Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Ye Xingchen confronts seven of the Immortal Domain’s most powerful figures, the Eternal Life Immortal Venerables, who arrive at the East Sea.
• Xing Wuya reveals they did not come for the Longevity Immortal Medicine. They want something else Ye Xingchen brought from Everlasting Life Island.
• Ye Xingchen realizes they mean the golden bone fragment, an otherworldly relic bearing ancient runes. He refuses to explain what he has.
• Tai Yuanzi threatens him, offering to forgive his killings of Grand Unity Immortal Palace members if he surrenders the item. Ye Xingchen draws the Immortal-Slaying Sword, forcing the gathered leaders to reconsider attacking.
• Luo Qingcheng and Han Daoyuan urge negotiation, while Yuan Chen claims the fragment could repair the incomplete Heavenly Dao and let the Immortal Domain’s cultivators break through their limits.
• Yuan Chen frames surrendering the relic as a duty to all living beings. Ye Xingchen exposes the appeal as moral blackmail, briefly reveals the fragment, then puts it away.
• Ye Xingchen challenges all seven to take it by force. The chapter ends with a battle poised to erupt.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Xingchen remains defiant and distrustful of authority. Though greatly outnumbered, he refuses both threats and appeals to the “greater good,” relying on his powerful sword and an unknown flame.
• The seven Immortal Venerables reveal their intense desire for the fragment beneath their composed public faces. They recognize Ye Xingchen’s formidable strength and weapons, making them wary of a direct attack.
• Yuan Chen adopts a compassionate, righteous posture to persuade Ye Xingchen, but his argument masks the group’s possessiveness.
• Tai Yuanzi takes the openly threatening approach; Luo Qingcheng and Han Daoyuan favor diplomacy, mindful of the danger Ye Xingchen poses.
• The cultivators watching below are drawn into Yuan Chen’s appeal and silently pressure Ye Xingchen to share the relic.

Significant themes

• Moral coercion versus personal agency: Appeals to collective welfare can disguise self-interest; Ye Xingchen refuses to let righteousness be used as leverage.
• Power and restraint: The Immortal Venerables’ authority is checked by Ye Xingchen’s strength and the danger of his weapons.
• Ambition and the unknown: The fragment may hold the key to transcending the Immortal Domain’s limits, making it both a possible hope for the world and an object of fierce greed.

Plot points and events

• Seven Eternal Life Immortal Venerables confront Ye Xingchen after he rejects Yuan Chen’s proposal. Tai Yuanzi attacks first, using laws and a massive seal, but Ye Xingchen’s Immortal-Slaying Sword cleaves through them and narrowly misses Tai Yuanzi.
• Tai Yuanzi summons nine enormous water dragons. Ye Xingchen destroys them one by one with his sword, Four-Colored Flame, and powerful close-combat techniques.
• Tai Yuanzi traps Ye Xingchen in his Eternal Life Domain, but Ye breaks through using the physical strength gained from the Demon Emperor Inheritance. He shatters Tai Yuanzi’s shield and sends him flying, cutting his robe and drawing blood.
• Tai Yuanzi unleashes the Grand Unity Divine Punishment, a destructive beam powered by his origin energy. Ye Xingchen counters it with a Chaos Law–infused sword strike. The clash ends with both standing, though Tai Yuanzi is exhausted and Ye remains largely uninjured.
• As Ye advances, Tai Yuanzi produces the Longevity Immortal Artifact, an ancient bronze cauldron. Ye challenges the other Venerables to join the fight rather than face him one-on-one.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Xingchen demonstrates that he can contend with an Eternal Life Immortal Venerable through a combination of swordsmanship, powerful laws, physical cultivation, and composure under pressure. He remains taunting and defiant throughout.
• Tai Yuanzi shifts from arrogant confidence to fury and alarm after being wounded. He escalates from ordinary techniques to his supreme divine ability and then brings out an immortal artifact.
• Xing Wuya already knows Ye obtained the Demon Emperor Inheritance but withheld this information from Tai Yuanzi, revealing that the Venerables have their own agendas.
• Yuan Chen, Luo Qingcheng, Han Daoyuan, and the other onlookers are shocked by Ye’s strength. Han Daoyuan’s wariness turns to fear, while Xing Wuya watches with interest.

Significant themes

• Power and limits: Ye challenges the assumed gulf between Immortal Venerables and Eternal Life Immortal Venerables.
• Concealed motives: Xing Wuya’s withheld knowledge suggests political maneuvering among the seven Venerables.
• Escalation and collective threat: As Tai Yuanzi’s solo attacks fail, the prospect of artifacts—and a possible group assault—emerges.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Tai Yuanzi, an Eternal Life Immortal Venerable, uses his powerful Taiyi Heaven-Calming Cauldron against Ye Xingchen.
• Ye Xingchen demonstrates immense physical strength, matching and then overpowering Tai Yuanzi's artifact.
• Tai Yuanzi calls for backup from other Eternal Life Immortal Venerables, but only Xing Wuya responds.
• Ye Xingchen reveals two powerful clones (Reincarnation and Time) at the Immortal Venerable Peak Realm, shocking everyone.
• Ye Xingchen assigns Tai Yuanzi to his main body and Xing Wuya to his Time Clone.

Character Developments

• Ye Xingchen: Proves his incredible combat strength and reveals powerful clones, demonstrating his growth and hidden power.
• Tai Yuanzi: Initially arrogant, he becomes wary and desperate after Ye Xingchen's display of power.
• Xing Wuya: Covets Ye Xingchen's Demon Emperor Inheritance and joins Tai Yuanzi, but is later targeted by Ye Xingchen's Time Clone.
• Other Eternal Life Immortal Venerables: Refuse to assist Tai Yuanzi, showing their self-interest and fear of Ye Xingchen's power.

Significant Themes

• Power dynamics and the struggle for dominance among Immortal Venerables.
• The importance of hidden strength and surprises in combat.
• The consequences of underestimating one's opponent.

Character Interactions

• Ye Xingchen vs. Tai Yuanzi: A physical showdown that ends with Tai Yuanzi's realization of Ye Xingchen's true power.
• Ye Xingchen vs. Xing Wuya: Ye Xingchen's Time Clone targets Xing Wuya, setting up a potential conflict.
• Tai Yuanzi vs. Other Eternal Life Immortal Venerables: Tai Yuanzi's call for backup goes largely ignored, highlighting the self-interest and caution of his peers.

Key plot points

• Xing Wuya uses the Astral Compass and his mastery of the Astral Law to unleash overwhelming stellar attacks against Ye Xingchen’s Reincarnation and Time clones. Though he damages and drives them back, their laws let them continually restore themselves, and they hold him in place.
• Meanwhile, Ye Xingchen—relying on physical strength, Chaos Qi, and the Immortal-Slaying Sword—overpowers Tai Yuanzi. He crushes Tai Yuanzi’s purple lightning attack and repeatedly strikes the Taiyi Heaven-Calming Cauldron until it cracks and then shatters.
• Ye Xingchen cuts off Tai Yuanzi’s arms and pierces his heart, destroying his body. Tai Yuanzi’s Primordial Spirit escapes using Blood Escape, vowing revenge against Ye Xingchen’s family. Ye Xingchen lets him go, warning that he will destroy the Primordial Spirit next time.
• With Tai Yuanzi defeated, Ye Xingchen and his two clones surround Xing Wuya, who is now trapped between all three.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Xingchen demonstrates overwhelming confidence and force, defeating an Immortal Venerable without relying on laws in his initial assault. He remains calm after the fight and shows no concern about Tai Yuanzi’s threat.
• Tai Yuanzi goes from defiant to terrified and desperate, asking the other Immortal Venerables for help. They do not intervene. He loses his body and treasured artifact, but escapes as a Primordial Spirit.
• Xing Wuya initially boasts of his superiority, but becomes frustrated when he cannot finish off the clones. Tai Yuanzi’s defeat shocks and enrages him; he then faces Ye Xingchen and both clones alone.
• The observing Immortal Venerables and cultivators are stunned. Yuan Chen calls Ye Xingchen a monster; Luo Qingcheng predicts Tai Yuanzi’s defeat; Han Daoyuan retreats. Xuanyuan Mingyue and Chi Zhan are relieved they chose not to make Ye Xingchen an enemy.

