Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Supreme Noming recruits Luo Feng to help obtain Emperor’s essence blood from the Ancient Corpse Tomb’s Third Tomb Chamber. As an advance reward, he gives Luo Feng the World-Sealing Spacetime scroll, a powerful defensive formation treasure designed to protect Luo Feng’s Galaxy Empire from threats like Demon Lord Fushen.
• Noming warns that the Abyss-Sealing Palace is under increasing pressure: powerful Hunyuan lifeforms have entered the Source World, and the defenders may eventually be forced to retreat. He also says Fushen has vanished and remains a serious danger.
• Luo Feng agrees to help Noming, provided Tianxun City Lord does not object. Noming says Luo Feng can enter the Ancient Warship’s core secret realm only if Tianxun takes him; Noming himself may not be strong enough to protect him there.
• Back in Frost City, Luo Feng gives Frost Lord a large amount of essence blood from the Five-Headed Nether Demon Flood Dragon, far more than Frost Lord expected.
• Luo Feng learns that Tianxun City Lord also wants Emperor’s essence blood, likely as a key to entering the Ancient Warship’s core secret realm, where a Hunyuan Spirit Treasure may be hidden.
• Luo Feng proposes that he and Frost Lord explore the secret realm together once Frost Lord has finished fusing his Pole-Realm Staff.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng acts cautiously but ambitiously: he accepts Noming’s reward while leaving room to refuse if Tianxun objects, and he continues seeking opportunities to explore the Ancient Warship.
• Supreme Noming shows that he has researched Luo Feng’s circumstances closely and wants to secure his help through a valuable advance gift. He also warns Luo Feng about the broader military crisis.
• Frost Lord is impressed by Luo Feng’s achievements and receives the dragon essence blood with delight. He is surprised by the possibility of a Hunyuan Spirit Treasure and becomes interested in joining Luo Feng’s expedition.
• Tianxun City Lord remains an important influence despite not appearing: his protection helped bring about Luo Feng’s reconciliation with Qiansi Luoshan, and his approval may determine whether Luo Feng can enter the secret realm.

Significant themes

• Rising danger and responsibility: The threat to the Source World underscores the need for Luo Feng and other powerful figures to grow stronger and defend their realm.
• Power, trust, and obligation: Luo Feng weighs Noming’s offer against his loyalty to Tianxun, while Noming and Tianxun both avoid letting favors become excessive debts.
• Ambition and collaboration: The prospect of a dangerous but valuable expedition pushes Luo Feng and Frost Lord toward a possible partnership.
• Hidden secrets and looming threats: Fushen’s disappearance and the Ancient Warship’s concealed treasure both signal dangers and discoveries still ahead.

Mountain Guest marries a woman he met while traveling, bringing happiness to Luo Feng, who is glad his teacher has moved beyond his old reserve. Many God Kings attend the wedding, and Luo Feng gives the couple Nine-Heart Lotus seeds and Mountain Guest an Origin Supreme Treasure.
Over the following epochs, Demon Lord Fushen reappears in Bloodwing Tribe territory, far from Luo Feng’s protected Galaxy Empire. Luo Feng expects the Origin Continent to face renewed turmoil, while trusting the Divine Hall to respond. Much later, Hong becomes Humanity’s third Saint Realm cultivator. Impressed by his steadfast resolve, Luo Feng gives him a Primal Chaos Spirit to aid his future cultivation.
Meanwhile, Luo Feng equips one of his clones to protect Humanity and makes quiet preparations to keep the Galaxy Empire safe without removing its sense of danger. In the Star Tower, he develops Fleeting Flash, a new blade technique. Sparring with Moyin helps him discover that the move’s speed does not simply override spacetime; it must suppress spacetime’s influence. After repeated tests, Luo Feng masters the technique, though he knows his overall strength still falls short of a city lord’s.
Planning to pause his cultivation and explore the Origin Continent with his family, Luo Feng receives word that the third token has appeared at an auction in Nine Truth City and is told to return with his true body.
Character developments and interactions: Mountain Guest’s marriage reveals a warmer, more emotionally open side of him, and Luo Feng celebrates it with affection and teasing. Hong’s breakthrough confirms the importance of determination alongside talent. Moyin serves as Luo Feng’s sparring partner, testing his new technique and prompting its refinement.
Themes: Resolve can matter as much as innate talent; power grows through experimentation and adaptation; and protecting others means balancing security with the challenges that help them grow.

Key plot points and events

• The third token for the Ancient Corpse Tomb has appeared, making it possible to locate the tomb when all three tokens resonate.
• The Frost Lord explains the tomb’s dangers to Luo Feng. Supreme-level beings cannot enter, and each of the three chambers is guarded by a keeper. Inside, powerful corpse spirits attack living beings and are drawn into a frenzy by the token’s aura.
• The token’s aura—and even a visitor’s presence—can be concealed using deathly energy gathered by killing corpse spirits. The first two chambers are understood, but no one knows what awaits in the uncharted third chamber.
• He Tianxun arrives in person and asks Luo Feng to retrieve Emperor’s blood essence from the Third Tomb Chamber. Luo Feng agrees to try.
• He Tianxun reveals that the blood essence is connected to a Core Secret Realm inside the Ancient Warship, which contains a powerful legacy and many treasures. He proposes that he, Luo Feng, and the Frost Lord share what they discover.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng carefully assesses the tomb’s rules, especially whether his clones can survive there, and recognizes that the third chamber is the greatest uncertainty. He remains confident but accepts the risk of the mission.
• The Frost Lord acts as Luo Feng’s guide and advisor, explaining the tomb’s structure, threats, and possible strategy. He also teases He Tianxun about supporting Luo Feng and praises Luo Feng’s potential.
• He Tianxun shows trust in Luo Feng by entrusting him with a difficult mission and revealing the secret behind his request. His reunion with the Frost Lord is warm and familiar, and the two recall their past encounter aboard the Ancient Warship.
• Luo Feng is touched that He Tianxun includes him in the Ancient Warship opportunity, strengthening their sense of partnership.

Significant themes

• Risk and perseverance: The tomb is lethal, and success depends on surviving successive trials.
• Power through adversity: Yuan’s design forces entrants into desperate circumstances that can reveal their true strength.
• Trust and shared opportunity: He Tianxun’s disclosure turns a personal request into a cooperative venture among the three characters.
• The unknown: The unexplored third chamber raises the stakes and leaves the outcome uncertain.

