Chapter Summaries

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Changqing, a prodigious youth with the Chaos Body and Chaos Azure Lotus, is sealed in a divine source by his ancestor, awaiting the Immortal Road's reopening.
• The Chen Clan withdraws from the world, sparking speculation about Chen Changqing's sealing.
• A million years pass, with numerous prodigies emerging and the Immortal Road reopening.

Character Developments

• Chen Changqing: Transmigrated with the Chaos Body and Chaos Azure Lotus, he's sealed in divine source at 18. His insight doubles every day due to the Dao Ancestor's Blessing.
• Chen Haotian (Ancestor): Seals Chen Changqing, hoping he'll lead the clan to greatness in the future.

Significant Themes

• Talent vs. Fate: Despite his extraordinary talent, Chen Changqing is sealed due to the era's limitations.
• Time and Longevity: The passage of a million years shows the impermanence of power and glory.
• Immortality: The ultimate goal of cultivators, attainable only through the Immortal Road.

Character Interactions

• Chen Changqing and Chen Haotian: The ancestor seals Chen Changqing, expressing hope for his future.
• The world and the Chen Clan: The clan's withdrawal sparks curiosity and speculation about Chen Changqing's sealing.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Haotian, the Chen Family patriarch, leads the present-day powerhouses to the Divine Source sealing Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing, sealed a million years ago, awakens upon Chen Haotian's command.
• Chen Changqing's awakening causes the entire Chen Clan Ancestral Land to freeze in time and space, demonstrating his immense power.

Character Developments

• Chen Haotian: Shows reverence and anticipation towards Chen Changqing, acknowledging his immense potential.
• Chen Lingfeng: Feels intimidated and threatened by Chen Changqing's mere gaze, despite being at the Great Sage Realm.
• Chen Family powerhouses: React with awe and fear upon seeing Chen Changqing, acknowledging his superiority over their generation's prodigies.

Significant Themes

• The power of the Chaos Body and Chen Changqing's innate abilities.
• The anticipation and reverence for a prodigy who has been sealed for a million years.
• The intimidation and fear caused by a vast power gap, despite the difference in cultivation realms.

Character Interactions

• Chen Haotian and Chen Changqing: The patriarch shows respect and anticipation towards Chen Changqing, while Chen Changqing's awakening causes the patriarch to feel a sense of taboo.
• Chen Lingfeng and Chen Changqing: Chen Lingfeng feels threatened and intimidated by Chen Changqing's gaze, despite being at a much higher cultivation realm.
• Chen Family powerhouses and Chen Changqing: The powerhouses react with awe and fear upon seeing Chen Changqing, acknowledging his superiority over their generation's prodigies.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Changqing awakens after being sealed in the Divine Source for a million years.
• He exhibits unprecedented comprehension, stunning the Chen Family powerhouses.
• Chen Lingfeng, the current head, realizes the wisdom of their ancestor's decision to seal Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing's comprehension is so vast that he understands all his cultivation arts instantly and improves them significantly.
• Chen Changqing discovers that their ancestor, Chen Haotian, has very little lifespan left.
• Chen Changqing experiences a sudden, profound epiphany, merging with the chaos before heaven and earth.

Character Developments

• Chen Changqing: His comprehension has grown exponentially after a million years, allowing him to understand and improve his cultivation arts instantly. He feels the passage of time and the loss of loved ones, triggering an intense epiphany.
• Chen Haotian: Despite his decayed body and imminent death, he remains composed and proud. He expresses satisfaction in seeing Chen Changqing's awakening.

Significant Themes

• The passage of time and its merciless nature.
• The pursuit of Longevity and the struggle against time's relentlessness.
• The accumulation of comprehension and its sudden manifestation.
• The weight of ancestors' decisions and the expectations placed on the younger generation.

Character Interactions

• Chen Changqing and Chen Haotian: The young prodigy and his aged ancestor share a moment of understanding and connection, despite the latter's impending death.
• Chen Changqing and Chen Lingfeng: The young prodigy's awakening stuns the current head of the Chen Family, leading to a realization about their ancestor's wisdom.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Changqing, after a million years in Divine Source, suddenly comprehends the Longevity Divine Art.
• A massive phenomenon occurs across the Great Desolate Realm, attracting the attention of ancient monsters.
• Chen Changqing condenses a Longevity Dao Fruit and attains Longevity.
• The phenomenon brings vitality and blood improvement to all Chen Family members present.
• Chen Changqing shares his newfound Divine Ability Method with the Chen Family, extending their lifespans.