Significant themes

• Power and resilience: Xing Wuya’s immense strength cannot overcome clones sustained by Reincarnation and Time Laws.
• Fear and shifting alliances: The spectators’ reactions show that Ye Xingchen’s strength makes him someone to court as an ally, not challenge as an enemy.
• Defeat without final death: Tai Yuanzi survives only by sacrificing his body and fleeing, leaving a future vendetta.
• Turning the tables: The chapter ends with Xing Wuya, who had been holding the clones at bay, suddenly trapped by the true body and both clones.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ye Xingchen, with his Reincarnation and Time Clones, attacks Xing Wuya, severely injuring him.
• Xing Wuya reveals a hidden power, transforming himself and his aura, reaching a realm close to the legendary Divine Realm.
• Xing Wuya's transformed state is revealed to be associated with 'The Weird', a power that allows him to bypass the Immortal Domain's restrictions but at a great cost.
• Xing Wuya, in his transformed state, easily defeats Ye Xingchen's clones and gravely injures Ye Xingchen himself.
• Xing Wuya prepares to deliver a fatal blow to Ye Xingchen.

Character Developments

• Ye Xingchen: He shows his prowess by severely injuring Xing Wuya, but is ultimately outmatched by Xing Wuya's transformed state. He remains determined to defeat Xing Wuya.
• Xing Wuya: He reveals his true colors and his desperation to gain power, even at the cost of his humanity. His transformation shows his willingness to do whatever it takes to achieve his goals.

Significant Themes

• Power vs. Morality: Xing Wuya's pursuit of power leads him to betray his principles and harm the living beings of an entire realm.
• The Cost of Power: The power Xing Wuya wields comes at a great cost, both to himself and to the Immortal Domain.
• Determination vs. Desperation: Ye Xingchen's determination to defeat Xing Wuya is met with Xing Wuya's desperate pursuit of power.

Character Interactions

• Ye Xingchen vs. Xing Wuya: The battle between the two reaches its climax, with Xing Wuya gaining the upper hand due to his transformation.
• Other Immortal Venerables: Yuan Chen, Luo Qingcheng, and other Immortal Venerables watch the battle from a distance, debating whether to intervene. They decide to wait and see, prioritizing their own interests.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Demon Ancestress appears and saves Ye Xingchen from Xing Wuya's attack.
• Xing Wuya, empowered by Weird power, attacks the Demon Ancestress, but she easily defeats him.
• The Demon Ancestress reveals she's in the Sacred Sacrifice Domain, transcending the Eternal Life Immortal Venerable Realm.
• Xing Wuya is severely injured and falls from the Half-Step Divine Realm to the weakened Eternal Life Immortal Venerable Realm.
• Before the Demon Ancestress can kill Xing Wuya, an ancient, pure aura erupts from him, halting her attack.

Character Developments

• Ye Xingchen witnesses the Demon Ancestress's power and realizes she's in the Sacred Sacrifice Domain.
• Xing Wuya's power and status are drastically reduced, and he becomes terrified and vicious.
• The Demon Ancestress shows disdain and disgust towards Xing Wuya's submission to The Weird.

Significant Themes

• The power of the Sacred Sacrifice Domain transcends the Eternal Life Immortal Venerable Realm.
• The consequences of submitting to The Weird are severe and potentially fatal.
• Ancient, pure power is revealed to be stronger than the Weird power.

Character Interactions

• The Demon Ancestress and Ye Xingchen: She saves him and expresses interest in his well-being, referring to him as her "little one."
• The Demon Ancestress and Xing Wuya: She shows contempt and disgust towards him, ultimately attempting to kill him.
• Xing Wuya and the Sacred Ancestor: Xing Wuya believes the Sacred Ancestor hasn't abandoned him, revealing a connection to the ancient, pure power.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ye Xingchen encounters a drop of true blood from the World-Ending Giant Eye, a monster he previously faced in Falling Star Valley.
• The Demon Ancestress appears and attempts to destroy the true blood drop, but it escapes into Xing Wuya's body and flees with the help of an Astral Extremity Immortal Palace phantom.
• The Demon Ancestress, enraged, decides to attack the Astral Extremity Immortal Palace and takes Ye Xingchen with her.

Character Developments

• Ye Xingchen demonstrates fear and caution when facing the true blood drop, indicating his awareness of its power and danger.
• The Demon Ancestress shows her formidable strength and determination, displaying both her seductive and brutal sides.
• Xing Wuya, previously defeated, is revived and escapes with the help of the true blood and the Astral Extremity Immortal Palace.

Significant Themes

• Power and its consequences: The true blood drop's power terrifies Ye Xingchen and the Demon Ancestress, leading to a pursuit for control and destruction.
• Revenge and retribution: The Demon Ancestress's pursuit of the Astral Extremity Immortal Palace highlights the theme of revenge, while Ye Xingchen's involvement suggests his own desire for retribution.

Character Interactions

• Ye Xingchen and the Demon Ancestress: Their interaction shows a mix of caution, concern, and mutual respect, with the Demon Ancestress displaying a hint of affection towards Ye Xingchen.
• The Demon Ancestress and the Astral Extremity Immortal Palace: Their interaction is one of open hostility, with the Demon Ancestress determined to destroy the Astral Extremity Immortal Palace.
• Ye Xingchen and the Eternal Life Immortal Venerables: Their reactions to the Demon Ancestress's and Ye Xingchen's actions show their awe and shock at the pair's power and audacity.

Key plot points and events

• Ye Xingchen and the Demon Ancestress arrive above the Astral Extremity Immortal Palace, whose disciples are sheltered behind a powerful sect-protecting formation. Xing Wuya and the mysterious phantom who previously intervened are missing.
• Ye Xingchen argues for a careful approach, but the Demon Ancestress dismisses the formation as no obstacle and attacks it directly. One blow from her Sacred Sacrifice Domain shatters the barrier, destroys several floating islands, and leaves the palace’s disciples and elders badly injured. Xing Hezi is struck down again.
• The pair push into the palace’s ancestral grounds. They find the sacred landscape corrupted by the same gray-black power connected to the Beyond the Heavens and Xing Wuya’s strange blood.
• Before a sealed black stone gate, the Demon Ancestress senses a force from the Divine Realm—an impossible-seeming power beyond the laws of their world. Ye Xingchen realizes that someone may have reached or entered that realm.
• A vast power erupts from behind the gate, reducing the ruined palace to dust and threatening to erase the surrounding space. An ancient voice identifies the Demon Ancestress as Huan Hongchen, daughter of the Demon Emperor, and declares that she will not leave.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Xingchen remains cautious and strategic, preferring to locate an opening rather than charge into danger. Though shaken by the Demon Ancestress’s strength and the Divine Realm pressure, he follows her into the ancestral grounds and stays ready with his Immortal-Slaying Sword.
• The Demon Ancestress / Huan Hongchen is decisive and overwhelmingly powerful, destroying the palace’s renowned formation with a single strike. Her confidence gives way to unmistakable seriousness when she senses the force beyond the stone gate.
• Their contrasting temperaments—Ye Xingchen’s planning versus Huan Hongchen’s directness—shape their exchange, but they continue onward together. Xing Hezi’s taunts are cut short by the Demon Ancestress’s attack.