Plot and key events

• He Tianxun and the Frost Lord finish reminiscing, while Luo Feng listens. The three groups holding Ancient Corpse Tomb tokens agree to reunite after ten thousand years.
• Underworld God Zhou and Gaiser arrive at Frost City, each accompanied by a Supreme who can wield the Space Origin. When Luo Feng, Underworld God, and Gaiser bring their tokens together, the tokens form a pattern and point toward the tomb’s location on the Origin Continent.
• The Frost Lord transports them there and explains the rules: entrants have a limited stay and can leave early only from a tomb passage—not from inside a chamber.
• The three enter the tomb and meet its masked, ancient Tomb Keeper. He sends Luo Feng down the middle passage, while Underworld God and Gaiser take the side passages.
• Luo Feng encounters a far stronger-than-usual masked guardian, apparently an assassin. He kills it with a single Startling Glimpse slash and reaches the first tomb chamber.
• The chamber contains six colossal High-Level Hunyuan Lifeform corpses. Their bodies bear patterns that convert the power of heaven and earth into Origin powers and, in the strongest case, Primal Chaos power.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng’s reputation is now widely recognized: even the visiting God Kings and Supremes greet him respectfully, knowing his strength exceeds theirs.
• The Tomb Keeper singles Luo Feng out, assigns him the middle passage, and privately recognizes that the World Origin has acknowledged him. After seeing Luo Feng dispatch the unusually powerful guardian, he wonders whether Luo Feng might reach deeper parts of the tomb and claim the opportunity left by his master.
• Underworld God and Gaiser notice the Tomb Keeper’s apparent preference for Luo Feng but proceed without challenging the assignment. Luo Feng, for his part, suspects the middle passage has been made unusually difficult on purpose.

Significant themes

• Power and recognition: Luo Feng’s strength draws attention from both peers and ancient figures.
• Trial and opportunity: The tomb’s dangers may be tailored to test exceptional entrants, while overcoming them could lead to a major inheritance.
• Ancient mysteries: The corpses’ inscriptions reveal a mechanism for transforming natural power into fundamental forces, hinting at the tomb’s deep knowledge of life and the cosmos.

Key events

• Luo Feng meets Underworld God Zhou and Gaiser in the first tomb chamber. The three agree to travel together toward the central Sacrificial Tower, where valuable rewards can be claimed.
• Their flight awakens more than seven hundred powerful Corpse Spirits, including six exceptionally strong kings. Frightened, Underworld God and Gaiser abandon Luo Feng and hide, planning to hunt spirits cautiously instead.
• Luo Feng continues alone. He recognizes the danger but trusts his own strength and presses toward the tower.
• Using the Star Tower and a devastating modified Bright Light Starflow slash, Luo Feng cuts down a Corpse Spirit King and destroys nearly a hundred spirits at once. He then surges through the remaining attackers, clearing a path to the Sacrificial Tower and entering it.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng remains composed and confident under overwhelming pressure. He accepts the pair’s company without resentment, then carries on when they withdraw.
• Underworld God Zhou and Gaiser initially seek Luo Feng’s help but lose faith when they see the number and strength of the Corpse Spirits. After witnessing his effortless victory, both regret leaving him and realize they badly underestimated him.
• The trio’s brief alliance breaks when fear outweighs trust: the two choose their own cautious plan, while Luo Feng continues alone.

Significant themes

• Trust versus fear: Underworld God and Gaiser’s fear leads them to abandon a capable ally.
• The danger of underestimating others: Luo Feng’s strength far exceeds their expectations.
• Confidence and resolve: Luo Feng’s calm determination contrasts with the pair’s caution and subsequent regret.

Key plot points and events

• In the First Tomb Chamber’s nine-level Sacrificial Tower, Luo Feng easily defeats the guardians and chooses essence blood at every level, passing over remains and other treasures.
• After clearing the ninth level, he enters a deeper spacetime and reaches the Second Tomb Chamber. Its passage guardian is stronger than the one he previously faced, but Luo Feng defeats it with two uses of Shooting Star Shadow.
• The Second Tomb Chamber holds four enormous World-Level Hunyuan corpses: the Nether Ice God-Demon, the Infinite Serpent, a red-marked being resembling a creature Luo Feng encountered in the Chaos Abyss, and a gray, tentacled lifeform.
• Their Will Impact is far more powerful than in the first chamber. As Luo Feng approaches the Sacrificial Tower, the corpses generate vastly stronger and more numerous spirits—some comparable to Supreme Zhi Xuan—that attack with both will-based roars and fragments of their former masters’ techniques.
• Luo Feng fights through the swarm using his blade, the Shadow-Stacking Demon Box, and Illusion Realm Space-Time Steps, eventually reaching the tower.

Character development

• Luo Feng’s growing confidence is backed by his Blade Soul realm: he recognizes that the second passage guardian would have been a serious obstacle before, but now defeats it quickly.
• He remains pragmatic, prioritizing essence blood over remains or equipment, and decisive even when the second chamber’s dangers force him to take the fight seriously.

Character interactions

• Luo Feng ignores Underworld God and Gaiser’s regret as he enters the first tower.
• The masked passage guardian recognizes Luo Feng and boasts that he will not pass so easily this time. Luo Feng dismisses the threat and defeats him.
• Luo Feng has no direct exchanges with the corpse spirits; their collective attacks turn his approach to the second tower into a difficult battle.

Significant themes

• Escalating trials: Each chamber raises the strength of its guardians, Will Impact, and corpse spirits.
• Growth through mastery: Luo Feng’s Blade Soul and combat techniques let him overcome threats that might once have challenged him.
• Choice and priorities: He consistently values essence blood over other available rewards.
• The mystery of the tomb: The corpses’ identities and origins—including the Infinite Serpent’s presence—suggest a wider history behind the invasion and the tombs.

Key plot points and events

• In the second chamber’s Sacrificial Tower, Luo Feng defeats the guardian on the ninth floor: a corpse spirit resembling the Nine-Headed Nether Demon Flood Dragon. He claims the Nether Ice God-Demon’s rewards: essence blood, nine scales, and a snowy-white half-ring.
• The half-ring’s ancient, freezing aura suggests it is a missing component of the Frost Lord’s Pole-Realm Staff. Luo Feng contacts the Frost Lord, who confirms that completing the staff is more valuable to him than receiving the essence blood. Luo Feng takes the half-ring.
• Curious whether he can claim another reward, Luo Feng reaches for the essence blood. He learns that an additional reward requires a second trial at twice the difficulty—and failure means death. He decides to proceed.
• A much stronger, more intelligent corpse spirit appears, and the passage closes. Luo Feng must defeat it or die. The battle is fierce: he deliberately accepts blows to create openings, repeatedly targets the creature’s wing, and strikes one of its eyes. The chapter ends as the injured guardian goes berserk and attacks wildly.

