Chapter Summaries

Liu Feng bluffed the Immortal Venerable into staying out of Huaxia’s conflict, then brought his allies through a hidden spatial tunnel to a primordial realm. The group arrived in the Human Emperor World and was welcomed by a mysterious child carrying a turtle.

• The Immortal Venerable warned Liu Feng that Buddhist Venerable might not have been frightened away, but said he and Blood Venerable would not attack Huaxia because the Human Emperor had grown stronger.
• Liu Feng returned to Huaxia and admitted to Liu Feiyang that he had only scared Buddhist Venerable away; Liu Feiyang said sealing the Heaven Ascension Road again would cost more lifespan than he had left.
• Liu Feng led Liu Feiyang and the others to a hidden building in the Imperial Capital, where his seals opened a spatial tunnel.
• Liu Feiyang, the Old Heavenly Master, the Progenitor of All Demons, Wang Xiao, the Jade Pool Holy Lord, and Zhang Yun entered the tunnel with Liu Feng and emerged in a primordial world with immense spiritual energy.
• A child carrying a turtle appeared before the group and welcomed them to the Human Emperor World.

Yang Chen cultivated the first turn of the Nine-Turn Demonic Dragon Body and the eighth transformation of the Nine Profound Transformations, then advanced his Sword Dao to Early Sword Heart. After receiving Senior White Tiger’s summons, he prepared to find out why he had been called.

• Yang Chen used the enhanced Bodhi Leaf to refine Demonic Dragon Essence, reaching the first turn of the Nine-Turn Demonic Dragon Body and raising his physical cultivation to the ninth step of Heaven Ascension.
• Yang Chen used the Bodhi Leaf’s remaining effects to cultivate the Heavenly Profound Transformation, advancing the Nine Profound Transformations to the eighth transformation and reaching the tenth step of Heaven Ascension in power.
• Yang Chen spent 100,000 Kill Points to improve his Sword Dao and comprehended Reincarnation Sword Intent, which advanced his realm to Early Sword Heart.
• Yang Chen received a sudden summons from Senior White Tiger and wondered why he had been called.

Yang Chen learned from the White Tiger that the Human Emperor had left Huaxia to confront the Immortal Realm’s threat and seek a way to revive the White Tiger and his companions. The White Tiger revealed that they had died at the Human Emperor’s hands, leaving the reason for their deaths unexplained.

• Yang Chen met the White Tiger on White Tiger Mountain and told him he had reached the ninth step of the Heaven Ascension Realm.
• The White Tiger explained that the Human Emperor had left the Celestial Human World as pressure to spur Huaxia’s growth, while preparing contingencies to protect it.
• The White Tiger told Yang Chen that a True Immortal from the Immortal Realm had come to purge Huaxia, and that stronger beings might descend later unless Huaxia gained influence in the Immortal Realm.
• The White Tiger revealed that the Human Emperor had gone to seek a way to revive him and his companions.
• The White Tiger told Yang Chen that they had died at the hands of the Human Emperor.

The White Tiger explained that the Human Emperor had accidentally fought and killed the Four Sacred Beasts while trapped in an illusion, then went to the Immortal Realm to remove Huaxia from a list of worlds and seek a way to revive them. The White Tiger asked Yang Chen to help the Human Emperor in exchange for his inheritance, then revealed a familiar childlike figure holding a turtle.

• The White Tiger told Yang Chen that a True Immortal's illusion had made the Human Emperor and the Four Sacred Beasts fight during the Human Emperor's ascension, killing the White Tiger.
• The White Tiger explained that the Human Emperor went to the Immortal Realm to find immortal pills that could revive the Four Sacred Beasts, and Yang Chen learned the realms above True Immortal.
• Yang Chen asked why the White Tiger had summoned him, and the White Tiger asked him to go to the Immortal Realm and help the Human Emperor in exchange for the Human Emperor's inheritance.
• The White Tiger revealed a childlike figure holding a turtle, who greeted Yang Chen as someone he had met before.

