Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “How Can I Save Them? Tell Me, Now!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Ancient Immortal Secret Realm begins emerging during the Eastern Continent Cultivation Assembly, shocking the countless cultivators gathered at Void Mountain.
• The sky collapses into countless spatial rifts as the secret realm manifests.
• Inside the realm, Ascension City releases increasingly powerful immortal light, forcing back the surrounding demonic qi and spreading across the region.
• The city’s master abandons all pretense and begins slaughtering the cultivators inside. Golden-armored immortal generals attack defenseless entrants with overwhelming strength.
• A Nascent Soul cultivator self-destructs after being pierced by an immortal general, but the explosion fails to damage the general and is absorbed by Ascension City.
• Cultivators outside the city are forcibly drawn toward it by the expanding immortal light.
• Four enormous undead divine beasts—the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise—emerge from the earth around Ascension City. They attack the city’s protective barrier, but its immortal light begins corroding their deathly bodies.
• The immortal light greatly increases the cultivation of those within the city. Some Golden Core cultivators break into the Nascent Soul Realm, while Nascent Soul cultivators advance to the Spirit Transformation Realm. Despite this, they remain helpless against the immortal generals.
• Lu Chen sees Yun Feiyan, Qin Xue, and the other women from the Joyful Union Sect hiding inside a house. A golden-armored immortal general approaches their hiding place, leaving Lu Chen desperate for a way to rescue them.

Character Developments

• Lu Chen becomes increasingly horrified and frantic as he witnesses the massacre and realizes that his fellow sect sisters are trapped inside Ascension City. His fear turns into desperate urgency when an immortal general reaches their hiding place.
• The demoness remains relatively calm and amused, observing the catastrophe and remarking that ruthless immortals are far more terrifying than demons.
• Mo Xian’er is shocked by the revelation that the ancient divine beasts may have died in the secret realm.
• Yun Feiyan, Qin Xue, Shen Li, Lei Ting, Tang Xiaoman, Liu Yan’er, and the others are shown hiding together, emphasizing their vulnerability and their dependence on Lu Chen’s intervention.
• The cultivators inside Ascension City experience a deceptive “opportunity”: their cultivation rises rapidly, but the power-up cannot protect them from the immortal generals.

Significant Themes

• False opportunity and hidden slaughter: Ascension City appears to offer an extraordinary immortal inheritance, but its true purpose is to harvest the lives of cultivators.
• The terrifying power of immortals: Even a Nascent Soul self-destruction and newly advanced Spirit Transformation experts are ineffective against the immortal generals.
• Death and corruption: The four divine beasts, once powerful enough to rival immortals, have become intelligent undead corpses, showing the destructive consequences of the city’s ancient power.
• Helplessness versus desperation: Lu Chen is confronted with an enemy far beyond his ability to defeat, yet his concern for his companions compels him to seek a way to save them.
• The danger of deceptive blessings: The immortal light grants rapid cultivation breakthroughs while simultaneously placing cultivators in greater danger, making its “benefit” inseparable from destruction.

Important Character Interactions

• Lu Chen urgently demands that the demoness explain how to save his fellow sect sisters.
• The demoness responds with detached amusement, contrasting her composure with Lu Chen’s panic.
• Mo Xian’er and the demoness discuss the terrifying nature of the immortals and the fate of the ancient divine beasts.
• The golden-armored immortal general silently confronts the hidden women, while Lu Chen watches helplessly through the light screen and pleads for immediate guidance.

Chapter Summary: “It Begins—Sacrificing Billions of Living Beings!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Ancient Immortal Secret Realm falls into chaos as every living being is forcibly drawn toward Ascension City. Even powerful cultivators and spirits are unable to resist.
• Qin Ziyi, having reached the Spirit Transformation Realm, attempts to escape with her Chaos Sword Qi, while Liu Fuyao reaches the Nascent Soul Realm. Both are nevertheless swallowed by Ascension City.
• Countless ghosts in Ten Thousand Souls Valley are destroyed by the immortal light. Even the powerful woman in red is killed when her soul disperses under its influence.
• Lu Chen watches helplessly from the Demon Palace, desperate to save Yun Feiyan, Liu Fuyao, and the other women close to him. He learns that Ascension City intends to absorb their vital essence for the Five-Element Heaven-Refining Array.
• With no other option, Lu Chen bargains with the demoness, offering his life in exchange for rescuing Yun Feiyan and the others.
• The demoness demonstrates overwhelming power by tearing open space, reaching into Ascension City, and pulling out the entire house where Yun Feiyan and the others are hiding. She shrinks the house, transports it to the Demon Palace, and restores it to its original size.
• The rescued women emerge and find themselves surrounded by the Blissful Sect Master, Zhou Tianqi, and the Blissful Sect disciples. The encounter immediately becomes hostile, especially between Zhou Tianqi and Liu Yan’er.
• The demoness reveals that the disaster is far larger than the secret realm: billions of living beings across the entire Eastern Continent are intended to be sacrificed.
• When the demoness tries to dismiss him, Lu Chen boldly threatens her, arguing that he is indispensable to her plan and therefore cannot simply be killed.
• A voice from Ascension City announces the beginning of the sacrifice. A massive array platform rises above the secret realm, and its runes spread across the sky, enveloping the entire Eastern Continent.

Character Developments

• Lu Chen becomes increasingly desperate but also shows courage and strategic resolve. Rather than submitting completely to the demoness, he realizes his importance to her scheme and uses that as leverage to demand further rescues.
• The demoness displays extraordinary spatial and magical power, effortlessly defeating the immortal general’s attack and extracting the house from Ascension City. Her true plan remains mysterious, but she intends to exploit the sacrifice for her own benefit.
• Yun Feiyan and the rescued women are strengthened by the immortal light. Yun Feiyan reaches the Nascent Soul Realm, Qin Xue approaches that level, Su Qingqing advances to the Golden Core Realm, and the others reach the upper stages of Golden Core cultivation.
• Qin Ziyi and Liu Fuyao both achieve major breakthroughs but are still powerless against Ascension City’s force, emphasizing the scale of the crisis.
• Liu Yan’er and Zhou Tianqi are immediately drawn into renewed hostility, suggesting unresolved conflict between them.
• The woman in red is killed, demonstrating that even powerful and mysterious figures cannot survive the immortal-light purification.

Significant Themes

• Mass sacrifice and the devaluation of life: Billions of beings are treated as fuel for an enormous formation, presenting the central horror of the chapter.
• Powerlessness against greater forces: Individual strength, even at high cultivation levels, proves meaningless before Ascension City and the Five-Element Heaven-Refining Array.
• Desperation and resistance: Lu Chen refuses to accept the deaths of those he loves and challenges the demoness despite the overwhelming difference in power.
• Manipulation and hidden agendas: The demoness and the unknown “madman” appear to be using the sacrifice for competing schemes, making the true nature of the larger plot uncertain.
• Protection and loyalty: Lu Chen’s willingness to bargain with the demoness emphasizes his attachment to Yun Feiyan and the other women.
• The limits of cultivation: Breakthroughs provide little protection against the greater cosmic mechanisms now being activated.