Character developments

• Luo Feng shows confidence in the first fight, then adapts quickly when the second guardian proves capable of dodging and countering. His willingness to risk himself reflects both resolve and loyalty to the Frost Lord.
• The Frost Lord reveals that completing his Pole-Realm Staff is his immediate priority. He also believes the staff and his existing Nether Demon Flood Dragon bloodline will greatly increase his strength.

Character interactions

• Luo Feng consults the Frost Lord remotely about the half-ring and follows his request to claim it.
• Luo Feng’s second trial becomes a direct contest of resolve and tactics: he accepts the guardian’s attacks to land damaging strikes, exploiting his Star Tower’s protection and the openings created by his counterattacks.

Significant themes

• Risk and ambition: Luo Feng knowingly accepts a life-or-death trial for an additional reward.
• Loyalty and cooperation: He prioritizes the Frost Lord’s needs when choosing the half-ring.
• Adaptability and perseverance: Luo Feng changes tactics when faced with a more intelligent, far stronger opponent.

Plot points and events

• Luo Feng defeats the Nine-Headed Nether Demon Flood Dragon Corpse Spirit by repeatedly attacking its wounded head. Once it dissolves into corpse energy, a passage opens to the Third Tomb Chamber.
• In the First Tomb Chamber, Gaiser and the Underworld God retreat from the corpse spirits after struggling to collect only a few spirits’ worth of corpse energy. They need the energy of roughly five hundred spirits to disguise themselves. Accepting that Luo Feng will not return to help, they agree to cooperate: Gaiser draws attacks with his sturdier body while the Underworld God hunts through assassination and surprise attacks.
• In the Third Tomb Chamber, Luo Feng faces a powerful black-clothed, masked guardian—an intelligent opponent stronger than the corpse spirit he just defeated. Their first clash reveals the guardian can counter Luo Feng’s fastest technique.
• Luo Feng brings out Star Tower’s sealing and devouring domains and uses his World Projection. When the guardian counters Luo Feng’s movement technique with a dense blade-energy domain, Luo Feng switches to close combat and trades injuries, relying on his exceptional defense.
• Over hundreds of thousands and then millions of exchanges, Luo Feng studies and adapts to the guardian’s refined techniques. He gradually gains the advantage, wounds it repeatedly, and finally destroys it with a decisive slash.

Character development

• Luo Feng is exhilarated by the challenge and treats the guardian as a chance to improve. Rather than relying only on power and treasures, he recognizes the importance of technique, learns from his opponent, and steadily refines his own blade work during the fight.
• Gaiser and the Underworld God move from regret and frustration toward practical cooperation. They divide roles according to their strengths to improve their chances of gathering enough corpse energy.
• The guardian is established as a skilled, adaptive fighter with near-flawless defense and sophisticated attacks, though its energy-body nature leaves it vulnerable to mistakes and attrition.

Significant themes

• Growth through adversity: A difficult opponent becomes a “whetstone” that helps Luo Feng improve.
• Technique versus raw strength: The fight shows how refined skill can challenge greater force, and prompts Luo Feng to value mastery alongside power, divine energy, and treasures.
• Cooperation and complementary strengths: Gaiser and the Underworld God recognize that teamwork is more effective than struggling alone.
• Persistence and adaptation: Luo Feng wins not through an immediate overpowering strike, but by analyzing, adjusting, and maintaining pressure over a prolonged battle.

Character interactions

• Luo Feng and the guardian exchange wary, provocative remarks before testing each other in combat. Their prolonged duel becomes both a contest and a learning opportunity for Luo Feng.
• Gaiser and the Underworld God discuss their failures, acknowledge their regret over losing Luo Feng’s help, and agree on a coordinated hunting strategy.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Feng enters the previously unexplored third chamber of the Ancient Corpse Tomb, curious about the mysterious “Emperor” said to have led an invasion of a Source World.
• He finds a gigantic, golden-armored corpse whose oppressive aura and Will Impact exceed those in the second chamber and may surpass even a powerful tomb guardian.
• Reaching the chamber’s Sacrificial Tower requires passing a swarm of corpse spirits—hundreds at first, including a powerful King. They continually regenerate from the Emperor’s corpse, so defeating them all by force is impractical.
• Luo Feng realizes the spirits are mindless and that the Token’s aura attracts them. Using his true body and six avatars, he repeatedly draws out groups, hunts them, gathers their corpse Qi, and retreats to conceal himself.
• After roughly fifty rounds, he collects and absorbs enough Qi—over three thousand spirits’ worth—to mask the Token’s aura. He then disguises himself as a corpse spirit and passes unnoticed through the swarm.
• Luo Feng sees the Emperor’s face: an extraordinarily beautiful, refined being. He suspects the intact body was destroyed by Soul Annihilation, then enters the final Sacrificial Tower to face its trials and claim the reward.

Character developments

• Luo Feng shows curiosity about the Emperor but remains cautious about its immense power.
• Rather than rely on brute force, he adapts strategically, using his avatars, formations, and patience to overcome the regenerating spirits.
• His successful disguise reflects his resourcefulness and growing mastery of the tomb’s rules.

Significant themes

• Strategy over strength: Luo Feng succeeds by exploiting the spirits’ lack of intelligence and the Token’s influence, not by defeating the entire swarm.
• Patience and preparation: Repeated retreats and gradual accumulation of corpse Qi turn a seemingly impossible obstacle into a manageable one.
• Mystery and formidable power: The Emperor’s unknown history, overwhelming aura, and unusual beauty deepen the tomb’s central enigma.

Character interactions

• The corpse spirits repeatedly attack Luo Feng because of the Token, while the King leads coordinated assaults; once Luo Feng masks his aura, they mistake him for one of their own.
• Luo Feng coordinates with his six avatars, arranging them into two groups that use the Three Tribulations Formation and Shield Void Formation to hunt the spirits.