Character Developments

• Chen Changqing: Comprehends the Longevity Divine Art, creates the Divine Ability Method, and extends the lifespans of his family members.
• Chen Haotian: His lifespan is extended, and he returns to his peak strength.

Significant Themes

• Longevity and the pursuit of eternal life.
• The power of comprehension and enlightenment.
• The impact of a single individual on their family and community.

Character Interactions

• Chen Changqing and Chen Haotian: Chen Changqing shares his newfound power with Chen Haotian, expressing gratitude and respect for his ancestor's sacrifices.
• Chen Family members: Witness the phenomenon and the extension of their lifespans, leading to shock and awe.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Changqing comprehends the Longevity Divine Art, which grants him a boundless lifespan and the ability to evolve his strength by condensing different Dao Fruits on his Dao Tree.
• He demonstrates this power by restoring Chen Haotian's vitality with a single finger, bringing him back to his peak condition.
• Chen Changqing reveals that the Divine Ability Method can be learned by anyone, even mortals, and does not require consuming true essence or borrowing the power of the Great Dao laws of heaven and earth.

Character Developments

• Chen Changqing: Proves his incredible power and reveals his Divine Ability Method, causing everyone to look at him with reverence and worship.
• Chen Haotian: Has his vitality restored, making him believe that he can now live again and witness the Chen Family's future prosperity.
• Chen Lingfeng and other Chen Family members: Are shocked and excited by the potential of the Divine Ability Method, which could make the Chen Family a power to be reckoned with.

Significant Themes

• The Divine Ability Method challenges the conventional cultivation system of the Great Desolate Realm, offering a new path that does not rely on resources, talent, or fortuitous opportunities.
• The power of comprehension and one's own understanding of the Dao are emphasized as the source of divine abilities.

Character Interactions

• Chen Changqing and Chen Haotian: The interaction between the ancestor and his descendant showcases the power of the Divine Ability Method and the trust and respect between them.
• Chen Changqing and the Chen Family: The family head and other members react with disbelief, excitement, and awe to Chen Changqing's revelations about the Divine Ability Method.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Changqing explains the Divine Ability Method, which involves directly comprehending the source of the Great Dao, bypassing the need to borrow the spiritual energy or laws of heaven and earth.
• The Chen Family members are skeptical about the feasibility of this method, as it seems to skip over the entire cultivation system.
• Chen Changqing decides to hold a Dao exposition for the Chen Family to help them understand the Divine Ability Method better.

Character Developments

• Chen Changqing: He reveals his understanding of the Divine Ability Method and decides to guide the Chen Family through a Dao exposition.
• Chen Haotian (Old Ancestor): He shows admiration and pride in Chen Changqing's understanding of the Divine Ability Method and eagerly seeks his guidance.
• Chen Lingfeng (Family Head): He suggests holding the Dao exposition during the Chen Family's Sequence Ranking Battle to maximize its impact on the clan.

Significant Themes

• The Divine Ability Method represents a new path to attaining the Dao, bypassing the traditional cultivation system.
• Comprehension is key to understanding and utilizing the Divine Ability Method.
• Guidance and opportunities can help cultivators advance, as seen in Chen Changqing's decision to hold a Dao exposition.

Character Interactions

• Chen Changqing interacts with Chen Haotian and the other Chen Family members, explaining the Divine Ability Method and agreeing to hold a Dao exposition.
• Chen Lingfeng interacts with Chen Changqing, suggesting a suitable time and place for the Dao exposition and showing opportunism in maximizing its benefits for the Chen Family.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Chen Family's ancestors, including the highly senior Clan Elders, urge Ancestor Chen Haotian to appear at the Sequence Ranking Battle to show the current generation of prodigies their true strength.
• Ancestor Chen Haotian agrees, expressing interest in seeing the current level of the Chen Family's prodigies.
• The Sequence Ranking Battle is underway on Purple Sun Peak, with numerous prodigies showcasing their powers and mystical arts.
• Suddenly, a vast pressure descends, freezing all actions and silencing the crowd. Family Head Chen Lingfeng orders everyone to kneel and welcome the ancestors.
• A group of Supreme Elders, including Chen Daojun and Chen Xuanyi, appear on the highest ceremonial platform. Chen Lingfeng, the Family Head, bows to Ancestor Chen Haotian and Ancestor Chen Changqing.

