Arc 4Chapters 76–100
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After Lu Chen’s astonishing Source Arts feats made him the focus of the Holy City’s major powers, he joined Yao Yuekong, the Great Xia Imperial Prince, and the Yaochi Saintess for a banquet at the Illusory Cuisine House. There he declared that he would seek immortality if it existed—or forge a path to become the first immortal if it did not, leaving his companions inspired.
Lu Chen revived the Divine Silkworm Princess by removing the spear that had pinned her and treating her with the Azure Emperor’s Essence Blood. After she awoke, he explained that more than a million years had passed and that the world had changed since the primordial era.
Lu Chen brought the recovering Divine Silkworm Princess to the Holy City, then traveled to Licheng after news broke that a clue to the Nine Secrets had surfaced. At the mass grave outside Licheng, he watched powerful young cultivators gather and faced a tense exchange with the Purple Mansion Saintess.
Lu Chen and the gathered young prodigies converged in Licheng as clues to the Nine Secrets drew in the Eastern Wasteland’s major forces. When the earth was opened at the confirmed site, a horde of Yin Generals and Yin Horses surged out, leaving the gathered cultivators facing a new threat.
Lu Chen entered the Underground Palace after the major factions and found the Holy Sons and Holy Saintesses immobilized by a force field in the Hall of Light. As Ye Fan used the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi to enter the field and attack his rivals, Lu Chen prepared to deal with the trapped Purple Mansion disciples himself.
Lu Chen used the Hengyu plaque to move through the chaos force field, killed the eight Purple Mansion disciples, and captured the Purple Mansion Saintess. After Duan De seized the Beast-Skin Scroll, Lu Chen collected the Chaos Stone Platform, freeing everyone and triggering a battle; Lu Chen and Ye Fan escaped through the void on Ye Fan’s Profound Jade Platform.
Lu Chen and Ye Fan escaped the pursuit after the underground palace incident, while the Holy Lands turned their attention to Purple Mountain. Lu Chen traded Azure Emperor's Essence Blood to Black Emperor for his Dao pattern codex, leaving the trio brawling after Black Emperor bit him again.
Lu Chen tested his self-made void-travel formations and became trapped in the Divine Desert, where he learned the secret art Fish Leaps and Becomes a True Dragon from Jiang Ziya’s lingering traces. He escaped by using Emperor Hengyu’s Plaque, leaving the God-Striking Whip unfound.
After returning to the Holy City, Lu Chen openly drew the Purple Mansion Holy Land and the Ji Family into pursuit. He headed for the Dragon Transformation Pool and faced their gathered experts, preparing to give them a grand gift.
Lu Chen broke through into the Four Extremes Secret Realm while surrounded by the Purple Mansion Holy Land and the Ji Family, triggering a heavenly tribulation that destroyed his attackers. As he endured the lightning with his Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda, powerful observers coveted the artifact and resolved to kill him once the tribulation ended.
Lu Chen survived the heavenly tribulation, entered the Four Extremes Secret Realm, and revealed the ancient phenomenon immortal king descends upon the nine heavens. When several Holy Lands’ elders tried to kill him and seize his pagoda, the Divine Silkworm Princess intervened, defeated their attackers, and warned the gathered powers not to target him through their elders.
After the Divine Silkworm Princess intimidated the Holy Lands, Lu Chen released the Purple Mansion Saintess and invited his peers to challenge him for his Divine Mark Purple Gold Pagoda. He killed his first challenger instantly, and Ji Haoyue stepped forward to fight despite pleas to hold back.
Lu Chen and Ji Haoyue began a fierce duel in the Holy City, matching their ancient manifestations and secret arts. Their battle remained unresolved as Lu Chen’s Earth Seal pressed Ji Haoyue’s Heaven-Cutting Finger.
Lu Chen fought Ji Haoyue above the Dragon Transformation Pool and defeated the Eastern Wasteland Divine King Body at the same realm. Ji Haoyue vowed to challenge him again, while Lu Chen declared that he would leave him far behind.
After defeating Ji Haoyue, Lu Chen faced the hostility of the Holy Lands, then revealed that he was Zhou Feng, a gifted Source Arts practitioner. At the Heavenly Demon Treasure Pavilion, he accepted a stone-gambling challenge from the eight madmen for two million jin of Source, to take place in ten days.
Lu Chen and Yao Yuekong attended the Heavenly Demon Pavilion auction, where Lu Chen added a ripe Human Origin Fruit to the lots and sought an incomplete divine medicine. The auction began amid a crowd of powerful figures, and Ye Fan secretly won a piece of Wushi Emperor Jade before the chapter left the bidding underway.
The Heavenly Demon Pavilion auctioned the Humanoid Divine Medicine, an incomplete Primordial Divine Medicine once owned by Emperor Zun, and the great powers drove its price far beyond the starting bid. Lu Chen joined the bidding at four hundred and twenty thousand jin of source, and the Ancient Hua Dynasty answered with a higher bid.
Lu Chen won Emperor Zun’s incomplete Humanoid Divine Medicine for 550,000 jin of Source, while the Yaoguang Holy Land bought the Human Origin Fruit and the Ancient Hua Dynasty secured the Ancient Insect Divine Source. He left the auction as its greatest winner, intending to revive the immortal medicine and advance along the Immortal Path.
After earning a fortune at the auction, Lu Chen attended a banquet and became the focus of the Divine City's growing anticipation for his Source Arts duel with the eight madmen. The Holy Lands' second assault on Purple Mountain failed disastrously, and Lu Chen discussed the Wushi Bell's power with the Divine Silkworm Princess.
Lu Chen examined the Divine Silkworm Princess’s ancient Source Stones and found a golden stone gall that could help him cultivate the Source Heaven Divine Eye. After refining it overnight, he gained extraordinary sight just as his high-stakes stone-gambling match against the eight disciples of the Source King Lineage was about to begin.
Lu Chen and the eight madmen gathered at the Wang Family Stone Workshop for their high-stakes Source Arts showdown, drawing the Holy City’s most powerful figures and crowds. Lu Chen entered the Heaven-Class Stone Garden, where the contest was set to begin.
Lu Chen faced Chu Xiong and the Eight Madmen in a high-stakes stone-gambling duel at the Wang Family Stone Workshop. After surviving their hidden attack, he used a killing Source Art to injure one of Chu Xiong’s disciples, leaving the duel poised to turn into a fight for their lives.
Lu Chen and Chu Xiong’s group each chose three extremely expensive stones for a contest, drawing a huge crowd eager to see what they contained. When Chu Xiong’s group used their Source Arts to reveal the Coiled Dragon’s interior, they found what appeared to be a living Primordial True Dragon.
Chu Xiong and Lu Chen each uncovered divine source in their first stones, then Chu Xiong opened the Fierce Tiger Stone and revealed a valuable Phoenix Stone. The contest continued as the crowd waited to see what lay inside the Coiling Dragon and Divine Moon stones.
Lu Chen uncovered a weapon soul in the Wang Family Stone Workshop, and its emergence briefly drew the attention of a terrifying presence in the Primordial Ancient Mine. The Holy Lands’ experts surrounded Lu Chen to claim the priceless treasure, leaving a tense standoff.