Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Over roughly an epoch, the One Origin Dao Gate’s prestige surged after twelve cultivators attained the Dao as True Immortals. Its pool of Peak Fourth-Rank cultivators grew to more than ten thousand.
• Because Chen Jichuan (Dongqi Palace Master Zhou Yan) had a reputation for helping his disciples attain the Dao, the Gate’s Peak Fourth-Rank cultivators—and other True Immortals—hoped he would help them. He had previously refused nearly all such requests.
• The Dao Gate recalled over six thousand Peak Fourth-Rank cultivators and asked Chen to guide them, hoping to produce more True Immortals. He accepted as part of a bargain with Sect Master Fudan Zi: he would help the Gate in exchange for substantial cultivation resources.
• Chen’s fellow True Immortals worried that this public effort would make him a target. His teacher, the East River Palace Lord, warned that enemies might use Chen’s Domain Clone to reach his true body. Chen reassured him that the clone had left the Ancient Immortal Battlefield and was traveling toward the Jade Toad Great World.
• Other True Immortals began approaching Chen with requests. He agreed to consider suitable candidates, both to help the Gate and to gain goodwill—and potentially further benefits.
• Chen carefully reviewed the Gate’s cultivators, selecting people he judged worthy. He chose sixty-four candidates himself and added thirty-six recommended by True Immortals, making a group of one hundred.
• Over the next ten thousand years, he secretly used his Enlightenment ability on them. Eighty-two attained the Dao, an extraordinary success rate of 82 percent.

Character developments

• Chen Jichuan / Zhou Yan shifts from refusing requests to deliberately training True Immortals under a calculated arrangement. He remains generous toward the Gate but carefully controls whom he helps, favoring those he considers upright and agreeable.
• The East River Palace Lord shows continued concern for his disciple’s safety, warning him about the risks of exposing his abilities and the vulnerability of his clone. He is reassured by Chen’s precautions.
• Shi Ze and the other True Immortals understand the dangers of Chen’s growing influence. Their own decision not to take disciples reflects their reluctance to place Chen—or themselves—in difficult positions.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: Chen’s ability can transform the Dao Gate’s prospects, but using it openly also attracts dangerous attention.
• Prudence and strategic planning: Chen balances service to the Gate with self-protection, resource gathering, and preparation for future cultivation beyond Divine Land.
• Merit and discernment: He does not help everyone indiscriminately; he judges candidates by character as well as cultivation potential.
• Loyalty and reciprocity: Chen’s bargain benefits both him and the Gate, while his assistance to other True Immortals may build personal ties.

Character interactions

• The East River Palace Lord and the assembled True Immortals question Chen about the recall of the Peak Fourth-Rank cultivators. Chen explains his role, while Shi Ze openly voices concern that the plan could make him a target.
• Chen reassures his teacher that his Domain Clone is no longer at the Ancient Immortal Battlefield and is traveling independently.
• After the meeting, the True Immortals leave for their own duties, while later visitors approach Chen with indirect questions, praise, and requests for help.
• Chen responds selectively, accepting candidates recommended by others when he approves of them and choosing additional prospects from the Gate’s wider ranks.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• The One Origin Dao Gate’s rapid rise in True Immortals alarms the three great demons. After producing 82 in ten thousand years, the Gate eventually approaches 300 new True Immortals, transforming the balance of power in Divine Land.
• Scarlet Blood Patriarch urges Golden Silkworm Ancestor and Heavenly Remnant Lord to help destroy Divine Land before the Dao Gate’s growing strength makes it impossible. Golden Silkworm initially resists, hoping that killing Zhou Yan will stop the surge, but Scarlet Blood argues Zhou Yan may no longer be essential: the Gate likely already possesses the secret behind the breakthroughs.
• The demons’ disagreement reflects their different interests. Scarlet Blood feels pressed by his declining prospects and wants to shatter Divine Land to seize its Origin; Golden Silkworm and Heavenly Remnant would rather delay while they still can.
• As the Dao Gate’s True Immortals continue to multiply, Golden Silkworm and Heavenly Remnant finally agree to act. They swear the binding Dongyuan Oath not to reveal Scarlet Blood’s plan.
• Scarlet Blood reveals his preparations: the Primordial Unity Thunderbolt to damage Divine Land and its Origin, and the Three Powers Fire Dragon Formation, designed to pressure the world and hold off the Dao Gate’s forces. He has further measures as well, and the other demons disclose that they too have prepared in secret.
• The chapter shifts to Divine Land’s broader response. Righteous sects and Buddhist powers seek the Dao Gate’s secret but are rebuffed, leaving them uneasy and divided over how to respond.
• Finally, Golden Silkworm Ancestor—appearing as a young boy—visits Wang Shan, the Seven-Star Sword Lord, on Seven Star Island. Wang Shan is an avatar of Chen Jichuan who joined Demon God Mountain, where membership is based mainly on mutual benefit rather than close loyalty.

Character developments and interactions

• Scarlet Blood Patriarch moves from trying to pressure the other demons into committing himself to a carefully prepared assault. Despite his urgency, he remains guarded and demands binding oaths before disclosing his strategy.
• Golden Silkworm Ancestor is forced to abandon his wait-and-see stance as the Dao Gate’s growth exceeds his tolerance. He still hopes the threat can be contained by eliminating Zhou Yan, but ultimately accepts cooperation.
• Heavenly Remnant Lord shares Golden Silkworm’s caution, then joins the plan once the Dao Gate’s expansion makes delay too dangerous.
• The three demons shift from rivalry and bargaining to a temporary alliance, united by fear of the Dao Gate’s growing power and the prospect of losing control of Divine Land.
• Wang Shan and Golden Silkworm Ancestor meet under the guise of a friendly introduction, though their relationship sits within Demon God Mountain’s loose, transactional structure.

Significant themes

• Power changing political calculations: The Dao Gate’s mass ascension of True Immortals forces old powers to reconsider plans and alliances.
• Self-interest and unstable cooperation: The demons unite not out of trust, but because their separate interests now align.
• Worldly roots versus cosmic ambition: Destroying Divine Land could grant access to its Origin, but would deprive its True Immortals of the world’s support.
• Secrecy and preparation: Oaths, concealed plans, and hidden resources shape the coming conflict.
• Uneven progress and resentment: The Dao Gate’s success leaves other righteous factions frustrated and unsure how to respond.

