Chapter Summaries

After losing to Chen Daoxuan, the Demon Court Emperor Lord sought help from the Azure Ox Demon Saint, who discovered the Heaven Splitting Divine Charm in his wounds and took him to the Sacred Ancient Demon Domain. At Fuyuan City, Fierce Wind Heavenly Venerate stayed behind to defend the city while the Human Patrolling Heavenly Venerates broke out, and Chen Daoxuan arrived just in time to save Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate from an Earthly Immortal’s attack.

• The Demon Court Emperor Lord told the Azure Ox Demon Saint that Chen Daoxuan had defeated him, and the Azure Ox Demon Saint found the Heaven Splitting Divine Charm resisting his attempts to heal the wounds.
• The Azure Ox Demon Saint decided to take the injured Demon Court Emperor Lord to the Sacred Ancient Demon Domain.
• At Fuyuan City, Crimson Meteor Heavenly Venerate urged Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate to retreat, but Fierce Wind Heavenly Venerate refused to abandon the city he had guarded for more than fifty thousand years.
• Fierce Wind Heavenly Venerate unleashed golden light to hold back the Realm Demons as Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate led the twenty-three Patrolling Heavenly Venerates in a breakout.
• The Brute Ox Realm Demon attacked Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate, and an Earthly Immortal finger pierced his Sword World.
• Chen Daoxuan arrived and used Immortal Slaying to cut apart the giant finger, stunning Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate.

Chen Daoxuan helped Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate kill the Brute Ox World Demon, then annihilated fifty-one True Immortal middle stage Realm Demons with a perfected Second Form: Heaven Splitting. Exhausted and injured, he returned to Fuyuan City to recuperate, while the city’s defenders learned the enemy’s True Immortal forces were gone.

• Chen Daoxuan and Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate trapped the Brute Ox World Demon, and Chen Daoxuan killed it with two axe strikes.
• The fifty-one True Immortal grade World Demons feigned retreat, formed a formation, and launched an Earth Immortal-level combined attack at Chen Daoxuan.
• Chen Daoxuan burned half his divine body and used the Second Form: Heaven Splitting to destroy the attack, formation, and all fifty-one Realm Demons.
• Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate and the Patrolling Heavenly Venerates praised Chen Daoxuan, who staggered and said he needed to recuperate.
• The group returned to Fuyuan City, where Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate told Fierce Wind Heavenly Venerate to prepare a cave mansion for Chen Daoxuan and promised to handle the Realm Demons outside.

After the Human race purged Battle Zone Wu Jiu, Chen Daoxuan revealed that Lingyu Heavenly Venerate had betrayed them and defended his destruction of Heavenly Venerate City as he vowed to reclaim the fallen Immortal Cities. Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate pledged his support, while Chen Daoxuan prepared to strengthen his Star Charting Art with Fei Chenxue’s Insect Soldiers.

• Fei Chenxue gave Chen Daoxuan 2,756 seven-star Insect Soldiers, and Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate announced that the Realm Demons in Battle Zone Wu Jiu had been wiped out.
• Chen Daoxuan told Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate that Lingyu Heavenly Venerate had colluded with the Demon Court Emperor Lord and that Chen Daoxuan had destroyed Heavenly Venerate City.
• Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate challenged Chen Daoxuan over the loss of Heavenly Venerate City, but Chen Daoxuan argued that the Human race needed victories and vowed to reclaim the Immortal Cities and eliminate the Realm Demon threat.
• Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate bowed to Chen Daoxuan and promised to help him lead the Human race.
• Chen Daoxuan accepted Fei Chenxue’s Insect Soldiers, invited her to return with him, and entered seclusion to improve the Star Charting Art.

Chen Daoxuan devoured a hundred seven-star Insect Soldiers to accelerate his divine body's transformation and broke through to the True Immortal realm. The Human Heavenly Venerates recognized him as Human Emperor, and they began discussing a counterattack to reclaim the Immortal Cities lost to the Realm Demons.

• Chen Daoxuan devoured seven-star Insect Soldiers, strengthening his acupoint stars despite the growing strain on his divine body.
• After consuming a hundred Insect Soldiers, Chen Daoxuan's divine body expanded to one million zhang as he broke through to True Immortal.
• The Human Heavenly Venerates witnessed Chen Daoxuan's breakthrough and congratulated him as the human race's first True Immortal since the ancient era.
• Fierce Wind Heavenly Venerate proposed Chen Daoxuan become Human Emperor, and Chen Daoxuan accepted the responsibility.
• The Heavenly Venerates hailed Chen Daoxuan as Human Emperor and agreed to confirm his ascension at the Heavenly Venerate Conference.
• Fierce Wind Heavenly Venerate raised the human race's counterattack against the Realm Demons and recovery of fallen Immortal Cities, noting that thirty-six smaller battle zones had been lost.

