Chapter Summaries

Yan Xiao’s sorrowful will overwhelmed Earth Soul City, and he warned Mu Chen to protect his Spirit Worm friend and act with care. After Yan Xiao vanished, Mu Chen left for the Great Luo Territory, intending to learn what Mandala had discovered in the Ancient Heavenly Palace ruins.

• Yan Xiao questioned Mu Chen about his relationship with the Spirit Worm and became consumed by grief over a Spirit Worm he had once possessed.
• Yan Xiao’s desolation affected people across Earth Soul City, making Hun Husheng and Hun Jin cry over an old goose and disrupting Hun Xuzi’s attempt to fuse two flames.
• A young man in a Pointed Soft Hat recognized Yan Xiao’s will as powerful enough to potentially alter the world’s laws.
• Di Er Meng used Six Gates of starlight to protect Mu Chen from Yan Xiao’s sorrow, and Yan Xiao urged Mu Chen to grow stronger and give his Spirit Worm friend freedom.
• Yan Xiao disappeared, and Mu Chen left for the Great Luo Territory after learning that the Northern Realm had found ruins of the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s Fourth Hall Master in the Fallen Battlefield.

Mu Chen returned to the Great Luo Territory, learned that Mandala had uncovered the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s impending return and asked him to find her Main Body. After agreeing, he encountered Xiao Xiao, who had come to tell him about an approaching opportunity.

• Xiao Qing complained that her Sovereign-level insects kept dying while Xiao Xiao roasted rabbit outside Earth Soul City.
• Xiao Yan urged Xiao Xiao to visit the Endless Fire Territory and help Mu Chen, and Xiao Xiao agreed to take him to the opening of the Origin of Divine Beasts.
• Mu Chen learned from Nine Nether that Mandala had broken through and that Liu Tiandao had also advanced.
• Mandala told Mu Chen that she was a flower planted by the Heavenly Emperor, that her Main Body lay in the Heavenly Emperor Mausoleum, and that she wanted his help finding it when the Ancient Heavenly Palace returned.
• Mu Chen agreed to help Mandala and left to report the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s return to the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Xiao stopped Mu Chen and said she had thought of an opportunity suitable for him that was about to open.

Mu Chen traveled with Xiao Xiao to the Origin of Divine Beasts to seek divine beast essence blood that could help him cultivate his Dragon Phoenix incarnation. He reached the ancient continent and saw the devastation left by the war, while Di Er Meng revealed she had sent part of her power ahead to enter with him.

• Xiao Xiao told Mu Chen about the Origin of Divine Beasts and agreed to take him there after he loudly praised her at the Nine Kings' palaces and the Great Luo Palace.
• Xiao Xiao carried Mu Chen through the void, explained the Blood Spirit Mud on nearby meteors, and warned him about unstable space and lingering Demonic Qi.
• Xiao Xiao left Mu Chen on a meteor so he could approach the Origin of Divine Beasts himself, and she departed after telling him the Ancient Heavenly Palace's landing point was being watched.
• Mu Chen followed the meteor to the vast, ancient continent and saw an enormous palm print and four pillars that Di Er Meng identified as the legs of a Heaven Swallowing Divine Turtle.
• Di Er Meng separated a portion of her power from Mu Chen's Supreme Sea so she could enter the Origin of Divine Beasts too.

Mu Chen entered the God's Tomb Garden, a dangerous battlefield site protected by a great array, and discovered that it contained the Three Beast Venerables' inheritances. He began the Ancient Undying Bird's trial, drawing its destructive flames into his body, and the statue appeared puzzled that a human had come for its inheritance.

• Mu Chen and Di Er Meng speculated that the array separating the God's Tomb Garden's inner and outer regions had originally been built to suppress demons.
• Mu Chen used an eighth-grade Beast Spirit Heart to open a passage through the array and entered the crimson inner region.
• Mu Chen reached an altar and identified the three statues as the Ancient Myriad Spirit Bird, the Ancient Desolate Beast, and the Ancient Undying Bird.
• Mu Chen recognized the Undying Bird's inheritance as useful to his Dragon Phoenix True Scripture and touched the statue's flames to begin its trial.
• Mu Chen guided the Undying Fire into his Supreme Sea and sealed it with spiritual-energy Gates, suffering severe burns before his body regenerated.
• The Ancient Undying Bird statue examined Mu Chen and seemed confused that he was human.

