Arc 11Chapters 253–277
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Lu Chen returned to the Big Dipper, learned that the Primordial Myriad Races had called a conference at Jade Pool to test the Human Race’s strength, and went to attend. As the gathering began, a Primordial Ancestral King arrived and overwhelmed the assembled cultivators with his saintly pressure.
At the Myriad Races Assembly in the Jade Pool Holy Land, a dragon-headed Primordial Ancestor King arrived and humiliated the Human Race, demanding that Lu Chen answer for Spirit Valley’s destruction. Lu Chen stepped forward to face him, and the Ancestor King unleashed his Saint Aura against him.
Lu Chen revealed that he had become a Great Accomplished King and fought the Dragon-Headed Ancestor King at the Myriad Races Gathering. He overcame the Saint’s attacks and killed him, leaving the assembled cultivators stunned.
After Lu Chen killed a Primordial Ancestral King, he stood as Big Dipper’s foremost young talent and a beacon of hope for the Human Race. Seven more Ancestor Kings arrived at the Jade Pool Holy Land, and Lu Chen went forward alone to face them.
At the Myriad Races Gathering in Jade Pool, Lu Chen faced seven Primordial Ancestral Kings and fought three of them at once to defend the Human Race’s standing. After being wounded, he donned black armor that raised his aura to the Saint King Realm, leaving everyone stunned.
Lu Chen used the Eternal Kingdom’s Saint King Mecha to reach Saint King battle power and kill one of the Primordial Ancestral Kings, but six others overwhelmed him. The black tortoise intervened, killed another Ancestor King, and stood beside Lu Chen against the five remaining Primordial Kings.
Lu Chen and the Southern Ridge Barbarians’ Black Tortoise Demon Saint fought five Primordial Ancestral Kings at the Myriad Races Gathering. They killed all five, though both were seriously wounded, lifting some of the pressure on the Human Race.
Lu Chen and Zixia expected the Myriad Races Gathering to bring more Ancient Race Ancestor Kings, but attacks by the Eternal Kingdom’s forces forced the Ancient Race clans to withdraw. The fighting devastated Primordial clans and Eternal Kingdom fleets, easing pressure on the Human Race, while Lu Chen’s leaked map was revealed as the reason the invaders avoided human territory.
The Eternal Kingdom’s invasion of the Big Dipper ended in disaster, while its technology and evolution liquid drew the primordial races’ attention. Lu Chen revealed what he knew about the Eternal Kingdom, gave Ye Fan a mothership in exchange for Nine Secrets: Xing, and left the clans considering an expedition to seize its resources.
Ye Fan fought Yuan Gu on Qixia Plain and killed him despite the gap in their cultivation. The Primordial Myriad Races used Yuan Gu’s death as a pretext to turn on Ye Fan and the humans, while Lu Chen and the Black Tortoise Demon Saint stood against them.
As the Ancient Race used Yuan Gu’s death to challenge the Human Race, Jiang Taixu appeared and overwhelmed the seven Ancestor Kings. Just as he forced the last two to their knees, a blood-colored attack struck him, signaling the arrival of a powerful Ancient Race expert.
As nearly twenty Primordial Ancestral Kings gathered on Qixia Plain, they rejected Divine King Jiang Taixu’s offer to negotiate and launched an assault on the Human Race. Jiang Taixu, the Black Tortoise Demon Saint, and Lu Chen fought back, and the chapter ended as Jiang Taixu began playing the Divine Prelude against twelve Ancestor Kings.
Jiang Taixu, Lu Chen, and Black Tortoise devastated the Primordial Ancestor Kings on Qixia Plain, but their stand was interrupted by the arrival of the Fallen Heaven King, a peak Saint King nearing the Great Saint Realm. The chapter ended with the Human Race’s defenders facing the powerful newcomer without fear, confident that their own side had mighty beings too.
On Qixia Plain, the Fallen Heaven King demanded that the Human Race submit and attacked Lu Chen, Divine King Jiang, and the Black Tortoise Demon Saint. Just as his strike threatened to overwhelm them, a Great Saint’s aura arrived with a snow-white wolf-tooth club that smashed toward him.
The Primordial Human Demon-Dongfang Taiyi appeared on Qixia Plain and annihilated the Ancient Race Ancestor Kings who had fought Lu Chen. As the Human Demon turned to kill the rest of the Ancient Race, Great Saint Hun Tuo appeared to stop him.
The Primordial Human Demon faced Great Saint Hun Tuo and Great Saint Kun Zhou on Qixia Plain as the Ancient Race challenged humanity’s right to rule. Gai Jiuyou arrived and stunned both Great Saints with his near-Emperor presence.
At Qixia Plain, human Saints and Great Saints gathered in force, shocking the Primordial Myriad Races and giving the Human Race leverage in negotiations. They agreed to restrict Saint-level combat and allocate territory and mining resources, averting a large-scale war for the time being.
After the Human and Ancient Races agreed to keep Saint-level experts out of their conflicts, Lu Chen remained free to act under a promise not to attack the Ancient Emperor's Sons at will. He reunited with his senior sister and her children, then brought them to the Purple Mansion Holy Land, where he was welcomed as a figure on the level of the Ancient Sages.
Lu Chen brought Gu Qingxia and her children to the Purple Mansion Holy Land for protection and gave them evolution liquid to strengthen them. He also helped Zixia advance, and she eventually took command of the Holy Land as the younger generation rose to prominence.
As a new generation of leaders rose across the Big Dipper, Lu Chen learned that Lin Jia was being used as bait in a trap for Ye Fan. He left the Purple Mansion Holy Land for the Sky-Cutting Mountain Range to save the Divine Spirit Resentment, whom he wanted to preserve for the future Dark Turmoil.
Lu Chen watched Ye Fan and his companions draw their enemies into the Sky-Cutting Mountain Range, where the Beginningless Killing Formation nearly destroyed them all. He stopped the Divine Spirit Resentment from borrowing his previous life’s power and sealed it away, warning Ye Fan and the others of the coming dark turmoil before they left the bloodied battlefield.
After the Eternal Eclosion Ancestral Temple reappeared, Lu Chen told Ye Fan that it contained Earth’s stellar coordinates, giving Ye Fan hope of returning home. The ruins drew powers from across the world, including the Primordial Clans, as they sought its treasures and secrets.
Lu Chen and Zixia entered the Eternal Eclosion Ancestral Temple with the Purple Mansion Holy Land elders and advanced through its deadly layers. On the thirty-fifth layer, they encountered two young Dao attendants whom Lu Chen recognized as powerful Yin Spirits.
Lu Chen and the others reached the deepest level of the Eternal Eclosion Ancestral Temple, where two powerful Yin Spirits guarded the way and demanded they honor the Eclosion Great Emperor. Inside, they found the Great Emperor seemingly sleeping in a stone embryo, and Lu Chen recognized it as his method of immortality.
Lu Chen shattered the stone embryo in the Central Plains First Ancestral Vein, proving the Eclosion Great Emperor was not inside, and the two Yin Spirit Dao Boys rushed deeper into the vein to search for him. As the powers fought over the Feathered Divine Dynasty’s treasures, Lu Chen repelled an assassin and found a hall containing a Great Saint’s insights.