Significant themes

• Power beyond worldly limits: The Divine Realm force exceeds the established peak of cultivation and appears to exist outside the world’s laws.
• The cost of corruption: The palace’s decay shows how deeply the Beyond the Heavens’ influence has penetrated the Immortal Domain.
• Strategy versus strength: Ye Xingchen values preparation, while Huan Hongchen trusts overwhelming force—though the threat at the gate makes clear that even her confidence has limits.
• A looming confrontation: The ancient voice’s recognition of Huan Hongchen turns the discovery of the Divine Realm into a personal and immediate threat.

Key Plot Points and Events

• An aged voice from Astral Extremity Immortal Palace reveals that the speaker has entered the Divine Realm and can see through Huan Hongchen's identity.
• Ye Xingchen needs one thousand Top-Grade Immortal Veins to break through to the Divine Realm, but the palace has only around a hundred.
• The mysterious old man from Astral Extremity Immortal Palace reveals himself, possessing a Divine Realm First Layer power and a World-Ending Giant Eye of Falling Star Valley.
• Huan Hongchen and the old man clash, with Huan Hongchen injuring the old man despite not being in the Divine Realm herself.
• The old man uses the power of the giant eye to attack Huan Hongchen, annihilating a distant immortal mountain.
• Huan Hongchen lands a powerful kick on the old man, causing him to transform and gain a significant boost in power.

Character Developments

• Ye Xingchen: Realizes the extent of power needed to reach the Divine Realm and the danger posed by the old man from Astral Extremity Immortal Palace.
• Huan Hongchen: Demonstrates immense power, able to injure a Divine Realm expert despite not being in the Divine Realm herself. Reveals knowledge of the old man's true power source.

Significant Themes

• The power of the Divine Realm and the gap between realms.
• The danger posed by the World-Ending Giant Eye of Falling Star Valley.
• The ancient history and secrets of the Demon Race and Astral Extremity Immortal Palace.

Character Interactions

• Ye Xingchen and Huan Hongchen: Ye Xingchen asks Huan Hongchen about her name and their next course of action. Huan Hongchen reveals her knowledge of the old man's power source and engages in battle with him.
• Huan Hongchen and the old man from Astral Extremity Immortal Palace: They clash, with Huan Hongchen injuring the old man and causing him to transform and gain more power.

Chapter Summary: “Xing Wuji”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yuan Chen and the elders of the Grand Abyss Immortal Palace observe the battle through a water mirror and identify the mysterious figure as Xing Wuji, the legendary founder of the Astral Extremity Immortal Palace.
• The elders reveal that Xing Wuji was an ancient slaughter god who once conquered the Ancient God Realm and established the Astral Extremity Immortal Palace. Though believed to have died after failing to enter the Divine Realm, he apparently survived and succeeded in reaching it.
• Xing Wuji undergoes a horrifying transformation after drawing on the power of The Weird and the Holy Ancestor. His body becomes covered in blood-red veins, his hair turns white, his nails lengthen, and a corrosive death aura devastates the surrounding land and space.
• Ye Xingchen recognizes the transformation as the power of The Weird and protects himself with Chaos Law.
• Xing Wuji attacks Huan Hongchen by erasing the spatial laws around her, creating a massive black hole. Huan Hongchen remains unharmed within the protection of her azure lotus.
• Xing Wuji then unleashes the Grand Stellar Annihilation Art, summoning countless destructive meteors that threaten to shatter the East Sea Domain and kill innumerable beings.
• Concerned that the destruction will ruin Ye Xingchen’s cultivation environment, Huan Hongchen abandons defense, destroys the meteors with ease, and closes the distance to Xing Wuji instantly.
• She seizes Xing Wuji by the throat, punches open the world barrier, and forcibly drags him into the Outer Void so their battle will not destroy the lower realm.
• In the Outer Void, Xing Wuji mocks Huan Hongchen for caring about ordinary lives. She clarifies that she is protecting Ye Xingchen’s place of cultivation rather than the “ants” themselves.
• Xing Wuji sacrifices half his flesh and offers his divine soul to the Holy Ancestor. The black eyeball on his forehead expands into a massive World-Ending Giant Eye, which freezes the surrounding spatial storms and fires a devastating beam of destruction at Huan Hongchen.

Character Developments

• Xing Wuji is revealed to be far more ancient and powerful than previously believed. Once a legendary human cultivator and founder, he has now become a grotesque, inhuman vessel for the Holy Ancestor and The Weird’s power. His obsession with divine strength has driven him to sacrifice his humanity and body.
• Huan Hongchen demonstrates overwhelming confidence and combat superiority. She dismisses Xing Wuji’s incomplete Divine Realm power, effortlessly withstands his attacks, and prioritizes protecting Ye Xingchen’s cultivation environment.
• Ye Xingchen displays quick judgment by using Time Law to escape Xing Wuji’s spatial annihilation. He also recognizes the danger of The Weird’s power but remains dependent on Huan Hongchen’s protection.
• Yuan Chen and the Grand Abyss elders shift from uncertainty to fear after learning Xing Wuji’s identity, realizing that the Astral Extremity Immortal Palace has secretly possessed a terrifying ancient powerhouse.

Significant Themes

• The price of power: Xing Wuji’s transformation shows the horrific cost of pursuing strength through forbidden or unnatural means. His “divine power” has reduced him to something neither human nor ghost.
• Humanity versus corruption: Huan Hongchen regards Xing Wuji’s transformation with disgust, contrasting her controlled power with his self-destructive dependence on The Weird and the Holy Ancestor.
• Protective attachment: Although Huan Hongchen claims not to care about ordinary beings, her actions reveal concern for Ye Xingchen and his future. Her decision to relocate the battle prevents the destruction of the entire realm.
• The scale of the Divine Realm: The battle demonstrates that Divine Realm combatants can erase spatial laws, create black holes, destroy world barriers, and threaten an entire domain.
• Ancient legends resurfacing: Xing Wuji’s survival shows that old myths and presumed-dead figures may still influence the present, threatening to overturn the current balance of power.

Character Interactions

• Yuan Chen and the elders react with shock and dread as the living fossil identifies Xing Wuji.
• Xing Wuji and Huan Hongchen exchange contemptuous remarks: he boasts about the Holy Ancestor’s power, while she condemns him as pathetic for abandoning his humanity.
• Xing Wuji attacks Huan Hongchen repeatedly, but she remains calm and dismissive, treating his techniques as insignificant.
• Ye Xingchen warns Huan Hongchen when Xing Wuji collapses space, reflecting his reliance on and respect for her.
• Huan Hongchen physically dominates Xing Wuji, dragging him into the Outer Void and making clear that her primary concern is preserving Ye Xingchen’s cultivation environment.
• The chapter ends with Xing Wuji escalating the conflict by sacrificing his body and summoning the World-Ending Giant Eye, setting up a potentially decisive confrontation.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• The World-Ending Giant Eye’s destructive beam nearly overwhelms Huan Hongchen, breaking through all twelve layers of her barrier and badly burning her shoulder.
• As Ye Xingchen watches, unable to help, Dugu Jian arrives with a dramatically transformed aura—one so powerful that Ye recognizes it as comparable to Huan’s.
• Xing Wuji identifies Dugu’s power as carrying the Creation Life God-Emperor’s inheritance. Dugu reveals that he belongs to the persecuted Origin Heaven Master Lineage, which the Immortal Palaces once blamed for the eerie blight.
• Dugu summons the Primordial Life-and-Death Seal, establishing a Sacred Sacrifice Domain that stills the surrounding spatial storms and suppresses Xing Wuji’s eerie power.
• Dugu and Huan fight together, with Dugu attacking head-on and Huan striking from the flank. Their combined assaults break through Xing Wuji’s Divine Realm defenses and leave him badly wounded.
• Cornered, Xing Wuji tears out two of his own ribs and offers them to the giant eye, begging the Saint Ancestor for a divine ability. The eye becomes more solid, and a power far beyond the Divine Realm First Layer descends. Dugu and Huan halt, recognizing the new threat.

