Chapter Summaries

Chen Changqing cornered Yang Lin in the simulation and deduced that he could simulate the future, along with several details about how his ability worked. Terrified of Chen Changqing, Yang Lin killed himself to end the simulation.

• Chen Changqing confronted Yang Lin and questioned why he had fled and feared him.
• Yang Lin's reactions convinced Chen Changqing that he possessed a future-simulation ability.
• Chen Changqing deduced that Yang Lin was not a transmigrator and that his simulations lasted one day and had no apparent cost or use limit.
• Chen Changqing asked whether Yang Lin gained traits or talents from simulations, then released him.
• Yang Lin cut his throat to escape the simulation, and it ended.

After escaping a terrifying simulation in which Chen Changqing found him, Yang Lin decided he could not flee and began another simulation, determined to prepare the Great River Sword Sect for the attack. He warned Sect Master Dugu Yijian that the sect faced destruction and offered to swear a Heavenly Dao Oath, but the chapter ended before Dugu responded.

• Yang Lin woke from the simulation terrified of Chen Changqing and concluded that escape would not save him.
• Yang Lin decided to fight back by alerting the Great River Sword Sect and preparing its allies and hidden defenses.
• Yang Lin used the Future Divine Stone to begin a new simulation and rushed to the sect's council hall.
• Yang Lin told Sect Master Dugu Yijian and the elders that a powerful enemy would attack that day and destroy the sect unless they prepared.
• Dugu Yijian dismissed Yang Lin's warning and ordered the guards to seize him, so Yang Lin offered to make a Heavenly Dao Oath.

After Yang Lin swore that a devastating attack on the Great River Sword Sect was imminent, Dugu Yijian rallied the sect and its allies. When Chen Changqing and his companions arrived, Chen recognized Yang Lin and revealed that the assembled forces had conveniently gathered all their targets in one place.

• Yang Lin swore a Heavenly Dao Oath that Yan Chixia, a woman in green, and a young man in green would attack and destroy the Great River Sword Sect.
• Dugu Yijian ordered the sect to prepare for battle and summoned its allies to defend against the coming threat.
• The Great River Sword Sect and its allies gathered forty-nine Quasi-Emperor Realm experts, nineteen Emperor Weapons, and more than a million disciples and elders.
• Chen Changqing and his two companions appeared above the sect, and Chen addressed Yang Lin by name and thanked him for gathering their opponents together.
• Yang Lin realized the attackers could wipe out the assembled forces at once and wondered how Chen knew his name in a simulation.

Yang Lin relived the Great River Sword Sect’s destruction and learned of a hidden trump card beneath the Sword-Washing Pool, then urged Dugu Yijian to use it. The Sect Master unleashed a blood mist that consumed the sect’s disciples, and Chen Changqing appeared before Yang Lin, asking how many times he had simulated this.

• Dugu Yijian ordered the Great River Sword Sect’s millions of cultivators, forty-nine Quasi-Emperor experts, and nineteen Emperor Weapons to attack Chen Changqing and his companions, but Chen Changqing’s purple sword radiance annihilated them.
• Dugu Yijian summoned the ancient Emperor Corpse, but Chen Changqing used the Ninefold Calamity Suppression Tower to refine it, and Dugu Yijian revealed that the sect had a trump card beneath the Sword-Washing Pool.
• Yang Lin killed himself and woke from the simulation, then told Dugu Yijian that he had learned about the trump card from the future and urged him to activate it.
• Dugu Yijian acknowledged Yang Lin’s warning but sent him away without explaining the trump card, leaving Yang Lin confused by his different reaction.
• Blood-colored mist spread from the Sword-Washing Pool, dissolving the disciples it engulfed, and Yang Lin realized the trump card sacrificed the sect’s people.
• Chen Changqing appeared before Yang Lin and asked how many times he had simulated this.