Character Developments

• Ancestor Chen Haotian shows interest in the current generation of Chen Family prodigies, suggesting he may have been distant or secluded previously.
• Chen Lingfeng, the Family Head, demonstrates humility and respect towards the ancestors, highlighting his position and awareness of hierarchy.

Significant Themes

• Respect for Ancestors and Hierarchy: The Chen Family members show deep respect for their ancestors, with the Family Head bowing to the ancestors, emphasizing the importance of hierarchy in their society.
• Power and Strength: The Sequence Ranking Battle and the appearance of the ancestors highlight the importance of power and strength in the Chen Family, with the ancestors' presence serving as a reminder of the family's true might.

Character Interactions

• Ancestor Chen Haotian interacts with Chen Changqing, showing a friendly and teasing demeanor.
• Chen Lingfeng interacts with Ancestor Chen Haotian and Ancestor Chen Changqing, demonstrating respect and excitement.
• The Chen Family prodigies interact with each other during the Sequence Ranking Battle, showcasing their skills and powers.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Lingfeng reveals that the seemingly youthful, Transcendent-Realm Chen Changqing is the Chen Family’s legendary Evergreen Divine Son, who lived a million years ago and possessed the unique Chaos Body.
• The family recognizes Changqing from its ancestral records: he was a peerless prodigy who defeated powerful foes as a child and teenager.
• Lingfeng also introduces Chen Haotian as the clan’s hidden Quasi-Emperor, startling the gathered Chen Family Members.
• The clan welcomes both ancestors with overwhelming excitement. Haotian praises the current generation, then announces that Changqing has comprehended a supreme Daoist art and will expound the Dao to them.
• Haotian claims the teaching could help them break the world’s limits and attain immortality, leaving the crowd stunned.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Changqing is revealed as the legendary Divine Son returned from the Divine Source. Though he appears young and has a modest aura, the clan regards him with awe.
• Chen Haotian emerges as a commanding but encouraging elder: he assesses the younger generation, then creates anticipation for Changqing’s teaching.
• Chen Lingfeng acts as the herald, formally presenting the two ancestors and declaring that their presence will restore the Chen Family’s standing.
• The Chen Family Members shift from confusion and skepticism to reverence, pride, and eager anticipation.

Significant themes

• Ancient legacy renewed: A figure once thought to be myth returns to shape the family’s future.
• Hidden strength and resurgence: The clan’s long-concealed power promises to restore its former prominence.
• Age versus true ability: Changqing’s youthful appearance and low visible cultivation contrast sharply with his legendary stature.
• The promise of transcendence: The prospect of attaining immortality turns the Dao exposition into a potentially life-changing opportunity.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Haotian, the Chen Family’s Quasi-Emperor ancestor, urges Chen Changqing to explain the method he has comprehended, believing it could have immense power even for a cultivator of his level.
• Chen Changqing begins a two-hour discourse on the Divine Ability Method. He claims it does not depend on cultivation, innate aptitude, spiritual energy, or true essence—and that even a mortal who comprehends a divine ability could contend with cultivators.
• The crowd is stunned by this challenge to the established cultivation system.
• Chen Yuanba, the foremost of the current generation’s prodigies, interrupts and asks Chen Changqing to enlighten him. His challenge is driven by disbelief and long-standing resentment over the resources reserved for the Divine Son.
• Chen Qingshuang and Chen Musen, the other two leading prodigies, also ask for instruction. Their simultaneous challenge leaves Purple Sun Peak in tense silence.

Character developments

• Chen Changqing remains calm and begins presenting his unprecedented method, while privately finding Chen Haotian’s eagerness amusing.
• Chen Haotian is consumed by hope that the method might let him challenge beings far above his station.
• Chen Yuanba is revealed as proud and fiercely ambitious, but also embittered: despite his achievements, he believes the family’s devotion to the long-sealed Divine Son denied him resources and recognition.
• Chen Qingshuang appears composed and cold, while Chen Musen seems gentle and unassuming but hints at concealed strength.

