gained five hundred thousand AFK Points.

• Chen Changqing decided the wounded Heavenly Monarchs were easier targets than the Undying Medicine, which the Tribulation Immortals were contesting.
• Chen Changqing asked Bai Wuya to suppress the wounded Heavenly Monarchs, and Bai Wuya agreed to do so once.
• Bai Wuya attacked the four wounded Heavenly Monarchs with his spear intent, suppressing their weapons and forcing them into the open.
• Chen Changqing struck the black-robed woman’s Fragmented Bronze Mirror, broke her defenses, and pierced her brow with his sword.
• Chen Changqing received five hundred thousand AFK Points for killing the black-robed woman.

Chen Changqing killed four Heavenly Monarchs with Bai Wuya’s help and gained over two million AFK Points. As Blood Sea True Person defeated Cold Moon Fairy, he turned toward the Undying Medicine above the Pill Furnace.

• Chen Changqing and Bai Wuya killed the wounded Broken Blade Middle-aged Man after he protested that Mount Shu had made an enemy of Red Blade Valley.
• Chen Changqing rejected an old Heavenly Monarch’s offer of treasures and killed him, then killed the Grey-robed Heavenly Monarch, earning 2,050,000 AFK Points in total.
• Bai Wuya judged that Cold Moon Fairy was about to lose as Blood Sea True Person’s Blood River overwhelmed her.
• Blood Sea True Person shattered Cold Moon Fairy’s full moon defense and bound her with blood chains, dragging her toward the Ruined Palace.
• Blood Sea True Person left Cold Moon Fairy and claimed the Undying Medicine above the Pill Furnace would belong to him.

Blood Sea True Person tried to seize the Undying Medicine but was killed by a mysterious Medicine Guardian emerging from the chaos behind the Pill Furnace. Chen Changqing’s Inheritance Token flew out, and Jian Chen appeared with a second token, revealing that the medicine had not been meant for outsiders.

• Blood Sea True Person reached for the Undying Medicine, but an ancient hand pierced his body, destroyed his Primordial Spirit, and swept away his Blood River.
• The surviving cultivators retreated as the Medicine Guardian emerged from the chaos and declared that anyone who seized the immortal medicine would die.
• The Medicine Guardian’s gaze fell on Chen Changqing, and Chen Changqing’s Inheritance Token flew out of his Heaven-Stepping Ring.
• Jian Chen emerged from the chaos carrying another Inheritance Token, and the two tokens lit up as the Medicine Guardian stopped moving.
• Chen Changqing asked Jian Chen whether he had known outsiders could not obtain the Undying Medicine, and Jian Chen confirmed that he had.

Chen Changqing and Jian Chen entered a sealed world to fight for the Undying Medicine, with only one allowed to survive. Jian Chen’s Sword Dao Body and Seven Swords overwhelmed Chen Changqing’s defenses, but Chen Changqing continued fighting with his three avatars and Heavenly Thunder Sword.

• Jian Chen admitted he had known about the Medicine Guardian and had chosen not to warn the other cultivators.
• The Medicine Guardian summoned Chen Changqing and Jian Chen into a sealed world and declared that only the victor would obtain the Undying Medicine.
• Chen Changqing and Jian Chen began fighting, and Chen Changqing used his Heavenly Thunder Sword and three avatars against Jian Chen’s flying swords.
• Cold Moon Fairy told the others that Jian Chen had a Sword Dao Body and that Chen Changqing would have to endure until Jian Chen revealed a flaw.
• Jian Chen pierced the Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear avatar and countered the Immortal-Burying Zither’s soul attack before summoning seven swords.
• Chen Changqing coordinated his three avatars to block Jian Chen’s Seven Swords, then struck Jian Chen with the Heavenly Thunder Sword, but Jian Chen caught it with his palm.

Chen Changqing spent his AFK Points to break through from Early to Late Tribulation Transcendence in the middle of his battle with Jian Chen. With his spiritual power surging, he began to split it into four streams, leaving Jian Chen wary of what he would do next.

