Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “First Saint Lin Xian”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lin Xian attempts to imitate Ye Fan using the Eight-Nine Mystical Art and Seventy-Two Transformations, hoping that resembling a protagonist will grant him similar treatment or cultivation opportunities.
• He tries to summon his system and argues that he shares Ye Fan’s experiences and protagonist-like fate, but System 10086 dismisses his efforts.
• Lin Xian experiments with the Three Selves cultivation method. By invoking the power of his Departed Self, he successfully severs another self and proudly announces that he has become a Quasi-Saint.
• His breakthrough immediately causes a severe Great Dao Injury. Ye Fan recognizes that Lin Xian’s cultivation method has gone disastrously wrong.
• Lin Xian attempts to transfer the injury to his Self of Dao, manifesting a majestic Heavenly Venerable modeled on Laozi’s “One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.” However, the Self of Dao is destroyed under the pressure.
• Ye Fan concludes that Lin Xian is not truly a Quasi-Saint but a “First Saint”—someone who sacrifices even his own alternate selves during cultivation.
• Lin Xian blames Ye Fan’s scripture for being incomplete, claiming that it lacks a proper method for Alternative Sainthood.
• Ye Fan explains that Alternative Sainthood is achieved through the Four Extremes Secret Realm. Its essential principle is not merely severing the Three Selves, but using the Four Extremes to open and support a small world.
• Ye Fan identifies the true standard of sainthood as world-creation, and names this method “Proving the Dao Through Force.”

Character Developments

• Lin Xian: His arrogance, desperation, and willingness to experiment are emphasized. He seeks shortcuts to greater power and tries to imitate Ye Fan, but his reckless manipulation of the Three Selves causes a devastating Dao Injury. Despite the failure, he gains a deeper understanding of Alternative Sainthood.
• Ye Fan: He remains calm, skeptical, and knowledgeable. He sees through Lin Xian’s misguided experiments, identifies the true cause of the injury, and provides the correct theoretical explanation of sainthood.
• System 10086: It acts as a sarcastic counterpoint to Lin Xian’s delusions, bluntly rejecting his attempts to obtain protagonist-like advantages.
• Lin Xian’s Three Selves: The Departed Self and Self of Dao are treated as expendable vessels for his Dao Injury, highlighting the dangerous and abnormal nature of his cultivation.

Significant Themes

• Appearance versus genuine achievement: Lin Xian’s attempt to imitate Ye Fan shows that external resemblance and shared experiences cannot replace actual destiny or cultivation.
• Reckless pursuit of power: His experiment demonstrates the dangers of forcing a breakthrough without understanding the underlying principles.
• The nature of sainthood: The chapter questions what truly separates a Saint from a powerful cultivator, ultimately defining sainthood through the ability to create and sustain a world.
• Self-sacrifice and exploitation of the self: Lin Xian uses his alternate selves as shields, turning cultivation into a process of sacrificing parts of his own being.
• Creation as proof of cultivation: World-creation is presented as evidence that a cultivator has transcended ordinary life and gained mastery over the Great Dao.

Character Interactions

• Lin Xian’s absurd transformation into Ye Fan confounds Ye Fan, establishing the chapter’s humorous tone.
• Lin Xian repeatedly argues with the system, which mocks his attempts to force a connection to the “protagonist” role.
• Ye Fan observes Lin Xian’s failed breakthrough, becomes alarmed by the Dao Injury, and analyzes the consequences of his method.
• The two debate whether Ye Fan’s scripture is flawed and what constitutes Alternative Sainthood.
• Their discussion evolves into a lesson from Ye Fan: becoming a Saint requires the power to create a small world, while Alternative Sainthood can begin by using the Four Extremes to open heaven and establish its foundations.

Lin Xian demonstrated that the Heaven-Opening Method could create a life-bearing world with the Azure Emperor’s Green Lotus Method, then argued that the technique should benefit the Sacred Body lineage. He confirmed that the nine generations of Great Accomplished Saint Physiques had left no known descendants on Big Dipper, though some might survive on the Ancient Starry Road.

• Lin Xian opened a vast small world with the Heaven-Opening Method, and Ye Fan recognized that it contained an aura of life.
• Lin Xian used the Azure Emperor’s Chaotic Green Lotus power to shape the world into a land of mountains, rivers, plants, and other life-sustaining terrain.
• Ye Fan warned that the method could aid tyrants while the Dark Turmoil continued, and Lin Xian explained that failed heaven-openers could nourish new worlds with their bodies.
• Lin Xian proposed reserving the Green Lotus World-Creation Method for the Tianxuan Lineage and declared that countless minor worlds could become a new ancestral home for Sacred Bodies.
• Ye Fan asked whether descendants of the nine generations of Great Accomplished Saint Physiques remained, and Lin Xian said none were known on Big Dipper apart from a possibility on the Ancient Starry Road.

Lin Xian and Ye Fan agreed to preserve the Sacred Body lineages, then prepared to travel aboard a Divine Organization warship to meet the Yang Family and investigate Emperor Yuhua. As the Heavenly Ark departed, Ye Fan headed for the pilot’s seat while Lin Xian claimed his new Mecha Immortal Garment.