Yang Lin discovered that Chen Changqing understood his repeated simulations and that the Great River Sword Sect’s ultimate trump card was consuming its own cultivators. The Evil Sword Immortal emerged from the Sword-Washing Pool, overwhelmed Yan Chixia and Lin Wan’er with his regeneration and psychic assault, and caused Yang Lin’s consciousness to collapse, ending the simulation.

• Chen Changqing deduced that Yang Lin had repeatedly simulated events and exhausted every option before making a desperate stand.
• Yang Lin watched the blood-colored mist consume Great River Sword Sect cultivators and realized its destructive power could devastate the sect without necessarily harming Chen Changqing.
• The Evil Sword Immortal emerged from the Sword-Washing Pool while Yan Chixia and Lin Wan’er fought him.
• The Evil Sword Immortal regenerated from their attacks and declared that fear and other negative emotions made him stronger.
• The Evil Sword Immortal’s psychic assault overwhelmed Yang Lin’s negative emotions until his soul and consciousness exploded, ending the simulation.

After another simulation ended in terror from Evil Sword Immortal’s shockwaves, Yang Lin decided to seek out Chen Changqing and surrender his Future Divine Stone in exchange for his life. Chen Changqing immediately guessed that Yang Lin could see the future, and Yang Lin revealed the stone’s power.

• Yang Lin recovered from the soul attack and concluded that releasing Evil Sword Immortal would doom him and the Great Desolate Realm.
• Yang Lin decided that escaping, finding allies, and using the Great River Sword Sect’s ultimate trump card would not save him, so he chose to surrender.
• Yang Lin left the Great River Sword Sect and sought out Chen Changqing and the other two, intending to trade the Future Divine Stone for his life.
• Chen Changqing’s force pinned Yang Lin in place, and Yang Lin offered him a treasure before Yan Chixia could question him.
• Chen Changqing asked whether Yang Lin could see the future, and Yang Lin revealed that he possessed the Future Divine Stone, which could simulate the future and glimpse fate.

Yang Lin offered Chen Changqing the Future Divine Stone in exchange for his life, but Chen Changqing saw through the treasure, comprehended a fate-based divine ability from it, and returned it. He offered to spare Yang Lin if he served the Longevity Chen Family, leaving Yang Lin stunned by Chen Changqing’s apparent disregard for the treasure.

• Yang Lin explained that his simulations had shown he could not defeat Chen Changqing, so he offered the Future Divine Stone and asked to be spared.
• Lin Wan'er warned Chen Changqing that the stone might be a trap, but Chen Changqing took it from Yang Lin without concern.
• Chen Changqing examined the stone and discovered it was a depleted drop from the River of Fate that could deduce future destinies.
• Chen Changqing comprehended the Fate-Seeking Technique from the stone and formed a new Dao Fruit on his Dao Tree.
• Chen Changqing returned the Future Divine Stone to Yang Lin and offered to spare him if he became a servant of the Longevity Chen Family.
• Yang Lin realized Chen Changqing considered his priceless treasure unremarkable and stood stunned by its return.

Yang Lin surrendered to Chen Changqing, who replaced his Heavenly Dao Oath with a soul brand and accepted him as a servant. After Yang Lin recounted five simulations in which Chen Changqing defeated every attempt to resist or flee, he asked how Chen Changqing had found him in simulations where they had never met.

• Yang Lin swore a Heavenly Dao Oath of loyalty, but Chen Changqing dismissed the Heavenly Dao as unworthy and branded Yang Lin’s soul with a law that let him control Yang Lin’s life and thoughts.
• Yang Lin thanked Chen Changqing for accepting him and returning the Future Divine Stone, then pledged his life to his master.
• Yan Chixia and Lin Wan'er asked Yang Lin about his simulations, and Chen Changqing gave him permission to explain.
• Yang Lin described five simulations: he tried fleeing, hiding, and recruiting the Great River Sword Sect’s forces, but Chen Changqing defeated each plan, while the sect master’s hidden trump card unleashed an Evil Sword Immortal.
• Yang Lin asked Chen Changqing how he had found him and deduced his ability in simulations where Yang Lin had never appeared before him.