Chapter Summary: “Luo Feng’s Methods”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Luo Feng enters the Sacrificial Tower and discovers that the first eight layers are unguarded, allowing him to advance without fighting.
• On the Ninth Layer, he encounters Xiang Wei, the black-clad, masked guardian he previously met in the third tomb passage. This version is only a Divine Power Avatar, but it is far stronger than before.
• Xiang Wei explains the Ninth Layer’s conditions:
  • Luo Feng can obtain the immediate reward by defeating him.
  • He can also claim it by surviving beneath Xiang Wei’s blade for a million eras.
  • However, only victory will grant access to the Ancient Corpse Tomb’s greatest opportunity.
• Xiang Wei reveals that he is connected to Yuan, the creator of the Lie Yuan Technique. He confirms that Luo Feng is the first person to master the publicly distributed version of the technique; all other public scrolls shattered once Luo Feng succeeded.
• Luo Feng uses the Lie Yuan Technique against Xiang Wei, though it has no visible effect on the avatar. He then begins a full battle, determined to win rather than merely survive.
• Xiang Wei displays the third stage of the Blade Heart and draws power from the Ninth Layer’s formation and the ten fundamental Origin Mysteries. His strength surpasses even Supreme Longze’s.
• Luo Feng is initially forced onto the defensive, but his desire for the greatest opportunity strengthens his Blade Soul. His blade becomes purer and more powerful as his will, soul, and weapon resonate.
• Realizing ordinary combat will not be enough, Luo Feng activates the Dragon Tower Realm and combines it with the Astral Dao Manual. While continuing to fight Xiang Wei at close range, he gathers immense energy into countless stars.
• Luo Feng then transforms the Star Tower’s sealing domain into the Devouring Domain, compressing the exploding stars into an overwhelmingly powerful celestial body. Xiang Wei finally recognizes the danger, and his expression changes as the attack reaches completion.

Character Developments

• Luo Feng: Displays greater confidence, determination, and strategic flexibility. Rather than settle for survival or the ordinary reward, he commits himself to defeating Xiang Wei and obtaining the tomb’s greatest opportunity. His intense desire for power strengthens his Blade Soul, showing that his emotional resolve directly enhances his combat ability.
• Xiang Wei: Is established as a vastly stronger and more knowledgeable guardian than Luo Feng’s previous opponent. He reveals his connection to Yuan and shows genuine interest in Luo Feng’s mastery of the Lie Yuan Technique. Though confident and seemingly invincible, he becomes alert when Luo Feng combines multiple secret arts.

Significant Themes

• Desire as a source of strength: Luo Feng’s longing for the greatest opportunity sharpens his will and directly improves the power of his blade.
• Mastery and uniqueness: The Lie Yuan Technique is portrayed as an exceptionally rare inheritance, with Luo Feng becoming its sole successful public inheritor.
• Persistence versus overwhelming power: Although Xiang Wei is stronger, Luo Feng relies on endurance, adaptability, and layered techniques rather than raw strength alone.
• The path beyond survival: The chapter distinguishes between merely enduring a trial and truly overcoming it. Luo Feng refuses the safer path because only victory can lead to the ultimate opportunity.

Character Interactions

• Xiang Wei taunts and tests Luo Feng while explaining the rewards and the limits of the trial.
• Luo Feng questions Xiang Wei about his identity and true body, revealing his desire to measure himself against the guardian’s full strength.
• Their conversation about the Lie Yuan Technique establishes a connection between Luo Feng and Yuan’s legacy.
• During the battle, Xiang Wei recognizes Luo Feng’s Blade Soul and growing potential, while Luo Feng studies Xiang Wei’s techniques and searches for a way to surpass him.
• The confrontation ends at a critical moment, with Xiang Wei facing Luo Feng’s fully formed Devouring Domain attack.

Chapter Summary: Fourth-Layer World

Key Plot Points and Events

• Luo Feng defeats Xiang Wei’s Divine Power Clone by coordinating his own close-combat attack with a devastating celestial-body strike. Xiang Wei is unable to defend against both attacks simultaneously, and his clone is destroyed.
• Luo Feng reflects that Xiang Wei was comparable to Supreme Longze in raw strength, but lacked a Supreme’s Absolute Domain. Without that domain’s suppression of divine power, heaven-and-earth energy, and Origin Mysteries, Xiang Wei could be defeated.
• A new passage appears after the battle, suggesting the existence of a Fourth Tomb Chamber or an even greater opportunity within the Ancient Corpse Tomb.
• At the altar, Luo Feng finds golden-red blood essence and several pieces of skin. He chooses the blood, realizing it may be the key to opening the Ancient Warship’s Core Secret Realm. He also suspects the ancient corpse may have once been connected to the warship in the Chaos Abyss.
• Opening the bottle briefly releases an extraordinarily powerful Will Impact, far stronger than that of the corpse outside the tomb. Luo Feng seals it again and stores it.
• Luo Feng enters the passage and reaches the Fourth-Layer World: a mysterious realm containing a massive black palace surrounded by an abyss filled with dragonlike creatures.
• Xiang Wei’s voice summons him inside. After traversing a spatially distorted path and entering the palace, Luo Feng meets Xiang Wei himself, rather than another clone.
• Xiang Wei offers Luo Feng wine and a Sacred Origin Golden Fruit. The fruit purges much of the foreign energy within Luo Feng’s body, including the mysterious power awakened by God Emperor Jun.
• Xiang Wei reveals that he is the Controller of this independent world and can sense that the foreign power inside Luo Feng does not truly belong to him. He warns Luo Feng either to remove the remaining energy or fully assimilate it, since Luo Feng cannot safely rely on a power he does not control.
• Xiang Wei confirms that Luo Feng has reached the Fourth-Layer World and promises him the greatest opportunity hidden within the Ancient Corpse Tomb.

Character Developments

• Luo Feng: Demonstrates improved combat judgment and overwhelming battle coordination by defeating Xiang Wei’s powerful clone. He becomes increasingly curious about the tomb’s deeper secrets and the origin of the blood essence. He also learns that an unidentified force remains inside him, possibly connected to the Origin Baptism, and recognizes the danger of depending on uncontrolled power.
• Xiang Wei: Is revealed to be far more mysterious and powerful than his Divine Power Clone suggested. His true form appears calm and hospitable, but he possesses control over an independent world and can perceive hidden energies within Luo Feng. He shifts from enemy to potential guide or benefactor.
• God Emperor Jun’s lingering influence: The power once awakened within Luo Feng is shown to be unstable and partly foreign. Though it previously saved Luo Feng, its true nature and loyalty remain uncertain.

Significant Themes

• Power and control: Raw strength is not enough against a Supreme’s Absolute Domain, emphasizing the importance of authority and control over fundamental forces.
• The danger of borrowed power: Xiang Wei warns that power Luo Feng cannot control may ultimately harm him, even if it has helped him before.
• Hidden identities and deeper mysteries: Xiang Wei’s true nature, the origin of the ancient warship, the meaning of the blood essence, and the purpose of the Fourth-Layer World remain concealed.
• Trial leading to opportunity: Luo Feng’s victory over Xiang Wei’s clone serves as the test allowing him to access the tomb’s greatest secret.
• Cooperation after conflict: The chapter transitions from violent confrontation to cautious interaction, with Xiang Wei offering Luo Feng aid and knowledge.