Character developments and interactions

• Dugu Jian reveals his connection to the Origin Heaven Master Lineage and demonstrates power linked to the Creation Life God-Emperor. His confidence and contempt for the Saint Ancestor contrast with his earlier, less formidable state.
• Huan Hongchen shows both formidable skill and resolve, continuing to fight despite a severe injury. She accepts Dugu as an ally and joins his assault, though she bristles at his teasingly insulting “old hag.”
• Xing Wuji shifts from arrogant certainty to desperation as Dugu’s seal suppresses his eerie power. Rather than surrender, he escalates the battle by sacrificing part of his body to empower the giant eye.
• Ye Xingchen remains a powerless observer for now, weighing whether he can intervene before Dugu’s arrival changes the battle.

Significant themes

• Inheritance and historical injustice: Dugu’s revelations suggest the Origin Heaven Master Lineage was framed by the Immortal Palaces.
• Corruption disguised as divinity: Xing Wuji treats the Saint Ancestor’s power as a blessing, while the scene presents it as eerie corruption.
• Cooperation against overwhelming evil: Dugu and Huan’s teamwork reverses the fight, but Xing Wuji’s final sacrifice raises the stakes again.
• Sacrifice and escalating power: Huan endures injury, while Xing Wuji deliberately mutilates himself to gain a more terrifying ability.

Chapter Summary: “Starfall Annihilation”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Xing Wuji, having entered the Divine Realm, unleashes the divine ability “Starfall Annihilation.” The World-Ending Giant Eye forms a massive dark-red star chart, from which countless dead stars rain down upon Dugu Jian and Huan Hongchen.
• Dugu Jian and Huan Hongchen make a desperate stand:
  • Huan Hongchen compresses her Sacred Sacrifice Domain and uses her origin blood essence to create the defensive technique “Azure Lotus, Sacrifice to Heaven.”
  • Dugu Jian uses the Primordial Life-and-Death Seal, reinforced by Void True Flame, to confront the falling stars directly.
• The attack overwhelms them. Dugu Jian suffers severe injuries, while Huan Hongchen’s barriers and azure lotus are gradually destroyed, allowing death qi to invade her body.
• Dugu Jian detonates part of the Primordial Origin within his seal, causing a catastrophic explosion and collapsing the surrounding Outer Void into a massive black hole.
• The divine ability ultimately ends. Xing Wuji survives but is heavily weakened: his Divine Realm aura falls to its lowest point, his death qi is nearly exhausted, and he cannot use another divine ability.
• Dugu Jian and Huan Hongchen are left almost helpless. Xing Wuji prepares to kill and devour them, hoping to absorb the Sacred Sacrifice Domain’s origin and Huan Hongchen’s inherited power to heal himself and advance further.
• Before Xing Wuji can strike, Ye Xingchen arrives through the spatial rift. He destroys the two bone claws Xing Wuji forms, catches Dugu Jian, and seals the death qi threatening Huan Hongchen’s heart meridians.
• Despite being only at the peak of the Immortal Venerable Realm, Ye Xingchen refuses to retreat. He challenges the weakened Divine Realm expert and declares that he specializes in killing gods.

Character Developments

• Xing Wuji: Demonstrates overwhelming Divine Realm power through “Starfall Annihilation,” but the technique severely drains him. His arrogance, greed, and desire to devour others’ inheritances become clear, while his claim to divinity is undermined by his monstrous, self-corrupted state.
• Dugu Jian: Shows extraordinary courage and endurance by confronting the dead stars head-on rather than retreating. He sacrifices his remaining strength and damages his own artifact to protect himself and Huan Hongchen, ultimately becoming completely incapacitated.
• Huan Hongchen: Reveals the immense defensive power of her Sacred Sacrifice Domain and willingly burns her origin blood essence to survive. Her injuries demonstrate both the cost of her protection and her determination to endure beside Dugu Jian.
• Ye Xingchen: Re-enters the battle at the crucial moment, displaying confidence and composure despite his lower cultivation. He saves both defeated experts and boldly challenges Xing Wuji, establishing his fearless, opportunistic “kill-stealing” attitude and his willingness to fight beings far above his level.

Significant Themes

• The overwhelming nature of Divine Realm power: The divine ability is portrayed as the embodiment of higher-dimensional laws, nearly impossible for those beneath the Divine Realm to resist.
• Sacrifice and perseverance: Dugu Jian and Huan Hongchen exhaust their bodies, blood, artifacts, and origins in a final effort to survive.
• Arrogance versus defiance: Xing Wuji views all lower realms as insignificant ants, while Ye Xingchen rejects this hierarchy and challenges him despite the apparent power gap.
• Corruption in the pursuit of power: Xing Wuji’s transformation into a being “neither man nor ghost” suggests that his route to power has cost him his humanity.
• Timing and opportunism: Ye Xingchen arrives after Xing Wuji has exhausted his greatest attack, turning a hopeless battle into a possible opportunity for victory.

Character Interactions

• Dugu Jian and Huan Hongchen cooperate silently and willingly risk their lives against Xing Wuji’s attack.
• Xing Wuji openly mocks them as inferior beings and intends to devour them for their inheritances.
• Ye Xingchen exchanges familiar, teasing words with Dugu Jian, who angrily objects to being rescued but is too injured to respond.
• Huan Hongchen urges Ye Xingchen to flee, recognizing that he should not be able to challenge a Divine Realm opponent. Ye Xingchen instead mocks Xing Wuji’s damaged state and declares his intent to kill him.
• The chapter ends with a direct confrontation between Ye Xingchen and Xing Wuji, setting up the next battle.

Chapter Summary: “Awakening?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Xing Wuji mocks Ye Xingchen for claiming he can slay a Divine Realm expert, believing the gap between their realms makes victory impossible.
• Ye Xingchen uses the system to exchange a Top-Grade Immortal Vein for a one-time experience of the divine ability Destruction Fire Lotus. The cost severely pains him, but he needs the attack to overcome Xing Wuji’s Divine Realm defenses.
• He combines four powerful flames—the Infernal Karmic Fire, Chaos Flame, Demon Emperor’s Natal Demon Flame, and Night Demon’s Fire—into a terrifying Four-Colored Fire Lotus.
• The fire lotus’s divine pressure shocks Dugu Jian, Huan Hongchen, and Xing Wuji. Xing Wuji refuses to believe an Immortal Venerable can wield a divine ability, but instinctively creates numerous defensive shields and a blood net.
• The fire lotus destroys the blood net and every bone shield with ease, locks down the surrounding space, and fatally strikes Xing Wuji.
• Xing Wuji’s body, soul, death energy, and connection to the Weird power are completely erased. He dies despite being a Divine Realm powerhouse.
• The attack exhausts all of Ye Xingchen’s Immortal Essence, forcing him to consume restorative pills.
• However, the mysterious drop of true blood that previously protected Huan Hongchen survives. It expands into a spatial rift, from which the enormous World-Ending Giant Eye emerges.
• The giant eye’s destructive gaze locks onto Ye Xingchen as the void begins collapsing. The chapter ends with Ye Xingchen wondering whether the entity is finally beginning to awaken.