Mu Chen claimed the Undying Bird and Ancient Desolate Beast inheritances, then faced accusations from Bai Ming when the Ice Phoenix Clan arrived. Nine Nether claimed Mu Chen was her husband to defend him, but most gathered clans refused to join Bai Ming, leaving Mu Chen to confront only a few rival clans.

• Mu Chen received the Undying Bird inheritance and endured the Ancient Desolate Beast's trial, then rested before attempting the third inheritance.
• Bai Ming arrived with the Ice Phoenix Clan, noticed the first two statues had lost their aura, and accused Mu Chen of stealing the Undying Bird inheritance.
• Mu Chen argued that the Undying Bird had chosen him, while Bai Ming urged the arriving clans to capture him as a thief.
• Nine Nether stepped in and claimed Mu Chen was her husband and a representative of the Nine Nether Bird Clan; Mo Ling and Mo Feng backed her up.
• Mu Chen pointed out that most clans had no reason to help Bai Ming, and the weaker groups stayed aside while the strongest contenders watched one another.

Mu Chen faced Bai Ming, Lu Hou, and the Heavenly Crane Clan leader after they joined forces against him over the Ancient Desolate Beast inheritance. He defeated the three with his Ninth Grade Sovereign power and Budda Pagoda, then seized their souls with Soul Hall chains.

• Nine Nether stood with Mu Chen, while Mo Feng warned that the Nine Nether Bird Clan could not face all three clans and suggested surrendering one inheritance.
• Mu Chen revealed his Ninth Grade Sovereign aura and stopped Lu Hou's staff barehanded before punching the transformed ape away.
• Bai Ming, the Heavenly Crane Clan leader, and Lu Hou launched their strongest attacks together against Mu Chen.
• Mu Chen formed a Budda Pagoda that withstood the assault and struck all three leaders down.
• Mu Chen pierced the defeated leaders' heads with black chains and took their souls.

Mu Chen killed the leaders of the Ice Phoenix Clan, Heaven Swallowing Ape Clan, and Heavenly Crane Clan, then tried to claim the third Myriad Spirit Bird inheritance. The Myriad Spirit Bird Beast Venerable revealed that the essence blood helped stabilize a seal, but the blood from the corpses stirred the Demonic Qi and unleashed a threat upon everyone at the altar.

• Mu Chen killed Bai Bin after Bai Bin threatened him, then left the remaining clan members alive and approached the third Myriad Spirit Bird Stone Statue.
• Mu Chen's spiritual energy and blood failed to activate the statue, but the Myriad Spirit Bird Beast Venerable appeared after Mu Chen addressed it.
• The Myriad Spirit Bird Beast Venerable explained that the three essence blood drops stabilized the seal suppressing the Outer Evil Clan, and black Demonic Qi announced that it had returned to life.
• The four corpses exploded, and the Demonic Qi absorbed their blood while swallowing people who tried to escape the altar.
• The Undying Bird Stone Statue and Desolate Beast Stone Statue produced two more Beast Venerable phantoms, and the bare-chested Beast Venerable blamed Mu Chen for disrupting the seal.

Mu Chen learned to control the Heavenly Beast Army’s battle intent and used it to destroy the Devil Emperor’s lingering thought. The Three Beast Venerables thanked him and offered him the greatest opportunity in the inheritance site.

• The Three Beast Venerables explained why they had left behind blood essence, then revealed that the devil’s lingering thought was overpowering them and that their final plan required a War Array Master.
• Mu Chen said he had some foundation in spirit arrays and offered to learn War Array methods; the Undying Bird Beast Venerable gave him the Heavenly Beast Army Seal and explained how its soldiers’ battle intent could deliver one attack.
• Mu Chen quickly understood the army seal’s principles, and the Undying Bird Beast Venerable gave him a feather to ease the burden of controlling the battle intent.
• The Three Beast Venerables opened a path through the Demonic Qi, and Mu Chen formed the gathered battle intent into an ancient spear that erased the Devil Emperor’s lingering thought.
• Mu Chen said he had not disappointed the Beast Venerables, and the Undying Bird Beast Venerable promised him the greatest opportunity in the place.