Yang Chen learned that Liu Feng was a clone of the Human Emperor when the Imperial Preceptor brought him to the Human Emperor's Palace. The Imperial Preceptor opened a statue and revealed the Human Emperor's Inheritance Site.

• White Tiger recognized the child as the Imperial Preceptor, who revealed that Liu Feng was his disciple and Yang Chen was his disciple's grandson.
• Yang Chen shamelessly asked the Imperial Preceptor for treasures and urged him to punish the Buddhist Venerable, so the Imperial Preceptor kicked him through a spatial tunnel.
• The Imperial Preceptor took Yang Chen to the Human Emperor's Palace, where Yang Chen recognized the statue as resembling an older Liu Feng.
• Yang Chen asked if Liu Feng was the Human Emperor, and the Imperial Preceptor explained that Liu Feng was the Human Emperor's clone.
• The Imperial Preceptor used runes to open the statue and revealed the Human Emperor's Inheritance Site.

Yang Chen entered the Human Emperor’s palace and accepted the Human Emperor’s inheritance, which began by drawing his soul into a seal and subjecting him to intense pain. Outside, Liu Feng revealed to the gathered powerhouses that the inheritor was the Human Emperor’s disciple.

• Yang Chen entered the palace through the passage and met the Human Emperor across the river of time.
• The Human Emperor warned Yang Chen that claiming the inheritance would test his will, heart, and responsibility, and that he could still turn back.
• Yang Chen chose to accept the inheritance because the Human Emperor was also his master, Liu Feng.
• The Human Emperor explained that the inheritance meant claiming the Human Emperor Palace and sent a seal into Yang Chen’s Sea of Will.
• Yang Chen’s Black Hole Pearl suppressed the seal’s upheaval, but his soul was drawn inside and torn by pain as the inheritance began.
• The Imperial Tutor and Huaxia’s powerhouses sensed the inheritance starting, and Liu Feng told Zhang Yun that the inheritor was the Human Emperor’s disciple.

Liu Feng revealed that he was the Human Emperor’s avatar while Yang Chen endured the agonizing process of refining the seal to inherit the Human Emperor Palace. After a year inside the palace, Yang Chen was still suffering, and the Imperial Preceptor hoped he could endure.

• Liu Feng revealed that he was the Human Emperor’s avatar, and Zhang Yun realized Yang Chen was inside the palace.
• The people of Huaxia bowed to Liu Feng, but he told them to wait until his true body returned.
• Yang Chen began merging his soul with the small seal, enduring pain as it and the Black Hole Pearl occupied separate halves of his sea of will.
• Yang Chen practiced swordsmanship with his will to distract himself from the pain and gradually improved his sword-heart realm.
• The Imperial Preceptor calculated that a year had passed and said Yang Chen’s perseverance was remarkable, though one year was not enough.

Yang Chen endured ten years of agony in the Human Emperor’s inheritance trial, then lived a new life among humanity’s earliest ancestors. After leading them to build a stronghold and bringing them fire, he awakened with a profound realization about the Human Emperor’s Great Dao.

• Yang Chen endured the trial’s pain for ten years, impressing the Imperial Preceptor with his will.
• Yang Chen was reborn as an infant in humanity’s primitive age, without his system, Black Hole Pearl, or Demonic Dragon Essence.
• Yang Chen led early humans to build houses, sharpen stone weapons, and defend themselves from savage beasts.
• Yang Chen found fire after a celestial upheaval and brought a flame back to the human stronghold, giving humanity hope.
• Yang Chen grew old and died, and his body was burned in humanity’s sacred flame as the fire was passed down.
• The small seal emerged from Yang Chen’s sea of consciousness, and Yang Chen awakened and recognized the inheritance as the Human Emperor’s Great Dao of passing the sacred flame from generation to generation.

Yang Chen underwent his second reincarnation and sacrificed his cultivation to teach humanity how to cultivate, dying after helping them prosper. Back in the Human Emperor Palace, he understood the Dao of Responsibility, and its ripple inspired the people of Huaxia to protect their world and advance their cultivation.