Key plot points and events

• The Golden Silkworm Ancestor approaches Chen Jichuan, disguised as the newly ascended Seven-Star Sword Lord, to recruit him into an alliance against the powerful One Origin Dao Gate.
• He offers three Spring Autumn Cocoons, promises ten portions of Indestructible Golden Stone, and gives Chen three Primordial Unity Thunderbolts plus the main Fire Dragon Pillar for a planned array node. Chen agrees to keep the plan secret and assist only as circumstances allow, then swears a binding Dongyuan Oath.
• Chen recognizes that the demons’ weapons and formations could devastate Divine Land. He suspects the Golden Silkworm Ancestor is concealing an even more extreme plan and resolves to prevent mass destruction.
• Using thousands of clones, Chen plans to infiltrate the array’s auxiliary positions by replacing Fourth-Rank cultivators. At the decisive moment, he intends to strike the array’s 324 True Immortal commanders and sabotage the Three Powers Fire Dragon Divine Array from within.
• The demons recruit allies while the One Origin Dao Gate mobilizes its star-suppressing array and recalls its True Immortals. The other Dao Sects and righteous powers largely hold back, resentful of the One Origin Dao Gate’s rapid growth. The Gate is left increasingly isolated as war approaches.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Jichuan acts outwardly cautious and cooperative, while secretly preparing to betray the demonic alliance and protect Divine Land. He weighs survival against responsibility, and considers whether he might seize control of the array after sabotaging it.
• The Golden Silkworm Ancestor is cordial and persuasive, using valuable treasures and a proposed safety measure to secure Chen’s oath and partial cooperation. He withholds the alliance’s full intentions.
• The demonic leaders—the Golden Silkworm Ancestor, Scarlet Blood Patriarch, and Heavenly Remnant Lord—are willing to use overwhelming force against the One Origin Dao Gate, even at enormous cost to the world.
• The One Origin Dao Gate prepares for conflict under Fudan Zi and the Five Patriarchs, while the other righteous powers’ reluctance to help exposes deep political resentment.

Significant themes

• Hidden loyalties and deception: Chen accepts the demons’ offer while planning to undermine them; the Ancestor likewise conceals the full plan.
• Power and political imbalance: The One Origin Dao Gate’s rapid rise alarms rival sects, weakening cooperation when unity is most needed.
• Responsibility amid catastrophe: Chen refuses to leave Divine Land’s fate to either the demons or the Dao Sects, choosing covert action to limit the coming destruction.
• The cost of ambition: The conflict threatens not only rival immortals but the lives and stability of the entire world.

Plot points

• The three devil leaders—Scarlet Blood Patriarch, Golden Silkworm Ancestor, and Heavenly Remnant Lord—finish preparing a coordinated assault on One Origin Dao Gate. They recruit 324 devil True Immortals and distribute Fire Dragon Pillars and Primordial Unity Thunderbolts to assemble the Three Powers Fire Dragon Formation.
• Chen Jichuan, secretly positioned among the operation’s forces, acts when the attack begins. Using more than 300 clones, he steals the thunderbolts and removes the Fire Dragon Pillars before the formation can be activated.
• Most clones escape using Chen Jichuan’s concealment and escape techniques. Six are caught by Third-Realm True Immortals and sacrificed, but Chen still disrupts the entire plan and secures nearly all the formation components.
• The One Origin Patriarch and Primordial Simplicity Patriarch observe the sudden upheaval. They realize someone has foiled the demonic scheme, though they do not know who. The One Origin Patriarch regrets losing the chance to confront the assembled devils directly and demonstrate his power.

Character developments

• Chen Jichuan demonstrates the scale of his growth over 150,000 years: he can control hundreds of powerful clones and wield advanced concealment, transformation, escape, and sleeve techniques. He is bold but disciplined, retreating rather than risking his larger plan.
• Kuye Devil Lord commits fully to the uprising, but his formation is dismantled before it can be used. He suspects One Origin Dao Gate is responsible, yet chooses to remain in Divine Land and watch for opportunities.
• One Origin Patriarch appears confident in his ability to crush the demonic forces, while Primordial Simplicity Patriarch proves more observant, recognizing the unexpected intervention and tempering his senior brother’s reaction.

Themes

• Preparation and counterplanning: Both sides prepare carefully, but Chen’s hidden infiltration overturns the demons’ elaborate strategy.
• Power and restraint: Chen’s strength is shown not only in his abilities, but in knowing when to withdraw; the patriarchs, meanwhile, differ in their instinct to use force or interpret events.
• Shifting alliances and self-interest: The devil cultivators unite largely because they fear One Origin Dao Gate’s growing dominance, while individuals still hope to profit from the coming disorder.

Character interactions

• The three devil leaders coordinate the operation and rally a broad coalition of True Immortals.
• Chen’s clones confront the coalition indirectly, striking at its weapons and infrastructure rather than engaging its leaders in open combat.
• The patriarchs discuss who disrupted the demonic plan. Primordial Simplicity Patriarch views the unknown actor as an ally protecting Divine Land; One Origin Patriarch is frustrated that the intervention complicates his intended show of force.

Key plot points and events

• The three Old Devils discover that every one of the 324 nodes of their Three Powers Fire Dragon Formation has been destroyed. In each case, an infiltrator stole the Primordial Unity Thunderbolt and Fire Dragon Pillar, then destroyed them rather than be captured.
• Despite losing the formation, Scarlet Blood Patriarch proceeds with his plan. He detonates more than 110,000 remaining Primordial Unity Thunderbolts across Divine Land, triggering widespread earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, fires, and devastation.
• Heavenly Remnant Lord uses the Myriad Stars Banner, a treasure refined over four million years, to drag down stars and bombard the world. He pretends to be attacking Golden Wind Mountain Sea, but his actions threaten Divine Land itself.
• Golden Silkworm Ancestor unleashes golden silkworms planted throughout the land. They animate earth dragons that repeatedly regenerate, drawing on and depleting Divine Land’s earth energy.
• Scarlet Blood Patriarch then reveals the Nine-Six Cosmic Spirit Shuttle, a Second-Rank Ancient Immortal Artifact capable of unleashing enormous earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, poisonous fire, and other disasters over vast distances. The Dao Sect leaders recognize that the devils intend to destroy Divine Land and forcibly seize its Origin.
• Primordial Simplicity Patriarch moves to block Scarlet Blood Patriarch, while One Origin Patriarch prepares a countermeasure by invoking the resonance between the land’s mountains and rivers.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Jichuan recognizes the infiltrators’ sabotage and identifies the devils’ treasures and underlying purpose. He realizes that all three Old Devils prepared long-term schemes to destroy Divine Land.
• Scarlet Blood Patriarch remains determined after the formation’s failure, relying instead on his vast stores of thunderbolts and the Nine-Six Cosmic Spirit Shuttle.
• Heavenly Remnant Lord reveals the full destructive potential of his star-seizing treasure while disguising his true intentions.
• Golden Silkworm Ancestor exposes his own long-prepared method of weaponizing Divine Land’s earth veins against it.
• One Origin Patriarch and Primordial Simplicity Patriarch coordinate their response: One Origin Patriarch asks his junior brother to hold the devils off, and Primordial Simplicity Patriarch confronts Scarlet Blood Patriarch directly.

Significant themes

• Long-term preparation and hidden intent: The Old Devils’ plans and treasures were cultivated over millions of years, concealed until the moment they could be deployed.
• The world as a weapon—and a victim: Stars, earth veins, and the land’s own energy are turned against Divine Land, making its natural forces instruments of destruction.
• Escalating stakes and collective peril: The conflict has moved beyond a contest between factions; the entire world and its inhabitants are at risk.
• Sacrifice and resolve: The infiltrators destroy their targets and themselves rather than let the devils recover their weapons or formation nodes.