Character Developments

• Ye Xingchen: Demonstrates that his hidden abilities can transcend the limits of his Immortal Venerable realm. He successfully kills Xing Wuji but pays a heavy physical and resource cost, leaving him exhausted and vulnerable. His confidence remains firm as he confronts the newly emerging threat.
• Xing Wuji: Shifts from arrogant disbelief to panic and desperation when faced with the Four-Colored Fire Lotus. His death reveals that even Divine Realm laws and defenses are powerless against Ye Xingchen’s destructive divine ability.
• Huan Hongchen: Her estimation of Ye Xingchen changes dramatically. She recognizes that his potential and secrets far exceed the Demon Emperor Inheritance and is visibly shaken by his power.
• Dugu Jian: Reacts with open amazement, calling Ye Xingchen a monster after witnessing him kill a Divine Realm expert.
• World-Ending Giant Eye: Emerges as a larger, more terrifying force connected to Xing Wuji and the Weird power, establishing the next major threat.

Significant Themes

• Transcending realms: Ye Xingchen violates the established hierarchy between Immortal Venerables and Divine Realm beings, suggesting that talent, hidden powers, or special opportunities can overcome absolute realm differences.
• Power and cost: His victory depends on an extraordinary system exchange that consumes a Top-Grade Immortal Vein and drains all his Immortal Essence, emphasizing that overwhelming power comes at a price.
• Hidden identities and mysteries: Ye Xingchen’s unexplained abilities and the surviving true blood deepen the mystery surrounding both his origins and the forces behind the Weird power.
• False victory and escalating danger: Xing Wuji’s death initially appears decisive, but the emergence of the World-Ending Giant Eye reveals that defeating one enemy may only awaken a far greater threat.
• Defiance against impossible odds: Ye Xingchen continues to confront beings vastly beyond his apparent level rather than retreating, reinforcing his role as an unpredictable challenger to established powers.

Character Interactions

• Xing Wuji taunts and dismisses Ye Xingchen, while Ye Xingchen responds with action rather than argument.
• Huan Hongchen and Dugu Jian witness Ye Xingchen’s divine ability and react with shock, forcing them to reassess him.
• Ye Xingchen and Xing Wuji engage in a direct contest between divine abilities and defenses, ending with Xing Wuji’s annihilation.
• After Xing Wuji’s death, Ye Xingchen becomes the target of the World-Ending Giant Eye, setting up a confrontation between him and the mysterious entity.

Chapter Summary: “Longevity Creation Pill”

Key Plot Points and Events

• A terrifying blood-red eye, belonging to the sleeping entity known as The Weird, appears in the Outer Void through the projection of a drop of its true blood. Ye Xingchen, Dugu Jian, and Huan Hongchen prepare to fight, but the projection ultimately withdraws after memorizing Ye Xingchen’s presence.
• Huan Hongchen explains that The Weird’s true body has not fully awakened, but its emergence is inevitable. Since the current era lacks True Gods capable of confronting it, Ye Xingchen proposes seeking Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable, who may know the location of Heaven-Slaying Divine Emperor Cang Chen’s seal.
• The group travels to the Hundred Herbs Garden, where Primordial Unity remains frozen in mysterious ice, barely alive. He reveals that the legendary Longevity Creation Pill can restore his origin divine soul.
• The pill requires the Longevity Immortal Medicine, the Ten-Thousand-Year Purple Cloud Lingzhi, Dragonblood Grass, and ninety-nine other immortal treasures. Primordial Unity and his disciple have perfected the formula, estimating a fifty-percent success rate when using the Primordial Cauldron.
• Ye Xingchen examines the pill formula. His system allows him to instantly master and improve it by consuming a Top-Grade Immortal Vein, raising the success rate to one hundred percent.
• Ye Xingchen announces that he will descend to the lower realm to retrieve the Primordial Cauldron, which is necessary to refine the pill.

Character Developments

• Ye Xingchen demonstrates calmness and confidence in the face of The Weird’s terrifying projection. Although concerned about the threat, he immediately searches for a practical solution rather than surrendering to fear.
• His abilities expand beyond combat and swordsmanship. Through his system, he instantly masters high-level alchemy and improves Primordial Unity’s already advanced pill formula.
• Huan Hongchen becomes unusually serious when discussing The Weird, revealing her awareness of the enormous danger it poses. Her antagonistic banter with Primordial Unity also shows her sharp temper and long-standing familiarity with him.
• Dugu Jian remains cautious and supportive, contributing his Primordial Life-and-Death Seal during the confrontation and recognizing the significance of The Weird remembering Ye Xingchen.
• Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable shifts from mocking and provocative to serious once the Longevity Immortal Medicine is mentioned. Despite being half-dead and frozen, he retains his pride, expertise, and combative personality.
• Hundred Herbs Immortal Master acts as a respectful intermediary, attempting to prevent Huan Hongchen and Primordial Unity from escalating their insults into violence.

Significant Themes

• The looming return of an ancient evil: The Weird’s partial awakening emphasizes the vulnerability of the current age and foreshadows a major catastrophe.
• Hope through cooperation and knowledge: Since brute force is insufficient, the characters must rely on ancient figures, lost treasures, alchemy, and sealed divine legacies.
• The cost of power: Ye Xingchen’s system guarantees success but demands another Top-Grade Immortal Vein, reinforcing that extraordinary abilities come with significant sacrifice.
• Defiance against fate and mortality: The Longevity Creation Pill represents an attempt to reverse death and restore a failing divine soul, while the characters challenge threats that once seemed unavoidable.
• Ancient rivalries and comic relief: The insults between Huan Hongchen and Primordial Unity contrast with the chapter’s apocalyptic stakes, revealing how immortal figures preserve their personalities despite immense age and power.

Character Interactions

• Ye Xingchen commands the confrontation with The Weird’s projection while Huan Hongchen and Dugu Jian support him.
• Huan Hongchen and Primordial Unity exchange vicious, familiar insults, suggesting a long history of rivalry.
• Ye Xingchen repeatedly interrupts their quarrel, acting as the practical mediator.
• Primordial Unity initially doubts Ye Xingchen’s ability to understand the pill formula, but Ye Xingchen’s instant mastery and improved formula decisively silence him.
• The chapter ends with Ye Xingchen taking responsibility for the next step: obtaining the Primordial Cauldron from the lower realm.

Chapter Summary: Luo Xinghe’s Tribulation

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Ye Xingchen secretly descends from the Immortal Domain into the Profound Heaven Continent, suppressing his aura to avoid damaging the fragile lower realm.
• At Supreme Academy, Luo Xinghe is undergoing a lightning tribulation to break through into the Supreme Realm. Nine phantom moons surround him, reflecting his powerful God King Physique.
• Supreme Youquan, a peak Supreme from the Upper Realm’s Netherworld Sacred Land, attacks the academy. He intends to devour Luo Xinghe’s origin and use the power of his physique to advance into the Heavenly Being Realm.
• Youquan severely injures the academy’s three Half-Step Supreme patriarchs—Li Xuan, Zhao Kongming, and Sun Buyu—and prepares to kill them and interrupt Luo Xinghe’s breakthrough.
• Ye Xingchen arrives through a crack in space and effortlessly destroys Youquan’s enormous blood handprint with a finger flick.
• When Youquan attacks with his ultimate technique, the “Netherworld Ghost Hand,” Ye Xingchen collapses the surrounding space, annihilating the skeletal hands and compressing Youquan into a blood sphere.
• Ye Xingchen confirms that he has reached the True Immortal Realm, then destroys Youquan’s body and soul completely.
• Luo Xinghe resumes his tribulation. He withstands the first lightning bolt by unleashing the full power of his God King Physique, though he is injured. Ye Xingchen observes approvingly.