Significant themes

• Tradition versus disruption: The Divine Ability Method may overturn the realm’s established assumptions about cultivation.
• Merit, privilege, and resentment: Chen Yuanba questions the family’s choice to reserve resources for a prophesied figure rather than reward those who proved themselves.
• Faith versus skepticism: The family’s reverence for Chen Changqing clashes with the prodigies’ doubts about his claims.
• Power and potential: The chapter raises the possibility that extraordinary abilities may not depend on cultivation level or spiritual resources.

Character interactions

• Chen Haotian places the family’s hopes in Chen Changqing, openly inviting him to do as he wishes.
• Chen Yuanba directly challenges Chen Changqing’s credibility, while Chen Lingfeng rebukes Yuanba for disrespecting their ancestor.
• Chen Qingshuang and Chen Musen join Yuanba’s request, turning the interruption into a collective test of the Divine Son.

Summary

Chen Lingfeng angrily confronts Chen Yuanba, Chen Musen, and Chen Qingshuang for challenging the newly awakened ancestor, Chen Changqing. He unleashes his Great Sage pressure, but the three refuse to back down. Yuanba insists he can lead the family himself; Musen says he needs the fight to protect his Dao heart; and Qingshuang, a sword cultivator, is determined to keep her sword heart clear. Their challenge also voices a broader grievance: whether it is fair for one person to receive the Chen Family’s accumulated resources from a million years.
Lingfeng privately regrets that he once hoped the family’s resources would be shared among the younger generation. Seeing Changqing’s power—especially his ability to restore a dying Quasi-Emperor—has convinced him that the ancestor is the family’s best hope.
A Supreme Elder demands punishment, but Changqing stops both him and Lingfeng. He argues that family rules should protect the clan, not suppress its younger members’ spirit. He acknowledges that the prodigies’ resentment and desire for an answer are understandable, and praises each of their abilities: Yuanba’s tyrant body and combat talent, Musen’s refined mind and mastery of arts, and Qingshuang’s exceptional sword gifts.
The three are unsettled by Changqing’s kindness and begin to feel embarrassed about their defiance. Rather than condemn them, he says their willingness to challenge authority and question injustice is part of what makes them worthy prodigies. He grants their request and invites all three to fight him together.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Lingfeng shifts from defending the ancestor and enforcing family discipline to recognizing that the younger generation’s challenge has merit—and that his own earlier motives were misguided.
• Chen Yuanba, Chen Musen, and Chen Qingshuang remain proud and determined, but Changqing’s understanding and praise soften their certainty and stir guilt.
• Chen Changqing emerges as powerful yet open-minded: he values both the family’s long-term future and the younger generation’s independent spirit.
• The Supreme Elder represents strict enforcement of hierarchy, which Changqing overrules in favor of encouraging the prodigies.

Significant themes

• Tradition versus youthful ambition: Rules and hierarchy matter, but can become harmful if they stifle talent.
• Fairness and sacrifice: The family’s million-year resources raise difficult questions about who should benefit from them.
• An invincible heart: True prodigies must have the courage to challenge even powerful authority.
• Leadership through understanding: Changqing earns respect not only through overwhelming strength, but by hearing the challengers out and treating them fairly.

Plot and key events

• Chen Changqing accepts Chen Yuanba, Chen Musen, and Chen Qingshuang’s challenge, proposing to face all three at once. To make the contest fair, the three suppress their cultivation to the peak of the Transcendent Realm.
• They attack together with powerful techniques: Yuanba’s Overlord Fist, Musen’s Five Elements and other spells, and Qingshuang’s sword art.
• Changqing recognizes the principles behind their moves and, through his extraordinary comprehension, turns them into new divine abilities.
• His first punch, Gods and Devils Open Heaven, overwhelms Yuanba’s defenses and sends him crashing into a distant mountain.
• Changqing follows with Five Elements Seal and One Thought, Flower-Picking, breaking through Musen’s defenses and leaving him injured.
• He then uses Nine Light-Splitting Swords against Musen and Sword Shattering the Firmament against Qingshuang. His single sword strike breaks her weapon and protective treasures, forcing her to her knees.
• The chapter ends with Qingshuang staring at Changqing in disbelief and asking how his victory was possible.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Changqing reveals the extent of his power and comprehension. Rather than merely countering the challengers, he learns from their techniques and creates stronger divine abilities on the spot. His calm confidence contrasts with the overwhelming force of his attacks.
• Chen Yuanba, Chen Musen, and Chen Qingshuang begin as confident prodigies willing to test Changqing’s claim to the title of Sole Divine Son. Their coordinated assault turns into a decisive defeat, exposing the immense gap between them and their ancestor.
• Chen Lingfeng worries that the younger generation should not fight their elder, while Chen Haotian eagerly allows the contest, confident Changqing will teach the challengers a lesson.
• The fight is also a public test: the three had agreed that defeating them at equal cultivation would earn Changqing their sincere acceptance.