Chen Daoxuan ordered Crimson Meteor Heavenly Venerate to investigate whether the Demon Court had withdrawn its forces from the fallen Human Immortal Cities, then declared that the Human Race would eventually counterattack the True Demon Realm. He revealed 2,656 seven-star Insect Soldiers to Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate and the Treasure Pavilion Master and brought them to the Xuanhuang Realm to show them an Insect Soldier production factory.

• Fierce Wind Heavenly Venerate argued that the Demon Court’s losses might force it to pull True Immortals from the fallen Immortal Cities, and Chen Daoxuan ordered Crimson Meteor Heavenly Venerate to investigate their garrisons.
• Chen Daoxuan told the gathered Heavenly Venerates that reclaiming the fallen cities would not be enough and declared that the Human Race would counterattack the True Demon Realm.
• Chen Daoxuan kept Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate and the Treasure Pavilion Master behind and showed them a seven-star Insect Soldier.
• Chen Daoxuan released 2,656 seven-star Insect Soldiers, stunning Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate and the Treasure Pavilion Master with the size of his force.
• Chen Daoxuan claimed the Insect Soldiers could be made from Sixth Grade Spirit Mine ores and transported Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate and the Treasure Pavilion Master to the Xuanhuang Realm’s Insect Soldier production factory.

Chen Daoxuan showed Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate and the Treasure Pavilion Master the Chen Family’s industrialized Insect Soldier factory, demonstrating how humanity could counter the True Demon Realm through mass production. Impressed, Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate pledged his support, strengthening Chen Daoxuan’s position as he prepared to industrialize the Phoenix Fall Realm.

• Chen Daoxuan introduced Chen Daochu to Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate and the Treasure Pavilion Master, then brought them to the Chen Family’s Insect Soldier factory.
• Chen Daochu explained how the factory’s connected production lines refined ore, manufactured puppets, and infused them to make Insect Soldiers.
• Chen Daochu revealed that the factory could produce one One-Star Insect Soldier in the time it took to drink a cup of tea, with Sixth Grade Spirit Ore limiting output.
• Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate recognized the factory’s potential to help humanity win its war against the True Demon Realm and enthusiastically declared that victory was possible.
• Chen Daoxuan explained his plan to combine industrial methods with human cultivation knowledge and build an Industrial Cultivation Realm; Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate’s support gave him backing from the Luofu Immortal Palace.

Chen Daoxuan assigned Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate and the Treasure Pavilion Master to industrialize Phoenix Fall Realm while he entered seclusion to strengthen himself. After a month of advancing the Star Charting Art with seven-star Insect Soldiers, he reached True Immortal peak-level strength and began considering the power of his Heaven Splitting techniques.

• Chen Daoxuan explained that the Human Race needed industrialized cultivation and external power, and the Treasure Pavilion Master volunteered to study Insect Soldiers with the Chen Family.
• Chen Daoxuan entrusted Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate and the Treasure Pavilion Master with building an industrialized cultivation world, then sent Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate away and welcomed the Immortal Tomb Keeper into the research institute.
• Chen Daoxuan told Chen Daochu to oversee the work and entered a Secret Chamber to complete the Star Charting Art by devouring seven-star Insect Soldiers.
• After a month, Chen Daoxuan finished advancing his acupoint stars, and the Star Charting Art boosted his strength from True Immortal early stage to True Immortal peak.
• Chen Daoxuan tested his power with a punch in the Inner Void and realized it nearly matched the Demon Court Emperor Lord's full-force strike, then wondered how strong his Heaven Splitting techniques would be.

After returning to the Xuanhuang Realm, Chen Daoxuan reunited with Luo Li and took her to revisit the Sea Viewing Pavilion before heading toward the Myriad Star Sea Inheritance. In the Sea of Stars Layer, Luo Li feared that Chen Daoxuan would ascend without her, and he promised he would not leave her behind.

• Chen Daoxuan returned to the Xuanhuang Realm and reunited with Luo Li, who embraced him after worrying about his safety.
• Chen Daoxuan told Luo Li he would return to Demon Ape Mountain to accept the Myriad Star Sea Inheritance, and she happily agreed to go with him.
• Luo Li asked Chen Daoxuan to visit the Sea Viewing Pavilion first, where they reminisced about their early days together.
• Luo Li took Chen Daoxuan into the depths of the Myriad Star Sea and confessed her fear that they would part when he ascended to the Upper Realm.
• Chen Daoxuan promised Luo Li he would not leave her, and she told him she loved him.

Chen Daoxuan challenged the Sky-Reaching Pagoda and easily passed its fourth through seventh layers before reaching the final trials. On the ninth layer, a green-robed Daoist showed him that the Heaven Splitting Divine Charm could be used to separate worlds, and Chen Daoxuan entered Enlightenment trying to learn it.