Chen Changqing revealed that he had secretly monitored the entire Great River Sword Sect, leaving Yang Lin convinced that his master had seen through every move in the simulations. He ordered Yang Lin to make the sect summon all its allies, setting up a plan to destroy the Great River Sword Sect’s network before Yang Lin hurried back to deliver the message.

• Chen Changqing explained that his divine sense had silently covered the Great River Sword Sect, astonishing Yan Chixia and Lin Wan'er and resolving Yang Lin’s confusion.
• Chen Changqing instructed Yang Lin to repeat the plan from his fourth simulation and have the sect master summon all of the Great River Sword Sect’s allies.
• Yang Lin understood that Chen Changqing intended to catch the allies together and vowed to obey before racing toward the sect.
• Yan Chixia eagerly imagined the Great River Sword Sect and its allies falling into their hands, while Chen Changqing watched the sect and Lin Wan'er admired him.
• Yang Lin barged into the Great River Sword Sect’s council hall and announced that he had an urgent matter for the sect master.

Chen Changqing seized Great River Sword Sect master Dugu Yijian and searched his soul for the secret beneath the Sword-Washing Pool, but the memories about the Evil Sword Immortal destroyed themselves. As Yan Chixia and Lin Wan'er held off the gathered Quasi-Emperors, Chen Changqing called for the Evil Sword Immortal to come out.

• Dugu Yijian gathered forty-nine Quasi-Emperors and nineteen Emperor Weapons, unaware that Yang Lin had lured them together for Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing appeared with Yan Chixia and Lin Wan'er, then suppressed Dugu Yijian when he attacked Yang Lin.
• Chen Changqing used the Soul Capture Technique on Dugu Yijian, but memories about the Evil Sword Immortal self-destructed before he could learn the secret.
• Dugu Yijian died, and the assembled Quasi-Emperors attacked Chen Changqing as Yan Chixia and Lin Wan'er blocked their advance.
• Chen Changqing faced the Sword-Washing Pool and used Words Become Law to call the Evil Sword Immortal out.

Chen Changqing's words unleashed a blood-red sword mist from the Great River Sword Sect's Sword-Washing Pool, trapping everyone inside the sect and devouring its grounds and disciples. An intelligent Emperor Corpse emerged from the pool, and the experts suspected that the Evil Sword Immortal was controlling it.

• Chen Changqing's voice stirred the Sword-Washing Pool, unleashed an ancient evil aura, and sealed the Great River Sword Sect's territory.
• Yan Chixia recognized the presence as the Evil Sword Immortal and waited eagerly for it to emerge.
• Blood-red mist made of countless strands of Sword Qi spread from the pool, devouring a disciple, thousands of others, and much of the sect's grounds.
• An Emperor Corpse rose from the Sword-Washing Pool as the experts realized it possessed intelligence and swallowed their divine sense.
• The Azure Cloud Ancient Sect elder warned that something controlled the Emperor Corpse, and the gathered experts wondered whether it was an immortal.

The Evil Sword Immortal possessed the Great River Sword Sect’s Destiny Emperor Corpse and began devouring cultivators with a blood serpent. Chen Changqing intervened to protect Yan Chixia, then declared that the Evil Sword Immortal was truly an immortal.

• The Evil Sword Immortal revealed that he had possessed the Destiny Emperor Corpse and taunted Chen Changqing, who answered that he would take the immortal’s life.
• The Evil Sword Immortal attacked Chen Changqing with a blood serpent that devoured nearby cultivators and grew stronger with each victim.
• Yan Chixia struck the blood serpent with the Purple Radiance Divine Sword, but the serpent re-formed even larger from the scattered mist.
• The Evil Sword Immortal sent a blood-red chain at Yan Chixia, and Chen Changqing transformed it into Purple Radiance Sword Qi before it could hit him.
• Chen Changqing realized that the Evil Sword Immortal was an immortal and said so aloud.