Mu Chen and Nine Nether entered a sealed Blood Sea of ancient divine beast essence blood, where they cultivated and received the benefit of its altered flow of time. Mu Chen broke through to Earthly Sovereign and looked forward to reuniting with Luo Li as their Three-Year Agreement approached.

• Undying Bird Beast Venerable explained that the Blood Sea held the essence blood of fallen experts and could not be taken outside the sealed space.
• Mu Chen gave Nine Nether the Undying Bird inheritance, then entered the Blood Sea to heal and cultivate while his True Dragon Spirit and True Phoenix Spirit absorbed its power.
• Mu Chen cultivated the Blood Emperor Body Tempering Art to its tenth level and reached the peak of Ninth Grade Sovereign.
• Mu Chen shattered and merged his Supreme Sea into his body, endured the Spirit Tribulation, and became an Earthly Sovereign.
• Nine Nether told Desolate Beast Venerable how quickly Mu Chen had advanced, while Mu Chen thought of Luo Li and the approaching Three-Year Agreement.

Mu Chen and Nine Nether left God Sea Space after Nine Nether mastered the Undying Fire, while Amon’s hidden scheme to replace the divine beasts’ blood was revealed. Mu Chen learned that the Ancient Heavenly Palace would descend in the Extreme West of the Great Luo Territory, parted ways with Nine Nether, and arrived at Great Luo Heaven, where Mandala reacted with shock at his presence.

• Nine Nether received the Undying Bird Beast Venerable’s approval, and Mu Chen left God Sea Space with her after learning Di Er Meng could merge with his spiritual energy and guide them back.
• After Mu Chen departed, Amon and his followers emerged from the Blood Sea, which Amon had created by replacing the divine beasts’ essence blood with his own.
• Mu Chen heard that the Ancient Heavenly Palace would descend in the Extreme West of the Great Luo Territory, and Nine Nether chose to return to her clan instead of joining him.
• Nine Nether embraced Mu Chen before they parted, acknowledging that he had helped her despite her earlier promise to look after him.
• Mu Chen arrived at Great Luo Heaven and met Mandala, who stopped mid-sentence and stared at him in shock.

After Mu Chen broke through to the Earthly Sovereign realm, Mandala told him the Ancient Heavenly Palace would soon appear and warned that Garuda and the Saint Demon Palace posed a threat. As the passage began forming, Di Er Meng offered to have Amon send Mu Chen into the palace early, and Mu Chen agreed.

• Mu Chen asked Mandala about the Ancient Heavenly Palace, and she confirmed it would appear in the Extreme West amid fierce competition from across the Tianluo Continent.
• Mandala revealed that Lu Yuan, Garuda’s backer and her enemy, had come from the Ancient Heavenly Palace and might know how to find the method to evolve the Great Solar Undying Body.
• Mu Chen proposed joining forces with Mandala to kill Garuda, but the Star Demon-Suppressing Pagoda sensed that the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s Spatial Passage was already forming.
• Mandala said she would gather the Northern Realm Alliance’s forces, while Mu Chen agreed to meet her in the Western Region.
• Di Er Meng offered to ask Amon to send Mu Chen into the Ancient Heavenly Palace early by opening a separate Spatial Passage, and Mu Chen accepted.

Amon opened a Spatial Passage to the Ancient Heavenly Palace, drawing the attention of powerful factions across Tianluo Continent. Flame Emperor Xiao Yan and Martial Ancestor Lin Dong both claimed an interest in the Heavenly Emperor’s inheritance and faced each other, leaving the watching Sovereigns anticipating a possible battle.

• Amon used the Formless Hand and a Spatial Passage to hold the Ancient Heavenly Palace in place and connect it to the Great Thousand World.
• The disturbance alerted the major factions and Heavenly Sovereigns across Tianluo Continent, who turned their attention toward the Extreme West.
• Xiao Yan announced that he intended to obtain the divine ability left by the Heavenly Emperor and asked the others to yield it to him.
• Lin Dong declared that he was also interested in the inheritance and would not yield it to Xiao Yan.
• The Heavenly Sovereigns renewed their interest as Xiao Yan and Lin Dong confronted each other, while Tianluo Continent’s Earthly Sovereigns feared the damage a battle could cause.