Important Character Interactions

• Lu Chen and the demoness: Lu Chen pleads, bargains, and ultimately threatens her to secure the rescue of the women. Their relationship becomes a tense contest of leverage.
• The demoness and the golden-armored immortal general: Her giant demonic hand destroys his battle spear and effortlessly removes the house from Ascension City, establishing her superiority.
• Yun Feiyan’s group and the Blissful Sect: Their unexpected arrival creates an immediate standoff, as both sides recognize one another as enemies.
• Liu Yan’er and Zhou Tianqi: Their reunion is openly hostile, with both reacting angrily and preparing for confrontation.
• The demoness and Mo Xian’er/the Demon Sect: Her power and authority leave Mo Xian’er and the Demon Sect elders stunned, particularly after Lu Chen dares to oppose her.
• The cultivators and Ascension City: Every attempt to escape or resist fails, reinforcing the city’s role as an unstoppable engine of sacrifice.

Chapter Summary: “You Only Have Half an Hour!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• A mysterious ritual begins in the Demon Palace as the witch announces, “Sacrifice... has begun.”
• Outside, Yun Feiyan, the Blissful Sect Master, and their groups witness immortal light suppressing the Demon Palace’s defensive barrier. The barrier contracts until it barely encloses the palace, leaving everyone terrified of being refined by the immortal power.
• In Ascension City, the mysterious female Immortal Emperor activates a powerful formation platform. It rises into the sky, expands like a mountain, and releases countless formation patterns that spread across the Ancient Immortal Secret Realm and beyond.
• A gigantic Immortal Shadow appears over Ascension City. The undead manifestations of the Four Spirits—Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise—are instantly drained of their power and reduced to ash.
• The witch explains to Lu Chen that the Immortal Emperor is occupied with establishing the formation and therefore cannot protect everything at once. This creates a brief opportunity to rescue the people trapped in Ascension City.
• Instead of rescuing them herself, the witch gives Lu Chen a dark-blue demonic pearl called the Demon Pole Pearl. It enters his Divine Aperture and surrounds him with powerful demonic protection, though it also provokes violent and murderous impulses.
• Lu Chen’s Yin-Yang Cauldron protects his mind and prevents him from being overwhelmed by the pearl’s demonic influence.
• The witch gives Lu Chen a strict time limit of half an hour, then forcibly throws him out of the Demon Palace toward Ascension City.
• Protected by the Demon Pole Pearl, Lu Chen pierces through Ascension City’s defensive immortal light and crashes into the city.
• He detects familiar Chaos Sword Qi and finds Qin Ziyi fighting a golden-armored immortal soldier. Lu Chen intervenes, and the soldier’s spear shatters when it strikes Lu Chen’s demonic protection.
• Lu Chen immediately absorbs Qin Ziyi into the Demon Pole Microcosm for safety. However, just as he prepares to continue, a powerful Golden-Armored Immortal General appears behind him.

Character Developments

• Lu Chen: Is forced to take responsibility for the rescue mission despite his fear and lack of confidence. The Demon Pole Pearl greatly increases his defensive power, allowing him to survive attacks from immortal soldiers. He also demonstrates strong mental resilience by resisting the pearl’s corrupting influence.
• The Witch: Reveals a more calculating and deliberately provocative side. Rather than rescuing the trapped people herself, she uses Lu Chen as the operative, granting him the Demon Pole Pearl and throwing him directly into danger. Her actions suggest she is testing or training him while pursuing her own goals.
• Qin Ziyi: Is shown actively resisting the immortal forces and using her Chaos Sword Qi in battle. She becomes Lu Chen’s first successful rescue.
• The Female Immortal Emperor: Displays overwhelming power by activating the vast immortal formation and destroying the Four Spirits’ undead manifestations almost instantly.

Significant Themes

• Sacrifice and survival: The chapter repeatedly emphasizes sacrifice, with the Demon Palace and those inside it facing possible annihilation while Ascension City’s inhabitants are used as part of a massive formation.
• Time pressure and urgency: Lu Chen has only thirty minutes to rescue the trapped individuals, turning the mission into a desperate race against the formation’s completion.
• Power and vulnerability: Lu Chen is normally too weak to challenge Ascension City, but the Demon Pole Pearl temporarily grants him protection powerful enough to withstand immortal attacks.
• Control versus self-mastery: The pearl attempts to stir Lu Chen’s inner demons, but his will and the Yin-Yang Cauldron allow him to retain control over himself.
• Manipulation and trust: The witch helps Lu Chen while also endangering him, leaving him uncertain whether he is being aided, tested, or used.

Character Interactions

• The witch and Lu Chen argue over who should rescue the trapped people. She refuses to act directly and instead gives him the Demon Pole Pearl.
• The witch imposes the half-hour deadline and physically launches Lu Chen into Ascension City.
• Lu Chen confronts an immortal soldier while attempting to save Qin Ziyi. His demonic protection overwhelms the soldier’s weapon.
• Qin Ziyi recognizes Lu Chen, but he gives her no time to question his appearance and forcibly pulls her into the Demon Pole Microcosm.
• The chapter ends with Lu Chen facing a stronger Golden-Armored Immortal General, leaving his rescue mission in immediate danger.

Chapter Summary: “Why Should I Save You?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lu Chen is transported into Ascension City by the witch and immediately rescues Qin Ziyi from a Golden-Armored Immortal Soldier, placing her inside the Demon Pole Pearl’s inner world.
• A Golden-Armored Immortal General attacks Lu Chen, but the Demon Pole Pearl’s demonic power protects him and damages the general’s Immortal Body. Lu Chen then defeats and sends the general flying with a single punch.
• Lu Chen realizes that the immortal soldiers and generals are being weakened because Ascension City is draining the vital energy of everyone inside. Although their bodies remain extremely powerful, their strength is rapidly declining.
• Empowered by the Demon Pole Pearl, Lu Chen’s divine sense covers the entire city. He locates Helan Xue, Liu Fuyao, and Tang Longxiang, while the mysterious Immortal Shadow notices that Lu Chen possesses the Demon Pole Pearl.
• Lu Chen reaches Helan Xue as three Golden-Armored Immortal Soldiers surround them. He effortlessly repels all three and places Helan Xue inside the Demon Pole Pearl.
• Tang Longxiang is nearly killed by an immortal soldier despite relying on his own powerful body. Lu Chen arrives in time, defeats the soldier, and saves Tang Longxiang by bringing him into the Demon Pole Microcosm.
• Members of the Artifact Refining Sect, Black Tortoise Sect, and Sacred Pill Sect beg Lu Chen to rescue them. Because they previously mocked and belittled him in Void City, Lu Chen refuses and leaves them to face their fate.
• The chapter ends with Liu Fuyao trapped on a pavilion, surrounded by two Golden-Armored Immortal Soldiers and apparently moments from death.