• Lin Xian and Ye Fan agreed that the Green Lotus creation method would remain with the Sacred Body Lineage and the Opening Heaven Scripture would be redeemable through the Heavenly Court.
• Lin Xian told Ye Fan that descendants of the Yang Family carrying Sacred Blood were being oppressed by Heavenly Overlord Blood descendants at the Human Race Ancient Road’s Fiftieth Pass, and Ye Fan decided to go meet them.
• Lin Xian proposed visiting Emperor Yuhua with Ruthless’s Dao Fruit and Emperor Zun’s reincarnation, while Ye Fan worried about leaving his parents and Xiao Nannan.
• Ye Fan cultivated for several days as Lin Xian refined Evolution Liquid and acquired a Mecha Immortal Garment, which he refused to let Ye Fan pilot.
• The Divine Organization sent a Heavenly Ark, and Ye Fan boarded it to travel along the Ancient Starry Roads toward the Ninefold Emperor Pass.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ye Fan travels along the Ancient Starry Road in the Ziwei Emperor Chariot, accompanied by members of the Divine Organization and the Green Cauldron.
• The Divine Organization interprets his journey as the return of Emperor Zun and believes the Ancient Heavenly Court is about to be restored. They proclaim that he should reclaim the lost territories and rule the universe once more.
• Ye Fan firmly rejects this identity. He insists that he is only a Desolate Ancient Sacred Body in his present life, not Emperor Zun, and that his purpose is merely to settle the conflict between the Sacred Body and Heavenly Overlord lineages.
• Lin Xian deliberately reinterprets Ye Fan’s denial, claiming that Emperor Zun has simply reincarnated and must rebuild his power gradually. He declares that Ye Fan intends to conquer the Human Race Ancient Road and eventually establish a new Heavenly Court.
• Lin Xian then challenges the Divine Organization’s younger members to abandon their loyalty to the ancient institution and follow Ye Fan in creating a New Heavenly Court.
• Using the Green Cauldron’s sacred aura and the prestige of the Ancient Heavenly Court, Lin Xian successfully inspires the Divine Organization’s members. He begins issuing Divine General Tokens and preparing to recreate the Twenty-Four Heavens.
• Ye Fan attempts to stop Lin Xian by asking Divine Baby for help, but Divine Baby refuses after being bribed with a large quantity of Divine Origin. Ye Fan cannot compete because he lacks comparable resources.
• The chapter ends with the chief god of the Divine Organization wondering whether this momentous decision should be reported to the First Divine General or the organization’s ancestral leader.

Character Developments

• Ye Fan: Demonstrates strong independence and a clear understanding of his Dao. He refuses to let the legacy of Emperor Zun define him, believing that accepting a past identity would undermine his own cultivation and future. Despite being frustrated by Lin Xian’s manipulation, he remains committed to building only what belongs to his present life.
• Lin Xian: Reveals himself as an exceptionally clever and shameless persuader. He twists Ye Fan’s words into political propaganda, transforming Ye Fan’s refusal to revive the Ancient Heavenly Court into a supposed declaration to establish a New Heavenly Court.
• Divine Baby: Shows a mercenary side, valuing immediate material rewards over loyalty or principle. His refusal to help Ye Fan highlights the practical disadvantages Ye Fan faces compared with Lin Xian’s wealth.
• Divine Organization members: Their dormant loyalty to the Ancient Heavenly Court is awakened. They shift from revering the old Emperor Zun to becoming enthusiastic potential followers of Ye Fan’s new regime.
• Chief god of the Divine Organization: Remains cautious and responsible, recognizing that founding a new Heavenly Court is too important to decide without informing the organization’s senior leaders.

Significant Themes

• Identity versus inherited legacy: Ye Fan refuses to become merely a continuation of Emperor Zun. The chapter emphasizes that a person’s current life and Dao should not be erased by the expectations attached to a former identity.
• The burden of authority: The title of Emperor Zun represents not only glory but also immense karma, responsibility, and the expectations of countless races and generations.
• Political manipulation: Lin Xian demonstrates how easily public belief can override personal declarations. Even though Ye Fan denies being Emperor Zun, Lin Xian reshapes his words into a rallying cry.
• Old traditions versus new creation: The descendants of the Ancient Heavenly Court must decide whether to remain tied to the past or help construct a new order based on Ye Fan’s present identity.
• The power of symbols: The Ziwei Emperor Chariot and Green Cauldron carry immense historical and religious authority. Their presence makes Ye Fan’s arguments far less influential than the symbolism of the Heavenly Court.
• Material interests and loyalty: Divine Baby’s bribery reveals the humorous but important role of wealth and resources in shaping alliances.

Character Interactions

• Ye Fan and Lin Xian: Their exchange forms the chapter’s central conflict. Ye Fan repeatedly rejects the Emperor Zun identity, while Lin Xian publicly reframes those denials to support his own political agenda.
• Ye Fan and the Divine Organization: Ye Fan tries to clarify his intentions and prevent the organization from placing unrealistic expectations upon him, but the members are more inspired by their ancestral loyalty than by his explanations.
• Lin Xian and the Divine Organization: Lin Xian skillfully appeals to their pride, youth, and desire to emulate legendary divine generals. His speech turns hesitation into excitement.
• Ye Fan and Divine Baby: Ye Fan asks Divine Baby to intervene, but Divine Baby refuses because Lin Xian has offered more valuable compensation.
• The Divine Organization and its leaders: The organization’s younger members are eager to follow the emerging New Heavenly Court, while the chief god remains wary and considers consulting the older generation before proceeding.

Lin Xian persuaded the Divine Organization’s descendants to recognize Ye Fan as Emperor Zun, but Ye Fan turned the gathering against Lin Xian by appointing him First Divine General and revealing his astonishing talent. Lin Xian accepted the title as acting Divine General, then fought three Saint Kings and defeated them with the power of his sacred body and Nine Secrets before his dao injury flared up.

• Lin Xian offered the Divine Organization’s first Divine General token to its descendants, and Main God Zhou accepted Ye Fan as Emperor Zun after Lin Xian’s arguments.
• Ye Fan proclaimed Lin Xian the Heavenly Court’s First Divine General, and Lin Xian accepted the token while saying he would serve only as acting Divine General until a more qualified hero appeared.
• Ye Fan revealed that Lin Xian was not yet a hundred years old and had already reached the Saint King realm, astonishing the Divine Organization’s young talents.
• Lin Xian challenged the gathered cultivators, and three Saint Kings stepped forward before fleeing when he invoked the desolate ancient sacred body’s reputation.
• Lin Xian used the Nine Secrets and Six Paths Reincarnation Fist to defeat the three Saint Kings, then staggered and said his dao injury had flared up again.