Chapter summary

• The One Origin Patriarch reveals his plan. He brings out the Mountains-and-Rivers Seal, an ancient Second Rank Immortal Artifact capable of commanding land and suppressing mountains and rivers. The Divine Land Origin absorbs and merges with the seal, giving him growing control over the world’s power. Chen Jichuan realizes the Patriarch had been waiting for the demons’ attacks to weaken Divine Land so he could seize its authority.
• The other major powers turn against One Origin. The Profound Firmament, Five Virtues, and Subtle Insight Patriarchs, along with Saint Monks Baoxiang and Six Paths, recognize the seal’s significance and attack before One Origin can monopolize Divine Land. Each brings a powerful sect or Buddhist treasure to bear. The struggle shifts from defending the world against demons to fighting over who will control it.
• One Origin gains public support—but still faces a steep battle. The Primordial Simplicity Patriarch denounces the attackers as helping the demons, and cultivators across Divine Land condemn the other factions. One Origin declares that heaven and the people support him, then uses the seal to summon an Imperial Dharma Idol and hold off the five attackers. However, their combined strength and treasures gradually wear him down.
• One Origin’s sect rallies to his aid. Sect Master Fudan Zi leads the One Origin Five Patriarchs and hundreds of True Immortals in empowering the One Origin Golden Wind Bag. Their support gives the Patriarch some breathing room, potentially allowing him to absorb more of Divine Land’s authority.
• The conflict escalates further. The Azure Stone Rogue Immortal, another Fourth-Realm powerhouse, appears and joins One Origin’s opponents. All eleven of Divine Land’s Fourth-Realm True Immortals are now present, and their battle threatens to destroy the world they are supposedly fighting over.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Jichuan pieces together One Origin’s hidden scheme and sees through the competing factions’ claims of righteousness. He concludes that every powerful figure is pursuing personal advantage. Though he recognizes that, as a True Immortal, he could once have left his fate to the immortals’ decisions, he now feels an obligation to act. He flies into the clouds, setting up his intervention.
• The One Origin Patriarch shifts from covert opportunist to open claimant of Divine Land’s authority. He is formidable with the seal, but his attempt to rule the world provokes a coalition against him.
• The Profound Firmament Patriarch, once One Origin’s ally, becomes his leading opponent, unwilling to let him dictate the future of all other cultivators.
• The Five Virtues, Subtle Insight, and Pure Land leaders join the attack, while the Scarlet Blood Patriarch mocks the irony: the demons’ assault has helped trigger an internal war among their enemies.
• The One Origin Dao Gate’s members unite behind their Patriarch, while public opinion turns against the rival factions for fighting among themselves during Divine Land’s crisis.

Significant themes

• Self-interest beneath righteous rhetoric: The immortals claim to defend the Dao or the world, but each is motivated by power, survival, or access to the Divine Land Origin.
• Power and control: The Mountains-and-Rivers Seal turns a struggle over survival into a contest over who will command the world and its future.
• The cost of factional conflict: Rivalries among the strongest threaten the very land and people they profess to protect.
• Responsibility and agency: Chen’s decision to act marks a shift from observing the powerful determine everyone’s fate to accepting responsibility himself.

Plot points and events

• The One Origin Patriarch’s attempt to seize control of the Divine Land Origin stalls. The prolonged battle threatens to shatter Divine Land and damage the Mountains-and-Rivers Seal.
• As the One Origin Patriarch prepares to abandon his plan and unite the defenders against the demons, four Daoists arrive: Chen Jichuan’s clones.
• Using the Great Luo Heavenly Sleeve, the four clones snatch the supreme treasures of the Profound Firmament, Five Virtues, Subtle Insight, and Azure Stone Patriarchs. Chen then seals them with his Five-Element Mountain divine ability.
• The four furious Thunder-Tribulation True Immortals turn their attacks on Chen’s clones. The One Origin Patriarch reveals his true body to intercept them, while the Primordial Simplicity Patriarch warns the newcomers.
• Confident and eager to test himself against Fourth-Realm opponents, Chen reinforces his clones and attacks with powerful defensive and soul-targeting abilities. The four enemies nevertheless destroy all four clones in one strike, reclaiming their treasures.
• Chen recognizes the enormous gap in cultivation and divine-ability mastery between himself and the Fourth-Realm immortals. Rather than withdraw, he immediately sends four more clones to seize the treasures again and harass the enemy, declaring that he will protect Divine Land.

Character developments

• One Origin Patriarch accepts that his original plan may fail, prioritizing Divine Land’s survival over his ambition. Chen’s intervention rekindles his hope, and he risks revealing his true body to protect him.
• Chen Jichuan demonstrates boldness, ingenuity, and resilience. His daring theft succeeds, but his clones’ swift defeat forces him to reassess his strength and recognize that he must advance his cultivation methods and divine abilities—not just cultivate harder.
• The Primordial Simplicity Patriarch remains concerned for both the newcomers’ safety and the fate of the stolen treasures, but cannot leave his own opponent without endangering the One Origin Patriarch.
• The four Thunder-Tribulation Patriarchs shift from battling for control of Divine Land to acting in fury and urgency to recover their priceless artifacts.

Themes

• Ambition versus responsibility: The One Origin Patriarch gives up on personal success rather than let Divine Land perish.
• Courage tempered by reality: Chen’s confidence leads to a crushing defeat, but he learns from it and keeps fighting.
• Ingenuity against overwhelming power: Chen’s unexpected theft disrupts a stalemate, even though it cannot overcome the vast gap in strength.
• Persistence and sacrifice: Chen repeatedly risks his clones to buy time and defend Divine Land.

Character interactions

• Chen’s intervention changes the battlefield: the Four Patriarchs abandon their pressure on the One Origin Patriarch to pursue him.
• The One Origin and Primordial Simplicity Patriarchs warn Chen and try to protect him, while the One Origin Patriarch confronts the enemies’ Domain Clones.
• Chen’s actions earn the One Origin Patriarch’s gratitude and support, while provoking the four immortals into a furious counterattack.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Chen Jichuan’s four True Immortal clones reclaim four sect treasures and use the fourth-realm divine ability Wind-Thunder Walk to generate trillions of convincing wind-and-thunder doubles. Their escape technique impresses both allies and onlookers, but the treasures’ auras make it difficult to get away unnoticed.
• The four Thunder-Tribulation Patriarchs counter the clones with overwhelming abilities. The Subtle Insight Patriarch uses divination to locate Chen and traps him with Nine Nether Illumination; Chen escapes capture by destroying the threatened clone himself, then continues fighting through repeated deaths and revivals.
• The Profound Firmament Patriarch’s lightning, the Five Virtues Patriarch’s anti-elemental shears, and the Azure Stone Rogue Immortal’s ability to slip between reality and illusion make the struggle increasingly desperate. Chen’s clones die rapidly, leaving him close to exhausting his supply.
• Needing more time while the One Origin Patriarch refines the Divine Land Origin, Chen changes tactics. Two clones approach the Golden Silkworm Ancestor and Heavenly Remnant Lord and hand them the Great Vehicle Golden Roll and Profound Firmament Heaven-Measuring Ruler.
• The demons choose the tangible Ancient Immortal Artifacts over the uncertain prize of the Divine Land Origin and flee with them. The Profound Firmament Patriarch and Azure Stone Rogue Immortal pursue, abruptly removing two defenders from the battle. The Scarlet Blood Patriarch watches in shock as the battlefield’s balance shifts.