Character Developments

• Lu Chen: Gains tremendous confidence and combat power through the Demon Pole Pearl. He discovers that he can injure and overpower weakened immortal beings, protect his allies, and sense everything within Ascension City. His refusal to save his former tormentors also reveals a strong sense of resentment and a belief that people must face the consequences of their actions.
• Qin Ziyi: Is successfully rescued and placed in the Demon Pole Pearl’s inner world.
• Helan Xue: Initially despairs when surrounded by immortal soldiers, but is astonished when Lu Chen effortlessly protects her and saves her.
• Tang Longxiang: Demonstrates courage by fighting an immortal soldier despite being completely outmatched. He suffers severe injuries before Lu Chen arrives to save him.
• Liu Fuyao: Is introduced in a desperate situation, having only recently reached the Nascent Soul Realm and now facing imminent death.
• The Immortal Shadow: Detects Lu Chen’s possession of the Demon Pole Pearl and is surprised that the devil entrusted such a powerful artifact to him.
• The sect disciples: Their earlier arrogance toward Lu Chen comes back to haunt them when they require his help and are rejected.

Significant Themes

• Power reversal: Lu Chen, once vulnerable to immortal beings, suddenly becomes capable of defeating them through the Demon Pole Pearl.
• Consequences and resentment: The sect members’ past cruelty toward Lu Chen determines whether he will help them, emphasizing that past actions have lasting consequences.
• Survival amid catastrophe: Ascension City drains everyone’s vitality, creating a situation where even powerful cultivators and immortals are struggling to survive.
• Hidden power and inheritance: The Demon Pole Pearl proves far more powerful than Lu Chen expected, suggesting that its origins and true capabilities are still undiscovered.
• Moral selectivity: Lu Chen prioritizes people he values while refusing to extend mercy to those who previously mistreated him.

Character Interactions

• Lu Chen rescues Qin Ziyi, Helan Xue, and Tang Longxiang, treating them as allies worthy of protection.
• Helan Xue reacts with shock and relief when Lu Chen shields her from the immortal soldiers.
• Tang Longxiang is saved at the final moment after being completely overwhelmed by an immortal soldier.
• The sect members plead with Lu Chen on the basis of their shared “righteous path,” but Lu Chen bitterly reminds them of their former hostility and refuses to help.
• Liu Fuyao’s impending confrontation with the immortal soldiers sets up the next rescue or crisis.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

Liu Fuyao is trapped in a pavilion in Ascension City and cornered by two weakened Golden-Armored Immortal Soldiers. Knowing she cannot defeat them, she prepares to die. Lu Chen suddenly appears, and Liu Fuyao uses her strongest sword technique to restrain the soldiers, urging him to escape. However, her attack is completely ineffective. When one soldier attacks Lu Chen, he effortlessly stops the spear with a single finger, shatters it, and sends the soldier crashing through a wall. He casually repels the second soldier as well, revealing overwhelming strength. Lu Chen then offers to help Liu Fuyao escape, but only if she kneels and begs him. Though humiliated, she complies and admits, “I was wrong. Please save me!”

Character developments

Liu Fuyao’s confidence and belief in her emotionless cultivation path collapse. While trying to save Lu Chen, she realizes she still cares deeply for him and cannot truly sever her emotions. Her desperation forces her to abandon her pride and submit to Lu Chen. Lu Chen, meanwhile, displays a dramatic increase in power, effortlessly defeating the supposedly invincible immortal soldiers. Although he rescues Liu Fuyao partly out of concern for her parents, he also takes satisfaction in avenging the humiliation he suffered when she broke off their engagement and gave him only a pouch of low-grade spirit stones.

Significant themes

The chapter explores the conflict between emotional detachment and genuine human attachment. Liu Fuyao’s attempt to follow the Path of Severed Emotions is exposed as self-deception when fear and concern for Lu Chen overwhelm her. Other themes include humiliation and revenge, the reversal of power between former lovers, and the deceptive danger of Ascension City, which appears to promise treasures and immortality but is actually a deadly trap.

Character interactions

Liu Fuyao initially tries to protect Lu Chen despite their broken engagement, revealing lingering affection. Lu Chen responds with teasing and resentment, using his superior strength to force her to confront her past treatment of him. Their interaction shifts from estrangement and hostility to a humiliating reversal: the once-proud holy maiden kneels before Lu Chen and begs for his help, while he stands in control of her survival.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Liu Fuyao, newly advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm, is trapped in Ascension City and realizes that Lu Chen is the only person capable of saving her. She abandons her pride and kneels before him, despite having once rejected him as her fiancé.
• Lu Chen effortlessly defeats a Golden-Armored Immortal General with a casual wave, shocking Liu Fuyao and demonstrating the vast increase in his power.
• A mysterious madman completes the Five Elements Heaven-Opening Grand Formation, causing it to drain the vital energy and life force of everything within its range. Cultivators, mortals, plants, and animals across the region begin dying or turning into zombies.
• Protected by the Demon Pole Pearl, Lu Chen resists the formation’s devouring power, but Liu Fuyao is rapidly weakened. Before they can escape to the Demon Palace, the Immortal Shadow freezes the surrounding space and attempts to seize Lu Chen.
• The demoness arrives through a spatial rift and prevents the Immortal Shadow from taking Lu Chen. She shelters Liu Fuyao in her personal world while both the demoness and Immortal Shadow grasp one of Lu Chen’s arms, each trying to claim him.
• Lu Chen’s Yin-Yang Cauldron activates, absorbing the powers of both the immortal and the demon. Their yin and yang energies combine within him, unexpectedly allowing Lu Chen to enter Literary Cultivation and greatly increase his yin-yang essence.
• The Immortal Shadow transports Lu Chen, herself, and the demoness into the center of the formation. Once Lu Chen enters the formation, its power fully activates and drains the essence, energy, and spirit of countless cultivators.
• Even powerful figures such as Qin Hao, the Grand Void Immortal Sect’s successor, the Supreme Divine Son, and the Ultimate Dao Sword Sect’s heir are unable to resist. Qin Hao’s Variant Spiritual Root is forcibly extracted before he dies.
• The formation’s reach extends across the Eastern Continent, sacrificing the vital energy of billions of living beings. Lu Chen realizes that the madman intends to use the entire continent as a sacrifice.