Chapter Summary: “Pilgrims, Devout and Sincere”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lin Xian pretends that his Dao Injury has worsened, claiming he can only use his strongest fist technique three more times. The saints aboard the Heavenly Ark pity him, but many secretly suspect he is exaggerating.
• Instead of mocking or challenging Lin Xian, the three defeated Saint Kings acknowledge his superiority and kneel in submission. Other members of the Divine Organization also defend him, insisting that his merit and virtue make him the rightful First Divine General.
• Ye Fan tries to provoke Main God Zhou into criticizing Lin Xian, but Zhou instead strongly supports Lin Xian and declares that his Dao Injury may be cured with Immortal Medicine. Ye Fan and Lin Xian are left frustrated because everyone responds with sincerity rather than falling for their schemes.
• Lin Xian becomes First Divine General and assumes command of the Heavenly Ark. The Heavenly Court and Divine Organization begin traveling through the universe to restore the Ancient Heavenly Court’s glory.
• Ye Fan enters seclusion to study his Alternative Sainthood method. Lin Xian warns him about the rapidly advancing Heavenly Overlord Body, but Ye Fan dismisses the threat outwardly while recognizing it internally.
• The Heavenly Ark visits numerous starfields. Some powerful races join the Heavenly Court through trade or loose submission, while weaker and declining races receive protection and assistance.
• On a barren planet, Lin Xian uses the Azure Emperor’s technique, “Flowers Bloom at One Thought, Chaotic Green Lotus,” to restore the planet’s vitality. The Heavenly Court stabilizes the planet’s sun, moon, and environment, causing the local inhabitants to worship them and generate vast quantities of Faith Power.
• The Faith Power gathers in the Green Cauldron and briefly produces an image and aura resembling Emperor Zun. A mysterious voice calls out, “Pilgrims…,” causing the Heavenly Court’s gods to believe that Emperor Zun’s legacy may be reappearing.
• Lin Xian is alarmed by the possibility that faith could recreate Emperor Zun. However, the manifestation quickly fades. Divine Baby returns to his lazy, childish state and claims not to remember muttering about “Cao bastard.”
• Lin Xian suspects that Divine Baby and Emperor Zun represent different forms of reincarnation or continuation—one involving the soul and the other the physical body—but cannot determine the truth.
• Using a Five-Colored Altar, the Heavenly Ark reaches the Human Race First Pass, a massive city at the beginning of the Ancient Starry Road. The city gathers human cultivators seeking the opportunity to become Great Emperors.
• When the Divine Organization raises its bloodstained battle flag, the cultivators and soldiers at the First Pass panic. The organization is notorious for ambushing travelers on the ancient roads and stealing their techniques.
• Main God Zhou reveals that the Divine Organization is hated not only by the Human Race Ancient Road but by all ancient roads. In the past, the “Pilgrims” occupied the roads established by the Ancient Heavenly Court and even attempted to attack Emperor Zun’s palace.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Lin Xian successfully takes on the role of First Divine General, shifting from a manipulative performer pretending to be injured into an actual leader responsible for the Heavenly Court’s expansion and administration.
• Ye Fan remains skeptical and sharp-tongued. He attempts to manipulate the situation by encouraging others to criticize Lin Xian, but becomes irritated when the Divine Organization behaves honorably. His concern over the Heavenly Overlord Body also reveals that he does not take the threat lightly.
• Main God Zhou emerges as a loyal and principled supporter of Lin Xian. Rather than exploiting Lin Xian’s supposed weakness, he openly acknowledges his contributions and argues that merit must be rewarded.
• The Divine Organization’s saints are portrayed as cautious, educated, and historically informed. Their knowledge of past events makes them resistant to reckless provocations and “fishing” schemes.
• Lin Xian and Ye Fan share a humorous but antagonistic relationship. Ye Fan mocks the Divine Organization as timid, while Lin Xian becomes annoyed that Ye Fan is undermining him. Lin Xian also threatens Divine Baby with being sold to the Black Emperor to force information from him.
• Divine Baby briefly appears mysterious and sacred under the influence of Faith Power, resembling a reborn Emperor Zun, but quickly reverts to an indolent and childish personality.
• The Heavenly Court and Divine Organization develop complementary roles: the Heavenly Court is associated with vigor, expansion, and risk-taking, while the Divine Organization provides accumulated knowledge, stability, and administration.

Significant Themes

• Sincerity versus manipulation: Lin Xian’s false display of weakness fails because the Divine Organization responds with genuine respect rather than contempt. The chapter humorously contrasts political scheming with sincere loyalty.
• The dangers of excessive caution: Although the Divine Organization possesses immense knowledge and inheritance, its reluctance to take risks is presented as one reason it failed to produce another Great Emperor.
• Revival and legacy: The merged Heavenly Court seeks to restore the glory of the Ancient Heavenly Court, while Faith Power raises the possibility that ancient figures such as Emperor Zun can reemerge through belief and collective memory.
• Faith as a source of power and identity: The inhabitants’ worship generates extraordinary phenomena in the Green Cauldron, suggesting that devotion can preserve, recreate, or distort the images of historical figures.
• Expansion and salvation: The Heavenly Court’s journey is not purely imperialistic. It conquers or incorporates some regions, but also rescues dying worlds and restores life to abandoned planets.
• History as protection: The Divine Organization’s study of history allows it to recognize traps and avoid reckless behavior, though that same caution has weakened its ambition.
• Conflict between old and new powers: The arrival at the Human Race First Pass reveals the ancient hostility between the Divine Organization and the established Ancient Starry Roads, setting up a larger political and military confrontation.

The Divine Organization began reclaiming the Ancient Heavenly Court’s former territories by attacking the Human Race First Pass, while Lin Xian presented Ye Fan as a contender destined to unite the universe and become emperor. Main God Zhou broke through the pass’s gates, and Ye Fan and the Divine Organization entered, openly challenging the talents of every ancient road.

• The Divine Organization’s Main God announced that it would reclaim its lost lands, starting with the Human Race Ancient Road, and Lin Xian urged Ye Fan to pursue an invincible path.
• The Heavenly Ark collided with the Human Race First Pass, whose defenders activated its formations and called for the human Great Saints to reinforce them.
• Main God Zhou arrived and shattered the First Pass’s defenses, declaring that the conflict was internal strife and that he had come to reclaim the Heavenly Court’s former territories.
• Main God Zhou used his bronze cauldron to smash through the First Pass’s gates, while Ye Fan noticed the resemblance between the Divine Organization’s weapons and his own cauldron.
• Ye Fan entered the pass with the Divine Organization, and Lin Xian declared that Ye Fan would become an emperor and challenged the prodigies of every ancient road to face him.