Character Interactions

• Luo Feng and Xiang Wei first clash in a desperate battle, with Luo Feng exploiting the clone’s inability to counter both his blade and the celestial body.
• Afterward, Luo Feng cautiously follows Xiang Wei’s summons into the palace.
• Xiang Wei treats Luo Feng as a guest, sharing wine and fruit rather than continuing their conflict.
• The Sacred Origin Golden Fruit reveals the hidden energy in Luo Feng’s body, prompting a serious discussion about its origins and dangers.
• Xiang Wei warns Luo Feng that only power fully under his control can be trusted, while Luo Feng respectfully accepts the warning and expresses interest in learning Xiang Wei’s identity and the nature of the promised opportunity.

Chapter Summary: “A Great Opportunity”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Luo Feng discovers that Xiang Wei is another servant of Yuan, alongside Xiang He. Their mission is to locate and cultivate individuals who might eventually reach Yuan’s level.
• Xiang Wei reveals that he is a false World-Level Hunyuan Lifeform. Unlike a true World-Level Hunyuan Lifeform, he has not fused with a Source World.
• Yuan once fused with the Origin Continent’s Source World but voluntarily relinquished control, hoping that a new lord would eventually emerge.
• Luo Feng is currently the strongest candidate because:
  • He received the Source World’s recognition in the Primordial Mountain Realm.
  • He possesses Perfect Gene.
  • He survived ten Origin Empowerment Baptisms.
• Xiang Wei explains that She Chuan, despite possessing immense strength and a Hunyuan Spirit Treasure, is unlikely to become Yuan’s successor because he lacks Perfect Gene and has not faced sufficient danger to break through his current limits.
• Yuan deliberately left the Chaos Abyss unsealed to expose the inhabitants of the Origin Continent to genuine life-and-death threats. Xiang Wei and Xiang He are forbidden from intervening in future invasions, even if the continent is destroyed.
• Xiang Wei reveals that Luo Feng has another possible route to Yuan’s level: comprehending a transcendent Way, particularly the Way of the Blade, for which Luo Feng has extraordinary talent.
• At the end of the chapter, Xiang Wei presents Yuan’s greatest opportunity: a black stone tablet, a golden bottle, and a black box. The tablet appears connected to the Path of Evolving Heaven.

Character Developments

• Luo Feng gains a much clearer understanding of his potential and his connection to Yuan’s plans. He learns that he may be uniquely qualified to become the Origin Continent’s next lord.
• Luo Feng’s Perfect Gene and Source World recognition are confirmed as rare advantages, but Xiang Wei emphasizes that survival remains his greatest obstacle.
• Luo Feng begins to consider two ultimate paths:
  1. Becoming a World-Level Hunyuan Lifeform and fusing with the Source World.
  2. Comprehending a transcendent Way, especially the Way of the Blade.
• Xiang Wei is established as a powerful but limited figure whose role is to guide and cultivate potential successors rather than directly interfere in major conflicts.
• Yuan is portrayed as an almost incomprehensibly powerful figure whose methods are harsh and far-sighted. His cultivation plans rely on pressure, danger, and forcing others beyond the world’s natural limits.
• She Chuan is shown in a more complex light: although he is powerful and protects the Origin Continent, his overwhelming advantage has prevented him from experiencing the crises necessary for a breakthrough.

Significant Themes

• Potential versus survival: Luo Feng may possess the greatest potential, but potential is meaningless unless he survives the dangers ahead.
• Growth through crisis: Genuine life-and-death situations are presented as essential for producing supreme powerhouses.
• Breaking beyond limitations: The Path of Evolving Heaven seeks to overcome the Source World’s restrictions by using internal strength and “Break Law with Force” rather than relying on external laws.
• Destiny and succession: Yuan is searching for someone capable of inheriting or surpassing his achievements, while Luo Feng may be the chosen successor.
• Different paths to transcendence: The chapter contrasts fusion with a Source World, mastery of Origin Power, and comprehension of a transcendent Way such as the Way of the Blade.
• The cost of indifference: Yuan’s willingness to sacrifice an entire Source World demonstrates the extreme distance between his perspective and that of ordinary beings.

Character Interactions

• Xiang Wei openly explains Yuan’s plans and Luo Feng’s potential, treating Luo Feng as a candidate worthy of receiving Yuan’s legacy.
• Luo Feng questions Xiang Wei about his identity, strength, and Yuan’s requirements, gradually realizing the enormous scale of the opportunity before him.
• Xiang Wei praises Luo Feng’s blade talent and encourages him to consider the Way of the Blade as an alternative route to transcendence.
• Luo Feng reflects with gratitude on She Chuan’s protection of the Origin Continent, recognizing that She Chuan’s presence has prevented even greater disasters.
• The chapter concludes with Xiang Wei preparing to reveal the significance of the three treasures left behind by Yuan, especially the black tablet connected to the Path of Evolving Heaven.

Key plot points

• Xiang Wei explains that Yuan created the Path of Evolving Heaven as a route toward becoming a second Hunyuan lord. Yuan’s earlier secret arts—Heaven-Piercing Thorn, Annihilation of Heaven and Earth, and Infinite Kalpa—were steps leading toward it.
• Xiang Wei gives Luo Feng a black tablet containing the Path’s cultivation method for beyond the Saint Realm, sufficient for practice at the God King level. The third tablet lies in the dangerous Ruins of Return.
• Entry to the Ruins requires a perfected soul—achieved through perfect genes—and a sufficiently strong soul. Even then, Luo Feng cannot revive the person he hopes to save unless he reaches Yuan’s level or refines and merges with the Source World.
• Xiang Wei gives Luo Feng a Ten-Petal Soul-Origin Flower to aid his cultivation. Luo Feng already has a seven-petaled flower, with six petals remaining, and believes the new method may help him reach the Supreme level.
• Xiang Wei examines Star Tower, recognizing it as Luo Feng’s life-bound treasure. He estimates it is close to, but not yet, a Hunyuan Spirit Treasure.
• Xiang Wei reveals that the bottle contains Glazed World Aura, a rare substance produced during a Source World’s birth. It can evolve space and can empower treasures. The aura that helped form Star Tower was the same substance, explaining its unusual spatial abilities.
• Star Tower reacts eagerly to the aura. Xiang Wei says absorbing the whole bottle should bring it close to Hunyuan Spirit Treasure level, though a World-Level Hunyuan Lifeform could still suppress it.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng shifts from surprise to determination as he sees the Path of Evolving Heaven as a possible route to greater power—and perhaps, eventually, to overturning the rules of life and death. He calmly accepts that reviving his loved one is still a distant challenge.
• Xiang Wei acts as a knowledgeable guide and generous benefactor, giving Luo Feng the cultivation method and flower while clarifying the limits of his current abilities.
• Their exchange becomes more personal when Xiang Wei asks about Luo Feng’s hope of revival, then examines Star Tower at Luo Feng’s invitation. Luo Feng trusts him, while Xiang Wei responds with admiration for the treasure and its maker.