Character Developments

• Liu Fuyao becomes pragmatic and submissive when faced with death, recognizing Lu Chen’s overwhelming strength and regretting her previous rejection of him.
• Lu Chen displays tremendous power and courage, but also experiences genuine fear when confronted by the Immortal Shadow. His Yin-Yang Cauldron unexpectedly evolves his cultivation through contact with the demoness and Immortal Shadow.
• The demoness and Immortal Shadow are revealed to possess immense, comparable power. Their rivalry over Lu Chen shifts from a direct confrontation into an unwilling cooperation of sorts when both become linked to him through the Yin-Yang Cauldron.
• Qin Hao and other elite cultivators are shown to be helpless before the completed formation, emphasizing the scale of its power.

Significant Themes

• Power and reversal of status: Liu Fuyao’s former rejection of Lu Chen is reversed as she must beg him for protection.
• Pride versus survival: Liu Fuyao’s willingness to kneel shows that survival can outweigh dignity when faced with overwhelming danger.
• Sacrifice and mass destruction: The formation treats all life—immortal cultivators, ordinary humans, and nature itself—as fuel for a greater goal.
• Unintended transformation: Lu Chen’s confrontation with the immortal and demon produces an unexpected breakthrough, turning danger into an opportunity for advancement.
• Immortal-demonic conflict: The struggle between the demoness and Immortal Shadow reflects the opposing forces of immortality and demonic power, with Lu Chen caught between them.

Character Interactions

• Liu Fuyao kneels before Lu Chen and follows him after witnessing him defeat the Golden-Armored Immortal General.
• Lu Chen attempts to rescue Liu Fuyao, protecting her from the formation and trying to return with her to the Demon Palace.
• The Immortal Shadow confronts Lu Chen and attempts to capture him because of the Demon Pole Pearl and his connection to the demoness.
• The demoness intervenes, takes Liu Fuyao into her personal world, and competes with the Immortal Shadow for control of Lu Chen.
• The demoness and Immortal Shadow are both unwillingly bound to Lu Chen through the Yin-Yang Cauldron, causing their powers to be absorbed and transformed within him.

Chapter Summary: “Five Elements Open the Heavens, Heaven Gate Appears?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lu Chen discovers that the Immortal Dao Empress intends to sacrifice the entire Eastern Continent to activate the Five-Elements Heaven-Opening Formation and open the Heaven Gate.
• He is placed at the formation’s central eye because his Five-Element Dao Body allows him to perfectly merge and amplify the formation’s elemental power.
• The Immortal Shadow and the demoness reveal that they have been trapped in the Five Continents small world for one hundred thousand years after a battle shattered the boundary between worlds. Though enemies, both seek to return to their respective great Aristocratic Clans.
• Lu Chen’s Yin-Yang Cauldron absorbs and refines their immortal and demonic essence into Yin-Yang Essence, then into Five-Element Essence, allowing his cultivation to rise rapidly.
• His body reaches the peak of the Golden Body realm, but the overwhelming energy nearly tears him apart. He endures extreme pain as his flesh, bones, blood, and muscles are destroyed and repeatedly reforged.
• The formation drains the life essence of everyone in Ascension City. Countless cultivators, including Li Yunsheng’s War Puppet Avatar, Qin Fan’s Battle Puppet Clone, Xuan Jingxian, and Shen Lian, are killed and reduced to dried corpses or shattered remains.
• The sacrifice extends beyond Ascension City: the entire Ancient Immortal Secret Realm and hundreds of millions of beings across the Eastern Continent become nourishment for the formation.
• At the point of death, Lu Chen’s body undergoes a breakthrough. His Divine Soul manifests as a Primordial Spirit, his physique is reborn, and he enters the Undying Realm.
• His breakthrough causes the formation’s power to surge into the heavens. A massive pillar of five-element energy pierces the sky, and a blurry gate of light appears above the firmament—the Heaven Gate.

Character Developments

• Lu Chen: Evolves from a powerful Golden Body cultivator into an Undying Realm body cultivator. His Five-Element Dao Body and Yin-Yang Cauldron prove essential to the formation and the Heaven Gate’s opening. He also develops a Primordial Spirit capable of merging throughout his body.
• Immortal Dao Empress/Immortal Shadow: Revealed as the mastermind behind the sacrificial formation. Her desperation to escape the small world after enduring a hundred thousand years explains her ruthless actions.
• The demoness: Although the Immortal Shadow’s ancient enemy, she shares the same objective of escaping. Her cooperation—or at least lack of interference—shows that their common goal temporarily outweighs their hostility.
• Li Yunsheng, Qin Fan, Xuan Jingxian, and Shen Lian: Their ambitions and hopes are abruptly destroyed when they become sacrifices to the formation. Their deaths emphasize the scale and cruelty of the scheme.

Significant Themes

• Sacrifice and exploitation: The formation treats all life—from ordinary beings to immortals—as fuel for the ambitions of a few powerful figures.
• Freedom versus imprisonment: The Immortal Shadow and demoness view the small world as a prison and are willing to destroy it to regain freedom.
• Transformation through suffering: Lu Chen’s near-destruction becomes the catalyst for his physical and spiritual rebirth.
• Hidden schemes and false opportunities: The Ancient Immortal Secret Realm appears to offer great opportunities but is actually a carefully prepared death trap.
• Power and moral indifference: The chapter highlights how ancient, powerful beings can regard countless lives as expendable resources.

Character Interactions

• Lu Chen directly confronts the Immortal Shadow after realizing the true purpose of the formation.
• The Immortal Shadow and demoness, despite their ancient enmity, cooperate indirectly because both need Lu Chen to activate the Heaven Gate.
• Both women monitor and protect Lu Chen during his dangerous absorption of their essences, since his survival is necessary for their escape.
• The chapter ends with the Immortal Shadow and demoness looking up together at the newly appeared Heaven Gate, marking the apparent success of their plan.

Chapter Summary: “This Was the Legendary Divine Communion?”

Key plot points and events

• Lu Chen successfully breaks through to the Undying Realm, causing the Five-Elements Heaven-Opening Formation to become dramatically more powerful.
• The Heaven Gate begins forming in the sky, exciting the Immortal Shadow and the demoness, who have been trapped in the Five-Continents Realm for one hundred thousand years and hope to return to their homeland.
• The formation drains the vitality and spiritual power of everything around it. Many geniuses in Ascension City are killed, Immortal Artifacts are reduced to scrap, and the Ancient Immortal Secret Realm’s plants and creatures wither into corpses.
• The formation’s influence spreads across the Void Mountain Range and Void City, draining cultivators—including powerful Spirit Transformation ancestors—despite the city’s protective formation.
• The Immortal Shadow and demoness intensify the flow of immortal and demonic power into Lu Chen, pushing him through the middle, advanced, and peak stages of the Undying Realm.
• Lu Chen discovers that each Greater Celestial Circuit now produces one hundred thousand strands of Yin-Yang Essence, giving him an enormous reserve capable of reforging even Immortal Artifacts.
• Through his connection with the formation, Lu Chen realizes that the Immortal Shadow intends to sacrifice the billions of living beings in the Eastern Continent to fully open the Heaven Gate.
• Horrified by this plan, Lu Chen wants to resist but is initially too weak. His body eventually explodes under the overwhelming Five-Elements energy.
• His blood mist engulfs the demoness and Immortal Shadow. Their Primordial Spirits are drawn into Lu Chen’s Divine Aperture by the mysterious cauldron, where the three enter the legendary state of Divine Communion, an intimate form of soul-based dual cultivation.