Lin Dong and Xiao Yan confronted each other over the divine ability One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and their opposing ties to Amon, but Qin Tian and the Undying Lord helped ease the dispute. The chapter ended with Hun Tiandi warning Xiao Xiao that the Outer Evil Clan was stirring and might invade the Endless Fire Territory.

• Lin Dong asked Xiao Yan about his relationship with Amon, and Xiao Yan said he neither understood nor agreed with everything Amon had done.
• Qin Tian urged Lin Dong and Xiao Yan not to fight while the Great Thousand World faced the Outer Evil Clan.
• The Undying Lord proposed negotiating with the Heavenly Emperor's Spirit Shadow so Lin Dong and Xiao Yan could both obtain One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, and Lin Dong accepted Xiao Yan's assurance that he would not hand it to Amon.
• Hun Tiandi appeared beside Xiao Xiao and revealed that the Outer Evil Clan was stirring and seemed ready to invade the Endless Fire Territory.

Amon appeared before Lin Dong, Xiao Yan, and the Soul Clan, prompting discussion of his threat and Hun Tiandi’s continued subjection to him. Xiao Yan protected the passage to the Ancient Heavenly Palace and arranged for Lin Dong and Amon to settle their grudge away from it; the two departed to fight.

• Amon appeared and questioned why the Great Thousand Palace’s protection against Heavenly Sovereign infighting did not extend to him, while Lin Dong restrained himself from attacking.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that Amon had arranged his advancement and used a Spirit Worm to keep him under control, then Hun Yufeng said Amon seemed likelier to win the coming battle.
• Undying Old Senior told Amon that he had forfeited protection by killing Heavenly Sovereigns, and Amon claimed he would side with the Great Thousand until the Heavenly Evil God perished.
• Amon asked Undying Old Senior for the One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones divine art, but he refused to provide it.
• Xiao Yan and Qin Tian protected the Spatial Passage to the Ancient Heavenly Palace while Xiao Yan proposed that Lin Dong and Amon settle their grudge separately.
• Lin Dong and Amon agreed to fight farther away and tore open the Void to leave.

Mu Chen learned that the Flame Emperor was near the Ancient Heavenly Palace and would only deter Great Perfection Earthly Sovereigns, leaving ordinary Earthly Sovereigns free to seek opportunities. As Lin Dong and Amon entered the Void to fight, Xiao Xiao followed them, while the gathered experts noticed Hun Tiandi.

• Mu Chen sensed danger ahead, and Di Er Meng told him that the Flame Emperor was beside the Spatial Passage seeking One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.
• Di Er Meng explained that Xiao Yan had intimidated only Great Perfection Earthly Sovereigns and stronger, so Mu Chen realized he could still enter the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• Xiao Yan, Qin Tian, and the Undying Lord watched Lin Dong and Amon vanish into the Void, and Xiao Xiao transformed into a Dragon Phoenix and pursued them.
• The experts recognized Xiao Xiao as the Dragon Phoenix who had injured Venerable Purple Swallow, who recalled her as a breathtaking beauty.
• Xiao Yan worried that Xiao Xiao might be endangered by the battle, while Qin Tian greeted Hun Tiandi and Hun Tiandi returned his gesture.

Mu Chen prayed to Amon for help opening a gate to the Ancient Heavenly Palace, learning that Amon could sense his name across the Great Thousand World. Amon appeared in the Starlight gate but looked at Di Er Meng and demanded to know what she wanted.

• Mu Chen sensed strange winds ahead but found no sign of a battle, and Di Er Meng suggested taking a back door into the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• Di Er Meng explained that praying to Amon could draw his attention and let him project power, especially if the petitioner used his honorific name or imitated his appearance.
• Mu Chen realized Amon's reach and ability to send Spirit Worms made him far more powerful than he had assumed.
• Di Er Meng guided Mu Chen through a prayer calling Amon the Shadow Roaming the Heavens, Black Hand Manipulating Fate, and Secret Half-Body of the Great Thousand Sovereign.
• Starlight formed a gate and revealed a young man in a black Classical Robe, Pointed Soft Hat, and Monocle, who ignored Mu Chen and asked Di Er Meng what she wanted.