Significant themes

• True strength exceeds cultivation rank: Changqing’s insight and ability outweigh the apparent advantage of the three challengers’ Saint-level status.
• Comprehension and creation: He does not simply imitate techniques; he grasps their underlying laws and transforms them into divine abilities.
• Humbling pride and earned authority: The challengers’ defeat serves as a dramatic demonstration of why Changqing deserves his standing in the Chen Family.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Chen Changqing defeats Chen Yuanba, Chen Musen, and Chen Qingshuang in a matter of seconds without moving from his spot or producing any detectable spiritual-energy fluctuations. The spectators are stunned, and even the three prodigies struggle to understand how he did it.
• Changqing invites them to attack him at full strength and use their defensive artifacts, hoping to test the limits of his Divine Ability Method and how it might combine with his cultivation.
• The three recover and unleash their trump cards: Yuanba activates his Azure Heaven Tyrant Body and tenfold Battle Combat Formula, then summons a top-grade saint artifact staff; Musen summons a net woven from seventy-two perfected Saint-Tier arts; and Qingshuang unleashes the supreme sword technique of her Innate Sword Dao Treasure Art.
• Their attacks work together to seal off Changqing’s escape routes. He meets them head-on, and as their blows close in, forms a staff from pure battle intent—an ability that astonishes Yuanba.

Character developments and interactions

• Changqing’s overwhelming strength is now undeniable to the Chen Family, including those who had doubted him. He remains composed and curious, treating the fight as a chance to test his abilities rather than simply prove his superiority.
• Yuanba, Musen, and Qingshuang move from shock and confusion to determined cooperation. They acknowledge Changqing’s strength, then attack together with everything they have.
• Changqing sincerely praises the three as greater talents than the prodigies of a million years earlier. Their combined assault also reveals their ability to coordinate instinctively.
• Yuanba’s assumptions about battle intent are challenged when Changqing turns it into a tangible weapon.

Significant themes

• The gap between prodigious talent and truly exceptional power: even three Great Emperor-potential fighters cannot initially match Changqing.
• Hidden capabilities and the value of holding back trump cards, as each prodigy reveals abilities the family had not seen before.
• Cooperation among powerful individuals: their complementary attacks form a coordinated, formidable assault.
• The promise of a Golden Age, with multiple extraordinary talents emerging together and the prospect of a conflict unlike any in history.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Changqing overwhelms Chen Yuanba, Chen Musen, and Chen Qingshuang, breaking their strongest attacks with ease.
• Rather than finish the fight, he repeatedly lets them recover and attack again. Each time, he answers with a divine ability modeled on the technique they just used—only stronger.
• After a prolonged battle, all three are completely drained of true essence and can no longer stand. Chen Changqing remains seemingly untouched.
• Chen Yuanba and Chen Musen realize they were never genuine opponents: Chen Changqing used the fight to test his divine abilities.
• Watching from Purple Sun Peak, the Chen Family is stunned. They recognize Chen Changqing as the undisputed “Sole Divine Son” and become eager to learn his Divine Ability Methods.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Changqing displays overwhelming power, composure, and technical ingenuity. He treats the three as sparring partners, carefully holding back so he can continue testing his moves.
• Chen Yuanba, initially defiant and fiercely determined, keeps fighting even after repeated defeats. He ultimately accepts the lesson without resentment.
• Chen Musen reflects on the battle and understands Chen Changqing’s purpose, responding with rueful acceptance.
• Chen Qingshuang is left physically exhausted and helpless, emphasizing the gap between the three and Chen Changqing.
• The Chen Family shifts from astonishment to reverence, then to intense desire for access to the divine abilities.