Chen Changqing confronted the Evil Sword Immortal and used purple-gold sword chains to assimilate its blood serpent and suppress it. The Quasi-Emperors recognized him as the legendary Evergreen Divine Son of the Immortal Chen Family and realized he wielded power comparable to immortal Dao law.

• The Quasi-Emperors learned that the Evil Sword Immortal was an Immortal sealed beneath the Great River Sword Sect, while Ouyang Zhan closed his eyes and gave up resisting.
• Chen Changqing declared that he would slay even an Immortal and pressed down with his hand, unleashing Purple Radiance Sword Qi.
• Chen Changqing's purple-gold chains bound the Evil Sword Immortal and assimilated the thirty-thousand-foot blood serpent into his sword intent.
• The Quasi-Emperors debated how Chen Changqing could wield power that assimilated immortal Dao law despite appearing to be in the Great Sage Realm.
• A Quasi-Emperor identified Chen Changqing as the Evergreen Divine Son, and the gathering realized his legendary past and feared that no one in the Great Desolate Realm could contend with him.

Chen Changqing overpowered the Evil Sword Immortal, sealed the Emperor Corpse, and began refining the spirit with the Primordial One-Qi Method. Just as the Evil Sword Immortal was about to vanish, an Immortal incarnation emerged from within it and confronted Chen Changqing.

• Chen Changqing’s Purple Radiance Sword Qi assimilated the Evil Sword Immortal’s immortal-grade sword intent, terrifying it and the watching Quasi-Emperor Realm experts.
• The Evil Sword Immortal split its spirit body into bloody streams and tried to flee while its Emperor Corpse attacked Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing used the Ninefold Calamity Suppression Tower to capture the Emperor Corpse and a supreme law to gather the escaping spirit fragments.
• Chen Changqing used the Primordial One-Qi Method to refine the Evil Sword Immortal, whose spirit body grew thin as it struggled and pleaded.
• An immense sword Dao power erupted from the nearly vanished Evil Sword Immortal, and a phantom emerged and demanded that Chen Changqing spare them.

An Immortal Projection emerged from the Evil Sword Immortal, suppressing the Great River Sword Sect and terrifying the gathered Quasi-Emperor experts. It offered Chen Changqing protection and a place in the Immortal Realm, but he rejected the offer and completely refined the Evil Sword Immortal, leaving the Immortal Projection enraged.

• The Immortal Projection caused the laws and spiritual energy around the Great River Sword Sect to vanish, and the Quasi-Emperor experts knelt in fear.
• Lin Wan'er recognized the phantom's sword intent as Immortal Dao Sword Intent, while Yan Chixia prepared to fight for Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing deduced that the Immortal Realm Great River Sword Sect had planted Evil Sword Immortals in lower-realm inheritance sites to devour worlds and send nourishment back.
• The Immortal Projection praised Chen Changqing's talent and offered to spare the evil entity and reserve him a place in the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Changqing refused the offer, saying he would prove the Dao by his own method, and used the Primordial One-Qi Method to refine the Evil Sword Immortal completely.
• The Evil Sword Immortal vanished, and the Immortal Projection's expression darkened.

Chen Changqing seized the Immortal phantom’s sword intent, used it to destroy the projection, and refined its Immortal Dao Origin. He then invited the Great River Sword Sect’s allies to die, leaving the kneeling Quasi-Emperors facing his wrath.

• The Immortal phantom attacked Chen Changqing with True Immortal Dao Sword Intent after he rejected its offer.
• Chen Changqing summoned swords from across the Great River Sword Sect and gathered their sword intents to overpower the Immortal’s strike.
• Chen Changqing’s counterattack shattered the Immortal phantom despite its threats of retaliation from the Great River Sword Sect.
• Chen Changqing used the Primordial One-Qi Method to refine the phantom and absorb its Immortal Dao Origin.
• The Quasi-Emperor experts watched in disbelief as Chen Changqing emerged unharmed, then heard him invite them all to die.