Ye Fan faced a crowd of prodigies at the First Pass and defeated a Saint and a Half-Saint with overwhelming ease, revealing his extraordinary combat strength and the Nine Secret: Bing. Lin Xian renamed the First Pass the Emperor Pass and declared it the starting point of the Heavenly Court’s revival, where the Imperial Stars would come to pay homage.

• Lin Xian provoked the gathered cultivators by claiming that even a hundred Saints could not defeat Emperor Zun Ye, drawing challenges from a Saint and a Half-Saint.
• Ye Fan formed a Half-Saint Dao Body to fight the Half-Saint and confronted the Saint himself, knocking the Saint unconscious with one punch and swiftly overpowering the other opponent.
• Guan Cheng charged Ye Fan to overcome his inner demon, but Ye Fan used Nine Secret: Bing to seize Guan Cheng’s bronze spear and pin him to the city gate.
• The spectacle shook the gathered cultivators; some recognized Ye Fan’s strength, while others lost heart and abandoned the emperor path.
• Lin Xian repaired the city gate, renamed the Human Race First Pass the Emperor Pass, and proclaimed it the starting point of the Heavenly Court’s revival.

After Lin Xian recruited Saints for the Heavenly Court, he revived Guan Cheng’s shattered resolve by telling him that alternative paths could lead to Supreme Being. Guan Cheng won a hard-fought duel and joined as the Divine General of the Southern Heavenly Gate, while news of Ye Fan’s strength drew Great Saints and prodigies from across the ancient roads toward the First Pass.

• Lin Xian left recruitment to Holy Master Lin, who set a trial requiring applicants to defeat a Saint aboard the Heavenly Ark.
• Lin Xian challenged the First Pass guide to join the Heavenly Court, and the guide warned that the organization’s rise would provoke powerful enemies.
• Lin Xian freed Guan Cheng from the city gate and encouraged him by explaining that alternative enlightenment could produce more than one Supreme Being.
• Guan Cheng defeated a Divine Organization Saint after three days and nights of battle, and Lin Xian gave him the Chaotic Ancient Scripture and admitted him to the Heavenly Court.
• Daoist Qinghuang arrived at the First Pass, and Great Saints from the human and other races began gathering as word spread of Ye Fan’s strength.

Lin Xian arranged a tournament at the First Pass to keep the gathered prodigies from fighting a bloody mass battle, while Ye Fan continued defending the arena against newcomers. The latest challengers were defeated, with Ou Ye Mo lasting longer than the rest before Ye Fan ended their match.

• Daoist Qinghuang explained how the Human Race selected seeded contenders and emperor stars, then agreed to consider protecting Ye Fan if he proved worthy.
• Lin Xian asked Main God Zhou to summon Hun Tuo and proposed an arena tournament instead of a mass battle; the Heavenly Court built a battlefield and arranged broadcasts across star regions.
• A new batch of trial-takers arrived at the First Pass and challenged Ye Fan, but Ku Toutuo, Tuoba Yu, and the other newcomers fell to his attacks.
• Ou Ye Mo endured one strike of Ye Fan's Sacred Fist, earning praise as the best newcomer of the batch, before Ye Fan's second punch ended the fight.

Chapter Summary: “What the Hell, He’s Eight Years Old”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ye Fan defeats Ou Ye Mo, a powerful Demon Master who unleashes his strongest attack with the Black Gold Demon Halberd. Ye Fan, already approaching the Quasi-Saint realm and Alternative Sainthood, overpowers him effortlessly, breaking his body with a single finger.
• Despite his defeat, Ou Ye Mo earns respect for surviving longer than any other challenger. Lin Xian recognizes his potential and orders the Divine Organization to recruit him, predicting that he can become a Quasi-Emperor.
• Lin Xian explains that Ou Ye Mo is only a lesser “Imperial Star.” The truly powerful contenders for the World's Number One Martial Arts Tournament have yet to arrive. He dismisses the current Overlord Body as insufficiently impressive, claiming that even he might defeat it at the same level.
• Major experts begin moving toward the Ancient Starry Road, including Golden Cicada Son under Sakyamuni, Yin Tiande alongside an Old Daoist, and Jiang Taixu, who has entered a second life and begun walking the Emperor Path.
• In Purple Mountain, Ye Tianxuan—the eight-year-old Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo—successfully becomes a Saint. His cultivation speed shocks everyone and even surpasses Lin Ken’s previous record.
• The Black Emperor boasts that Ye Tianxuan’s rapid progress is the natural potential of his physique. He predicts that the child will reach the Ninth Heaven of the Quasi-Emperor realm by age two hundred, having been carefully nurtured with Immortal Medicine and other treasures.
• Buddhist power continues to flourish. Victorious Fighting Buddha returns after conquering the Amitabha Star Domain and attaining the Quasi-Emperor realm, greatly strengthening Mount Sumeru’s status.
• To prevent Ye Fan from being overwhelmed by endless challengers, a qualification system is established. Saints must first defeat Guan Cheng, then Ou Ye Mo, before earning the right to challenge Ye Fan.
• Guan Cheng’s repeated battles force him to grow stronger, lose, adapt, and eventually pursue an alternative cultivation path through the Chaotic Ancient Scripture.
• Ye Fan seeks a mysterious Source of Dao to aid his path toward Alternative Sainthood. However, the Source rejects him, declaring that he defies the Dao and cannot become a Great Emperor.
• Ye Fan responds defiantly, declaring that if Heaven will not acknowledge him, he will shatter Heaven and the Great Dao himself.
• Lin Xian and Ye Fan compete to seize the Source of Dao. As fellow Source Heavenly Masters, their techniques are evenly matched, but Lin Xian’s higher Saint King cultivation gives him the advantage.
• The chapter ends with the Overlord Body arriving to claim the Source and challenge what he believes is Ye Fan. He mistakenly points his spear at Lin Xian, who is holding the Source and calmly addresses him as though he were a pilgrim seeking an audience.