Character developments

• Lu Chen advances rapidly from the early Undying Realm to its peak, gaining the ability to regenerate from a single drop of blood.
• His Yin-Yang cultivation undergoes a massive transformation, granting him an unprecedented supply of Yin-Yang Essence.
• Despite gaining immense power, Lu Chen’s moral opposition to sacrificing innocent life becomes stronger; he refuses to accept the destruction of the Eastern Continent.
• The Immortal Shadow and demoness become increasingly desperate and ruthless, prioritizing their return to their homeland over the lives of countless beings.
• Both are shocked when the cauldron captures their Divine Souls and forces them into Divine Communion with Lu Chen.

Significant themes

• Power versus morality: Lu Chen’s growth gives him greater strength, but also forces him to confront the horrifying cost of the Heaven Gate.
• Sacrifice and fanaticism: The Immortal Shadow’s plan treats billions of lives as expendable fuel, presenting ambition in its most extreme form.
• Transformation through cultivation: Lu Chen’s physical destruction leads to a higher spiritual state and a new form of cultivation.
• Freedom and entrapment: The ancient immortal and demon seek freedom from a hundred-thousand-year imprisonment, but their escape threatens to create mass destruction.
• Unintended consequences of power: The formation, the cauldron, and Lu Chen’s breakthrough all produce effects none of the characters fully anticipated.

Character interactions

• The Immortal Shadow and demoness cooperate closely, combining their powers to strengthen Lu Chen and the Heaven-Opening Formation, even while knowingly endangering him.
• Lu Chen resents their reckless actions and realizes they are effectively pushing his body toward destruction.
• His connection to both powerful beings greatly amplifies his Yin-Yang Essence production.
• The cauldron unexpectedly overrides all three characters’ control, captures the Immortal Shadow’s and demoness’s Divine Souls, and initiates the unprecedented Divine Communion within Lu Chen’s Divine Aperture.

Lu Chen reached the perfected tyrant body by enduring countless cycles of destruction and reconstruction, then used his power to reverse the Five-Elements Heaven-Opening Formation and return its stolen vital energy to the Eastern Continent’s living beings. Feng Liuli attacked him to preserve her plan to open the Heaven Gate, but Lu Chen’s body and the Yin-Yang Cauldron protected him as the gate began to fade.

• Lu Chen experienced Ming Xi’s and Feng Liuli’s histories through Divine Communion and learned that their final battle had brought them to the Five-Continents Realm.
• The Five-Elements Heaven-Opening Formation drained the Eastern Continent as cultivators’ escape formations failed and the Heaven Gate grew clearer.
• Lu Chen’s body repeatedly exploded and reformed under emperor-grade immortal-demon essence until he perfected his tyrant body and returned from the Yin-Yang Cauldron.
• Lu Chen reversed the formation and restored the stolen vital energy to the continent’s living beings, disrupting Feng Liuli’s plan to sacrifice them and return to the Heavenly Realm.
• Feng Liuli attacked Lu Chen, but her finger broke against his body and her sword rain was blocked by the Yin-Yang Cauldron.
• The Heaven Gate began to dim as Lu Chen continued reversing the formation, and Feng Liuli launched a full-strength attack while Ming Xi doubted she could stop him.

Chapter Summary: “Destroying the Formation!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lu Chen abandons his chance to achieve Fleshly Sainthood in order to reverse the Five-Elements Heaven-Opening Formation, which Feng Liuli had created to drain the Eastern Continent’s living beings and open a Heaven Gate back to the Heavenly Realm.
• As Lu Chen reverses the formation, the energy stolen from hundreds of millions of people begins returning to them. Their vitality is restored, and many cultivators experience sudden breakthroughs in cultivation.
• Feng Liuli attempts to kill Lu Chen before the formation collapses. She first attacks him with her Chaos Immortal Sword, but Ming Xi briefly blocks her strike with her demonic halberd.
• Ming Xi then refuses to continue protecting Lu Chen, leaving him exposed. However, the Yin-Yang Cauldron, an Ultimate Dao Emperor Weapon within Lu Chen, manifests and blocks Feng Liuli’s attacks.
• Feng Liuli launches increasingly powerful attacks, including her strongest sword technique, but none can penetrate the cauldron’s defense. Her desperation grows as the Heaven Gate gradually fades.
• Feng Liuli asks Ming Xi to join forces with her, arguing that killing Lu Chen is their only way to return to the Heavenly Realm. Ming Xi refuses because the two are sworn enemies and does not trust Feng Liuli.
• More than half of the formation’s stolen energy is returned to the people of the Eastern Continent. Numerous cultivators advance, including breakthroughs from Golden Core to Nascent Soul and Nascent Soul to Spirit Transformation.
• The Heaven Gate ultimately vanishes, destroying Feng Liuli’s hundred-thousand-year plan.
• Having nearly exhausted all his cultivation and blood qi, Lu Chen uses his remaining strength to smash the formation platform with one punch. This permanently destroys the Five-Elements Heaven-Opening Formation and prevents Feng Liuli from using it again.
• The formation’s runes and patterns collapse across the Eastern Continent. Li Yunsheng benefits from the restored energy and breaks through into the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• After Lu Chen loses nearly all his cultivation and is left with only his powerful Five-Element Tyrant Body, two mysterious figures appear and call Ming Xi and Feng Liuli “two pieces of trash.” Lu Chen recognizes them and reacts with disbelief, setting up the next conflict.

Character Developments

• Lu Chen: Demonstrates extraordinary resolve by sacrificing the opportunity to become a Fleshly Saint to save the Eastern Continent. He endures the formation’s energy drain, reverses its function, and ultimately destroys its foundation even after becoming nearly powerless.
• Feng Liuli: Becomes increasingly frantic and unhinged as her hundred-thousand-year plan fails. Her desperation leads her to unleash her strongest attacks and even consider cooperating with her sworn enemy, Ming Xi.
• Ming Xi: Continues acting independently and refuses to cooperate with Feng Liuli. Although she initially saves Lu Chen, she later deliberately allows him to face Feng Liuli’s attacks, apparently confident in the Yin-Yang Cauldron’s protection.
• The people and cultivators of the Eastern Continent: Recover their stolen vitality and receive enormous benefits, with many breaking through to higher realms.
• Li Yunsheng: Achieves the Spirit Transformation Realm after absorbing the returning energy, becoming one of the Li Household’s Spirit Transformation experts.