Character developments

• Chen Jichuan displays ingenuity and nerve, using clones, escape techniques, and deliberate self-destruction to avoid capture. Yet the fight reveals the limits of his power against Thunder-Tribulation experts: he is surviving through numbers and strategy, not by matching them directly.
• The Subtle Insight Patriarch proves to be a formidable diviner and captor, nearly trapping Chen despite the latter’s elaborate evasions.
• The Golden Silkworm Ancestor and Heavenly Remnant Lord reveal their pragmatism and self-interest. Once they obtain valuable artifacts, they abandon the larger campaign and escape.
• The four Thunder-Tribulation Patriarchs demonstrate overwhelming superiority in direct combat, but their focus on recovering their treasures leaves them vulnerable to Chen’s maneuver.

Significant themes

• Ingenuity versus raw power: Chen cannot defeat his opponents head-on, so he relies on deception, mobility, and tactical adaptation.
• The cost and limits of survival: Clones let Chen endure repeated lethal attacks, but each death consumes resources and brings him closer to failure.
• Self-interest and shifting loyalties: The demons’ choice of immediate treasure over a shared strategic goal transforms the battle.
• Risk and tangible reward: The artifacts in hand prove more tempting than the uncertain possibility of gaining the Divine Land Origin.

Character interactions

• Chen repeatedly evades and frustrates the four patriarchs, especially the Subtle Insight Patriarch, while their attacks force him to sacrifice clones rather than risk capture.
• He then redirects the conflict by giving artifacts to the Golden Silkworm Ancestor and Heavenly Remnant Lord.
• The demons seize the opportunity and flee; the Profound Firmament Patriarch and Azure Stone Rogue Immortal break off from the wider battle to pursue them, leaving the remaining combatants facing a suddenly altered battlefield.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Jichuan’s four Daoist clones—Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise—use the Great Luo Heavenly Sleeve to strip opponents of their treasures. They surrender two Ancient Immortal Artifacts to lure away four Thunder-Tribulation True Immortals, easing the assault on Divine Land and giving the One Origin Patriarch more time to refine its World Origin.
• With their treasures suppressed or put away, the Precious Form and Six Paths saint monks and the Scarlet Blood Patriarch lose much of their effectiveness. The Scarlet Blood Patriarch withdraws, but tricks the four Daoists into answering when he asks their names, forming a karmic link and cursing them.
• Chen recognizes the danger and destroys all his clones, including the Domain Clone in the Jade Toad Great World. The two Ancient Immortal Artifacts reach the One Origin Golden Wind Bag, where Fudan Zi suppresses them.
• Chen protects his true body with the Origin-Returning Heaven-Hiding Method and his newly developed Five Emperors and Five Spirits Saint-Protector Divine Art. The defenses dissolve the curse before it can reach him.
• The Scarlet Blood Patriarch urges the Five Virtues and Subtle Insight Patriarchs to keep fighting. They ask the One Origin Patriarch to return their lost artifacts in exchange for withdrawing, but he refuses, saying they belong to the Four Saints and are only being held in safekeeping. Angered and desperate to recover their treasures, both patriarchs resume attacking him.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Jichuan shows strategic generosity by surrendering artifacts to turn the battle, but his confidence leaves him vulnerable to the Scarlet Blood Patriarch’s name-based curse. His prepared defenses save him, and he resolves to rebuild a stronger Domain Clone before returning to the Jade Toad Great World.
• The One Origin Patriarch gains a major advantage from the four immortals’ intervention, then refuses to bargain away the captured artifacts. His calm smile under renewed attack hints at confidence in his position.
• The Scarlet Blood Patriarch shifts from retreat to deception, exploiting the Daoists’ names to curse them, then manipulates the other patriarchs’ attachment to their treasures.
• The Five Virtues and Subtle Insight Patriarchs abandon hopes of cooperation when their requests are refused. Their desire to reclaim their Ancient Immortal Artifacts outweighs the survival of Divine Land.
• The two saint monks are forced onto the defensive when the Daoists neutralize their treasures; the monks’ pressure on the One Origin Patriarch lifts when the other patriarchs rejoin the attack.

Significant themes

• Preparation and countermeasures: Chen’s specialized divine art proves that foresight can blunt even an insidious curse.
• The cost of ambition and attachment: The patriarchs’ fixation on their lost artifacts drives them to risk Divine Land’s destruction.
• Strategy over brute force: The Daoists change the battle by redirecting opponents and neutralizing their weapons rather than defeating everyone outright.
• Trust, favors, and obligation: Chen expects his aid to earn the One Origin Patriarch’s gratitude, while the name-calling curse turns a seemingly harmless exchange into a dangerous karmic bond.

Key plot points and events

• The One Origin Patriarch completes his refinement of the Divine Land’s origin during the battle, becoming its lord and turning the land, sun, and moon into weapons. He overwhelms the attackers.
• The Subtle Insight Patriarch escapes and asks that the Dao Sects’ True Immortals be spared. One Origin expels more than two hundred True Immortals from the Subtle Insight, Five Virtues, and Profound Firmament Dao Gates, as well as the Western Continent Pure Land, forbidding their return but allowing them to live.
• The demonic True Immortals flee. One Origin threatens the Scarlet Blood Patriarch for attempting to destroy the Divine Land; Scarlet Blood leaves, resentful and wary of One Origin’s new power.
• The One Origin Dao Gate celebrates its victory and new dominance. Seven years later, the One Origin Patriarch meets Zhou Yan (Chen Jichuan), the last of the sect’s True Immortals to receive an audience.
• One Origin reveals that he knows Zhou Yan was the Four Sages Daoist who helped him in battle. He praises Zhou’s extraordinary contributions, then announces plans to establish the One Origin Immortal Court.
• Zhou is appointed sixth among the True Lords and given the title Heavenly King. One Origin then offers the Four Sages Daoist the other four seats among the Five Direction Emperors, granting Zhou far greater status and access to the Divine Land’s origin.

Character developments and interactions

• One Origin Patriarch shifts from embattled contender to undisputed ruler of the Divine Land. He shows restraint by sparing and expelling rival sects’ immortals, while establishing a new political order.
• Subtle Insight Patriarch abandons his attempt to recover his treasure and negotiates for his followers’ survival. He and the other defeated leaders accept exile without further conflict.
• Scarlet Blood Patriarch recognizes that his costly scheme has failed and that One Origin is now exceptionally difficult to kill. His defiant departure masks deep anxiety.
• Chen Jichuan/Zhou Yan is praised for cultivating nearly three hundred True Immortals and secretly assisting One Origin as the Four Sages Daoist. He hides the Dao Fruit behind a false explanation, claiming his success comes from talent and the Dao Gate’s support.
• One Origin is curious about Zhou’s powers and suspects an Ancient Immortal connection, but respects his privacy and promises to keep his secrets. Zhou initially feels his appointment undervalues his service, then is delighted by the offer of four Emperor mandates.

Significant themes

• Power and legitimacy: By mastering the world’s origin, One Origin gains both overwhelming strength and the authority to rule.
• Mercy and political consolidation: He spares defeated rivals but bars them from returning, securing control without needless slaughter.
• Merit and reward: Zhou’s hidden and public contributions earn him an extraordinary place in the new Heavenly Court.
• Secrecy and trust: Zhou protects the source of his abilities, while One Origin chooses not to press him or expose what he has learned.
• Fortune and fate: Scarlet Blood’s meticulous preparations are undone by unexpected allies and Zhou’s influence, illustrating how events beyond one’s control can decide victory.