Significant themes

• Progress through inheritance: Yuan’s earlier techniques and gifts form a deliberate path toward a greater cultivation goal.
• The limits of power and mortality: Reaching the Ruins or gaining strength alone cannot overcome a Source World’s laws; true revival requires power beyond those laws.
• Growth and potential: Luo Feng sees cultivation as a way to approach distant goals, while Star Tower’s growth mirrors his own.
• Worlds within worlds: The Glazed World Aura’s connection to Source Worlds prompts Luo Feng to wonder whether his Inner Universe might eventually develop comparable potential.

Key events

• Xiang Wei explains that World-Level Hunyuan Lifeforms from beyond the Origin Continent still covet its Source World. She Chuan guards the Chaos Abyss and repels them with a Hunyuan Spirit Treasure; outsiders who entered could cause widespread destruction.
• Xiang Wei gives Luo Feng the Glazed World Aura in addition to the Path of Evolving Heaven and Soul-Origin Flower. He then sends Luo Feng out of the Ancient Corpse Tomb.
• Luo Feng returns to the Galaxy Empire, intent on strengthening Humanity rather than letting it depend on him alone. His avatars pursue cultivation research and blood-serum development while his true body upgrades the Star Tower.
• The Star Tower absorbs the Glazed World Aura and devours the Shadow-Stacking Magic Box’s replication power. After a year, its nine worlds more than double in diameter, its Abyss World expands dramatically, and a new space begins generating its own origin power.
• The tower can now replicate a weaker miniature Star Tower, potentially developing it into a Supreme Treasure. Its sealing and devouring powers also rise sharply, making it a Hunyuan Spirit Treasure and greatly strengthening Luo Feng.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng grows more confident in his ability to protect himself, while recognizing that Humanity needs its own strong cultivators. He uses his resources strategically to improve both the Star Tower and his people’s prospects.
• Xiang Wei acts as a generous mentor and benefactor, giving Luo Feng the remaining treasure and expressing interest in his future.
• Their exchange is respectful and warm: Luo Feng thanks Xiang Wei, who sends him safely back to the Origin Continent.

Significant themes

• Power and protection: A powerful artifact can let even a lesser-ranked fighter challenge far stronger beings.
• Building beyond oneself: Luo Feng recognizes that a race cannot rely on a single protector.
• Transformation through resources: The Star Tower’s growth shows how combining rare materials and abilities can produce unexpected power.
• Cosmic danger and responsibility: The threats posed by outsiders underline the importance of guarding the Source World.

• Luo Feng sets his priorities: The Star Tower has taken shape and will grow stronger with him, but fully nurturing it will take substantial time and resources. He resumes studying the difficult God King stage of the Path of Evolving Heaven, aims to reach the Supreme Realm, and plans to make blood elixirs and a Saint Spring-like resource for Humanity.
• Moyin grows stronger: Luo Feng gives his servant Moyin a drop of blood essence from Pterosaur, a High-Level Hunyuan Lifeform. The dangerous refinement succeeds, greatly strengthening Moyin until he approaches the power of a lowest-ranked city lord. Luo Feng gives him two more drops, hoping he will be better prepared for the journey to the Ancient Warship’s Core Secret Realm.
• Luo Feng tempers himself: He spends thirty years erasing the will and ferocity from a Wild Giant’s blood essence, then absorbs it. Over the next two centuries, he refines five drops in total. His body improves little because it is already near its limit, but his soul and will grow substantially—his will now surpasses that of a Third Source Supreme and nears a Fourth Source Supreme’s.
• Next steps: Luo Feng leaves two avatars in the Galaxy Empire to produce blood elixirs and prepares to return to the Hunyuan Divine Realm. He plans to visit Frost City, then Yuan City and Tianxun City, and to repay Supreme Noming by giving the Frost Lord the Nether Ice God-Demon’s blood essence and half-ring.
  Character development and themes: Luo Feng becomes more deliberate about preparing for future dangers, strengthening both himself and his closest servant rather than relying solely on the Frost Lord. His experiments show the risks and rewards of using powerful resources: Moyin nearly loses control, while Luo Feng’s patient cultivation produces major gains in will. The chapter emphasizes preparation, growth through cultivation, and Luo Feng’s responsibility to Humanity and his allies.

Chapter Summary: “The Frost Lord’s Elation”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Luo Feng secretly returns from the Ancient Corpse Tomb after completing his objective, choosing not to announce his departure.
• He visits the Frost Lord in Frost City to deliver the crucial semicircular ice-crystal ring recovered from the Sacrificial Tower.
• The ring is revealed to be a missing core component of the Frost Lord’s Pole-Realm Staff, comparable in importance to the Ten-Thousand Springs Nether Ice.
• Once inserted into the staff, the ring completes its structure and causes a dramatic surge in its icy power. The weapon becomes roughly half the level of a Hunyuan Spirit Treasure and is considered unrivaled below that level.
• The Frost Lord explains that, combined with his Nether Demon Flood Dragon bloodline, the completed staff gives him enough strength to contend with the lord of a God-Level City.
• Luo Feng then reveals that he also obtained the Nether Ice God-Demon’s blood essence—despite the Sacrificial Tower supposedly allowing only one reward. He implies that overwhelming strength enabled him to overcome the restriction.
• The Frost Lord receives the blood essence, which he believes will greatly enhance his existing Five-Headed Nether Demon Flood Dragon bloodline.

Character Developments

• Luo Feng demonstrates his growing strength, resourcefulness, and generosity. He not only succeeds in acquiring the ring but also obtains the valuable blood essence and survives the associated trials.
• The Frost Lord undergoes a major power upgrade through the completed Pole-Realm Staff and the prospect of fusing with the Nine-Headed Nether Demon Flood Dragon’s bloodline. His confidence rises sharply, and he believes he can now confront powerful enemies such as Qiansi Luoshan and She Chuan.
• The Frost Lord’s emotional restraint also breaks down. His excitement, gratitude, and eagerness reveal how deeply he values Luo Feng and how significant this opportunity is to him.
• Their relationship formally deepens when the Frost Lord asks Luo Feng to call him “adoptive father,” and Luo Feng accepts.