Significant Themes

• Sacrifice versus personal power: Lu Chen gives up the chance to become a Saint to protect countless ordinary people, emphasizing his willingness to sacrifice greatness for others.
• Resistance against oppression: The chapter portrays the destruction of Feng Liuli’s plan to use all living beings as tools for her own return to the Heavenly Realm.
• The consequences of ambition: Feng Liuli’s hundred-thousand-year scheme collapses because she treats the Eastern Continent’s inhabitants as expendable resources.
• Hidden strength and fate: Lu Chen appears helpless while trapped in the formation, but the Yin-Yang Cauldron reveals an overwhelming defensive power that changes the battle.
• Rivalry and distrust: Ming Xi and Feng Liuli share the same goal of returning to the Heavenly Realm but remain unwilling to cooperate because of their deep hostility and mutual suspicion.

Important Character Interactions

• Lu Chen and Feng Liuli: Their confrontation centers on Feng Liuli’s attempt to preserve her formation and Lu Chen’s determination to save the Eastern Continent. She attacks him repeatedly, while he focuses entirely on reversing the formation.
• Feng Liuli and Ming Xi: Feng Liuli demands Ming Xi’s assistance, but Ming Xi mocks and refuses her. Their exchange highlights their long-standing enmity and lack of trust.
• Lu Chen and Ming Xi: Ming Xi unexpectedly saves Lu Chen from Feng Liuli’s first sword strike, then withdraws her protection to test whether he can survive. Her attitude toward him remains teasing and unpredictable.
• Lu Chen and the Eastern Continent: Though the people are largely unaware of his actions, Lu Chen’s reversal of the formation restores their vitality, advances their cultivation, and saves them from being sacrificed.
• Lu Chen and the mysterious newcomers: The chapter ends with two powerful, unidentified figures appearing and insulting Ming Xi and Feng Liuli. Lu Chen recognizes them, suggesting a major revelation or confrontation is about to follow.

Chapter Summary

• Lu Chen destroys the Five-Elements Heaven-Opening Formation. After reversing the formation, he returns the life force and spiritual energy it had drained from the Eastern Continent. The formation collapses, its five-colored immortal radiance disappears, and the continent’s spiritual energy rapidly recovers. Countless people narrowly escape death, while vegetation and cultivators regain vitality. Li Yunsheng even breaks through to the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Duan Zhengde and his sister unexpectedly reappear. Lu Chen is stunned because he believed they had died. Although Lu Chen is severely weakened after exhausting his cultivation, Duan Zhengde immediately confronts Feng Liuli and insults her and Ming Xi as “idiots.”
• Duan Zhengde reveals overwhelming strength. Feng Liuli attacks him in fury, but Duan Zhengde pierces her palm with a single finger. Her wound heals quickly due to her Immortal Emperor cultivation, yet the attack proves that Duan Zhengde, seemingly a mortal scammer, possesses terrifying power. Even Feng Liuli and Ming Xi’s combined assault fails to defeat him; instead, Duan Zhengde suppresses both of them, knocks Ming Xi away, and catches the Chaos Immortal Sword between two fingers.
• Lu Chen assesses the aftermath. Many cultivators were killed by Ascension City and the formation, including the divine son of Supreme Mountain and the sword son of the Ultimate Dao Sword Sect. Those who died cannot be revived, though Lu Chen successfully protected several people inside the Demon Pole Pearl, including Liu Fuyao, Yun Feiyan, and others.
• The Yin-Yang Small World evolves. Lu Chen discovers that the space within his Yin-Yang Cauldron has expanded into a continent-sized small world filled with ancient spirit herbs and extremely dense spiritual energy. To recover his strength, he absorbs the world’s spiritual energy and the medicinal power of countless rare herbs, but initially restores only thirty percent of his power. The process leaves the small world temporarily barren.
• The Yin-Yang Cauldron displays a new ability. The cauldron absorbs chaotic qi from the edge of the small world and refines it into spiritual energy. The world quickly becomes fertile again as new spirit herbs sprout, allowing Lu Chen to restore his cultivation completely—from thirty percent to one hundred percent.
• Major revelation: Duan Zhengde finally identifies himself as an Ultimate Dao Emperor, a supreme existence beyond the ordinary Emperor realm. This explains how he can overpower two Immortal Emperor-level opponents and marks him as an even more extraordinary figure than Lu Chen had imagined.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Lu Chen grows more suspicious of Duan Zhengde, realizing that the seemingly harmless, fraudulent fat man had been concealing his true identity all along. He also gains a deeper understanding of the Yin-Yang Cauldron and the potential of his Five-Element Tyrant Body.
• Feng Liuli becomes enraged and humiliated after Duan Zhengde wounds her effortlessly. Her confidence is shaken when she realizes that her Immortal Emperor strength is insufficient against him.
• Ming Xi confronts Duan Zhengde with hostility and caution, but is defeated alongside Feng Liuli.
• Duan Zhengde transitions from mysterious survivor to dominant figure, openly demonstrating power far beyond Lu Chen’s expectations.
• The central conflict shifts from Lu Chen versus Feng Liuli to the mystery of Duan Zhengde’s identity and the true extent of the Ultimate Dao Emperor’s strength.

Significant Themes

• Hidden identities and concealed power: Duan Zhengde’s deceptive appearance masks an existence at the pinnacle of cultivation.
• Life, sacrifice, and restoration: Lu Chen saves countless lives and restores the Eastern Continent, but cannot undo the deaths caused by the formation.
• The cost of power: Recovering his strength forces Lu Chen to consume invaluable spirit herbs, emphasizing the sacrifices required to survive.
• Growth and transformation: The Yin-Yang Cauldron develops into a self-sustaining world, while Lu Chen’s abilities and understanding continue to expand.
• The limits of established power: Even Immortal Emperors are shown to be insignificant before an Ultimate Dao Emperor.

Duan Zhengde revealed that he was the Zhengde Heavenly Honored One and rebuilt the Five-Elements Heaven-Opening Formation. He began draining the entire Five-Continents Realm to open the Heaven Gate, trapping Lu Chen and Duan Zhengde's younger sister in the formation core.

• Duan Zhengde revealed that he had been trapped in the Five-Continents Realm for a million years by the Devil Sovereign and that he was the Zhengde Heavenly Honored One.
• Lu Chen recovered his cultivation to Half-Step Saint and realized that Duan Zhengde intended to reopen the Heaven Gate.
• Duan Zhengde used Hongmeng purple qi to repair the shattered formation platform and reconstructed the Five-Elements Heaven-Opening Formation over the Eastern Continent.
• Duan Zhengde pulled Lu Chen and his younger sister into the formation core, then activated formations across all five continents to sacrifice their living beings.
• Duan Zhengde told Lu Chen that his fate had been sealed long ago as cultivators across the Five-Continents Realm panicked while the formation drained their vital energy.