• Chen Changqing unleashed his Sword Dao Body, shattering his three incarnations and wounding Jian Chen with a sea of Sword Qi.
• Jian Chen advanced on Chen Changqing after his incarnations shattered, while the Medicine Guardian gathered the immortal light into the Undying Medicine.
• Chen Changqing spent more than two million AFK Points to advance from Early to Late Tribulation Transcendence, healing his wounds as his aura surged.
• Bai Wuya, Si Youyou, Rujie, and Cold Moon Fairy reacted to Chen Changqing’s sudden breakthrough, and Rujie predicted he had more than leveling up in mind.
• Chen Changqing’s spiritual power split into four streams, and Jian Chen realized he might be condensing another incarnation.

Chen Changqing revealed a fourth incarnation and fought back against Jian Chen, who unleashed the True Immortal Sword Technique Sword Immortal Descends to Earth. Their attacks reached a deadlock, with Chen Changqing and his four incarnations under mounting pressure as the observers feared for his life.

• Chen Changqing revealed the Mountain-River Heaven-Suppressing Seal incarnation, bringing his total to four, and Jian Chen renewed his attack with the Seven Swords.
• The Immortal-Burying Zither slowed Jian Chen’s swords while Chen Changqing’s incarnations and true body blocked them, forcing Jian Chen to retreat farther and drawing blood from his palm.
• Jian Chen shattered the Seven Swords himself, absorbed their fragments, and invoked the True Immortal Sword Technique Sword Immortal Descends to Earth.
• Jian Chen’s sword shadow damaged Chen Changqing’s four incarnations, but Chen Changqing linked their powers with his own and met the attack with five forces at once.
• The two attacks deadlocked as both fighters suffered, and Jian Chen’s sword shadow pressed down until Chen Changqing’s incarnations began to crack.
• Outside the sealed world, Bai Wuya prepared to destroy the Pill Furnace if Chen Changqing died, while Cold Moon Fairy warned that it could not be torn apart.

Chen Changqing defeated and killed Jian Chen in the sealed world, winning the Heaven-Stepping Immortal Palace Inheritance Battle. He returned to the Immortal Palace hall, where his companions greeted him, and the Undying Medicine suddenly stopped circling the Pill Furnace.

• Chen Changqing disrupted Jian Chen’s True Immortal Sword Technique with his four incarnations and struck the exposed sword phantom with the Heavenly Thunder Sword.
• Chen Changqing overwhelmed Jian Chen with his incarnations, shattered his Sword Qi, and pierced his chest, causing him to break apart into fragments of light.
• Chen Changqing collected Jian Chen’s inheritance tokens, which fused into his own token and identified him as the battle’s victor.
• The sealed world dispersed, returning Chen Changqing to the Immortal Palace hall, where Rujie, Bai Wuya, and Si Youyou confirmed his victory.
• The Undying Medicine beside the Pill Furnace stopped circling.

Chen Changqing won the Undying Medicine and received a fragment of the Heaven-Stepping Ancient Path Map marked with the Sea of Buried Immortals. After escaping the collapsing Immortal Palace, he parted ways with his companions and set out for Shu Mountain Sacred Land, warned that the medicine could attract trouble.

• The Medicine Guardian gave Chen Changqing the Undying Medicine, which settled into his palm, and sent him a map fragment marked with the Sea of Buried Immortals.
• As the Immortal Palace collapsed, the Medicine Guardian warned Chen Changqing not to enter the Sea of Buried Immortals at night, and Cold Moon Fairy later gave him the same warning about its shore.
• Chen Changqing and his companions escaped the Immortal Palace, while Cold Moon Fairy left after warning him that the Undying Medicine could invite disaster.
• Outside, Chen Changqing declined Bai Wuya's offer of an escort and parted ways with Bai Wuya, Si Youyou, and Rujie; Si Youyou gave him a Jade Talisman to summon her if he was intercepted.
• Chen Changqing set out alone toward Shu Mountain Sacred Land.

Chen Changqing was ambushed by the Nether Sect in the mountains, but he turned their encirclement into a slaughter as he tested his strength after reaching Late Tribulation Transcendence. The Half-Step True Lord attacked him with the Ten Thousand Souls Blood Spear, and their weapons clashed.

• Chen Changqing discovered the Nether Sect's massive ambush and confronted its Half-Step True Lord and more than a thousand disciples.
• The Nether Sect launched its array and spells, but Chen Changqing charged into its ranks and killed numerous disciples and a Tribulation Transcendence Cultivator.
• The Half-Step True Lord learned Chen Changqing had reached Late Tribulation Transcendence and activated the grand array, while Chen Changqing's avatars disrupted it and he fought toward its core.
• Chen Changqing killed a Nether Sect steward and took his storage ring as the surviving Tribulation Transcendence Cultivators hesitated to face him.
• The Half-Step True Lord unleashed the Ten Thousand Souls Blood Spear, and Chen Changqing blocked its thrust with the Heavenly Thunder Sword.