Chapter Summary

• Chen Jichuan accepts the One Origin Patriarch’s condition that he give up three of his five Heavenly Court Emperor seats once he reaches the third realm of True Immortality. He sees this as fair, since the seats’ blessings can help him progress and should eventually benefit others.
• The Patriarch reveals he has discovered that Chen Jichuan’s identities—Qizhenzi, Dai Zong, Xu Ning, and Wang Shan—are disguises created through his cloning and concealment techniques. Chen admits it without embarrassment, explaining that the identities were for self-preservation, not betrayal.
• In recognition of Chen’s loyalty and help during the Divine Land’s crisis, the Patriarch offers to give those four identities high-ranking Star Lord seats in the newly reestablished Heavenly Court. Along with Chen’s existing rewards, this means he will benefit from four Emperor seats, one True Lord seat, and four Star Lord seats.

The Immortal-Fall Battlefield

• The Patriarch explains that the Immortal-Fall Battlefield is a vast remnant of the shattered Ancient Immortal World and the site of a catastrophic ancient battle in which countless True Immortals and many Ancient Immortals died.
• It is exceptionally dangerous and surrounded by barriers of astral wind, lightning, and fire. These barriers weaken only once every eight million years, allowing fourth-realm True Immortals to enter. The next opening is in four million years.
• The battlefield is famous both for its dangers and its opportunities. One True Immortal once found an Ancient Immortal corpse there, used it to advance through tribulations, and became an Ancient Immortal. The Patriarch and the Primordial Simplicity Patriarch also found three Ancient Immortal Artifacts there during the previous opening but managed to capture only one: the Mountains-and-Rivers Seal.
• The Patriarch hopes Chen will join him and Taisu on the next expedition. Chen’s cloning technique would help them explore safely, while his Great Luo Heavenly Sleeve could capture elusive treasures.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Chen’s frankness and restraint strengthen the Patriarch’s trust in him. The Patriarch rewards him generously and treats him as a valuable future ally, rather than attempting to claim his abilities.
• Chen is eager about the expedition but doubts he can reach the fourth realm within four million years, noting that even long-lived, well-supported True Immortals often remain in the third realm.
• The Patriarch encourages him, citing his own rapid rise to the fourth realm, but misunderstands Chen’s early attainment: Chen’s apparent youthfulness was partly built on more than 140,000 years of preparation in a previous life. Still, the Patriarch reassures him that he can join the expedition even if he remains in the third realm.

Significant Themes

• Trust and loyalty: Chen’s hidden identities were a form of caution, not disloyalty; his conduct ultimately earns the Patriarch’s confidence.
• Merit and reciprocity: Chen’s contributions bring substantial rewards, while the condition on his Emperor seats reflects the need to share power and fortune.
• Ambition amid uncertainty: The battlefield offers immense rewards, but cultivation is unpredictable, and Chen cannot guarantee reaching the required level.
• Preparation and potential: Chen resolves to spend the coming four million years improving his cultivation, techniques, and mastery through his Deduction and Enlightenment abilities.

Plot points and events

• The One Origin Patriarch returns Chen Jichuan the Five Virtues Immortal Swords and Subtle Insight Illuminating Netherworld Mirror, explaining that each artifact’s full power requires a specific divine ability. Chen accepts them, impressed by the Patriarch’s integrity.
• Chen leaves with nine high-ranking Heavenly Court positions, two Ancient Immortal Artifacts, and an invitation to enter the Immortal-Fall Battlefield with the Patriarchs four million years later. He decides, however, to focus on resolving the immediate danger he faces in reality.
• Using his position and the Divine Land’s fortune, Chen cultivates in seclusion and repeatedly uses Deduction to improve his foundation and abilities.
• After five hundred thousand years, he raises the Five-Five Great Expansion True Scripture from Orthodox to Mystical Grade, greatly strengthening his cultivated power.
• Over the following ages, he elevates three crucial abilities to Grand Divine Ability: the Origin-Returning Heaven-Hiding Method, the Great Expansion Divination Method, and the Great Luo Heavenly Sleeve.
• By the end, more than 1.68 million years have passed since Chen attained the Dao. He has reached the peak of the Second Realm of True Immortals, survived thirteen calamities, and assembled the abilities he believes he needs to escape his real-world predicament.

Character development

• Chen becomes more disciplined and strategically focused. Rather than relying on distant rewards or future opportunities, he prioritizes survival and steady improvement.
• He gains confidence through long-term cultivation, but remains cautious: he refuses to act in reality until he can choose the right moment and prepare thoroughly.
• His attitude toward the One Origin Patriarch shifts from suspicion to admiration after the Patriarch returns the artifacts.

Significant themes

• Patience and perseverance: Chen spends immense spans of time refining his cultivation method and divine abilities.
• Preparation over haste: He builds strength, concealment, and foresight before confronting the danger in reality.
• Power through mastery: His growing strength comes not only from cultivation, but from improving the quality of his method and abilities.
• Time and scale: The vast passage of centuries and calamities underscores both the slow progress of cultivation and the urgency of Chen’s unresolved danger.

Character interactions

• The One Origin Patriarch treats Chen generously, returning the artifacts and advising him to trade them later if useful. Chen responds with gratitude and renewed respect.
• Chen’s eight True Immortal identities take up Heavenly Court posts, consolidating his influence in the newly established One Origin Immortal Court.
• Though his wife, Wang Yan, is not present, Chen considers how the Great Expansion Divination Method may eventually help him find her—after he has first secured his survival.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Over four million years, Chen Jichuan devotes himself to alternating between Deduction and Enlightenment, prioritizing abilities that help him survive: concealment, divination, escape, defense, mental protection, and resistance to curses and poison.
• He develops thirteen Grand Divine Abilities, bringing all of them to at least the early second stage. His three original abilities—Origin-Returning Heaven-Hiding Method, Great Expansion Divination Method, and Great Luo Heavenly Sleeve—reach the late second stage. He also raises ten ordinary abilities to the fifth stage.
• Chen’s cultivation and combat power rise dramatically. Though still in the Mahayana Convergence Realm of the Third Realm, he believes he can defeat even Peak True Immortals and overpower veteran Fourth-Realm opponents.
• The real world remains peaceful, so he chooses not to act prematurely. He expects the Immortal-Fall Battlefield to open soon.
• During the same four million years, Divine Land transforms under the rule of the One Origin Dao Gate and One Origin Immortal Court. The sect expands into the Jade Toad Great World, and its ranks grow to tens of thousands of True Immortals.
• The chapter ends as the Dao Gate and Immortal Court prepare to hold their once-every-490,000-years Great Expansion Tournament.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Jichuan grows into an exceptionally powerful, prepared cultivator. He remains patient and pragmatic, focusing on staying alive before pursuing offensive power, and accepts that effort cannot control every outcome.
• Zhou Yan, aided by Dongqi True Lord, becomes renowned for guiding the rise of new True Immortals. He is acclaimed as the “Ancestor of True Immortals,” and his Zhou Sect becomes central to the One Origin Dao Gate’s success.
• The Four Venerables of One Origin—the One Origin Patriarch, Primordial Simplicity Patriarch, Fudan Zi, and Dongqi True Lord—gain fame beyond Divine Land.
• Fudan Zi eventually advances to the Fourth Realm. Patriarch Zhengyuan does likewise, while Fairy Lingji dies in a True Immortal Calamity. Beiyou, Yucheng, and Lifeng withdraw to seek breakthroughs, facing the same long-term danger.
• The One Origin leadership becomes increasingly powerful and expansive, while ordinary True Immortals face strict limits imposed by calamities and the difficulty of advancing realms.