• Chen Daoxuan entered the Myriad Star Sea Inheritance Space and began his third challenge of the Sky-Reaching Pagoda.
• Chen Daoxuan defeated the fourth-, fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-layer gatekeepers with ease.
• A white-robed gatekeeper on the eighth layer caught Chen Daoxuan’s axe strike, declared him passed, and warned that his strength would not suffice for the final trial.
• Chen Daoxuan found a green-robed Daoist fishing worlds from a pond on the ninth layer and learned that the Daoist was gathering fragments of the shattered Primordial World for Heavenly Dao Merit.
• The green-robed Daoist demonstrated how to use the Heaven Splitting Divine Charm to separate worlds, and Chen Daoxuan began comprehending the technique.

Chen Daoxuan passed the Sky-Reaching Pagoda trial by fishing an entire world out of a pond, earning the azure-robed Daoist’s approval and a place in his sect. Back in his cave mansion, he discovered that his new immortal art, World in Palm, might let him carry the Xuanhuang Realm—and even the True Demon Realm—into the Upper Realm.

• Chen Daoxuan burned his Divine Body and used the Fourth Form of Heaven-Opening, World Separation, to fish a smaller world intact from the pond.
• The azure-robed Daoist declared Chen Daoxuan had passed the trial, assured him the world’s inhabitants would enter the Earthly Immortal Realm safely, and gave him an immortal art before sending him from the pagoda.
• Jiren congratulated Chen Daoxuan on passing the sect’s trial and said he could bring relatives, friends, or even an entire world with him when he ascended.
• Back in his cave mansion, Chen Daoxuan identified the gift as World in Palm and realized it could let him take the Xuanhuang Realm with him.
• Chen Daoxuan resolved to use World in Palm to take the True Demon Realm as well, so he could keep raising Realm Demons for their World Origin Beads.

A century of human industrial and military growth brought the Phoenix Fall Realm to the brink of war with the True Demon Realm. With one hundred billion Insect Soldiers ready and his own strength vastly increased, Chen Daoxuan prepared to lead the Human race’s counterattack.

• Lingxi Academy graduates pledged to serve the Human race as Chi Yao concluded her lesson on the changes of the past century.
• The Human race expanded its armies and advanced its seventh-generation Insect Soldiers, producing more than three hundred eight-star soldiers and a force of one hundred billion Insect Soldiers.
• Chen Daoxuan reflected on his progress with World in Palm and learned that the True Demon Realm had only seven Earth Immortal-level Demon Saints.
• The Treasure Pavilion Master reported that the Human race’s nearly one billion cultivators were equipped with Insect Soldiers, most of them at least five-star level.
• Chen Daoxuan revealed that his Star Charting Art and other abilities now let him rival Earth Immortal-grade Realm Demons, then declared it was time to end the Realm Demon calamity.

As the Phoenix Fall Realm prepared to attack the True Demon Realm, Chen Daoxuan visited Chen Xianhe and then reunited with pregnant Luo Li. He decided to stay beside her until their child was born, leaving the war effort to assemble.

• Chen Daoxuan told Fei Chenxue that he would not delay the campaign against the Realm Demons, despite her fear of the Sacred Ancient Demon Domain’s Demon Sages.
• Chen Daoxuan returned to Twin Lakes Island, congratulated Chen Xianhe on reaching the Golden Core stage, and confirmed that he was confident in the coming war.
• Chen Daoxuan found Luo Li at the Merfolk palace, greeted Xiao Qing, and promised that she could remain by Luo Li’s side forever.
• Chen Daoxuan felt their child kick and told Luo Li he would stay with her until the birth.
• Luo Li agreed to the names Chen Fuyu for a boy and Chen Fuxi for a girl.

Chen Daoxuan left his newborn daughter and Luo Li to lead the Human army into the True Demon Realm. After killing the Demon Court’s substitute commander with one finger, he ordered the army to attack.

• Chen Fuxi was born with extraordinary strength, a Heavenly Spiritual Root, and a Five Elements Spirit Body, and she quickly became the center of Chen Daoxuan and Luo Li’s joy.
• Chen Daoxuan sensed he had to leave before taking Chen Fuxi on their promised outing, comforted Luo Li, and promised to return in triumph.
• Chen Daoxuan arrived at Heavenly Venerate City and ordered the assembled Human army to march through teleportation Formations into the True Demon Realm.
• The Human army appeared before the Demon Court, where a peak True Immortal Realm Demon challenged Chen Daoxuan and threatened the Humans.
• Chen Daoxuan endured the Realm Demon’s punch unharmed, flicked the commander to death with one finger, and ordered the Human army to attack.