Duan Zhengde revealed himself as a Heavenly Venerable and used the Five-Elements Heaven-Opening Formation to sacrifice the Five-Continent Mainland and force open the Heaven Gate. As billions of lives were drained and Ming Xi and Feng Liuli were weakened, Lu Chen finally decided he could no longer endure it.

• Lu Chen realized Duan Zhengde was the mastermind behind the crisis and had arranged five people with five-element Dao bodies at the formations across the continents.
• Duan Zhengde immobilized Ming Xi and Feng Liuli, dragged them onto the Central Control Platform, and began draining their power as catalysts.
• Duan Zhengde activated the linked formations, draining the lives and souls of people across all five continents to power the Heaven Gate.
• Duan Zhengde declared that helping him return to the Heavenly Realm was the living beings' honor, while their resentment surged across the mainland.
• As the Heaven Gate forced its way into the Five-Continents Realm and billions had fallen, Lu Chen roared Duan Zhengde's name in fury.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Chen revives his Blood-Qi Dharma Form and attacks Duan Zhengde, who is controlling the Central Control Platform. Duan easily crushes Lu Chen’s attacks and reveals that he possesses the Primordial Supreme Dao Body.
• Though Lu Chen has reached the Half-Saint Realm, Duan overwhelms him using the Power of All Beings—the combined strength of the living creatures across the Five-Continent Mainland.
• Lu Chen calls to all beings. The billions of souls trapped in the formation rush into him, empowering him to take the final step into the Saint Realm.
• The energy causes the Central Continent’s Five-Elements Heaven-Opening Formation to collapse. Lu Chen absorbs its falling power, then punches through Duan’s immortal-light hand and damages the Central Control Platform.
• Duan retaliates with a sword. Lu Chen blocks it, but the blade wounds his newly saintly body down to the bone, leaving him shocked.

Character developments

• Lu Chen shifts from desperate underdog to a Saint empowered by the souls of countless beings. His newfound strength comes with intense rage and a near-mad determination to destroy Duan.
• Duan Zhengde is revealed as a formidable, ambitious opponent whose exceptional physique and control over the Power of All Beings make him more dangerous than Lu Chen expected. Lu Chen’s sudden breakthrough disrupts his plans.
• Ming Xi and Feng Liuli move from shock at Duan’s strength to despair, though Lu Chen’s breakthrough overturns the apparent defeat.

Significant themes

• Collective strength: The souls of the many turn Lu Chen’s defeat into a breakthrough.
• Transformation through crisis: The formation’s destruction and Lu Chen’s near-collapse become the path to sainthood.
• The limits of power: Lu Chen’s new Saint Realm strength can challenge Duan, but the sword wound shows that his transformation has not made him invulnerable.
• Defiance and sacrifice: Lu Chen fights to stop Duan from opening the Heaven Gate, drawing on the suffering and resentment of those caught in the formation.

Character interactions

• Lu Chen repeatedly challenges Duan, refusing his demand to help open the Heaven Gate.
• Duan taunts and attacks Lu Chen, initially treating him as insignificant; Lu Chen’s breakthrough forces him to confront a real threat.
• The trapped souls respond to Lu Chen’s appeal and enter his body, making their collective power central to the struggle.
• Ming Xi and Feng Liuli witness the clash and its dramatic reversal.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Chen appears to kill Duan Zhengde with a single slap after attaining sainthood, but Duan Zhengde survives through his Primordial Supreme Sacred Body.
• Duan Zhengde uses the vast Power of All Beings he has accumulated over countless eras to become a Saint himself. Their emergence throws the Five-Continents Realm into chaos, triggering catastrophic disasters across all five continents.
• Lu Chen and Duan Zhengde clash. Duan Zhengde proves much stronger and drives the fight into the starry sky, both to avoid damaging the remaining Five-Elements Heaven-Opening Formations and to keep his plan to summon Heaven Gate on track.
• Lu Chen crashes into a sealed cloud of resentment made from the souls of the countless beings Duan Zhengde has repeatedly harvested. The memories reveal that Duan Zhengde has devastated the realm’s population again and again, leaving a few survivors to repopulate it before harvesting them anew.
• Overwhelmed by the dead’s anguish, Lu Chen begins losing control of his mind. Meanwhile, Duan Zhengde returns to the Central Control Platform and prepares to summon Heaven Gate, while the imprisoned Ming Xi and Feng Liuli are drained and face death.
• At the brink of being consumed by the resentment, Lu Chen hears the awakened spirit of the Yin-Yang Cauldron. The spirit explains that it is an Innate Dao Artifact, but says it cannot rescue him: Lu Chen must save himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Chen has reached sainthood, but discovers that power alone is not enough to match Duan Zhengde. The visions of the harvested lives awaken his compassion and fury, while the resentment threatens to overwhelm him.
• Duan Zhengde is exposed as a ruthless, calculating predator who has repeatedly sacrificed entire populations to gain power and return to the Heavenly Realm. He recognizes the resentment as dangerous but exploits Lu Chen’s predicament to resume his plan.
• Ming Xi and Feng Liuli shift from hoping to return to the Heavenly Realm to simply wanting to survive. They watch helplessly as Lu Chen is beaten and then trapped in the resentment.
• The Yin-Yang Cauldron’s artifact spirit finally awakens after absorbing vengeful souls. Its revelation expands the significance of the cauldron, but its first guidance is stark: Lu Chen must overcome the crisis himself.

Significant themes

• Power built on mass sacrifice: Duan Zhengde’s strength comes from repeatedly exploiting and killing ordinary beings.
• The cost of ambition: His desire to return to the Heavenly Realm threatens the entire Five-Continents Realm.
• Compassion versus hatred: Lu Chen’s empathy for the victims becomes both a source of anguish and a test of his resolve.
• Self-reliance and inner strength: Even a powerful artifact cannot solve Lu Chen’s crisis for him; his survival depends on himself.

Lu Chen used Divine Communion with billions of living beings to gather enough yin-yang essence for the Yin-Yang Cauldron to reshape his body, allowing him to prove the Dao through strength. As Duan Zhengde opened the Heaven Gate and tried to return to the Heavenly Realm, Lu Chen reappeared and kicked him away.

• The Cauldron Spirit told Lu Chen to use Divine Communion with all living beings to gather yin-yang essence and save himself from the resentment consuming his soul.
• Lu Chen entered Divine Communion with billions of living beings, accumulating ten sextillion streams of yin-yang essence before the Yin-Yang Cauldron began reshaping his Saint Body.
• The Yin-Yang Cauldron devoured the surrounding resentment and rebuilt Lu Chen until he achieved fleshly sainthood and proved the Dao through strength.
• Duan Zhengde sacrificed countless souls to open the Heaven Gate while Ming Xi and Feng Liuli watched in a weakened state.
• Duan Zhengde tried to enter the Heaven Gate, but Lu Chen appeared and kicked him away, leaving Ming Xi and Feng Liuli shocked and delighted.