Significant themes

• Time and cultivation: Four million years pass almost imperceptibly, showing how immortals experience time and how sustained practice accumulates into transformation.
• Preparation and survival: Chen prioritizes defensive and escape abilities over offense, reflecting his belief that surviving the coming crisis matters most.
• Effort versus fate: Chen works relentlessly while recognizing that the final outcome is not entirely within his control.
• The cost of immortality: Long life does not mean endless life; mental decline and True Immortal Calamities eventually threaten even powerful beings.
• Institutional rise and change: The One Origin Dao Gate’s explosive growth reshapes Divine Land, elevating new leaders while older figures die, advance, or recede from prominence.

Key plot points and events

• The Great Expansion Tournament, once a prestigious contest offering only four chances to seek the Dao, had lost its appeal after the Heavenly Court’s restoration, as True Immortals became far more common.
• To revive it, Fudan Zi secured forty-nine places for the Fourth Realm’s top competitors to attend Zhou Yan’s lectures. After the first tournament under this system, 24 of the 49 attained the Dao, making the competition hugely popular.
• True Immortals began investing heavily in their disciples and relatives, intensifying the contest. Across five tournaments, 125 of 245 finalists attained the Dao. The sixth tournament is now underway, with Shen Qingyi presiding.
• Zhou Yan’s Zhou Sect has become the leading force in the One Origin Dao Sect: all forty-eight of his direct disciples are True Immortals, and the wider lineage includes more than a thousand third-generation True Immortals. The Dao Sect as a whole has grown to about 80,000 True Immortals.
• The sect’s expansion has sharpened tensions with ancient powers in the Jade Toad Great World. Those rivals previously tried to kill Zhou Yan, but he retaliated by blockading their strongholds, wounding twenty-seven Fourth-Realm True Immortals, and seizing six Ancient Immortal Artifacts.
• With the dangerous Immortal-Fall Battlefield due to open soon, the patriarchs fear their rivals will use it to target Zhou Yan and the Dao Sect’s other leaders. The stakes are particularly high because Chen Jichuan guards ten of the sect’s fourteen second-tier cosmic wonderlands.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Yan is absent from the tournament, but his reputation and lectures have transformed it into a major event. His influence now eclipses even the One Origin Patriarch’s.
• Shen Qingyi, Zhou Yan’s first disciple, has risen to become both Heavenly Court emperor and Dao Sect sect master. She presides over the tournament, supported by the powerful Zhou Sect.
• Fudan Zi reflects on Shen Qingyi’s rise and feels both pride and nostalgia as she advances beyond the stage at which he first knew her.
• The One Origin Patriarch, Primordial Simplicity Patriarch, Zhengyuan, Fudan Zi, and Chen Jichuan gather to observe the tournament and discuss the sect’s fortunes. Zhengyuan stresses the threat posed by rival powers; the One Origin Patriarch reminds Chen Jichuan how much depends on his survival.
• Chen Jichuan, still a Third-Realm True Immortal while the others are Fourth-Realm, nevertheless commands exceptional prestige and responsibility. His avatars protect most of the sect’s valuable wonderlands.

Significant themes

• Mentorship and access to power: Zhou Yan’s teaching has made the tournament a practical path to immortality, reshaping ambition across generations.
• The growth and fragility of institutions: The Dao Sect has expanded rapidly, yet its young foundations and reliance on Zhou Yan leave it vulnerable.
• Ambition and competition: True Immortals’ personal hopes for their disciples and relatives turn the tournament into an increasingly fierce struggle.
• Power, danger, and uncertainty: The coming battlefield may offer opportunity, but its lethal hazards and the rivals’ hidden resources threaten even the strongest cultivators.

Key plot points

• Chen Jichuan reflects on how years of facing dangerous opponents have helped him turn their techniques into stronger defenses. He now considers himself beyond the reach of ordinary and most Peak True Immortals.
• His Grand Divine Ability, the Cloning Technique, has reached its second level, giving him 97,200 clones, including eighteen full-strength perfect clones. These clones multiply his combat presence and let him cultivate eighteen times faster.
• Chen welcomes the prospect of danger in the Immortal-Fall Battlefield: even death would let him return through the Dao Fruit, learn from the setback, and become stronger.
• After the Great Expansion Tournament ends, the Immortal-Fall Battlefield opens for the first time in eight million years. A large expedition of 824 True Immortals gathers, led by a loose alliance of twelve Fourth-Realm experts.
• The Scarlet Blood Patriarch recognizes the One Origin Dao Gate and Zhou Yan as figures from his past. He warns the other leaders to avoid Zhou Yan, recounting how Zhou single-handedly challenged the nine great powers of the Jade Toad Great World.

Character developments

• Chen Jichuan has evolved from cautious survivor into a confident, exceptionally powerful cultivator. His clones strengthen not only his fighting ability but also his cultivation, and his faith in the Dao Fruit makes even death feel like a recoverable setback.
• The Scarlet Blood Patriarch admits his past defeat by the One Origin Dao Gate and recognizes that Zhou Yan’s strength makes him someone best avoided.
• The One Origin and Primordial Simplicity Patriarchs, along with their companions, prepare for the battlefield while discussing its risks; Chen listens without sharing their anxiety.

Character interactions

• Chen listens as the One Origin Dao Gate’s elders assess the Immortal-Fall Battlefield, privately viewing its dangers as a welcome test.
• During the expedition’s gathering, Douluo asks the Scarlet Blood Patriarch about his ties to the One Origin Dao Gate and Zhou Yan. Scarlet Blood answers candidly, then warns the assembled Fourth-Realm True Immortals not to provoke Zhou.
• Zhou Yan’s past confrontations are described: he faced the nine powers’ Supreme True Immortals through multiple bodies, matching their signature techniques and forcing them to back down.

Significant themes

• Adversity as a source of strength: Chen turns every threat into knowledge and improved defenses.
• Persistence and recovery: The Dao Fruit allows him to treat even death as a chance to return wiser and stronger.
• Power through innovation: The Cloning Technique transforms both battle and cultivation, showing how a single ability can reshape a cultivator’s limits.
• Reputation and deterrence: Zhou Yan’s exploits have made his name itself a warning across the universe.
• Caution versus confidence: The expedition’s leaders fear the battlefield’s dangers, while Chen sees danger as an opportunity.