Chen Daoxuan entered the Sacred Ancient Demon Domain and discovered Primordial Violet Qi, but the Jade Cicada Demon Saint and hundreds of thousands of True Immortal grade World Demons moved to stop him. He fled deeper into the domain as eight Earth Immortal grade World Demons pursued him.

• Chen Daoxuan's Dao Soldiers and Insect Soldiers overwhelmed the Realm Demon army, and he rode Xiao Jin through its ranks toward the Sacred Ancient Demon Domain.
• Chen Daoxuan used the Pangu Axe to tear open the domain's Space Barrier and entered with Xiao Jin.
• The Primordial Enlightenment Scripture urged Chen Daoxuan to take the Primordial Violet Qi filling the domain's sky.
• The Demon Court Emperor Lord and seven other Earth Immortal grade World Demons arrived with hundreds of thousands of True Immortal grade World Demons.
• The Jade Cicada Demon Saint ordered the Realm Demons to attack together, so Chen Daoxuan fled deeper into the domain while they pursued him.

Chen Daoxuan escaped the World Demons pursuing him while the Golden Scripture absorbed the Primordial Violet Qi filling the Sacred Ancient Demon Domain. The purple Qi was compressed into a single strand, and Chen Daoxuan felt the same sudden enlightenment he had experienced when his Primordial Enlightenment Scripture broke through.

• Chen Daoxuan summoned Xiao Jin and rode the Golden Peng world demon away from the pursuing World Demons.
• Jade Cicada Demon Saint ordered Jiaoshen to seal the Sacred Ancient Demon Domain with the Sea Mirage Illusion Formation and led the other Earth Immortal grade demons after Chen Daoxuan.
• Chen Daoxuan released most of his World Origin Beads as Chaos Qi, which the Golden Scripture consumed before emerging from his divine body and absorbing the purple haze.
• Jiaoshen told Jade Cicada Demon Saint that the purple Qi in the domain was fading, and Jade Cicada Demon Saint blamed Chen Daoxuan.
• The Golden Scripture compressed the Primordial Violet Qi into a single strand, then Chen Daoxuan felt a sudden enlightenment like the one he had felt when his Primordial Enlightenment Scripture broke through.

Chen Daoxuan used the fourth function of the Primordial Enlightenment Scripture, Insight into the Great Dao, to locate and defeat Demon Saint Jiaoshen, then bound it with a Soul Imprint. Jiaoshen helped lure the pursuing demons into a trap, where Chen Daoxuan killed the Demon Court Emperor Lord and exposed Jiaoshen's betrayal.

• Chen Daoxuan discovered that the fourth level of the Primordial Enlightenment Scripture granted Insight into the Great Dao, letting him perceive flaws in powerful attacks and illusions.
• Chen Daoxuan used Insight into the Great Dao to find Demon Saint Jiaoshen in its mist and split its body with the Pangu Axe.
• Chen Daoxuan forced Jiaoshen to submit, branded its soul with a Soul Imprint, and ordered it to use its illusions to help him capture the demons in the Sacred Ancient Demon Domain.
• Jiaoshen presented a bound illusion of Chen Daoxuan to the arriving demons, and the Demon Court Emperor Lord approached to taunt it.
• The Azure Ox Demon Saint sensed a trap, but Chen Daoxuan struck from concealment and killed the Demon Court Emperor Lord with Heaven Splitting - Demon Extermination.
• The Jade Cicada Demon Saint and the other demons realized Jiaoshen had betrayed them and turned their rage against it.

Chen Daoxuan destroyed the World Demon forces in the Sacred Ancient Demon Domain, then severed Phoenix Fall Realm from the True Demon Realm. After gathering his family, allies, and two worlds, he ascended to the Upper Realm and told Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate to find him at Golden Turtle Island.

• Chen Daoxuan killed Jade Cicada Demon Saint and five other Demon Saints, leaving Demon Saint Jiaoshen alive as his soul slave.
• Chen Daoxuan ordered Jiaoshen to trap the True Immortal grade World Demons in the Sea Mirage Illusion, where they slaughtered one another until Chen Daoxuan finished the last survivor.
• Chen Daoxuan emerged from the Sacred Ancient Demon Domain and announced that he would settle the conflict between Phoenix Fall Realm and the True Demon Realm.
• Chen Daoxuan used World Separation to sever the merging realms, then negotiated with Phoenix Fall Realm's World Consciousness to bring people with him when he ascended.
• Chen Daoxuan gathered the human army, the Xuanhuang Realm, and his relatives and allies into his possession before ascending with two worlds.
• Chen Daoxuan told Ancient Sword Heavenly Venerate to find him at East Sea, Golden Turtle Island, then disappeared into the Upper Realm.