Chen Changqing slaughtered the invading cultivators and absorbed their life force and treasures, advancing to Great Sage Ninth Heaven. As he prepared to break through to Saint King, blood rain and a terrifying tribulation gathered over him.

• The Quasi-Emperors tried to flee after witnessing Chen Changqing kill an Immortal, but he immobilized them and drained their vitality.
• Chen Changqing killed dozens of Quasi-Emperors, hundreds of Saint Emperors, thousands of Saint Kings, and more than a million cultivators, absorbing their life force.
• Chen Changqing used the Treasure-Gathering Art to seize the invaders' treasures and refined them into Chaos Qi.
• Chen Changqing's cultivation surged three realms to Great Sage Ninth Heaven, one step from Saint King.
• Blood rain fell and scarlet tribulation clouds gathered above Chen Changqing as Lin Wan'er and Yan Chixia feared the Saint King Tribulation had been triggered by his slaughter.

Chen Changqing faced heaven’s wrath in the form of blood-red tribulation clouds, but used the Primordial One-Qi Method to refine their lightning and even seize the clouds themselves. After devouring the entire tribulation, he broke through to the Saint King Realm and hoped for a stronger one next time.

• Lin Wan'er worried that Chen Changqing could not withstand the blood-red tribulation, while Yan Chixia recognized it as heaven’s wrath.
• Chen Changqing charged into the tribulation clouds and used the Primordial One-Qi Method to refine the blood-red lightning.
• As the clouds intensified their assault, Chen Changqing grabbed and refined a huge portion of them, leaving Lin Wan'er and Yan Chixia stunned.
• Chen Changqing pursued the retreating clouds and refined them completely, then complained that the tribulation had barely been enough.
• A powerful wave of pressure erupted from Chen Changqing as he achieved the Saint King Realm.

After reaching the Third Heaven of the Saint King Realm, Chen Changqing assessed his overwhelming strength and rewarded Yang Lin for helping secure his breakthrough. Yang Lin received access to the Chen Family’s Dao-Comprehension Heavenly Net and was stunned by its capabilities.

• Lin Wan'er and Yan Chixia congratulated Chen Changqing on entering the Saint King Realm.
• Chen Changqing realized the tribulation had raised his cultivation to the Third Heaven of the Saint King Realm and judged that he could slay Destiny Emperors and True Immortals through his cultivation and physical strength alone.
• Chen Changqing thanked Yang Lin for his contribution, and the shaken Yang Lin insisted that all credit belonged to his master.
• Chen Changqing forged a personal jade talisman linked to the Dao-Comprehension Heavenly Net and gave it to Yang Lin, telling him to serve the Chen Family.
• Yang Lin used the talisman to learn about the Heavenly Net’s functions and was astonished by the Chen Family’s resources and formation.

Chen Changqing revealed that he had wiped out several immortal powers, prompting Chen Haotian to mobilize the Chen Family to seize their territories. As Chen Changqing sought more Emperor Corpses to unlock the Ninefold Calamity Suppression Tower, Yan Chixia claimed he knew where his Destiny Emperor great-grandfather was buried.

• Yang Lin thanked Chen Changqing for the jade talisman, and Chen Changqing appointed him to help the Chen Family.
• Chen Haotian teleported to the Great River Sword Sect ruins after Chen Changqing reported destroying several immortal powers, and Lin Wan'er described his other achievements.
• Chen Haotian ordered Chen Lingfeng to gather the Chen Family and take over the defeated powers' territories and resources.
• Chen Changqing reflected on the Immortal Dao Domain ability unlocked by refining the Great River Sword Sect's Emperor Corpse.
• Yan Chixia told Chen Changqing that his great-grandfather had been a Destiny Emperor and that he knew where the grave was.