Chen Changqing slaughtered the Nether Sect disciples and broke down their Ten Thousand Souls Array, collecting AFK Points as he fought. After learning that the Nether Sect Master was coming, he began killing the remaining defenders quickly, but one Tribulation Transcendence cultivator maneuvered behind him.

• Chen Changqing killed the Half-Step True Lord with his manifestations and Heavenly Thunder Sword, earning 350,000 AFK Points and throwing the Nether Sect formation into disarray.
• Chen Changqing cut through the Nether Sect cultivators and killed an Old Devil at Tribulation Transcendence who attacked him with Corpse Puppets and a Black Lamp.
• A Nether Sect elder ordered the outer disciples sacrificed to strengthen the Ten Thousand Souls Absolute Killing Array, but Chen Changqing smashed a Nether Banner with the Mountain-River Heaven-Suppressing Seal.
• After hearing the Nether Sect Master was on the way, Chen Changqing split apart the three remaining Tribulation Transcendence cultivators and killed the one wielding a black bell.
• The Tribulation Transcendence cultivator on the right evaded the Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear and circled behind Chen Changqing.

Chen Changqing finished off the remaining Nether Sect attackers, then faced the arriving Nether Sect Master and two Half-Step True Lords. As the battle began, he damaged their weapons and struck the Headless Corpse Puppet, but the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Chen Changqing killed the last two attacking Tribulation Transcendence demonic cultivators and cut down Nether Sect disciples who continued fighting.
• The Nether Sect Master arrived with two Half-Step True Lords, and the Ten Thousand Souls Array stabilized as the surviving disciples rallied behind them.
• Chen Changqing taunted the Nether Sect Master, who ordered the Coffin-Carrying and Banner-Wielding Half-Step True Lords to attack.
• Chen Changqing’s incarnations challenged the Black Coffin and Soul Banner while he slashed the banner-wielder and damaged his robe with lightning.
• The Coffin-Carrying Half-Step True Lord released a Headless Corpse Puppet, and Chen Changqing smashed half its body with the Mountain-River Heaven-Suppressing Seal.

Chen Changqing fought the Nether Sect Master while using his incarnations to damage the Ten Thousand Souls Array. After killing Banner-Wielding Half-Step True Lord, he turned to face the enraged Nether Sect Master.

• Chen Changqing used lightning to destroy Coffin-Carrying Half-Step True Lord's Headless Corpse Puppet and damaged Banner-Wielding Half-Step True Lord's Soul Banner before the Nether Sect Master intervened.
• The Nether Sect Master demanded the Undying Medicine and sacrificed the remaining Nether Sect disciples to empower his Soul-Suppressing Demon Seal.
• Chen Changqing and his four incarnations blocked the Nether Sect Master's attack, while the Mountain-River Heaven-Suppressing Seal cracked the Ten Thousand Souls Array.
• Chen Changqing exploited the formation's weakening to kill Banner-Wielding Half-Step True Lord and claim his broken Soul Banner.
• Chen Changqing told the Nether Sect Master that he was next.

Chen Changqing fought the Nether Sect Master, who used a formation fueled by his disciples to strengthen a Black-Red Seal. Though Chen Changqing wounded him at first, the peak True Lord overwhelmed him, leaving Chen Changqing bloodied and struggling to stand.

• The Nether Sect Master activated the valley formation to drain the surviving Nether Sect disciples’ soul flames, while Chen Changqing faced him.
• The Nether Sect Master formed a Black-Red Seal from the remnants of the formation, and Chen Changqing countered it with his weapon incarnations before striking the Sect Master at close range.
• Chen Changqing wounded the Nether Sect Master with the Heavenly Thunder Sword and planted the broken Soul Banner in the ground.
• The Nether Sect Master unleashed his peak True Lord aura and drained the remaining disciples to empower the Black-Red Seal.
• The Nether Sect Master’s strengthened seal crushed Chen Changqing’s attacks and blasted him more than ten zhang, leaving him spitting blood and bracing himself with his sword.