2. Character Developments

• Ye Xingchen: His return demonstrates an enormous increase in strength. He has advanced beyond the Heavenly Being Realm into the True Immortal Realm and can casually defeat a Supreme Peak expert. His calm, controlled demeanor contrasts sharply with Youquan’s arrogance and panic. He also shows concern for Luo Xinghe’s breakthrough by reminding him to maintain focus.
• Luo Xinghe: He is established as an exceptionally gifted cultivator and the fourth person on the continent to approach the Supreme Realm. Despite being willing to interrupt his tribulation to protect the patriarchs, he accepts Ye Xingchen’s guidance and faces the lightning with determination.
• Supreme Youquan: Initially confident and predatory, Youquan believes his Upper Realm status and the lower realm’s restrictions make him untouchable. His confidence collapses once he realizes Ye Xingchen is an immortal, ending in his complete destruction.
• Li Xuan, Zhao Kongming, and Sun Buyu: Though badly wounded, the three patriarchs remain between Youquan and Luo Xinghe, demonstrating loyalty and courage. Their awe and excitement at Ye Xingchen’s arrival reveal their deep respect for him.

3. Significant Themes

• Protection of lower-realm talent: The chapter highlights how Upper Realm powers exploit or “harvest” promising Supremes from the lower realm.
• Overwhelming power and progression: Ye Xingchen’s effortless victory emphasizes the dramatic gap between True Immortal power and the Supreme Realm.
• Loyalty and sacrifice: The three patriarchs are willing to die defending Luo Xinghe, while Luo Xinghe is prepared to risk the backlash of interrupting his breakthrough to save them.
• Composure versus arrogance: Ye Xingchen’s quiet confidence contrasts with Youquan’s boastfulness, showing that genuine strength requires no intimidation or grand display.
• Trials and perseverance: Luo Xinghe’s tribulation symbolizes his path toward greater power; despite injury, he continues forward without retreating.

4. Character Interactions

• Li Xuan threatens Youquan with retaliation from the Supreme Dao Prefecture, but Youquan dismisses the warning and threatens to destroy Supreme Academy.
• Luo Xinghe attempts to protect the patriarchs, but Ye Xingchen tells him to concentrate on his tribulation instead.
• Luo Xinghe responds to Ye Xingchen’s confidence with trust, smiling and returning his attention to the lightning tribulation.
• Ye Xingchen questions Youquan about the realm above the Heavenly Being Realm, forcing Youquan to recognize that he is facing a True Immortal.
• After killing Youquan, Ye Xingchen watches Luo Xinghe’s first tribulation strike and praises his performance, marking a supportive mentor-like exchange between them.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Luo Xinghe successfully survives the Violet Firmament Divine Thunder tribulation and breaks through to the Supreme Realm. Ye Xingchen clarifies that Luo’s God King Physique can only fully awaken in the Upper Realm and offers him a place in the Heaven Evolution Sect if needed.
• Ye Xingchen fulfills his promise to Li Xuan, Zhao Kongming, and Sun Buyu by granting each a portion of Immortal Dao Origin and Immortal Venerable Law. Their Half-Step Supreme Realm barriers shatter, allowing them to prepare for breakthroughs.
• Ye Xingchen returns to the Eastern Province’s Heaven-Earth Secret Realm and reunites with Qin Feng, master of the First Saint Sect. He retrieves the Primordial Cauldron but leaves Qin Feng an immortal cultivation technique and Immortal Venerable Law, ensuring the sect’s prosperity for ten thousand years.
• Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable’s remnant soul appears and realizes that Ye Xingchen has already reached the Immortal Venerable Realm. Ye Xingchen tells him that The Weird still exists in the Upper Realm and explains the situation involving the Celestial Venerable’s true body.
• Although Ye Xingchen offers to save him, Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable refuses to leave immediately, stating that he still has unfinished business after waiting hundreds of thousands of years for a chance to live again. He returns to the Primordial Cauldron.
• Ye Xingchen examines the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Immortal-Slaying Formation and recognizes its extraordinary origins and power. He then activates it to release Er Gou and the flood dragon, who have reached the Supreme Peak Realm while hidden from heavenly tribulation.
• Despite their terrifying forms, both demons immediately shrink into harmless shapes upon seeing Ye Xingchen. Ye Xingchen stores Er Gou away and prepares to visit one more location before returning to the Upper Realm.

Character Developments

• Ye Xingchen has advanced from a powerful ascender to an Immortal Venerable. His overwhelming strength is now evident, but he remains restrained, practical, and focused on rescuing others.
• Luo Xinghe reaches the Supreme Realm and gains a possible path to advancement in the Upper Realm through Ye Xingchen’s recommendation.
• Li Xuan, Zhao Kongming, and Sun Buyu receive the power necessary to break through after thousands of years of stagnation, deepening their loyalty and gratitude toward Ye Xingchen.
• Qin Feng is reassured that the First Saint Sect has flourished under Ye Xingchen’s previous protection. He receives an immortal inheritance that elevates the sect’s future.
• Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable is shocked by Ye Xingchen’s rapid progress and becomes solemn upon learning that The Weird survived. His refusal to depart reveals his determination to complete long-standing responsibilities.
• Er Gou and the flood dragon have reached the Supreme Peak Realm but remain comically submissive and affectionate toward Ye Xingchen.

Significant Themes

• Power and transformation: Ye Xingchen’s rise to the Immortal Venerable Realm demonstrates the extraordinary changes brought by his journey to the Upper Realm.
• Mentorship and repayment: Ye Xingchen continually rewards those who aided or trusted him, providing breakthroughs, techniques, and future opportunities.
• The persistence of ancient threats: The survival of The Weird suggests that past catastrophes remain unresolved and may threaten both realms.
• Duty versus survival: Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable’s choice to remain behind emphasizes the burden of unfinished obligations, even when escape is possible.
• Hidden ancient power: The Immortal-Slaying Formation contains runes beyond Immortal Dao Law, hinting at forgotten forces and deeper mysteries in the world’s history.
• Loyalty and hierarchy: Even after gaining immense strength, Ye Xingchen retains the loyalty of old allies and companions, while powerful beings such as Er Gou and the flood dragon instinctively submit to him.

Character Interactions

• Ye Xingchen encourages Luo Xinghe and offers him a route into the Upper Realm.
• He grants Li Xuan, Zhao Kongming, and Sun Buyu the power to advance, prompting their formal gratitude.
• Qin Feng welcomes Ye Xingchen’s return, reports on the First Saint Sect’s success, and respectfully gives him the Primordial Cauldron.
• Ye Xingchen and Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable exchange wary but familiar remarks before discussing The Weird and the Celestial Venerable’s future.
• Er Gou and the flood dragon react fearfully and affectionately to Ye Xingchen, abandoning their imposing forms as soon as he appears.

Chapter Summary: “Submit or Die”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ye Xingchen enters the sixth level of Falling Star Valley, crossing the True Immortal-level seal without difficulty.
• Demonic blood monsters formed from the Misfortune Demon Emperor’s lingering aura attack him, but his Immortal Venerable pressure instantly destroys them.
• At the bottom of the abyss, Ye Xingchen confronts the enormous sealed Weird vertical eye—the formation’s core.
• He discovers that the eye is restrained by chains formed from the blood of an ancient expert who cultivated a Gods-and-Devils Body. That expert sacrificed his life to help seal the terrifying entity.
• The vertical eye briefly opens and looks down on Ye Xingchen with disdain. Ye Xingchen taunts it, promising to gradually destroy it and warning that he will scatter it completely if he finds its head.
• Although the eye pretends indifference, it becomes alert after sensing Ye Xingchen’s Immortal Venerable cultivation and shows concealed anticipation once he leaves.
• Ye Xingchen returns to the Supreme Academy and prepares to ascend to the Upper Realm through an existing spatial passage rather than forcibly breaking the realm barrier, protecting the fragile Profound Heaven Continent.
• Li Xuan, Zhao Kongming, and Sun Buyu reveal that they have reached the Supreme Realm through Ye Xingchen’s assistance. They choose to remain behind for now to stabilize the academy and guard the lower realm.
• Ye Xingchen ascends through the passage to the Heaven Evolution Sect in the Upper Realm.
• He arrives to find the sect devastated: its protective formation has been destroyed, numerous disciples and elders have been killed, and black-robed invaders are demanding the survivors submit or die.
• A Golden Immortal bearing a white bone lotus insignia threatens the wounded Patriarch Guan Hong and the remaining sect leaders. Enraged, Ye Xingchen immediately moves to attack.