Lu Chen defeated Duan Zhengde, revealed his strength as a Saint of Strength, and destroyed the Ten-Thousand-Soul Heaven-Passing Gate after confronting immortals from the Heavenly Realm. He returned billions of stolen souls to their bodies, but the homeless souls of those whose bodies were destroyed still needed help.

• Lu Chen restored Ming Xi to her peak condition, then overpowered Duan Zhengde's Heavenly Law, Earthly Form and captured his Divine Soul after Duan Zhengde exploded while trying to refine him.
• Duan Zhengde's memories revealed that he had sacrificed living beings to summon the Ten-Thousand-Soul Heaven-Passing Gate and plunder resources across worlds.
• An immortal general attacked Lu Chen and called him an ant, but Lu Chen's breath shattered the general's spear, wounded him, and annihilated the Immortal Soldiers behind him.
• Lu Chen crushed the Heaven Gate, trapping the immortal general outside the Heavenly Realm and freeing the souls sealed within it.
• Lu Chen sent billions of souls back to their bodies, while the Cauldron Spirit told him he could reconstruct bodies for the remaining souls at the cost of his cultivation.

Key plot points and events

• Duan Zhengde mocks Lu Chen for wanting to save the world, as the Five-Continents Realm begins to collapse. Its laws unravel, disasters sweep across the continents, and souls are once again endangered.
• Lu Chen releases the people he had sheltered, then restores the cultivation of the other Four-Element Dao Body bearers. They learn that Duan Zhengde used them in his scheme to sacrifice living beings.
• Lu Chen discovers from Duan Zhengde’s memories that the only lasting solution is to open the Six Paths of Reincarnation. Doing so could cost him his Saint cultivation—and his life.
• Rather than abandon the realm and save only himself and his companions, Lu Chen gathers its surviving inhabitants into his Inner World. He uses Duan Zhengde’s Saint Origin and the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk to rebuild the world’s order and establish all six paths.
• Lu Chen assigns Feng Liuli to oversee reincarnation as atonement for her crimes, appoints Ming Xi Underworld King, and makes the crippled immortal general a Soul-Reaping Envoy.
• With souls finally able to enter reincarnation, Lu Chen exhausts his power and falls into a deep sleep. The realm stabilizes; the others place him in a Crystal Immortal Coffin and build a Divine Temple. After countless ages, he awakens.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Chen chooses the survival of all beings over his own safety, revealing his selflessness and resolve. He answers Duan Zhengde’s taunts with action and refuses to let the villain dictate his choice.
• Duan Zhengde is exposed as the architect of the catastrophe: he sacrificed lives for power and intended to destroy the realm after Lu Chen ruined his route back to the Heavenly Realm. His Saint Origin and treasures become the means of saving the world, and his sister takes revenge on his soul.
• The Four-Element Dao Body bearers confront Duan Zhengde after learning they were used in his scheme.
• Lu Chen’s companions react with fear and grief as the world collapses. Liu Fuyao regrets her past rejection of him, while Li Yunsheng voices her fear of losing him—and jokes that he must survive so they can practice martial cultivation together.
• Feng Liuli, Ming Xi, and the immortal general are left outside Lu Chen’s Inner World and given roles in the new afterlife system. Feng Liuli resents her sentence; Ming Xi accepts her authority, while the general must guide souls through the paths.

Significant themes

• Self-sacrifice and responsibility: Lu Chen risks everything to save strangers rather than protect only himself and those close to him.
• Justice and atonement: Those implicated in past wrongdoing are made responsible for maintaining the system that protects the dead.
• Order from catastrophe: Reincarnation replaces the chaotic fate of souls with an enduring cosmic structure.
• Power used for the common good: Duan Zhengde’s accumulated power and possessions are turned toward the very purpose he rejected.

Plot points and events

• Lu Chen barely succeeds in opening the Six Paths of Reincarnation, nearly dying as his cultivation runs out. The Six Paths merge with the Five-Continents Realm, restoring cosmic order and giving wandering souls a route to rebirth.
• Feng Liuli governs the Underworld, with Ming Xi supervising her and serving as Meng Po. The Ten Courts judge the dead, while souls drink Meng Po Soup and lose memories of their past lives. An unlucky immortal general is assigned as a Soul-Hooking Envoy.
• Countless ages later, Lu Chen awakens in an immortal-crystal coffin on Kunlun. Though his cultivation is gone, he has an indestructible Saint Body and Saint Bone, sustained by the gratitude of all beings.
• Lu Chen discovers that the old realm has become a universe and that his resting place is Earth, revered as the Ancestral Planet. The Cauldron Spirit, now a little red bird and the realm’s Heavenly Dao, explains that the upheaval of reincarnation shattered the former Five-Continent Mainland.
• His awakening stirs the world: spiritual energy revives, ancient powers emerge, and factions rush toward Kunlun. Lu Chen reunites with Lei Ting, the Thunder Qilin, Li Yunsheng, Liu Fuyao, and many other familiar women, all still alive and immensely powerful.
• In the epilogue, Lu Chen enjoys a carefree life with his wives. Former cultivation sects have become successful modern businesses, and the Cauldron Spirit begrudgingly watches from the sidelines.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Chen completes his defining mission—establishing reincarnation—and wakes to find himself revered as the Creation Ancestral God. Despite his bewilderment at the transformed world, he quickly resumes his playful, flirtatious manner and embraces a comfortable life.
• Feng Liuli and Ming Xi put Lu Chen’s vision of the Underworld into practice, creating an orderly system for judging and reincarnating souls. Feng Liuli is promised freedom if hell ever empties, though it never will.
• The Cauldron Spirit becomes a bird after helping hold the realm together and is now its Heavenly Dao. Lu Chen teases it relentlessly, especially about finding a mate; the Spirit envies Lu Chen’s easy, luxurious life.
• Lei Ting, Li Yunsheng, and Lu Chen’s other partners greet him with intense emotion and affection. Li Yunsheng reminds him of their promised “Martial Cultivation,” while the women gather around him and invite him back into their intimate, comic dynamic.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and renewal: Lu Chen’s near-fatal effort creates a lasting cycle of death and rebirth.
• Legacy across time: Civilizations and histories change, but Lu Chen’s deed endures in the world’s reverence for him.
• Transformation and continuity: The old realm becomes a universe and Earth, while familiar people and relationships survive.
• Comic reward after heroic labor: After immense sacrifice, Lu Chen’s “good life” is a humorous, indulgent contrast to the cosmic scale of his achievement.