Mu Chen met Amon, who helped him enter the Ancient Heavenly Palace by teaching him to seal away his Earthly Sovereign cultivation. Meanwhile, the Martial Ancestor and Xiao Yan fought above Tianluo Continent, and Xiao Yan sensed something was wrong with Amon.

• Amon and Di Er Meng bickered before Amon warmly greeted Mu Chen and asked what help he needed.
• Mu Chen asked to enter the Ancient Heavenly Palace, and Amon explained that he had to lower his cultivation to Ninth Grade Sovereign to enter safely.
• Amon taught Mu Chen to seal his spiritual energy, opened a passage, and sent him into the Ancient Heavenly Palace as Di Er Meng urged him to hurry and loot it.
• After the passage closed, Amon's warm expression faded; he adjusted the Monocle over his right eye and vanished in starlight.
• The Martial Ancestor and Xiao Yan battled above Tianluo Continent, astonishing the watching Heavenly Sovereigns with their power.
• The Undying Lord's Spirit Shadow marveled at the two fighters, while Xiao Yan sensed that something was wrong with Amon.

Amon fought Lin Dong while Xiao Yan realized that the opponent might be an incarnation rather than Amon's Main Body. The chapter revealed how Amon used staged clan conflicts to conceal his nature and left Qin Tian deciding not to join the fight against him before the Heavenly Evil God was slain.

• Lin Dong and Amon battled in the void, with Lin Dong attacking forcefully while Amon relied on defense, evasion, and occasional counterattacks.
• Xiao Yan suspected that the Amon fighting Lin Dong was an incarnation or a possessed clansman because Amon seemed to be using less power than expected.
• Xiao Yan recalled that Amon had deliberately staged internal conflicts to correct his mental imbalance and convince the Xiao Tribe that the Amon Clan was a race rather than one person and his avatars.
• Qin Tian and the Undying Lord assessed the battle, with the Undying Lord warning that Amon's varied abilities would make him difficult to defeat.
• Qin Tian considered teaming up with Lin Dong against Amon, then abandoned the idea because a failed attempt could provoke Amon's retaliation against the Great Thousand Palace before the Heavenly Evil God was slain.

As Lin Dong fought Amon before the Ancient Heavenly Palace passage, the watching experts considered the gap between themselves and the Great Thousand World’s strongest. Xiao Yan and Hun Tiandi grew suspicious that Amon’s apparent struggle concealed another purpose, leaving the reason for his fight uncertain.

• The Desolate Ancient, Tai Ling, Mohe, and Budu Ancient Clans’ representatives watched the battle, and Mohe You recognized Xiao Yan as the man who had defeated his brother Mohe Tian.
• Lin Dong attacked Amon and tried to provoke him into a direct fight, but Amon dodged while taunting Lin Dong about his dead friend and the people he cared for.
• Qin Tian and the Undying Lord doubted the battle would reach a conclusion, while Xiao Yan wondered whether Amon’s Main Body had already entered the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• Hun Tiandi considered that Amon might be using One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones as a feint and might instead want Xiao Yan to obtain the divine ability.

Mu Chen entered the Ancient Heavenly Palace alone and passed through its protective formation as a Golden Dragon Disciple, hoping to find Mandala's Main Body and eventually reach the Scripture Library. The Scripture Library revealed itself and asked to collect Mu Chen's Time Zero Divine Ability.

• Mu Chen reasoned that he needed to find the Indestructible Golden Body before other powerful cultivators arrived and headed for the Scripture Library after recalling Mandala's guidance.
• Mu Chen found the Dragon Ascension Gate, obtained a highest-grade Golden Dragon Token, and entered the Ancient Heavenly Palace's protective formation.
• Mu Chen sensed that the Scripture Library was watching him and decided to seek dangerous challenges while searching for Mandala's Main Body.
• The Scripture Library appeared before Mu Chen and said it had never collected the Divine Ability he possessed.
• Mu Chen demonstrated Time Zero, and the Scripture Library confirmed that it wanted to collect the ability.