Character Developments

• Ye Xingchen: His cultivation has advanced to the Immortal Venerable realm, allowing him to effortlessly destroy Supreme Peak-level monsters and perceive the seal’s laws. He displays greater confidence and authority, but also restraint by refusing to damage his homeland through forced ascension. His anger becomes evident when he finds the Heaven Evolution Sect under attack.
• The Weird vertical eye: It initially maintains an arrogant, contemptuous attitude toward Ye Xingchen, but secretly becomes interested and wary after recognizing his rapid growth and Immortal Venerable power.
• Li Xuan, Zhao Kongming, and Sun Buyu: They successfully break into the Supreme Realm. Their decision to remain in the lower realm reflects their responsibility, caution, and loyalty to the Supreme Academy.
• Patriarch Guan Hong and the Heaven Evolution Sect survivors: They have suffered catastrophic losses and are barely resisting the invading forces, setting up Ye Xingchen’s intervention.

Significant Themes

• Power and growth: Ye Xingchen’s transformation into an Immortal Venerable marks a major escalation in strength, contrasting with his earlier near-death encounter with the sealed eye.
• Seals and sacrifice: The imprisoned Weird entity remains contained only because an ancient supreme expert sacrificed his life and body, emphasizing the immense cost of suppressing evil.
• Restraint and responsibility: Despite possessing enough power to ascend directly, Ye Xingchen avoids harming the Profound Heaven Continent, showing that true strength includes control and consideration for one’s homeland.
• Defiance against overwhelming evil: Both Ye Xingchen’s threats to the vertical eye and his response to the Heaven Evolution Sect’s crisis establish his refusal to submit to powerful enemies.
• Guardianship and succession: The elders’ choice to protect the Supreme Academy until a successor emerges highlights duty, stability, and the continuation of institutions.

Important Character Interactions

• Ye Xingchen and the vertical eye engage in a silent psychological confrontation: the eye shows disdain, while Ye Xingchen responds with calm provocation and a promise of eventual destruction.
• Ye Xingchen consults with the three newly advanced Supreme Realm elders about ascending. They respectfully explain their decision to remain behind, and he accepts it.
• The black-robed Golden Immortal confronts Guan Hong and the remaining Heaven Evolution Sect leaders, ordering them to submit or die.
• Upon witnessing the massacre and threat, Ye Xingchen turns his wrath toward the invaders and launches an immediate attack.

Chapter Summary: The Mysterious Black-Robed Cultivator

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ye Xingchen returns to the Heaven Evolution Sect and instantly subdues a black-robed Golden Immortal who had attacked the sect.
• The cultivator attempts to self-destruct before revealing his origins. Ye Xingchen tries to search his soul, but a hidden forbidden formation detonates the man’s body and Primordial Spirit, leaving no information behind.
• Ancestor Guan Hong explains that the black-robed attackers demanded the Heaven Evolution Sect’s submission and have launched similar assaults across the Upper Realm, including the Taiyi Divine Church, Rakshasa Sacred Mountain, Moon-Gazing Pavilion, and several ancient clans.
• Ye Xingchen orders Lu Changhe to repair the sect, activate its defensive array, and investigate the attackers. He then goes to check on the Night Clan.
• At the Night Clan, Ye Hua reveals that he has successfully advanced to the Immortal Venerable realm with the help of Ye Xingchen’s Realm-Breaking Pill. The Night Clan was also attacked by the mysterious cultivators, whose leader self-destructed rather than be captured.
• Mo Yin arrives injured and begs Ye Xingchen to save the Ancient Devil Clan, which is facing destruction.
• Ye Xingchen immediately takes Mo Yin to the Ancient Devil Clan’s ancestral land. There, dozens of black-robed Golden Immortals have trapped Ancestor Mo Tian in a White Bone Grand Array and slaughtered countless Devils.
• Just as Mo Tian is about to die fighting, Ye Xingchen intervenes. He destroys the death-Qi heavenly blade with two fingers and annihilates nearly all of the attackers through overwhelming Immortal Venerable power.
• Ye Xingchen captures the black-robed leader and prevents him from self-destructing by using the Origin Heaven Art Ban. He then notices a sinister Bone Lotus Mark on the leader’s forehead, suggesting a larger force behind the attacks.

Character Developments

• Ye Xingchen demonstrates overwhelming strength, decisive leadership, and increasing suspicion toward the organized black-robed force. He shifts from defending individual sects to investigating the threat to the entire Upper Realm.
• Ancestor Guan Hong survives grievous injuries and becomes an important informant, revealing the scale of the attacks.
• Lu Changhe is entrusted with restoring the Heaven Evolution Sect and mobilizing its intelligence network.
• Ye Hua reaches the Immortal Venerable realm, greatly strengthening the Night Clan and proving the value of Ye Xingchen’s assistance.
• Mo Yin loses her usual pride and composure after witnessing the devastation of the Devil Race. Her desperation leads her to openly plead with Ye Xingchen for help.
• Mo Tian embodies the Devil Race’s defiance, refusing to surrender even when facing certain death.
• The black-robed cultivators are shown to be fanatical, disciplined death warriors who would rather destroy themselves than reveal their allegiance.

Significant Themes

• An unknown, coordinated conspiracy: The attacks across multiple major powers indicate that the black-robed cultivators serve a vast organization seeking to dominate or destroy the entire Upper Realm.
• Fanaticism and absolute loyalty: The attackers are either brainwashed or magically controlled, with forbidden formations preventing soul searches and forcing self-destruction.
• Overwhelming power versus desperate resistance: Ye Xingchen’s Immortal Venerable strength contrasts with the attackers’ willingness to sacrifice themselves and the Devil Race’s refusal to submit.
• Loyalty and protection: Ye Xingchen repeatedly acts to protect allied sects, clans, and races, while Mo Yin’s appeal highlights the bonds between former rivals and allies.
• Hidden supernatural influence: The Bone Lotus Mark suggests that the black-robed cultivators are controlled, branded, or empowered by an even more mysterious entity.

Character Interactions

• Ye Xingchen interrogates and defeats the first black-robed Golden Immortal, but the man’s self-destruction prevents any answers.
• Guan Hong reports the attacks to Ye Xingchen and receives healing through Ye Xingchen’s Life Origin.
• Ye Xingchen consults Ye Hua about the Night Clan’s battle and learns that the attackers share the same strange aura.
• Mo Yin approaches Ye Xingchen in desperation, setting aside her former arrogance to request his aid.
• Ye Xingchen rescues Mo Tian and the Devil Race, while Mo Tian’s defiance emphasizes the contrast between the Devil Race’s proud resistance and the attackers’ cold fanaticism.
• The chapter ends with Ye Xingchen examining the captured leader’s Bone Lotus Mark, creating a direct mystery about the power behind the black-robed invasion.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Above the Myriad Devils Abyss, Ye Xingchen defeats the mysterious black-robed invaders who nearly annihilated the Ancient Devil Clan.
• Mo Tian, the clan’s peak Golden Immortal ancestor, survives but is gravely wounded. Ye Xingchen reveals that he is Dugu Jian’s disciple and therefore Mo Tian’s junior by seniority.
• Mo Tian is deeply affected to learn that Dugu Jian is alive and active in the Immortal Domain. He regrets that the Ancient Devil Clan nearly perished under his watch.
• Ye Xingchen gives Mo Tian a Realm-Breaking Pill, explaining that the lower realm is being infiltrated by the Weird force and that only an Immortal Venerable can protect the Devil Race.
• Mo Tian swallows the pill and begins a desperate breakthrough to the Immortal Venerable Realm. Ye Xingchen orders Mo Yin to protect him during the process before returning to the Immortal Domain.
• At the Hundred Herbs Garden, Ye Xingchen discovers that Dugu Jian and Huan Hongchen have already departed. Huan Hongchen returned to the Demon Race, while Dugu Jian left to find a way to eradicate the Weird.
• Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable reveals that Dugu Jian contains an ancient aura connected to the Weird—one that may be even higher-ranked than the force that corrupted the Astral Extremity Immortal Palace.
• Ye Xingchen begins preparing to refine the Longevity Creation Pills using the Primordial Cauldron and the garden’s ninety-nine immortal herbs.
• The alchemy process cannot begin because one crucial ingredient is missing: the living true blood of a Divine Realm expert. Since Xing Wuji is dead, Ye Xingchen has no obvious source for it.