• The Black Tortoise announced that Yang Chen's second reincarnation had begun, while the Imperial Preceptor wondered whether he could endure all three.
• In his new life, Yang Chen cultivated primordial energy, defeated a savage beast, and taught humanity to cultivate by bringing spiritual energy into the mortal world.
• After humanity grew strong and established its territory, Yang Chen died in meditation, having given up his cultivation for their sake.
• Yang Chen awakened in the Human Emperor Palace and realized that his two reincarnations had taught humanity to pass on its legacy and share its blessings.
• A mysterious ripple swept through the Human Emperor World, inspiring the Huaxia people to protect their world and causing many to advance.
• Liu Feng told the crowd that the ripple was the Dao of Responsibility.

In his third reincarnation, Yang Chen developed medicine, detoxification methods, and alchemy to help humanity survive the poisons and diseases spread by vicious beasts. He sacrificed his life to transform into a land of medicinal herbs, then returned to his own body as the Imperial Preceptor and Black Tortoise recognized that he had inherited the Dao of Dedication.

• Yang Chen awoke in a weak body amid the deaths and suffering caused by disease and poison in the human race.
• Yang Chen developed a vital energy cleansing method that helped poisoned cultivators purge toxins and survive.
• Yang Chen explored mountains, tested herbs on himself, recorded their properties, and taught people to boil contaminated water and use medicinal treatments.
• Yang Chen invented alchemy and passed the Hundred Herbs Illustrations and pill formulas to other humans.
• Yang Chen faced the poisoned vicious beasts, sacrificed his life, and transformed the surrounding land into a source of medicinal herbs and antidotes.
• Yang Chen returned to his body and declared that he had succeeded, while the Imperial Preceptor and Black Tortoise said he had inherited the Dao of Dedication.

Yang Chen absorbed the Human Emperor’s inheritance and gained control of the Human Emperor Palace, but he remained at the ninth step of Heaven Ascension because he needed to comprehend the Black Hole Pearl’s Devour Great Dao. When he emerged, the Imperial Preceptor suspected the inheritance had failed.

• Yang Chen comprehended the Great Daos of Responsibility, Inheritance, and Devotion, which the Black Hole Pearl absorbed and deepened his ability to use.
• Yang Chen questioned the System about why he had not become a True Immortal, and learned he had to comprehend the Devour Great Dao by devouring many Great Daos.
• The small seal transformed the Human Emperor Palace into a portable weapon, and the System added it to Yang Chen’s Weapon Slot with the abilities Power of All Living Beings and Spatial Leap.
• Yang Chen left the palace and met the waiting Imperial Preceptor and Black Tortoise.
• The Imperial Preceptor sensed Yang Chen was still at the ninth step of Heaven Ascension and wondered whether the inheritance had failed.

Yang Chen completed the Human Emperor’s inheritance and was recognized as the current Human Emperor, though his unusual physique kept him from advancing to the True Immortal Realm. Liu Feng revealed that he had to return to his true body in the Immortal Realm, while a trapped enemy gathered Celestial life essence and vowed to destroy Huaxia.

• Yang Chen emerged from the inheritance site and showed the Imperial Preceptor and Black Tortoise the Human Emperor Palace, proving he had passed the trials despite remaining in the Heaven Ascension Realm.
• The Imperial Preceptor explained that Yang Chen had earned the Human Emperor’s legacy, and a rift led him to Liu Feiyang, Wang Xiao, Jade Pool Holy Lord, Zhang Yun, Progenitor of All Demons, Old Heavenly Master, and Liu Feng.
• In the Celestial Human World, the golden body consumed the remaining Celestials’ life essence, cracked open, and threatened to slaughter Huaxia once it escaped.
• Liu Feng told Yang Chen that he had intended to pass on the legacy because his true body faced trouble and his master could not leave Huaxia without exposing its coordinates.
• Liu Feng said he had to return to his true body, then vanished into fragments as the Huaxia powerhouses bowed farewell to the Human Emperor.