Significant themes

• A vast gap in power: Three exceptional Saint Realm prodigies cannot meaningfully challenge Chen Changqing, even though he is only at the Transcendent Realm.
• Mastery through adaptation: Chen Changqing turns his opponents’ own techniques into stronger divine-ability versions.
• Humility and recognition: The defeated fighters accept the purpose of the battle, while the family’s doubts about Chen Changqing’s status disappear.
• The appeal of limitless power: The onlookers believe divine abilities can be used without drawing on true essence or the laws of heaven and earth, making them seem endlessly usable—and potentially transformative for the family.

Key plot points and events

• After seeing Chen Changqing’s combat abilities surpass the techniques that inspired them, the Chen Family’s elders eagerly ask him to begin teaching the Divine Ability Method.
• Chen Changqing restores Chen Yuanba, Chen Musen, and Chen Qingshuang to full health and energy with a single gesture, stunning the family and intensifying their desire to learn.
• The three fighters thank him respectfully; Yuanba, previously proud and defiant, is now completely convinced of Changqing’s superiority.
• Changqing announces a two-hour lecture and tells everyone that acquiring an ability—and the kind they acquire—depends on personal insight and fortune. The entire gathering sits in attentive silence.
• Before teaching, Changqing reflects on the nature of divine abilities: Lesser abilities grow from the Dao intent in ordinary techniques; Greater abilities draw on deeper Dao insight; and Origin abilities reach toward the source itself. His Immortality Divine Ability is an exceptionally rare Origin ability, while the abilities he developed in battle are Lesser ones.

Character developments

• Chen Changqing emerges as both a formidable practitioner and a generous teacher. His recent battle has clarified his understanding of divine abilities, and he prepares to share that knowledge with the family.
• Chen Haotian sets aside his imposing authority, revealing his intense eagerness to learn from Changqing.
• Chen Yuanba, Chen Musen, and Chen Qingshuang shift from exhausted combatants to astonished, fully restored students. Yuanba’s lingering pride gives way to sincere admiration.
• The Chen Family moves from curiosity to near-universal enthusiasm, including its most powerful elders.

Significant themes

• Power through insight: Divine abilities arise from understanding Dao, and their strength depends on the depth of that understanding.
• Fortune and opportunity: Even extraordinary ability cannot guarantee an Origin Divine Ability; rare insight and circumstances matter.
• Teaching and legacy: Changqing’s knowledge could transform the Chen Family’s collective strength.
• Humility before mastery: Even senior experts become eager pupils when faced with knowledge beyond their own.

Character interactions

• Haotian cautiously asks Changqing to teach, and Changqing responds with warmth and amusement.
• Changqing’s healing restores the three fighters and earns their heartfelt gratitude and respect.
• The family listens in reverent silence as Changqing prepares to explain the principles behind divine abilities.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Changqing, the eldest of the Chen Family, expounds on the nature of divine abilities and the Dao.
• His sermon causes every Chen Family member to enter a state of deep contemplation, with some experiencing brief insights into the Dao.
• The Purple Star Domain exhibits extraordinary phenomena, including the appearance of a Chaos giant, a Five-Elements Millstone, and a river of Sword Qi, lasting for two hours.
• The Great Desolate Realm is stirred, with many powerful cultivators taking notice and expressing their intent to challenge the Chen Family.

Character Developments

• Chen Changqing demonstrates his profound understanding of the Dao and his ability to guide others towards it.
• The Chen Family clansmen show varying levels of comprehension and connection to the Dao, with some experiencing brief insights.

Significant Themes

• The nature of the Dao and divine abilities, and the difference between borrowing and comprehending the Dao.
• The potential and ambition of cultivators in this Golden Age.
• The isolation and mystery of the Chen Family, and the stir they cause in the Great Desolate Realm.

Character Interactions

• Chen Changqing interacts with the entire Chen Family, guiding them towards understanding the Dao.
• The Chen Family members react individually to Chen Changqing's sermon, with some experiencing brief insights and others feeling bewildered.
• Various powerful cultivators across the Great Desolate Realm react to the phenomena caused by the Chen Family, expressing their intent to challenge them.

