Chapter Summaries

Lin Dong and Xiao Yan joined forces with the Heavenly Emperor to defeat the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Emperor, then allowed Mu Chen to receive the inheritance of One Qi Transforms into Three Purities. The chapter left the audience realizing that Mu Chen’s later use of the divine ability had produced five clones, though how he did so remained unknown.

• Lin Dong reunited with Lin Jing and thanked Mu Chen for protecting her, while Xiao Yan and Lin Dong greeted each other.
• Lin Dong explained that the Heaven-Swallowing Devil Emperor was the Nine-Corpse Heavenly Devil Emperor, whose nine lives had made him exceptionally difficult to defeat.
• Lin Dong and Xiao Yan summoned the Heavenly Emperor’s remnant soul, who used the Heavenly Emperor Sword to kill the sealed devil emperor.
• The Heavenly Emperor ordered the other groups to leave the Ancient Heavenly Palace and offered the One Qi Transforms into Three Purities inheritance to Xiao Yan and Lin Dong, but both declined.
• The Heavenly Emperor passed the inheritance to Mu Chen, and the audience recognized it as the divine ability he had used to create five clones.

Mu Chen cultivated the inheritance of One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, reached Earthly Sovereign, and rushed to rescue Luo Li from the Luo God Clan’s crisis. He faced the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s attempt to claim Luo Li, and the chapter ended with the Battle Emperor’s true appearance shocking the onlookers.

• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong left after giving Mu Chen a lotus lamp and a Stone Talisman that could summon them to his aid.
• Mu Chen mastered One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, broke through to Earthly Sovereign, established the Mu Mansion, and led it to the Luo God Clan to save Luo Li.
• Mu Chen defeated the Blood God Clan’s Earthly Sovereigns and arrived in force with the Mu Mansion, stopping the clan from overwhelming him.
• Elder Dong revealed that the Western Heaven Battle Hall wanted Luo Li as its Saintess, a position that would make her one of the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s women, but Luo Li refused.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s incarnation descended with Spirit Heavenly Sovereign strength, and his true appearance astonished the viewers.

The Western Heaven Battle Emperor pursued Luo Li for the cultivation opportunity offered by her Luo God Celestial Body, then planned to capture Mu Chen and use him to draw her in. Lin Dong watched the future image and prepared to confront the Battle Emperor if Mu Chen summoned him.

• The image showed Luo Li rejecting the Western Heaven Battle Emperor while Mu Chen and Luo Tianshen challenged his attempt to claim her.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor wanted to use the Great Emperor Inner Canon with Luo Li to advance toward Saint Heavenly Sovereign.
• After Luo Li refused him, the Western Heaven Battle Emperor targeted Mandala and announced that he would capture Mu Chen and take him to the Western Heaven Battle Hall.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor expected Luo Li to visit Mu Chen and eventually fall for him instead.
• Lin Dong watched the image, grew angry at the Battle Emperor's pursuit of another man's beloved, and vowed to beat him if Mu Chen summoned him.

Mu Chen summoned Xiao Yan to protect him and Luo Li from the Western Heaven Battle Emperor, who stubbornly refused to back down despite the Flame Emperor’s intervention. Xiao Yan defeated the Battle Emperor in a brief contest, but the Battle Emperor still insisted that losing by a hair was losing.

• Mu Chen summoned Xiao Yan, who appeared and melted the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s golden hand with his flames.
• Xiao Yan healed Luo Tianshen and explained that he had come to repay the guidance and help Luo Tianshen had given him when he first arrived in the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan asked the Western Heaven Battle Emperor to let the matter rest, but the Battle Emperor refused and challenged him with defiant words.
• Xiao Yan proposed a brief contest and defeated the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s incarnation with his own incarnation.
• Xiao Yan modestly called his victory narrow, and the Western Heaven Battle Emperor claimed that losing by a hair still counted as losing, leaving Xiao Yan speechless and the watching realms laughing.

Xiao Yan tried to persuade the Western Heaven Battle Emperor to stop targeting Mu Chen, but the Battle Emperor insisted on suppressing him. Xiao Yan revealed that Mu Chen could summon Lin Dong, whose past clash with the Battle Emperor had left him terrified, and left the Battle Emperor facing a choice that could avert war.