Character Developments

• Ye Fan: Demonstrates overwhelming strength and increasing mastery of Fortune. He has reached the Quasi-Saint realm but deliberately postpones his Saint tribulation to stabilize his foundation. His rejection by the Source of Dao strengthens rather than weakens his determination, revealing his defiant, emperor-like will.
• Ou Ye Mo: Though defeated, he proves himself vastly stronger than ordinary challengers by surviving Ye Fan’s second strike. His potential is recognized by Lin Xian, who believes he can become a Quasi-Emperor.
• Lin Xian: Continues advancing and reaches the Fourth Heaven of the Saint King realm. He displays immense confidence, mocks the current Overlord Body, and successfully contests Ye Fan for the Source of Dao.
• Ye Tianxuan: Becomes a Saint at only eight years old, confirming the terrifying potential of the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo. His development marks him as one of the era’s greatest prodigies.
• Guan Cheng: Gains valuable experience through constant battles against elite challengers. His repeated victories and defeats lead him toward an alternative cultivation path.
• Jiang Taixu: Begins a second life and steps onto the Emperor Path, appearing rejuvenated and full of potential.
• Victorious Fighting Buddha: Returns as a Quasi-Emperor after defeating the Buddhist powers of the Amitabha Star Domain, enhancing his prestige.
• The Overlord Body: Makes a dramatic entrance as a powerful young supreme being, but his mistake in identifying Lin Xian creates an ironic contrast between his intimidating reputation and his lack of awareness.

Significant Themes

• The emergence of a Golden Great Era: The chapter emphasizes that this age is unprecedented, with prodigies, Quasi-Emperors, ancient figures, and legendary physiques appearing in rapid succession.
• Defying Heaven and the Dao: Ye Fan’s rejection by the Source of Dao reinforces the theme that true supremacy may require opposing conventional heavenly laws rather than receiving their approval.
• Potential versus cultivation speed: Ye Tianxuan’s astonishing advancement raises questions about innate talent, deliberate suppression, proper foundation, and the limits of natural genius.
• The path to greatness through adversity: Guan Cheng, Ou Ye Mo, and Ye Fan all grow through struggle, defeat, or rejection rather than effortless success.
• The escalation of future conflict: The arrival of new Imperial Stars and the Overlord Body signals that the tournament and the wider struggle of the era are about to become much more dangerous.
• Humility and arrogance: The chapter contrasts Ye Fan’s calm confidence, Lin Xian’s teasing arrogance, the Black Emperor’s boastfulness, and the Overlord’s imposing but mistaken entrance.

Important Character Interactions

• Ye Fan and Ou Ye Mo: They clash directly, with Ye Fan effortlessly defeating the Demon Master while acknowledging his unusual resilience.
• Lin Xian and the Divine Organization: Lin Xian instructs its Saint to recruit Ou Ye Mo and explains the difference between lesser and true Imperial Stars.
• Sakyamuni and Golden Cicada Son: Sakyamuni sends Golden Cicada Son toward the Ancient Starry Road, indicating the Buddhist faction’s participation in the coming events.
• Gai Jiuyou and Jiang Taixu: Gai Jiuyou celebrates Jiang Taixu’s return to the Emperor Path, while the White-Clad God-King expresses approval.
• The Purple Mountain experts and Ye Tianxuan: The Black Emperor, Xiao Song, Dragon Horse, and others react with disbelief and awe when the eight-year-old becomes a Saint.
• Ye Fan and Lin Xian: The two Source Heavenly Masters compete over the Source of Dao, combining rivalry with familiarity as fellow disciples and Sacred Bodies.
• Ye Fan and the Source of Dao: The Source rejects Ye Fan’s path, provoking his declaration that he will break the Great Dao rather than submit to it.
• The Overlord Body and Lin Xian: The Overlord arrives intending to challenge Ye Fan but mistakes Lin Xian for him, setting up a potentially humorous and dangerous confrontation.

Lin Xian fought Overlord, exposing the Overlord Body lineage’s past attack on an injured Sacred Body during the Dark Turmoil and overwhelming Hun Zhan with his superior cultivation and Buddhist techniques. As Lin Xian moved to kill him, Great Saint Qinghuang and Hun Tuo intervened and urged him to spare Overlord.

• Lin Xian confined the Dao origin and challenged Overlord, suppressing him with the Six-Syllable Mantra before Overlord and Purple Qilin counterattacked with Daoist techniques and their combined strength.
• Lin Xian accused the Overlord Body lineage of attacking a wounded Sacred Body Supreme Being after he had fought the Dark Turmoil, and Zhao Gongyi confirmed that the Yang Clan’s Great Accomplished Saint Physique had left a contingency with the envoys.
• Lin Xian entered the eight forbidden domain, triggered Nine Secrets: Jie, and struck Overlord and Purple Qilin down with a slap.
• Overlord summoned his divine forms and attacked with the War Immortal Fist, but Lin Xian crushed him with the Great Luo Buddha Palm and repeatedly suppressed him despite Nine Secrets: Zhe.
• Lin Xian prepared to kill Overlord, but Great Saint Qinghuang and Hun Tuo stepped into the battlefield and pleaded with him to spare Overlord.