Summary

Key Plot Points

• Chen Family clansmen listen to Chen Changqing's sermon on the Divine Ability Method.
• Most clansmen fail to grasp the method but gain significant benefits like healed injuries and extended lifespans.
• A few dozen clansmen, including the three top geniuses and several Supreme Elders, remain in a state of deep comprehension.
• Ancestor Chen Haotian is the first to comprehend a divine ability, the Void-Breaking Golden Flame Eye, demonstrating its power by incinerating a distant mountain.

Character Developments

• Chen Haotian: Comprehends a powerful divine ability, demonstrating his exceptional talent and potential.
• Chen Changqing: Proves his status as the Evergreen Divine Son by leading the clansmen to comprehend divine abilities and gain significant benefits.

Significant Themes

• The power and importance of divine abilities in cultivation.
• The benefits of enlightenment and comprehension, even for those who don't fully grasp the method.
• The vast gap between divine abilities and ordinary techniques.

Character Interactions

• Chen Changqing and Chen Haotian: The latter's successful comprehension of a divine ability under the former's guidance strengthens their bond and Chen Changqing's status.
• The clansmen and Chen Changqing: Most clansmen fail to grasp the method but gain significant benefits, showing Chen Changqing's power and their respect for him.

Key plot points and events

• After Chen Changqing’s sermon, Chen Haotian discovers that his ocular art has evolved into a Lesser Divine Ability, giving him confidence to fight several former equals at once. He also realizes that each cultivator must comprehend a Dao suited to them, rather than imitate Changqing’s path of immortality.
• Chen Jiuyuan and many other Chen clansmen awaken with divine abilities of their own. Their powers range from the Nine Heavens Star-Shattering Talisman, which demolishes a mountain, to Heaven’s Net and a deathly scythe that withers living trees.
• Changqing cautions them not to become arrogant: these abilities are Lesser Divine Abilities, rooted in the techniques and spells they already practice. They must keep refining them if they hope to reach greater abilities or condense Dao Fruits.
• Chen Yuanba finally awakens and confirms that he has comprehended a divine ability. After hesitating, he reveals its name: “Ancestor Blesses Me!” A massive phantom resembling Chen Changqing appears behind him, radiating overwhelming authority.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Haotian gains both a powerful new ability and a clearer understanding of the limits and individuality of the Divine Ability Method.
• Chen Jiuyuan and the other awakened cultivators move from astonishment to pride as they display their powers. Changqing’s warning checks their excitement and redirects them toward continued study.
• Chen Lingfeng, the family head, openly admits his own pride and vows to remember Changqing’s teaching, prompting the others to follow suit.
• Chen Yuanba behaves unusually shy and self-conscious, fearing that the others will laugh at his ability. Changqing reassures him, while Haotian eagerly presses him to explain it. Yuanba’s revealed power produces a striking image of Changqing himself.

Significant themes

• Cultivation must be personal: each person’s divine ability grows from their own Dao and experience.
• Achievement is only a beginning: Lesser Divine Abilities are a first step, not grounds for complacency.
• Humility and perseverance: Changqing emphasizes continued reflection and refinement over pride in early success.
• Reverence and dependence on an ancestor: Yuanba’s ability turns his devotion to Changqing into a literal, powerful manifestation.

Plot points and events

• During a gathering on Purple Sun Peak, Chen Yuanba reveals a vast phantom behind him and names his new ability “Ancestor Blesses Me.” The name and spectacle initially leave the Chen Family baffled, then laughing.
• Chen Changqing stops the laughter, studies the ability, and recognizes it as a Greater Divine Ability—the first anyone in the family has comprehended.
• Chen Yuanba explains that it emerged after his overwhelming defeat by Chen Changqing. Unable to imagine how he could counter the ancestor’s power, he nearly gave up.
• He eventually realized he did not need to compete with Chen Changqing: as the family’s ancestor, Chen Changqing’s strength benefited the whole clan. Yuanba’s solution was to call on the ancestor to protect him.

Character developments

• Chen Yuanba moves from shame and helplessness about his defeat to a more confident, family-minded outlook. His unconventional conclusion becomes a genuinely powerful ability.
• Chen Changqing shows curiosity and insight, immediately understanding the ability’s true nature. His calm authority also ends the family’s teasing.
• The Chen Family shifts from amusement at Yuanba’s strange ability to shock and respect when they learn it is a Greater Divine Ability.