• Xiao Yan politely asked the Western Heaven Battle Emperor to let the matter with Mu Chen end, but the Battle Emperor agreed to spare the Luo God Clan while still targeting Mu Chen.
• Xiao Yan warned the Battle Emperor that Mu Chen could summon another helper and named Lin Dong, making the Battle Emperor fall silent.
• Mu Chen wondered why the Battle Emperor feared Lin Dong more than Xiao Yan, so Xiao Yan explained that the Battle Emperor had once coveted Lin Dong's wife's soul.
• Xiao Yan recounted how Lin Dong had fought through the Ice Spirit Clan's restrictions, defeated its ancestor, and pursued the Battle Emperor for a month.
• Xiao Yan said the Western Heaven Battle Hall had kept its distance from the Martial Realm since then, and left the Battle Emperor's next choice unresolved.

Xiao Yan exposed the Western Heaven Battle Emperor’s humiliating history with Lin Dong and urged Mu Chen to use Lin Dong’s Stone Talisman. The Battle Emperor backed down when Mu Chen prepared to summon the Martial Ancestor, and the chapter ended with Lin Dong still absent.

• Xiao Yan revealed that Lin Dong had suppressed the Western Heaven Battle Emperor for three years, while the Battle Emperor’s story of being chased for a month had been a face-saving distortion.
• Mu Chen realized that the Battle Emperor had once threatened his relationship with Luo Li, and Xiao Yan encouraged him to summon Lin Dong.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor claimed he would not fear Lin Dong, confident Mu Chen would not use the Stone Talisman after inviting Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan promised to repay Mu Chen’s favor if Lin Dong did not, and Mu Chen took out the Stone Talisman as if to crush it.
• The Western Heaven Battle Emperor stopped Mu Chen and agreed to let the matter go for Xiao Yan’s sake.

Xiao Yan secured Mu Chen a place in the Western Heaven Continent’s Son of the Continent contest, and the projection showed Mu Chen reaching upper Earthly Sovereign, inheriting the Budur Ancestor’s legacy, and earning the title of Devil-Slaying King. After the Budur Ancient Clan tried to suppress him, his mother Qing Yanjing intervened, leaving the clan’s conflict with Mu Chen unresolved.

• Xiao Yan offered a Dragon-Phoenix Heaven Sovereign Pill to secure Mu Chen a place in the Son of the Continent contest.
• Mu Chen won on the upper Earthly Sovereign battlefield, endured three years of the continent’s baptism, and reached upper Earthly Sovereign.
• Mu Chen sought the Eight-Part Budur in the Ancient Sacred Abyss, gained the Budur Ancestor’s approval, and inherited his legacy.
• Three Heavenly Sovereigns from the Budur Ancient Clan’s Mo Branch moved to suppress Mu Chen after his return, but a Great Thousand Palace envoy granted him the title of Devil-Slaying King for killing a Devil Emperor.
• Qing Yanjing severely injured the Heavenly Sovereigns and stirred up the Budur Ancient Clan, prompting Budur Xuan to suppress her with the Ancestral Pagoda; the dispute remained unsettled.

The viewers compared Mu Chen’s powerful protectors with Lin Dong’s lonely path, while Mu Chen grew furious after seeing his mother suppressed by the Budur Ancient Clan. The vision then showed Mu Chen becoming ruler of the Northern Region and traveling to a demon-occupied plane, where he discovered its surviving humans were being farmed as blood food; Zhou Yuan lamented the devastation and the Saint Clan’s cruelty.

• The viewers envied Mu Chen’s powerful backers and contrasted them with Lin Dong’s lack of protection.
• Budur Xuan tried to distance himself from his future self’s actions after Qing Yanjing reminded him that Mu Chen might see her being suppressed.
• Mu Chen vowed to grow strong enough to protect his mother after watching the Grand Elder imprison her.
• Mu Chen became ruler of half the Northern Region, then sought the White Dragon Sovereign’s opportunity to reach Heavenly Sovereign and save his mother.
• Mu Chen followed the White Dragon Spiritual Bead to a plane occupied by the Outer Realm Evil Clan and discovered its supposed safe haven was a human-breeding cage.
• Zhou Yuan condemned the Saint Clan after seeing the plane’s people treated like livestock and reflected on why he had to rely on Mu Chen and others to confront the second-generation Saint God.