Chapter Summary

• Travel through the River of Time: Chen Jichuan journeys with the One Origin Patriarch, the Primordial Simplicity Patriarch, Fudan Zi, and Patriarch Zhengyuan toward the Immortal-Fall Battlefield. The River of Time is unusually crowded with powerful True Immortals, and its stronger travelers create dangerous waves. Chen recognizes that, despite his exceptional combat strength, his Dao attainments are still far below those of the Fourth-Realm and Peak True Immortals accompanying him.
• Encounter with Changshan Great Emperor: The group crosses paths with Changshan, a famously overbearing Supreme True Immortal whose legion and combat abilities make him a formidable potential opponent. Chen recognizes him as the figure behind the Changshan Towers, whose gifts helped Chen attain the Dao. Changshan identifies Chen as Zhou Yan and detects his connection to the tower and Tribulation Armor. They exchange a wary gaze but continue on without speaking further. The One Origin Patriarch warns the others not to underestimate Changshan, who may be encountered again inside the battlefield.
• Arrival and the Dao Sect expedition: At the battlefield’s outskirts, Chen releases 6,400 Dao Sect True Immortals from his sleeve, having carried them through the River of Time with his Great Luo Heavenly Sleeve. Most are First-Realm cultivators who have failed to advance and face difficult True Immortal Calamities. They have come to risk the battlefield in hopes of finding a breakthrough, despite the likelihood that few will survive.
• Chen’s restraint and resolve: Chen reflects that he can easily help cultivators attain the Dao, but openly raising True Immortals’ realms would attract the envy of other cultivators and the attention of Ancient Immortals. He has only secretly helped his personal disciples and one close ally. Still, he decides he may aid some of the expedition’s struggling cultivators if circumstances permit.
• Preparing to enter: The Immortal-Fall Battlefield is shielded by lethal astral winds, lightning, and fire. During its periodic weakening, a passage can be opened using Nine Heavens Tribulation Lightning. After ten years of preparation, the Primordial Simplicity Patriarch rises and announces that the lightning has arrived, beginning the attempt to breach the barrier.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Chen Jichuan remains confident in combat but candid about his lesser Dao attainments. His immense abilities impress Fudan Zi, while his concern for the doomed First-Realm cultivators reveals a tension between compassion and caution.
• Fudan Zi admires Chen’s Great Luo Heavenly Sleeve but remains committed to his own chosen divine abilities, showing a firm Dao heart and no envy.
• The One Origin Patriarch acts as guide and protector, warning the group about Changshan’s strength.
• Changshan Great Emperor and Chen recognize each other’s importance and possible connection, establishing mutual wariness without yet becoming enemies.
• The Primordial Simplicity Patriarch takes responsibility for opening the route, setting the expedition’s next phase in motion.

Significant Themes

• Dao attainment versus combat power: Chen can defeat powerful opponents, yet recognizes that his understanding of the Dao still lags behind theirs.
• Risk and opportunity: The battlefield offers hope of advancement to cultivators facing death, but survival is unlikely.
• Power and responsibility: Chen’s ability to elevate others could disrupt the wider world, forcing him to limit his intervention even as he considers helping.
• The dangers of the unknown: Even Supreme True Immortals may fall within the battlefield, where outside power cannot fully control events.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• The Primordial Simplicity Patriarch survives his 6,451st True Immortal Calamity and opens a route through the dangerous astral winds, lightning, and fire surrounding the Immortal-Fall Battlefield.
• The One Origin Patriarch, Chen Jichuan, Fudan Zi, Patriarch Zhengyuan, and 6,400 Dao Gate True Immortals follow him inside. Their return will depend on a Fourth-Realm True Immortal reopening a passage before the battlefield’s thirty-thousand-year weak period ends. The group plans to leave after twenty-five thousand years.
• Once they arrive, the One Origin Patriarch releases the Dao Gate cultivators to seek opportunities independently, promising to tell them where to regroup. They depart with a heartfelt declaration of loyalty, though few are expected to return.
• The patriarchs discuss the danger of True Immortal Calamities and the near-impossible path to becoming an Ancient Immortal. The One Origin Patriarch, already nearing his eight-thousandth calamity, has at most about six million years before facing the remaining two thousand.
• Chen Jichuan considers a way to delay his own advancement at the Peak Third Realm. His Deduction ability may let him control his cultivation and benefit from the Third Realm’s much longer interval between calamities.
• The Primordial Simplicity Patriarch reveals that, eight million years earlier, he and the One Origin Patriarch saw two Ancient Immortal corpses near the Flying Locust Sword Sea. The group recognizes the remains as extraordinarily valuable sources of power, knowledge, and a possible path to Ancient Immortality.
• Chen Jichuan pledges to do whatever it takes to obtain the corpses.

Character developments

• Chen Jichuan remains analytical, devising a possible way around the usual cultivation-and-calamity dilemma. The revelation of the corpses turns his cautious interest into firm determination.
• The One Origin Patriarch shows the weight of his approaching calamities and shares the secret only after the group is safely inside the battlefield.
• Fudan Zi reflects on how easily he might have remained among the desperate Third-Realm cultivators, recognizing that even Fourth-Realm status offers no security.
• The Primordial Simplicity Patriarch demonstrates his strength by passing his calamity and reveals the secret he and the One Origin Patriarch have guarded.
• The Dao Gate True Immortals accept the risks of pursuing their own chances, expressing gratitude and pride in their sect before scattering.

Significant themes

• Immortality is not true freedom: Every True Immortal faces the threat of death, whether through calamities or the battlefield.
• Opportunity and risk are inseparable: The battlefield may offer a breakthrough, but its dangers make survival uncertain.
• Control over one’s fate: The Dao Gate cultivators are allowed to choose their own paths rather than serve as expendable scouts.
• Unequal paths to advancement: Some cultivators struggle to reach the next realm, while others deliberately suppress their cultivation to delay deadly calamities.
• Knowledge as power: The Ancient Immortal corpses represent both immense combat strength and a chance to understand the Dao.

Character interactions

• The One Origin Patriarch sets expectations for the expedition, warns the cultivators about the return deadline, and gives them freedom to disperse.
• The Dao Gate cultivators bow to the leaders, praise them, and especially honor Chen Jichuan before departing.
• The patriarchs’ discussion of mortality draws agreement from Fudan Zi, while the Primordial Simplicity Patriarch and One Origin Patriarch share their concerns about their limited prospects.
• After establishing a concealment formation, the One Origin Patriarch confides in the others. Their surprise and excitement unite the group around the goal of finding the two corpses.

Concise Chapter Summary

Plot Points and Events

• The author celebrates receiving their first major featured recommendation and thanks readers and Editor Loach.
• They assure readers that the current volume of Demon Monk is nearly complete and invite suggestions for the next volume.
• The planned Wizard World storyline is postponed to a future book.
• The author recommends three other novels:
  1. I Appraised Treasures at the Pawnshop by Fireworks of Yesteryear, about Chen Shaojun, an apprentice appraiser who can uncover the hidden powers of supernatural treasures and gain rewards through appraisal.
  2. Chronicle of the Great Dao by Pei Tugu, following An Qisheng as he travels across countless universes and realms, battles powerful beings, and eventually discovers that all gods and Dao exist within his grasp.
  3. Lord of the Yellow Court by Demon Monk Hua Wuqing, in which Earth resident Lu Qingfeng transmigrates into an immortal-hero world and gains access to a highly realistic game called Primordial World.
• The chapter ends with requests for monthly votes, official subscriptions, and support through Qidian.