Significant themes

• Humility and growth: Being outmatched forces Yuanba to question his assumptions and find a new path.
• Family strength over individual rivalry: Yuanba succeeds by recognizing that the ancestor’s power is an asset to the entire family, not a standard he must personally surpass.
• Unexpected insight: An ability born from an apparently absurd idea proves formidable, suggesting that unconventional thinking can lead to greatness.

Character interactions

• The family initially mocks Yuanba’s ability, prompting his embarrassed but defiant protests.
• Chen Changqing changes the mood by validating the ability and asking how Yuanba discovered it.
• As Yuanba recounts his defeat and reasoning, the crowd stops laughing and listens in stunned silence.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Yuanba explains how he comprehended the Greater Divine Ability Ancestor Blesses Me: faith in Chen Changqing lets him summon a trace of the ancestor’s Dao resonance and briefly project the ancestor’s divine abilities. Its strength depends on the user’s faith.
• The Chen family members try to imitate him, but none can reproduce the breakthrough. Chen Changqing notes that Yuanba’s success came from his personal journey and a fortunate moment of insight; still, he allows the others to keep searching.
• Yuanba’s ability inspires Chen Changqing to develop a new idea. He begins forming the Greater Divine Ability Deity Invocation Art, which could one day let him summon real gods as his Dao Tree grows stronger.
• Chen Qingshuang then awakens amid a vast eruption of sword power. Blades from across Purple Sun Peak—including ancient swords from the guarded Armory Pavilion and swords drifting through the void—fly to her and circle overhead.
• With ten thousand swords gathered in homage, Qingshuang declares that every path of the sword is within her heart and every sword is hers to command. She names her divine ability

Sword, Come!

Character developments

• Chen Yuanba proves that his simple faith and personal insight can produce an extraordinary Greater Divine Ability.
• Chen Changqing turns Yuanba’s breakthrough into a new avenue of Dao comprehension, beginning to conceptualize a technique for invoking divine beings.
• Chen Qingshuang emerges from meditation with a complete, commanding understanding of the sword, revealed through her ability to summon and control countless blades.

Significant themes

• Individual paths to insight: A breakthrough cannot simply be copied; it grows from a person’s experiences and understanding.
• Faith and connection: Yuanba’s bond with his ancestor becomes the basis of his power.
• Comprehension through observation: Chen Changqing finds new possibilities by drawing inspiration from another person’s ability.
• The sword as universal authority: Qingshuang’s awakening portrays her as connected to all swords, regardless of ownership or origin.

Character interactions

• Yuanba sheepishly worries that Chen Changqing is angry, but Changqing praises him and explains the power of his ability.
• The family reacts with amazement and tries to follow Yuanba’s example, while Changqing watches with amused patience.
• Changqing’s attention shifts from Yuanba to the still-meditating Qingshuang; her spectacular awakening becomes the chapter’s climactic event.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Chen Qingshuang awakens a Greater Divine Ability, 'Sword, Come!', which allows her to control any sword or sword intent between Heaven and Earth.
• Chen Changqing acknowledges and praises Chen Qingshuang's Divine Ability.
• Chen Changqing notices a broken violet-azure sword among the summoned swords and retrieves it.
• Chen Haotian recognizes the sword as Lin Wan'er's Natal Dao Sword, which was in pristine condition a million years ago.

Character Developments

• Chen Qingshuang gains confidence and respect from her peers after demonstrating her powerful Greater Divine Ability.
• Chen Changqing shows his immense power by easily controlling a sword under Chen Qingshuang's Divine Ability.
• Chen Haotian remembers Lin Wan'er, a follower of Chen Changqing from a million years ago.

Significant Themes

• The power and rarity of Greater Divine Abilities.
• The passage of time and the changes it brings (a million years have passed, and Lin Wan'er's sword is now broken).
• The connection between Chen Changqing and his followers from the past.

Character Interactions

• Chen Qingshuang and Chen Changqing: Chen Qingshuang shows her new Divine Ability to Chen Changqing, who approves of it. Chen Changqing then retrieves Lin Wan'er's broken sword.
• Chen Changqing and Chen Haotian: Chen Haotian recognizes the broken sword as Lin Wan'er's and shares a moment of understanding with Chen Changqing about the past.