Chapter Summary: Hun Tuo’s Further Persuasion, Mysterious Art Reawakened

Key Plot Points and Events

• Great Saint Hun Tuo repeatedly urges Lin Xian to spare Overlord, presenting himself as compassionate and arguing that the Sacred Body–Overlord Body feud should end. Lin Xian rejects him, insisting that the ancient blood feud cannot be settled through empty appeals to harmony.
• Overlord repeatedly attempts to resist despite his grievous injuries, using the Nine Secrets: Zhe to preserve his life. Lin Xian ultimately seals him with the Immortal-Sealing Six Bans and prepares to refine him into nourishment for the Divine God Minor World.
• Lin Xian demonstrates overwhelming Source术 mastery, drawing on the sun, moon, stars, earth veins, and even the universe’s living beings as “Source” to suppress Overlord’s divine spirit.
• Great Saint Qitian, Overlord’s protector, arrives and demands that Lin Xian release him. Lin Xian challenges the Ancient Starry Road’s supposed fairness, arguing that cultivation speed and strength are themselves part of a cultivator’s power.
• The assembled Saints discover that Lin Xian is not merely a powerful Saint King—he is not even a hundred years old. His astonishing cultivation shocks everyone and becomes another point of conflict with Qitian.
• The Divine Organization and several protectors arrive because the struggle is connected to the larger conflict over restoring the Ancient Heavenly Court and controlling the Ancient Starry Road.
• Lin Xian reveals that Ye Fan, who has been casually looting and consuming treasures in the secret realm, is the actual Sacred Body Overlord originally came to challenge. Overlord realizes he has fought the wrong opponent.
• Lin Xian still refuses to release Overlord and attempts to kill him. At that moment, a strand of divine will from the Heavenly Overlord Body Supreme Being emerges through the Overlord Bell to protect his descendant.
• The Overlord Bell attacks Lin Xian and Ye Fan solely because they are Sacred Bodies. Lin Xian summons the partially restored Immortal-Ascension Cauldron, associated with the Ancient Heavenly Court and Emperor Zun.
• The Green Cauldron clashes with the Overlord Bell, destroying the surrounding void and forcing the divine manifestation to withdraw. Before disappearing, it warns that the Overlord Body clan will eventually settle accounts.
• Lin Xian further escalates the situation by accusing Overlord’s faction of stealing the Ginseng Fruit Tree and oppressing Rong Chengzi. He declares that a Supreme Being from the Primordial Lineage will demand compensation after the war on Flying Immortal Star.
• The conflict is revealed to involve several major ancient forces, including the Primordial Ancient Star, Flying Immortal Star, the Kunlun Remnant Tribe, and the Divine Organization.

Character Developments

• Lin Xian is portrayed as decisive, arrogant, and utterly confident. He refuses moral pressure from Hun Tuo or the Great Saints, asserting that superior cultivation is a legitimate form of strength. His mastery of Source techniques and ability to command cosmic power establish him as far beyond ordinary young geniuses.
• Overlord remains defiant and unwilling to submit, even when completely outmatched. His survival through the Nine Secrets: Zhe emphasizes his extraordinary vitality, but his humiliation deepens when he realizes that Lin Xian is not even the Sacred Body he sought.
• Great Saint Hun Tuo continues acting as a seemingly benevolent mediator, though the Saints familiar with his history fear his tribulation-related reputation. His intervention reflects the political desire to preserve important young talents.
• Great Saint Qitian becomes enraged and defensive of Overlord. His attempt to lecture Lin Xian about youthful brilliance backfires when Lin Xian mocks his own failure to become an Emperor.
• Ye Fan appears relaxed and opportunistic, plundering treasures while others focus on the battle. His revelation as the true Sacred Body shocks the gathered Saints and Overlord.
• Great Saint Qinghuang recognizes the extraordinary nature of Lin Xian’s cultivation and helps highlight his terrifyingly young age.
• The Heavenly Overlord Body Supreme Being, acting through the Overlord Bell, shows that the Sacred Body–Overlord Body feud remains instinctive and absolute. His intervention elevates the conflict from a dispute between younger cultivators to one involving Supreme Being-level powers.
• Main God Zhou attempts to reassure the crowd that the Divine Organization and Ancient Heavenly Court possess enough hidden strength to withstand the Overlord Body clan.

Significant Themes

• The endless cycle of vengeance: Hun Tuo argues for harmony, but Lin Xian insists that ancient blood debts cannot simply be dismissed. The chapter presents revenge as both destructive and deeply embedded in clan identity.
• Strength as legitimacy: Lin Xian argues that advancing faster is itself a form of power, challenging conventional ideas of fair combat. The chapter repeatedly contrasts “fairness” with the harsh reality of cultivation.
• Youth and extraordinary talent: Lin Xian’s Saint King cultivation before the age of one hundred places him beyond historical prodigies and suggests that the current Golden Great Era is producing unprecedented figures.
• The clash of generations: Older Great Saints and Supreme Beings attempt to control or judge the younger generation, but Lin Xian and Ye Fan repeatedly demonstrate that the new era may surpass its predecessors.
• Political and cosmic instability: The battle is tied to the struggle between the Divine Organization, the myriad races, the Ancient Heavenly Court, and multiple ancient star systems. Personal grudges threaten to ignite a universe-wide conflict.
• Symbols of authority and immortality: The Immortal-Ascension Cauldron represents the Ancient Heavenly Court, Emperor Zun, and the hope of immortality. Its appearance dramatically shifts the balance of power and causes many to believe Lin Xian may be connected to Emperor Zun’s reincarnation.

Important Character Interactions

• Lin Xian and Hun Tuo: Hun Tuo repeatedly seeks mercy, but Lin Xian dismisses his appeals and exposes the limits of moral persuasion in the face of ancient hatred.
• Lin Xian and Overlord: Their interaction is one-sided suppression. Overlord seeks a dignified battle or mutual destruction, while Lin Xian seals and humiliates him, treating him as an enemy to be eliminated rather than an equal.
• Lin Xian and Great Saint Qitian: Their exchange becomes a contest of words as well as power. Lin Xian ridicules Qitian’s authority and challenges his lack of Emperor-level achievement.
• Lin Xian and Ye Fan: Lin Xian identifies Ye Fan as the true target of Overlord’s challenge, while Ye Fan responds humorously and denies being Emperor Zun. Their alliance is reinforced when Lin Xian summons the Green Cauldron above Ye Fan.
• The Overlord Bell and the Immortal-Ascension Cauldron: Their collision embodies the ancient opposition between the Overlord Body and Sacred Body lineages. The confrontation also symbolizes a clash between Supreme Being authority and the Heavenly Court’s claim to cosmic legitimacy.
• Lin Xian and the wider factions: By threatening retaliation over the Ginseng Fruit Tree and invoking the Primordial Lineage, Lin Xian transforms a personal battle into a dispute involving several ancient powers and potentially the entire universe.

Ye Fan revealed his origins from the Primordial Ancient Star and fought the Heavenly Overlord Body, unveiling an unprecedented state of alternative sainthood and killing him with one punch. He then declared that defeated enemies could never be his rivals and offered to teach his technique as he began his conquest of the starry sky.