Significant Themes

• Reciprocity and gratitude: The chapter emphasizes the lasting value of mutual aid. Luo Feng views the Frost Lord’s past assistance as priceless, while the Frost Lord feels indebted for Luo Feng’s extraordinary gifts.
• Power through cooperation: Both characters become stronger because of their alliance. Luo Feng’s achievements directly transform the Frost Lord’s capabilities.
• Trust and loyalty: The Frost Lord promises to defend Luo Feng against anyone who threatens him, showing that their bond has become familial and politically significant.
• Overcoming limitations: Luo Feng’s statement that “with enough strength, nothing’s impossible” highlights the chapter’s recurring idea that power can break rules and restrictions.
• Ambition tempered by satisfaction: Although the Frost Lord wishes for the Nine-Headed Nether Demon Flood Dragon’s full potential, he recognizes that completing the Pole-Realm Staff is already an enormous achievement.

Character Interactions

• The Frost Lord eagerly welcomes Luo Feng and personally goes to meet him, displaying unusual impatience and excitement.
• Luo Feng gives him the semicircular ring without demanding compensation, while the Frost Lord expresses guilt that his own past help seems insignificant by comparison.
• The two share admiration as the completed Pole-Realm Staff releases overwhelming cold, with Luo Feng recognizing its near-Hunyuan-level might.
• Luo Feng surprises the Frost Lord with the additional blood essence, producing disbelief before overwhelming joy.
• Their exchange ends with the Frost Lord declaring Luo Feng his adopted son and promising to protect him, while Luo Feng accepts him as his adoptive father.

Key plot points and events

• The Frost Lord plans to merge with the nine-headed Nether Demon Flood Dragon’s bloodline to increase his strength, a process that may take an immense amount of time. He and Luo Feng agree to grow stronger before entering the Core Secret Realm with He Tianxun.
• Luo Feng enters seclusion to study Origin Power and the Path of Evolving Heaven. Nearly a trillion eras pass, and he eventually contacts He Tianxun, signaling that he has emerged from the Ancient Corpse Tomb.
• He Tianxun privately intends to sacrifice Luo Feng and take his perfect body, believing it will let him control the Source World alongside a Hunyuan Spirit Treasure.
• Luo Feng goes first to Yuan City to repay Noming Supreme for lending him World-Sealing Spacetime and to deliver the Emperor’s blood essence.
• Noming Supreme introduces Luo Feng to his teacher, She Chuan. She Chuan offers Luo Feng an Era of Reincarnation to study Origin Power in exchange for the blood essence, plus a personal favor.
• Luo Feng accepts, judging that She Chuan’s presence in the coming Core Secret Realm could help keep He Tianxun in check. He hands two drops of the essence to Noming Supreme.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng remains cautious and strategic: he values his ties to both the Frost Lord and Noming Supreme, but weighs each offer by its benefits and risks. He also commits to deepening his cultivation.
• The Frost Lord trusts Luo Feng and shares his concerns about He Tianxun’s calculating nature, while prioritizing his own bloodline transformation.
• He Tianxun reveals his true intentions in private: he sees Luo Feng not as an ally but as a future sacrifice.
• Noming Supreme warmly welcomes Luo Feng and hopes the treasure will help him support his teacher.
• She Chuan recognizes Luo Feng as a fellow inheritor of Yuan’s teachings and offers him a valuable opportunity to study.

Significant themes

• Trust and self-interest: Alliances are shaped by mutual benefit, and apparent goodwill may conceal exploitation.
• Cultivation through patience: Luo Feng’s ambitions depend on long study and accumulated insight, while breakthroughs remain uncertain and dangerous.
• Strategic bargaining: Treasures and favors reshape the balance of power ahead of the Core Secret Realm.
• Legacy and discipleship: She Chuan’s recognition of Luo Feng connects him to Yuan’s teachings despite the absence of a formal master-disciple relationship.

Chapter Summary: “He Tianxun Makes His Move”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Luo Feng returns to Tianxun City to deliver Emperor’s blood essence to He Tianxun. Supreme Tulu welcomes him and escorts him to the City Lord’s Residence.
• He Tianxun initially behaves warmly and praises Luo Feng for obtaining the blood essence, but his friendliness is revealed to be a deception.
• As soon as Luo Feng presents the vial, He Tianxun launches his strongest Soul Illusion, catching Luo Feng off guard and rendering him mentally helpless.
• He Tianxun attempts to seize Luo Feng’s body by sending his soul into Luo Feng’s Origin Space.
• Luo Feng’s mysterious pale-gold soul membrane activates when his soul is threatened. It resists He Tianxun’s Body-Seizing Technique and gradually helps Luo Feng regain consciousness.
• Luo Feng summons Star Tower, whose soul-sealing power forces He Tianxun’s soul to retreat. The body-seizure attempt fails.
• Enraged, He Tianxun immediately changes tactics and attacks Star Tower directly. His palm strike annihilates layers of spacetime and appears even more powerful than Qiansi Luoshan’s previous attack.
• He Tianxun suspects that Star Tower may have evolved into a Hunyuan Spirit Treasure, but remains confident that Luo Feng can be suppressed.
• He opens the entrance to his Internal World and attempts to drag Star Tower inside, where Luo Feng would likely be trapped permanently.
• At the same time, the strange power connected to the Saint Spring Baptism resurfaces, contaminating and freezing most of Luo Feng’s divine body. Luo Feng can mobilize less than twenty percent of his strength.
• With Devouring Force binding Star Tower, He Tianxun physically pushes the tower toward the entrance of his Internal World. By the chapter’s end, part of Star Tower has already been drawn inside.

Character Developments

• Luo Feng: He enters the meeting believing he can trust He Tianxun, only to be betrayed. His shock and emotional confusion reveal how deeply he valued their previous relationship. Despite being caught by the Soul Illusion, his soul defense and Star Tower allow him to resist, recover consciousness, and avoid body seizure. However, his divine body is severely weakened, leaving him in a desperate defensive position.
• He Tianxun: His true intentions are exposed. His earlier support and warmth were likely calculated manipulation designed to make Luo Feng obtain Emperor’s blood essence and lower his guard. He demonstrates terrifying mastery of Soul Illusion, Body-Seizing Techniques, spacetime destruction, and Internal World suppression. His hidden strength may approach or exceed the level of a World-Level Hunyuan Lifeform.
• Supreme Tulu: He serves only as Luo Feng’s escort and remains unaware—or at least uninvolved in—the betrayal inside the pavilion.
• Xiang Wei: Though absent, his earlier assistance remains important because he removed part of the contaminating power from Luo Feng’s body. Without that help, Luo Feng might have been completely immobilized.