Mu Chen gained the Plane Embryo’s recognition and advanced to Spirit Heavenly Sovereign in less than ten years. When the Blood Demon Emperor broke free and offered to withdraw, Mu Chen revealed that his two One Qi Transforms into Three Purities clones had also become Spirit Heavenly Sovereigns, leaving the demon outnumbered.

• Mu Chen defeated the six Blood Demon Kings, then barely suppressed the Blood Demon Emperor with the Three-Unity Realm and the Saint Pagoda.
• Guided by the White Dragon Spiritual Bead’s remnant soul, Mu Chen found the Plane Embryo, earned its recognition, and passed five layers of Sovereign Tribulation to become a Spirit Heavenly Sovereign.
• Observers across the worlds marveled at Mu Chen’s breakthrough in less than ten years, while Li Xuantong lamented how far he fell behind.
• The Blood Demon Emperor escaped the Saint Pagoda’s suppression and proposed leaving the plane, but Mu Chen rejected his offer over the demons’ slaughter.
• Mu Chen summoned his black and white clones, revealing that both had also reached Spirit Heavenly Sovereign and turning the fight into a three-on-one confrontation.

Mu Chen defeated the Blood Demon Emperor with Lin Dong’s help, then gathered allies and confronted the Budur Ancient Clan to rescue his mother. Qing Yanjing seized control of the clan-protecting Ancestral Pagoda and became Grand Elder, turning the clan into Mu Chen’s backing.

• The Blood Demon Emperor summoned the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor, and Mu Chen summoned Lin Dong, who destroyed the demon’s incarnation with the power of the eight Ancestor Symbols.
• Mu Chen slew the Blood Demon Emperor, and Lin Dong warned him not to grow arrogant before dispersing his avatar.
• Mu Chen subdued a troublesome Heavenly Sovereign at Mu Mansion and enlisted Yao Lao and Lin Diao to support his effort to rescue his mother.
• Mu Chen used the Budur Ancient Clan’s grand array to overawe the clan, but he remained unable to defeat Budur Xuan.
• Qing Yanjing seized control of the Ancestral Pagoda, suppressed Budur Xuan, and became the Budur Ancient Clan’s Grand Elder, making the clan Mu Chen’s ally.

Budur Xuan regretted rejecting Mu Chen and hoped Qing Yanjing could persuade her son to acknowledge the Budur Ancient Clan. Meanwhile, Mu Chen defended Tang Qian'er from the Bailing King and overwhelmed the family that came to challenge him, leaving them terrified of his power and connections.

• Budur Xuan condemned his past treatment of Mu Chen and begged Qing Yanjing to help bring him back to the clan.
• Qing Yanjing agreed to speak with Mu Chen but said she would not force him to return.
• Mu Chen struck the Bailing King after he tried to pressure Tang Qian'er and ordered an elder to send a warning to the man's parents.
• Liu Baihua arrived in a rage, but Mu Chen defeated her with two strikes.
• Qin Beixuan challenged Mu Chen and discovered he was outmatched, then apologized after learning Mu Chen's origins and powerful connections.
• The Bailing King realized that both his strength and backing were inferior to Mu Chen's.

Mu Chen rejoiced as Nine Nethers transformed into an ancient Undying Bird and reassured her that she was like family to him. As the Eternal Gathering began at the Mohe Ancient Clan, Mu Chen arrived backed by the Endless Fire Territory, the Martial Realm, and the Budur Ancient Clan to contend for the Eternal Undying Body.

• Mu Chen celebrated Nine Nethers' transformation and told her that meeting her was one of the great fortunes of his life.
• Nine Nethers blushed at Mu Chen's sincere words and turned her gaze away.
• The Eternal Gathering opened at the Mohe Ancient Clan, whose hosts intended to prevent outsiders from claiming the Eternal Undying Body inheritance.
• Mu Chen came to the gathering with support from the Endless Fire Territory, the Martial Realm, and the Budur Ancient Clan.
• Qing Yanjing personally accompanied Mu Chen and invited Budur Xuan to help hold the field.

Budur Xuan agreed to support Mu Chen in exchange for Mu Chen becoming the Budur Ancient Clan’s clan chief. Mu Chen inherited the Eternal Undying Body, raised his physical body to Saint grade, and faced the Mohe Ancient Clan with Luo Li and their allies at his side.