Yang Chen secluded himself to comprehend the Human Emperor’s three Great Daos while Huaxia’s Ascension powerhouses cultivated and prepared to defend their homeland. After the Buddhist Venerable broke free and attacked Huaxia, the gathered defenders lost their battle, but an unidentified arrival challenged his claim that Huaxia would perish.

• The Imperial Preceptor explained that Liu Feiyang was not descended from the Human Emperor, and Yang Chen entered seclusion in the Human Emperor Palace to master the Human Emperor’s three Great Daos.
• The Buddhist Venerable broke free, while the Immortal Venerable and Blood Venerable attacked him from within their own seals; unable to reach them, he set his sights on Huaxia and called for Liu Feng.
• The Imperial Preceptor released Liu Feiyang, the Progenitor of All Demons, Zhang Yun, the Jade Pool Holy Lord, the Old Heavenly Master, and Wang Xiao from cultivation to defend Huaxia.
• The Buddhist Venerable summoned a vast attack over Huaxia, and Liu Qingtian, Jian Wuchen, Chen Tianxin, Li Yi, the Body Sect, and other defenders joined forces to hold it back until Liu Feiyang and the other Ascension powerhouses arrived.
• Liu Feiyang and the Huaxia powerhouses charged the Buddhist Venerable, but he defeated them and declared that he would destroy Huaxia while Liu Feng was absent.
• An unidentified person laughed and asked the Buddhist Venerable, "What did you say?"

Yang Chen revealed himself as Huaxia’s Human Emperor and climbed the Stairway to Heaven to reach the Tenth Step, rallying Huaxia’s people against Buddhist Venerable. The two began their clash as Buddhist Venerable attacked, and Yang Chen answered with the Azure Dragon Five Tiger Sword.

• Yang Chen approached Buddhist Venerable, and Liu Feiyang greeted him as the Human Emperor while Huaxia’s wounded experts recognized him.
• Yang Chen called on the dragon and tiger to fight beside him, and Buddhist Venerable realized he had obtained the Human Emperor’s inheritance.
• Yang Chen healed the shattered space and stepped onto the Tenth Step of the Stairway to Heaven, spreading Great Dao fluctuations across Huaxia.
• Huaxia’s people, including Xu Da, knelt and cried out for the Human Emperor as their faith gathered around Yang Chen.
• Buddhist Venerable revealed his Bewitchment Great Dao and attacked Yang Chen with a Buddhist swastika palm, while Yang Chen swung the Azure Dragon Five Tiger Sword and called out, “Yin-Yang!”

Yang Chen used Human Immortal Transformation to raise his aura until it matched the Buddhist Venerable's, then fought him with Sword Heart and the intent of time. His sword strike failed to pierce the Buddhist Venerable, who revealed his physical-body Loose Immortal form and prepared to demonstrate its might.

• Yang Chen's Yin-Yang wheel struck the Buddhist Venerable, but he emerged unharmed and demanded the Human Emperor's Great Dao.
• Yang Chen activated Human Immortal Transformation, drawing Great Dao power into his body until his aura rivaled the Buddhist Venerable's.
• The Buddhist Venerable attacked with the Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva, and Yang Chen slowed its assault using Sword Heart infused with the intent of time.
• Liu Feiyang led Huaxia's experts in raising a barrier, but the clash's shockwaves shattered it and injured those supporting it.
• Yang Chen charged the Buddhist Venerable and thrust his sword, but the blade rang against his body without piercing it.
• The Buddhist Venerable expanded into a towering form and announced that he would show Yang Chen the might of a physical-body Loose Immortal.

Yang Chen revealed that his body had reached the Loose Immortal realm and matched Buddhist Venerable in physical combat, then countered the Great Dao of Bewitchment with the Human Emperor’s three Great Daos. Buddhist Venerable unveiled his final trump card beneath South Heavenly Gate: the World Core.