• Great Saint Canghai asked Ye Fan about the Three-Crazy Daoist, and Ye Fan showed that he had also drawn on the unifying principle of Tai Chi to balance Yin and Yang.
• Lin Xian released the wounded Heavenly Overlord Body after Ye Fan asked to fight him, and Ye Fan battled him with his Sacred Body powers and One Qi Transforms Three Selves.
• The Heavenly Overlord Body burned his blood essence and tried to pull Ye Fan into his tribulation, but Ye Fan entered the Divine Forbidden Domain and achieved alternative sainthood.
• Ye Fan activated the Nine Secrets: Jie and killed the Heavenly Overlord Body with a single punch, destroying his body and spirit.
• Lin Xian collected the fallen Overlord's purple blood, while Ye Fan offered to teach his technique and declared that no enemy he defeated could be called his rival.

Ye Fan killed Overlord with one punch, then demonstrated the power of his Sacred Body as the Heavenly Court promoted its teachings and currency. After Rui Wei failed to join the Heavenly Court, Ye Fan exposed the demon sharing his body, but Lin Xian chose to take Rui Wei as a disciple, recognizing the significance of his struggle to survive.

• Ye Fan killed Overlord instantly, and the Great Saints recognized him as the foremost contender on the Human Race Ancient Road.
• Ye Fan unleashed a devastating punch at Lin Xian, who shattered the Source of Dao and transformed its energy into a flourishing world within the Divine God Minor World.
• Lin Xian told Rui Wei that joining the Heavenly Court and paying five million Heavenly Emperor Coins were required to learn its world-opening methods.
• Rui Wei failed the Heavenly Court's recruitment contest and left the city, still determined to find a habitable world for his people.
• Ye Fan sensed that a demonic Primordial Spirit controlled Rui Wei and exposed the demon's history of killing Rui Wei's people and taking his body.
• Lin Xian stopped Ye Fan from erasing the demon and offered to teach Rui Wei, recognizing his survival as evidence of a path toward longevity.

Chapter Summary: At the End of Techniques, the Heavenly Emperor Fist

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lin Xian attempts to recruit Rui Wei and study his Primordial Spirit, which contains an alternative path toward immortality. Rui Wei refuses, having lost the purpose of cultivation after the extinction of the Ruomu Tribe.
• After helping Rui Wei suppress the Demon Embryo, Lin Xian urges him not to surrender to despair. He suggests that Rui Wei create a new race and preserve the Ruomu Tribe through bloodline, worship, and remembrance, possibly allowing its Great Dao to reappear through reincarnation.
• To revive Rui Wei’s hope, Lin Xian claims that Ye Fan is Emperor Zun reincarnated. Ye Fan supports the lie, and Rui Wei regains his will to live.
• Lin Xian secretly records the exchange and uploads it to the Eternal Star Network. The video becomes a sensation, convincing many Supreme Beings that Emperor Zun has returned and that reincarnation may be real.
• The announcement causes widespread upheaval. The Divine Organization declares loyalty, ancient clans mobilize, and prodigies from various races rush toward Human Race First Pass to challenge or pay homage to Ye Fan.
• Great Saint Qinghuang decides that the Human Race Ancient Road cannot stop the incoming forces. He orders some routes opened, intending to draw the enemy into a concentrated battlefield where they can be trapped and defeated.
• At Human Race First Pass, Qinghuang demands that Heavenly Court reveal its strength. Lin Xian takes command, ordering reinforcements from the Big Dipper Ancient Starfield and Flying Immortal Star.
• Lin Xian hints at the hidden power of the Sacred Body and Jiuli lineages, referring to an ancient ancestor and the possible revival of Jiuli-related forces.
• Qinghuang asks why Ye Fan is absent. Lin Xian explains that Ye Fan has reached the limit of Alternative Sainthood and has gone to undergo his own tribulation.
• Lin Xian reveals that Ye Fan’s comprehension has surpassed that of all previous Human Race Great Emperors. During an earlier battle, Ye Fan fused the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist into a new ultimate technique: the Heavenly Emperor Fist.
• Rather than undergo tribulation at Human Race Tenth Pass, Ye Fan opens his own small world and draws the entire Heavenly Tribulation into it. He battles projections of ancient emperors and finally nine manifestations of himself.
• Ye Fan destroys the tribulation and emerges from his opened heavens, taking a decisive step onto the Great Emperor path.

Character Developments

• Rui Wei: Moves from complete despair and emotional death toward renewed purpose. Lin Xian’s argument that he can revive the Ruomu Tribe through reproduction, remembrance, and possible reincarnation restores his hope.
• Lin Xian: Acts as strategist, manipulator, and ideological leader. He saves Rui Wei psychologically, exploits the public’s belief in Emperor Zun’s return, organizes Heavenly Court’s response to the coming crisis, and reveals confidence in hidden ancient forces.
• Ye Fan: Advances from Alternative Sainthood toward the Emperor Path. His insight leads to the creation of the Heavenly Emperor Fist, symbolizing his intent to surpass all previous emperors. His method of proving himself through his own small world demonstrates extraordinary mastery and ambition.
• Great Saint Qinghuang: Initially skeptical and alarmed by the crisis, he becomes increasingly astonished by Heavenly Court’s strength and Ye Fan’s unprecedented achievements. His willingness to gamble the Human Race Ancient Road shows his resolve and strategic boldness.
• The Divine Organization: Revealed as intensely devoted to Ye Fan, accepting even his most outrageous claims and achievements as proof of Emperor Zun’s supremacy.

Significant Themes

• Purpose after loss: Rui Wei’s despair illustrates how the destruction of one’s people can erase the meaning of cultivation. The chapter argues that remembrance and rebuilding can restore purpose.
• Reincarnation and legacy: The possibility that bloodlines, worship, and memory can preserve a race’s Dao connects personal survival with collective inheritance.
• Myth-making and belief: Lin Xian’s fabricated claim about Ye Fan’s reincarnation rapidly changes the political landscape, showing how belief can become a force as powerful as truth.
• The Emperor’s path as a path of slaughter: Qinghuang emphasizes that greatness is historically built through conflict, sacrifice, and the defeat of countless rivals.
• Innovation beyond tradition: Ye Fan refuses to follow the established route of attaining sainthood at Tenth Pass. By using his own small world and inventing the Heavenly Emperor Fist, he seeks to surpass the methods and achievements of all earlier emperors.
• The rise of Heavenly Court: The chapter marks a transition from Heavenly Court as a symbolic or assembled power to a force capable of confronting the entire universe.