• Budur Xuan asked Mu Chen to become clan chief of the Budur Ancient Clan, and Mu Chen agreed after Qing Yanjing persuaded him.
• Inside the Eternal Pagoda, Mu Chen discovered that a flaw had created a murderous pseudo-body from accumulated immortal power.
• Mu Chen gained the true Eternal Undying Body’s recognition, devoured the pseudo-body, and expelled the other competitors from the tower.
• After five years of seclusion inside the tower, Mu Chen emerged with a Saint-grade physical body and strength to fight a mid-stage Saint.
• The Mohe Ancient Clan summoned the Black Heaven Ancient Clan to stop Mu Chen, while Luo Li arrived with Tai Ling Ancient Clan reinforcements and Saint-level power.

Mu Chen suppressed Mohe Tian and received the Great Thousand Golden Invitation to join the final effort to destroy the Heavenly Evil God. As the Great Thousand World’s Heavenly Sovereigns gathered at Northern Wilderness Hill, the Outer Realm Evil Clan launched major attacks on the Endless Fire Territory and the Martial Realm to hold back the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor.

• Mu Chen defeated Mohe Tian and suppressed the Mohe Yin-Yang Bottle with the Eternal Pagoda, while Qin Tian intervened to prevent a war between the clans.
• Mohe Tian recognized that the Mohe Ancient Clan could not stop Mu Chen from claiming the Eternal Undying Body, especially with the Budur Ancient Clan, Martial Realm, and Endless Fire Territory backing him.
• Qin Tian gave Mu Chen a Great Thousand Golden Invitation to discuss the final operation of the Demon-Dissolving Array and the destruction of the Heavenly Evil God.
• Three months later, Mu Chen, Mohe Tian, the Western Heaven Battle Emperor, and other Heavenly Sovereigns gathered at Northern Wilderness Hill to face the Heavenly Evil God.
• The Outer Realm Evil Clan sent several great clans to attack the Endless Fire Territory and Martial Realm, aiming to tie down the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor.

The Outer Realm Evil Clan’s hidden schemes nearly freed the Heavenly Evil God, who grievously wounded Mu Chen after breaking the seal. Just as the Great Thousand World’s defenders faced annihilation, Xiao Yan and Lin Dong arrived together and shattered the Evil God’s attack.

• Xiao Yan’s hidden Emperor Flame purged the Heart Demon Seed planted in Qin Tian, foiling the Outer Realm Evil Clan’s first plan to disrupt the sealing array.
• The Evil Spirit Clan’s assault forced Mu Chen to fight Jiang Ya, and Jiang Ya’s self-destruction helped the Heavenly Evil God break free.
• The newly freed Heavenly Evil God grievously wounded Mu Chen with a breath, then reached the Five-Eye State through sacrifices and overwhelmed the gathered Heavenly Sovereigns.
• As the Heavenly Sovereigns prepared to sacrifice themselves, Qin Tian sensed Xiao Yan and Lin Dong arriving.
• Xiao Yan’s Emperor Flame and Lin Dong’s Eight Symbol Hand struck together, shattering the Heavenly Evil God’s attack.

Xiao Yan and Lin Dong crushed the six great clans’ Heavenly Demon Emperor patriarchs, then used the Firmament List to join forces against the Heavenly Evil God. Mu Chen could only watch their devastating preliminary battle from the sidelines, leaving him puzzled about how he eventually reached the Master Realm first.

• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong showed the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor that they had captured the six clans’ patriarchs, and Lin Dong crushed the demons in his palm while Xiao Yan burned away another imprisoned group.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong inscribed their surnames on the Firmament List and drew on the Great Thousand World’s power to fight the Heavenly Evil God.
• Xiao Yan attacked with the Heavy Profound Ruler as Lin Dong struck with an azure-dragon-shaped palm, while Mu Chen and the other spectators struggled to withstand the battle’s aftershocks.
• Mu Chen watched the images of his helplessness and accepted that Xiao Yan and Lin Dong were far beyond his reach at the time.
• Mu Chen wondered why he had reportedly entered the Master Realm before Xiao Yan and Lin Dong despite their greater cultivation and resources.