Character Developments

• Ye Xingchen: Demonstrates overwhelming strength, compassion, and strategic awareness. He saves the Ancient Devil Clan, provides Mo Tian with a priceless breakthrough opportunity, and remains focused on strengthening allies against the Weird threat. His calm response to Dugu Jian’s secrets shows his growing confidence and independence.
• Mo Tian: Transforms from a defeated, despairing ancestor into someone willing to stake his remaining life on a breakthrough. Learning that Dugu Jian is alive restores his hope, while Ye Xingchen’s intervention gives him a chance to protect his clan.
• Mo Yin: Shows deep concern and loyalty toward Mo Tian. She becomes responsible for guarding him during his dangerous breakthrough.
• Dugu Jian: His mysterious nature becomes more pronounced. His connection to the Weird may be ancient and exceptionally powerful, but he leaves alone to seek a permanent solution to the threat.
• Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable: Regains access to the Primordial Cauldron and becomes emotionally attached to the treasured artifact. He also serves as the bearer of alarming information about Dugu Jian’s origins and the requirements for restoring his own Divine Realm soul.
• Huan Hongchen: Briefly mentioned as having returned to the Demon Race, apparently to enter a long sleep.

Significant Themes

• Sacrifice and survival: Mo Tian embraces a life-or-death breakthrough, while Dugu Jian sacrifices his stability and disappears to combat the Weird.
• The expanding threat of the Weird: The danger is no longer limited to one battlefield or realm; it is infiltrating major powers and may be connected to ancient, higher-level forces.
• Inheritance and kinship: Ye Xingchen’s relationship with Dugu Jian allows him to bridge the gap between himself and Mo Tian, turning an old family connection into a source of support.
• Power and responsibility: Great strength is presented not merely as personal advancement but as a necessity for protecting entire clans and realms.
• Mystery and hidden origins: Dugu Jian’s unknown past and connection to the Weird raise questions about his true nature and loyalties.
• The cost of restoration: Rebuilding Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable’s Divine Realm soul requires an extremely rare and morally complicated ingredient—living blood from a Divine Realm expert.

Character Interactions

• Ye Xingchen and Mo Tian establish a respectful relationship through their connection to Dugu Jian. Mo Tian initially rejects being called “Martial Uncle,” feeling unworthy after his defeat, but Ye Xingchen treats him as family.
• Ye Xingchen encourages Mo Tian to accept the Realm-Breaking Pill, emphasizing that the Devil Race needs his strength.
• Ye Xingchen entrusts Mo Yin with Mo Tian’s protection, showing confidence in her loyalty and capability.
• Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable warns Ye Xingchen about Dugu Jian’s dangerous secret, but Ye Xingchen refuses to dwell on it and chooses to trust his master.
• Ye Xingchen and Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable shift from discussion to practical cooperation when Ye Xingchen commands him to begin preparing the alchemy process.
• Their plans are halted when Primordial Unity reveals that the Longevity Creation Pills require the true blood of a living Divine Realm expert.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable explains that the pill requires living Divine Realm blood. Ye Xingchen realizes that Er Gou, his pet Nine Nether Divine Wolf, possesses suitable blood because of its Primordial Royal Clan lineage and the Divine Realm origin absorbed from a Gods and Devils heart.
• Ye Xingchen forcibly takes a drop of Er Gou’s blood, compensating it with top-grade immortal pills after the frightened dog dramatically pretends to be dying.
• Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable begins refining the pill using:
  • Ninety-nine rare immortal herbs
  • The Longevity Immortal Medicine
  • Er Gou’s Divine Realm true blood
• The refining process initially succeeds, producing a five-colored medicinal mass. However, after the true blood is added, heaven and earth resist the creation of the divine pill. Dark clouds and lightning appear, and a destructive black line spreads across the pill embryo.
• The pill begins collapsing, causing Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable to believe his thirty-thousand-year effort—and his chance to restore his divine soul—has failed.
• Ye Xingchen uses a system exchange to obtain an Alchemy Emperor Divine Ability Trial Card, which grants him supreme alchemical laws for one incense stick.
• He demands one thousand top-grade immortal veins from Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable in exchange for saving the pill, though he activates the card regardless of whether the elder agrees.
• With the trial card’s power, Ye Xingchen reverses the destructive corruption, restores the medicinal liquid, and forcibly suppresses the Immortal Dao’s rejection.
• He commands the pill to condense. Golden light pierces the thunderclouds, powerful pill fragrance fills the garden, and the divine pill is successfully completed.

Character Developments

• Ye Xingchen demonstrates his usual bluntness, confidence, and opportunistic nature, treating the crisis as a chance to extort Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable. His true abilities are revealed to be far beyond ordinary alchemy.
• Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable shifts from confident master alchemist to despairing failure when the pill begins to collapse. His shock at Ye Xingchen’s intervention reveals how extraordinary Ye Xingchen’s power is.
• Er Gou remains comically cowardly and submissive toward Ye Xingchen despite possessing an extremely powerful bloodline. Its true importance as a source of Divine Realm blood is established.
• Hundred Herbs Eternal Life Immortal Venerable serves as Primordial Unity’s assistant and witnesses the failure and miraculous reversal, though he cannot intervene when the pill begins to decay.

Significant Themes

• Power versus established laws: The Immortal Dao rejects the divine pill, but Ye Xingchen’s Alchemy Emperor trial card allows him to override and reverse those laws.
• Accumulated knowledge and sudden opportunity: Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable’s thirty thousand years of deduction nearly succeed, but Ye Xingchen’s system-granted ability becomes the decisive factor.
• Comedic irreverence amid high stakes: Serious matters such as divine blood, soul restoration, and Dao rejection are undercut by Ye Xingchen’s treatment of Er Gou and his casual extortion of the elder.
• Hidden value in overlooked things: The Gods and Devils heart once discarded by Ye Xingchen becomes the crucial source of blood needed for the pill.

Character Interactions

• Ye Xingchen and Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable argue over the practicality and cost of obtaining Divine Realm blood.
• Ye Xingchen dominates Er Gou, taking its blood while Er Gou begs for mercy, reinforcing their master-servant dynamic.
• Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable and Hundred Herbs Immortal Venerable cooperate during the refinement but are helpless when the pill is rejected.
• Ye Xingchen and Primordial Unity Celestial Venerable engage in a tense, humorous negotiation over one thousand top-grade immortal veins, with Ye Xingchen confidently assuming the elder will owe him.
• Ye Xingchen’s miraculous intervention leaves both elders stunned, establishing him as an alchemical force capable of surpassing even the laws of the Immortal Domain.