Important Character Interactions

• Lin Xian and Rui Wei: Lin Xian challenges Rui Wei’s suicidal resignation and persuades him to continue living for the possibility of reviving his people.
• Lin Xian and Ye Fan: They cooperate in encouraging Rui Wei, with Ye Fan accepting Lin Xian’s false claim about his identity. Their earlier battle also leads to Ye Fan’s breakthrough and the creation of the Heavenly Emperor Fist.
• Lin Xian and Great Saint Qinghuang: Qinghuang seeks answers and military support, but Lin Xian confidently assumes command and reveals Heavenly Court’s hidden resources, leaving Qinghuang both impressed and uneasy.
• Qinghuang and the Divine Organization: Qinghuang demands proof that Heavenly Court can protect the Human Race Ancient Road, while the Divine Organization turns to Lin Xian for direction.
• Ye Fan and the Heavenly Tribulation: Ye Fan confronts projections of past emperors and nine versions of himself, symbolically overcoming both historical giants and his own limitations.

After reaching the unprecedented Primordial Saint realm, Ye Fan searched for Holy Master Lin and was drawn into a confrontation with Di Tian at the Human Race Tenth Pass. He crushed Di Tian and challenged the gathered young Supreme Beings, then fought them together and overwhelmed them while demanding that the hidden Holy Master reveal himself.

• Ye Fan passed the Heavenly Tribulation by surpassing its manifestations, reached the ultimate limit of sainthood, named his realm Primordial Saint, and advanced to the Eighth Heaven of the Saint Realm.
• Ye Fan asked Great Saint Qinghuang about Holy Master Lin, then searched the ancient starry road and encountered Di Tian’s projected body and followers at the Human Race Tenth Pass.
• Ye Fan destroyed Di Tian’s projection with a single punch, and later broke Di Tian’s true body and injured his Immortal Altar and Primordial Spirit with another overwhelming strike.
• Ye Fan challenged the assembled young Supreme Beings to attack him together and named Di Tian, the Great Demon God, Fairy Qing Shi, and the Human King among them.
• A Recording Stone urged the gathered prodigies to attack Ye Fan, who recognized the hidden Holy Master behind the provocation and demanded that he show himself.
• Di Tian and several young Supreme Beings attacked Ye Fan, but he fought within the Divine Forbidden Domain, absorbed their arts, and sent another opponent flying with his Heavenly Emperor Fist.

Ye Fan defeated the human prodigies with his Heavenly Emperor Fist, then became the focus of a conflict between humanity and the Saint Spirit Race over the Great Moon Slope. As a full-scale battle erupted at the Human Race Tenth Pass, a Saint King stone man challenged Ye Fan, who stood ready to answer.

• Ye Fan crushed Great Demon God Gu Huang with one punch and shattered Lin Xian's divine sense, though Lin Xian's curse left a red ring on him.
• A ninth-heaven Great Saint of the Saint Spirit Race attacked Ye Fan, and Great Saint Canghai intervened to fight him.
• Human cultivators learned that the Saint Spirit Race had come to claim the Great Moon Slope and its seven Saint Spirit Wells, which held the Heaven-Mending Secret Art and the legacy of an ancient Saint Spirit.
• The half-step quasi-emperor Ao Mang appeared and battered the aging Great Saint Qinghuang, while the Human King, Fairy Qing Shi, Di Tian, and their allies joined the battle against the Saint Spirits.
• Saint Spirit forces launched a broad assault on the Human Race Tenth Pass, and a stone Saint King challenged Ye Fan, claiming he would easily kill a mere Saint.

Ye Fan and the Human Race fought the Saint Spirit army on the Ancient Starry Road, while reinforcements led by Daoist Cai and the Crazy Old Man held off powerful enemies. As the Light Tribe and four evil gods joined the battle, Lin Xian opened a passage for a Primordial Lineage Daoist to come to their aid.

• Ye Fan defeated a stone Saint Spirit King and rallied the human Saints as he slew Saint Spirits across the battlefield.
• Great Saint Cangyan arrived, but Lin Xian's incarnation challenged him until Daoist Cai intervened and confronted him.
• The Crazy Old Man arrived and overwhelmed the Saint Spirit Ao Mang with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist.
• Ao Mang summoned four evil gods, who joined the Saint Spirits in attacking the Human Race Ancient Road.
• Lin Xian's incarnation opened a star gate, and a Daoist carrying the Demon-Subduing Sword set out from Flying Immortal Star.

Three-Crazy Daoist and the human Great Saints drove back the Saint Spirits and evil gods, until the Light God Race unleashed the Bright Emperor’s God-Refining Pot. Three-Crazy Daoist countered with the Daoist Venerable’s Diamond Bracelet, and the chapter ended as the Cai Family Daoist prepared to use Nine Secret: Bing to shift the Emperor Weapon battle.

• Zhang Sanfeng, calling himself Three-Crazy Daoist, arrived and fought the four evil gods with his Tai Chi powers while Ye Fan attacked the alien army.
• Crazy Old Man shattered Ao Mang, but Cangyan rescued the stone Saint Spirit with the Heaven-Mending Scripture, prompting Daoist Cai to face Cangyan while Crazy Old Man pursued Ao Mang.
• Ao Mang fled toward the four evil gods, forcing them to fight alongside the Saint Spirits as Three-Crazy Daoist and Crazy Old Man pressured the group.
• A Light God Race evil god brought out the Bright Emperor’s God-Refining Pot, and Three-Crazy Daoist answered with the Daoist Venerable’s Diamond Bracelet.
• The human Great Saints and their enemies empowered their respective Emperor Weapons, and Daoist Cai revealed that he knew Nine Secret: Bing as the weapons clashed.