Mu Chen proposed concentrating the Great Thousand World's opportunities on a third person who could ascend the Firmament List and help defeat the Heavenly Evil God. He volunteered to try, explaining that One Qi Transforms into Three Purities could let him and his two avatars advance together, though his plan still depended on reaching Saint Heavenly Sovereign.

• Luo Li asked Mu Chen if he was shaken by his inability to help in the decisive battle, and he said he believed he could eventually stand alongside Xiao Yan and Lin Dong.
• The visions revealed that the Heavenly Evil God had deliberately allowed himself to be sealed, then opened a sixth eye and retreated, claiming he would recover his full strength in five years.
• Green-Shirt Sword Saint suggested that Xiao Yan or Lin Dong leave a complete true name on the Firmament List, but Mu Chen proposed raising a third contender with the Great Thousand World's resources.
• Mu Chen volunteered to ascend the Firmament List, drawing scorn from Mohe Tian and a question from Flame Emperor about his confidence.
• Mu Chen explained that One Qi Transforms into Three Purities could create two avatars, which could cultivate the five Primal Celestial Bodies and join him in challenging the Firmament List after he reached Saint Heavenly Sovereign.

The Great Thousand World’s leaders gave Mu Chen two Primordial Celestial Bodies and the Immortal Emperor’s Great Emperor’s Legacy to help him reach the Saint Heavenly Sovereign realm within five years. After seeing his future rise to the Master Realm, Mu Chen said he would rather have reached it on his own.

• The Tai Ling Ancient Clan and Budur Ancient Clan handed Mu Chen the two Primordial Celestial Bodies they guarded.
• The Great Thousand World’s powerhouses committed their resources to help Mu Chen reach the Saint Heavenly Sovereign realm within five years.
• The Graveyard Guardian of Northern Wilderness Hill arrived and revealed that the Immortal Emperor’s power remained sealed there as the Great Emperor’s Legacy, which only Mu Chen could inherit.
• Observers reflected that Mu Chen had accepted the burden of saving the Great Thousand World, while Xiao Yan and Lin Dong had not reached the Firmament List.
• Mu Chen watched the image of his future and said he would rather reach the Master Realm through his own efforts than because of the calamity.

Mu Chen emerged from seclusion as a Saint Heavenly Sovereign just as the Heavenly Evil God returned at the peak of nine eyes, and he joined Xiao Yan and Lin Dong to challenge him. Mu Chen left his name on the Firmament List, and the three heroes wounded the Evil God, beginning a prolonged battle that would end when one of them inscribed their full name.

• Mu Chen rejected the idea of using the calamity to advance his own path, and Luo Li affirmed her faith in him.
• During Mu Chen’s seclusion, Xiao Yan and Lin Dong searched for the hidden Heavenly Evil God while the Great Thousand World prepared for war; the Evil God later revealed he had recovered to eight eyes and fled after fighting them to a draw.
• The Outer Realm Evil Clan launched a counterattack, and Luo Li, Xiao Xiao, and Lin Jing defended the Great Thousand World before returning to repel an invasion of Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.
• Mu Chen emerged from seclusion and swiftly defeated the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor as the nine-eyed Heavenly Evil God appeared.
• Mu Chen used One Qi Transforms into Three Purities to leave his name on the Firmament List, allowing his three bodies to replicate the strength of a half-listed one.
• Mu Chen, Xiao Yan, and Lin Dong unleashed their ultimate techniques together, wounded the Heavenly Evil God, and gained the upper hand.

The Ten-Eyed Heavenly Evil God overwhelmed Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Mu Chen, forcing Xiao Yan and Lin Dong to prepare to sacrifice themselves. Mu Chen stopped them and said he still had a backup plan, though he could not identify what it was, leaving Luo Li to warn that the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor might confront him after the projection.

• The Ten-Eyed Heavenly Evil God sacrificed nine eyes to reach ten and gained enough power to suppress Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Mu Chen.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong resolved to give their lives to protect the Great Thousand World and the people they loved.
• Mu Chen stopped Xiao Yan and Lin Dong from sacrificing themselves and said there might still be another way.
• At the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, Mu Chen wondered what backup plan he could have left after using his known techniques.
• Luo Li teased Mu Chen that the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor might come to confront him for making them lose face.