Significant Themes

• Betrayal and false trust: He Tianxun’s apparent friendship is revealed as an act, turning a supposedly safe meeting into an assassination attempt.
• Hidden strength and deception: He Tianxun has concealed his true power, while Luo Feng underestimated the danger because of their previous interactions.
• Resistance against overwhelming power: Luo Feng survives through the combined protection of his soul membrane and Star Tower, emphasizing that hidden defenses can overcome seemingly absolute attacks.
• The danger of ambition and treasures: He Tianxun’s interest shifts from seizing Luo Feng’s body to capturing Star Tower after recognizing its possible Hunyuan nature.
• Desperation and survival: Luo Feng is forced to fight not for victory but simply to avoid being trapped, possessed, or killed.

Character Interactions

• Supreme Tulu greets Luo Feng respectfully and guides him to He Tianxun, reinforcing the appearance of a formal and friendly reception.
• He Tianxun and Luo Feng exchange cordial words and wine, with He Tianxun praising Luo Feng’s success before betraying him.
• He Tianxun attacks Luo Feng’s mind and soul without warning, revealing the hostile nature of their relationship.
• Luo Feng’s soul defense and Star Tower directly oppose He Tianxun’s possession attempt, turning the psychological attack into a spiritual confrontation.
• After failing to seize Luo Feng’s body, He Tianxun openly declares his intent to kill him and begins forcing Star Tower into his Internal World.

Key plot points

• He Tianxun discovers that Luo Feng’s Star Tower is a Hunyuan Spirit Treasure, but cannot suppress it or absorb it into his Inner Universe. Instead, he seals it inside a vast spacetime realm with nine Origin-powered chains and strengthening formations, then leaves for the Ancient Warship’s Core Secret Realm.
• Trapped inside the tower, Luo Feng realizes he has little hope of escaping on his own. He contacts his foster father, the Frost Lord, and She Chuan for help.
• The Frost Lord vows to rescue Luo Feng, but recognizes that attacking Tianxun City while He Tianxun’s true body is there would be reckless. He plans to strike when He Tianxun leaves and recruits powerful allies by offering the lure of Emperor’s blood essence and the Hunyuan Spirit Treasure.
• She Chuan cannot return immediately from the Abyss-Sealing Palace, but sends He Tianxun a demand for an explanation and promises to go to Tianxun City afterward. He suspects Luo Feng is far more exceptional than he appears.
• The Frost Lord gathers Jiushan and the Flame-Eccentric True Lord, with other powerful figures expected to join them. The group reaches Tianxun City, preparing to confront He Tianxun.

Character developments and interactions

• He Tianxun proves both ambitious and ruthless: after exploiting Luo Feng, he tries to take over his body and then imprisons him. His interest in the Core Secret Realm may create a chance for Luo Feng’s allies to act.
• Luo Feng is shaken and recognizes how isolated he is, yet acts quickly by alerting allies. He remains cautious about asking She Chuan to risk entering Tianxun City.
• The Frost Lord shifts from bloodline cultivation to rescue planning. His anger at He Tianxun is personal, since he trusted him, but he tempers his resolve with strategic caution.
• She Chuan is troubled by He Tianxun’s betrayal and intrigued by Luo Feng’s unusual strength. Though he cannot immediately abandon his post, he commits to confronting He Tianxun and later helping Luo Feng.
• The Frost Lord and other city powers cooperate not only out of loyalty, but because access to a Hunyuan Spirit Treasure could serve their interests.

Significant themes

• Betrayal and trust: He Tianxun’s treachery turns a former relationship into a crisis.
• Power and ambition: The tower and the Core Secret Realm draw powerful figures into a contest of competing interests.
• Loyalty and obligation: The Frost Lord’s bond with Luo Feng and She Chuan’s debt motivate them to help despite the risks.
• Strategy over force: Luo Feng’s rescue depends on timing, alliances, and He Tianxun leaving the city—not simply on confronting him head-on.

Key plot points and events

• Frost Lord, Jiushan, Flame-Eccentric True Lord, and Luo Feng arrive outside Tianxun City to confront its lord, He Tianxun. The city’s residents have been fed He Tianxun’s version of events: that Frost City Starlight betrayed him over a treasure. Luo Feng recognizes the story as a shameless lie.
• The Frost Lord silences the crowd by freezing everyone near the gates, demonstrating the power of his Pole-Realm Staff.
• The Myriad Realms Venerable, Xiao Wangtian, and the Peerless City Lord join the group. They have personal or financial reasons to support Luo Feng, while Jiushan and Flame-Eccentric True Lord come out of loyalty.
• The Myriad Realms Venerable uses Space Shuttles to breach Tianxun City’s formidable defenses. Xiao Wangtian widens the opening with an axe strike, and the Frost Lord freezes the formation energy to hold the breach open.
• As the group enters, an attack bearing Lifudo’s Blade Intent strikes them. They discover four figures waiting inside, including a Jiuli-looking warrior with Lifudo’s aura. The other three are far more powerful.
• Xiao Wangtian suspects these figures are corpses possessed by powerful Outer Chaos Life. He further warns that He Tianxun may have betrayed the Hunyuan Divine Realm.

Character developments

• Luo Feng remains composed and identifies Lifudo’s distinctive power, helping the group understand who they face.
• The Frost Lord displays dramatically enhanced control of his Pole-Realm Staff, freezing not only the battlefield but even the energy of Tianxun City’s formations.
• The Peerless City Lord openly sides with Luo Feng, despite the risks, after accepting the Frost Lord’s reward and trusting their account.
• Xiao Wangtian takes command as the group enters and recognizes the larger danger behind He Tianxun’s actions.
• He Tianxun is presented as manipulative: he spreads a false account of the conflict and may be collaborating with enemies of the Hunyuan Divine Realm.

Significant themes

• Deception and reputation: He Tianxun shapes public opinion with a fabricated story, showing how power can be used to control the narrative.
• Alliances and self-interest: The group’s cooperation rests on varied motives—loyalty, respect, rewards, and strategic calculation.
• Betrayal and hidden threats: The apparent confrontation over stolen treasures may conceal a larger conspiracy involving possessed corpses and Outer Chaos Life.
• Power and escalation: The breach of a God-Level City’s defenses—and the mysterious enemies waiting beyond it—raises the stakes sharply.

Character interactions

• Luo Feng and Jiushan mock He Tianxun’s public story, while the Frost Lord reacts to the crowd’s accusations with force.
• The Myriad Realms Venerable and Xiao Wangtian urge speed, fearing others will reach the Ancient Warship first.
• The Peerless City Lord reassures Luo Feng of his support.
• The group coordinates their strengths to breach the city, then shifts into cautious cooperation when Lifudo’s power and the three stronger figures reveal a more serious threat.