• Yang Chen revealed his second-turn Nine-Turn Demonic Dragon Body, and he and Buddhist Venerable fought evenly with their Loose Immortal physiques.
• Wang Xiao caught a Body Sect elder criticizing him and threw the elder into a crater before warning the others to stay focused on their enemy.
• Buddhist Venerable unleashed the Great Dao of Bewitchment, but the little seal protected Yang Chen’s sea of consciousness.
• Yang Chen summoned the Human Emperor’s three Great Daos—Inheritance, responsibility, and sacrifice—and shattered Buddhist Venerable’s incomplete Dao of Bewitchment.
• Buddhist Venerable activated bloodlike threads beneath South Heavenly Gate, broke open the restored gate, and revealed the World Core as his final trump card.

Buddhist Venerable devoured the Celestial Human World’s core, absorbing the life essence of its inhabitants and ascending to True Immortal power. He overwhelmed Yang Chen in battle and blasted him into an abyss in Huaxia, leaving his fate unclear.

• Buddhist Venerable removed and swallowed the world core, causing devastation across the Celestial Human World as it drew Celestial Humans toward him and consumed their life essence.
• The Human Emperor’s seals protected Blood Venerable and Immortal Venerable from being absorbed by the world core.
• Buddhist Venerable emerged stronger, restored the world core beneath the South Heavenly Gate, and challenged Yang Chen.
• Yang Chen attacked Buddhist Venerable with the Four Seasons Sword Art and the Dao of Devotion, but Buddhist Venerable expanded the Dao of Bewitchment and destroyed the Sword Qi.
• Buddhist Venerable declared himself a True Immortal and struck Yang Chen into a vast abyss in Huaxia, while the watching Huaxia powerhouses feared Yang Chen had been defeated.

Yang Chen survived the Buddhist Venerable’s attack and combined his three Daos into the Dao of All Beings. He left the chapter facing the Buddhist Venerable with a new power that made the enemy sense danger for the first time.

• Liu Feiyang rallied Huaxia’s powerhouses to fight the Buddhist Venerable, but the Buddhist Venerable’s Great Dao torrents crushed and killed many of them.
• Yang Chen emerged from the abyss and blocked the Buddhist Venerable’s attack, restoring Huaxia’s hope.
• Yang Chen summoned the Daos of Dedication, responsibility, and inheritance, and understood their connection to all beings.
• Yang Chen fused his three Daos into the Dao of All Beings, which stretched twenty li and clashed with the Buddhist Venerable’s Dao of Bewitchment.
• Yang Chen pointed at the Buddhist Venerable and prepared to unleash the Power of All Beings.

Yang Chen used the Great Dao of All Beings to bless Huaxia, then trapped and killed the Buddhist Venerable after the people recognized him as Human Emperor. The system rewarded Yang Chen, leaving him victorious over the invasion.

• Yang Chen scattered the Great Dao of All Beings across Huaxia, healing its people and helping cultivators break through.
• The Buddhist Venerable attacked Yang Chen, but the Human Emperor Palace and Yang Chen’s seal trapped him.
• The people of Huaxia, the White Tiger, the Imperial Preceptor, Black Tortoise, and the Vermilion Bird acknowledged Yang Chen as Human Emperor.
• Yang Chen passed judgment on the Buddhist Venerable and killed him with a sword of light.
• The system awarded Yang Chen one million Kill Points and one mid-grade immortal energy infusion.

After Yang Chen killed Buddhist Venerable, he used the stolen life essence and the Celestial Human World and Demon World cores to transform Huaxia. Huaxia’s world core awakened, bringing spiritual and immortal energy across the land and beginning the fourth Spiritual Energy Recovery.

• Huaxia celebrated as Yang Chen killed Buddhist Venerable, while Liu Feiyang was pinned down by fellow powerhouses for showing off.
• Yang Chen took the crystal containing energy from the world core out of Buddhist Venerable’s corpse and shattered it, releasing the life essence Buddhist Venerable had gathered.
• The released life essence flowed into Huaxia’s world core, causing spiritual energy and new spiritual veins to emerge across the land.
• Yang Chen brought the Celestial Human World and Demon World cores to Huaxia’s world core, which absorbed them and released spiritual and immortal energy.
• Liu Feiyang and the Old Heavenly Master sensed their cultivation changing, and the Old Heavenly Master recognized the event as the fourth Spiritual Energy Recovery.