Character Developments

• The author expresses nervousness and gratitude after receiving major recognition, showing increased confidence and appreciation for reader support.
• “Demon Monk” is presented as responsible and committed to repaying readers’ support through continued writing.
• The recommended protagonists are introduced through their premises:
  • Chen Shaojun develops from a pawnshop apprentice into a supernatural treasure appraiser.
  • An Qisheng rises from a Daoist figure into a supreme force spanning numerous worlds and divine realms.
  • Lu Qingfeng begins as an ordinary Earth youth and enters an extraordinary immortal cultivation world.

Significant Themes

• Gratitude and reader-author connection: The author repeatedly thanks readers and encourages continued support.
• Literary recommendations and community: The chapter functions partly as a reading list, promoting fellow writers and their works.
• Transcendence and cultivation: Each recommended novel features characters discovering extraordinary powers, navigating supernatural worlds, and pursuing higher realms of existence.
• Persistence and creative ambition: The author discusses future volumes and expresses admiration for long, substantial works.
• Support for legitimate publication: The closing appeal encourages readers to use official platforms and subscriptions.

Character Interactions

• The author interacts directly with readers by thanking them, inviting ideas, requesting votes, and encouraging subscriptions.
• Editor Loach is acknowledged for helping provide the featured recommendation.
• The author references friendly familiarity with the writers Fireworks of Yesteryear, Pei Tugu, and Demon Monk Hua Wuqing, using personal remarks and praise to establish a collegial relationship among authors.
• The chapter contains no major fictional character interactions; its focus is on author-reader communication and recommendations.

Key plot points and events

• One Origin Patriarch and Primordial Simplicity Patriarch explain that eight million years earlier they found two Ancient Immortal corpses hidden behind a powerful restriction. After spending three thousand years trying to break it, they left when the battlefield was about to close. The restriction remains marked, and they warn that the corpses may be protected by deadly, possibly intentional safeguards.
• The group travels to a concealed realm near the Flying Locust Sword Sea, a vast region of swords formed from the lingering power of fallen immortals.
• One Origin Patriarch uses the Mountains-and-Rivers Seal to reveal the hidden world. At its center sit the two Ancient Immortal corpses, whose combined yin-yang power has created a realm of extraordinary scale.
• Chen Jichuan reflects that Ancient Immortals’ power far exceeds that of ordinary True Immortals. This strengthens his suspicion that the beings behind the Hanging Mirror and Bewildering Spirit Scroll are probably True Immortals, not Ancient Immortals.
• To secure the site and prepare for the dangerous work ahead, Chen Jichuan deploys 3,300 clones and the Demon-Subduing Banner Gates to establish a formidable Demon-Subduing Formation. His companions are reassured, but Chen continues preparing, convinced one formation is not enough.

Character developments and interactions

• One Origin Patriarch is cautious but determined. He trusts Chen’s abilities and asks him to conceal and defend the site before they attempt to claim the corpses.
• Primordial Simplicity Patriarch helps recount their earlier failed attempt, showing that both patriarchs chose caution despite the immense temptation.
• Chen Jichuan displays growing expertise in formations, now a Fifth-Rank formation master. He uses his clones and a previously acquired Ancient Immortal Artifact to strengthen the group’s defenses. His growing knowledge of Ancient Immortals also gives him greater confidence about his own situation.
• Fudan Zi and Patriarch Zhengyuan are awed by the corpses and praise Chen’s formation. Their eagerness contrasts with the patriarchs’ emphasis on caution.

Significant themes

• Power and mystery: Even the remains of Ancient Immortals can create entire worlds, underscoring how far beyond ordinary immortals they are.
• Caution versus temptation: The patriarchs’ earlier decision to abandon the corpses—and the group’s careful preparations now—show the danger of rushing after great rewards.
• Death, legacy, and hidden intent: Immortal bodies may retain dangerous remnants or conceal plans for a return, making a corpse potentially more than a relic.
• Preparation and layered defense: Chen’s insistence on adding safeguards reflects his habit of anticipating traps and refusing to rely on a single protection.

Key plot points and events

• After establishing the Demon-Subduing Formation, Chen Jichuan uses his new Grand Divine Ability, Inverted Yin-Yang, to further scramble destiny. Combined with his Origin-Returning Heaven-Hiding Method, it makes the group’s whereabouts extremely difficult to divine—even for Supreme True Immortals.
• One Origin Patriarch reveals the Fire Dragon Hairpin, an Ancient Immortal Artifact designed to break restrictions and formations. Chen Jichuan contributes his Great Five-Element Annihilation Light Needles, another powerful restriction-breaking artifact.
• The two work together to force a path through the defenses surrounding the two Immortal Corpses. Their progress is far quicker than on One Origin Patriarch’s previous attempt, though the breakthrough is still slow and demanding.
• Elsewhere, the Returning-Treasure Divine Court’s two Divine Lords lead a large force into the battlefield, intending to hunt the One Origin Dao Gate’s Fourth-Realm cultivators, especially Zhou Yan. Their tracking fails when destiny becomes chaotic.
• The Divine Lords decide not to spend a precious immortal art merely to find their targets. They disperse their eight hundred Divine Kings to scout while the leaders travel toward the Nine Netherworld Ghost Market and Flying Locust Sword Sea to strengthen their treasures.
• The chapter emphasizes the enormous scale of the battlefield’s influx of cultivators and the widespread conflicts likely to follow. Lingchuan Emperor of the Ziyang Immortal Palace also discovers that divination has become impossible.

Character developments

• Chen Jichuan shows his habitual caution by developing and using Inverted Yin-Yang to protect his allies from supernatural tracking. He also contributes a valuable artifact to the effort to reach the Immortal Corpses.
• One Origin Patriarch demonstrates long preparation: his eight million years of searching yielded the Fire Dragon Hairpin. He cooperates closely with Chen Jichuan.
• Divine Lord Jiuchen is wary and strategic, preferring to let other powers test Zhou Yan before risking the Returning-Treasure Divine Court’s resources.
• Divine Lord Wuyang is eager to seize Zhou Yan’s coveted abilities and worries that rivals might kill or capture him first, but accepts Jiuchen’s cautious plan.
• Lingchuan Emperor is established as a formidable diviner, yet even he cannot overcome Chen Jichuan’s interference.

Significant themes

• Caution and preparation: Chen Jichuan’s layered concealment and One Origin Patriarch’s long search show the value of anticipating danger.
• Power, secrecy, and control of destiny: Divination is a major strategic weapon, and Chen Jichuan’s ability to disrupt it shifts the balance of power.
• Rivalry and opportunism: Several ancient powers plan to target the One Origin Dao Gate, motivated by past grievances and envy of Zhou Yan’s abilities.
• Escalating conflict: The immense number of True Immortals entering the battlefield sets the stage for widespread violence and competition.

Character interactions

• Chen Jichuan and One Origin Patriarch combine their artifacts and abilities to break through the restrictions; Primordial Simplicity Patriarch encourages them to proceed.
• The Returning-Treasure Divine Lords debate whether to pursue Zhou Yan immediately. Jiuchen’s caution tempers Wuyang’s desire for his abilities, and the group follows Jiuchen’s decision.
• Jiuchen orders the Divine Kings to scout for rival forces, then invites Wuyang to accompany him on a detour to strengthen their weapons.
• Lingchuan Emperor’s failed divination echoes Jiuchen’s failure, revealing that Chen Jichuan’s concealment affects multiple hostile powers.